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Hi ceuse

I don’t think your problem has anything to do with your scraped images or gamelists. From looking at your screenshots you appear to be using the Zoid theme. The background images for each emulator in Zoid are scaled to 1080p. Not sure why, but these larger images seem to quickly use up all your VRAM.

The Simple theme which comes as standard with RetroPie has images half this size (720p), and because of this I’m am able to run up to 23 emulators before I start to experience frozen white screens when booting.

I went through all my background images a few weeks ago and halved them again in size to only 640×360. This has allowed me to have even more emulators to choose from on the menu screen without any more freezing problems. I currently have 31 emulators up and running.
Downgrading the backgrounds to an SD resolution has added a little bit of blockiness and jpeg artifacting, but it really doesn’t look as bad as you might think.

I would recommend that you switch back to the Simple theme and then try adding a few more emulators to your list. I believe you should then be able to make it into the early 20’s before you experience any more frozen screens.

Do any of the devs know why these background images cause such a problem? The folder which contains the Simple theme is only around 11MB in size, and quite a bit of what is contained within isn’t even used, such as the original unblurred images and currently unsupported systems. Now that we have the RPi2 with 1GB of RAM, I can’t understand why these larger resolution background images can cause such a drain on resources. Is there any kind of quick fix which could be implemented?

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I think I have discovered what the problem is with the black screen on UAE4all. I have now managed to get the emulator to work. The problem is the PS3 controller. (I use a PS3 controller via bluetooth.)

I booted up Retropie with only my keyboard connected, I used the keys to navigate emulation station’s menus and boot up the Amiga emulator. Suddenly all games loaded perfectly, no black screen anymore.
If I go back and reboot Retropie with the controller connected the frozen black screen returns when I try to load an Amiga game. However, if I turn off the controller while I’m still stuck in the black screen, the game will boot the instant the controller switches off.
Once I have loaded a game for the first time I seem to be then able to reconnect the controller again. I can then go back to the menu and boot other games without further black screen errors.

I’ve only just discovered this and haven’t so far attempted to play any of these games, but they do now load up. The Amiga could have other PS3 controller problems which I’m not aware of yet, but hopefully this will help others who may be suffering with this same black screen error.

[devo]

I have exactly the same problem with this. I’m using the same hardware, Pi2 and PS3 controllers with the 2.6 image. I have various working kick roms which I’ve named kick13.rom, kick20.rom, kick31.rom and placed in the RetroPie BIOS folder.
I get to the UAE4All menu page without any problems, but once I’ve placed my game images in the virtual floppy drive and press the reset button I get stuck in a black screen and have no choice but to reboot my Pi.

I’d really appreciate it if somebody could provide more comprehensive instructions on how to get this emulator up and running. I really want to play my old Amiga games again!!

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