I thought it would be quite obvious, considering the history I provided at the beginning of the video. When this software was released, the PS1 cost hundreds of dollars. This cost $30. It was insanely appealing back then if you already had a PC for gaming but didn't have a PS1. That was a long time ago, so of course the appeal now is it's a weird piece of collectible software, that's it.
There's actually a leaked beta of Bleemcast! that runs multiple games, and while there are tons of graphical glitches, I was blown away by how playable the games were in such an unfinished state. I've finished Mega Man X 4-6 all on the Dreamcast using it. Randy Linden is an amazing programmer to have gotten such performance out of a game system that was only one generation ahead of what it was emulating.
I'm positive that isn't the case. I'm pretty sure the released discs are configured and coded to only run their respective games. The Bleemcast! release that will run multiple games does not run the official Bleemcast! supported games like the retail versions do, and saving is not supported like the retail versions. In fact, according to the Wikipedia article, the beta disc was made available for copying before the retail discs could be cracked.
"Randy Linden is an amazing programmer to have gotten such performance out of a game system that was only one generation ahead of what it was emulating" The Surreal64 emulator on the original Xbox ran Mario 64 and Starfox 64 perfectly. Lots of other games did not run well, but it was also quite amazing to get such performance from a console that was only one generation ahead of what it was emulating.
Shame they never released Bleemcast, whatever state it was in. I just found an old topic with the devs talking about it: dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=29658 It looks like newer betas exist, you'd have thought after all this time they'd be no harm in sharing it...
PC specs I went over in the video starting at 7:10 Capture card is the AVerMedia Game Capture HD. Fantastic card, I'd highly recommend it for VGA capture.
Also, I would’ve recommended 9 years ago to use a CRT monitor to reduce the effect of the jarring, horrible textures! These old consoles were really never designed with LCDs in mind.
When you realize on what hardware it was runnig, it is no wonder they claimed money for that. It is something completely different than for example ePSXe. It is also great emulator, dont get me wrong. BUT it have troubles making things running on WAY faster machines than this old K6 CPU, not mentioning other goodies. It is actually VERY impresive piece of software.
I remember seeinga copy of Bleem in the DVD section of a music store back in 2000. I barely knew how to use a computer back then, and my roommate had a PS1, so I opted to pass on it.
Funny thing is I worked in CompUSA at the time this was out. I never picked up a copy and always wondered how good the product was. The product never sold well. Not because of Sony's interference but because there never was a demo to try out. You could go over and try an actual playstation in stores, but Bleem was never set up on the variety of machines we sold. Sadly that probably would have helped it sell. A side by side comparison on picture quality would have rocked.
Aaron Paluzzi eh, I was a kid when I saw this at I think gamestop (maybe eb?) anyway, I never bought it because there were already free emulators with better compatibility. We thought it was officially licensed though
Lots of resolutions on the PSX, eight different modes altogether. Often games were at something like 320x240, though you sometimes had MDECS/cutscenes and such at 640x480 (or roundabout). And yes, Duke3D runs at full speed on the machine shown in the video. Interface stretching does happen at larger than 640x480, but honestly I don't mind as the increased fidelity of the level geometry more than makes up for it if you ask me.
dude. that chair. that chair you have bleem sitting on... dude that chair looks comfy as warm oatmeal cookies in front of a good movie while wrapped in a warm blanket.... supercomfy. that chair. looks super comfy.
I remember buying a copy of "Bleem!" at the Super Computer Show at the Greensboro Coliseum back in 2000 with VERY high expectations for it. However, all of our computers at the time were lowly Celerons, including my "Never Obsolete" eMachine, which I first tried to run this on. It barely installed and I could never get any part of the stupid thing to work. I remember I even tried it on my dad's 1999 HP desktop, which was a slightly more powerful Celeron and it was still broken, although broken in different ways. It really broke my heart because being able to play my PlayStation games on my computer was a dream come true.
A while back I had people on my channel vote for what games I should review, with M25 Racer being an option. Not enough people voted for it, so I haven't given it much thought since.
Wow, is that a quote from Patrick Norton (from the Screen Savers on good old TechTV, now on TekThing, ThreatWire, and the TWIT network show 'this week in computer hardware') on the box?
I remember my dad bringing this home from his overseas workplace. It was late 2001 (the PS2 already existed) and I never got to own a PlayStation console. So when I saw the box, I was very excited to try it out only to find out that my dad lost the disc. He promised that he’ll try to find it and bring it home next time. My mom and dad got separated a few months after, he never went back home to us and I never got to see and try out the disc.
Bleem's name is actually from on an episode of Married: With Children. In the episode Kelly Bundy creates a chemical called Bleem that turns frumpy middle aged men into sex magnets. And Al is the guinea pig.
Actually, it's pronounced "Bleen". It even says so in the episode in which Kelly meets a professor at Bud's Collage. Professor: "Interesting, is that a combination of Blue and Green?" Kelly:"No, of Blood and Spleen...it's for the kids who want to draw accidents." It does sound remarkably similar though, so I don't blame you for the mistake.
Bleem! cost just $29.99 brand new. This was one of the first PS1 emulators that was any good, along with Connectix VGS (also a commercial emulator). Bleemcast! enhanced the graphics a bit, mainly with a higher resolution and some filtering.
You know...I wish the official companies would actually do something similar to this. Like, near the end of a console's life cycle they release an emulator you can buy for your PC. Generates more revenue for a console that's already going out the door anyway, it's not like they're going to manufacture more of the things, and it's manned by the official source of said console. So you don't have to worry about the problems with current emulators, or at least not as much. And you will have official support as well...how has no one thought of this or done this yet? Seems like a slam dunk in terms of making extra revenue from something that you're not really making money off of anymore...seriously, is Sony making ANY money off of PS1/2/3 games or systems these days outside of their marketplace? Not to mention how easy it would be to maintain compared to making/repairing the actual console when/if they break down. Simple patch and you're done, can't do that with a home entertainment system if something goes wrong internally. Yeah, that's still a problem with PC...but that's expected, and on your end...not Sony's so that saves them money right there. It's also not like they don't have the tech for it anyway, they had to have got it working first on PC before even turning it into the final console product! Genius!
I think they don't want to do that because it would draw attention to the fact that PCs can run their games just as well if not better than their own consoles and they probably feel it would hurt their console business. I remember on another video about how shitty Nintendo is at committing to retro games, the person suggested they just sell image files for their games on their website which is a really good idea, but that will NEVER HAPPEN with any of the console manufacturers, especially not Nintendo and their lawsuits against fan games.
@@UBvtuber I doubt there are many people out there nowadays that actually believe a console can outclass a decent gaming PC. Consoles have a price advantage, but not much else. I'm sure the big companies like Sony, Nintendo, and especially Microsoft know this too. I would happily pay for an Xbox 360 or a PS3 emulator if they offered one.
@@samhouston1288 80% of the people who buy consoles don't know this because they're casual people who just buy a system and play games. That's what Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's real markets are. Not us.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN Playing games on PC doesn't make you special, bro. The reason console manufacturers don't release emulators is because they can resell their games as "remastered" versions on their newer machines at full price.
@@benn454 I'd say this is a case of "all of the above," with a good dose of "game developers are not our friends and will never again have our interests in mind" added as well.
UGH! Thank you for showing me this, it's honestly pretty neat - but damnit I kept waiting for you to up the resolution when you were in the graphics settings! I kept willing it, trying to control your mouse over and click 1080p and it never happened. I'm sure it would have ran like crap, but that's one of the things this boasted was higher res over the ps1 and you kept it in 800x600!!!!! I need to see ultra hd polygons!
