Issues with The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (PS1)

milenko

I have retropie installed on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, and have a ton of emulators and roms loaded. All of the PS1 games I have on work fine, including The Dukes of Hazzard II. However, The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home does not load. The screen goes black then will just take me back to the menu. The Rom I have works fine with an emulator on Windows. Anyone have a fix?

BuZz

@milenko Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Check the wiki. Probably bin / cue filename mismatch

milenko

EDIT:

Sorry. My fault. Here are my specs

Pi Model or other hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Power Supply used: 5V 2.5A
RetroPie Version Used : 4.1
Built From: Image from RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: PS3 Controller via USB
Controller used: PS3 Controller
Error messages received: I see a brief BIOS not found or not supported
Log found in /dev/shm/runcommand.log (if relevant):
Guide used: None
File: The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home.bin and The Dukes of Hazzard II - Daisy Dukes It Out.bin
Emulator: lr-pcsx-rearmed
Attachment of config files:
How to replicate the problem:

UPDATE: I did a system update to make sure I was on the latest version. It seems The Dukes of Hazzard II no longer works. I'm not 100% But I thought it worked before. I will try converting them with PSX2PSP v1.4.2 and see if that works. Sorry, but I'm new to RetroPie and still doing a lot of research.

BuZz

@milenko please post the contents of the .cue file (use a code block) http://commonmark.org/help/

Please also show me a screenshot of the .cue/.bin files in a filemanager or the output of ls -la from a terminal with them.

milenko

FILE "Dukes of Hazzard, The - Racing for Home (USA) (Alt).bin" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

milenko

I'm helping a friend set his up and he tried the game. Same issue. The exact error on the screen is "No BIOS found. Expect bugs."

BuZz

@milenko you could try installing a bios then - https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/playstation-1

You should also update lr-pcsx-rearmed from binary to make sure you have the latest version.

You could try changing some options in the Core Option (Select + X > Quick Settings -> Options) to see if that helps.

milenko

@BuZz

I will try that this evening when I get home. I did notice that my buddy's Dukes of Hazzard II is working, when mine does not after I updated all of retropie from binary. I may redo my sd card and start over.

BuZz

@milenko if it doesn't work but you are sure it worked before, you can turn of the dynamic recompilation core and try it again (can turn it off when in another game if you can't load this one). The 4.1 image release of lr-pcsx-rearmed had a bug that dynamic recompilation off, which affected performance (but it might be more accurate / compatible).

milenko

@BuZz Thanks. I will try that. Not to sound ignorant, but how do I do that?

BuZz

@milenko As i said above You could try changing some options in the Core Option (Select + X > Quick Settings -> Options) to see if that helps.

milenko

@BuZz Sorry to be a pain.

I am trying this on my friends RaspberryPi 3b, same that I have with same issue, and with dynamic recompiler disabled neither game will work. On a side note, I'm pretty sure I know why the 2nd game doesn't work on mine, and that is because of the .cue file. But with all the testing, updating, etc, The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home still doesn't work. I have even downloaded the EBOOT.PBP for the game and doesn't work. I have tried all roms with ePSXe on the PC and they work properly. I tried a BIOS as well. No go.

BuZz

@milenko maybe it just isn't compatible. I don't know. You can run with "verbose" mode (via runcommand menu), and then copy the /dev/shm/runcommand.log log off your rpi with sftp after launching and I could take a look.

milenko

@BuZz It is possible it isn't compatible. We tried downloading the Euro version of the rom and it gets to the loading screen with the General Lee spininng, but never goes past that. I will try to get the log file this evening, or bring it with me tomorrow and get it on my lunch break. Thanks for your help.

backstander

@milenko

it gets to the loading screen with the General Lee spininng, but never goes past that.

Sorry to just jump in here in the middle but that really sound like a PSX BIOS issue. I've seen this behavior when the lr-pcsx-rearmed emulator can't find a BIOS file so it tries to use its generic built in BIOS (which isn't very good).

Could you give a screenshot of the PSX BIOS file(s) in your /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS directory on your Pi?

The PSX BIOS file has to be named just right with the proper case (all upper case) like this SCPH1001.BIN

milenko

@backstander In regards to the Euro version with the General Lee spinning, here is the screenshot of the BIOS folder

milenko

@BuZz said in Issues with The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (PS1):

@milenko maybe it just isn't compatible. I don't know. You can run with "verbose" mode (via runcommand menu), and then copy the /dev/shm/runcommand.log log off your rpi with sftp after launching and I could take a look.

Here is the log file. It seems that the only log is for the European version of the game.

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (E)/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (E).cue" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
Starting PCSX-ReARMed 
Running PCSX Version 1.9 (Jan 17 2017).
psxMap: warning: wanted to map @80000000, got 0x74078000
Init new dynarec
testing if we can run recompiled code..
test passed.
warning: RAM is not directly mapped, performance will suffer
Mapped (RAM/scrp/ROM/LUTs/TC):
77000000/1f800000/1fc00000/08000000/74cbc000
found BIOS file: SCPH1001.BIN
RGB565 supported, using it
plugin: plugins/builtin_gpu
plugin: plugins/builtin_spu
plugin: plugins/builtin_pad
plugin: plugins/builtin_pad
Plugins loaded.
Loaded CD Image: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (E)/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (E).cue
could not open: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (E)/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (E)
[+cue].
Track 01 (DATA) - Start 00:02:00, Length 00:00:00
selected sound output driver: libretro
CD-ROM Label: DUKES                           
CD-ROM ID: SLES02343
CD-ROM EXE Name: SLES_023.43;1

Here is the code when I try the NTSC version of the game

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing For Home/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home.cue" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg
Starting PCSX-ReARMed 
Running PCSX Version 1.9 (Jan 17 2017).
psxMap: warning: wanted to map @80000000, got 0x740e5000
Init new dynarec
testing if we can run recompiled code..
test passed.
warning: RAM is not directly mapped, performance will suffer
Mapped (RAM/scrp/ROM/LUTs/TC):
77000000/1f800000/1fc00000/08000000/74d29000
found BIOS file: SCPH1001.BIN
RGB565 supported, using it
plugin: plugins/builtin_gpu
plugin: plugins/builtin_spu
plugin: plugins/builtin_pad
plugin: plugins/builtin_pad
Plugins loaded.
Loaded CD Image: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing For Home/The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home.cue[+cue].
Track 01 (DATA) - Start 00:02:00, Length 66:39:41
selected sound output driver: libretro
CD-ROM Label: DUKES                           
CD-ROM ID: SLUS00859
CD-ROM EXE Name: SLUS_008.59;1

backstander

@milenko
I just tried 2 different versions of Dukes of Hazzard for USA with both lr-pcsx-rearmed and pcsx-rearmed and neither of them would load. Got the black screen.

Must not be compatible with the current version of pcsx on the Raspberry Pi :(

milenko

@backstander said in Issues with The Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (PS1):

@milenko
I just tried 2 different versions of Dukes of Hazzard for USA with both lr-pcsx-rearmed and pcsx-rearmed and neither of them would load. Got the black screen.

Must not be compatible with the current version of pcsx on the Raspberry Pi :(

Bummer. Thanks for trying. I'll keep trying with each update release. This project has me wanting to play it so much that I'll probably get out the Playstation and the game this weekend to play it old school style.