excaliburlives Posted June 10, 2019 Report Share Posted June 10, 2019 My PS1 set fails to transfer all the games. I think i read somewhere that there is a cap of how many files can fit in a folder. Can i make a second folder for roms like in MAME? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 10, 2019 Report Share Posted June 10, 2019 How many files do you have in the folder? Are any of the file names longer than 42 characters (the extension of a filename counts as 4 - example .bin)? Not all characters are valid for use in the FATX filesystem that work on a PC: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx yz0123456789!#$%&'()-.@[]^_`{}~ (that includes the space character) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 I can’t find a direct link to this right now, but a similar discussion has been had on these forums. The file limit of FATX was a theoretical issue that was disproven. You can use much larger sets than the PS1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 A subfolder's file count limit is 4096 files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 2 hours ago, KaosEngineer said: A subfolder's file count limit is 4096 files What is the source for this? I could’ve sworn I was quoting you on this one XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 https://github.com/Free60Project/wiki/blob/master/FATX.md#Limitations Free60 Project - the 360 sucessor to xbox-linux.org but it was there too. But there list of allowed characters doesn't list all the characters I've seen before for filenames/folders:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx yz0123456789!#$%&'()-.@[]^_`{}~ (that includes the space character) https://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?87071-XBOX-FATX-limitations-and-notes The number of game saves from epforums.org states only 240 game saves could be saved in E:\UDATA and E:\TDATA folders but that seems to be disproven. Although people had reported problems with more than 240-250 game saves on there hard drive deleting some and games that before black screened on startup now played. Why the problem, still a mystery if the save count wasn't actually it. Were they out of storage space on the E drive? etc... Which is correct or a combination of information from both... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 Excellent, thorough, and highly detailed as usual. Thank you for all your hard work here, my friend. With the E:/ partition often being overlooked when formatting drives it seems fairly reasonable, I think, that this could be a very funky incidence of full E:/ drives. But I’ve also seen other users with such setups mention no such issue. So many mysteries... so little time. Long live the OG. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excaliburlives Posted June 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 Ok, the file limit looks like the problem. My psxcds folder has 4096 files in it. Can i make a second roms folder? I know mame gives me that option but not sure about PCSXBox emulator though. I've checked in the settings but couldn't find anything. What are other people doing to get their whole ps1 set in the xbox? I think i have 750 GB worth of roms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicaldave Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 (edited) Back to the original topic ofc. I would say your first problem is that you have over 4096. But in all seriousness, use nested folders. So you start with ~\PCSXbox\psxcds and this gets full. Simply add sub folders to this directory. So you can have: ~\PCSXbox\psxcds\A-G ~\PCSXbox\psxcds\H-M ~\PCSXbox\psxcds\N-Z As needed. You should not have to organize them alphabetically as PCSXBox is basically just giving you a file explorer rooted in the psxcds directory. According to what kaosengineer has said, if I am interpreting properly, each of these should have a 4096 capacity, and as an added bonus each folder can have its own configuration. Edited June 11, 2019 by Magicaldave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 Yes, create subfolders under PCSXbox's psxcds folder. Each subfolder will be able to hold 4096 files/folders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excaliburlives Posted June 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2019 I understand, I will test it and it tomorrow. Thanks from r the help guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cakurupi Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 If I create sub folders under PCSXbox' psxcds folder like the member said before can I put in that folders any kind of ROMs or these folders are only for PS1 ROMs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cakurupi Posted December 16, 2019 Report Share Posted December 16, 2019 If I create sub folders under PCSXbox' psxcds folder like the member said before can I put in that folders any kind of ROMs or these folders are only for PS1 ROMs? <-can someone answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaosEngineer Posted December 17, 2019 Report Share Posted December 17, 2019 The folder can store anything in it but why put anything but PS1 files in it (files to run with the PCSXbox emulator). Easier to know where things are so separate files for each emu to there own storage location (subfolder). You can edit emulator paths to look for files anywhere you'd like. They have default values set when you install them to search for files at a particular location. Most likely a subfolder in the emulator's installation folder, not a different emulator's file structure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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