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

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.

fun4stuff

@meleu
So what should I see under RetroAchievements section in the retroarch on screen display?

edmaul69

@fun4stuff on the website you should see all the games you played. The achievements you dont have will be grayed out. Does the website show anything?

fun4stuff

@edmaul69

It says 0 games played.

Previously log file said:
"RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS testing SNES (8Mb padding).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS getting game id for hash c320cba1be26f303ba6f60d39ec39855
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got game id 228.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got achievements for game id 228.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked achievements."

So I would think website should at least have some record of that?

edmaul69

@fun4stuff did you go into retropie setup, update retropie setup, and then install retroarch from source?

meleu

@fun4stuff said in How to get retroachievements working?...followed wiki instructions:

So what should I see under RetroAchievements section in the retroarch on screen display?

Are you sure you're looking in the right place? You have to invoke RGUI and then go to Quick Menu -> Achievement list / Achievement list (Hardcore).

fun4stuff

@meleu
Yes, that's exactly where I am looking. So that should only show unlocked achievements? I was not sure what should be displayed there

fun4stuff

@edmaul69

I only updated retroarch. Ill update both tonight. The problem with updating retroarch from source is that my controllers quit working until I updated again from binary.