Get started playing Amiga Games with FS-UAE
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- FS-UAE Amiga Emulator is a great solution if you want to quickly get up and running playing some classic Commodore Amiga games.
WHDLoad packs give you a massive collection to use with FS-UAE.
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Confused with the part at importing kickstart roms. Is it just normal roms? It doesn't seem to load the roms I have. Oh I need kickstart files for the Amiga models I want to use.
One thing I really dislike about FS-UAE is you can't seem to change important video, mouse or audio settings and apply these while the game is running. For example enabling scanlines, changing mouse speed, changing drive volume etc (You can easily do this in WinUAE via the F12 menu IIRC) . If I have missed how to do this I would love to know. Also, the FS Launcher is absolutely no more user friendly than WinUAE. It mistakenly seems to think hiding important options/settings from the main screen making you continually have to hunt for them is user friendly.
Just some corrections:
You do not need to download any Kickstart rom. The game comes with a default ROM that lets you play A500 games at least.
You do not need to create an account or register. If you have amiga game files you can simply select them in each needed drive.
"Could not find fs-uae executable" this is the message i keep getting, how can i fix it? Thanks.
Excellent video. Short and sweet. There are other ways to emulate the Amiga, but I find FS-UAE less troublesome than using RocketLauncher or WinUae. Cheers from America! About an hour ago I purchased a copy of Amiga Forever 9 Plus edition and the A3000 finally worked. I put FS-UAE along with all of my WHDoad games directly into LaunchBox.
I'm a fan of Launchbox too but I havn't yet put my Amiga stuff as I use it pretty much for retro console gaming. Glad you enjoyed the video :-)
@@MikeyGRetro Are there any good, reliable, and fully working Amiga emulators for PS2?
Great video. I've casually tried to emulate Amiga in the past and always found it confusing and complex. This video just made things so simple and easy to set up. Thanks man!
agreed! thankyou very much!
Why is this so hard compared to DOS and even Atari games
Amazing video. I had seen other descriptions about how to make this emulator work but they were quite confusing. Yours is very, very clear... step by step... and I have been able to make it work fine. Thanks a lot for your help!
I love the amiga and still own 3 of them boxed up and stored...i am currently using fs-uae on mx linux and it runs superbly..saves on disk swapping.
Thanks for the vid. I find whdload games so much easier to use in FSUAE than Winuae.
creating new account on open-retro does not work
Great video. I am trying to run a game and it gets stuck on a screen with eyes saying "waiting for bootable media"
Any ideas?
Also, tried chaning Amiga model on home page of FS-UAE but now i get unknown echo or something
Are there any good, reliable, and fully working Amiga emulators for PS2?
I was curious about this so found uae ps2. Tried it on my fat ps2 with freemcboot but sadly doesn't load. From the readme as well it's very limited on what it could do.
I recommend emulating the Amiga on a different system. :-)
I followed the instructions but it just says "could not find fs-uae executable" when I try to launch a game.
I would just double check the location of the folders, its important where they live.
I am the same, installed it a few times and still i get this error, i just gave up at this point. lol
@@bob23301 Same problem here. I've checked the paths and they're all good....but I still get that dreaded message. A complete waste of my time and very frustrating.
Thanks, got it working following this guide. For some reason the kickstart ROMs I have only seem to work for the A600. I should probably stop being a cheapskate and just buy them from Amiga Forever 😀
Now I need to work out what games I want to play, I’m not that familiar with Amiga games.
Lemon Amiga website has a nice top games list to start you out on. :-)
I wouldn't worry. That's how most people get started anyway 😆
I've been getting back into the amiga recently. What a solid system it was and is! Great video!
Win-UAE is more user friendly. FS-UAE is more complicated. It has a lot of issues. If you want an Amiga emulator with no problems, take Win-UAE.
I'm looking for game The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge do you know where I can find it? Also Openretro doesn't work or only I can't access to this site?
Amogus
Amiga *NICE*
Hi. I am a getting a error “could not find fs-uae executable” when trying to launch games? Please help.
Ts use would never recognize my Xbox 360 controller gave up with it and went over to winuae instead.
except for UI is there an advantage in using this one over WINUAE?
Performance wise its the same. If you just want to play games the interface is better imo. and easier to setup
I found error,"Message could not fin fs-uae executeable". please tell me how to fix it
My games will not show up despite having the LHAs for them with FS-UAE. I have all the required kickstart roms too, so I'm unsure what I'm missing. Help from anyone would be appreciated :)
Check if you have added the folder you've put the LHA in is being scanned by FS-UAE.
Alright imma just say this, where can i download the kickstart roms for free. reply the links here
i just want to play retro games, i don't wanna pay modern day game price for some bios roms
It's copyrighted by Colanto so can't be shared here. But Googling it you'll eventually find something.
On a different subject Batocera has a nice BIOS pack.
if i use the default controller configuration, i can use the d-pad on my xbox series x controller (but with only one button), but if i create a configuration file xbox_series_x_controller.conf in C:\Users\MyName\Documents\FS-UAE\Controllers with :
[amiga]
axis_0_neg = left
axis_0_pos = right
axis_1_neg = up
axis_1_pos = down
button_0 = 1
button_1 = 2
button_2 = 3
so i have a second button mapped, but my d-pad not work anymore (only the left stick), any idea how to make it work ?
Is it possible to customize the controller keys?
Hi, again. Trying to configurate a second joystick to play with this Emulator. I have seen your WinUAE tutorials, where such operation looks easy, but I can not make it work the same in FS-UAE. Any tutorial, please to use two joysticks in that emulator? Thanks a lot!
Well explained vid, but when I download WHD games they are multiple files in a folder, I see you have just one file, the programme won t recognise my files,
You need to keep it as one file. Sounds like you have extracted the lha file so you are left with multiple files.
I still don't understand why they emulate the disk drive on the .adf files, the waiting and the sound of the disk drive reading... just why?
The sound is an immersion thing for your nostalgia, it's a personal thing, i personally swich it off but i know others like it.
For the speed, its more about game compatibility, while trying all the games you'll find some adf just don't like being read fast and messes up timings, there is a Floppy drive speed that can be increased but to keep it the most compatible the default is the normal speed.
It's also a sign of the times that we were most patience with technology and todays instant, now generation has eroded that.
I've followed the guide and I have a couple .lha games in the WHDLoad folder, but after adding the folder and scanning, the emulator is not detecting the games. Am I missing something? I bought the kickstart roms from Amiga Forever Essentials and imported those.
I've been saying FS UAE every 5 seconds all day. It's driving the wife mad.
Well explained vid, but when I download WHD games they are multiple files in a folder, I see you have just one file, the programme won t recognise my files,
Hi, I don’t know why but I have followed your instructions and not one of the games I have shows up, please help
Was about to give up on the Amiga emulator until finding this.
One problem I'm having, at 3:30 where you go into C drive, users and you have a folder for FS-Drive which you paste your games, that folder does not appear on mine. Anywhere else I can paste the games to so the programme will know where to find them? Thanks
Hi Paul, glad it's helped. The other place might be a FS-UAE folder in your Documents folder. I noticed in the latest version that they moved it to C:\Users\yourusername\FS-UAE.
The folder can live anywhere on your computer really and when you click the + you just need to go to the folder where they live.
@@MikeyGRetro Thank you so much, was in Documents folder.
The games load now but can't get the controller to do anything. Recognises the xbox controller but when you hit J nothing happens 😔
Ok forget that, after restarting the emu a few times the joystick now works. Not on all games but most.
Thanks again for being so helpful
How i run OctaMED?
Thank you so much! perfect tutorial!
Glad you found it useful :-)
Do you happen to have a video for playing games in .hdf format for winuae?
What’s cool about this emulator is that it is available for most platforms including macOS.
Definitely, I use in linux as well and get the same great experience. I chose Windows in this video as its the most common for viewers.
This is great, it would have been a major pain to figure out without this video.
my computer is downloading the lha as rar, why is this?
Do you have WinRAR installed perhaps. I recommend 7zip if so
This Video opened a portal of time travel ,Thank you very much for your comphrehensive video Sir.
