Hello. I'm experiencing a problem playing FF7 (US-NTSC) which I can't seem to find information on anywhere. I suspect the problem to be an SPU issue, but I could certainly be wrong about that. For starters, I'm using epsxe 1.4.0, and I've tried running the game from the beginning using both the CD and an ISO. The problem seems to be that--during the opening mdec--the sound and the video are out of sync (for example, there's supposed to be a cymbal crash when the FF7 logo appears in all its triumphant glory, but it doesn't occur until about 5 seconds after the logo appears). After this, however, I decided that this wasn't quite the problem; the sound is actually playing too slowly (I've played through the game before, and I'm a huge fan of FF music, so I'm 100% sure that it's playing too slowly, for whatever reason).
I've played through a few games now using both epsxe 1.4.0 and 1.2.0, and not once have I encountered this problem. The video plays at normal speed, and I've never had any problems with mdecs (in terms of scratchy/jerky sound or video) before. To confirm my suspicions, I tried the game in version 1.2.0 of epsxe, and came out with the same problem (I used save states to skip the opening, which I've heard causes problems with said version). I tried the game in CVGS, and the music was just fine; correct speed and everything (although, a bit scratchy, as I've never had great success with VGS). The problem here is that I do not want to use VGS to play FF7 (I mainly keep it around for testing purposes), but with epsxe.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be? My system specs are as follows: P3-933mhz, 256mb SDRAM, GeForce2MX, and SBLive! Value. Please see the attached picture for my video plugin settings (using Pete's OpenGL, which I've never had this sort of problem with). As far as SPU settings, I've tried both the internal SPU (which has always worked very well for me) and IORI's latest; neither fixed the problem. Among the settings I've tried turning on and off are: frame skipping, off-screen drawing, FF7 "special game fix" for borders, enable/disable ADPCM/CDROM/XA-mdec/XA-game sound, SPU IRQ hack, accurate CDROM timing, CDROM status...and that's about it. Setting the FPS limit to 67 or so seems to put the music about where it should be, but I'd much rather be able to play the game at 60 "properly" so that the out-of-synchness won't happen again later on. At any rate, I never encountered this problem in FF8, FF9 or Chrono Cross, and would love to play FF7 again on epsxe. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I've played through a few games now using both epsxe 1.4.0 and 1.2.0, and not once have I encountered this problem. The video plays at normal speed, and I've never had any problems with mdecs (in terms of scratchy/jerky sound or video) before. To confirm my suspicions, I tried the game in version 1.2.0 of epsxe, and came out with the same problem (I used save states to skip the opening, which I've heard causes problems with said version). I tried the game in CVGS, and the music was just fine; correct speed and everything (although, a bit scratchy, as I've never had great success with VGS). The problem here is that I do not want to use VGS to play FF7 (I mainly keep it around for testing purposes), but with epsxe.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be? My system specs are as follows: P3-933mhz, 256mb SDRAM, GeForce2MX, and SBLive! Value. Please see the attached picture for my video plugin settings (using Pete's OpenGL, which I've never had this sort of problem with). As far as SPU settings, I've tried both the internal SPU (which has always worked very well for me) and IORI's latest; neither fixed the problem. Among the settings I've tried turning on and off are: frame skipping, off-screen drawing, FF7 "special game fix" for borders, enable/disable ADPCM/CDROM/XA-mdec/XA-game sound, SPU IRQ hack, accurate CDROM timing, CDROM status...and that's about it. Setting the FPS limit to 67 or so seems to put the music about where it should be, but I'd much rather be able to play the game at 60 "properly" so that the out-of-synchness won't happen again later on. At any rate, I never encountered this problem in FF8, FF9 or Chrono Cross, and would love to play FF7 again on epsxe. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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