How to get retroachievements working?...followed wiki instructions

fun4stuff

@meleu which log file? i can't seem to find the runcommand.log. /dev/smh and /tmp/ are empty without any file or directories. This is after launching game with verbose logging.

meleu

@fun4stuff I mean /dev/shm/runcommand.log after enabling verbose logging on runcommand menu.
The same way you did above.

fun4stuff

@meleu
there is no longer any log file created.

/dev/shm/ is empty after enabling verbose logging.

nevermind. i tried an NES emulator rather than SNES and there now is a log:

http://pastebin.com/r3KSEpPs

fun4stuff

@meleu

I must be going crazy. Anyway, here is the log after running SNES emulator / rom with verbose logging. It appeared now. Not sure what I did differently.

http://pastebin.com/0giqQkvB

now it says there are no achievements for this rom. it previously said there were achievements for this same rom.

the prior nes rom says there are achievements, but nothing is displayed in retroarch.

edmaul69

@fun4stuff for nes you need to use the emulator fceumm not nestopia. Nestopia does not have retroachievements.

fun4stuff

@edmaul69
fceumm doesn't seem to be working. crashes back to emulationstation.

http://pastebin.com/PtN8knYs

mediamogul

@edmaul69 said in How to get retroachievements working?...followed wiki instructions:

Nestopia does not have retroachievements.

Are you sure? Nestopia is listed as being supported and although I'm not near my setup at the moment, I could swear they're active when I run it.

edmaul69

@mediamogul if so, not sure when. It always told me the core is not supported. I will update nestopia and test.

meleu

About the cores I'm trying to keep this up to date: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/wiki/RetroAchievements

It's a wiki, anyone can contribute. :-)

fun4stuff

@meleu
Is retroachievements even working? Can't find much online about it

meleu

@fun4stuff yes, it is working. I asked for the logs because I'm used to get a lot of timeouts when there are many users playing. The retroachievements.org servers aren't that powerful. But it doesn't seem to be your problem though...

I'm on a trip and the internet here is really bad. I'll try to check what's hapenning when I have a chance.

fun4stuff

@meleu cool, thanks for the help

fun4stuff

@meleu
Well i was able to get fceumm to work. It appears that the roms have to be unzipped in order to load. Still no achievements though. At least not with the roms tried.

herb_fargus

@fun4stuff fceumm had some issues that were recently fixed with zipped archives though I don't know how they affected the retroachievements for that core. they should be solved now though

meleu

@fun4stuff I've just test with Castlevania/FCEUmm right now and everything is working fine.

Part of the log:

RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS testing NES (discards VROM).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS getting game id for hash 756170ba1e06fa26c60d10114dc6a5ae
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got game id 1462.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got achievements for game id 1462.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3370 (Morning Star).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3371 (Knife).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3373 (Stop Watch).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3377 (Holy Water).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 31805 (First Hidden Treasure (Vampire Killer)).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 31806 (Concealed Gold Bag (Vampire Killer)).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 31807 (Concealed Meat (Vampire Killer)).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked achievements in softcore mode.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3370 (Morning Star).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3371 (Knife).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3373 (Stop Watch).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 3377 (Holy Water).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 31805 (First Hidden Treasure (Vampire Killer)).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 31806 (Concealed Gold Bag (Vampire Killer)).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked cheevo 31807 (Concealed Meat (Vampire Killer)).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked achievements in hardcore mode.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS posted playing game 1462 activity.

mediamogul

@meleu

Is there any advantage between lr-FCEUmm and lr-Nestopia as far as RetroAchievements are concerned, or do they both trigger about as reliably?

meleu

@mediamogul What I know about RetroAchievements and NES cores is exactly what I put in the RetroArch wiki:

QuickNES

The QuickNES seems to be the NES core with the best compatibility. No problems related to RetroAchievements were found in this core after the 05-Nov-2016 fixes.

NOTE: There's a known issue with QuickNES on Android (not related to RetroAchievements); in the impossibility of using QuickNES, it is recommended to use FCEUmm).

FCEUmm

There are a few known achievements that aren't working with FCEUmm (e.g.: pickup items in Metroid, Goomba Massacre in Super Mario Bros 3).

Nestopia

Untested.

fun4stuff

@meleu
I'll go ahead and try Castlevania tonight or tomorrow

fun4stuff

@meleu
Will anything show up in retroarch under RetroAchievements if I haven't unlocked any achievements previously? Wondering if it displays all possible achievements or only achievements that I have obtained.

meleu

@fun4stuff in the log you see only the unlocked cheevos.