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Jesse's easy guide for Policenauts emulation on Windows/Mac!

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:01 am
by Junker_05
Right, here we go. This is my first guide I've written, so it's probably not very good.

You will need -

*Policenauts - PSone version, any original or Private Collection or remake or whatever
*PCSX
*NTSC/JAP PSone BIOs

Right. If you can't find the bios (they're pretty hard to find), you can email me on jessequan@optushome.com.au, or PM me and I'll send them to you.

Once you have this, go to your Application support folder (I use a Mac, so I don't know where to put the BIOs on a PC), find the folder labelled PCSX and put the BIOs file in the BIOs folder, or whatever it's called. Once you have done this, pop in your Policenauts disc and and open PCSX. Go to File>Run CD or just press Command+R, or Control+R, or whatever it is on PC.

If you experience some major problems like I did at first, so you'll need to go to the Preferences option and do this, doesn't matter which order you do it in.

*On the "Emulation" tab, select "No CD Audio" and "No XA Audio". There will be sound, so don't worry about this. If there is no sound, try checking both, or one or the other. It might be different for other computers.

*Under the "System Region" tab, select NTSC (USA/Japan)

*Click the "Plugins" tab and press the "Configure" button under "Graphics". Under the "Dither Graphics" tab, select "Never". This will only faulter the graphics and make Policenauts look really awful.

*Check "Enable Hacks" but don't select any check boxes unless you have a slow computer and need to speed the game up. If this is the case, check "Lazy Screen Updates" or "Use PC FPS Calculation" and "Use Old frame Skipping". If your computer is indeed that much of a piece of shit, you might want to select all three. Play around with the checkboxes and see what suits your computer

*If your sound lags and fucks up real bad, click the "Configure" Button in the part of the window labelled "Sound" and check "SPU IRQ Wait" and "High Compatibility Mode". Have "Enable XA Playback" checked unless your sound fucks itself up real bad, then uncheck it. These are just my settings I'm describing, and once again, it might be different for every other computer. But try my settings first anyway, and see how they are.

Contact me or fiddle around with the settings, and bada-bing, bada-boom! You have successfully emulated Policenauts!

If there's any trouble, or you are not sure what I'm talking about in parts of my guide and would like screenshots to help you, please don't hesitate to ask.

Peace -
Jesse Chin-Quan (Junker_05)

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:20 pm
by OtakupunkX
It's nice to see that you finally got everything figured out.

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:39 pm
by Junker_05
NOTE: This may apply to PC's too, if they have the right sort of Preference/Settings selections.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:47 am
by Snatcher42
This thread is over a year old, so I was just wondering if there's been any updated info on how to best emulate Policenauts? Is PCSX still the best emulator for it? Thanks.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:15 pm
by Marc
Snake Plissken here has devised a way to emulate the game perfectly. We'll have his guide available on the site at release time.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:51 pm
by Henry Spencer
Good on him. :smile:

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:23 pm
by Snatcher42
Heh, you guys think of everything, thanks! :)

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:09 am
by Snatcher42
BTW (and sorry for the double-post), it may be early for this, but... well, I went ahead and bought Policenauts and tried emulating it. Got it running beautifully with pSX (very simple, just set up the bios and go), but I couldn't figure out a way to enable Playstation mouse support in that emulator. I hope whatever tutorial you guys write-up will include setting the game to run with a mouse, because it really seems designed for that. And I'm not sue I'll be able to get past the shooting scenes without it! I also bought the Private Collection, and man some of those shooting gallery scenes in that are HARD.

Anyway, that was first time I actually played some of Policenauts. Even managed to get through the whole prologue with random clicking. It looks beautiful, can't wait for the translation! :)

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:53 am
by Kaz
I played through Policenauts without a mouse (I don't have a Saturn mouse) just fine. There's a lock-on function in the shooting scenes so they're no big problem.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:53 am
by Marc
Hey Ben,

I know epsxe has mouse support (just press F5 after enabling it at the control menu). I know you have a good PC too, so you should have no trouble running Policenauts with the right plugins. Policenauts will run flawlessly in epsxe with the right plugins and settings.

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:42 am
by Snatcher42
Thanks Osiris.
Kaz wrote:I played through Policenauts without a mouse (I don't have a Saturn mouse) just fine. There's a lock-on function in the shooting scenes so they're no big problem.
Really, there's a lock-on feature? How do you enable it?

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:44 am
by Charlie Johnson
Snatcher42 wrote:Thanks Osiris.
Kaz wrote:I played through Policenauts without a mouse (I don't have a Saturn mouse) just fine. There's a lock-on function in the shooting scenes so they're no big problem.
Really, there's a lock-on feature? How do you enable it?
In the Playstation version L1/2 or R1/2. It depends if the enemy is left or right from your crosshair position.

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:40 am
by mrgone
Charlie Johnson wrote:
Snatcher42 wrote:In the Playstation version L1/2 or R1/2. It depends if the enemy is left or right from your crosshair position.
cool, this means, it will be pretty playable on the PSP (L/R2 are mapped to the analog stick, which is kinda sucky, if they have different functions than L/R1)

emulation on PSP is nice as far, i watched the intro, and clicked a bit around at the start, but then lost interest as everything was japanese

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:26 pm
by JimboKudo
Just curious, are you guys going to release some notes on how to emulate Policenauts for the psp? My computer sucks, so psp will actually be the best emulator for me. Thanks (and sorry for bringing back such an old subject).

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:29 pm
by Anubis
To play on the psp you will first need Custom Firmware
If you have it, it's extremely simple to do.

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:42 pm
by 87th
I don't know about "extremely simple", but there are a lot of great tutorials around about it.

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:03 pm
by JimboKudo
Anubis wrote:To play on the psp you will first need Custom Firmware
If you have it, it's extremely simple to do.
I do have custom firmware, and I've emulated about everything (except for pc-engine, which is a friggin' pain to set up). I've played ps1 games on my psp before, but I usually format them using autopopstation, so that they work perfectly. I was wondering if I could somehow use autopopstation with the patch or if I needed to go get an emulator (homebrew) to emulate the ps1, so that I could use the patch that way.

Re: Jesse's easy guide for Policenauts emulation on Windows/Mac!

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:00 am
by mrgone
you just patch your ps1 image before converting it to psp

Re: Jesse's easy guide for Policenauts emulation on Windows/Mac!

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:27 pm
by JimboKudo
mrgone wrote:you just patch your ps1 image before converting it to psp
Ahh, thanks man.