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Hi All,

 

Having some issues getting retro achievements to work. After doing some research I understand only hardcore score apply now. I have Hardcore on in retroarch and also logged in both retroarch and launchbox.

 

I've done a hash scan of my games in launchbox. I have the correct cores i,e 'messen' for NES but achievements aren't working.

 

What am I missing here? 

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Hi All,

 

Started a new one here as I took some relevant photos hoping someone can assist.

 

My retro achievements aren't working. I feel like it's a hash ID issue? As when I open RA it sais N/A as per the photo.

 

I'm logged into achievements in R/A and LB. Ive done a hash scan in LB. I'm using the right version of game i,e smash bros (USA)

 

Hardcore mode is enabled in RA. Im stumped....are my roms named wrong or something? Never had this issue before

 

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Hi @Orrmighty

Thanks for reporting this, I've merged your old thread with this one to keep things together. Would you mind elaborating on the following so we can try to narrow this down:

1) Are any games loading with achievements at all, or are only certain games that don't have them? It seems you are testing N64, but do games from other consoles load with achievements? Or none of them do?
2) Is this the first time you're setting up RetroAchievements, or has this been working previously and now it isn't?
3) When you load a game in Retroarch, do you see a notification saying it can't correctly match the file?

Hardcore mode won't have any effect on actually recognising the ROM file which seems to be the issue here. If some ROM are able to be correctly identified that indicates that it's an issue with the ROM, but if it's not working for all ROMs and systems then it's likely something to do with the setup.

Let me know and we'll see if we can debug further.

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Hi there,

 

Thankyou for your quick reply! I've managed to fix this issue in RA.

 

I logged out of retro achievements, then logged back in saved configuration (even though it was already set to save on exit) then exited and now everything seems to work.

 

This is a dumb fix and RA should update to notify you if you aren't logged in properly, as everything appeared correctly logged in.

 

I do however have a question regarding arcade achievements. They are visible in LB but I assume you can't unlock any with MAME??

 

Is using RA (MAME cores) for my arcade games the only option??

 

I have a complete merged romset 0.267 and everything is working great for the first time in a long time and dont really wanna stuff around with RA MAME cores as I'm sure something will cease to work

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Hi there, glad you managed to get it working!

Regarding arcade, you are correct in that MAME is not a currently supported core for RetroAchievements. You will see the games as supporting achievements in LaunchBox, but FinalBurn Neo is the recommended core for using retroachievements. You can read more about that here. You could try setting up Final Burn Neo as a second core in LaunchBox's `Associated Platform` for arcade, so that you can choose to launch a game with the MAME or FinalBurnNeo cores, but I'm not sure how it would handle the romset that you have, but could be worth a try.

Glad you've got RA up and running now

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