extract kickstart roms

[roccomolly]

hi i have bought amiga forever and trying to extract the rom kicks from the software so i can use them on launchbox retroarch etc to play old games what is the best way to do this i am on win 11 thanks for your advice

[FOL]

Originally Posted by roccomolly

hi i have bought amiga forever and trying to extract the rom kicks from the software so i can use them on launchbox retroarch etc to play old games what is the best way to do this i am on win 11 thanks for your advice

Not sure what you mean, as the roms are already extracted and will in a folder on CD / Download for use with Amiga Forever.


Unless your talking about them being encrypted. Then you could boot up amiga forever and install a rom ripper, which can be obtained from aminet.

[roccomolly]

thanks for your reply which rom ripper would be suitable to use with amiga forever thanks

[Snoopy1234]

Originally Posted by roccomolly

thanks for your reply which rom ripper would be suitable to use with amiga forever thanks

If you have Amiga Forever installed the roms are in your Public/Public Documents folder (PC). IDK where on the CD the roms are are but they don't need "ripping"

[roccomolly]

many thanks for your reply i found some thing like this Amiga 500 (Commodore-Amiga, 1987, Amiga) retroplatform files

[Snoopy1234]

Originally Posted by roccomolly

many thanks for your reply i found some thing like this Amiga 500 (Commodore-Amiga, 1987, Amiga) retroplatform files

You're looking in Amiga Files/Titles/Systems which contain .rp9 Amiga Forever runtime files. (Containers of an Amiga + disks)

Go up 2 tiers in file manager to Amiga Files - then click through Amiga Files/Shared/roms.

[roccomolly]

many thanks for your help i found these files now

amiga-boot-a590.rom

ralphschmidt-cyberstorm-ppc-4471.rom

tested in retroarch says unsupported file format

[Snoopy1234]

Well you are in the right folder which has around 37 roms included. You may need to rename a rom for Retroarch IDK.

[roccomolly]

thanks for the advice i have tested a rom after rename still says unsupported format

[Snoopy1234]

This may or may not help. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/...-roms-renaming

[roccomolly]

thanks for your help and advice i had alook at the website , should they be renamed as Amiga 500 (Commodore-Amiga, 1987, Amiga)?

[derSammler]

https://docs.libretro.com/library/puae/#bios

[roccomolly]

thanks for the site i done a test run on kick33180.A500.rom still says unsupported format

[Snoopy1234]

Originally Posted by roccomolly

thanks for the site i done a test run on kick33180.A500.rom still says unsupported format

Try kick33180.A500 filename without the .rom extension.

[roccomolly]

thanks but still not seeing the file in retroarch

[giantclam]

AFAIK the roms are shipped encrypted -- you have to install AmigaForever to your windows host (I use WINE coz linux =), and then run amigaforever.exe at least once to decrypt the rom files, then you should be able to copy them about as per normal ...you can rename if you want, but it's not necessary ; they are identified in the software via MD5 sum, not filename.

Path to the rom files (linux/WINE specific) is 'drive_c/users/Public/Documents/Amiga Files/Shared/rom' .... encrypted filesizes;

ls -l
total 14396
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb   8203 May  3  2006 amiga-boot-a1000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb  32779 Jul  3  1997 amiga-boot-a4091.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb  16395 May  4  2007 amiga-boot-a590.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 Jan 21  2008 amiga-crt-310-cd32-fmv.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 Sep  5  2007 amiga-os-070.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 May  3  2006 amiga-os-100.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 Jul 15  2002 amiga-os-110-ntsc.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 May  3  2006 amiga-os-110-pal.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 May  3  2006 amiga-os-120.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 May  3  2006 amiga-os-130-a3000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 Apr 18  2002 amiga-os-130-a570-ext.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 May  3  2006 amiga-os-130-cdtv-ext.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 Jul 15  2002 amiga-os-130.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Apr 25  2010 amiga-os-140-a3000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Feb 11  2001 amiga-os-204-a3000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 May  4  2006 amiga-os-204.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 May  3  2006 amiga-os-205-a600.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 262155 Oct  5  2016 amiga-os-230-cdtv-ext.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Jul 15  2002 amiga-os-300-a1200.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 May  4  2006 amiga-os-300-a4000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Sep  4  2007 amiga-os-310-a1200.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Dec 25  1996 amiga-os-310-a3000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Jul  3  1997 amiga-os-310-a4000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Jun 11  2002 amiga-os-310-a4000t.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Aug  3  2010 amiga-os-310-a600.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 May  3  2006 amiga-os-310-cd32-ext.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 May  3  2006 amiga-os-310-cd32.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Feb 23  2011 amiga-os-320-walker.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Nov 22  2017 amiga-os-3x0-a1200.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Nov 22  2017 amiga-os-3x0-a3000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Nov 22  2017 amiga-os-3x0-a4000.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Nov 22  2017 amiga-os-3x0-a4000t.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524299 Nov 22  2017 amiga-os-3x0-a600.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524288 Dec  9  2018 aros-20181209-ext.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524288 Dec  9  2018 aros-20181209.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 524288 Jan 16  2006 logica-dialoga-200.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb      0 Jul 24  2014 ralphschmidt-cyberstorm-ppc-4471.rom
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcb gcb 131072 Jun 27  2007 villagetronic-picasso-iv-74.rom

HTH

[Snoopy1234]

Originally Posted by roccomolly

thanks but still not seeing the file in retroarch

I have run Retroarch with the Dolphin core for Nintendo Wii emulation on an Xbox and it wasn't very good with the early release needing Developer mode on the Xbox to run. Framerates were non playable too for games like "The Last Story"

With the Amiga romset, giantclam may be right if you haven't run Amiga Forever yet.

[roccomolly]

hi thanks for the replys , i have no idea where to start really i have installed amiga forever not sure what this is WINE coz linux =

[giantclam]

Originally Posted by Snoopy1234

I have run Retroarch with the Dolphin core for Nintendo Wii emulation on an Xbox and it wasn't very good with the early release needing Developer mode on the Xbox to run. Framerates were non playable too for games like "The Last Story"

With the Amiga romset, giantclam may be right if you haven't run Amiga Forever yet.

I haven't really tried retroarch in depth, but I did have a dabble with Lakka ...and I came away with the same impression ~ these are great emulation 'suites' (for say a dedicated machine), but I don't classify either as a 'desktop app' kinda thing ...and a lot of the time their 'cores' are a little while behind where the emulation engine they're based on is 'today' ...ie; OP states it's win11 as host OS, and I'll make a wild guess the latest WinUAE offering is much better than the PUAE core part of retroarch....

...as for the AmigaForever roms... I'm not sure if it was AF9 or AF10 releases they started doing that, but previously you could just copy roms direct from the disc (without installing AF at all),...which is why it caught me out <grin>

I think these days if you've got an Android device, easiest/quickest route to Amiga roms is to buy the Cloanto Amiga Essentials from google playstore for $2, and copy the files from your m'phone =)

[roccomolly]

i had a look for this Cloanto Amiga Essentials from google playstore but it says unavailable for my devices , windows 11 and mobile phone