800x600 is still higher resolution than the PS1, and yes, going higher would've made it run like crap. My goal with this video was to show off the software how it would've worked for most users back when it first released. If you really want to see "ultra HD polygons" there's no shortage of other PS1 emulator videos on RUclips that do just that ;)
I don't remember Bleem running that bad back in the day on my old Pentium PCs. I think some games ran better than others, mainly the popular ones. FF7 ran smoothly, so did Gran Turismo and even Metal Gear Solid. But as you all know, the PSone ended up selling just as well even with Bleem out on the market. Most people didn't have a powerful gaming PC back in those days, and why would people spend over $1000 for a PC just to play PSone games when they could just buy a PSone for under $200? Oh yeah... PSone game piracy. Out of the box, Bleem couldn't run pirated PSone games............ until someone cracked it and now you could play all your favorite PSone games for free with the best PSone emulator out there. But come on! Look at the PSone's sales history! It sold 102.49 MILLION UNITS!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe they could of sold a couple million more if Bleem and other PS emulators didn't exist, but come on. That's still over a hundred million consoles sold! Piracy is bad for the gaming industry, but it's not so bad that it's ruining it. Well in most cases it isn't! If you have a large fan base and many satisfied customers, people will buy your product regardless if a free illegal method exists!
Kreeded The idea was after paying $1000+ for a PC who would want to play and additional $300 for a PSX. So instead the bought Bleem for $60 and played the game on the PC.
I bought GTA4 on steam the other day just because I couldn't be bothered to deal with torrenting it/making it run. Fucker still had to be eddited to get it to stop trying to talk to the windows store otherwise it wouldn't save. If I didn't know what I was doing I'd have to get it refunded as it was unplayable. Fucking windows DRM has likely lost so many sales for them. They are lucky the story mode of the game is so good. But fuck them, fuck em good. It's shit like this that pisses me off, I'm willingly giving you my money to not be bothered with messing with the file, and yet you still fuck me?
I remember Bleem when I was younger. I preferred other emulators and had a pain getting Bleem to work smoothly but gosh seeing this brings all the nostalgia back. I had no idea there was a Dreamcast version, but I did have a collection of CDs for Dreamcast which were actually a collection of roms for Gameboy and GBA!
Well this is actually an emulator that requires you to buy the games you want to play. It frees you from console exclusives, but that's not piracy I wish something like this was around today. I should be free to play the games I buy on whatever hardware I want
bleem! could play PlayStation backups, but some DVD-ROMs specifically had issues. CVS could play them too - in fact, that's part of what made them legal emulators. They couldn't use the PlayStation's copy protection - if they did, Sony would have had a legitimate copyright infringement case against them.
@@brandogg as far as i know if they include the official bios it's not legal anymore since sony has the copyright to that... i don't know if bleem and co coded their own playstation bios
@@semaduni2278 bleem could play bacups cds of psx games .. but just burn on determinate speed x2 and x4 max .. if games was burn with speed more than 4x bleem could not read or play the game in some cases errors during gameplay and could damage the cd player from pc .. i remember burning games from psx and dreamcast .. they wont have protection at all and was easy to bacup cd games .. sega saturn was the only one with some Restricted cds and hardware protection cause that saturn was hard to hack .
I can't help but be distracted at all the games you have on that Win. 98 machine. All those classic car titles that I loved and stuff, I would love to see reviews of those in the future.
I've had several gaming experiences where the software mode was much faster than 3D hardware, because the accelerated graphics were so taxing on the system. Quake, NFS3, etc. It depends on all the hardware used, of course. Yes, what I randomly said about software doesn't make a ton of sense in this case of CPU-intensive emulation. But considering this was an unscripted on-the-fly video, things like this tend to slip through, me being human and such.
My psx lens died a decade ago so i'm now using the same program, epsxe, it's still not as good like the actual console but in some games the graphics could be tweaked to be better than intended.
I've had gaming experiences where the software mode was much faster than 3D hardware, because the accelerated graphics were so taxing on the system. Quake, NFS3, etc. It depends on the hardware used, of course. Yes, what I randomly said about software doesn't make a ton of sense in the case of CPU-intensive emulation, but whatever. Considering this was an unscripted on-the-fly video, things like this tend to slip through, me being human and such.
I bought this back in the time, and it worked. Why is this funny to some commenters here? There was no opensource alternative, and there was no internet like it is known today.
They take emulators for granted nowadays. Playing a Ps1 game on Dreamcast back then was a mindblow. An them making their own Bios was genius. Too bad Sony were so stuck up back then trying to sell Ps1, they could have made their own official version of a PS1 emulator and sell it and who knows, they could have destroyed the entire Ps1 emulator scene.
PSEmu predated Bleem by at least a year and was available free, on the apparently non-existent internet. ePSXe wasn't far behind Bleem either and had much better compatibility. Bleem was a weird chapter in emulation history that managed to be both redundant and stir up a lot of bad feeling in the community thanks to its commercial nature seeing Sony shining a spotlight where people would rather they didn't due to the generally grey legal nature of the scene.
There was PSEmu first and I remember ePSXe coming out within a month or two of Bleem. I remember Bleem coming out and I didn't get suckered because there were already free alternatives.
Oh memories,Bleem,Ultrahle,Neoragex,Raine and many others that make us happy... I later found Connectix VGS which worked better and almost as a real psx
Ah, ok. I just remember having a crap ton of different emus installed back in the day, and Raine was one of them so I could play all my favorite arcade games from the 80s and 90s. Sad that this iteration of my PC can finally run Mace: The Dark Ages decently? I can run all the newest games maxed out at 1080p (not hairworks on Witcher 3, only have a 970) but not some games from the late 90s....
Mace the Dark Age runs decent on older Mame version like 0.140 for example But you can always try the Nintendo 64 version (through Project 64-runs perfect) which is a great arcade port
Ah gotcha, I think my full set I have in disk form (circa 2005 from MAME4EVER) is .101, lol. But I have since abandoned that set and have piece milled roms and CHDs in newer forms of MAMEUIFX64. I actually have it on my N64, but I modded my XBOX 360 SFxTekken fightstick Pro by deleting the stupid Sanwa joystick and installed an IL Eurostick (the same one that used to be called HAPP/IL in the MK and SF2 cabinets in the 90s) so I can relive the glory days of arcade fighting games the way they were meant to be played.
Well, maybe not Bleem in particular, since it didn't infringe on any BIOS copyrights as it only emulated the BIOS. But yeah, emulators don't include a BIOS file since that is a form of piracy/infringement/what have you.
*How to make Sony hate you:* Support bleem! Scream "bleem!" at them Make 'em flashback to when they sued bleem! Basically just bleem! They will probably ignore you, they will probably stab you to death. Depending on how you do it.
I was watching a few of your random videos and was pretty entertained/interested. But when you pulled out the Deckard Kain impression, I subscribed. My friends and I always do that to each other, that guy's got such a great voice.
I never knew there were physical copies of emulators out there. Also I weirdly love that chair in the beginning. It reminds me of the super comfortable tweedy looking chairs that my grandparents used to have.
So glad emulation accuracy has increased. Now you can really play on phone precisely like the original hardware on many titles. Pretty impressive for something back in the day tho, if you think we've had so many years to program emulators and PS2 is still hit or miss. With original hardware dying by the day it's great to have those options available and getting better.
The thing that annoys me the most about this whole Sony lawsuit is that this product could have actually HELPED Sony. One thing you have to understand is that consoles often sell at the same amount that it costs to make + distribute them or even often at a loss. The PS1 was no exception. Console makers like Sony make all their money from the games. Game developers pay a lot of money to console makers. In the case of bleem!, it includes copy protection checking so it will not play copied games so Sony would still be able to make money from people not willing to buy the console. Yes, it probably has hacks, but the PS1 was pretty hackable as well. I had a hack chip in my old PS1 and I think I paid all of $12 for it.
