for some reason my psx roms wont show up on retropie

Tl dr: the header is (mostly) irrelevant for platform id of roms and the 'header' for the cds across platforms can mean many different things, where all of them have the same problems of cd images heuristic platform identification being necessary to get anywhere because the extension is not indicative of the platform.įor roms, platforms can be easily be recognized by the extension so parsing is 'not even necessary' most times - i know one case though, a. Eg: the feature may get implemented and the games that are missing still not appear because the bug was elsewhere.Įdit: ¹ actually it sounds slightly better in that versions will have different names on redump and truerip standard namings (but not re-editions i think) so at least no more serial duplicates in those sets (except re-editions, which if you squint, don't count), if they actually happened with serials (i only tested on the genesis, where it does happen). I'm also unsure that this makes it any better than the serial¹, which if it's failing, it's likely to be failing in classifying the cd or extracting the serial because of non-standard dumping formats of the users, which would also apply to the first element of that tuple. So it'll have to be a tuple (scanned cd/rom console type, filename). This is kind of unintuitive, but i'd expect this to happen a bunch on redump for instance. They're not unique not only because of hacks but because dumping groups (from where the name comes from) can have the same name for the same release of the same game on a different console. However, i'm not sure it's that easy to make a 'match' of a rom to a image/data with a filename. To be constructive i suggest using 'Add unknown roms to playlists' for this reason. I misread the previous issue and thought it was about 'disabling CRCs' when i already knew the CRCs weren't used anymore and was pissed about it. Thanks for reading, I really hope to see that option.

RetroArch playlists are painful to use because of those unique CRC32, and it would be wonderful to simplify it in that way !įor now, I'm creating my Playlists with RetroArch Playlists Manager on Windows, to add my SRAM patched GBA roms, as well as all my non-detected translated roms. In order to easily display all roms on playlists, with a label taken from rom filenames, so that roms with a good labels would display thumbnails, and roms with another label (like T-eng 100% etc.) would not display cover (it's not a big deal).

The thing is that it'll replace that line Just add an option in playlist menu that could be named ' Ignore CRC while scanning roms' or ' Add unknown roms to playlists', whatever.

It can be because of a translation patch, an SRAM patch, and so on. Many many, users complains about RetroArch not adding files to their playlists because the CRC doesn't match the original dump.

For some reason my psx roms wont show up on retropie