[Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread
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@horaceandspider said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:
The good news is though, the 'controller' branch i created has now been merged into the main amiberry development branch, ready for the next release :)
Hey horace, been away some time due to a big issue I got after updating to RetroArch 1.6.9, resulting in a decision to completely rebuild my setup. Took longer than what I had expected though.
Did these controller updates get released? And what does it actually mean - custom button mapping for keyboard inputs?
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@andershp Hi, I think custom mapping to keyboard controls is planned for a later release. You can still use the keyboard as a joystick but you cannot map custom controls to it.
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@AndersHP @tuki_cat we are still pushing on the release soon, honest!
"custom button mapping for keyboard inputs?" .. litterally means that you can map any keyboard button (escape, space, a-z etc) to any of your Controller buttons. It's incredibly useful and i'm a little bit proud of how it works if i'm honest!
I had to have a bit of a break, due to some large building works to my house, but i have just started looking into things again. I have updated the UAE Config Maker to be useable with the next version of Amiberry already, so i will look to release that at the same time.
Dimitris has been focused on bug-squashing in order to make something release worthy.
After that, i will be looking at further improvements to controls, and I have just started on some additional file-format support which I am really really excited about... could be a total game changer (it will involve a slight change to the RetroPie boot script for Amiberry, but nothing major) and might even solve the problems like @darknior has mentioned above, and could even make the UAE Config Maker totally unnecessary.
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@horaceandspider said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:
"custom button mapping for keyboard inputs?" .. litterally means that you can map any keyboard button (escape, space, a-z etc) to any of your Controller buttons.
Sounds great, I'm really looking forward to this!
Again, don't feel any pressure, things will be ready when they are. As someone recently said
elsewhere on the forum, these games are some 20-30 years old. So I guess technically, nobody is in a rush :) -
@HoraceAndSpider Is there any documentation for the latest amiberry dev version? I compiled it, replaced it with the old amiberry and it runs fine with your awesome whdload autobooter. But i dont get the custom controls section to work. I even put a retroarch.cfg in the config folder but i cant get it to use select (btn10) and start (btn11) as quit.
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@analoghero there is some documentation on the github wiki - https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki
However, I'm having the same issue as you and I can't get it to work with an Xbox360 pad.
I'm going to have a play around later when I have some more time. If I make any progress I'll post on here.
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@tuki_cat Thanks for the information. Stripped down retroarch.cfg to
input_exit_emulator_btn = "11" input_enable_hotkey_btn = "10"but it still doesnt work. Maybe its not working atm. Using a 8bitdo nes30 pro controller.
Edit: Got it working. Can only say to myself : RTFM. You need to point the path for the controllermapping to the autconfig dir.
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@analoghero Thanks - I have it working now too
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@tuki_cat Thats good to hear.
@HoraceAndSpider Its amazing how good it works. Almost all games work. Awesome work from you!
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@horaceandspider said in [Amiga] Amiberry + WHDLoad = Holy Grail - Amiberry's official thread:
@AndersHP @tuki_cat we are still pushing on the release soon, honest!
"custom button mapping for keyboard inputs?" .. litterally means that you can map any keyboard button (escape, space, a-z etc) to any of your Controller buttons. It's incredibly useful and i'm a little bit proud of how it works if i'm honest!
Did this get released or is the update still in the making?
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@andershp there was a big update lately. I'm not sure if that is included tho, I'm still preparing my gameiist and images and had no time to test the new version.
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Unfortunately (at least in 2.12 which I installed from source) I could not map GUI and Quit on pad buttons (something I could do in the old version).
I was hoping for wide mapping to pad plus an easy way to map the mouse to the right analog stick (like x-port did in his UAE port in the OG XBOX years ago which was very handy)
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@pyjamarama I'm not sure which version I have (but I installed Amiberry just a few hours ago) and for me it has the same bindings to open the gui and to quit as retroarch uses. Because Amiberry uses the controller configuration from retroarch now. Although I noticed, that at least the binding to quit Amiberry was greyed out.
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@analoghero Can you please help out a n00b here? How exactly do I point the path for the controller mapping to the autoconfig directory? I'm struggling to get Amiberry to store the paths.
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Sure i can help. This is a quoute from the docs:
"From the Amiberry GUI you should navigate to the Paths panel. From here you will need to select the location where your .cfg file(s) have been stored.
For RetroPie, you should select /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig/
Once selected, click the 'Rescan Paths' button shown at the bottom of the panel."
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@analoghero I realised my mistake - I needed to point the 'Controller files' path to the autoconfig dir, instead of pointing the 'RetroArch config file' path that folder. Nevertheless, thanks for the quick reply - much appreciated!
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Could someone please post his/her .uae template file so I can use UAEConfigMaker with more correct template?
I think my problem I face with the button mapping is due to the existing uae files that acompany my adfs.Thank you
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@HoraceAndSpider could you confirm if the controller mapping update has been released yet?
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So many missed questions.... sorry about this!!
@AnalogHero documentation on the new controller features are on the Amiberry GitHub wiki:
https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki
I understand however the RetroPie install script should set up the controllers path automatically now.
@AndersHP yes , custom control mapping is now available in the lastest update - it has its own panel although does not work with keyboard controllers (eg IPac) yet
@Pyjamarama the old mapping of a single button for quit/menu has been removed since retroarch HotKey button mapping is implemented. You can chose a bespoke button for this by creating a system specific retroarch Config for your controller and pointing the controller path to your alternative file, rather than the one used by a RetroPie.
All the same function as before, but more flexibility.
You can also map mouse controls to your analogue sticks by using the “mouse map” function in the Input panel whilst using a joystick mode (I am going to work on improvements to the functionality of that on the future too, although it does work fine at present, much of the work will be “under the hood”)
@EctoOne the retroarch bindings are greyed out on the customisation panel because the bindings take priority over a custom remap. If you wish to use the combination for some other purpose, the. You can disable retroarch bindings in the Misc panel. (Emulator reset, for example, is available but not used by default) ... this will include savestate functions also in the future.
As above, if you want a different combination for Amiberry than is used by RetroPie, then you should create a bespoke controller cfg file for the system alone.
@Pyjamarama the UAE Config Maker was updated after the recent Amiberry release and the latest version on GitHub (3.0) contains a new template Config file which works with Amiberry specifically (it should also be compatible with uae4arm if you use the template select option)
Hope this helps!
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I forgot to add... if you absolutely do not want to use HotKey combination for Enter Gui and Exit Emulator then you can always remove all retroarch options (misc panel) and then set those options to a single button directly (custom panel)
You could then add that custom setting to all .uae Config files In he same fashion as the old setting.
You could even free up the HotKey button by removing it from a bespoke controller cfg.
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