Not to mention most of these games hardly worked consistently. So when someone bought bleem! and tried it, they probably were disappointed in it. This lead to them getting a "taste" of Sony Playstation games, like a demo. This probably made quite a few people finally break down and go buy a Playstation if they liked t he game but didn't want crashes and speed variation in bleem!.
How would this help Sony? I got a used PS1 from a Pawnshop with like 100 or 10 Games for $100, imagine what they costed brand new? & Bleem! was only like $29.99... So instead of people buying the PS1, they'd be buying Bleem!, so how is this helping Sony's Profit at all? Because it encourages people to buy the Games? They'd be buying the Games weather Bleem! existed or not, ~_~ I dun see how this actually would increase Sony's profit, ~_~ Plus, when I remember Bleem!... Most of my Games actually worked on it... Final Fantasy VII actually looked better on Bleem! then it did on a PS1 console, I did a comparison not on Video, though, oO Bleem! let people smooth out edges on the sprites, & make the sprites cleaner looking, I did not have whatever Version you can find Online right now, I only had I think whatever came on the CD, ~_~ But ya, oO Sadly, the PC copy of FF VII later was even better, because it was High-Resolution, had bonus files, & better sound, & better music, oO I actually liked Bleem! more then EPSXE or whatever... But some preferred that more... Eventually EPSXE replaced Bleem! entirely, due to Bleem! no longer being supported on the Computer... ~_~ I still to this day cannot run it on my PC, if anyone knows a way to get it to run, that'd be awesome, cause I still have the CD, at least, but the Case with my CD Key is? Ummm… Not sure if I have that, or not... :(
Correction, I do have at least the back portion of the Case with picture still on the back, however it does not actually have the CD Key on it, :( Also, the Requirements to run Bleem! is not what is shown in the Video... Min: Pentium 1 MMX or higher DirectX 6.1 or Higher (DirectX 7 is included with CD) 16mb RAM 3mb Space A Sound Card CD-ROM 3D Accelerated Capable GPU Card with Direct3D Max: Pentium II or higher DirectX (Same as Min:) 32mb RAM 3mb Space PCI capable Sound Card 20X or faster CD-ROM Now here is something you guys did not know... Bleem! had Internet Access for Updating the Program for better compatibility with Games... 3D Accelerated GPU with 16mb+ VRAM & Direct3D Support: GPU Cards that are Recommended for use... Voodoo 3, Banshee, TNT1&2, ATI Rage Fury, S3 Savage 4 Pro, Matrox G200, & Matrox G400 The Back Demo Picture was that it enhances a 320x240 Picture into a 1152x870 Picture through it's Enhanced Graphix... But of course from the video above it looks like it even supported up to 1080 resolution, oO But the thing is, they demonstrate with 1152x870... So I dun think 1080 was even really tested on the Program, oO 320x240 = PS1 Graphix & 1152x870 was the tested PC Graphix that was used in the Enhanced Picture... =D ^_- PS: Weird, the back of the case actually reads this... What's the name of the Game? It's a really cool game called, "Show a Real Screen Grab and Get YouR Butt Sued-Off by Sony*": if you can make it to V.2.0 before the legal expenses put you out of business, you win! See, Sony* doesn't want us showing you how good your games can look with Bleem! When we use real game images, they drag us into court, call us names, and cost us tons of money. As much fun as that's been, it's getting a little old. So instead, we've very carefully created these images and compared them to "real" grabs to make sure they accurately show the kind of results you can get with Bleem!* and a good 3D card (Details on Side).
I remember trying this out in our PC back in the day, and even though I stuck to the good old PS1 (of course, who wouldn't) I was quite impressed with the accelerated graphics. Pity most of my games didn't work, and those that did ran MUCH better on the console.
GOG didn't start carrying newer games until quite recently. I bought those games years ago. And those that are newer that I could have gotten on GOG, Steam had for *way* less than GOG. That's the biggest reason I get Steam games: the sales.
Great channel.... I see a lot of stuff that I owned or wanted back in the days ... :) Bleem was something I played with on Win98.... when it came out it was actually the best PS1 emulator at the time.... I recall using this on my 300mhz celeron, 32mb of Ram with S3 Virge 4MB pci "2D only" card. It was glitchy but worked, while I was unable to run any Nintendo 64 emulator with that PC (unless I wanted to play games in slideshow mode :D ) until I added more RAM and an Intel 740 "3D" card....
...few years later.. bleem is defenitely one of the best vintage "freak show" with original hardware. add just one diy 5.25" dual psx ports drive by directpad pro and a "forgotten name" pic to manage memory card. im in hollidays and going to start to refurb my original at case mmx233@250 with voodoo2, direct pad etc.. sweet memories, thank a lot for all your videos that remind me my childhood and excuse my poor english. grettings from France.
I remember seeing Bleem! on store shelves as a kid and thinking it was an interesting concept, but at that time I was more into console gaming than PC gaming so I didn't see the need for it. Considering the time it came out, the footage you showed is pretty darn cool. That would have blown me away in 1999.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about how influential Bleem! was to the current emulation scene! Aside from the obvious, most modern ps1 emulators (modern-ish?) use the same plugin format that Bleem! did. This includes the most popular emulator, ePSXe. Even the PS2 emulator, PCSX2, uses something very similar to what Bleem! did.
Nah it wasn't Bleem! which had no plugins capabilities, but PSEmu Pro which is the one that introduced the plugin system that ePSXe, PCSX and PCSX2 still use to this day. I still remember being excited for PSEmu Pro 2 to be released but someone leaked a beta and the team behind it decided to cancel it :( . For my PC at the time that was the fastest PS1 emulator, using Lewpy's Glide plugin with a Voodoo Banshee. Good times.
What a great flashback for me! I used to run PSX emu site back in the day called PSEMU Nights. One of the Bleem employee's talked about our site on a TV show interview about how long we stayed with PSEMU even though it had been discontinued. I continued to do tweaks with Bleem as time went on. It was a fun thing for a 14 year old.
Lazy Game Reviews I see. Inconvenient but feasible I guess. By the way: 3 buttons, I just remembered there's no Select either. Quite an overrated controller the Dreamcast one.
You've totally jumped off-topic, but okay, I'll bite. We had the Internet back then too, how do you think we got hold of UltraHLE and P64? Regardless, having a retail presence would still be huge today because of the massive number of people who don't know things like emulators even exist, much less how to download them.
Im not sure if anyone's told you, but sometimes you sound like this guy I know. Duke Nukem... by chance, do you know him? Hes from Chicago... I think. Great guy, loves babes, hates lizards
I remember this emulator and it was my first introduction to playing PSX games. I had a PII 400Mhz, 128MB of RAM, and an ATI Rage 2C video card (which meant 3D Acceleration was out of the question as it broke most of the textures). The very first game I did get working nicely was Jet Moto 3 though. Connectix Virtual Game Station came soon after which I actually remember enabling me to play FF9 right on the game's launch date although it needed disc specific patches to load. Ah, memories.
Emulators are not illegal, the only thing that is illegal is downloading roms. But since you actually play on a legit ps1 cd you bought, it is legal. And as LGR said, they had to write their own ps1 bios.
Lukas Nordlund to that point DLing the bios is also illegal. Its all copyright related.Most free PSX emulators require the bios which the programmers sites state you have to yourself.
YES! My mother tried to convince me to buy one of these instead of a ton of plushies as a kid. I had never remembered the name of it back then! This was a great watch. Thank you!
People have been working on Bleemcast since, though. You can now launch any PS1 game on Dreamcast. Of course, most don't work, or are very glitchy. But some are surprisingly playable.
