if you have a video card that has video out you can slide by with 640X480 or possibly 800X600 on your hdtv... how this may look is questionable as i have yet to be able to try this... a good card would be the matrox g400 max or the spectra 2500 (dont know if the 5400 will do the following ) as if i am not mistaken both will allow you to boot to the tv without a monitor. as far as the max res though no video card that i am aware off has these features... nvidia is supposedly working on one but it is months off.
i would hope that one day these companies will get their act together and realize that if they would release these games at the same time instead of making americans / and or japanese wait 3 to 6 months for the next biggest title they wouldnt have to worry about people buying moded playstation/dreamcasts and or modified n64's making the consumer wait is wrong and as long as companies do this they might as well expect this kind of reaction. some people do not want to wait they want it now and they expect that. if they see it in japan why can it not be here just as well ?? translation ? i doubt it i refuse to belive that it takes 3 to 6 months to translate a game especially when the code the game is wriiten in uses english and not kanji! or romanji or whatever. i would expect a small delay due to maybe manual translation for a game like final fantasy . but when companies do not relese games here in america or japan or take there sweet time gearing up for a certains country release all they are doing is adding fuel to the fire for people to go out and buy the jap or american game why wait? and only recently was it that if you wanted the real game and not some censored version of it you had to buy the japenese version thankfully that is slowly going away. still there is a plethora of games that was made by the big 4 gaming (sega,nec,nintendo,sony) systems that never saw the light of day of either a eastren or westren sun due to some ceo who thought that game x just wouldnt cut it here or there....
all i can say is YAY!! another attempt at holding back a highly antacipated title has been defeated if companies want to do something about pirating why not instead of spending money on elaborate copy protection schemes just include intresting tid bits of gaming novelty in with the package so as to make the software really worth more than just a cd maybe a possible collectors item pirates cant copy high quality trinkets that may enhance the games overall value in a gamers collection....
OK people here is the deal a lot of what has been said here is way off base or just plain wrong. due to what ever reason ( I think ignorance has something to with it) several of you have done a great injustice to people who work many hours on these emu's...
there are several play station emus out there that
work relatively well and can play, play
station CD's very well thank you. not ROM's
as some
people have mentioned (CD images is another
story)...
psemupro has come along ways since its humble
beginnings and is now one of the leading psx
emu's out there it has its very own software
GUI for systems without a decent 3d card and
it also has the optional d3d and glide GUI as
well as a opengl GUI (although it is slightly
Lacking)...
another great psx emu was
psyke although it needed glide to function
properly it was the hottest psx emu at its
time it has now been merged into psemupro.
Although these emulators are great they do
require you to have a psx BIOS image of some
sort.
This is where all the fun and games ends, if you
do not have a play station you are not entitled
to
a BIOS image. If you do you have a play station you can have a image of that system's BIOS
made and be a
legal owner of it. otherwise if you just download
one off the net somewhere it is still illegal.
the only emulator that I know of that does not
require a play station BIOS(besides virtual game station ??) is bleem which has
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if you have a video card that has video out you can slide by with 640X480 or possibly 800X600 ... how this may look is questionable as i have yet to be able to try this ... a good card would be the matrox g400 max ... nvidia is supposedly working on one but it is months off.
on your hdtv
or the spectra 2500 (dont know if the 5400 will do the following ) as if i am not mistaken both will allow you to boot to the tv without a monitor. as far as the max res though no video card that i am aware off has these features
i would hope that one day these companies will get their act together and realize that if they would release these games at the same time instead of making americans / and or japanese wait 3 to 6 months for the next biggest title they wouldnt have to worry about people buying moded playstation/dreamcasts and or modified n64's making the consumer wait is wrong and as long as companies do this they might as well expect this kind of reaction. some people do not want to wait they want it now and they expect that. if they see it in japan why can it not be here just as well ?? translation ? i doubt it i refuse to belive that it takes 3 to 6 months to translate a game especially when the code the game is wriiten in uses english and not kanji! or romanji or whatever. i would expect a small delay due to maybe manual translation for a game like final fantasy . but when companies do not relese games here in america or japan or take there sweet time gearing up for a certains country release all they are doing is adding fuel to the fire for people to go out and buy the jap or american game why wait? and only recently was it that if you wanted the real game and not some censored version of it you had to buy the japenese version thankfully that is slowly going away. still there is a plethora of games that was made by the big 4 gaming (sega,nec,nintendo,sony) systems that never saw the light of day of either a eastren or westren sun due to some ceo who thought that game x just wouldnt cut it here or there ....
all i can say is YAY!! another attempt at holding back a highly antacipated title has been defeated if companies want to do something about pirating why not instead of spending money on elaborate copy protection schemes just include intresting tid bits of gaming novelty in with the package so as to make the software really worth more than just a cd maybe a possible collectors item pirates cant copy high quality trinkets that may enhance the games overall value in a gamers collection....
OK people here is the deal a lot of what has been said here is way off base or just plain wrong. ...
l
due to what ever reason ( I think ignorance has something to with it) several of you have done a great injustice to people who work many hours on these emu's
there are several play station emus out there that
work relatively well and can play, play
station CD's very well thank you. not ROM's
as some
people have mentioned (CD images is another
story)...
psemupro has come along ways since its humble
beginnings and is now one of the leading psx
emu's out there it has its very own software
GUI for systems without a decent 3d card and
it also has the optional d3d and glide GUI as
well as a opengl GUI (although it is slightly
Lacking)...
another great psx emu was
psyke although it needed glide to function
properly it was the hottest psx emu at its
time it has now been merged into psemupro.
Although these emulators are great they do
require you to have a psx BIOS image of some
sort.
This is where all the fun and games ends, if you
do not have a play station you are not entitled
to
a BIOS image. If you do you have a play station you can have a image of that system's BIOS
made and be a
legal owner of it. otherwise if you just download
one off the net somewhere it is still illegal.
the only emulator that I know of that does not
require a play station BIOS(besides virtual game station ??) is bleem which has
undertaking the task of reverse engineering the
system and developed a working play station
emulator out of it which works very well and upon
its release will have full d3d support and
should play 85 - 90 % percent of
play station games out there...
psemupro http://www.psemu.com/index.html
sope
http://technopole.le-village.com/rejeb/sope.htm
bleem http://www.bleem.com/
also there is a linux psx emu in the works called sope so check it out..
chaos4u