Any good PSX emulators still out there?

[johnjohn320]

Back in the day, I was a big fan of Connectix VGS and Bleem!. The websites for both of these things seem to longer exist, but I'm wondering if the programs still do at all. If not, any other good ones? I'm talking about playing from PSX CDs, NOT downloaded ROM images and what have you.

(for the record, I own a PSX, I just prefer gaming on the computer).

 

[CrazyPerson]

any good emulators for ps2?

 

[Evadman]

<---- has bleem! I bought it specificly for Driver. It is awesome.

there is an emulator for dreamcast that will let ya play PSX games, and of course SNES.

 

[Cerb]

ePSXe 1.5.2 (1.6.0 still has some bugs)
Eternal's sound plugin
Pete's OpenGL and D3D plugin
USB adapater for your favorite gamepad, configure buttons.
...all but the USB adapter is free. Easy to set up as far as emulators go, search ePSXe forums for odd game settings...and go.
Playstation games at 1024x768 are nice

http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=win32&type=spu

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Cerb
ePSXe 1.5.2 (1.6.0 still has some bugs)
Eternal's sound plugin
Pete's OpenGL and D3D plugin
USB adapater for your favorite gamepad, configure buttons.
...all but the USB adapter is free. Easy to set up as far as emulators go, search ePSXe forums for odd game settings...and go.
Playstation games at 1024x768 are nice

http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=win32&type=spu

Seems to run certain things nice, other things it's kinda jerky.

Checked out VGS again, doesn't work with WinXP. Haven't looked into bleem yet, I'd obviously want to update from the v1.2 i purchased, which would be difficult since the website doesn't exist anymore.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Cerb
ePSXe 1.5.2 (1.6.0 still has some bugs)
Eternal's sound plugin
Pete's OpenGL and D3D plugin
USB adapater for your favorite gamepad, configure buttons.
...all but the USB adapter is free. Easy to set up as far as emulators go, search ePSXe forums for odd game settings...and go.
Playstation games at 1024x768 are nice

http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=win32&type=spu

Seems to run certain things nice, other things it's kinda jerky.

What doesn't it run properly? I've yet to find a game that won't run, but some require different settings. There are very few that don't work, and if you have a 1.2GHz Athlon or better, you can run most w/o slowing down.

Checked out VGS again, doesn't work with WinXP. Haven't looked into bleem yet, I'd obviously want to update from the v1.2 i purchased, which would be difficult since the website doesn't exist anymore.

Discontinued.

 

[Tetsuo]

epsxe 1.6 works fine for me

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Tetsuo
epsxe 1.6 works fine for me

Nice, but doesn't like my gamepad I think.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: Cerb

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Cerb
ePSXe 1.5.2 (1.6.0 still has some bugs)
Eternal's sound plugin
Pete's OpenGL and D3D plugin
USB adapater for your favorite gamepad, configure buttons.
...all but the USB adapter is free. Easy to set up as far as emulators go, search ePSXe forums for odd game settings...and go.
Playstation games at 1024x768 are nice

http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=win32&type=spu

Seems to run certain things nice, other things it's kinda jerky.

What doesn't it run properly? I've yet to find a game that won't run, but some require different settings. There are very few that don't work, and if you have a 1.2GHz Athlon or better, you can run most w/o slowing down.

Checked out VGS again, doesn't work with WinXP. Haven't looked into bleem yet, I'd obviously want to update from the v1.2 i purchased, which would be difficult since the website doesn't exist anymore.

Discontinued.

EpsxE runs Driver kinda slow and skippy, particularly in the MDECs.

video: PEOPS SoftDriver 1.15
sound: ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2
cdrom: ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2

I haven't tested much else

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Cerb
ePSXe 1.5.2 (1.6.0 still has some bugs)
Eternal's sound plugin
Pete's OpenGL and D3D plugin
USB adapater for your favorite gamepad, configure buttons.
...all but the USB adapter is free. Easy to set up as far as emulators go, search ePSXe forums for odd game settings...and go.
Playstation games at 1024x768 are nice

http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=win32&type=spu

Seems to run certain things nice, other things it's kinda jerky.

Checked out VGS again, doesn't work with WinXP. Haven't looked into bleem yet, I'd obviously want to update from the v1.2 i purchased, which would be difficult since the website doesn't exist anymore.

Have you checked any P2P networks? I got the .exe for 1.4b from Gnutella (well, Limewire anyway).

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Cerb
ePSXe 1.5.2 (1.6.0 still has some bugs)
Eternal's sound plugin
Pete's OpenGL and D3D plugin
USB adapater for your favorite gamepad, configure buttons.
...all but the USB adapter is free. Easy to set up as far as emulators go, search ePSXe forums for odd game settings...and go.
Playstation games at 1024x768 are nice

http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=win32&type=spu

Seems to run certain things nice, other things it's kinda jerky.

Checked out VGS again, doesn't work with WinXP. Haven't looked into bleem yet, I'd obviously want to update from the v1.2 i purchased, which would be difficult since the website doesn't exist anymore.

Have you checked any P2P networks? I got the .exe for 1.4b from Gnutella (well, Limewire anyway).

1.4b VGS or Bleem!? Does it work with WinXP?

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Cerb

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: Cerb
ePSXe 1.5.2 (1.6.0 still has some bugs)
Eternal's sound plugin
Pete's OpenGL and D3D plugin
USB adapater for your favorite gamepad, configure buttons.
...all but the USB adapter is free. Easy to set up as far as emulators go, search ePSXe forums for odd game settings...and go.
Playstation games at 1024x768 are nice

http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
http://home.t-online.de/home/PeteBernert/
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=win32&type=spu

Seems to run certain things nice, other things it's kinda jerky.

What doesn't it run properly? I've yet to find a game that won't run, but some require different settings. There are very few that don't work, and if you have a 1.2GHz Athlon or better, you can run most w/o slowing down.

Checked out VGS again, doesn't work with WinXP. Haven't looked into bleem yet, I'd obviously want to update from the v1.2 i purchased, which would be difficult since the website doesn't exist anymore.

Discontinued.

EpsxE runs Driver kinda slow and skippy, particularly in the MDECs.

video: PEOPS SoftDriver 1.15
sound: ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2
cdrom: ePSXe CDR WNT/W2K core 1.5.2

I haven't tested much else

If it's 3D, forget the soft GPU, it's best for 2D RPGs and such. try Pete's OpenGL/D3D 1.7x plugins, and check the special game fixes and other options in there, there are a couple MDEC speed-up options.

 

[MournSanity]

Bleem! is dead. Sony killed it.