Request: add Duckstation PSX emulator

George Spiggott

Is there a way to download the Retropie 64 bit beta like there was with the pi 4 weekly updates?

BuZz

@George-Spiggott there is no beta for aarch64. RetroPie has preliminary support for aarch64, but no plans to switch over to it for the images.

You can download Raspberry Pi OS 64bit and manually install RetroPie, but it's not something I'm ready to support.

mitu

@George-Spiggott said in Request: add Duckstation PSX emulator:

Retropie 64 bit beta

I was referring to the Raspi OS being beta at the moment, there's no RetroPie beta for aarch64.

Chuck_B

@notthesame can you post the link where they said the error was fixed?

notthesame

@Chuck_B if you update from source on retropie psx rearmed libretro has been fixed you can check here https://github.com/notaz/pcsx_rearmed about a few weeks ago now Driver 1 now fixed😃

fCIbX6r1uN

Since 2020/11/21 duckstation has a armv7 32-bit recompiler (https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation#latest-news). Building it now to see if it runs. (Edit: You can also download it from https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation#libretro-core)

fCIbX6r1uN

Update: DuckStation works flawlessly on an RPi 4, 32-bit! The only caveat is you need to be using a newer version of RetroArch (the one from RetroPie-Setup is stuck at 1.8.8 for now; I edited to script to fetch master and removed all the patches).

Hopefully they add it to by default to RetroPie soon.

George Spiggott

@fcibx6r1un Which ROM formats does it accept? Does it support PBP yet?

BuZz

@fcibx6r1un it doesn't work flawlessly yet afaik - there are some rendering issues. Btw @dankcushions did the Retroarch changes and some others relating to this, so we are aware of current compatibility etc. It will be added at some point when issues are sorted etc.

Norstein

Any news on this?
I would LOVE to have this on my x86 Retropie system!

Although no PBP support is kind of a real downside, since PBP has the best compression and is the easiest way to have 1 file per game.

dankcushions

@norstein said in Request: add Duckstation PSX emulator:

Any news on this?

the latest update is here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28851/general-duckstation-discussion/5?_=1608547611304

DreamcastKid

@norstein said in Request: add Duckstation PSX emulator:

since PBP has the best compression and is the easiest way to have 1 file per game.

2nd Best ... CHD has better compression and is also a very easy way to have 1 file per game.

Also, CHD is compatible with Duckstation :) FTW !

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Clyde

@dreamcastkid Correct, and the reason for that is that CHD compresses data tracks with 7z's LZMA compression and audio tracks with FLAC, using the best compression for the resp. data type.

And yes, easy it is, too. See here for a script and a one-liner for RetroPie's command shell bash to create CHDs from bin/cue files.

George Spiggott

@clyde I'm tempted to convert my collection to CHD. Ideally I'd need a way to convert my existing PBP collection back to BIN/QUE in bulk.

Folly

@george-spiggott

It seems this tool can do this ( convert pbp to bin/cue ) ( bulk batch processing with wildcards seem also possible ) :
https://github.com/RupertAvery/PSXPackager

It seems to work only on windows, here you can find the binary :
https://github.com/RupertAvery/PSXPackager/releases

Found it in this thread :
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28688/psx-psxpackager-a-tool-to-convert-from-7z-bin-cue-to-pbp

Clyde

@george-spiggott I have no experience with PBP, but according to this and this, they are (mostly?) identical to ISO, and you may be able to "convert" them back to ISO simply by renaming them. At least it may be worth a try.

Clyde

I searched a little and found the QPSPManager. Its available for Windows, MacOS and (alas, only in an older version) Linux.

It requires a graphical desktop environment, so even its Linux version shouldn't run on RetroPie without installing one, or using another Linux distribution.

George Spiggott

@clyde and @Folly I finally got round to sorting this. It took me (or rather the computer) an hour or so to convert the 45 games in PBPs to BIN/CUE and then to CHD.

CHD = 14.2 GB
PBP = 16.3 GB
BIN = 23.9 GB

Also I now need to create an M3U file for the one multi disk game I have.

Folly

@george-spiggott

Which programs did you use, eventually, for the conversions ?

George Spiggott

@folly PSXPackager and Chdman.