PCSX games renders just black screen

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PCSX ReARMed game client for XBMC

https://github.com/libretro/pcsx_rearmed

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PCSX games renders just black screen #9

Closed matejmosko closed 6 years ago

matejmosko commented 6 years ago

I have been trying to make playstation games run on libreelec (RPi3) kodi, but with no success. First I was struggling with cue files not recognized untill I finally found out that I needed to prevent this file extension in advancedsettings.xml

<advancedsettings>
  <videoextensions>
    <remove>.bin|.img|.iso|.zip</remove>
  </videoextensions>
  <musicextensions>
    <remove>.cue|.zip</remove>
  </musicextensions>
  <pictureextensions>
    <remove>.zip</remove>
  </pictureextensions>
</advancedsettings>

Now I was able to choose pcsx as emulator. But the only thing I see is black color. I can get to retroplayer menu. Refresh / Restart (I have it translated, so I don't know the exact word) and Exit does the same - freezes Kodi UI. I still can connect to RPi via SSH. But only rebooting gets me back to Libreelec.

Logs are here

garbear commented 6 years ago

matejmosko commented 6 years ago

After cores and game.libretro update on Milhouse #0225 build the controls in PCSX games are still not working. On first run, the game starts with random graphical artifacts (it varies across different games). I have to stop the game and start it again. Every game looks fine on second run.

However, when I get to the game menu, the game doesn't respond to controller. This is the log In log I have tried three different games with same result. The part I consider interesting is this:

21:46:03.547 T:1941737488   ERROR: AddOnLog: Sony - PlayStation (PCSX ReARMed): Buttonmap version required, expected version 2 (min=2)
21:46:03.547 T:1941737488   DEBUG: AddOnLog: Sony - PlayStation (PCSX ReARMed): Loading controller topology "/storage/.kodi/addons/game.libretro.pcsx-rearmed/resources/topology.xml"
21:46:03.548 T:1941737488   ERROR: AddOnLog: Sony - PlayStation (PCSX ReARMed): Failed to load controller topology: Error reading end tag. (line 55)

garbear commented 6 years ago

Yes. Thank you for posting a debug log. It says exactly what the problem is: missing </port> tag. Submitting a fix now.

matejmosko commented 6 years ago

Meanwhile I have found out, the </port> tag is missing exactly three times in the file. Not just on line 55. Two previous <port> tags aren't closed as well.

matejmosko commented 6 years ago

I have manually added </port> tags to my topology.xml. The error is gone, but controls still not working. This is the new log.

Thanks for your hard work.

garbear commented 6 years ago

The error is:

ERROR: AddOnLog: Sony - PlayStation (PCSX ReARMed): Buttonmap version required, expected version 2 (min=2)

Pretty clear. Version isn't specified.

https://github.com/kodi-game/game.libretro.pcsx-rearmed/pull/12 updated with the fix.

matejmosko commented 6 years ago

I have added all the changes you made in #12 into my kodi and thus got rid of the errors, but controls are still not working. This is the log To make sure everything is setup right, I have re-setup all the PS controllers and logged it as well with the games still not recognizing controls.

garbear commented 6 years ago

I've put effort into making the error logging verbose enough to track down most issues. Now the error is:

ERROR: AddOnLog: Sony - PlayStation (PCSX ReARMed): <feature> tag has invalid "mapto" attribute: "RETRO_RUMBLE_STRONG"

Fix submitted: https://github.com/kodi-game/game.libretro/pull/35

matejmosko commented 6 years ago

Gotcha! I have deleted those two features from buttonmap.xml and the controls are working now. You are the king. Thanks.

garbear commented 6 years ago

Can this be closed?

matejmosko commented 6 years ago

Yes.