Are you using the Libretro core of pcsx_rearmed or the standalone emulator ? Is your RetroPie installation updated ? How did you install RetroPie and which image did you use ?

Please add the make/model of your controller, 8bitdo have a lot of controller models.

@sugarfree Thank you!

See this forum post for running games directly from a physical media. I don't think lr-pcsx-rearmed supports physical media though, for PS1 you need the Mednafen PSX core.
As far as Gamecube/PS2, I don't think the emulators in RetroPie (Dolphin/PCSX2) support reading the game from physical media.

@arroyjose then it sounds like an issue with the USB adapter rather than a RetroPie/Raspberry Pi problem.

@mitu Thanks for your help. In fact the game sound is working when using HDMI. I was originally not going to, so this would've been a huge problem. But since I am now using HDMI, everything is fine.

've seen this error message, but I don't understand what it means because the emulator doesn't seem to be in software mode. It might be related to RetroArch. If you have enabled the Vulkan driver in your setup, you can get rid of this error by using the Vulkan driver in RetroArch for this core

[ERROR] Requesting OpenGL context, but RetroArch is compiled against OpenGLES. Cannot use HW context. [ERROR] [Environ]: SET_HW_RENDER - Dynamic request HW context failed. [ERROR] [Environ]: SET_MESSAGE_EXT: Unable to find or open hardware renderer for frontend preferred hardware context. Falling back to software renderer.

@mitu hi sorry yes I meant Raspberry Pi 4. I have since deleted all of the PS2 ROMs and replaced with PS1 ROMs in .chd format and I’m still getting the same error message about not being able to parse the data

@Gnatrgaming Ps1 games must be unzipped otherwise, they will not appear in EmulationStation menu.

Start a PSX game with verbose logging enabled and post the log file here using pastebin .

@tp3107 apologies, I have now fixed this through trial and error. Believe there was an override somewhere along the line.

No, use a PS1 emulator.

@KingPenha

already tried, but nothing

Please post the contents of the .cue file - you can open it as text, since it's just text. Did you also checked the BIOS files that @abj mentioned - are they present in the BIOS folder ?

@mitu Sorry for the delay, I didn't receive an e-mail notification about your reply or maybe I miss it....

PR is submitted to update the documentation.

Have you verified that the dumps are correct and they match the redump.org site checksums ?

I have just checked checksums for several games and they are correct:

Medal Of Honor (Single-Disc)

Redump : SHA-1 - 99f46eec7a8abe548b376f3c920353ab1f642de2 Generated .bin file:$ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Medal of Honor.bin" 99f46eec7a8abe548b376f3c920353ab1f642de2 /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Medal of Honor.bin

Metal Gear Solid (Multi-Disc)

Disc 1

Redump : SHA-1 - 3daa7fbdf69e232e76b593951950c34be930b299 Generated .bin file:$ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 1).bin" 3daa7fbdf69e232e76b593951950c34be930b299 /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 1).bin

Disc 2

Redump : SHA-1 - 578bef4fb45a4c20a7dd5f6645b474a5180aae04 Generated .bin file:$ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 2).bin" 578bef4fb45a4c20a7dd5f6645b474a5180aae04 /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 2).bin

Which CD unit are you using to dump the discs ?

I'm not sure so I'm not going to say anything wrong... The script is mainly a wrapper around cdrdao and toc2cue utilities so I let the cdrdao utility do the job to generate the .bin files.

I see other scripts on the Internet but they were buggy or not enough user-friendly as mine. To rip a disc, I just want to :

Insert the disc Start the script given the name of the game and eventually, its number of discs Restart EmulationStation and have fun

@pablokks Yes, i have saw this bars in many games and not only in RetroPie. Maybe is the core or the RetroArch or something we are missing.
If you are going to report it update the emulator from source to have the latest version and add the verbose log with the core default settings. If you don't have a github account i can report it for you. Thanks.

@windg Thank you so much. That worked!!

@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.

@PhtevenTheSecond depends on the game. There's some core settings that can be changed to adjust the loading to an extent. Do beware though that certain games have the load times baked in as part of the games audio and other mechanics, so removing them would screw up the game. Smackdown 1 and 2 are good examples of this I think

@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).