Author Topic: PSX help (Read 5661 times)

Shieldwolf · « **on:** July 29, 2003, 10:19:44 pm »

Moderator please delete this if you feel I over stepping the bounds of the forum.

I have a playstation and I have a bunch of games. How can I put those games into the psx emulator? can I grab the bios off the games themselves?

Syxx · « **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2003, 10:33:57 pm »

well if you own the games i see no problem,
i suggest ePSXe as your emulator of choice.
use a program such as CloneCd and copy the cd
to your hard drive, then get Daemon Tools and
use that to mount the images in the virtual drive
[daemon tools allows mounting the images as if they
were in a cd drive] once you get the hange of those
[if you need more info on daemon tools i can help]
just make a .bat file that makes daemon tools unmount
its current image and then mount a new one, i will
have to check on the exact command for it but i believe
its somehting like this

c:
cd\program files\daemon-tools
daemon.exe -unmount 0
daemon.exe -mount 0, c:\psx\imagename.img

then in the same .bat after those commands you can
add a command that launchs ePSXe
i'll have to double check everything but im sure you
understand what im talking about.

as far as the bios sorry cant help you there, but there
all over and easy to find now a days probably.

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2003, 11:29:56 pm »

What he

said!!

PSX bios' start with "scph" search and you will find (to paraphrase).

GSXRMovistar · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2003, 05:07:40 am »

Not sure why you need all this mounting of images, you can just point ePSXe to most types of cd images (img, iso, bin) directly on your harddrive.

For info on ripping your PSX games to disk see this useful thread www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=21379

And as for the bios files, well they are like Mame roms, not to be discussed (where to get etc..). But google/newsgroups/P2P are your friends, start searching.

Syxx · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2003, 06:43:10 am »

well if your running a frontend you will need the .bat file stuff.
if your using a mouse and stuff then you can just load it from the epsxe
menu.

oh ya and there more the the epsxe stuff in the bat i believe its like -nogui and -loadbin "then dir to bin"
so you actually might not to use the mounting.

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2003, 05:46:05 pm »

Yep, don't need to mount for ePSXe. I do have to mount for Connectix VGS though.

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #6 on:** July 30, 2003, 11:43:08 pm »

I used a great free program called ISO buster to put the games into an image format on the hard disk. Daemon tools is not necessary.

I use batch files and mamewah to launch the games.

Jakobud · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2003, 05:41:59 am »

By the way CloneCD already comes with a program called CloneCDTray which allows you to mount iso's as virtual cd drives.

Generic Eric · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2003, 06:17:54 am »

Bios's aren't on the games. Its a chip inside the playstation. Similar to the bios on your PC.

Shieldwolf · « **Reply #9 on:** August 03, 2003, 03:13:21 pm »

ok guys! I'm getting runtime errors when I load an iso up. For example, Tekken three starts I get the namco logo and then it crashes. Any ideas?

Generic Eric · « **Reply #10 on:** August 03, 2003, 04:50:50 pm »

Its hard to say really. Which emulator, and which version, are you using? Someone (not you) mentioned using a frontend. Are you using one? If so, which one? Did you make the image yourself? If not, don't tell us where you got it. The reason I ask, as far as images go, I would be more inclined to trust ones I made myself.

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #11 on:** August 03, 2003, 05:52:39 pm »

Sometimes you need to patch an image that you ripped to get it to run on epsxe.

I have used epsxe with tekken 3 and it works great. I use Pete's Direct 3d plugin (I have a radeon) and eternal spu plugin.

Frostillicus · « **Reply #12 on:** August 03, 2003, 10:46:18 pm »

I used CDRWIN to rip old playstation game iso's. Tekken 3 works for me...are you using ePSXe? Mess with the sound and video plugins - it'll take a while, like hours seriously to find the best combo.

I also use Alcohol 120% a lot, too - that's a great program

Shieldwolf · « **Reply #13 on:** August 03, 2003, 11:27:07 pm »

I do own tekken3 so I grabbed the iso off the disc using isobuster. I also tried to play with the cd itself.
epsxe 1.5.2
I currently have geforce 3 (till i get my radeon 7500 ) and I'm using pete's video ogl2

joeblade · « **Reply #14 on:** August 04, 2003, 06:52:43 pm »

Frostillicus, have you managed to get the CD-AUDIO working using an a iso image ?

If so was it just a case of mucking about with plugins and configuration ?

If not, is it actually possible ?

I just started looking into ePSXe last weekend, and so far I am pretty darned impressed. I used CDR-WIN last night to rip Wipeout 2097 (one of my faves, and one I would love to see on a 27" Wells Gardner monitor), and although the .bin file was large (600 or so meg), so must have included the audio tracks, I couldn't get the CD Audio going (which is a pity, as the tracks on wipeout 2097 are way cool).

Cheers

creatine28 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2003, 01:43:46 pm »

Any chance of seeing a copy of someone's .bat file for launching the PSX emulator through MameWah?

