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    Playstation 1 ROMS

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    • ClydeC
      Clyde @Bio_Hazard1282
      last edited by Clyde

      @bio_hazard1282 No, it isn't, compare gmp-ecm and ecm on packages.ubuntu.com.

      Unfortunately, the package ecm seems to be not included in the Ubuntu repositories for releases after LTS 18.04, but in this thread on ubuntuforums.org it is said that you can just install the 18.04 package of ecm on later Ubuntu releases.

      If you go that route, you may want to keep that deb file for the time after Ubuntu 18.04 reached its end of support and the file becomes unavailable on packages.ubuntu.com.

      edit: If you're still using Ubuntu MATE 18.04 however, you can just install ecm with the command sudo apt install ecm.

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      • Bio_Hazard1282B
        Bio_Hazard1282 @Clyde
        last edited by Bio_Hazard1282

        @clyde I visited https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/armhf/ecm/download but I cannot find the .deb package URL.

        (want to use with wget)

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        • Bio_Hazard1282B
          Bio_Hazard1282 @Clyde
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          @clyde I also use 20.04.

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          • Bio_Hazard1282B
            Bio_Hazard1282 @Bio_Hazard1282
            last edited by

            @bio_hazard1282 I got the .bin disc files in it's folder (psx) in the roms folder, but the game isn't showing up.

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @Bio_Hazard1282
              last edited by

              @bio_hazard1282 You need the .cue file also, the .bin files are not enough - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#bin-only-roms.

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              • ClydeC
                Clyde @Bio_Hazard1282
                last edited by

                @bio_hazard1282 said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                @clyde I visited https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/armhf/ecm/download but I cannot find the .deb package URL.

                (want to use with wget)

                There are indeed no download sites listed, that's strange.

                But since Ubuntu is based on Debian, you should be able to use the latter's package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/armhf/ecm/download

                However, you seem to have extracted the bin already, so this is just for the sake of completeness. 😉

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                • DreamcastKidD
                  DreamcastKid Banned @Zering
                  last edited by

                  @zering said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                  Not as it is. Bin.ecm is a compression format I think. It needs to be uncompressed into plain old bins.

                  lr-pcsx_rearmed does support compressed format in .chd though. (chd which is a acronym for Compressed Hunks of Data)

                  https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/

                  and all my PS1 games are chd (compressed from cue/bin) and they all work great :)

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                  • ClydeC
                    Clyde @DreamcastKid
                    last edited by

                    @dreamcastkid said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                    and all my PS1 games are chd (compressed from cue/bin) and they all work great :)

                    As do mine. :)

                    @clyde said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                    edit: Ah, and you may also want to check out my later post in that thread about compressing the extracted .cue and .bin files into .chd files to shrink them to around 50% of their size.

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                    • George SpiggottG
                      George Spiggott @Clyde
                      last edited by

                      Do you need the .CUE files to make .CHD files? I long since disposed of all mine to convert to .PHP. Would there be much benefit converting from .PHP to .CHD?

                      Currently running:
                      Retropie 4.8.9 on a Pi Zero 2W (Overclock Settings: CPU 1400Mhz)
                      ES-DE on a GMKtec K6 (Windows 11, 32GB RAM)

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                      • dankcushionsD
                        dankcushions Global Moderator @George Spiggott
                        last edited by

                        @george-spiggott said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                        Do you need the .CUE files to make .CHD files? I long since disposed of all mine to convert to .PHP. Would there be much benefit converting from .PHP to .CHD?

                        it would be like scanning a photocopy.

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                        • Bio_Hazard1282B
                          Bio_Hazard1282
                          last edited by

                          I got my ROMS to work. I used http://nielsbuus.dk/pg/psx_cue_maker/ to add the .cue files and it worked.

                          Should I do the same for PS2 games (If the Pi can emulate PS2)?

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                          • dankcushionsD
                            dankcushions Global Moderator @Bio_Hazard1282
                            last edited by

                            @bio_hazard1282 it can't

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                            • ClydeC
                              Clyde
                              last edited by Clyde

                              @dankcushions said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                              it would be like scanning a photocopy.

                              It depends, as CHD does compress significantly better than PBP, about 10%-30% depending on the game. It achieves that by using 7z's LZMA compression on non-audio tracks and FLAC on audio tracks to have the best compression method for each data type. Sources: #1, #2

                              On the other hand, PBP provides multi-disk support and compatibilty with PSP emulators and the original PSP hardware.

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                              • George SpiggottG
                                George Spiggott @Clyde
                                last edited by

                                @clyde interesting. Probably not worth converting my collection at the moment. But worth considering if, for example, Duckstation has significant benefits over PSX reArmed or Beetle.

                                Currently running:
                                Retropie 4.8.9 on a Pi Zero 2W (Overclock Settings: CPU 1400Mhz)
                                ES-DE on a GMKtec K6 (Windows 11, 32GB RAM)

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                                • ClydeC
                                  Clyde @George Spiggott
                                  last edited by

                                  @george-spiggott said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                                  Duckstation has significant benefits over PSX reArmed or Beetle.

                                  Also interesting, in fact so much that I took the liberty to open a general discussion thread about it. 😁

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                                  • sirhenrythe5thS
                                    sirhenrythe5th @Clyde
                                    last edited by

                                    Keep in mind: Retroachievements, which is one of the greatest features for retro-gaming IMO, only supports CUE/BIN with PSX-Games.

                                    I converted all my *.IMG, *.ISO, *.PBP back to CUE/BIN for that reason.
                                    In times, where we can get 512GB-Cards for about 50Euros (in 1993 for my first MS-DOS-PC: 265MB-HDD for 300EUR :/ ), i dont want to miss this option just for some disk-/cardspace ;)

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator
                                      last edited by mitu

                                      @sirhenrythe5th said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

                                      Keep in mind: Retroachievements, which is one of the greatest features for retro-gaming IMO, only supports CUE/BIN with PSX-Games.

                                      Are you sure ? I think it CHD support for cheevos has been added last year (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/9405)

                                      If I load Castlevania - Symphony of the Night in .chd format, it shows I have retroachievements available.

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                                      • sirhenrythe5thS
                                        sirhenrythe5th @mitu
                                        last edited by

                                        @mitu ooops, did not know that.
                                        Sorry :/

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