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    Correct location for PSX Rearmed Bios? Always selects HLE

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      a7mag3ddon
      last edited by

      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)

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        a7mag3ddon
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        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.

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          a7mag3ddon
          last edited by

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

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            BuZz administrators
            last edited by 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).

            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              a7mag3ddon
              last edited by

              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

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                a7mag3ddon
                last edited by

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

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                  BuZz administrators @a7mag3ddon
                  last edited by

                  @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

                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                  • BuZzB
                    BuZz administrators
                    last edited by

                    And please confirm you updated from binary not source.

                    To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                      a7mag3ddon
                      last edited by

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

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

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                        a7mag3ddon
                        last edited by

                        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.

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                        • BuZzB
                          BuZz administrators @a7mag3ddon
                          last edited by 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).

                          To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                            a7mag3ddon @BuZz
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                            @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.

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                              BuZz administrators @a7mag3ddon
                              last edited by

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

                              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                a7mag3ddon
                                last edited by

                                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.

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                                  a7mag3ddon
                                  last edited by 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

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                                    a7mag3ddon
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                                    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"

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                                      a7mag3ddon
                                      last edited by

                                      Well something is completely knackered now, even though i have removed psxrearmed using retropie menu, my choose default emulator screen not only has the blank line on number 1, but still shows options 2 and 3 as well.

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                                      • BuZzB
                                        BuZz administrators @a7mag3ddon
                                        last edited by

                                        @a7mag3ddon zip your configs up and I'll take a look.

                                        To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                          a7mag3ddon
                                          last edited by

                                          Its ok, i fixed the extra line thing by reinstalling the emulator from the menu, then copying over my backup config folder, still getting the yellow screen of death

                                          Im going to install a fresh retropie using the image i started with from the downloads section and see what happens, if thats ok then i will put my backup image on from yesterday see if the emulator works (looking for the wrong bios folder) then update from binary, reason being because i originally this afternoon accidentally updated from source before you said to do binary install and that may have broken something ?

                                          other than the time it takes to reflash my back up its an easy test.

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                                            a7mag3ddon
                                            last edited by

                                            Ok were getting somewhere, fresh install of RP then updating update script, then installing psc-rearmed works AND its finding the bios file, albeit just the SCPH1001.BIN one.

                                            Now to re do my big backup and do the same now.

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