help Retroarch Playstation 1 Black Screen

[jaker0820]

     Whenever I launch any game in Launchbox, all Crash Bandicoot games, I get sent immediately to a black screen with no sound. I've followed the tutorials on youtube from the Launchbox channel and another tutorial which was the second video when i searched 'retroarch ps1 blackscreen'. I've followed every step and have the bios in correctly I made cue files from the iso for each game and haven't had any luck. I will be happy to provide screenshots of anything requested and any help would be graciously appreciated since I told myself at 3pm EST " I'll just set up the PS1 emulator and then go shower", thinking it would be as easy  as Dolphin, I still haven't showered. 

Edited July 12, 2017 by jaker0820

[Lordmonkus]

Are you disk images .iso or .bin ? They should be .bin.

My first guess since you are getting a black screen you have your stuff setup correctly in Launchbox and you should be loading the .cue file. My guess is you have bad disk images.

[jaker0820]

My disk images are .iso, and how do i know its loading the .cue files

 

[Lordmonkus]

Did you import the cue files into Launchbox ? I'm not 100% certain that cue + iso files will work with Retroarch, all my stuff is cue + bin.

To check right click a game > edit and check in the launcher tab.

 

[jaker0820]

They're all cuse but the disc images are .iso from which i created the .cue files from.

[Lordmonkus]

I don't want to say this with absolute certainty but I don't believe .iso work with Retroarch.

[DOS76]

doesn't the info file tell you which file extensions work with the core?

[Lordmonkus]

It does and the supported file extensions for the PSX core is:

supported_extensions = "cue|toc|m3u|ccd|exe|pbp"

That doesn't address .bin or .iso but I don't believe the images that are .iso format work, especially considering the OP made his own .cue files.

[angelobodetti]

I'm guessing you don't have the bios set up correctly. First make sure you have the bios files in the system folder within RetroArch. 

Then skip launchbox and try to load a cue file directly from within RetroArch. If it still isn't loading get a bin/cue game and try again.