@Fantomas Only a few PS1 games used passwords exclusively (Doom comes to mind)..most games used the memory card. In those games you can save the game just like how you would do on the original hardware. You can use savestates (save at any point in the game) in all games.

@mitu thank you Mitu! I had a look in the errorlog of runcommand, it seemed to run well for what i read. But i have to admit that i dont unterstand every single term that was logged. I will post it tomorrow, i am at my girlfriend right now preparing hannuka-prrsents for tomorrow evening 😊

@Norstein For the PBP scraping, I think there is already an issue opened (see https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/90). You could try using Skyscraper, it can search by name only and I think it works with PBP files.

already plugged suction cups, but anyway for a lot of reasons (i want avoid boring you), i need to add weight to my ps1 case... Are there some kind of issues with metals as Lead ? magnetic issues or i dont know... becouse i really need more weight. EDiT: thanks a lot to steptoe, for totally answered to my first question. i will do as you say. now i need just to understand if there is some kind of problems with Lead in order to ad weight to my ps1 case.

@lostless Hi never tested SRM write by killing specifc emulator IP with all emulators. I think it has something to do which emulator you are using. In first instance I try to use siglevel 15 to terminate emu process and this should write SRM files, because this is a prober termination of process. If the emulator is still active after 2 or 3 seconds I try to kill with siglevel 9 and this is a hard breakup and it's very unlikely that a save state is ever written due this signal level.

@playgamemy said in PSX configuration "save on exit" or "save configuration" not working: Are there configuration file for retroarch that specify where configuration files should be saved? RetroPie uses the 'stock' settings - ~/.config/retroarch for game overrides and control remaps. It's not advisable to save the settings directly since it will save them over the core's config file (see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#config-hierarchy). If you want to edit the 'global' RetroArch config file, then add your options to the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg file.

@Cybrasty It worked! I followed the info in the post from @caver01 and it worked like a charm. Hotkeys disabled, and I now have a dedicated EXIT button that gets me out of games in advmame1.4, mame2003, and PSX.

@mitu thank you

I did that and the result is the same. I´m going to try again. In the other games works fine. except for this...

@yuke that's just the nature of scaling from one resolution to another. different emulators won't help here, especially as beetle will only run (very slowly) in exactly the same resolution'd software mode, as you won't be able to run it higher resolution open gl mode with the pi's GPU featureset. (even the higher resolution mode I think is a factor of the original resolution anyway, so may still have the issue). you could eliminate the artefacts by running with integer scaling turned on (you'd get small/large borders, though).

@nicky_s14 said in PSX Roms taking ages to load / not loading?: Thank you extremely for your help I didn't do anything.

So I started a new game, saved at the first point, exited, then renamed the srm to srm.bak for safekeeping, then uploaded and renamed the srm I wanted and it worked. Any ideas why this is an issue? I'm not really complaining, I'm more intrigued at this point. It almost seems as if the emulator keeps track of whether or not a save should exist. That seems counterintuitive considering the concept of removeable memory cards on the console itself and I would assume an emulator would not need to care if a game had ever been started. Is it similar to modern consoles where it tracks and creates an internal memory file of the game existing and has save files separate?

Thank you for the fast answers. Now I understand. I didn't understand that the m3u-Option is a separate method to pbp. OK. Then i can go back to work :-D Thx

Its so weird/lazy Sony didnt enable these settings in the UI by default.. Gonna go home and test out some keyboards. I think we`ll be able to flash/mod/firmwareupgrade this beauty within a week. :)

