Is Anyone Actually Able To Import PS1/PS2 Roms | Path Is Empty

[maxedracer]

Hi everyone, 

I am having an incredibly frustrating issue at the moment and can see its an issue that some people have had in the past but doesn't seem widely reported on.

I can import most games to Launchbox without any issues at all but as soon as I try PlayStation 1 or PlayStation 2 games it crashes Launchbox saying that the "Path Is Empty".

I have tried this on both USB and local drive and the same thing happens. the program is not running as admin and I have tried the games from root instead of being stored in any type of folder structure. 

I have tried importing as Retroarch, DuckStation and PSX2 and the same error presents. 

The games run flawlessly in standalone programs and in said programs on Xbox. 

Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

 

 

[maxedracer]

For anyone that wants to know how I just sorted this and can now add PS1 and PS2 games.

Basically I am trying to set up LaunchBox for Xbox Series X. All of my emulators are installed as UWP on the Xbox itself.

This link explains how to install LaunchBox and emulators and most of the info is fine. RetroPass/Docs/SetupDuckStation.md at main · retropassdev/RetroPass · GitHub

However, in the case of DuckStation and XBSX2 It says that the application path to the emulator does not have to point to the real application. This approach seems to be fine for N64 games, Dreamcast games, Genesis etc. But does not work for PlayStation or PlayStation 2 games.

If I don't put the real application path in LaunchBox for DuckStation/XBSX2 PS1 and PS2 games will crash when trying to import them.

Slightly awkward as the real app paths to my emulators are not accessible by Launchbox as they are on my internal Xbox drive. 

What works is that if you download the PC versions of DuckStation and PSX2, go through the set up process with your bios files. Then go into Launchbox, set up your emulators and select the app path to the emulator of the one installed on your PC even if this will be wrong when you are playing on the Xbox. It will then let you import your games and you can go back to the Xbox, launch something like Retro Pass with Launchbox and your PlayStation games will load up the version of DuckStation/XBSX2 that you have internally on the Xbox.

[neil9000]

What is the path and file structure, maybe you can show a image of windows explorer open to a psx game folder?

[neil9000]

2 minutes ago, maxedracer said:

For anyone that wants to know how I just sorted this and can now add PS1 and PS2 games.

Basically I am trying to set up LaunchBox for Xbox Series X. All of my emulators are installed as UWP on the Xbox itself.

This link explains how to install LaunchBox and emulators and most of the info is fine. RetroPass/Docs/SetupDuckStation.md at main · retropassdev/RetroPass · GitHub

However, in the case of DuckStation and XBSX2 It says that the application path to the emulator does not have to point to the real application. This approach seems to be fine for N64 games, Dreamcast games, Genesis etc. But does not work for PlayStation or PlayStation 2 games.

If I don't put the real application path in LaunchBox for DuckStation/XBSX2 PS1 and PS2 games will crash when trying to import them.

Slightly awkward as the real app paths to my emulators are not accessible by Launchbox as they are on my internal Xbox drive. 

What works is that if you download the PC versions of DuckStation and PSX2, go through the set up process with your bios files. Then go into Launchbox, set up your emulators and select the app path to the emulator of the one installed on your PC even if this will be wrong when you are playing on the Xbox. It will then let you import your games and you can go back to the Xbox, launch something like Retro Pass with Launchbox and your PlayStation games will load up the version of DuckStation/XBSX2 that you have internally on the Xbox.

Ah, well Launchpass is completely unofficial, you would need to ask over there in regards to issues setting it up.

[maxedracer]

6 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Ah, well Launchpass is completely unofficial, you would need to ask over there in regards to issues setting it up.

It's a separate issue to anything related to LaunchPass or RetroPass though. It's just a problem I had with Launchbox just running standalone. I am not sure if it's intended that LaunchBox crashes if the app path doesn't point to the actual .exe or if its some quirk with PS1 and PS2 games as not setting an actual path for other emulators still allows you to import games. 

[Xanderz]

Took the time out my day to thank you! I was experiencing the same problem with XBSX2. Haven't tried DuckStation since they did state that it wasn't compatible from the start. I mainly have PS2 ROMs backed up & my LaunchPass kept crashing with the same error- "path empty, system argument exception"

I can confirm:

download PSX2

> go through the BIOS setup

> edit your XBSX2 emulator settings in LaunchPass & reroute the destination path to your PC's PSX2 application instead of plain "xbsx2"

Try importing ROMs again & it should work. Be sure to select "use the files in the same location"

 

Thank you OP! Hope both instructions are clear enough. Don't know if the same applies to DuckStation 

@XanderzOfficial