Castlevania - Symphony of the Night [Archive]

Cornellius

06-15-2007, 07:17 AM

So, with which Playstation emulator is the best for playing this game ?
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Sliver X

06-15-2007, 07:21 AM

pSX and ePSXe both run it fine.

Reaper man

06-15-2007, 09:51 AM

> pSX

almost... If I recall correctly, sometimes the emu will just hang trying to load data, and I believe it gets all choppy when you game over

SamIAm

06-15-2007, 02:35 PM

> > pSX
>
> almost... If I recall correctly, sometimes the emu will just
> hang trying to load data, and I believe it gets all choppy
> when you game over

This is true. However, you can get around it by ejecting and reloading the CD (even if it is an image). Still a pain, though.

The 9th Sage

06-15-2007, 03:18 PM

> This is true. However, you can get around it by ejecting and
> reloading the CD (even if it is an image). Still a pain,
> though.

Huh, why does this happen? I don't think I've had it happen to me. What CD-ROM plug-in are you guys using?
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Sliver X

06-15-2007, 08:22 PM

You may want to check your copy of the game, because mine doesn't do this whatsoever (The ISO I have was dumped by myself years ago).

The 9th Sage

06-16-2007, 02:18 AM

> You may want to check your copy of the game, because mine
> doesn't do this whatsoever (The ISO I have was dumped by
> myself years ago).

Same here for me, actually. Bad image of the disk floating around?
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SamIAm

06-16-2007, 02:36 AM

> Huh, why does this happen? I don't think I've had it happen
> to me. What CD-ROM plug-in are you guys using?
>

I was just using daemon tools. It could be a bad image, but I believe someone on the pSX bug reporting forums had the same problem, and he said he was using a genuine disc. This was on pSX 1.10, btw.

Sliver X

06-16-2007, 03:39 AM

Huh, I hadn't realized it'd been updated twice: I'm using 1.9, and it runs just dandy.

Reaper man

06-16-2007, 03:51 AM

> Huh, why does this happen? I don't think I've had it happen
> to me. What CD-ROM plug-in are you guys using?

uhm, pSX isn't plugin based, that's what makes it awesome. you don't have to fuck around with various plugins to get x game to work. :)

CEpeep

06-16-2007, 04:49 AM

> uhm, pSX isn't plugin based, that's what makes it awesome.
> you don't have to fuck around with various plugins to get x
> game to work. :)

No, pSX fails, because it's all software. If I wanted to play games with blocky textures and aliased polygons, I'd play them on my actual Playstation. I have a good computer and I shouldn't have to settle for my games looking like they were made ten years ago (even if they were) unless I want them to.
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MonsieurSirhan

06-16-2007, 04:26 PM

> No, pSX fails, because it's all software. If I wanted to
> play games with blocky textures and aliased polygons, I'd
> play them on my actual Playstation.

Well, blame the developer for aiming towards accuracy. 'sides, some people (like me!) don't have a ps/ps2, and some really have not desire to get one just to play a few games on their random spare time, let alone the lack of save states and "infinite" memcards on real hardware.
_- | -_

The 9th Sage

06-17-2007, 02:31 AM

> uhm, pSX isn't plugin based, that's what makes it awesome.
> you don't have to fuck around with various plugins to get x
> game to work. :)

I know this, I must have missed where you said you were using pSX.
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Cornellius

06-21-2007, 11:08 PM

Outside the rarity of the edition, is there any differences between the two ?
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Reaper man

06-22-2007, 01:06 AM

> Outside the rarity of the edition, is there any differences
> between the two ?

as far as I know, no there isn't. You might want to ask in the Gamefaqs forums, they would know better than me.

Cornellius

07-06-2007, 06:42 AM

So I got the game, the Greatest Hits version, on eBay for 50 $ USA (shipping not included). I was amazed at the quality of the disc, it looks brand new. Not a single scratch, nada. Anyway, I was playing through the game and told myself (man, that game is way too easy), until I found the inverted castle. Great game, love it as much as Aria Of Sorrow.
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Cornellius

07-09-2007, 12:50 AM

> Great game, love it as much as Aria Of Sorrow.

Great game, don't know if I love it as much as Aria Of Sorrow though.

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Reaper man

07-09-2007, 01:54 AM

> > Great game, love it as much as Aria Of Sorrow.
>
> Great game, don't know if I love it as much as Aria Of
> Sorrow though.

so why the change of opinion?

Cornellius

07-09-2007, 03:25 AM

> so why the change of opinion?

Not a change of opinion, a typo. It was too late to edit my post when I've read my mistake, so I've created a new post with what I meant to say.

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The 9th Sage

07-09-2007, 03:53 AM

> Great game, don't know if I love it as much as Aria Of
> Sorrow though.

My stance on this is that, no doubt, SotN is an awesome game, and I love Aria of Sorrow, but it didn't quite approach that same level of greatness (though it tries hard and gets close). To me, Dawn of Sorrow is the one that truly beats SoTN. Don't get me wrong, Portrait of Ruin is amazing in it's own way, but the way I see it Aria, and thus Dawn of Sorrow are SotN's 'real' successors.

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icenine0

07-09-2007, 09:18 PM

CSoTN has, by far, the best music and art direction of all the Castleroids. There have definitely been some great gameplay innovations in Aria and PoR, though.

> Great game, don't know if I love it as much as Aria Of
> Sorrow though.
>

JadussD

07-10-2007, 02:47 AM

> You may want to check your copy of the game, because mine
> doesn't do this whatsoever (The ISO I have was dumped by
> myself years ago).
>

Hey isn't your avatar that painting of a cat by that schizophrenic artist?