Correct location for PSX Rearmed Bios? Always selects HLE

[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)

[a7mag3ddon]

Its worse now for me, boots game, either goes black screen and have to power off, or screen goes yellow and same, have to power off.

[a7mag3ddon]

tried 3 games and all the same, is there any version specific settings i should delete? ill try removing and installing again from scratch

[BuZz]

We are debugging the finding the bios issue - you can confirm this in the settings / options menu. There may well be game compatibility issues also. Please confirm the bios is now correctly found (works fine here).

[a7mag3ddon]

Sorry the emulator no longer works for me, just getting a yellow screen.

Tried same games that previously booted.

is there a command to check its picking up the correct bios now? the emulator locks up so i am unable to enter by pressing escape

[a7mag3ddon]

Looks like its crashing the Pi i am unable to putty in.

[BuZz]

@a7mag3ddon I am unsure what the lock up is - maybe some configure option causing an issue - although a hard lockup shouldn't happen.

run this from a terminal and then reinstall it.

sudo rm -rf /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx-rearmed
rm -rf /opt/retropie/configs/all/psx
rm -rf /home/pi/.pcsx
rm -rf /home/pi/bios

See if removing the bios file makes a difference (from ~/RetroPie/BIOS/SCPH1001.BIN) - if it does, please give me the md5sum of your bios

md5sum ~/RetroPie/BIOS/SCPH1001.BIN

[BuZz]

And please confirm you updated from binary not source.

[a7mag3ddon]

just for info whilst i re-install......

pi@retropie:~ $ md5sum ~/RetroPie/BIOS/SCPH1001.BIN
924e392ed05558ffdb115408c263dccf /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/SCPH1001.BIN

[a7mag3ddon]

Ok somethings messed right up..

In my emulator selection screen i have a 1 (blank line) 2 Lr-pcsx-reamred and 3 pcsx-rearmed

when selecting 3 i get a yellow screen and pi locks up. i am assuming the emulator is starting to run as i can see scanlines.