PSone emulation under Ubuntu

[snooo]

Quick question: has anyone managed to get PSone emulation going under Ubuntu breezy? I have tried the executables availible for ePSXe, only to find that the plugins provided at http://www.pbernert.com/html/gpu.htm give me this complaint and cause a segmentation fault:

"libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
"

Is there a way to get around this? Can I set up a symlink to fool the binary into thinking the library is there? Or is it permanently screwed? In case anyone was wondering, I cant seem to get it going under Wine....

[snooo]

After following the instructions at: http://terror.snm-hgkz.ch/gaming/linux/epsxe_howto/#epsxe i've managed to get rid of the last error. Yet I'm still getting segmentation faults, although this time they seem unexplained. Has anyone any experience of getting ePSXe working and how did they do it?

[jamyskis]

I haven't personally tried ePSXe under Linux, but I would suggest from the errors that you point out that might be worth downgrading your compiler (either gcc or g++) to 3.3 or 3.4 and the version of libcstd++ associated with them) and compiling with that. This is based on experience, as I know that GCC 4.0.2 causes some very weird results with the C++ standard library.

[snooo]

i got it working eventually by playing with the paths... but the software is a badly designed buggy peice of crap anyway. and it doesnt help that my ATI drivers seem to crash the PC every so often. I guess its windows for emulation, for now. :-/

[rpgcyco]

but the software is a badly designed buggy peice of crap anyway.

Yeah, the Linux version of ePSXe, is not as polished as the Windows version. That's for sure. Though I did have it working fine in Ubuntu.

Have you tried PCSX? I ran both in Ubuntu before I went to Arch.

and it doesnt help that my ATI drivers seem to crash the PC every so often.

That blows. :( Unfortunately, I do not know anything about their drivers, so I can't help on that front. :(

- Rpg Cyco

[aminalshmu]

i remember getting that error. i think it was the eternal SPU plugin. symlink didn't work. the plugin is pretty screwed up. epsxe itself works pretty well in linux for me. i have to use 1.5.2 for chrono cross and some other games, but between that and 1.6.0 i can run pretty much anything. pete's plugins work flawlessly.

try removing any instances of the eternal SPU plugin from the epsxe plugins and cfg folders. any other problems with it i will be glad to help troubleshoot.

[dryandplain]

Don't give up hope, Alucard is waiting for you! (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c35/dryandplain/sotn.png)

I was able to get things working well with this Debian PCSX tutorial:
http://eric.halo43.com/linux_psx_emu.php

[rpgcyco]

The Eternal SPU plugin works fine, it's just built with a very old version of GCC.

Installing the package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 fixed the problem up good for me. :)

sudo apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

There was recently a BETA version of Eternal 1.5 released. No support for Linux at the moment (I don't think), but hopefully it will support it in the future.

- Rpg Cyco

[janga]

I am using P.E.Op.S. OSS Audio Driver 1.6 with ePSXe, and it works very well. Sometimes, the sound is a bit laggy, but it works!

[arcanistherogue]

Hey, anyone know a good PSone controller to PC adapter for linux? Will the ones on lik sang work?

I wanted this, and If they ahve a working emulator that lets me play my games on teh computer I want to have my controller with it too :D

And is there a n64 one too?

[dolny]

Don't give up hope, Alucard is waiting for you! (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c35/dryandplain/sotn.png)

I was able to get things working well with this Debian PCSX tutorial:
http://eric.halo43.com/linux_psx_emu.php

Worked for me - but what do I write in the input configuration ( /dev/js0 by default) to change it to keyboard?

OK /dev/kbd1,
nevermind

[Biased turkey]

The Eternal SPU plugin works fine, it's just built with a very old version of GCC.

Installing the package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 fixed the problem up good for me. :)

sudo apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

There was recently a BETA version of Eternal 1.5 released. No support for Linux at the moment (I don't think), but hopefully it will support it in the future.

- Rpg Cyco
So far, I was able to run EPSXE with Fedora core2, fedoracore3 and Debian.
I couldn't run it with Ubuntu but as I remember, Fedora included some "legacy" c compiler packages.
I'l try to install the libs you mentions.
Yes, EPSXE linux version is not as good as the windows counterpart, but it still works nicely.
Imho what's missing is a decent controller plugin.
Pete's plugins are very good, that guy did a fantastic job for EPSXE in both Windows and Linux version
http://www.pbernert.com/

[dolny]

Can you play your games using CDs under PCSX? I only saw 'run exe' or 'run <something>' and I don't know how to run a game from a CD :|

[BoyOfDestiny]

Don't give up hope, Alucard is waiting for you! (http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c35/dryandplain/sotn.png)

I was able to get things working well with this Debian PCSX tutorial:
http://eric.halo43.com/linux_psx_emu.php

Nice. I'm a big castlevania fan (both emulated and I own a lot of the carts... and the cd for this one too :) )

However, the english voice acting for Symphony of the Night... It would be awesome to keep the voices japanese and have the text be english...

Anyway why the rant...enjoy this spoof. It primarily uses sound bytes from the game (mostly unmodified).

http://www.videogamedc.com/Fan_Flicks/Symphony_of_the_Night__Alterna/symphony_of_the_night__alterna.html

P.S I know the animation is silly, but the voice acting kills the mood anyway...

[Biased turkey]

The Eternal SPU plugin works fine, it's just built with a very old version of GCC.

Installing the package libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 fixed the problem up good for me. :)

sudo apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

There was recently a BETA version of Eternal 1.5 released. No support for Linux at the moment (I don't think), but hopefully it will support it in the future.

- Rpg Cyco

Just tried that, got an ( strange ) error message:
undefined symbol: XftDrawSetClipb
is it an xorg message ?

[rpgcyco]

That is strange. I have not encountered that error message before.

XftDrawSetClipb

Xft, is that short for X Font server or something? I know the Eternal SPU plugin has a different interface [in terms of the way it looks] than ePSXe itself [GTK1] and GTK2 programs. I don't know what it could be called, however.

- Rpg Cyco

[Biased turkey]

That is strange. I have not encountered that error message before.



Xft, is that short for X Font server or something? I know the Eternal SPU plugin has a different interface [in terms of the way it looks] than ePSXe itself [GTK1] and GTK2 programs. I don't know what it could be called, however.

- Rpg Cyco

I have it working now. I switched to libgpuPeteXGL2.so.2.0.7 for the video plugin and activated the No ATI render texture extension option.
I can play Granturismo2 at least with the keybord. The only thing left wil be to add the joystick plugin.
I'm almost there.
Thanks again for the help.

To Snoo: great link about how to have EPSXE running with Linux.