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_IsAaC_ · July 7th, 2001

Hello...

I've been messing around with MGS and now epsxe 1.40 seems not to crash where 1.2.0 did before. So, I've been able to arrive to Psycho Mantis. But then
I have a problem. To defeat Psycho Mantis easily, you have to unplug the 1st Pad, and plug the 2nd One. But you CAN'T do it with epsxe on runtime (WHY ?!?!?! :confused: ).

So I saved a savestate, and exited from epsxe. I executed epsxe again, but I didn't boot the MGS CD-ROM. Instead, I reconfigured epsxe to use 2nd Pad (digital only, etc...), and disabled 1st PAD (because I didn't want conflicts or whatever). I booted the MGS CD-ROM, and I reloaded the savestate... I pressed the keys to move Snake around, and they worked, so I defeated Psycho Mantis easily. Then after the blablablah, the game asks me to plug again the 1st PAD. I said "well, it doesn't seem difficult, I'll save the state again". And so I did. Then I redo all the steps as I said before, but backwards, i.e. I disable PAD2, and enable PAD1 again with the same key layout (default one). I reboot MGS CD-ROM, and I load the state. But the problem arrives here... The emulator doesn't recognize my keypresses... because the "plug the PAD1" text appears all the time and I can't get out of it...

One could say... "You've reconfigured the PAD's layout not OK"... But I think that I've done it OK, because if I DON'T load the save state, I can run the main menu pressing some button. And I can start the game perfectly, so PAD1 seems to be working... But as soon as I load the savestate, the PAD's layout changes into PAD1=OFF PAD2=ON (I think), and so I can't enter into the secret door that appears after psycho mantis...

My question is: does anyone know if there is an easy solution? (instead of restarting the game?)

Is the PAD layout saved into the savestate file ? If so, is it binary editable ?

Am I right with my deductions ? (or just too paranoid

Thanks for the time spent reading this...

July 7th, 2001	#1 (permalink)
_IsAaC_ Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Barcelona Posts: 2	Metal Gear Solid // 2 Pads Support // Psycho Mantis // Save States Hello... I've been messing around with MGS and now epsxe 1.40 seems not to crash where 1.2.0 did before. So, I've been able to arrive to Psycho Mantis. But then I have a problem. To defeat Psycho Mantis easily, you have to unplug the 1st Pad, and plug the 2nd One. But you CAN'T do it with epsxe on runtime (WHY ?!?!?! :confused: ). So I saved a savestate, and exited from epsxe. I executed epsxe again, but I didn't boot the MGS CD-ROM. Instead, I reconfigured epsxe to use 2nd Pad (digital only, etc...), and disabled 1st PAD (because I didn't want conflicts or whatever). I booted the MGS CD-ROM, and I reloaded the savestate... I pressed the keys to move Snake around, and they worked, so I defeated Psycho Mantis easily. Then after the blablablah, the game asks me to plug again the 1st PAD. I said "well, it doesn't seem difficult, I'll save the state again". And so I did. Then I redo all the steps as I said before, but backwards, i.e. I disable PAD2, and enable PAD1 again with the same key layout (default one). I reboot MGS CD-ROM, and I load the state. But the problem arrives here... The emulator doesn't recognize my keypresses... because the "plug the PAD1" text appears all the time and I can't get out of it... One could say... "You've reconfigured the PAD's layout not OK"... But I think that I've done it OK, because if I DON'T load the save state, I can run the main menu pressing some button. And I can start the game perfectly, so PAD1 seems to be working... But as soon as I load the savestate, the PAD's layout changes into PAD1=OFF PAD2=ON (I think), and so I can't enter into the secret door that appears after psycho mantis... My question is: does anyone know if there is an easy solution? (instead of restarting the game?) Is the PAD layout saved into the savestate file ? If so, is it binary editable ? Am I right with my deductions ? (or just too paranoid Thanks for the time spent reading this...