Problem with loading some WHD games on Amiberry

BadFurDay

Both It Came from the Desert games will stop flickering if you enable JIT in the CPU and FPU settings. Unfortunately, the Amiga is a complex beast and different games need different settings to run properly.

Stuffu

@aidy80-s not sure what version of Amiberry you are running but there has been a lot of development lately. I think latest release is 3.1.1 (not sure what binary you get from RetroPie though), also from Amiberry GUI, update your whdload.xml. Hope it helps!

aidy80's

@BadFurDay Thanks! The only flicker I experienced was on an older ROM of Antheads that I tried. On the latest one that I've got I don't get any flicker.

aidy80's

@Stuffu Thanks! I updated the whdload.xml very recently, in the past couple of weeks or so, I couldn't tell if it made a difference or not. I have trouble running Skidmarks too. Can't get past the first screen on the AGA version or get the CD32 version to boot.

IyonUK

@aidy80-s Skidmarks doesn’t work because Amiberry doesn’t emulate the serial port

https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/issues/631

aidy80's

@IyonUK Thanks for that info! What about Super Skidmarks on the CD32, I just get a black screen for that regardless of what settings I use?

IyonUK

@aidy80-s dunno, not tried that one. Will give it a go later if I remember. 👍🏻

IyonUK

@aidy80-s I can’t get it to work. I might have an older version of the LHA though but I just get a “Can’t allocate Expmem” error

aidy80's

@IyonUK Thanks for trying, I get the same error message.

nemo93

hello, for anything CD32 I highly recommend you go with the "iso" version using bin/cue files. Those will work straight away from within Retropie. The .cue extension will be detected automatically by Amiberry and the CD32 config used from the get-go. Remember to have the proper "Kickstart ROMs" in the Retropie Bios folder (there's one for CD32).
=> Super Skidmarks CD32 is working flawless here.

As @IyonUK mentioned the first Skidmarks on Amiga is currently not working due to the lack of serial port emulation. Hopefully a new package version will be released or Amiberry will emulate such port in a future version.

Last I do confirm and I insist that you must always rely on the latest WHD packages. Also update both Amiberry (from source) and the whdload.xml file (from the Amiberry GUI).

BadFurDay

@aidy80-s Still WHDLoad? Which version? I have the latest one from Retroplay and still get flickering without JIT.

aidy80's

@BadFurDay it's v2.0 .lha of Antheads.

aidy80's

@nemo93 Thanks! Will look out for .bin / cue versions.

aidy80's

@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?