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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
I asked Yongzh about it and he said he may do something once he finishes his arcade emulator he is working on.

The PSX4droid has not even received the updates to UI and settings that yongzh has put in his emulators recently.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
Tested a few more games I have not seen mentioned anywhere:

Again using my N1 with 2.2 default PSX bios all games as EBOOT

Alundra: No slowdowns works great

Azure Dreams: works flawlessly

Dino Crisis 2: works better than Dino Crisis one.

Fear Effect 1 and 2: Work great I have feeling for some of these multi disk games you will have to change discs on your PC unless they ask you to save right at disc swap area which many do not.

Hoshigami: ruining the Blue Earth: works fine

Jade Cocoon the Legend of Tamarayu No slowdowns works great

Tales Of Destiny 1 and 2: Both works great. Also if you want this series do not download Tales of Phantasia for your PS emulator because you can get a SNES translated one which is a fraction the size and the exact same game.

Vandal Hearts 1 and 2 Both work good. Vandal Hearst 2 is a little slow.

Thousand Arms I thought this game would work no problem but it does not. New game screen is black but you can hear music and manage to start the game. It loads but the ground is not rendered and eventually the game freezes. It is possible to skip this part on a PC but the game will freeze again in a short amount of time regardless.

Funny how out of all the popular games the emulator has a ton of problems but out of the less popular games I try the emulator runs flawlessly.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ermacwins:
What arcade emulator? Cps2 or name?

Btw what happened to cps2hd?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] slighmd:
Arcade? Like a MAME emulator?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
not sure which arcade emulator he just said he would see once he finished the emulator.

honestly for what he has done it should be very simple port. I am hoping to get some metal slug with that...since psx4droid cant play metal slug x
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ermacwins:
does he have a website/blog?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] itzdafred:
Hey Trev186, I saw your earliest post regarding legend of legaia. I'm assuming somehow you got past the first fight to be able to test out the other things you were talking about. I was wondering how you were able to do this or how you worked around it. I would greatly appreciate it, as this game is one of the main reasons I bought the emulator. Thanks!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
To be honest my friend managed to make it through that no problem..I have no clue. I got his Save State and then played from there. However you can just load the game up on a PC emulator for PSX and play through that part. Save and then transfer the mem card data to your phone and you should be at the same playability level as I am.

The only problem for me is now I have to play the game with Vahn's name as Jason......If you would like I have a save state file with Vahn just by the hunter spring. You miss the in between attack on the village but from there you have 99% of the game to yourself

Yongzh mentioned he is making a MAME arcade emulator. Which would be great. best way is to just email him through the app page in the market.

i asked him if games like Tekken 3 and Tekken 5 arcade would work he said not at first but he will work on adding support for them after the first release

Got to love Yongzh. I would of thought there would be more competent developers making emulators for Android but he seems to be the only one worth while.

For what it is worth I also asked him he had plans of doing a Sega Saturn emu and he said not in the near future (I only want it for memory sake really myself)

He also said he does plan to try and develop a PS2 emu when the new Dual core phones start being released.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] slighmd:
finished FF7 on psx4droid. advise: get a PC PSX emulator for the underwater/ submarine level. just before going underwater, save on the world map via the ingame menu, not the save state, and transfer that save/memcard file to the pc psx emulator, finish that part from there, save again, then retransfer back to the .psx4droid directory in the sd card. that's also how you basically kill the emerald and ruby weapons. also the same for the first fight with the ultima weapon
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
I completed FF9 today all the freeze points are below:

Disc 1 : Dali Airship

Disc 2: Entering Clerya's Trunk

Disc 3: Bahahmut Vs Alexamnder (Save during Card tourney) and When you kill Garland at the end of Disc 3

Disc 4: In Memoria when you kill first boss there is a room which shows a flash back of Alexander vs Bahamut. Also the ending freezes when the roots from LIFA Tree start flying at you. (If you want the ending just you tube it)

On all of the above I recommend playing through that part on a PC PSX emulator.

I just started playing Lunar 1 now and am hoping it does not crash. I have noticed that some of the FMVs have a weird bar at the side but they play fine.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
Just completed Lunar 1 with the only issue being switching discs. I had to swap the discs out on PC.

