Do I need an ELF file for each PS1 game?

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Dcm210

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So I've followed various Youtube tutorials for POPstarter. I got the artwork and the game labeled correctly,as far as I know. Now I did noticed one tutorial that had an ELF file for each game. Is this what I need to create for each game?

I used PFS_HDD_Manager.exe to transfer the PS1 game to the hard drive.
 
You don't need, but it also depends on how You want to run games.

Read Shaolin's docs or APA Partitionology tutorial.
 
From what I remember there are two ways to launch VCD:
- via POPStarter.ELF (each game needs to have it rename differently e.g. Crash Bandicoot (PAL).ELF
There is also a HDDOSD compatible launch type PP.Crash_Bandicoot/EXECUTE.KELF
- directly via wLE_kHn by selecting it (like a normal ELF file)
 
Running by uLE kHn is "ELF duplicate free" way but needs POPS files and POPS Starter in specific place on HDD (because uLE will always be seeking them there).
 
Thank you for the reponses. This Forum has been WAY MORE helpful than PS2-home forum.
So I had a buggy POPSTARTER.ELF. I updated it the the game I had loaded worked. It was Alien Trilogy. However I will look into the KELF files.
 
jolek said:
I'm not sure from where you have POPStarter (POPSTARTER.ELF),
but you can get the version from 2019/06/05 in here:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/popstarter.19139/.
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OK that seems to be somewhat separate from playing PS1 games in OPL?

Either way, I'll look into this after work. But I did manage to update the elf in +OPL that solved the problem. Now to figure out multidisk games.

I managed to load Alien Trilogy and Alien Resurrection.
 
OPL doesn't support PSX games because it is loader designed for PS2 games. There is no loader for PSX games because PS2 switching to PSX mode, change the way how it works.

POPS is official PSX emulator which was distributed with one of the games on PSBBN (special Linux distribution in Japan which was kind of first PlayStation store, well, kind off ;]). Some wise heads finally decrypt it and krHACKen made patcher for it called POPStarter.

And... OPL DB is a fork of OPL which using POPStarter against will of it's author and against will of OPL authors. On this line there is a conflict between JayJay and peoples involved into OPL project. So the true is, OPL or OPL DB never run PSX games. ;)

In summary, use official OPL, not OPL DB. And also use last version of POPStarter simply because is the best.
 
jolek said:
I am not sure if I understand you well enough...


https://bitbucket.org/ShaolinAssassin/popstarter-documentation-stuff/wiki/multi-disc.
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That type of use of popstarter looks separate from going into OPL DB, right?

Is there a way to use popstarter separately from OPL?

I'm using OPL DB and it working fine for PS1 games. I got the latest version of popstarter rip 07 and that xorrectect the problem I had with games not loading.

But I've noticed in the screen shots of that wiki, that looks like a separate thing from OPL. I hope that makes sense.
 
It always was separate. OPL, OPL DB, POPS and POPStarter are four different apps.

You can duplicate POPStarter, name it the same as disc image and prepare apps.cfg (?) to have each title in applications menu.
 
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