How to get retroachievements working?...followed wiki instructions

mediamogul

Is there any advantage between lr-FCEUmm and lr-Nestopia as far as RetroAchievements are concerned, or do they both trigger about as reliably?

meleu

@mediamogul What I know about RetroAchievements and NES cores is exactly what I put in the RetroArch wiki:

QuickNES

The QuickNES seems to be the NES core with the best compatibility. No problems related to RetroAchievements were found in this core after the 05-Nov-2016 fixes.

NOTE: There's a known issue with QuickNES on Android (not related to RetroAchievements); in the impossibility of using QuickNES, it is recommended to use FCEUmm).

FCEUmm

There are a few known achievements that aren't working with FCEUmm (e.g.: pickup items in Metroid, Goomba Massacre in Super Mario Bros 3).

Nestopia

Untested.

fun4stuff

@meleu
I'll go ahead and try Castlevania tonight or tomorrow

fun4stuff

@meleu
Will anything show up in retroarch under RetroAchievements if I haven't unlocked any achievements previously? Wondering if it displays all possible achievements or only achievements that I have obtained.

meleu

@fun4stuff in the log you see only the unlocked cheevos.

fun4stuff

@meleu
So what should I see under RetroAchievements section in the retroarch on screen display?

edmaul69

@fun4stuff on the website you should see all the games you played. The achievements you dont have will be grayed out. Does the website show anything?

fun4stuff

@edmaul69

It says 0 games played.

Previously log file said:
"RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS testing SNES (8Mb padding).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS getting game id for hash c320cba1be26f303ba6f60d39ec39855
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got game id 228.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got achievements for game id 228.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked achievements."

So I would think website should at least have some record of that?

edmaul69

@fun4stuff did you go into retropie setup, update retropie setup, and then install retroarch from source?

meleu

@fun4stuff said in How to get retroachievements working?...followed wiki instructions:

So what should I see under RetroAchievements section in the retroarch on screen display?

Are you sure you're looking in the right place? You have to invoke RGUI and then go to Quick Menu -> Achievement list / Achievement list (Hardcore).

fun4stuff

@meleu
Yes, that's exactly where I am looking. So that should only show unlocked achievements? I was not sure what should be displayed there

fun4stuff

@edmaul69

I only updated retroarch. Ill update both tonight. The problem with updating retroarch from source is that my controllers quit working until I updated again from binary.

edmaul69

@fun4stuff ok just try from binary but you have to update retropie setup. Otherwise you just install an outdated version of retroarch.

meleu

@fun4stuff said in How to get retroachievements working?...followed wiki instructions:

@meleu
So that should only show unlocked achievements? I was not sure what should be displayed there

You should see something like this:

fun4stuff

@edmaul69
Updated both. Still nothing being displayed: says "no achievements to display" ( RGUI: Quick Menu -> Achievement list / Achievement list).

Here is the log: http://pastebin.com/f2sauPEE

I don't understand log says:

"RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS system RAM: 0x75b9e008 131072
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS save RAM: 0x75b7d008 2048
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS video RAM: 0x1e92ac8 65536
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS RTC: 0x75da1d30 0
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS testing SNES (8Mb padding).
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS getting game id for hash c320cba1be26f303ba6f60d39ec39855
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got game id 228.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS got achievements for game id 228.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked achievements in softcore mode.
RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS deactivated unlocked achievements in hardcore mode."

"RetroArch [INFO] :: CHEEVOS posted playing game 228 activity."

Yet, nothing even displayed on retro achievements website.

meleu

@fun4stuff

when you go to Quick Menu how many "Achievement list" options do you have?
Please go to RGUI -> Information -> System Information and put here what you see on "Git version".

fun4stuff

@meleu
Two achievement lists. One for hardcore and one regular.

Acbf254

meleu

@fun4stuff what is happening to you is really strange. The logs are saying that you've made a successful login and posted a playing activity but on RetroAchievements site you played nothing (assuming you are fun4stuff there). Also it's strange that nobody else reported such problem.

I could downgrade my RetroArch and try to reproduce your issue, but if you are feeling ambitious I think it's better you upgrade from source and we try to solve your joystick problem (I think @obsidianspider had the same problem and solved).

fun4stuff

@meleu
Ok thanks. Yeah same username on retroachievements. I'll try and update from source and fix controller issue over next couple days. Does sound like the same problem I was having as keyboard still worked just not controllers.

fun4stuff

@meleu

I updated retroarch from source and retro achievements still does not work (fceumm emulator. logs say cheevos connected/posted activity). My controllers work though. Didn't have to coping config files to udev as discussed in prior thread.

Now to make sure I did it correctly: i went to retropie menu --> retropie setup --> manage packages --> manage cores --> retroarch --> update from source.

i updated retropie setup (script and all installed packages) yesterday so I shouldn't have to update this again, right?

Also, what do you mean you would have to downgrade? aren't we both running the same version of retro arch now?