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Title: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Furzball on 2011-02-07 22:04:50: Which do you think is better for modding projects? Also if you do answer PSX then what is a good sandbox program for windows os?

Which of these is best to eventually take apart for things like q-gears or trying to check/change game modules to see if we can do things like say, edit or add an area?
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Bosola on 2011-02-07 22:48:45: Quote from: Furzball on 2011-02-07 22:04:50
Which do you think is better for modding projects? Also if you do answer PSX then what is a good sandbox program for windows os?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'sandbox'.

Quote from: Furzball on 2011-02-07 22:04:50
Which of these is best to eventually take apart for things like q-gears or trying to check/change game modules to see if we can do things like say, edit or add an area?

Probably the PC version. There's a lot of resources out there for taking apart x86 applications. There's a nice, single executable that everything is bound to and there's a lot of mods available you can study and reverse engineer.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Furzball on 2011-02-08 00:07:11: Quote from: Bosola on 2011-02-07 22:48:45
Quote from: Furzball on 2011-02-07 22:04:50
Which do you think is better for modding projects? Also if you do answer PSX then what is a good sandbox program for windows os?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'sandbox'.
Sorry *chuckle* run an emulator for PSgames on a windows system. I used to have bleem but that CD and company is far gone and lost.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Tekkie.X on 2011-02-08 00:09:17: ePSXe, best PS1 emulator out there to my knowledge.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Covarr on 2011-02-08 00:41:58: pSX is pretty damn good, and easy to set up. ePSXe is usually more compatible, but harder to use.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: obesebear on 2011-02-08 01:15:56: This isn't tech related. Moved and warned.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Gemini on 2011-02-08 07:47:11: Quote from: Covarr on 2011-02-08 00:41:58
ePSXe is usually more compatible, but harder to use.
It's actually the other way around. pSX has an actual emulation core, while ePSXe is only a gigantic pile of hacks to make specific games boot and work. In fact, if you try playing some of those obscure japanese games, in most cases they will barely boot at all (did anybody say Parodius!?).
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Covarr on 2011-02-08 20:01:02: In my experience, popular games seem to work far better on epsxe. Namely the FF games, they have trouble on pSX.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Gemini on 2011-02-09 16:45:57: The answer is again the same: specific hacks. ePSXe's emulation core is rotten to the... core.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: DLPB_ on 2011-02-09 18:25:53: pSX works fine for me with all games I have tried including ff7. EPSXE is, like Gemini said, a rotten apple. pSX seems to work better on some games also when using the -r switch.

Also Gemini, have you heard anything from the author? Is he still working on pSX?
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Gemini on 2011-02-09 23:06:33: Haven't seen him online in several months. :/ All I know is that he was working on 1.14 for MacOS, but it's still WIP.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Bosola on 2011-02-10 00:03:55: I think it's also worth remembering pSX's inbuilt debugging tools.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: jeffdamann on 2011-02-10 16:34:58: Well IDK about you guys, but Ive only used the newest epsxe builds and I have to say I have never found a game that didnt run at great(60-130) frame rate with filters and everything without hacks.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: Gemini on 2011-02-10 18:21:59: The hacks are in the emulation core, it's not something you ought to enable and they are totally invisible to the user.
Title: Re: Just yoinked an PSX version from garage sale. So PSX or PC?
Post by: jeffdamann on 2011-02-10 21:03:08: Ooops I thought you meant the speedhacks and game specific hacks in the menu under special game fixes within your video plugins configure option.