What is the current state of retroachievements? Working?

batman

@meleu I appreciate you going to the effort to post a screenshot and steps required - always helps in these situations.

I did what you suggested above and found despite putting in my username and password in the Retroarch GUI, those fields would continue to be blank again when I next went in to check. It appeared it was only saving the Retroachievements enabled option. It was when I went back to check the retroarch.cfg in text format (notepad) from my PC that I could see my login details had actually saved. Logged in to the Retroachievements website again and noticed.....

It works on all three supported systems I have installed!

May be worth nothing to anybody else facing similar issues to check the retroarch.cfg file once they've followed your steps. Would really be beneficial to have it in the wiki as it really is an appealing add-on to have once it is up and running.

A real shame the site doesn't at least register mame games as I'll likely spend more time playing those then the supported systems, but I'm still wrapped that I've managed to get this to work - with your help. What a great feature it is to have and hope it will support Master System in the near future. Thank you and that friend request has been sent.

meleu

@batman said in What is the current state of retroachievements? Working?:

I did what you suggested above and found despite putting in my username and password in the Retroarch GUI, those fields would continue to be blank again when I next went in to check.

I think it's happening because you were trying to enable RetroAchievements and ended changing some retroarch.cfg files of the individual cores (/opt/retropie/configs/SYSTEMNAME/retroarch.cfg).

Try this first: go to the RGUI with no core (the way I said above), put your RetroAchievements credentials and Save Current Config. If it work, it will print a yellow message saying you saved the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg.

~~If the problem persists (the credential fields are blank) and you are familiar with linux commands, I suggest you to "restore the factory settings" of these files.~~

A real shame the site doesn't at least register mame games

Oh man! Don't say that! :) RetroAchievements is a non-profit service and it's really funny to play old games this way.

herb_fargus

@batman

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

batman

@meleu said

Try this first: go to the RGUI with no core (the way I said above), put your RetroAchievements credentials and Save Current Config. If it work, it will print a yellow message saying you saved the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg. If the problem persists (the credential fields are blank) and you are familiar with linux commands, I suggest you to "restore the factory settings" of these files.

I did see the message in the bottom left advising me that I was saving the config file before I was exiting the file and also, have "save on exit" enabled. I'm still unclear on what the difference is between the two saving options - save current/save new? With restoring factory settings, won't I lose any changes I've made to my current configuration? What is the advantage of a reset and where exactly is this option available?

Oh man! Don't say that! :) RetroAchievements is a non-profit service and it's really funny to play old games this way.

My sentiments exactly and was simply implying that it would be a bonus if it could also register that you're playing mame games. Like it does with current games that don't have achievements. I'm still dumbfounded at the concept itself and that it's integrated with Retropie.

@herb_fargus said

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Configuration-Editor

Are you suggesting to use the configuration editor in order to make any changes to the retroarch.cfg?

Thanks in advance and for the follow-up.

meleu

@batman Forget what I said about restoring "factory settings"! ;) I was misunderstanding your problem...

@batman said in What is the current state of retroachievements? Working?:

(...) despite putting in my username and password in the Retroarch GUI, those fields would continue to be blank again when I next went in to check.

I've just realized that my RetroAchievements username and password seems to be blank on rgui, but they aren't! :D The content of these fields isn't showed on rgui even when it's filled.

It works on all three supported systems I have installed!

Are you achieving megadrive games?! With picodrive?!?! Good to hear that!

batman

@meleu

I've just realized that my RetroAchievements username and password seems to be blank on rgui, but they aren't! :D The content of these fields isn't showed on rgui even when it's filled.

Yes, exactly. Not sure if this is a known issue but mine still didn't show in the RGUI despite it registering games on the supported systems.

Are you achieving megadrive games?! With picodrive?!?! Good to hear that!

No luck with Sega Megadrive games. I purposely checked some achievement before playing today with the intention of earning some and wasn't able get any registered. No notifications whilst playing either via Retropie and the site only detected the title of game.

robertybob

mgba now supports cheevos:

Added cheevos support via mmaps; updated libretro.h

meleu

@robertybob said in What is the current state of retroachievements? Working?:

mgba now supports cheevos:

Added cheevos support via mmaps; updated libretro.h

good to see that!! let's install it on retropie from source!! :D

just to remember
retropie_setup -> Install individual emulators from binary or source -> lr-mgba -> source

and then enable it at /opt/retropie/configs/all/gba/emulators.cfg

BuZz

I have updated the lr-mgba binary.

meleu

@meleu said in [SOLVED] lr-picodrive isn't achieving:

Great news!!
I've installed lr-picodrive from source and now it's working 100% with achievements!!

Please Lord @BuZz, update the binaries for us!

A big thank you to @cabrunco for telling me this news!

addyb

Wondered if someone can help. I've followed the wiki and added my details to the cfg and checked it's enabled. Now any game I launch gives me a message saying achievements are not available for this game even on ones I know are listed on retroachievements. This is for snes by the way. Should I be using a particular emu for it?

meleu

@addyb the RetroArch error messages aren't so precise for RetroAchievements errors. It happens to me when I have problems with my connection. Check if it is your case.

addyb

It's working fine today. There originally must of been a delay in me registering and it being activated for the games. I'm playing super Metroid and the achievements keep popping up.

meleu

@addyb don't forget to enable the hardcore mode! ;-)

addyb

Don't know about that mate. All these games feel like it's hardcore mode already. My skills have waned with age lol.

meleu

@addyb It doesn't increase the real game difficulty. The hardcore mode only disables all the save/load state features. And the RetroAchievements score will worth double.

addyb

Mmm megadrive achievements aren't working. Tried all the emulators.

edmaul69

@addyb works just fine in lr-picodrive. Put your cheevos info in the megadrives retroarch file:

/opt/retropie/configs/megadrive/retroarch.cfg

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meleu

@edmaul69 it is not necessary if the megadrive retroarch.cfg has the #include to the ...configs/all/retroarch.cfg and it has the cheevos' configs.

edmaul69

@meleu i do this specifically for the systems that support it. If it isnt in the all file it doesnt pester you in all the other systems about the core not being supported. Plus several people have had problems with lr-gambatte and lr-picodrive and i have had no issues on any emulator running it this way.