Also beat RE2 dual shock A and B Missions. Beat both with an A ranking on my phone :P A lot easier to beat the game with no saves when you have save states :P

RE2 had no issues what so ever.

I played some more in Valkyrie Profile. At some point normal conversation just freezes the game and it becomes unplayable.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
New Version of PSX4droid came out.

He fixed some games but broke more than it fixed

It appears that he disabled a speed hack he was using.

I kept a version of the orginal so I can swap between the two just by installing the APK.

I sent him an emailing recommending him do as many other PSX emulators do with speed hacks and just make them an option to turn on and off. This way if you need to play FF8 or FF7 which both work now with the fixes he made then you turn it off. but if you need to play FF9 which will not work now you turn it on.

There are a lot of settings I am sure we could tweak in the emulator to make more games work this way he we were allowed access to them.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
I tested all the games I have on my phone with 1.3 of PSX4droid here is what I found. (N1 running 2.2 using Eboot versions)

Following games improved or fixed issues

FF8 The garden moves now !

FF7 the Submarine moves now!

Xenogears no weird texture collision

Following games are broken now:

Fear Effect 1 and 2 will not load

Breath of fire 3 and 4 both crash when starting a new game now

Hot Shots Golf is playable but weird textures are in your view so you cannot see

FF9 is completely broken cant be in battles or CG sequences

Silent Hill crashes upon starting a new game

RE2 does not work any more but both RE1 and Re3 are fine

I have kept a .apk version of 1.1 so I can hop between his newest version and the old one. Really 1.1 is still better than 1.3 in the speed department for most games so I would recommend only using 1.3 to play one of the games that if fixed (only 3 I can find so far)

He is working on 1.4 so hopefully this will resolve more issues. If someone would like to help me out I plan to test the following games when I get home:

All of these games did not work previously and I am curious if they will in the new version:

Metal Gear Solid

Tekken 3 (was too slow before)

Parasite Eve 2

Tomb Raider 1 and 2

Front Mission 3

Rayman 1 and 2

Grand Theft Auto

Valkryie Profile

Metal Slug X
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] slighmd:
If zodttd or anyone knows, does the speed/class of the microSD (2, 4, 6, 10) affect the speed of the game? Like maybe a class 4 vs a class 6?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dk206:
TREV! I've sent you an email! please help me out if you have the time!!!!

basically even though I'm on psx4droid 1.5 LATEST right now

The screen freezes when I enter world map! the game still plays e.g going into menu, pausing the game, or i move around abit enters battle scene and plays beautifully...however....I DONT SEE WHERE I'm GOING LOL

thank you :_(

p.s 007 Tomorror Never Dies - DOES NOT WORK on v1.5 Freezes at the loading page right after SONY LOGO
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
Hi,

I emailed you. In 1.5 FF8 world map is slower than 1.1. What you need to do is either switch to 1.1 until you reach Disc 2 when you drive the garden and then switch to 1.5. Or you can press the start button repeatedly while moving. This will show where you are. I know it is slow but honestly compare the speed in 1.1 and it is not really a gain or a loss in speed.

Zoddttd Is working on fixing FF8 BTW.

Also I tend to update this forum more often but I will make a more up to date post here

http://androidforums.com/android-games/132588-compatibility-games-psx4droid-5.html
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chahk:
Is that a limitation of the current version of PSX4droid that can be fixed in a future release? Is there a way to re-package the image to strip music altogether?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
"Is that a limitation of the current version of PSX4droid that can be fixed in a future release? Is there a way to re-package the image to strip music altogether?"

Yes it can be fixed and Zodttd mentioned to me awhile ago that he is working on it.

I have been trying to strip images apart for awhile now to see if they run. The last few days I devoted a lot of my time to Tomb Raider 2 slicing and dicing it every which way to see if I can make it work.

So far I have not seen any improvement.

I posted on a few emulation boards to see if anyone can tell me specific files I could remove to potentially make the game work. I guess I will see if they know any better than I do.

The weird thing is plenty of games with CDDA work. They may have sound that crashes once and awhile like in FF9 but it does not cause the game to freeze. Some games must be coded so that the action cannot happen until the sound does is my best guess.

Metal Gear Solid for example has no sound whatsoever and you cannot get past the main menu normally. I did manage to break into the Heliport level though however at any point the level needs to reload itself or move to the next level the game will freeze. I have been able to jump back and forth from PC to Phone by loading save games of Metal Gear Solid once the level has loaded though.

I should of been a computer programmer instead of an accountant :(
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chahk:
Mortal Kombat Trilogy is still not playing on 1.6 due to CDDA.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] thejungho:
I tried Rayman 2 on my Galaxy S (froyo). It runs but very slowly. How do I make it run faster?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sonofskywalker3:
I have tried Legend of Legaia on my droid and my Fascinate with every version of psx4droid that has been released, and yet it will never get past learing the first new art with tetsu for me. what did you guys do to get it working? I have tried 2 different downloads and they both do the same thing, one was .iso the other is eboot. please help, i want to play this game so bad.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
Yes that issue has not been fixed!

Not sure what it is but it is something unique to Legend of Legaia. I would not expect the Dev focus a ton of energy on it. Esp when I know how to work around it :D

You have two Options:

1. You can do the training with Tetsu on a PC PSX emulator and save on the memory card and then transfer that to your phone

2. You can email me at trevormarina.hayes@gmail.com for a save state just outside Rim Elm in the beginning.

A few things to note:

When learning a Arts move for the FIRST time with either Noa or Gala you will freeze. It is easier to work around this though because

NOA: The wolf will teach you one after awhile. Since you dont learn it in battle your a good.

Gala: By the time you get him you can just talk to a NPC in the Monastery or Drake Castle and learn an arts move

ALSO

Sometimes when learning a arts move for the first time the game will freeze. So save before doing them

AND

Your Hyper Arts will randomly freeze up on you too. So don't do them too much and save before you commit to em.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] sonofskywalker3:
thanks for the heads up. do you know if a psp save is compatible with psx4droid?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
no emulator save states are specific to that emulator.

what I do is keep a PSX PC emulator file on my SD CARD. Then wherever I am I can hook the phone up to a PC and run the emulator on the PC to get past a part that skips.

By the way upon playing more in Legend of Legaia since 1.7 I have found out that learning new arts with Gala at all pisses the emulator off not just the first. Hopefully this will be fixed as I know Zodttd is focusing a ton of attention to sound right now and that is where the problem comes in Legend of Legaia.

Still not too hard to learn all of his moves on PC and then switch back. Took me 10 mins. :D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ermacwins:
Any reason why Street Fighter Ex2 Lags like heck? Does it use cdda audio?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] :
Hey, I have a problem.

I have a HTC Desire Z, got it yesterday. First thing I did was root it then install PSX4Droid.

I tried playing Final Fantasy 7, but the sound is too fast, is there any way to fix this?

Thanks.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
PSX4Droid v2-1.0.2

PSX4Droid v2-1.0.2​

PSX4Droid v2-1.0.1 vs PSX4Droid v2-1.0.2

Good news

First I would like to note that the GREATEST improvement I have witnessed so far, is that almost all FMVs in every game I test have been in sync with music and have run very very smoothly. (Some FMVs have an odd gurgling static in the background, even so is the biggest improvement with how FMVs play in all version of psx4droid so far)

If your looking for a version of psx4droid that plays FMVs nearly flawlessly, v2-1.0.2 is your version.

Also the speed up and slow down problem in many of the psx4droid versions seem to be non existent or much better. Over all music seems better, however....

Bad news

In game audio, sound effects in almost all games are either silent, have a weird static sound, or play oddly. This is terrible news considering the great leaps and bounds FMVs have made to play smoothly now.

Also, I havn't taken a lot of time using save states in v2-1.0.2, but I did have an issue with loading them. Until I do further tests, this is inconclusive.

Note: Almost all FMVs in all the games I've tested so far run incredible, so if I don't mention FMVs in my review of a game, it just means I didn't feel like copy & pasting "FMVs run fantastic" for every game.

Final Fantasy VIII: I Have No Preferred Version

Changes since v2-1.0.1

Average FPS : 60

The Great: Video in game seems to run much smoother, best so far in my opinion.

The Ugly: Still needs to press start to see on the world map.

