How to install pSX 1.13 on ubuntu

[rfrayer]

get the dependancies

sudo aptitude install libgtkglext1-dev

then do this

mkdir -pv ~/.pSX/cards

touch ~/.pSX/cards/1.mcr && touch ~/.pSX/cards/2.mcr

cd $HOME

wget http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~david.s/saturn/images/Playstation_icon.gif

sudo mv Playstation_icon.gif /usr/share/pixmaps

wget http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/pSX_linux_1_13.tar.bz2

tar xjvf pSX_linux_1_13.tar.bz2

sudo mv pSX /opt


I can't tell you where to get it but do a google search for index of scph1001.bin


sudo mv scph1001.bin /opt/pSX/bios

sudo gedit /usr/bin/pSX

Paist this code in it then save

#!/bin/bash

cd /opt/pSX
./pSX

sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/pSX


Now to add it globally to your menues

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/pSX.desktop

paist this code in and save

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=pSX Emulator
Comment=Play Playstation games on your PC!
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/Playstation_icon.gif
Exec=pSX
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Categories=Game;Emulators;

should be all set!!

[rfrayer]

or even better yet skip all the above i rolled a deb package and it will get your dependancies etc. It says hardy but both dependancies are exactly the same in gutsy and hardy so it should go both ways


sorry removed my repository got to many hits

[rfrayer]

I also have a few other debs ive rolled here http://ubuntu.global-web.us

[Meizulo]

I followed your install and everything looks like it went well, but psx will not load???

HARDY amd64 user

I just found the error, but still need help

./pSX: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[rorymullan]

Thanks for the tutorial. Works perfect for me:D

[Meizulo]

Ok... so I reinstalled Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, but instead od using the amd64 version I am running the i386.

[rfrayer]

Ok... so I reinstalled Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, but instead od using the amd64 version I am running the i386.

did all go with that if its still saying that error try this
sudo aptitude install libgtkglext1-dev if that dont work try sudo apt-get install libgtkglext1

[binbash]

or even better yet skip all the above i rolled a deb package and it will get your dependancies etc. It says hardy but both dependancies are exactly the same in gutsy and hardy so it should go both ways.


http://ubuntu.global-web.us/hardy/binary/pSX-1.13-ubuntu-hardy2.deb

Deb works perfect here, thanks

[rfrayer]

Deb works perfect here, thanks


Not a problem... Anything i can do to give back to the comunity of the OS that has taught me so much

[arapozo]

Will this work on hardy 64 bits?

[rfrayer]

yes it will work on hardy 64 providing you have the extra repositorys backprorts or wherever the depenednicies are at when you go to install the deb

[benhur99ph]

hey! thanks for this! works great! I encountered a little issue with compiz but its nothing. I just turn compiz off when I play.

[dkrus]

Trying this in 8.10, I got it installed, I get the language thing when I click ok it doesnt work, I see the psx on the bottom for couple of seconds and it just disappears. Got it to work but cant click on the file menu to choose cd .

[mocha]

I was just curious, do you folks not use PulseAudio on your systems? Because I found on my system that pSX is incompatible with PulseAudio so pulse needs to be killed before using pSX.

[dashnak]

Whenever I run pSX, it's slow as hell, as if it was rendering completely by SW. As far as I know, it makes use of openGL if it finds it. ePSXE works fine in Linux, as well as pSX in Windows. My card is an intel950. Compiz is disabled. Any ideas?

[Zamfire]

"
then do this

mkdir -pv ~/.pSX/cards

touch ~/.pSX/cards/1.mcr && touch ~/.pSX/cards/2.mcr
"

im new to ubuntu, and maybe someone can spell this out to an idiot like me, but do i actually paste this into the terminal? both together? or one at a time?
because when i do paste them in there, together and otherwise, nothing happens. now for arguments sake i did try it, then continue on, but to no avail. i even got the "pSX Emulator" in the games tab on my menu, which is great, but when i click on it....nothing happens. im sure someone as dumb as me frustrates you all, but please, im new to ubuntu, and i would love some help. thanks!

