What is the current state of retroachievements? Working?

addyb

It's working fine today. There originally must of been a delay in me registering and it being activated for the games. I'm playing super Metroid and the achievements keep popping up.

meleu

@addyb don't forget to enable the hardcore mode! ;-)

addyb

Don't know about that mate. All these games feel like it's hardcore mode already. My skills have waned with age lol.

meleu

@addyb It doesn't increase the real game difficulty. The hardcore mode only disables all the save/load state features. And the RetroAchievements score will worth double.

addyb

Mmm megadrive achievements aren't working. Tried all the emulators.

edmaul69

@addyb works just fine in lr-picodrive. Put your cheevos info in the megadrives retroarch file:

/opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg

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meleu

@edmaul69 it is not necessary if the megadrive retroarch.cfg has the #include to the ...configs/all/retroarch.cfg and it has the cheevos' configs.

edmaul69

@meleu i do this specifically for the systems that support it. If it isnt in the all file it doesnt pester you in all the other systems about the core not being supported. Plus several people have had problems with lr-gambatte and lr-picodrive and i have had no issues on any emulator running it this way.

addyb

Thanks I'll have a look later. I thought I'd put the original cheevos details in the global config file so assumed it would effect everything.

meleu

@addyb said in What is the current state of retroachievements? Working?:

I thought I'd put the original cheevos details in the global config file so assumed it would effect everything.

And it does effect everything. I use it this way (global config), the wiki instructs this way...
@edmaul69 is just pointing his preference.

soggypete

Tried to add retroachievements to my game. Edited my retroarch file as stated above.

Going through the RGUI I can see that achievements is enabled, my username and password is all in ok, but tried unlocking some easy achievements (like the sonic 20 ring one) and nothing is happening. No announcement, etc and nothing on my account.

When I go to quick menu - > achievements, there are no achievements to display.

Any ideas what's going wrong?

soggypete

Strangely, I've now managed to get an achievement on Gain Ground - achievements for that are working fine.

Any other game I've tried loading has not yet displayed any achievements...

soggypete

Having now loaded Gain Ground up again, the achievement list seems to be missing again

Ekstreme

I've had a few miss-fire when my internet is getting smash or because the stars don't align properly. I generally know what the achievements are, so I save just before and if it doesn't pop, I just reload and retry. Somtimes rebooting the PI helps too.

Rush 'n Attack on NES is a good test as you get it for starting the game too

edmaul69

So i remember why i removed cheevos from the /all/retroarch.cfg and put them in the nes, genesis, snes, gb and gbc retroarch.cfg files. Super mario land on gameboy will not boot with cheevos on. So i made its own config. Unfortunately even if you put bunk cheevos info in or try to disable it there the /all/retroarch.cfg still over powers it for some unknown reason.

meleu

@sphirst I was experiencing problems too. But it started to work fine again. I'm not sure, but it can be a problem with retroachievements.org server...
I talked with libretro guys and they didn't changed anything related to cheevos recently.