Shoot me a private message, and I'll send back all the details. Keep in mind I can only tell you where to find the plugins and the emulator, the BIOS isn't something I can help you with.

Also, keep in mind my computers specs as the plugins I use are designed to maximise graphical excellence:

Intel Core 2 Q6600 Quad Core 2.4ghz
Geforce 8800GTX, Factory Overclocked 1024mb
2gb DDR2 833mhz)
500gb Barracuda SATA2 HDD

After maxing out what was possible, the games - even the pre-rendered backdrops - look amazing. However, they still only manage to pull in a 45FPS average. If your computer isn't around the same as mine, you might need to acquire differnt graphical plugins to what I use.

ZehDon is not a fan of box pushing 'puzzles'. Nor is he a fan of jumping 'puzzles'.

I've been looking at Vagrant Story and Silent Hill, they were both recommended to me by a friend. Just what the hell is Vagrant Story about and what kind of RPG is it? My friend tried to explain it and got confused.

Oh dear god, that sounds overly complicated. I'm hitting up reviews of it now, everyone seems to love it; bit of a cult classic. I'll see what the PAL version is going for on Ebay, if it's not too expensive, I'll pick it up.

I expect the reason you did not enjoy SoC may have been your understanding of videogame storylines. Normally, one can expect plot through speeches between characters and obvious actions (i.e., if he's chasing you, enemy). However, SoC leaves you filling in the pieces for yourself; how much of the story you manage to soak in directly relates to how much attention to detail you are willing to put in.

One of the main ways you learn the plot of SoC is by watching your own avatar (perhaps the reason the horse-riding segments were so long?). Everything between the way the boy handles the sword (completely untrained) to the increasing voices upon defeating the Collossi, to the subtle changes in your character's skin tone upon waking up; all of that holds a fragment of the story. It never adds up to a crystal clear picture, but that's what makes it beautiful to many of us.

The actual plotline of the game is fairly standard, and one could even call the Collossi giant walking plot-coupons. However, the methods used to convey the plot are not only interesting, but are something that could only be done in a game; SoC could never have been written as a book or a screenplay. And that's what makes SoC a good game.

Don Quixote: Dumb guy thinks he is a knight, does stupid things.

1984: The man is keeping us down.

No Country for Old Men: Find money, run away from bad guys.

Final Fantasy (1-99999999999): SAVE TEH WORLD (OK, so Final Fantasy never has a good plot. But you get the idea.)

That doesn't mean that these aren't enjoyable storylines, and they are. The authors' stylizations, and the books' specific concepts (not overall, generic ones like those mentioned above) turn them into enjoyable reads. The same may be said for SoC.

The changes in skin tone and other features on the boy's body show the slaughter of the Collossi as slowly draining away at his life. His climbing skills -do- improve if you know what you're doing, but that's honestly a little rediculous to assume, because nobody really improves at something as rapidly as characters in a videogame.

And stabbing perfectly on the collossi? Err, he grabs it with both hands and shoves. Either one of us could have done the same. As you said, he already has a good form, so raw physical strength is not an issue. He isn't good with the sword because he stole it. The bow and horse most likely belong to him.

If it were a movie, we'd all be as bored with it as you were. Watching someone run up and stab 16 (I think it was 16) giant walking things would be cool at first, but really repetitive. Further, as a player you explore the character in a different way than a moviegoer. If someone stands on his horse in a movie, it's pretty cool, but if you're fiddling around with your controls one day and get your character to stand on his horse, it's an entirely different feeling. "**** YEAH! I CAN STAND ON MY HORSE!"

Ultimately, I think you played through it too much like one plays through any other videogame. And ultimately, I'm sure you think I'm just a retarded fanboy Perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Perhaps that one was in poor taste (more insane than dumb, but yes, putting a bucket on your head as armor is rather insane .) But the point remains, I should hope?

I did read it, and loved it. The summary execution exists for the sole purpose of explaining that one may whip up a one-liner summary of any great work, and make it sound terrible. If you've read any of the other books I listed, you might note that they are also great books. I was hardly trying to question Cervantes' writing, and apologise for offending you. Please re-read the post with that in mind.

You haven't offended me, don't worry But you are the one that said also that SoC has a very simple storyline (which is something impossible to deny, it's as simple as it gets), while Don Quixote is not simple by any means.

But if you want to get back to SoC For example, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to climb a giant monster and then grab with one hand while I stab him perfectly with the other (because if you look at the movement on how he stabs the monster, is pretty good, not like his horrible swordfighting in the ground). But if you want to say that he is untrained with the sword, then, he is also untrained in jumping? (because the way he falls to the ground is totally ridiculous). And don't make me enter in the walk/run animation, the way he gets his sword and bow using the same movement, etc etc.

It's a pitty SoC has those sets of very bad animations when it also has really good ones (usually all the involved with doing anything on a colossus, which are the ones who should show he is untrained, because it's probably the first time he does that). But saying the sword animation is bad because he is untrained is for me trying to search for a meaning in the game that doesn't exist: it's bad because it's bad, like several others animations.

And about the boring film, I never said it would be a good film, but the game can be perfectly made as a film, because it's as linear as it gets. It's so linear, that you even only have one way of killing the Colossi, while in many other games while there's a better way to kill a final boss, the are actions that can help even if they help in a smaller degree. But in SoC it's a plan set in stone: you do exactly this or you won't kill the Colossi. Which is another game problem because sometimes because of game glitches you can climb to some parts in a way you aren't supposed to, and you can't do anything to the Colossi, even if you are more or less in the right place.

But we can agree we disagree I don't think SoC it's a bad game, but it's very far from a masterpiece.

I have the following PS1 games, some are still being delivered:

Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Chrono Cross
Silent Hill
Gran Turismo 2
Resident Evil
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Legend of Mana
and possibly Final Fantasy Tactics (waiting to hear back)

I only have Ico at the moment for the PS2, as I've only finished two of those PS1 games and really should get at 'em!

It's currently available for DS.

If you can find it, it was also published for playstation, packaged with Final Fantasy IV under the name Final Fantasy Chronicles.

The old Twisted Metal games were fun, but only in multiplayer. If you've got several game pads (or 360 controllers, possibly maybe even PS3 controllers) and several old school friends, they're worth a look.