Problem with GTA:Vice City Stories on PsP.

rkhale01

I'm having the exact same issue as well as problems with other games, from what i've read on other forums/comments is that the most recent updates might have messed with PSP emulation, but i just now started trying to get all this working and ran into this so i have no idea whether it was working previously

George Spiggott

@rkhale01 lr-PPSSPP has had problems for me for a while, previous to this it was freezing the graphics. @windg did you manage to find an older version that worked?

windg

@george-spiggott

I try the core from the Lakka, where the game dont have this problem, but the game doesn't start.

rkhale01

@george-spiggott From what I had read,something about PPSSPP emulation got messed up for burnout legends that caused the game to not function well in either LR OR PPSSPP that had worked previously. Do you know if this game worked previous to the last update? I myself am curious if others are getting better results now or in the previous update.

Libation

@windg Same issue here. Works fine on my older image using PPSSPP. As soon as I updated, both GTA VCS and GTA LCS have the same problem, just like what you posted. I've tried updating everything, building from source...no luck. EDIT other PSP games work fine, it's just these two games.

Reichling

Same problem here on my Pi4 . There is the really old version of PPSSPP 1.5.4 listed as available on Retropie but it only works on Pi3. I setup my old Pi3 with Retropie and installed PPSSPP 1.5.4 on it. GTA:Vice City Stories works on my Pi3 with 1.5.4 but performance is horrible.

Reichling

@windg this fixed the problem for me. I installed PPSSPP v1.10.2 and now GTA: Vice City Stories is working again:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/27421/is-there-any-way-to-get-older-emulator-core-binaries/7

windg

@reichling

It doesn't work for me, the compilation end with this error:

Error running 'git -C
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/ppsspp/ppsspp checkout
-f 110020000 -b 110020000' returned 128

Libation

@windg Exact same error I get when trying this fix as well.

windg

I report the issue in the github
https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/14611

death

@reichling I’ve tried everything to install an older version. Is there anyway you could send me your ppsspp.sh file? Thanks for the help!

windg

i follow @mitu instructions, on this topic, to downgrade the standalone ppsspp and now the game is working again!

death

@windg this solution doesn't work for me

windg

@death I upload the ppsspp script with the change https://easyupload.io/3p44u7 .

navi87

@windg

Much appreciated, I noticed this issue about a month ago and I wasnt able to figure how to downgrade, Vice City is working great now.
Would I need to re-apply this ppsspp.sh file if I update the RetroPie scripts when I want to update my emulators??

windg

@navi87
You don't have to re-apply the script.

George Spiggott

Is there a particular place you have to copy the script file to in order to run it?

windg

@george-spiggott

Yes you have to put the script here :

/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/emulators

lostless

Anyone figure out how to downgrade the libretro version?

windg

@lostless
It's the same procedure with the standalone emulator but you have to modify the lr-ppsspp.sh and downgrade to v1.9.3 . I try the v1.10.2 that i use in the standalone ppsspp put it didnt work for the libretro version.

The path forlr-ppsspp.sh is here :

/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores

you have to modify the line

rp_module_repo="git https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp.git master"

to be

rp_module_repo="git https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp.git v1.9.3"

or you can download the file with the change here
ir-ppsspp