epsxe and legend of dragoon

i downloaded LoD and got epsxe all setup, im kind of a newb to the psx emulation scene, i followed the newb settings and plugins someone recomended on a guide on here and it seems to be working fine... seems to be.
i dont know if the problem im having is something with epsxe or something with the rom, but when i run the cd i burned the images to, i get stuck at this intro screen thing, no buttons i press or anything will get me past it and it never ends.

the rip i downloaded had a little readme saying it was a gundamguy thing and said to come here with questions, lol. i know, im newb, but help me!

If your gonna emulate it, it's better to run the image file, instead of buring it to disc.

I believe ePSXe 1.5.2 is better for this game, if your not already, I would try using that ver.
You might wanna check under the special game fixes for your graphics plugins.

You werent very specific in your post...

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Originally Posted by woodman

If your gonna emulate it, it's better to run the image file, instead of buring it to disc.

I believe ePSXe 1.5.2 is better for this game, if your not already, I would try using that ver.
You might wanna check under the special game fixes for your graphics plugins.

You werent very specific in your post...

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as i stated, i dont think its an emulator problem, so i didnt think any of that would be pertinent information. i guess it could be anything when it comes to this sort of thing though. you wants specifics, well, here they are

my rig specs:
A64 3700+ San Diego @ 2.2GHz
1GB pc3200 Corsair XMS
MSI K8N NEO4-F
200GB WD 8mb cache
Radeon 7000 pci (probobly the core of my problems, but its a filler card, 7800gt/gtx coming soon)

plugins:
P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.17
P.E.Op.S. DSound Audio Driver 1.9
SaPu's CD-ROM Plugin 1.0

Well, that's odd... the graphic soft plugin you are using is very compatible. And i played LoD with no problems... at least 1 hour; haven't beaten it yet though. :D

Anyway, it's good to have a variety of plugs/emus/utilities and bioses. So if it one plug fails, you switch to other, switch emus or bioses and find the ones that really suits your needs for a certain game.

For a complete psx emulation pack, check www.ngemu.com, in the section of playstation. I recommend to get the "latest" emulators like epsxe, pcsx, adri, etc, and dl the plugs they offer. Also they have a very good forum, worth checking out, about compatibility issues.

If you need more variety of bioses, just pm me and i'll send them to you, so you have more to experiment with; i'll be happy to help you.

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Originally Posted by LastPucho

Well, that's odd... the graphic soft plugin you are using is very compatible. And i played LoD with no problems... at least 1 hour; haven't beaten it yet though. :D

Anyway, it's good to have a variety of plugs/emus/utilities and bioses. So if it one plug fails, you switch to other, switch emus or bioses and find the ones that really suits your needs for a certain game.

For a complete psx emulation pack, check www.ngemu.com, in the section of playstation. I recommend to get the "latest" emulators like epsxe, pcsx, adri, etc, and dl the plugs they offer. Also they have a very good forum, worth checking out, about compatibility issues.

If you need more variety of bioses, just pm me and i'll send them to you, so you have more to experiment with; i'll be happy to help you.

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that would be great. this is one of my favorite games on the playstation, i beat it years ago, i think i rented it once and beat it... maybe it was twice, lol.

ive tried several different plugins, havent tried a different bios. i have different versions for everything, maybe i didnt patch the image right or something... iunno. ive tried mounting the image and running epsxe with the image itself and neither worked, same result, stuck at the stupid paradox intro screen :(

Yeah, it's bad... i think it's a good game.

I'll upload the psx bios pack in the YSI forum before i go to bed. Hope it helps you.

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Originally Posted by LastPucho

Yeah, it's bad... i think it's a good game.

I'll upload the psx bios pack in the YSI forum before i go to bed. Hope it helps you.

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actually, i just got it... heh, ya know how i said i was noob like 3 times? well yeah, im a n00b... lol. the gfx are a little choppy, but thats tp be expected... the cut scenes are weird and the voices during the cutscenes are even weirdder, but i can fix that later, at least it works :D

The best sound plugin in my opinion is Eternal SPU Plugin 1.41 as this works well with almost every game.

Lol, oki man, good for you! Congrats.

Anyway, if you still want the bios pack, its here: http://forums.emuparadise.org/showpo...postcount=3823

Sorry for the delay. Bye and have fun.

crap... i just got through the prarie after saving shana, now im fighting the guardian thing in the caves and i cant beat it. i didnt go back to seles after saving shana, so everyone is at like 20hp and i have no heals or anything... is there any way to enter like game shark codes or something on here? lol

http://www.emucheater.com/

Download that. It's a seperate program but you're supposed to run it before running the rom. It has to use it's own video plugin I belive so I don't know if it will work for you. I don't know if it has LoD on it either. But worth a try right!?

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Originally Posted by devarian

...is there any way to enter like game shark codes or something on here? lol

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Well, there are two that i know. First, the one that was posted before, emucheater, and it's pretty good! But it has the limitation that it has a "pre-defined" cheat data base incorporated. You can add your own cheats though.

The second way is another plugin. It works as a graphic plugin, but actually is a wrapper for another graphic plugin (just like emucheater). When you configure it, you can specify the codes you wanna cheat with. It's called Action Replay Wrapper, available from ngemu's epsxe utilities section (http://www.ngemu.com/psx/epsxe.php?action=tools). Obviusly, you must enter Action Replay Codes there. A little search on google and you should be able to find them easily.

And right below the Action Replay Wrapper on the page you gave:
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/epsxe.php?action=tools

...there's this:

[pec] Database Editor v2.0

[pec] Database Editor was originally designed to be a database editor for the cheating utility [pec]. Its nice interface easily allows you to add codes to the big database. But since version 1.2, this tool also includes a converter which converts normal Gameshark codes to the format ePSXes built in cheating option uses. Worth a look until [pec] adds support for ePSXe !

lol
How could you have missed that LastPucho?

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Originally Posted by SegNin

And right below the Action Replay Wrapper on the page you gave:
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/epsxe.php?action=tools

...there's this:

[pec] Database Editor v2.0

[pec] Database Editor was originally designed to be a database editor for the cheating utility [pec]. Its nice interface easily allows you to add codes to the big database. But since version 1.2, this tool also includes a converter which converts normal Gameshark codes to the format ePSXes built in cheating option uses. Worth a look until [pec] adds support for ePSXe !

lol
How could you have missed that LastPucho?

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Oops... ehm... it can happen to anyone... :sweat: ;_; :D

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Originally Posted by SegNin

And right below the Action Replay Wrapper on the page you gave:
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/epsxe.php?action=tools

...there's this:

[pec] Database Editor v2.0

[pec] Database Editor was originally designed to be a database editor for the cheating utility [pec]. Its nice interface easily allows you to add codes to the big database. But since version 1.2, this tool also includes a converter which converts normal Gameshark codes to the format ePSXes built in cheating option uses. Worth a look until [pec] adds support for ePSXe !

lol
How could you have missed that LastPucho?

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built in? where is that? i dont see it in any of the menus...

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Originally Posted by devarian

built in? where is that? i dont see it in any of the menus...

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SegNin means a build in cheating utility that is present in
ePSXe main menu up to version 1.5.2 it is not present in 1.6.0
You can acces it from the cheat menu.

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Originally Posted by MegaVolt

SegNin means a build in cheating utility that is present in
ePSXe main menu up to version 1.5.2 it is not present in 1.6.0
You can acces it from the cheat menu.

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ahh, im usin 1.6

i got a little carried away with the cheats and now everyone like lvl 54, so i gave them the best gear they could have... and i even got all the dragoon spirits and everyone with max dragoon level... including divine, lol. needless to say, im kickin ass and takin names. i beat lenus at the end of disk 2 with a few additions and shanas best dragoon attack, lol. it kinda takes away from the experience of the game, but its fun beating the living hell out of everything.

i have one more question, then ill shut up. how can i extract the CGs from the game so i can watch them seperately from having to play through the entire game? i havent seen the end CG this time around, but i remember from when i last played it how awesome it is, lol.

Several video and audio plugins can dump video/sound files. Check the configuration panel of your P.E.Op.S. video/audio plugins. I think the default key for recording a .avi file is space bar. There's a little button that brings you to the configuration of the keys from wich the plugin can be commanded from ingame. When you record something from the screen, the video plug saves the .avi file in a folder named DEMO in epsxe main folder.

I think most plugins come with a readme file; it's recommended that you read them, you can find more detailed information there. A little research doens't hurt :P

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Originally Posted by devarian

i have one more question, then ill shut up. how can i extract the CGs from the game so i can watch them seperately from having to play through the entire game? i havent seen the end CG this time around, but i remember from when i last played it how awesome it is, lol.

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If it's in one of the standard PSX formats you can use PSXMC to rip it
to .avi. Using plugins to rip video from game requires you to play the game
to the moment of the FMV you want to rip, with PSXMC you don't have to. ;)

the codes that come with psx emulation cheater, under 'other codes,' then 'in-battle codes,' theres one called 'enemies modifier' that will take you to any enemy in the game, if you have the code for it, or so the description says. would anyone know how to enter said codes for the boss, and what the code for lavitz spirit in mayfil would be? rather vague question, i know, but i have to try, i messed with too many of the cheats and now everything all messed up, lol

Uhm... maybe this helps you, but i'm not sure.

The only game i cheated with (actually, over-cheated) was Chrono Cross. I introduced so many codes, the game started to crash at a certain point, where wouldn't normally crash. I was playing CC with epsxe, so I continued playing it with psxeven, from an imported memory card file in wich i had saved my progress in the game. I continued playing CC with psxeven with no problems, but also with no more cheats.

Or you could just try disabling the cheats by switching to a normal video plugin.

Hope this helps.

EDIT: I assume your main problem is that, as you said, the game is "all messed up" and you can't continue playing it. Other than that, sorry, i don't know the codes you're looking for, but remmenber 2 things:

1) You can add your own cheats or edit the cheat database of emucheater.
2) Google is your friend :D A little search and you should get those codes.