PS1 & PS2 emulation

[wearecity]

Anyone else had a go at this.

I thought it would be a complete nightmare, getting anything to run at more than 5 fps or without numerous glitches. But I'm extremely surprised at how advanced the emulators are and that many games working 100% or certainly, with minor non gameplay affecting bugs.

[Daryl]

Anyone else had a go at this.

I thought it would be a complete nightmare, getting anything to run at more than 5 fps or without numerous glitches. But I'm extremely surprised at how advanced the emulators are and that many games working 100% or certainly, with minor non gameplay affecting bugs.

Any links to such emulators would be great wearecity - I can remember playing on a PS1 all those years ago when my nephew got one...

...I thought to myself 'this'll never catch on'! lol

It'd be nice to reminisce once more though

[vectra666]

I had the games such as the sonic collection etc but long since gone now, emuparidise has something on those lines
http://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_2_ISOs/List-All-Titles/41

[Matty]

Anyone else had a go at this.

I thought it would be a complete nightmare, getting anything to run at more than 5 fps or without numerous glitches. But I'm extremely surprised at how advanced the emulators are and that many games working 100% or certainly, with minor non gameplay affecting bugs.

Any links to such emulators would be great wearecity - I can remember playing on a PS1 all those years ago when my nephew got one...

...I thought to myself 'this'll never catch on'! lol

It'd be nice to reminisce once more though

For PS1 I recommend Psxfin, Not as customisable as EPSXE but is a lot simpler to set up & run - http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx/psx_em.html

As for PS2 the only choice is PCSX2. Only in the last 18 - 24 months has this been really viable as someone came onboard & completely revamped the core of the emulator allowing it to run a lot more efficiently, you still need a decent desktop to run this mind - http://pcsx2.net/

I've got sets of the bioses for both systems if you need them.

[Matty]

To add on the PSP emulator also had a massive leap in playability, I remember seeing it a few years back & it struggling to load most games, now it seems to play almost anything!

[wearecity]

Was about to post, but Matty and vectra beat me too it.




I do use EPSXE for the PS1, but will take a look at Psxfin myself. EDIT Psxfin, doesn't like the type of files I have downloaded, which have an .ECM extension, tried a few things, but it's not having it.
 
and as Matty says, PCSX2 for the PS2.

The BIOS files are located here http://www.emuparadise.me/biosfiles/bios.html

It isn't difficult to get up and running, if you read the instructions and use the set up wizards with the emu's.

[DAD]

Don't think I've looked at these since Bleem! lol

[wearecity]

If you have any interest in playing old PS1 and PS2 games, they are well worth looking into. Best played with a decent controller, like an XBOX 360 controller for windows, although I believe it is possible to get PS3 and PS4 controllers working as well on a PC.

The PS2 emulator also will give force feedback via an XBOX 360 for windows controller for instance.

[Matty]

DS3 Tool will emulate a PS3 controller as an XBOX 360 controller. A bit finicky to get working right but when it does it's simple after that, amazing bit of software.

[Slasher]

Bleem! wow! there's a blast from the past. I used some commercial software for my PS1 emulating. I think it was called CVG or something like that. It worked brilliantly as I couldn't get ePSXe to work back then.

I've since had a dabble with all sorts. I must try out PCSX2 again though. I'd like to play SSX Tricky again but the PS2 is in the loft lol

[altharic]

Virtual game station by connectix.

[Matty]

Bleem! wow! there's a blast from the past. I used some commercial software for my PS1 emulating. I think it was called CVG or something like that. It worked brilliantly as I couldn't get ePSXe to work back then.

I've since had a dabble with all sorts. I must try out PCSX2 again though. I'd like to play SSX Tricky again but the PS2 is in the loft lol

It's (Not) very complicated, tricky tricky tricky.

[Slasher]

Virtual game station by connectix.

That's the one!

Bleem! wow! there's a blast from the past. I used some commercial software for my PS1 emulating. I think it was called CVG or something like that. It worked brilliantly as I couldn't get ePSXe to work back then.

I've since had a dabble with all sorts. I must try out PCSX2 again though. I'd like to play SSX Tricky again but the PS2 is in the loft lol

It's (Not) very complicated, tricky tricky tricky.

Great game eh?

[wearecity]

Still enjoying tinkering and mucking about with the PS2 emulation in particular.

Managed to get it to accept my PS4 controller wirelessly via bluetooth to my laptop, so much easier to control games, than with keyboard and I'd say the PS4 controller is a bit better than the XBOX 360 controller, although the 360 controller is still a great controller.

Discovering more games now as well, some games had really great graphics, such as R-Type Final, Resident Evil 4 and Gran Turismo 4. If you have a modestly specced PC, you can even get them to look even better, than they did on the PS2 in a lot cases.

At the moment it's my favourite emulator.

[re-emulated]

I think I have a full set of PS1 iso's on my Hyperspin build.   Some great games, I couldn't believe the graphics when I first got Tombraider back in the day.   I still actually have PS1 but haven't used it in years.

J