[Emu] PS2 & Namco System 147 / 148 / 246 / 256 Emulation on Play!

[Ericg384]

Is there a link for pac man arcade party? The one on page 35 doesn’t seem to work.

[guglielmo.di.luca]

Hi guys, I am the only one for whom changing resolution in Play! does nothing? Does not matter what I choose: 1x, 1920p, ecc, it's always native resolution for me. Someone else has encountered this behaviour?

 

[hippopippo]

for flickering / interlacing issue I suggest this shader : https://github.com/Fubaxiusz/fubax-shaders/tree/master

 

 

 

[viperone2020]

I taught Teknoparrot main focus to PC based arcade, system 246 are PS2 based so it's working as emulator not a windows layer then you must have a higher spec to play this emulator or game over man!

[yoshi200213]

help vampire night has audio issues in teknoparrot. can reaver fix the audio issues with all namco 246 games including vampire night

[jcstahl1]

6 hours ago, viperone2020 said:

I taught Teknoparrot main focus to PC based arcade, system 246 are PS2 based so it's working as emulator not a windows layer then you must have a higher spec to play this emulator or game over man!

Reaver is working on improvements and had already made some decent improvements in some games.  Give it time.  It's only been a few days.

[compnwl]

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[DMB77]

Is there a hot key to turn on/off the cap frame rate option?

[jcstahl1]

20 hours ago, yoshi200213 said:

help vampire night has audio issues in teknoparrot. can reaver fix the audio issues with all namco 246 games including vampire night

Most of the system 246 games have problems.  It's going to take time for them to fix them.  Please be patient and no need to bring up every single issue with every game during the stream.  Reaver and TP devs are aware of the issues and are working on them.

[hippopippo]

I want to spend my 2 cents about namco 2xx/1xx emulation : this has been causing trouble, annoyances and ruining the nights of developers and those who would like to play it without any problems for a while now ... but patiently for a few years now that the adventure began, we have been waiting without haste for every little improvement or fix that is not always released every breath ... this has been happening for years (and let's also add the configuration, conversion and adaptation of each individual rom) ... so now that all this has been integrated into the Parrot (in the simplest way, I believe, click&play) we cannot expect that every single problem discussed in recent years will be fixed in 24 hours by the TP team.

 

I hope I have made you understand my thoughts about not reading fix requests for this or that problem every single day. What has been developed in almost 3 years cannot be expected to be ready soon, immediately and working with everything less than a week after TP integration (and the same goes for Triforce and any porting of other emulators).

[dyniel83]

I think TP shot themselves in the foot by releasing both Triforce and Namco emulation at the same time. Their Discord is now flooded with:

1. Simple questions about how to run games, set up configs, etc.

2. Complaints like “Why isn’t game XXX working?”, “Why is it slow?”, or “Why is it glitching?”, and so on.

 

[Arcadeguy781]

42 minutes ago, dyniel83 said:

I think TP shot themselves in the foot by releasing both Triforce and Namco emulation at the same time. Their Discord is now flooded with:

1. Simple questions about how to run games, set up configs, etc.

2. Complaints like “Why isn’t game XXX working?”, “Why is it slow?”, or “Why is it glitching?”, and so on.

 

Triforce is easy. Just pick the directory, and assign inputs for the controls. I get that Play can be a bit more difficult because the games need to go into the Play data files folder which is in your documents folder, but other than that it’s easy. 

[cander19]

3 hours ago, Arcadeguy781 said:

Triforce is easy. Just pick the directory, and assign inputs for the controls. I get that Play can be a bit more difficult because the games need to go into the Play data files folder which is in your documents folder, but other than that it’s easy. 

TP games that use Play can go in any folder.

[jcstahl1]

4 hours ago, hippopippo said:

I want to spend my 2 cents about namco 2xx/1xx emulation : this has been causing trouble, annoyances and ruining the nights of developers and those who would like to play it without any problems for a while now ... but patiently for a few years now that the adventure began, we have been waiting without haste for every little improvement or fix that is not always released every breath ... this has been happening for years (and let's also add the configuration, conversion and adaptation of each individual rom) ... so now that all this has been integrated into the Parrot (in the simplest way, I believe, click&play) we cannot expect that every single problem discussed in recent years will be fixed in 24 hours by the TP team.

 

I hope I have made you understand my thoughts about not reading fix requests for this or that problem every single day. What has been developed in almost 3 years cannot be expected to be ready soon, immediately and working with everything less than a week after TP integration (and the same goes for Triforce and any porting of other emulators).

This is a perfect response Hippo! 

As for the comment about shooting themselves in the foot and the discord being overwhelmed, how is it really any different than any other new game they add?  Literally every time they add something, the discord gets flooded with "why don't my game work?" comments & complaints.  Be happy they're trying to improve emulation for those two systems, since the real Dolphin devs want nothing to do with Tri-Force, and the Play dev seems more interested in making the console games work on mobile devices.  So without TP doing what they're doing, we may have never seen any more improvements with those systems.

[Arcadeguy781]

On 6/19/2025 at 4:15 PM, Ericg384 said:

Is there a link for pac man arcade party? The one on page 35 doesn’t seem to work.

I have the Roms for that game. Please add mirror links just to be safe. Pixeldrain is the only site that I'm subbed to 

pacmanap.zip ~ pixeldrain

Modifié samedi à 18:42 par Arcadeguy781

[joe555]

6 hours ago, Arcadeguy781 said:

Triforce is easy. Just pick the directory, and assign inputs for the controls. I get that Play can be a bit more difficult because the games need to go into the Play data files folder which is in your documents folder, but other than that it’s easy. 

