Hi
Metal Gear Solid (bin+cue file) gives black screen of death in Retroarch in Win10! I have other 9 games that seem to work fine…only this one so far fails!
Any suggestions for this popular title to work?
The download source was the same of the other games…
Thanks
Don’t use PCSX-ReARMed on non-ARM hardware. Instead, use Beetle-PSX.
Now It says: One or more firmware files are missing…
I have the correct US and EU Bios with the right MD5 and they are listed “Present” in core info. Most of the other games don’t work with Beetle-PSX.
Can you tell me the difference between PCSX ReARMed and Beetle-PSX? I’m launching games with LaunchBox in Win10 64bits. I wouldn’t like to change the launch settings for one or the other games! One setting to launch all PS1 games…
Also, is it better to use the standalone PS1 emulator (through LaunchBox) to avoid these issues?
Thank you for you answer.
The core information just checks the names for whether it’s “present” or not. If it says it’s present but you’re still missing firmware, that means you have at least one that’s named properly but it isn’t actually the correct file (see the md5 checksums for verification).
You can use a standalone emu if you want, but it’s going to need BIOS images, too. Not to mention that, since it won’t be running through RetroArch, you won’t be able to use any of RetroArch’s features with it.
Beetle-PSX is a lot more accurate (and likewise has higher system requirements) than PCSX-ReARMed, and most of the good qualities of PCSX-ReARMed are only usable on ARM hardware. That is, the super-fast and reasonably accurate renderer requires the ARM NEON SIMD extensions; on x86/64, it falls back to a relatively crummy/buggy/incomplete C version. Ditto for the ARM-only CPU dynarec.
I’ve MD5 checked both Bios files and they match the MD5 chesckums displayed in the core info. They are both “present” under /system and RA in point it at them. Don’t know why I get that message…
PCSX-R core need only one bios - scph1001.bin.