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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:24 
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I use one of these on my PC and it is excellent. I got mine off ebay a while ago and I'm sure it only cost my 6 or 7 quid. Highly recommended.

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What controllers are you all using?

I'm tempted to get a Pi for pissing about with...


At the moment I'm just using these cheap generic SNESalike ones. Fine for SNES and NES games, and once I remember which buttons line up with A, B & C, acceptable enough for the Sega systems.

Although I've got some N64 roms to load in, I think these controllers have too few buttons to actually get anywhere past the demo screen.


Retrospex do a N64-style USB controller that might be useful with those.

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I've got two of the 8bitdo controllers that are designed for use with the Switch - they work perfectly, and are really good.


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Being able to play Alien Breed '92 again is very good. Looking forward bashing through it. Some amiga games don't work for no apparent reason, but hey ho.

Great thing about Chaos Engine is the AI npc, I can give Big One a controller and she thinks we are playing together

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BAM! Take that!


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 22:31 
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Not gonna walk that one off.

What a game it is. Beautiful. It's quick, tricky and you can be on the wrong end of a beating very quickly.


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Awesome.

2 player or against the machine?


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Machine, presently. MrsA, soon. Although I dunno if introducing her to Speedball 2 is a good idea.

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 Post subject: Re: RetroPie
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You need to sort out that aspect ratio before you invite anyone else to play with you. It's giving me the chills!


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You need to sort out that aspect ratio before you invite anyone else to play with you. It's giving me the chills!

It's widescreen so better

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There was an Xbox game called Death Throw (maybe) that was a bit like Speedball 2. I liked it a lot.

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You need to sort out that aspect ratio before you invite anyone else to play with you. It's giving me the chills!

It's widescreen so better


I'm going to use all of the telly I paid for!

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:51 
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You need to sort out that aspect ratio before you invite anyone else to play with you. It's giving me the chills!

It's widescreen so better


I'm going to use all of the telly I paid for!

You should crop the top off the image then.


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 Post subject: Re: RetroPie
PostPosted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:21 
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TheVision wrote:
I use one of these on my PC and it is excellent. I got mine off ebay a while ago and I'm sure it only cost my 6 or 7 quid. Highly recommended.


I'm not a fan of 6 face buttons (i suppose i have a slow thumb), but this one has an excellent reputation for anyone with shitty thumbs like me:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffalo-Classi ... B002B9XB0E

I do use the Wii Classic Controler with an adapter, but the shoulder buttons get ultra sensitive.


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 Post subject: Re: RetroPie
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DavPaz wrote:
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You need to sort out that aspect ratio before you invite anyone else to play with you. It's giving me the chills!

It's widescreen so better


I'm going to use all of the telly I paid for!

You should crop the top off the image then.


That's the end of the telly

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 Post subject: Re: RetroPie
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Supremacy on the Amiga is a brutal resource management game. It took over 2 hours to vanquish the easy level opponent.

Lotus 2 seems rock hard. I cannot beat level one.

Desert Strike has held up well.

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Desert Strike has held up well.


Still topical.


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 Post subject: Re: RetroPie
PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 18:19 
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Kern wrote:
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Desert Strike has held up well.


Still tropical.


Nah that was the sequel.


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Now there's a game I haven't thought about for ages. I might have to have a go this evening.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 18:34 
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MaliA wrote:
Supremacy on the Amiga is a brutal resource management game. It took over 2 hours to vanquish the easy level opponent.


About the only thing I remember from Supremacy was the sound when you got a message, which I still have set as my 'new mail' notification in Postbox.


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It's always the fog level in Lotus 2 that does for me.

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Lonewolves wrote:
It's always the fog level in Lotus 2 that does for me.


Look at Mr Level 5 over here.

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Kern wrote:
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Desert Strike has held up well.


Still topical.


The explosions were the most awe-inducing at the time, but i remember the levels being quite long with the most difficult parts at the end. Don't know if i would be into that thing of repeating everything all over again.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 17:01 
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DP, many apologies if you already covered this upthread, but I'm thinking I might make a megabox for my brother, featuring a heady combination of Amiga games plus classics from the SNES and Megadrive, wotever else I can find.

However, if I follow your amiga instructions, does my megabox have to be Amiga-only?


