Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???

Thorr69

@hawkes_84 said in Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???:

@Thorr69 once I've extracted them they remain to be be .7z files. They still end with .7z anyway

No... You haven't extracted them. Inside the 7z should be a bin/cue or an iso.

hawkes_84

@Thorr69 i'll give it another try thanks and see what happens

mitu

@hawkes_84 Make sure you've not accidentally downloaded an exe file pretending to be a .7z.
Can you post a screenshot of the files ? If you open the archive with 7-Zip, what file are inside the archive ?

hawkes_84

@mitu here's an image of all the ps roms I have. I haven't got 7-zip sorry

mitu

@hawkes_84 said in Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???:

I haven't got 7-zip sorry

If you don't have 7Zip, how did you extracted the archive ?

hawkes_84

@mitu I right clicked the file and clicked "extract all"

Is this not the right way?

mitu

@hawkes_84 Ok, then what's the result of the extraction ? The files inside the .7z archive should be extracted either in the same folder or in a sub-folder.

hawkes_84

@mitu the image I pasted is the results of the extractions. I chose to extract them into a separate ps1 folder

mitu

@hawkes_84 The result of the extraction cannot be the archive itself, a .7z file is an archive that needs to be extracted. If the result is in the ps1 folder, the copy the files resulted, from that folder, which should be in the .cue/.bin format, to the RetroPie psx folder.

hawkes_84

@mitu as you can imagine I've already tried this and nothing happened leading me to this forum :)
I appreciate your advice nonetheless

mitu

@hawkes_84 I think you need to download 7Zip and use it to open the .7z files, get the files inside the archive.

hawkes_84

@mitu aye it's worth a try seeing as all the ROM sites only wanna give .7z files
once I've extracted said files to I just put them all in the psx folder on in Retropie?

hawkes_84

@mitu downloaded a .7z file again and it came as this? nothing to extract. Downloaded 7zip and nothing happened when i clicked it. Just kept downloading it again and asking where I want it stored

mitu

@hawkes_84 After you install 7zip, right click on the 7z file and open it with 7zip. Look at its contents - does it have a .cue and .bin files included.

hawkes_84

@mitu these are its contents

mitu

OK, so extract the .cue and .img file from the archive and copy those files to the psx folder.

hawkes_84

@mitu it worked! big thanks! is the cue file required too? it's just that Driver now shows twice in my list and it's not neat.

mitu

@hawkes_84 Open the .cue file in an editor and rename the .img there to .bin, then rename the .img file in the psx folder also to .bin. Should get rid of the double list entry.

hawkes_84

@mitu awesome that's worked, thanks. What about .rar files? what needs to be done with them?

mitu

@hawkes_84 said in Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???:

what needs to be done with them?

Delete them.