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    • samS
      sam
      last edited by

      help,
      im new to setting all this up i have a virtual box with ubuntu 17.10.1
      i have successfully installed retro pie however i load up roms and get this error

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      i click "a" and get an error in the left hand corner saying a bios would help it run so downloaded bios SCPH1001.bin and saved it into home\retropie\BIOS

      the roms then wont work, please can someone point out the error of my ways

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      • EndersEnigmaE
        EndersEnigma
        last edited by

        Have you taken a look at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/

        Once i went through all the steps on there mine worked great.

        Also, I would go into your "Retropie Setup" and go to the "Manage Packages" then "Main Packages" then update "lr-pcsx-rearmed" package and update it "from source". Just to make sure you have the most up to date emu.

        If you hold your Pi out the window while driving 40+ mph, the performance is improved significantly.

        True story.

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        • samS
          sam
          last edited by

          thanks

          0_1520795502810_8fb51a96-d3aa-46bd-8215-093b3788f25e-image.png

          i get this when loading roms now and they dont load

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          • XVOX
            XVO
            last edited by XVO

            What happens when you select Launch (X)?

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @sam
              last edited by

              @sam This means you pressed a button during the Runcommand launching screen - the 1st screenshot you posted (which is not an error). Use launch to start the game, as @XVO said, and next time just wait for the runcommand screen to disappear.

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              • samS
                sam
                last edited by

                launch doesnt work, and leaveing it just hangs for a long time,

                when the bios scph1001 isnt in the bios file the rom works :/

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator @sam
                  last edited by mitu

                  @sam Maybe the BIOS file is correct, what's the MD5 sum of the file ? Also, you know you can install RetroPie directly into Ubuntu, you don't need to install it in a VM.

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                  • samS
                    sam
                    last edited by

                    if i have done it right md5sum code comes back as
                    59071590099d21dd439896592338bf95

                    also running it on a windows 10 pc so needed a virtual machine to run ubuntu on

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @sam
                      last edited by

                      @sam Mine says otherwise:

                      md5sum RetroPie/BIOS/SCPH1001.BIN
                      924e392ed05558ffdb115408c263dccf  RetroPie/BIOS/SCPH1001.BIN
                      

                      You might try another BIOS or another emulator see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/.
                      Coming back to your setup - you can run the Emulationstation frontend and the Retroarch frontend + emulators on Windows also, natively, without any extra emulation (!) - see RetroCake.

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                      • stooS
                        stoo @sam
                        last edited by

                        @sam Hey, sam.

                        Do you literally mean you're running RetroPie in an Ubuntu VM in Oracle VirtualBox?

                        If so, you may not have a good time with anything 3D-related.

                        See here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6671/solved-retropie-on-ubuntu-virtualbox-all-games-crash-on-launch/

                        With that said...

                        I use the following BIOS files:

                        scph5500.bin (8DD7D5296A650FAC7319BCE665A6A53C)
                        scph5501.bin (490F666E1AFB15B7362B406ED1CEA246)
                        scph5502.bin (32736F17079D0B2B7024407C39BD3050)

                        lr-pcsx-rearmed loads these preferentially over the 100x series, but I doubt it makes much difference.

                        If you want a nice easy way to get the md5 (or virtually any hash algorithm) of a file in Windows, I strongly recommend HashTab.

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                        • samS
                          sam
                          last edited by

                          yes that is exactly how i am running,
                          I will give retro cake a try as mitu says
                          I was doing this way as didn't want to buy a raspberry pi if i couldn't get it working, i think its worth the investment and just get a raspberry

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                          • stooS
                            stoo @sam
                            last edited by

                            @sam Setting up RetroPie on a real RPi is easy if you follow the instructions (which you've presumably already looked at when you installed on Ubuntu), and the forums are full of extremely useful information (sometimes better than the documentation :P)

                            Have realistic expectations tho; while the vast majority of platforms are emulated pretty much flawlessly and PS1 emulation is mostly very good if you overclock your Pi a bit, N64 and Dreamcast are really at the very limit of what can be achieved on the Pi3.

                            If you're cool with that, and maybe asking a question or two here if/when you get stuck, then in my opinion there's no reason not to get an RPi3.

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