I guess now's a good time to show just how much I love BizHawk right now.
This may not seem like much, but on psxjin and pcsx-rr, both Harry Potter PS1 games would never make it past the first page of the first cutscene/book, as the narrator would never speak. The game would still run, but there'd be no progress.
When getting to this cutscene in BizHawk, I have to admit my heart leapt when I heard Jim Dale start to speak.
(btw the bad framerate is due to my laptop: working with an Intel Celeron 540 over here, with a basic integrated Intel GPU, not really the best for, well, anything).
Finished TASes: Bonsai Barber
Currently working on Super Mario Galaxy 2 Green Stars (not likely to be on TASVideos due to savestate anchor and no verification movie).
Cancelled but might return: FAST Racing League
I have a question in relation to image format, as can be seen in these two screenshot, for the same game for the PAL version or the NTSC version, format changes, there is there a way to change that?
Screen 1Screen 2
Here is a screen of the config used for both Config
The game seems to be well emulated for both versions.
This is good news, because I have never managed to launch the N64 version the emulator crash every time.
Joined: 3/2/2010
Posts: 2174
Location: A little to the left of nowhere (Sweden)
r8568, grabbed from EmuCR.
Kingsley's Adventure (USA Disc), SLUS_008.01
checksum as reported by a movie (md5?): 1D669C5525046F3DADFF2D714CD4495A
BIOS: scph1001.bin (sha1:10155D8D6E6E832D6EA66DB9BC098321FB5E8EBF)
Kingsley cannot be controlled by with the analog sticks, this works on a real playstation when an analog controller is plugged in and is quite mandatory to be able to TAS this game.
I TRIED to test this in mednafen, but I was unable to figure out how to use the analog controller. I googled / read the docs for about 2 hours without getting any wiser. If someone can explain how to do it, I will test in mednafen.
If more info is needed, let me know and I will try my best to produce!
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A suggestion to save checksumming times during movie-game matching: Use the game-id, there's a file on the disc named after the game's release id, if this doesn't match it will be like trying to play a (U) movie with a (E) ROM. So if this file does not match, skip checksumming and error immediately.
(Checking the name is enough, in the Kingsley example, the US disc has SLUS_008.01 as that file)
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This core is gonna be awesome! It's pretty close to Xebra in emulation as far as I can visually tell.
And for the LOLs: my computer is awesome enough to run this PSX core at 5 fps.
Joined: 3/31/2010
Posts: 1466
Location: Not playing Puyo Tetris
Warepire wrote:
r8568, grabbed from EmuCR.
Kingsley's Adventure (USA Disc), SLUS_008.01
checksum as reported by a movie (md5?): 1D669C5525046F3DADFF2D714CD4495A
BIOS: scph1001.bin (sha1:10155D8D6E6E832D6EA66DB9BC098321FB5E8EBF)
Kingsley cannot be controlled by with the analog sticks, this works on a real playstation when an analog controller is plugged in and is quite mandatory to be able to TAS this game.
I TRIED to test this in mednafen, but I was unable to figure out how to use the analog controller. I googled / read the docs for about 2 hours without getting any wiser. If someone can explain how to do it, I will test in mednafen.
If more info is needed, let me know and I will try my best to produce!
You need to push the Mode button when you start (get control of the main character) it seems for it to know about Analog sticks.
When TAS does Quake 1, SDA will declare war.
The Prince doth arrive he doth please.
Zeromuss, thanks for your quick response, I was wondering if there was a way to remove the black bars at the top and bottom on PAL versions, even if the format is not the same as the NTSC version?
Do they really have a logical necessity?
Thanks in advance for your answer!
Joined: 4/22/2014
Posts: 59
Location: United Kingdom
Well, I finally got around to ripping a Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer disc, but I can't seem to get the game to run. I assigned the BIOS to the (E) slot, but the emulator seemed to look for the (U) slot. When I tried assigning that to the (U) slot and then load the .ccd file... the emulator gets stuck on a black screen.
