Using Amiberry WHDBooter with RetroPie (Step 3)
- Step 1: Installing Amiberry
- Step 2: Install Kickstart Roms (aka Amiga BIOS files) files
- Step 3: Install game data files
- Step 4: Tips and Trick on Running
- Step 5: Feedback and Improvements
Files supported by the Amiberry WHDLoad booter are the 'pre-installed' WHDLoad games. The most common of these are those which are distributed as "Retroplay's WHD Games"
You are going to need place your game files into the roms section of RetroPie. These should be in the 'LHA' format, which is an Amiga compression format.
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/
The .lha files here should be placed directly into:
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga
An example of LHA games installed on RetroPie, via OSX
You will need to restart EmulationStation for newly added game to appear within you gamelist.
When booting a game, if you are presented with the following AmigaDOS error;
WHDLoad: Unknown Command
WHDLoad failed return code 10
Press F12 or the Retroarch-Menu combo (e.g. hotkey+triange) to enter the Amiberry menu - Select: Paths (panel) - Select: "Update WHDLoad Database/XML" (whilst connected to the internet)
THis should resolve any issues with missing booter files.
When copying across files directly onto memory cards, it is recommended to ensure the ownership permissions have been retained. RetroPie itself includes an option for this in it's own settings/config menus called "Restore Ownership of /pi/roms" or similar.
You can do this manually from the command line with the following;
sudo chown -hR pi:pi /home/pi/RetroPie