I wonder does it work for the applications such are Amiga 500 workbench, deluxe paint 4 etc.
Thank you so much ,without this tut I couldnt figure out how! Best Regards
People like you are best !!!
No matter what I do, I can't update my games database, whenever I try to do I get to the updating Ratings part but then I get an error message that says "Error 5 : While Decompressing data : Incomplete or truncated stream" and it just completely stops.
I tried looking up what it means or a fix but couldn't find anything.Any else have this issue? Or better yet, had it but found a fix? I'm open to suggestions...
Also am I the only one who finds this whole process needlessly confusing? Seriously, if it wasn't for this video (and I just to say a BIG thank you to MikeyGretro for making this tutorial!) I wouldn't figured out anything. I don't think I've emulated anything that requires so much setting up, then again I've only emulated consoles. I'm probably making this out to way more confusing than it is, but how I wish it was a bit simpler and easier...
Thats an odd error message.
Things to check would be have you got enough disk space on the PC.
Also open Task Manager and see if there high percentage of RAM being used.
Start from the beginning setting up and if that doesn't work leave a comment on FS-UAE website where you downlaod it and hopefully someone can replicate the issue.
Glad the guide has been useful so far, emulating a computer is more complicated than console sadly but it's rewarding when you get it all working. :-)
Been using this since release it works great as I could never get WinUAE or Winfellow Alpha to work correctly
So way less setup than winuae itself? Have to try it! Thx. Got my old A1200, retropie, winuae and now Will try SF uae 😁
EDIT: does not work with me... I have the (paid) cloanto AMIGA ROMs. I followed your guide, non of my lha works, nor the one I download from that WHDL site. When I start a game I get this error: Task: """Amiga Launch Task. Error: Exeption Message: Could not find fs-uae executable. See logs for more details.""" (happens when trying A500 or A1200 for that game) Restarted the program a lot, nothing helpes. Also Logitech F310 controller not detected, even after restart of program.
Yes I have loads of guides on WinUAE if you need it but imo FS-UAE is faster to setup if you just want to focus on games.
Hi. Do you have any guides on how to save games? Either using save states or saving properly within a game? I can’t use save states as the option is greyed out when pressing F12 during a game, and when I try and save a game properly using the save game option in the game itself (e.g. HeroQuest) it asks for a Save Disk. I have no idea what this is and how to get the emulator to generate a save disk that the game recognises.
I’ve tried Google but nothing makes sense, and nothing explains why the save state options are greyed out.
I don't but thats a good subject to cover. From my experience save states are good when running games from adf. Things don't work well when you start to use WHDLoad games and save states.
I'll put it on my list of videos to do. :-)
help please, I don't understand the part with the kickstarts, do I have to pay for these? When I download them with the help of other platforms than amiga forever the launcher wont reconise them
Officially, yes Amiga Forever is a paid product. There are other places on the internet but some may not be genuine.
for me i get stuck it adding games as a FS-UAE folder has not been created in users...
Places to look are in Documents where they should be an FS-UAE folder or I've seen sometimes it appear in C:\Users\yourusername\FS-UAE.
You need to have loaded up FS-UAE Launcher once in order for it to make the folders.
Puedes hacer otro video en español?
the 1 think i wanted to know and it isn't here
when i try to create an account in openretro the message "Gateway Timeout" appears, its utterly necessary to use openretro?
I'd try again later, maybe the website is having issues. Openretro gives you the nice list of games that you can then click on and load a game
Great video! Short and to the point. Thanks for putting it together 🙂
Splendid guide. All work fine so far.My only question is since i load an LHA game how can i save the progress?
For example in Winuae there is the option "Write-protected" to untick it and it saves it just perfect. Any idea? 😄
WHDLoad games have whats called a Quit key. When it is pressed one of the things it does is save the data of highscores etc. It depends on the game sometimes but F10 is normally the key. You can define it in FS-UAE settings.
Press the X in the corner of the FS-UAE screen doesn't save at all.
@@MikeyGRetro it’s the command lines bro I found it.
Go to advanced settings and type : “relative_temp_feature = 1” and below line “unsave_save_states = 1” . Works like a charm I can save and load in all games so far.
