ManGrissle Posted April 2, 2018 Posted April 2, 2018 I have set up retroarch the way I know how using some of the great videos on youtube......I can start every game I have in retroarch fine.....but after I scan my games into big box...some games will not launch....the window will not open or pop up anything....I dont know if I am missing something or not......I have my games in one folder....Bin and cue files all in one file.... Quote
neil9000 Posted April 2, 2018 Posted April 2, 2018 On 4/2/2018 at 5:19 AM, ManGrissle said: I have set up retroarch the way I know how using some of the great videos on youtube......I can start every game I have in retroarch fine.....but after I scan my games into big box...some games will not launch....the window will not open or pop up anything....I dont know if I am missing something or not......I have my games in one folder....Bin and cue files all in one file.... Expand Did you import the .cue files? as that's all you need. Also have you set the associated platform in manage emulators/Retroarch? Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 2, 2018 Author Posted April 2, 2018 no....I just scanned the whole folder.... bin and cue files with all the extras...Ill try to just scan the cue files.....Ill let you know what happens Quote
Darren100 Posted April 2, 2018 Posted April 2, 2018 On 4/2/2018 at 7:11 PM, ManGrissle said: no....I just scanned the whole folder.... bin and cue files with all the extras...Ill try to just scan the cue files.....Ill let you know what happens Expand Please do let us know how you get on, I'm curious. I haven't started using my PS1 backups yet but knowing my luck, I'll probably run into similar problems lol. Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 3, 2018 Author Posted April 3, 2018 I deleted all my PlayStation games and tried adding rom files individually ....I searched for the cue file type in my folder....i then highlighted all cue files and then hit add....all seem to work well but I was wrong....some of the games still do not work on my launchbox i wonder if it matters that i am using windows 10 Quote
Lordmonkus Posted April 3, 2018 Posted April 3, 2018 If these games work in RA on its own they will work in LB, Windows 10 doesn't matter. Quote
Ultra God Azgorath Posted April 3, 2018 Posted April 3, 2018 Can I make a suggestion? Download PSX2PSP and convert your ps1 bin files to pbp and then scan the pbp files with launchbox. The retroarch beetle PSX core supports pbp format. Make sure to put each game's bin and cue files in their own separate folder 1st before converting to pbp. So basically if you have 10 ps1 games and each game has a bin file and a cue file like they should (20 files in total), create 10 folders and make sure each folder has 1 bin file and 1 cue file, both for the same game. Quote
Retro808 Posted April 3, 2018 Posted April 3, 2018 You say only some do not work. Can you name a few so maybe we can test? Also on the ones that do not work did you right click and edit the game and make sure it imported the .cue file and not the .bin? Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 3, 2018 Author Posted April 3, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 2:26 PM, Shinryu said: Can I make a suggestion? Download PSX2PSP and convert your ps1 bin files to pbp and then scan the pbp files with launchbox. The retroarch beetle PSX core supports pbp format. Make sure to put each game's bin and cue files in their own separate folder 1st before converting to pbp. So basically if you have 10 ps1 games and each game has a bin file and a cue file like they should (20 files in total), create 10 folders and make sure each folder has 1 bin file and 1 cue file, both for the same game. Expand I cant tell how your suppose to do it with that program....It is only letting me do one file at a time.....Ill look for a guide and get back to yall Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 3, 2018 Author Posted April 3, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 5:31 PM, Retro808 said: You say only some do not work. Can you name a few so maybe we can test? Also on the ones that do not work did you right click and edit the game and make sure it imported the .cue file and not the .bin? Expand 2Xtreme and twisted metal 2 are the only ones I know for sure that are not working right off the top of my head Quote
Ultra God Azgorath Posted April 3, 2018 Posted April 3, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 6:04 PM, ManGrissle said: I cant tell how your suppose to do it with that program....It is only letting me do one file at a time.....Ill look for a guide and get back to yall Expand you are supposed to convert only 1 bin file at a time if you want to convert single disc games. If you want to convert multiple disc games (Final Fantasy 7 for example) and merge them into 1 pbp file, switch off theme mode in the options 1st then you can convert and merge up to 5 bin files into 1 pbp file. If you want to convert multiple "TRACK" games (Nightmare Creatures for example), rather download a pre-made pbp file of that game as its a mission to convert and merge those successfully. Quote
Retro808 Posted April 3, 2018 Posted April 3, 2018 On 4/3/2018 at 6:06 PM, ManGrissle said: 2Xtreme and twisted metal 2 are the only ones I know for sure that are not working right off the top of my head Expand Well looks like I cannot be of much help. I have pbp files for those two games and they load fine. So I cannot test bin/cue style files for you. Sorry about that. Quote
Lordmonkus Posted April 3, 2018 Posted April 3, 2018 Again, if they work in RA on its own it should and will work through LB unless there is some oddball problem caused by a jacked up import or something else. Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 4, 2018 Author Posted April 4, 2018 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/ Quote
Ultra God Azgorath Posted April 4, 2018 Posted April 4, 2018 On 4/4/2018 at 2:12 PM, 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/ Expand 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. Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 4, 2018 Author Posted April 4, 2018 (edited) @Shinryu no freaking way....Ill have to try that asap....kinda busy now but I will do it Edited April 4, 2018 by ManGrissle didnt quote Quote
Ultra God Azgorath Posted April 4, 2018 Posted April 4, 2018 (edited) On 4/4/2018 at 3:43 PM, 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. Expand On 4/4/2018 at 5:27 PM, ManGrissle said: @Shinryu no freaking way....Ill have to try that asap....kinda busy now but I will do it Expand 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. Edited April 4, 2018 by Shinryu Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 4, 2018 Author Posted April 4, 2018 (edited) 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 how big is the file suppose to be after conversion....(ballpark idea)...... it was 427mb....now its 23.4mb Edited April 4, 2018 by ManGrissle more information needed in the first place... Quote
Ultra God Azgorath Posted April 4, 2018 Posted April 4, 2018 On 4/4/2018 at 6:30 PM, 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 Expand 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? Quote
ManGrissle Posted April 4, 2018 Author Posted April 4, 2018 mednafen_psx_hw_libretro and in retroarch.... Quote
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