Correct location for PSX Rearmed Bios? Always selects HLE

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.

BuZz

@a7mag3ddon

did you do the removals I mentioned ? You didn't answer my questions about how you installed.

Your /opt/retropie/configs/psx/emulators.cfg must have an additional line if it shows another emulator option. I can't reproduce the freeze - so please test with a fresh image (updating all packages from retropie-setup right after).

a7mag3ddon

@BuZz I only built this 128gb 4 days ago and have spent ages getting sorted because of the 360 driver issue. I really don't want to have to start again because of this.

Yes I did those lines in putty, rebooted. Installed from binary, rebooted. Tested.

I'll check my configs but all I've been doing all day now is this, nothing else.

BuZz

@a7mag3ddon sounds like you used some unofficial image. You could test on another sdcard for example.

a7mag3ddon

no sorry, i dont believe in using other peoples images. i got the vannila 4.1 from the download section and built it myself, especially as i already have a full tosec and no intro sets on the PC.

a7mag3ddon

i have a backup of my card from 2 days ago, i will remove the dirs using the script you asked me to use and re copy just the emulator back and see if the yellow screen of death dissapears, i will also check before to see if those extra lines of code are in the config first.

the image i used is > retropie-4.1-rpi2_rpi3.img file date 5/11/2016

a7mag3ddon

This is the psx confing doesnt seem to be any extra content but i still have 1 blank entry on the list of available emulators.

lr-pcsx-rearmed = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"
pcsx-rearmed = "pushd /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx-rearmed; /opt/retropie/emulators/pcsx-rearmed/pcsx -cdfile %ROM%; popd"