I ran into a glitch playing Final Fantasy VII on my Mac Playstation emulator. I found a fix!
Cause: The instructions for PCSXR tell us to load a pack of BIOS into the BIOS folder. This is wrong. There should only be one BIOS in there.
Fix:
- Create a spare folder on your desktop.
- Go to Folder ~/Library/Application Support/PCSXR/Bios
- Drag all the BIOS out of that folder into the spare folder on your desktop.
- Then select and drag SCPH1001.BIN back into the PCSXR/BIOS folder.
Before fix: FF7 freezes at the end of Sephiroth’s battle with the dragon during the flashback to Cloud’s past, right after this:
After fix: there’s a looong black screen after the battle, then the game pops back to the inn in Kalm:
My other, less-desirable solution was to pick up a saved game file from here shortly after the glitch, but then I’d lose my limits and overleveled party.
I still have a working PS2 and a back-compatible PS3 that plays the game discs. If all else failed, I was just going to go back to the PS3. But emulating on my Mac allows for screencaps.
IC
December 28, 2013 at 3:47pmHow long do you have to wait for the black screen to disappear?
And I use an iso not a bio??? Is there anyway Of fixing this issue?
admin
January 9, 2014 at 6:55amI can’t remember how long the pause was… probably a good 5-10 seconds. Sorry, if the above solution doesn’t work, I don’t know what else to try. 🙁
Hurpales
March 12, 2014 at 7:33pmThank you very much!!!
Zel
April 9, 2014 at 12:01amI did it, but nothing’s working. I still get the freeze even after keeping only the SCPH1001.BIN. I’m going to download a save-state after the flashback, but I’d really appreciate it if I could get a fix ;.; Thanks in advance!
Andrew
August 20, 2014 at 11:09pmI’m still stuck as well. Any help?
Andrew
August 20, 2014 at 11:56pmJust found a solution! I don’t know why, but after performing the above fix…
Instead of relaunching my game from a frozen state, I relaunched from a saved game. From there I was able to play through.
CStrife
April 16, 2014 at 4:05amGreat work!
marie rannou
January 8, 2015 at 10:46pmthank you!!
Brett
January 19, 2015 at 11:19pmHey guys, so the first time I tried it, it didn’t work. Did the exact same thing again and it did. So, give it a few tries before giving up! 🙂