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  1. Introduction
  2. Requirements
  3. Start, How to
  4. Settings
  5. License
  6. Frequently asked questions

Don't hesitate to ask any question into the support forum : FPse support forum

INTRODUCTION

FPse team is composed of two developers, LDChen and Schtruck.

FPse for Android is a program designed to run PlayStation One games on devices running Android Operating System 2.1 to 4.x and up.

FPse for arm is a project which was started in 2001, ported from the PC version, FPSE made by LDchen.

FPse For Android contains many features included :

REQUIREMENTS

a) Any Android device running Android 2.1 to 4.x and up.

b) A bios files named scph1001.bin is recommended the get the best experience. (Not distributed with FPse For Android for copyright reasons).

c) Games disks into files format. Supported image file formats: .iso, .bin, .nrg, .img,.mdf,.pbp,.bz, .Z.

To create an image disk file, you must own the original PSX disc. Using the free program IMGBURN on your PC, rip the contents of the disk to generate a compatible image file in .bin and .cue file. There is a program called PocketISO, available at the download section of the FPse For Android site. This program can be used to compress the image file for optimum support on FPse For Android, as well as ripping some media files (not recommended to keep high level of compatibility).

START, HOW TO

Simply run FPse for Android. Use Menu shortcut. A menu will propose you many actions. You can start first to load the bios file, the recommended file is named 'scph1001.bin'.

It's recommended to load the bios to get high compatibility and to be able to use internal savestates.

Once bios loaded you can Load your PSone disk image file, just select "Load Game" and browse to find and select your disk image file. The game will start.

Depending which device you have but if you aren't sure where are CD image files, just go to root then enter into /mnt to locate your storage path, somes device have external storage in /mnt/extSDcard.

From the First menu you can enter into SETTINGS menu to select default options that will be applied to all games loaded after changes. Just keep in mind that once a game is loaded , many options are specific for this games, and if you want to apply default configuration later you'll need to go to MISC menu and load default config.

When a Game is loaded the Menu can be accessed by pressing Menu button on Android 2.3 and less devices, and on Back button on Android 3.0 and more.

The Menu available when a game is loaded is a bit different, it will let you to load and save quickly the game and access the Cheats menu.

 Here is details of SETTINGS menu.

SETTINGS

This menu appear with 6 sections, here are details.

  1. SYSTEM

    - Force mono core: Select this option if your device has Multi core and if you prefer to have smoother animation, available only in old software drawing mode
    - Boost mode: in bios mode, you can enable it to get boost, but emulation can be broken with it on.
    - Autosave: Option to autosave a game when qutting and autoload when reloading it.(Be carrefull when you changes options, unset this option first)
    - Dynamic interpreter: In recompiler mode somes games can be not compatible, using this option can make the game running, but slower. (restart FPse after changing this option)
    - Fastboot: when you have set BIOS, this option can bypass the Bios animation to start game faster.


  2. AUDIO

    - Null sound plugin: disable sound emulation to get boost. (Restart to apply change)
    - Spu Sync: Better sound emulation, and necessary for many games but use much more CPU bandwidth. (does not work with Null plugin set)
    - Reverb effects: when spusync is on , emulate reverb effects.
    - Pitch effects: when spusync is on , emulate Pitch effects. can cause problems with somes games.
    - Mute: just force volume to 0, let background music playing.
    - Reduce latency: Force sound latency to lower value,to get far better sound, check MISC menu and Audio latency level too.


  3. VIDEO

     With internal Software GPU plugin:
    - Framelimiter: unset this option and see the power of FPse.
    - Frameskip: select frameskip if you need more speed on your game, select it if you have sound stuttering too.
    - Print FPS: usefull to see if a game is full speed of not.
    - Special Screen size: Activate screen size set from MISC menu.
    - Screen filtering: apply Bilinear screen filtering, very slow, available only when fastdraw is set.
    - Brightness boost: add more brightness for 3D scenes.
    - Force landscape orientation: lock orientation to landscape.
    - Invert colors: Fix for somes games that have Mdec decoding colors inverted.
    - Enhanced 3D rendering: Apply enhanced calculation for Polygons, fix somes glitches.
    - Hardware acceleration: Apply after restart 2D acceleration available on somes device running on ICS. Available in Old software drawing mode

