PSX Single Track Roms

backstander

I think the only single track games are the one that just don't have the audio tracks but I could be wrong. Your other options are using ISOs or PBPs instead of BINs/CUEs.

What's your issue with the multi-tracks?

Just edit /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg and look for the psx section:

  <system>
    <name>psx</name>
    <fullname>PlayStation</fullname>
    <path>~/RetroPie/roms/psx</path>
    <extension>.bin .cue .cbn .img .m3u .mdf .pbp .toc .z .znx .BIN .CUE .CBN .IMG .M3U .MDF .PBP .TOC .Z .ZNX</extension>
    <command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _SYS_ psx %ROM%</command>
    <platform>psx</platform>
    <theme>psx</theme>
  </system>

Then after <extension> remove both .bin and .BIN then save it. Reboot EmulationStation and you'll only see 1 entry per PSX game.

morrisav10

@backstander

Thanks for your quick reply!, The games just never seem to work, I've been doing some browsing and think the solution is the convert the APE files?

backstander

@morrisav10 I wonder if it's actually a BIOS issue. The PSX emulator seams to be a little picky about which BIOS files you run. Once I got that figured out, I was able to get a lot of the PSX games I tried to work.

At the bottom of page on this site are the checksums that you can use to see if your PSX BIOS is approved.
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/playstation-1

I think this is the libraries you need to get the file's checksum:
sudo apt-get install libarchive-zip-perl

Then just run this on the file to get the file's checksum:
crc32 <filename>

Floob

@morrisav10 There is some info on multi tracks in the description of this video

Twitch0815

I just use the .pbp or the method you use to convert a psx game to be playable on a psp. This provides a single file. It is optimum for multi cd games as well and it is optimum for space conservation.

morrisav10

@Twitch0815 how do you do the .phb method?

Rion

@morrisav10 said in PSX Single Track Roms:

@Twitch0815 how do you do the .phb method?

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-1

kbronctjr

Follow this guide ;)

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?57757-ECM-And-APE-Guide

I successfully converted various games to one .bin and then converted it to PBP with Psx2psp (also better for multi disc games). PBP games take less hdd space so they're better. only downside is some games will take some more time to load

suprjami

@kbronctjr Really? A lot of people on Reddit report that PBP EBOOTs take less time to load

kbronctjr

@suprjami well i didn't compare times between .bin an .pbp, but some games with pbp take more than 10 seconds to load. Also pbp is a compressed format (I use maximum compression) so it's logical that they take more time

Cheers

suprjami

@kbronctjr I think it's very difficult to quantify which is faster without a per-game comparison between original hardware, a single reliable method of ripping the CDs to images, PBP without compression, and PBP with compression.

I wonder if the advantage comes from CD images ripped in strange ways causing very slow loading and even jerky streaming or broken audio, but downloading a PBP which was ripped with a different method removes that root cause as a factor.

Oh well, whatever works :)