Bin/cue vs every other file type

[Dookie64]

Hello, I'm a brand new user of launchbox premium.

I'm having an issue where I can only launch PS1 games through retroarch if they are bin/cue. I've tried converting my files to bin/cue and iso with no luck, the games will launch but crash on the PS1 boot screen. The majority of my games are img/sub files. The games launch just fine with retroarch alone.

[neil9000]

9 hours ago, Dookie64 said:

Hello, I'm a brand new user of launchbox premium.

I'm having an issue where I can only launch PS1 games through retroarch if they are bin/cue. I've tried converting my files to bin/cue and iso with no luck, the games will launch but crash on the PS1 boot screen. The majority of my games are img/sub files. The games launch just fine with retroarch alone.

Are you importing the correct file into Launchbox? Or are you just throwing all the file types at it and seeing what sticks? Could be that the core only supports images or sub, not both. If you just added folders to Launchbox with both file types in them then some games may have the image as the default file, while others may have the sub. I would recommend checking which file types the core supports and only importing that file type. The same applies with Bin/Cue, the games have those two files but the core only wants the cue, so you only import the Cue files to Launchbox.

[Dookie64]

When I launch the games with retroarch on its own, they all work fine. I am however using the see what sticks approach when I import my PS1 folder. When I try to import one game at a time, it only seems to let me import the IMG file. Please excuse my ignorance with all this, pretty sure my IQ is in the double digits.

[neil9000]

The easiest way to import games that have multiple files is the drag and drop method. First find out which file the emulator actually wants, then go to your PS1 folder and search it with for example *.img if thats the file type you want. Click one of the results, then use CTRL-A to highlight all the results and simply drag and drop to launchbox to start the import wizard.

[neil9000]

Which core are you trying to use?

 

[neil9000]

Duckstation.

supported_extensions = "exe|psexe|cue|bin|img|iso|chd|pbp|ecm|mds|psf|m3u"

Mednafen.

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

So, mednafen doesnt support your roms at all, duckstation does, but only the .img, so those are what you want to import, and use the duckstation core.

If you want to use the other core you need new roms.

[Dookie64]

I'm using swanstation. Should I try to find new roms or keep trying to convert my existing ones? 

[neil9000]

Go into your Retroarch/info folder, there are a bunch of files there, find the one for the core you want to use and open it, right near the top it will tell you what it supports, this is also available in the retroarch UI (which is why the files are there). I would recommend Duckstation though, swanstation is sorta duckstation, they were forked as the duckstation dev didnt want it in retroarch and being maintained by the retroarch people. They then decided to support the core themselves, so now there is swanstation and duckstation, duckstation is the "official" core so to speak.

[neil9000]

[neil9000]

18 minutes ago, Dookie64 said:

I'm using swanstation. Should I try to find new roms or keep trying to convert my existing ones? 

Your current roms should work with swanstation/duckstation, as long as Launchbox is passing the correct file to retroarch, and that file should be the .img. Launchbox itself is completely file agnostic, it doesnt care what file types you have, and if they work with the emulator you are trying to use, it just imports what you tell it to. That can cause issues when you just throw "folder style roms" at it, there is no rhyme or reason as to what file imports in that case.

[Dookie64]

Thank you very much for all the info, you have been a huge help!