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DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

Good work, Gaz. The Pi is a pretty good Amiga once it's working, isn't it?

romanista · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2017 14:03

but where is that site then?

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Dec 25, 2017 22:44

Mali and MrsA settling issues with Street fighter on a Retropie. Thanks Davpaz!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

Awesome work! Which pads did you go for?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Dec 25, 2017 23:22

This is fucking awesome.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Dec 25, 2017 23:23

DavPaz wrote:

Awesome work! Which pads did you go for?

Cheap generic Snes lookalikes. Nothing special.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Dec 25, 2017 23:24

When you are as 1337 as me, you can win with anything.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Mon Dec 25, 2017 23:55

Why no grannies garde?

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jan 01, 2018 19:40

Got mine working now!

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Jan 01, 2018 20:04

Which version of N&S is that? (less colors that the miggy version... or is that memory playing games with me

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jan 01, 2018 20:10

romanista wrote:

Which version of N&S is that? (less colors that the miggy version... or is that memory playing games with me

The NES one. They haven't even got Chesterfield and Blutch right!

MrD · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2120

Thanks for the Amiga advice, my sister got one of these for Christmas and we were kinda stumped by the menus and stuff. I'll take my winuae over this wackiness any day. :)

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

You're welcome!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Jan 07, 2018 22:09

How do I n64? Do I need to copy emulator to USB stick and some games then just plug it in?

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2018 11:35

Should have an N64 emulator built in already, you just need to copy the games to the /roms/n64 folder. How have you been putting games on it so far? If you go into the RetroPie config settings you can enable Samba shares, which means you can then connect to it from your PC (if it's on the same network) by going to \\retropie in a file explorer window

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

GazChap wrote:

Should have an N64 emulator built in already, you just need to copy the games to the /roms/n64 folder. How have you been putting games on it so far? If you go into the RetroPie config settings you can enable Samba shares, which means you can then connect to it from your PC (if it's on the same network) by going to \\retropie in a file explorer window

What he said.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2018 12:13

I'm not sure why I downloaded the set of Gameboy roms but there is something charmingly pointless in playing GB Tetris on a large 1080p screen.

I've been playing a lot of Super Mario Bros. on both the NES and the SNES. Stuck on World 1-4 on both. Never played it as a kid so got a lot of catching up to do.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Jan 28, 2018 22:05

DavPaz wrote:

Ok, Amiga fans, we're going to have to do a little bit more work to get things working...

http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/HostedPr ... oPieAmiga/

This is what I used. The guide is very *very* comprehensive, and includes video tutorials so I won't try and go over it again here, but I will summarise what it achieves. After you've run through the tutorial, you will be able to run WHDLoad version of an amiga game straight from the Retropie menus, as seen at the Cottage. A WHDLoad version combines multiple disk games into a single file so that you don't have to concern yourself with swapping disk images. The community has been doing this for a *long* time, so basically every game ever released commercially on the Amiga should have WHDLoad version available.

YOU WILL NEED a kickstart ROM or two. The best, cheapest, legal way to do this is to buy Amiga Forever Essentials for £1.79 on the Google App store and copy the Kickstart ROMs out of that. There are of course other ways to get them (But don't PM me asking for them, obv. That's illegal, you pirate).

You will also need games. If you only want a few specific games, then http://WHDload.com (EDIT: My bad, it's http://whdownload.com/)is what you want. The tutorial listed above tell you what to do with the files. There are of course packs available to download. These are usually split into ECS (original amiga games), AGA (A1200 games), CD32 (Er... CD32 games) and demos (Fuck yeah, Jesus on E!).

whdload packs here http://kg.whdownload.com/kgwhd

I personally just had the ECS pack, as in my youth I only ever had an A500+ so those were the games I wanted to play. But you do you and get whatever you want. You want Superfrog? You can have it. You want Deluxe Galaga? It's there! You want Alien Fish Finger? Get away from me, you freak.

Anyway! Hope this has been useful. I'm available for questions and stuff. Like and subscribe for more!

http://kg.whdownload.com/kgwhd

Hi! is it possible to take a screenshot of what the final files are meant to look like, so I can manually build it?

or, better still, copy the files in the right way on to a stick and put in post to me?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

What are you struggling with exactly? Have you got the kickstart files?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:36

DavPaz wrote:

What are you struggling with exactly? Have you got the kickstart files?