Thanks!

Lustar · « **Reply #16 on:** August 06, 2003, 02:10:10 pm »

here's my setup to use epsxe in mamewah, i can
run iso and cds from the frontend

- i have a dummy empty cd.bin file in my psx iso folder
- "send rom path","send extention" = no
- "show dos box" = yes
- in the mamewah config file i launch this epsx.bat instead of the epsxe.exe
(replace the path and the cd drive letter according to your config) :

"
if %1 == CD GOTO CD
epsxe.exe -nogui -loadiso c:\mamewah\roms\psx\%1.bin
GOTO :END

:CD
epsxe.exe -nogui -cdrom h

:END
"

creatine28 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 06, 2003, 02:30:50 pm »

Great! Thanks! I'll give it a try!

Steve

GSXRMovistar · « **Reply #18 on:** August 07, 2003, 05:10:19 am »

FYI ePSXe 1.6.0, is now out. I grabbed this last night with a few updated plugins and I have already seen a noticable improvement in some games.

But also hang on to 1.5.2 at the mo if you play any gun games as the -gun option does seem to work in the new version.

GSXR.

creatine28 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 07, 2003, 12:30:58 pm »

Quote from: Lustar on August 06, 2003, 02:10:10 pm

here's my setup to use epsxe in mamewah, i can
run iso and cds from the frontend

- i have a dummy empty cd.bin file in my psx iso folder
- "send rom path","send extention" = no
- "show dos box" = yes
- in the mamewah config file i launch this epsx.bat instead of the epsxe.exe
(replace the path and the cd drive letter according to your config) :

"
if %1 == CD GOTO CD
epsxe.exe -nogui -loadiso c:\mamewah\roms\psx\%1.bin
GOTO :END

:CD
epsxe.exe -nogui -cdrom h

:END
"

Ok, I was able to get it to work through a bat file, but I'm a little confused on how to generate the game list within Mame Wah? I'm having Mame Wah load the bat file, but I cant get a game list to generate? Is this because I'm using a CD and not an ISO?

Lustar · « **Reply #20 on:** August 07, 2003, 05:13:23 pm »

you can't generate a list of cd games, you'll have a list of the isos + a "CD" entry in the list that you can use to launch any cd game that would happen to be in the cd tray. the "CD" name won't be updated to the cd name if you refresh.
if you don't have any iso stored in this folder you should only see the CD entry.
- the extension should be set to bin if you use cdrwin to backup your games or img if you use clonecd
- the only place where you put the .bat file name is in place of the emulator name.
- put the .bat file in the same folder than epsxe

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #21 on:** August 07, 2003, 05:37:50 pm »

I run epsxe through mamewah with batches, but I only use images. Here is how I did it:

MAMEWAH settings:

Code: [Select]

;EMULATOR OPTIONS
Emulator Title = Playstation
Logo Image Filename = G:\EMULATORS\ARCADE\MAMEWAH\psx\psx.gif
'No Snapshot' Image Filename = G:\EMULATORS\ARCADE\MAMEWAH\psx\psxNoSnap.png
Emulator Executable = PC
Default Options = 
Extra Options #1 = 
Extra Options #2 = 
Show DOS Box = 0
Send ROM Path = True
Use Long Filenames = True
Send ROM Extension = True
DAT Filename = 
NMS Filename = 
CatVer Filename = 
ROM Path = G:\Emulators\Playstation\Batch Files\
ROM Extension = bat
List Generation Method = 0

An example batch file:
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night.bat

Code: [Select]

g:\
cd\emu*\pla*\eps*\
ePSXe.exe -nogui -loadbin G:\Emulators\Playstation\Games\Castlevania\Castelvania.bin

Where the first line is the drive that epsxe is located.
The second line is the directory of epsxe.
The third line executes epsxe and points to the cd image.

I hope that helps!

creatine28 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 07, 2003, 05:47:41 pm »

Thanks for the help everyone! I'll see if this does the trick!

Steve

jakejake28 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 07, 2003, 06:35:03 pm »

now that the original posters questions have bben answered, time for me to steal it... i am using clonecd to create iso's, and it creates instead a 3 files, none of which are iso's. epsxe reads these, but i would like instead to create 1 iso, to help unclutter my roms folder. how do i create them (or .bin) in clonecd?

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #24 on:** August 07, 2003, 07:30:35 pm »

As I said before, use ISO Buster to rip the games. It is free and creates a bin image. You can download it here: http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/.

I am not completely sure, but I don't think you can create .bin images from clone cd. Also, you could probably delete the additional files created by clone cd. epsxe only needs the iso. The other files are for burning the image onto a cd.

joeblade · « **Reply #25 on:** August 07, 2003, 07:56:39 pm »

So has anyone managed to get the CDDA going with epsxe and an image file ?

Supposedly, its possible using Moobys CDR plugin. However whenever I select the CDDA option in the plugin (as well as for the sound plugin) it never works for me.