The Dreamcast wasn't a failure until the anti-console Okawa took charge and essentially abandoned it a year or so after the worldwide release. The damage from the expensive Saturn and Okawa being a wanker was the final nail in the coffin.
The problem with this is that game publishers aren't going to go for this. They have to pay a pretty hefty fee to put games on a console, for licensing and such. If people are buying the games and then playing them on another system, why should the fee still be in place then? This was one of the arguments by Sony against Bleem and would still come up today I imagine.
bleem is the reason emulation itself isn't illegal it was a case that set a precedent on that and its why people can run things like retroarch and ps3 emulators for that I say thanks bleem
Sony was probaly suing Bleem not because of emulator, but for using a Playstation BIOS. There are nothing bad in making emulators, since it's your own work, but the BIOS is an intellectual proprety of Sony. Even modern free emulators never come with BIOS, you gotta find it yourself.
No emulator that I know of works better in software mode, software mode is always slower, not sure why you thought it should work better in software mode.
Gordon Freeman Usually for compatibility sakes, software rendering is better whereas hardware rendering is better in speed. Older games like Unreal have a software rendering mode for unsupported graphics cards.
Some false information in this video. PS2 was relesed just a year after Bleem!, basicly it was last year or two of original PSX. Also Randy Linden did not work on emulation of PSX on PS2, that makes no sense. PS2 was relesed in 2000, Bleem! bancrupt in 2001, and Randy Linden started to work for Sony in 2005. So he worked more on PS3 and PS store, not PS2.
As a kid, I do remember putting a PS1 disk in my old Windows 98 computer and I remember it reading and opening the disk! It was all random files Windows didn't recognize and couldn't do anything with. Guess that's what this emulator does. Now you can just download a free modern Playstation emulator and free ROMs to play.
Bleem is just damn ridiculous.. but Bleemcast is on a wholly different level of WTF. It has to be one of the least marketable pieces of software I've ever heard of.. seriously. The dreamcast itself did Not do very good in sales. And then you come along with a program to run Individual PS1 Games on a Dreamcast???!! That has to be the most crazy brained idea for a program ever.
q306005 It would've been impossible, to emulate a console you need to have more than 2x to 99x (it depends on the games) of total power than the original console. The Dreamcast was similiar as a PS2, so a Dreamcast emulator on a PS1 or PS2 is actually impossible.
I remember that, when Bleem was announced for the Dreamcast (around the time of the DC's American launch), it was intended to be like Bleem for the PC; you'd be able to run what the PC version could. The company also announced compatible controllers around the same time. There are actually multi-game Bleem beta discs for the DC floating around out there, if you can find them (I experimented with one years ago, but the compatibility wasn't all that great). And ultimately, Sony buried them in debt before any of the pie-in-the-sky stuff even happened. I did buy a Tekken 3 and Gran Turismo Bleemcast disc to try out when they were released, but since I had a PS1 already, I really saw no real need to have them, other than to fool around with.
I bought this back in the day for Dreamcast. Because Dreamcast was more powerful than PS1, Metal Gear Solid actually ran better and with less blocky graphics... Nuts!!
I could list a ton of them. Crash Bandicoot 1/2, Intelligent Qube, Gran Turismo, Fighting Force, The Need For Speed, Rayman, Driver, Oddworld, Metal Gear Solid... that's just the very tip of the iceberg. There are some others I might recommend if the Dreamcast didn't have better ports.
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I thought it would be quite obvious, considering the history I provided at the beginning of the video. When this software was released, the PS1 cost hundreds of dollars. This cost $30. It was insanely appealing back then if you already had a PC for gaming but didn't have a PS1.
That was a long time ago, so of course the appeal now is it's a weird piece of collectible software, that's it.
There's actually a leaked beta of Bleemcast! that runs multiple games, and while there are tons of graphical glitches, I was blown away by how playable the games were in such an unfinished state. I've finished Mega Man X 4-6 all on the Dreamcast using it. Randy Linden is an amazing programmer to have gotten such performance out of a game system that was only one generation ahead of what it was emulating.
lilpastasalad I doubt it's a leaked beta, it's probably been hacked up from one of the other released Bleemcast! versions, with game check removed.
I'm positive that isn't the case. I'm pretty sure the released discs are configured and coded to only run their respective games. The Bleemcast! release that will run multiple games does not run the official Bleemcast! supported games like the retail versions do, and saving is not supported like the retail versions. In fact, according to the Wikipedia article, the beta disc was made available for copying before the retail discs could be cracked.
this is a 4 year old comment but nintendo fans are doing the same thing patreon funded
"Randy Linden is an amazing programmer to have gotten such performance out of a game system that was only one generation ahead of what it was emulating"
The Surreal64 emulator on the original Xbox ran Mario 64 and Starfox 64 perfectly. Lots of other games did not run well, but it was also quite amazing to get such performance from a console that was only one generation ahead of what it was emulating.
Shame they never released Bleemcast, whatever state it was in. I just found an old topic with the devs talking about it: dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=29658 It looks like newer betas exist, you'd have thought after all this time they'd be no harm in sharing it...
That CHAIR is odd, forgotten and obsolete! But probably seriously comfy. :)
Nice
What a name
Reminds me of ashens, reviewing things on that brown couch
Noice
Shut the hell up
PC specs I went over in the video starting at 7:10
Capture card is the AVerMedia Game Capture HD. Fantastic card, I'd highly recommend it for VGA capture.
Also, I would’ve recommended 9 years ago to use a CRT monitor to reduce the effect of the jarring, horrible textures! These old consoles were really never designed with LCDs in mind.
I can't believe there was once sold a BOXED emulator. Crazy.
Look up the first emulators evermade, all the first ones where commercial in some way.
I remember seeing this in a gas station when I was a kid.
Hell, Nintendo sold two in the NES and SNES Classic.
When you realize on what hardware it was runnig, it is no wonder they claimed money for that. It is something completely different than for example ePSXe. It is also great emulator, dont get me wrong. BUT it have troubles making things running on WAY faster machines than this old K6 CPU, not mentioning other goodies. It is actually VERY impresive piece of software.
I remember seeinga copy of Bleem in the DVD section of a music store back in 2000. I barely knew how to use a computer back then, and my roommate had a PS1, so I opted to pass on it.
Funny thing is I worked in CompUSA at the time this was out. I never picked up a copy and always wondered how good the product was. The product never sold well. Not because of Sony's interference but because there never was a demo to try out. You could go over and try an actual playstation in stores, but Bleem was never set up on the variety of machines we sold. Sadly that probably would have helped it sell. A side by side comparison on picture quality would have rocked.
omg i also worked at CompUSA and i also never bought this and regret the loss. it seems cool in retrospec.
Aaron Paluzzi eh, I was a kid when I saw this at I think gamestop (maybe eb?) anyway, I never bought it because there were already free emulators with better compatibility. We thought it was officially licensed though
I never bought it, as I assumed it’d run like a dog on my pc. Iirc, it was given away as a demo on a cover disc in uk at one point.
Lots of resolutions on the PSX, eight different modes altogether. Often games were at something like 320x240, though you sometimes had MDECS/cutscenes and such at 640x480 (or roundabout).
And yes, Duke3D runs at full speed on the machine shown in the video. Interface stretching does happen at larger than 640x480, but honestly I don't mind as the increased fidelity of the level geometry more than makes up for it if you ask me.
dude. that chair. that chair you have bleem sitting on... dude that chair looks comfy as warm oatmeal cookies in front of a good movie while wrapped in a warm blanket.... supercomfy. that chair. looks super comfy.
It is a great chair, super comfy.
Lazy Game Reviews Sometimes your voice sounds like Duke Nukem:)
uroborous01 . At snow, in front of tv that is on top of the fire
I had to rewind to see said chair. very comfy
Damn I was a beta tester for this software when I was a kid. Got my name in the book insert and everything :p
Ryan Wright I'm curious how your experience was?
