Soul Blade (US) bugs

[Eevon]

I've found two stable bugs in Soul Blade emulation. They are appear in Edge Master mode every time when player do one of the following:
1. When player reads the book in any location, at the last available at this time page there is red message in the lower right corner of the book: "press start to fight". If player presses start here ePSXe closes it's main window and in the msdos window apperars a message that says: "unknown opcode" or something like this.
2. After the player have beaten Servantes in stage 9 and the born of the Soul Age animation is shown, if player tries to skip this animation the game will freeze on the next screen (showing: stage 10 player vs soul edge). But if you let the animation play until the end the game works ok.

Here is my config:
ePSXe 1.5.1
Pete's GPU 1.60 OpenGL
SPU (tried Pete's 1.14, eternal 1.20, Iori's 1.4)
Internal CD-Rom plugin and ISO

P4 1500MHz
Abit Siluro MX-400 (GF2 64mb)
Win9x SE

[Smak]

I just wanted to confirm Eevon's bug number 1. I'm getting it too. Consistantly :(

Whats the secret to fixing it?

Smak

[Smak]

I'm now on ePSXe 1.60.

Have tried Pete's OpenGL plugins 2.30 and 1.74.

Have tried all the sound plugins.

Help!

[FLaRe85]

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[almighty bob]

instead of pressing start to enter the fight straight from the book, press square to exit the book instead and then select fight from the main menu. that oughtta do it

[hushypushy]

try not using save states at all.

[almighty bob]

i use save states. works perfectly fine.

[MotionCity]

hai i used the pec with epsxe and play soul blade "the actual disc" i fund all the codes i needed for pec and placed them in the codelist file..all of them seem to work fine exept the extra characters code..i can only use "sigfriend!" "aka nightmare" and all the others freeze the emu..??..anyone have a clue whats wrong?.