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Xebra 08/03/10
« Thread Started on Mar 11, 2008, 8:56am »

"Horizontal underscan was fixed
Exception Handler was fixed"

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #1 on Mar 11, 2008, 10:09am »

Hm, that's Grandia, that is, Sune.

I can't remember if you've said before, but do you use it - how well does it run?

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #2 on Mar 11, 2008, 10:34am »

It has been a while since I tried it as well, and back then I thought it was a horrible resource hog, and that the screen looked like it didn't have all colours. However, this was long long time ago, perhaps I should give it another go.

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #3 on Mar 11, 2008, 11:16am »

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Hm, that's Grandia, that is, Sune.

Just joking.. can't tell one of those type of games from the other.

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I can't remember if you've said before, but do you use it - how well does it run?

Haven't used it for a long time, last time was when I was doing some comparisons between it and pSX. The Duke Nukem games that are broken on pSX work in Xebra..

It runs extremely well for me but it's a bit fiddly to set up.
I wanted to try the latest version today but it doesn't seem to want to run in my Parallels Desktop XP install..

Mika: Xebra really is two emulators - the package contains two executables, one with built-in reverse engineered BIOS and one that needs a BIOS image present.

When you start the executable named 'Arbex', the startup colours are different for some reason, I guess to indicate that you're running Dr. Hell's own BIOS emulation. I've never run a game using Arbex so that's all I'll say about it, I don't know how well it works.

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #4 on Mar 11, 2008, 12:57pm »

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It runs extremely well for me but it's a bit fiddly to set up.

That's what I've heard - it's supposed to have very good compatibility, too.

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #5 on Mar 13, 2008, 8:36pm »

Hello Everyone,

Here is a little Compatibilty List for Arbex.

Video Settings

* Stretch with Opengl - on
* Stretch -on
* Whole Frame Buffer - off
* Cycle 1 - "0"
* Cycle 2 - "0"
* Cycle 3 - "0"

Sound
* Threshold - "1000"
* Size - "2000"

On "run2"

I have not beat most of these games with the exception of Street Figther Alpha 3 which run really well, i'm going to try and beat Resident Evil 2 on it and see how well it works.

All Games Are US-NTSC Bin/cue format.

Castlevania STON - Sometimes screen does black.
Dino Crisis 2 - Rating 95% Minor audio problems
Legacy Of Kain - Rating 95% Has Slow Spots
Megaman 8 - Rating 100%
Metal Gear - Rating 20% Blacks out after elevator area when pressing select randomly
Need For Speed 3 - Rating 98% Some time missing speedometer on restart race.
One - Rating 0% Hangs on intro.
Parasite Eve 2 - Rating 0% Hangs on intro.
Rayman 2 - Rating 0% Hangs on intro.
RC Revenge - Rating 50% Screen stops for few seconds (randomly)
Ridge Racer - Rating 90% No background music
Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Rating 100%
Soul Blade - Rating 98% Minor video & audio problems
Wild Arms 2 - Rating 96% Audio problems in the starting screen.

BTW : This Emulators seems to work well on Wine 9.57 with strecth Opengl
and ati propietary driver.

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #6 on Mar 14, 2008, 5:21am »

Hello Everyone,

Just finished playing Resident Evil 2 on Arnex. Here's what happened!

Resident Evil 2 - Rating 50% Playing Claire's disc got a Black Screen 40 minutes into the game. (played on Run2)

And i don't know of a way to recover from the Black Screen so that makes this game unplayable on Arbex. I had so high hope for this emulator.

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #7 on Mar 14, 2008, 8:03am »

Thanks for doing this Solis.

Can you check for the same incompatibilities when using the Xebra executable with a real BIOS dump?

I'm guessing it will be more compatible - some hard evidence would be interesting.

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #8 on Mar 25, 2008, 8:45pm »

I would not go for ARBEX in the long run, as you never know if Dr. Hell did not introduce bugs when emulating the BIOS. XEBRA is the way to go for comparisions.

The only game I got not working was Formel Eins 2000... but that does not work in pSX either (see some other thread

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It runs a Dragonball game where pSX crashes after intro just fine (the name escapes me now, though)
And no cut voices in Theme Park World, EU version.

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #9 on Mar 26, 2008, 10:14am »

It can run Tekken 2 (PAL) straight from the CD. pSX hasn't been able to run any version of the game since 1.7.

Don't know how to kill that frame skip though. It reminds me of when you set MAME to auto frame skip in Tekken 2 arcade!

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Re: Xebra 08/03/10
« Reply #10 on Mar 26, 2008, 4:13pm »

You could try starting it from the command line with -? or -h or similar, Hei - there might be a switch to disable frameskip.

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