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Name: | Air Combat |
Console: | Playstation (PSX) |
Release Date: | 1995 |
Publisher: | Namco, