Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.

mitu

From what I see, there's nothing out of the ordinary in the @windg's configs (or options).
@AssCabbage you seem to have uses 'Save config' in-game, but the .opt file seems to be ok.

I'll try one of the games mentioned, maybe it's game related - I still cannot reproduce the issue with the multi-disc games I have.

AssCabbage

I've saved config for all the games so I can activate the dual shock controller for games that use it.

mitu

@AssCabbage said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

I've saved config for all the games so I can activate the dual shock controller for games that use it.

You can do that with a game input override, it's a smaller config file.

windg

I find a way to reproduce the problem with the lock up on exit and during disk change. I use Disk1 and Disk 4 from Final Fantasy VIII (USA), no save files are required.

1.) Lock up on exit.

I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game. It will ask for disk 1, from the retroarch menu i switch to disk 1. When the intro from the game starts to play, i press the combination keys to exit. then. the retropie stop responding.

retroarch.log

2.) Lock up during disk swapping

I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game, It will ask for disk 1, from retroarch menu i switch to disk 4(again), after the wrong disk message It will ask for disk 1, then i switch to disk 1 and the retropie stop responding.

retroarch.log

AssCabbage

Pretty much @windg , but I don't need to go into a valid swap situation. Just wait until it's not reading from the disk and change over and back and it crashes.

mitu

1.) Lock up on exit.
I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game. It will ask for disk 1, from the retroarch menu i switch to disk 1. When the intro from the game starts to play, i press the combination keys to exit. then. the retropie stop responding.
retroarch.log

That looks like a different issue - at this point RetroArch doesn't even run.

2.) Lock up during disk swapping
I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game, It will ask for disk 1, from retroarch menu i switch to disk 4(again), after the wrong disk message It will ask for disk 1, then i switch to disk 1 and the retropie stop responding.

I see, so you're not using the new disk swapping feature - you're running the ~~disc~~ game from the disc directly. I always use the m3u file to run multi-disc games and now I just swap the disc, without browsing for the new disc.

I tried also Driver 2, but couldn't get it to lock RetroArch.

AssCabbage

The lock up on exit, what should happen here? From my log it looks like retroarch closed successfully. Also, since downgrading didn't fix it, it looks like it's not actually retroarch that's the problem. Is there anything else we could try downgrading?

AssCabbage

@mitu said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

I see, so you're not using the new disk swapping feature - you're running the disc from the disc directly. I always use the m3u file to run multi-disc games and now I just swap the disc, without browsing for the new disc.

This happens for me with all methods. I moved to the m3u as nothing else was working.

mitu

@AssCabbage said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

Also, since downgrading didn't fix it, it looks like it's not actually retroarch that's the problem. Is there anything else we could try downgrading?

Well, did you upgrade anything else besides RetroArch ? The other part of the emulator is lr-pcsx-rearmed, which does the actual emulation - but if you started with a clean 4.5.1 image and only upgraded RetroArch, there's no downgrade to do.

AssCabbage

@mitu

To clarify, on the test image, I just installed sixaxis and put Metal Gear Solid on it and showed that it worked.

On the actual problem image, I updated everything immediately after installation (as a guide I was following said to do this). This has never worked correctly. I'm doing a kernel update to see if that helps, but when that's done, could we try putting PCSX rearmed back to the version that comes with the default image?

AssCabbage

@mitu Still the same after the kernal update.

mitu

@AssCabbage Is your new test system working fine with the new RetroArch and the old lr-pcsx-rearmed ? I got the impression that downgrading RetroArch didn't help, after starting from the stock RetroPie image (4.5.1) and downgrading to 1.7.9.2 or 1.7.6.

windg

i replace the ir-pcsx- rearmed core with the one i download from here and no more lock-ups . Maybe the new version of pscx-rearmed core have some issues.

mitu

@windg said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

Maybe the new version of pscx-rearmed core have some issues.

It might be, but the disc control changes have been added before 1 Feb to the core. How did you pick up that build date ?

I tested using the method you've used to change discs and didn't get a crash - I'm using the latest version of the core.

windg

@mitu said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

@windg said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

Maybe the new version of pscx-rearmed core have some issues.

It might be, but the disc control changes have been added before 1 Feb to the core. How did you pick up that build date ?

I tested using the method you've used to change discs and didn't get a crash - I'm using the latest version of the core.

i don't know, i am updating system from setup script only. I will try a clean install today just in case something went wrong.

mitu

@windg Just update from source lr-pcsx-rearmed, no need to re-install from scratch. If you already did that, then there's no need to, it means that a possible bug/regression occured during 1st of Feb and today.

windg

@mitu I update from source and retropie start to lock-up again.

mitu

@windg Try this on the latest version - before switching disks, go into the Core Options and set CD Access Method (Restart) to async. Exit Retroarch and re-start the game, try to see if disk switching still crashes/freezes RetroArch.

windg

@mitu Thank you very much! Your suggestion fix the problems with the lock-ups during exit and during disk swapping.

mitu

@windg Thanks for the confirmation. I may have a fix for this issue.

@AssCabbage can you also try changing the option for the core and see if it fixes your issue ?