A burning question that I must answer somehow...

[KAZ]

Ok, I hate to ask this, but I simply want to know. I must know.

 

Has there ever been a working playstation 1 emulator?

 

And the more important question, has there ever been a working playstation rom (a commercial rom)?

I'm not talking about those public release homemade rom things.

 

I did a search on Kazaa, and found Atari, Nes,Snes, Genesis, and even N64 emulators and roms, but I've NEVER run across a rom for Playstation 1. I find this rather wierd.

 

Is it because of the fact that it is cd based and therefore unable to be rendered via emulation?

 

Thanks.

[oesii]

There's plenty of PS1 emulators, check out this page:

http://www.zophar.net/psx.html

 

Initially, the 2 commerical emus, Bleem and Virtual Game Station had the best compatibility but Sony harassed the hell out of them and they were discontinued real quick. I think ePSXe is the best emu for windows right now, there's a couple of mac ones as well.

 

Commerical roms usually come in ISO disc images but the emus can read ISO or .bin rom files too. Oh, and the best place to get images like these is usenet as usual.

[KAZ]

I guess I can see why there aren't any "roms" out there for playstation.

 

I accessed my Tekken 2 game, stuck it in my cd-rom drive on my computer, and the:

 

tekken2.xas file was 560 mb! Holy crap tho.

 

The Super Mario 64 rom is "only" 8 mb.

 

I can see that I won't be finding these mammoth roms on the net, and even if I did it would be "worthless" for me to do so.

 

But I'll bet I can use this emulator to play my tekken2.xas file somehow.

[oesii]

If you download either the Bleem or VGS demos, or if you get ahold of the full versions you should be able to put your PS1 Cd in your computer and play the game through emulation.

 

I haven't tried this with ePSXe yet but that's the main idea, I'll try it in a bit with my GT2 game.

[oesii]

Yep, I downloaded ePSXe, and got some OpenGl plugins for my video card from the main site (it recommends OpenGl or D3d ones) and then just put in my original Gran Turismo 2 disc and it worked perfectly.

[Cupcakus]

PSX doesn't have ROMs, it has CD-Roms :-) You can only download roms from cartridge consoles, because the game data is stored in a Rom chip!... silly people.

 

If you want to download PSX games, you have to search for ISO's which are basically CD-Rom images that have been ripped from a CD. You just place a blank CD in your burner and tell it to burn the ISO, and Walla, you have a copy of that game. If you mod chipped your PSX you can play it directly there, or you can use it on an emulator like Bleem!.

[KAZ]

PSX doesn't have ROMs, it has CD-Roms :-) You can only download roms from cartridge consoles, because the game data is stored in a Rom chip!... silly people.

 

If you want to download PSX games, you have to search for ISO's which are basically CD-Rom images that have been ripped from a CD.  You just place a blank CD in your burner and tell it to burn the ISO, and Walla, you have a copy of that game.  If you mod chipped your PSX you can play it directly there, or you can use it on an emulator like Bleem!.

 

Hmm, I did not realize this. I suppose that I have to somehow "rip" the data from one of my playstation disks, which will render it into an ISO form. Like ripping data from one of my cds makes wave files.

How big is an ISO? I suppose that an ISO could exist on a computer without the cd rom in the tray, and an emulator could play it.

 

I will figure this out eventually Thanks for the additional information.

[oesii]

Why do you have to rip an ISO from your playstation game? Just fire up the ePSXe emulator and put your original disc in the cd-rom drive. It plays great and gives you an idea of Playstation emulation on the PC.

 

ISO's are around 200-500mb compressed and up to 700mb uncompressed. And yes you can have an ISO image on your desktop and it will run like a real CD on an emulator.

[KAZ]

Last night I tried exactly that. I stuck in my Tempest X playstation cd into my tray. I had the cd and video plugins in the plugins folder. I clicked on Run CD-ROM in the File Menu, and it looked like it was trying to read from the disk for a little bit, and then nothing happened.

 

In the MS DOS screen it showed that it was accessing files from my disk, but nothing happened. I think I have the correct plugins. I have an Acer 56X cd rom drive. I have all the bioses that I need for playstation also. It even plays the bios, and does the intro screen. I've also been able to play those public release "rom" things...like the Zelda Clone Thing works fine.

 

Can anyone suggest anything I could try to play my playstation cd? Perhaps I'm missing a step or something. I've tried my Activision Classics cd also, but nothing. I'm using ePSXe (Enhanced PSX Emulator).

 

If I do get this working, it will be great.

 

What program can I use to rip ISOs from my playstation disks?

[KAZ]

I don't know what I did, but I got it working now. How cool!

 

I have more to figure out about this whole thing, but I'm off to a good start.

 

My ff7 and Tempest X worked fairly well. I was impressed!