[andwan0]

I have tried these PSX games and could not get them to work with ePSXe 1.5.2 or 1.7.0:

Discworld 1
MDK
Theme Hospital (loads intro but freezes afterwards)

Anyone experienced this too? Do we need patches (though I couldn't find any).

 

[jonc2006]

are you playing from the discs or from images of them? if you are doing the latter what format did you make them in?

 

[andwan0]

They are disc images, in CloneCD (very old) format.

I was using MagicDisc virtual CD drive and that didn't work (or was too slow to load). So I used Daemon Tools and Discworld & MDK was working.

Theme Hospital throws an error saying can't access subchannel data. I'll probably try and rip it again.

 

[jonc2006]

indeed re-rip the image but make sure you still use something like cloneCD or alcohol, as the .ccd or mdf formats will allow you to get around the copy protection.

btw i suggest following the tutorials in the thread below, that way you can be sure that you are doing it right.

http://forums.ngemu.com/misc-psx-discussion/34515-how-make-perfect-backup-psx-games.html

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

Theme hospital is better played using the W95 version.

 

[andwan0]

True, but since multiplayer is based off IPX and IPX is so so slow over high-ping internet connections (ie. Hamachi VPN)... or DOSBox it's totally unplayable. Scrolling the screen is like a slow slide-show. All IPX games are very slow over VPN or DOSBox (except Blood which handles quite well).

So I was hoping emulated Theme Hospital over PSX might be nice... but sadly PSX doesn't do it.... - gonna see if Syndicate Wars does it on PSX...

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

i said Theme Hospital W95, it was rereleased for Windows in a 32bit form.

 

[andwan0]

Yes that too! I tried both W95 and DOS versions of TH.

Wish they had TCP/IP Server/client network multiplayer.