Crash Racing Team-ePSXe Problem HELP pls!

[Zahos]

Hi everyone, im new here. I like to play again CTR game in PC this time and tried to play it from CD and as ISO . The ISO gives me nothing and from CD i managed to start the CRT but only the SONY start-picture-entranse appeared although the music and the game runs ok.

The problem is that i got only Audio and no VIDEO after the SONY logo!!!

Can anyone help?

Here are the specs i last used from a forum user with similar problem but no solution:

Emulator: ePSXe v1.6
CPU: AMD 3000+
GPU: 256mb ,ATI Radeon 9600Pro
RAM: 1024 DDR , Kingston

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.74
Author: Pete Bernert

Resolution/Color:
- 800x600 Fullscreen - [16 Bit]

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 6
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 4 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: off
- Game fixes: on [00000000]

Sound Plugin: Pete's DSound Audio Driver 1.15
- Enable Sound
- Enable CDDA Sound
- Enable XA Playing

[Jale]

Some games won't run on ePSXe 1.6.0. Try running it on an older version such as 1.5.2.

[Zahos]

OK i figured out what was going wrong. The 1.6.0 is ok, and beleive me 3 hours now i tried all the emules i found 2 years now!!!

For next users with same problem the answer is that in Sound you have to select the option 'Enable SPU IRQ hack' as well.

Because [i dont know why!!!] it doesnt save that setting you have to do it every time and ofcourse after you start the game so forget about the full view option!!!

Thanks all for your interest

[Lefteris_D]

Just for the record, Crash Team Racing is running fine on epsxe 1.6.0. I just tested the game myself.

[Jale]

So for any game that doesn't run on ePSXe 1.6.0, should I have to turn that on? Well, I'll try it and post my thoughts.

[hagbard]

The PAL version of Crash Team Racing is protected, so you need to enable Subchannel reading from the P.E.Op.S CDr plugin, use a PPF file or even a M3S. Get them all here

About the IPS patch, unzip it on the ePSXe "patches" subfolder, and rename it to "SCES_021.05" exactlly. Make sure to change both the file name and extension to the one I told you, and the Auto load PPF file option is enabled: "Options" -> "Auto load PPF..."

Otherwise, is posible to use a M3S file from the same site, unzip and load it on the Peops CDr plugin: "Config" -> "CD-Rom" -> "P.E.Op.S CDR Driver" -> "Subchannel Reading" -> "Use SBI/M3S file": On the "File" line click on "...", then look for the M3S file.

[GGat7jr]

Hi to all! I'm having a problem with Crash Team Racing also! First I'm not sure if the game is NTSC or PAL. The .bin file I'm using was from a perfectly working psx game. I've done my research: I've been to the P.E.Op.S. CDR Driver config and directed the path to a MS3 file under the subchannel reading option. Put ppf file in the patches subfolder. Renamed the patch to SCES_021.05. I've tried to enable the SPU Irq hack under the sound plugin config. And for some reason it doesn't stay checked after i close the program. All of my other games work perfectly fine. Is there anything I'm doing wrong!? Do I need another sound plugin other than the "ePSXe SPU core" for this to work? If I use the MS3 file do I need to change the name of the file to SCES_021.05? I have version 1.6.0. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanx in advance!!!

[hagbard]

I'm not sure if this will help, but give a try either P.E.Op.S. or Eternal SPU plugins, and enable SPU IRQ hack in them.

On the other hand, to know if a game is PAL or NTSC, mount the CD image with Daemon Tools and look at the root folder of the virtual CD: If there's a SCES_###.## or SLES_###.## it's PAL. SCUS_###.## or SLUS_###.## is NTSC-U and SLPS_###.## or SLPM_###.##, NTSC-J.

[GGat7jr]

Thanks Alot!!!! I got it to work!!! Just needed the sound plugin...Thanx again!!!

[small20]

The PAL version of Crash Team Racing is protected, so you need to enable Subchannel reading from the P.E.Op.S CDr plugin, use a PPF file or even a M3S. Get them all here

About the IPS patch, unzip it on the ePSXe "patches" subfolder, and rename it to "SCES_021.05" exactlly. Make sure to change both the file name and extension to the one I told you, and the Auto load PPF file option is enabled: "Options" -> "Auto load PPF..."

I dont understed what i should do :?:
Firstly ive got the opcode 27 UNK error, and i still dont know what to do, i found another post where someone just wrote "i figured out what to do, and thats all" - u know but i dont know. Can anyone help me :?:
Im using ePSX 1.6.0, if it necesary i will give u all plugins i have but better will be if anyone could give me a proper config :!: