Unable to emulate Playstation titles

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

I’ve found that Retroarch works perfectly for my NES, SNES, N64, GB, GBC, GBA, and Sege Genesis titles, but I can’t get Playstation games to work properly. Firstly, they don’t get added to my library when I run a scan (though I hear that’s because there’s no complete database for Playstion games yet. Is this correct?). But more importantly, when I run them with “Load Content” I get the following error:

What little I’ve been able to find on this topic indicates that I need a Playstation BIOS to continue. So I went to a BIOS download page I found online:

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Which one of these files do I download? Where do I put the unzipped file(s) after I download the archive?

#2

They go in the “System” folder. Or you can put them wherever and just tell RA where they’re located in the Directories settings.

#3

Please don’t link to ROM sites.

Just get the whole pack and put them in your system/bios folder (if it’s not set, you can choose a directory in settings > directories). Then, load the core (but not any content yet) and go down to information > core information and see if it’s finding your BIOS images properly. If not, you may have to rename some of them to match the proper naming scheme.

#4

[QUOTE=hunterk;35102]Please don’t link to ROM sites.

Just get the whole pack and put them in your system/bios folder (if it’s not set, you can choose a directory in settings > directories). Then, load the core (but not any content yet) and go down to information > core information and see if it’s finding your BIOS images properly. If not, you may have to rename some of them to match the proper naming scheme.[/QUOTE]

I’m sorry. I’ve removed the links.

If I do have to rename any of the files, where do I find information on this “proper naming scheme”?

#5

The core info has a list of all of the ones it’s looking for, along with their proper names.

#6

I wasn’t able to find the file SCPH5501.BIN, but after reading around I found someone who said that the file SCPH-7003.BIN is the same as SCPH5501.BIN. So I renamed the former to the latter, and checked the md5sum against the one listed in Retroarch, and they are indeed identical. My game is emulating perfectly!

Many thanks!

#7

Glad you got it going :slight_smile: