"Tom and Jerry in House Trap" hangs when accessing memory card if GTE Overclock is on or CPU Overclock is above 100%

[Anths2016]

Last version Beetle psx HW with Vulkan. Retroarch 1.8.1

[ToniBC]

I confirm the same error, tested in the last Nightly of Retroarch and the last core of January 5, 2020 and freezes the game on the memory card screen.

In PSX Rearmed it works without problems.

[rz5]

@ToniBC @Anths2016 - You both have created bug reports without filling the initial template. If you don't share information about your system and your core options, it's harder to find out what's wrong.

This bug is caused by GTE Overclock being on. Please test it while it's off to confirm.

[Anths2016]

No, on and off nothing change.

[rz5]

@Anths2016 Please show me what other core options you're using

[rz5]

This bug is also caused by CPU Frequency Scaling (Overclock) is above 100%. Please put both of those hacks to default and retest to confirm.

[Anths2016]

Vulkan or OpenGL.
Renderer: Hardware
Soft Framebuffer: on
Dithering: off
Adaptive smooth: on
PGXP Op Mode: memory only
PGXP VC: on
PGXP PCT: on
CPU frequency scaling: 100 %
GTE overclock: off
GPU rast ov: 1x
Skip bios (on and off) - tried both ways
cd loading speed: 2x (native)

[rz5]

@Anths2016 I can't replicate the bug with your settings. Again, very important, test it with GTE overclock off and CPU frequency scaling set to 100% BEFORE you get to the screen where it hangs.

@ToniBC - If you could also retest this with the above instructions, I'd be very thankful.

You can't get the emulator out of the hang after getting there and changing core options, it seems.

[Anths2016]

Before... of course.

[Anths2016]

Pcsxr-pgxp also have the same problem, but it is solved by using the HLE bios.

[rz5]

On RetroArch, enable Logging Verbosity and when you start up beetle-psx, check if this is written during startup:

[libretro INFO] Checking if required firmware is present.
[libretro INFO] Firmware found: .\system\scph5502.bin
[libretro INFO] Firmware SHA1: F6BC2D1F5EB6593DE7D089C425AC681D6FFFD3F0

If it's not, your BIOS may be bad.

Also, if you don't mind, post your full retroarch-core-options.cfg file here.

[Anths2016]

That information does not appear, but with a program I went to check the SHA1 of the file, and it is just that.
https://i.imgur.com/98D2Pvw.png

[ToniBC]

Disabling the "GTE overclock off" option works, I tried almost all options except that.

Solved, another one that works. Thank you.

[Anths2016]

It doesn't work for me. If you don't believe it I make a video.

[rz5]

@Anths2016 - If you have the patience, try the following:

Get a fresh build of RetroArch, with it get the latest beetle-psx-hw core and see if it happens for you on stock settings. If it DOES happen with stock everything - and it's not your BIOS - then I'd wager you have a bad game dump...

[Anths2016]

Now it works, but I don't understand what is the problem at this point.