[SEGA Saturn stuck on system settings menu in Mednafen]

Just now, Dane said:

Done, no errors reported.

are you using beetle saturn retroarch core?

[SEGA Saturn stuck on system settings menu in Mednafen]

Just now, Dane said:

All my Saturn games are .cue, will that make a difference? They have the corresponding .bin file with each .cue.

In that case, select the bin file to fix with cdmage. The cue file shouldn't have any problems.

[SEGA Saturn stuck on system settings menu in Mednafen]

Try using cdmage to fix your game isos and see if that works. Shining Force 3 was giving me same grief but I used cdmage to fix it and it ran perfectly afterwards.

[Why Launchbox/BB vs HS/other frontends?]

My reasons are:

1 - Launchbox is the only frontend AFAIK that has a desktop mode (launchbox) AND a couch mode (Bigbox). Other frontends have 1 or the other but not both.

2 - mgalaxy is too simple and not very customizable for my taste. I do love how a female voice says "launching game" when you select a game though. X-D

3 - EmulationStation, Ice and Hyperspin require editing of text files to setup which is a pain in the ass for me, even with documentation. Yes hyperspin does have GUI programs to help make setup easier but still not as easy as launchbox.

4 - Couldn't get rocketlauncher and retrofe working. Maybe I was doing something wrong, IDK.

5 - GameEX crashes on some settings and takes forever to load different themes.

6 - Thanks to Bigbox custom themes, I can download and use themes to make bigbox look like emulationstation, recalbox and even hyperspin.

and many more...

 

[What controller are you all using for your MAME?]

19 minutes ago, ErickRPG said:

Thanks guys.  I might go xbox one controller.  I'm just looking for one really good controller for everything.

Either get genuine Xbox One Controller For Windows or genuine DualShock 4 Controller and install DS4Windows to use dualshock 4 on windows.

[What controller are you all using for your MAME?]

I never use wireless. Last thing I need is to run out of battery power while fighting a boss or in a competitive match and batteries aren't cheap these days either. I use the PDP Xbox One wired controller on Windows 10. Problem with this controller though is that it's very difficult, if not impossible, to get it to run on windows 7. This controller forced me to upgrade to windows 10 in order to use it but windows 10 isn't so bad once you get used to it.

[Whole load of gamesdbase errors]

i'm having same problem but im now trying out emumovies sync and its downloading fine.

[50$ for what exactly?]

DancinShade I highly recommend you get the yearly license just to give bigbox a test drive and decide for yourself if you love it enough to upgrade to lifetime license or hate it enough to use something else. I've tried most of the frontends available and for me personally, LB/BB is the best and easiest I've used. I 1st bought the yearly license to test it out and after a month I was hooked and decided to upgrade to lifetime license and never looked back nor regretted it since. Also if you decide to purchase an emumovies license, you only need the monthly license ($20 for 1st month, $5 per month thereafter) to download whatever videos you need/want. One of the many awesome things about BB is the custom themes where if you like the looks of the emulationstation or hyperspin frontends but don't like how complicated and/or time consuming they are to setup, there's BB custom themes that you can download that make BB look exactly (or VERY similar) like them so you get best of both worlds.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

1 minute ago, ManGrissle said:

Thanks for everyones help...I feel super dumb....user error was the culprit....when I would scan was using LB....the scan would some times pick a bin file track 1 for the cue file....it does work now....all I have to do now is right click on the game thats not working and change the location of the rom to the correct cue file for each game....but now that I learned you can convert the games to a smaller single file....I just might do that....thanks again....what a great forum

No problem.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

Anyways...I just downloaded 2Xtreme and extracted and tested and its working fine. The 1st pic is what all your files should be named as and the second pic is what the cue file should say inside it. You can copy and paste this into the cue file to make things quicker:

 

FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 1).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 2).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:02:00
FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 3).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 4).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 5).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 6).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 7).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "2Xtreme (USA) (Track 8).bin" BINARY
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
 

When you import the cue file into LB it SHOULD run perfectly now.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

2 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Hmm, maybe that should of been explained upfront? 

Also CHD is probably the recommended format these days anyway, but we are not touching on that in this thread.

I did mention it earlier in the thread but I guess I got a nasty habit of not wording myself properly. My bad.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

Rename the last file to 2Xtreme (USA) (Track 1).bin and open the cue file with wordpad and check to see if all the bin file names are correct in the cue file.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

3 minutes ago, ManGrissle said:

Just got home and thinking again of just converting all games to PBP format cause its much neater......I was going to convert 2Xtream mabye you can point out which file to grab to convert...the first picture is what I have in my 2xtream folder

next what you see is what I can pick in the converter...

