Problems with epsxe/Chrono Cross ISO

[Uberturnip]

Hey. I've extracted the ISO of Chrono Cross disk 1, and tried playing it with the epsxe emu. It runs fine up to the title screen, but from there, whenever I try and start a new game, and right after it asks if I want controller vibration on or off, the screen just goes black and stays black. I can escape out of it and continue back in, so it doesn't seem to have crashed.

Any help would be welcome, thanks.

[madcrow]

This is the old "1.6 broke square games" problem. Either start epsxe with the "-noauto" option (be sure you've properly set the manual frame limiter first!) or use 1.5.2 which everybody says works better with the square games anyway...

[chiefkawasaki]

yo where is this -noauto thingy?

[AKUMA™]

It's a dos command for epsxe, you won't see it in the options. Refer to the epsxe help manual for info about these

� Command line switches


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There are quite a bit of undocumented switches, even some that aren't mentioned when using the '-help' switch! For your reading pleasure, here is a list of all known command-line switches in ePSXe 1.2.0 and their function(s) (big thanks to CDBuRnOuT for his re-search on this !!) :

� -adsrtrick............................Returns a random ADSR value.

� -analog...............................Enables Analog Pad Emulation.

� -anamous...........................Enables Analog Pad Emulation via Mouse.

� -bios ..........................Loads the specified PlayStation BIOS file.

� -c.......................................Enables the Dynarec core.*

� -cddmairq3..........................Enables CD-ROM IRQ3 in DMA.**

� -cdfast................................Enables Fast CD-ROM Emulation.

� -cdrom ...................Selects a CD-ROM Drive Letter

� -cdslow..............................Enables Slow CD-ROM Emulation.

� -cdtiming............................Enables Accurate CD-ROM Timing.

� -debug................................Enables Debugging (only in betas!)

� -dmairqclear........................Forces DMA IRQ to always be cleared.

� -f........................................Disables BIOS Logo. (Fast Boot)

� -ff9pal.................................Enables Final Fantasy IX PAL cheat.

� -fl.......................................Enables the internal framelimiter.**

� -forcepad............................Forces SIO IRQ to always be enabled.

� -forcespu............................Forces SPU IRQ to always be enabled.

� -gun...................................Enables Namco Gun Emulation.**

� -h......................................Displays some (not all) command-line switches.

� -hdev.................................Displays a list of debug options.

� -help..................................Displays some (not all) command-line switches.

� -i.......................................Loads the Interpreter core.*

� -legaia................................Enables Legend of Legaia cheat.

� -lib.....................................Loads libpsx.exe.

� -loadbin .....................Loads a specified ISO image file.

� -loadcheat .................Loads a specified .cht file.

� -loadfake............................Loads a fake file.****

� -loadmemc0 ..............Loads a specified memory card file in the first slot (0).

� -loadmemc1 ..............Loads a specified memory card file in the second slot (1).

� -mouse..............................Enables Mouse Emulation.

� -noaudiocd.........................Disables CDDA.

� -noauto..............................Disables automatically applied patches.

� -nocd.................................Disables CD-ROM Emulation.

� -nocdcmd11.......................Disables CD-ROM command 11.

� -nocdstatus........................Changes some CD-ROM status outputs.

� -nocdrtstatus......................Disables CD-ROM RT status

� -nogui................................Runs ePSXe without the GUI.

� -nolog................................Disables log files.

� -nomdec............................Disables MDEC.

� -nomdectiming....................Disables MDEC Timing.

� -nomemcard.......................Disables Memory Card Emulation.

� -noseekinxa.......................Disables seeking during XA playback.

� -nosound...........................Disables Sound Emulation.

� -p ..........................Adds penalty cycles to memory access.*****

� -paddual............................Enables a pad workaround*

� -savefake ..................Saves a fake file.****

� -ssv0.................................Creates savestates compatible with ePSXe v1.4.0

� -v......................................Shows the current version of ePSXe

� -xaread..............................Enables XA Read.

� -xasound............................Enables XA Sound Emulation.

� -[psx exe]..........................Runs the specified PSX Executable (can be a .pll, zipped)



For infos which command line switch is required for which game, check the Specific games section !

[LastPucho]

Yep. Also notice that you might need to turn on certain special options of you video plugin. In PeopSoft plug, for example, in "Special game fixes", you might need to enable "Odd/Even bit hack".

The same compatibility option exist in several video plugins. Don't forget also to mark the check-box next to "Activate special game fixes" when you do this.