Psx4gp2x Beta Testers Thread

[a4paper]

Bishi Bashi: Menu's run ok, but it crashes/freezes on the loading screen for the main game.

One Piece Mansion: 7fps (roughly) in game, very choppy, tried frameskipping at around 1-3 but not much improvement. But it does work.

Anna Kournikova's SCT: Runs at about 10fps in the menus. Then drops significantly in the actual game to about 3-4 fps. But it runs ok without crashes etc.

Silent Bomber: Menu's run at about 8fps but the intro to the game is graphics heavy and it slows to a crawl. Again it works in the sense that it doesn't crash etc.

Those were the only games I could test on my SD card as I haven't got a decent sized card yet. When I do I'll test more. Those were without the new private beta, so I might try that to see if they improve. All tests done at 200 mHZ, so if I overclocked I'd expect a couple more fps.

*Edit* Forgot to say, all games tested are PAL

 

[Sonic-NKT]

thanks zodttd... but how can i underclock the psx cpu?

 

[Vimacs]

stick+vol

zodttd: somehow the hw scaleing often dosnt work for me (only half screen filled) or works wrong (zoomed over 100%), im useing fw 2.0.

also, did you read the autoclocking idear i posted a few pages ago? do you think that might work? How much work would it be to add something like that?

 

[Sonic-NKT]

thanks....
whooo tetris it runs fullspeed...
will make some videos tomorrow

 

[acordero]

I tested Diablo and Resident Evil PAL edition, and doesn't works.

Any problem with PAL? I read something about, but Im not sure...

 

[Uprising]

Not sure if there is a problem with pal, iam testing games now which are PAL and some seem to work, the only ones that dont are the ones that didnt work with last versions.
Iam using IsoBuster without compression if that helps.

 

[kgcs10]

On this emulator, on FF7, how do I put in Disc 2 after Disc 1 is beaten? Would I have to keep both images on for it to work?

 

[Goity]

hmm... actually underclocking in ff7 seems to make little difference to overall speed. What is Vsyncrate anyways?

 

[Uprising]

More games..
These are all PAL

Cpu 280mhz
Grandia
Hw scaling using normal bios

movies around 5fps vsincrate 19

menu around 25 fps

ingame VsincRate 23 FrameRate 6-11
Scanlines make it look really bad though (It seems to happen when the screen is supposed to be transparent)
Later ingame looks a bit better and runs at around 6-14 fps vsincRate 30
this is all at default psx cpu
at psx cpu 10mhz it runs faster but fps is still 8 (VsincRate 90)


Cpu 280mhz
Oddworld Abe's Exoddus
Hw scaling using normal bios

Nooooooooooo it said it loaded but just freezes with black screen a bit later( says SincRate 34 FrameRate: 0)
Didnt work on last version either.
i have tried this out on the pc playstation emulator and it works.

Final Fantasy 9
Loaded but freezed with black screen, same happens with epsxe probably a scratched disk or something

 

[Lettuce Dude]

EDIT: Sorry my bad.

 

[Goity]

Hey I gave Zodttd a PM but he's obvously a bit buisy I was wondering if anybody would be as so kind to email me a copy to ellis.williams1@ntlworld.com I know it's cheeky of me asking but I'm going on a plane trip tomorow morning and would be realy apreachiate some entertainment. Thanks to any kind hearted soul who would take pitty on me.

It seems my idea of PMing people the link failed, as I'm not able to PM more than one person at a time. I currently have 30 new PMs. Heh.

New idea...
So for those who want the "private" beta 1.8 get it here:
*snip*

The file will only be up for about 24 more hours, so get it now.

Please remember that this is still a private beta, in the sense that I request that news site's not consider this a new release.

Hope this makes things easier for everyone.

Thanks!

And also, Zodttd allowed us to send people it provided they had pmed him first, before he posted it on here

 

[Shikaku]

better get rid of that email quick... i smell spam bots afoot

 

[Lettuce Dude]

Thanks for that Goity and keep up the good work zodttd

 

[Firecooler]

@Goity

better you remove the link in the qoute

he said he remove this link within 24 hrs

 

[Goity]

@Goity

better you remove the link in the qoute

he said he remove this link within 24 hrs

No.... he said that it will only be active for another 24 hours.

 

[Loubear]

Same thing, it's there for 24 hours anyways.

 

[Firecooler]

I have an idea for the Emulator...

When i overclock this PSX CPU for example to 10 MHz und when i double click the stick then it save as setting 1 will changed to settings 2, for example 20 MHz.. when i double click the stick again then it will back to 10 MHz, where the setting 1 saved.

 

[Sonistar]

playing final fantasy 7 i got an impressive 55 ms vsinc 52 running about, and 51 ms vsinc 51 in battle, this is amazing! thanks zodttd

 

[z32fairlady]

Unless otherwise stated, I'm using these settings for the games I tested:
Cpu 250mhz
Normal bios
interlacing=1, progressive=on
Ripped with pocketiso 2.0, music and video not ripped

Gradius Gaiden[NTSC]

around 12-13fps, and sometimes 10, either menu/ingame, and the vsync rate is the same; seems to drop to 8-9 at the Konami logo.

Already quite playable now compared to the previous release... good job! Improvements welcome

Umihara Kawase Syun (Japan ver., NTSC?)

Stopped working after that "Xing entertainment" logo. Faintly remember it worked on 0.36... ??

btw, what's that underclock thing? Where to enable?

Gran Turismo 2

Same as last beta, screen goes black after menu selection screen

EDIT: Added Umihara Kawase, GT2

 

[Sonistar]

@fairlady, underclock by holding in the analog stick and pressing volume down. i dunno what it does but it makes ff7 WAY faster