Psx4gp2x Beta Testers Thread

[soup_nazi]

I just tried Armored Core: PP, an it is quite playable (not really enjoyable but still)

Runs at 14 fps in Demo mode and about 9 ingame, at a quite good speed.

I tried to make a video with my TV capture card, but it seems that Psx4gp doesn´t work too well with it - everything is displayes at a 160x240 resolution...

Try using Kounch's TV-out Fixer. This should help, I think.

 

[PokeParadox]

Yeah this is how I made my video caps.
You need to run it in PAL mode though.

 

[soup_nazi]

Yeah this is how I made my video caps.
You need to run it in PAL mode though.

Surely it'd have to run in the same format as the disc image, so NTSC may be applicable. :unsure:

Edit: No, wait, I mean run it in the same format as your capture card...

 

[PokeParadox]

The TV-Out fixer has given me problems whenever I've tried to use it in NTSC
(I want 60FPS!!!)
Also capture cards can usually be set to whichever region you want...

 

[Fishbong]

Yeah i tried TV Fixer, but if i use it, everytime it syncronizes the screen (i set 10 secs), the picture is as double as big as before, and i see only the upper left quarter. I´m using FW 2.0, oh, maybe i need a new version of TV fixer? i noticed mine is old...

 

[nickspoon]

The TV Fixer only works for some apps. Doesn't work for others like Frodo and GNUBoy.

 

[Fishbong]

Thanks to PokeParadox, i got it working. I´m uploading the video now.

Very impressive!

 

[Fishbong]

OK, its uploaded now.
You can download it here in the Archive.
Or watch it on Youtube

Its only the intro movie and the demo mode but looks very impressive. It would be even faster with activated interlacing, but it looked crap when captured on the PC so i switched intrlacing off.

 

[dpoarch]

1.Title: Chrono Trigger
OC: 266
Interlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 20
FPS: 16
-weird screen flash back and forth from normal to lines of grey and black

2.Title: crash bandicoot
OC: 266
Interlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 12-20
FPS: intro video 2-6 in game 5-7
-some weird graphical glitches the screen flashes to a green tint and then goes normal

3.Title: Crash Team Racing
OC: 266
Interlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 36
FPS: 0
-Game just hangs on black screen nothing happens

4.Title: Dragonseeds
OC: 266
Interlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 22
FPS: talking 8 fighting 4-8
-everthing seems to run ok

5.Title: Final Fantasy IX
OC: 266
Freezes emulator when tried to launch

6.Title: Final Fantasy Tactics
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 20
FPS: 8-12
-some weird graphic glitches on certain parts of screen and behind text it went away

7.Title: Final Fantasy VI
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync:22
FPS: on menue 22 videos 4
-Freezes on the start game screen

8.Title: Final Fantasy VII
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 22
FPS: intro video 8-22 gameplay 23 battle: 19
-game seems to run fine I can actually play it! Does do some weird thins were it looks perfect and then
has a bunch of lines.

9.Title: Gran Turismo 2 *edit*
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 18
FPS: 5
-after slection screen game just goes black

10.Title: Megaman x4
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync:
FPS:
-after it says its loaded nothing happens.

11.Title: Marvel Vs Capcom
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync:
FPS:
-shows the capcom logo and then glitches to a green screen and freezes.

12.Title: Parasite Eve
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 20
FPS: 10
-game seems to play ok just slow

13.Title: legend of Mana *edit*
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 19
FPS: begining text 10 and gameplay 10
-has some weird graphic isssues in transition

14.Title: Tekken
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 20
FPS: opening menue 22 gameplay 10
-game seems to play fine

15.Title: Time Crisis
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync:
FPS:
-freezes emu

16.Title: Vagrant Story
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 19
FPS: 7
-plays ok

17.Title: Vandal Hearts
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 17
FPS: menue 20 gameplay 10
-takes a long time to get to gameplay

18.Title: Xenogears
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 36
FPS: 16
-game just sits on black screen after square art screen

