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Play Playstation Games on Your PC

Author Rai    Category Games     Tags , , , , , ,

While doing some Internet searching, I have come across an anime website that streams videos of your favorite anime shows. One anime caught my attention as it is one of my most favorite games of all time. It is an OVA of Final Fantasy VII or FF7 entitled Final Fantasy: Last Order. To those who don’t play RPG games, FFVII tells a story of Cloud, an ex-Soldier who crosses an evil empire of Shinra Inc., as he attempts to stop the company from draining Earth’s energy. Battling against bizarre creatures and teaming up with allies is the heart of the gameplay, making the player not only as an observer, but also part of the story itself.

Now moving forward, watching the movie made me want to play the game again. That made me an official FF series junkie. But how am I going to play the game without plugging in our antique PlayStation (not PS2) console? With all my PC stuff plugged in, there is no way in the world that I can plug another device here in my room (I prefer peace and quiet while I wander the grounds of Midgar, thank you very much). Here comes a special how-to of how to emulate your PS console into your PC.

Disclaimer: The author is not liable for any actions that the reader might perform that might violate anti-piracy laws. This article is purely for informative purposes only.

Just follow these basic steps and you will never go wrong:

1. Start off my downloading a PSX Emulator for your operating system called ePSXe. ePSXe is available for Windows, Mac and Linux users. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use Windows for our platform.

2. Unzip the file to any location of your choice, for example: C:\PS Emulator

3. This is the hard part. In order to use the emulator, you will need a BIOS file from the PS console itself. I will not disclose how to get the BIOS file as it is a proprietary software owned by Sony. You can however, extract the BIOS file from your console and there are articles on how you can do this.

4. After you get the BIOS files, it is now time to put everything together. Put your BIOS file inside the PS Emulator\bios folder. You will also need to get some plugins so I suggest that you visit the following links:

Video Plugin
Sound Plugin
CD Plugin
Input Plugin

After you download the plugins, extract the files in your PS Emulator\plugins folder.

5. Run the ePSXe.exe file and complete the wizard setup using these configurations:- Choose Pete’s video plugin for your graphic card. Select Config and press “Nice” button.
- Choose Pete’s Sound plugin and press next.
- Choose Pete’s CD plugin (P.E.Op.S. CDR Drive). Press Config, select your interface which is just the drive letter of your CDROM drive (like D:). Also, choose “Raw reading” if you are running W2K or XP.

6. After you complete the setup, pop in CD 1 of FF7 in your CD drive, select File > Run CDROM. If everything goes right, as it did for me, you should be able to play FF7 on your PC (Yay!)

That’s the gist of it. Remember that some files in this tutorial are proprietary sofwares so make sure you are not violating any anti-piracy laws when you decide to emulate your PS console on your PC.

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