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Thunder 1
09-05-2008, 03:36 PM
*Test System Specs.

**AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.0ghz
**MSIRS482M4-ILD
**ATI Radeon X550
**Western Digital 160 Harddisk
**512 Cosair Memory
**Realtek Hidefinition Audio Onboard




*Video Settings

** Resolution 640x480 windowed
** Stretch with Opengl - On
** Stretch - On
** Whole Frame Buffer - Off
** Nearest - Off
** Cycle 1 - "0"
** Cycle 2 - "0"
** Cycle 3 - "0"



*Sound

** Min = 5000
** Mid = 10000
** Max = 30000
** Scan = 88200

*Run type = Run 2

Reference Key

Green - Played game from beggining to end.
Light Green - Played game from beggining to end but, need a special setting.
Lime - Played game halfway.
Orange - Not fully tested.
Red - Game can't be played.

(General Note Arbex sometimes saves the game to the memory card, so make a savestate before or after saving that way you can resave to memory card if it fails the first time.

(Note On Wine Sound Effects Are Off timing)

Changing the Sound Output on Arbex to
Min = 30000
Mid = 45000
Max = 55000
span = 88200
Gets rid of the crackling on my system. (Tested On Wine 1.1.23 Arbex 090617 Ati OpenSource Driver 6.9 Default Wine Settings)

*Games Tested are all US-NTSC



Alundra - Full Test Rating 98% Minor Video Problems (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.9 mesa 7.03)

Battle Arena Toshinden 2 - Full Test Rating 95% No Background music (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.8)

Blaster Master - Hangs near first stage

Capcom VS SNK Pro - Full Test Rating 100% (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.8)

Castlevania - you get a BSOD or RSOD when equipping some item. Changing the i-cache rate to under 14 does not work.

Crash Bandicoot 2 - Crashes when you pick up an apple in bonus stage

Crash Bandicoot Warped - Crashes when you pick up an apple in bonus stage

Crash Team Racing - Full Test Rating 98% Minor sound problems (Tested On Wine 1.1.11 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.9 mesa 7.03)

Dark Stalkers 3 - Full Test Rating 98% Screen is not centered (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.8)

Dino Crisis - Full Test Rating 95% Noise spikes & audio stutters in some cut scenes (Tested On Wine 1.0 Arbex080904 Ati Propietary driver manually installed ubuntu 7.04)

Dino Crisis 2 - Full Test Rating 94% Audio stutters in a few areas,noise spikes,slow loading in a few areas and when using the double machine guns with Regina the game gets laggy but only happened once or twice. (Tested On Wine 1.13 Arbex080904)

Fatal Fury - Full Test Rating 100% (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.8)

Final Fantasy 7 - Full Test Rating 98% Minor polygon tearing & minor sound problems. (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.9 mesa 7.03)


Megaman 8 - Full Test Rating 100% (Tested On Wine 1.13 Arbex080904)

Megaman X4 - Full Test Rating 98% Minor sound problems (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904)

Megaman X5 - Full Test Rating 95% Minor sound problems and there is lag in the one stage (Tested On Wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.8)

Metal Gear - Full Test Rating 96% Noise Spikes,Audio repeats when cpu is a 100% & few lag spots. (Tested on wine 1.1.23 Arbex 090416)

Need For Speed 3 - Seems to be working on version arbex090617.

One - Must be played from cd

Parasite Eve - Full Test Rating 94% minor audio problems, loading might be slightly off & last frame of FMV's does not fade to black completely. (Tested On wine 9.57 Arbex071226)

Parasite Eve 2 - Full Test Rating 95% (You must set I-cache rate to 10 or the game will not work) Screen switching is off slightly, minor audio problems. Although in the ending credits audio gets pretty bad. (Tested on wine 1.18 Arbex080904 Ati Open Source Driver 6.9 mesa 7.03)

Rayman 2 - Hangs At the Game Intro

RC Revenge - Screen Randomly halts for a few seconds while the game is still playing causing you to crash into some area of the screen

Resident Evil - Full Test Rating 97% Discoloring & minor noise spikes (Tested on wine 1.13 Arbex080904)

Resident Evil 2 Claire's Disc (First Scenerio) - Rating 93% Screen switching is off slightly,minor video problems,minor audio problems and ending credits ended a few seconds before it should have.(Arbex080419)

Thunder 1
12-30-2008, 08:30 PM
Resident Evil 2 Leon's Disc (Second Scenerio) - Rating 93% Screen switching is off slightly,minor video problems,minor audio problems and ending credits ended a few seconds before it should have. * I encountered a bsod by chiefs office after going out the door to his office (usually happens the second or third time going in or out) i did manage to make it pass it loading from a save state but there is something wrong in that area and it did the bsod even when loading from a memory card. BTW the glitch is in windows XP too.(Tested On Wine 1.16 Arbex080904)

Resident Evil 3 - Full Test Rating 93% Screen switching is off slightly,minor video & audio problems (Tested On wine 1.0 Arbex080712)

Ridge Racer 4 - Full Test Rating 97% Minor video & audio problems (Arbex080410)

Spiderman - Full Test Rating 98% Minor audio problems (Tested On wine 9.58 Arbex071226)

Street Fighter Alpha 3 - Full Test Rating 98% Minor video & audio problems (Tested on wine 9.57 Arbex071226)

Soul Blade - Full Test Rating 97 % Minor video & audio problems (Tested on wine 1.18 Arbex080904)

Spyro - Full Test Rating 98% Minor audio problems (Tested On Wine 1.1.15 Arbex080904 Nvidia Geforce4 MX4000 card with propietary driver)

Spyro 2 - Half Test Minor audio problems (Tested On Wine 1.0 Arbex080712)

Syphon Filter 2 - You must set I-cache rate 10 or the game will not boot (Although 10 may not be the optimal value)

Syphon Filter 3 - You must set I-cache rate 10 or the game will not boot (Although 10 may not be the optimal value)

Tomb Raider - Must be played from cd

Tomb Raider 2 - Must be played from cd

Wild Arms - Full Test Works Great 96% Minor Audio Problems (Tested On Wine 1.1.15 Arbex080904 Nvidia Propietary Driver Geforce MX400)






Arbex can be found here http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/DrHell/ps1/index.html

Click on the picture on bottom of the page to download.


To play a game.
1. Select File>Open>cdrom via spti or cdrom image
2. Select your file
3. Select Run>Run2 (you can choose Run 1 or Run 3 as well but i use Run 2)

To change a multidisc game.
1). Select Run>Openshell
2). Select File>Open Cdrom or Image then,
3). Select Run>Closeshell

To save a savestate..
1.Select File>Save>Running image
2.Type in a name for your savestate then press ok.

To load a savestate..
1.Select File>Open>Running image
2.Select Your file and press ok.

To change the i-cache rate.
1.Select Run>Simulate>I-Cache Rate
2.Select a value from 0 to 28. (The default is 18)