[Emu] PS2 & Namco System 147 / 148 / 246 / 256 Emulation on Play!

[andymage]

il y a 32 minutes, Zen_B7 a dit :

 

please screenshot

 

[Zen_B7]

2 hours ago, andymage said:

please screenshot

 

[Universal Gaming]

12 hours ago, andymage said:

please screenshot

 

I'll give it time with a few updated emulators for Play!. Hopefully everyone get's the performance they want.

[andymage]

Il y a 11 heures, Zen_B7 a dit :

please don't laugh at me

[andymage]

Le 07/05/2023 à 19:09, yoleouff a dit :

thank you, I tried with the chd and decompress zip folder, then I added the chd in the folder. I always have the same message, surely the zip and chd badly placed?

🥴🤭

 

Modifié le 4 juin 2023 par andymage

[yoleouff]

Il y a 3 heures, andymage a dit :

CHD:https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.225_CHDs_merged/cobrata/

Dongle：https://archive.org/download/system2x6/Namco System 2X6/NM00021 Cobra - The Arcade/    Download the first file of NM00021 CBR1, Ver.B a026081331755a.bin.gz, and decompress it into a BIN file, and put it in the ZIP compressed package

 

open with notepad cobrata.arcadedef file

{
    "id": "cobrata",
    "name": "Cobra: The Arcade",
    "dongle":
    {
        "name": "NM00021 CBR1, Ver.B a026081331755a.bin"
    },
    "hdd":
    {
        "name": "cbr1-ha.chd"
    },
    "hasLightGun": true,
    "lightGunXform": [ -65535, 0, 65535, 0 ],
    "eeFrequencyScale": [4, 3],
    "boot": "ac0:CBRLOAD",
    "patches":
    [
        {
            "address": "0x001003CC",
            "value": "0x0805DDB0",
            "description": "Wait for Vblank after signaling Vblank sema"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECE74",
            "value": "0x0",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECF18",
            "value": "0x0",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECF58",
            "value": "0x1840002E",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        }
    ]
}

hello, thank you for your time and explanations!!🙏 I try now :D

[Zen_B7]

4 hours ago, andymage said:

please don't laugh at me

I am not laughing at you.
Just ...... Read The F.cking Manual.
It is very clear and concise.
No need for the same questions and answers over and over again.
Just go to the TUTO section, to learn, or use the search function, top right of the page.

Maybe you could add a simpler TUTO, for the people whom "do not understand" ?

With a video if needed, "for the visual learners".

Or does the community need to pre chew everything, over and over again ?

 

Modifié le 8 mai 2023 par Zen_B7

[yoleouff]

Il y a 6 heures, andymage a dit :

CHD:https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.225_CHDs_merged/cobrata/

Dongle：https://archive.org/download/system2x6/Namco System 2X6/NM00021 Cobra - The Arcade/    Download the first file of NM00021 CBR1, Ver.B a026081331755a.bin.gz, and decompress it into a BIN file, and put it in the ZIP compressed package

 

open with notepad cobrata.arcadedef file

{
    "id": "cobrata",
    "name": "Cobra: The Arcade",
    "dongle":
    {
        "name": "NM00021 CBR1, Ver.B a026081331755a.bin"
    },
    "hdd":
    {
        "name": "cbr1-ha.chd"
    },
    "hasLightGun": true,
    "lightGunXform": [ -65535, 0, 65535, 0 ],
    "eeFrequencyScale": [4, 3],
    "boot": "ac0:CBRLOAD",
    "patches":
    [
        {
            "address": "0x001003CC",
            "value": "0x0805DDB0",
            "description": "Wait for Vblank after signaling Vblank sema"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECE74",
            "value": "0x0",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECF18",
            "value": "0x0",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECF58",
            "value": "0x1840002E",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        }
    ]
}

thank you very much it works, I had not put and seen the manipulation for the .bin, thank you again, I will test cobrata this afternoon: D

[llll55]

6 hours ago, yoleouff said:

hello, thank you for your time and explanations!!🙏 I try now :D

 

