PSX (Playstation 1) Emulation With PCSX Howto

[fabertawe]

Ok, we have lift off!

These are the steps I took to get it working on Ubuntu 6.06 amd64-k8...

Unpack Kethinov's package from the first post (here if you're really lazy ), thanks Kethinov

From the directions on this page I downloaded compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128.i386.rpm and installed the package alien via apt-get...

sudo apt-get install alien

Turn it into a tarball to be uncompressed with

alien -t compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128.i386.rpm

Extract (I did this in Nautilus)
libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
from the tarball into your pcsx directory.

Next, get the following two packages
http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libglib1.2 i386
http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libgtk1.2 i386
and extract
libglib-1.2.so.0
libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10
libgmodule-1.2.so.0
libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10
and
libgdk-1.2.so.0
libgdk-1.2.so.0.9.1
libgtk-1.2.so.0
libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1
respectively into your pcsx directory.

I then made a shell script launcher in the pcsx directory called (surprisingly) pcsx.sh, the contents of which are

#!/bin/sh

pcsx_dir=/home/paul/games/emulation/pcsx

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$pcsx_dir:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
cd $pcsx_dir
exec ./pcsx

Change 'pcsx_dir' to match your location

Make sure it's executable with

chmod 755 pcsx.sh

Launch it from the terminal (opened in the pcsx directory in this example)

./pcsx.sh

and this way you can check if there are still any problems before you make a launcher.

If you have errors configuring plugins then try

chmod -R 755 cfg*

from the pcsx directory.

There's probably a more efficient way to do all this but hey, it works for me

A word about Padjoy... I couldn't find much info on the config and found it a little puzzling but got my PSX pad (through a USB converter) working correctly with this padjoy.cfg...

[general]
pcsx_style      = 1
use_threads     = 1
use_analog      = 1
[pad 1]
devicefilename  = /dev/input/js0
minzero = -2500
maxzero = 2500
event_l2       = B0P4
event_r2       = B0P5
event_l1       = B0P6
event_r1       = B0P7
event_triangle = B0P0
event_circle   = B0P1
event_cross    = B0P2
event_square   = B0P3
event_select   = B0P8
event_lanalog  = B0P10
event_ranalog  = B0P11
event_start    = B0P9
event_up       = KP"w"
event_right    = KP"d"
event_down     = KP"s"
event_left     = KP"a"
event_lanax    = X0P0v0
event_lanay    = X0P1v0
event_ranax    = X0P3v0
event_ranay    = X0P2v0
[macro 1]
event_launch  = ???
events        =
interval      =
[macro 2]
event_launch  = ???
events        =
interval      =
[macro 3]
event_launch  = ???
events        =
interval      =
[pad 2]
devicefilename  = /dev/input/js0
minzero = -1250
maxzero = 1250
event_l2       = B1P4
event_r2       = B1P5
event_l1       = B1P6
event_r1       = B1P7
event_triangle = B1P0
event_circle   = B1P1
event_cross    = B1P2
event_square   = B1P3
event_select   = B1P8
event_lanalog  = B1P10
event_ranalog  = B1P11
event_start    = B1P9
event_up       = KP"w"
event_right    = KP"d"
event_down     = KP"s"
event_left     = KP"a"
event_lanax    = X1P0v0
event_lanay    = X1P1v0
event_ranax    = X1P3v0
event_ranay    = X1P2v0
[macro 1]
event_launch  = ???
events        =
interval      =
[macro 2]
event_launch  = ???
events        =
interval      =
[macro 3]
event_launch  = ???
events        =
interval      =

I have set pad 1 and 2 the same as some games seem to use port 1 and others port 2. I have also set non-analog (not the sticks) movement to use the keyboard otherwise I can't navigate the menus in QuakeII and use the sticks! You can alter the sensitivity of the sticks by changing the values of 'minzero' and 'maxzero'.

I hope this helps someone as it's good to give something back to these wonderful forums!

By the way... pressing F5 toggles 'Sio Irq Always Enabled' in the 'CPU' config which totally disables my contoller when ticked. This had me head scratching for a while!

Cheers ... Paul

[ammoQ]

A word about Padjoy... I couldn't find much info on the config and found it a little puzzling but got my PSX pad (through a USB converter) working correctly with this padjoy.cfg...

I've just added a paragraph about the codes in the config file in the FAQ page.

Erich aka ammoQ

[antivert]

I thought this was a good place to post this since you, the great ammoQ! has recently read this thread! Apparently I'm the only person this is happening to, since I haven't heard anyone else mention it.

padJoy doesn't work for me at all. It opens its preferences window and it will accept my controller input to configure it, but when a game is launched, I get no response from the controller. It's a ps2 controller connected to usb with a very good ps2 -> pc adapter, which is recognized as a generic HID. It works in every other linux game or app I've tried it in.

If I launch a game with padJoy selected for both controllers, I get : padJoy: pad already initialised. If I launch it with padJoy for the first controller and omniJoy with device /dev/null for the second controller, I get no error but the same result. Absolutely no response from the joystick.

omnijoy will allow me to use my controller but it nearly immediately goes 'haywire' in-game, spastically moving around for no apparent reason. Both padJoy and omnijoy cause the main pcsx window to appear to lock up and not update video.

I'm using the pcsx-df fork, padJoy 0.8 (both precompiled and self-compiled). It just seems a bit odd to me. All is not lost, however, as I was able to get *some* controller support working. xjoypad saves the day!! I set omnijoy to use the keyboard and use xjoypad to emulate keyboard strokes, then everything works smoothly.

Just thought you should know! Plus, I'd really like to try padJoy's analog controller support.

Thanks for your time.

edit: forgot to mention that I'm in Dapper. Also, I wanted to point out my main ponderances here:

* Why does padJoy recognize my controller but then apparently not work in-game? (is it locking up?)

* Why does omnijoy go 'insane' in-game with my controller, but works fine with the keyboard?

* Why does omnijoy go 'insane' when using my controller, but xjoypad does not?

It's a mystery!

[jawa83]

Hi!

I finally got PSX to work well... only to find it didn't actually work very well. I have tried both the version automatically "given" by synaptic package manager and the kethipcsx. The one from synaptic causes twitchy sound and video but the kethipcsx works fine. Both have one major problem with me, though. Neither one can use memory cards. Has anyone else experienced any problems with them? When I tried to save the game (which happened to be Final Fantasy Tactics if that is any help) the emulator freaks out and corrupts the memory card. When I checked it on the configs there appeared to be something written in the first block. The entire card is now unreadable in the game, however. Could anyone assist?

Thank you!