Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???

hawkes_84

Hi, I always seem to have issues putting PS roms onto my Retropie (Raspberry Pi3) . All the ROM sites I visit the PS ROMs will tend to end with .7z which when I transfer them over to my Pi never show up on boot up. Does the PS emulator not recognise this filetype and if so can someone recommend the ROMs site where I can get ones that will show? Any help is appreciated

mitu

.7z is a general archive/compressing format, not all emulators support it. You can see which files are recognized by the emulator by looking at the system's page in the Documentation - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/.

hawkes_84

@mitu yes I've already looked at that thanks. Just wanted to double check it wasn't something silly I was missing. So basically I need to go to a site where the PS roms filetypes are compatible with the emulator on Retropie? do you know of such a site?

Thorr69

@hawkes_84 said in Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???:

@mitu yes I've already looked at that thanks. Just wanted to double check it wasn't something silly I was missing. So basically I need to go to a site where the PS roms filetypes are compatible with the emulator on Retropie? do you know of such a site?

No download sites may be discussed here.

Why not just extract your roms from the 7z file and solve it yourself?

hawkes_84

@Thorr69 apologies. I did extract the files. How do I "solve it"?

Thorr69

@hawkes_84 said in Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???:

@Thorr69 apologies. I did extract the files. How do I "solve it"?

Put the extracted roms onto your pi instead of the 7z...

hawkes_84

@Thorr69 once I've extracted them they remain to be be .7z files. They still end with .7z anyway

Thorr69

@hawkes_84 said in Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???:

@Thorr69 once I've extracted them they remain to be be .7z files. They still end with .7z anyway

No... You haven't extracted them. Inside the 7z should be a bin/cue or an iso.

hawkes_84

@Thorr69 i'll give it another try thanks and see what happens

mitu

@hawkes_84 Make sure you've not accidentally downloaded an exe file pretending to be a .7z.
Can you post a screenshot of the files ? If you open the archive with 7-Zip, what file are inside the archive ?

hawkes_84

@mitu here's an image of all the ps roms I have. I haven't got 7-zip sorry

mitu

@hawkes_84 said in Playstation 1 Rom filetypes???:

I haven't got 7-zip sorry

If you don't have 7Zip, how did you extracted the archive ?

hawkes_84

@mitu I right clicked the file and clicked "extract all"

Is this not the right way?

mitu

@hawkes_84 Ok, then what's the result of the extraction ? The files inside the .7z archive should be extracted either in the same folder or in a sub-folder.

hawkes_84

@mitu the image I pasted is the results of the extractions. I chose to extract them into a separate ps1 folder

mitu

@hawkes_84 The result of the extraction cannot be the archive itself, a .7z file is an archive that needs to be extracted. If the result is in the ps1 folder, the copy the files resulted, from that folder, which should be in the .cue/.bin format, to the RetroPie psx folder.

hawkes_84

@mitu as you can imagine I've already tried this and nothing happened leading me to this forum :)
I appreciate your advice nonetheless

mitu

@hawkes_84 I think you need to download 7Zip and use it to open the .7z files, get the files inside the archive.

hawkes_84

@mitu aye it's worth a try seeing as all the ROM sites only wanna give .7z files
once I've extracted said files to I just put them all in the psx folder on in Retropie?

hawkes_84

@mitu downloaded a .7z file again and it came as this? nothing to extract. Downloaded 7zip and nothing happened when i clicked it. Just kept downloading it again and asking where I want it stored