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 17:11 
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Certainly not. The Retropie interface does dozens of systems. Popular consoles are much simpler to do than Amiga stuff. I reckon I've covered that upthread.


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DavPaz wrote:
Certainly not. The Retropie interface does dozens of systems. Popular consoles are much simpler to do than Amiga stuff. I reckon I've covered that upthread.


perfect, thank you very much.


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:luv: :luv: :luv: :luv: :luv: :luv: :luv:

Does anyone knows how to turn this into a fleshlight? (i'm asking for a friend)


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Guy's working on a Spectrum one based on a +3, he showed it off on a Speccy facebook group earlier this week.


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PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 11:44 
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I took a disk image of my pie, put it on a second card and gave it to someone. I tried a few games on their pie and all was fine.

My Sensi Soccer works, but theirs does not. It just shows the hand holding disk amiga screen.

Any ideas?

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Is the disk image the same size?


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Yes. I tested 4 or 5 games and all good

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Brace yourselves, idiot coming through.

I have embarked on this. I've got as far as getting the Retropie image onto the pi.

However, when I tried to add the Amiberry package I did so without it being connected to the internet.

It did a bunch of stuff, ran a load of script, and now I don't know if I can just try and repeat the process with it connected to the internet this time, or if I need to conduct some remedial work first (I'm imagining I've basically fucked the foundations before I start building the house.)

Is there any way to undo what I'd done with the Amiberry snafu, or is it unlikely to actually matter one jot and I should just manfully tussle with the machine and find out myself because that's we did before the internet.


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It's probably just not been able to update itself. It can do that later. Crack on!


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Yes. I tested 4 or 5 games and all good

I honestly don't know why the copied image wouldn't work identically.


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It's probably just not been able to update itself. It can do that later. Crack on!


I've cracked on! And it seemed to work!

However, I'm now struggling to locate the Amiga Forever Essentials on my phone in my Windows browser. Watch this space.


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It's probably just not been able to update itself. It can do that later. Crack on!


I've cracked on! And it seemed to work!

However, I'm now struggling to locate the Amiga Forever Essentials on my phone in my Windows browser. Watch this space.


Hold on, I hadn't bothered actually running AFE on my phone, had just blindly installed it then went rummaging in explorer for the files. Have run it now and all has become clear (he hopes).


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Yes. I tested 4 or 5 games and all good

I honestly don't know why the copied image wouldn't work identically.


Me, neither. Oh well. It is an odd thing. I will offer to reimage it.

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Exciting updates!

I spent the evening turning the house upside down looking for thumb drives. Once upon a time we were swimming in thumb drives. Couldn't move for thumb drives. Where did they go? My son can't have eaten all of them. He must be shitting gigabytes.

I ended up borrowing a thumb drive from work.

Then I managed to transfer the kickstart roms to the bios folder.

The Amiga roms are on the downloadatron - I downloaded all, then went through the process of identifying the games that were worth playing/would be remembered by my brother, for actual inclusion on the retropie. Don't want him wading through shit for shit's sake.

Question: where there are two entries for an lha(sic?), do I need to include both? Or can I afford to pick and choose?


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Do you mean that there are multiple lha files for each game?


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Yes! I will try and grab a screenshot when I'm home, but there might multiple lha files for Crazy Cars 3 or something.


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Might be disk images. Some were supremely tricky to get onto whdload (and some still haven't been) so a lot of different tricks have been used.


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Might gift a RetroPie setup to my nephews for Christmas. Can anyone point me to a curated ROM list? I'm thinking it might be better to start with a few dozen classics than a thousand ROMs of questionable usefulness. The latter might overwhelm/bore them. If not, can anyone point me at a big ROMset, and I'll curate a few choices myself? They got a SNES mini last year and have really enjoyed it, so I'm not barking at the moon here.

Any requirements I should be aware of other than the obvious? I was thinking of the 8bitdo SNES-style pads. The ones with analogue sticks.


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Is it just SNES Roms that you want or do you want a load of other stuff too?


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Is it just SNES Roms that you want or do you want a load of other stuff too?

Oh, not at all, other stuff is a given. For some value of "stuff". Dunno how interested they'd be in, say, Atari 2600.


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