how to – psx emulation

Written by

void

in

now playing - costa del dolphin by thorhighheels

why are you calling it “psx” and not ps1.

check out jimmys video here for an explanation. it is technically the ps1. but also so was this –

whatever. anyways on to how to do the thing.

for desktop use

if you’re going to be emulating on a daily driver pc and you’ll be launching and managing your interactions with mouse and keyboard, it couldn’t be easier.

choose an emulator

duckstation is by far one of the best psx emulators there is.

download and extract it –

enter the extracted directory and create a folder called bios

you’ll need bios files. i can’t stress this enough. always check archive.org – https://archive.org/download/2019_11_25_redump_bios/Redump-BIOS/

you’re gonna dump the bios files in the bios folder used by duckstation. fully extract them to just .bin files

now open up duckstation exe and edit the bios settings

change the path to whatever your bios path is

when you click on auto-detect you should see shit pop up. leave this on auto-detect. you gucci now.

loading roms

ethically source your roms lol. https://vimm.net/ does a great job archiving european games. cdromance is dead. i don’t have any lol.

for this tutorial i have created a /roms directory inside my duckstation directory

you can go to settings > game list and add said directory should you choose do to do

it’ll scan and populate the main screen.

that’s it. feel free to explore graphics settings, fast boot vs slow boot, shaders and shit on your own.

tips

convert your roms to chd.

on windows, go grab the archive for
namDHC_v113.zip here . extract that into the same directory as the roms you want to convert. in my case i have two files

run namDHC.exe and add the .cue into the list, then create chd. this app can also do batch jobs. once complete, rejoice in the compression and archival to a single file. you can now delete the .bin and .cue files.

on linux just install chdman, then run –

chdman createcd -i the_rom_lol.iso -o the_rom_lol.chd

that’s basically it.

i’ve surreptitiously added the bios files here

More posts