Valkyrie Profile Disc 1 Lock-up.

[KouTetsuo]

I downloaded the VP ISO from EmuParadise, but I'm running into some problems in one of the cutscenes, and wanted to know if anyone else was having it as well.

I tried to recruit Belenus during Chapter 1; However, when you hear his voice for the first time, the game locks up. I've tried it three times, and It locks up on either of the following two lines:

"Belenus: Destiny? Was it Destiny who took my wife and Maria from me?"

or the line that immediately follows, which is:

"Was it Destiny that took the lives of my friends and father in a foreign war..?"

Any suggestions?

[Jackofdiamonds]

are you using an emulator or a moded psx/ps2?

[pkt-zer0]

Try using SPUAsync for Audio Out method in the Eternal SPU plugin configurations. And don't use frame skipping. Valkyrie Profile has a lot of sound emulation related freezes.

[KouTetsuo]

Hrmn. I'm using ePSXe, and I don't see that option under the Audio menu. the closest I see is 'Enable SPU IRQ Hack'- but that doesn't seem to do anything. I also turned off the frameskip option in video... it didn't quite seem to help.

However, there have been several audio glitches (a small 'beep' after each audio clip) in most of the games I'vce played- mostly in sound effects, thus far. Actually, is there a more accurate Sound Plugin? (I'm using ePSXe SPU core 1.5.2 right now.) And if there is, would it help?

[pkt-zer0]

Config > Sound > Select "Eternal SPU plugin" > Configure, and look there.
If you don't have the Eternal SPU plugin, download it from ngemu.com.

[KouTetsuo]

That's a no-go. I tried all of the options under the config menu for the Eternal SPU Plugin, including...

SPU IRQ- Wait CPU action
SPU IRQ- Force interruption flag7,
and Audio Out Method: SPUasync (With the modes in Smooth, Wait, and Normal respectively).

It's still getting stuck on one of those two lines.

[pkt-zer0]

Dunno, sometimes I needed to restart the game just to get past some points in the game that froze just like this.
But this only happened once, during the fight with *spoiler*Freya

[KouTetsuo]

Meaning COMPLETELY restart, or hard reset the emulator, and load a save point (A save on the memory card, I mean, not a saved state).

[pkt-zer0]

Restart the emulator, I did not mean starting the WHOLE game over again... that would suck pretty much. And yep, don't use save states, they're not exactly your best bet in this kind of situations.