PCE-CD (pc-engine) stuck at "Just a moment..." screen

mitu

@qbical Linux filesystems are case sensitive, so rename
Loom [U][SCD][TGXCD1017][LucasArts][1992][PCE].bin
to
Loom [U][SCD][TGXCD1017][LucasArts][1992][PCE].BIN (notice the uppercase extension), to match the filename in the .cue file.
Retry after this change and see if the game starts. Did you copy the bios file, as @edmaul69 suggested, in the BIOS folder ?

qbical

@mitu

from above (i even put the .BIN extension into lower case .bin and that still didn't work. )

I am pretty sure I tried it both ways, but will try it again. Very possible I missed something. Also, I have not removed the syscard32.pce from the BIOS folder at all. It has stayed in there for everything I have tried. Update to follow

edmaul69

@qbical it is syscard3.pce not syscard32.pce

qbical

@mitu
I just tried changing the .bin to .BIN and that didn't work. I also tried making the .CUE upper case (so they were both uppercase) after that and unfortunately THAT did not work either. I also pulled out the picture files (front, cd, back) so I only had the .BIN and .CUE files in the zipped folder and that did not work either. :(

edmaul69

@qbical also just edit the .cue, inside the .cue and the .bin to just Loom. Get rid of all the garbage so they just look like this. Loom.bin Loom.cue. Gets rid of any possible errors. Can you please paste the entire contents of your cue file?

qbical

@edmaul69
My apologies but that was a typo on my part. I just confirmed the file in the BIOS is correctly named syscard3.pce and it is. I have another file with 32 on my DT that I must have had on the brain while typing out my posts. Sorry for the confusion on that. I kind of wish I had it at 32 though since that would have been an easy fix. hah

edmaul69

@qbical these arent supposed to remain zipped. They will not work zipped. You only use the cue and bin file. And if you renamed the cue file you have to restart emulationstation for it to work. But renaming the cue file does nothing.

edmaul69

@qbical so remove the bin and cue from the zip file, put them on the pi and restart emulationstation. Zip files dont work on cd games for any system.

qbical

@edmaul69

Every step I have tried above I did with and with-out the picture files in the zip folder. Trying to exhaust every option. I also reset the system/emulationstation after each update/try. I read posts that suggested both the files zipped and unzipped so I was not 100% on that. I did not try the unzipped files this last time though. I will add the two unzipped files into the folder and try again. Hopefully that will be the ticket. ty again

qbical

@edmaul69
@mitu

Looks like unzipping them was the trick. Also, changing the lower-case .bin to upper-case .BIN was also something I missed. Thank you both for the quick replies and help.