Sony PlayStation

mednafen
mednafen is the best PSX emulator I have tried, uses software rendering for very accurate graphics rendering, and performs flawlessly.

Hotkeys
F1          Help F5          Save state F7          Load state Alt+Shift+1 configure controls

CD Images
CD images should be .bin / .cues, cdz packed files are currently not supported.

If you are missing a .cue file, you may be able to find an archive containing 'cues and sbis' on certain game archive sites.

Configuration
Example BIOS roms:

;Path to the Europe SCPH-5502/v3.0E ROM BIOS psx.bios_eu scph7502.bin ;Path to the Japan SCPH-5500/v3.0J ROM BIOS psx.bios_jp scph5500.bin ;Path to the North America SCPH-5501/v3.0A ROM BIOS psx.bios_na SCPH1001.BIN

Video configuration for a 1080p screen:

;Stretch to fill screen. psx.stretch 0 ; nope, we want integer scaling on pixels ;Enable (bi)linear interpolation. psx.videoip 0 ; nope, we want crisp scaling ;Scaling factor for the X axis in fullscreen mode. psx.xscalefs 4.000000 ;Scaling factor for the Y axis in fullscreen mode. psx.yscalefs 4.000000

ePSXe
My previous recommendation before discovering mednafen was ePSXe.

Installation
Download and install


 * ePSXe
 * from ngemu.com: Eternal SPU,  Pete's GPU Plugins, CDR Mooby

Video
Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.76 Author: Pete Bernert GFX card: Intel(R) 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller Resolution/Color: - 640x480 Fullscreen - [16 Bit] Textures: - R8G8A8A8 - Filtering: 0 - Hi-Res textures: 0 - VRam size: 0 MBytes Framerate: - FPS limit: on - Frame skipping: off - FPS limit: Auto Compatibility: - Offscreen drawing: 4 - Framebuffer texture: 3 - Framebuffer access: 3 - Alpha multipass: on - Mask bit: off - Advanced blending: none Misc: - Scanlines: off [0] - Unfiltered FB: off - Dithering: off - Screen smoothing: off - Full vram: off - Game fixes: off [00000002]

and disable screensaver

Sound
Eternal SPU Plugin:
 * Enable XA sound
 * Configure: Audio device: Buffer size: as low as possible without clicks, 20 works for me

CDROM
Mooby2 CD disk image driver
 * Configure: Cache size: 8000+

Tips
If you quit ePSXe inproperly by alt-f4'ing, ePSXe may leave some threads behind, that you must kill manually with the task manager...