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    Loading Amiga Roms best practice?

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      davidgrohl Banned @sirhenrythe5th
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      @sirhenrythe5th said in Loading Amiga Roms best practice?:

      @davidgrohl the Input mapping is taken over from your retroarch-settings, including the hotkey-combo to exit (start + select in most cases).
      As mentioned above: the all-in-one-solution for playing amiga just like a console :)

      Great. I'll give it a try tonight. I let you know asap.
      Thanks a lot for halp.

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        sirhenrythe5th @davidgrohl
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        @davidgrohl you are welcome!
        I also waited for a long time to tinker with amiga emulation on the Pi.
        But it was worth waiting - the newer versions 3.x.x are state of the art.
        So much fun to reacitvate all the games that i had 30 years ago (sic! :D).

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          ExarKunIv @sirhenrythe5th
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          @sirhenrythe5th also thanks. i have been putting amiga off for a long time. thought there was too much involved
          i will now have to give it a shot

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            davidgrohl Banned
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            @sirhenrythe5th I installed amiberry and I found a WHD games collection. The problem is that most games are in zip format and only few in lha. The lha ones work fine.
            Do you have any suggestion?

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              sirhenrythe5th @davidgrohl
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              @davidgrohl very simple solution: just unzip the files to get the contained lha-files 😉

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                davidgrohl Banned @sirhenrythe5th
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                @sirhenrythe5th said in Loading Amiga Roms best practice?:

                @davidgrohl very simple solution: just unzip the files to get the contained lha-files 😉

                The .zip doesn't contain .lha file. It contains a folder and a .info file. Inside the folder there are some files: generally there is a .info, a .slave and some others.

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                  tuki_cat @davidgrohl
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                  @davidgrohl

                  If you have access to a Windows PC, then you can use IZArc to create a .lha using the files you have unzipped.

                  This is a zip program that supports the .lha format

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                    sirhenrythe5th @tuki_cat
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                    I also had zipped files, but there were only lha inside, so i did not have that issue.
                    But i found one of the most common sites offering whdloader files - ready to go in lha.
                    Of course i cannot post a link, but you should find it easily.

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                        Might be helpflul concerning input mapping and i did not find this in the tutorials, F.A.Q. or installation guides:

                        If you want to change the input mapping it wont help if you use the overrides in "/opt/retropie/configs/amiberry/@retroarch.cfg"

                        But if you map your inputs in "/opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/controls/[nameofyourinputdevice].cfg" it works like a charm.

                        Had to do this myself because the A+B-Buttons of my 8BitDo-Pad were swapped to my regular RA-mapping ;)

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                          davidgrohl Banned @sirhenrythe5th
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                          @sirhenrythe5th said in Loading Amiga Roms best practice?:

                          Might be helpflul concerning input mapping and i did not find this in the tutorials, F.A.Q. or installation guides:

                          If you want to change the input mapping it wont help if you use the overrides in "/opt/retropie/configs/amiberry/@retroarch.cfg"

                          But if you map your inputs in "/opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/controls/[nameofyourinputdevice].cfg" it works like a charm.

                          Had to do this myself because the A+B-Buttons of my 8BitDo-Pad were swapped to my regular RA-mapping ;)

                          I tryied to edit that file but nothing changes when launch games.
                          Btw lots of games start but they need to press some keyboard buttons to start the to play.

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                            sirhenrythe5th
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                            Thats weird :/, on my setup, using a 8BitDoSF30Pro, it worked by editing the inputs for "button a" & "button b" in the relating file "8BitDoSF30Pro.cfg".
                            I have no idea why it is not working for you :/

                            Concerning the keys: i had an Amiga2000 from 1988-1991 and can confirm: that was quite common for these days. The joysticks had only one button, so it was not possible to start a 2-player game by pressing a joystick button.
                            There are some smarter ways as Giana Sisters did it (Joystick left=1 Player / Joystick right=2Player) but most of the games required a key pressed to start.

                            Two possible solutions: use mapping tools like "key2joy" to map Keyboard functions to a joypad or concentrate on CD32 and CDTV-Images. They are also supported by AmiBerry.

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                              davidgrohl Banned @sirhenrythe5th
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                              @sirhenrythe5th said in Loading Amiga Roms best practice?:

                              Thats weird :/, on my setup, using a 8BitDoSF30Pro, it worked by editing the inputs for "button a" & "button b" in the relating file "8BitDoSF30Pro.cfg".
                              I have no idea why it is not working for you :/

                              Concerning the keys: i had an Amiga2000 from 1988-1991 and can confirm: that was quite common for these days. The joysticks had only one button, so it was not possible to start a 2-player game by pressing a joystick button.
                              There are some smarter ways as Giana Sisters did it (Joystick left=1 Player / Joystick right=2Player) but most of the games required a key pressed to start.

                              Two possible solutions: use mapping tools like "key2joy" to map Keyboard functions to a joypad or concentrate on CD32 and CDTV-Images. They are also supported by AmiBerry.

                              Ok, thanks. I'll give it a try tonight.

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                                ballboff @sirhenrythe5th
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                                @sirhenrythe5th yeah just bear in mind if you're going the CD32 route, that you'll need a lot more storage as they were stored on CD. The games will go from being a few meg in size, to a few hundred meg per game. Not all games were released on CD32 (about 175 in total i believe), but you have that guarantee that you have a console compatible system doing it that way, and you're gonna have more buttons than a zipstick say.

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