@BobHarris Of course they need to read first, minimum requirements are MAME romset from at least 2006 (advance mame linux) and a FBA romset with CPS3 games runs well. Retro CM3 can be my first option for arcade only games and I'll be ok, and then wait for CM4 for better performance and add home port consoles of PSP and Dreamcast home and their based arcade boards. I can wait for Raspberry Pi 4 Module in mid 2020 at least. Nintendo Switch Lite its a plan B one...also I will buy an ipega with gamepad to make my recent smartphone or my 2017 one looks like a Vita but with Android.

@quicksilver I also remember that on original N64 hardware that if the analog stick was pushed while the game was booting up the crosshair/selector would get stuck trying to go one direction. I also remember this, very annoying. But once my N64 joysticks were worn out, I put the analog stick back a bit to not have to press it as much forward to have it react.

@jojin If you didn't scrape the system yet, you should also check the option Parse Gamelists Only (PGO) in the Main Menu > Other Options of Emulation station. If your game isn't in the gamelist.xml yet, you won't see it if PGO is set to "on".

@mitu Thx for this. would you happen to know if I define a location of a folder that does not exist, will it create said folder for me or return an error instead?

@Efriim Harvest Moon Innocent Life works. A youtube kid showed me how changing the PSP CPU Clock to 80 will get the game to load normally and not freeze on the island intro. System > Change emulated PSP's CPU clock = 80 Harvest Moon Hero of Leaf Valley plays really well. Graphics > Mode = Buffered rendering Graphics > Simulate block transfer effects = False I couldn't get Wagic the Homebrew to work, not quite. The thing was kind of buggy on real PSP. There are quite a few versions, I didn't over exert myself trying to get all the assets to load without crashing, but it does start. I got Monster Hunter 3rd to play fairly well there are some minor slow downs like in the center of town. Like the other games, they can be played in non-buffered mode, and disable software skinning. Enable hardware transform and vertex cache. The first two games get better performance, overclock is recommended. 3rd has an english patch that is non-HD that and works for ppsspp. Graphics > Software skinning = False Kingdom of Paradise/Heaven plays fine.

@Efriim no I haven’t tried that game. Thanks for finding the forum post about standalone psp exiting back to emulation station rather than the psp menu. Good to know since that was my main issue using standalone. Using the retroarch version now seems like a more viable option than it was before in terms of performance based on my testing and it is nice to have the GUI. But i will try this out on my experimental setup to try to confirm it works.

You posted the same topic 4 days ago - please don't open multiple topics for the same problem.

@Heartless While the libreelec ppsspp version says it is updated to 1.8.0, it seems much the same as the 1.5.4 version we have. With all the same rendering issues and performance, I think most of the updates do not apply to the opengl renderer that we have. There was the addition of only one new main setting, and the removal of two settings. Skip Frames by percentage of FPS or Numer of Frames. I can't say if it works or not, it seems to just skip frames the same way. The removal of the two hack settings, timer and stencil test. It is probably up to the PPSSPP developers, who know enough about the emulator to update it for us. Though this may never happen.

Ok i'll try to.

@dankcushions Thanks a lot ! :)

the BIOS file seem to be automatically added by the install script anyway - you don't have to do anything: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-ppsspp.sh#L61 @nibio74, whoever that is, made the change here. I'll revert it, having no means to contact them :/ https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/PSP/_compare/b62096615b65075de1355213c380d30cf767fb61...5d7b9b5c9e234664da5b43c706f917a7855ec99c

@mitu Thanks...

was this ever solved?

It will likely require reworking of the RetroPie module script. It's still on my to-do list :-)

@herb_fargus I've pretty much tackled it as far as I'm willing to at the moment. I'd certainly revisit it later after a Pi 4 were released or if I felt the need to get a Pi 3B+. Anyway, I've linked it properly on the wiki now. Hopefully someone finds what I've documented useful. Know I would've loved to just have a quick list of 51 games I could run on my overclocked Pi 3B. Decided to just go with the Google Sheets method. It is smarter.

@edmaul69 That's true

Solved. Had to access emulator settings for the one second the game was booting and disable "Fast Memory (Unstable)". Boots fine now.

@glitchyboyhunter I didn't give you any 'codes', just pointed you to the file where Emulationstation might log any errors. You just need to get the file from the Pi - you use a PC if you have one connected. You need to open the \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation folder in Windows Explorer and you'll file the file I pointed out earlier in that folder. Upload the contents to pastebin.com and get the link here in the forum so we can better log at the log. EDIT: Make sure that Emulationstation is not configured with Parse Gamelists only set to On (https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#why-does-shut-down-and-reboot-take-ages), otherwise any new game/rom added will not be shown. If you do, then turn it off, then restart Emulationstation.

@mitu Good point. I did visit that page, but obviously did not look good enough. :-)