Amiberry 5.1 and black screen

sirhenrythe5th

@nemo93
Raspberry Pi4 4GB
Genuine PSU
Retropie 4.8, updated all packages last week to get cave support in FBNEO. Amiberry has been updated during this process to 5.1
Installed official image from here

I use Amiberry for quite a while, having 1500+ games and they used to run.
I started everyone at least once because i use to sort my games in the gamelist and keep sure they do run before doing that (i.e. not "Alien Breed" but "ACTION - Alien Breed").

So i have all Kickstart ROMs in the BIOS Folder and they seem to be right, otherwise no game would have run with Amiberry 3.x i guess(?)
I wrote the paths and names of the config files from memory as i was not at home when i wrote my last post.
But they are at the location an named as you wrote.

I never changed anything but activated scanlines permanently in the amiberry.conf.
Everything else is default.

EDIT: the error is: i start a game and the runcommand window comes up as it should showing "launching game xy using amiberry"
So far, so good.
After a few seconds the amiga mouse pops up and thats it: Systems freezes and has to be unplugged to restart.
It seems the GUI opens in Background (because of the mouse), but as far as the system freezes i have no way to see what it wants to tell me

sirhenrythe5th

UPDATE: i bought another 512GB SD-Card and made a new image: Amiberry works now (as there is no more metadata from the previous 3.x installation).
So all clear here again :D

sirhenrythe5th

UPDATE 2: one step further in detecting the issue:
it is my controller!
Amiberry (5.1) runs superb as far as no gamepad is comnected.
As soon as i connect one of them (8BitDo SF30 Pro) i have this problem again: mouse appears -> system freezes.

So Amiberry 5.1 seems to dislike my pads, they worked great with 3.x. :/

EDIT: checked the old SD-Card / first try of 5.1 too: does also work without the gamepad connected.

ZzackK

@sirhenrythe5th said in Amiberry 5.1 and black screen:

UPDATE 2: one step further in detecting the issue:
it is my controller!
Amiberry (5.1) runs superb as far as no gamepad is comnected.
As soon as i connect one of them (8BitDo SF30 Pro) i have this problem again: mouse appears -> system freezes.

So Amiberry 5.1 seems to dislike my pads, they worked great with 3.x. :/

EDIT: checked the old SD-Card / first try of 5.1 too: does also work without the gamepad connected.

looks like another configs files makes problems.

sirhenrythe5th

@ZzackK it is a fresh install of Retropie 4.8 and Amiberry 5 1 on a brand new SD-Card i bought yesterday just to get Amiberry working again.
There is no old data on this setup, neither anything else or other tweaks/changes on the system.
Pure Retropie and Amiberry out of the box:/

The Pads are updated to the latest Firmware and work with 16 cores, even SCUMMVM (non-lr) and DosBox, since years.

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th said in Amiberry 5.1 and black screen:

As soon as i connect one of them (8BitDo SF30 Pro) i have this problem again: mouse appears -> system freezes.

Turn on logging from the configuration screen and post the log file on pastebin.com.

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu i allready tried that, but the file was empty.
I fear this happens because the system freezes before it writes the log.
As mentioned i have to pull the plug and after a new power on there is no log :/

mitu

If you have SSH enabled, try looking at the file while Amiberry is started. You can probably also stop the emulator using kill/killall, so you don't have to reboot the system.

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu i never activated SSH as i have no PC at all. From the beginning i use my Android Smartphone via local network and a File Commander to feed my Pi with data. Is there anything i can use from there?

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th Set the log file to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiberry.log and you can access it via file shares, like any other rom folder. For the commands, you'll need SSH - I think there are some SSH apps in the app store that may be usable.

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu thank you very much sir, i will try that!

loxlay

@sirhenrythe5th said in Amiberry 5.1 and black screen:

The difference: instead of a black screen amiberry stucks with the runcommand window displayed and the amiga mousecursor on the top left.
I also can only switch off the Pi :/

Any solution to this freez-Problem?
I have the exact same problem on my raspberry pi 4. I have a new fresh retropie 4.8 Image on my sdcard and install only Amiberry 5.2 from binary an i have only a keyboard plugged in. If i press start in the amiberry-ui or start a game direct, it freez on the runcommand Window with a mousecursor on the top left.
I try this with only a xbox 360 Controller plugged in too, but the same behavior. So i think its not a problem with the inputdevice?

With the old amiberry version 3.x on my old image i have no problems like this.

sirhenrythe5th

@loxlay i did not find a complete solution.
In my case it seemed to be issues with the BT-connection of my pads.
So i use amiberry with wired pads only.
I still dont know what causes the issue but as your problems seem to have other reasons than the Inputs i will keep an eye on this thread, maybe the suggestion from other users for you will help me too.

Jimi007

@sirhenrythe5th @loxlay

I have just setup Retropie 4.8 and Amiberry 5.3 on my Pistation and I am having the same freezing issue.
I have an 8bitdo pro 2 controller setup on bluetooth.

When I start an Amiga game it freezes on the run command with the mouse cursor appearing in the top left.

I have renamed the amiberry and emulator config files and reinstalled amiberry with no luck.

I may try a complete reimage of retropie and install amiberry then see how that goes.

No solution yet though

sirhenrythe5th

@Jimi007 it seems to be a very annoying issue only concerning the 8Bit-Do-Pads when used with Amiberry since v5.x.
I can confirm Mitus idea of using other pads, no 8BitDo = no freeze/no issues.

I guess we cannot do anything at this point but wait for a further update of Amiberry with this entry in the changelog:

v5.4: fixed freeze and other random issues when launching amiberry with 8BitDO-Pads connected.

Jimi007

@sirhenrythe5th

I have finally done a complete wipe and reinstall of retropie.
I've installed Amiberry 5.5.1 and connected the 8bitdo Pro 2 controller and can confirm the issue is still occurring.

Mouse freezes in top left corner of screen and any game does not start

Not sure how to resolve.

mitu

I wonder if it's the same issue as this one in RetroArch - a long delay appears when initializing the controller because querying the power level is timing out.
@Jimi007 can you wait a few minutes after starting Amiberry, with the black screen, and see if eventually the emulator actually starts ?

pixeladdict

I too can confirm I'm seeing this issue. Followed all the guidance above to uninstall/re-install and reset config files. Getting the black screen with runcommand box and mouse cursor top left, then doesn't go any further until I reboot the pi.

I'm using a pi400 with 2 8BitDo M30 bluetooth controllers which are working elsewhere in retropie and were working fine for amiberry 3.3 previously. This started right after upgrading to amiberry v5.5.1.

In the interest of the potential long delay issue, I waited 20 minutes and amiberry still failed to start unfortunately. The mouse pointer also can't be moved and no other input appears to affect the freeze status.

mitu

@pixeladdict said in Amiberry 5.1 and black screen:

I'm using a pi400 with 2 8BitDo M30 bluetooth controllers which are working elsewhere in retropie and were working fine for amiberry 3.3 previously. This started right after upgrading to amiberry v5.5.1.

That's good to know - I have a M30 around and I can test with it.

Jimi007

@mitu I also waited about 10-15mins when this happened and can confirm the same issue as pixeladdict.
The emulator does not start and I need to reboot the system.
Only seems to happen with 8bitdo controllers