PSX Games and File Types
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I have Retro-Pie 3.7 installed on OSMC on my Pi3 and cannot get PSX games to launch.
I have installed the relevant playstation BIOS file into the BIOS folder,however when I load a game up it doesn't start and just goes back to the PSX Rom menu.
I have a feeling it may have something to do with the games being in .7z format and also having a .cue file.I think that it is seeing the .cue file and is hence displaying the title but this obviously isn't the game so won't launch.
I'm confused as to whether .7z are supported or not as any information I've found seems to be conflicting.
N64 game on this setup also still have the 'black screen issue'
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Have you not unzipped the files?
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-1
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Your filetype is not an accepted one. Check the wiki page for psx.
Blackscreen in n64 can be solved by going into RetroPie Setup and reinstalling mupen64plus.
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I read somewhere else that 7.z was an accepted format,but I also need to disable it seeing the .cue files then as that is what it is attempting to load obviously
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When the files are unzipped they are in .bin.ecm format.NOt just .bin.
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It would be a shames if I can't use or convert these formats as I have a game called "jumping Flash!" which kind of went under the radar back in the day but is AWESOME and probably one of the best titles for PSX in my opinion.
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Ecm is just a compressed format. Once you have to software, it's about as easy as extracting an archive.
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Looks like this could be the key!
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Or maybe not....site is forever loading
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All sorted.Managed to convert files using this..and 'Jumping Flash' works like a charm!
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/other/ecm-osx-tools-mac-app/
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For linux, I have found that the ecm package works, but there's not a whole lot of help if you don't know that you need to call the commands with ecm-compress and ecm-uncompress
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I'm not 100% on this but I'm pretty sure you don't really need those .cue files. My first run of Retropie 3.7 I tested Crash Bandicoot and had both the .bin and .cue files. After messing a few things up the first time, I did a fresh install and left out the .cue files and it still works fine.
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you need the .cue files if the .bin game has a CD audio soundtrack. not all PSX games do. you can tell by opening up the .cue file and seeing if it just points to one track (the data one), or several (the data and all the various audio tracks).
i just use .PBP files now - avoids all the faff!
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Oh ok I wasn't too sure about that. I'm gonna have to look into PBP files just to avoid any problems.
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I could really use some help with PBP files. I have been trying and trying to get them to work (mostly for multi disk games) but can't seem to.
I started off with with a pkg file that I believe is to run a ps1 game on a ps3. From that I was able to use "PSN PKG Decryptor & Extractor" to extract a set of folders and files, including "EBOOT.PBP".
I tried moving the EBOOT.PBP file to my roms/psx folder on RetroPie and, while I can see the file, when I try to open it the screen goes black for a second and then right back to retropie.
The errors logged in runcommand.log are:
block 1 is too large: 4130104422
unsupported/invalid CD image: /home/disks/retropie/roms/psx/EBOOT.PBPDoes anyone know if these are the correct type of PBP files? I've tried to extract ISO's from them using icetea but that doesn't work either. That process takes a while and then ends up creating around a ~1kb file...
Is there something I'm missing or that I should try?
Thanks!!
Scott -
@scott47 the lr-pcsx emulator was recently updated to include large file support (over 2GB i think). i think you need the latest version - try updating individual emulators > lr-pcsx-remarmed, through retropie-setup. you can try via the binaries first, but if it still doesn't work, try via source. let us know what happens!
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Hello chaps.
im having this same issue, i have got power iso and have made iso images of the games, they come up but dont play, I get exactly as described above, just goes back to ES screen :(
tried a bin file extension leaving the cue file in and still the same.
Also tried updating the emmulator and still nothing. im at a loss, what with the N64 stuff hardly working too, im about to throw this out the window!
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Sorry this is in ES on a Pi3b
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@danny_boy85 do you have the correct bios is the correct place?
post the contents of /tmp/runcommand.log after a failed load
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Hello chap,
Ill be honest, i have no idea how to get to that or do that :(
Im useless around computers!
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