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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:54 pm    Post subject: Best PSX emulator?? Reply with quote

What is the all around best PSX emulator, one with good game play, little lag, good video and if possible (but not as important...) good sound emulation?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

epsxe is good.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

epsxe is currently the only playstation emulator in portage to my knowledge. It's also the best one available.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think there's one called PCSX as well, but i haven't tried it. I found epsxe to be really accurate and smooth, but the fact that it is impossible to get a second controller working, even with the padjoy plugin, makes it somewhat useless to me.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ah...the burning questions ^^

I'd would say PCSX, just because you can compile it from source. ePSXe was not intended at first for use with Linux, and in my opinion, ePSXe Linux is buggy as hell
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shotpiece wrote:
I think there's one called PCSX as well, but i haven't tried it. I found epsxe to be really accurate and smooth, but the fact that it is impossible to get a second controller working, even with the padjoy plugin, makes it somewhat useless to me.


Me and a freind of mine have played Ehrgeiz with two controllers. It works fine. Also, epsxe linux works fine.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have never gotten the 2nd controller to work either...

Anyone know how to rip playstation cds? I've got a few games I would like to keep on my computer.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mallow005 wrote:
I have never gotten the 2nd controller to work either...

Anyone know how to rip playstation cds? I've got a few games I would like to keep on my computer.


I know how in linux. In windows, yo ucan use cloneCD.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile game.bin --device ATAPI:0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc-raw game.toc

That worked for me in the past. It's been a while since I tried but I don't see why it would be any different now.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anybody been able to get an emulator working with analog input? This is the one thing keeping me from playing my PSX games, it is terribly terribly frustrating.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

im playing gt2 using epsxe 1.6 + padjoy plugin with a ms sidewinder pro gamepad on usb. its analog and works great
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Um, aren't roms and emulators illegal?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sure. so destroy your bioschip immediately and go to closest jail.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

epsxe works great for me under linux. :P
Instead of wasting cds i use simply the plain iso files, lying on the Server here... But they are all ripped years ago with nero!
For the second Gamepad i use this http://interreality.org/~tetron/technology/joy2key/
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sonicbhoc wrote:
Um, aren't roms and emulators illegal?


Yeah, the qemu project runs the mafia and the bochs guys control the triads...
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dr. Arbeitslos wrote:
im playing gt2 using epsxe 1.6 + padjoy plugin with a ms sidewinder pro gamepad on usb. its analog and works great
Any insight on how you got this working? Or did it just seem to work automatically for you? I am using a Logitech Rumblepad 2, the sticks register fine in other games but never worked with any PSX emulator.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sonicbhoc wrote:
Um, aren't roms and emulators illegal?
Yup, the exact same way all mp3s are "illegal".
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A great and simple to use PSX Emulator for Windows is pSX. It can be found at http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ and maybe it works under Linux via Wine?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

epsxe works fine for me
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dr. Arbeitslos wrote:
im playing gt2 using epsxe 1.6 + padjoy plugin with a ms sidewinder pro gamepad on usb. its analog and works great


Did you manage to get both analog sticks working or just one ? I only got one working, so that's not really helpfull...
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Htbaa wrote:
A great and simple to use PSX Emulator for Windows is pSX. It can be found at http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ and maybe it works under Linux via Wine?


It has been ported to linux recently,unfortunately I don't have a linux box right now.

Can anyone try it?

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/pSX_linux_1_11.tar.bz2
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Emulators are not illegal as long ad they wre developed correctly. Using ROMs you have the rights to use is not illegal (it's shaky but probably OK to use a ROM if you bought the original CD--not strictly legal probably but you're fairly safe). Going to bittorrent and downloading a ROM image is pretty clearly not legal, of course...
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vputz wrote:
Emulators are not illegal as long ad they wre developed correctly. Using ROMs you have the rights to use is not illegal (it's shaky but probably OK to use a ROM if you bought the original CD--not strictly legal probably but you're fairly safe). Going to bittorrent and downloading a ROM image is pretty clearly not legal, of course...


i believe emulation falls under "fair use", providing you have the original media, be it a nes cartridge, or a psx cd. :wink:
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bunder wrote:
vputz wrote:
Emulators are not illegal as long ad they wre developed correctly. Using ROMs you have the rights to use is not illegal (it's shaky but probably OK to use a ROM if you bought the original CD--not strictly legal probably but you're fairly safe). Going to bittorrent and downloading a ROM image is pretty clearly not legal, of course...


i believe emulation falls under "fair use", providing you have the original media, be it a nes cartridge, or a psx cd. :wink:


Not necessarily true. Emulators are under "fair use", providing they are cleanly reverse engineered using the "Chinese Wall" technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design). However, ripping of the ROMs may or may not be legal; it depends on how the data is stored. For example, ripping a PS2 game off a DVD would violate the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), since the DMCA specifies that it is illegal to bypass an "encrypted" security measure, even if the encryption is crappy, as in the case of the CSS encryption used on DVDs. Yes, it is even illegal if you own the DVD and just want to make a backup copy.

DMCA has beaten out "fair use" in the recent past, which is a travesty.

Course, this is the same reason there is no legal free DVD player for linux (can buy a license of PowerDVD for linux and you're all set though). Same reason it is illegal to rip a movie off a DVD you own so you can watch it on, say, a PSP. Nope, legally, you need to buy both the DVD and the little PSP disc. Wicked stupid anti-consumer laws...

Interested? Read Free Culture by Lessig: http://www.free-culture.cc/

Oh, and epsxe is pretty good.
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