[Ricshey79]

How does this game run on thie version of 1.4? I am wondering if the game is playable as well as the problems that I may encounter while playing it. Also what are the best plug in to use for this game. Thanks.

 

[firestarter]

The CC guy returns.....

I will test it under Pete's OGL, "so don't expect this to run on your machine."

 

[ChronoGuru]

Chrono Cross works quite well for me

I use Pete's OGL Plugin, Pete's 1.8 DSound plugin, and I'm currently waffling between the various CD plugins to get the MDECs to work perfectly on my machine.

Anyways, on my GeForce3 card, Full VRAM sprites must be enabled for me to see certain in engine scenes, like the transition to battle mode, and the scene at the end when it shows the world.

The MDECs work pretty well, except they frequently skip/stutter, usually minorly but sometimes severely. Twice today, the game has come to a grinding halt and stuttering uncontrollably. But both times it was during an MDEC. I think it's due to the CD plugin I was using.

Anyways, CC runs very very respectably on 1.4 (it did on 1.2 also). CC runs exclusively on ePSXe since nothing else works better for me.

 

[firestarter]

Specs for Plugins:

Pete's OGL 1.50 (optimal specs)
Pete's DirectSound 1.10/Iori's DS 1.4/ePSXe internal SPU core 1.4
ePSXe internal CDR
7001 BIOS

Well, the graphics seem quite close. I still see black lines just about everywhere, but still, it's getting close. As for sound, Pete's DS was pretty good at music, and was close at the selection sounds (which is the only problem with sound right now). Iori's had a bit of a problem with sounds. Even the weapon strikes sounded a bit wrong. Still, epsxe's internal sound core is the best.
The CDR plugin seems to skip up the cd a bit. I dunno why either. Runs a bit like this: :rockets: That misfired rocket being the skip.

That is all.

 

[firestarter]

UPDATE! UPDATE!

I this time used the most recent Iori plugin (1.43). Still the same. Also, it slowed down the most in the transition into battle.

GeForce3 isn't the only thing that was capable of doing that. My GeForce2 GTS DDR (under the new Detenator3) ran the transition rather smoothly, but the SPUs caused slowdowns.

And what do you mean by, "At the end where it shows the world?"

 

[KillerShots]

I don't have any black lines, you just need to change filtering from "Extended" to "Extended w/o sprites". Filtering sprites in that kind of game is a BAD idea, unless you use the shift-pgup thingie, and that needs a FAST CPU (More than 900 Mhz at least) .

 

[firestarter]

Thanx, God of the Pop Tarts. I'll keep that in mind.

 

[Gam3rX]

Originally posted by firestarter
And what do you mean by, "At the end where it shows the world?"

during the end game sequence, it shows the earth like from space
(like the one in ct's ending)

 

[firestarter]

O ok, thanx, though I don't know which ending. And don't spoil it for me, either.

 

[balem]

I have just start to play this game and everything is OK.
MDEC, sound and graphic also good.

 

[MooseMuffin]

I have a pretty low end machine (P2 400 gf2mx) and I run CC fine in 1024 768. I use Pete's OGL 1.50 and Pete's DirectSound 1.10. I play it using iso's because every cd rom plug in gave me too many problems to justify using them. I see the transition to battle scenes fine without full vram sprites and I use no filtering and everything looks fine.

 

[firestarter]

It's kinda pathetic, if you ask me. The blur effect does nothing except make the in game text a little better.

Pete, if you still post on this board, what are optimal specs on the OGL Plugin, excluding the full screen/windowed specs?

 

[kingking 3rd]

there are some noticeable slowdowns when casting some elements(magma burst, photon beam) and fighting in certain scenes( under water) with fvp enabled.

 

[alencious]

teleportal

Can you guys use the teleportal item in the game? On my system, a Duron 800 with a RIVA TNT2, epsx 1.4 with Pete DirectX 6 plugin, epsx sound plugin and epsx CDR plugin, the game sometime hang when I use the teleportal. Any help??

 

[MooseMuffin]

Does the music still play but the character screen never pops up? If so try hitting F7 when it happens.

 

[alencious]

Thanks, that really help

 

[firestarter]

You know, this teleporter thing reminds of the early days of SNES emulation. One of CT's problems was when you tried to make Character switches on the fly (specifically when you get new characters), the emulator hanged if you didn't have sound turned on. Well, _Demo_ managed to concoct a solution. He allowed the ability to turn on SPC700, but not sound on completely. It was a bit slower, but it fixed the problem.

 

[kingking 3rd]

Norris is the problem, but the problem goes away after you get more than 18 characters. However, you have to press F7 after battle if you use miki now... ... ...