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    Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.

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    • windgW
      windg
      last edited by windg

      I find a way to reproduce the problem with the lock up on exit and during disk change. I use Disk1 and Disk 4 from Final Fantasy VIII (USA), no save files are required.

      1.) Lock up on exit.

      I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game. It will ask for disk 1, from the retroarch menu i switch to disk 1. When the intro from the game starts to play, i press the combination keys to exit. then. the retropie stop responding.

      retroarch.log

      2.) Lock up during disk swapping

      I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game, It will ask for disk 1, from retroarch menu i switch to disk 4(again), after the wrong disk message It will ask for disk 1, then i switch to disk 1 and the retropie stop responding.

      retroarch.log

      My English isn't at a good level.

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        AssCabbage
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        Pretty much @windg , but I don't need to go into a valid swap situation. Just wait until it's not reading from the disk and change over and back and it crashes.

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @windg
          last edited by mitu

          1.) Lock up on exit.
          I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game. It will ask for disk 1, from the retroarch menu i switch to disk 1. When the intro from the game starts to play, i press the combination keys to exit. then. the retropie stop responding.
          retroarch.log

          That looks like a different issue - at this point RetroArch doesn't even run.

          2.) Lock up during disk swapping
          I start the game from disk 4 and choose new game, It will ask for disk 1, from retroarch menu i switch to disk 4(again), after the wrong disk message It will ask for disk 1, then i switch to disk 1 and the retropie stop responding.

          I see, so you're not using the new disk swapping feature - you're running the disc game from the disc directly. I always use the m3u file to run multi-disc games and now I just swap the disc, without browsing for the new disc.

          I tried also Driver 2, but couldn't get it to lock RetroArch.

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            AssCabbage
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            The lock up on exit, what should happen here? From my log it looks like retroarch closed successfully. Also, since downgrading didn't fix it, it looks like it's not actually retroarch that's the problem. Is there anything else we could try downgrading?

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              AssCabbage @mitu
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              @mitu said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

              I see, so you're not using the new disk swapping feature - you're running the disc from the disc directly. I always use the m3u file to run multi-disc games and now I just swap the disc, without browsing for the new disc.

              This happens for me with all methods. I moved to the m3u as nothing else was working.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator @AssCabbage
                last edited by

                @AssCabbage said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

                Also, since downgrading didn't fix it, it looks like it's not actually retroarch that's the problem. Is there anything else we could try downgrading?

                Well, did you upgrade anything else besides RetroArch ? The other part of the emulator is lr-pcsx-rearmed, which does the actual emulation - but if you started with a clean 4.5.1 image and only upgraded RetroArch, there's no downgrade to do.

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                  AssCabbage @mitu
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                  @mitu

                  To clarify, on the test image, I just installed sixaxis and put Metal Gear Solid on it and showed that it worked.

                  On the actual problem image, I updated everything immediately after installation (as a guide I was following said to do this). This has never worked correctly. I'm doing a kernel update to see if that helps, but when that's done, could we try putting PCSX rearmed back to the version that comes with the default image?

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                    AssCabbage @mitu
                    last edited by

                    @mitu Still the same after the kernal update.

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator @AssCabbage
                      last edited by

                      @AssCabbage Is your new test system working fine with the new RetroArch and the old lr-pcsx-rearmed ? I got the impression that downgrading RetroArch didn't help, after starting from the stock RetroPie image (4.5.1) and downgrading to 1.7.9.2 or 1.7.6.

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                      • windgW
                        windg
                        last edited by

                        i replace the ir-pcsx- rearmed core with the one i download from here and no more lock-ups . Maybe the new version of pscx-rearmed core have some issues.

                        My English isn't at a good level.

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                        • mituM
                          mitu Global Moderator @windg
                          last edited by

                          @windg said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

                          Maybe the new version of pscx-rearmed core have some issues.

                          It might be, but the disc control changes have been added before 1 Feb to the core. How did you pick up that build date ?

                          I tested using the method you've used to change discs and didn't get a crash - I'm using the latest version of the core.

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                          • windgW
                            windg @mitu
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                            @mitu said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

                            @windg said in Retropie completely locking up (requiring hard reboot) when attempting to switch from disk 2 to disk 1 in multidisk games.:

                            Maybe the new version of pscx-rearmed core have some issues.

                            It might be, but the disc control changes have been added before 1 Feb to the core. How did you pick up that build date ?

                            I tested using the method you've used to change discs and didn't get a crash - I'm using the latest version of the core.

                            i don't know, i am updating system from setup script only. I will try a clean install today just in case something went wrong.

                            My English isn't at a good level.

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                            • mituM
                              mitu Global Moderator @windg
                              last edited by mitu

                              @windg Just update from source lr-pcsx-rearmed, no need to re-install from scratch. If you already did that, then there's no need to, it means that a possible bug/regression occured during 1st of Feb and today.

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                              • windgW
                                windg @mitu
                                last edited by

                                @mitu I update from source and retropie start to lock-up again.

                                My English isn't at a good level.

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                                • mituM
                                  mitu Global Moderator
                                  last edited by mitu

                                  @windg Try this on the latest version - before switching disks, go into the Core Options and set CD Access Method (Restart) to async. Exit Retroarch and re-start the game, try to see if disk switching still crashes/freezes RetroArch.

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                                  • windgW
                                    windg @mitu
                                    last edited by

                                    @mitu Thank you very much! Your suggestion fix the problems with the lock-ups during exit and during disk swapping.

                                    My English isn't at a good level.

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                                    • mituM
                                      mitu Global Moderator @windg
                                      last edited by

                                      @windg Thanks for the confirmation. I may have a fix for this issue.

                                      @AssCabbage can you also try changing the option for the core and see if it fixes your issue ?

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                                        AssCabbage @mitu
                                        last edited by AssCabbage

                                        @mitu I got all excited waking up to this this morning. Unfortunately when I changed to async, the game won't even boot now. It's stuck at the screen with "press a button to configure".
                                        I can't switch on verbose logging as I got stuck at this screen, but the runcommand log doesn't show any errors:

                                        Parameters:
                                        Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-pcsx-rearmed/pcsx_rearmed_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid.m3u" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

                                        EDIT: Managed to get verbose logging working

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                                        • mituM
                                          mitu Global Moderator
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                                          @AssCabbage Rename the .cdX files back to .cue and modify the .m3u to load the .cue files, then try again. If that doesn't work, try loading the .cue file directly and then add the 2nd/3rd disc manually.

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                                            AssCabbage @mitu
                                            last edited by AssCabbage

                                            @mitu This crashed with "unable to set disc in try". I deleted the ldci (?) file and tried again and now it's hanging at "setting disk in tray: 1/2 - metal gear solid disc1"

                                            Just seen the manual suggestion. Trying that now.

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