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That's right, I think epsxe and Adripsx and all the other PSEmu Pro-based emulators are SORRY pieces of software at the moment. And here you will see why.
1) There is no coordination between any of the multitudes of plugins. They all act differently, do not play the same games, and, at least on my machine, all crash at different times. Also, there is no standard way of selecting between them quickly and easily. More on this later.
2) The CD-ROM plugins simply do not work well, not nearly to the point at which the CD-ROM function in Bleem works. They need a common, well-debugged code base from which to expand on. Or something. I tried all of the plugins on my Windows 2000 based machine, and none worked for any games (except a small part of GT1). Most just sat there after loading without even accessing the CDROM drive. yes, I have installed ASPI drivers through ForceAPSI and other methods. Also I'm using a SCSI CD-ROM but after installing an IDE it didn't work much better
3) The sound drivers suck big-time. I tried running the first few parts of Gran Turismo (the only parts I could get to, before a controller plugin bug prevented proceeding) and the only plugin that wouldn't crash epsxe or the whole system was the Core epsxe sound plugin. That one was stuttering and lame-sounding too.
4) There should be an easy, seamless way to run any game you want, WITHOUT having to change multitudes of options and plugins for each game. Right now this system of configuration makes emulation seem like a hacker's hobby (which it shouldn't be, if you guys ever want it to be successful). What we need is a standard system to select (or DETECT!!) correct settings that work for all systems, from a long, centralized list of games. That means people update the list on the net and then people download it to their emulator directories and everything will run first time, no hassle.
There you go, that's why PSX emulation at this point needs some serious working on and I've proposed ways to fix it. Personally I'm not gonna download or try an emulator again until a REALLY big advance is made, such as a version 2 that has automatic configuration. Saves me a lot of pain and wasted effort. (Especially because I'm running Windows 2000 and a SCSI cd-rom drive)
1) There is no coordination between any of the multitudes of plugins. They all act differently, do not play the same games, and, at least on my machine, all crash at different times. Also, there is no standard way of selecting between them quickly and easily. More on this later.
2) The CD-ROM plugins simply do not work well, not nearly to the point at which the CD-ROM function in Bleem works. They need a common, well-debugged code base from which to expand on. Or something. I tried all of the plugins on my Windows 2000 based machine, and none worked for any games (except a small part of GT1). Most just sat there after loading without even accessing the CDROM drive. yes, I have installed ASPI drivers through ForceAPSI and other methods. Also I'm using a SCSI CD-ROM but after installing an IDE it didn't work much better
3) The sound drivers suck big-time. I tried running the first few parts of Gran Turismo (the only parts I could get to, before a controller plugin bug prevented proceeding) and the only plugin that wouldn't crash epsxe or the whole system was the Core epsxe sound plugin. That one was stuttering and lame-sounding too.
4) There should be an easy, seamless way to run any game you want, WITHOUT having to change multitudes of options and plugins for each game. Right now this system of configuration makes emulation seem like a hacker's hobby (which it shouldn't be, if you guys ever want it to be successful). What we need is a standard system to select (or DETECT!!) correct settings that work for all systems, from a long, centralized list of games. That means people update the list on the net and then people download it to their emulator directories and everything will run first time, no hassle.
There you go, that's why PSX emulation at this point needs some serious working on and I've proposed ways to fix it. Personally I'm not gonna download or try an emulator again until a REALLY big advance is made, such as a version 2 that has automatic configuration. Saves me a lot of pain and wasted effort. (Especially because I'm running Windows 2000 and a SCSI cd-rom drive)