Brave Fencer, Xenogears, freezing on PSX.

So I'm having a problem with both these games on my PSX, it's the latest version (1.13).

On brave fencer musashi the game freezes right after the opening credits.

On xenogears I can play through the game a bit, but on the first cut scene where the gears are attacking and the person falls out of the gear, fei is getting ready to get in, then it switches to an anime style scene the game sorta locks up, I say sorta, because only the image seems to be frozen, the audio is still playing.

I checked the compatibility for both of these and they both seem okay, occasional freeze fixed by fast forwarding or pressing start, but neither seem to help in this situation.

So um yeah, any help here? I don't know much on the technical end of emulators, but I'm decently computer savvy if you need anymore info.

Have you tried other emulators such as epsxe?

No, I'd really prefer to keep it all on PSX. The emulator works great and I don't need any plug-ins or anything, everything is nice and self contained. I think I may have gotten brave fencer working, just kept restarting it and it finally let me past the opening scene, and I haven't had any problems since that with it.

Xenogears is what I really want to play though...

Maybe I'm missing some kind of setting or something...
It played all of the opening scenes fine, I got to run through all the dialog and play through some combat, so everything in the game seems to be working fine, it just freeze up on this cut scene. I let the scene run just to see what would happen, it seems it actually freeze up after the scene is done, not just the video. I'll add that it's basically stuck on the first frame, but the audio keeps playing. Until the scene ends, and it totally freezes. Also if I fast forward the screen just goes black as soon as I let it play normal.

Hmm, here's the same problem that was apparently fixed by running the game by suing "-r" command in run.

(Create a shortcut of the emulator exe file, right click->properties->shortcut->target, type " -r" at the end of the path, save and double click the shortcut)

Does this solve your problem?

:google:

Hmm, I tried that it just says the name specified in the target box is not valid. I can't run it that way because the error message won't let me change the properties.
Wouldn't I need some kind of...-r file or something for that to do anything?

Maybe I'm just doing the -r thing wrong, I made a shortcut, went into properties, and put -r at the end of the the Target: box...I can't imagine what else I was supposed to do there.

put it after the quotation marks, with a space, something like this:

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"C:\Program Files\something.exe" -r

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Or you can go to start->run-> and type your target there with no quotations and put -r after it, like this:

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C:\Program Files\something.exe -r

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Hope this helps.

Huzzah! Thank you so much Geze, I just didn't know it needed a space before the -r.
So...what exactly does the -r do anyway? I noticed PSX said event rescheduling enabled....

strange problem, i can run those games just fine with no other options on, maybe yours discs are scratched/ disc images corrupted?

have you checked the compatibility lists?

http://psx.silvanthalas.com/psx.html

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Originally Posted by Irift Heat

Huzzah! Thank you so much Geze, I just didn't know it needed a space before the -r.
So...what exactly does the -r do anyway? I noticed PSX said event rescheduling enabled....

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This is a command switch used to enable or disable particular features in a program on startup. Each program will have its own set of options that can be set this way, generally using different letters after the dash.

Basically clicking on a shortcut with this in it,

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"C:\Program Files\something.exe" -r

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Is the same as running it in a command line; it just tells windows to execute the program (something.exe) at its location
(C:\Program Files), and in this case the -r gives it further instructions.