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Post by Firehawke on Aug 8, 2006 22:41:00 GMT -5
Okay, but that still doesn't actually make them *COMPLIANT* with DX9-- for instance, texture sizes are limited to 256x256. You'd have to do some serious workarounds to get it to be able to display correctly. Edit: Well, to be honest, I'm not sure this will work, and it's REALLY hacky-- the card isn't supported, and even if it DOES work it's likely to be really glitchy and have graphic issues, but... you can get around the lack of hardware texturing and lighting through this tool: www.3dfxzone.it/dir/tools/3d_analyze/This MIGHT help, but again.. I wouldn't call this a supported arrangement by any means. The 3DFX cards have serious limitations.
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Post by mynameische on Aug 9, 2006 9:22:49 GMT -5
yes, what about a cheat system. i like to make cheats for visualboy advance and zsnes and i would really like to make cheats for pSX emulator aswell. i know that you are trying to stay true to the workings of a real psx without the bloat but then, can it be an external app by any chance? if you could process cheats (old and new values and such, like in vba and zsnes) and save these cheats to memory card, it would be great if it works. but i just can't play games without cheats sometimes.
i think that this is all that's missing because to me, your emulator is perfect already.
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Post by mynameische on Aug 9, 2006 10:05:24 GMT -5
sorry for double posting, but i have another suggestion. what if you could also change the assignment of the savestate buttons. i really don't like how they are placed and prefer to assign them to whatever keys i choose.
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Post by Almehikilje on Aug 9, 2006 11:26:12 GMT -5
maybe can be a good idea put another frame for bios selection in order to be able to put three bioss (for example we can put one bios for video format PAL, NTSC and maybe the old JAP bios). and let the emu choose the correct bios for the cd we wants to run. will be nice if we can choose the screen resolution for screenshot directly by the Configuration -->Misc menĂ¹ (with the two standard psx 256x224 and 720x480 and the other standard window resolution 640x480 etc). I don't know if it doesn't work only on my pc but when i change the Gamma and brightness on the graphic options menĂ¹...nothing happend.. ..it's normal? thanks
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Aug 9, 2006 19:02:47 GMT -5
Your first idea... nice, but it'd still have to default to a certain bios, because it loads the bios before the game.
Your last thought on the graphics adjustment is a known issue, and is already being worked on, so hopefully it'll work by v1.8 release.
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Post by Ultima on Aug 9, 2006 22:41:42 GMT -5
Firehawke: Yep, I would've recommended 3DAnalyze as well, but as far as I remember, it requres DX8 or DX8.1, which, according to what you wrote, and what I saw on my googling, official drivers never supported, so there'd be no point if you're going to be using unofficial drivers anyway
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Post by Almehikilje on Aug 10, 2006 11:20:22 GMT -5
Your first idea... nice, but it'd still have to default to a certain bios, because it loads the bios before the game. Your last thought on the graphics adjustment is a known issue, and is already being worked on, so hopefully it'll work by v1.8 release. You can put one bios as default and specify the directory\files of the other two. By default the emu will start with the default bios and when it recognize a difference between the bios region and the cd (or cd image) it will restart itself using the right bios. Improving the compatibility will be for sure the most important thing (but also's more difficult) maybe adjust the ps1 ps2 pad support (with the classic USB-PS1/2 joypad adapter. And at the last i suggest to work on the single games in order to discover and improve the compatibility. I don't know where the other users are from, but maybe can be good if everybody will translate the readme into their native languages maybe with .html format. Sorry for my english
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Post by patrickp on Aug 10, 2006 12:21:53 GMT -5
I think I'd rather see a command line switch to select a BIOS. TBH, there are few games where BIOS really makes a difference, so automatic BIOS selection would be a bit superfluous IMHO - plus, waiting for a game to start, then stopping when the emu has identified it and restarting might become a bit tedious - some games take long enough to get started as it is...
But a switch to specify a BIOS when you want to (e.g. in a shortcut for a specific game) would be handy.
edit: and BTW, Almehikilje, you can specify different pad types (i.e. Normal, Analog + Rumble, dualshock and GunCon) with the -p switch - if that's what you mean by "adjust the ps1 ps2 pad support."
