Well, most of us who know about EPSXE also know that you can throttle through load times by pressing the appropriate button, but depending on which plugin you use, it will keep the game at 200fps until you press it again.
Tonight I was messing around with Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9, and it allowed me to apply settings that
A. Ran the game correctly without slowdown even full screen
B. Adjust the frame rate to exactly 53.2 like UMK3 arcade (not 53 or 54 even)
C. Throttle
D. Assign Throttle to whatever button I want
E. Not have the menu gui on screen to use it
I made it + (add) for now. This works very well for me because my buttons are currently set up on the number pad but now I can change that as well to my default setup. In any event, when you press "+" and hold it, it increases the game's frame rate back to 60fps, but it also skips over all loading time. The other bonus is, it goes back to 53.2 once you release. For example, it takes about 7 seconds after the Vs Screen says loading to get to the match. If you press + now, you will see LOADING for 1 frame and it skips the rest. This is fantastic. Theoretically, you could use a program to map a specific option button on a pad or stick, perhaps start? and then assign that key to the same button. This becomes a bit convoluted but it is an option. You would then have a throttle button on the controller.
Another bonus would obviously be skipping fatality load time, between matches with the CPU, getting back the menu for mode of play, options, etc, all over the place, but the biggest use, is eliminating Shang Tsung morph load time. You would have to play the game at the original 60fps so far as I can tell to benefit from this, because you can merely hold down the key the entire time for "no load time mode." The problem here again, is if you want to play at 53fps, this is impossible without temporarily increasing the frame rate any time you want to morph. I will study this more to see if it's possible to maintain 53.2fps and hold the throttle button, but this is very good for the time being.
Tonight I was messing around with Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9, and it allowed me to apply settings that
A. Ran the game correctly without slowdown even full screen
B. Adjust the frame rate to exactly 53.2 like UMK3 arcade (not 53 or 54 even)
C. Throttle
D. Assign Throttle to whatever button I want
E. Not have the menu gui on screen to use it
I made it + (add) for now. This works very well for me because my buttons are currently set up on the number pad but now I can change that as well to my default setup. In any event, when you press "+" and hold it, it increases the game's frame rate back to 60fps, but it also skips over all loading time. The other bonus is, it goes back to 53.2 once you release. For example, it takes about 7 seconds after the Vs Screen says loading to get to the match. If you press + now, you will see LOADING for 1 frame and it skips the rest. This is fantastic. Theoretically, you could use a program to map a specific option button on a pad or stick, perhaps start? and then assign that key to the same button. This becomes a bit convoluted but it is an option. You would then have a throttle button on the controller.
Another bonus would obviously be skipping fatality load time, between matches with the CPU, getting back the menu for mode of play, options, etc, all over the place, but the biggest use, is eliminating Shang Tsung morph load time. You would have to play the game at the original 60fps so far as I can tell to benefit from this, because you can merely hold down the key the entire time for "no load time mode." The problem here again, is if you want to play at 53fps, this is impossible without temporarily increasing the frame rate any time you want to morph. I will study this more to see if it's possible to maintain 53.2fps and hold the throttle button, but this is very good for the time being.
