Correct location for PSX Rearmed Bios? Always selects HLE

[BuZz]

@a7mag3ddon I will look into this - but is there any reason you are not running the libretro core (which is easier to use than the standalone) ?

[BuZz]

Standalone pcsx-rearmed works fine with the BIOS in the `~/RetroPie/BIOS folder as mentioned in the wiki - I have just confirmed it on a fresh install.

Please post the output of this from a terminal

ls -la /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx-rearmed/bios

that should be a symlink to the bios file

[a7mag3ddon]

I couldn't get the game to work on the LR version and it wouldn't work properly had garbled video and was totally unplayable, so then i switched to the other emulator and the game fired up without issues, but when i had chosen all my game settings and started the game it crashed back to pi. ... then i read its better to use the proper bios... hence me then trying to get that working.. b

[a7mag3ddon]

here it is..

scph1001.bin -> /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/ scph1001.bin

[BuZz]

Small correction - the bios file should be lowercase for this emulator - I think what has happened here is the lr-pcsx-rearmed emulator can handle the bios named uppercase or lowercase, but we symlink the lowercase version for this emulator. I will add an additional symlink.

[a7mag3ddon]

It is lower case

[a7mag3ddon]

Lastnight i tried caps, caps and lower ext, all caps, all lower.

[a7mag3ddon]

Thing is though, now my roms are in the /pi/bios folder, within the emulator i can choose any of them and i have 5 in there.

Do you only need the 1001 for all systems even if game is pal/usa/jap psx ?

[BuZz]

@a7mag3ddon ok. I will check / confirm and provide a fix if needed. It's possible something has changed over the recently development (not many people use this emulator) - most use the libretro core.

[a7mag3ddon]

yeah i appreciate that it might not be used, but the wiki should reflect the correct set up instructions for it :-)

its the first place i and other will look for an answer, i always post here as a last resort and everyone i spoke to on FB pi pages just quoted the wiki at me !

[BuZz]

@a7mag3ddon People may have thought you were talking about the libretro core. the standalone emulator was added more recently (not by me originally), and may have problems - I can confirm there is some path issue here (I misread something in my earlier test).

We do this in our free time and the wiki is user editable. Sometimes things are not covered.

[a7mag3ddon]

Possible on here they may have taken that as being the LR core but on the facebook pages i posted a massive thread on i did say i specifically that the LR core for this particular game didn't display properly and that's why i was using this one, i even posted photos of the emulator, but i haven't seen the LR version so not sure if its the same look or not i will have to check :-)

In the end the game still crashed when i pressed start on the menu any ways but i just wanted to let people know with my findings was all.

I don't like editing wikis in case i am wrong and look silly.

But its all good, i dont feel like i wasted 2 hours trying to work it all out and to be honest i found that /pi/bios folder by accident this morning.

[BuZz]

the problem was that the bios folder wasn't found when launching unless you were in the correct folder on launch - I guess this was missed when the module was created. This has been corrected now - I also made it use the uppercase bios name by default to match wiki/lr-pcsx-rearmed instructions.

Please update retropie-setup and re-install the emulator.

[a7mag3ddon]

but the bios it will use will be scph1001.bin correct? is that ok for all region games?

[BuZz]

@a7mag3ddon SCPH1001.BIN

There is a config save issue I am currently working on fixing. Edit: Now fixed.

Why are you using this emulator over lr-pcsx-rearmed btw ?

[a7mag3ddon]

To be honest im not, i was trying to help someone else out on the RPi facebook page I'm a member of, he had a game that booted to main menu, allowed character selection etc but crashed when game started.

I had this game as well and it was the same for me, tested on ePSXe loads and plays perfect so i knew the image was good, then read about games working better when using a real bios. I tested with lr-Psx-Rearmed but the game was really messed up on that, it was like the video playback was garbled, it ran very slow, unplayable couldn't even get to main menu.

Then because i like to see things through when i found out about this bios issues, i just had to see it through, either i was wrong or the instructions were. Either way i wanted to get it working as you do.

[BuZz]

@a7mag3ddon Sounds like they may need to update lr-pcsx-rearmed - the one shipped with 4.1 had a bug which I fixed after the image was generated. There are also a bunch of settings that can be changed in the emulator core options too.

[a7mag3ddon]

Hi, i just updated from source and removed my bios files from /home/pi/bios and now its not picking up the bios from /BIOS like it should

did you mean to update from binary ?

EDIT : im not talking about lr version :-)

[BuZz]

@a7mag3ddon Did you update the retropie-setup script first ? You don't need to do the source install - just binary.

[a7mag3ddon]

damn, sorry i bet i didnt haha.. watch this space. ive updated lr version as well and that game now loads (still crashes and start of game though)