9 hours ago, andymage said:

CHD:https://archive.org/download/MAME_0.225_CHDs_merged/cobrata/

Dongle：https://archive.org/download/system2x6/Namco System 2X6/NM00021 Cobra - The Arcade/    Download the first file of NM00021 CBR1, Ver.B a026081331755a.bin.gz, and decompress it into a BIN file, and put it in the ZIP compressed package

 

open with notepad cobrata.arcadedef file

{
    "id": "cobrata",
    "name": "Cobra: The Arcade",
    "dongle":
    {
        "name": "NM00021 CBR1, Ver.B a026081331755a.bin"
    },
    "hdd":
    {
        "name": "cbr1-ha.chd"
    },
    "hasLightGun": true,
    "lightGunXform": [ -65535, 0, 65535, 0 ],
    "eeFrequencyScale": [4, 3],
    "boot": "ac0:CBRLOAD",
    "patches":
    [
        {
            "address": "0x001003CC",
            "value": "0x0805DDB0",
            "description": "Wait for Vblank after signaling Vblank sema"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECE74",
            "value": "0x0",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECF18",
            "value": "0x0",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        },
        {
            "address": "0x002ECF58",
            "value": "0x1840002E",
            "description": "Skip card detection"
        }
    ]
}

how it can work if those files arent converted?

[andymage]

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Modifié le 4 juin 2023 par andymage

[andymage]

I'm

 

 

Modifié le 4 juin 2023 par andymage

[llll55]

how can i skip vamprie night 2nd player calibration?

i cant exit after i calibrate player 1.

[andymage]

il y a une heure, llll55 a dit :

how can i skip vamprie night 2nd player calibration?

i cant exit after i calibrate player 1.

Sorry, I don't know much about this game, I'm a fighting game player, like the Tekken series。I can only tell you how to debug with the simulator experience

Open the play! emulator, click options - select Controller Manager... set pad1 and pad2, pad1=player1, pad2=player2

Open the emulator to run the game, press and hold L3+R3 at the same time when the coin information and rotating screen appear, be careful not to release it, then open any screen capture program on your computer, open the screen capture, align the emulator interface, and then cancel Screen capture program, at this time you can completely release L3+R3, and then perform any memu debugging.

 

[llll55]

22 minutes ago, andymage said:

Sorry, I don't know much about this game, I'm a fighting game player, like the Tekken series。I can only tell you how to debug with the simulator experience

Open the play! emulator, click options - select Controller Manager... set pad1 and pad2, pad1=player1, pad2=player2

Open the emulator to run the game, press and hold L3+R3 at the same time when the coin information and rotating screen appear, be careful not to release it, then open any screen capture program on your computer, open the screen capture, align the emulator interface, and then cancel Screen capture program, at this time you can completely release L3+R3, and then perform any memu debugging.

 

thanks, will try

[SuperMagoAlex]

Hi, what are the buttons to enter coins?

[andymage]

il y a 24 minutes, SuperMagoAlex a dit :

Hi, what are the buttons to enter coins?

coins=SELECT，

Open the play! emulator, click options - select Controller Manager... set pad1

Although there are still many games that can be run at present, some buttons will still be invalid, that is, if you press the coin, it will be invalid and there will be no response.

Modifié le 10 mai 2023 par andymage

[tronbaby]

Does anyone know how to run a game in the emulator via the commandline?  I want to run games via AttractMode on my arcade cabinet, any ideas?  Thanks

[Mike669]

10 minutes ago, spiderzsoft said:

for example DarkEscape4D game
Bat file = rpcs3 dev_hdd0\game\SCEEXE000\USRDIR\EBOOT.BIN
Ahk = Run, rpcs3.exe dev_hdd0\game\SCEEXE000\USRDIR\EBOOT.BIN

A fine example👍

lol

[Tiberius]

20 hours ago, tronbaby said:

Does anyone know how to run a game in the emulator via the commandline?  I want to run games via AttractMode on my arcade cabinet, any ideas?  Thanks