Ryan Wright yeah me too, me too... please lol
Fcking Liier
@@blazin_sky O: are you a real person?
Sven Son speak englesh loser
It not only looks the part of retro greatness, it is incredibly comfy!
There was one more main version after this one to my knowledge.
I remember buying a copy of "Bleem!" at the Super Computer Show at the Greensboro Coliseum back in 2000 with VERY high expectations for it. However, all of our computers at the time were lowly Celerons, including my "Never Obsolete" eMachine, which I first tried to run this on. It barely installed and I could never get any part of the stupid thing to work. I remember I even tried it on my dad's 1999 HP desktop, which was a slightly more powerful Celeron and it was still broken, although broken in different ways. It really broke my heart because being able to play my PlayStation games on my computer was a dream come true.
+Colm Reddy Pentium master race
+Roadgeek eMachine is "NEVER OBSOLETE" (tho i have upgraded Every single peace of mine but the case she is still an eMachine lmao)
+Roadgeek you could had just overclocked it at x45 lol
Colm Reddy dx6 used the gpu, the cpu was for the timing, if you had a proper gpu with it it would had worked fine
+Roadgeek I was able to run it on a 1997 Celeron 300mhz back in the days :)
Dude your Deckard Cain voice is awesome. You would make a great voice actor.
Agreed
kaneCVR now that's a deckard start!
My thoughts, verbatim
kaneCVR he has that silver age radio voice
But he can't falsetto. Which is very important
Dude yes! It's a Vortex2, pretty sure that one in that machine was the Diamond Monster Sound MX300.
Can't say it's very valuable, or even rare. You still see Bleem! on Amazon and eBay all the time, usually selling for $10 or less boxed.
A while back I had people on my channel vote for what games I should review, with M25 Racer being an option. Not enough people voted for it, so I haven't given it much thought since.
I appreciate the appreciation! And while I may not have a real TV show yet, you can always plug in your PC to your TV and pretend :D
this is rich, moist, decadent LGR content
Wow, is that a quote from Patrick Norton (from the Screen Savers on good old TechTV, now on TekThing, ThreatWire, and the TWIT network show 'this week in computer hardware') on the box?
The Windows 98 desktop with that collection of game shortcuts make me feel so nostalgic! x___x
Moshugaani it's a sight of pure beauty
I remember my dad bringing this home from his overseas workplace. It was late 2001 (the PS2 already existed) and I never got to own a PlayStation console. So when I saw the box, I was very excited to try it out only to find out that my dad lost the disc. He promised that he’ll try to find it and bring it home next time. My mom and dad got separated a few months after, he never went back home to us and I never got to see and try out the disc.
"You can pretty much just hump these rocks forever, and wait for better times."
That quote speaks to my soul.
That's a feature exclusive to RUclips partners. Once you set up a "show" you can put that kinda stuff all over the place for branding and whatnot.
40-45, something like that. I've got some in storage I've forgotten what are :)
I hope to do a review of the Aureal Vortex 2 eventually. Fantastic card.
Bleem's name is actually from on an episode of Married: With Children. In the episode Kelly Bundy creates a chemical called Bleem that turns frumpy middle aged men into sex magnets. And Al is the guinea pig.
Actually, it's pronounced "Bleen". It even says so in the episode in which Kelly meets a professor at Bud's Collage.
Professor: "Interesting, is that a combination of Blue and Green?"
Kelly:"No, of Blood and Spleen...it's for the kids who want to draw accidents."
It does sound remarkably similar though, so I don't blame you for the mistake.
Best Little Emulator Ever Made
Bleem! cost just $29.99 brand new. This was one of the first PS1 emulators that was any good, along with Connectix VGS (also a commercial emulator). Bleemcast! enhanced the graphics a bit, mainly with a higher resolution and some filtering.
8:49 HOLY SHIT-BALLS! That sound effect was used in Homeworld 1 for hyperspace jumps!
Yes, Bleem had a completely separate dedicated distributor in the UK.
You know...I wish the official companies would actually do something similar to this. Like, near the end of a console's life cycle they release an emulator you can buy for your PC. Generates more revenue for a console that's already going out the door anyway, it's not like they're going to manufacture more of the things, and it's manned by the official source of said console. So you don't have to worry about the problems with current emulators, or at least not as much. And you will have official support as well...how has no one thought of this or done this yet?
Seems like a slam dunk in terms of making extra revenue from something that you're not really making money off of anymore...seriously, is Sony making ANY money off of PS1/2/3 games or systems these days outside of their marketplace? Not to mention how easy it would be to maintain compared to making/repairing the actual console when/if they break down. Simple patch and you're done, can't do that with a home entertainment system if something goes wrong internally. Yeah, that's still a problem with PC...but that's expected, and on your end...not Sony's so that saves them money right there. It's also not like they don't have the tech for it anyway, they had to have got it working first on PC before even turning it into the final console product! Genius!
I think they don't want to do that because it would draw attention to the fact that PCs can run their games just as well if not better than their own consoles and they probably feel it would hurt their console business. I remember on another video about how shitty Nintendo is at committing to retro games, the person suggested they just sell image files for their games on their website which is a really good idea, but that will NEVER HAPPEN with any of the console manufacturers, especially not Nintendo and their lawsuits against fan games.
@@UBvtuber I doubt there are many people out there nowadays that actually believe a console can outclass a decent gaming PC. Consoles have a price advantage, but not much else. I'm sure the big companies like Sony, Nintendo, and especially Microsoft know this too. I would happily pay for an Xbox 360 or a PS3 emulator if they offered one.
@@samhouston1288 80% of the people who buy consoles don't know this because they're casual people who just buy a system and play games. That's what Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's real markets are. Not us.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN Playing games on PC doesn't make you special, bro.
The reason console manufacturers don't release emulators is because they can resell their games as "remastered" versions on their newer machines at full price.
@@benn454 I'd say this is a case of "all of the above," with a good dose of "game developers are not our friends and will never again have our interests in mind" added as well.
UGH! Thank you for showing me this, it's honestly pretty neat - but damnit I kept waiting for you to up the resolution when you were in the graphics settings! I kept willing it, trying to control your mouse over and click 1080p and it never happened. I'm sure it would have ran like crap, but that's one of the things this boasted was higher res over the ps1 and you kept it in 800x600!!!!! I need to see ultra hd polygons!
800x600 is still higher resolution than the PS1, and yes, going higher would've made it run like crap.
My goal with this video was to show off the software how it would've worked for most users back when it first released. If you really want to see "ultra HD polygons" there's no shortage of other PS1 emulator videos on RUclips that do just that ;)
I don't remember Bleem running that bad back in the day on my old Pentium PCs. I think some games ran better than others, mainly the popular ones. FF7 ran smoothly, so did Gran Turismo and even Metal Gear Solid. But as you all know, the PSone ended up selling just as well even with Bleem out on the market. Most people didn't have a powerful gaming PC back in those days, and why would people spend over $1000 for a PC just to play PSone games when they could just buy a PSone for under $200?
Oh yeah... PSone game piracy. Out of the box, Bleem couldn't run pirated PSone games............ until someone cracked it and now you could play all your favorite PSone games for free with the best PSone emulator out there.
But come on! Look at the PSone's sales history! It sold 102.49 MILLION UNITS!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe they could of sold a couple million more if Bleem and other PS emulators didn't exist, but come on. That's still over a hundred million consoles sold! Piracy is bad for the gaming industry, but it's not so bad that it's ruining it. Well in most cases it isn't! If you have a large fan base and many satisfied customers, people will buy your product regardless if a free illegal method exists!
