Duplicate game entries ps1

[danigood]

Please help. Been searching for hours. I am a novice so please bear with me. I downloaded a ps1 game and it came out as ecm file. Converted using uecm. It then gave me an img file. Placed onto Rom folder but listed twice. One as a cue file and the other as an img file. Both launch the game. How can I hide one of these. Tried es_systems.cfg but cannot find a tutorial on line to assist. Cannot find anything using this Greatly appreciated. Kind Regards Dan

[mitu]

According to https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/ if you have a .cue file, then the corresponding .bin will not be shown. Try to convert the .ecm image into .bin/.cue pair as suggested by the docs and try again.

[Parviglumis]

There is also a utility to convert bin/.cue to .pbp. This compresses the file some (at a negliglble cost to load time) and you end up with one file. You can find it and instructions online. Personally I like that way best. You can even combine multiple discs!

If that doesn't work and you really want to get rid of the duplicate files you can edit es_systems.cfg, found in ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg . Make a backup first if you're worried. Scroll down to find the PlayStation, should look something like this:

    <system>
        <fullname>Sony Playstation 1</fullname>
        <name>psx</name>
        <path>~/RetroPie/roms/psx</path>
        <extension>.img .IMG .7z .7Z .pbp .PBP .bin .BIN .cue .CUE</extension>
        <command> [bunch of stuff, don't change this]</command>
        <platform>psx</platform>
        <theme>psx</theme>
    </system>

In the <extension> heading you can delete the .img and .IMG text so Emulation Station won't display those file extensions any more. Files are still there, they just won't show up in the game select menu.

But be careful, if you delete it, Emulation Station will NOT show ANY of the .img files, so if some of your games are only .img and .bin (which it does not show by default), then they will be hidden and unplayable! (Don't know if that's possible, just an example)

I guess a way around this is to name all the ones you want to hide as .IMG and then remove only the capital one in es_systems.cfg but this is really quite janky and there are better ways!

I don't know just how much of a noob you are but if you don't know you can get there through file manager in the RetroPie settings menu (so select the RetroPie logo in the carousel of systems and slect 'File Manager' from the list). You'll need a keyboard. To go up a folder press enter on the /.. at the top of the list. So navigate to es_systems.cfg, the ~ means the home menu. Here, the blue/teal/whatever symbols on the bottom mean function keys, so press F4 to edit.

When you go to edit the file, it will open up the text editer nano. There, all the shortcuts on the bottom with the ^ symbol mean Ctrl+[letter]. So change the extensions as you wish. Then to save (write out) press Ctrl+o, confirm overwrite the file name, and Ctrl+x to exit nano. F10 to exit the file editor, restart the RetroPie through the start > quit menu, and you should be good to go!

[mitu]

@parviglumis I dont' think this is needed with the latest RetroPie, the .pbp extension is added for the PS1 emulator/lr-cores in the file you mention.

[Parviglumis]

@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.