Help ! Can’t add anymore psx roms

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 ?

nightbirdmedia

@atomicgarden wow. weird. Can you send us a picture of what you are dealing with?

Also I recommend installing Easy Hax Toolkit if you don't already have it in your retropie menu. I can walk you through the install if you need help. It has a check Disk Space feature that I use to see how much room I have left on my card. I think it will be just as accurate as what Mitu suggested in Exiting Emulation station. I've never exited the emulation station so I don't know. Lol

EDIT. (Just checked and yes both numbers are identical). If you exit the Emulation Station you will need a keyboard to type in Reboot or Shutdown to get out of the Command Line.)

But what I can tell you is be careful when you are in the RPsetup area and installing new things. Avoid trying to hit the back button function (B button) on your controller and manually move over to the selection that says "back" and click on it. You don't know how many times i reinstalled something by accident that I just uninstalled. Haha.

atomicgarden

This is how my menu looks like

atomicgarden

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Can this help ? This is using winSCP to access the files.

This is from /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu

mitu

This is from /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu

That is fine. If you're using WinScp, then find the gamelist.xml file in /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/retropie and see if it's empty.

atomicgarden

@mitu

Ok, I just looked there. There is a only one file there. It is indeed gamelist.xml, but it is a size of 0kb. Now what do I do ?