ROM Hack [Release] PS1 Forwarder Creator

[SirFluff]

Hello, people! Sorry for going completely silent. I've been dealing with real life stuff, and haven't really had the time to work on it. I did however manage to finish a more primitive version of the tool before I took a break. I still probably won't be able to work on it very much, but it serves the purpose for now. From what I can tell the previous performance issues are gone, and it seems to run at full speed. I can't guarantee the performance for every game however.

Before I disappeared, I underwent an operating system change. As a result, the current tool is made for Ubuntu Linux. I'll upload it to GitHub now, but if you need a Windows version let me know and I'll get to work on that.

Again, sorry for leaving you all in the dark.

Post automatically merged: Mar 22, 2023

New version is up: https://github.com/SirFluffDev/ps1-3ds-forwarder
If you're on Linux, just download the source and run it from there. Instructions are in the README.
If you're on Windows, I'll try scrap together a Windows version sooner or later.

 

[solidgui3]

A windows version would be Mutch appreciated ,but for now I guess i can do with a virtual machine, thank you for your cool work

 

[BitingChaos]

What's the best way to report issues? The "Long Name" field should take TWO lines.

3DS software can have 1-2 lines for names, and long names get wrapped weird if you don't put them on 2 lines.

Several official 3DS games/apps have a 2-line Long Name, and the NSUI application allows 2-line long names, but pressing Enter in the PS1 Forwarder Creator doesn't insert a line break.

 

[SirFluff]

The "Long Name" field should take TWO lines.

3DS software can have 1-2 lines for names, and long names get wrapped weird if you don't put them on 2 lines.

Really? I had no idea. I don't know how I'd make that work, but I'll look at it sometime today. Thank you for letting me know!

What's the best way to report issues?

For future reference, just submit an issue to the issues tab on the github repo.

 

[Velvis70]

Does this create cia's that perform better than the ones created by NSUI 29?

 

[ROMANREIGNS599]

Guys, why does everyone recommend turning vsync off? I have experimented with a lot of settings and turning vsync off makes my gameplay sluggish/slowish (probably screen tearing) in CVania Symphony of the Night but with vsync on, it is always smooth

 

[GaroK]

I would very much apreciate if someone checked out Metal Slug X. It seems to work at near perfect speed, but for some reason it's mostly mute with very few sounds playing out of sync. Can this be fixed?

 

[samaret]

Yo, any update on the Windows version, boss?

 

[Mr_Start]

Someone knows which bios is the exact for the ps1 intro? I've marked that option to show the PS1 bios bootlogo, tried using PSP but no luck.

 

[2mono7]

How is the windows version going?

 

[leapbtw]

Hello, just signed up. Just wanted to share with you guys that I just opened a pull request on SirFluff's github project to fix an issue i had (and from the Issues tab I see other people had too) with his tool. I also asked in a new issue if the source code for part of the software he shared is available: if so, I MIGHT consider creating a GUI version of the tool, maybe compatible with Windows too. If anything will go through I'll probably mention it here.

Meanwhile I guess that you windows folks can use his software either by install WSL, or just booting a Live USB of Ubuntu or some other distro (I'd suggest Lubuntu but you can pick whichever you want)

 

[2mono7]

Hello, just signed up. Just wanted to share with you guys that I just opened a pull request on SirFluff's github project to fix an issue i had (and from the Issues tab I see other people had too) with his tool. I also asked in a new issue if the source code for part of the software he shared is available: if so, I MIGHT consider creating a GUI version of the tool, maybe compatible with Windows too. If anything will go through I'll probably mention it here.

Meanwhile I guess that you windows folks can use his software either by install WSL, or just booting a Live USB of Ubuntu or some other distro (I'd suggest Lubuntu but you can pick whichever you want)

I'm sure a lot of us would appreciate a GUI and a windows version!

 

[haddad]

This still works till today! I am amazed! Just tried Vanguard Bandits and with audio it's fully playable

Question, what if I have a Multi-Disc PS1 game? Like FF7 or Legend of Dragoon? I would have multiple .bin or .chd's, how do I put into 1 CIA?

Post automatically merged: Apr 29, 2024

I think I figured it out, I put in the pbp version of the game (Legend of Dragoon) for example in the ps1 forwarded creator, the i installed the CIA on my new 2ds xl, but on launch seems to crash?

I either did something wrong or legend of dragoon is not compatible with PCSX ReARMed / retroarch

 

[FanNintendo]

This still works till today! I am amazed! Just tried Vanguard Bandits and with audio it's fully playable

Question, what if I have a Multi-Disc PS1 game? Like FF7 or Legend of Dragoon? I would have multiple .bin or .chd's, how do I put into 1 CIA?

Post automatically merged: Apr 29, 2024

I think I figured it out, I put in the pbp version of the game (Legend of Dragoon) for example in the ps1 forwarded creator, the i installed the CIA on my new 2ds xl, but on launch seems to crash?

