general: missing RetroArch PCSX2 core option to set language

[20Phoenix]

Hello :) Some games have an ingame option to select the wanted language (f.e. both Castlevania). But a lot games check just use the language set in the system-settings (f.e. Burnout 3, God of War, Vampire Night).

So there is one of the following 2 options needed:

• A simple language option in the core settings
• A possibility to boot into the system-settings, a no-cd-boot to reach the console menu. There the language can be set and is saved somehow.

Or have I missed a file, any ini, where I could set the system language manually ?

The possibility to choose a language is realy a big loss. So it would be awesome to get it one day. Thanks a lot 😄

[SeventySixx]

If you load the core in RetroArch and then select "Run Core", il boots in the PS2 BIOS. Here you can set system settings, and also the system language. In games config then you must disable "fast boot" to the game to make sure it uses the BIOS settings.

[20Phoenix]

Oh yeah, that works, nice. 🥳 Big thanks. 😊👍 I tried once to start without disc but I got an error. Reason was fast boot was set off. I knew that fast-boot must be deactivated to boot with system settings, but I forgot it here. 😅

But a real option would be much much nicer. Like this the most people won't realize it. Or kind of auto-fast-boot-off if no disc is used.

[SeventySixx]

Good, I'm glad that it worked. At the moment it's a little tricky, I agree that an override option for setting the language it's more practical. Bye!

[20Phoenix]

Thanks again. Bye.

[20Phoenix]

@Mauri-76 Oh, I must correct myself. It's not working with no disc to boot to the system settings. With and without fast-boot: Could not read file "".

temporary solution: load any cue file and it boots to the system menu because RA+PCSX2 can't handle cue+bin.

Btw.: I use RA on XBOX Series S.

[SeventySixx]

I'm going to work on this, I look if can be added a System Language option which overrides the BIOS setting

[20Phoenix]

That would be very helpfull for many people. For me it's no problem anymore, I use the system setting. But for others. Absolutely great is the rumble fix. Big thanks 🥳

[SeventySixx]

Yeah I'm working on it at the moment :-) it's a little tricky because this feature wasn't already present in the standalone pcsx2, it's needed to work at bios level ... but I think I can do it, let's see if I can archive this goal - in that case this will be a feature exclusive of the libretro core ;-)

The rumble fix was done from OsirizX, so big thanks to him!

[SeventySixx]

The System language option it's finally available in the new build ;-) You can close this issue

[20Phoenix]

Wow, great, thanks a lot. And it works with fast-boot aswell ? Thanks again and have a nice week 😃

[20Phoenix]

Oh, it's not working for me. I've set it to German, but no change, game starts still in English 😢 Of course a game including German. Or must fast-boot still be turned off to set the language ???? No, tested that aswell. Set it to Spanish, but the game start still in German as set in the real bios settings. So this setting is ignored if a language is already set for the bios ?

[SeventySixx]

uhm... so, check this:

• Fast boot must be disabled, otherwise the core will ignore the bios settings (yeah, better to write this in the setting description)
• the bios supported are the official supported by pcsx2, check here: https://docs.libretro.com/library/pcsx2/ , excluded the japanese "10000". The name of the bios must be exactly as listed there (incuding upper case)
• eventually enable the log in retroarch, (settings->logging then in core log set debug level) start a game and paste the log here, you find it in retroarch/logs folder

[20Phoenix]

I'll check it. All other bios files will be ignored ? SCPH-70004_BIOS_V12_PAL_200.NVM is listed twice ?!

[SeventySixx]

Yeah, I don't know why, maybe an error, but you should have only one - a .bin and other 2 files, .a mec and a nvn. check that the .nvm have the same case of the relative .bin file, if the bin is upper case the nvm should be upper, otherwise lower)

[20Phoenix]

All bios files now exactly as needed, even the file endings with correct upper or lower cases. I'll report later.

[SeventySixx]

I'll check it. All other bios files will be ignored ?

At the moment yes, because there are lot of bioses and the names are not officially defined, so it's a mess. There are some differences between bios where to write the language byte, so the core must be 100% sure about the bios used and where go to write

[20Phoenix]

Not easy because there're no md5sums given.

[SeventySixx]

All bios files now exactly as needed, even the file endings with correct upper or lower cases. I'll report later.

Ok, let me know, eventually if you have problems paste here the log

[SeventySixx]

I can improve this thing and increase the supported bios, but I have to study the thing to be sure about the differences. At the moment I found a difference between the 30004R V6 and the SCPH-70004 / scph39001. Maybe the 30004 is the only one whith this difference, but it take a little time to check

[20Phoenix]

It works with this bios: Europe v02.00(14/06/2004) Tested English, French, German, Spanish - works perfect. 😄 👍

I will test my other ones. Didn't work with my previous bios v1.60, in Europe are 2 different 1.60 versions.

[SeventySixx]

Good!

then I will work to support also other BIOS versions 👍

[20Phoenix]

[SeventySixx]

Hi, I just made a pull request for an update which adds support for language option to (almost all, I think) NA and EU BIOS. Once accepted it will be available.

Also the detection is improved, so the bios file now could be named "thatsMyBios.bin" which it works anyway ;-)

[SeventySixx]

@20Phoenix I think we can consider thi issue solved :-) Can you please close this request? So we keep clean the issues list with only those to do. Thanks!