Hi I have got a script working to my liking. I'm posting it here in case anyone else wants to use/butcher/edit it. It creates a .cache directory in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx into which it unzips the games. It keeps the files there until it hits the cache limit (which is set at 5Gb) and then starts deleting older files to recover the space. There are probably bugs/improvements to be found/made. As mentioned by @mediamogul I put the following script in /opt/retropie/configs/psx named as lr-pcsx-rearmed-unzip.sh #!/bin/bash function centre_string() { local LPAD=$(( ( $(tput cols) - ${#1} ) / 2)) local RPAD=$(( ( $(tput cols) - ${#1} ) - $LPAD )) local STRING=$(printf ' %.0s' $(seq 1 $LPAD))${1}$(printf ' %.0s' $(seq 1 $RPAD)) echo "$STRING" } function ticker() { STR="" B=$(( $P - 1 )) while [[ $B -gt 0 ]]; do STR="${STR}." B=$(( $B - 1 )) done STR="${STR}:" B=$(( $W - $P )) while [[ $B -gt 0 ]]; do STR="${STR}." B=$(( $B - 1 )) done tput cup $SL3Y 0 echo -e "${TC_YELLOW}$( centre_string "$STR" )" Z=$(( $Z + 1 )) P=$(( $P + $D )) if [[ $P -gt $W ]]; then P=$(( $W - 1 )) D=-1 fi if [[ $P -lt 1 ]]; then P=2 D=1 fi } # Clear display and hide cursor tput clear tput civis # Declare terminal colours TC_CYAN="\e[0;36;49m" TC_DEFAULT="\e[0;39;49m" TC_YELLOW="\e[0;33;49m" # Declare cache variables CACHE_DIRECTORY="/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/.cache" CACHE_IDEAL_SIZE=5242880 # 5242880 = 5Gb # Declare path variables ZIP_FILE="$(sed '3q;d' /dev/shm/runcommand.info)" ZIP_FILE_DIRECTORY=$(dirname "$ZIP_FILE") CUE_FILE="${ZIP_FILE##*/}" CUE_FILE="${CACHE_DIRECTORY}/${CUE_FILE%.*}.cue" # Declare status line variables SL1Y=$(( ($(tput lines) / 2) - 1 )) SL2Y=$(( $SL1Y + 1 )) SL3Y=$(( $SL2Y + 1 )) # Create cache directory (if not exists) mkdir -p "${CACHE_DIRECTORY}" # Status update tput cup $SL2Y 0 STR="Checking cache ..." echo -e "${TC_CYAN}$( centre_string "$STR" )" sleep 0.2 # Get current cache size CACHE_SIZE=$(find "$CACHE_DIRECTORY" -type f \( -iname \*.bin -o -iname \*.cue \) -print0 | du --files0-from=- -c | tail -n1 | cut -f1) # Does the cache need clearing? if [[ $CACHE_SIZE -gt $CACHE_IDEAL_SIZE ]]; then # Status update tput cup $SL1Y 0 STR="Shrinking cache ..." echo -e "${TC_CYAN}$( centre_string "$STR" )" # Keep removing files, oldest first, until cache is below maxiumum size while [[ $CACHE_SIZE -gt $CACHE_IDEAL_SIZE ]]; do # Get oldest file FILE_TO_DELETE=$(ls -A1rt "$CACHE_DIRECTORY"/*.bin "$CACHE_DIRECTORY"/*.cue 2>/dev/null | head -n1) # Status update tput cup $SL2Y 0 STR=$(basename "$FILE_TO_DELETE") echo -e "${TC_DEFAULT}$( centre_string "$STR" )" # Delete file rm -rf "$FILE_TO_DELETE" # Get current cache size CACHE_SIZE=$(find "$CACHE_DIRECTORY" -type f \( -iname \*.bin -o -iname \*.cue \) -print0 | du --files0-from=- -c | tail -n1 | cut -f1) done # Clear tput cup $SL1Y 0 echo -e "$( centre_string "" )" fi # Spinner variables P=1;D=1;W=7 # Declare first regular expression - Redump based REGEX1="^(.*\(Disc )[0-9]+(\).*)$" # Single disc or multiple discs? if [[ ! $ZIP_FILE =~ $REGEX1 ]]; then # Output file details tput cup $SL1Y 0 STR="Unzipping disc ..." echo -e "${TC_CYAN}$( centre_string "$STR" )" # Output file name tput cup $SL2Y 0 STR=$(basename "$ZIP_FILE") echo -e "${TC_DEFAULT}$( centre_string "$STR" )" # Unzip unzip -DDnq "$ZIP_FILE" -d "$CACHE_DIRECTORY" & UNZIP_PID=$! # Ticker while kill -0 $UNZIP_PID 2> /dev/null; do ticker sleep 0.05 done else # Status update tput cup $SL2Y 0 STR="Checking for other discs ..." echo -e "${TC_CYAN}$( centre_string "$STR" )" # Build second regular expression REGEX2=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}[0-9]+${BASH_REMATCH[2]} REGEX2=$(echo "$REGEX2" | sed -e 's/(/\\(/g' -e 's/)/\\)/g' -e 's/\./\\./g') # Unzip discs CURRENT_FILE=1 find "$ZIP_FILE_DIRECTORY" -maxdepth 1 -regextype posix-extended -regex "$REGEX2" | sort -t '\0' -n | while read LINE; do # Output file details tput cup $SL1Y 0 STR="Unzipping disc ${CURRENT_FILE} ..." echo -e "${TC_CYAN}$( centre_string "$STR" )" # Output file name tput cup $SL2Y 0 STR=$(basename "$LINE") echo -e "${TC_DEFAULT}$( centre_string "$STR" )" # Unzip unzip -DDnq "$LINE" -d "$CACHE_DIRECTORY" & UNZIP_PID=$! # Ticker while kill -0 $UNZIP_PID 2> /dev/null; do ticker sleep 0.05 done # Next file CURRENT_FILE=$(( $CURRENT_FILE + 1 )) done fi # Clear display and restore cursor tput sgr0 tput clear tput cnorm # Launch lr-pcsx-rearmed /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed/libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg "$CUE_FILE" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg &> /dev/shm/runcommand.log # Exit exit I added the following to /opt/retropie/configs/psx/emulators.cfg and set it to the default emulator lr-pcsx-rearmed-unzip = "bash /opt/retropie/configs/psx/lr-pcsx-rearmed-unzip.sh %ROM% &>/dev/tty" NB. The cache directory is on an external HDD so I'm not worried about SD card failure. Edit: Updated script to not use regex for single disc games.

cant speak for the standalone pcsx-rearmed so someone else could probly chip in there as for the libretro build its possible to generate game specific overides both for core settings and controller remaps via the quick menu section of emulators menu i use the libretro build myself for specific core settings for certan games as analogue input breaks certan games and enhanced resolution brings in graphic glitches on some too so i have specific configs for these games via the override feature