Persona Revelations - pSX Emulator - Doesn't Respond

[GobTheGhoul]

Hi there

This is my first post as I've tried to get on to pSX forums (sign up disabled?), Googled my question without luck, searched forums without luck and now here I am.

I have a pSX emulator (pSX v1.13) running on Lubuntu. Works like a dream on most games, I am also using a PSone Pad via USB converter.

Persona (Apparently works perfectly according to others using pSX) is giving me problems.

I've tried it with different BIOS files. Nothing.

Tried with pad as well as keyboard, nothing.

I get to this screen and even though the game is still active (Sound, animations on characters) it doesn't respond to any button press.

((Would have put image of screen here but forum won't let me - It's basically the first conversation of the game, the first text. Can't get past it. - Right after you press 'New Game'))

I would love to play this game. Any ideas on why it stops responding?

Other games work fine.. It's so odd.

Thanks,

Rick

[ulaoulao]

May want to try ubuntu live CD to see if its the light wait os causing the issue. Just a thought.
"Right after you press 'New Game'" -- so the controller does work but not after that point?
What is the name on the adapter.?

[GobTheGhoul]

Thank you for replying so quickly.

The USB converter is unbranded by the looks of things, however I don't think it's this or the OS's fault as other games work fine.

Yes the game accepts my button presses (I can't skip past first intro after boot but this may be normal) I can Press Start, then use the X button to select New Game. Then I get to this first conversation and it stops responding even though the game is clearly still active.

I've tried a couple of Bios files, re-downloaded the game from a different source... Nothing seems to impact this issue.

An odd one I know... Any other suggestions?

Thanks again!

[ulaoulao]

As long as the usb adapter does not need drivers it should be ok. The bios has nothing to do with it as it is just read not interpreted nor is it a bad dump ( game ) issue. You didn't comment on the live CD test, I know it a pain but at-least it tells us if its a Lubuntu issue or not. Lubuntu as you should know it just a light wait build and they strip a lot out. IMO that is not good for gaming but that is just a guess. Its possible the emulator is issuing a HID command and not getting the correct response from the OS rendering the input null.

If the problem is not the OS then you really do need to get with the psx guys on this.

[ulaoulao]

Just another thought, one way to get around this is to map your controller inputs to the xbox driver. I have done this before to get around a controller issue. Here is an example of how I did it on a usb controller I made.

xboxdrv --ui-clear \
--evdev /dev/input/event5 \
--evdev-keymap KEY_#304=back,KEY_#305=a,KEY_#306=b,KEY_#307=x,KEY _#308=y,KEY_#309=start,KEY_#310=tl,KEY_#311=tr \
--evdev-keymap KEY_#312=rt,KEY_#313=lt,KEY_#314=du,KEY_#315=dd,KE Y_#316=dl,KEY_#317=dr,KEY_#318=lb,KEY_#319=rb \
--evdev-absmap ABS_X=x1,ABS_Y=y1 \
--evdev-absmap ABS_RX=x2,ABS_RY=y2 \
\
--ui-buttonmap back=KEY_#304,a=KEY_#305,b=KEY_#306,x=KEY_#307,y=K EY_#308,start=KEY_#309,tl=KEY_#310,tr=KEY_#311 \
--ui-buttonmap rt=KEY_#312,lt=KEY_#313,du=KEY_#314,dd=KEY_#315,dl =KEY_#316,dr=KEY_#317,lb=KEY_#318,rb=KEY_#319 \
--ui-axismap x1=ABS_X,y1=ABS_Y \
--ui-axismap x2=ABS_RX,y2=ABS_RY

the xbox drive can be had here http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/