Need Help Really Bad

[duckmiesta]

Hello, I am new to this website and emulators in general.

The problem I have is I am completley new to emulators, I did use the megadrive one 'Gens' a lot and found that really easy and simple to use, the playstation 1 one however is a different story.

Ive been trying for ages to find a decent begginer tutorial on how to set up and configure these emulators, the one ive downloaded is called 'ePSXe' and seems to be the most popular one.

I don't know what 'BIOS' means and what all these 'plugins' are, and im still confused on what exactly you have to do.

Also once it is inevitbly configured, what do I need to play games on it? Roms? ISO images burned in Deamon tools? or just ISO files downloaded from torrents ect..

If somebody could give me a basic step by step guide on what I have to do to get things rolling I would hugeley appriciate it :)

I am a noob with all this I admit it but I just want to play :)

[Mystic]

http://www.emuxhaven.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6173
http://forums.ngemu.com/epsxe-discussion/112629-need-help-epsxe-your-first-stop.html

Read both of those, and it'll help alot.

You have to use ISOs of PSX games. I use PowerISO (http://www.poweriso.com/) to dump my games. The only legal way to play is to dump games yourself, downloading games is illegal.

GL

[retroguiden]

The only legal way to play is to dump games yourself, downloading games is illegal.

GL

That's a bunch of crap. It really doesn't matter who makes the dump as long as you have the original! There are even companies that makes backups.

So, Duckmiesta... you need a bios file from your Playstation for the emulator to work. If you can't dump the Bios file yourself it can probably be found through a Google search. We can however not tell you where to get either Bios or any games since this forum could get into legal trouble over it.

[Mystic]

There's a reason providing a link to Bios / ISOs is illegal. DOWNLOADING GAMES / BIOS IS ILLEGAL.

Recently I looked it up, even if you have the originals downloading games is illegal.

[alcoatjez]

Please, do not start this again.

[Khmer]

Calm down. You don't need torrents to download ISOs. There's an ePSXe tutorial here. If you can't get it to work, you can always try this emulator: http://emulator-zone.com/doc.php/psx/psx_em.html

Pretty good, doesn't require plug-ins. If you ever run across .mdf/.mds files, pSX can't run them, I can tell you how to convert them to the right format. Takes less than 10 minutes.

Terminology:

Emulator
Basic: A console on your PC
Advanced: Something that uses another OS system to duplicate its own.

ROMs/ISOs
Basic: Games for your emulators
Advanced: A file that contains the whole of a CD/Cartridge.

BIOS
Basic: Bootloaders for your emulators
Advanced: Something you need to make emulators work

Google is your friend.
Common Bios

PSX: scph1001.bin
Sega CD: us_scd1_9210.bin
GBA: gba_bios.bin

There are 20+ BIOS for almost every emulator that requires one. You'll probably end up only needed 3: One for USA/Canada Games, one for European Games and one for Japanese/Korean games. Why are there 20+? There all different, some are for US, some are for Europe, some are for Japan, some are better, some are worse. I suggest you use the ones I just listed. Want ROMs/ISOs or need more help? AIM: brajan4558

[retroguiden]

Please, do not start this again.

Worried? ;p

[retroguiden]

BIOS
Basic: Bootloaders for your emulators
Advanced: Something you need to make emulators work


Hmm, shouldn't it be the other way around? :happy:


Want ROMs/ISOs or need more help? AIM: brajan4558

Don't want to be a party pooper here but I think that is against forum rules. You have just provided us with a potential location of proprietary material. Maybe you should re-phrase?

[Khmer]

Hmm, shouldn't it be the other way around? :happy:



Don't want to be a party pooper here but I think that is against forum rules. You have just provided us with a potential location of proprietary material. Maybe you should re-phrase?

I cant edit it

Yes... Yes it should be the other way around.

[retroguiden]

I cant edit it


There should be a button called 'edit' right next to the 'Quote' button in the bottom right of the post.

[Khmer]

not that much of noob....

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk292/brajan8632_2008/Untitled-2.jpg

[alcoatjez]

Worried? ;p

Nah, it's just that you shouldn't whine about the legality of ROMs/ISOs on an emulation forum.