[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Trev186:
I have noticed that since the improvements in 1.5 90% of the games that do not work or freeze are related to CDDA audio. Some games have massive amounts of it and others do not. If you play a game and hear nothing but sound looping and repeating at one point or another that is from the CDDA audio.

Zoddtd stated that a fix for this in the works so hopefully we will see even better compatiability

The only other bugs I can think of which do not involve CDDA are in Front Mission 3 the game just does not work, Parasite Eve 2 has some odd video coding that jacks stuff up, and FF9 which is when you need to control a sprite over a CG enabled background.

Red Alert (C&C): Works just fine both allies and soviets

Riven: Surprisingly works seeing how Myst did not...

Soviet Strike: Sadly does not work. Also has the CDDA issue. It gets to a EA logo and then freezes while it loops sound.

Ehregiz: Works about 80% speed

Valkryie Profile: I got this to work. For the intro to the game you need to use the PC PSX emulator trick. It freezes randomly during conversation which has voice overs. However majority of the time is ok. Once you get control of a character (Angrhiem) you can save and then play on from your phone. I played for a good 2 hours with no problems. Ovbiously this may happen again but if so just do the PC/PSX emulator swap and you can still play the majority of the game on your phone

For the complete list of what I have tested see below:

Updated list of PSX games I have working in 1.5 on my N1 with default Bios running 2.2. all using 30 FPS setting. Overall the speed is the same or faster than 1.1 for me and I am very happy with the update.

Note Games with CDDA will not work.

Note games with multiple discs may or may not allow you to progress. If they allow you to save at the disc change screen it is no problem but some just tell you to insert without saving. These you will need to use your computer to change discs until a swap disc or insert disc option is added

If you are having conflicting issues with any of the below games on 1.5 try reinstalling the app from scratch rather than updating AND do not use old save states.

If you still have issues send me a save state of the game you are having problems with and see if I get the same issue (trevormaina.hayes@gmail.com).

Alone in the Dark 2 ( Works no problems about 80 % speed)

Arc the Lad 1-3: All Run just fine

Civilization 2: Works no problems whatsoever

Alundra-No Issues

Azure Dreams-No Issues

Brave Fencer Musashi- I have not issues on night or day levels and it runs at decent speed

Breath of Fire 3- No issues

Breath of Fire 4- No issues and menu does not cause game to freeze or go black for me

Dino Crisis 1- No issues

Dino Crisis 2- No issues

Red Alert: Works great

Fear Effect- No issues

Fear Effect 2- No issues

FF7- No issues and submarine issue is fixed

FF8- Garden moves now but over world is still very slow but game is playable.

FF9- Game still freezes for me in some CG cut scenes (Ariship in disc 1, Entering Clerya disc 2, Alexander vs Bahamaut disc 3, Defeating Garland Disc 3, Memoria first boss disc 4 and final ending) However I have read reports that they do work if you load from memory card. If not it really is not hard to by pass these on PC emulator still play 95% of the game on your phone

Final Fantasy Tactics- No issues

Grandia- No issues

Hoshigami ruining the Blue Earth- No issues

Hot Shots golf- No issues

Jade Cocoon- No issues

Legend of Dragoon- No issues

Legend of Legaia- Still freezes the first time you learn an arts move; this is only a problem with Vahn. Play the intro on PC and you can play the rest of the game from there. Just be careful when learning new moves or using hyper arts but VERY doable

Lunar 1- No issues

Lunar 2- No issues

Parasite Eve 1- No issues

Resident Evil 1- No issues

Resident Evil 2- No issues

Resident Evil 3- No issues

Silent Hill- No issues

Star Ocean 2- No issues. Starting as the guy game makes annoying buzz sound until you save at first save point and then reload from memory card

Tales of Destiny- No issues

Tales of Destiny 2- No issues

Tomb Raider 3-5: work

Twisted Metal 1-4: work; recommend altering Controls

Vagrant Story : Works Now AI do load !!!!