Kreeded The idea was after paying $1000+ for a PC who would want to play and additional $300 for a PSX. So instead the bought Bleem for $60 and played the game on the PC.
I bought GTA4 on steam the other day just because I couldn't be bothered to deal with torrenting it/making it run. Fucker still had to be eddited to get it to stop trying to talk to the windows store otherwise it wouldn't save. If I didn't know what I was doing I'd have to get it refunded as it was unplayable. Fucking windows DRM has likely lost so many sales for them.
They are lucky the story mode of the game is so good. But fuck them, fuck em good. It's shit like this that pisses me off, I'm willingly giving you my money to not be bothered with messing with the file, and yet you still fuck me?
You have a very relaxed pleasant voice, almost has a golf commentator vibe to it, thank you for this!
I was a beta tester for bleem! before and after it hit retail. I loved those days. DragonYen, Rand, the rest of the crew....
I remember Bleem when I was younger. I preferred other emulators and had a pain getting Bleem to work smoothly but gosh seeing this brings all the nostalgia back. I had no idea there was a Dreamcast version, but I did have a collection of CDs for Dreamcast which were actually a collection of roms for Gameboy and GBA!
Putting DRM on an emulator...
Well this is actually an emulator that requires you to buy the games you want to play. It frees you from console exclusives, but that's not piracy
I wish something like this was around today. I should be free to play the games I buy on whatever hardware I want
bleem! could play PlayStation backups, but some DVD-ROMs specifically had issues. CVS could play them too - in fact, that's part of what made them legal emulators. They couldn't use the PlayStation's copy protection - if they did, Sony would have had a legitimate copyright infringement case against them.
@@brandogg as far as i know if they include the official bios it's not legal anymore since sony has the copyright to that... i don't know if bleem and co coded their own playstation bios
CEMU does that. Well, it does that for the Patreon-Exclusive Canary Build. There is a perfectly usable free build.
@@semaduni2278 bleem could play bacups cds of psx games .. but just burn on determinate speed x2 and x4 max .. if games was burn with speed more than 4x bleem could not read or play the game in some cases errors during gameplay and could damage the cd player from pc .. i remember burning games from psx and dreamcast .. they wont have protection at all and was easy to bacup cd games .. sega saturn was the only one with some Restricted cds and hardware protection cause that saturn was hard to hack .
I can't help but be distracted at all the games you have on that Win. 98 machine. All those classic car titles that I loved and stuff, I would love to see reviews of those in the future.
I loved Bleem! back in the day, best program I never paid for. It was a must have along with NESticle and UltraHLE.
And Genecyst from the NESticle team.
I've had several gaming experiences where the software mode was much faster than 3D hardware, because the accelerated graphics were so taxing on the system. Quake, NFS3, etc. It depends on all the hardware used, of course. Yes, what I randomly said about software doesn't make a ton of sense in this case of CPU-intensive emulation. But considering this was an unscripted on-the-fly video, things like this tend to slip through, me being human and such.
Bleemcast games ran better than when they ran on the PS1. I remember seeing much clearer rendering.
I downloaded bleem and was telling my friends about it when it came, you always hit the best memories :)
I use to Bleem be for. it was good then. now i use ePSXe
XD be for? Do you mean "before"? XD
it was excellenr due to a fast cdrom drive,no slow loading times
Guys not everyone speaks English perfectly, chill out
My psx lens died a decade ago so i'm now using the same program, epsxe, it's still not as good like the actual console but in some games the graphics could be tweaked to be better than intended.
I've had gaming experiences where the software mode was much faster than 3D hardware, because the accelerated graphics were so taxing on the system. Quake, NFS3, etc. It depends on the hardware used, of course. Yes, what I randomly said about software doesn't make a ton of sense in the case of CPU-intensive emulation, but whatever. Considering this was an unscripted on-the-fly video, things like this tend to slip through, me being human and such.
I bought this back in the time, and it worked. Why is this funny to some commenters here? There was no opensource alternative, and there was no internet like it is known today.
They take emulators for granted nowadays. Playing a Ps1 game on Dreamcast back then was a mindblow. An them making their own Bios was genius. Too bad Sony were so stuck up back then trying to sell Ps1, they could have made their own official version of a PS1 emulator and sell it and who knows, they could have destroyed the entire Ps1 emulator scene.
There certainly was internet in 1999 and it was not much difference than today as far as getting hold of warez and games.
didn't download much with dial-up internet in 1999..
PSEmu predated Bleem by at least a year and was available free, on the apparently non-existent internet. ePSXe wasn't far behind Bleem either and had much better compatibility. Bleem was a weird chapter in emulation history that managed to be both redundant and stir up a lot of bad feeling in the community thanks to its commercial nature seeing Sony shining a spotlight where people would rather they didn't due to the generally grey legal nature of the scene.
There was PSEmu first and I remember ePSXe coming out within a month or two of Bleem. I remember Bleem coming out and I didn't get suckered because there were already free alternatives.
I remember this! And back then you have VGS too.
Oh memories,Bleem,Ultrahle,Neoragex,Raine and many others that make us happy...
I later found Connectix VGS which worked better and almost as a real psx
Raine, wasn't that mainly the capcom emu? Actually worked better than MAME at the time?
Mainly Taito boards emulator
Ah, ok. I just remember having a crap ton of different emus installed back in the day, and Raine was one of them so I could play all my favorite arcade games from the 80s and 90s. Sad that this iteration of my PC can finally run Mace: The Dark Ages decently? I can run all the newest games maxed out at 1080p (not hairworks on Witcher 3, only have a 970) but not some games from the late 90s....
Mace the Dark Age runs decent on older Mame version like 0.140 for example
But you can always try the Nintendo 64 version (through Project 64-runs perfect) which is a great arcade port
Ah gotcha, I think my full set I have in disk form (circa 2005 from MAME4EVER) is .101, lol. But I have since abandoned that set and have piece milled roms and CHDs in newer forms of MAMEUIFX64.
I actually have it on my N64, but I modded my XBOX 360 SFxTekken fightstick Pro by deleting the stupid Sanwa joystick and installed an IL Eurostick (the same one that used to be called HAPP/IL in the MK and SF2 cabinets in the 90s) so I can relive the glory days of arcade fighting games the way they were meant to be played.
7:23 I see an icon for Star Trek Holomatch. Have you done a video on Elite Force/Holomatch?
"I'm going to code an emulator with assembly..."
Well, maybe not Bleem in particular, since it didn't infringe on any BIOS copyrights as it only emulated the BIOS. But yeah, emulators don't include a BIOS file since that is a form of piracy/infringement/what have you.
*How to make Sony hate you:*
Support bleem!
Scream "bleem!" at them
Make 'em flashback to when they sued bleem!
Basically just bleem!
They will probably ignore you, they will probably stab you to death.
Depending on how you do it.
Unless your name is Randy Linden, in which case they hire you
I was watching a few of your random videos and was pretty entertained/interested. But when you pulled out the Deckard Kain impression, I subscribed. My friends and I always do that to each other, that guy's got such a great voice.
HEADON! APPLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
oh god
LMAO! I remember that commercial...pissed me off the first few times I saw it and then I got a PVR
apply "DIRECTLY" !
fellow Crash Bandicoot fan, still my favorite game franchise, i have him tattooed on my arm haha
Woah!
PS4 remaster trilogy announced at E3 this year!!
I can tell just by your username lmao
I never knew there were physical copies of emulators out there. Also I weirdly love that chair in the beginning. It reminds me of the super comfortable tweedy looking chairs that my grandparents used to have.
So glad emulation accuracy has increased. Now you can really play on phone precisely like the original hardware on many titles.
Pretty impressive for something back in the day tho, if you think we've had so many years to program emulators and PS2 is still hit or miss.
