ePSXe volume off

[Anjalena]

I'm looking for a way to turn the volume off, temporarily, for my Final Fantasy VIII game in ePSXe 1.7.0. While I'm incessantly playing the card game, I don't need the volume. So I'd like to be able to play music in Winamp in the background.

I've tried adding -nosound at the end of an ePSXe shortcut that I put on my desktop. Well it worked, sort of. The volume was off, but there were bugs. The game wouldn't load without me loading a save state. And when I tried to play the card game, it never loaded. I think I'm adding the -nosound right. I right-click the shortcut, go to Properties. Then in the Target field, AFTER the last quote mark, I add a space then type -nosound. Is that correct?

So does anyone know how to turn off the sound in ePSXe so I can listen to music in the background?

[_Gambit]

When you first open ePSXe got to options and click on the "Sound" option.

You will see a option that says "Enable Sound" with a small box that is checked next to it. Simply uncheck the box and then click "OK".

[Zorlon]

Just hit the volume icon on your desktop's task bar then hit Mixer, you can mute ePSXe there and keep the volume on, on your other progs

Thats even easyer than restarting ePSXe to mute and enable the sound

[Anjalena]

Unfortunately, neither of those things work.

My Volume Mixer (using Windows 7) doesn't show all of my applications that are running for some reason. Some show and some don't. Two programs that won't show in my Mixer are Winamp and ePSXe. I don't have any idea why that is. I've tried looking it up on Google but can't find anything on how to fix it or why it's happening.

As far as the "Enable Sound" checkbox goes, I get the same problem as when I add the -nosound tag at the end of the Target field in Properties. The game won't load and inside the game is buggy if I load a save state.

However, I did finally find a fix. You have to use the Null Driver sound plugin for ePSXe. However, this only works if you want NO sound at all. It doesn't work for adjusting volume up or down.

Here is a thread on Emuforums that explains the bug when unchecking "Enable Sound" and further discusses this bug/issue. It also gives a link to the Null Driver plugin so if anyone who reads this is looking for the same thing that I was, you'll know where to find the answer.

http://forums.ngemu.com/showthread.php?t=131442

Thank you guys for trying to help though.

[MaslowK]

Not everyone has moved from XP to Vista/7 yet just sayin'.

[Zorlon]

Not everyone has moved from XP to Vista/7 yet just sayin'.

My Volume Mixer (using Windows 7)

ePSXe has moved to version 1.8.0 so that version might be worth a shot & may fix some of those issues you get having sound disabled, save states will mess up anyway though so try using in game saves instead when possible

[Anjalena]

ePSXe has moved to version 1.8.0 so that version might be worth a shot & may fix some of those issues you get having sound disabled, save states will mess up anyway though so try using in game saves instead when possible

Thanks for the head's up. I didn't know 1.8.0 was out. I have 1.7.0 working fine now though with that Null Driver on Sound. Works perfectly to turn sound off. And save states work fine in 1.7.0 so I'll probably wait on trying 1.8.0 til they fix save states. I'm playing Final Fantasy 8 and am playing a lot of card games and it's a huge pain to have to run to the save point between each card game. So save states are a huge benefit to playing this on the emulator.

But I do really appreciate you letting me know about 1.8.0. Hey, until a couple of months ago, I was still using 1.6.0. *laugh*

[Zorlon]

Fix save states???

Save States is not broken so nothing to fix

Save States are a problem because they save the emulator settings state aswell as the game state this goes for just about every emulator with settings and using save states so changing the settings then loading a save state is pointless

1.8.0 only came out on the 9th of this month lol

[Anjalena]

Fix save states???

Save States is not broken so nothing to fix

Save States are a problem because they save the emulator settings state aswell as the game state this goes for just about every emulator with settings and using save states so changing the settings then loading a save state is pointless

1.8.0 only came out on the 9th of this month lol

You said "save states will mess up anyway though so try using in game saves instead when possible" which led me to believe that save states weren't working properly in 1.8.0.

I don't really understand what you mean, though, about save states and settings. Could you explain it for dummies, cuz I am one. *laugh* I've been using save states in 1.7.0 and it seems to work fine. Loads the game back to where I save stated it.

