I'm really itching to play FF9 again, and I foolishly lent my copy to someone and never got it back. Since Sony hasn't released it for PSN download yet, I was thinking I could find a ROM for it or something, but I have no idea how those things work.
What's a good program to use for an emulator, and how does this work on a PC?
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The PSX emulator is almost perfect. And FF9 runs on it perfectly.
Look up the emulator "ePSXe". It is the best one. For FF9, you will want to use version 1.5.2 (It runs the Final Fantasy games the best). You'll have to acquire certain copyrighted pieces of the emulator yourself, as they aren't bundled with the emulator download for copyright purposes.
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 7:26am by TirithRR
Look up the emulator "ePSXe". It is the best one. For FF9, you will want to use version 1.5.2 (It runs the Final Fantasy games the best). You'll have to acquire certain copyrighted pieces of the emulator yourself, as they aren't bundled with the emulator download for copyright purposes.
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 7:26am by TirithRR
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I would also recommend ePSXe. It's what I used to play IX and it's worked fine.
Admin edit: potential legal issue for us there witht hat ISO, vetoing it.
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Edited, Mar 10th 2010 9:06pm by Kaolian
Admin edit: potential legal issue for us there witht hat ISO, vetoing it.
~administrator kaolian
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 9:06pm by Kaolian
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Here is a thread with a link to a very good graphic enhancing plugin for that emulator.
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 8:16am by Shaowstrike
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 8:16am by Shaowstrike
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Shaowstrike wrote:
Here is a thread with a link to a very good graphic enhancing plugin for that emulator.
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 8:16am by Shaowstrike
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 8:16am by Shaowstrike
Heh, I posted in that thread too. Almost exactly 1 year ago too...
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I'm hoping they release it on the PSN, I bought 7 and 8 when they did that even though I have copies of the game so I can play them on my PSP (used to have it hacked, got sick of the firmware scene and reverted back to official firmware).
strange that they haven't put it on the PSN. I imagine they eventually will? Off all the things I have foolishly sold off I do still have my original disc versions of Final Fantasy 7,8, and 9 as well as Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy 7 is a used greatest hits case which sucks but even then it was all I could find. Think I paid $12 for it 10 years ago. MY FF8, FF9, and Chrono Cross is in like new shape though.
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Last night I had already started downloading a torrent file for FF9, I went ahead and downloaded the ePSXe emulator, and I can't get it to work so I'll try downloading the ISO for it instead. It's a weird file, a 7z file or something like that, so that's probably why it won't work.
I'm hoping they get FF9 for the PSN here soon as well. I imagine it should be any day now looking at the release dates for the other FF games. 7 was released in June, Tactics in September and 8 in December. It's March now, so it should be soon. I'm just impatient, lol. Plus I won't be able to afford to buy it until almost the end of the month anyways.
I'm hoping they get FF9 for the PSN here soon as well. I imagine it should be any day now looking at the release dates for the other FF games. 7 was released in June, Tactics in September and 8 in December. It's March now, so it should be soon. I'm just impatient, lol. Plus I won't be able to afford to buy it until almost the end of the month anyways.
PigtailsOfDoom of Future Fabulous! wrote:
Last night I had already started downloading a torrent file for FF9, I went ahead and downloaded the ePSXe emulator, and I can't get it to work so I'll try downloading the ISO for it instead. It's a weird file, a 7z file or something like that, so that's probably why it won't work.
I'm hoping they get FF9 for the PSN here soon as well. I imagine it should be any day now looking at the release dates for the other FF games. 7 was released in June, Tactics in September and 8 in December. It's March now, so it should be soon. I'm just impatient, lol. Plus I won't be able to afford to buy it until almost the end of the month anyways.
I'm hoping they get FF9 for the PSN here soon as well. I imagine it should be any day now looking at the release dates for the other FF games. 7 was released in June, Tactics in September and 8 in December. It's March now, so it should be soon. I'm just impatient, lol. Plus I won't be able to afford to buy it until almost the end of the month anyways.
Pretty sure 7z is a weird compression format, Winzip may be able to take care of it. I would google it.
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w00t, I got it to work! My bf dug out our PC controller too, so now I'm all set. Thanks guys. 
One issue though. The game is a bit laggy, and then during battles it's REALLY laggy. I can still play it, but it's kind of annoying. I downloaded the Pete's Open GL2 video plug in, and clicked the "Nice" button to up the graphic settings. Is there something else I need to tweak to make the lag go away? I tried the "Fast" settings and that made it even worse.
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 4:07pm by PigtailsOfDoom
One issue though. The game is a bit laggy, and then during battles it's REALLY laggy. I can still play it, but it's kind of annoying. I downloaded the Pete's Open GL2 video plug in, and clicked the "Nice" button to up the graphic settings. Is there something else I need to tweak to make the lag go away? I tried the "Fast" settings and that made it even worse.