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Aug 10, 2006 13:18:48 GMT -5
Yeah, but the thing with that interpretation is... the emulator handles a PS1 and PS2 controller the same way. Especially considering that the only major difference between the two is analog input on the PS2 controller. I use my PS1 and PS2 controllers interchangably with the emulator. And the PS2-to-USB adapter makes the difference even smaller (although it's harder to get smaller than "nothing"). Maybe he's talking about rumble support (which doesn't work for me, despite it working for other emulators/games) and the few problems people have had using the converters and their original controllers. In that case, I'd simply have to say that it'll be done when it can be done, if at all. If it's my guess he's talking about, it's a well-known issue. I suppose that, whichever of our guesses is right, it doesn't matter either way, right?
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Post by LWares on Aug 11, 2006 7:35:31 GMT -5
Here are my suggestions for Psx 1.8:
1. A Cheat System should be added for Game-shark, Action Replay, Exploder & Many Other Cheat Devices.
2. The Configuration Menu should be moved to the Main Bar for easy access and also should be renamed as "Config".
3. The Eject Disc option doesn't work and makes the program crash. (This has been a fault for past and present versions of Psx)
4. A Memory Card manager should be added.
5. You should be able to select your own default CD/DVD drive to play PSOne Games
I think this is one of the greatest PSOne Emulators of All time! Keep up the good work and I hope Psx 1.8 is a success with my and other peoples suggestions.
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Post by drwhojoe on Aug 11, 2006 9:19:13 GMT -5
I can get the epsxe to work perfect with the voodoo 3000 and ditectX9 works also well but like i sed not the Psx 1.7 crash dump?, I also have the voodoo 2 pci card and the glide for project64 n64 games most games work very well and faster, Just the wright setings!.
Its just somethink not in this emu, I will use my matrox card for it!.
Drwhojan,
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Post by Firehawke on Aug 11, 2006 9:33:56 GMT -5
The reason is the texture size. 256x256 is not big enough to do the whole screen. You could get ePSXe to work using software rendering, and possibly to work with 3D acceleration if you set things up carefully.
pSX, on the other hand, appears to software render, blit to a texture, then display that texture using Direct3D. That texture is too big for the Voodoo 3 to handle.
This is a technical issue that is simply there because of how pSX does its screen writes. Pete's 3D plugins for ePSXe or other emulators can be set up the same way, and they'd break under the same config.
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Post by snoopy on Aug 11, 2006 12:10:57 GMT -5
Hi! As far as I can see this emulator is really impressive. And very fast and straight-forward. T his is what brings me to the following suggestion:
A port for the Dreamcast.
The dreamcast still has a big scene and followers. Games have been made in Japan until this year. And almost every system (console or computer) below 32bit has been emulated. There was one try on a PSX emulator for the dreamcast... Bleem - we all know what happened with that one. So it remained unfinished with only 3 games and a few scene releases working and without memorycard emulation. Yet, it was impressive and showed that it is possible to emulate the psx on the dc better than the PS2 was able to do it natively. Then the folks of pcsx1 tried port pcsx: it was quite promising but never completed due to pcsx2 getting somehow in the way (understandable ;-)). So please please please, do all of us dreamcast owners a big favour and port pSX to the dc. Ur name will be for ever in the hall of fame of the dreamcast scene.
Thank u for all the work that has already gone into pSX
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Post by psxchris on Aug 11, 2006 13:01:43 GMT -5
Forget making psx run on dreamcast! A good Dreamcast emulator for PC would me much nicer!
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Post by snoopy on Aug 11, 2006 13:25:56 GMT -5
well, u are right that it would be nice to have a better emu than for example chancast. I've given up on that. Besides, a real Dreamcast plugged to ur TV is really nice, believe me. Especially with all the homebrew and emulation stuff. Only a psx emu is missing (N64 emulation would prolly be too much for the hardware to handle). Cheers.
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