[Solved] WHDLoad not working with AGA games in Amiberry

MajorOCD

@thorr69
I payed for the Amiga Forever Plus Edition.
I copied all the Kickstart ROMs into the BIOS folder on my RetroPie.
Perhaps they are named wrong?

MajorOCD

I have also found that the games that do work (non-AGA), that require mouse input, the mouse doesn't work. Has anyone else encountered this?

Thorr69

@majorocd said in WHDLoad not working with AGA games in Amiberry:

I have also found that the games that do work (non-AGA), that require mouse input, the mouse doesn't work. Has anyone else encountered this?

WHDLoad games are often re-configured for use with just a joystick. You often have to open up the control panel and re-enable your mouse.

MajorOCD

@thorr69
Yes that works for the mouse issue. Thank you!

In the process, I also found the issue for the AGA games.
I went into the control panel after loading a game and saved the configuration without making any changes. I opened the .uae file and found the following settings:

; *** Chipset
; 
immediate_blits=false
waiting_blits=automatic
fast_copper=false
ntsc=false
chipset=ecs
chipset_refreshrate=49.920410
collision_level=playfields
chipset_compatible=A600

I changed chipset=ecs to chipset=aga
and chipset_compatible=A600 to chipset_compatible=A1200

Now it works!

Thanks again for your help!

MajorOCD

How do I mark this post as resolved?

mitu

@majorocd You can edit the initial post and append [Solved] to the title.

MajorOCD

@mitu Sorry, I don't see the option to do that. Can you tell me where to look for it?

mitu

@majorocd Should look like this:

MajorOCD

@mitu The only thing I see under Tools is Delete Topic.

mitu

@majorocd Not that menu, the menu that appears when pressing the 3 dotted menu as it's shown in the screenshot, located at the right bottom of your initial post.

MajorOCD

@mitu Got it. Thanks!

I found another issue when doing this.
Since there is a .lha and a .uae file for each game, it shows 2 entries in RetroPie.
I solved this by renaming the .lha to .l (any extension that RetroPie doesn't recognize will do), and then editing the .uae file to match that extension.

If anyone knows a better way to do this, please let me know.

noise

@MajorOCD Hi
i create a new folder /roms/amiga-hide
there are all image files .lha .adf etc.

then adjust the entry path's like:
filesystem2=rw,DH1:Games:/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga-hide/game.lha,0
uaehf1=dir,rw,DH1:Games:/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga-hide/game.lha,0

in
/roms/amiga
are only the uae files

it works perfect
cheers

yserra

@MajorOCD
My advice: don't use the .uae config files, you would have to manually edit thousand of them, it will soon turn as a nightmare.

There is an automatic configuration for every known .lha WHDLoad games.

Enter the Amiberry menu
Go to the Path entry (top left)
Click on "update WHDLoad database /XML" button
Done, all your WHDLoad games will load the correct Amiga configuration (1200 for AGA games, 500 for OCS/ECS games, or other it the game needs it).

There is just one issue: the guy who made this database configured two joysticks everywhere, which is quite boring since WHDLload Games start with a trainer that asks you to select options with... the mouse.

noise

@yserra
ok the files are a bit tedious, but i'm happy about it, precisely because of the configuration with mouse and joypad.

the only one thing i can't running are cd32.lha games