Any good JRPGs on the PC?

[Flour]

On a related note, how's the PS2 emulation on the PC? I tried it once a while back and the results were less than satisfactory (looked bad, sounded bad, FPS was abysmal). Anyone have any experiences to share?

I had a working emulator. I mean, it ran the games I tried on it and the graphics appeared to be PS2 graphics.(only tried FFx and FFx-2)
The only problem was the FPS, I got 9-12 FPS with default settings. I didn't really try to fix it though because I read that my PSX emulator was going to get PS2 support, but that will take quite some time.(hasn't been updated in a year, but it's still being worked on)

EDIT:

Spoiler: PS2 emulator

With my emulator, anti-aliasing is optional and my computer runs it with 20-30fps, 60fps is required for smooth animations and sound.
It looks bad, but that's because I copied the screenshot to paint and saved it as jpeg.

My computer:
Athlon x64 4200+
2GM RAM
Ati Radeon x1950 Pro 256MB

 

[Megazell]

Yeah I agree, they do tend to look & sound like shit most of the time. Plus you don't get to sit on a nice comfy couch. ^_^

Is it 1992 again?

I play only on the PC. I have a 8 machines each under $400 and they all play the latest games on the PC with NP

My living room machine is connected to a projector and is connect to 4 wireless controllers where my family and I play a huge library of games (12,773 since the last time I actually counted) from our couch

Also, even if the PC games does not allow control pads there are free programs on the web you can dl and install that allow you to play ANY game via game pad

There are a lot of free and legal JRPGs - The link in my free and legal PC gaming thread have a few listed.

 

[Ultress]

Not too sureon PC JRPGs but for your PSX/emulator, Wild Arms 1 and 2, awesome spaghetti western JRPGs with some nasty brain beating puzzles. There's also Persona 1/2 that people have mentioned.

 

[KatsuMooMoooo]

I just want to thank Harhol for the awesome suggestion of Ys: The Oath in Felghana -- I too had recently set out to find a proper JRPG that was PC native. I didn't expect to find much, but this game is actually quite awesome, I am addicted. Plays just like a proper console game, reminds me a lot of a certain TurboGrafx-16 game just with much better graphics and sound. A joy to play, and hard as hell. Thanks Harhol PS: This game plays well even on a netbook with Intel Atom CPU and GMA 500 graphics -- get it now!

 

[Akihiko]

Really? What settings are you running on? EPSXE has breathed new life into my ps1 games. No more jaggies, a constant frame rate etc.

As Flour said, ePSXe only works good if you can tune it just right. On my old computer that was never the case. I'd get messed up textures and such. On my new machine I realized I can turn on all the advanced options, but then the game looks silly so I'm playing it with default looks. I get a high framerate no matter what I do (4 gigs of RAM and a solig GFX card help a lot).

On a related note, how's the PS2 emulation on the PC? I tried it once a while back and the results were less than satisfactory (looked bad, sounded bad, FPS was abysmal). Anyone have any experiences to share?

It's gotten a lot better over the years. There's still quite a few games that it has problems with, but there's quite a lot of games which play really well too. Was playing Final Fantasy X on it earlier this year in full HD, looked amazing. That said you need to have a good PC for it, especially a good CPU. It doesn't support quad cores, only dual, so that makes no difference. You pretty much need either a dual or quad core which is 3ghz+ to play the games which are harder to emulate, like Shadow of the Colossus in full HD. Graphics card doesn't seem to matter as much, I've got a Nvidia GTX 260 and on nearly every game it uses less than 30% of it, my CPU on the other hand is always bottlenecking it due to it only being a 2.66Ghz Quad.

Spoiler: Final Fantasy X Screen Cap

I'm using an iso of my PAL copy, hence why the FPS is capped at 50FPS and not 60.

 

[lordsandro]

Recettear - An Item Shops Tale
Very nice JRPG. You play as the owner of a shop in JRPG fantasy realm. And the shop need to work, because of the MASSIVE debt left to you from your father. The meat of the game is trading items and venturing into dungeons in search of new items (of course you are a shop keeper so you will need to hire a hero to clean the way).
The battles are real time and controlling the shop is actually quite good (you need to haggle if you want to make any money).

 

[Katana314]

Spoiler

I know there have been some very very indie RPGs made with RPG Maker and such that are actually sold commercially. Supposedly a few of them may be good, but they're all back-alley stuff.

 

[RA92]

Spoiler

I know there have been some very very indie RPGs made with RPG Maker and such that are actually sold commercially. Supposedly a few of them may be good, but they're all back-alley stuff.

Whoah! I was reading through the thread and didn't realize that this is nearly half a year old! I love necro'ed threads - it's like travelling through time! ^_^