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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I bought one of those handheld emulators, it can play up to PS1 games and I can’t figure out how to get Metal Gear Solid and Rayman on it (these are the only PS1 games I’ve tried to load onto it, the thing comes with some games but they’re mostly shovelware). For Metal Gear Solid, the Emulation Info Megathread’s link to game roms has it in two separate discs (apparently how it came originally, where you were supposed to load disc two when prompted and without turning off the console, obviously complicated when emulating), and when I unzipped Disc 1 it had a cue file that I assume would load in the second game, but how would you put this into one file again along with the second disc? I’m wondering if I can bypass this by simply playing Disc 1 up to its end then loading Disc 2 separately, unless there is some continuity in gameplay (collectibles, story/gameplay deviations, health carrying over, etc.) that requires this, which it seems like there would be considering how it was done originally on the PS1. Is there a hacked version where the two discs are already put together into one rom, or is there some bottleneck on PS1 emulation like how the increased size of the Shrek & Shark Tale GBA Video cartridge makes it impossible to emulate as a GBA game under the current model?

And for Rayman, when I unzipped the rom file (also found in the EIM) it had all these different files for music and everything instead of the single file I could put right into my folder like for the GBA, SNES, or Genesis. What am I supposed to do with this? Sorry if these are silly questions, I haven’t emulated games before.

Legal Note: I possess both of these games physically and am therefore not straw-hat-pirates , as I respect intellectual property and simply want to experience these games in a new way.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I respect intellectual property

nerd

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

FEDS, GET EM

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What’s the emulator device and did you alter its firmware/software from the state it shipped in? I can probably figure this out with that information.

Edit: this might work

The best way I have found is to create an "m3u" playlist file listing all of the disks in order. PlayStation emulators will read this as a single ROM and you can cycle disks in RetroArch. If you want emulation station to only see the playlist file, make a new directory next to your regular ROM directory called something like "psx-disks" and move all of the disks in there. Then populate the playlist file (in the regular psx directory) with "../psx-disks/FF VII (Disk 1).cue ../psx-disks/FF VII (Disk 2).cue", etc.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Making an m3u is what I did for my old RG351P. I just make a txt file with a one disc filename per line, then rename the filt to have a m3u extension.

I used AmberElec for my firmware, and I remember having to apply a filter to just show the m3u files.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's the Ambernic RG35XX and the stock OS has been replaced with MinUI.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

maybe check out the other reply to the above, it sounds it’s like that’s confirmed as a solution. In the meantime I’ll be googling stuff to see if there’s other options

Edit: a lot of people are saying using Garlic makes it work

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Is there a hacked version where the two discs are already put together into one rom

Yeah, if you have the disc files (BIN/CUE or CHD) already then use this guide:
https://teddit.zaggy.nl/r/miniSNESmods/comments/7nx6z3/guide_how_to_convert_psx_multiple_discs_game_in/

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

What program are you using to emulate?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The system uses an OS called MinUI, which is apparently a "libretro frontend."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Cool, thanks! And what Playstation emulator? Duckstation? Retroarch? Something else?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry I don't know. I thought libretro would be the emulator. Does this help?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm out of my depth here, so hopesomeone can help out!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Most modern emulators will have an option in the emulator menu to load up the next disc concurrently but the naming conventions between emulators is not consistent. I'd make sure to save prior to the prompt that tells you to change disc (in-game save as well as a save state preferably) and just fumble around until you hit the right option.

What was the Rayman file type that you unzipped?

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