Where to put the psx bios (windows 7)? SOLVED

RetroArch Sony consoles
#1

Okay, I tried lots of different suggestions from different websites but I’m having no luck here.

I’ve got all the playstation bios and have changed all capital letters to lowercase letters including the .bin extension.

I’ve tried putting them in the retroarch folder, the roms folder, the system folder, and the cores folder.

I followed the steps here: http://www.libretro.com/index.php/wiki/ … iguration/

I have scph5500.bin, scph5502.bin and scph7003.bin all located in the “system” folder.

I have no other psx bios located in the system folder.

Upon loading the .cue file, the game fails to load and RA quits.

I have “Final Fantasy VII (Disc1).bin” and “Final Fantasy VII (Disc1).cue” in my roms folder. They have the same file name, just the .cue extension is different. I’ve checked the .cue file and it points to FILE “Final Fantasy VII (Disc 1).bin” which is the same exact file name.

I’ve also tried renaming “scph7003.bin” to “scph5501.bin”

I then tried redownloading all the files from a different source. Same thing.

Stumped :frowning:

Where are the bios files supposed to go? I’m running the Windows 7 64 bit version of RA.

Thanks!

#2

Pretty sure it all goes into ‘system.’ This page lists all the different psx bioses: http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingux-emu … s-numbers/

You don’t need all of them, of course, but you should get at least the ones listed here: http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/documentation/psx.html

#3

I have scph7003.bin which I renamed to scph5501.bin, and scph5500.bin and scph5502.bin all located in the system folder.

When I try to load the .cue file, RA immediately crashes. =(

I can’t even see the error because it automatically quits.

Just to be clear, I have the .bin file for Final Fantasy VII disc one and the .cue file in the same folder. I checked the .cue file and the name it points to is identical.

I am able to run the game in the emulator psx, so I know the files are good.

Not sure what to do.

#4

SOLVED! Thought I’d post this in case anyone runs into the same issue.

Using print screen, I was able to capture this image just before RA crashed (took a couple tries).

http://s1309.photobucket.com/user/Patrick_McCleery/media/RAerrormsg_zpscdeae31c.png.html

I noticed this: “FATAL: Did not find PSX BIOS: C:\Users\Patrick\Downloads\emulators\RetroArch-v1.0.0.2-64-bit\BIOS\scph5501.bin.”

So, I created a new folder named “BIOS” within the RA folder and put the bios files in there. Games load fine now, problem solved! Just had to tinker around a bit.

#5

Okay, apparently I did something weird to the config following a suggestion I read on a forum. It isn’t necessary at all to create a BIOS folder, the BIOS files should just be placed directly in the system directory by default. At some point I altered the config so that Retroarch was looking for a “BIOS” folder. After starting from scratch with a new config, putting the bios files in the system folder works fine.

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