Hello everyone, new here, also a question about Onimusha (FMV not playing)

Hello everyone.

Initially I just registered to see the links, but reading through the forum I realized this community is nice, so I just want to say hello and I'm actually pretty excited since the last console I owned is a snes, so i feel like there is a huge backlog of games suddenly open to me XD

Right now I'm playing Onimusha Warlords for ps2 with pcsx2 1.1.0, having a blast. I set up the emu and everything, and the game works fine and dandy. You can see interactable items through walls in hardware mode, but it's not a big deal.

Anyway, I was quite a bit into the game, in the blue evil plate door when I realized the emu is skipping the videos. The in-game cutscenes work fine, but the "movie" videos aren't showing. i checked in youtube and there is supposed to be a long cutscene when you start the game, but I just saw Yuki's letter to Samanosuke and nothing else. Also, when you pass though this door I was in, apparently there is a long video also.

If there is any specific info I should provide, let me know. I imagine my system specs are fine if I can play the game itself with no problem, right?

Thanks in advance!


EDIT: I'm using the emu,bios,plugins from a pack posted by a user in this forum here (thanks!) but I'm not really sure what most of these things are.

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...IOS-Collection

EDIT2: This is my log when initializing, so I guess I should add this info here.

PCSX2 1.1.0.r5760 - compiled on Nov 12 2013
Savestate version: 0x9a0a0000

Host Machine Init:
Operating System = Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
Physical RAM = 8172 MB
CPU name = Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Vendor/Model = GenuineIntel (stepping 07)
CPU speed = 3.391 ghz (8 logical threads)
x86PType = Standard OEM
x86Flags = bfebfbff 1fbae3ff
x86EFlags = 28100000

x86 Features Detected:
MMX.. SSE.. SSE2.. SSE3.. SSSE3.. SSE4.1.. SSE4.2.. AVX

Reserving memory for recompilers...

Loading plugins...
Binding GS: C:\Vicio\Emulation\PS2\PCSX2-1.1.0\plugins\GSdx32-SSE2-r5752.dll
Windows 6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1 1.0)
Binding PAD: C:\Vicio\Emulation\PS2\PCSX2-1.1.0\plugins\LilyPad-r5403.dll
Binding SPU2: C:\Vicio\Emulation\PS2\PCSX2-1.1.0\plugins\SPU2-X-r5761.dll
Binding CDVD: C:\Vicio\Emulation\PS2\PCSX2-1.1.0\plugins\cdvdGigaherz-r5692.dll
Binding USB: C:\Vicio\Emulation\PS2\PCSX2-1.1.0\plugins\USBnull-r5684.dll
Binding FW: C:\Vicio\Emulation\PS2\PCSX2-1.1.0\plugins\FWnull-r5684.dll
Binding DEV9: C:\Vicio\Emulation\PS2\PCSX2-1.1.0\plugins\DEV9null-r5684.dll
Plugins loaded successfully.

Hello there and welcome to the forums.

I'm going to edit your thread tittle so those that want to help know what you are asking about :)

P.S. you might want to introduce yourself at http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?49888 our Introductions and Farewells Thread

Did any movies play? I guess it's possible you may have a rip and the videos were taken out. However..

The items showing through walls is common - the only way to get rid of that is to run in software mode. But as you said you don't mind that's up to you.

The other thing I was thinking was setting your clamping modes to the following. Can't quite remember where they are in the settings but you'll find them ;)

EE/VU Clamp modes: Normal/Normal
EE/VU Rounding: Chop/Chop

For speed hacks I would leave them off as they cause instability and your PC should have no problem running ps2 emulation anyways but leave the MTVU hack on (checked)

Hmm I don't know why anyone would rip the game unless it was ripped to CD size as no Onimusha game is on DVD9 or anything that I know of

I would check the file size with the info at redump, they also have crc values that you can compare with

The sizes are in bytes I believe that can be shown in the properties of the file

http://redump.org/discs/system/ps2/letter/o/

Oh I admit that would be a long shot with the game being ripped. Hopefully those settings will work though.

I would take a whack at it in software mode too to see if they pop up in that setting.

According to the compatibility list I just check the NTSC-U version looks fine but the Pal could have some minor issues as well so if you have the Pal one I would say go for the North American version :nod:

The size coincides, so it's not ripped. I have speedhacks off, and I already had the clamp and rounding like you say. Also, I tried an option in the Game Fixes tab that says switch to software somthing before FMVs which seemed relevant to this, but no dice. I've also tried playing in native res but it made no difference.

I'll track down the NA version and see if it's better.

Also, out of curiosity, why is there such a size difference between the European version and the NA one? European is 2.03 GB and NA is almost twice that.

EDIT: Not sure this is very relevant, but I had also gotten my paws on Onimusha 2, and the videos work very well in that one XD. So it's not like I'm missing a codec or smth right?

I'm going to guess that is has duplicated FMV for the Jap language that is in that version as well as Englsh FMV's

EU version will just have English FMV with subs for French and German

I can't know for certain without having both copies to study

I take it you are talking about Warlards as thee are 5 Onimusha games and none of the english versions are just called Onimusha

The Jap version is also about 4GB so the EU one may possibly just does not have FMV in it at all...

The Xbox version is the best one under the name Genma Onimusha but it is not an emulated system :/

Yeah I meant Warlords, I think I mentioned in the OP; anyhow, I'm happy to report the US version has working cutscenes! XD

Thanks for your help, now we know XD.

You did I'm blind :P (read the first post a few times as well, I'm really blind)

This will help others so thanks for getting back to us with your findings :)

Glad the NA one is working :nod:

Still its bugging me why the pal one wont work. Would a pal bios work or does that even matter with pcsx2 :thot:

Lets do a file match up :)

EU and US version almost have all the same movies (US version is duplicated as I thought it would be [Hence the huge file size difference of the iso's])

There are 3 extra movie files one seems mega huge apx 1GB but asides from that the EU version does seem to have a set of movies that I would of thought would get played in game.

LINKS0A.PSS
ONI00.PSS \__Possibly 2 parts to a single very large movie
ONI01.PSS /

If you are wondering *P.PSS = Pal & *E.PSS= English in the file names shown in the screen grab (some of the vids may not of needed translating in the US iso)

Attachment 38964

Urg i didn't think to check that; I'm using a US bios, do you think that might have been the cause then. Can't test it now since I binned the EU iso (running out of space : s)

Nope I don't think that will be an issue.

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[/B]1702601]Urg i didn't think to check that; I'm using a US bios, do you think that might have been the cause then. Can't test it now since I binned the EU iso (running out of space : s)

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I suppose it could have been a framerate issue because the 2 regions run at different rates or whatever but don't know if the bios controls that or not. Still it's an idea though. Unfortunately cant test it either since I'm between pc's at the moment.


Edit: Necro'd :wacko:

Yeah I suppose thats another long shot :P