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    PS1 games that have bugs in retropie

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    • DD-IndeedD
      DD-Indeed @BobHarris
      last edited by

      @bobharris

      Okay, good to know. It could have been about the file system format I used previosly, I need to test it out again someday.

      My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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      • BobHarrisB
        BobHarris
        last edited by BobHarris

        I am having the same issue with Driver (not being able to restart a mission). But you can of course just use a Retroarch save at the start of the mission and reload that save after failing. I yet have to come across a gamebreaking bug on any PS1 game. I will test my collection over the coming weeks and add my experiences in the spreadsheet.

        Edit: I forgot about Pro Pinball Timeshock. That game has a lot of issues. I don't think I ever got the PS1 version to work on the Pi. The eboot on the PSP had no music and the ball left permanent traces all over the screen.

        Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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        • DD-IndeedD
          DD-Indeed @BobHarris
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          @bobharris

          Thanks, all the help is appreciated. Propably some of these issues we simply can't do nothing about, only some custom game fixes would work.

          PS: I'll add my own experiences back into the sheet, but I also keep yours in there. That helps us tracking the possible reasons and fixes for the issues.

          My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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          • BobHarrisB
            BobHarris @DD-Indeed
            last edited by

            @dd-indeed Yes, sorry about that. I immediately regretted deleting your note, but it seemed I couldn't reverse it.

            Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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            • DD-IndeedD
              DD-Indeed @BobHarris
              last edited by

              @bobharris

              No problem I fixed it already.

              And to all who are applying information to the sheet, remember to put your nickname to the end of the notes, so that we can keep track who has done and what.

              My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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              • AengeonA
                Aengeon
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                I've found that Tomb Raider 2 freezes in certain parts if you try to pull up the select menu. I've tried 3 different ROMs and all of them have done it.

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                • DD-IndeedD
                  DD-Indeed @Aengeon
                  last edited by

                  @aengeon

                  What RPi are you using and which emulator, lr-version or non-lr-version ? Write them down to the sheet if you want. I can do that as well.

                  My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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                  • chipsnblipC
                    chipsnblip
                    last edited by

                    thanks for taking initiative and starting this document.
                    i've added 5 games that don't seem to have any issues on a pi 3:

                    • Apocalypse
                    • Jeopardy! - 2nd Edition
                    • Pocket Fighter
                    • Ten Pin Alley
                    • Xena - Warrior Princess
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                    • DD-IndeedD
                      DD-Indeed
                      last edited by

                      There is some missing info on the notes, that who has tested, couple games on the list just have OK in them, but no other information.

                      My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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                      • BobHarrisB
                        BobHarris
                        last edited by

                        I just tried Crash Bandicoot Warped and I have zero issues. Sound is great, no pop up or other visual artifacts. I play all games from a usb stick by the way. Maybe something is wrong with the compression of your eboot?

                        Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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                        • DD-IndeedD
                          DD-Indeed @BobHarris
                          last edited by

                          @bobharris

                          I don't use eboot, I use just the regular BIN-images. Compressing BIN-images to EBOOT doesn't make the quality of the sound better. It's something else I'm having issue with. The overall audio is a bit muffled, no matter what Interpolation options I used.

                          I didn't also have any popup, but I noticed couple small artifacts with the screen trasitions on multiple games, such as fade outs, etc, when loading another map, etc.

                          My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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                          • BobHarrisB
                            BobHarris @DD-Indeed
                            last edited by

                            @dd-indeed I haven't changed anything in the settings..Warped worked great straight away. Maybe try a different image?

                            Pi 3B , 64 GB Sandisk ultra flashdrive, 19 systems, 872 hand picked classic gaming gems :-) Dual shock 4v2

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                            • DD-IndeedD
                              DD-Indeed @BobHarris
                              last edited by DD-Indeed

                              @bobharris

                              I could yea.

