Did you try the method I suggested for mounting your games? If that doesn't work, that strongly suggests there's a problem with the drive.Hello! I'll try to explain everything I tried so hopefully someone can realize what's happening to me. Crash Bandicoot is reported as playing fine in both NTSC-US and PAL versions. The NTSC-US version of Final Fantasy Tactics (there are no reports for the PAL version - I don't know if there is one) is in the Compatibility Lists for pSX as playing, but with a possible crash. I have a copy of Wild 9 but never played the game much - mine plays fine, though. Neither would play properly however, but when I bought new copies - no problem! While I bought my copy of Final Fantasy VII new and have kept it in good condition, my first copies of Final Fantasies VIII and IX were second hand but seemed in good condition. Final Fantasies VII, VIII and IX) seem to be very sensitive to surface damage: many people have reported that even with only light scuffing (much less than would stop other games playing) the game won't play. However, all the Final Fantasy games originally made for the Playstation (i.e. Unprotected games work fine.įinal Fantasy VII is the only one of those games I have and play my PAL version plays fine and neither the PAL nor NTSC versions are protected. Every Playstation game I have I can run from CD in pSX with my DVD-RW drive, but I can't run copy protected games in my DVD-ROM drive because it doesn't read subcode. If your CD won't run in pSX, the likelihood is the game's protected, it has a compatibility problem, the CD is damaged, or there's a problem with your drive.
I did tell you.Įdit: you still haven't told us yet what games you're trying to play, and what Windows OS you're using. Just don't blame me if it gives you no end of problems and doesn't work as well as pSX even when (and if) you get it working. Or carry on struggling with ePSXe - your choice.
As long as you've got a working soundcard and 3d videocard, that's it: it's a pluginless emulator, so configuration is minimal (most people can run it quite happily with the default configuration except for controller configuration).
If you want to use pSX on a Ubuntu OS, you'll need to install libgtkglext1 (in the repositories), download the pSX package and unpack it where you want it, put a BIOS in the bios subfolder and run it.
But realise there's a lot of very awkward setting up and configuring to do with it - and when pSX works so much better anyway, it's a no brainer. See my second post in this thread.ĭo you want to play them from CD? Use pSX Emulator. Do you want to browse Playstation CDs? Mount them. You need to make your mind up about what you want, ludek_cortex. Without more information, though, it's difficult to say. If you're talking about an emulator reading the disc, this may be a copy protection issue: many drives have problems reading protected discs and, generally, -RW drives are better than -ROM drives at this. It may be that you've set your DVD-RW to mount anything it can read, while leaving your CD-ROM on the standard setting. If you're talking about browsing the CDs this is not unusual I always find that drives won't read my Playstation CDs if I put them in - this is not because they can't, but (I'm not sure why, but it's probably because the CDs are not seen as data, music or video CDs) but because they're not automatically mounted. Are you talking about running a game from the CD in an emulator, ludek_cortex, or simply browsing the contents of the CD? And what emulator (if that's what you're commenting on) and what game(s) are you talking about? And what versions of Linux and Windows are you talking about?