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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #75 on: August 24, 2009, 08:04:07 AM »
the game run at solid 60 FPS when using hardware but...

This is why i can't use it, unless there's some solution to it of course.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #76 on: August 24, 2009, 08:17:21 AM »
There is still one option left, BUT your pc can freeze or crash. Set everything back to how you had it before (software mode) and while running the emulator press good old ctrl+alt+del,go to processes (I don't have an Eng. windows so I don't know how it's called) and set the emulators priority to real time. This will give the emulator the power of your entire PC and therefore can crash you system. If you're not sure how your pc can handle it,then just set it to the seccond highest, it still may freeze, but nothing should happen..in fact even on real time nothing should happen, but if you're not sure about what's happening and your system seems somewhat strange, restart it/reboot. I don't know what else to say, since hardware looks BAAAAD and software is slow, this is the only thing I can think of.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #77 on: August 24, 2009, 09:06:07 AM »
Ugh, it's even slower with highest priority, is that normal?
I guess my PC is just too old for this, I'll just keep toying around with the plugins, maybe I'll get it eventually.
Still, thanks for all the help.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #78 on: August 24, 2009, 09:15:39 AM »
If you play around with it a little, you may find the optimal settings to run it. And DAMN even on highest priority it was still slow? O_o From what I've seen I can't really tell if your pc is good or bad, but judging from you CPU it IS a little old for emulating PS2. Still i think you should be able to run it on at least 45-55 FPS. But don't be too sad, I couldn't even run Act Cadenza a month ago, because of my junk PC, now I have a ''newer'' one, I can't really call it a gaming pc since it's a little old, but it can run what i need to.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #79 on: August 24, 2009, 09:42:27 AM »
When i have the time and money I'll update to a newer PC.
At least i can still play it on my ps2, but i really dislike playing on a TV for some reason.
The sad thing is, if i found a way to fix the white box thing in hardware mode, i wouldn't have had any problems at all,
since it runs at perfect FPS with it.
 
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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #80 on: August 24, 2009, 10:01:45 AM »
Well I helped you the best I could. Anyway, why do you hate playing on a TV? I'd kill to have a PS2 so i could play it on a big screen. Sadly I can't find a modded one where i live and importing a japanese one would be REALLY expensive :'(

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #81 on: August 24, 2009, 10:08:54 AM »
I dunno really, i just don't like it.
this is the cheapest asian ps2 you can get that i know of:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-o-49-en-15-playstation2-70-2uo7.html

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #82 on: August 24, 2009, 10:18:58 AM »
That's a little problem. play-asia doesn't ship to where I live. I was lucky enough that my friend was on vacation in Japan and is a MB fan, otherwise i wouldn't even have MBAA.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #83 on: August 24, 2009, 10:52:57 AM »
I do remember seeing some on ebay but i can't seen to find them again...


I seem to make small progress, the VS screen isn't nearly as laggy as before.
Two questions: what does the swr (software?) rend. (render?) thread do?
and because I'm stupid: to get progressive scan mode,
you have to go to the options menu and go to display settings and do something there right?
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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #84 on: August 24, 2009, 11:01:49 AM »
Software rendering is software rendering...I don't know how to describe it, but the higher you set it the slower will the game run xD and about that progressive scan...I didn't find any option mentioning it so I can't help you with that :(

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #85 on: August 24, 2009, 11:14:57 AM »
To get progressive scan, just hold triangle and x as you boot the game up. It'll ask you if you want to enable it or not before you see the memory card screen.
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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #86 on: August 24, 2009, 12:56:04 PM »
If anyone can find any other linux graphics plugins, I'd be grateful.  At the moment, any of us on *nix are stuck with the block characters at best.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #87 on: August 24, 2009, 01:42:24 PM »
If anyone can find any other linux graphics plugins, I'd be grateful.  At the moment, any of us on *nix are stuck with the block characters at best.

