Cannot get epsxe to work at all! plz help@@!

Scooby Doo · July 13th, 2001

I have an ASUS K7V w/an athlon 650mhz; a GeForce 2mx card w/32 meg a ram; 128 meg of system ram; and a sound blaster live value. I cannot get epsxe ver 1.4.0 to play any games, it will go through the opening ps screen w/the little diamond (you know what happens when you first turn on the ps) and then it just sits there and does nothing. Can anyone help my plz? this is quite agrivating.

Guitar Gamer · July 13th, 2001

Maybe U have to do what I did. If u read the thread titled "AdriPSX memory card problems" ( I named it wrong for sum reason ) it might be able to help u out. Basically it says to try a complete uninstallation of ePSXe and all its registry files...

**SimonMallion** · July 13th, 2001

It sounds like your cd player has not been setup properly. Have a look in ePSXe's DOS window for an error message. Also, make sure that in your cdrom plugin settings that you have set the right drive letter on the cdrom|config page (and also press configure button if you use TSG MSCDEX plugin and set the drive letter to the same one on that page). If this does not work, post a reply with the contents of the DOS window so we can see what error you are getting. The diamond screen you get would be a result of it not running the CD, so it runs the BIOS instead (you didn't hit run bios instead of run cdrom did you?)

paladingjv · September 10th, 2001

Sony logo comes up and then... nothing happens. I am using *.bin images made with CDRWIN. I have tried 3 different plugins, but only two seem to work.

ISO Image Driver 1.0 - works
Zink88 Disk Image Driver 0.9 - works
DAO Image Driver 0.4 - crashes

In the DOS box the only error I see is this:

Init mci ... * mci error: can't open

I am running WinXP.

paladingjv · September 10th, 2001

Ok, I've read a few other messages and have decided to give Clone CD a try and to load an ISO directly with epsxe.

I made the image and loaded it up and get a red screen and no Sony logo... I don't know if it makes a difference but I noticed that epsxe was using 99% of my CPU time while at the red screen.

Any ideas? Is it possible I have a corrupt BIOS file? I'm running out of ideas here.

paladingjv · September 10th, 2001

I only get a red screen when I have the Country set to auto... When set to either NTSC or PAL I just get a black screen.

The games I am attempting to play are Xenogears and Breath of Fire III.

[RagNaroK] · September 13th, 2001

I think u need to try another BIOS file...try SCPH1001.Bin (USA) or SCPH7001 (PAL) , and dont ask me where to get them please

July 13th, 2001	#1 (permalink)
Scooby Doo Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 1	Cannot get epsxe to work at all! plz help@@! I have an ASUS K7V w/an athlon 650mhz; a GeForce 2mx card w/32 meg a ram; 128 meg of system ram; and a sound blaster live value. I cannot get epsxe ver 1.4.0 to play any games, it will go through the opening ps screen w/the little diamond (you know what happens when you first turn on the ps) and then it just sits there and does nothing. Can anyone help my plz? this is quite agrivating.

July 13th, 2001	#2 (permalink)
Guitar Gamer Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 93	Maybe U have to do what I did. If u read the thread titled "AdriPSX memory card problems" ( I named it wrong for sum reason ) it might be able to help u out. Basically it says to try a complete uninstallation of ePSXe and all its registry files... __________________ "Blame yourself, or Blame God - but remember.... **** happens" ~Guitar Gamer Triptych~

July 13th, 2001	#3 (permalink)
SimonMallion Emu author Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: England Posts: 1,062	It sounds like your cd player has not been setup properly. Have a look in ePSXe's DOS window for an error message. Also, make sure that in your cdrom plugin settings that you have set the right drive letter on the cdrom\|config page (and also press configure button if you use TSG MSCDEX plugin and set the drive letter to the same one on that page). If this does not work, post a reply with the contents of the DOS window so we can see what error you are getting. The diamond screen you get would be a result of it not running the CD, so it runs the BIOS instead (you didn't hit run bios instead of run cdrom did you?) __________________ http://simonmallion.homedns.org/PSXMemTool

September 10th, 2001	#4 (permalink)
paladingjv Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3	Same problem here... Sony logo comes up and then... nothing happens. I am using .bin images made with CDRWIN. I have tried 3 different plugins, but only two seem to work. ISO Image Driver 1.0 - works Zink88 Disk Image Driver 0.9 - works DAO Image Driver 0.4 - crashes In the DOS box the only error I see is this: Init mci ... mci error: can't open I am running WinXP.

September 10th, 2001	#5 (permalink)
paladingjv Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3	Still trying... Ok, I've read a few other messages and have decided to give Clone CD a try and to load an ISO directly with epsxe. I made the image and loaded it up and get a red screen and no Sony logo... I don't know if it makes a difference but I noticed that epsxe was using 99% of my CPU time while at the red screen. Any ideas? Is it possible I have a corrupt BIOS file? I'm running out of ideas here.

September 10th, 2001	#6 (permalink)
paladingjv Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3	Two more minor thing I only get a red screen when I have the Country set to auto... When set to either NTSC or PAL I just get a black screen. The games I am attempting to play are Xenogears and Breath of Fire III.

September 13th, 2001	#7 (permalink)
[RagNaroK] Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Netherlands Posts: 11	I think u need to try another BIOS file...try SCPH1001.Bin (USA) or SCPH7001 (PAL) , and dont ask me where to get them please __________________ [The Mountains Spitting Fire, Clouds That Rains Ashes, Then It Became Clear that RagNaroK Had Begun]

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