So I noticed that when acquiring the kickstart ROMs, FS-UAE doesn't seem to detect the ROMs for the A600, A1000, and A3000. Will this be an issue?
Generally, no for WHDLoad games.
There are different A600 roms out there. FS-UAE will do a SHA-1 check on the files you give it. They list what SHA-1 they are looking for each rom here:
fs-uae.net/docs/kickstarts
If you have 7zip installed on your machine when you right click you should see CRC SHA > SHA-1 as an option. This will give you the SHA-1 for your file then just match it with whats on the website. If they are different then you need to find another rom. Hope that helps :-)
@@MikeyGRetro I've since got this sorted out for the A600 and A1000, just not for the A3000.
@@theopenrift same problem here... A3000 not detected.. only this one... 🤷♂️
Great manual..even works on Mac M1 version of FS UAE
Good to know. I don't have a Mac but know FS-UAE is good on there from what I've heard. :-)
Great emulator. However, I am confused about using a Windows keyboard on some games. Is there a work-around to get this sorted?🧐
Some games used a keyboard originally. Desert Strike come to mind. The Amiga keyboard isn’t that far off a windows keyboard layout so I don’t see it an issue.
If you are using keyboard arrows instead of joystick then you just need to choose the joystick you have plugged into your computer.
@@MikeyGRetro Thanks for the speedy reply. The game I am playing is Phantasie 1 and some keyboard features work as intended, except for moving on the over world map and in dungeons.
Ha, did it! Thanks
Thx for the help!
Thanks for the review! What makes the .lha a better choice than .adf? Which video about this subject are you reffering to?
lha is normally a WHDLoad game that is packaged up so you don't need to do disk swapping. If you use adf you will be asked to swap disks which means press F12 and finding the next adf to insert.
Ah, ok. Thanx!
awesome...😎
I have a little question, if you don't mind. I am trying to launch this Emulator through Launchbox, where I have located all my emulators. Lanchbox has loaded all the .lha roms fine, but the game's names are not well recognized. So, when Launchbox tries to download the game's images does not find them. Nevertheless, in FS-UAE pictures downloaded through OpenRetro works fine. I do not know if those images could be imported to Lanchbox somehow. Thanks!
Hi, I tried using FS-UAE and launchbox quite a while back and it was quite a mess. I don't know if it has got easier. Last i knew you had to make seperate files for each game in your collection that contained a game ID that FS-UAE would understand. It was too much work and abandoned it.
If your using Launchbox and most probably retroarch. I would look at the PUAE core and importing your lha and using that instead. I haven't personally tried it yet but it's on my list of things to try and cover.
@@MikeyGRetro Thanks a lot for your reply. I do not use Retroarch with Lanunchbox, as I prefer not to install Retroarch cores and use my own Emulators configured by me. But do not worry: if it is quite difficult to make FS-UAE work fine in Launchbox I will run it separately. Thanks again for your help.
@@ignacio-fernandez-sarasola No worries, it may improve in the future. FS-UAE has the arcade view which is good.
Hi Installed FS-UAE, but getting "Could not find fs-uae executable" I have both the FS-UAE and the FS-UAE in the same folder. Can you help please
Hi, the folders need to be alongside each other not one inside the other which sound like what has happened. It is a bit annoying the recent changes on how he has set this up but hopefully that will sort out your issue. :-)
@@MikeyGRetro Hi Mikey. Sorry I need to elaborate on that. They are alongside each other in a folder on my desktop called "Amiga" Thanks John. ps but now looking at them there is a folder saying FS-UAE_3.166 etc and than in that folder a folder saying FS-UAE. So I will take the folder out of the folders as see what happens tks.
@@MikeyGRetro Hi That was the issue I had them in their original folders. Duh tks again
@@johnseamons7455I’m having the same issue, what exactly did you do to correct it? I’m a little lost.
@MikeyGRetro
This reply was MikeyGRetro, which fixed the issue Cheers
1 year ago
Hi, the folders need to be alongside each other not one inside the other which sound like what has happened. It is a bit annoying the recent changes on how he has set this up but hopefully that will sort out your issue. :-)