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That’s so weird this was my first experience with lynx and wonderswan both played great I felt hmmm odd maybe I do video
You're not the first, and you won't be the last to play wonderswan and lynx in 60hz...
As I say there are some who play mortal kombat arcade in 60hz instead of 54hz, and see no problem and are happy, others play wonderswan and lynx at 60hz instead of 75hz and see no problem...
 
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This is the best way for Psx

-Google it for psx bios for psp and rename to SCPH1001.BIN, then put it in folder retroarch/cores/system
-in game press +- option>Region PAL
-settings>video>threaded Video ON
-settings>driver>menu driver rgui

Why did you switch over?(rgui?) Useless, works on ozone, xmb etc...

Don't force pal 50hz in ntsc 60h, they will play in an accelerated way, played in ntsc60 on screen 60hz, with threaded video
And conversely do not force the ntsc games into pal, they will be slower than pal50hz
the pal 50hz games will never play perfectly smooth... On lcd 60hz
But if you don't mind, you can do it
If your games are pal and are recognized as pal, they will be at the right speed
The region detection on auto works well, no need to pal or change at ntsc....

Pcsx rearmed is not good enough yet.
Silent hill is missing something.... Like fx? The fog works badly, big pink purple spot in the shade, like a dithering problem, works perfectly on android pcsx rearmed.
SWITCH. VS. ANDROID
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This is the best way for Psx

-Google it for psx bios for psp and rename to SCPH1001.BIN, then put it in folder retroarch/cores/system
-in game press +- option>Region PAL
-settings>video>threaded Video ON
-settings>driver>menu driver rgui


With your tips Rearmed works now!
It crashed two times, i don't know why, but framerate is stable.

Thank you :)
 

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This is the best way for Psx

-Google it for psx bios for psp and rename to SCPH1001.BIN, then put it in folder retroarch/cores/system
Or use a regular bios. The PSP PSOne bios from my experience maybe optimizes some load times, but doesnt do anything for framerate. You can still use it though It doesnt seem to cause any detriments. Also - you just told people how to set a US bios. What about PAL and NTSC-J? They should forget about those? Ive linked to the PCSXRearmed Wiki at least twice already, which has the correct bios names for every region. Now you have to use google on your own. Don't hurt yourself.
-in game press +- option>Region PAL
Then you told them to set the region to PAL. Which caps the framerate at 50hz. Which potentially slows down every NTSC game for no reason.
If you've experimented with that option and it made some games runable for you that didnt quite reach 60Hz (fps) in auto (> NTSC) I'd be interested in a writeup, but you cant just recommend setting this to PAL without comment.
-settings>video>threaded Video ON
It hasnt been five posts, since this information was shared, and you had to service another "you do me fulltime" service requester with your post. I set the counter to this question being answered in this thread to 37. How much do you want to pleasure people who refuse at all cost to read? I suggest strongly - that we collectively stop doing that - and first slap them verbally, because "heres you ansewer" just encourages them to ask for a service request before reading another time. You really have to stop playing the "we all friendly to each other" frame society wants you to keep most of the time, because here its getting exploited.
-settings>driver>menu driver rgui
Does nothing. At all. Concerning game speed.

Also you forgot audio_threaded (driver, audio), which also improves performance on pcsxrearmed - and to be frank, I'm sick and tired, of answering this question for every honcho, with a "i want playstation" wish, and a "you read for me" attitude. The question was literally answered about 5 postings before the new honcho thought he should exploit this forum again.

Also answering it entirely wrong, doesnt help either. Then someone has to step up to correct it.
 
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I just tested the force PAL thing with Tekken 3 NTSC - setting region to PAL with that game, drops ingame fps from 53 to 45. So whatever you do - dont do this. This is the worst advice ever.

Keep the region setting on auto in the PCSRearmed core. Unless you know you are playing a PAL game, that has been detected as NTSC incorrectly.
 
