playstation on PC

[powerup]

Will this work. I do not have a tv tuner yet but I want to know if it will work and what else I need to do this? Thank you for your replies.

 

[CalvinHobbs]

if your agp card has got video in the you don't need to buy anything...plug video cable in your agp card's video in and the sound in your sound card's line in...else buy a TV tuner card and plug the psone video cable in the video in of your tv tuner and sound on line in of sound card..it'll work..you can even record if you want to

 

[imported_miahallen]

Like Calvin said, as long as the tuner has an a/v input, this will work, I do it with my XBOX. But beware, you will loose some video quality, especially on an LCD. The better the turner, the better it will be, but no tuner will provide the visual quality of a TV.

BTW, many video cards have S-video output, fewer have input.

 

[CalvinHobbs]

ya true few video cards have it...you must see if they have vivo option..or you could buy an ati aiw

 

[sniperruff]

you can just get a video card with S vid in and then plug in the PS1. note that you'll waste more electricity since you'll have to leave the computer on too.

 

[CalvinHobbs]

why play on psone if you ahve a pc..play on the damn pc or connect the thing to your tv..i suppose you must be fighting for playing on the tv with your sisters who wann watch comics for example

 

[VirtualLarry]

I do this all of the time (well, when I had time), using an older-model WinTV PCI card. It has both Composite and S-Video (and tuner) inputs. The image quality is definately a bit cleaner when using S-Video, I would highly recommend it, if possible. It's also useful for recording gameplay movies. The only downside, is the issue of display latency vs. quality, in up-converting the interlaced signal from the console, into a non-interlaced display signal for your CRT. The best compromise for simply playing, is to disable any sort of software "enhancements" to the video, and let the TV viewer app switch the PC's CRT/video card into a 640x480 full-screen interlaced mode. Then it looks mostly just like if you were using your CRT as a big television for your console.

If all you want to do, is play PSX games on your PC, you might also look into the ePSXe emulator. Given sufficiently-powerful PC hardware, it can actually look *better* than a real PSX, due to texture filtering/smoothing. You can also use your PC's TV-out video feature (if it has one), to pipe the output back to a real TV as well.

 

[CalvinHobbs]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I do this all of the time (well, when I had time), using an older-model WinTV PCI card. It has both Composite and S-Video (and tuner) inputs. The image quality is definately a bit cleaner when using S-Video, I would highly recommend it, if possible. It's also useful for recording gameplay movies. The only downside, is the issue of display latency vs. quality, in up-converting the interlaced signal from the console, into a non-interlaced display signal for your CRT. The best compromise for simply playing, is to disable any sort of software "enhancements" to the video, and let the TV viewer app switch the PC's CRT/video card into a 640x480 full-screen interlaced mode. Then it looks mostly just like if you were using your CRT as a big television for your console.

If all you want to do, is play PSX games on your PC, you might also look into the ePSXe emulator. Given sufficiently-powerful PC hardware, it can actually look *better* than a real PSX, due to texture filtering/smoothing. You can also use your PC's TV-out video feature (if it has one), to pipe the output back to a real TV as well.

any links to the emulator

 

[mhillary]

I am planning to buy a play station.