The Misadventures of Tron Bonne ePSXe Problem

[Tsudatama]

Hello. Please excuse my lack of in-depth experience with these kinds of things.

For a while I've put off not being able to play MoTB (Misadventures of Tron Bonne) as a problem with a corrupted ISO (this was a long time ago and I've tried multiple versions). Recently I've tried to play it again, but I ran into the same exact problems as before.

Basically, the game likes to hang. During gameplay when dialogue is supposed to show up so that the game can advance, it will not show up. Character animations, backgrounds, and music will continue to run but the game will not advance without pressing Start. Additionally, the main problem is that during the first segment of the game where you are supposed to travel to a certain path, the screen turns black as if it were going to a cut-scene, but that scene will not show up, and no sound plays. Pressing Start does not continue it either. Also, pausing the game and entering the menu will put it into a black screen with music playing.

I did a little research on the matter and referred to these threads, the fixes of which did not work for me. Hopefully these really do work, but it's just me who is just making mistakes. (I'll be adding these as I look them up)

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...and-PSP-issues

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...+Bonne+problem

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...nne-Freezing-!

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...ron-Bonne-Help


I'm running ePSXe 1.7.0 and I have only tried Pete's D3D and OpenGL Driver with these settings:

Spoiler warning:

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.77
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: none

Misc:
- Scanlines: on [230]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: on [00004004]

Spoiler warning:

Plugin: Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.1.77
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: Intel
GFX card: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD
OGL version: 2.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2025

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off

Textures:
- Default
- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: off
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 1
- Framebuffer access: 0
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: off

Misc:
- Scanlines: on [230]
- Line mode: off
- Unfiltered FB: on
- 15 bit FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Game fixes: on [00005004]

These are my settings for P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.18

Spoiler warning:

Plugin: P.E.Op.S. Soft Driver 1.1.18
Author: Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
Stretch mode: 0
Dither mode: 0

Framerate:
- FPS limit: off
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Misc:
- Scanlines: disabled
- Game fixes: on [00000404]

Alternatively, I've tried playing this on pSX 1.13, and I was able to pass through up to the first boss, and after defeating him, the screen transitions into white as it should, but will not continue. I'm not too concerned with playing this on pSX; ideally I want to play this on ePSXe. I've also tried ePSXe 1.6, and the same problem persists.

I was able to play Megaman Legends 1 and 2 without any further configuration than what I've done for trying to play this game for both ePSXe and PSX 1.13

For the time being, I'll still continue researching for myself but I hope that someone will grace me with their knowledge on this, since I don't have much.

Thanks in advance.

[ARob109]

I've run into issues with this game in past and gave up, but decided to revisit it today and now I have this game working quite well!! I just completed the first cargo container puzzle mission.

Here's my setup:
Win7 x64
16GB RAM
AMD R9 270X graphics card
Intel Core i3

Pete's openGL Driver 1.77
w/ "Fast" default settings, windowed mode 640x480, no other settings changed.

Eternal SPU 1.41
default settings

No freeze on whitescreen after initial Glyde fight as Tiesel.

I have noticed occasional freezes at certain mission start dialogs, BUT overcame these by using the save state function (F1) when it froze and then reloaded the state(F3). The game continued on it's merry old way like nothing happened at all!

MD5s for my ISO (.bin) images:
FA338BB684B5DDDC3249FDE00A415C63 (track1)
2D7B5E8E94A91BF5423B2356F6A34863 (track2)
580A18159A3F3DA6CED18BEAF9995AD4 (.cue file)

[Cookie Monster]

Quite old thread here.. thanks for submitting that info.

If someone needs help running this game, please create a new thread.