gradientpixel Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 I have been trying to get setup with a PS1 emulator and haven't had much luck yet. I have only been working between these two emulators with one game, Ape Escape, so I am not certain if it is "rom" related or settings needing configured. I have had more luck with PCSXr (reloaded) with this specific game to at least run. All preloaded GPU plugins or plugins from Pete's has not worked. I had a small break through of trying the GSDX GPU plugin from PS2 loaded in PCSXr however the game performed at 400 to 500 FPS (lol who would think about complaining of having too much FPS). I would prefer to get PCSXr with the PS2 GSDX plugin to work since this would have a bit cleaner graphics. Anyone have ideas? Running Windows 8.1, 8 Gb Ram, Intel i3, AMD Radeon R5 230. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 This doesn't speak directly to your question about those specific emulators, but for PS1 emulation, Mednafen, Xebra, and RetroArch are all good, if not better options. For RetroArch, you only have to install the program, put bios in the /system directory, and play. It looks better too.. or at least, you have more graphical options. I haven't used either of those emulators in so long, I'm not sure how much help I can, but I don't remember PCSX being too diffuclt. It should be a matter of: Putting correct version of bios in correct folder Pointing emulator to bios Making sure your rom is in a compatible format (bin, cue, iso etc.) And then playing. Let me know what extension the game has and where you got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 There are lots of settings for each emulator out there, and it is hard to know what to do. On our YouTube page I did tutorials for these two systems, except PS1 I used RetroArch. I do personally find it to be a better emulator but it is odd to setup. A lot of our tutorials go over RetroArch though so you can get a lot of help there. For PS2 I did set-up PCSX2. I am unsure if it will help your specific case, but it might give you some more information that you didn't know about previous and it might help. If it doesn't I'm more than happy to try and keep helping you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradientpixel Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Sorry for my question being somewhat vague. I have had good experience with PCSX2 and I figured since I had put a good deal of time in that emulator I would understand the one for PS1. RetroArch is one that I have not tried so I will give that one a shot. Outside of the BIOS, what are some good plugins that you guys recommend for RetroArch or would the same for PCSX work there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 It doesn't work the same at all. There are no plugins to deal with, or add, or download. You just have RetroArch, the cores, and the settings. If you are having trouble set things up I've covered PS1 and RetroArch in our YouTube Tutorial series. That link is in my signature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradientpixel Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 Well, I downloaded RetroArch and got several cores for NES, SNES, and N64 which all work perfect. The only core I seen for PS1 was Mednafen PSX which I got as well. This one, however, is not working for me. I went to get another PS1 game to just make sure it wasn't with the one ISO. I get an error as below when I try to run the games through LaunchBox: I made sure that my BIOS files are located in ..\RetroArch\System\ and I even looked in the Emulator settings within LaunchBox where I had to add the .dll file as an Associated Platform. Now I do remember accidentally deleting a Microsoft Visual C++ Redistribution so one of these may be missing. Below is an image of the ones I do have to hopefully help troubleshoot that possibility. I must say, however, that I do enjoy RetroArch. Thanks for introducing it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Can you get RA to launch the game outside of LaunchBox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradientpixel Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 No, I get the same error trying to launch it in RA alone. Couldn't get that second image to work on last post so hopefully this one shows up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 You could try saving your LaunchBox.xml and all metadata folders in another location uninstalling LaunchBox and then reinstalling as I believe it will download the redistribution files when you set up LB of course I am not 100 on this. I'm also unsure if uninstalling LB will delete any of your folders that is why I am suggesting that you copy them somewhere safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 LB only installs those when LB can't find them. Since RA works otherwise though, this might not be the problem? Did you happen to follow our tutorial on PS1? There are other PS1 cores in RA, but the mednafen one is really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradientpixel Posted January 27, 2016 Author Share Posted January 27, 2016 Yes, I am pretty sure everything was as the tutorial mentioned but I may start over from a clean slate just to see if I missed anything. Both games already had .cue files packaged with the .iso files and that was what I had RA pointing to (I just gave it a shot and pointed to the .iso files with no luck too). I did manage to find a set of C++ redistributable installs from 2005 to 2013 and installed or repaired those that where already installed. No luck there. It does seem to not be related to LB since RA on its own will not work and last night I installed ePSXe and launched it on its own without success. ePSXe was not able to launch those games nor would it even boot to a BIOS. For the BIOS put in the RetroArch\System\ based on what it appeared in the tutorial, looks to hold as many or little BIOS files within there correct? One last thing, I was able to see when the emulators "crashed" that Event Viewer did log the events. I may add the screenshots of those, if that may help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Using_RetroArch#BIOS Those are the BIOS files you need, you can find two of them, but the 3rd one doesn't exist. You need to rename a 1000 series BIOS to match the numbers. Also, make sure RetroArch's File Path settings are correct, RA doesn't always ship with the correct file path for the system folder, so pointing it to that path then saving the settings might help too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradientpixel Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share Posted January 30, 2016 Must thank you for the help. I renamed the BIOS files correctly and made sure that RA was pointing to the System directory and every ran perfect. I love the widescreen hacks RA provides as well. Took me a little to figure out how to enable the dualshock controller but I am all set. Thank you all for the input and thank you @SentaiBrad for the solution! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 No problem, enjoy your games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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