ePSXe Help

[HelpMePlease]

I can't get ePSXe to work, at least, I don't think its working, here are the plug-ins/bio/game I'm useing right now:

Bio - scph1001
Video - Pete's OpenGL Driver 1.76
Sound - Eternal SPU Plugin 1.50
Cdrom - ePSXe CDR ASPI core 1.5.2.
Game - Chrono Cross CD1

The problem is that when I click on 'Run CD-ROM' The screen goes black, and nothing happends. I've waited on this black screen for an hour or so and nothing has happend even yet. I've tried many plug-ins and none have worked. I've tested the Bio, which works perfectly fine. My computer is 2 years old, but isn't obsolete by any means and I wouldn't think that would be the problem. So, I'm just wondering if I did something wrong or if I'm just too impatient for the game to load (I only hope its not the later).
Thanks for your time.

 

[Agozer]

You know, have you actually mounted a PSX image (via Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%) or put a PSX disc into your CD/DVD-ROM drive before clicking 'Run CD-ROM'? (Of course, you also need to configure the CD-ROM plugin to read from the right drive)

If you haven't, it's quite natural for the Run CD-ROM option to just show a black screen.

 

[HelpMePlease]

Yes, I have put in the CD BEFORE I pressed the 'run CD-ROM' button... I'll try to make a CD image through Deamon Tools to see if that works...

 

[Agozer]

Yes, I have put in the CD BEFORE I pressed the 'run CD-ROM' button... I'll try to make a CD image through Deamon Tools to see if that works...

Well, double-check that the CD-ROM plugin is using the right drive.

Personally, I only use CD images with ePSXe, not actual discs.

 

[HelpMePlease]

DD Yay! I got it to work, thanks, I just changed the Cdrom plugin (the other one I had, I guess, didn't work properly, it didn't tell me the driver it was reading) Thanks for all the help!

 

[Agozer]

I just took a look at ePSXe, and know I know what the real problem was. You had the ePSe CDR ASPI plugin selected. Windows XP doesn't have the ASPI drivers installed by default so most applications that use this ASPI layer won't work. Fortunately, ePSXe has another CDR plugin for for OSes that use the WinNT/W2K cores (namely Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and XP).