.pbp PS1 roms not launching

[xwons]

I tried using .pbp roms for multidisk PS1 games. However, they do not seem to launch.

This is the content my runcommand.log

pi@retropie /etc/emulationstation $ cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log
Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/Final Fantasy VIII.pbp" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
Starting PCSX-ReARMed
Running PCSX Version 1.9 (Aug  2 2017).
psxMap: warning: wanted to map @80000000, got 0x741bb000
Init new dynarec
testing if we can run recompiled code..
test passed.
warning: RAM is not directly mapped, performance will suffer
Mapped (RAM/scrp/ROM/LUTs/TC):
77000000/1f800000/1fc00000/08000000/74d7e000
found BIOS file: scph1001.bin
RGB565 supported, using it
plugin: plugins/builtin_gpu
plugin: plugins/builtin_spu
plugin: plugins/builtin_pad
plugin: plugins/builtin_pad
Plugins loaded.
Loaded CD Image: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/Final Fantasy VIII.pbpbad psar_sig: rMIc-`
.
selected sound output driver: libretro
unsupported/invalid CD image: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/Final Fantasy VIII.pbp

I tried with 3 different games with exactly the same error (that weird "bad psar_sig: ") and the "unsupported/invalid CD image".

What could be the cause? All other games (in bin/cue or iso format) work perfectly.

[mitu]

Looks like a bad ROM file - did you create the files yourself ?

[xwons]

No. I got pbp files for the PSP. I noticed that one game (Chrono Trigger) worked, so there may be some incompatibility issues between PSP and the roms that Retropie admits.

Anyway, I found that using a m3u playlist for multi-disk games is simpler.

[edmaul69]

@xwons bad rom. All the us pbp roms i got work just fine. However final fantasy viii has to be done the way you did it because it is one of two games that have a disc switching problem as a .pbp.

[xwons]

Thanks. That's probably it.