Psp emulator icon not appearing on Retropie

Peldiego7111

Hi i have downloaded the psp emulator ppsspp from the optional packages section in retropie, I have placed psp roms in the newly created folder on my USB drive. I have restarted Retropie but no psp icon is showing where all my other emulator icons and games are , is there any thing I can do? I'm using the raspberry pi 400, sorry I'm quite new to the excellant Retropie and trying to branch out a bit. I read something about.... deleting the es_systems.cfg located in /opt/retropie/configs/allemulationstation/ file fix ( I copied that down) . I don't understand how to do this, can someone explain in more basic terms please. Sorry again.

Vodkanakas

Did you by chance build if from source the first time or did you use binary cause that happened to me too. Removing it and installing the binary fixed my issue.

Peldiego7111

@vodkanakas hi yes I did install from source , I will try installing from binary later and let you know how it goes., thank you.

Peldiego7111

@vodkanakas hi sorry for late reply had problems connecting to WiFi, I deleted psp emulator installed from source an installed the psp ppsspp emulator from binary but there was still no psp image icon when I restarted retropie, anything else I can try? I installed the ppsspp emulator rather than the lr-ppsspp one, is that the one you used?

mitu

@peldiego7111 Did you copy any games/ROMs in the ppsspp folder ? If you don't have any games copied, the system doesn't show.
Did you install from the image at https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first ?

diablo

@peldiego7111 If you have ppsspp and lr-ppsspp installed and roms in the appropriate folder, is psp minis title showing in the es systems config? I had similar issues after removing both lr ppsspp and ppsspp due to a foul up that I was trying to correct, when I put them both back, no psp minis on the menu.

adding this to the es systems config fixed it

<system>
<name>pspminis</name>
<fullname>PlayStation Portable Minis</fullname>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pspminis</path>
<extension>.iso .pbp .cso .ISO .PBP .CSO</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS psp %ROM% </command>
<platform>psp</platform>
<theme>pspminis</theme>
</system>

as to which to use? lr is a bit pants with some of the more demanding games but seems happy with the minis. So I mainly use lr for minis and some of the easier stuff, and the non lr for more demanding games. lr is easier to configure for the most part.

Peldiego7111

@mitu hi yes I have game roms in the newly created psp folder in a USB drive in my Rasberry Pi 400 . Still no emulator icon for psp appearing on Retropie. I copied the image from above link given to me by raspberry pi hut team on to a micro sd card, (I'm on the Rasberry Pi 400) other emulator icons and even installed ones like c64 are on my retropie. I tried from installing form source and now have psp emulator installed from binary. I have not tried the lr-ppsspp one. Anything else I can try?

mitu

@peldiego7111 said in Psp emulator icon not appearing on Retropie:

hi yes I have game roms in the newly created psp folder in a USB drive in my Rasberry Pi 400

What files did you copy ? Show a listing of the files from the psp ROM folder.

Peldiego7111

@mitu hi i only put 2 roms in to start with to check to see if it worked, in psp folder on usb drive in my Rasberry Pi 400 are : roms
Activision hits remixesd (USA) (v1. 01). zip
Hot Shots Golf - Open Tee 2 (USA) (Fw3. 96).zip
Is that what you mean?

mitu

@peldiego7111 said in Psp emulator icon not appearing on Retropie:

Is that what you mean?

Yes. .zip is not a recognised extension for psp, so the files are ignored. Look in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/PSP/ to see the supported extensions - if the files in your ROM folder do not have one of those extensions, then the system will be empty. That applies to all systems/emulators/platforms, so make sure you check the files you copy against the documentation page for that emulator/system.

Peldiego7111

@mitu thank you, so I take it I have to look for cso, iso and pbp files only, not zipped ones. Will have a look for some now. Can you tell before you download if it's a zip file? Sorry I'm a complete novice at this.

mitu

@peldiego7111 said in Psp emulator icon not appearing on Retropie:

Can you tell before you download if it's a zip file?

It's just like downloading anything else - If the link has the file name, just look at the extension, otherwise look at the file that's being downloaded and see how it's saved.

Peldiego7111

@mitu thank you, all the psp roms I can find seem zipped so far. Or it doesn't say. Sorry I'm useless at this. Will there be unzipped ones on Web to download? or will I need to unzip then ( that sounds difficult) I only have the Rasberry Pi 400).

mitu

Zip files can be unpacked. They're probably compressed to save space and bandwidth.

Vodkanakas

@peldiego7111 i used the lr-ppsspp but since your issue was the files were .zip that makes sense too. glad you got it figured out.