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    No Playstation BIOS Found

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    • J
      jruffridge
      last edited by

      Hi all, quasi-noob here diving deeper into RetroPie! I have a few Playstation games loaded into RetroPie. Some of them launch, others do not, but all of them do give me the error "No Playstation BIOS Found."

      I had found on another forum to update/install optional packages for the emulator and I did so, but am still getting the error. Other forums with links were 2-3 years old and most had been removed. This is a Pi 4 with the latest retropie. If it matters, games that I am finding boot fine:
      -Crash Bandicoot
      -Tomb Raider

      Games that freeze upon launch or just do nothing:
      -Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
      -Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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      • ClydeC
        Clyde
        last edited by

        Welcome to this forum. 👋

        See https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#bios

        While both lr-pcsx_reamrmed and PCSX-ReARMed have an emulated BIOS to fall back on, it has limited compatibility so most games will have issues running with it (or not work at all), and all games that use memory card saves are prone to save corruption. It should be considered mandatory to manually install an official BIOS.

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