Need some help with multi-disc Playstation games

RetrOkada

Hello,

I have Abe's Exoddus, a game comprised of two discs, and am trying to add it to RetroPie on my Pi 3 Model B+.

I have a .cue and .bin file for each of the discs, and these are working correctly in RetroPie. IE, they are both showing up in Emulation Station, and booting as expected.

I'd really like to have one entry for the game, and be able to switch discs through the RGUI. As such, I created an .m3u file which listed the .cue files for both discs.

The .m3u file did load correctly in Emulation Station, and I verified that switching discs worked. However, at this stage, the .cue files were also still visible.

To remove the surplus entries, I followed the advice at
https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/issues/314#issuecomment-68180219
I'm using a Mac, so ended up having to remove the .cue extensions through "Get Info". I did this for both .cue files, and updated my .m3u file accordingly, removing .cue from the ends of the file names.

Unfortunately, while this did remove both .cue files from the game list, leaving just the .m3u, the game will no longer load. When I attempt to load the game from the .m3u file, after a few seconds, I am returned to Emulation Station.

I understand that the recommended way of handling multi-disc games is to create .chd archives. However, I can't seem to find instructions for doing so under MacOS. Should I be doing it directly on the Pi, using the command line, instead?

Can anyone advise?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers.

mitu

Linux filesystems are case sensitive, make sure the file names in the .m3u file match the renamed .cue files.

RetrOkada

Hey, thanks for the reply.

I did double-check that the file names had matching cases. What I did was copied and pasted the file names into the .m3u in order to avoid typos.

I tried recreating the .m3u as well, making sure it was saved as plain text.

I tried changing ".cue" to ".cue1" and ".cue2" for disc 1 and disc 2, respectively, and updated the .m3u as appropriate.

Another idea I had was to effectively have double file extensions. So, for example, the disc 1 file would have its extension as .cue1.cue. Was hoping that RetroPie might not list these in the game list, but it did.

Sadly, none of these worked.

Anything else I can try?

Cheers.

mitu

Can you try renaming the .cue to .cd1, .cd2, etc. and retry ?

RetrOkada

@mitu said in Need some help with multi-disc Playstation games:

Can you try renaming the .cue to .cd1, .cd2, etc. and retry ?

Hi Mitu, that worked perfectly!

the .m3u now loads and the disk index lets me toggle between 1 and 2.

The .cue files have now disappeared as well.

Really happy — thanks very much for your help!

Cheers.