Policenauts Emulation Guide
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Tested the game 100%, finished and all with PSX 1.10
The end credits crashed on Disc 2 is still here. There is an unhandled exception
making the emulator crashing.
What a good game anyway
The end credits crashed on Disc 2 is still here. There is an unhandled exception
making the emulator crashing.
What a good game anyway
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I looked through the topic and couldn't find what the correct file sizes are. I ripped my PlayStation the Best CD's using ISO Producer and got 730,228 KB for the first CD and 598,541 KB for the second. Are those the right file sizes? If not, what can I do to correct this issue?Osiris wrote:You'll just need to get a larger CD. Your ISO needs to be the correct size or else the patch won't work.
I'm hoping I don't have to buy a different copy of the game.
Sure, mainstream games are fun, but you haven't tried Snatcher yet.
Ha, dude you are soooo SCREWED! Good luck fixing that!!!Kojima_Devotee wrote:I looked through the topic and couldn't find what the correct file sizes are. I ripped my PlayStation the Best CD's using ISO Producer and got 730,228 KB for the first CD and 598,541 KB for the second. Are those the right file sizes? If not, what can I do to correct this issue?Osiris wrote:You'll just need to get a larger CD. Your ISO needs to be the correct size or else the patch won't work.
I'm hoping I don't have to buy a different copy of the game.
In all seriousness, we don't know all those related details for sure yet, but we'll make sure you don't have to buy a specific version of the game to run the patch. So don't worry.
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Let me tell you some nice infos about CDROMSKojima_Devotee wrote:I looked through the topic and couldn't find what the correct file sizes are. I ripped my PlayStation the Best CD's using ISO Producer and got 730,228 KB for the first CD and 598,541 KB for the second. Are those the right file sizes? If not, what can I do to correct this issue?Osiris wrote:You'll just need to get a larger CD. Your ISO needs to be the correct size or else the patch won't work.
I'm hoping I don't have to buy a different copy of the game.
There are standard user parts on a cdrom, and also custom parts. While you can write normally 703 mb of data (standard part) in overburn mode on a cdrom, there is something like ~30mb of space....This is where some PC and PSX games have their protection written in. (custom part).
You know them under the name "Subchannels Data".
It means that your disc 1 has the subchannels datas in the ISO image = 700mb of user data + 30 mb of custom subchannels data. I got the very same when i use Alcohol 120% on any game.
So as Osiris said, no need to worry
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Greek.dlfrsilver wrote:Let me tell you some nice infos about CDROMS
There are standard user parts on a cdrom, and also custom parts. While you can write normally 703 mb of data (standard part) in overburn mode on a cdrom, there is something like ~30mb of space....This is where some PC and PSX games have their protection written in. (custom part).
You know them under the name "Subchannels Data".
It means that your disc 1 has the subchannels datas in the ISO image = 700mb of user data + 30 mb of custom subchannels data. I got the very same when i use Alcohol 120% on any game.
So as Osiris said, no need to worry
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I was emulating my policenauts today and i followed instructions that is in the first post of this topic. But i have to say that the game plays much smoother and with no problems during cutscenes by using these plugins:
Sound plugin: Eternal SPU Plugin
Video plugin: Pete's Soft GPU-plugin
I recommend at least to try the game with these plugins, it fixed all my emulating problems.
Except one, i havent figured this out yet. When i exit the ePSXe, the sound of game still plays on, even if the emulaator is shut down. And it is really annoying, i just have to reset my computer everytime when i have played the game. ??:
Sound plugin: Eternal SPU Plugin
Video plugin: Pete's Soft GPU-plugin
I recommend at least to try the game with these plugins, it fixed all my emulating problems.
Except one, i havent figured this out yet. When i exit the ePSXe, the sound of game still plays on, even if the emulaator is shut down. And it is really annoying, i just have to reset my computer everytime when i have played the game. ??:
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You can use the mouse to play Policenauts? That sounds very good to me. Doesn't get any closer to classic adventure games on consoles than this. I didn't even know there was a mouse for the Playstation.
edit: I finally gave Policenauts a try myself. However, using the recommended audio plugin caused major problems when pausing and resuming the emulator. At worst it completely froze the game. Using Eternal SPU plugin works much better for me.
Any idea why this is the only Playstation game I've encountered where I can't use save states in ePSXe?
edit: I finally gave Policenauts a try myself. However, using the recommended audio plugin caused major problems when pausing and resuming the emulator. At worst it completely froze the game. Using Eternal SPU plugin works much better for me.
Any idea why this is the only Playstation game I've encountered where I can't use save states in ePSXe?
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No, you just have to press ESC before you exit the game, don't click the [X] while the game is running. If you do accidentally, press CTRL+ALT+DEL and switch over to Processes and kill "epsxe.exe".Solidé wrote:Except one, i havent figured this out yet. When i exit the ePSXe, the sound of game still plays on, even if the emulaator is shut down. And it is really annoying, i just have to reset my computer everytime when i have played the game. ??:
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We'll never know until the build is in our hands.. That said, I just wish the patcher wouldl look for certain datafiles and not specific CD sectors. Would make our lives much easier that way, but I know it can't be done since you can't simply copy files from the CD-ROM to your hard disk and build an image from scratch (Unlike the Dreamcast, which is quite handy when you learn where to place the boot sector). I already have my dump in MDS form, which is vastly different to ISO or Cue+bin.Newtype wrote:I have the game but it is in BIN format, not in ISO. Will the patch still work? I think it's possible to convert BIN to ISO, but I'm not sure. And even if I did, would the patch work?
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I finally got my copy of Policenauts today, and played it for the first time. Siiiiigh.... How utterly badass it was to hear End of The Dark in context and not in a muddy youtube vid.
Anyway.... I got the out-of-synch prob too, along with something else that sprung up when Lorraine walked into the room, somewhat ironically... Everything started to happen so fast...!
I mean-- The audio and visuals began to skip, the framerate just sped up, and the voice clips were hitting off all their triggers... Anyone else get this problem? It's probably just a framerate-limiting problem, but I just thought I'd throw it out there.
Anyway.... I got the out-of-synch prob too, along with something else that sprung up when Lorraine walked into the room, somewhat ironically... Everything started to happen so fast...!
I mean-- The audio and visuals began to skip, the framerate just sped up, and the voice clips were hitting off all their triggers... Anyone else get this problem? It's probably just a framerate-limiting problem, but I just thought I'd throw it out there.
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