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    [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread

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    • LineOf7sL
      LineOf7s
      last edited by

      So, to be clear, should we be regularly grabbing the latest whdload.xml file from github in order to maximise Amiberry compatibility?

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      • HoraceAndSpiderH
        HoraceAndSpider @LineOf7s
        last edited by

        @LineOf7s absolutely, but unless you have manually installed my fork there isn’t much point in that until the main branch is updated (probably when I finish the download button - hopefully during this week)

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        • LineOf7sL
          LineOf7s
          last edited by

          Aaah I see.

          I shall await The Button. :)

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          • HoraceAndSpiderH
            HoraceAndSpider
            last edited by

            finished "the button" today :)

            It's on my fork, awaiting merge into the main branch.

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              Apekop123
              last edited by

              Quick question, when I try to download TinTin on the moon there are two versions, one with .files at the end and one with .image. Which one should I use? When I put them in the roms folder neither of them starts. Or should I be doing something with the .lha files?
              Thanks in advance!

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              • HoraceAndSpiderH
                HoraceAndSpider @Apekop123
                last edited by

                @Apekop123

                It should make very litttle difference on Amiberry.

                Tbh, for RetroPie the image one might load ever so slightly faster becuase it only has to cache a file for each original floppy disk.

                The only difference in these, is that the original HD installer... (remember, WHDLoad was originally designed to run games that only played on disk, on our hard drives some 20 years ago, and it’s still going strong!!) ...would have had two options: one to install the game by creating “images” of the entire original disks, and one that would have extracted individual files from the disk. Not all installers do this, becuase it really depends on the way the original data was stored.

                The files option is better for file space but that’s not really an issue for us here. I like files on my “power” Amiga system because I like seeing if I can make level edits or things like that, but I confess I’d use image versions for RetroPie.

                Hope that helps explain

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                • HoraceAndSpiderH
                  HoraceAndSpider @Apekop123
                  last edited by

                  @Apekop123 I will have to test both to see why they don’t work - there shouldn’t be any difference

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                    Apekop123
                    last edited by

                    Thanks for the explanation. Hopefully I can get one of these to run for me. Great you're willing to look into this!

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                      youxia
                      last edited by

                      I tried to make some savegames using the native in-game save menus. They do not work in any game I tried it on (games either throw error messages or hang altogether). I suppose it may have something to do with directory permissions?

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                      • maxbeanzM
                        maxbeanz
                        last edited by maxbeanz

                        @Apekop123 Tintin is probably another game that doesn't work because the Amiberry Booter doesn't detect the 'data' directory correctly. I think Jaguar XJ220 and North & South also don't work. There are quite a few games that use a 'data' directory (which apparently is the prefered tidy method with slave writers) so i'm not sure why these 3 don't work (maybe more). They all work fine on PC & Mac (WinUAE/FS-UAE) so I think the Booter needs a patch !

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                        • HoraceAndSpiderH
                          HoraceAndSpider @maxbeanz
                          last edited by

                          @maxbeanz said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

                          @Apekop123 Tintin is probably another game that doesn't work because the Amiberry Booter doesn't detect the 'data' directory correctly. I think Jaguar XJ220 and North & South also don't work. There are quite a few games that use a 'data' directory (which apparently is the prefered tidy method with slave writers) so i'm not sure why these 3 don't work (maybe more). They all work fine on PC & Mac (WinUAE/FS-UAE) so I think the Booter needs a patch

                          It’s not an easy fix for the booter. It’s becuase the slave (incorrectly) does not include the “data” folder in the slave header. 99% of slaves that use a data folder specify this correctly, and this is what amiberry’s xml scanner picks up.

                          It is an easy manual fix for the user though to adjust the auto-startup and it’s an easy permanent fix for the slave authors also (just 4 bytes need to be added tot eg slave) changing the booter would require a lot more “special case” code, and a change to the xml scanner is possible but still a comparative inconvenience

                          North and South was fixed by the slave author already. Jaguar was reported some time ago and I’m surprised it hasn’t been fixed yet.