Edited, Mar 10th 2010 4:07pm by PigtailsOfDoom
7z is the way to go!
I use 7zip for all my zipping and unzipping needs.
As for the lag, yea I can't help on that. It could be the rom (was it clean? modded? fan dub?).
I use 7zip for all my zipping and unzipping needs.
As for the lag, yea I can't help on that. It could be the rom (was it clean? modded? fan dub?).
What kind of PC are you running it on? Might try a different video plug in.
Pete's OpenGL2 and D3D DX6 plugins are the best. If your video card doesn't support OpenGL properly (ie, is not an Nvidia card) you will want to use Pete's D3D plugins.
PSX emulation does not require a very powerful computer, but depending on what you have available it may be causing the lag. The only time I ever experienced lag while playing FF9 on ePSXe was when I was playing off of the actual CDs and my CDRom was not loading the data fast enough, causing slight lag when casting magic during battle. When playing from the ISOs I made from my discs, the lag was non-existent.
The default "Nice" settings are the way to go. You could try "Fast" as well (will lower quality to get more FPS out of your computer). You will also want to turn on any relevant "Special Game Fixes" for FF9, I believe they have to do with the battle swirl, maybe the cursor as well.
PSX emulation does not require a very powerful computer, but depending on what you have available it may be causing the lag. The only time I ever experienced lag while playing FF9 on ePSXe was when I was playing off of the actual CDs and my CDRom was not loading the data fast enough, causing slight lag when casting magic during battle. When playing from the ISOs I made from my discs, the lag was non-existent.
The default "Nice" settings are the way to go. You could try "Fast" as well (will lower quality to get more FPS out of your computer). You will also want to turn on any relevant "Special Game Fixes" for FF9, I believe they have to do with the battle swirl, maybe the cursor as well.
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According to Pete's website where the plugins were hosted, the GL2 plugin is the one you need to use for an ATI Radeon video card, which is what I have. The older ATI cards use the D3D one.
My computer isn't the best, but it's a good laptop from 2 years ago. It's got a dual core AMD processor, an ATI Xpress 1150 (I think) graphics card with 128 MB, 2 Gigs of RAM, and Windows 7. It's also a Dell.
My computer isn't the best, but it's a good laptop from 2 years ago. It's got a dual core AMD processor, an ATI Xpress 1150 (I think) graphics card with 128 MB, 2 Gigs of RAM, and Windows 7. It's also a Dell.
Should be plenty to run ePSXe. I ran it on my old gateway, 2.6Ghz (single) processor, 128MB Geforce 4200, 1GB of RAM, Windows XP. I don't know about running Windows7 and using only 2GB of RAM though, that might be painful.
Try Pete's D3D just in case. I've seen a lot of cases where OpenGL causes trouble on the non-Nvidia cards.
Turn down the resolution a bit, 800x600 or so in Windowed Mode, (Going higher will make the graphics look worse anyway, since the resolution is for SD TV). And are you using ePSXe 1.5.2 or 1.7.0.
Try Pete's D3D just in case. I've seen a lot of cases where OpenGL causes trouble on the non-Nvidia cards.
Turn down the resolution a bit, 800x600 or so in Windowed Mode, (Going higher will make the graphics look worse anyway, since the resolution is for SD TV). And are you using ePSXe 1.5.2 or 1.7.0.
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I was originally using the 1.7 but I switched to 1.52 and that helped a lot. I'll try downloading the other video plug in and see if that helps.
I upgraded to Windows 7 for improved performance on my system and it actually has worked. True, the RAM is a little on the low side, but I'm only using Home Premium and 7 has the same RAM requirements as Vista did. If I could upgrade my laptop, I would have done so long ago, lol.
I upgraded to Windows 7 for improved performance on my system and it actually has worked. True, the RAM is a little on the low side, but I'm only using Home Premium and 7 has the same RAM requirements as Vista did. If I could upgrade my laptop, I would have done so long ago, lol.
I thought 7 had less RAM requirements than Vista?
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It's either less or the same, I know it's not greater.
I tried the D3D, and got absolutely terrible lag during battle. It's much better with the GL2 plug in.
I tried the D3D, and got absolutely terrible lag during battle. It's much better with the GL2 plug in.
PigtailsOfDoom of Future Fabulous! wrote:
I tried the D3D, and got absolutely terrible lag during battle. It's much better with the GL2 plug in.
Ah.
Are you using the Run ISO option or did you burn the Image to a CD and run it from your CD drive? (Just curious)
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Running the ISO. I've thought about burning the discs to CDs or a DVD and to see if I could play them on my PS3, but I want to see if I can get it to work on my PC first.
I also tried turning down the res from 800 x 600 to the next lowest option and that didn't do anything.
I also tried turning down the res from 800 x 600 to the next lowest option and that didn't do anything.
No, the PS3 cannot play backups. Unless you mean with an emulator running in Linux. (I'm not too sure how well those work, honestly, never tried it, or read up on it).
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