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Solid_Choke

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Most Playable CT Version
« on: November 06, 2006, 05:57:52 pm »
I recently dusted off Chrono Cross and played through it from the beginning after finding it while I was cleaning my house. Anyways after I finished I wanted to play through CT again but I am not sure which version I should play. I originally played CT on SNES and later using ZSNES on Windows. I bought FF Chronicles when it came out but I didn't finish CT on it because the extras were just not worth the load times. When I was in highschool I used to play Metal Gear Solid on my laptop using a playstation emulator. I searched around today and found ePSXe and it says that you can play games from ".iso"s. Has anyone tried playing FF Chronicles on ePSXe? I was thinking that if you create an .iso of the game and run it from your hard drive you could eliminate the long load times and play CT'99 with almost cartridge-like load times. What do you guys think? Has anyone ever tried this?
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2006, 09:13:27 pm »
Would be awesome if that worked. Sorry I don't know much about it, but if it works somehow the way you said I'd be thrilled.

Hopefully someone knows.
Goodluck.
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Solid_Choke

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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2006, 10:14:22 pm »
Quote from: Glennleo on November 06, 2006, 09:13:27 pm
Would be awesome if that worked. Sorry I don't know much about it, but if it works somehow the way you said I'd be thrilled.

Hopefully someone knows.
Goodluck.
Download the Windows and Linux Binaries Here: http://www.epsxe.com/download.php
You can get various video and audio plugins for ePSXe here: http://www.pbernert.com/index.htm
You can find the correct BIOS files with a quick Google Search: http://www.google.com/search?q=SCPH-1001&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The only other thing you might need is ISO creation software for putting the game on the HD, but most burning programs have one built in.
I'll do some testing this weekend and compare it to the the loading speed of the FF:C version on my PS2, although I would appreciate if a couple others would give it a go as well. Also I am open to trying other PSX emulators especially if they allow you to play games from a CD image file.

Update:
I am also going to give pSX a try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_emulator

Update 2: OMG! I am hyperventilating right now. I loaded up FF:C in pSX and it started crashing and wouldn't display the main menu where you select which game you want to play but after it make a bunch of wierd noises it totally skipped FFIV and booted straight in CT! It plays the game flawlessly so far(I have only started playing but everything seems normal). Not only that but you never see any interlacing while playing like you would if you are running the SNES ROM on your computer. This is so awesome. I wouldn't keep playing all night if I didn't have an economics midterm in the morning! I think I may be able to play CT the way it was meant to be:quick load times and Akira Toriyama FMV sequences.
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2006, 04:49:00 am »
Interlacing?  In ZSNES?  Really?
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2006, 08:03:00 am »
Watch as those links get removed very soon. They're illegal, y'know...
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2006, 03:37:50 pm »
Quote from: White Rider on November 07, 2006, 04:49:00 am
Interlacing?  In ZSNES?  Really?
I guess it really isn't interlacing but screen tearing I am experiencing, which I should be able to fix with Vsync I think but the PSX version I didn't experience the same thing even without Vsync enabled. I'll look into it more when I get back tonight.

Quote from: Pyt Fumv on November 07, 2006, 08:03:00 am
Watch as those links get removed very soon. They're illegal, y'know...
Illegal as in not allowed on the boards? All the emulators and plugins I linked to are open source or freeware. If they aren't allowed then please PM me and I'll edit my post and take them out. Please don't just delete my post or anything. Thanks guys. Also have any of you guys tried this yet? And what is your opinion on the Playstation version versus the original(besides the load times which are pretty much solved if you are reading off of the HD instead of the CD)?
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2006, 06:16:22 pm »
Emulaters are in no way illegal.  ROMS however are.  Dispite what most people will say, ripping your own cartriges is illegal also.
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Solid_Choke

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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2006, 07:33:40 pm »
Quote from: Rydis on November 07, 2006, 06:16:22 pm
Emulaters are in no way illegal.  ROMS however are.  Dispite what most people will say, ripping your own cartriges is illegal also.
I haven't posted any links to ROMs whatsoever and I am legally entitled to make backups of my PSX games which I legally purchased. I thought Pyt was referring to posting links to emulators being against the rules of the forums or something, because I know for a fact they are not illegal(at least not in the US or Canada).
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Solid_Choke

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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2006, 02:15:10 pm »
So does anyone else prefer the PSX version on their PC over the SNES version?
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2006, 01:52:57 pm »
Quote from: Solid_Choke on November 08, 2006, 02:15:10 pm
So does anyone else prefer the PSX version on their PC over the SNES version?

Any of the versions if played on an emulator, for the simple fact that you can accelerate the game and skip lots of time of walking and lvling up  8)

Still, I myself prefer the SNES version for its more "original", "old school" feel. Still, I usually buff the graphics as much as the emulator lets  8)
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #10 on: November 10, 2006, 09:43:54 am »
ZSNES with the Hq3x/Hq4x filter is the best emulator to play with :)
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2006, 11:15:09 am »
Quote from: Solid_Choke on November 07, 2006, 07:33:40 pm
Quote from: Rydis on November 07, 2006, 06:16:22 pm
Emulaters are in no way illegal.  ROMS however are.  Dispite what most people will say, ripping your own cartriges is illegal also.
I haven't posted any links to ROMs whatsoever and I am legally entitled to make backups of my PSX games which I legally purchased. I thought Pyt was referring to posting links to emulators being against the rules of the forums or something, because I know for a fact they are not illegal(at least not in the US or Canada).

I wasn't pointing anyone out.  Just stating that ROM images are illegal when done from a *cartridge*.  I never said anything about disks.  Its very finiky.  Also if your PSX does have the encryption like most DVD's then its illegal to break that encryption.  Since you need to break the encryption to copy the disk, you can't make a copy without it being illegal.  This however, holds true only to dvd's that have it.  Alot don't have it making it 100% legal.
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Re: Most Playable CT Version
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2006, 03:55:15 pm »
By the by, the ZSNES version of the game is, in my opinion, the most playable, because it combines the lack of facetous anime cutscenes in the PSX version with the ability to hit ESC and smash in some codes to go get yourself a Graedus, 99 Megalixers, or whatever the hell else you could want.
GRAVITY GUN OF SMASHAGE!
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