The command line options can be found from within the emulator via command line - however here they are

 

So assuming using a bat fie command line structure (I don't use attract mode front end), and starting from within the actual folder containing the exe and using cobrata as an example it would be;

 

Play.exe --arcade cobrata

 

Yes it is two dashes with no spaces between them, however there is a space in between arcade and cobrata

 

Cheers

 

 

[nosoucy62]

perfect Tiberus !

thank you for this information....to launch in launchbox with this command line : Play.exe --arcade cobrata

look my screenshoot on launchbox

do you have a solution to start Play in fullscreen ?

thanks

[tronbaby]

Magic, thanks everyone.  I'll give it a go

[Tiberius]

1 hour ago, nosoucy62 said:

do you have a solution to start Play in fullscreen ?

In Launchbox - if you import the arcadedefs files from the arcadedefs folder in play and then tick remove quotes and remove file extension and folder path you can put a default command line of --arcade 

and not need to put the game name in as that will be taken from the imported file

 

In regards to full screen the Master build now has an ability to toggle with Alt&Return that hasn't been added to the Namco Arcade build

 

Someone more talented than me might be able to make the changes and build it or maybe wait and see if it gets added to the Namco Arcade build sometime soon

 

You could try something like below - which sets the play window to be full screen and set in the upper right corner - obviously change 3840x2160 to your resolution

 

The in Running ahk you can put the below - again you may need to adjust the numbers after click to be correct for your screen resolution and the sleep depending on computer - I did only try this without start up screen but should work with them if you get the delays correct

 

CoordMode, Mouse , Client

 

WinActivate, ahk_exe Play.exe
WinWaitActive, ahk_exe Play.exe
Click,369,35
Sleep,1000
Click,487,517

Esc::
WinClose, ahk_exe Play.exe
ExitApp

 

 

 

[TheSaltTrader]

Hey guys, late to the party on this one. Have most games working after some troubleshoot, downloaded the latest Play emulator and it seems to work great for some games. Other games like Tekken 5 \ Tekken 5 Dark resurection  I get a black screen. I have the original first page rom package, is the game still a work on progress or is there some sort of black magic I missed? 

 

Seems a few page back there was talks about a 246 and 256 version of the emulator, those links are long gone however, is a 256 version "hack" required to get this game to boot or is there some files that need updating even when using the first page converted CHD pack?

[andymage]

Le 13/05/2023 à 15:21, TheSaltTrader a dit :

Hey guys, late to the party on this one. Have most games working after some troubleshoot, downloaded the latest Play emulator and it seems to work great for some games. Other games like Tekken 5 \ Tekken 5 Dark resurection  I get a black screen. I have the original first page rom package, is the game still a work on progress or is there some sort of black magic I missed? 

 

Seems a few page back there was talks about a 246 and 256 version of the emulator, those links are long gone however, is a 256 version "hack" required to get this game to boot or is there some files that need updating even when using the first page converted CHD pack?

Modifié le 4 juin 2023 par andymage

[nosoucy62]

 

thank you very much Tiberius !!!

in launchbox the command line correct for me (game cobra the arcade) is : -qwindowgeometry 1920x1080+0+0 --arcade cobrata

but it's not real fullscreen I still see the emulator window with all category BUT it's not very important for me....

if you have a solution.......

a last question : in openGL mode the graphics don't work with with screen.....in vulkan mode all is ok but game are slow.....a solution ?

thank you man !!

[Safur]

How to configure ROMs directory. There iss noting to do that in Settings...

[LongnPlay]

 

Sengoku Basara works very well, but the audio seems imperfect.
The opening and ending are broken too.

 

22 minutes ago, Safur said:

How to configure ROMs directory. There iss noting to do that in Settings...

I believe it is not possible to change the game directory, you need to use the default.
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\Play Data Files\arcaderoms

Modifié le 13 mai 2023 par LongnPlay

[Tiberius]

 

52 minutes ago, nosoucy62 said:

if you have a solution.......

Did you also use the ahk that I gave?

