Could someone explain to me why amiberry is seen as more plug and play compared to puae, and is the recommended emulator here? Everything I've thrown at puae (lha and hdf) seems to work, I get access to the lovely CRT shaders, and I'm probably going to have to mess about with config on a per game basis for either anyway? Amiberry seems way more of a pain in the arse on several levels, to me - and that's not even considering the strange resolution switching issue I'm getting.
I'm considering just binning it off and going with puae; am I going to regret that for some reason I've yet to experience?

@nemo93 Some games I have to click on it in the Retropie menu to load, then adjust the configuration in the menu such as change the Kickstart Rom or Chipset, then click Reset to get it to load. I've tried the Save Configuration option and it adds and entry to the list that appears under Configuration but this doesn't seem to save things like the Chipset or Mhz etc. Is there something I manually need to edit for this? E.g. I got Super Skidmarks CD32 bin/cue files working but for some reason I have to change the Kickstart Rom to CD32 every time to load it up. Is there a quick way to save this kind of setting?

It runs well enough on my Pi4.

@sirhenrythe5th Hi
I should know this about the Amiga as I did have one. I wished I kept it now. I am just so used to playing games with a button for jump I forgot about the Amiga using one fire button (I used the competition pro or the 500XJ EPYX Joystick).
Thanks for the help I will check out this post.

In regards to the custom commands to disable the up control I have worked it out.

If anyone is interested when you start an amiga game through amiberry it creates an auto-startup file.
In this file you can place a custom option after the PRELOAD command
eg PRELOAD CUSTOM1=1
You would need to visit whdload.de to see the info of the game and what custom options it has.
Comes in handy if you want to add unlimited lives etc to some games.

Got my 80 games all setup now with box art and preview videos. The games I have tested all work, well load and I can play the first 20 seconds.

If any are not or have screen sizing issues I'll post on the github.

Great work guys!!!!

Off to build my C64 on Retropie now, wish the emulator was as good as this one and the support.

@George-Spiggott said in Blood Money AmiBerry Control issues:

I have a PS3 pad in port 1 set to Joystick. I have no custom inputs defined. You can save settings in the configurations tab in Amiberry. You may need to save settings for for several of your games.

Hope this helps.

Hey George, thanks for that tip. Now got Blood Money working with my Dragonrise controller. So massive thumbs up for your help.

Hi

Anyone have any clues about these issues?

I've had to resort to lr-puae for some games due to these issues, but that has its own problems too (can't seem to use trackball as a mouse).

Any help on the above appreciated.

Thanks

@mirkog ok, i see!
Indeed i changed the controls under "custom controls" and set "Port0" and "Port1" to my joypads and finally saved that config.
I had an Amiga2000 back in 1989 (to 1991) and therefore was used to this procedure.
You had to pull out the mouse and insert a joystick on the real machine too 😉

Raising an old topic from the dead - can anyone tell me in which file the setting for floppy drive sound emulation is located please? I can't seem to make the option stay ticked when using the Amiberry UI in Retropie.

Thank you!

A little progress - there is very little, if any, documentation on using fs-uae in RetroPie.
I tried running a few games and kept getting a message that it wanted kick1.3.rom, so I renamed the kickstart 13. rom kick1.3.rom and then I would get a kickstart 1.3 splash screen but no more progress. I tried a few more games and finally Lemmings seemed to load, however this gets stuck at the Load Disc 2 screen?

So this is probably a configuration / path problem however I don't know how to resolve it?

I did it this way:

copy the default RA-controller-config to another place of your choice (i.e.: "/home/AMIBERRY Inputs/") edit the button-mapping as you like in this copied file start AMIBERRY-GUI go to "paths", navigate the "inputs"-path to your new one. click on the button "rescan paths" There you go, the inputs are now as you like to have them global for all games ;)

@George-Spiggott Ok, I will try them out with other settings and see how it goes. One thought I have is that they actually are .lha format and maybe the files then are assumed to be WHDload when run and then it fails to load since they are not... Did that make any sense? :)

I haven't tried ISO yet but will give that a go if I can't get the .lha files to work.

To bring this thread to its full conclusion I finally got round to modifying my copy of Gloom Deluxe.

I made an HD floppy disk image file and used Workbench to copy the contents of both disks to this file. I then modified the s/startup-sequence file to boot straight into the game without loading the setup program. I used ED from the AmigaDOS Shell to do this.

I now have a single disk version of Gloom Deluxe that works perfectly.

On further investigation a number of CD32 game have this issue, sometimes requiring port 1 and sometimes port 0. Individual settings files looks like the solution.

Generally CD32 games like a CD32 pad in port 1. The following games are exceptions:

Fire + Ice CD32. Needs a joystick (not a pad) in port 1.
Seek and Destroy CD32. Needs a CD32 pad in port 0.

Scanlines can be enabled by setting default_line_mode=2