     With external OpenGL GPU plugin:
    - Framelimiter: unset this option and see the power of FPse.
    - Frameskip: select frameskip if you need more speed on your game, or if you have sound stuttering.
    - Print FPS: usefull to see if a game is full speed of not. 
    - Force Landscape Orientation: lock orientation to landscape.
    - Adjust framebuffer access: This options can enhance video emulation for somes games or fix somes glitches
    - Special upload detection: This options can enhance video emulation for somes games or fix somes glitches
    - OffScreendrawing: This options can enhance video emulation for somes games or fix somes glitches
    - Advanced blending: This options can enhance video emulation for somes games or fix somes glitches
    - Alpha Multipass: This options can enhance video emulation for somes games or fix somes glitches
    - Mask bit: This options will fix the Silent Hill white halo, a restart is necessary to apply change
    - 32 bits rendering: Can enhance rendering on somes device, a restart is necessary to apply change
    - Anti-Aliasing: Apply Full scene Anti Aliasing if  supported by GPU, a restart is necessary to apply change
    - Texture filtering:  Enhance rendering of  textures
    - Old frameskip:  Use old frameskip method, can help sometimes
    - Frame texture:  Can enhance emulation with somes games
    - Special frame limiter:  Another frame limiter mode, which can fix somes FPS problem encountered with internal Framelimiter
    - Busy Fix:  Necessary for somes games, to avoid freeze or black screens..

  4. GAMEPAD

    - Gamepad type: choose between Digital pad, Analog pad and guncon.
       Guncon Button A and B are mapped to the topleft and bottomleft corner of the screen, they are invisible, those buttons can be mapped to Hw buttons L3 and R3.
    - External Gamepad: menu to configure USB or Bluetooth gamepad.
       - Gamepad port 1: Access menu for external Gamepad 1.
            - Disabled: no external Gamepad 1
            - Bgp100: Bgp100 will be used as Gamepad1.
            - Icontrolpad: Icontrolpad will be used to Gamepad
            - Others: Any Other external gamepad will be used to Gamepad 1
       - Gamepad port 2: Access menu for external Gamepad 1.
            - Disabled: no external Gamepad 2
            - Bgp100: Bgp100 will be used as Gamepad 2.
            - Icontrolpad: Icontrolpad will be used to Gamepad 2
            - Others: Any Other external gamepad will be used to Gamepad 2
    - Overlay pad: access the overlay pad menu.
       - Gamepad port select: .
            - Pad 1: Overlay gamepad will emulated the gamepad 1
            - Pad 2: Overlay gamepad will emulated the gamepad 2
       - Gamepad skin: change the skin for the overlay gamepad .
            - Disabled: disable overlay pad
            - Default: Set default overlay pad skin.
            - External: Load new overlay pad ( somes are available on Official Forum into Artist Section)
       - Enable / Disable buttons: 
            Enable or Disable any overlays button drawing  for Landscape Orientation.
       - Pad transparency: 
            - High transparency:  overlays gamepad is vey transparent
            - Medium transparency: overlays gamepad is transparent
            - Low transparency: overlays gamepad is slightly transparent
            - Disabled: overlays gamepad is not transparent
       - Vibration: 
            - High vibration:  overlays buttons vibration set to high
            - Medium vibration: overlays buttons vibration set to medium
            - Low vibration: overlays buttons vibration set to low
            - Disabled: overlays buttons vibration disabled
        - Pad size: 
            Change the size for Overlay buttons.
        - Repositionning: 
            Move any Overlay buttons by simple drag and slide it to the position you want, once finished press Back to exit the Pad size mode.
    - Buttons mapping: Assign hardware buttons to PSone gamepads buttons.
       - Assign Hw keys for pad 1: assign hardware button to Gamepad 1 buttons  (in Guncon mode, assign L3 to A button and R3 to B button)
       - Assign Hw keys for pad 2: assign hardware button to Gamepad 2 buttons
    - Multi touch: Assign one hardware button to many PSone Gamepads buttons.
    - Forcefeedback: Emulate PSone pad vibration.
            - Disabled: disable Forcefeedback emulation
            - Low: Set forcefeedback emulation to low
            - Medium: Set forcefeedback emulation to medium
            - High:  Set forcefeedback emulation to high

  5. CHEATS

    - Select cheat file: load the file containing cheats line for your game.
       Cheat file must have a .txt extension and here is how it should look like:
           #Time locked#
           800527A6 1440
           #Unlimited lives#
           D0031234 8080
           80001234 0000

           As you can see you need to put the title of the cheat between two '#'
           once file is loaded, cheats will appear into the menu 'Set or Unset cheat code'
    - Enable / disablet cheat codes: let you activate the cheat code you need
    - Apply frequency: let you choose how many times per frame you want to apply cheat codes activated in previous menu, by default it's just one time and no more.
    Cheats works only when Bios is set!

