[Video Tutorial] JPCSP configuration for Hakuoki with voices working

Hello all!

For a long time I have lamented the fact that an AWESOME game like Hakuoki got translated only for the PSP which I don’t have D: (One can only go so far borrowing from a cousin T.T). I knew the JPCSP emulator worked for PSP games, but I couldn’t get anything to work ToT But finally thanks to some kind-hearted people describing the way to handle this, a couple days ago I got Hakuoki to work with the emulator , with music and voices and everything! Now I don’t have to depend on others and play on my own!

Proof:


Now, let's get ready to hunt some shinsengumi bishies! Well since this is a general tutorial on JPCSP non-Hakuoki fans are welcome too~


Downloads

First get the ISO file for English Hakuoki (or whatever game you are trying to play) by ripping it yourself using a friend's psp or downloading it (just be sure to buy the game too when you get it to work! We don't want to developers to become bankrupt and stop making these beautiful games do we? ) and grab this emupack I made with all the softwares you need for this.


ISO:Sorry no links, rip it yourself or google it

Buying Hakuoki:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T3GSCM
or http://www.gamestop.com/psp/games/hakuoki-demon-of-the-fleeting-blossom/97906

EMUPACK(Contains OpenMG+Sonic Stage+Sound Forge 10+mono ATRAC3PLUS tool v1.9.29)

(There are torrent links available at the tut links, but MF>>>>>Torrent when it comes to speed, right? :D ).

Also if you are on any other platform (I'm on windows 32-bit), be sure to grab JPCSP for the correct OS here:

JPCSP : Get the LATEST version of JPCSP for you Operating sytem here: http://jpcsp.org/

It seems new and updated revisions are released periodically. These usually contain certain fixes and tweaks not present in earlier versions like the official one, and may be more compatible, or even run certain games faster. Get them from here: http://buildbot.orphis.net/jpcsp/

I use the latest JPCSP version from the new build and always keep changing every few weeks, the version I included in the emupack is too old by now.

Also to be able to run JPCSP, you'll need the latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

I am using JRE 7 from here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1637588.html

1)Setting up JPCSP

You need to set up the JPCSP emulator properly to play any PSP game. To do this see this video that I made:

I give my heartfelt thanks to this AWESOME step by step guide at

http://sakimichi.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/jpcsp-tutorial/

A few things to remember while following the above tutorial:

• Sonic Stage had 2 folders in it, ss_english and ss_add_english. I donno if they have anything different, I used the ss_english one.

• Make sure you don't forget to properly config JPCSP, I forgot at first and MAN my game looked like one hell of an ugly moth*********. Specially confirm “Only GE graphics” and “Enable saving GE screen to Textures instead of Memory” boxes are checked. These options will make your game run way, way faster. Please note however: these will make the opening movie fail to play (you'll get some odd flickering during the time it's playing, just press the Start button to skip). If you want to watch the opening movie, just uncheck these options and it will work fine. Remember to check them again afterward.

• After launching the game successfully, go to "Options"---->"Controls" to see which Keyboard button corresponds to the respective PSP one.

If you experience any errors and fail to set up JPCSP properly, that is, the game does not work properly, don't bother skipping to the next step and fix this problem first.


2)Setting up Voices

For many games this much is enough, but with Hakuoki you'll have to do a bit more if you want to listen to the smexy bishies' voices, even if you stop right here you'll still be able to play the game with great music and sound effects, but no voices D:

 

So to solve this problem, check out my 2nd video: The method in the below is the old method, there is a new method to get the voices working for new versions of JPCSP, which is much easier to implement and less buggy. I don't have any games where the new method doesn't work but the old one does, so follow the steps below and ignore the old video that I have now put in the bottom of the tutorial. (instructions copied from official JPCSP forums)Starting from version 3079, JPCSP can now use a new atrac3+ decoder that supports both stereo and mono formats, so the monoatrac tool method is not necessary for them. So you can uninstall the version of Sound Forge you had before and Mono_ATRAC3PLUS tool , JPCSP will be able to handle everything by itself if you do the steps below correctly.

First you need to download this: http://www.emunewz.net/forum/attachment.php?aid=12833. This is the program that will do the decoding itself, called “atrac3plus2wav.exe". Next you need the driver.

To get it, visit SONY’s website (http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates/soundforgefamily) and download the “Sound Forge 9.0e Build 441" trial version. It has to be 9.0e build 441, any other version will crash the program. Once you have it, start installation and press “next" several times until the program asks you to install Microsoft Visual C++.  (Interestingly enough I didn’t get this message, probably because I already had it)

Once that happens, alt+tab out of the installer, open windows explorer (either with desktop icon or windows key+e), navigate to “C:\Program Files\Sony Setup\Sound Forge 9.0" or “C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Setup\Sound Forge 9.0" depending from your system, and find a file called “atracplu.cab". Open this with winrar, winzip or 7zip, find a file called “atracplug.dll" in it and extract it somewhere, like the desktop. Close the installer now that you got this file.

Next, move both “atrac3plus2wav.exe" and “atracplug.dll" to your jpcsp folder, to lib/windows-x86 for 32 bit version and lib/windows-amd64 for 64 bit version.

Note, this has to be done that way. You must remember to activate the “Decode audio files with SonicStage (must be installed separately and requires Media Engine)" option in JPCSP, which is located in Options > Configuration > Media. SonicStage needs to be installed regardless of what other decoders you use, otherwise this won’t work.

 

After having followed these 2 tutorials your emulator should work fine :)

If you have extremely low PC/laptop configuration and the voices sound scratchy and awful, give up on the voices, it's great enough with the music and awesome art.


Trouble Shooting
I had some problems when trying to update with a newer JPCSP build other than the one I was using before, for unknown reasons SonicStage didn't work with it and I couldn't hear any music :( But manually starting SonicStage from Start menu solved the problem.


JPCSP Compatibility

To see which games work on JPCSP, check out the forums and compatibility lists here:
http://www.emunewz.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=54
(Or the easy way: Google "[game's name] emunewz". That's it, really.)
http://www.emunewz.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=986
http://www.emunewz.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=987

Otome Games Compatibility

Before I used CONFIRMED to indicate which worked in my laptop, but almost all of them did so I switched the wording around >;D  The games mentioned below almost all work PERFECTLY (unless mentioned otherwise) in my rugged, almost six year old laptop. I used the settings of my tutorial and tested them with the latest build available at that moment. I mention unconfirmed when I haven't tested them myself.

-Amnesia (2871 build)
-Amnesia Later (2871 build)
-Are You Alice? (2932 build)
-Brothers conflict: Passion Pink (Unconfirmed)
-Clock Zero ~Shuuen no Ichibyou~ (3407 build)
-Diamond no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World (3407 build tested, but works best with older 2932 build***)
-Diamond no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Mirror World (3407 build tested, but works best with older 2932 build***)
-Gekka Ryouran Romance (2932 build)
-Grim the Bounty Huntter (no problems using r2841 build, Unconfirmed)
-Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~ (3407 build)
-Hakuouki - Zuisouroku (3407 build)
-Hakuouki - Yuugi Roku (Encrypted, Unconfirmed)
-Hiiro no Kakera 3  (Unconfirmed)
-Hoshiiro no Okurimono (voices work but no BGM, Unconfirmed)
-Hyakki Yakou ~Kaidan Romance~ (3407 build tested, but works best with older 2932 build***)
-Kamigami no Asobi (3407 build)
-Kami Naru Kimi to (Unconfirmed)
-Lucian Bee's Justice Yellow (Unconfirmed)
-Moujuutsukai to Oujisama (almost perfect sound with default settings; no video without configuration, Unconfirmed)
-Musketeer: Le Sang des Chevaliers (Unconfirmed)
-Norn9 (3129 build)
-Okashi na Shima no Peter Pan ~Sweet Never Land~ (voices work with new method/sound forge but no BGM, PPSSPP has music but much lower sound volume)
-Omochabako no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World (voices work with new method/sound forge but no BGM, PPSSPP has music but much lower sound volume)
-Persona 3 Portable (3407 build)
-Princess Arthur (3129 build)
-Romeo VS Juliet (3407 build)
-Shinigami to Shoujo (needs original fonts to be copied from PSP, Unconfirmed)
-School Wars (2871 build)
-Starry Sky ~in Summer~ (Unconfirmed)
-Toki no Kizuna (perfect framerate and music with the configured settings)
-Uta no☆Prince-sama ♪ Repeat (perfect framerate, voices and music with new 3129 build)
-Uta no Prince-sama ~Sweet Serenade~ (Unconfirmed)
-Wand of Fortune II (Unconfirmed)

 Anyway that will be all! Good luck, everyone!

 

 

EVERYTHING UNDER THIS ARE OLD PROBLEMS THAT HARDLY OCCUR NOW A DAYS

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Old monoatrac tool method:

My eternal love for the awesome person who wrote this amazingly detailed tutorial here which helped me make this video~ http://freshfrenchtoast.tumblr.com/post/22585969788/how-to-get-character-voices-to-play-on-your-utapri-game A few things to remember while following the above tutorial:

• When using the keygen for soundforge don't close it midway, use the serial no, activation no which were generated at the same time as when you clicked on "patch". Also don't forget to select “Sound Forge 10.0 Series”. • The mono_atrac_plus tool michelle(freshfrenchtoast) posted on her tutorial was version 1.7, the one in my pack is version 1.9.29 since I couldn't download from the link she gave. The instructions for 1.9 version are exactly the same, except that the option “use the AT32AA3plugin” isn't there. Just do evrything as per the instructions and after clicking start in the tool, without closing the window go back to JPCSP and play :)

• ULUS10577 is the Game ID for Hakuoki, the folder inside the tmp folder where the Atrac folder will be is named such.

It seems there a number of errors possible when this tool is not used properly, see them all with their solutions at the chinese site: http://hi.baidu.com/csxpgege/blog/item/ded114f2db4c1a0ab17ec56e.html Here's the google translated version. It keeps a rather intelligible translation, though a little ENGRISH-y. XD Keep both translated and untranslated versions open side by side if you are going to compare any errors you've encountered, for some reason google translate does not show any pictures (at least not for me)

UPDATE: I have noticed a few times that when my RAM was too full that mono atrac plus tool was acting odd and not playing the voices. Most of the time just restarting JPCSP and the tool was enough, but a couple of times I didn't get solved until I restarted my PC. However, all of the problems were solved when I removed the option "Reboot Soundforge and the tool after START" and manually opened Soundforge every time before playing instead. I had to click the "Show/Hide Sound Forge" also too hide the Sound Forge window. I guess Virtual desktop wasn't working properly for some reason.