@Adelsub Welcome to the wonderful world of: I've got this awesome game box that I can play all these games. Just one or two more tweaks and I might actually play something!

But honestly, most of the emulators are pretty much ready to go but you can spend days and days getting everything exactly to your liking-overlays, shaders, tweaking the gamelists, modifying themes, making custom collections...

Which reminds me, I need to get back to tweaking my Pi4 build...

@quicksilver
please file this under bad behaviour on my part. Updating the setup-script and getting from source again fixed it..
Thanks... sorry for the run around.

@Charlie-Scheib

Is there no way within the drive settings itself to keep it spinning on the RetroPie/Pi settings?

I haven't tested this but this might work!
You'll need to do most of this from the command line (difficulty: medium)

There are a couple hard drive power management programs that can be used on the Raspberry Pi to control how long before the hard drive spins down to save power and the life of the hard drive.

I wonder if the program hdparm will work for you. You could set the 'spindown_time =' to something like an hour (720) or 2 hours (1440). You basically find out how long you want measured in seconds and take that number and divide it by 5. So 2 hours is 7200 seconds (7200sec / 5 = 1440).
https://www.htpcguides.com/spin-down-and-manage-hard-drive-power-on-raspberry-pi/

@barmanphysics Is the save file a STATE save or did you use an ingame save point? If it's ingame, then you could also try the other ps1 emulators, to see if it's related to the emulator you're using. (I'm not 100% sure if you can use save files between emulators.)
I am planning to play FFVII on my Pi but it will take months before I'm where you are now.

@edmaul69 you only get one version of blues clues and it's NTSC . I tried bin and cue. One from a reputable pack and the other from a popular site. I tried pbp and no luck either. Thanks for trying it out. We might just need to live with the lack of voices at certain bits.

@BuZz No problem, I understand you perfectly.

@O-M-A-A I think the game itself has a problem.. No one able to play the game..

@teckthekid

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Playstation-1#disc-swapping-for-multi-disc-games-in-retroarch
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Playstation-1#multi-disc-games-or-cd-image-not-working

@kAnGeL88 Those emulators won't run on the current Pi hardware, so theyre not available on those builds.

My version of scph5500.bin has the correct MD5 checksum of 8dd7d5296a650fac7319bce665a6a53c and the CRC32 checksom of ff3eeb8c

I think it might be a filename issue. I'll experiment with added a dash in it like scph-5500.bin

Edit:
I've tried many filename cases but non seam to work when trying to play Japanese games but I did find out that it really doesn't matter what case the BIOS files are to play the US games and also worked with just about every BIOS version (US games playing with any J, E and U BIOS files 10x, 100x, 300x, 350x, 500x, 550x, 700x and 750x). Some US games will even play without a BIOS file but it gives a quick message stating "no BIOS found, expect bugs!"

I'm testing with 2 Japanese games: Captian Commando and Nekketsu Oyako. Maybe neither one of these work with the emulator.

Does anyone out there have any Japanese games working and which one(s) did you get working?