[Psx Rearmed] Gameplay Reviews

[rohezal]

Please post your experience with games on PSX you played.

Score Explanation: 5 points -> at the border of playable. 7 points: ok playable. 9+ points: excellent playable. I used the speed hacks in most games. Maybe I did some things wrong, if someone got better results please tell me how. In General: More polygons (3d models) more slowdowns.

Blood Omen
10 hours gameplay. Fullspeed, some minor graphic bugs on Rev14. On Rev 10 it worked without a problem. 9 of 10 points.

Crash Bandicot 2
Complete Playthrough. Some level worked on max settings with some slow downs. Had most time without lightning, rare slowdowns. 6/7 out of 10 points.

Alundra
2 hours gameplay. Fullspeed no bugs (maybe very small graphic glitches). 10 of 10 points.

Resident Evil 1
2 hours playtime, fullspeed except outside where ravens appear. 9 of 10 points.

Driver
1 hours. Way to slow, disabling helps a bit but makes very very ugly. 2-3 of 10 points.

Need for Speed 3
10 hour game time.No lightning, some slowdowns. 6-7 out of 10 points.

Diablo 1:
Some bugs with saving in Rev14. Some slowdowns without lightning speed 8 of 10. With lighning 6 of 10. With bugs: 4 of 10. Maybe Rev15 will fix them.

 

[rohezal]

GTA 2

9,5 of 10

Depends on the screen to much buildings slows it down. But it often works with speedhacks. Often Disabe XA Decoding and CD Audio to improve speed a good bit. Have no working cue file just the bin file. May the speed be improved with a good cue file? Very playable and funny. Almost finished the first city

 

[LTStone]

All games have the following settings unless otherwise noted:
Frameskip 0
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on


Alien Ressurection: 8.5-9
FS (frameskip) 0 or 1

Works great, some slow down

Italian job 7.5
FS 1
fun and playable but at maybe 80-90% speed

Sled Storm 7.5
FS 1
fun and playable but at maybe 80-90% speed

Arc the lad 2
9
Tiny bit of slowdown here and there

final fantasy 8
7
Plays fine for the most part but the can be alot of slowdown during fights
Also this is one of the games that run out of memory on the Wiz and needs
to be reset often.


fishermans bait 10
Seems to play perfect

lunar 2
9
Tiny bit of slowdown here and there


megaman x4, x5 , x6 , 8
x4 8.5
x5 8
x6 8
All completely playable with occasional slowdown, x4 being the fastest and x5
the slowest

fear effect
9.5
seems perfect so far


metal gear
8
almost full speed with a few graphical glitches, also runs out of memory on
the Wiz as well


Resident evil 2,3
9


moto racer 2
8
some slowdown


Syphon filter 3
FS 0-1
playable, about 80% full speed, runs out of mem on Wiz


xenogears
8
Some slowdown


WWF the arcade game
9.5
seems perfect


You don't know Jack
9


Tenchu
9


Vagrant story
5
pretty much perfect till it runs out of memory
at certain spots on Wiz

c12
5
Just too slow in when things get busy


Street fighter alpha3
5.5
Too slow and choppy


Street fighter ex2 plus
5
too slow


Chronocross
7.5
good but has slow downs


Galerians
9.5
seems perfect so far


Parasite Eve 1
9
looks and plays good

 

[rohezal]

Thank you with this list I have a few games I want to try

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I have a problem with GTA2, it just won't start, black screen is everything I'm get.
I tried with the following isos:
"GTA 2 (PAL) - RIP.bin" md5: 30b721df27e9880fdd2d01d0c55bafa4
"Grand Theft Auto 2 [NTSC-U] [SLUS-00789].bin" md5: 5f478946f4878e8d636f63a14530a7eb

GTA 1 works like a charm...

 

[rohezal]

Check your private message. I just think your rom maybe broken.

