Does Not Save Auto Height Settings - Legacy Issue?

[GeorgeSpiggott]

Hi, I'm running Amiberry 5.7.1 in Retropie. I know this is an older version but it is the latest version that Retropie will install to.

The Auto Height setting does not save to Amiberry.conf, If I modify Amiberry.conf with "default_auto_height=yes" then Amiberry does not action that line. I know it is detecting changes in the file as other changes I make are actioned.

Is this a known issue with this legacy version of Amiberry, or has the command for Auto Height changed?

I'm running Retropie on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W with RaspiOS (10.13).

[edit] version number corrected.

[Gemba]

It seems it is a copy+paste oversight in the code. It can be traced back to v5.7.1 (maybe even further back in time). These are the lines where the value is handled and put into the auto_crop property instead of auto_height property: Here and here.
The erroneous lines can also be found in main/HEAD.

PS: I assume you are also using Amiberry v5.7.1 and not v4.7.1. The v4.7.1 Amiberry version does not exist.

[GeorgeSpiggott]

I see. has it been resolved since? Is it possible to upgrade the version in Retropie past 5.7.1 or is there another solution?

Thanks

[midwan]

The "auto height" option was renamed to "auto crop" at some point, to keep the consistency going forward. Auto-height was only available in the (now discontinued) Dispmanx versions, while AutoCrop was used in the "normal" versions.

The newer versions also work on RetroPie, but there's no more Dispmanx releases (that back-end was deprecated even when I started working on Amiberry, it's now completely disabled in newer RPI-OS versions). Installing a newer version might be a bit more tricky, if you want to do it outside of RetroPie's script. The best way would be to push RetroPie to upgrade and integrate this version there directly.

New versions are released as .DEB packages, which means they can be installed system-wide and run from anywhere. But even if you use that, there would be some setup involved, to keep the RetroPie-specific paths for things, otherwise Amiberry will use the defaults and not pick up your mapping, for instance.

[GeorgeSpiggott]

That solved it, thanks. Some games didn't seem to accept the default settings but I was able to change these with individual configurations. It's probaby not worth me listing these as the version I'm running is legacy now and they all work well enough now.

Does 5.7.1 or any of the newer versions allow for setting double line mode/remove interlace artifacts in Amiberry.comf? Upgrading myself looks a hassle but it's a feature I think would get use if it was.

Thanks to all for your help.

[midwan]

Yes, you can set the default line mode to be other than single, in amiberry.conf. Take a look at the wiki to see the full list of options

[GeorgeSpiggott]

Found it, thanks. I really did hate the flicker of interlace modes back in the day, such a joy to never have to deal with them now. I really do miss the JIT in this version though. My 1400mhz Pi Zero 2 can only produce 0.43 vs the A4000 (or 1.70 vs the A3000) in Sys Info. Not nearly powerful enough to run Gloom Deluxe at a playable speed in full screen.

Thanks again.