A500 Mini WHDLoad Hints & Tips! Plus USB Extender Test - Use more than 3 USB! 

Thanks for explaining this to us John, will save us a lot of time finding out all this info 🌟🌟😃😃

Thank you very much, very helpful tips on how to organise folder structure for quick access.

Thanks for this video. Just got my A500 mini today. Can't wait to get started!

Thank you very much for this video. I am really looking forward to try out the mini amiga but was a bit scared of the whole WHDLoad thing (new to all of this), so this is perfect!

CANNON FODDER, DIZZY COLLECTION, LEMMINGS!!! I'm SUPER excited about this system! 😃

Invaluable advice there dude!!!👍 You’ve saved me a lot of frustration before I even start diving in😝 You might want to tell Gebs though, as she had issues loading games on her video! 😂

I don't know if I read right or saw this but on this Amiga 500 mini there basic a way to write some programming know it was on the other recto console Computer like this so is it there or will it be on the Max version coming up sometime soon?

Good helpful video CB . I’m still considering getting one of these but am still on the fence about it.

Terrific news that you can use wireless USB devices here for sofa gaming. Thanks.

Great video.My copy of SWOS only allows for the A button to work.I've tried to map for 32 pad but no luck.Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Great video! Have you any solution for the SETPATH error that happens to some of the games when im trying to load.

I bought the same usb hub as yours and it works perfectly , cost £7.09p off amazon uk. thanks for all your help.

Ive changed the options and still can't get the great soundtrack on this game, originally the half meg making it to 1 full meg gave music this machine goes up to 10meg in the settings and still no music for this game ?

Great vid, thanks, nice to hear a Scottish accent now that I live in England! ;) One tip I would add is that I've had issues with the A500 mini using USB extension cables, they seem to draw too much power and prevent USB sticks working properly. The online manual does suggest using a powered USB hub. I've yet to try my extension cables with my USB hub but after removing them from the actual A500 mini I no longer had issues with my USB sticks working. I'll report back when I try the USB extensions in my USB hub to confirm if they work OK or not. The A500 mini is as fussy as a Gotek drive when it comes to compatibility, from my own experience, I've got a Blue Integral USB drive like yours but 4GB, a 16GB Kingston retractable black drive & a 32GB White & red Kingston dataTraveler G4 and they all work OK with the A500 Mini. Be interested to know which wireless controllers work with the A500 mini, am keen on one for PC, Evercade and A500 mini and ideally have original Amiga/Megadrive connection as well.

nice video, can u have possibility to check BT keybord? with this a500 mini?

Brought mine yesterday,I did the same with games I added over 400 to one folder and of course loads missing, so have added another folder 😂👍

It's taken me a while to get the WHDLoad side to work (and many rewatches of Crazy Burger's videos!). It's all good now, but some of the games to run fast. Crazy Burger had an issue with 'Dragon Ninja' and I found 'Total Recall' went much faster than the original (and how it plays on emulation software). Does anyone know how to slow the speed down on downloaded games?

Cool accent by the way...it reminds me of James Doohan from Star Trek or the Yehat from the talkie version of Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters, lol! 😆

I discovered that file limitation when i was looking for Star Wars Arcade. Easy fix though just to split up anything where the file size is over about 310MB on average seemed to work for me. There will probably be outliers to this but so far i don't seem to be missing any now. It was only a couple of files such as S and T i think that went over anyway in my collection. Is there a way to slow down games that are running too fast? . I never thought i would hear myself say that about an A500 lol. Perhaps we should notify them to add this option in a firmware update? Overall i am happy with my purchase too but i do need to track down a USB hub in order to use a USB keyboard which i also need to track down as my PC ones are all the plug in type with lighted keys which is too much mucking about.

Great vid ! Have you bought a 32 GB Sandisk Cruzer Blade or 32 GB Sandisk Cruzer Glide for it? I want to have the same mem. stick. Thanks a lot.

Tested out a wireless Xbox 360 controller and a cheap PC receiver on the A500 mini and it works! The analogue sticks don't work in the menu but do in-game, the D-pad works all the time and all the buttons are correctly mapped by default. Xbox one (non bluetooth) controller does not work via USB cable though.

If you plug in a USB joystick (like the one from Speedlink) will it just “work”, or is there some setting up/tinkering to be done?

Bad Dudes looking more like Benny Hill! ;) Fingers crossed a firmware update that fixes game speeds comes sooner rather than later, Buggy Boy was one of my favourites growing up, thought it was me just being rubbish at it before I realised it was running too fast!

Nice video. Ok I’ve another tip for you, I’ve pretty much got the same set as you, but what you need to do on your PC is find and delete and files that contain _DE _FR _IT … these are just euro language duplicates, so delete them & it should bring even the most popular letters within the limit. Plus it’s good to declutter.

I've added Lemmings on my usb stick and I got it working on my mini. But how can you play this with 2 players simultaneously? I have tried every set-up, but I can't get the second mouse to work properly. Is it anyhow possible??

Hi, thanks for this valuable video! Great Job. When I make subfolders on my Stick I can't see them on the Mini, is there a special format for it to work? You probably know, that the PS4 Controller works with the cable, this is real great news! Anyway, I hope you can help. Have a great one.

why it say failat and it goes in dos i just transfer zip folder to usb stick

So CDTV and CD32 games work ok on the A500 mini?? Your Lemmings game said CDTV, if they do thats awesome!