Dont bother converting games with multiple track bin files like that. psx2psp can only merge and convert up to 5 bin files at a time and besides that, Track1.bin is the main game itself while the other bin files are just the game's music files. Either download a pre-made pbp of these games or keep them extracted in a folder like that and import the cue file only. Also rename and add (Track 1) to the last file.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

1 minute ago, ManGrissle said:

im going home early to work on this....gong to start from scratch and load the Playstation games frist

Yeah best to delete all PSX entries and re-import only the cue and pbp files again and test each game to see whats starting up and running fine and whats not.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

1 minute ago, neil9000 said:

Bios screen is often needed for games to boot correctly, not all of course but certain games need a full boot, same thing with PS2 games.

Seriously??? Wow I didn't know that one. 8-O I just thought the bios screen was for nostalgia mostly. X-D

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

Just now, ManGrissle said:

mednafen_psx_hw_libretro and in retroarch....

Ok I'm also using that. I usually have the SKIP BIOS core option enabled cause the bios load screen takes up time. I don't see how anyone can mess up the pbp file with psx2psp as you just select the bin file you want to convert and click convert and voila done. Maybe the game you are trying to run isn't quite fully compatible with the psx core OR you have a bad/corrupted dump OR something else. what game are you trying to run and is it NTSC or PAL version?

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

2 minutes ago, ManGrissle said:

ok....I got the game to boot into launchbox....awesome....but I think I may have messed up the file.....the PBP file....the logo for playstation pops up....but stays there

did the game work before you converted to pbp? load the cue file if you still have it and check. what emulator r u using?

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

2 hours ago, Shinryu said:

OK you now just rename that EBOOT.PBP to whatever the game name is. Example is Croc Legend of the Gobbos.PBP. Also go into PSX2PSP and select options, Folders tab and at the bottom select Create Main Game Title Folder so that the folder that gets created is the name of the game and not its game ID like what it is currently. While you're in options go to Theme tab and uncheck Use Theme Mode (Restart Needed) if you haven't done so yet. Now you can use that .PBP file in retroarch, epsxe and pcsx-reloaded.

 

1 hour ago, ManGrissle said:

@Shinryu no freaking way....Ill have to try that asap....kinda busy now but I will do it

I think I worded myself a bit incorrectly and therefore sounded inaccurate. I meant PCSX Reloaded, Retroarch psx cores and ePSXe all support pbp out of the box so once the conversion is done you can load the pbp file with the emulators straight away. The reason behind changing the options is that changing the folder name options makes it easier to see what game the eboot file is so you can rename it and the theme mode needs to be disabled if you want to merge and convert games with multiple discs/bin files into 1 pbp.

[SOme Playstation 1 games will not work in big box]

1 hour ago, ManGrissle said:

I really couldn't find a good tutorial.....found one but the picture aids were missing

I converted the bin file and ended up with a folder called SCUS94508 with a pbp file called EBOOT.......could someone please tell me what to do with this....

this is the page I was looking at

https://gbatemp.net/threads/guide-to-converting-ps1-games-for-psp.206195/

OK you now just rename that EBOOT.PBP to whatever the game name is. Example is Croc Legend of the Gobbos.PBP. Also go into PSX2PSP and select options, Folders tab and at the bottom select Create Main Game Title Folder so that the folder that gets created is the name of the game and not its game ID like what it is currently. While you're in options go to Theme tab and uncheck Use Theme Mode (Restart Needed) if you haven't done so yet. Now you can use that .PBP file in retroarch, epsxe and pcsx-reloaded.

[Recommend a controller?]

yeah they're not cheap thats for sure. 8bitdo controllers should be a little more affordable.

[Smallest computer; big performance]

Have you considered a raspberry pi 3? I know its not powerful enough to run anything beyond ps1 and probably not what you looking for but it's as small as a deck of cards. and its like less than $50.

[Recommend a controller?]

1 minute ago, neil9000 said:

They are quite close, but as you see in the image R/L are raised and R2/L2 are lowered and also have a curve to them so it actually feels really nice. The only downside is L2/R2 are digital buttons not analog triggers, but they work just fine for emulation, if i'm playing a PC racing game I switch to my XBONE controller though.

ah I see. cool stuff. X-D

[Recommend a controller?]

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4 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

My 8bitdo is Bluetooth and has the same amount of buttons as the xbox one/PS4 controller.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mcbazel-Wireless-Bluetooth-Gamepad-Controller/dp/B0787H1KYV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522788561&sr=8-1&keywords=sf30+pro

Oh my apologies. I thought they didn't have them. but aren't the shoulder buttons very close to each other like in an uncomfortable way?

[Looking for a remote/controller for Save/Load States inside Emulator]

Xbox one and dualshock 4 controllers are the best but quite expensive. Best budget controller would be the logitech F310.

[Recommend a controller?]

Personally I'd get either the XBOX ONE S controller or DUALSHOCK 4 Controller as they have bluetooth and have more buttons to assign hotkeys like save/load states, fast forward and rewind but if retro nostalgia is what you want mostly and dont care about hotkeys then 8bitdo controllers are perfect.