Directory path for Cloanto's rom.key is not obvious

[boras-pl]

Describe the bug I have a legal Cloanto's Amiga Forever package. It seems that Amiberry looks for rom.key in the root of Amiberry's path, not in the rom's path.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Let's assume the simplest case:

• Linux (does not matter which: either RaspiOs on RPi5 or Linux Mint on x86_64)
• Amiberry v5.6.7 installed in a home directory ~/amiberry
• All Cloanto's roms (including rom.key) copied into /home/user/amiberry/kickstarts
• The 'System ROMs:' path in the 'Paths' menu is correct
• Rescan paths done, no errors
• Quickstart->Amiga 500, default config
• In the ROM menu, the 'Main ROM File:' list does not see Cloanto's roms.
• When I select manually /home/user/amiberry/kickstarts/amiga-os-130.rom and press Start it works (I can see the diskette image)
• When I try to save the config as A500 it says: Could not find system ROM key file.
• When I copy the rom.key file from /home/user/amiberry/kickstarts to /home/user/amiberry/: the message no longer appears, the list of available roms in the 'Main ROM File:' list is filled correctly.

Expected behavior rom.key file should be also searched in The 'System ROMs:' location, not the main Amiberry root directory. The current behavior is not obvious for users.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Linux (does not matter which: either RaspiOs on RPi5 or Linux Mint on x86_64)

• Version v5.6.7, v6.2.0

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[midwan]

@boras-pl That doesn't sound right.

On startup, Amiberry will check for the rom.key in a series of paths, starting with the defined Kickstarts path, and if that fails, then look for it in the root directory, then under a few more variations (roms/rom.key, starting path/rom.key, starting path/../shared/rom/rom.key etc).

The only scenario where this is picked from the root level, is if it's not found in the defined Kickstarts dir in the first round of checks.

[midwan]

Which version of Amiga Forever are you using? The latest ones (for a few years now) require you to run AF once (on Windows), to decrypt the ROMs, before they can be used. They also don't require a rom.key at all, of course.

[midwan]

Closing this due to inactivity. Feel free to come back with more info if the problem persists.