Loading Amiga Roms best practice?

[davidgrohl]

@sirhenrythe5th I installed amiberry and I found a WHD games collection. The problem is that most games are in zip format and only few in lha. The lha ones work fine.
Do you have any suggestion?

[sirhenrythe5th]

@davidgrohl very simple solution: just unzip the files to get the contained lha-files 😉

[davidgrohl]

@sirhenrythe5th said in Loading Amiga Roms best practice?:

@davidgrohl very simple solution: just unzip the files to get the contained lha-files 😉

The .zip doesn't contain .lha file. It contains a folder and a .info file. Inside the folder there are some files: generally there is a .info, a .slave and some others.

[tuki_cat]

@davidgrohl

If you have access to a Windows PC, then you can use IZArc to create a .lha using the files you have unzipped.

This is a zip program that supports the .lha format

[sirhenrythe5th]

I also had zipped files, but there were only lha inside, so i did not have that issue.
But i found one of the most common sites offering whdloader files - ready to go in lha.
Of course i cannot post a link, but you should find it easily.

[davidgrohl]

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[sirhenrythe5th]

Might be helpflul concerning input mapping and i did not find this in the tutorials, F.A.Q. or installation guides:

If you want to change the input mapping it wont help if you use the overrides in "/opt/retropie/configs/amiberry/@retroarch.cfg"

But if you map your inputs in "/opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/controls/[nameofyourinputdevice].cfg" it works like a charm.

Had to do this myself because the A+B-Buttons of my 8BitDo-Pad were swapped to my regular RA-mapping ;)

[davidgrohl]

@sirhenrythe5th said in Loading Amiga Roms best practice?:

Might be helpflul concerning input mapping and i did not find this in the tutorials, F.A.Q. or installation guides:

If you want to change the input mapping it wont help if you use the overrides in "/opt/retropie/configs/amiberry/@retroarch.cfg"

But if you map your inputs in "/opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/controls/[nameofyourinputdevice].cfg" it works like a charm.

Had to do this myself because the A+B-Buttons of my 8BitDo-Pad were swapped to my regular RA-mapping ;)

I tryied to edit that file but nothing changes when launch games.
Btw lots of games start but they need to press some keyboard buttons to start the to play.

[sirhenrythe5th]

Thats weird :/, on my setup, using a 8BitDoSF30Pro, it worked by editing the inputs for "button a" & "button b" in the relating file "8BitDoSF30Pro.cfg".
I have no idea why it is not working for you :/

Concerning the keys: i had an Amiga2000 from 1988-1991 and can confirm: that was quite common for these days. The joysticks had only one button, so it was not possible to start a 2-player game by pressing a joystick button.
There are some smarter ways as Giana Sisters did it (Joystick left=1 Player / Joystick right=2Player) but most of the games required a key pressed to start.

Two possible solutions: use mapping tools like "key2joy" to map Keyboard functions to a joypad or concentrate on CD32 and CDTV-Images. They are also supported by AmiBerry.

[davidgrohl]

@sirhenrythe5th said in Loading Amiga Roms best practice?:

Thats weird :/, on my setup, using a 8BitDoSF30Pro, it worked by editing the inputs for "button a" & "button b" in the relating file "8BitDoSF30Pro.cfg".
I have no idea why it is not working for you :/

Concerning the keys: i had an Amiga2000 from 1988-1991 and can confirm: that was quite common for these days. The joysticks had only one button, so it was not possible to start a 2-player game by pressing a joystick button.
There are some smarter ways as Giana Sisters did it (Joystick left=1 Player / Joystick right=2Player) but most of the games required a key pressed to start.

Two possible solutions: use mapping tools like "key2joy" to map Keyboard functions to a joypad or concentrate on CD32 and CDTV-Images. They are also supported by AmiBerry.

Ok, thanks. I'll give it a try tonight.

[ballboff]

@sirhenrythe5th yeah just bear in mind if you're going the CD32 route, that you'll need a lot more storage as they were stored on CD. The games will go from being a few meg in size, to a few hundred meg per game. Not all games were released on CD32 (about 175 in total i believe), but you have that guarantee that you have a console compatible system doing it that way, and you're gonna have more buttons than a zipstick say.