This is a video tutorial by jimmyr.com and I will be showing you how to install and configure the PlayStation Emulator called ePSXe. It hadn't been updated since 2003 because the source code was lost but it still retains as the best emulator because its use of plug-ins. Other people can make plug-ins for the emulator. So they can control many aspects of the game play.
So it's a little bit difficult to install that's why I am making this tutorial. A lot of people have asked me questions on configuring it. So I am going to go to the download site just searching ePSXe, I am going to download their Windows file, it's very much more complicated to install on Linux because there are several packages you need like the GTK and you need like an older version, you need the 1.2. But anyways I extract this file and I have the folder that says ePSXe. It doesn't work yet, you don't have to install it, because you need a BIOS and you need the plug-ins. It doesn't come with any plug-ins and it doesn't come with the BIOS, unfortunately.
If you want the whole package with plug-ins installed -- plug-ins already installed you can go to mininova.org or the piratebay or any other pirate site and search ePSXe plug-ins and it will offer you packages with ePSXe, with the plug-ins already installed or whatever. They are already in the appropriate folder and maybe they are configured, I don't know. But you could also just download the plug-ins, the ePSXe plug-ins. If you downloaded the torrent you might get older versions but I will go ahead and only download the top rated ones like Lewpy's Glide.
Okay, I just downloaded the files that I need, this is the video graphics plug-in, now I need a sound one. I like this P.E.Op.S thing; I used to call P.E.Op.S even though I probably shouldn't because it's an acronym; and finally I download the CD driver, okay I will now choose the P.E.Op.S one. P.E.Op.S is like open source one if you go search P.E.Op.S, you will get the Sourceforge page for it and they even have PlayStation 2 plug-ins that you can download for a PlayStation 2 emulator. There really is a PlayStation2 emulator and it does work for Linux, if you search PS2 emulator it will give you the correct page. It's recently been under heavy development, I don't have any ROMS to show so I can't give you a video tutorial, I have used it because I hadn't tried it but it's something you should checkout too.
Okay, so now I have all these freaking plug-ins they are all on my desktop, I will just copy all the zip files, I will go to plug-ins, I will paste it here and I will extract, I like 7-Zip but you can use Winzip or Winrar, I will go ahead and delete the zip files now because they are useless and probably the Read Mes because, I will not read them, not that it frees you much space, but anyway now I need a BIOS, we don't have any BIOS here so I am going to go ahead and search for a BIOS. Again you can use the peer to peer networks, it might be easier but the file name is scph1001.bin, that's the name of the BIOS and it's basically just the program that I guess runs the memory card management and all that stuff in the beginning, the boot up screen of the PlayStation.
Okay, so I search for that and I am going to find a bunch of junk, I like the aldostools guy because he -- let's search for aldos, okay, there you go. Let's see if I can find it. Here we have it. So I search the name of the BIOS in aldos and the first result is correct. I am going to click this scph1001 and it's going to give me a whole bunch of mirrors. To be safe I can use web.archive.org because it's from the archive.org, this site doesn't necessarily have to host any more, I could still save it. So I save this BIOS, I save the BIOS and now I am going to extract it into my BIOS directory. Alright, now I have the BIOS there, I delete the original zip and I am pretty much done. I can run ePSXe whatever and I have to configure everything, I can set it up, so it uses the Frames/Sec(FPS) limit, so the games don't run like super fast over, I like the Intro FPS limit like autodetected and you are pretty much set.
Open the game, I skipped ahead and configured everything. Go to Desktop and run the game and it works.
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