Greetings and good evening. I would greatly appreciate advice regarding the activation of two ROMs I downloaded from this site. I will provide the story in its entirety so that, should anyone choose to help me, inquiries will be anywhere from few to non existent.
About my vista computer, it has a triple core processor, 2.10 GHz. My graphics card has approximately 2294 MBs of memory. It has 3070 MBs of RAM. The BIO I downloaded to get my emulator to work is called scph1001. The plugin I downloaded for it is called Pete’s OpenGL2 Driver 2.9. I have not tried other ROMs because I have a limited amount of data I can download a month, so I can’t spare much to experiment with other games. I have not tried another emulator either because I have heard nothing but positive reports about the one I am using.
I downloaded the EPSXE PlayStation One emulator version 1.7, the newest one. I tried running it, but it needed some extra files to configure. I followed the messages, downloading files from the sites it suggested, until I successfully configured the emulator. So, undoubtedly, there is nothing wrong with the emulator itself. It gave me the enjoy message and all is good with that.
Next, I went to this address to download Lunar: Silver Star Story: http://www.emuparadise.org/roms/psx/Lunar/download.php. Saying that this link was old but will still work, it asked me to click a link, wait for the page to load in which case a button will become clickable, then to press the button to start the download of the ROM. Well, I did all that, and nothing happened. I pressed the button labeled “Proceed to download ISO” and nothing came up. I pressed it again, and again, and again, yet I was provided with no new screen or message. I left the internet and completely reloaded the page and still, the button was useless.
So, I went to this new page of options that the screen told me about. I ended up here: http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?57322 which has the links to the two discs of the game. I followed each link and downloaded them. The result intrigued me. Even though both links were of the same game, from the same site, and were downloaded in the same manner, the download of disc one ended up being a “7Z file” and the download of the second disc ended up being a “001 file.” Ignoring that peculiarity, I set the ROMs to open with my emulator and tried all four options.
Run CDROM just made the screen go black and a controller symbol appeared on the top right.
Run ISO, even though I already opened the emulator with the ROM itself, made the emulator folder open to select a ROM. Reselecting the ROM and pressing okay did the same thing as run CDROM.
Run PS-EXE made the screen go black but did not show the controller symbol. An error message appeared that I could not read, because it only became visible for an instant after hitting escape during the black screen.
Run BIOS opens the screen that you see when you turn on a PlayStation with no CD inside.
Now, I did plenty of research. No one that I could find had a problem running the Lunar: Silver Star Story ROM on the EPSXE 1.7 emulator. Problems I found were things like trouble converting the game to disc two, and it playing the opening sequence then quitting. So I did look for a while before coming here and bothering you all. Furthermore, my brother has been using the EPSXE emulator for a long time, and he fiddled with my emulator and ROMs and couldn’t find the problem either. So I did my best. I tried every option I could find. Does anyone, anyone at all, have any ideas why playing these ROMs is doing nothing at all? I hope that I included every bit of information that is necessary to discover what the problem may be. Thank you for your time.
Baby Blue Dragon