What is the ideal emulator and ideal settings

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What is the ideal emulator and ideal settings

Post by lockharte »

to play these PSX games?

1. Tactics Ogre
2. FFVIII
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Post by Agozer »

ePSXe, PSxEven, or SSSPSX should suffice.

As far as plugins go, Pete's OpenGL2 plugin with full framebuffer emulation, Off-Screen drawing and texture window emulation (P.E.Op.S. Softwar plugin is probably enough for Tactics Ogre though.

For sound, Eternal SPU with 'Update before accessing register' enabled in config.
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Post by kick »

Why bother with plugins and junk?
Just download the awesome little emulator called 'pSX' and experience those games just as you would on the real thing.
Graphics and sound are faithful to the real PSX and there's very little options to tinker with.Even with the default settings you'll be 'shocked' :)

Make sure you have a decent joypad,and optionally use that TV out from your graphics card to feed your starving 'boob tube'.


a little secret: if all else fails,use the WIP :D

ePSXe,SSSPSX,PSxEven and the rest of the plugin-based emus are not bad if you want to play your games the way they were *NOT* meant to be played (ex. with filtered textures,insane resolutions,extra shader crap,AA,AF,...)
For an authentic experience,stick to the ones that are designed with accuracy in mind,like pSX.

I personally use pSX 95% of the time and ePSXe just for 1 game still not emulated with pSX (although 'Ape Escape' looks great at 3.1 Megapixels) :)
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Post by Agozer »

hey, everybody is entitled to the opinion, and you choose pSX. I'm sure with a little testing, lockharte can find the emulator he feels most comfortable with. I just gave him options.

You can get just as authentic experience if you want that by using a software graphics plugin.
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Post by snkcube »

pSX has problems running those games. Check the game compatibility list.
Try out CCleaner and other free software at Piriform
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Post by kick »

OK,then for these games ePSXe with Pete's Soft GPU / Eternal SPU / Pete's CD/DVD plugin will work like a dream :)
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