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Parasite Eve II
« Thread Started on Aug 18, 2007, 9:22pm »

Game Title: Parasite Eve II
Game ID(s): (any?) / SLUS_010.42
pSX Version(s): 1.09, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 (Windows)

As mentioned in the compatibility list, "Freezes at 'Published by Square Electronics Arts, LLC' screen"

I've been playing around with several images to see if I could find a way around it. Unfortunately, I believe the PAL and NTSC-U versions may be copy-protected. However, I've read that the NTSC-U version does indeed boot with ePSXe, but eventually freezes after a certain boss event. I'm not sure if this is prompted by the copy-protection scheme or not.

I searched long and hard for a patch, but the only one available is for the PAL version. I'm not even sure if it makes the game playable, as I have not bothered with it. Should I check it out, or has anyone else tried it already?

I really would like to find a work-around for this game. PE2 is possibly one of the best PSX games ever created. It would be a shame if we could never get it working.

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #1 on Aug 19, 2007, 4:33am »

Parasite Eve 2 uses an extremely broken movie player - I'm really suprised it worked on real hardware!

I have already looked at it, but didn't manage to get it working - I will look at it again soon.

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #2 on Aug 19, 2007, 11:16am »

Sorry to disagree, your highness, but actually, the game's movie player not only is quite good, but its quite impressive for a PSX game movie player!

The movies look great, and have a better framerate than most games on the real hardware. Also, sometimes the movies can even be played backwards (when the scenario itself is a movie, if you go back, the movie plays backwards). One thing that I like is that if your console stops reading the CD for a moment in a movie, the movie just pauses then continue. Something that I never seen on a PSX (seen this on the PS2 though)!

Also, I DID finished this game on PSXeven, and it was almost perfect. EPSXE crashes a lot, but not on movies, and there's actually a way around it.

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #3 on Aug 26, 2007, 1:58pm »

I'm guessing when pSX Author refers to the player, he's referring to the code behind the player itself, not how it looks when you're actually playing the game.

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #4 on Aug 26, 2007, 7:16pm »

If the movie player's code where really "broken", it wouldn't work so great, neh?

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #5 on Aug 30, 2007, 6:48pm »

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If the movie player's code where really "broken", it wouldn't work so great, neh?

Have you ever programmed something? There are many programs that have a fucked up source code but working simply great from a simple way of view.

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #6 on Sept 3, 2007, 11:37am »

I've played parasite eve 2 (PAL UK PATCHED) on epsxe 1.6.0 and works fine. However when i tried to play it on my psp, I get the same problem as i get with pSX emulator. Until i found a tutor video on youtube, which shows that all you have to do is change the psx id from SLES02558 to SLPS 00025. But since i don't how to change the psx id, on my backed up image, I remain with the same problem

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #7 on Sept 3, 2007, 1:35pm »

It's very simple (just like editing any document on your PC). Open the file that needs to be changed with Notepad, edit as required and save the file. Then, using a CD image editor/manipulator like for example UltraISO, replace the old file on the CD image with the new file and save the image.

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Re: Parasite Eve II
« Reply #8 on Oct 4, 2007, 11:14pm »

so does this trick work? if you change the ID does it make parasite eve 2 work on pSX?

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