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

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?

WildkatCT

@horaceandspider I set input_enable_hotkey_btn = to 16 as well and that gave me a 1 key quit I was looking for, thanks.

andefeldt

@horaceandspider I don't think that's the case. How can I check this?

I have kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 (from my /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/ folder):
kick34005.A500.RTB
kick40068.A1200.RTB
Kickstart-v1.3-rev34.5-1987-Commodore-A500-A1000-A2000-CDTV.rom
Kickstart-v3.1-rev-40.68-1993-Commodore-A1200.rom

I checked the Kickstart files checksums and they were both correct. I tried adding the RTB files for both A1200 and A500 today, but that didn't help (don't really know what these file do). I created symlinks for the RTB files, but again it didn't help.

All other game I throw at it works like a charm. Barbarian doesn't even show the "Amiberry" logo, it just goes straight to the configuration.

All help is greatly appreciated.

dudleydes

@andefeldt It's worth checking the issues at Amiberry github page to see if the compatibility of a game is being or has already been discussed.

Here's a couple that may be relevant for Barbarian:

https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/309
https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/173

andefeldt

@dudleydes Thanks for the links.
I could see that the A600HD rom was mentioned, so I tried adding the Kickstart 2.05 rev. 37.500 to my /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/ folder.
Then the WHDLoader/"installer" launched and installed the game, but right after, it rebooted and presented me with the red "System failure, press left mouse to continue" box.
No symlinks was made in the /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Kickstarts/. I tried creating the symlinks myself afterwards (named the symlink kick37500.A600HD), but that didn't help.
Any ideas?

WildkatCT

I have been adding CD32 games with some good success, but all my images are bin/cue with wav...is there any way I can convert the audio to MP3/OGG/FLAC to save space?

Rujar

Hi guys/girls,

Got my Amiberry (2.18)+ WHDLoad up and running. What a great asset! Love it.
Played some games (Moonstone what a great game) and also tried to play my all time favorite SWOS 96/97. But ….when I want to play a career and select my team, the game just crashes. Black screen but I can hear music. (I use A1200 kickstarter 3.1) What could it be?

Other ‘problem’is my gamepad. It doesn’t select it as a default controller. So when I start a game I must hit F12 and then manual select the gamepad.

But I really need some help with my SOWS game. Thanks!

dudleydes

@rujar SWOS 96/97 in career mode using the fileSensibleWorldOfSoccer9697_v1.7_0842.lha works fine for me.

Amiberry does produce debug reports that you can find in /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Debugs/. Hopefully that should give some info why the game is crashing.

Regards configuring your controller, could you try the following commands:

cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_packages.sh amiberry configure

If this does not resolve this issue, then installing from source should work.

Rujar

@dudleydes

Yes I'm using the same file. Will look in to the debug report.

Thanks for the tips. Saves me a lot of time. It took me already hours to get my amiberry properly running.

Rujar

@dudleydes

There is a debug file but is is empty 0kb.
Weird. All works fine (friendly season etc) accept career mode.

dudleydes

@rujar I should have mentioned that I was testing on my main RetroPie 4.3.x image which is based on Jessie. In SWOS 96/97 career mode, I can select a team and start a season without a problem.

I have just tested SWOS 96/97 in Amiberry 2.18.2 using the RetroPie 4.4 Stretch image and I managed to replicate your issue where after selecting my team in career mode, the screen turns black while the music continues to play.

The first thing I would try is to update Amiberry from source which will install version 2.21. This should also fix your issue regarding your controller not being selected as default.

If this is unsuccessful, then, if you have a spare SD card, I would write the RetroPie 4.3 image to it and then try SWOS in Amiberry.

If SWOS career mode works fine here, then it may be worthwhile to open an issue at the Amiberry github page: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues

Rujar

@dudleydes

Got it!

Career mode works if you start emu(s) Immediate blitter in Settings and set Z2 fast at 8MB.

But many thanks for your help anyway.

adriansos666

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

Other ‘problem’is my gamepad. It doesn’t select it as a default controller. So when I start a game I must hit F12 and then manual select the gamepad.

I had same issue with gamepad a while ago. Ended up removing Amiberry and the installing from the sources.

dudleydes

@rujar Glad to hear you managed to get career mode working.

You shouldn't need to mess around with the settings as SWOS 96/97 should launch with the blitter setting to IMMEDIATE by default, as it does for me.

Amiberry uses the whdload_db.xml file to launch games with individual settings such as the blitter. I would check your copy, that you can find in /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/game-data/, to check it has this setting for SWOS.

Other games with the IMMEDIATE blitter setting include ItCameFromTheDesert_v2.0_0014.lha and SuperStardust_v1.1_AGA_0175.lha. It may be worth checking if you have any issues with these games. You can find other games that use this setting in whdload_db.xml.

The Z2 Fast RAM is set to 4MB on my system and there is no mention of it in whdload_db.xml so I would double-check whether it's needed.

polpettedorso

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

Hi,
thanks to the developers of this great emulator!
After re-installing retropie it's all almost perfect and i'm enjoing again the games I used to play when I was an adolescente.

However, some of these games (e.g. Banshee, Hollywood Poker Pro, ...) don't display correctely: please take a look at the attached picture.

I'm almost certain there's a configuration issue somewhere, but even playing around I couldn't find a solution.

Does somebody how to fix it?
Thank you

Hell again. Am I the only one with the issue highlighted some time ago?

Thanks

dudleydes

@polpettedorso I saw a similar effect in a loading screen in Alien Breed II (AGA version), the one appears straight after the title screen. It was just that loading screen. It was fine once the game had started.

I noticed the effect when using version 2.21 but when I installed Amiberry from binary, installing version 2.18.2, the effect disappeared.

Apekop123

@polpettedorso I get a similar distorted picture starting Blood Money.

Apekop123

I'm having a bit of trouble with a game called Future Wars. The first time I started it it started and played perfectly but now when I start it from Retropie it starts but I only get a (movable) mouse pointer on a black screen.
So I was wondering if it is possible to 'reset' a game after starting it the first time maybe by deleting some generated files(s) somewhere. Does anyone know what to do?

dudleydes

@apekop123 I have managed to reproduce your issue with Future Wars using FutureWars_v4.3-B_1570.lha.

I found this bugtracker that suggests v4.3 may be corrupt or unsupported(?) so I searched for previous versions, finding version 4.0, FutureWars_v4.0_1570.zip. I believe subsequent versions after this one added support for Spanish and Italian versions so nothing is being missed.

The .zip file did not work so I used an online converter to convert to .lha format, which loads and runs fine, even after relaunch.

I did need to map the mouse to the analog stick by having to bring up the GUI. I fixed this by creating a text file, FutureWars_v4.0_1570.whd in /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry/whdboot/game-data/ and adding the following lines:

PRIMARY_CONTROL=MOUSE
PORT0=MOUSE
PORT1=JOY