13.3 beta-4: RetroAchievements not recognizing hashes of compressed games

[AmericanSlacker]

The new RetroAchievements Field is great! However I'm noticing something weird when it comes to my PS2 games. To save space I compress my games into .gz files. This saves a lot of space depending on the game and the hash is still recognized by RA. However in Launchbox it doesn't recognize these games as having achievement support.

[Merovingio]

It also does not recognize PSX games (bin/cue) compressed in 7z or zip

[C-Beats]

The hasher app can't read many compressed file formats and we'd have to decompress them for you. We do this for 7z but haven't looked into .gz for it.

[wimpy80]

I was having the same issue, but I actually found that .7z files did work (after I extracted the ZIP and re compressed as .7z) - at least this worked fo Playstation games so far. Of course also just unpacking and launching the .cue file also works - but not if you .zip the files.

[C-Beats]

21 minutes ago, wimpy80 said:

I was having the same issue, but I actually found that .7z files did work (after I extracted the ZIP and re compressed as .7z) - at least this worked fo Playstation games so far. Of course also just unpacking and launching the .cue file also works - but not if you .zip the files.

Yeah, we manually unzip 7z files ourselves but don't ZIP files because they are supposed to work in the hasher program, but it appears it isn't doing so correctly for some file formats so we may need to look into changing the process a bit for disc based systems

[drewjbx]

Any progress on PS2 gz format support? I know iso works but hoping I would not need to un-compress a large number of PS2 games.

[Kefka2b]

15 hours ago, drewjbx said:

Any progress on PS2 gz format support? I know iso works but hoping I would not need to un-compress a large number of PS2 games.

Not sure if that is of any help but .chd works for PS2.

[drewjbx]

13 minutes ago, Kefka2b said:

Not sure if that is of any help but .chd works for PS2.

Any recommended tools for an easy batch conversion from GZ to CHD?

[Kefka2b]

18 minutes ago, drewjbx said:

Any recommended tools for an easy batch conversion from GZ to CHD?

Not that I am aware of, I've always used this (not the plugin itself but just a script with CHDMAN from MAME):

This works for pretty much all cd type games, so you can decompress your .gz file and I guess you will then end up with either .iso or .bin/.cue format games, which you can then convert to .chd with this.

[drewjbx]

Ok I will try this out.. in the past I used batch files similar to what this does I assume. Only concern is all of my gz files are named with game id's (SLUS-20091.bin)

When I extract in bulk I have to put them into separate folders. So I would need a script to go into each folder and convert the bin/iso to CHD and rename it to the folder name.

[Kefka2b]

33 minutes ago, drewjbx said:

Ok I will try this out.. in the past I used batch files similar to what this does I assume. Only concern is all of my gz files are named with game id's (SLUS-20091.bin)

When I extract in bulk I have to put them into separate folders. So I would need a script to go into each folder and convert the bin/iso to CHD and rename it to the folder name.

No not required when using a bat file with CHDMAN at least (don't know with the plugin) just put everything in the same folder and it will handle it correctly.

[drewjbx]

I can confirm CHD does work and launchbox sees the retro achievements. I just put chhman.exe in the game folder and ran the command 

for %i in (*.iso) do chdman createcd -i "%i" -o "%~ni.chd

So I unzipped all RA compatible ps2 gz files to iso/bin
The structure below is an example of 3 folders with their respective iso files inside. I hope someone with good scripting knowledge can have chdman go into each folder and compress the iso and rename it to their respective parent folder names. Otherwise I would need to copy chdman.exe into every folder and execute the command manually in each, then rename them. I have about 275 titles I want to convert, I can always ask in the stack overflow coding forums but wanted to check here first. 

 

007 - Agent Under Fire (USA)
	-SLUS-20265 (1.00).iso

Arctic Thunder (USA)
	-SLUS-20217 (0.10).bin

ATV Offroad Fury 4 (USA)
	-SCUS-97479 (1.00).iso

 

[drewjbx]

I did find a solution in case anyone is in the same situation I am in.. you can use windows PowerShell to bulk rename all files to the parent directory name using the command below. Now to convert about 275 games.... this is where I wish I had ryzen threadripper or better, this is gonna tax my pc for days!😒

Get-ChildItem -path G:\_TEST (Your Path) -Depth 1 -Filter "*.iso" | Rename-Item -NewName { $_.Directory.Name + '.iso' }