[Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread

DarishZone

After set right symlinking - basically the three rom kickstart - there sould not be huge issues, despite some games might not working properly, but they boots anyway.

superkoch

Hello to all of you.

I have an Pi3b+ an i am new to Retropie and Amiberry. After setting up and playing some whdload-Games startet with AmiBerry & whdBooter everything looked fine. But now i have two Games i really want to play, but they wont start at all. The Games are Historyline 1914-1918 and Jaguar XJ220 and i use the .lha-Files from "Retroplay's WHD uploads" like mentioned. Both of them stuck with black Screen and without any Feedback. This Guide telling me for Information i have to delete or rename the "system-configuration"-File in Devs but this Path is not there. For Historyline, i think, i manually have to ad "custom 1=2" for skipping the Intro to anywhere, but i dont know where. To the Configuration(.uae)-File? After two Days of reading and trying i dont know further. Please, can anyone help me?

Thx & Greets
superkoch

HoraceAndSpider

@superkoch both of these games have problems with their WHDLoad slave files. I have reported JaguarXJ220 to the developers.

After running the booter and a script is created, you should go into your RetroPie 'configs' share and find the file JaguarXJ220Files.auto-startup or JaguarXJ220Image.auto-startupand ammend the line starting whdload to include the DATA= parameter:

e.g.

WHDLOAD SLAVE="whdloadgame:JaguarXJ220Files/JaguarXJ220Files.slave" PRELOAD NOWRITECACHE NOREQ SPLASHDELAY=0 CUSTOM2=0001 CUSTOM3=0001 DATA="whdloadgame:JaguarXJ220Files/data/"

This is because the game install doesnt pick up the folder by default - which is a bug:
http://mantis.whdload.de/view.php?id=3831

There is a similar problem with HistoryLine - in that the game needs a 'manual' setting to load, and the non-default setting should probably be reported to the developers. For this one you need to add CUSTOM1=2 (i am not sure what this does, but possibly used to pick a level set)

DarishZone

@HoraceAndSpider What about Another World/Out of this World? It run under Amiberry? It dsnt works on me.

HoraceAndSpider

@darishzone Another World runs fine - did you see my post on this above?

@horaceandspider said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

@darishzone said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

Can't get to work Another World/Out of this World on Amiberry, the game stuck after symbols screen, all versions. Any toughs?

navigate the cursor to 'OK' and press fire. Repeat again and the game loads.
This is the original copy protection , which althrough disabled, still appears.

DarishZone

@HoraceAndSpider Sorry man, i did not not read your post. Nevermind.

HoraceAndSpider

@darishzone said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

@HoraceAndSpider Sorry man, i did not not read your post. Nevermind.

No problem - figures cross you get to enjoy this great game again.... shame it only lasts about 45 minutes once you know how!

DarishZone

@horaceandspider said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

@darishzone said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

@HoraceAndSpider Sorry man, i did not not read your post. Nevermind.

No problem - figures cross you get to enjoy this great game again.... shame it only lasts about 45 minutes once you know how!

I hope too, i cannot pass copy protection screen, i push ok and game freeze.

AndersHP

What's the status on the possibility to have ipac controllers custom mapped? I'm thinking if it's possible to to map the Amiga buttons and joysticks to some other keyboard inputs?

Hasslehogg

Hi guys

Got a weird issue, wondering if you could help please.

I Install Amiberry and seteup from source, run a game (Sensi 97/98 in LHA format from Amiga Board and it boots great.

Next time I run it or any game I just get a black screen. So basically I can play any game once then no other games even after a restart.

I have even removed the autoboot config file and debug file and it still doesnt work

zip's work fine still

seen something about different controllers, tried 2 different controllers and its the same

running retropie 4.4 on odroid xu4

thanks in advance

superkoch

@horaceandspider Thanks Man, you made my Day. I tried before to open up the .auto-startup with Windows-Editor, but there was only Chinese Signs and so i thought that this is not the right File to edit. After your Post i opened it with WordPad, was able to read and alter the content, but after saving the File lost something and it doesnt work too. But now i use an Editor and everything works as expectet. This brings me to another Question: After trying out more Games, i found some not working. Is there a Thread for asking for Help and listing them or is this Thread the right?
By the Way: In Historyline Custom1=1 is for showing, Custom1=2 for skipping the Intro.

HoraceAndSpider

@superkoch said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

This brings me to another Question: After trying out more Games, i found some not working. Is there a Thread for asking for Help and listing them or is this Thread the right?

I would suggest using the GitHub support for Amiberry

By the Way: In Historyline Custom1=1 is for showing, Custom1=2 for skipping the Intro.

Ahh yes. Very silly of the slave author not to have the CUSTOM1=0 (default) work!

WildkatCT

Seem to be having trouble getting Amiberry to let me quit using my PS3 controller's PS button.

Its working in all my retroarch based games,

I have: input_exit_emulator_btn = "16"

In my retroarch.cfg for amiberry and in my controller config and still no luck.

Everything else about the controller works fine.

Anyone have a suggestion?

dudleydes

@wildkatct I don't believe the PS button is available as a hotkey in Amiberry. More info: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Customised-Controls#checking-for-available-retroarch-mapping

mediamogul

@wildkatct

You might try configuring whatever .uae file you're using manually. They're located at /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/conf/.

Look for the line:

button_for_quit=-1

...and try changing it to:

button_for_quit=-16

WildkatCT

@mediamogul

I had ones in there for a500 and a1200, added it to both, no luck.

HoraceAndSpider

@dudleydes said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

I don't believe the PS button is available as a hotkey in Amiberry. More info: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Customised-Controls#checking-for-available-retroarch-mapping

Any button should be fine to use as a hotkey. Whatever button you set in the retroarch config (i.e. #16) should work fine.

However, input_exit_emulator_btn = "16" requires the PS button (16) to be pressed with the hotkey button (whatever you set this as)

@ WildkatCT what are you setting input_enable_hotkey_btn = to? Have you checked the input custom panel to see that amiberry is picking up your retroarch config? (it will be marked with an [R])

HoraceAndSpider

@mediamogul said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:

@wildkatct

You might try configuring whatever .uae file you're using manually. They're located at /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/conf/.

Look for the line:
button_for_quit=-1
...and try changing it to:
button_for_quit=-16

Possible iss here is setting to minus figures. button_for_quit=16 may still work.

This would work for a 'direct' quit button if the .uae file is being used for loading, but again, if only the a1200/a500 .uae files are changed this will only affect auto-laoding of ADF files. (It's not been said how @wildkatct is loading games)

andefeldt

Finally, after a long time I managed to get RetroPie+Amiberry+WHDLoad to work with .lha files (finally found out that I needed to compile form source instead of installing from binary, due to my RPi running Jessie).

Only problem now is the game "Barbarian" from Palace. Starting this game/installer goes straight back to Amiberry configuration window. All other games (tried around 100 games so far) works perfectly. Anybody managed to get this title up and running?

It's the "Barbarian_v1.1_Palace_1784.lha" file. The file is small (217 kb) compared to other games.

Thanks.

HoraceAndSpider

@andefeldt my betting is you need a kickstart 1.3 rom and yours is encrypted without a key or similar?