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Emulation of Sony PlayStation 1 console

Emulators

ePSXe

→ epsxe.com

DuckStation

DuckStation is a simulator/emulator (…), focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability. The goal is to be as accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices. “Hack” options are discouraged, the default configuration should support all playable games with only some of the enhancements having compatibility issues.

→ duckstation.org (GitHub, Wiki)

DuckStation installation

• Download from GitHub Releases, unzip the file and go in this directory
• Create bios folder and copy bios files inside
• Open duckstation-qt-x64-ReleaseLTCG.exe and open Settings (ideas taken from ETA PRIME video)
  • In “BIOS Settings”, update bios location
  • In “Controller Settings”, change controller type to Analog Controller (DualShock) and map the keys with your controller or load profile (below the mapping)
  • In “Game List Settings”, add path to game files (bin/cue)
  • In “Display Settings”, enable VSync, specify adapter (if multiple video cards)
  • In “Enhancement Settings”, update Internal Resolution Scale to 9x (fir 4K), Texture Filtering to xBR
  • In “General Settings”, check Start Fullscreen

Data files are stored in C:\Users\...\Documents\DuckStation.

DuckStation shortcuts

• Full screen: Alt+Enter to exit

Disks

Original disks can be saved as iso files on hard drive disks, with free tools like BurnAware. You may have issues with missing SBI files, you can find them at psxdatacenter.com.

Memory cards

Making a back-up of game saves in memory cards is not intended but there are ways to do it.

One solution is to use a PS2 console with a preinstalled Free Memory Card Boot (see PS2 emulation).

Files copied (with copy in uLaunchELF) can then be transferred to a PS1 memory card (mcd) with memcardrex. The save can then be transferred to DuckStation memory file from DuckStation.

Games

Best-of

• Boold Omen: Legacy of Kain
• Crash Team racing
• Driver
• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Rayman 2: The Great Escape
• Soul Blade
• Tomb Raider III
• Vagrant Story

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