Question about PSX emulators.

[x_XTacTX_x]

I'm currently playing Chrono Cross on ePSXe, running from the CDROM of my own disk. I would play on my PS2, but when I do it freezes at the exact same spot, even though everything else works fine. So the question is: Will playing on an emulator instead of a Playstation stop it from freezing? Thanks in advance.

[FaustWolf]

Might be a compatibility issue. I'd actually go with psxfin (it goes by another name, forgot which now) and rip the game image to your hard drive with IsoBuster though.

[x_XTacTX_x]

Might be a compatibility issue. I'd actually go with psxfin (it goes by another name, forgot which now) and rip the game image to your hard drive with IsoBuster though.

Alright, I'll try that. The disc used to work peferctly with the console before though, So I don't know if it was just a scratch on the disk or whatever.

[FaustWolf]

IsoBuster will let you know if it's having problems reading the disc, so you'll know when you try to rip if there's major issues.

[utunnels]

It seems some epsxe emulators will freeze in character status menu.

[Romana]

If you're using epsxe, try version 1.52 (It's 1.5something...), and it should work nicely, and avoids the status screen freeze.

And from what I've heard, Cross discs start freezing for everyone with even a few scratches...

[utunnels]

My experience:

Status menu freeze:
1.52 with soft plugin no, with opengl2 plugin yes
1.70 no

Change disc:
1.52 no problem
1.70 never successful with an iso.

Startup freeze:
1.52 no
1.70 yes

And if you disable sound, 1.70 will freeze at startup(not just CC).

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I always keep epsxe 1.52 to 1.70 in the same folder, just rename the exe files.

[Sintu]

pSX1.13 worked great for me.  I played through the whole game without any problems (I was using an ISO though).  If you wanna avoid all the plugin nonsense of the ePSXe emulators, I'd go with that.

[TerraZack]

cant change disc on version 1.70 so use 1.52

[TriforceofEternity]

I don't scratch discs too bad but I do get them dirty so it's a good thing I don't have CC or I'd probably frustrate myself alot. 

[chrono eric]

pSX1.13 worked great for me.  I played through the whole game without any problems (I was using an ISO though).  If you wanna avoid all the plugin nonsense of the ePSXe emulators, I'd go with that.

The plugin "nonsense" is a pain in the ass for sure, but if you know what you are doing you can make ePSXe work far better than the other PSX emulators. It's perfect for playing most games flawlessly, and the ones it doesn't play flawlessly (like most FF games) can be made to work with the right plugins, while with other emulators this is sketchy at best.

[Sintu]

pSX1.13 worked great for me.  I played through the whole game without any problems (I was using an ISO though).  If you wanna avoid all the plugin nonsense of the ePSXe emulators, I'd go with that.

The plugin "nonsense" is a pain in the ass for sure, but if you know what you are doing you can make ePSXe work far better than the other PSX emulators. It's perfect for playing most games flawlessly, and the ones it doesn't play flawlessly (like most FF games) can be made to work with the right plugins, while with other emulators this is sketchy at best.

ePSXe makes some games look better than they did on the PS1, but it can still be a big pain even if you do know what you're doing.  All I was saying was if you don't feel like dealing with it, then pSX1.13 is the way to go.  I've had fewer "sketchy" situations with pSX113 than I have with ePSXe personally.

[chrono eric]

In pSX's defense, there are some games on ePSXe that annoy the hell out of me to try to get working right. Especially the cutscenes and the voice acting. They are:

Lunar 1 and 2, Grandia, Valkyrie Profile.

I've gotten each one to work perfectly, but it took serious tweaking and I almost gave up out of frustration several times.