Cant get Amiga working

chubsta

Am really struggling with this:

RetroPie 4.7.1 - downloaded from here
Pi 400
roms on external USB - other systems working fine

I have a big list of Amiga games in the ES frontend, roms are in .lha format.
In my RetroPie/roms/BIOS folder I have the following roms:
kick33180.A500
kick34005.A500
kick40068.A1200
kick12.rom
kick13.rom
kick20.rom
kick31.rom

If I click on a rom in my games list it starts the emulator, using Amiberry - then it just sits on a white blank screen.
If I use hotkey+x I get into a config screen with the page on 'configurations' - the top box on the with shows 'rp-500' and 'rp-1200' with various details about roms etc, the box half way down shows the name of the game I have tried to open - for instance '1943_v1.2' for 1943.

I cannot find anyway to actually start a game - if I highlight one of the items in the top box it changes the game name to 'rp-500' for instance, and then when I reset I get an amiga screen showing workbench 3.1 and an animation of a disk going into a drive but cannot get any further in terms of actually loading a game.

Any help would be grateful appreciated as I have been banging my head against the wall with this for a few days now...

Chris3535

exactly the same issue here

Chris3535

or I am getting a black screen, tried both ADF files and iha

kisu2012

@chubsta said in Cant get Amiga working:

Am really struggling with this:

RetroPie 4.7.1 - downloaded from here
Pi 400
roms on external USB - other systems working fine

I have a big list of Amiga games in the ES frontend, roms are in .lha format.
In my RetroPie/roms/BIOS folder I have the following roms:
kick33180.A500
kick34005.A500
kick40068.A1200
kick12.rom
kick13.rom
kick20.rom
kick31.rom

If I click on a rom in my games list it starts the emulator, using Amiberry - then it just sits on a white blank screen.
If I use hotkey+x I get into a config screen with the page on 'configurations' - the top box on the with shows 'rp-500' and 'rp-1200' with various details about roms etc, the box half way down shows the name of the game I have tried to open - for instance '1943_v1.2' for 1943.

I cannot find anyway to actually start a game - if I highlight one of the items in the top box it changes the game name to 'rp-500' for instance, and then when I reset I get an amiga screen showing workbench 3.1 and an animation of a disk going into a drive but cannot get any further in terms of actually loading a game.

Any help would be grateful appreciated as I have been banging my head against the wall with this for a few days now...

Sorry but you've said: "In my RetroPie/roms/BIOS folder I have the following roms:" bios should be in
home/pi/RetroPie/bios, not ...roms/bios.

Cheers

Chris3535

@kisu2012 ok I have kind of got somewhere but still stuck

If I go into the amiberry emulator and select the game and then select the kick-start roms then start the game loads ok

If I just select the game from the retropie menu however I get the white screen

Also on a side note when I do get the game working I can't come out of it unless I power off and also hotkey + x is not working in this emualtor

kisu2012

@chris3535 Ok, I am not sure but Amiberry is a stand alone emulator it is not a libretro core, but it uses the hotkey+Start to exit emulator: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Amiga/.

About launching Amiga .lha files, read this https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/WHDLoad-Booter-(WHDBooter)-F.A.Q.#what-is-whdload-anyway maybe it will help.
Also have a look to this: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Using-Amiberry-WHDBooter-with-RetroPie-(Step-3)

Regards

chubsta

I have made sure the bios are in the right folder - confusion caused by using an old install where I had issues and had the folder on both places, I hadn't updated it for this install when I added the amiga bios files.

Anyway, I have removed Amiberry and reinstalled it and it still doesn't work for me, if I try to load a game from the ES menu I just get a white screen, if I run +start Amiberry I get a screen with a hand and a disk on it!

Would someone please be kind enough to let me know a step by step guide to loading a game as I feel I must be missing something and although I have read as many docs as I can over and over something is clearly not sinking in!

Chris3535

@chubsta @kisu2012

Ok were really stuck here lol

Here is what I have done...

I got the Roms officially from amiga forever and paid for them. I put them and the key into the correct bios folder.

If I try to load a iha game from menu it just goes white screen. If I open up amiberry program and manually select the game and the kick rom the game will load.. But I am setting this up for my dad so this is not really viable.

If I try a adf file I get a black screen.

So has anyone got this working on a pi400? If so what kick-start Roms did you use and also what games worked so we can test to see if we can get it working too?

chubsta

@chris3535 how do you manually select the game and the kick romwithin amiberry, i seem to be at least one step behind you at the moment!

Chris3535

@chubsta scrap that it's not working now
now when I do it, it goes into amigados page with the error unknown command IF

Chris3535

one other thing to note

https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Using-Amiberry-WHDBooter-with-RetroPie-(Step-2)

my paths were not set like this page says they should be, so I changed it to match and still not joy

Chris3535

I can get IHA games to work by doing the following
go into amiberry by selecting +start amiberry
then in quickstart menu go down to WHDload auto conflict and use cursor keys and select file. click on this then navigate to where the roms are and select the one you want.
Then on left hand side go down to roms and main rom file and click on the 3 little dots to the right. Then locate the A1200 3.1 rom file and select this

then go to start in bottom right hand corner and click on that and game should start

This works but there is no way my dad will do this before playing every game.

oh also the fire button is wrong on joystick the right one fires but not the left one.

Has anyone got this working on a pi400?

chubsta

@chris3535 I think I have it sorted.

I downloaded a set of bios files which I now have in my BIOS folder, now when I choose a game in the retropie menu it boots straight into that game - I have tried 5 random ones and they all worked.

Not sure what was wrong with my initial kickstart files but I seem ok now...

now all I have to do is work out how to get the bios file pack to you...

Chris3535

@chubsta ermmm you can always email me for a chat?

chubsta

@chris3535 email incoming

Chris3535

@chubsta you sir are a STAR...thank you so so much

chubsta

@chris3535 I take it it is working ok now then> I know the frustration of banging your head against the wall on something that seems simple so hopefully we have worked it out together!

Chris3535

@chubsta yea I can get the games to load but now I'm having controller issues.
I will start a new thread on that though

Thanks again mate

chubsta

@chris3535 if its not one thing it is another...

good luck!

TomTheBuilder

@chubsta Hello guys, I am facing now the same isuue like you described above with my new PI 400. I already spent 5 night shifts trying to get my Amiga games working on. Can you please help me ? Please ?