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This is the best way for Psx

-Google it for psx bios for psp and rename to SCPH1001.BIN, then put it in folder retroarch/cores/system
-in game press +- option>Region PAL
-settings>video>threaded Video ON
-settings>driver>menu driver rgui
Thanks, it work however you don't need to change UI of retroarc, don't need setting region too
 
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Notimp says
This is the worst advice ever.
:rofl2:
I just tested... :rofl2:
Hello everybody
That's why I answered that above your notimp message


Why did you switch over?(rgui?) Useless, works on ozone, xmb etc...

Don't force pal 50hz in ntsc 60h, they will play in an accelerated way, played in ntsc60 on screen 60hz, with threaded video
And conversely do not force the ntsc games into pal, they will be slower than pal50hz

Honestly, it's a lot of fun here, isn't it?
:toot::grog:

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I just tested the force PAL thing with Tekken 3 NTSC - setting region to PAL with that game, drops ingame fps from 53 to 45. So whatever you do - dont do this. This is the worst advice ever.

Keep the region setting on auto in the PCSRearmed core. Unless you know you are playing a PAL game, that has been detected as NTSC incorrectly.

Notimp... Frankly, man, you're the best for me, you express yourself well and you make me laugh, the guy in good faith who tests the advice, And two minutes later
then comes back here testifying that it doesn't work, and even worse...
:rofl2:
That would be worth 10,000 like it!
Dude, you made my day happy.
 
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Then the next guy posts a video of his cat yawning - netting 20.000 likes in 5 minutes. Meaning - as a measure of "gratitude" (what does that even mean? ;) ) likes are worthless.

But I now imagine a much bigger imaginary bucket of gratitude from other folks in my hand. Wonderful. ;)

Thats my entire spiel, btw - in case someone hasnt caught on to it by now. Telling everyone I can, that this whole "quick question - quick answer" thing actually doesnt work in information economies.

For corporations to be able to do it, they had to write decision tree based manuals (decision trees, are what an entire generation of app users grew up on, because everyone designing for them thought that they couldnt handle more complexity), and then find footballfields of callcenters full of people just intelligent enough that they arent going crazy, asking people the "very personal" same yes/no questions all the way down to their goal. Then consumer can be king, but they also pay for that.

Support forums dont self correct either. Thats usually the "job" of the same few cynical voices pointing out when people actually posted wrong, or imagined stuff and didnt care. It happens to me as well - but I make an effort not to do it.

That means they work pretty well - when people are actually close to the same informed state, profiting from each others knowledge in fields they dont know some specific stuff about.

And they are horrible and dont work at all, in states - where the manufacturer of something tells all his customers - we dont know, why dont you ask in support forum? This works for a time, then all the somewhat educated folks flee in horror, then it takes about two years for the rest of the people to notice, then they ask each other "which product to buy next?"

tldr; There is a reason, why schools all over the world havent adopted the "support forum" structure yet. But of course its very popular with customers, because it promises free, presonalized, in depth, ... Then doesnt hire anyone - and promote you figure it out.. ;) Here have a medal, once you reach 10.000 likes.

gbatemp is hard to flee from though, because here the actual release information for all that homebrew stuff is posted. Which prompt the question - why is mixing release information/talk about actual bugs and issues and "service requests" still a thing? Answer: Because its hard to differenciate, and if moderators only censor unfriendly behavior - guess what happens. Also the "everyone welcome" thing makes more people happy.

Hacker cultures in general have been very welcoming of every possible kind of person, but they also were "excellence driven". If you mix that with "participation trophy" and "pc language training" culture, it just breaks. The most important thing every millennial (sorry) learned in school at some point was, that you could copy paste a Wikipedia entry, or outsource your homework to some online forum - if you phrased it right. Then they go on to be adults that complain on twitter, to have corporate customer support pick that up in fear of slander.