Have 1.3
Not sure where other files are meant to go and how.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:39

Have you installed the emulator? It's not turned on by default.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:46

Kern wrote:

Have you installed the emulator? It's not turned on by default.

From menu put amiberry on it.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

You don't have to have the files in a specific place, but you do need to tell the emulator where they are.

It's covered here http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/HostedPr ... guide.html

Also... check your PMs

romanista · **Posted:** Mon Jan 29, 2018 14:05

MaliA wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

What are you struggling with exactly? Have you got the kickstart files?

Have 1.3
Not sure where other files are meant to go and how.

Will whd load work with 1.3?

(in other amigha-emu news... on my gpd xd it works quite gread with hdf files, eventhough the timing with swos is a bit off... and at the sensidays community we're considering switch over to f_mist-fpga systems, or similar,when amigas will die, they seems to do the hardwareemulation side quite good.. we did a test run at the berlin open tournament 2 weeks ago.. i was impressed

http://harbaum.org/till/mist/index.shtml

you can see the little black box here

BAAAH 3. Olympiasensi by Rick Lindeman, on Flickr

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:15

DavPaz wrote:

You don't have to have the files in a specific place, but you do need to tell the emulator where they are.

It's covered here http://www.ultimateamiga.co.uk/HostedPr ... guide.html

Also... check your PMs

Cheers. I have followed that now (I was trying the video before) and I think I understand. The .uae file is used to speak to kickrom and loader which then looks for game files. Will try tonight to play something. The joys of half four and kids.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 06, 2018 20:33

Started playing 'Kirby' on the NES this evening. Never played it before but I really liked it. Wonderfully surreal with the titular pink blob thing sucking up the enemies then blowing them out for points. Really bright graphics too. I turned the HQ scaler on it and it looked stunning on my TV.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 09, 2018 9:43

Update! Now gets as far as a screen saying it is looking for a WHD file. Hete's my amiga (Rhs)and amiga-data (lhs)folders. Any ideas?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

Arg! I forgot about you! Sorry bud, let's take a look...

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

Right, the whd files will be in Game_WHDload folders. The uae files are just config information.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

Also... mac?

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:31

DavPaz wrote:

Right, the whd files will be in Game_WHDload folders. The uae files are just config information.

Thank you. I will check when at home. I feel I am getting there with your help. Close to a breakthrough!

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:33

DavPaz wrote:

Also... mac?

I use a macbook at home as it is lighter than the laptops mrsa uses for work and I know the password.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

MaliA wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Right, the whd files will be in Game_WHDload folders. The uae files are just config information.

Thank you. I will check when at home. I feel I am getting there with your help. Close to a breakthrough!

You shouldn't have to be manually setting paths though. Are you 100% sure that you've run through all the steps of the tutorial?

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:44

He's a Mac user now. Nobody tells him what to do.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:50

DavPaz wrote:

Right, the whd files will be in Game_WHDload folders. The uae files are just config information.

Body blows works. Thanks, dude!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

Phew!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:10

Some work! Seems to be the aga ones. Should I just put all game folders in the aga one?

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3726

Taking screenshots of your computer, with your phone. MaliCool.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Feb 11, 2018 22:42

The mac has different buttons and none of it makes any sense

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

MaliA wrote:

The mac has different buttons and none of it makes any sense

You only have yourself to blame.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 12, 2018 1:14

MaliA wrote:

The mac has different buttons and none of it makes any sense

Install Windows on it.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:29

Grim... wrote:

MaliA wrote:

The mac has different buttons and none of it makes any sense

Install Windows on it.

Spent enough on windows I didn't need this month.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Feb 12, 2018 23:18

Right! This seems to be all go now. The Amiga version of Speedball 2 is so much better than megadrive.

Thank you for your patience, Davpaz. More questions will follow.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3726

What controllers are you all using?

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

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:48

Sir Taxalot wrote:

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.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:51

XBox one pad. All the buttons of a snes pad with extras.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:22

Mr Dave wrote:

XBox one pad. All the buttons of a snes pad with extras.

You're going to lose your mind when someone shows you a keyboard.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 36321

Grim... wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

XBox one pad. All the buttons of a snes pad with extras.

You're going to lose your mind when someone shows you a keyboard.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:27

Grim... wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

XBox one pad. All the buttons of a snes pad with extras.

You're going to lose your mind when someone shows you a keyboard.

Last time I checked, my keyboard didn't have shoulder buttons.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:31

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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