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Posted: **March 2nd, 2020, 5:45 am**

Some time ago I made a little demo using psyq, now I wanted to test loading things from CD.

Cd functions (init, search etc) worked well, but I have to create an ISO every time I want to test. So I tried PCinit:

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int file,size;
char *filebuffer;
PCinit();
file = PCopen("\\model\\PTEX.TIM;1", 0, 0);
size = PClseek(file, 0, 2);
filebuffer = (char*) malloc (size);
PCread(file, filebuffer, size);
PCclose(file);

This is supposed to load a tim image from the model folder, relative to main.exe.

PCinit() alone just hangs the game, and I can only see a black screen. Do I have to include some library for it to work?

I forgot to say, I'm using windows 10 64, and ePSXe205

Thanks.

Posted: **March 2nd, 2020, 10:01 am**

It won't work with ePSXe. You need to use real development hardware (DTL-H2000, CAETLA, CATFLAP, etc).

Posted: **March 2nd, 2020, 10:06 am**

Shadow wrote: ↑March 2nd, 2020, 10:01 am It won't work with ePSXe. You need to use real development hardware (DTL-H2000, CAETLA, CATFLAP, etc).

Thanks, I guess creating an ISO every time I compile won't be too hard because it is a very small game.

Posted: **March 2nd, 2020, 10:15 am**

For emulators, compiling an ISO every time is fine because it's extremely quick. If you're on a real PlayStation it's a nightmare because you need to waste and burn disc after disc so that's when PCinit(); comes in handy for quick data transfers to the PSX memory

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