Amiga games via Amiberry fail to run. They return to the game menu.

ShadowOfArnor

@mitu That seems to have helped, The games now try to run, but they just go to a black screen forever. No runcommand.log gets created.

But that just barely happened. I'll try to diagnose it, but if you have any thoughts, I'd appreciate it.

mitu

@ShadowOfArnor Do you have the correct Kickstart ROMs copied to the BIOS/amiga folder ? See the Amiberry Wiki for the list of the files required.

ShadowOfArnor

@mitu I do have the required kickstart ROMS. I got them from my Amiga Forever. I did read in another post that the lha files for the games have to be somewhat big (like 1-3M), and the ones that are in the K range, like 400K, are the installer images. I think that might be my problem. But I can't seem to find any way to get the pre-installed lha WHDLoad files.

mitu

@ShadowOfArnor said in Amiga games via Amiberry fail to run. They return to the game menu.:

I got them from my Amiga Forever.

Are they decrypted ?

.. These are available for purchase from the current Amiga rights holders, or you can extract an image of the Kickstart ROM for your existing machine. You can use ROMs from Cloanto's Amiga Forever package, but those will have to be decrypted first - which is done by running Amiga Forever/emulation once, after which you can copy over the decrypted ROMs as usual

But I can't seem to find any way to get the pre-installed lha WHDLoad files.

Not something you can find in this forum though.

ShadowOfArnor

@mitu

@mitu said in Amiga games via Amiberry fail to run. They return to the game menu.:

I got them from my Amiga Forever.

Are they decrypted ?

No, they are not and have worked with other emulators.

Because I can't find proper whdload games, I might use a different emulator, since the docs say that Amiberry only uses lha files.

mitu

@ShadowOfArnor said in Amiga games via Amiberry fail to run. They return to the game menu.:

Because I can't find proper whdload games, I might use a different emulator, since the docs say that Amiberry only uses lha files.

Amiberry certainly can use other formats, not only .lha. Which docs are your referring to ?

ShadowOfArnor

@mitu In the retropie docs, under amiga, it says this for Amiberry

ROMS
For the optimal Amiberry experience, it is recommended that pre-installed WHDLoad packages are used. Amiberry has been designed to have compatibility with the 'Retroplay' WHDLoad packs. For more information on WHDLoad packages, see here.

Accepted File Extensions: .lha

Place your WHDLoad packages in

I think I misunderstood

ShadowOfArnor

@mitu All my adf games just have a black screen with the mouse cursor in the upper-left corner and freeze there. I have to unplug the Pi to get out of it.

This is by setting Amiberry for all the emulation settings (by pressing a button after starting). I've also tried Amiberry and amiga 1200 emulation, as well as amiga 500 emulation. Neither works for any of my adfs. The adfs work in Amiga Forever.

mitu

If the Kickstart ROMs are incorrect, I don't expect .adf to perform better, though Amiberry freezing is not desired.
I think a similar behavior (freezing) has been reported a while ago and may have been fixed in Amiberry - which version do you have installed ?

ShadowOfArnor

TBH, I'm not 100% certain this is the problem, but I suspect that it is. Here's what happens:

I updated retropie, and installed amiberry from source to make them up-to-date. All went through with no trouble.

I copied Kickstart roms from my Amiga Forever installation on my PC to the BIOS/amiga directory, as the docs suggest. Originally, I copied all the kickstart roms to it.

Then I copied in some lha and adf files into the roms/amiga directory. These games worked fine in Amiga Forever.

I restarted emulation station and tried to run any of the games.

The game would show the black screen with the box letting me configure. Originally, I didn't hit a button to configure.

The configure box went away and the screen remained black, but an Amiga-style mouse cursor appeared in the upper-left corner of the screen. At this point, the entire Pi was hung. All I could do was cycle the power.

I tried using that configuration box that appears when you run a game. No configuration made a difference.

I tried removing all but the a500 and a1200 kickstarts, but that didn't make a difference.

I tried copying the kickstarts to the root of BIOS, and that made no difference.

I tried deleting all the kickstart roms from the pi to test if I get a different behavior, and it did the same thing!

Also, the /dev/shm/runcommand.log file does not get created.

So, my question is: is there some configuration I'm missing? Do I need to do anything to force amiberry to find the appropriate kickstart? The fact that I get the same behavior when I have no kickstart files installed leads me to believe that the problem is that amiberry if failing to find or load kickstarts.

Does anyone have a clue as to what my issue might be? If you need versions, I'm not sure where to get the version of retropie or amiberry that I'm using.

mitu

MODERATION NOTE: you've had the same topic opened a couple of weeks ago - I've merged them together since they're the same issue. Please don't open multiple topics for the same issue.

ShadowOfArnor

@mitu Sorry about that. Not sure why I created a new topic.

ShadowOfArnor

@mitu An update:

I decided to re-image the Pi, so I downloaded the latest full-system image from retropie's site and put it on my SD card. I configured my controller and then installed amiberry from source.

I put the kickstart roms in the root of BIOS because a YouTube video recommended that. The kickstart files I installed were taken from my Amiga Forever installation. They are:

amiga-os-205-a600.rom
amiga-os-310-a1200.rom
amiga-os-130.rom
amiga-os-204.rom

I installed a bunch of adf files that I already had that worked with Amiga Forever. I put them in roms/amiga. I noticed there was a "+Start Amiberry.sh" file that wasn't there before.

I restarted emulation station and tried to run one of the games. The screen went black. A cursor appeared briefly in the upper right corner, and then vanished. Nothing happened, but after waiting a while, I used the button combo to get back to the menu (I did not have to cycle power).

runcommand.log had this:
Parameters:

Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/amiberry.sh auto "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga/blood_n_bullets.adf"
Unsupported archive: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga/blood_n_bullets.adf
Could not load system ROM, trying system ROM replacement.

At the moment, the kickstart roms are in both BIOS and BIOS/amiga.

Are there other roms I need? I think I'm really close to having this running.

Thanks

ShadowOfArnor

@ShadowOfArnor I just noticed that it said "unsupported archive." This runs on Amiga Forever. Is there something I'm doing wrong that makes these games not work?