Do you REALLY need updates from pSX emulator?

[stevengrx20]

Hi, I followed this forum for a while, and since we don't know anything about psxAuthor, probably because his personal life, I want to say some stuff about that. First of all, psxAuthor did a wonderful job with pSX emulator, but I was wondering why so much chatting about a next release. when pSXAuthor released version 1.13 he stated that "This emulator fully emulates the Sony Playstation" and pSX runs a great majority of the games. Some of us always expect a bit more of compatibility just because X game doesnt work well or doesnt work at all, but in my opinion other emulators like epsxe and pcsx can supply those needs.

I'm talking about emulating the PSX, we always want more features to be added, like scanlines, enhanced graphics, 2xsai and HD filters, better performance, etc.. but that's another story.

when I find that X game doesnt work well or doesnt work at all on pSX, I just try epsxe or pcsx with the following configuration:

- P.E.O.pS Soft Driver 1.18
- Eternal SPU Plugin 1.41
- Mooby2 cd 2.8
- PSX Bios SCPH1001.BIN

Every time i've tried this, worked like a charm.. but even using the same plugins, it stills depends of the emulator, for example..

Adidas Power Soccer doesn't work on pSX or pcsx, but does work with ePSXe 1.7, same plugins!

Instead I tried V-Rally 97 and freezes in the middle of a race. Then I tried epsxe, works well but no CCDA background music. Sooo?, full playable with pcsx CCDA tracks included, same plugins! and so on..

In my opinion, I dont mind about a next release, yeah, we always want a "perfect emulator" to run all our games in just one emulator and have cool features, but as a programmer (i'm a programmer too) that's really hard to do and consumes your life very quicky. Let's be grateful about the gift of using an emulator to play our classic stuff, perfectly or not, and enjoy the ride of following the work of all those emulator's developers .

[aydan]

I think updated would be nice just to improve general compatability. When trying to play the Resident Evil games using epsxe all I ran into were issues all the time, movies not playing, sounds not working, games not even loading at all. They all work perfect in this Emu. I'm well aware how to setup and configure plugins but the fact this emu is literally plug and play it's just amazing...

Maybe if pSXAuthor made this open source or something to allow it to further be developed..

[Gamesoul Master]

People wonder about the next release because pSX Author said he was pretty much done with v1.14 and was going to release it soon. And then he disappeared from the forums. Yes, better compatibility and all that other stuff is nice too. But people are curious to have what was apparently already done for the most part.

Not to mention, a lot of people are hurt over the complete silence about the whole thing. I'd like to think we were a pretty solid community here, and it's very disappointing to go from being a big happy family to suddenly hearing nothing at all.

[silvanthalas]

Considering the number of games that have problems with compatibility or don't run at all, yes, updates are still needed.

Not to mention, I've long thought about doing an update to the compatibility list, but the actual urge to do so is at 0 due to a lack of new versions to test games in.

[SOF]

xa volume must be fix, emu the real psx xa volume.