PSX Games and File Types

Wolfman100

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.

wetriner

Ecm is just a compressed format. Once you have to software, it's about as easy as extracting an archive.

Wolfman100

Looks like this could be the key!

http://input.zone/unecm.html

Wolfman100

Or maybe not....site is forever loading

Wolfman100

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/

wetriner

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

DxFx

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.

dankcushions

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!

DxFx

Oh ok I wasn't too sure about that. I'm gonna have to look into PBP files just to avoid any problems.

scott47

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.PBP

Does 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

dankcushions

@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!

danny_boy85

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!

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?