PS Emulator

[drenrin2120]

How does the PS Emulator work? Does it work like the SNES Emulator where you download ROMs? Or do you need the actual CD to play?

[oooog]

There are apparently versions of it that plays roms, but non I found work.  I personally just use my TV Tuner Card that allows game systems to be plugged into it, and thus, turns my computer into a TV.

[Almeidaboo]

2 ways: you can either download the roms (iso) or play with the CD. Both work good.

[drenrin2120]

thanks dude. I'll look for ISO.

EDIT: Wow, this is confusing. wth is an ISO Image?

[DragonBlaze]

Ok, a psx iso is an image of the game. By image i mean a backup. A lot of CD burning programs have the option to create an image of the disk, so you can get this image file, and then with that you can burn it to another disk later, hence, a backup.

A psx emulator is able to read the images made by some programs and emulate it like a rom.

Most commonly these image files are refered to as ISOs. Perhaps you download a file like FF7.iso, but there are two other main image type files that you'll also see around, they are the .bin and .img extensions. All three work with most emulators.

If you want to make an image, you can't just use any old image writing program, the emulators can only read the ones made from certain programs. So if you want to make your own, use clonecd or alcohol 120%, they're both free. Most of the time when I play a game that I own, I write it to an image file, it usually runs faster than if I use my cd drive.

Since isos are very large, you won't find them around like you do with SNES Roms or whatever. Most likely you'll have to go to a torrent site to find the iso you're looking for.

I have a ps2 hooked up to my tv tuner card, but most of the time when I'm playing a ps game, I just use my emulator. You can speed up or slow down the game, plus you can save it whenever and wherever you want.

If you're looking for a good psx emulator, download epsxe.

I hope that helped

[Almeidaboo]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze
Ok, a psx iso is an image of the game. By image i mean a backup. A lot of CD burning programs have the option to create an image of the disk, so you can get this image file, and then with that you can burn it to another disk later, hence, a backup.

A psx emulator is able to read the images made by some programs and emulate it like a rom.

Most commonly these image files are refered to as ISOs. Perhaps you download a file like FF7.iso, but there are two other main image type files that you'll also see around, they are the .bin and .img extensions. All three work with most emulators.

If you want to make an image, you can't just use any old image writing program, the emulators can only read the ones made from certain programs. So if you want to make your own, use clonecd or alcohol 120%, they're both free. Most of the time when I play a game that I own, I write it to an image file, it usually runs faster than if I use my cd drive.

Since isos are very large, you won't find them around like you do with SNES Roms or whatever. Most likely you'll have to go to a torrent site to find the iso you're looking for.

I have a ps2 hooked up to my tv tuner card, but most of the time when I'm playing a ps game, I just use my emulator. You can speed up or slow down the game, plus you can save it whenever and wherever you want.

If you're looking for a good psx emulator, download epsxe.

I hope that helped

You´re like, the emulator master!

[DragonBlaze]

Lol, and its all thanks to BoF3. I bought that game used, it didn't work, the gameshop wouldn't replace the game or refund my money. Thats when I resorted to my computer, after a long search, I came across the wonderful land of playstation emulation.  :vict:

[Apex]

Emulators are not Illigal at all... You have every rights to the Bios as well, if you own a playstation...


This is not included with the Bios, but they are easy to find with Google.


www.Epsxe.com

Best... PSX... Emulator... EVER!

[DarkFlood2]

I would get that, but I already have a large amount of HD space taken (random RPGM stuff and games)

Who calls it PSX? Just put PS1 or PS and save a byte!

[DragonBlaze]

I usually only have one or two psx games on my compy at a time, the rest are on backup dvds or cds.

I call it psx because it looks cooler, actually ps is the abriviation for a lot of other things, so psx is less confusing, and saying ps1 is just corny.

[Smokey_locs2006]

If you're looking for bio, don't bother ripping them that's a pain. You can download them just look up SCPH1001.BIN on google, it is illegal to "share" bios.  also this prolly wouldn't be any use to you but it's still a nice program for iso files.

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php
this tool is good for pc game iso's and vcd's and it's free.

[X_marks_the_ed]

However, don't getenraged when you try to set epsxe. I just got it a week ago because my brother kept hogging the ps2, and I really wantwed to play the final fantasy IX I got that week to try it out. It takes about five hours to find everything you need to set it up. Why it doesn't just install prepared, I don't know.

If you like using gameshark, you should also get PEC (playstation emulation cheater). It comes prepared with nearly every gameshark code for NEARLY every game. (It's missing Twisted metal 4 )

[DragonBlaze]

5 hours to set up  

All you have to do is download the emulator, then go to petes plugin site (on the links page of epsxe), and download the gpu, spu, and cd plugins, find the bios, set the emulator to use the bios and the new plugins...

Ok, maybe it does take a while..

[X_marks_the_ed]

Yes. 5 hours. The following contributed:

-Please select video plugin.
-Plugin selected.
-Hit test
-'PLUGIN NOT FOUND.'
-Restart application.
-Locate plugin
-Plugin located
-Please select audio plugin.
-Computer freezes.
-Reboot computer.
-'PLUGIN NOT FOUND.'
-Locate plugin.
-Plugin located.
-Select CD-rom drive
-Drive E: selected.
-PS1 disc found.
-'VIDEO PLUGIN NOT FOUND.' + 'SOUND PLUGIN NOT FOUND.'
-Got angry
-Disabled McAffee (***hole program. Thinks every little thing is a virus, LITERALLY! It thought Mozilla Firefox was a worm.)
-Video Plugin found.
-Sound Plugin found.
-CD-rom drive E: found.
-Ps1 game 'FFIX' found.

Basically, don't try and set it up while McAffee is running.

[drenrin2120]

Whoa, awesome feedback. And DB, that's EXACTLY the game I wanted to play. BoF3, that's why I started looking for a PS emulator. lol :p

It might take me a wihle to process this stuff in my head, I'll figure it all out. Thanks bunches.