New version of ePSXe!

posted in Emulator Release by spacetiger on Aug 5th, 2003

After a year and a half of no updates, the much-anticipated release of ePSXe has finally seen the light of day. There's an update to both the Windows and Linux version, as well as the frontend, ePSXecutor. Of course, there's a very long list of changes:

    Game Fixes
  • Gran Turismo 2
  • Dance Dance Revolution series
  • Gear Fighter Deboh
  • Hokuto no Ken
  • Gundam Battle Assault 2
  • Legend of Dragon US
  • Winning Eleven 2002
  • Um Jammer Lammy
  • Omega Boost JAP
  • Wild Arms 2nd Ignition JAP
  • Saga Frontier 2 JAP
  • Chocobo Racing JAP
  • Lemmings 3D
  • Harvest Moon
  • Arc the lad 3
  • Spyro 2 PAL
  • Spyro 3 PAL
  • Front Mission 3
  • Batman Gothan City Racer
  • Duke Nukem: Land of babes
  • Ridge Racer JAP
  • Nekketsu Oyako
  • Bust a Grove 2 JAP
  • Others

    General Changes
  • Fixed some cdrom emulation regressions and added more accurate cdrom emulation
  • Made changes to cdrom emulation to make modchip detecting games work
  • Added support for autopause when playing CDDA sound
  • Added support for report mode when playing CDDA sound
  • Fixed some problems reading subchannel
  • Minor changes to change disc function
  • Now the memcards are autosaved on the fly. It should solve the problem of lost memcards if the emulator crashes on gameplay
  • Added gun emulation using a mouse
  • Now the mouse emulation can be selected in the second gameport, only 1 mouse is supported, so if you do enable it, it will be disabled in the first pad
  • It is now possible to select analog, digital and disabled mode on every gamepad
  • Included multitap support. In this version only 1 multitap is supported
  • The keys F5 and F6 have a new function. F6 is used for select a pad, and F5 will toggles digital/analog mode on the selected pad
  • The dos window that shows the info messages can be enabled/disabled from the GUI
  • Included support for CDI isos (Discjuggler format)
  • Fixes to the CD-Rom decoder and the core which made some more games playable

You can pick up the Windows version at the Playstation Emulators page and the Linux version at the Playstation Emulators for Unix/Linux page.