When will Amiberry 5.1 be available under Retropie?

yserra

Hello all,
As far as I understand when I read the Pull Resquest dedicated to Amiberry 5.x on Retropie-Setup's Github, Amiberrry 5.1 has been ready for RetroPie for one week now! Congratulations! We have been waiting for an update for so long! Many, many thanks to the team!

I understand the binary will only be available when there is a new major release of Retropie (4.9, maybe?), so I installed the latest Amiberry release from source.

And, guess what... it still installed the two-year old 3.3 version... Noooo

I was excited to use this 5.1 version because it supports running games from a real floppy drive connected to a Greaseweazle board. Version 5.0 did this also (thanks to Dimitris who provided a dedicated Retropie release), but there was a bug that prevented user to get this function from a saved configuration.

So, my question is: do you know when Amiberry 5.1 is supposed to be finally available under Retropie?

Many thanks.

nemo93

@yserra it's almost there as testing of the new script has to be completed. Feel free to try it for yourself and report back if any issue. Get it from the PR page and edit the files accordingly on your setup. If you need assistance let me know. On my end I got no issue with that new script on a Pi4 with official Retropie image/distro. Amiberry 5.1 is running real fine.

If you have any issue it'd be great if you could report it on the other thread to keep things tidy. Thanks.

yserra

@nemo93 Many thanks for your reply.

I'm sorry to be new to this, but I'm not sure to understand how I'm supposed to download the new script from the PR page. I see a discussion and some lines of script that are changed.

sleve_mcdichael

@yserra said in When will Amiberry 5.1 be available under Retropie?:

I'm sorry to be new to this, but I'm not sure to understand how I'm supposed to download the new script from the PR page. I see a discussion and some lines of script that are changed.

(See BuZz's post, below.)

Underneath the title of the PR, click on where it says "files changed (6)" (you might have to scroll to the right if you're on mobile.) The files' paths are relative to your ~/RetroPie-Setup directory.

You can either edit your files directly to mirror these changes yourself (remove the red lines, and add the green ones. If a line is only partially changed, differences will be shown in bold.) Or, for each file, click on the three dots and choose "view file," then click on the three dots again and choose "view raw." Download this raw file (on mobile: copy the URL from your address bar, connect to your device via SSH and use wget <url>; on desktop, I think you can just right-click/save.)

~~Replace all six files in your RetroPie-Setup directory (and sub-directories) with the new downloaded versions. Launch the RetroPie-Setup script and install or update Amiberry.~~

To revert to the distributed version, just delete the six files you changed and then update your Setup script, from within the script. (This reverts the install module. Then you have to actually install it again to get your old version back.)

BuZz

Amiberry 5.1 is now included - If you do a full update from the main RetroPie-Setup menu it will pull in the new version, or update RetroPie-Setup script and then update amiberry.

yserra

@BuZz Many thanks!

That's a fantastic news!!

Best.

martinex

is it possibe to force install older version Amiberry?

nemo93

@martinex I'd strongly recommend to always stick to latest Amiberry version given it comes with bugfixes and an ever better accuracy. The 5.x branch is running really great (on Pi4 for sure). Any reasons why you'd like to downgrade?

sirhenrythe5th

@nemo93 i would like to downgrade too, because my 8BitDo Gamepads make Amiberry 5.1 freeze (you allready were in the other thread, it is about that issue).
With 3.1 they worked like a charm, so it would be great to go back to the old Version ;)

nemo93

@sirhenrythe5th @martinex ok thanks for clarification. It'd be best to ensure the latest version of Amiberry is working with your environments rather than rolling things back. Amiberry 5.x is way more accurate and comes with many great options.

Let's use that to thank @mitu once again for the amazing support provided and also for already having a PR ready to bump Amiberry to 5.2. This one has been merged in and it should fix the controller issue(s) some of users are facing. Feel free to report back in your respective tickets for consistency's sake.

Thanks all.

martinex

@nemo93 I fixed by deleted some whlload dirs, emulation works for me again.