Amiga emulator :launch from +start amiberry but wont launch from game list ?
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@yserra do you mean JIT under CPU option in amiberry menu ? its disabled. (no checkmark in the box) and its also grayed out .which means I can not make any changes to it. and I dont have whd load set up either. I worked with so many other emulators and this is the first issue I came across that I cant find a fix for!
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@amook11
If the JIT option is grayed out, it means you are trying to emulate a 68000 Amiga, I presume an Amiga 500. If you get a black screen when emulating an Amiga 500, chances are that's because you are using a Kickstart BIOS that is not compatible with an Amiga 500. You should use Kickstart 1.3 for A500, A1000, A2000. Not Kickstart 2.04, nor Kickstart 3.0 or 3.1.Just to mention: Amiberry use two kind of configuration files.
First, The "Quick Configuration" that is used when you go through the "+start amiberry" entry in EmulationStation. I guess this configuration is OK, since you can run games from the Amiberry Menu.
Second, the rp-a500.uae, that is automatically used when you run an Amiga 500 game from EmulationStation (or rp-a1200.uae, when you run an Amiga 1200 game from EmulationStation). I suspect that your rp-a500.uae configuration file could have been broken by a hazardous manipulation.
Try to edit it. In Amiberry menu, select the Configuration panel, then load rp-a500.uae. Then go the ROM panel and check if the BIOS looks something like 'Kickstart 1.3 (Amiga 500,1000,2000)'. If it's written something very different, like 'Kickstart 3.1 (Amiga 1200)', you would have found from where came your issue. Check other parameters too: an Amiga 500 should have 512 KB Chip RAM and 512 KB Slow RAM only.
Oh, and, obviously, at the end, go back to the Configuration panel and click on 'save'.
About WHDLoad games (the games with a .lha extension) : they are even simpler to run from EmulationStation than the .adf games since they use the default 'QuickConfiguration' (the one that works for you) and not the rp-a500.uae one (the one you could need to repair).
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@yserra i am in the same position, the IHA files work for me but the ADF do not. I just get black screen if I click on game from emultion screen but if I go into the amiberry menu and select the game in quickstart it works.
The correct rom is there - KS ROM v1.3 (a500,a1000,a2000)
However when I go into configurations I do not have the rp-a500.uae configuration to load. I have tried re-installing amiberry but it's still not shown there.
Any ideas how I can sort this? yes I know IHA games are better and they work but some games I want are only on ADF
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@amook11 did you get this sorted? if so how??
@yserra i think what you have wrote below is my issue**"second, the rp-a500.uae, that is automatically used when you run an Amiga 500 game from EmulationStation (or rp-a1200.uae, when you run an Amiga 1200 game from EmulationStation). I suspect that your rp-a500.uae configuration file could have been broken by a hazardous manipulation.
Try to edit it. In Amiberry menu, select the Configuration panel, then load rp-a500.uae. Then go the ROM panel and check if the BIOS looks something like 'Kickstart 1.3 (Amiga 500,1000,2000)'. If it's written something very different, like 'Kickstart 3.1 (Amiga 1200)', you would have found from where came your issue. Check other parameters too: an Amiga 500 should have 512 KB Chip RAM and 512 KB Slow RAM only.
Oh, and, obviously, at the end, go back to the Configuration panel and click on 'save'."**
The problem is i when i open up the configuration panel there is no rp-a500.uae there. However i have just realised i have been looking when i go straight into amiberry. Do i need to try and load an ADF file first, wait until i see black screen and then go into amiberry setttings? might it then appear for me to check and possibly ammend?
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@yserra its fixed now. thank you very much . the issue was indeed the kickstart 13 bios . which I initially ignored as I couldnt find any bios file with that name. instead I used what I found and since it was working (thru +start amiberry ) I never thought bios is what causing the issue . u mentioned kickstar13 and the fact amiberry uses 2 diffrent config! so I searched again found a bios (still no kickstart13 in the title but it was 1.3) I changed the name into kick13 and now it works :) Thanks again.
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@amook11 so what did you do exactly? I am still having the same issue
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@amook11 @George-Spiggott @nemo93 @yserra
I think my issue is when I select a ADF file from emulation menu and the screen goes black, when I go into the amiberry settings and look at the ROM it says
Main ROM file: Kick13
I don't have a file called Kick13 in my bios so don't know where it's getting that from
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@chris3535 you need this bios file kick13.rom in retropie/bios folder . if you cant find bios with this name you need to rename it your self. when you get the bios from internet ,it might be look like this : Kickstart 1.3 (A500-A2500-A3000-CDTV).
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@amook11 thanks it's now working...thank you so much
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I had the same problem and with my pi in the network and under
\\retropie\configs\amiga\amiberry\conf\I opened and edited this file:
rp-a500.uae
it has a line:kickstart_rom_filethere goes the exact name of your 1.3 rom in the bios folder.
of course you can also rename your existing rom to name that's already there.same procedure needs to be done for the 3.1 kickstart I 've just noticed..
for people unsure about the correct roms: https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/Kickstart-ROMs-(BIOS) there you can find information about the versions needed including a crc check code, to see if you've got the right file.
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