Okay so I got the following cheats for Final Fantasy 8 entered and uploaded into the files but when I activate them in the game menu the only one that actually works properly is the 255 AP and the Infinite Item Usage. All Items and All Cards doesn't work properly (All items gives me 100 potions and All Cards give me 127 of one card) I've checked multiple times and they are entered correctly, can someone please give me some insight as to why they aren't working? I threw the Master Code in there after the fact but it didn't change anything at all.

cheats = 18

cheat0_desc = "255 AP After Battle"
cheat0_code = "80078CE0+00FF"
cheat0_enable = "false"

cheat1_desc = "Infinite Item Usage 1/2"
cheat1_code = "D01E459E+A0A3"
cheat1_enable = "false"

cheat2_desc = "Infinite Item Usage 2/4"
cheat2_code = "801E459E+2400"
cheat2_enable = "false"

cheat3_desc = "Infinite Item Usage 3/4"
cheat3_code = "D01E45AA+A0A0"
cheat3_enable = "false"

cheat4_desc = "Infinite Item Usage 4/4"
cheat4_code = "801E45AA+2400"
cheat4_enable = "false"

cheat5_desc = "All Items Maxed 1/2"
cheat5_code = "5000C602+0001"
cheat5_enable = "false"

cheat6_desc = "All Items Maxed 2/2"
cheat6_code = "80077EBC+6401"
cheat6_enable = "false"

cheat7_desc = "All Cards 1/7"
cheat7_code = "50004D01+0000"
cheat7_enable = "false"

cheat8_desc = "All Cards 2/7"
cheat8_code = "30078658+00FF"
cheat8_enable = "false"

cheat9_desc = "All Cards 3/7"
cheat9_code = "50002101+0000"
cheat9_enable = "false"

cheat10_desc = "All Cards 4/7"
cheat10_code = "300786A5+00F0"
cheat10_enable = "false"

cheat11_desc = "All Cards 5/7"
cheat11_code = "800786C6+FFFF"
cheat11_enable = "false"

cheat12_desc = "All Cards 6/7"
cheat12_code = "800786C8+FFFF"
cheat12_enable = "false"

cheat13_desc = "All Cards 7/7"
cheat13_code = "300786CA+0001"
cheat13_enable = "false"

cheat14_desc = "Master Code 1/4"
cheat14_code = "D009B2B0+FFF3"
cheat14_enable = "false"

cheat15_desc = "Master Code 2/4"
cheat15_code = "8009B2E0+0046"
cheat15_enable = "false"

cheat16_desc = "Master Code 3/4"
cheat16_code = "D009B2B0+FFF3"
cheat16_enable = "false"

cheat17_desc = "Master Code 4/4"
cheat17_code = "8009B2E2+1000"
cheat17_enable = "false"

@BJRetro I hope once the pi 4 is fully supported this game works well on Dreamcast without the current work around. It's a shame it has issues for Dreamcast, dosbox and psx.

@cagusch Have you tried it on lr-duckstation?

Also, not saying that that's the case, but it is quite normal for games to reduce polygon count and drawing distance when rendering split screen. What's the atual behavior you're observing?

ok, then we wait eagerly for the next pi iteration.

@Pierouge I managed to resolve this issue by changing the Joypad settings (Hotkey + X) to default for Joypad 1 (no analogue). You can still use analogue sticks with the game even with this setting turned off. The game loads up and plays normally (at first). It also looks great with enhanced graphics. I hope this helps

However I now have a new problem. The game freezes (just the game, I can still Hotkey quit out of the game) when I meet the two wolves after the first save point.

emulator (lr-pcsx) runs at 60 frames, although the game (in my case NTSC Tekken 3) does not even feel like that. am I right that 60 fps emulating a game does not necessarily mean the game itself runs at that framerate?

@djwildheart Please add more info about your system, as requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

Have you set any custom video modes for the emulator using the Runcommand launch menu ?

What game was it? Can't see what you were talking about any longer :)

Update

A pull-request (PR) has been submitted to the upstream pcsx_rearmed core that improves the gaussian audio interpolation algorithm. If/when this PR gets merged, maybe you can give another try to Spyro 2/3 and see if the sounds doesn't crack anymore and the sound quality improves thanks to the interpolation. Hopefully gaussian interpolation is not so taxing to the RPI.

Ref: https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed/pull/218

@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 Yes. And you are right. Unfortunatelly I did not realize each emulated system needs it's BIOS. It was indeed written in the link that was provided. I was looking for a specific controller problem and being new to the whole raspberry thing, I overlooked that information.
@aewoodall520 just happened to point out the thing I was missing.

P.S.: After updating the ES, I had to reconfigure the controlls for PSX again. It was a breeze thanks to your link, 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).