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

[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?