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                            youxia
                            last edited by

                            @HoraceAndSpider Is it possible to save games from within the games themselves? (I do not mean save states)

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                            • maxbeanzM
                              maxbeanz @HoraceAndSpider
                              last edited by maxbeanz

                              @HoraceAndSpider Thanks for the info. So it's just Tintin and Jaguar XJ220 that need a manual fix (that we know of) ?

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                                Apekop123 @maxbeanz
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                                @maxbeanz said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

                                So it's just Tintin and Jaguar XJ220 that need a manual fix (that we know of) ?

                                I believe also North and South needs it.

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                                • HoraceAndSpiderH
                                  HoraceAndSpider @youxia
                                  last edited by HoraceAndSpider

                                  @youxia said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

                                  @HoraceAndSpider Is it possible to save games from within the games themselves? (I do not mean save states)

                                  If a game supports saving, (even high scores) then the WHDLoad save files are saved to the save-data/savegames folder, which on RetroPie is located in the configs share.

                                  Here is mine, as an example:

                                  ./Savegames:
AlienBreedTowerAssault				LegendMindscape
Bloodwych					MidnightResistance
BloodwychExtendedLevels				Populous2
BubbleBobble					PuttySquad
BuggyBoy					SensibleGolf
CannonFodderCD32				SensibleWorldOfSoccer
Cybernoid					SensibleWorldOfSoccer9697
DeluxeGalaga(AGA)v2.6				SpeedballNTSC
Dune2 (1)					StuntCarRacer
Dune2_0						Switchblade
EyeOfTheBeholder				TheAttackoftheGreenSmellyAliensfromPlanet27b6
FlightOfTheAmazonQueen				TheNewZealandStory
GemX						TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland
GravityForce					Turrican
GravityPower					UFOEnemyUnknownAGA
Hammerfist					Unreal
IK+						Volfied
IndianaJones&TheFateOfAtlantis			WipeOut
IndianaJonesAtlantisAdv				WorldsOfLegend
IndyHeat					WormsDirectorsCutAGA

./Savegames/AlienBreedTowerAssault:
AlienBreedTA.highs

./Savegames/Bloodwych:
bloodsave0

./Savegames/BloodwychExtendedLevels:
bloodsave0

./Savegames/BubbleBobble:
BubbleBobble.highs

./Savegames/BuggyBoy:
BuggyBoy.highs

./Savegames/CannonFodderCD32:
savegame

./Savegames/Cybernoid:
Cybernoid.highs

./Savegames/DeluxeGalaga(AGA)v2.6:
GALAGA.PREFERENCES

./Savegames/Dune2 (1):
SAVEFAME.DAT

./Savegames/Dune2_0:
SAVEFAME.DAT

./Savegames/EyeOfTheBeholder:
EOBDATA.SAV	LEVELS.TMP

./Savegames/FlightOfTheAmazonQueen:
_aq_save.1

./Savegames/GemX:
GemX.high

./Savegames/GravityForce:
gravityforce.highs

./Savegames/GravityPower:
Logfile.Dat

./Savegames/Hammerfist:
HISC

./Savegames/IK+:
IK+.Highs

./Savegames/IndianaJones&TheFateOfAtlantis:
iq-points

./Savegames/IndianaJonesAtlantisAdv:
iq-points	savegame.001

./Savegames/IndyHeat:
Disk.1

./Savegames/LegendMindscape:
legend1	legend9

./Savegames/MidnightResistance:
MidnightResistance.highs

./Savegames/Populous2:
DOM2017.GAM

./Savegames/PuttySquad:
PuttySquad.highs

./Savegames/SensibleGolf:
DOM16.GLF	GALAHAD.ROOT	SG.OPTS

./Savegames/SensibleWorldOfSoccer:

./Savegames/SensibleWorldOfSoccer9697:
GALAHAD.ROOT	SAVE		temp

./Savegames/SensibleWorldOfSoccer9697/SAVE:
DOM-2016.CAR	DOM-D.CAR	DOM-F.CAR	DOMB2016.CAR
DOM-C.CAR	DOM-E.CAR	DOM-FB.CAR	_UAEFSDB.___

./Savegames/SensibleWorldOfSoccer9697/temp:
CUSTOMS.EDT	DOM-2016.CAR	DOM-C.CAR	DOM-C.CAR 2	DOMB2016.CAR	GALAHAD.ROOT	GILL4-3.HIL

