psx4droid: Final Fantasy 8 freezes when entering battle

[kadeebee]

This is my first post so sorry if I do something wrong.

So when I try running Final Fantasy 8 on psx4droid everything seems to work fine but any time I get into a battle the music changes and the screen freezes (it does not even do that thing where is gets all distorted). Now after some google searching I found that this is a problem that some other emulator had (pcsx) but the solution was to get different bios that were specific to that emulator (I think). Any ideas? I would appreciate the help.

I am using a droid razr m.
android 4.1.1

[Zorlon]

Moved..

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Try Bios SCPH1001 the game reportedly works with that bios set

Also try both the PAL and NTSC versions of the game

It maybe an issue with your actual hardware rather than settings or bios though

or just get ePSXe instead for your android device

[kadeebee]

Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't realize this was only for PC emulation. I'll start the thread again in the appropriate place after trying your suggestions. I do have those bios so I guess I'll try the other emulator or a 3rd version of the game.

edit: moved. didn't see that. clearly my reading skills are lacking

[Zorlon]

Just too quick for you

Do look at the other region version of the game first though, the compat list I seen was for the PAL version though on another compat list that didn't list bios version says both the PAL-E and NTSC-U versions work

Depending on your hardware though depends how well they will run

As far as emulating on PC though I have never seen a bios choice make any difference to a game working or not working

[kadeebee]

I'm using the ntsc-u version. I seem to be the only person on the planet with this problem on the razr m which is new so i'm fairly sure it's not a hardware problem. Everything works fine but I cannot enter battles. Hopefully someone who has had this problem happens upon this thread.

[Zorlon]

Try the pal-e version sometimes just listed as E that doesn't stand for english but Europe though that version is in english

most users are using the pal version I can only assume that it is because the frame rate is smaller so it is more like to run smoother/quicker

PAL runs at 50FPS but NTSC runs at 60FPS, don't for one second think that a PAL game runs slower than a NTSC game though the 50 frames and 60 frames contain the same image at the start and end of those frames so every second for each will have the exact same image it's just within that second NTSC has 10 extra frames, this is not something you can notice by eye or ear unless you run something that is ment to be at 60FPS at 50FPS or vice versa

[gezegond]

You should try changing emulators as well. I have FPSE and it usually works though I have not tried FF8.

[kadeebee]

Update: Solved.

After trying the NTSE-U and the PAL-E versions of FF8 with SCPH1001.BIN for the bios I decided to switch to SCPH7003.BIN (Europe) bios. Since I already was using the PAL-E version of FF8 I only tested it out with that but it works now. Though I've only been through one battle the game now saves (which it didn't do before) and goes into battles with full menus and everything. I will post an edit when I get around to testing the NTSE-U with the new bios. I hope if anyone has this problem they will happen upon this. I do not know if this is a problem specific to PXS4Droid or what there that is.

Also I have a Motorola Razr M
and Droid 4.1.1 in case this is pertinent.

[Zorlon]

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