Do you know if a game prompts to load another disk if has two disks? Some even in LHA format have multiple disks.

that was a common issue with the commodores was having to swap ports

Can you try the game battle isle ? I can’t get it to work .......wondering if it’s a general issue or just me .....

Iv downloaded “hard drivin” but can’t get the steering to work, even by mapping the game pad in the game settings, Any ideas ? Or have you tried it ?

great video thanks for uploading. Can I ask you, I have a problem with saving my favourite game Faerytale. I go home and the game stays in the top right corner on the saved games page? (usually they move to a place above the floppy disk image)?

ahhh thats where i was going wrong!, i jammed 400 games into one file then couldnt work out why i was missing a load of them!, thanks for that I will split them down into some smaller folders.

i dont know what`s wrong only citadel gamw work in a500 mini i unzip whdload to usb stick and i test to drop games in thea500 folder nad thea500 games folder

At least you confirmed that not every USB Stick works. I have mine formatted and It's still not recognised by the A500 mini. Next week I will have another stick to try out.

Thinking about getting one of these.. Whats the best power supply to use ? I don't want to fry it

Have a SanDisk 256gb managed to get software to format it :)

Great video. Some games were weird about which port it would accept an input from to push through the opening title cards. Looking forward to someone adding Football Masters to WHD or for an ADF firmware update. Loving it so far. Wish it had been a joystick rather than a pad for kick off 2 but the pad is better for many games.

Have you tried a usb joystick on the mini? Is it easy to set up?

I was having a nightmare trying to get it to work then realised my pc was defaulting .LHD zip files as WINRAR not WINZIP, deleted WINRAR and downloaded free version of WINZIP and voila games starting working for me.

My mini lasted about 15 minutes, before bricking, hopefully returning it on Thursday for another one.

I found when adding me own games the menu button doesn't load up the keyboard

Playing Wings and it’s running WAY too fast. How do I address this? Is it something to do with the blitter/copper settings?

Can anyone find USM for the WHDload.

I have that same crap USB hub, I think that mine may have come with one of those "true blue mini" hacking sticks that were discontinued a while back because the dude who made them got into some legal trouble over it...

anyone finding some demos start slowing down and speeding up in places? state of the art is a good example. also jim power music is broken.

Hi! I have two questions....(for the moment) 1. History Line falls almost immediatelly. Do you know how to start and play it? 2. Kings Bounty starts normally. But the cursor can't move (mouse, gamepad). Any idea how to solve it?

do you tranfer just zip folder to usb stick?

Where did you get Ruff n Tumble from cause the one on whdownload for some reason it loads World 2 first and not World 1 it same version as the one you have EDIT: weirdly enough world 1 is now working lol not sure why it was skipping a level

I really got a problem getting my games with whdload to run. I tried about 10 games so far but everytime when it tries to load it says "setpatch not found" and the monitor stays black. I already installed the newer Version of whdload from the retrogames Homepage. Still doesn't work

Is 256 files in one folder the actual maximum?

Weirdly I can only get AGA games to load. Also the USB is only recognised half the time.

Barbarian_v1.1_Palace_1784 does not work on TheA500 mini

The entire library won’t touch the sides of a 32GB stick so I keep the full library in its own folder and cherry pick the good stuff into a favourites folder.

Anyone worms ain't work on Amiga a500 it loads but doesn't seem to show the game properly after go through the menu comes up with a blue screen and white blob where the characters would be also my speed ball doesn't seem go past the character upgrade part either 😔 many thanks if anybody could help or advice ☺️ Additional information : I'm running my Amiga a500 mini on 60hz and with factory settings out the box

They are going to allow adf files in a future firmware update. You can't expect everything to be perfect right from the start.

Just found out that 1 of my fave games from the amiga (Walker ) doesn't work on the 500 mini, It needs keyboard as well as mouse to move your mech and to target enemies (I forgot that's how it was controlled). DISAPPOINTED!!

Emulation with Raspberry Pi 400 are superior. Pi 400 have better hardware, better price too and don't forget I can run all workbenchs SO versions and programs too. I can run too all Amiga models like 500, 600, 2000, 3000, 1200 and run too all adf or whdload games.

Use an USB-Keyboard to start the games dude ;)

I just dropped my games into the root folder of the usb stick (no sub folders) and they all show up fine.

The sticks don't work everybody knows that ☹️😠day light robbery

What is that accent you have? It's difficult to follow what you're saying...

this box sucks, jim power lag, unreal: sound and graphics artifact, wings is at the wrong speed, and their settings are useless

I found out today after hearing that The Secret of Monkey Island does not work that it depends on which WHDload lha game file that you have, I downloaded this version and it all works OK - SecretOfMonkeyIsland_v3.5_1625.lha best not put a link in case its not allowed. So if you have a WHDFload game that does not work look around for different versions you maybe lucky.

Invaluable advice there dude!!!👍 You’ve saved me a lot of frustration before I even start diving in😝 You might want to tell Gebs though, as she had issues loading games on her video! 😂