Here's my BIOS, as copied from the Firmwares screen:
PSX E BIOS (E) PSX BIOS (Version 4.1 12/16/97 E) SCPH7502.BIN 524288 sha1:8D5DE56A79954F29E9006929BA3FED9B6A418C1D
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EDIT: I solved my problem! I just needed to download the latest build from emucr.com and the game ran. So far, so good:
beed28, read the big informational stickies early in this thread. it's a memory card with a saveRAM extension. You could do memorycard-like tricks if youre very careful.
Will we be able to convert PCSX movies into bizhawk movies?
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games!
Has TASed:
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty)
Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty)
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty)
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07
Currently working on:
Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
Joined: 3/31/2010
Posts: 1466
Location: Not playing Puyo Tetris
CD Switching has been made much easier in r8575
You need to load an m3u (basically it's text) with EmuHawk. Then you select PSX, Disc Controls. Virtual Pad will appear and you can select the disc you want.
Sample M3U:
Crash Bandicoot - Warped (USA).cue
Crash Bash (USA).cue
CTR - Crash Team Racing (USA).cue
Be aware, while an M3U is just a text file with a different extension, it will NOT work if you do not have the files you put into your M3U, are not present. Also, Audio CDs (Music only) may have problems still.
When TAS does Quake 1, SDA will declare war.
The Prince doth arrive he doth please.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Posts: 6342
Location: The land down under.
It starts off with "-AN" when entering the level, not "PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAAAN"
More explanation about the music in Pepsiman
The intro part of the music does not play they will shout out "-AN!" instead of "PEPSIMAN!"
During the song "PEPSIMAN" is fully audible.
When the music fades out and restarts it goes quiet for a bit then "-AN!" is shouted out of nowhere.
Link to video
That was using the latest dev build of BizHawk. r8575
WebNations/Sabih wrote:
+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
Disables Comments and Ratings for the YouTube account.Something better for yourself and also others.
I did a test run of AO and I decided to do an RTA world record simulation and I was able to complete the game and replay the movie on the latest revision.
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games!
Has TASed:
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty)
Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty)
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty)
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07
Currently working on:
Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
Joined: 3/2/2010
Posts: 2174
Location: A little to the left of nowhere (Sweden)
hegyak wrote:
Warepire wrote:
r8568, grabbed from EmuCR.
Kingsley's Adventure (USA Disc), SLUS_008.01
checksum as reported by a movie (md5?): 1D669C5525046F3DADFF2D714CD4495A
BIOS: scph1001.bin (sha1:10155D8D6E6E832D6EA66DB9BC098321FB5E8EBF)
Kingsley cannot be controlled by with the analog sticks, this works on a real playstation when an analog controller is plugged in and is quite mandatory to be able to TAS this game.
I TRIED to test this in mednafen, but I was unable to figure out how to use the analog controller. I googled / read the docs for about 2 hours without getting any wiser. If someone can explain how to do it, I will test in mednafen.
If more info is needed, let me know and I will try my best to produce!
You need to push the Mode button when you start (get control of the main character) it seems for it to know about Analog sticks.
Found a new bug; Spyro 2 doesn't seem to be saving Memory Card data. Using r8575.
This actually happened to me on another game and I thought it was how the program should do it but it actually isn't, right? I expect it just hasn't been coded in and will for the stable release in some weeks.
This may not seem like much, but on psxjin and pcsx-rr, both Harry Potter PS1 games would never make it past the first page of the first cutscene/book, as the narrator would never speak. The game would still run, but there'd be no progress.
When getting to this cutscene in BizHawk, I have to admit my heart leapt when I heard Jim Dale start to speak.
(btw the bad framerate is due to my laptop: working with an Intel Celeron 540 over here, with a basic integrated Intel GPU, not really the best for, well, anything).
Finally ! AHHhHHhHhH.... Finafuckinglly, awesome.
