EPSXE emulator issues

[JimzinHD]

First of all I would like to say GameEx is a very frendly front end MAME emulator but the question I have is how do I use epsxe with GameEx as every time I try to play a game it tells me that it can't find the CDRom or when I mount the image with Deamon tools then play the game the screen goes blank then comes back to the previos screen. What do I need to do to play epsxe games with out the CDRom? Do I have to unzip the ROMs and use the .bin or .cue files as ether one did not work?

Thanks

JimzinHD

[simbamame]

First of all I would like to say GameEx is a very frendly front end MAME emulator but the question I have is how do I use epsxe with GameEx as every time I try to play a game it tells me that it can't find the CDRom or when I mount the image with Deamon tools then play the game the screen goes blank then comes back to the previos screen. What do I need to do to play epsxe games with out the CDRom? Do I have to unzip the ROMs and use the .bin or .cue files as ether one did not work?

Thanks

JimzinHD

I use both epsxe and psx and psx is by far better in my opionion, but if you unpack your files and use the cue/bin they should work as mine do, you can also try the mdf or cdi format as most of my games are in that format and work fine, also try running them outside of gameex 1st and ensure you have epsxe configured outside of gameex 1st to ensure its finding the file 1st.

Ian

[jbsoum]

I use both epsxe and psx and psx is by far better in my opionion, but if you unpack your files and use the cue/bin they should work as mine do, you can also try the mdf or cdi format as most of my games are in that format and work fine, also try running them outside of gameex 1st and ensure you have epsxe configured outside of gameex 1st to ensure its finding the file 1st.

Ian

Well....better is an opinion. psX DOES outperform ePSXe on most every standard, but there are certain things that ePSXe that pSX refuses to do, such as better graphics rendering.

That being said, I would highly recommend switching to pSX. I doubt you would notice much difference in gameplay, except that pSX is easier to set up, more responsive, and is more compatible with most games than ePSXe.

[Adultery]

As always, I'll +1 that. However, if you still would rather use ePSXe, most of our users don't use it anymore. One of our lurkers may be of some help though.

[simbamame]

Well....better is an opinion. psX DOES outperform ePSXe on most every standard, but there are certain things that ePSXe that pSX refuses to do, such as better graphics rendering.

That being said, I would highly recommend switching to pSX. I doubt you would notice much difference in gameplay, except that pSX is easier to set up, more responsive, and is more compatible with most games than ePSXe.

The only reason i still have espxe installed is cos a few ( and it is a very few aboout 5 ) games refuse to play in PSX and i cant be bothered to track down different versions.

[fRequEnCy]

Please post your config!

[jbsoum]

If you want ePSXe to work with gameex, you must use dameon tools or some other virtual drive to mount the games. If you have bin/cue games with multiple bin tracks, epsxe doesnt like those. I'd have to dig around to find my config file if you want it, but my epsxe booted find after a little toying around.

[Sliver X]

If you want ePSXe to work with gameex, you must use dameon tools or some other virtual drive to mount the games.

No, this isn't necessary at all. What you want is the CD-R Mooby 2.8 plugin for ePSXe (You can find it here), which can directly load ISOs off your HDD. It can also do things like BZip compress them, but I'm not going to go into that here,

So far as using it in conjunction with GameEx, I found it easiest to simply point GameEx at a batch file I made that sets Mooby's Autorun registry entry and also will create memory cards on demand as well as set up a single card to be used between multi-disc games.

You can download the batch along with a few auxillary files it needs to work here. Extract it all into your ePSXe directory and have GameEx point to ePSXe.bat as the emulator executable.

This is the actual batch file: CHANGE THE PART IN BOLD TO THE FULL PATH WHERE ePSXe RESIDES!!!!

:GameEx ePSXe Batch - 2011 Sliver X

:This batch file will handle running ISO images (via CD-R Mooby) with ePSXe/GameEx.

:It will autocreate memory cards per game and handle sharing a single card for

:multi-disc games. PLEASE NOTE! For multi-disc support, ISOs must follow a specific

:naming schema, i.e., Xenogears_Disc 1.cdi, Metal Gear Solid_Disc 2.bin, Lunar_Disc 3.iso

:etc...

:Also note that you must be running this with Administrator priveledges as it needs to

:write to the registry to function correctly!!!

:Change the following variable to the path where ePSXe resides at. No trailing backslash!

