PSX Games and File Types

danny_boy85

Sorry this is in ES on a Pi3b

dankcushions

@danny_boy85 do you have the correct bios is the correct place?

post the contents of /tmp/runcommand.log after a failed load

danny_boy85

Hello chap,

Ill be honest, i have no idea how to get to that or do that :(

Im useless around computers!

The Layer Cake

Just to bump this thread, I'm in the same boat. Use .bin/.cue .ecm & ISO files with a number of bios files & I still get this damn problem. It's annoying me to the point of giving up...!! Please help if you can. Pi3 running 4.02 now, did same on 3.8.1 & 3.7

dankcushions

@The-Layer-Cake you'll have to give us specific examples. give us the full path (including extension) of your game files, same for your bios, and describe when it's going wrong.

Floob

Whats a specific example of the files for a given game you have?

For example, I use one .bin file and one .cue file for Crash Bandicoot. The cue simply points to the bin. Both are in the /roms/psx directory.
This runs without issue for me.

I have the bios named correctly and in the right place as per the Wiki here:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-1

The emulator wont understand the .ecm files, but you can find plenty of online guides on how to convert those to relevant tracks.

EDIT: Yes, as @dankcushions mentions, provide an example - I was too slow :)

The Layer Cake

@dankcushions Sorry I'm not sure how mean to state them;

One example is,

RETROPIE>roms>psx>Oddworld Abe's oddesye.iso with RETROPIE>roms>psx>Oddworld Abe's oddesye.cue.

This starts with the black screen & yellow writing underneath but then just stays black when the writing disappears.

Where as I also have,

RETROPIE>roms>psx>Namco Museum Vol1.iso with
RETROPIE>roms>psx>Namco Museum Vol1.srm.

This actually starts & runs fine.

Any ideas at all? I'm not skilled enough to work out how to elaborate more I'm afraid.

My original .bin & .cue files used to work on 3.6.

Thanks for your help.

dankcushions

@The-Layer-Cake that's the games, and now the bios name and location in the same format?

backstander

@The-Layer-Cake I'm not sure that a PSX .iso file needs a .cue! Cue files are just small text files referencing 1 or more .bin files with the first .bin file being the game data and any additional .bin files are the audio tracks.

Also as @dankcushions pointed out, please give us the location and file names of your PSX BIOS files and remember, everything is case sensitive.

For example:
In my /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS I have these BIOS files with this exact case:

SCPH1001.BIN
scph5500.bin
scph5501.bin
scph5502.bin

The Layer Cake

@backstander Yes my bios files are in the same folder, they are as follows;

Dtlh3000.bin
Dtlh3002.bin
SCPH101.BIN
SCPH1001.BIN
SCPH5000.BIN
SCPH5500.BIN
Scph5502.bin
Scph7000.bin
SCPH7001.BIN
Scph7003.bin
scph7502.bin

Thanks guys for the replies.

dankcushions

@The-Layer-Cake rather than have a million BIOS files, I would just stick to one in the correct format:

SCPH1001.BIN

delete the rest. this should mean you are emulating a USA psx system. make sure all your game files are also the USA (ntsc) versions and not EU/PAL etc.

also note what @Floob says about your cue/iso.