On top of that, I have noticed that the tick box on Moobys plugin configuration, does not remain selected after I restart (which it recommends to do after making a config change).

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #26 on:** August 08, 2003, 12:05:24 am »

Yes I get CDDA from an image. I use eternal spu 1.41 and Pete's Open D3D for video. I have a sblive and radeon 7500. Under the sound config I have the following options checked:

ADPCM sound enabled
CDDA Sound Enabled
XA Sound enabled
SPU IRQ hack disabled.

PSX emulation is by no means perfect. Try another game. Right now the only games I have really played are castlevania s o t n (a great game) and a little tekken 3.

joeblade · « **Reply #27 on:** August 08, 2003, 01:05:28 am »

Thanks 'TalkingOctopus', I will give these drivers a go (and another game - "PSX emulation is by no means perfect." that may be so, but I am still in awe of the jobe that the ePSXe developers have done ! Amazing stuff).

Also, I assume (going from your post abit further up this thread) that you used isobuster to create the image (not that it probably makes much difference between it and CDRWin).

Cheers

Sprucemoose · « **Reply #28 on:** August 08, 2003, 08:23:58 am »

On a side note...I believe that the new epsxecutor 1.6.0 will allow the user to load an individual image from the command line. I have not had the chance to try this yet, but will this evening. This should allow users to setup different games with different plugins all from their front end. I don't know if others are having this problem, but I get sick of changing my plugins for playstation games to run.

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #29 on:** August 08, 2003, 12:01:59 pm »

Quote

but I am still in awe of the jobe that the ePSXe developers have done ! Amazing stuff

.

I agree - so far epsxe has run every game that I have thrown at it without a problem.

creatine28 · « **Reply #30 on:** August 08, 2003, 01:17:14 pm »

Finally got the games to load with MameWah! But I'm just having problems adding mouse support to the games?

I noticed you can add mouse support to a game by adding
-mouse to the command line, has anyone gotten this to work? I've tried it in the game SF rush, but cant seem to get it to work?

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #31 on:** August 11, 2003, 08:22:43 am »

Does SF Rush support the PSX trackball? I didn't think it did. If you are trying to get the mouse to work as the analog stick the command is -anamous.

Hope this helps!

Sprucemoose · « **Reply #32 on:** August 11, 2003, 09:34:07 am »

On a side note...I believe that the new epsxecutor 1.6.0 will allow the user to load an individual image from the command line. I have not had the chance to try this yet, but will this evening. This should allow users to setup different games with different plugins all from their front end. I don't know if others are having this problem, but I get sick of changing my plugins for playstation games to run.

FYI...
This does work. I tried it my cab this weekend without any problems. I am using BAT files to run the games through Mamewah. Hope this helps someone

Spaced Invader · « **Reply #33 on:** August 11, 2003, 09:55:12 am »

Thanks, Spruce...helps me!

DAmnb · « **Reply #34 on:** August 16, 2003, 02:23:16 pm »

Trying to get batch files to work but when I try to run them in MAMEWah it crashes with: The shortcut pathname must end with .lnk or .url

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #35 on:** August 16, 2003, 04:54:33 pm »

That sounds like there is something wrong with the batch file. Try running it alone w/o mamewah and it should execute. I am guessing that when you run the batch file alone you will get the same error.

If I am correct, post the contents of the batch file here and we can try to help.

DAmnb · « **Reply #36 on:** August 16, 2003, 05:04:43 pm »

Batch file works just fine "standalone"

Plain and simple.

Code: [Select]

e:
cd\download\zinc\zinc\
zinc.exe 8

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #37 on:** August 16, 2003, 06:32:01 pm »

Try these mamewah settings:

Code: [Select]

;EMULATOR OPTIONS
Emulator Title = Playstation
Logo Image Filename = G:\EMULATORS\ARCADE\MAMEWAH\psx\psx.gif
'No Snapshot' Image Filename = G:\EMULATORS\ARCADE\MAMEWAH\psx\psxNoSnap.png
Emulator Executable = PC
Default Options = 
Extra Options #1 = 
Extra Options #2 = 
Show DOS Box = 0
Send ROM Path = False
Use Long Filenames = False
Send ROM Extension = False
DAT Filename = 
NMS Filename = 
CatVer Filename = 
ROM Path = G:\Emulators\Playstation\Batch Files\
ROM Extension = bat
List Generation Method = 0

Maybe play around with the show dos box too., 0, 1 2...

Hope that works! Also, I am using a now out of date version of mamewah so maybe my crazy batch files no longer work.

DAmnb · « **Reply #38 on:** August 17, 2003, 05:10:39 am »

Must be something thats been changed in MameWah then, still I fixed it on my own and in the most obvious way I must say!

Simple just switch rom extention to lnk instead of bat, link all your batchfiles and refresh the gameslist and voila Mamewah runs the .lnk which runs the .bat which runs zinc

Overkill? Perhaps, but atleast it works now!


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