Amiberry: Pause emulation hot key not working

[RetroD]

Hello, I have assigned the pause emulation function to one of the game pad buttons in the custom controls section, but that doesn't seem to be doing anything when I am playing a game. I have tried binding other functions and they seem to work fine though. Are some of these functions not supported in amiberry?
I am running 2.24 on retropie on a rpi3

[midwan]

The pause emulation button seems to work for me, and I didn't even have to assign any special button for that.

The default one ("Start") from RetroPie's controller mapping worked right away.
Did you try using that?

[RetroD]

Strange, yeah start doesn't do anything for me, and assigning it doesn't work either. Is that meant to work on any whdload game this way? Just tried it with IK+ and battle chess

[midwan]

I've tested it with multiple WHDLoad games, and it seems to work for me for all of them.
I'll test it again on a different machine with a different controller also, just to be sure.

[RetroD]

@midwan thanks for checking,
I have tried both with a XBOX 360 and XBOX One controller. Mapped the pause emulation function to other buttons too, just to see if it was a problem with the start button. Even tried disconnecting my keyboard, which makes no sense I know, but I have experienced more bizarre things with computers in the past :)

I have also tried one of the quick start configs (A1200 stock) rather than going via the whdload route

[midwan]

@RetroD
I can recreate the problem, this is a bug. :)
In several games, pressing the "Start" button will trigger a pause but it's not the same as "Pause Emulation" of course.

[RetroD]

@midwan
ahhh, that's where the confusion was :)
That's right, it's the 'pause emulation' that is the problem. I think the games you could pause that way with the start button would be the CD32 ones (or ones that support the CD32 pad)

Glad the mystery is solved!

[midwan]

@RetroD
Yeap, you weren't going insane. :)
I'm in the process of implementing this now, we'll see how it goes soon.

[midwan]

@RetroD
It should work now, please test and let me know if you run into anything weird :)

[RetroD]

Awesome! Do I just need to go and install from source to get it?

[midwan]

Yep!

[CypherXG]

I can not compile the SDL1 Version. Getting this Error.

[RetroD]

Hey guys, I am also having trouble installing from source via retropie setup. Says it could not successfully build amiberry because amiberry-rpi3-sdl1 was not found

[midwan]

Seems like I missed something, let me get that fixed...

[midwan]

@RetroD
That should have fixed it, it seems to build fine here. Please test and let me know when you get a chance.

[RetroD]

Yep, tested and all working fine now! Fix verified :)
Thanks for the quick turnaround!