PSX wont work on retropi

Meatydeal

so im just trying to load crash bandicoot on retropie and whenever i attempt to boot it im kicked to the home screen i have updated everything several times and i cant quite figure out how to check my logs i install the bios in the bios folder its labaled as SCPH1001.BIN idk exactly what else to try

sleve_mcdichael

Did you unzip the roms? You have to unzip PlayStation roms.

Meatydeal

@sleve_mcdichael yes the rom is unzipped

sleve_mcdichael

@Meatydeal please add some more info about your system as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

cant quite figure out how to check my logs

One easy way is to use SSH, print the log to console with the cat (catalogue) command, then copy/paste that from your SSH client into a paste on pastebin.com and share that link here. Win10 has a built-in SSH client (just type ssh pi@retropie.local at the search bar or command prompt), or you can use an app like Termius on your tablet or smartphone. The password, if you haven't changed it, is raspberry. Each first time you connect to a particular device, from a particular device, it will present to you a security certificate, go ahead and accept this so you can continue. Once you're in, cat the log with:

cat /dev/shm/runcommand.log

/dev/shm is a temp location that only exists in memory and doesn't persist across boot sessions, so you have to do this before shutting down or rebooting the system.

Don't forget to launch with verbose logging enabled from the runcommand launch menu (when it says "press any button to configure...") before grabbing the log or it won't be much help.

Meatydeal

@sleve_mcdichael sorry for the late reply i could not ssh to it (probably network stuff i dont feel like doing) but i do have the logs im typing it all out as is on my pi

/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/Ir-pcsx-rearmed/pcsx_rearmed_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/psx/retroarch.cfg "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/SLPS01556/EBOOT.PBP" --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg' I'"/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx/SLPS01556/EBOOT.PBP.cfg"

hope this is the log im looking for

as for my versions
im on version 4.8.1 of retropie

Meatydeal

@Meatydeal said in PSX wont work on retropi:

SLPS01556

also SLPS01556 is a file that i put the rom in iv converted it to a bin a cue and a pbp file but to no avail

sleve_mcdichael

@Meatydeal I forgot you need to enable SSH on the Pi before you can connect to it, you can do that from the RetroPie menu in EmulationStation.

You need to launch the game with Verbose Logging Enabled. It will be too long to type out by hand.

I've never used PBP files, only BIN/CUE sets and CHD format. Try launching the CUE/BIN with Verbose Logging and post what you get.

Meatydeal

@sleve_mcdichael I have absolutely no idea why it works but all i did was put both the CUE and BIN file in the same folder in roms and it just magically works thanks for your help

G30FF

@Meatydeal Your .PBP file might be corrupted or created incorrectly if you made it yourself. You're better off running PSX games as BIN/CUE or as CHD files, as @sleve_mcdichael mentioned.

sleve_mcdichael

@Meatydeal said in PSX wont work on retropi:

@sleve_mcdichael I have absolutely no idea why it works but all i did was put both the CUE and BIN file in the same folder in roms and it just magically works

That's how bin/cue sets work, you need both (sometimes more) files. There's one or more "bin" files with the binary data, and then a single "cue" file that's like a table-of-contents. This "cue" file is the one that gets selected from the menu but it won't do any good without the accompanying binary/ies.

Meatydeal

@G30FF that actaully may have been what happened cuz originally i put in just the bin file and then later learned python also uses bin files so it wouldnt even show so i made it into a cue i may have made the cue file incorectly cuz i grabbed a different cue file from elsewhere

Meatydeal

@sleve_mcdichael aaaaah that makes alot more sense now ty for the help am i also to assume chd files are a combo of both?

G30FF

@Meatydeal When creating a PBP file, I know you just provide the BIN file, not a CUE. But it's been a while since I've tried to create my own, and once I discovered CHD files, I no longer needed to.

CHD files are MAME Compressed Hunks of Data files. It's a compression format for disk images that are not only smaller than PBP files, but they're lossless, so they result in better quality files than PBP conversions. When you create a CHD you do it using the CUE file, and it will embed that, and the associated BIN files, into the final CHD file.