@BuZz thank you for the extra pair of eyes. I'm on a version from a week ago, but indeed going over github commits the version changed recently from 3.3 to 5.1 in the meantime.
And indeed that commit includes the change:
"Move rom location for amiberry/uae4arm/uae4all to $biosdir/amiga".

@mitu your setup works because your emulationstation is running from the environment spawned by getty@tty1 and inherits its environment, including standard input and output.

With systemd, services do not inherit the environment of another service. So a process that owns tty1, like login will prevent other processes from other services from using that descriptor, especially when the other processes are non-root, like emulationstation.

I found when running getty as a systemd service, the instance getty@tty1 needs to be stopped fully (including a stale login process that getty instances seem to leave behind) before emulationstation can make use tty1 for standard input and output. Instances on other tty's may be left as is.

The following entry in emulationstation.service will stop getty@tty1 if running:

ExecStartPre=+sh -c 'systemctl is-active getty@tty1 && systemctl stop getty@tty1 || systemctl reset-failed getty@tty1'

ps auxf shows the tty a process is running with.

@nemo93 I fixed by deleted some whlload dirs, emulation works for me again.

@Floob
Thats a good idea. I will try that next. I will use a clean retropie setup and install amiberry there.

Not sure what config files i have to look for though
Im pretty sure i wiped everthing that could have anything to do with amiberry before i installed 5.0 (or 5.1) from the setup script.

I've just tried with google kickstarts and it work !

Alright, I was able to select the second joystick in the in-game configuration - thanks for everyone who helped, it's working now!

@buzz That looks fairly involved, thanks I'll stick with it.

@thelostsoul No it wasn't a hack or anything. After some research I think it was just the regular Amiga version and you just have to wait long enough at the main menu and then the vocals in the song eventually start. The Sega Genesis version audio is definitely not as good (though is more nostalgic for me since it's the version I grew up with).

@sirhenrythe5th Yes we can certainly see that with all the annoying “no retropie for raspberry pi 4 yet” posts that happened.

@indyviduum It does a CRC check and a name check to see if it matches one of its known configurations. Otherwise it just uses its default profile.

@lolonois Thanks, will check it out.

An update......some success.

It seems I had two problems:

The precompiled binary does not work form me on the pi400 I was using rom files from amiga forever and didn't realise they were encrypted

I will update if I get any more issues

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@franek1709 Thanks for that simple fix. I've been loving playing the old Amiga games but that issue with the mouse pointer had made it such a pain loading in the disk images. Works perfectly now :)

@quasimaddboy neither. They mean the script itself. From the main menu (not the "manage packages" submenu), choose Update (updates the setup script and all installed packages) or Update RetroPie-Setup script (does what it says on the tin, updates just the setup script but not the underlying packages. The first one takes a lot longer.)

@mark_s04 Finally i made it myself with using lha files instead of adf.