 

[pepsihojo]

Suikoden I runs great I am using a psx eboot and it loads and plays fine no slow down full speed

DoDonpachi full speed no slow down (using .bin .cue)

capcom vs snkpro no slow down full speed(using psx eboot)

Mortal Kombat 4 runs slow but playable(using .img)

all psx eboots were made by me with RS-GUI PopStationMD v3.00

 

[rohezal]

Interessting topic. Are the eboots different then normal images? Different frame rate, different resolution, color depth... or all the same?

 

[pepsihojo]

the eboots are just images(.bin .image etc) that were converted to an eboot to run on a psp with custom firmware,
but in the read me for the emulator it states that u can use eboots and its right they work

 

[LTStone]

Covert ops - Nuclear Dawn

Frameskip 0
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on

9
looks and plays great.

 

[rohezal]

Final Fantasy 7

no speed hacks, cpu 50%. Runs fine in normal game, just sometimes some slowdowns during battle. 9,5

 

[LTStone]

Ok now that R15 is out here are some changes:

All games have the following settings unless otherwise noted:
Frameskip 0
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on

Final Fantasy 8
8.5
Plays great now with no crashes, seems faster now too, especially when you summon a guardian force.

C-12
7.5
After playing it more and setting it at 800mhz it is actually quite playable for me and only really slows down occasionally.

Vagrant Story
8.5
The occasional slow down but no more crashes, looks and plays great.


Has anyone played the games I have mentioned in this thread? If so do you agree with my assessments so far?

oh and hey Rohezel, I can't get past the garage on driver but it seemed to play full speed for me, could you maybe send me one of your Driver save files?

 

[LTStone]

All games for R15 have the following settings unless otherwise noted:
Frameskip 0
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on


Dino Crisis 1 : 9.0
works great, sometimes some speech sputter

xena:
7.0
playable but a bit slow

rollcage:9.0


spiderman: 6
too slow


Mortal kombat 3 ?
loads but fighters just stand there...

 

[rohezal]

Sorry I dont have the savegame not anymore . Thank you for your great reviews^^

 

[RP912]

WWF Smackdown 2 works good with the xa enabled, overclocked to 6 to 700, and 0 frame skip.

 

[ruffnutts]

Jackie Chan StuntMaster

Bios scph1001
Frameskip 1
disable cd and xa (sound still works)
overclock 800
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on

I give this a 9.5 out of 10

 

[ruffnutts]

Pacman World

No Bios HLE
Frameskip 1
disable cd and xa (sound still works not on FVM)
overclock 800
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on

Again 9.5 out of 10

 

[Janaz]

Can someone try out poypoy on this emulator plz, don't have my caanoo (yet)

 

[rohezal]

Rollcage [PAL] further testing:

All games for R15 have the following settings unless otherwise noted:
Frameskip 0
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on
unai gpu plugin
disable software scaling


Press L2 / R2 to get the driver / cockpit view. If you don't see your own car, the game must render less items. This way it noticeable faster.

Time Attack Mode:
Without light, around 100% speed. Very rare moments speed is 90% which is hardly noticed.
With light speed is most times around 80-100%. Almost all time its around 90%. Raretimes its around 70%.

Trainging Attack Mode:
A small bit slower than time attack.

Normal Racing Mode
Without lightning speed is most times around 80-100%. Almost all time its around 80-90%. Raretimes its around 65%.
With lightning its a bit slower.


Its completly playable and I play it often. Most times without lightning.

If you need a bit more speed use: "skip second line". Its 100% speed almost every time but looks pretty ugly .

 

[LTStone]

All games have the following settings unless otherwise noted: and on R15
Frameskip 1
HLE
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on

Street fighter ex2 plus now is almost fullspeed and very playable imo, BUT it glitches
sometimes like the menu appearing for a millisecond during gameplay.
8.5

Thrill Kill
9
Frameskip 1
HLE
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on

seems to run almost perfect

Tekken 3
7
Frameskip 1
HLE
disable cd
overclock 750
psx clock 45
assume GTE on
disable gte on
Playable but maybe a bit slow for the hardcore..

Wow, I'm still impressed/happy with this emulator...