Amiberry WHDload games never gets past the "insert floppy" screen

Kryomaani

Pi Model or other hardware: Pi 4B, 8GB RAM
Power Supply used: https://www.okdo.com/p/okdo-multihead-pi-4-power-supply-5-1v-3a/
RetroPie Version Used: 4.6.7
Built From: retropie-buster-4.6-rpi4.img.gz
USB Devices connected: Dualshock 4 controller
Controller used: Dualshock 4 (works flawlessly on any other emulator)
Error messages received: None
Verbose log: No logs were created under /opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/whdboot/save-data/Debugs
Guide used: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Kickstart-ROMs-(BIOS)
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Amiga/
File: All WHDload Amiga games, /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/*.lha
Emulator: Amiberry v3.2 beta (2020-08-19)
Attachment of config files: https://pastebin.com/yUbvGDfN
How to replicate the problem:

Installed retropie-buster-4.6-rpi4.img.gz on a 16GB SD card for RPi4, verified installation
Installed Amiberry from optionals
Ran Retropie update and updated all packages
Copied over AmigaForever roms into BIOS folder with filenames as seen on https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Kickstart-ROMs-(BIOS) CRCs match, work flawlessly on FS-UAE and WinUAE
Copied over multiple WHDload preinstalled Amiga games as .lha archives to roms/amiga
Started amiberry and scanned for kickstart roms, checked that the symlinks were created correctly
Tried starting any of the games through Emulationstation
Amiberry starts, shows the typical Amiga booting until the floppy disk screen pops up, as seen here for example (exact same V1.3 one): https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oChk5gyobF4/TiWT_jgeEPI/AAAAAAAAAXU/nM2ISGGlPlg/s1600/bootsplash13.png
Nothing makes it proceed past this game on any of the WHDload preinstalled games I tried.

Kvothe

THIS. I get the same exact behavior when I try to use Amiberry with WHDLoad. Did the exact same steps, and I get the same screen, nothing loading...!!!
This is the only post I could find about this. Can anyone help us?

BadFurDay

@Kryomaani have the roms and games all got full read/write permissions? This is something I've had to do in the past to get them working.

Kvothe

@BadFurDay As far as I cant tell, yes. I'll check again...
.ADF files run perfectly, direct from Emulation Station... so I don't think is a permissions issue. Anyway, double-checking.

silentheaven83

I have the exact same problem and when I try to start a LHA file via "Quickstart" in Amiberry it works correctly with the A1200.

Could it be a problem with Emulationstation passing the LHA file and the configuration to open to Amiberry?

I have the Raspberry Pi 3b+, RetroPie 4.6 and Amiberry installed via source.

BuZz

I will look into it.

BadFurDay

@silentheaven83 said in Amiberry WHDload games never gets past the "insert floppy" screen:

I have the exact same problem and when I try to start a LHA file via "Quickstart" in Amiberry it works correctly with the A1200.

Could it be a problem with Emulationstation passing the LHA file and the configuration to open to Amiberry?

I have the Raspberry Pi 3b+, RetroPie 4.6 and Amiberry installed via source.

I use Attract Mode on the Pi 4 with no issues, if it is a problem with Emulationstation then my suggestion won't be of any help.

BuZz

Works fine here. If you updated just amiberry without updating RetroPie-Setup you may have issues due to command line argument changes.

That's the only thing I can think of.

silentheaven83

@BuZz said in Amiberry WHDload games never gets past the "insert floppy" screen:

Works fine here. If you updated just amiberry without updating RetroPie-Setup you may have issues due to command line argument changes.

That's the only thing I can think of.

You mean that we need to update RetroPie-Setup via "Update RetroPie-Setup script" and then run the "Update (from source)" for Amiberry?

I have the lastest version of RetroPie, 4.6, burned few days ago to a blank SD with the official image.

emulator.cfg says:

amiberry = "/opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/amiberry.sh auto %ROM%"
default = "amiberry"
amiberry-a500 = "/opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/amiberry.sh rp-a500.uae %ROM%"
amiberry-a1200 = "/opt/retropie/emulators/amiberry/amiberry.sh rp-a1200.uae %ROM%"

Edit: Running the two commands above right now.
Done. It works!

Kvothe

EXACTLY, THAT WAS IT!!! Thanks!!!!!

BuZz

Usually it's best to use the full update from RetroPie-Setup. If you want to update a single emulator it's always a good idea to update the script first, else you can end up with a binary that doesn't match the helper scripts etc. In this case the launch script that passes the parameters.

silentheaven83

@BuZz thank you.

BuZz can you also take a look at the "general" thread of Amiberry?
I'm finding that games runs a little faster then normal, I made a video about that. If you want I can make more of them. Thanks.