FFVIII has made improvements, especially in game video with a near constant 60 FPS.

Still unplayable to my expectations until world map is fixed, but definite noticeable improvements.

Final Fantasy IX: Preferred Version to use v1.7(Will freeze at Vivi in the beginning, must use v1.1 until first save point, then switch to v1.7) Some may prefer to use v1.1.

Average FPS: 60

I can't wait until v2-1.0.2 gets fixed, once the in-game audio is fixed this is going to be my preferred version. The FMVs running in v2-1.0.2 are just beautiful, and I hope that part of v2-1.0.2 never changes!!!

Resident Evil II: Preferred Version v2-1.0.2

Changes since v2-1.0.1

Average FPS : 50

In my opinion this is a perfect emulation of Resident Evil II using v2-1.0.2

Crash Bandicoot: Preferred Version v1.1

Average FPS; 50

In my opinion this works great, only downside is the in game music and some in game sound effects. Which is why I still recommend v1.1

Legend of Dragoon: Preferred Version v2-1.0.1

Average FPS; 50

The Ugly: Works worse than v2-1.0.1, In game audio sound effects major problems, no victory music either.

Silent Hill: Preferred Version to use v1.1 or v2-1.0.2

Not much changefrom v2-1.0.1, It may run a little smoother.

I will update with more details on the differences per game as I test.

Stay tuned

P.S. Zod I gotta say, love the fps counter! I was waiting for that one to be implemented .

P.S.S. Zod I hope you don't mess around with the FMVs too much in the next updates. They run fantastic!​
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chahk:
CDDA games are still a no-go :(

P.S. With this version being released, is development for the original PSX4Droid being discontinued?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
Not sure

My assumption is that he's going to make the emulator run near 100% on all non CDDA games, and then create an option to turn on and off a fix for CDDA games. That way it won't effect the non CDDA games. Or at least that's what I would do. Then again I'm not very good at programming so take that with a grain of salt.

As for the other version being abandoned, that's my assumption as well. Maybe he's using v2 as a test run to fix the origional versions. Though with seeing v2 making improvements, I see no reason why he would continue development with the origional. I keep backups of a lot of the versions because as of now no one version plays all games perfectly.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ermacwins:
What a way to rip of those who bought v1. Any news on the n64 emu?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
n64

It is only $2, but I know how you feel. It's more of a fact of the matter than the cost.

I don't remember where I heard him talk about the n64 emulator, but I remember he said it's in development, and that the n64 is a real pain to emulate. In my opinion I wouldn't expect to see the n64 emulator until spring, or maybe even summer. The fact that he's working on it is impressive, I don't even think my laptop could emulate the n64 very well.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] dk206:
V2 1.0.3 os out! Howrver I still can't get mgs to run smoothly with it.....:(

The cutscenes are very jerky with the disc icon appearing at the right upper hand corner every half a second.....ffviii Still unplayable word map....*sigh*
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chahk:
Holy crap, Mortal Kombat Trilogy works on the upgraded 1.x version!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
To my knowledge the v 1.x is now v2 when you upgrade. So your really using v2, as far as I'm aware.

I'm also taking a break from reviewing the newer versions for v2 because he's updating it every few days, and I just can't keep up with it. That's good news though! At this rate we may have a very smooth PSX emulator by 2011!

Also I thought it should be known that in v2-1.0.7 FFVIII is almost playable in my opinion. Now that is huge news since getting FFVIII smooth is like the holy grail for emulators.

Zod is also buying a DROID X to start extra tests on it for performance issues with Droids. Being a DROID X owner, this makes me very happy to know he'll be personally testing performance on this model.

Zod keep it up, your my favorite business man as of the moment.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Chahk:
Dammit. The last 2 updates broke MKT again. It's back to freezing at the "dragon" logo, supposedly where the CDDA music is kicking in.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
I wouldn't worry about it, It seems like hes updating 2 or 3 times a week, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lull in updates though during the next week for Christmas and new years.

I recommend backing up versions you like with titanium backup, that way while he's working on updates you can still use that version for the game your playing and not have to wait.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
PSX4Droid v2-1.0.7

PSX4Droid v2-1.0.7​

PSX4Droid v2-1.0.1 vs

PSX4Droid v2-1.0.2 vs

PSX4Droid v2-1.0.7

Good news

FFVIII becoming more playable after every update.