SET EPSXEDIR=Drive:\PathTo\ePSXe

:BEGIN

:MOOBYAUTORUNSET

"%EPSXEDIR%\nircmdc.exe" regsetval sz "HKCU\Software\Vision Thing\PSEmu Pro\CDR\MoobyCDR" "autorun" %1

"%EPSXEDIR%\nircmdc.exe" regsetval sz "HKCU\Software\Vision Thing\PSEmu Pro\CDR\MoobyCDR" "volume" 0.8

:MULTICHECK

echo %~n1|"%EPSXEDIR%\cut.exe" -d _ -f1 > "%EPSXEDIR%\ISONAME.TMP"

echo %~n1|"%EPSXEDIR%\cut.exe" -d _ -f2|"%EPSXEDIR%\cut.exe" -d " " -f1 > "%EPSXEDIR%\DISCNUM.TMP"

set /p ISONAME= < "%EPSXEDIR%\ISONAME.TMP"

set /p DISCNUM= < "%EPSXEDIR%\DISCNUM.TMP"

IF "%DISCNUM%"=="Disc" GOTO MULTI

:MEMCARDCHECK

IF NOT EXIST "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%~n1.mcr" GOTO CREATION

"%EPSXEDIR%\epsxe.exe" -nogui -loadmemc0 "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%~n1.mcr"

GOTO EGRESS

:CREATION

copy "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\mastercard.mcr" "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%~n1.mcr"

"%EPSXEDIR%\epsxe.exe" -nogui -loadmemc0 "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%~n1.mcr"

GOTO EGRESS

:MULTI

IF NOT EXIST "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%ISONAME%.mcr" GOTO CREATION2

"%EPSXEDIR%\epsxe.exe" -nogui -loadmemc0 "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%ISONAME%.mcr"

GOTO EGRESS

:CREATION2

copy "%EPSXEDIR%\mastercard.mcr" "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%ISONAME%.mcr"

"%EPSXEDIR%\epsxe.exe" -nogui -loadmemc0 "%EPSXEDIR%\memcards\%ISONAME%.mcr"

GOTO EGRESS

:EGRESS

DEL /Q "%EPSXEDIR%\*.TMP"

EXIT

Please let me know if you have any issues. I had to edit this to make it non-specific to my HTPC, but I've tested it and all seems fine. If it isn't for you, I'll see what's wrong and update this.

[jbsoum]

No, this isn't necessary at all. What you want is the CD-R Mooby 2.8 plugin for ePSXe (You can find it here), which can directly load ISOs off your HDD. It can also do things like BZip compress them, but I'm not going to go into that here,

So far as using it in conjunction with GameEx, I found it easiest to simply point GameEx at a batch file I made that sets Mooby's Autorun registry entry and also will create memory cards on demand as well as set up a single card to be used between multi-disc games.

You can download the batch along with a few auxillary files it needs to work here. Extract it all into your ePSXe directory and have GameEx point to ePSXe.bat as the emulator executable.

This is the actual batch file: CHANGE THE PART IN BOLD TO THE FULL PATH WHERE ePSXe RESIDES!!!!

Please let me know if you have any issues. I had to edit this to make it non-specific to my HTPC, but I've tested it and all seems fine. If it isn't for you, I'll see what's wrong and update this.

Hmmm...yes this will work. Isn't launching from dameon easier?

[Sliver X]

I updated this: It no longer requires editing the batch (Used the %~dp0 variable instead). It supports CloneCD, Bin/Cue and ISO dumps (So have GameEx scan for *.bin, *.img and *.iso in your PSX folder/folders).

Same link as before.

Hmmm...yes this will work. Isn't launching from dameon easier?

I didn't find it to be, no. Several games seemed to have issues when running from either Daemon Tools or Virtual Clone drive, particularly with CD-DA audio... despite setting the OS up to stream CD-DA from the virtual drive digitally. I also use Mooby's compression options which saved me a ton of space VS NTFS compression.

[jbsoum]

I updated this: It no longer requires editing the batch (Used the %~dp0 variable instead). It supports CloneCD, Bin/Cue and ISO dumps (So have GameEx scan for *.bin, *.img and *.iso in your PSX folder/folders).

Same link as before.

I didn't find it to be, no. Several games seemed to have issues when running from either Daemon Tools or Virtual Clone drive, particularly with CD-DA audio... despite setting the OS up to stream CD-DA from the virtual drive digitally. I also use Mooby's compression options which saved me a ton of space VS NTFS compression.

This is certainly interesting. I'll have to give this a run if I switch back to ePSXe. It depends on my mood, honestly, which playstation emulator I use.

Edited August 15, 2012 by Draco1962
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