With original hardware dying by the day it's great to have those options available and getting better.
"you just get the cracked version back in the day if you knew what you were doing (clears throat)"
:D
I had this. My PC wasn't nearly fast enough to use it and I owned no PS1 games. But, I owned this.
I love all the videos you make
Thanks!
Seems to be a lot of interest in it. I just might!
Bleem was awesome, it allowed you to play PS1 games at higher resolutions with anti aliasing, etc. Tekken 3 looked incredible on Bleem
Oh man, you have an Aureal soundcard! I used to have the TerraTec XLerate PRO (Aureal Vortex 2). Very nice to see a review of an emulator!
The thing that annoys me the most about this whole Sony lawsuit is that this product could have actually HELPED Sony. One thing you have to understand is that consoles often sell at the same amount that it costs to make + distribute them or even often at a loss. The PS1 was no exception. Console makers like Sony make all their money from the games. Game developers pay a lot of money to console makers. In the case of bleem!, it includes copy protection checking so it will not play copied games so Sony would still be able to make money from people not willing to buy the console. Yes, it probably has hacks, but the PS1 was pretty hackable as well. I had a hack chip in my old PS1 and I think I paid all of $12 for it.
Not to mention most of these games hardly worked consistently. So when someone bought bleem! and tried it, they probably were disappointed in it. This lead to them getting a "taste" of Sony Playstation games, like a demo. This probably made quite a few people finally break down and go buy a Playstation if they liked t he game but didn't want crashes and speed variation in bleem!.
How would this help Sony? I got a used PS1 from a Pawnshop with like 100 or 10 Games for $100, imagine what they costed brand new? & Bleem! was only like $29.99... So instead of people buying the PS1, they'd be buying Bleem!,
so how is this helping Sony's Profit at all?
Because it encourages people to buy the Games? They'd be buying the Games weather Bleem! existed or not, ~_~
I dun see how this actually would increase Sony's profit, ~_~
Plus, when I remember Bleem!... Most of my Games actually worked on it... Final Fantasy VII actually looked better on Bleem! then it did on a PS1 console, I did a comparison not on Video, though, oO Bleem! let people smooth out edges on the sprites, & make the sprites cleaner looking, I did not have whatever Version you can find Online right now, I only had I think whatever came on the CD, ~_~ But ya, oO
Sadly, the PC copy of FF VII later was even better, because it was High-Resolution, had bonus files, & better sound, & better music, oO
I actually liked Bleem! more then EPSXE or whatever... But some preferred that more... Eventually EPSXE replaced Bleem! entirely, due to Bleem! no longer being supported on the Computer... ~_~
I still to this day cannot run it on my PC, if anyone knows a way to get it to run, that'd be awesome, cause I still have the CD, at least, but the Case with my CD Key is? Ummm… Not sure if I have that, or not... :(
Correction, I do have at least the back portion of the Case with picture still on the back, however it does not actually have the CD Key on it, :( Also, the Requirements to run Bleem! is not what is shown in the Video...
Min:
Pentium 1 MMX or higher
DirectX 6.1 or Higher (DirectX 7 is included with CD)
16mb RAM
3mb Space
A Sound Card
CD-ROM
3D Accelerated Capable GPU Card with Direct3D
Max:
Pentium II or higher
DirectX (Same as Min:)
32mb RAM
3mb Space
PCI capable Sound Card
20X or faster CD-ROM
Now here is something you guys did not know...
Bleem! had Internet Access for Updating the Program for better compatibility with Games...
3D Accelerated GPU with 16mb+ VRAM & Direct3D Support:
GPU Cards that are Recommended for use...
Voodoo 3, Banshee, TNT1&2, ATI Rage Fury, S3 Savage 4 Pro, Matrox G200, & Matrox G400
The Back Demo Picture was that it enhances a 320x240 Picture into a 1152x870 Picture through it's
Enhanced Graphix... But of course from the video above it looks like it even supported up to 1080 resolution, oO
But the thing is, they demonstrate with 1152x870... So I dun think 1080 was even really tested on the Program, oO
320x240 = PS1 Graphix & 1152x870 was the tested PC Graphix that was used in the Enhanced Picture... =D
^_-
PS: Weird, the back of the case actually reads this...
What's the name of the Game? It's a really cool game called, "Show a Real Screen Grab and Get YouR Butt Sued-Off by Sony*": if you can make it to V.2.0 before the legal expenses put you out of business, you win! See, Sony* doesn't want us showing you how good your games can look with Bleem! When we use real game images, they drag us into court, call us names, and cost us tons of money. As much fun as that's been, it's getting a little old. So instead, we've very carefully created these images and compared them to "real" grabs to make sure they accurately show the kind of results you can get with Bleem!* and a good 3D card (Details on Side).
I remember trying this out in our PC back in the day, and even though I stuck to the good old PS1 (of course, who wouldn't) I was quite impressed with the accelerated graphics. Pity most of my games didn't work, and those that did ran MUCH better on the console.
Today, we had the best PS1 emulator, the ePSXe.
It even has an Android port!
Mednafen is better
Yep even on a cheap £10 phone it runs at 3x the PS speed
Now we have Mednafen.
No! PCSX! It's the best PS1 emulator
GOG didn't start carrying newer games until quite recently. I bought those games years ago. And those that are newer that I could have gotten on GOG, Steam had for *way* less than GOG. That's the biggest reason I get Steam games: the sales.
Great channel.... I see a lot of stuff that I owned or wanted back in the days ... :) Bleem was something I played with on Win98.... when it came out it was actually the best PS1 emulator at the time.... I recall using this on my 300mhz celeron, 32mb of Ram with S3 Virge 4MB pci "2D only" card. It was glitchy but worked, while I was unable to run any Nintendo 64 emulator with that PC (unless I wanted to play games in slideshow mode :D ) until I added more RAM and an Intel 740 "3D" card....
...few years later.. bleem is defenitely one of the best vintage "freak show" with original hardware. add just one diy 5.25" dual psx ports drive by directpad pro and a "forgotten name" pic to manage memory card. im in hollidays and going to start to refurb my original at case mmx233@250 with voodoo2, direct pad etc..
sweet memories, thank a lot for all your videos that remind me my childhood and excuse my poor english. grettings from France.
I know people have probably asked you this about a hundred times so far,but do you voice Duke Nukem in your spare time?
Hehe, not officially or anything, but a little Duke comes through my voice every so often.
So,what you're saying is,Duke poseses you every once in a while?
I remember seeing Bleem! on store shelves as a kid and thinking it was an interesting concept, but at that time I was more into console gaming than PC gaming so I didn't see the need for it. Considering the time it came out, the footage you showed is pretty darn cool. That would have blown me away in 1999.
I thought BLEEM! was supposed to be the curse word you were screaming while trying to get the bloody thing to work!
Video capture card. In this case, the AVerMedia Game Broadcaster HD.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about how influential Bleem! was to the current emulation scene!
Aside from the obvious, most modern ps1 emulators (modern-ish?) use the same plugin format that Bleem! did. This includes the most popular emulator, ePSXe. Even the PS2 emulator, PCSX2, uses something very similar to what Bleem! did.
Nah it wasn't Bleem! which had no plugins capabilities, but PSEmu Pro which is the one that introduced the plugin system that ePSXe, PCSX and PCSX2 still use to this day.
I still remember being excited for PSEmu Pro 2 to be released but someone leaked a beta and the team behind it decided to cancel it :( . For my PC at the time that was the fastest PS1 emulator, using Lewpy's Glide plugin with a Voodoo Banshee. Good times.
Miguel Hernandez Yes! Thank you for the correction. The plugin system was probably the single most important development for playstation emulators.
