**Setting Up PS1 Games on PC with ePSXe**

The process of setting up PS1 games on a PC using ePSXe is relatively straightforward. The author of this article has found that even a built-in Intel HD 620 can max out these PS1 games, highlighting the importance of not needing high-end hardware to run them smoothly.

To start, it's essential to choose full-screen mode every time you launch a game. This will ensure that the gameplay experience is uninterrupted and immersive. The author notes that with desktop resolutions, scaling settings need to be set to 100% to avoid any issues.

The next step is to select the display settings carefully. The resolution should match the monitor's internal x-resolution, in this case, 1920x1080. Additionally, setting the Y-resolution to ultra-high and turning off stretch mode will enhance the gaming experience. Texture filtering can also be adjusted to eight high-res textures with 2x SAAi for improved performance.

**Compatibility Settings**

The author suggests leaving the compatibility settings as they are, from the factory's default values of two, three, and one. Full-screen filtering, shader effects, and full-screen smoothing should all remain set to their respective maximum levels. Under miscellaneous settings, MDEC filter can be enabled to reduce pixelation in movies.

**Special Game Fixes**

There is an option for special game fixes under the compatibility tab, but the author advises against using this feature unless necessary. Most games seem to work well without these fixes, and they can sometimes introduce unwanted effects.

**Plugin and Miscellaneous Settings**

The author uses Pete's OpenGL plug-in 2.0, which has been replaced by version 2.9. This new version is available for download and can be extracted into the plugins folder within the ePSXe folder. The author notes that this plugin works well with all games they wanted to play.

**Playing PS1 Games**

To start playing PS1 games, open the game list in ePSXe and select a game to launch. In this example, the author is playing Spyro: Year of the Dragon, which looks great when up-scaled to 1080p or 4K. However, some games may not take full advantage of this upscaling.

**Conclusion**

The author concludes that using ePSXe on a PC can provide an enhanced gaming experience for PS1 titles. While it's not compatible with the Raspberry Pi running retro PI or Android devices (yet), it's recommended trying it out on laptops or PCs, even if only at 720p resolution. The author hopes this article has been informative and entertaining, and they appreciate any feedback or questions from viewers.

