So, today, while I was at the library, grumbling about the stupid CD burning application they use (Roxio Easy Coaster Creator 5), I decided to check out the Chankast forums for a few tips.
I’m rather tired of being able to only play Ikaruga in that emulator, so I looked around. Sure enough, I found out that I just needed to add an ASPI layer so that the new CD plugin would actually WORK, and thus let me see if these improvements exist.
So, I grabbed the drivers, stuck ‘em on my USB stick (didn’t want to repeat the hell I had last night; thank dog for IsoBuster!!), and headed home. When I went to install, I remembered what the forums said:
Install the 4.7x drivers, reboot, then install the 4.6x ones.
I tried to do it the other way around, being that I’m still such a nerd about having the Latest Version of almost Everything installed (there are exceptions), but Adaptec’s older ASPI layer won’t install unless ASPI already exists.
Fine.
So, I install the 4.7x series, and reboot. I fire up Chankast, the 4.6’s forgotten for the moment, and find myself trying out several different games, all loading nicely on my PC. Sure, a few of them had issues (hiccups, graphical glitches, etc), but for the most part, I found that Chankast had quite literally kicked it up a notch.
This makes me quite happy, really. Now I can sit around and play SoulCalibur tonight, between working on my commission (which I dumped to a text file from its blogged position, and am working on adding a few hundred words per hour, rather than trying to go straight through. Helps the creative juices if I can mull them first :)).
(and yes, those are screen caps from SoulCalibur, running on my PC. Yeah, I forgot to turn off Z Write during Exhibition Mode, so that’s why the little squares around the sun flares.)
Anyhow, just gonna update here and update IsoBuster, and then head on home. 
Later!
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