Bad news

Audio in game music, and video not as good as v2-1.0.2

FMVs video and FMVs music no longer running flawlessly :(

I will not say FMVs work badly in my reviews under the bad: since most FMVs don't play smoothly at all.

Chrono Cross: Preferred Version v1.1

The Bad: FPS lag, I maybe noticing speed up and slow down. Not as smooth as other versions

Chrono Trigger: Preferred Version v1.1

The Bad: FPS drops to 40-50 when moving on the world map, smooth when standing still though.

Final Fantasy VIII: v2-1.0.7 almost my preferred version

Not much change since v2-1.0.6

The Great: World map works!

Definite noticeable improvements.

Resident Evil II: Preferred Version to use v2-1.0.2

Average FPS: 40

The Bad: In game audio sound effects and music a little glitchy sounding. In game video slow at an average 40fps.

v2-1.0.2 was a perfect emulation of REII in my opinion

Final Fantasy IX: Preferred Version to use v1.7(Will freeze at Vivi in the beginning, must use v1.1 or v2-1.0.7 until first save point, then switch to v1.7) Some may prefer to use v1.1. or v2-1.0.7

Average FPS: 60

The Good: Crashes in game no longer an issue, also the character on the world map is no longer black.

The Bad: Video and music not quite as good as v2-1.0.2

Silent Hill: Preferred Version to use v1.1 or v2-1.0.2

The Bad: White boxes around characters still present.

I will update with more details on the differences per game as I test.

Stay tuned

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[Nexus One Themes and Apps] cemhamami:
MGS

MGS Integral runs bad for me with PSX4DROID V2 v1.0.6. There are too much graphic faults it is almost unplayable. On the other hand normal version of MGS nearly works perfect!!! There is no single issue in play mode. However there is a problem with cutscenes they all start good and after like 15 seconds of a cutscene it starts to hang with a disc icon at the top right corner of the screen That disc icon starts to make cutscenes hang every second it is very annoying. I wish it is fixed in newer versions or if someone has found a fix please share =) By the way my device is Samsung Galaxy S US Vibrant with Android 2.1 Eclair.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GHOST99K:
I just uninstalled the psx4droid.first launch it ran my ff7 very choppy so I went to settings changed few things and then it just wouldn't play at all.had the same problem when I had my evo.

Any idea?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
Different version

Version 2 is being updated frequently, multiple times a week so far. So it's constantly changing at the moment(think in beta). For FFVII one of the older versions of psx4droid would work well I think, either psx4droidv1.1 or psx4droidv1.7 (Google is your friend) put it on the sd card, get an "apk installer" off the market, and use whichever one out of the 2 psx4droidversions work best.

Also FFVII doesn't need any of the settings fixes in the menu(probably would make things worse). If your still having problems after all that, then it's most likely a bad copy of the FFVII iso. Because FFVII is one game that works really well.

But like I said version 1.1 or 1.7 I think would work for you. Also get 'titanium backup" it allows you to keep backups of an app version, makes life a little easier sometimes.

Hope this solves your problem.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] GHOST99K:
thanks.i have the old version and i use the same ff7 ISO that i play on my pc which runs perfect but it does not load at all on my N1.

steps i took:

1-opened psx4droid app

2-clicked "PSX BIOS file"

3-path to sdcard/psx roms

4-clicked SCPH1001

5-clicked FFVII_D1.bin

6-after clicking the ISO it goes back to the setiings no matter what i do

i must be doing something wrong or the ISO file i have are corrupted.

thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xaviorffviii:
I kinda have a similar problem occasionally, in v1.1 I'll try to open up FFVIII disk 3 .bin, and it will go to a black screen as if it is loading, and then bring me right back to select a rom. Coincidentally other versions will load it.

Is it only FFVII or all other games? It might be a bad Iso, and ePSXe maybe has an easier time reading it than PSX4Droid. I'd try to get your hands on another FFVII iso. If you rip it yourself using alcohol 120% free trial, and it still doesn't work, then it might be the phone or maybe PSX4Droid wasn't installed properly.

Do you know what version of psx4droid your using?