If the interaction works or not, is not measured by outcome - but if that person feels attended to. Which is also a large part of why support forums can exist for long periods of time, not giving any valid support whatsoever. People have started to notice this, and are now hedging their bets by crossposting - which messes with the structure of information dissamination even more.

To be frank, about a fourth of the people posting in here dont even know - that "homebrew software project" doesnt mean help me get my CFW to work in here.

Because usually they already buy that as a package with any product they want to own. And they start that process by - correct - asking in a support forum (radio shack has closed, because people got "better" information online - by asking for amazon links). So in case of homebrew product (the product is selfcreated and community maintained), they now ask for people to "make it for them" - personally.

Then people try to "package" stuff for them - so they dont have to learn, and can say - here just copy paste - which makes them very happy - until they cant figure out how it works, or until it breaks - then they have still no idea about anything in particular - and the support forum has to get to get them on track again. :)

Thats my argument for why "asking for information" and "support" (rtfm) are very different things.

But then the "open and inclusive" front comes back in and argues, that everyone should have an opportunity to participate - because thats how our culture "grows" and goes from generation to generation. Issue: We are touching on different paradigms here. People that grew up in decision trees, and swiped their way to a friday date - get more and more removed from what it actually takes to know and fix their stuff.

The industry acknowledges this as well btw, and thinks about new tools to compensate ("visual programming language" ;) ) - but homebrew, for significant parts still follows the "what works" mantra. :) And to be honest, thats different for an iPad user, and someone that only ever runs Windows in a VM, because he or she must. And as a result, you have most people stuck at the "copy paste package" stage, ("whats best", "whats easiest way", ...) and can start to wonder what our culture - propagated to the next generations, actually has become.. ;)

As a parting joke - Cory Doctorow a few years back wrote about a potential scifi future, where young rebels, would hack xboxes to communicate with each other "unfiltered". Today you use discords (commercial product) to talk about best ways to use Nintendos online service without being banned. Making a youtube video about it, to gain followers to become rich. ;)

I mean - it is a culture clash.. ;) (And I'm not even a programmer, I just entered the scene with the OG xbox - (one of the best scenes to enter to date), and not on reddit (commercial plattform), on the SNESmini... ;) )

I know - you had to scroll five times, to get to the next posting. I'm sorry. ;)
 
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Holy shite, keep on-topic. If you have beef with others, keep it to yourselves in DMs or something; we're not here to discuss our beef for everyone else.

Staying on-topic, all your questions are already answered on the bloody wiki if you cared to read it.

This is why we suggest to be well-aquainted with Libretro before using it on Switch. A lot of questions we get are hardly platform-specific, and could be answered via a cursory glance at the documentation.

Can we please get a "Read the README" requirement before posting anything here?
 
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I have plenty of questions for which I couldn't find answers.

Do we need specific bios for PCSX?
I've seen sefault dir for bioses is /retroarch/cores/system . Do I need to create sub-dirs for each core?
Why no PBP load?
Why PCSX doesn't wants to load isos (RA doesn't even suggests core for that)?
Why my Wipeout bin\cue rip with CDDA tracks added to cue file doesn't play music (option menu shows like no CDDA tracks was detected)?
Sometimes RA doesn't want to load even Wipeout "unable to load content"
RA in nro (installed because thought I would get better results at running stuff) doesn't lists PCSX for this Wipeout bin/cue. Whats up with that?
Whats up with mame2003-plus ignoring my wwfmania.zip (seems like only working core with it)? I need to manually load core, then load zip.
Whats up with tons of crashes including crashing my switch 2168-0002

And I even haven't started asking about all kinds of arcade machines.
 

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I have plenty of questions for which I couldn't find answers.

