A couple ePSXe questions

[Mister Wratten]

First and foremost, as it could hinder my game playing, what is the best way to go about changing a disc midgame while using the GameEx frontend? Games like Final Fantasy IX, for instance, will require you to switch out discs at certain points, and hitting escape (which would normally bring up the option to change discs) simply forces you to leave the emulator and head back into GameEx.

Also, is there a good way to get the list of games in GameEx to look nicer? It's showing the names of my ISOs, BINs and CCDs, but if I change the actual filename, this causes an issue with them loading. Is there a way to create a file to reference those particular discs, but have the name be neater?

Thank you for any help.

If this has been posted/answered before, I apologize. I searched the forums to the best of my ability and came up with no answer.

I'm using version 1.7.0 of ePSXe and the latest version of GameEx.

[Evil Telephone]

If you're playing for CD images, you have to stop emulation and load the next CD image to switch disks. Most, if not all, games offer a save right at the point of switching disks. Save, go back to GameEx, select next disk, load saved game.

If you change file names, and GameEx doesn't automatically refresh the database, you'll have to do it manually. You can do that in the advanced settings application. As for cleaning up the names, check the settings for options to hide extraneous characters such as underscores, the file extension, etc.

I believe there is also be a PSX game database included with GameEx that has not only names, but descriptions. You can attempt to use this database by selecting it in the emulator options, but I think it will require your CD image files to have very specific names. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with this particular database.

[Mister Wratten]

If you're playing for CD images, you have to stop emulation and load the next CD image to switch disks. Most, if not all, games offer a save right at the point of switching disks. Save, go back to GameEx, select next disk, load saved game.

If you change file names, and GameEx doesn't automatically refresh the database, you'll have to do it manually. You can do that in the advanced settings application. As for cleaning up the names, check the settings for options to hide extraneous characters such as underscores, the file extension, etc.

I believe there is also be a PSX game database included with GameEx that has not only names, but descriptions. You can attempt to use this database by selecting it in the emulator options, but I think it will require your CD image files to have very specific names. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with this particular database.

That's exactly what I was hoping for. Thank you very much for your response.

[Tempest]

Also, is there a good way to get the list of games in GameEx to look nicer? It's showing the names of my ISOs, BINs and CCDs, but if I change the actual filename, this causes an issue with them loading. Is there a way to create a file to reference those particular discs, but have the name be neater?

In the emulator setup, there is a place to enter a romfilter. If you use *.iso, only the iso files will be displayed. Use the filter for whichever file the emulator needs to execute. I don't know if it is *.iso, *.bin, or *.ccd.

[BrutalDeluxe]

Kinda related to the thread..

The other day I found a forum detailing how to merge multi CD games into one bin file... damned if I can find it again.

Has anyone else done this?