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    Playstation games with more than one disc (multi-disc)

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    • mediamogulM
      mediamogul Global Moderator @mviars
      last edited by mediamogul

      @mviars said in Playstation games with more than one disc (multi-disc):

      Is there a way to show game info tagged to a folder?

      You can just highlight the folder, press 'select' and then set or scrape the meta data like any other entry.

      RetroPie v4.5 • RPi3 Model B • 5.1V 2.5A PSU • 16GB SanDisk microSD • 512GB External Drive

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      • mviarsM
        mviars @mediamogul
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        @mediamogul Thanks for the reply but when I do that it tries to scrape entire systems not the folder like it would do if i were to select it using a file.

        Pi3b
        RetroPie 4.1

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        • mediamogulM
          mediamogul Global Moderator @mviars
          last edited by

          @mviars

          You might be selecting the wrong menu entry. If you highlight the folder in Emulation Station and press 'select', the last option in the resulting menu will only alter/add meta data for that particular item.

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          • mviarsM
            mviars
            last edited by mviars

            Gees your right I was using my keyboard instead of my remote that I usually use for selecting options so I was hitting menu instead of options. Thanks for the help this makes things a lot better.

            Pi3b
            RetroPie 4.1

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            • mediamogulM
              mediamogul Global Moderator @mviars
              last edited by

              @mviars

              Glad it works. I use the same method and it really does keep things looking nice and professional.

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                j.miller @mediamogul
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                @PetroRie @mviars I have a multi disc game in a folder within my psx roms folder, so it shows just once in the main psx menu and i scraped the metadata successfully on the folder, so thanks for the tips on that.

                In the "core disk options" when i go to swap discs i have to navigate to the disc image through "disk image append". I'm unable to toggle discs on "disk index"

                however, once i navigate via "disk image append" I am able to toggle disc images through "disk index". So it seems that by default it doesn't know where to look for the disc images. any ideas on how to fix this so I dont have to navigate via "disk image append"?

                thanks!

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                  j.miller @j.miller
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                  @j.miller

                  Update

                  the way to get the toggling to work by default is to create a .m3u playlist of the .cue files for the multi-disc games, then launch the game via the .m3u file instead of any of the specific discs.

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                    nooryani84
                    last edited by nooryani84

                    So just been getting into retropie again and wanted to give my two cents here in case anyone stumbles across this issue:

                    https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/314#issuecomment-68180219

                    "So I've been trying a few things now in order to eliminate these extra folders.

                    Firstly, I keep the all my roms in one directory since they're going to be sorted via the scraper. To eliminate the M3U and the an additional cue file for each disc showing up I found the following workaround:

                    Remove the .cue extension on the multi-disc files so that es_systems.cfg won't list them.
                    Remove the .cue extension you reference them in the M3U.
                    My M3U for chrono cross looks like this for example:
                    Chrono Cross CD1
                    Chrono Cross CD2

                    Not entirely sure if this is what you were looking for, but it solved my issue. Now I just have one single entry for the game that will allow me to switch disks."

                    Edit: I updated the Wiki if it's alright. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Playstation-1#m3u-playlist-for-multi-disc-games

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                      sleepunknot
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                      PetroRie

                      Can you upload your psxpsp fear effect game because all versions I tested has problems unknown disc format or can't change to disc 2...

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                      • herb_fargusH
                        herb_fargus administrators @sleepunknot
                        last edited by

                        @sleepunknot read the forum rules!

                        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

                        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                          PetroRie @sleepunknot
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                          @sleepunknot I cannot do that because it's not allowed on the forum. I just got my copies from the internet. I'm using the NTSC version of the game.

                          When the game asks you to switch disk, just do it via the RGUI menu. You can browse the folders and select the image file, it works like a charm. I've tried this also with Metal Gear Solid and it worked. The file extensions are .BIN

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                            stevep
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                            When I go into the pcx roms folder it tells me no files found. How do I get it to read .bin ,.cue files? I am using retropie 4.2

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                              sstem89 @nooryani84
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                              @nooryani84 Thank you, although I didn't find your explanation quite as detailed as I needed to create a fix for my game, after reading your post and viewing the retropie m3u structure, I went out on a limb and created my own .m3u file of FF8 using ES File Explorer on my Android phone. Once that was done, I uploaded the .m3u file to my Rpi with a SFTP program, restarted emulationstation, loaded Disk 1 end game save, crossed my fingers, ejected the disk, now Track 2 was working...I selected it, closed the virtual disk tray.......Now I'm able to progress into the second disk without compressing anything! Just renamed some cue files and created a tiny text file (m3u) that made it happen.

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