PSX Games not loading after reinstall

thomasca

Hi!

I'm hoping someone can help me out with this. I'm trying to run Chrono Cross on my RPI 4 via RetroPie and lr-pcsx-rearmed. However, the games just boot into a black screen whereas before the reinstall they worked fine.

Everything is pretty much stock settings, up to date, and tried this with and without the PSX bios files. But I get the same result.

Odd thing is I can load a save state from the last install since I did a cloud backup of those, but when I get to a certain scene transition, the game will just soft lock.

Has anyone else encountered this issue? Log file added for more info: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlhXWRyGNU7Ck80-PyiPRySn_crujA?e=gRKNnv

mitu

Please fill out the info about your setup detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

thomasca

@mitu Sorry for the late reply! Here is the requested information:

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 4b

Power Supply used: Nintendo Switch USB C Power Supply

RetroPie Version Used (eg 3.6, 3.8.1, 4.1 - do not write latest): 4.8

Built From: Image downloaded by Raspberry Pi Imager

USB Devices connected: None

Controller used: Xbox One Controller (bluetooth)

Error messages received: None, just a black screen

Verbose log (if relevant): https://pastebin.com/uNkzudxt

Guide used:
Vanilla install but did follow this for setting up cloud syncing: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18712/script-setup-script-to-sync-saves-to-cloud-services

File: Backup of a Playstation game, can't upload

Emulator: lr-pcsx-rearmed

Attachment of config files:

config.txt: https://pastebin.com/6SLVNv8X
cmdline.txt:

console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=3bab3261-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait loglevel=3 consoleblank=0 plymouth.enable=0

How to replicate the problem:

Start up a PSX game, and note that the start up screen for the game won't show up.

mitu

Not sure how 'vanilla' is your install, since your log shows you're launching a .bin file, but .bin files are not visible/enabled in RetroPie for PS1 (and haven't been for quite some time).

Launch the game via the .cue file and remove any .state files for the game, see if you get the same issue. Also, I'd advise you pick a 1080p resolution for the game instead of the 2560 x 1080 which your screen seems to be using.

windg

About the soft lock.
Save states are not very reliable way to save the progress, especially in long games like Chrono Cross. With save states i have seen graphics glitch, soft locks, game crashes.

Try to install lr-pcsx-rearmed from source, a new version released 2 days ago (r23) but i don't think the problem is here, i have completed this game without problems on this emulator.

thomasca

@mitu I'll give the CUE idea a try. I followed the guide here to have BIN files to show up in the list: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18776/bin-cue-files-not-showing-in-emulation-station/6

Here is the updated configuration for es_systems.cfg: https://pastebin.com/xmk3UtUa

@windg I did recompile the source just this week, but I'll give this another try. I'll also see if loading from a save might work better too, but I'll need to figure out how to get to the start screen before I can do that.

thomasca

@mitu I tried with a cue file generated from this site: https://nielsbuus.dk/pg/psx_cue_maker/. I also tried changing the resolution. However, I still get a black screen when starting up a PSX game.

mitu

Can you try clearing out any pcsx related core option from /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg ? Open the file with nano and delete the lines starting with pcsx_rearmed.

You also have a remap file - did you change the device type to Dualshock with Analog globally ? This may impact some games which don't have support for the analog PS1 controller.

thomasca

@mitu I deleted any lines associated with pcsx rearmed in the core options file.

File before: https://pastebin.com/TAqFm7wF
File after: https://pastebin.com/87fQJBFz

However, I still get a black screen when starting a PSX game.

@windg I also tried recompiling from source yesterday, but this didn't work either.

mitu

@thomasca said in PSX Games not loading after reinstall:

@mitu I deleted any lines associated with pcsx rearmed in the core options file.

The only configuration left is the retroarch.cfg configuration file for the N64 system, from /opt/retropie/configs/n64/retroarch.cfg. Rename the file, then re-install the lr-mupen64plus-next package from RetroPie-Setup - this will re-generate the config file.
If that doesn't work, please post again a verbose log from the emulator.

thomasca

@mitu I figured out the issue. It looks like when I was transferring over the ROMs from a backup back to the raspberry pi, that the transfer got interrupted on one and only transferred over half of it. I got it transferred properly now and its loads fine now.

However, I got a new issue where now the button assigned to triangle doesn't work, and the controller needs to be reconnected to operate on the in game emulator menu. I tried changing it back to the the standard PSX controller in the menu but this didn't seem to help. What's odd though is that this only happens on certain screens, (elements screen disables y, save screen changes A to be the right trigger), the rest of the time it works fine.

Here is the runcommand.log for that run: https://pastebin.com/5UCa19n1

mitu

Try removing the core remap from /opt/retropie/configs/psx/PCSX-ReARMed/PCSX-ReARMed.rmp and see if all buttons work again.

thomasca

@mitu I removed the core remap file and also reset the PCSX emulator back to binary instead of source. Issue is still present though.

thomasca

Got this fixed. I skipped mapping the left/right trigger buttons (for some reason, the right one always ends up setting the left joystick button to the same thing as well). Once I did this, the controls started working properly.