Do we need specific bios for PCSX?
I've seen sefault dir for bioses is /retroarch/cores/system . Do I need to create sub-dirs for each core?
Why no PBP load?
Why PCSX doesn't wants to load isos (RA doesn't even suggests core for that)?
Why my Wipeout bin\cue rip with CDDA tracks added to cue file doesn't play music (option menu shows like no CDDA tracks was detected)?
Sometimes RA doesn't want to load even Wipeout "unable to load content"
RA in nro (installed because thought I would get better results at running stuff) doesn't lists PCSX for this Wipeout bin/cue. Whats up with that?
Whats up with mame2003-plus ignoring my wwfmania.zip (seems like only working core with it)? I need to manually load core, then load zip.
Whats up with tons of crashes including crashing my switch 2168-0002

And I even haven't started asking about all kinds of arcade machines.

1. no, but some people suggested looking for the psx bios used by the psp's popsloader. i basically took that, copied it multiple times and renamed it to scph5501.bin, scph5502.bin and so on. (might have to be capitalized)
2. pbps do load, but only when they were converted from bin/cue. not the official ones from the playstation store.
3. no idea, i think it tries to load isos for me? but I've been using mainly pbp converts.
4. no idea
5. random errors i guess, this is still kind of a glorified beta
6. no idea
7. see 5

I also have a question, do cheats need to be in any specific format? I tried to use these in FF8 (the file is renamed to .cht) but it doesn't seem to work when loading the cheat file.
 

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If you scan the rom directory the retroarch playlist might not recognize them so try open content to select the game
 

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I have plenty of questions for which I couldn't find answers.

Do we need specific bios for PCSX?
Wiki.

I've seen sefault dir for bioses is /retroarch/cores/system . Do I need to create sub-dirs for each core?
Wiki. Also, no.

Why no PBP load?
Wiki.

Why PCSX doesn't wants to load isos (RA doesn't even suggests core for that)?
You do not have it installed, nor have the right formats.
Again, Wiki.

Why my Wipeout bin\cue rip with CDDA tracks added to cue file doesn't play music (option menu shows like no CDDA tracks was detected)?
Platform specific bug. Refer to the GitHub meta page for that.

Sometimes RA doesn't want to load even Wipeout "unable to load content"
Refer to previous point.

RA in nro (installed because thought I would get better results at running stuff) doesn't lists PCSX for this Wipeout bin/cue. Whats up with that?
Again, GOTO 10

Whats up with mame2003-plus ignoring my wwfmania.zip (seems like only working core with it)? I need to manually load core, then load zip.
Wiki.

Whats up with tons of crashes including crashing my switch 2168-0002
Wiki, and GitHub Meta thread.

And I even haven't started asking about all kinds of arcade machines.
Most, if not all of which, could be easily answered in the wiki.
 
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Answering "Wiki" without linking specific article doesn't helps. Bringing "multi-bin" bug doesn't helps either because I just got fresh ReDump multi-bin+cue, converted them to single bin ones using CDmage, converted to pbp using psx2psp, and I end up with no music and hang-ups as I'm trying to get past game menus.
 

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Answering "Wiki" without linking specific article doesn't helps.
That's what the Wiki's for. Is it too much work to click the sidebar and look in the PCSX entry for all the relevant info on supported formats, expected BIOS files, and etc.?

Bringing "multi-bin" bug doesn't helps either because I just got fresh ReDump multi-bin+cue, converted them to single bin ones using CDmage, converted to pbp using psx2psp, and I end up with no music and hang-ups as I'm trying to get past game menus.
You just said:
...because I just got fresh ReDump multi-bin+cue...
There's your answer, and I won't repeat myself.

Read. All the info's out there for you to digest and figure out on your own.
 
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You aren't even trying seems like.

converted them to single bin ones using CDmage

Qutoing wiki

Most conversion tools will want a single .bin file for each disk. If your game uses multiple .bin files (tracks) per disk, you will have to mount the cue sheet to a virtual drive and re-burn the images onto a single track before conversion.

Which is basically same thing I've done.
 
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just a quick one, im trying to get fmsx working on retroarch i have some games working but some have issues..... any advice?
 

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