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Post by Sune on Feb 23, 2007 12:04:43 GMT -5
I like your list because you've only tested actual, original Playstation CDs.
This way there can be no incompatibilities caused by bad ripping, and I guess judging by the number of games that work it can be established that your PC's optical drive can read original Playstation CDs without issues, so problems caused by drive incompatibility can be ruled out as well.
Bad images and incapable optical drives have turned out to be the cause of many reported incompatibilities.
Ideas for improvement:
For the games on your list that didn't work, you could try searching for ppf patches for them - then use Ultima's pSX front-end to apply the patches on-the fly. This way you can establish if the problems are caused by copy protection.
Try with other BIOS as well (especially if a game won't boot at all)
For example at the moment the US versions of Duke Nukem Time to Kill and Land of the Babes will only run in pSX with SCPH-1002, which is a PAL BIOS!
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Post by patrickp on Feb 23, 2007 14:48:24 GMT -5
Don't know if it's so with those games, Sune, but GM's pointed out many times that using a PAL BIOS can often get an NTSC game with copy or mod protection working.
But I agree with your views on the CD-only approach. pSX actually seems to work much better with CDs than some other emulators - ePSXe, for instance, never seems to run as well with CDs as it does with images. pSX, however, usually seems to work just as well with a CD as with an image ripped from it.
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Post by Sune on Feb 23, 2007 18:30:36 GMT -5
Don't know if it's so with those games, Sune, but GM's pointed out many times that using a PAL BIOS can often get an NTSC game with copy or mod protection working Yeah I noticed this is the case with Yu-Gi-Oh and Legend of Dragoon. The Duke games I mentioned used to work in pSX with the US BIOS though. I think they stopped working in 1.9 but I couldn't say for sure. Anyway it's in one of my reports somewhere in the murky depths of the game compatibility forum.
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Post by kinghanco on Mar 2, 2007 8:51:32 GMT -5
You can't use patches while pSX testing. Patching is like hacking games. I will never patch my games anyway. If the games doesn't work then I will wait on another pSX release to re-test those.
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Post by patrickp on Mar 2, 2007 13:01:07 GMT -5
You can use Ultima's Frontend to patch on-the-fly, kinghanco, so it involves no actual modification of the game at all - it also means you can do it with a Playstation CD.
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Post by kinghanco on Mar 3, 2007 3:46:02 GMT -5
Yea but it still hacking to get the games to load. But I don't know what pSX have in mind about this. I don't want to mislead him by sending false reports. I want the games to run the right way and I hope pSX does too.
#1 rules in my mind. Don't send reports to pSX when using patches.
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Post by patrickp on Mar 3, 2007 7:03:56 GMT -5
I don't see that it's at all inappropriate, as long as you say you're using a patch, kinghanco. After all, if it works, it works, and it may be very helpful for people who want to get the game running.
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