Please remember when posting about game testing!!!

[smegforbrain]

Please remember, folks, that the more data you give about the games you're trying to test, the better the compatibility list will be.

Just giving the game title doesn't do anybody any good for a lot of reasons.

Please provide the following information with your posts regarding game compatibility:

Complete & accurate game title

Game ID - this can be found either on the game packaging, the disc itself. Or, if using a mounted image, by accessing the directory of the virtual drive the image is mounted to, and one of the files there will give the game ID. The file you're looking for should be as follows: S***_###.##, where * is a letter, and # is a digit from 0-9.

BIOS info - this is useful, but not as important, as most games that do run will probably run under any bios.

Settings used with pSX - please test with Default settings before trying others.

Version of pSX you're using.

Comments - such as whether the game is working ok, any issues discovered.

If you can't test the game to the end, at least try testing things like in-game menus & options, saving the game to a memory card, viewing FMV's, etc.


pSX Compatibility List:
psx.silvanthalas.com


Also, here's a couple of links that helpful folks have provided in the past to help with game testing:

PSX Master List
www.angelfire.com/amiga2/link343/PSXLIST.html

Comprehensive list of game titles, region, and game id

PSX Copyright Protection List #1
www.geocities.com/psxcplist/

Listing of known copyright protected PSX games with some notes regarding patches and other info.

PSX Copyright Protection List #2
www.cdrom-guide.com/ubb/Archives/Archive-000001/HTML/20010525-19-000903.html

Listing of known copyright protected PSX games.





Ultima: Added emphasis for easier spotting of important information

[Melanogaster]

There's a little mistake on your list. You've placed the comment "setloc error" on the game Gran Turismo 2 Arcade Disc, SCUS_94455. I'm the one who tested this game, and there are no errors running it. I believe it's the PAL Gran Turismo 2 Arcade Disc the one who has a "setloc error", since it's not working.
By the way, why did you change the 'not properly working' games' color from orange to pink...?

[smegforbrain]

melanogaster said:

There's a little mistake on your list. You've placed the comment "setloc error" on the game Gran Turismo 2 Arcade Disc, SCUS_94455.

Oops. Yeah, I've moved that to the right spot now.

melanogaster said:

By the way, why did you change the 'not properly working' games' color from orange to pink...?

The color that was used I don't believe is available on my list of colors (this was originally in OpenOffice, I'm using MS Excel).

Now that I'm going over the list, I see that I missed a couple of games in trying to keep the colors consistent. And it's more of a pink than orange on my system.

I'm going to change it to something more orange-ish, but I just wanted to use something in the meantime where I wouldn't have to copy&paste other text just to use the color.

Unfortunately, I'm finding out that Excel isn't being very agreeable with formatting and such.

[Melanogaster]

smegforbrain said:

Oops. Yeah, I've moved that to the right spot now.

That's weird... I can still see it stated on the SCUS_94455 disc.

As for the colors, I don't know if you were already planning on changing it, but thanks for that, anyway.

[smegforbrain]

melanogaster said:

That's weird... I can still see it stated on the SCUS_94455 disc.

You're right. I had it saved, but apparently not. Or something.

Can you tell I could use a vacation right about now?

[Ultima]

If you can't test the game to the end, at least try testing everything available to you, like menus, options, saving, etc.

@smegforbrain: I was going to edit your post, but didn't want to do so without your permission, but anyway, do you want to add this to the first post? Some people might just leave after reading the first post, especially when the rest of this post became conversation-ish ;P

[smegforbrain]

Sure.

I should probably edit it anyways due to the changes in the fields listed with the list.

[patrickp]

smegforbrain said:

Unfortunately, I'm finding out that Excel isn't being very agreeable with formatting and such.

Don't know which Excel you're using, smeg, but I've found that, with Excel 2000, there are a lot of formatting bugs which were not fixed properly 'till SP-3. Which is a particular pain since they've only managed to get as far as SP-2 at work... ;-(

Mind you, if you think that's bad, they're _still_ using Netscape 4.5 as the corporate browser, and a network that runs like a pig and falls over every time someone sneezes! Go figure...

[smegforbrain]

patrickp said:

Don't know which Excel you're using

Excel 2002.

But I've got it pretty much working & looking how I want now, after some trial & error testing.

[roushimsx]

Another nice index is SonyIndex.com (look by index number or name), which also had a nice disc image renaming utility, which should damn near become mandatory just to standardize everything.

[Ultima]

@smegforbrain: Hm, I think I'm going to deprecate this thread for the emptier and more organized Things to Remember!!! thread... I'd rather keep the thread clean, but prefer not to delete posts. Do you mind? If you have anything new to suggest, you can always PM an administrator to add it.

[smegforbrain]

Not a problem.