Just wanted to say thanks!

[LiNuX-CoRe]

To pSX Author,

Thanks for the wonderful PSX Emulator. I have a PSOne right next to me, but it's much easier to use pSX and chat with my girlfriend at the same time, rather than having to pause, look over at my PC and then go back.

I now remember why I loved FF7 so much. Thank you again. It's fast, it's friendly and it works with my gamepad converter (finally, but not the emu's fault...(-_-)).

Now, once you make it for Linux (which I'm using ePSXe right now for it), I will throw out leave ePSXe for pSX on Linux as well. Still, if I ever want "enhanced graphics", it's always there, but I'm more for compatibility and stability, not to mention accuracy.

Keep up the GREAT work, despite the nay-sayers that want graphics before accuracy.

Jesse~

[patrickp]

I don't think the

nay-sayers that want graphics before accuracy

last long round here, Jesse. Once you see how how good accuracy is for playing games (and the almost total lack of slowdowns that goes with eschewing enhancement), preferring enhancement becomes a bit of an indefensible attitude.

For me, it's the 'transparency' - i.e. you don't think about whether you're playing on a console or emulating one, because on the the very large number of fully compatible games, there's nothing to get in the way.

[Gamesoul Master]

And for me... the bilinear filtering is about as much as I would ever want for enhancement. And it serves its purpose well. When I extended my desktop onto my 27" HDTV, playing pSX with the filtering off did indeed look very much like playing it on the monitor with the filtering on.

Although... playing anything on the HDTV, even with the resolution set the same as my monitor, things still runs slower. I don't mean pSX specifically... I mean *everything*. I actually can't play VisualBoy Advance on there unless I turn all filtering off and set the window size no higher than 2x. But pSX... even with bilinear filtering using fullscreen or a maximized window, will still run at full speed for nearly every game. I have to really push it to make it lag, and it'll only give any kind of lag on the couple most complex games I own.

That's just one example of just how great pSX is. Thought I'd mention it, since you don't hear too much around here about how it actually runs on a HDTV set as a monitor.

[icedagger]

I want to thank you pSX's developers too. In the past, I only know two PS1 emulators: VGS and ePSXe (actually I see other but never interesting to test them). But when I changed PC or Windows version, graphic card, I have to reconfigure ePSXe and not always meet the good result. VGS don't need to configure but it seem to be death and no further improvement. So I always looking for emu like VGS and still alive so I found pSX at www.aldostools.com.

Now I can play my Final Fantasy Tactics again. Thanks you very much.

I think the strong point of pSX emulator over other are the following:

- Very easy to run, less preparation step to run the emu (just only bios and directX dll)
- Compatible with real PS1. With no graphic improvement it make user feel they are playing real PS1 which is good for many game.

Features that I think it will be useful:
- Graphic filter switching (not complicate configue like ePSXe) I want the same way that work in Kawak emulator (NeoGeo) that I can type shotcut key to fast switch among filter: eagle, scanline etc.

[Ultima]

Eh such filters would contradict your second strong point for the emulator ;\

Edit: Unless you mean what Gamesoul Master interpreted it as. In which case I've gotten the message: "Ultima should shut up and stop misinterpreting people" xD

[Gamesoul Master]

Maybe he just means a shortcut key to toggle bilinear filtering on and off, as his example was referring specifically to Kawak...

[icedagger]

Well, actually I want:
1. shotcut key to switch fileter on/off like kawak can. (I want to compare which filter is great in my PC)
2. Ready-to-use filters to easy improvement graphic in some case. Yes I know it against the strong point I said. I still want pSX to does not apply graphic improvemnt by default (like it currently be).

Actullly I love how easy we can use filter like we use in Kawak.

Sorry if this make you confuse. Ha Ha I'm not sure myself.

[Gamesoul Master]

Well... your second one will not happen any time soon (if ever). Basically... any other graphics filters have a little less priority than working PS2 emulation... if that gives you any kind of idea.

So me and Ultima were *both* right... lol. Probably the best way it could be.

[Ultima]

If anything, since people seem to love hotkeys so much, maybe pSX Author should make a more sophisticated hotkey system not unlike foobar2000's... ;P

(That was mostly "jk," but there's still some seriousness to that request -- lately, I've been wanting to map the same button/misc hotkey to multiple keys on my keyboard, and it's just not possible with the way hotkeys currently are)

[patrickp]

icedagger said:

- Very easy to run, less preparation step to run the emu (just only bios and directX dll)

Although installing d3dx9_26.dll will solve the problem of pSX not running, the optimum solution is to keep your DX installation updated. Although the name, DirectX 9.0c stays the same, M$ actually update it every few months. The current version, December 2006, actually contains versions up to d3dx9_32.dll.

[londonontguy]

Thanks from me to. Couldn't have found this at a better time because my real PS1 is starting to die after 7 years of usage.

Sure I can use them on my PS2, but I certainly can't do that for the back-ups I have. :-D

And there is ePSXe, but I've always thought it was a pain in the ass to get to run properly. I'd always just give up and go back to the real one instead.

As for tweaks mentioned, the only thing I wouldn't mind seeing is scanlines.