I found it!!!

The file ~/configs/all/videomodes.cfg contained

Lr-psx-rearmed = "HDMI-1:0x41"

I removed it and the warning was gone.

Not sure how it got there or if it is crucial for some PSX games, but I'm happy today! 😁

🥂

Thanks!
Sort of resolved.

I went through the verbose log.
Found:

[WARN] SYSTEM DIR is empty, assume CONTENT DIR /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/Silent Bomber (USA).cue [INFO] Environ SYSTEM_DIRECTORY: "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/". no BIOS files found.

Okay, odd, but lets just try putting a bios file next to the rom...

If I put the bios files in the same folder as the ROM the bios gets found and performance improves as expected. Aka: Audio gets more consistent and it does no longer randomly just hang.

This might not explain why it doesn't find the bios where it is supposed to be according to the docs. but then again who knows what I messed up when I set this up a few years ago. Point is the information from the log was accurate and helpful.

This log to be precise:
/dev/shm/runcommand.log

Previously I have only looked at:
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_log.txt

@sirhenrythe5th

Yes, when I want to play a game that doesn't work correct with lr-pcsx-rearmed I am using swanstation, so far I don't have issues. The development looks active but I think, without be a developer, that they don't do something significant, they are cleaning the code.

By the way, the development of pcsxrearmed is very active, the emulator is improved very mutch.

@lochnagar I know the music on Tomba II is glitchy and plays the wrong track on the default (and only emulator if on a pi) psx emulator. It’s old and buggy and hasn’t really been updated with any significance in a long time. But it runs very smoothly on low end hardware and runs most games just fine. There is no fix unless someone updates the emulator to fix said bugs.

@buzz oh wow I would never have considered the multi tap options as they've never affected it before! That worked better than expected, now I've got analog on psx that I've never ever been able to get working. Thanks for your help!

@mitu said in PSX rearmed doesn't change settings:

Looks like PulseAudio is still running.
Did you reboot after changing the PulseAudio audio settings ? Try rebooting and checking again with commands I posted earlier. If it's not working, try manually disabling PulseAudio by running

systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket

and rebooting.

I have done this:

1-From setup script I tried to disable pulse audio (it was already disable)
2-I tried to enable it—>rebooting—>Still disabled (so from setup script it is disabled and there is no way to enable it)
3-Reboot and ran the game-> no audio
3- I ran this

aplay -L | grep -i pulse ps -ef | grep pulseaudio

And still got the same output
4-reboot
5-I ran this

systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket

6-I ran the game and...IT WORKS WITH AUDIO! :D :D
7- Rebooted and run the game again, it keeps the settings. Tried also with other emulators (NES) and the games have audio.

Thanks a lot!

I will try to figure out the analog thing by myself! I try! :D

UPDATE: playing around I made the analog work. I change some setting in the configuration of the emulator. Now everything works fine

No, it hasn't been removed. If you're running this on the Pi4, then it's not compatible and it will not appear in the list of available packages - use lr-pcsx_rearmed, which is already installed by default on the RetroPie image.

@mauroque
Here is a guide I tried to write for migrating, all of the items you want to back up are optional.

It is probably very much easier to use samba instead, to transfer only the games and bios