I either did something wrong or legend of dragoon is not compatible with PCSX ReARMed / retroarch

use ps2psp program for multiply disc

 

[haddad]

use ps2psp program for multiply disc

Yes thats what I did, I put it into .pbp (all 3 dics), then I put it inside the ps1 forwarder, created the cia, installed successfully on my 3ds, launched it and it crashes on launch.

 

[FanNintendo]

Yes thats what I did, I put it into .pbp (all 3 dics), then I put it inside the ps1 forwarder, created the cia, installed successfully on my 3ds, launched it and it crashes on launch.

what do you own old 3DS or New 3DS ? some games not work right and try check for game compatible?

list of game compatible->
look like 2 of games you asking it should be working. I havent use this program for long time age ago.

 

[haddad]

what do you own old 3DS or New 3DS ? some games not work right and try check for game compatible?

list of game compatible->
look like 2 of games you asking it should be working. I havent use this program for long time age ago.

i have the new 2ds xl (check my signature)

I was able to fix he issue myself, it seems like if I use a pre-created .pbp from the internet for PSP's and convert that to CIA's, the new 2ds will crash on bootup

What I did is manualy found all the disc images (the 3 .bin/.cue files), then I used PSX2PSP v1.4.2 to create my own .pbp file, then put that .pbp file into ps1 forwarder created to make my .cia, then my new 2ds works perfectly.

I noticed, the pre-created .pbp EBOOT psp images for ps1 games was smaller then my own personally created .pbp, i dont think the new 2ds xl likes compressed images. Cuz the pre-downloaded one was like 1.1GB, I made my own and that was 1.5GB, and that worked

 

[PandaPandel]

Today I found an issue with loading Goemon Ooedo Daikaiten that was forwarded. When loaded, the game plays just fine, perfect infact but here is the problem:

The issue comes after the game launches with Retroarch. A 0byte Dummy file is made on the root of the SD card and it's a file called "default". It does not have any extension, or Data. I opened it in Notepad, Opened it on Windows and on Mac. On Mac it cannot recognize what it even is, so it says "Unix Executable" which, it is not. The Mac just cannot parse it because its literally nothing.

This is a corrupted file, and when I launch other homebrew apps, It produces a ARM 11 Exception everytime with certain apps that are older (BlargSPC is a basic music player that crashes everytime if this file is on the SD root) "data Abort".

I tested my SD and ran the diagnostics and reformatted, did the 4 hour fill and dump to test the SD.

SD is OK.

So I had to find the corrupted file, and that was it. I deleted it, and BlargSPC once again will launch.

But the issue is everytime I run the retroarch made forwarder, it dumps another 0 byte corrupted file onto the SD. From what I can tell the forwarder does not even need that to boot or run. I delete it, start the game, and it generates a new one that crashes other apps until Deleted after a PS1 play session with FBI again.

I uninstalled many things to see what the issue was. But this is something I reproduced today over and over to test.

Cannot tell if this is a Retroarch Bug or Forwarder bug, But I wanted this to be posted here so if anyone else's apps start crashing after playing PS1 games, maybe this is the reason.

You can delete that file and your other apps will start to work again ^^

Just delete the file after you play. Easy, but annoying. Not sure if anyone else has experience with this.

Post automatically merged: May 9, 2024

Today I found an issue with loading Goemon Ooedo Daikaiten that was forwarded. When loaded, the game plays just fine, perfect infact but here is the problem:

The issue comes after the game launches with Retroarch. A 0byte Dummy file is made on the root of the SD card and it's a file called "default". It does not have any extension, or Data. I opened it in Notepad, Opened it on Windows and on Mac. On Mac it cannot recognize what it even is, so it says "Unix Executable" which, it is not. The Mac just cannot parse it because its literally nothing.

This is a corrupted file, and when I launch other homebrew apps, It produces a ARM 11 Exception everytime with certain apps that are older (BlargSPC is a basic music player that crashes everytime if this file is on the SD root) "data Abort".

I tested my SD and ran the diagnostics and reformatted, did the 4 hour fill and dump to test the SD.

SD is OK.

So I had to find the corrupted file, and that was it. I deleted it, and BlargSPC once again will launch.

But the issue is everytime I run the retroarch made forwarder, it dumps another 0 byte corrupted file onto the SD. From what I can tell the forwarder does not even need that to boot or run. I delete it, start the game, and it generates a new one that crashes other apps until Deleted after a PS1 play session with FBI again.

I uninstalled many things to see what the issue was. But this is something I reproduced today over and over to test.

Cannot tell if this is a Retroarch Bug or Forwarder bug, But I wanted this to be posted here so if anyone else's apps start crashing after playing PS1 games, maybe this is the reason.

You can delete that file and your other apps will start to work again ^^

Just delete the file after you play. Easy, but annoying. Not sure if anyone else has experience with this.

If someone could, can someone check and see if this happens for them?

Just start a forwarded PS1 game, and then once it loads go to FBI and hit SD, and scroll and see if you see a file called 'default' on the root of your SD cards?

 

[BuddhaHunterMac]

Woah this is amazing and definitely gonna need to try it.