@windg Thank you!

@windg Interestingly, only partially. There is no crash, video with character spinning around is playing, but bio text is missing, its just empty background.

EDIT: They have fully fixed this.

@reaktor24 said in PSX Games not working on RetroPie:

Thanks for the tips. I updated RetroPie but wasn't able to update RetroArch through EmulationStation. Looks like this isn't an option.

You need to start the RetroPie-Setup script from the RetroPie menu and update it, then update retroarch like you did before.

Anyway I managed to get it working. I had renamed one of my games (Castlevania) to remove the [PSX] from the start of the file name and this seemingly broke all the games. Once I renamed it back again they all started working. Very strange. Anyway thanks for your help.

It's not strange, the .cue files contain the filename of the .bin cd image, if you renamed the .bin file(s) without updating the contents of the .cue file, then the emulator will not be able to find the correct cd image file(s).

I did the reinstall. Convincing myself to actually do it was harder than the reinstall itself.

Now I got a completely functional and updated 64bit system. PSX roms run perfect.

Thanks for everything, I hope this can be helpful for someone.
Cheers

@aweeks007
Because every game needs a different amount to play the fmv, there's no real sweet spot to set it at. At the time I had it at 250, which gave it a good amount of rewind but clearly was too much for the games I mentioned. Some of them could only take about 50 which is not enough rewind.
The only solution I recommend is to turn it off when an fmv plays then turn it back on when it's over

@windg I did some more testing, and find out that most of the chds still work (Tekken, Wipeout, Tomb Raider, both with lr-pcsx-rearmed and with lr-duckstation), but Jumping Flash! does not work nor with lr-pcsx-rearmed neither with lr-duckstation. I guess there is something specific with this game, but that still puzzles me because it was working before...

Thanks to report this on GitHub, it s working fine now.

I try Crash Team Racing (chd) with RetroPie 4.8.2 and latest version of lr-pcsx-rearmed(build from source) and the game running without issues. I recommend to open a new topic and add all the necessary info:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first especialy the verbose.log : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#launch-with-verbose-logging

All good now.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

@genos98 Thanks, works perfectly!

Please add some more details about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

What game are you trying to run and what format is your ROM (.cue/ .iso ) ?

@guyhotspur that’s not a verbose log and you didn’t supply all the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first -

please start a new thread for your other issue with the associated verbose log (and https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first info)

@tropersneo please provide ALL the info requested here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

especially including verbose log, but also please provide /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg

note that your "libretro.cfg" (what is this? there's not file of that name in default retropie) looks to be non-standard. a retropie default one for /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg will be much smaller, for example.

@dank-cushions CDMage looks like some sort of disc extraction/manipulation tool. There shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with consolidating the .bins, but maybe it was done incorrectly. That's why we should see if the original files work before we start pointing fingers at the conversion.

But a single .bin or multiples shouldn't matter as long as the .cue is correct; as I understand it, they both represent the same raw binary data stream to recreate the original optical disc. I ended up with one when trying to apply the English patch to Rondo of Blood for the TG-CD, that worked fine (as far as I can tell. I've only played through the first level but it works at least that far.)

Before I knew that chdman would work on .iso/.wav./.cue sets, I thought you had to have .bin/.cue. So, starting with the multiple .bin/.cue set I:

Burned the multiple .bin/.cue set to a disc. Re-ripped the resulting disc to .iso/.wav/.cue using TurboRip (the included binchunk tool that was originally meant to do this conversion gave a divide-by-zero error on Win10, and in compatibility modes for Win7 and XP.) Patched the resulting .iso/.wav/.cue set with the included instructions. Burned the patched .iso/.wav/.cue set back to another disc. Ripped that disc to .bin/.cue using ImgBurn.

This gave me a single .bin file. At first I was worried I had messed it up, but I put the .cue through chdman, dropped the resulting .chd in my tg16 (pcengine) folder, fired it up, and was pleasantly surprised when it worked just fine.

@mitu said in lr-pcsx-rearmed unable to find suitable video mode:

@nevohteeb said in lr-pcsx-rearmed unable to find suitable video mode:

So, is the doc page obsolete or is there something I missed ?

The .cfg must contain the full file name, including the extension. So it's Rayman.cue.cfg, not just Rayman.cfg.

You' re right. Thanks a lot.

@lostless OK, so I updated all packages, and now it's fixed.

@lostless You’re right - it works instantly now. I was looking for a solution before posting, but somehow this post didn’t come up. It probably should be pinned somewhere.

Thanks!

@mitu
Will browse a lil bit through the code maybe i can read it out.
Thank you very much for your help :D

@nakynaw

First, try to update the ir-pcsx-rearmed core and check again . instructions:https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/.

If after the update the problem is still there, follow this steps:

To disable the multitap:

Open the RetroArch menu while the game is running and from the options, enable the Show other input settings.
After that, restart the game and open again the RetroArch menu and from the options set to off the Mutitap1 and Multitap2 and you are ready.

@forthias said in lr-pcsx-rearmed not detecting bios:

A head ache, but now I know what's wrong and feel like I wasted your time lmao. Thanks again, I think I know what's going on, now. Maybe that the corrupt images are making the emulator default to the hle bios

It's not a waste of time if we find out what's the cause.
Regarding the SSD issue, it might not be the cable, but the USB/SSD controller. There is an extensive topic in the Raspberry Pi forums about it, including workarounds and ways to diagnose it.