Playstation games with more than one disc (multi-disc)

PetroRie

@ajhorst said in Playstation games with more than one disc (multi-disc):

Condensing the games to one file is a little complicated. Just have multiple files, and when you need to move to the next disk, copy the save file from the earlier disk and re-name it to the filename of the following disk.

Didn't they solve that problem already? I have beaten Metal Gear Solid and the saves did work normally without any tweaks. I used savestates and the normal in-game save.

shadowlead

@PetroRie so are you saying that when I finish disc 1 of final fantasy IX i can just start the disc 2 file and my save game will be there?

PetroRie

@shadowlead Yes, when the game prompts to insert the second disk, you can load it via the RGUI menu. Your save game will be there, beside you will save your game on the new disk too, so yeah it will work. It works fine now I'm playing Fear Effect, I'm currently on disk 3 now. So far everything worked fine. In game saves and save states work fine, don't worry about this. this used to be an issue which has been solved already.

mviars

@PetroRie said in Playstation games with more than one disc (multi-disc):

Why would you like to have them into one file? I place all my multi disk games into one folder and when I want to change them U just do it trough the emulator. Works fine, even with Metal Gear. In game saves work great but I prefer the emulators save states.

I used to convert many PSX games for my PSP with PSX2PSP. You need to keep in mind that the compression affects the loading times.

@PetroRie
I like the idea of a folder containing the disc files but then you lose the meta data from the main games because it just shows it as a selection not a game. Is there a way to show game info tagged to a folder?

mediamogul

@mviars said in Playstation games with more than one disc (multi-disc):

Is there a way to show game info tagged to a folder?

You can just highlight the folder, press 'select' and then set or scrape the meta data like any other entry.

mviars

@mediamogul Thanks for the reply but when I do that it tries to scrape entire systems not the folder like it would do if i were to select it using a file.

mediamogul

@mviars

You might be selecting the wrong menu entry. If you highlight the folder in Emulation Station and press 'select', the last option in the resulting menu will only alter/add meta data for that particular item.

mviars

Gees your right I was using my keyboard instead of my remote that I usually use for selecting options so I was hitting menu instead of options. Thanks for the help this makes things a lot better.

mediamogul

@mviars

Glad it works. I use the same method and it really does keep things looking nice and professional.

j.miller

@PetroRie @mviars I have a multi disc game in a folder within my psx roms folder, so it shows just once in the main psx menu and i scraped the metadata successfully on the folder, so thanks for the tips on that.

In the "core disk options" when i go to swap discs i have to navigate to the disc image through "disk image append". I'm unable to toggle discs on "disk index"

however, once i navigate via "disk image append" I am able to toggle disc images through "disk index". So it seems that by default it doesn't know where to look for the disc images. any ideas on how to fix this so I dont have to navigate via "disk image append"?

thanks!

j.miller

@j.miller

Update

the way to get the toggling to work by default is to create a .m3u playlist of the .cue files for the multi-disc games, then launch the game via the .m3u file instead of any of the specific discs.

nooryani84

So just been getting into retropie again and wanted to give my two cents here in case anyone stumbles across this issue:

https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/314#issuecomment-68180219

"So I've been trying a few things now in order to eliminate these extra folders.

Firstly, I keep the all my roms in one directory since they're going to be sorted via the scraper. To eliminate the M3U and the an additional cue file for each disc showing up I found the following workaround:

Remove the .cue extension on the multi-disc files so that es_systems.cfg won't list them.
Remove the .cue extension you reference them in the M3U.
My M3U for chrono cross looks like this for example:
Chrono Cross CD1
Chrono Cross CD2

Not entirely sure if this is what you were looking for, but it solved my issue. Now I just have one single entry for the game that will allow me to switch disks."

Edit: I updated the Wiki if it's alright. https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Playstation-1#m3u-playlist-for-multi-disc-games

sleepunknot

PetroRie

Can you upload your psxpsp fear effect game because all versions I tested has problems unknown disc format or can't change to disc 2...

herb_fargus

@sleepunknot read the forum rules!

PetroRie

@sleepunknot I cannot do that because it's not allowed on the forum. I just got my copies from the internet. I'm using the NTSC version of the game.

When the game asks you to switch disk, just do it via the RGUI menu. You can browse the folders and select the image file, it works like a charm. I've tried this also with Metal Gear Solid and it worked. The file extensions are .BIN

stevep

When I go into the pcx roms folder it tells me no files found. How do I get it to read .bin ,.cue files? I am using retropie 4.2

sstem89

@nooryani84 Thank you, although I didn't find your explanation quite as detailed as I needed to create a fix for my game, after reading your post and viewing the retropie m3u structure, I went out on a limb and created my own .m3u file of FF8 using ES File Explorer on my Android phone. Once that was done, I uploaded the .m3u file to my Rpi with a SFTP program, restarted emulationstation, loaded Disk 1 end game save, crossed my fingers, ejected the disk, now Track 2 was working...I selected it, closed the virtual disk tray.......Now I'm able to progress into the second disk without compressing anything! Just renamed some cue files and created a tiny text file (m3u) that made it happen.