**Additional Resources**

The links for all mentioned resources are included in the description of this video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys the CTA pride back here again today I'm going to show you how to run your favorite ps1 games in HD on your PC you can do 720p 1080p or even 4k as long as you have a monitor and a PC that can handle it now with this method here an even ps1 game some games do come out a lot better than others as you saw with Tekken 3 going from the standard definition to HD wasn't a big jump but here with Spyro you can see it's a totally different game kind of the same thing here with crash bandicoot 2 so a lot of these games do come out really nicely at 1080p or 4k but just keep in mind upscaling some games just aren't gonna look as good as upscaling others but some of my favorite ps1 games the upscale are racing games like Gran Turismo 2 or Colin McRae's rally 2.0 as you can see here we have it running in standard definition but when we switch over to HD everything is so much cleaner it's just a whole different experience so in order to get this up and running we're gonna be using ePSXe on our Windows computer and you really don't need a beefy system to run this at 1080p or even 4k this is an older emulator and it works really well on lower and Hardware alright so let's go ahead and get this set up first things first you're gonna need some games now if you have some games laying around you can rip them yourself there's a lot of tutorials on YouTube on how to rip ps1 games from the disk or you can get them by other means now with ps1 games there's really two formats floating around PvP which is pretty much a self-contained file you only need one file here for let's say Tekken 3 and we also have then in queue basically all the information is stored in the bin file and the queue file here is really just a text file telling the emulator where to start from now in this video I'm going to be using PvP files because these are all over the place right now and they're just really easy to use instead of having several different bin and queue files we only have a single file per game next thing you'll need is a controller or you could map it to your keyboard if you really want to I would recommend something like the Xbox one controller it can connect over Bluetooth or USB if you have a ps3 or a ps4 controller that'll also work you can connect it over bluetooth or over USB just like the Xbox one controller but for this video I'm using an Xbox one this is really might go to controller for PC emulation so with that out of the way let's go ahead and get the emulator downloaded link for this is in the description we're gonna head over to ePSXe comm and we're gonna grab the latest version which is as of making this video 2 point 0.5 it also works for Mac and Linux but we're grabbing the Windows version now that I have this downloaded I'm just gonna place it on my desktop for easy access we now need to extract this so I'm gonna right click extract and here we are we now have a folder with the emulator exe or the application that we're gonna launch right here and we're gonna go ahead and launch it from here by double clicking it's gonna bring up a configuration wizard from here we're gonna click on config I'm gonna choose the HL II BIOS now I find that this works really well with most games but you could find an original ps1 BIOS if you really want to I'm gonna stick with the HL e BIOS it's just much easier to use from configuring the video we want to choose Pete's OpenGL GPU core 2.0 this is what comes included with ePSXe when configuring the sound we only have one option here so we'll click Next and for the cd-rom I'm gonna choose the second option here now it's time to set up our controller like I mentioned I'm using an Xbox controller but a ps3 or a ps4 controller will also work I'm gonna choose controller 1 and it's gonna bring up my configuration menu now as you can see here this is the stock original PlayStation 1 controller but some of you might want to use the DualShock so we're gonna go right up here and just choose the DualShock now we can configure our controller as a Dual Shock controller it's really easy to do as you can see here so right up here this is gonna be my l2 button over here I'm just gonna press the button on my controller and it's gonna map it l1 d-pad up left down right select start and so on and so on I mean it's pretty self-explanatory when we're finished here we'll just click OK and choose done so we're now finished with the initial configuration if you want to start playing you can do that right now gonna be playing it pretty much the same resolution as the original ps1 was but I want to show you how to run these at an HD resolution it's actually pretty simple to do so we're gonna go to the config option and choose video now there's a lot of settings in here it might look a bit intimidating but it's actually pretty simple to use at the very bottom there's default settings you can set it to fast or nice and it does give you a nice little upscale but we're gonna max this out completely like I mention it doesn't take much to max out these ps1 games I've been able to do this on a built-in intel HD 620 so you really don't need much to get this up and running at the very top here I'm gonna choose full screen mode every time I launch a game it's gonna go to full screen now one thing to note is with your desktop resolution you cannot have this scaled so if we go to display settings you have to be set at 100% it's kind of weird if I have it set to 125 or 150 it's off center make sure you have this set to 100% I'm gonna go to 1080p because that's what this monitor is rated at 1920 by 1080 internal x resolution I'm gonna go to very high and turn a Y resolution ultra high from stretching mode I'm gonna leave it at zero stretch to full window size render mode you can leave this alone if you'd like to but I usually choose number one here render to P buffer threading mode are we set to three two threads moving down to texture filtering i'll we set this to eight high-res textures 2x s al i want to show my framerate on-screen now you don't have to choose this if you don't want to as for the compatibility tab i usually leave this