Vandal Hearts 1 and 2: Both work

Wild Arms 1 and 2: Both work

Xenogears: Works

Driver 1 and 2: both work

Warcraft 2: works

Riven: Surprisingly works seeing how Myst did not...

Tenchu: works

Rayman 2: works

Einhander: works

Suikoden 1 and 2: Both work

Baulder's Gate : works

Valkryie Profile: I got this to work. For the intro to the game you need to use the PC PSX emulator trick. It freezes randomly during conversation which has voice overs. However majority of the time is ok. Once you get control of a character (Angrhiem) you can save and then play on from your phone. I played for a good 2 hours with no problems. Ovbiously this may happen again but if so just do the PC/PSX emulator swap and you can still play the majority of the game on your phone

GAMES THAT DO NOT WORK:

1. Front Mission 3 (trying to see if there is a PC PSX emulator work around for this) (PSP emulators barely even run this)

2. Rayman 1 (usess CDDA)(Dont bother getting this on PSX4droid you can get it for GBA with same exact graphics !!!!)

3.Tomb Raider 1- Wont work CDDA not supported

4.Tomb Raider 2- Wont work CDDA Not supported

5. Croc wont work uses CDDA

6. Metal Gear Solid (CDDA issue as well I think not for sure...)

7. Parasite Eve 2 (note very hard to emulate because of strange video coding)

8. Metal Slug X character select screen freezes game

9. Tekken 3 (too slow to be enjoyable) (May be fixed when Android 3.0 comes out)

10. Thousand Arms (ground is black and game freezes shortly in)

11. Mortal Combat Trilogy (CDDA game) Plus that series is boring :P

12. Wing Commander 4 does not work. It loads ok but during intro movies it stutters a ton and then eventually freezes

13. Soviet Strike: Sadly does not work. Also has the CDDA issue. It gets to a EA logo and then freezes while it loops sound.

I test all of my games by at least testing the core functions in the game. For example combat, menu selection FMV sequences, ETC. I do not have the time to play through the entire game, however I beleive if you can get into the actual game engine to the first save point the game is "Playable" because you are able to jump between a PC PSX emulator to by pass any issues. Most games I have noticed the errors are far and few in between so it does not hamper you too much.

All the games I am testing are games I want (besides MK Trilogy :P). Let me know if anyone has suggestions as I almost have every title I was hoping to get. Now I just have to wait for 64 GB Micro SD cards or larger !

Also I omitted testing some games such as Nuclear Strike because they have a N64 counter part or in some cases a GBA counter part! I recommend using one of those because they are more reliable than our huge bulky img and bin files for PSX and take up a fraction of the space. My best success with this is Rayman which is perfectly playable on GBA and does not work on PSX

Always feel free to email me if you have any suggestions or new finds contrary to my list.

The toughest games to debug are the ones which freeze at the "Published by" screens like Parasite Eve 2 because I cannot test these on a PC PSX emulator. I have tried using several tools to "RIP" those out of the game file to see if I can at least get to a memory card load screen but to little avail. I am not skilled enough at hacking these ROMs to do it. If anyone knows how to do this please find such titles on my list and give it a go.

Also Check out SCUMMVM for Android 2.0 is in beta and not on the market but google it and you will find the .APK file. It works great for games like Day of the Tentacle. Also allows me to play Broken Sword 1 and 2 and save some space as they are smaller than the .EBOOT files for PSX4Droid. Supposedly Myst and Riven will be supported over SCUMMVM in the future which would allow for more space and an alternative for Myst since it does not work on PSX4droid ATM

I have a request as well to any one who may be in the know. There is supposedly a never released Fallout port for the PSX. If anyone can find it or know where to get it I would be very happy ! The Baulder's Gate PSX version I found is a similar case and can be found in the SNESoRama forums for anyone interested.

Hoping to test

Bushido Blade 1 and 2, Dune 2000, Wing Commander 3, Alone in the Dark: The new Nightmare