[Zorlon]

say you played something like Final Fantasy 7 thats needs special fixes to display correctly but so far you played through alot of the first disc only using save states

You were told how to fix issues you had been getting (battle swirl and cursors not showing) that are fixed with Video plugin settings in the special fixes section

So you changed the video plugin setup to use special fixes and loaded up a save state that does not have the special fix enabled... because that save state was created when you had other settings used

You go ahead and change those so the special fix is enabled then you load up your save state, much to your supprise the battles still don't display correctly

The reason would be because you loaded up a save state that had no special fixes enabled so loading that save state just undone the settings you just changed

If you had loaded in an ingame save from a memcard the above would not happen as memcard saves do not store any emulator information in them

This is why we advise to use both ingame saving and save states and never use save states exclusivly because if an issue arrises that just needs a settings tweek and you just used save states you would need to start a new game specially if the save state was used just before the game froze

[Anjalena]

say you played something like Final Fantasy 7 thats needs special fixes to display correctly but so far you played through alot of the first disc only using save states

You were told how to fix issues you had been getting (battle swirl and cursors not showing) that are fixed with Video plugin settings in the special fixes section

So you changed the video plugin setup to use special fixes and loaded up a save state that does not have the special fix enabled... because that save state was created when you had other settings used

You go ahead and change those so the special fix is enabled then you load up your save state, much to your supprise the battles still don't display correctly

The reason would be because you loaded up a save state that had no special fixes enabled so loading that save state just undone the settings you just changed

If you had loaded in an ingame save from a memcard the above would not happen as memcard saves do not store any emulator information in them

This is why we advise to use both ingame saving and save states and never use save states exclusivly because if an issue arrises that just needs a settings tweek and you just used save states you would need to start a new game specially if the save state was used just before the game froze

Got it! Now I understand. Well, cool. I've been doing it right then cuz I use both. Whenever I run by a save point, I save to the mem card. And when I'm out on the world map, I still save to mem card once in a while. I've done it cuz I fear what if I save state and for some reason it didn't take. So I save to the card just to be safe. So I guess I'm doing it right.

But, question. This is just for the sake of curiosity so I'm not arguing or debating at all. What if after you make setting changes and load up your game and save state right after you load it. That would save your changes to the settings right? Oh, but I see the problem. If your last save was a save state and not an ingame save, you're forced to load your last state to get your game back which nullifies the settings you just made. I see. So, to avoid that, I'm guessing that the best thing to do is try to make sure your final save before you exit the emulator is an in-game save rather than a save state, right?

[Zorlon]

Yes and Not always no aslong as you have a memcard save then even if the last save made was a save state you still have the ememcard save to go back to but your last save can be a save state

Yep you get it though

[Anjalena]

Yes and Not always no aslong as you have a memcard save then even if the last save made was a save state you still have the ememcard save to go back to but your last save can be a save state

Yep you get it though

Awesome. Thanks!

Quick unrelated question here. I just noticed these "Credits" on the right side of the page. What are Credits? Can you spend them on something? If there's a thread that explains it, feel free to link that and I can read about it so you don't have to do a bunch of typing on stuff that's already been covered.

[Zorlon]

Awesome. Thanks!

Quick unrelated question here. I just noticed these "Credits" on the right side of the page. What are Credits? Can you spend them on something? If there's a thread that explains it, feel free to link that and I can read about it so you don't have to do a bunch of typing on stuff that's already been covered.

On the arcade and other things up the top of forum, I don't bother myself so I'm half guessing here

[skullpoker]

say you played something like Final Fantasy 7 thats needs special fixes to display correctly but so far you played through alot of the first disc only using save states

You were told how to fix issues you had been getting (battle swirl and cursors not showing) that are fixed with Video plugin settings in the special fixes section

So you changed the video plugin setup to use special fixes and loaded up a save state that does not have the special fix enabled... because that save state was created when you had other settings used

You go ahead and change those so the special fix is enabled then you load up your save state, much to your supprise the battles still don't display correctly

The reason would be because you loaded up a save state that had no special fixes enabled so loading that save state just undone the settings you just changed

If you had loaded in an ingame save from a memcard the above would not happen as memcard saves do not store any emulator information in them

This is why we advise to use both ingame saving and save states and never use save states exclusivly because if an issue arrises that just needs a settings tweek and you just used save states you would need to start a new game specially if the save state was used just before the game froze

There are a lot of games that will get errors from save states. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, for example, will get severe sound bugs among other things, which is why I personally use only Mem Card saves.