[mocha]

"
then do this

mkdir -pv ~/.pSX/cards

touch ~/.pSX/cards/1.mcr && touch ~/.pSX/cards/2.mcr
"

im new to ubuntu, and maybe someone can spell this out to an idiot like me, but do i actually paste this into the terminal? both together? or one at a time?
because when i do paste them in there, together and otherwise, nothing happens. now for arguments sake i did try it, then continue on, but to no avail. i even got the "pSX Emulator" in the games tab on my menu, which is great, but when i click on it....nothing happens. im sure someone as dumb as me frustrates you all, but please, im new to ubuntu, and i would love some help. thanks!

The first command is just saying to make a directory "/home/USERNAME/.pSX/cards". The second command is saying to make files in the cards directory called 1.mcr and 2.mcr. You can do all of this in the file manager GUI if you want. If you run the emulator in a terminal you'll find out why it isn't running. Just copy the launch command from the menu item, run it in a terminal window, and see what the error message is.

[tritoch721]

i have also had trouble installing psx 1.13 on ubuntu 8.04 and finally found an easy way to fix this. All u have to do is download this file d3dx9_26.dll and copy it into your windows 32 folder in wine. afterwards just open the emulator normally and should work fine.

[rfrayer]

I was just curious, do you folks not use PulseAudio on your systems? Because I found on my system that pSX is incompatible with PulseAudio so pulse needs to be killed before using pSX.


yes i use pulseaudio . what this script does is disables it plus keeps it from respawning wile the games plays

[Saghaulor]

I keep getting this message every time I try to load pSX.

stephenaghaulor@stephenaghaulor-desktop:~$ pSX
./pSX: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


But it's there, or at least I think it's there.

stephenaghaulor@stephenaghaulor-desktop:/usr/lib$ find libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0


stephenaghaulor@stephenaghaulor-desktop:~$ ls /usr/lib | grep libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0


Any ideas?

Btw, I'm using x86_64.

[Vorsplummi]

Great guide, thanks for that.
But even so I have problem running pSX and I always have the same error note:
mikko@mikko-laptop:~$ pSX

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[src/linux/sound.cpp, line 215]: 'snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(pcm_handle,hwparams, SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED)' returned 'Virheellinen argumentti'
pad=0
/usr/bin/pSX: line 4: 10599 Muistialueen ylitys ./pSX
Does anybody have a clue what's going on?

[Saghaulor]

Great guide, thanks for that.
But even so I have problem running pSX and I always have the same error note:
mikko@mikko-laptop:~$ pSX

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(pSX:10599): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[src/linux/sound.cpp, line 215]: 'snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(pcm_handle,hwparams, SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED)' returned 'Virheellinen argumentti'
pad=0
/usr/bin/pSX: line 4: 10599 Muistialueen ylitys ./pSX
Does anybody have a clue what's going on?

Try searching the forums more.

I think you're problem is here.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7723179&postcount=6

And your answer here.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7723360&postcount=7

[italomaia]

I face the same problem as Saghaulor.

./pSX: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


All the time. And here it is:

libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so:
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so
/usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so

[mocha]

I face the same problem as Saghaulor.

./pSX: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


All the time. And here it is:

libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so:
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so
/usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so


What happens if you run "sudo ldconfig" then try running pSX again? Usually when there is a shared library problem you have to run ldconfig to update links. If that still doesn't work perhaps you have an old lib installed or maybe in your case you have 32 and 64 bit libs installed and that causes a conflict somehow? I only use 32 bit.

[Saghaulor]

What happens if you run "sudo ldconfig" then try running pSX again? Usually when there is a shared library problem you have to run ldconfig to update links. If that still doesn't work perhaps you have an old lib installed or maybe in your case you have 32 and 64 bit libs installed and that causes a conflict somehow? I only use 32 bit.

I tried sudo ldconfig and then pSX and then received the same error.

[rfrayer]

its because you still have pulse running when you start it up

make sure you are added o the groups pulse and pulse-rt and pulse-access

then make sure you edit the file /etc/pulse/client.conf
and change the autospan = yes to autospawn = no

if you are an oss user it just wont work pSX is closed sources and I am not a maintainer of the raw binary so i simply wouldnt know


Howver im having a huge problem on karmic using an acer netbook with extreme choppyness