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Architecture: PPC
Connectix Virtual Game Station
The infamous commercial Playstation emulator for Mac OS 9! Pretty decent compatibility. Lived a short life, as Sony and their team of lawyers moved in quickly to kill this, and in the end, bought the program from a financially exhausted Connectix, and locked it away in a vault. Sad story, really.
CompatibilityArchitecture: PPC
Works only in classic Mac OS on G3 and G4 Macs. Not compatible with OS X. I will eat my hat if this works in an emulator.
Alternative Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?znzcatohnmz
Note The Mediafire DL is of a 42.3 MB zipped .toast archive. This is Version 1.41 - September 15, 2000. - Its an original full PC/Mac Hybrid CD Image. Unzip and rename the ".toast" suffix to ".iso" to burn and access on a PC (discard and ignore the "_MacOSX" folder extracted from the zip file, this was zipped on an OS X machine and there's some artifacts left behind).
The user manual is located on the PC side of the .toast DL (didn't see one on the Mac side) so have added it above, its for both Mac & PC versions.
Comments
i do not think so connectix is better and the epsxe is way better then bleem
I hate to say it, but Bleem on PC (or Linux through Wine) is really the best for this. Makes PS games look like a million bucks.
This is one of the best applications for gaming on classic Mac OS. I even got it working with a new (2009) wireless USB Controller on my iBook G3.
On my Power Mac G4 500MHz AGP Graphics, however, it is really slow (to the point that it is unplayable). I've tried to install the ATI drivers that came with it, tried other games (that I'm sure of that they work correctly on my iBook), tinkered with settings and I even removed the second video card, but nothing helped.
Edit: Oh, I got it to work! I had to install the ATI driver first and then install CVGS.
Does this work under Classic? Or should I go with PCSX?
Thanks for the tip.
It was a joke. Check the timestamps on the file. Also, when you load a game it says "April Fool" instead of "Loading Game" VGS never had official hardware acceleration of any kind.
"1.5b2 was April Fool"
How so?
Seeing as some people have been having trouble with updaters and patches etc, here's an archive containing VGS 1.0, the 1.4.1 patch (1.5b2 was April Fool) and the patch to play backups. Runs fine on my iMac.
http://www.mediafire.com/?6c5wtdcs3e95ha0
The PC version is lousy with patches for 3Dfx, ATI, NVIDIA. The Macs just never had any other hardware at that point. I would try the install with EVERY patch, one after the other - uninstalling inbetween. I got epic success with region-free on my iBook G3 (with ATI), but it took a half-day of trial and error!
best of luck!
I already got uploaded CD Directory by Connectix, althought if you happen to see a newer version of it, please go ahead.
Uff, i was using PCSX on my emac for a long time... and PCSX2 is intel only, what a s**t luck...
this one is a real rarity, Connectix was one of the coolest developers i ever found in mac stuff.
But they cannot survive the apple dark ages... sad thing.
Ill see if I can upload some archived connectix stuff... let me do some archeology...
By the way, thanks a lot.
I have a lot of success with PC version, and XP patch, but Mac can be a little hit and miss. I can eventually get a working (modded) version after much trial and error with different installers and patchers. YMMV tho.
This was the best software ever written for the Mac
This is incredible! Now my iBook G3 Clamshell has a purpose and it is so awesome! plus, having this on my G4 Cube makes it a silent cool ps1. thank you soooo much@!!
I'de been hunting for this for a while, should have known better to look at mac Garden before anywhere else, would have saved a lit of time.
This works very well with half of the PSX games i have on my Lime iMac, tho does anyone know if there are any compatibility lists online?
it runs fine in ppc g3 with 128 mb of ram because sixty force do not run fast
I just tried it and it worked for me...
Download link is not working
PCSX source code for PPC machines (PCSX mac?) does not use ASM, so should be portable to classic OS 9 (with carbonlib?). It has a Slackintosh packagebuild script, so should be doable.
You need to use a torrent client. I use LH-ABC, there are several others as well. Search on Versiontracker or Macupdate.
How on earth am I supposed to download this?? What do I do with the torrent file?? It opens in Opera, but then it just saves the .torrent file again. Help would be appreciated!
@nk6: here´s a bunch of patches and some updaters too for CVGS. Sadly I can´t remember what they´re supposed to do but their file names suggests patching CD and ROM. The SIT-file is 5.2 MB, please tell if there´s any success with this stuff!
http://sharebee.com/022257a7
Edit: Downloaded and installed CVGS under 9.0.4 in SheepShaver, updated up to 1.5b2 and applied all patches. There´s at least one which says it removes the U.S.-limit.
BUT:
The app itself wont run as it can´t find any ATI hardware, ie; a graphics card. Unless someone patches CVGS to believe there is, which probably makes it run very slow if at all, or mod SheepShaver to emulate a ATI card, which definitely will make it run slow, this baby wont run anywhere but native at the real stuff.
But for you running the real gear; take look at the patches. It *might* make a difference. HTH.
Ok, the toast trick doesn't work at all, I still get the cd driver message...
Using pcsx you can't change the disc and Flarestorm is said to be pretty unstable, anyway it was just tried it to see if it worked on sheepshaver.
For Mac OS X there is Mac PCSX. As far as I know, it works with disc images done with Toast.
I wouldn't even try running this on anything but a real mac booted into a real classic Mac OS. Connectix was serious about not enabling users to run games from anything but the actual CD and from the actual mac hardware that this was sold for, and it was prior to OSX.
One could always hope for some genius to come along and mod this thing to work with .iso's or on later systems, and so forth...
I don't believe this, because VGS has been sold in Germany, too.
Probably it has been modified to work on german Mac OS 9 versions, but I don't know.
Hmm... It doesn't work in SheepShaver, it starts, but suddenly a message appears: "Your CD driver does not have the necessary features for Connectix Virtual Game Station".
Update 1:
If you don't use cd on sheepshaver there isn't message, but without cd you can't do anything but to configure it.
Update2:
Using the Virtual CD/DVD utility doesn't work either, but using the "mount disc image..." option in Roxio Toast 5 doesn't complain about anything, maybe it works, but I would have to make and image of a psx game and then mount it, but i don't have any.
If you go to those links provided below, there were some patches available for VGS that were intended to allow use of discs from any region, but I don't know if any of them apply to what regional version of the Mac OS is being used. Otherwise install a NA version of the Mac OS, I guess.
"VGS does only run on North American System". WTF? I own a german OS 9, guess no way to make it run then? Any ideas on how to get it cooperating?
I've been looking for this for ages, thanks!
Awesome! Thanks Attila.
http://hansr.net/macpsx/downloadframe.html
http://hansr.net/macpsx/download/
After googling forever I finally found someone who still has most of the VGS related stuff still available for download. I've added most of it to this archive, while preserving the disc image that was recently uploaded. Every conceivable version is now available within this archive.
I have the Version 1.4
So I will upload it later today.
It's always nice to have an image of the original disk, but this should have been added to the already existing archive, which has since been deleted. Now we only have version 1.1, where before the site had 1.4 with its bug fixes and better compatibility.