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April 02, 2004

Playstation Emulation and Linux

I just finished playing around with a program called ePSXe, which is a Sony Playstation emulator for Windows and Linux. I've messed around with emulation in Linux before, mostly for older Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and a few arcade games like Pac-Man. I've never really thought about messing with Playstation emulation until today. Amanda and Jared were in the other room playing Tony Hawk on the Playstation, which got me to thinking about emulation in Linux and I began to wonder how good the PS emulators were. So I downloaded the stuff I needed, and here's the results:

Final Fantasy IX via Playstation emulation on Linux.

And there you have it, Final Fantasy IX running in all of it's glory. There's still some tweaking to be done with it, but the results out of the box were pretty interesting. Fast, crisp, and without question... playable. Now it looks like I need to invest in a PS controller adaptor kit for my PC so I can play some of my older favorite Playstation games, like Resident Evil. Heck, it might even be worth a trip down to the local game shop to see what's in the used games bin. I already have FF1 and 2, FFIV, FFIX, and Chrono Trigger thanks to Kyle letting me borrow them. Maybe I'll get some game time in soon.

I thought that I'd throw out some links, as there's really no good documentation on ePSXe out there at the moment. I did, however, find two really helpful Web sites:
ePSXe on Linux HOWTO
Pete's Homepage (for necessary video and audio files)

Posted by ed at 12:15 AM | Comments (0)