Help ! Can’t add anymore psx roms

atomicgarden

Hello

I am new to retropie (3 days) I’m using a rasberry pie 3B+. This is my issue.

I’ve added a couple of psx roms and all of them works fine. Suddenly the latest batch I added won’t show up at all in my psx games list. I figured I may have just run out of space. I have only a 32gb card and had 23 psx games at this point (a lot more of cartridges roms too). So I deleted 4 psx games and tried to add some new ones. None of them show up, even if I try just one at the time. So I tried to add 2 games from the 4 I deleted before, and it works.

So now I thought, maybe all those roms were bad or wrong versions or something. I focused only on the ones I wanted to play the most and d/l a couple of versions of each. The ones I did this for are Tomb Raider 2, Metal gear solid, Resident evil 2, Worms Armageddon and Wipeout XL. Didn’t bother with the other games yet. Did the same as usual. Extract the files, make sure I have a .bin and .cue. Put the roms on the usb stick and then in the pie, wait to finish blinking and restart the system. Nothing. I can’t get any of them to show up at all in my games list ! What’s wrong ? Please help me !

Don’t know if that helps, but I’m not sure if the version of retropie changed or I did something ? I noticed the retropie configuration menu is different than it was yesterday. If I go there, I have the options line up in the middle and I remember they were on the left side of the screen yesterday with icons next to them (like a little speaker for audio etc). Also hotkey to exit N64 games doesn’t work anymore and I’m pretty sure I could yesterday. Weird.

simpleethat

Do you have "parse only gamelists" selected in the emulation station menu selected? Not near my pie right now to give you complete direction but I believe if you press start in emulation station it's under other settings

atomicgarden

@simpleethat

I just looked. Parse gamelist only is off. Doesn’t seem to be the problem. Thanks

mitu

Check if you've not run out of disk space - exit Emulationstation and you should see a welcome message that also displays how much of your disk is used.

You can also check the contents of the ROM folder via the network, if you have a Windows PC in the same LAN, by opening Windows Explorer and pointing it to \\retropie\roms.

atomicgarden

@mitu

Solved !

I noticed I was out of space, by looking where you told me. I erased a couple more games, but I was still not getting any free space. Turns out psx game get only deleted from the list but leaves files in retropie. By using my pc through LAN with something called winscp, I was able to manage my roms and manually delete the files to free some space. Thanks !

simpleethat

@atomicgarden yeah, in the case of psx in bin/cue format it would only delete the cue file and not the associated bin file(s)

showstopper

Look into psx2psp and convert your psx roms into pbp. This is much easier to manage the library and saves a lot of space.

GeekOB

Actually @showstopper and @atomicgarden, also look into converting to .chdas it saves even more space than PBP format and there's no impact on performance at all.

Here's a pretty nice guide on how to to it:
https://blog.thirdechelon.org/2018/10/retroarch-convert-playstation-1-bin-cue-to-chd/

Just my 2 cents

nightbirdmedia

If you want to play mostly PSX games on the pi I recommend a larger SD card.

And I think your retropie configuration menu is different because of something you did. Lol. Don't worry you did it like most of us when we were first playing around in the settings. Go to your main emulation station screen and hit START. Choose IU SETTINGS (User Interface Settings). Scroll down to GAMELIST VIEW STYLE and put it on Automatic.

*Also in the UI Settings you might want to turn off the Quick Select setting. That setting allows you to toggle between each game system while you have an emulator open. But it is annoying if you are scrolling through your N64 games and accidentally hit left and right and it takes you to the Sega Genesis game list. Lol. I keep Carousel settings off too.

As for the Hotkey issue, that is strange. If you didn't mess with the Retro Pie Setup script or update the Retropie, or obviously change your Controller Input settings that hot key should always be there. You can choose to input your N64 controller again by Start / Configure Input / then hit any button on N64 game pad. You can also reset all of your controllers (I don't recommend this quite yet in your case. I haven't used the N64 controller yet in retropie so not sure what the hot key is for it. I'm guessing SELECT, right? Also can you bring up the Retroarch menu when you hit your hot-key and X, while in a N64 game?

tpo1990

As @showstopper said, you can convert your psx roms into .pbp format. This is the same format used for playing PSX on a PSP console. Not only can you compress the roms files to save space but it also makes it a lot easier to manage. It works even with scraping the games.

You could also use IceTea which is a file converter like psx2pbp but with some other nice features as well.

For me, I use both IceTea and psx2pbp for converting and making sure that all the PSX serials match such as SLUS012345. Just take note that if the serials of the PSX roms does not match with each game, the roms will not be scraped correctly and that will give you mixed scrapings.

atomicgarden

@nightbirdmedia said in Help ! Can’t add anymore psx roms:

If you want to play mostly PSX games on the pi I recommend a larger SD card.

And I think your retropie configuration menu is different because of something you did. Lol. Don't worry you did it like most of us when we were first playing around in the settings. Go to your main emulation station screen and hit START. Choose IU SETTINGS (User Interface Settings). Scroll down to GAMELIST VIEW STYLE and put it on Automatic.

*Also in the UI Settings you might want to turn off the Quick Select setting. That setting allows you to toggle between each game system while you have an emulator open. But it is annoying if you are scrolling through your N64 games and accidentally hit left and right and it takes you to the Sega Genesis game list. Lol. I keep Carousel settings off too.

As for the Hotkey issue, that is strange. If you didn't mess with the Retro Pie Setup script or update the Retropie, or obviously change your Controller Input settings that hot key should always be there. You can choose to input your N64 controller again by Start / Configure Input / then hit any button on N64 game pad. You can also reset all of your controllers (I don't recommend this quite yet in your case. I haven't used the N64 controller yet in retropie so not sure what the hot key is for it. I'm guessing SELECT, right? Also can you bring up the Retroarch menu when you hit your hot-key and X, while in a N64 game?

Thanks for the tips nightbirdmedia

As for the configuration menu thing, that didn’t solve it. It was already set on automatic. My issue is that the menu doesn’t have the icons anymore and all the options are in just one word (audiosetting, configedit, showip etc). I’ve looked into it. Might have to do with a gamelist file being lost or something ? Apparently this can happen when you fill up the sd card space like I did. I just don’t understand where and how to fix this. Any ideas ? Thanks !

mitu

@atomicgarden If you've freed up some space, try re-installing the retropiemenu package - open RetroPie-Setup, go to the Manage Packages, open the 'main' packages section and re-install the retropiemenu entry.

atomicgarden

@mitu

Ok I will try this. But I don’t understand. Where is retropie-setup ? How do I access this ? Total noob here.

mitu

This is how you can access the RetroPie-Setup : https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/. It should be an entry in the RetroPie system, where you're missing the icons.

atomicgarden

@mitu

Ok, almost there lol ! I got into the setup. Opened « manage packages », then opened « main packages ». But I don’t see anything in the list about retropiemenu.

I see install/update all main packages from source. Install/update all main packages from binary, remove all main packages, and then there is the list of all the emulators.

mitu

@atomicgarden said in Help ! Can’t add anymore psx roms:

Opened « manage packages », then opened « main packages »

Sorry, I meant 'core' section. Should be one step up.

atomicgarden

@mitu

Got it ! So I get 3 options. Update from binary, remove and help. I tried update but it didn’t change nothing. Am I suppose to remove it first ? I’m just scared that I could damage something...

mitu

@atomicgarden Update is enough. Now I realise though that the icons are part of the theme. What theme are you using - is it the default or you installed something else ?
You can also re-install the currently used theme - from the es-themes entry in the RetroPie system.

atomicgarden

@mitu

I didn’t installed or changed anything. This happened after I filled up the sd card space while I was transferring too many psx games.

If that helps, when I did update retropiemenu, I did see something flashing quickly. Something about gamelists.xml document is empty.

mitu

Can you get the EmulationStation log file from \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\es_log.txt and post it on pastebin.com ? It may have an indication for the error.
For the record, the RetroPie system in EmulationStation should have a gamelist.xml created for it, in \\retropie\configs\all\emulationstation\gamelists\retropie\ - if that file is empty or incomplete, then it might be a problem.

Do you have enough free space now ?