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Which graphics plugin are you using at the moment? Also, it may not even be the plugin itself. MBAA is a pretty poverty game where any computer that isn't over 4 years old can run it, so it could just be that your settings are off.
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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #88 on: August 24, 2009, 01:48:37 PM »
ZeroGS linux version.  zzl isn't available, the website is down.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #89 on: August 24, 2009, 02:06:56 PM »
I'll send you a pm regarding this, since it seems more like a one time thing. Plus the way I solve problems like this are mostly super specific, so yea... check your pm lol
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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #90 on: August 24, 2009, 02:56:38 PM »
I just tried out zeros on progressive mode and it looks fantastic, I looks just like mbac pc.

Progressive scan does look good.  Especially the background they look super clear and crisp.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #91 on: August 24, 2009, 08:09:49 PM »
hey guys, I managed to get my MBAA to be at 50+ FPS average, but whenever I play the screen would blank out or some lines of sort would appear.
someone know how to fix this? i'll try to get a screenie of it in case you need to see exactly what I meant  :prinny:

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #92 on: August 25, 2009, 12:30:16 AM »
To get progressive scan, just hold triangle and x as you boot the game up. It'll ask you if you want to enable it or not before you see the memory card screen.
I can't get it to work for some reason...
i guess it wouldn't make the game go any faster anyways.
I'll just stick with playing it on my ps2 until i get together enough money to update my PC.
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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #93 on: August 25, 2009, 04:34:58 AM »
To get progressive scan, just hold triangle and x as you boot the game up. It'll ask you if you want to enable it or not before you see the memory card screen.
I can't get it to work for some reason...
i guess it wouldn't make the game go any faster anyways.
I'll just stick with playing it on my ps2 until i get together enough money to update my PC.

Are you sure you're pushing the right buttons?  It's a function built into the PS2 and game, it's not emulator-exclusive.  As soon as the screen pops up and turns black, (before anything else happens) hold triangle and X and it should give you a message in Japanese.  Select the top one and then a second message should come up with a countdown and it should look much clearer.  Select the top one again and off you go.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #94 on: August 25, 2009, 04:57:29 AM »
You're right, i was pressing the wrong buttons, the emulator goes even slower now though.
I'll be sure to use this on the actual ps2.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #95 on: August 25, 2009, 01:01:43 PM »
You're right, i was pressing the wrong buttons, the emulator goes even slower now though.
I'll be sure to use this on the actual ps2.
Make sure that you're using component cables.  It will only work with those or a VGA adaptor.  If you happen to be missing those, here's a nice site with them for cheeeeeaaaap.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10830&cs_id=1083001&p_id=3706&seq=1&format=2

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #96 on: August 25, 2009, 02:04:30 PM »
Good one, sab. Explains it great and if one doesn't get it after this he's an idiot :V

Had one pcsx2 emu from 2004 back then and it still runs Melty fine. Now I only need to wait for the game to arrive and my PS2 :3

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #97 on: August 26, 2009, 07:08:39 AM »
  Anyone who is getting the block characters should try an older GSdx graphics plug in.  I run PCSX2 with GSdx 890 plug in.  Tried the newer GSdx plug in and got the block characters too.  The game evens runs pretty well on my intel celeron laptop that has 1 gig of ram and intergrated graphics.

  The shame is PCSX2 is a beast of an emulator.  Shame there isn't a PCSX2 version just for 2D games.  The pixel shaders would not be needed and processor speed wouldn't be such a factor.



  Ok this is my first attempt to upload a zipped file.  It can only be download 10 times so good luck.  It is the GSdx 890 plugin I am using.  Just copy and past it to the plug in file in PCSX2.  I would back up your other GSdx plug in files first.

http://rapidshare.com/files/271779578/GSdx-sse2.zip.html
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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #98 on: August 26, 2009, 09:08:31 AM »
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600)
Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          530  @ 1.73GHz
ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
1790.1MB Memory



Tested it on my laptop with PCSX2 0.9.6, with GSDx 1650 SSE2 plugin.

Working perfect, with little lag.



Also tested progressive mode as above picture, and though it's a bit more laggy to me, graphic quality is much better.

Below, some of the options I used in emulator.

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Re: How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC
« Reply #99 on: August 29, 2009, 09:37:09 AM »
Anyone have an idea why I can run MBAA in progressive scan windowed but not full screen.