  6. MISC

    - Select Savestates Path: select a Path for savestates instead of internal path, press return key once you are in the wanted directory.
    - Select Memory Card 1: select any other memory card instead of internal Memory card 1
    - Select Memory Card 2: select any other memory card instead of internal Memory card 2
    - Save config as default: save the current config for future new iso loaded.
    - Apply default config: load the default config file to current game.
    - Backup all files: save all configs files, internal memcards and internals savestates to sdcard into /sdcard/fpsebackup
    - Restore all files: load all configs files, internal memcards and internals savestates from /sdcard/fpsebackup
    - Switch to OpenGL:download automatically or load manually tthe OpenGL plugin then switch FPse to use This plugin to render the Playstation GPU gfx's.
    - Load bios: Load bios file, if you press Back at the Bios file loader, you'll switch to HLE mode after a restart.
    - Framelimiter level: Force Frame limiter to known FPS values.
    - Switch low profile: Let you switch off/on the low profile for the Action Bar on the bottom of the screen with devices >= Android 3.0
    - Special screen size: Let you select screen size in Software GPU mode
    - Create shortcut: Let you select create shortcut to homescreen from FPse icon or any .gif, .png or .jpg image.
    - Reset settings: Reset all settings to default, but keep all saves datas and memcards.
    - Drawing thread priority: Let you tune the drawing thread priority, on somes devices , especially multi core devices, emulation can be a lot faster and smoother by choosing a specific value.
    - Old software drawing: Let you tune switch to old drawing mode which can be largely faster on somes devices, because of the Special Multi core options from System menu but is less compatible and can cause freeze problem on somes devices.
    - Audio latency level: If you selected Reduce audio latency, here you can tune it to obtain the best rendering.


LICENSE

FPse use the License checking system from google, this mean you need to be connected to internet only each time you install or update FPse, but only one time.

If you have a License checking message and FPse enter into limited mode follow instructions below:

- Check that your device is well set to your local TIME.
- Check that your device is well set to the same google account you used to order FPse
- Check that your account has well set Internet Sync from accounts settings menu.
- If your device contain many account be sure to set the one you used to order FPse as the main account
- Be sure to be connected to internet, try to connect to google to verify
- Do not use any patcher over fpse
- Try to uninstall and reinstall FPse.

Contact author at schtruck@gmail.com if after all these check FPse stay in limited mode.



    Frequently asked questions

    Here is the frequently asked questions regarding differents situations:

    - FPse is slow on my device how can i make FPse faster?
    Enable Frameskipping from VIDEO menu, Switch to Old Drawing mode from MISC menu, Disable SPUSYNC from audio menu.

    - FPse is suddendly slow while it was very fast previously?
    Restart your device to Free fragmented memory, check if your device is not in ECO mode, to be sure get a tool like CPU Master from market to check in which mode is your processor.
    Check if Dynamic interpreter is no set. And last go to MISC menu then reset settings

    - FPse goes to Orange logo then memcards manager, no game start?
    If you used archived disk Image files, be sure to uncompress them using the tool Zarchiver from your device, DO NOT USE ANDROZIP, it brake big files while uncompressing them. Check the size of your file, if not 0 bytes, or > 650mbytes

    - How to access memcards manager?
    If you have well loaded Bios file from main menu, just press the new button called Boot Bios

    - I cannot see my game from FPse?
    If your game was compressed, just uncompress it using Zarchiver.
    Browse from the root directory of your device, then enter into /mnt and look for sdcard directory or extSDcard


This documentation is for information purposes only and does not reflect all the possibilities of FPSE for Android.

If you would like further information, a support is provided using:
Support : Official Forum

2012 Schtruck & LDchen.

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FPse for android sound part run using SDL 1.2.