Wild goose chase with trying Playstation emulators for a game.

[Kamoodle]

Lately, I have been into some searching to see if I can find a playstation emulator that will work on my computer well so I can play a game I was really hoping to check. Seems I have run into a dead end. At first, I tried PSXfin, and it's the only emulator that didn't give me any problems when playing Spyro 2. Then, there was the no sound during the cutscenes. I was almost going to ask here until I read the topic of its one flaw with PSXfin.

A little while ago, I tested to see if the latest ePSXe would work for it. Since no one seems to have mentioned it here, I will state my problem with ePSXe. At first, Spyro 2 works alright at the title menu. Then, right before the first cutscene, ePSXe crashes with an error window.

Would PSXfin really be my best bet when playing Spyro 2? Also, I did read in another topic of a download program that could restore sound in games. Will it work for Spyro 2? For the moment, I have gotten quite frustrated with the time I just wasted trying the other emulators in hopes of getting good results, so I dumped them all in the recycle bin. I don't think my computer isn't capable for running a Playstation emulator. As said, PSXfin played beautifully.

Thanks for your response.

[Kouen Hasuki]

PC Specs please thats always a good start

[Drageuth]

Also, what plugins are you using? 'cause the different plugins that are available have varying results depending on your computer, etc.

[David Stark]

try pete's gpu, and pete's spu here:http://www.pbernert.com/ they work fine for me for that game, i would also suggest trying epsxe 1.7 because that is what i used

[Kamoodle]

I currently own XP, professional service pack 2, and I have one gig of RAM. I used to have Intel Celeron 2 gigs, but after my brother-in-law put in a new processor, it pretty much kicked my old one to the moon. It's now Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.80 gigs and even it plays my WoW much more smoothly than my old one did. Have ATI Radeon 9550. I am planning on upgrading my computer even more soon, I hope, but I think my specs are good enough at the moment.

I can try again with ePSXe 1.70 tonight and see how it works. I do currently have Pete's gpu and spu as plugins but I was using ePSXe's plugins. I got too frustrated last night to try anymore.

EDIT: The game still crashes even with Pete's stuff. Looking at ePSXe's black screen, it did display a bunch of messages saying "Warning: ISORead overflow".

[David Stark]

well...... where did you get this game? where did you download it?

"Warning: ISORead overflow" that usually happens when you have a bin with no cue or you turn a bin into an iso by just re naming it

[Elmdor Rizer]

http://www.emuparadise.org/emulators..._1_13-1220.rar

Doesn't run all game - or so I'd assume, never had any problems - but you don't have to worry about shoddy bios and stuff. Plug and play!

[Kamoodle]

well...... where did you get this game? where did you download it?

"Warning: ISORead overflow" that usually happens when you have a bin with no cue or you turn a bin into an iso by just re naming it

I got Spyro 2 from Rom Hustler. It just had the .img, .ccd, and .sub in the download. While I had PSXfin, I converted the .img to .cdz and they are all still there. I did also try the downloads here, but I had the same problem another person posted here of PakkISO not working.

http://www.emuparadise.org/emulators..._1_13-1220.rar

Doesn't run all game - or so I'd assume, never had any problems - but you don't have to worry about shoddy bios and stuff. Plug and play!

That's what I had, but Spyro 2 cutscenes have no sound from that emulator.

EDIT: The game works now. I downloaded the game from here and did the conversion with ECM Tools. No more of the warning part either. It was the game files I had before.