19.Title: Saga Frontier
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync:
FPS:
-Just sits on black screen after loaded never even has vsync or framerate come up

20.Title: Street Fighter EX
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 14
FPS: 7
-plays ok but seems to flash a little while fighting


almost every game seemed to look great at times and then have some sort of line problem where they were
not desplaying properly. There seems to be a problem with the capcom games that have the loading screen where the blocks are connected together and then it goes to capcom. If anyone has tested these games and got completly different numbers let me know. I am testing these on my external harddrive and I only tested a few games on my sd card as well and was unable to see a difference in speed.

*edit*: I did test gran turismo 2 z32fairlady not gran turismo so I will test all of these with the new beta. xnopasaranx yes it is legend not secret sorry for the mistakes. Fishbong it is the interlacing problem, but I am not sure if that is the case for all of them. While some of the games I could clearly see interlacing issues some actually flashed to almost a blank screen and back repeatedly. I may be wrong but I think it was something else than a problem with the interlacing on those games.

 

[___]

I assume by "Secret of Mana" you meant "Legend of Mana" ? That is just the game I wanted somebody to test...

Let's wait for the beta2. Maybe it will fix some of the line problems.

 

[Fishbong]

"line problems"?
Maybe you are referring to the Interlacing?

Try to set interlacing to 0 and see if its fixed...

 

[___]

maybe by line problems he was referring to the distortion that the interlacing caused. zodtt said he was going to get that fixed with that HW scaler hack vimacs proposed.

 

[Estopero]

the distorsion its normal with interleaced at low fps, with high fps it dissapears

 

[z32fairlady]

I know I may be greedy when beta2 will be public rsn, but will anyone be able to test out Gran Turismo 2 and Gradius Gaiden?

The current release (0.36) plays Gradius Gaiden slow like a slug... I wish I could see it plays 15fps... :lol:

 

[Estopero]

Hello Mates:

i´ve tested some games:

Legend of mana:
- Graphics: presents some bugs in the map screen and in transactions
- Speed: 10 fps around
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BaZ-Sl0jN4
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdOi9vjQwsw

Bomberman:
- Graphics: 100%
- Speed: 10-15 fps ingame, 15-20 in menu
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDLwSrgwfYI

Winning Eleven 2002 - Patch 03/04
- Graphics - Glitches in init splash screens, texture glitch in players (Bad ISO, in WE2002 runs well)
- Speed - 8 FPS ingame, 10-30 FPS in menu
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BS0dXc4kwg

Metal gear Solid 1
- Graphics: --
- Speed: --
- Crash after menu screen

 

[Estopero]

updated: video added

Winning Eleven 2002 - Patch 03/04
- Graphics - Glitches in init splash screens, texture glitch in players (Bad ISO, in WE2002 run well)
- Speed - 8 FPS ingame, 10-30 FPS in menu
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BS0dXc4kwg

 

[BenRoshi]

Awesome, Winning Eleven looks great. Sports games are one of the psx's key edge over past systems, hopefully someday we can enjoy games like winning eleven, nfl blitz, madden, and more at playable speed on the go!

Thanks to those who tested out Legend of Mana for me as well, looks great!

 

[Estopero]

hello people!

Final Fantasy VII
- Graphics: 80%, glitches in people polygons
- Speed: 15-20 Ingame, 20-30 in Battle
- PLAYABLE
- VIDEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpuWmFxg_c0 (Sorry for the poor quality)

 

[Loubear]

I. love. you. zottd. and. unai. SHIT that looks good. I mean, REALLy good. I used to be content playing cs at 20 frames per second on my old computer, so this will kick ass!

 

[lintsniffer]

8.Title: Final Fantasy VII
OC: 266
INterlace: 1
Progressive: on
Vsync: 22
FPS: intro video 8-22 gameplay 23 battle: 19
-game seems to run fine I can actually play it! Does do some weird thins were it looks perfect and then
has a bunch of lines.

*drools*