02-28-2010, 06:38 PM
Okay, so I am seriously wanting to get this emulator working. I have gotten a working PCSX emulator and a gamecube emulator, so I have slight experience, and have played through entire
games without issue on both. I am willing to go through a lot of effort to get this running, though I am NOT a programmer and wont understand all those 20 letter long acronyms but I can at
least do things when told step by step how to.
*IF ANYONE NEEDS ME TO POST MY PC SPECS I WILL DO SO*
Okay.... so, I downloaded PCSX2 from the link in the English Configuration Guide.
To explain my problem.
I installed PCSX2 with no apparent issues, its when I get to the configuration that the problem starts. I start up the program, it opens up a command window then a little popup, "PCSX2 needs
to be configured". If I try the default settings in the Configuration menu, I get the following error
"Could Not Load GS Plugin 'plugins'" <NULL>"
If I press OK, it reopens the Config window. If I try to press OK again, it gives me no error and goes to the main GUI where the big PCSX2 logo is.
So I have some ISO's for a God of War 2 game I wanted to test out, so I go up to File>Run CD/DVD thinking that is where I would go to run an ISO saved on my HDD.
I get the following sequence of errors, one after another if I press OK.
"Failed Loading MemoryCard from file: memcards\Mcd001.ps2"
"Failed Loading MemoryCard from file: memcards\Mcd002.ps2"
"Error Opening CDVD Plugin"
And then the popups close and it goes back to the main GUI.
What this lead me to believe (though I have not the slightest idea what I am doing, I am still semi-new to emulation) is that some certain files were missing from the directories it was using
and that was why it was "failing to load" them.
So, I checked my C:\Program Files\PCSX2 folder and here is what I found exactly, in case this might help.
C:\Program Files\PCSX2
\bios
-rom1.bin
-scph10000.bin
-scph10000.NVM
\dumps
(this folder is empty)
\inis
(this folder is empty)
\Langs
(too many to list and I dont think the languages are important to this)
\logs
(this folder is empty)
\memcards
(this folder is empty)
\patches
(196 different .pnach files that are all random letter/number combinations as filenames)
\plugins
-cdvdGigaherz.dll
-CDVDiso.dll
-CDVDnull.dll
-cdvdPeops.dll
-DEV9null.dll
-FWnull.dll
-GSdx-sse2.dll
-GSdx-sse4.dll
-GSdx-ssse3.dll
-LilyPad.dll
-PadSSSPSX.dll
-spu2PeopsSound.dll
-SPU2-X-1.1.dll
-USBnull.dll
-ZeroGS.dll
-ZeroSPU2.dll
\snap
(this folder is empty)
\sstates
(this folder is empty)
-gnu_gettext.dll
-pcsx2 0.9.6.exe
-PCSX2 FAQ 0.9.6.pdf
-PCSX2 readme 0.9.6.pdf
Thats all of it, minus the patch files that are too numerous to write and the language folders that I dont think are important enough to list.
I think it may have something to do with all those "this folder is empty" situations, particularly the "\memcards" folder where I believe there is supposed to be a
mcd001.ps2 and mcd002.ps2 or something like that and I do not have those.
I suppose I should list my computer specs. (as directly copied from DirectX Diagnostic)
AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.4ghz
8184MB RAM
DirectX 10
Windows Vista Home Premium
ATI Radeon HD 4650
games without issue on both. I am willing to go through a lot of effort to get this running, though I am NOT a programmer and wont understand all those 20 letter long acronyms but I can at
least do things when told step by step how to.
*IF ANYONE NEEDS ME TO POST MY PC SPECS I WILL DO SO*
Okay.... so, I downloaded PCSX2 from the link in the English Configuration Guide.
To explain my problem.
I installed PCSX2 with no apparent issues, its when I get to the configuration that the problem starts. I start up the program, it opens up a command window then a little popup, "PCSX2 needs
to be configured". If I try the default settings in the Configuration menu, I get the following error
"Could Not Load GS Plugin 'plugins'" <NULL>"
If I press OK, it reopens the Config window. If I try to press OK again, it gives me no error and goes to the main GUI where the big PCSX2 logo is.
So I have some ISO's for a God of War 2 game I wanted to test out, so I go up to File>Run CD/DVD thinking that is where I would go to run an ISO saved on my HDD.
I get the following sequence of errors, one after another if I press OK.
"Failed Loading MemoryCard from file: memcards\Mcd001.ps2"
"Failed Loading MemoryCard from file: memcards\Mcd002.ps2"
"Error Opening CDVD Plugin"
And then the popups close and it goes back to the main GUI.
What this lead me to believe (though I have not the slightest idea what I am doing, I am still semi-new to emulation) is that some certain files were missing from the directories it was using
and that was why it was "failing to load" them.
So, I checked my C:\Program Files\PCSX2 folder and here is what I found exactly, in case this might help.
C:\Program Files\PCSX2
\bios
-rom1.bin
-scph10000.bin
-scph10000.NVM
\dumps
(this folder is empty)
\inis
(this folder is empty)
\Langs
(too many to list and I dont think the languages are important to this)
\logs
(this folder is empty)
\memcards
(this folder is empty)
\patches
(196 different .pnach files that are all random letter/number combinations as filenames)
\plugins
-cdvdGigaherz.dll
-CDVDiso.dll
-CDVDnull.dll
-cdvdPeops.dll
-DEV9null.dll
-FWnull.dll
-GSdx-sse2.dll
-GSdx-sse4.dll
-GSdx-ssse3.dll
-LilyPad.dll
-PadSSSPSX.dll
-spu2PeopsSound.dll
-SPU2-X-1.1.dll
-USBnull.dll
-ZeroGS.dll
-ZeroSPU2.dll
\snap
(this folder is empty)
\sstates
(this folder is empty)
-gnu_gettext.dll
-pcsx2 0.9.6.exe
-PCSX2 FAQ 0.9.6.pdf
-PCSX2 readme 0.9.6.pdf
Thats all of it, minus the patch files that are too numerous to write and the language folders that I dont think are important enough to list.
I think it may have something to do with all those "this folder is empty" situations, particularly the "\memcards" folder where I believe there is supposed to be a
mcd001.ps2 and mcd002.ps2 or something like that and I do not have those.
I suppose I should list my computer specs. (as directly copied from DirectX Diagnostic)
AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.4ghz
8184MB RAM
DirectX 10
Windows Vista Home Premium
ATI Radeon HD 4650