                              Now I figured out something: VSync is messing up the audio in some games, causing them to stutter all the time. I now disabled it problem was solved, C-12 at least runs smoothly now.

                              Edit: It helps, but apparrently doesn't fix it completely.

                              My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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                              • AengeonA
                                Aengeon @DD-Indeed
                                last edited by

                                @dd-indeed RPi3, using the stock lr-pcsx-rearmed.

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                                • DD-IndeedD
                                  DD-Indeed @Aengeon
                                  last edited by

                                  @aengeon

                                  Allright, I included your notes there.

                                  My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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                                  • DD-IndeedD
                                    DD-Indeed @BobHarris
                                    last edited by DD-Indeed

                                    @bobharris

                                    Btw, since you have zero issues with most games we both have been testing, could you write down the information about the system you use, possible overclocking values, VRAM value, emulation settings and the memory devices you use. I could then make some comparison and start to search why such issues happen on me, but not you.

                                    Edit: I think that we could open up Discord channel for these tests, where we could share information, so we don't need to spam this whole topic with other troubleshooting and information.

                                    My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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                                    • dankcushionsD
                                      dankcushions Global Moderator @DD-Indeed
                                      last edited by dankcushions

                                      @dd-indeed said in PS1 games that have bugs in retropie:

                                      GT2 = Various graphical glitches when having fade out transition (Disabling interlacing from config helped a bit)

                                      Die Hard Trilogy 2 = Slow menu, music plays at half speed, sluggish gameplay and sound issues. (edit: putting Sound Interpolation to Simple helps a bit)

                                      both these settings (interlacing off and interpolation = simple) are the default in retropie (indeed, just with lr-pcsx_rearmed in general). i suspect your config is messed up, or at least non-default.

                                      you can see the default settings here: https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/blob/master/frontend/libretro.c#L437 - the first option in the pipe-delimited list is the default. eg:

                                      { "pcsx_rearmed_spu_interpolation", "Sound: Interpolation; simple|gaussian|cubic|off" },
                                      

                                      default = simple

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                                      • DD-IndeedD
                                        DD-Indeed @dankcushions
                                        last edited by

                                        @dankcushions

                                        Well could I just delete the config and will the Retroarch just create new one automatically after that ?

                                        If that is not helping, then the issue lies within the data loading stream, that causes these sort of issues, where the game is unstable and the audio has all sorts of cuts and lag.

                                        My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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                                        • dankcushionsD
                                          dankcushions Global Moderator @DD-Indeed
                                          last edited by

                                          @dd-indeed said in PS1 games that have bugs in retropie:

                                          @dankcushions

                                          Well could I just delete the config and will the Retroarch just create new one automatically after that ?

                                          delete which config? there's several relevant ones.

                                          /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg
                                          /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg
                                          DO NOT delete these, as retroarch's defaults are not good for retropie. instead, reinstall retroarch AND lr-pcsx_rearmed via retropie-setup, and then look in those folders for retroarch.cfg.rp-dist files, and delete the above, and rename EACHretroarch.cfg.rp-dist to retroarch.cfg

                                          /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg
                                          you could delete this, but maybe you want to keep your emulator settings in other emulators. if you open this file and remove all pcsx lines, then that will reset pcsx back to the defaults, at least.

                                          now, if you've (knowingly? unknowingly?) created per-game configs or anything like that... all bets are off.

                                          i would be tempted to just start again from a brand new image.

                                          If that is not helping, then the issue lies within the data loading stream, that causes these sort of issues, where the game is unstable and the audio has all sorts of cuts and lag.

                                          can you post your /boot/config.txt ?

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                                          • DD-IndeedD
                                            DD-Indeed @dankcushions
                                            last edited by

                                            @dankcushions

                                            Here's the config:

                                            Pastebin - config.txt

                                            I can do some minor tweak to some stuff, but I won't start to go through the entire system again, as it otherwise works well.

                                            My soul rests, when I hear the PS1 boot music

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