I found myself in the same situation when I installed the Retropie Manager. Told me I had invalid BIOS files and also rom titles I tried to transfer to my pi. I already was transferring through ssh, but thought I would try the manager out. Boy was I mistaken..lol.

Btw, This issue looks like it's resolved in the libretro pcsxrearmed core. There is an option listed for "Diablo music fix" in the retroarch menu which I would assume takes care of the issue.

the best settings are the defaults.

@arcade said in Emulating n64/psx on netbook:

So the fact that I'm running 32bit retropie with a 64bit OS is irrevelant

Yes, as far as performance is involved. You'll not get a considerable boost from running an x64 system.
Experiment with the games you'd like to run and see how well they run, but even on more powerful machines N64 emulation is not perfect, so don't expect miracles here.

@rion Perfect! Now it works. Thank you.
I recently faced crashes on Driver by select "Try Mission Again" after I fail a mission.
Any idea how to fix that?

Unfortunately I would need to install RecalBox to have Dreamcast support. For reasons beyond my comprehension the Odroid version of RetroPie doesn't support Reicast. The XU4 is much better suited for emulation than the Pi3. A $30 difference is small when you consider that it has double the ram and more than twice the processing power. When the Pi4 is released in a few years it will probably be comparable to the XU4, so the XU4's lifecycle would last far longer.

I have several joysticks identified as DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick (one of them is completely new). And joysticks identified as Personal Cummunication Systems, Inc. PlayStation Gamepad. None of them has vibration in PSX games (Vibration is enabled in RetroArch menu and in the game; type of the joystick were changed to analog). Should I install some drivers or what (just curious; I can't say, I really need that)?

@scyllabus also, retropad isnt a part of the issue.

@ghuleh By all means, do let us know if and how we can help with that process.

@mitu I agree, absolutely, the best way is to just have .pbp files, and like it says in the es_systems.cfg they will be displayed automatically. But my eboot conversion just did NOT want to work on two or three of my games so they had both an .img and .cue and it annoyed me to no end so I just ended up hiding the .imgs per the above.

Sorry for necropost, but it is on-topic.

I suppose you are running RetroPie on RaspberryPi. If you do, you should be able to overcome the issue by using symbolic link (command named "ln" with parameter -s). You enter the folder with the savegame in command line via ie: "cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx" and then you make the symbolic link via ie: "ln -s gt2_(simulation).srm gt2_(arcade).srm" The first one should be the already existing file and the second one should be the name of the link. After that the gt2_(arcade).srm points to the gt2_(simulation).srm and that means whatever disc you load both of them would actually load the same file.

Before trying, make backup of the .srm file!

Nevermind I forgot the bin files >.<

Try turning off vibration in the quick settings RetroArch menu as well.

Hello, I have a question about memory card reader by arduino nano. Can You show how you did this ? I found psx memory card reader, but for windows. I would like to kow how it's work with rpi. I like your project, great job !!!

So I ended up doing the following:

I left the basic config in place.

I then tested each game, changing the controller type to analog once the game was started and if it worked, I created a custom config for that game that has the player 1 and player 2 controller set to analog.

So now each game works as it should, some work fine with the default settings and the d-pad only, others work with the analog stick. I couldn't find one blanket setting that worked for all games, I had to test each one and configure different options files for each game that supports the analog controller type. It took a good amount of time, but works like a charm now no matter what game my kid fires up on the unit.