Wow- How- but- wha- Well, hat's off to you, F-3582. You've solved the sync problem. I would NEVER have thought of that, though. o_O Thanks for introducing me to a whole new way of handling the emulation... Xenogears syncs more or less flawlessly now.
I've also changed my CD to the other mode... it used to not work for me and make me use the Smooth mode (not Async, but the new mode after Thread for CD drives that run TOO fast or hate PSX discs) but it seems to be OK now under the other settings. I've never gotten the old settings like Async to work right, of course, since I use IOCTL.
As for Arc, though... it seems to happen whenever I run any MDEC from any Arc the Lad game, however I admit there don't seem to be many on the disc aside from the opening and such. I suppose I SHOULD just learn to live with it. :P I was just wondering why the heck that would happen... it's such an odd bug.
But speaking of the next version of ePSXe... Is there ANY news on that? I hear there are some plugins coming out that support stuff that will be in it, and I know it's been over a year since 1.5.2 and the coder is really busy... would that I had the time to offer to help... But anyway- does anyone here have any personal opinions as to when it might be out finally?