all like it's it's from the factory two three and one full screen filtering shader effects full screen smoothing this is what i leave it at and I set shader level to the maximum number four and finally under miscellaneous mdec filter you make sure this is checked here it's just gonna make your movies look less pixelated disable screensaver and special game fixes there's another menu under special game fixes and this doesn't apply to everything and most everything that I've tested here works really well without any of these fixes so your best bet would be just kind of look through this and if you notice an issue with a game you're playing see if there's a fix in here or do a quick google search for instance this works nice with Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8 it ignores small frame buffer moves you can turn this on if it's needed and that's it for all of my settings here this is what I use now I do want to talk about one last thing here so with the plugin that we're using here Pete's OpenGL plug-in 2.0 there's actually a newer version but I haven't really moved over to it 2.0 comes with ePSXe and it seems to work really well with all the games that I wanted to play but if you want the newer version I'll leave a link to it in the description it's version 2.9 you can download it here extract it and just place it in your plugins folder inside of your ePSXe folder so now it's time to start playing file open game list and we'll start spyro year of the dragon so it's no remastered version for ps4 but overall this looks really great for a ps1 game now if you're used to playing this let's say on the Raspberry Pi using retropie you notice how clean everything looks and that's really what it comes down to taking those jaggies out of all of the edges now I'm going to move back to the native resolution and just give you a quick look so obviously it makes a big difference with these PlayStation 1 games but like I mentioned some of these games just don't look great or really take advantage of this upscaling for instance I really don't like the way that Tekken 3 looks when I'm playing it in 1080p or 4k I'd rather just play at the native resolution but that's just me for a majority of the games that I like to play I think they look really good up scaled here and especially if you're dealing with older racing games it just makes a world of difference but that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching unfortunately this is not available for the Raspberry Pi running retro PI or any other district cept for Android and unfortunately with the Raspberry Pi 3 3b plus or the Raspberry Pi 4 we just don't have a really good port of Android yet but either way I recommend trying this out on your laptop or PC you really won't be disappointed and if you can't go 1080p or 4k at least try 720p it looks a lot better than the native resolution of the PlayStation 1 I figured I'd go ahead and make this video I know a lot of people are stuck at home right now and this will just give you something else to do if you have any questions let me know in the comments below all links for everything that I mentioned are in the description and like always thanks for watchingwhat's going on guys the CTA pride back here again today I'm going to show you how to run your favorite ps1 games in HD on your PC you can do 720p 1080p or even 4k as long as you have a monitor and a PC that can handle it now with this method here an even ps1 game some games do come out a lot better than others as you saw with Tekken 3 going from the standard definition to HD wasn't a big jump but here with Spyro you can see it's a totally different game kind of the same thing here with crash bandicoot 2 so a lot of these games do come out really nicely at 1080p or 4k but just keep in mind upscaling some games just aren't gonna look as good as upscaling others but some of my favorite ps1 games the upscale are racing games like Gran Turismo 2 or Colin McRae's rally 2.0 as you can see here we have it running in standard definition but when we switch over to HD everything is so much cleaner it's just a whole different experience so in order to get this up and running we're gonna be using ePSXe on our Windows computer and you really don't need a beefy system to run this at 1080p or even 4k this is an older emulator and it works really well on lower and Hardware alright so let's go ahead and get this set up first things first you're gonna need some games now if you have some games laying around you can rip them yourself there's a lot of tutorials on YouTube on how to rip ps1 games from the disk or you can get them by other means now with ps1 games there's really two formats floating around PvP which is pretty much a self-contained file you only need one file here for let's say Tekken 3 and we also have then in queue basically all the information is stored in the bin file and the queue file here is really just a text file telling the emulator where to start from now in this video I'm going to be using PvP files because these are all over the place right now and they're just really easy to use instead of having several different bin and queue files we only have a single file per game next thing you'll need is a controller or you could map it to your keyboard if you really want to I would recommend something like the Xbox one controller it can connect over Bluetooth or USB if you have a ps3 or a ps4 controller that'll also work you can connect it over bluetooth or over USB just like the Xbox one controller but for this video I'm using an Xbox one this is really might go to controller for PC emulation so with that out of the way let's go ahead and get the emulator downloaded link for this is in the description we're gonna head over to ePSXe comm and we're gonna grab the latest version which is as of making this video 2 point 0.5 it also works for Mac and Linux but we're grabbing the Windows version now that I have this downloaded I'm just gonna place it on my desktop for easy access we now need to extract this so I'm gonna right click extract and here we are we now have a folder with the emulator exe or the application that we're gonna launch right here and we're gonna go ahead and launch it from here by double clicking