Gradius Gaiden on emulator?

tonyjh · Post by **tonyjh** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:47 pm

I want to get Gradius Gaiden, but I only have a US psone and ps2. Instead of buying a Japanese ps1 or ps2, is running an emulator like ePSXe a good option? Anyone tried it with this game? I have a fairly fast computer to run it.

Also, is this a good store and good deal on this game?
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-5o- ... 0-2q6.html
Thanks.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:00 pm

I don't use PSX emulators myself so I can't help you there. But for what it's worth, I own a modded PSOne (i paid someone to mod mine, my chip even bypasses U.S. PS1 games that won't run on older mod chips). Unlike the PS2, the PS1 has very reliable mods available. There are many Japanese shooters to make a PS1 mod worth it. I don't own Gaiden yet but yes, that is a very good price for the game. You can also get it new on ebay although you may pay $3-5 more (not counting shipping ect.)

SheSaidDutch · Post by **SheSaidDutch** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:03 pm

I recommend Play Asia as I bought my copy of Gaiden from them afew months back. excellent service.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:03 pm

Gradius Gaiden works perfectly in Epsxe.

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:57 pm

Gradius Gaiden also works quite well in PSXeven, and it doesn't need all the plugins of ePSXe. Any of these two emulators though will run the game very well.

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:57 pm

If you need a third option, it also works well in Virtual Gamestation.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:39 pm

The game seems to run okay in an emulator but I was a bit concerned by the speed at which my PC's CD drive had to spin the disk. After about half an hours play you could've fried an egg on that thing, it was so hot.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:04 pm

Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:The game seems to run okay in an emulator but I was a bit concerned by the speed at which my PC's CD drive had to spin the disk. After about half an hours play you could've fried an egg on that thing, it was so hot.

Then rip it to your HD and just load it from that image.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:49 pm

Damocles wrote:
Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:The game seems to run okay in an emulator but I was a bit concerned by the speed at which my PC's CD drive had to spin the disk. After about half an hours play you could've fried an egg on that thing, it was so hot.
Then rip it to your HD and just load it from that image.

That's exactly what I did. When I first tried running GG under ePSXe, I had horrible problems with the music skipping. That was not so when I ran the game from HD, in which case everything was perfect.

cody · Post by **cody** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:22 pm

Sorry to bump an older topic, but I just bought gradius gaiden during play-asia's sale, and am having trouble tweaking it for epsxe. Even with the frame limit set to autodetect, the game seems too fast, and ships tend to jump from position to position rather than moving smoothly.

What plugins / settings do you guys use on epsxe?

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:32 pm

cody wrote:Sorry to bump an older topic, but I just bought gradius gaiden during play-asia's sale, and am having trouble tweaking it for epsxe. Even with the frame limit set to autodetect, the game seems too fast, and ships tend to jump from position to position rather than moving smoothly.

What plugins / settings do you guys use on epsxe?

Strange. Try to setup frame = 60

I use ePSXe 1.6 with Pete's OGL/D3D 1.76

btw, i too bought GG during play-asia's sale

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:29 pm

You could try using pSX. It has lower compatibility than ePSXe but higher accuracy; when it works, it works beautifully. There's very little configuration and no plugins to download either. I haven't tried Gaiden, but it's listed as working on the site's compatibility list.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:03 pm

I tend to default back to Pete's everything, basically. ...except for the CD-ROM plugin.

antron · Post by **antron** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:45 am

runs great on my xbox.

KNTain · Post by **KNTain** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:19 am

You could try using pSX. It has lower compatibility than ePSXe but higher accuracy; when it works, it works beautifully. There's very little configuration and no plugins to download either. I haven't tried Gaiden, but it's listed as working on the site's compatibility list.

Definitely try pSX. I love this emulator.

NAVVARR · Post by **NAVVARR** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:10 pm

I had it running fine on Bleem a few years back -used to play it all the time.

Thats until i went out and bought a chiped PS1 so now it runs perfectly.
Maybe try and get a chipped PS1 - they are fairly easy to get a hold of

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:02 pm

if you have a PSP, gradius collection ahve them all but Gradius 5... and tehy play pretty neat!.