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Old March 24th, 2008   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Squall-Leonhart View Post
pfft, no its not, especially PAL copies
PAL copies? I live in Europe, so generally the only games I get that aren't PAL are NTSC-only ones. pSX performs far better than ePSXe in this area - one of the reasons I originally switched to it (having used epSXE happily for 6 years or so) was that pSX would play some games, including PAL ones, correctly that ePSXe wouldn't, with any plugin settings.

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pSX is limited in these regards to certain hardware combinations,
What are you talking about? pSX will run in Windows 98 upwards or most Linux distributions (have you tried using ePSXe on Linux? It's possible, but difficult - and it still doesn't perform as well as pSX, which is as easy to run on Linux as it is on Windows) on pretty much any machine that has a working 3D card and a working soundcard. It requires a version of DirectX 9.0c that's more than about a year after the original release in Windows, and to have OpenGL, ALSA, GTK, GTKGLEXT and libxml2 installed in Linux - all but GTKGLEXT will be included in most contemporary distributions, and GTKGLEXT is not hard to get - it's in the repositories for most Debian-based distributions.

ePSXe probably will run on Windows 95, while pSX won't, since DirectX 9.0 can't be installed on that OS.

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Epsxe's compatibility is determined by the plugins selected in most cases.
LOL! ePSXe probably had better compatibility than pSX when the latter was first released (well, what would you expect for a first release? Something that worked better than a mature ePSXe? Whoops - actually, it did in most areas...), but even with individual plugin configuration for games, its compatibility no longer compares - it's generally considered that pSX and Zebra (both currently developed plugin-less emulators) are now the most compatible - by any standards - with Xebra possibly being better, although this is not certain.
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