it's gonna bring up a configuration wizard from here we're gonna click on config I'm gonna choose the HL II BIOS now I find that this works really well with most games but you could find an original ps1 BIOS if you really want to I'm gonna stick with the HL e BIOS it's just much easier to use from configuring the video we want to choose Pete's OpenGL GPU core 2.0 this is what comes included with ePSXe when configuring the sound we only have one option here so we'll click Next and for the cd-rom I'm gonna choose the second option here now it's time to set up our controller like I mentioned I'm using an Xbox controller but a ps3 or a ps4 controller will also work I'm gonna choose controller 1 and it's gonna bring up my configuration menu now as you can see here this is the stock original PlayStation 1 controller but some of you might want to use the DualShock so we're gonna go right up here and just choose the DualShock now we can configure our controller as a Dual Shock controller it's really easy to do as you can see here so right up here this is gonna be my l2 button over here I'm just gonna press the button on my controller and it's gonna map it l1 d-pad up left down right select start and so on and so on I mean it's pretty self-explanatory when we're finished here we'll just click OK and choose done so we're now finished with the initial configuration if you want to start playing you can do that right now gonna be playing it pretty much the same resolution as the original ps1 was but I want to show you how to run these at an HD resolution it's actually pretty simple to do so we're gonna go to the config option and choose video now there's a lot of settings in here it might look a bit intimidating but it's actually pretty simple to use at the very bottom there's default settings you can set it to fast or nice and it does give you a nice little upscale but we're gonna max this out completely like I mention it doesn't take much to max out these ps1 games I've been able to do this on a built-in intel HD 620 so you really don't need much to get this up and running at the very top here I'm gonna choose full screen mode every time I launch a game it's gonna go to full screen now one thing to note is with your desktop resolution you cannot have this scaled so if we go to display settings you have to be set at 100% it's kind of weird if I have it set to 125 or 150 it's off center make sure you have this set to 100% I'm gonna go to 1080p because that's what this monitor is rated at 1920 by 1080 internal x resolution I'm gonna go to very high and turn a Y resolution ultra high from stretching mode I'm gonna leave it at zero stretch to full window size render mode you can leave this alone if you'd like to but I usually choose number one here render to P buffer threading mode are we set to three two threads moving down to texture filtering i'll we set this to eight high-res textures 2x s al i want to show my framerate on-screen now you don't have to choose this if you don't want to as for the compatibility tab i usually leave this all like it's it's from the factory two three and one full screen filtering shader effects full screen smoothing this is what i leave it at and I set shader level to the maximum number four and finally under miscellaneous mdec filter you make sure this is checked here it's just gonna make your movies look less pixelated disable screensaver and special game fixes there's another menu under special game fixes and this doesn't apply to everything and most everything that I've tested here works really well without any of these fixes so your best bet would be just kind of look through this and if you notice an issue with a game you're playing see if there's a fix in here or do a quick google search for instance this works nice with Final Fantasy 7 and Final Fantasy 8 it ignores small frame buffer moves you can turn this on if it's needed and that's it for all of my settings here this is what I use now I do want to talk about one last thing here so with the plugin that we're using here Pete's OpenGL plug-in 2.0 there's actually a newer version but I haven't really moved over to it 2.0 comes with ePSXe and it seems to work really well with all the games that I wanted to play but if you want the newer version I'll leave a link to it in the description it's version 2.9 you can download it here extract it and just place it in your plugins folder inside of your ePSXe folder so now it's time to start playing file open game list and we'll start spyro year of the dragon so it's no remastered version for ps4 but overall this looks really great for a ps1 game now if you're used to playing this let's say on the Raspberry Pi using retropie you notice how clean everything looks and that's really what it comes down to taking those jaggies out of all of the edges now I'm going to move back to the native resolution and just give you a quick look so obviously it makes a big difference with these PlayStation 1 games but like I mentioned some of these games just don't look great or really take advantage of this upscaling for instance I really don't like the way that Tekken 3 looks when I'm playing it in 1080p or 4k I'd rather just play at the native resolution but that's just me for a majority of the games that I like to play I think they look really good up scaled here and especially if you're dealing with older racing games it just makes a world of difference but that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching unfortunately this is not available for the Raspberry Pi running retro PI or any other district cept for Android and unfortunately with the Raspberry Pi 3 3b plus or the Raspberry Pi 4 we just don't have a really good port of Android yet but either way I recommend trying this out on your laptop or PC you really won't be disappointed and if you can't go 1080p or 4k at least try 720p it looks a lot better than the native resolution of the PlayStation 1 I figured I'd go ahead and make this video I know a lot of people are stuck at home right now and this will just give you something else to do if you have any questions let me know in the comments below all links for everything that I mentioned are in the description and like always thanks for watching\n"