Getting a game (FF8) to start

[defeated]

I need help in getting FF8 to start..when ever i try to start the game the screen goes black and nothing happens. I configured the bios, video card, cd rom, and sound card already, but the screen still goes black..O yea, i also tried ISO files, it still didn't work.

[montpics]

Try it again with ePSXe 1.5.2 and if problem is still not solved, you may ask here.

[hagbard]

If you're using the FF8 original discs on your PC, you'll need an specific patch (PPF) to the version (NTSC-U, PAL-Spanish, PAL-German, etc) you' wanna play. ePSXe might patch it on the fly renaming it as the PSX executable (SCES_#.###, for example) in the patches dirs.

If you don't like this / can't find the patches, etc, the easier way it's to make images of your FF8 CDs, then run it on ePSXe (CUE-BIN, IMG-CCD), or in other format just emulate the images with Daemon Tools

Anyway, if you wanna play a CD-backup of FF8 on the original PSX hardware you'll need to patch to images (CUE-BIN) before burn them.

Hope it helps

[defeated]

sorry for the long response, um..i tried it with 1.5.2, it still did not work..uh..if u have any ideas on how to help me..pls tellm me :-D THANK YOU VERY MUCh!!

[hagbard]

If would be helpful to tell us which version of FF8 are you using. You might know it looking at some file on CD named something like:

SCES#.### = PAL-E, still would be cool to know the language, as it has many versions. You'll might need a PPF patch to play it. II can send you the specific one it needed.
SLUS#.### = NTSC-U
SLPS#.### = NTSC-J

Did other games work? I figure that yes, but you might try another PSX BIOS version. scph1001.bin and scph7502 are recommended.

Extract form ePSXe Help file:

Game not starting at all
First off, you could use another plugin, since not all plugins work with every game. We suggest you use Pete's plugins for GPU (OpenGL, D3D or Soft), since they provide the best compatibility ... see the Getting started section for more plugin troubleshooting. Then, you could try to disable MDECs, since some games crash when they try to show the opening movie. In case you're running the game from an ISO file, try Daemon Tools, since some games only work properly with that tool. Some people also informed us that using a different BIOS version has helped them getting the emu working. Now, check if your CD-ROM drive at least TRIES to read the game CD ... when it does nothing on start, try another plugin (see plugins section for more help). If this isn't the problem, you can try to load the game patches using the "Cheat" option in ePSXe. Some games have special workarounds found in these patches with allow them to run, or fix some in-game bug. And last but not least, you should try to start the emulator with the option '-cdtiming' or activate the "Enable Accurate CD-ROM Timing" option in the CD-ROM configuration screen.

btw, you can find a good guide to optimize FF8 config here

Hope it helps

[defeated]

Thank you very much!! it works great now!!