WiiPlay Tales of Phantasia! (Quick impressions of WiiSX + ToP in English)

[Carnivol]

I decided to dig out a random build of the game (one that's about 7-8 months old! Woops!) Gave it a spin in WiiSX (beta 1), the PlayStation emulator for the Wii. (I'll redo this whenever a new build comes my way)

Interestingly enough, besides the uncomfyness of the button layout (Hope they add a config for the emu later~) and the lack of a SELECT button (no skits for you!), this game was pretty much entirely playable in "Dynarec" mode.

Of course, they'll have to get an FPS limiter implemented or something. The game was mostly running at 65~80 FPS (half in interpreter). The speech in general didn't work (opening battle, voiced dialog scenes, skill names, etc.), FMVs had wonky coloring issues and there were some massive slowdown during battle fade-in, but besides that... I'd say it was the start of something that was certainly playable!

But, yeah, if they had an FPS limiter, the ability to remap buttons (or at least put SELECT on Z or something), then this might most certainly become an ideal way to play Tales of Phantasia on the big screen if you don't have a PlayStation console all ready and set up to play things

(NOTE: I was even playing with my hot HORI DIGITAL PAD, the SNES pad "clone", which unfortunately has Y mapped on SELECT, iirc. Maybe that could mysteriously be changed to Z... I dunno, but that'd make things perfect! Anyway, is it possible that the emu could get Wii Classic Controller support? That'd be hot! If I ever get one of those Retro USB adapters, I'll try with a real SNES controller with this! MMMmmm... SNES pad )

But, yeah, there you have the answer to whether or not this works in WiiSX before you even got around to ask that question! Isn't that awesome?

[Kuresu]

oh wow.

Wii has a psx emu?

[pedrocasilva]

NOTE: I was even playing with my hot HORI DIGITAL PAD, the SNES pad "clone", which unfortunately has Y mapped on SELECT, iirc. Maybe that could mysteriously be changed to Z... I dunno, but that'd make things perfect! Anyway, is it possible that the emu could get Wii Classic Controller support? That'd be hot! If I ever get one of those Retro USB adapters, I'll try with a real SNES controller with this! MMMmmm... SNES pad

I have one of those really nice controller might I add.

There are new SNES controllers for the Wii, you might be interested in those:



since you sound like you could be a collector or something.


The software will most likely support (classic controller) eventually. But since you're talking about a psone game... It might strike your fancy better to use a actual psone/ps2 controller though, perhaps?

-> http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-10y-49-en-70-3cep.html

that adapter also allows to plug the classic controller like a GC one, meaning you can bypass the support as long as the software supports gamecube controllers. (and since you spoke of Hori... they have a freaking sweet classic controller now)


The snes emulator for the wii rocks, btw. I doubt I'll ever use it extensively, but the interface is really clean and Tales of Phantasia SNES boots like a charm. (yes, I'm one of those lunatics who prefer the SNES version over the psone version *shivers*)