Plus did you try changing the click co-ordinates as suggested?

 

This is what should happen when launched for LaunchBox

 

Play! will load in a window mode covering the whole screen

The ahk will wait for it to be Active and then click on the words Virtual Machine

It will wait 1 second and then click on the words Fullscreen Mode which makes it Fullscreen

As you have a different resolution the click points might be different

You can use WindowSpy from ahk ~(use Client for Mouse position as better option) to get the click coordinates

If you don't have that Fullscreen mode option then download the latest version of namco_system_256 - no need for a specific gun version anymore

 

Your other issue - No idea - my computer is an old potato and struggles with this emulator so everything is slow and garbled for me

Modifié le 13 mai 2023 par Tiberius

[Mike669]

Are time crisis 3,4 

without lag and fully playable with mouse,lightgun support?

[TheSaltTrader]

4 hours ago, andymage said:

Namco arcade 2x6 designated emulator download address: https://github.com/jpd002/Play-/actions/workflows/build-windows.yaml?query=branch%3Anamco_system_256

Thanks mate, appreciated, I will give it a try!

1 hour ago, Safur said:

How to configure ROMs directory. There iss noting to do that in Settings...

Had that same issue. Github just tells you to create an arcaderoms folder, but wha they don't tell you is yoiu have to create it under c:\users\whatevernameyourPChas\documents\Play Data Files. Mine for example is on : "C:\Users\Arcade\Documents\Play Data Files"

4 hours ago, andymage said:

Namco arcade 2x6 designated emulator download address: https://github.com/jpd002/Play-/actions/workflows/build-windows.yaml?query=branch%3Anamco_system_256

That did work like a charn, thanks mate!

Modifié le 13 mai 2023 par TheSaltTrader

[TheSaltTrader]

Testing video modes, seems Opengl provides the option to increase resolution, but introduces artifacts and vertical lines. Jittering as well. On the other hand, Vulcan is cleaner, but no resolution boost. Do you guys just use Vulkan until the issues with Opengl get resolved?

[llll55]

3 hours ago, Mike669 said:

Are time crisis 3,4 

without lag and fully playable with mouse,lightgun support?

still not...I think time crisis 3 doesnt have mouse support yet, didnt try. 4 is very laggy.

[Mike669]

16 minutes ago, llll55 said:

still not...I think time crisis 3 doesnt have mouse support yet, didnt try. 4 is very laggy.

thank you 

 

[nosoucy62]

tiberius : i don't have fullscreen option in play!.....strange......on play site i don't find your latest version 05/2023....my latest version is 04/2023

do you have a link to this version with fullscreen?

thanks

 

 

[Tiberius]

1 hour ago, nosoucy62 said:

tiberius : i don't have fullscreen option in play!.....strange......on play site i don't find your latest version 05/2023....my latest version is 04/2023

do you have a link to this version with fullscreen?

thanks

 

 

https://github.com/jpd002/Play-/actions/runs/4877995174

Above is link

Below might be the Windows x64 Installer zip if it worked

Play_Windows_x64_Installer.zip

[nosoucy62]

Thank you very much Tiberius!!!

merci beaucoup pour ton aide Tiberius!!

[andymage]

Il y a 11 heures, Tiberius a dit :

 

Did you also use the ahk that I gave?

Plus did you try changing the click co-ordinates as suggested?

 

This is what should happen when launched for LaunchBox

 

Play! will load in a window mode covering the whole screen

The ahk will wait for it to be Active and then click on the words Virtual Machine

It will wait 1 second and then click on the words Fullscreen Mode which makes it Fullscreen

As you have a different resolution the click points might be different

You can use WindowSpy from ahk ~(use Client for Mouse position as better option) to get the click coordinates

If you don't have that Fullscreen mode option then download the latest version of namco_system_256 - no need for a specific gun version anymore

 

Your other issue - No idea - my computer is an old potato and struggles with this emulator so everything is slow and garbled for me

Emulators are still in their infancy, missing buttons and uncontrollable issues are still common, as are black lines and blurry screens.