./Savegames/SpeedballNTSC:
knockout.sav

./Savegames/StuntCarRacer:
StuntCarRacer.times

./Savegames/Switchblade:
Switchblade.highs

./Savegames/TheAttackoftheGreenSmellyAliensfromPlanet27b6:
AttackOfTheGreenSmellyAliens.highs

./Savegames/TheNewZealandStory:
NewZealandStory.highs

./Savegames/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland:
savegame._f_

./Savegames/Turrican:
highs

./Savegames/UFOEnemyUnknownAGA:
Temp	game_1

./Savegames/UFOEnemyUnknownAGA/Temp:

./Savegames/UFOEnemyUnknownAGA/game_1:

./Savegames/Unreal:
unrealhigh

./Savegames/Volfied:
Volfied		Volfied.High

./Savegames/WipeOut:
disk.2

./Savegames/WorldsOfLegend:
EMPIRE1

./Savegames/WormsDirectorsCutAGA:
TWTEAMS

./Savegames/WormsDirectorsCutAGA/TWTEAMS:
A-TEAM		CRAIG		HORSEMEN	MAGIC		PAUL F		RICH		TBL2
ANDY		CRIS		HRH		MARK		PAUL K		SARA		THE FARM
BJORN		CRZ1		JOHN		MARTYN		PORL		STONED		WORMS
CHRIS		CRZ2		KATZ		MYSTERY		PRODIGY		TAKEAWAY
COLIN		GRAVIS		KELVIN		OH NO		RAINBOW		TBL1
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                                  • HoraceAndSpiderH
                                    HoraceAndSpider @Apekop123
                                    last edited by HoraceAndSpider

                                    @Apekop123 said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

                                    @maxbeanz said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

                                    So it's just Tintin and Jaguar XJ220 that need a manual fix (that we know of) ?

                                    I believe also North and South needs it.

                                    Not true, the slave author fixed it, so as long as you use version 2.0+ the issue is resolved.

                                    http://whdload.de/games/NorthAndSouth.html

                                    version 2.0 (28.01.2019) done by JOTD:

                                    • Game now uses "data" directory so it's consistent with install script (issue #0003880)

                                    I updated the slave for Jaguar XJ220 also, and have submitted that to WHDLoad, so maybe that will be resolved soon also.

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                                      ray3d
                                      last edited by

                                      I have two gamepads 8bido SN 30 Pro 2. I paired and mapped in emulationstation. Everything went fine and are detected including after reboot. In the emulation station interface everything works, each button, each thing of rut gamepads. The proof is that I enter the systems and choose games all is smooth. However, in the games, for example amiga, the controllers or buttons are not detected. In amiberry, like same example, if you press F12 it will return to the settings menu. In this setup settings the gamepads work but when you return to resume the game not.

                                      I tested the game pad in terminal with the command:

                                      jstest /dev/input/js0

                                      What could be the problem?

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                                        herts101
                                        last edited by

                                        I've got Amiberry on the Retropie working with both Turrican and Lemmings using .lha files. Excellent work!

                                        Only problem is that when I change the configuration and save it, although a config file is created for the game, this isn't automatcially loaded when I open the game next time.

                                        I am clicking directly on the game in the Retropie menu if that makes a difference, not using the AMiberry entry.

                                        Is it set up to autoload the config file?

                                        Thank you.

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                                          ray3d
                                          last edited by

                                          I solved using this configuration inside :

                                          /opt/retroarena/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig

                                          Replaced my file with this file called “Pro Controller.cfg”:

                                          https://pastebin.com/dg96zHY0

                                          And worked perfectly everything. Appears emulationstation maps some part of the 8bitdo controller but with that one is running wonderful.

                                          Thank you so much anyway.

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                                            herts101 @herts101
                                            last edited by

                                            @herts101 Just to update, I found a thread elsewhere which suggested I move the config path to my Amiga roms folder.

                                            Duly done this, but still don't get the Lemmings specific configuration loaded automatically when I launch that game.

                                            Has anyone else got this working effectively?

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