@mitu Nevermind. That worked. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

@sexbeer It only works on lr-beetle-psxwhich only works on an overclocked pi4 and pc's right now. In the future, it might be fast enough to work on a pi3b+.

Try this: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#m3u-playlist-for-multi-disc-games

@mitu Glad to know I'm not the only one having the issue with Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1. The fact that both of these games play properly on ePSXe, using the same BIOS (SCPH1001.bin) and ROM files, leads me to believe that it's an issue with lr-pcsx-rearmed. I suppose, worst case scenario, I could try The Atari Collection 1 on SNES and Hot Wheels Turbo Racing on N64 if myself or anyone else can't figure out the issue on PSX. Related links: Hot Wheels Turbo Racing psx black screen PS1 games that have bugs in retropie

@jojin Look in the Docs, there's sections for each emulator, look over the Getting starting guide, the Emulationstation pages, then later on you can take a look over the RetroArch and Advanced configuration options. Feel free to ask in the forums also, there's no wrong question (well, almost).

Ah, i see... I'll follow that thread and see what I can do... Many thanks, John

@lostless I set the system to save from RAM every second and the issue appears to be fixed not just corrected. I was also getting little periods were the sound was muted and that also seems to have stopped. I was assuming that was a different problem and that was why I did not include that in the original question, but that has stopped as well. Great information thank you.

@mitu Thanks! That was the bit I needed to change. I replaced "standard" with "dualshock" and now analog controls work :)

@h4ckerv2 I tested some things at the same time but I thing all the things together solved the issue: -Change the psx bios to another of another website -Disable the screensaver in all places (rpi and retropie), in rpi you will need to install first a screensaver and disable it after.

I've been considering compressing roms lately as I keep them uncompressed for all systems to prevent SD write cycles from extractions. These wouldn't extract or cache whatsoever, right? Also does RetroArch cache from my current .bin's and .cue's to "/tmp/Retroarch/"? I've been considering changing RetroArch's tmp to "/tmp/" (a RAM drive) but that would choke a pi3 if it tried to cache a PSX game, thus I'm trying to trim them without the need of extraction.

@pi2user I heard someone saying the same, so I would like to try this version. It's a shame, the only way to play this game is to use save states. At least now I know it's possible to finish the game! :P

@Clyde I'll try to figure that out (I'm new to retropie). thanks.

@zululegend Fixed: I removed psx rearmed files and installed from the optional packages via source. I was working with the main packages before.

@washburngopro That might be run-ahead instances. I think the setting is found under "latency". Could set it to zero, I never use it but it is okay with some Nintendo games. The bios is good, you should keep it. Rarely (Arc the Lad Monster Tournament) do I ever have to use no bios. If your pi doesn't have any heatsink, airflow, cooling fan, radiator. It will overheat and the SoC/CPU will throttle undermining performance in some games. While it is possible to underclock and increase the soft/temp limit to get adequate performance for PSX, good ventilation is still needed when playing 4+ hours.

So I disabled it, and played a few rounds of SNK vs Capcom 2, and some time around the hanger in Tony Hawk 2, and it works perfectly! Thanks! :D @pjft said in Random 1 second freezes with all PSX games: @njscorpio turn it off. See if it helps.

After spending the weekend thinking about which procedure was done wrong, I remembered that I performed many installations and updates hoping to fix the problem, so I downloaded a clean .img and installed it again. After reinstalling the OS the control worked correctly, thank you anyway.

@Shadowkiller324 Check the pcsx.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/psx/pcsx/ the first line should have the bios name. I know you have probably tried this but update the pcsx emulator. I wouldn't give up hope on the lr-pcsx, I use it for every psx game. Maybe one of the retroarch configs has a problem, like; system_directory = "~/RetroPie/BIOS" being something else You could backup both /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg and /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg if you have them, or if youre not attached to your configs then you could delete them. A new one will be generated and you could copy it as configs/psx/retroarch.cfg then restore the configs/all/retroarch.cfg.backup.

@Shortgaze ps3 controllers are good, windows drivers used to be hard to install. My problem with arc arena, I tried the usual things including HLE bios but I didnt get a full reset for it to work because of autoload. I didn't think of deleting the config, doing so changed the default system directory to the content folder so no BIOS was found and so it loaded the HLE and worked. System Directory was the first setting I changed back, and the controller stopped working when it loaded the SCPH bios again. Anyways thanks.

@quicksilver that sounds very right, it happened with the update to retroarch 1.7.6.