i like knoppmyth and mythtv and since it plays cds dvds snes and nes games as well as mame, i wanted it to play playstation games it does evrything else, so i installed epsxe
got it from
http://www.epsxe.com a nice little emulator works on windows and linux
theres not much to installing it just extract the files where u want and run the epsxe file in the dir, in order for sound and video u need the plugins
which can be found here
http://www.ngemu.com/psx/plugins.php?cat=1&os=linux
i use the Eternal SPU v1.41 plugin for sound
and the Pete's MesaGL Plugin v1.75 plugin for video
useing these two may or may not work for you but its what i used
all u do to install them is copy the .so files to the plugin directory and the rest to the cfg dir, you may also want to get and install one of the input plugins that they have listed there if u plan on useing a controler

u will need a playstation bios bin file inorder to play any games
because most sites wount tell u where to get it just that u need it, i dont want to post where to find it and there be problems cause of that
the file im useing is called Scph1001.bin so you can maby find it that way

now that thats installed, u can play it but u hafta exit mythtv and open a terminal to run it
so i asked cesman how i could add it to a menu
he said all you hafta to do is add another line to the
/usr/share/mythtv/gamelist.xml file

i added this

<game>
<name>Epsxe</name>
<command>/home/mythtv/epsxe/./epsxe</command>
<genre>Playstation Emulator</genre>
<year>2002</year>
</game>

just add it in to that file
and after go into mythtv settings game settings and do a search for games for it to update the listing of what it shows

if its not working check your permissions

well i hope this guide was helpful for any one thats intrested

enjoy

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Kaziya

HTPC:

Asus Motherboard A7V8X-X
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (333FSB)
256MB DDR PC2700
Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 200
WinTV-PVR-250MCE
Logitech wireliss MXDuo (keyboard and mouse)
Ati Remote Wonder

I got a zip file full of bios's but which one do i use? Whats the difference? Im kinda thinking its region based. I live in the US. YOu ROCK!

While I thank Kaziya for the tip posting any further details is probably a legal gray area. Please DON'T do so on the forum.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

sorry thread closed =)

the emulator is compleatly legal, just the bios is one of those gray areas,
if u look at epsxe's site and other psx emulation they are legal cause they dont offer bios files the idea is that u have a playstation and rip the bios off of it to play the games that way the bios is legit, but hosting and posting copys of the bios isnt legal cause of copyrights

so unless some one is asking or posting bios files then its fine

_________________
Kaziya

HTPC:

Asus Motherboard A7V8X-X
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (333FSB)
256MB DDR PC2700
Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 200
WinTV-PVR-250MCE
Logitech wireliss MXDuo (keyboard and mouse)
Ati Remote Wonder

just a update so it just loads the game like snes games
just change
<command>/home/mythtv/epsxe/./epsxe</command>
to
<command>/home/mythtv/epsxe/./epsxe -nogui</command>
that way it skips the gui and starts loading the cd also if u have a
cdimg file and u want it to just automaticly load that put
<command>/home/mythtv/epsxe/./epsxe -loadiso (immagfile)</command>
no () and works with CloneCD/Cdrwin images

_________________
Kaziya

HTPC:

Asus Motherboard A7V8X-X
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (333FSB)
256MB DDR PC2700
Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 200
WinTV-PVR-250MCE
Logitech wireliss MXDuo (keyboard and mouse)
Ati Remote Wonder