Amiga Emulation WHDLoad don´t work?

PhantomLord80

Hello,
I try to use the Amiga Emulator. It works well with a lot of ADF-Files.
There is a way to use WHDLoad insted of ADFs. It is more comfortable for Games with more disks and in the game list contains only one game and not for every ADF one entry.
You have to put the WHD Directory in the ROM directory and make an UAE-File named like the directory.
The game comes in to the list but a try to start ends with a black screen.

Is there a way? I read, that the normal recalbox is able to use this.

voljega

This was only implemented in Recalbox by me, not in Batocera.

@nadenislamarre
Now that the 'exclusivity' period is long gone, I give full permission to Batocera's team to use my code if they want to implement WHDL usage in recalbox

I will respond in this subject if there is any technical questions.

nadenislamarre

voljega thanks a lot. i appreciate. i add it in my todo list (or feel free to do a pr ;-)

voljega

@nadenislamarre
Don't have time too much at the moment sadly, but if you don't get around to do it due to a lack of time, i might have a look at it in a while (but it might be more monthes than weeks :s)

nadenislamarre

@voljega can you show me the files to integrate or the pull request on recalbox that integrated that so that i see if i can do it quick easyly please ? (i guess it is something related to amiberry ?)

michel83

@voljega thank you very much !
@nadenislamarre i found this on github:
- https://github.com/midwan/amiberry
- https://github.com/Voljega/amiga4recalbox
on amiberry, there is a version for xu4 but i dont know if this will be difficult to adapt to batocera.
thank you

voljega

@nadenislamarre It's several commits, you'll find it there : https://gitlab.com/Voljega/recalbox-configgen/commits/144-add-amiberry

but it is based on old version on amiberry, pre retroarch style controls configuration, you'll have to adapt maybe

nadenislamarre

voljega ok. thanks. it's a good base to work.

Quidgebo

Is there any plan/route to enable using WHDload for the x86 build? I understand this is via FS-UAE so not using the Amiberry scripts.

nadenislamarre

@voljega i were working on integrating your job tonight,
and i see that yesterday, your files have been updated on recalbox :
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox-configgen/commit/719031b489fc098a76776caf798519bc2d9fd499

is it something i can integrated, or should i wait before integrating directly that code ?

nadenislamarre

@voljega should i extract the whdl feature from your work to adapt it, or can i just copy all files (and however adapt while it will not exactly work out of the box) because i think that you do more that i did.
however, my understanding is that whdl implementation is an extraction to a folder, then a run with this folder and what you did is more than that.

voljega

It's pretty much that, but you also have to copy whdl bootstratp file to it to make it work and modify them a little
my script also handle backup of modified game files to handle saves

feel free to copy all my code if you want, as it also handle adf pretty neatly, and it might be easier for integration

new commits on recalbox are to handle zip/lha whdl games, I didn't do that so I can't help you on it

kara2010

Hi,

the latest version from Amiberry support's whd load. you have to start amiberry with this parameter: -autowhdload=<file>

Then amiberry use this "framework" from www.whdload.de

Link to the WHD Load wiki from amiberry:
https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/wiki/WHDLoad-Auto-booting

Is that maybe a good way for whd-load support?

Edit: The last version from amiberry use the controller stuff from retroarch. This make it possible to use a analog stick from my ps3 controller as virtual mouse device.

kara2010

just a little update:

a made a test with the whdload stuff and it works great!

the question is how to start this games from emulationstation as whdload game? Maybe its a good way to make a "new" core as whdboot option?

nadenislamarre

@kara2010 you have to edit this file:
https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera.linux/blob/master/package/batocera/core/batocera-configgen/configgen/configgen/generators/amiberry/amiberryGenerator.py

available on the target on /usr/lib/python27/site-packages/configgen/ or something like that

kara2010

thank you! I

i check it and let you know.

Have you made changes to the Amiberry part in the last days? If all working well i want to share it with you und your fantastic projekt. is this possible?

kara2010

One question, how to save files from amiberry to /recalbox/share/system/configs/amiberry
my files go alway to /recalbox/share_init/system/configs/amiberry

this is the last problem for a full working WHD-Load Amiberry Version...

what is the trick?

And one more question to the controller config. Amiberry use the deafult controller config format from retroarch. If you go in retroarch to input -> save autoconfig you have the Filename and format thats work with amiberry out of the box. Bud the hotkeys are missing. I dont know how to handle this....

nadenislamarre

@kara2010 i've done no modification at the end. your modificatin are welcome.
ideally via git pr, but if you don't know how it works, you can send me files too.

hum, i guess the path was supposed to be fixed by:
https://github.com/batocera-linux/batocera.linux/blob/master/package/batocera/emulators/amiberry/003-amiberry-path.patch#L36

i've created an issue to work on that subject :
http://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/todo/index.php?do=details&task_id=70

kara2010

my problem is on the batocera side.

How to copy in the amyberry.mk a folder to /recalbox/share/system/configs/amiberry/whdboot?

kara2010

I stuck at this point. I am not able to place any folder to /recalbox/share/system/configs/

I try to create this folder from the amyberry.mk bud no luck.

I also try to place this folder via board/batocera/fsoverlay/recalbox/share_init/system/

create the folder in this place:
board/batocera/fsoverlay/recalbox/share_init/system/amiberry

result are this folders:
/overlay/base/recalbox/share/system/configs/amiberry/whdboot
/recalbox/share_init/system/configs/amiberry/whdboot

nadenislamarre

kara2010 show me your .mk, at leastthe past containing this copy so that i understand betterly.

files must be placed here:
board/batocera/fsoverlay/recalbox/share_init/system/configs
and at boot, each directory existing inthis directory not exiting in /recalbox/share/system/configs arecopied.
however, placing files in these directory is not the best way to operate, but for a first version it is ok. this is not perforect, because it is not updatable (once the folder exist on the user side, any update in share_iinit is not applied).
devs are more on the discord chat, you should come here to best faster dev answers.