What a great flashback for me! I used to run PSX emu site back in the day called PSEMU Nights. One of the Bleem employee's talked about our site on a TV show interview about how long we stayed with PSEMU even though it had been discontinued. I continued to do tweaks with Bleem as time went on. It was a fun thing for a 14 year old.
How is it even possible to play Metal Gear Solid on the Dreamcast? It's missing 2 buttons
L2 and R2 are mapped to other button combos from what I recall.
Lazy Game Reviews I see. Inconvenient but feasible I guess. By the way: 3 buttons, I just remembered there's no Select either. Quite an overrated controller the Dreamcast one.
LGR there was also a controller adapter to use ps1 controllers on the Dreamcast, I can't remember the name of it, but I haven't seen one in years
You've totally jumped off-topic, but okay, I'll bite. We had the Internet back then too, how do you think we got hold of UltraHLE and P64? Regardless, having a retail presence would still be huge today because of the massive number of people who don't know things like emulators even exist, much less how to download them.
Im not sure if anyone's told you, but sometimes you sound like this guy I know.
Duke Nukem... by chance, do you know him? Hes from Chicago... I think. Great guy, loves babes, hates lizards
haha..thought he might be
14:50 the messed up text sounds like texture filtering -- you could try turning it off in the 3d settings.
released in 1999, several years before the PlayStation two. (the ps2 where released in 2000 :D )
I remember this emulator and it was my first introduction to playing PSX games. I had a PII 400Mhz, 128MB of RAM, and an ATI Rage 2C video card (which meant 3D Acceleration was out of the question as it broke most of the textures). The very first game I did get working nicely was Jet Moto 3 though. Connectix Virtual Game Station came soon after which I actually remember enabling me to play FF9 right on the game's launch date although it needed disc specific patches to load. Ah, memories.
So how the hell did they do this legally? I'd love to see how Sony lost this case.
By writing their own clone of the PS1 BIOS without actually using Sony code.
Emulators are not illegal, the only thing that is illegal is downloading roms. But since you actually play on a legit ps1 cd you bought, it is legal. And as LGR said, they had to write their own ps1 bios.
wow, thats pretty slick, i did not know about this
Lukas Nordlund to that point DLing the bios is also illegal. Its all copyright related.Most free PSX emulators require the bios which the programmers sites state you have to yourself.
Lukas Nordlund ROMS arnt illegal if you download one of a game that you own
YES! My mother tried to convince me to buy one of these instead of a ton of plushies as a kid. I had never remembered the name of it back then!
This was a great watch. Thank you!
Personally I think if Bleemcast would have taken off the Dreamcast wouldn't have been a failure.
People have been working on Bleemcast since, though. You can now launch any PS1 game on Dreamcast. Of course, most don't work, or are very glitchy. But some are surprisingly playable.
Lol, what? I somehow doubt an emulator for another console would've been the savior for a console.
The Dreamcast wasn't a failure until the anti-console Okawa took charge and essentially abandoned it a year or so after the worldwide release. The damage from the expensive Saturn and Okawa being a wanker was the final nail in the coffin.
10:10 - There's actually a Steam achievement for doing that called "I Meant to Do That!".
9:36 Why do you hate Infogrames? :(
Also, 1080p in 1999?! Did they try to prepare it for future computers?
Formats such as 1600 x 1200 existed on 19 inch CRT monitors and there was 21 and 21 inch monitors as well.
The problem with this is that game publishers aren't going to go for this. They have to pay a pretty hefty fee to put games on a console, for licensing and such. If people are buying the games and then playing them on another system, why should the fee still be in place then? This was one of the arguments by Sony against Bleem and would still come up today I imagine.
I want to see Twisted Metal on Bleem!
Twisted Metal 1 and 2 were on pc.
bleem is the reason emulation itself isn't illegal it was a case that set a precedent on that and its why people can run things like retroarch and ps3 emulators for that I say thanks bleem
Oh that Deckard Cain and his Horadric start...
That duke nukem impression you do from time to time is on point.
Sony was probaly suing Bleem not because of emulator, but for using a Playstation BIOS. There are nothing bad in making emulators, since it's your own work, but the BIOS is an intellectual proprety of Sony. Even modern free emulators never come with BIOS, you gotta find it yourself.
They apparently wrote a clone BIOS actually, completely from scratch without any of Sony's own code.
Cr4z3d Wow. That's impressive
If I do recall right, Sony did sue the living shit out of Bleem.
Sock Puppet Never said what happened to the ending result.
Sock Puppet Sony lost the lawsuit, but I think they won the day. Legal costs are expensive.
Thank you, sir!
No emulator that I know of works better in software mode, software mode is always slower, not sure why you thought it should work better in software mode.
Gordon Freeman Usually for compatibility sakes, software rendering is better whereas hardware rendering is better in speed. Older games like Unreal have a software rendering mode for unsupported graphics cards.
oh man I wish you woulda played Gran Turismo 2, I've always wondered what it looks like compared to DC Bleem
Shit, I used Bleem back in the time. Talk about nostalgia.
I looked at it in 99, but I don't think my Cyrix MII 233 mhz and Voodoo Rush card was very suitable for it.
Because this was shut down before it was fully optimized, and the free ones came later.
Some false information in this video.
PS2 was relesed just a year after Bleem!, basicly it was last year or two of original PSX.
Also Randy Linden did not work on emulation of PSX on PS2, that makes no sense. PS2 was relesed in 2000, Bleem! bancrupt in 2001, and Randy Linden started to work for Sony in 2005. So he worked more on PS3 and PS store, not PS2.
As a kid, I do remember putting a PS1 disk in my old Windows 98 computer and I remember it reading and opening the disk! It was all random files Windows didn't recognize and couldn't do anything with. Guess that's what this emulator does. Now you can just download a free modern Playstation emulator and free ROMs to play.
Bleem is just damn ridiculous.. but Bleemcast is on a wholly different level of WTF. It has to be one of the least marketable pieces of software I've ever heard of.. seriously. The dreamcast itself did Not do very good in sales. And then you come along with a program to run Individual PS1 Games on a Dreamcast???!!
That has to be the most crazy brained idea for a program ever.
I really would've loved a reversal program. Something that allowed you to play Dreamcast games on a PS1 or 2.
q306005 It would've been impossible, to emulate a console you need to have more than 2x to 99x (it depends on the games) of total power than the original console.
The Dreamcast was similiar as a PS2, so a Dreamcast emulator on a PS1 or PS2 is actually impossible.
I remember that, when Bleem was announced for the Dreamcast (around the time of the DC's American launch), it was intended to be like Bleem for the PC; you'd be able to run what the PC version could. The company also announced compatible controllers around the same time.
There are actually multi-game Bleem beta discs for the DC floating around out there, if you can find them (I experimented with one years ago, but the compatibility wasn't all that great). And ultimately, Sony buried them in debt before any of the pie-in-the-sky stuff even happened. I did buy a Tekken 3 and Gran Turismo Bleemcast disc to try out when they were released, but since I had a PS1 already, I really saw no real need to have them, other than to fool around with.
Dreamcast sold very well when it was launched and even set record for fastest selling console in history
Then it was overtaken by PS2 in every way
I bought this back in the day for Dreamcast. Because Dreamcast was more powerful than PS1, Metal Gear Solid actually ran better and with less blocky graphics... Nuts!!
That background tune... awesome!!! Bass triplets and harmony,what is that?
every game would work better in accelerator mode. in software it does not use your video card
I could list a ton of them. Crash Bandicoot 1/2, Intelligent Qube, Gran Turismo, Fighting Force, The Need For Speed, Rayman, Driver, Oddworld, Metal Gear Solid... that's just the very tip of the iceberg. There are some others I might recommend if the Dreamcast didn't have better ports.