But that's probably not the problem, I'm thinking its a setting in one of the GPU plugins (I was using four different kinds of Pete's GPU plugins). All the other CDR plugins fail to get past a big black screen. I should note that the only CDR plugin that got me that far was the 'Internal ePSXe W2K CDR' plugin, which is one of the ones that comes with the ePSXe emulator. I have tried using different settings with different plugins. I'm assuming it's failing to read or load or play the video at the beginning of the game. My problem is this: the screen freezes on the squaresoft logo at startup. I'm using a burnt 1:1 copy of the American release of the game. This is the first time I've tried running any game on an emulator. This problem is more basic than the one above.
I have a separate problem with fft, and in an effort to keep the number of game threads down have posted it in this similar thread.