How to run Melty Blood Actress Again on your PC (with Netplay)

[Sena(theEND)]

I'm getting error where my Cdvd plug-in doesn't start

[Dark Pulse]

If you're running off an actual disc, make sure it's in your PC's DVD drive and that you have the proper drive letter selected.

If you're running it off an ISO, make sure you have CDVD > ISO selected. Selecting CDVD > Plugin is what will get it to boot from a physical disc. CDVD > No Disc is what will get you to the PS2 BIOS.

[Dark Pulse]

While the latest public build came out just yesterday (0.9.7 is finally in Public Beta, in other words - r3119) they added a new gamehack entry, "Skip MPEG Movies," that was worth recompiling for.

This basically skips movies in games. Some games will crash and bomb when attempting to play movies (such as Guilty Gear Accent Core) and so enabling this hack will skip those movies and get the game to play.

You can get Build r3121 here.

[Sena(theEND)]

Well now that my issue with Cdvd is fixed Now the game runs 60fps issue is i dont get sprites

[Dark Pulse]

Hmm. You're on at least Vista, so use the DX10/11 version of the renderer, assuming your videocard is DX10-class. (It should be if it was made anywhere in the last 3 years or so.) It's much more complete than the DX9 renderer.

That said, if that don't work, try disabling the Alpha Correction.

Also, everyone please note that right now, PCSX2 will hang if you try to watch the videos. This bug began somewhere between r2655 and r3066. I am trying to have the devs track it down. Not that anyone is very likely to watch the videos at this point, but just a heads up in case you do. Simply skip them and the game will run.

This game does not need the "Skip MPEG Hack" - Melty's videos aren't MPEG, or if they are, they were one of the rare few games where videos didn't lock up the emulator.

[Sena(theEND)]

regrettably DX10 wont work on my pc >.> idc my pc is less then 3 years old anyway i tried the other one u offered that didn't work either

[Dark Pulse]

Try this... download CPU-Z and run it. Take a screenshot of the "Graphics" Tab and paste it here.

[papagaio]

Melty Atari?

[Dark Pulse]

No, but since he's on Vista and for some reason can't run DX10, I'm beginning to think he's on Integrated video, like Intel GMA or something, which isn't sufficient for PCSX2.

[Dark Pulse]

UPDATE: Got the exact PCSX2 revision where the movies break pinpointed. Devs will (hopefully) be working on a fix soon.

For now, you have three options:

1) Simply skip the movie. It takes about 5-6 seconds to bomb out, so you got plenty of time to hit Start.
2) Enable the Skip MPEG hack... assuming MBAA's movies are MPEG, that is.
3) Prove there's enough demand for me to build the last revision (r2862) that movies were working in and I'll compile it. Of course, I doubt this will ever happen...

[Koshums]

Hey, lurker here

I thought I'd chime in to say that you can fix the movies by enabling the 'EE timing hack - Multi purpose hack.' in the game fixes menu. I noticed when the movies break the EE was maxed out, so I tried it and it worked! This is in version 0.9.7.3066.

[Dark Pulse]

Thanks for that report; I passed it along to the devs.

No idea if they'll do an actual fix or not, but for now, that will get movies playing. It could, in theory, break the game, however. (In practice it's pretty unlikely.)

[Sena(theEND)]

[Dark Pulse]

Yep, Intel GMA like I thought. You have onboard video. That's too weak to handle PCSX2. Sorry.

You COULD try hitting F9 and the game will render via software (as opposed to hardware) rendering, but don't be surprised if you take a massive, potentially unplayable, speed hit. Realistically, you need a real videocard.

The minimum videocard you need is a Videocard that supports Pixel Shader 2.0 or higher. This means at least a GeForce 6, or an ATI Radeon 9500-9800 or X300-X600 or X1200-X1250. This is MINIMUM SPEC, and will not run DX10/11 mode.

Recommended is GeForce 8600GT, or ATI Radeon HD 2400-2900. These are both DX10-class GPUs.

[academico]

I'm getting error where my Cdvd plug-in doesn't start

I have the same problem, but with the version 0.9.7a that plugin works correctly.

[Sena(theEND)]

Actually No my pc ran Melty 60fps fine switching to software problem solved XD now to get F/UC running on my Wii

[Dark Pulse]

Yeah. Your video hardware is too weak to run the game via hardware rendering.

If it does it fine in Software rendering and is still full speed, then great. F9 will switch between hardware and software rendering at any time, but if you will almost certainly want to just keep it on Software from now on - Hardware is way too demanding considering you have onboard video.

A PCSX2 dev emailed me instructing me to send some blockdumps to him, so look for a future revision that will fix videos without the "EE Timing Hack" soon.

[Dark Pulse]

Sent off the blockdumps to the dev. He said he'll definitely look into it. A fix might take a few weeks, though, as he is moving.

When he does, I'll compile another build. For now, keep using the EE Timing Hack if you really want to watch the videos, or just smack Start to skip them.

[Funky-kun]

I have a question about the game's control mechanics. In MBAC it was absolutely possible and easy to do dash and while the dash was still active do a 236 motion and a 236 came out. In MBAA, every time I try do do a 236 shortly after the dash, a 623 motion comes out. I does not matter whether I input the dash with forward + A + B or double tap forward. Is this because of controller emulation or because the input buffer is larger in MBAA? If it is not the emulator's fault, are there any tricks to input dash 236?

[Dark Pulse]

I have a question about the game's control mechanics. In MBAC it was absolutely possible and easy to do dash and while the dash was still active do a 236 motion and a 236 came out. In MBAA, every time I try do do a 236 shortly after the dash, a 623 motion comes out. I does not matter whether I input the dash with forward + A + B or double tap forward. Is this because of controller emulation or because the input buffer is larger in MBAA? If it is not the emulator's fault, are there any tricks to input dash 236?

It's probably because of the input buffer If you're already hitting 6 and then attempt to do a 236 motion, the game's reading it as 6236, and the 623 part of it is taking precedence, so yeah, I'd say it's the input buffer.

Try letting go of 6 for a moment, then do your 236 motion and you should be okay. Seems to need about a third of a second to "clear" the 6.

[abitofBaileys]

The input buffer is different, making TKs in AC and in AA on emu is totally different concerning the timing. In AA you basically just need to do a half circle upward to make a TK.

[Spud]

Scrub question like always: I try to run PSCX2 0.9.6 and it says to update my DirectX, but when I try to, some message about the cabinet and Cryptography Services comes up. (I checked and my Cryptographic Services are running, btw) I don't know what to do, is this something that can be fixed/changed?

[Chou]

It's works fine with the older version of pcsx2 but when I get the 0.9.7 this happened. Does it have anything to do with my directX 

[Dark Pulse]

Update your DirectX, yes.

[Rubyiris]

Ok guys. I was able to emulate MBAA at 60fps when I ran Vista on this machine, but when I reformatted and upgraded to 7 I can't get it to work at all.

With the most recent version, regardless of what I do, CDVD doesn't work. I've done everything correctly. It's set to Iso, and the drive is set to G (mounted drive.)

In the older version, I can't get build 1650 for the graphics plugin, and Zero causes massive lag issues, since I have a mediocre graphics card.

I get the following error, and yes, I've worked google magic, and have done searches in this forum, and in various emulation forums to no avail:

http://img121.imageshack.us/f/halpj.jpg/

Direct X and Visual Basic are fully updated, and I even went out of my way to replace missing .dlls. I've reinstalled the program, and redownloaded the program and dll files and tried again. There just isn't anything I can think to do to fix this.

Someone please help with my aspirations to have mobile melty.