(A) Button is not recognized in the Amiberry GUI of 5.6.8

[NoobieMaks]

I upgraded my 5.6.6 RetroPie-Amiberry-Update to the latest version 5.6.8 manually with these instructions: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amiberry/wiki/Upgrading-to-the-latest-version/e4b711ff20afe34f21268e72d7160045baf4ef23 Following things did I notice:

• VKbd: Now the Virtual Keyboard works - under 5.6.6 I found no way to bring it on the screen
• Display: The game-display was just a quarter of my computer-screen initially -> I turned it to "default_fullscreen_mode=1" in the amiberry.conf
• GUI: I have a problem with the Amiberry GUI - I can navigate with my joystick but can not choose or check anything, only per keyboard is it possible. In the games the joysticks are working as they always did, also the new function of the virtual keyboard can be fully used per joystick. Only the A-Button function in the GUI is missing. Seems weird to me?

[midwan]

@NoobieMaks for the display, you might also want to try default_fullscreen_mode=2, which will use Full-window mode.

Regarding the controller input in the GUI, I can't say I can recreate this here. It seems to work normally for me. What kind of controller do you have? Do you have another to test with?

[midwan]

@NoobieMaks Also, both Button A and Button B should activate widgets in the GUI, unless they are used in the mapping for other events (like for example, opening/closing the GUI, used as Hotkey, etc).

[NoobieMaks]

@midwan Meanwhile I tried all my 3 different controller types: PS3, Shanwan, Dragonrise -> they all have the same behaviour: I can navigate per digital and analog joy-moves, I can also jump up and down into the drop down menus with left and right shoulder - BUT I can't open/select any drop down menu with A/B as I always do/did. I'm at a loss. Some questions:

• Was "amiberry-v5.6.8-debian-buster-armhf-rpi3" the right asset for my RasPi 3 B?
• Could the swapped A/B Buttons of the Emulation Station input configuration cause the problem? (RetroPie-Setup 210)
• Why is the amiberry-file of 5.6.6 (9.140 KB) bigger than the one of the newer 5.6.8 (8.000 KB)?
• Would an amiberry.log-file give you useful informations to my problem? I'm so sorry to bother you with such a ... issue.

[midwan]

I managed to recreate this, so I'll get it fixed

[midwan]

Fixed with the latest commits above. This will be part of 5.6.9

[midwan]

@NoobieMaks Forgot to answer your previous questions above:

• Was "amiberry-v5.6.8-debian-buster-armhf-rpi3" the right asset for my RasPi 3 B?

Yes

• Could the swapped A/B Buttons of the Emulation Station input configuration cause the problem? (RetroPie-Setup 210)

Nope, this was a bug in the GUI library.

• Why is the amiberry-file of 5.6.6 (9.140 KB) bigger than the one of the newer 5.6.8 (8.000 KB)?

Because the pre-compiled binaries are compiled using GCC12, which does a better job optimizing the results. Retropie uses Buster, which has GCC8.

• Would an amiberry.log-file give you useful informations to my problem?

Not needed :)

I'm so sorry to bother you with such a ... issue.

Never be sorry about these things, it helps making Amiberry better.

[NoobieMaks]

Thanks a lot for the fix - The asset of 5.6.9 is getting more and more precious for me :)

[NoobieMaks]

May I ask you some more noobie questions? I tried to install the latest version of Amiberry:

• at first I did it over the RetroPie-Setup -> this try lifted me to the, on this place, latest available 5.6.6 - OK
• the next try was per download of the latest official binary -> only changing the amberry-file and 5.6.8 was running - OK
• my last try was another manual way over the repo and creating amiberry-master - this try failed: Starting from ES shows the runcommand an then it falls back to ES and starting from the console leads to this error: "malloc(): unsorted double liked list corrupted". There are no amiberry-log-files, because amiberry isn't going to start.

Generally: Which version would it be if it would run? Version under construction 5.6.9 or Preview 6.2.0? I used for make: PLATFORM=rpi3-sdl2 - should be the right one for me

amiberry-master:

• Which files/folders are necessary to be copied from the amiberry master?

my running 5.6.8 has:

• folders: abr/ conf/ controllers/ data/ kickstarts/ nvram/ savestates/ screenshots/ whdboot/ whdboot-dist
• files: amiberry/ amiberry.sh/ capsimg.so/ retropie.pkg

amiberry-master has so much more and a few not:

• folders: abr/ cmake/ conf/ controllers/ data/ docs/ external/ flatpak/ inputrecordings/ kickstarts/ nvram/ savestates/ screenshots/ src/ whdboot/ whdboot-src
• files: amiberry/ Brewfile/ CMakeLists.txt/ CMakeSettings.json/ Entitlements.plist/ Info.plist.template/ LICENSE/ macos_init_amiberry.zsh/ make-bundle.sh/ Makefile/ PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE

I tried 2-3 ways: Copied only the amiberry file and because of no reaction I also copied all the other files. In a third try I deleted the whdboot-dist folder and the 3 files from 5.6.8 which are not part of amiberry-master. All tries ended with no reaction after the runcommand window and falling back to ES and when starting from console I always got the mentioned error message. And I always set the properties from root to pie and 0755.

I ignored the greyed out files: .git/ .github/ .gitattributes/ .gitignore/ .gitmodules

Maybe you can give me some advises generally to the amiberry master and especially to the error: "malloc(): unsorted double liked list corrupted".

[NoobieMaks]

I don't know why and how, but now I got an amiberry-log-file, which answers the question to which version it would lead.

But only 3 lines are in it, nothing more?:

"Amiberry v5.6.9 (2024-03-20) Logfile

Compiled against SDL2 v2.0.10, Linked against SDL2 v2.0.10 Allocated 16 MB for 24-bit area (0x20000000) and 640 MB for Z3 and RTG at fake address (0x30000000 - 0x58000020)"

When I compare it with a log from the working 5.6.8 then I see a difference in compiled against: v2.0.9. vs. v2.0.10.

Amiberry v5.6.8 (2024-02-29) Logfile

Compiled against SDL2 v2.0.9, Linked against SDL2 v2.0.10 Allocated 16 MB for 24-bit area (0x20000000) and 640 MB for Z3 and RTG at fake address (0x30000000 - 0x58000020) Enumerating display devices.. Sorting devices and modes... 0: 1280x1024, 32-bit (60) 1 display modes. ...

[midwan]

@NoobieMaks The current version from master is undergoing some changes, so it's a bit unstable. When ready, and tested, it will be published as 5.6.9 and pre-compiled binaries will be released at the same time. Except for Dispmanx versions, since those cannot be compiled in the agents I have running.