[bigextramehdi]

hi,
while i was playing ff9 on the cd2 the game crashed during an mdec.
i use epxe 1.52 . i tryed to use an other video plugin and it changed nothing.
anyway here's my video plugin settings:
--------------------------------------------
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.6
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
GFX card: RADEON 9800 Pro x86/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1280x1024 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 2
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 4
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 3
- Framebuffer uploads: 2

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: on
- Shader effects: 3/3
- Flicker-fix border size: 7
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: on [00001002]
--------------------------------------------------------

i use a virtual drive (with alcohool 120%) because otherwise some sounds will miss during the game ( the audio cable that should be beetween my cdrom drive and sound card is not installed)

i tried to press F7 but it was useless
thanks

 

[n_w95482]

Have you tried remaking the ISO or running the game from the original disc? The analog audio cable isn't needed for FF9, nor do I think it's needed for any other PSX game.

 

[hushypushy]

try turning off the shaders.

and definitely turn off those special game fixes--you dont need them at all.

 

[bigextramehdi]

no luck, none of your advices seems to work.
i'm playing with a french version so this is probably a PAL version.
my old playstion was breakdown when i was going to play the 4th cd of FF9. I'm not planning to buy a new playstation so i'll probably never see the end of this game...

 

[n_w95482]

Are you using a PPF patch or a subchannel file?

 

[bigextramehdi]

thanks for your suggestion.
i had not problem with 1rst cd so i don't understand why i should now use a patch while playing cd2.
Anyway i tried every patch i found and it changed nothing (three patch, with the third emulator crash)
a way to skip the mdec ?
can i use my memcards/ save states files with another ff9 version (with ntsc ).
or try using using them with another emulator ?
any savestates available for download ?

it seems there's less problems with FF9 for pepole that uses NTSC version...

 

[glory]

you did try loading the game from memcard and seeing if the FMV still crushes, right?

 

[glory]

And if you want to skip FMVs (with FF9), try:
Press escape during the FMV.
eject the tray of the cd (via alcohol 120% if you're still using it).
file->change disc->cd->ok.
wait until screen goes black.
Press escape again.
load tray (abort the ejecting, aka insert the cd into the drive/virtual drive).
file->change disc->cd->ok.
Have fun. Hopefully.

 

[n_w95482]

Try using the -nomdec switch with a shortcut.

 

[bigextramehdi]

the game stay blocked with the -nomdec feature.
seems that my ff9 version is well protected. :hdbash:

 

[I-Chan]

You can use peops cd plugin to extract the subchannels from the original cds (won't work with the images directly). That should solve your problem.

 

[glory]

that's because the -mdec switch sucks in some cases.
did you try my way?

 

[bigextramehdi]

ok, i believe here's the end of the story.
to answer to i-chan i already made a m3s file , and it changed nothing.
now to answer to mr "glory".
your trick seems too crazy and dirty for me.
also your explanations weren't easy for me (my poor english)
FMV , i searched with babylon is full-motion video! sorry but i didn't know that word.
anyway , i finally got what i wanted, thanks. :thumb:

heu... but a new problem appeared... :smash:
now that i run epxe from epxecutor , expxe does not exit properly
when i press ESC, and i must each time kill the process. This problem wasn't here before

ok, that's still better now :lol:

 

[I-Chan]

You can instruct the cutor to start the epsxe gui. If you do so, upon pressing ESC you'll be presented with it. Close the gui and it should work fine.

 

[bigextramehdi]

hi,
problem is that when i leave the gui, the dos window stays.
I see the following messages:
[G] ok
* PAL cdrom detected.
* Checking subchannel read from cdrom ... YES.
* Doing init gpu[0]...
* Gpu open[0]...
* Direct input init ok.
* Doing spu init...
* Spu open...
* LoadState Done!
* Closing spu ...
* Shutdown gpu ...
* Going out from gui. (exit)

and the dos window stays!

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

File ---> Exit.

 

[bigextramehdi]

File ---> Exit and it still crash sorry
. Perhaps there is registry setting or temporary file causing problems.
For the moment the only solution is to kill the process.

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

Ok.
Obtain this.

 

[bigextramehdi]

hi fireblaster_lyz,
i tryed your cleaner tool and it didn't work.
however... :innocent: after, i renamed the epsxe folder
and the problem disappeared.

thanks all

 

[fireblaster_lyz]

Sorry if I wasn't of any help.
That tool was obtained from the PSXeven webby.

You most probably re-registered ePSXe settings to the Registry.