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PS1 - Possible to just list game in the menu and not the additional files?

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    g0nz0uk
    last edited by 5 Jun 2020, 18:00

    Hello,

    My PS1 game list looks a mess in Retropie as it lists all the other file types required to run the game. I'm sure I manage to hide these before, but I can't find my notes on this or on https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/ unless I'm missing it.

    Does anyone know how to do this? I seem to get a similar issue on the Dreamcast too.

    Thanks

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      Daistaar
      last edited by 5 Jun 2020, 18:15

      What additional files are you seeing? Are you using Bins and Cues and seeing an entry for both? For PSX, I have all of mine converted to PBP so it's a nice small, compressed file that can natively be read across Retroarch and PSP, PSTV. For Dreamcast I did the same but made them CHDs. Very clean, no extra files and everything works (except for WinCE titles).

      The other thing is in ES, you can hit Select and choose to edit a title and make it hidden by scrolling down and turning hidden on. It'll still be visible until you turn the viewing mode from full to kiosk but it's a quick fix. Just remember the Konami code to go back to full.

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        slosher
        last edited by 5 Jun 2020, 19:52

        Do cheevos work with PBPs for the PS1? I have my titles converted to CHDs, and I couldn't get retroachievements to play nice with them.

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          CCFox
          last edited by 5 Jun 2020, 20:53

          Also check your es_systems file. If you have .bin and .cue in the supported file formats then delete the .bin

          Restart emulation station and the .bin files will no longer sjow.

          Rgds

          CCFox

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            g0nz0uk @Daistaar
            last edited by 6 Jun 2020, 07:13

            @Daistaar how did you convert those files on the PS1 and Dreamcast?

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              Clyde
              last edited by 6 Jun 2020, 08:17

              Another easy way may be to scrape the system and then turn on PARSE GAMELISTS ONLY in Emulation Stations OTHER SETTINGS. As the scraper only makes one entry in the gamelist.xml for each game, only one entry should be shown with this option ON.

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                Clyde @slosher
                last edited by 6 Jun 2020, 08:26

                @slosher said in PS1 - Possible to just list game in the menu and not the additional files?:

                Do cheevos work with PBPs for the PS1? I have my titles converted to CHDs, and I couldn't get retroachievements to play nice with them.

                Does anyone know the advantages of these two formats over another? I'm using CHDs at the moment, but didn't try PBP before. The Emulation General Wiki states that CHD has better (compression) gain than PBP, can anyone confirm that?

                Sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but it may help the TO to choose among the available options. 😇

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                  sad_muso @CCFox
                  last edited by 6 Jun 2020, 09:47

                  @CCFox I can't for the life of me find es_systems.cfg. Where is it?

                  Pi 4B 4GB
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                  USB: 2.0 - Wired keyboard / Plugable Bluetooth 4.0 adapter, 3.0 - Crucial MX300 275GB SSD in Novatech caddy for ROMS
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                    Clyde @Clyde
                    last edited by Clyde 6 Jun 2020, 11:27 6 Jun 2020, 10:12

                    @Clyde said in PS1 - Possible to just list game in the menu and not the additional files?:

                    The Emulation General Wiki states that CHD has better (compression) gain than PBP, can anyone confirm that?

                    After some more research, the fact that CHD compresses significantly better than PBP (about 10%-30% depending on the game) becomes more clear. It uses 7z's LZMA compression on non-audio files, and FLAC on audio files, so it uses the best compression method for the resp. data type. Sources: #1, #2

                    On the other hand, PBP's main advantages seem to be multi-track (edit:) multi-disk support (storing multiple cues in one pbp), as well as support by PSP emulators and, being the official format for the PSP, support by the original hardware.

                    Another mentionable advantage of CHD may be that it can be created on Retropie or other Debian-based Linux distribution natively, since the tool chdman is part of the package mame-tools in the official software repositories, whereas PBP needs external tools like PSX2PBP or BIN2PBP.

                    The easiest way to create CHDs on your Pi would be to drop to Retropie's command console by pressing F4 and then enter the following commands:

                    sudo apt install mame-tools # install mame-tools (no danger if it's already installed)
                    cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx # (c)hange (d)irectory to roms/psx
                    for i in *.cue; do chdman createcd -i "$i" -o "${i%.*}.chd"; done # batch convert any cue+bin files to chds

                    (Everything behind a # ist just a comment.)

                    The exit command restarts Emulation Station.

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                      Clyde @sad_muso
                      last edited by 6 Jun 2020, 10:14

                      @sad_muso It should be in /etc/emulationstation/. You can search for it with the command locate es_systems.cfg.

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                        sirhenrythe5th @slosher
                        last edited by sirhenrythe5th 6 Jun 2020, 17:31 6 Jun 2020, 10:24

                        @slosher to answer this question too: cheevos for PS1, PCE-CD & SEGACD only work with CUE/BIN.

                        Plus: only the US-Versions of the games are supported by the retro achievements!
                        And last but not least it has to be the latest release of the game, so "Gran Turismo (US) (1.1.).bin" wont have cheevos, "Gran Turismo (US) (1.2).bin" does.
                        Hint: if there exist a "greatest hits" release of a game this one is the latest you need.

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                          Daistaar
                          last edited by 11 Jun 2020, 01:16

                          I used PSX2PSP for the PBPs and CHDMAN for the CHDs, both run in Windows 10. Clyde is right above with the pro's and cons. The PBP app uses a pretty easy to follow GUI whereas CHDMAN requires you run the executable in the same location you have the BINs and CUEs. It was a batch file I'd gotten from the retropie docs pages.

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