Kaio0411 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Hello, I try using launch box to start my PSP Game ISOs with launch box, but every time I want to start a game from launch box ppsspp gives me an error saying that the selected file doesnt exist. I tried to change the game directories to the Ppsspp Game folder instead of the root folder but it doesn't work either. I tried to uninstall and install Ppsspp a few times but no success... Can someone help me out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Do your games work if you run them directly in the emulator without using LB? Anytime you have issues with games the best thing to do first is confirm they are working in the emulator. If they are then we know it typically is a LB setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denhope Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Do you use RetroArch with PPSSPP or direct PPSSPP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaio0411 Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Retro808 said: Do your games work if you run them directly in the emulator without using LB? Yes, I tested this out and if I use only ppsspp theyre just working fine I am using standalone ppsspp Edited December 21, 2021 by Kaio0411 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, Kaio0411 said: Yes, I tested this out and if I use only ppsspp theyre just working fine Can you right click a game and edit then post a couple pics. The error you see means LB is looking where the rom is not located. >Pic of the Launching page and a Pic of the Emulation page. Also just to cover bases in Manage Emulators in LB. Edit PPSSPP and post a couple pics from there. >Pic of the Details Page and Pic of the Associated Platforms page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaio0411 Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 (edited) I hope i covered all needed Pics. Thanks for the help so far! Edited December 21, 2021 by Kaio0411 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 @Kaio0411 My bad I did not even notice this was Android. The pic options I mentioned are windows. So I apologize. I have not messed with the Android version much. I will see if one of the other mods can jump in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhenomenJan Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 (edited) Are you using Android 11? I'm getting the same thing. I've read that android has changed the way that file information is shared between applications. Here's what the developer of M64Plus FZ had to say about it: https://digdroid.com/forums/discussion/9140/android-11-scoped-storage-saf-support Edited December 22, 2021 by PhenomenJan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodmango Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Launch box developer will update to solve this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaio0411 Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 Yes I am using Android 11.. I did not know about this kind of problem. Thanks a lot for the information, let's hope the problem will be solved after an update is available Thank you so far guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhenomenJan Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 I'm not sure it's all on LaunchBox. I managed to get it working with Pegasus FrontEnd, because it lets you send the file location as a ContentUri. However, that required a change to ppsspp, because they were expecting differently formatted ContentUris. We'll see if my pull request gets accepted. In case the developer sees this, here is the commit where Pegasus FrontEnd added ContentUri support. I'd try adding it myself, but I think LaunchBox maybe isn't open source? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodmango Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, PhenomenJan said: I'm not sure it's all on LaunchBox. I managed to get it working with Pegasus FrontEnd, because it lets you send the file location as a ContentUri. However, that required a change to ppsspp, because they were expecting differently formatted ContentUris. We'll see if my pull request gets accepted. In case the developer sees this, here is the commit where Pegasus FrontEnd added ContentUri support. I'd try adding it myself, but I think LaunchBox maybe isn't open source? Pegasus added it recently. Because they were searching for a way to solve the scoped storage problem. Here is the page https://github.com/mmatyas/pegasus-frontend/issues/915#issuecomment-993139861 By the way PPSSPP can be opened through front end apps. No need for them to change anything. Edited December 23, 2021 by Goodmango Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faeran Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 I went and tested the same Sony PSP games running through PPSSPP and was able to successfully launch them from LaunchBox for Android using an up-to-date Android 11 Samsung Galaxy S20 device. Sorry that I can't really help you out here @Kaio0411, but just thought I'd mention my findings for anyone curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmuDon Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 I am also on an up to date Android 11 Samsung S20 5G - PPSSPP standalone, and confirm the same problem as the poster "could not load game..." Seems like the Devs have some work to do to adapt to Android 11 as I cant find any "workarounds" for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Hey all, I finally have an update to this stuff. LaunchBox for Android 1.0-beta-2 is out now. Details are here: However, unfortunately updating everything to Google's new security model did not solve the issues with PPSSPP that some users are seeing. I believe this is because PPSSPP still needs to implement the content URIs properly. I'm hoping to reach out to the development team here soon to see if we can tag team a solution. If anyone has any good contact info for them, please let me know. Also, to explain why some people are using PPSSPP just fine on Android 11 while others aren't able to, it's because of Google's terrible design decisions. Permissions are allowed when upgrading from older versions of PPSSPP, but not when installing the latest version fresh. So, for those of you who are unable to launch PPSSPP, you may be able to fix the issue for now by uninstalling PPSSPP, installing an old version of it (somehow), and then upgrading to the latest version. You can thank Google for the unnecessary rigamarole. Finally, if anyone is aware of a frontend that is able to properly launch a completely fresh install of the latest version of PPSSPP on Android 11, please let me know. As far as I am currently aware, it's not possible, but I can't say for certain because Google's documentation is very poor. Also, this stuff could not be more confusing, especially with the upgrade permissions thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lalit Rawat Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I was facing the same problem. So i downgraded my ppsspp version. In older version i am able to run the games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argi73 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 same error on M64Plus FZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 Quick update guys, the latest beta does fix the issues launching games with Dolphin and Mupen64Plus FZ. However, AetherSX2, Citra, PPSSPP, and Redream all have issues launching games on Android 11+, and they need updates/fixes from the emulator developers to make them work. More details are here in this post: Also, I have a new beta coming out here shortly to fix some additional issues, so you might want to wait to update until beta 4 comes out in an hour or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lparcshinoda Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 On 1/18/2022 at 9:51 PM, Jason Carr said: Quick update guys, the latest beta does fix the issues launching games with Dolphin and Mupen64Plus FZ. However, AetherSX2, Citra, PPSSPP, and Redream all have issues launching games on Android 11+, and they need updates/fixes from the emulator developers to make them work. More details are here in this post: Also, I have a new beta coming out here shortly to fix some additional issues, so you might want to wait to update until beta 4 comes out in an hour or two. @Jason Carr The Retroid launcher for the Retroid Pocket 3 can launch games using PPSSPP Gold without any issue - maybe you could investigate on why a free stock launcher has this feature and LaunchBox does not. It's really a shame, since LaunchBox for Android is handling other cases and systems pretty well and better than any other Launcher. Let me know if I can support in any way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carakhapov Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I had the same issue and i fixed it installing a demo in the homebrew and demos tab. i installed flower for psp, played for a couple seconds and then exit to the menu and go to load and find the iso manualy (dont ask me how but it worked for me) sorry for my english Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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