pSX 113 installation problems on an old Win 2K system

[malloc4096]

I don't doubt u, In my experience I don't recall ever having an issue with FF7 tho beyond setup.. Tho I never needed to download a game. I own them, lol i didn't need to emulate them. So its been a long time and i could also be wrong... but besides setup for compatability if your hardware maybe isn't standard.. first things that come to mind are..

The BIOS, I don't know if maybe it matters for example, if using a PAL game with an NTSC Bios may fail to run or not. I listed all the BIOS's i have archived with the MD5, CRC32, SHA256 in that order bellow, so tho's who may wish to can verify with whichever hash u prefer. the FAQ recommends 1001 or 7502, but I really do not know which i used for which game, I was younger and less organized back then.

The next thing that comes to mind, is i don't know if u were using an actuall Disk, a disk image from a download source, or an image you created yourself from an actuall disk... But the way I ran it was from a Disk Image(ISO) i created from the Actual CD. However I don't know IF someone makes an ISO without scanning for the copy protection, If perhaps that still comes into play or not when you try and Emulate it(or running strait from CD-Rom without Imaging). I know DaemonTools had options to Emulate copy protection so it was bypassed if you used a virtual drive, but if not I don't remember... These are any application I think i needed back then pertaining to the ISOs and copy protection
- forceASPI 1.8 (this was because one of the apps needed it to read the protection threw the CD-ROM i think)
- CloneCD + Clonyxxl
- IsoBuster can create fine images without reading copy protections tho
- daemon tools 4.03 (may not need to scan for protection when creating the ISO if you emulate the protection threw Daemon)
or it may not matter at all and disk protection may not come into play at all when emulating, Its been too long for me to remember, but throwing it out there as a possible culprit.

239665b1a3dade1b5a52c06338011044 *SCPH1000.BIN
3b601fc8 ?CRC32*SCPH1000.BIN
cfc1fc38eb442f6f80781452119e931bcae28100c1c97e7e6c5f2725bbb0f8bb ?SHA256*SCPH1000.BIN
924e392ed05558ffdb115408c263dccf *SCPH1001.BIN
37157331 ?CRC32*SCPH1001.BIN
71af94d1e47a68c11e8fdb9f8368040601514a42a5a399cda48c7d3bff1e99d3 ?SHA256*SCPH1001.BIN
57a06303dfa9cf9351222dfcbb4a29d9 *SCPH5000.BIN
24fc7e17 ?CRC32*SCPH5000.BIN
0c8359870cbac0ea091f1c87f188cd332dcc709753b91cafd9fd44a4a6188197 ?SHA256*SCPH5000.BIN
8dd7d5296a650fac7319bce665a6a53c *scph5500.bin
ff3eeb8c ?CRC32*scph5500.bin
9c0421858e217805f4abe18698afea8d5aa36ff0727eb8484944e00eb5e7eadb ?SHA256*scph5500.bin
1e68c231d0896b7eadcad1d7d8e76129 *SCPH7001.BIN
502224b6 ?CRC32*SCPH7001.BIN
39dcc1a0717036c9b6ac52fefd1ee7a57d3808e8cfbc755879fa685a0a738278 ?SHA256*SCPH7001.BIN
b9d9a0286c33dc6b7237bb13cd46fdee *scph7502.bin
318178bf ?CRC32*scph7502.bin
5e84a94818cf5282f4217591fefd88be36b9b174b3cc7cb0bcd75199beb450f1 ?SHA256*scph7502.bin

[bknight2602]

Lets see, I have an original set of the PS disks, a copy of them(that worked in the PS1 before it cratered) and downloaded ISO's. The downloaded ISO work best for me as I travel and the CD's took to much room. I attempted to make some ISO's before making the disk copies, but they all failed(not that tech savvy in that regard). The bios I have/used SCPH1001.bin.
Anyway I spent about 4 hours earlier installing ePSXe 1.6, which brought back all the hassle memories with the plug ins. I did get in to work after a bunch of tweaking. The video seems to be less jerky than the pSX, but the audio is as bad or worse. I'll try and research some settings tomorrow or the next day and see if I can get it better.