@windg Thank you so much. That worked!!

@JustNiko02 Run glxinfo from a terminal and check the version reported by the program. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/47062/what-is-terminal-command-that-can-show-opengl-version.

The BIOS should work, but what's the error that you get when starting the game ?
Can you check the checksum of the file against the list of the ones listed here and see if it matches ?

Never mind. Apparently there's an issue with how Retropie Manager checks for ROMs for PSX. I manually just transferred the ROMs into the PSX folder over the network and they worked. They even kept the saves from the last time I played some of the games.

@pcnoob90 try to find .spi file from your game (maybe your game is protect "epsxe").
I have the same problem for FF IX and FF VIII. Add the spi file solve the Black screen for me.

Jyu

@pobs
'I've made sure that none of the other roms are in the .bin format'

What do you mean by this?

You could try replacing the bios file with one downloaded from another source.
You can also try some eboots (ps1 games in a psp compatible format, also known as psx2psp). These are just one file each (.pbp) and should work fine.

Man, i know nothing about Linux, so i think i will just leave this backup away and download my roms, there aren't many roms anyway, so no problem with that.
Would like to thank everyone, my retropie is running perfectly now:
@mitu
@jonnykesh
@markyh444
@Sano
@chipsnblip
@BuZz

Dont know what is more awesome, raspberry/retropie itself or its community :)

@jonnykesh he'll also want to update setup script/usbromservice as there was a bug inhibiting bios transfer.

More reliable to transfer over network/samba

@darksavior Thanks for the info. I've tried the 7502.bin as well. What I wasn't aware of was that some games have protection, I take it FF8 is one of the games with protection. I tried another game (GTA London) and this worked okay, (not perfectly, but it worked :-D) I'll have to go download the USA set and convert to PBP I guess rather than the EU set.

@adamdicaprio There's no posting of copyrighted material in the forum, either ROM, BIOS files or otherwise. Please review the forum rules, if you haven't so.

@r3d007so i decidedto solve the mystery of why you had to put the bios' in the roms folder. if the retroarch.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/all/ does not have the line:

system_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS"

or it is #hashtagged out, or you edited the retroarch.cfg for those systems either manually or through the retroarch gui, that made major config changes then you need to put them in the roms folder. to fix this open up /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg and see if that system directory line is in there. if it is #hashtagged out, remove the hashtag and save.if it is not in there, then add it. if it is correct open up the retroarch.cfg in the individual systems config folders and find the issue and delete or correct it. the rgui can mess things up when you are using it, hence why i never use it to configure anything other than core-options.

Hey buddy the way i did it which is quite easy is take the bios and put it in the USB section along with your psx games section. (I know that isnt right but bear with me).
Plug your USB in like always and wait for upload to finish after done press F4 in the emulation station window to bring up a terminal and type in the following:
cd home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/
exactly like that then type in:
ls
You should see the SCHP1001.BIN file or whatever in this folder near the top i think, if so type the following command:
mv SCPH1001.BIN /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/
that will move the file from the USB for you this should fix the issue.
If the first command isnt working follow this video from 1:20

Hope this helps, glhf.

@Darksavior I don't have any of those issues. I have enhanced resolution off.

@workforit11 said in PSX not working:

Also, when Retropie loads up playstation isn't an option as an emulator.

That's because retropie did not see the .cue file. Yes, you must extract them in the psx folder.

@milok Useful for me, my gf deleted the retroarch.cfg and the one it autogenerates apparently is completely different from the default one? A lot of stuff is changed, including the entire psx interface for retroarch, and bios location.

@Treecherry34
what it should look like is something like
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/SCPH1001.BIN (case sensitive - must be in capitals)
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/Gran Turismo 2.bin
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/Gran Turismo 2.cue (two separate files, of which the cue is a small text file that should be pointing to the corresponding bin)

i don't really understand what you've written above. oh well. hopefully you can figure it out from here...

@Darksavior Apologies, all sorted now. Problem I was having was accessing the Pi via SFTP with my laptop to fix this. Thanks for the support though!

@cerealspiller delete the retroarch.cfg. Then reinstall the psx emulator to get your retroarch.cfg back.

I have figured it out. I had to download 7z1604 and unecm. I also had cuemakerdotnet previously downloaded. After some time I was able to convert my files to .bin and .cue.

The Metal Gear Solid .7z files I had to use each of them to finally create the correct files. For Syphon Filter 2 I downloaded new .7z files. When I ran the files through 7z1604 it created .bin and .cue files for me.

I tested Metal Gear Solid and the game loaded. Played just a the first part and it worked fine, both graphics and audio. Syphon Filter 2 worked perfect too.

It's probably now saved as "on" in their set-up since they ran it when "on" was the default, and now that option has saved, so they will likely need to switch it off from RGUI.

I thought I had rebuilt the binaries, but perhaps not - I will do that now