You can make play portable and put were you want, and so won't go to document folder, and games can be placed anywhere you want 

[emusempre]

2 hours ago, Arcadeguy781 said:

I have the Roms for that game. Please add mirror links just to be safe. Pixeldrain is the only site that I'm subbed to 

pacmanap.zip ~ pixeldrain

thanks for uploading

mac keyboard tester

[Arcadeguy781]

3 hours ago, emusempre said:

thanks for uploading

mac keyboard tester

You're welcome

As I mentioned in my post, if you download it and have a way to mirror it to another page (mega.nz, Mediafire etc) , please do. Thank you

[emusempre]

2 hours ago, Arcadeguy781 said:

You're welcome

As I mentioned in my post, if you download it and have a way to mirror it to another page (mega.nz, Mediafire etc) , please do. Thank you

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7ny761i3zc6v6hf/pacmanap.zip/file

[Distance]

and how can it be made portable?

[jcstahl1]

1 hour ago, Distance said:

and how can it be made portable?

with standalone Play you can make a blank text file and save it as portable.txt in your emulator folder.  with TP it's unnecessary to do so.

[ZedEx48K]

On 6/20/2025 at 9:11 AM, guglielmo.di.luca said:

Hi guys, I am the only one for whom changing resolution in Play! does nothing? Does not matter what I choose: 1x, 1920p, ecc, it's always native resolution for me. Someone else has encountered this behaviour?

 

Are you using Vulkan? I noticed that doesn't upsample where as OpenGL does.

[compnwl]

People wondering why Vulkan looks bad... its because the emulator is very preliminary and resolution scaling only works on OpenGL. 

But you need to set Vulkan for Sengoku Basara X and Capcom Fighting Jam, otherwise the colors will look wrong.

This is not a problem when you use the Console version on PCSX2 anyway...
 

10 hours ago, Distance said:

and how can it be made portable?

Create a blank portable.txt inside Play! folder 

 

[llll55]

Does tekno create its own play! folder? where is it?

thanks.

[cbeluz33]

 

[Distance]

A noob question about the Play emulator: What are the minimum requirements for a PC and Windows to run Pac-Man Arcade Party and Battle Royale?

Modifié dimanche à 19:29 par Distance

[Arcadeguy781]

26 minutes ago, Distance said:

A noob question about the Play emulator: What are the minimum requirements for a PC and Windows to run Pac-Man Arcade Party and Battle Royale?

Arcade party is just a compilation of old Namco arcade games without enhancements and Battle Royale shouldn’t require a powerful PC either. 

Either way, there’s going to be performance optimization, so I wouldn’t worry too much about system requirements. 

[GingerJazz]

I know it was posted by @hippopippo what shaders to use and where to get them, very grateful to find out that they can be used to improve display, but as some games use open gl and, the other's use vulcan api's; how do I set dolphin to use both when I install the shaders so that I can use either depending on the game being played? Thanks.

[andymage]

Most of my games have SELECT buttons for sevices, not credits.

Does anyone have previous historical versions, such as simulator version 0.61-93?

How to use io server to work properly？

Modifié hier à 08:44 par andymage

[atalec]

Hi everyone,

 

Is there a simple way to play namco system with teknoparrot ?

 

thx

[Stefane10]

hello

i am on teknoparrot, i haven't any crosshair, how fix this please

[Arcadeguy781]

52 minutes ago, Stefane10 said:

hello

i am on teknoparrot, i haven't any crosshair, how fix this please

The mouse is your crosshair 

So, with the recent update to the Play fork for Teknoparrot I tested all of the games. Here’s what I found

1) Time Crisis 3 & 4: Run great! 4 has some video issues, but is fully playable 

2) Fate Unlimited Codes: Runs great, but there are some minor graphical issues on OpenGL

3) Bloody Roar 3: plays great. Missing music during battles

4) Tekken 5/5 DR: plays great 

5) Capcom Fighting Jam: plays great, and the sprites look much closer to real hardware 

6) Wangan Midnight/R: Runs great

7) Pride GP: Runs great

eight)  Sengoku: Runs great

9) Vampire Night: Runs great 

10) Soul Calibur 3: Runs at 20FPS. Fix coming soon 

[GingerJazz]

@atalec

You can just put all the needed files an ordinary folder and a zip file of same name for each game into the folder you want to keep your games in, you don't have to worry about setting anything else up, your exe will be the zip file to set in UI of Teknoparrot, like in you would in Mame, then just setup your controls as usual as you would with other games. If you have used the standalone emulator before just forget all about everything you did with it and enjoy most games running at mostly full speed (obviously depends on PC) but it doesn't need a really fast one too fancy a graphics card but if you are needing any more help message me and I will be happy to help you get it set up, I don't want to clog the page up for other users so best not to fill up space with things other users already know how to do.

[Yid4lyf]

I keep getting this error when i try to run Vampire Night on Teknoparrot, "Failed to find file 'vpn1cd0.chd' in location(s): - vnight". can any one help. Its the only game I cant get to run.

[Yid4lyf]

15 minutes ago, Yid4lyf said:

I keep getting this error when i try to run Vampire Night on Teknoparrot, "Failed to find file 'vpn1cd0.chd' in location(s): - vnight". can any one help. Its the only game I cant get to run.

All good guys im an idiot I got it working

Modifié il y a 9 heures par Yid4lyf

[andymage]

vpn1cd0.chd

vnight.zip

[Geordiedean1974]

On 6/22/2025 at 1:34 PM, cbeluz33 said:

 

How did you get the games in that list that arent in the add games section? Ace drivin etc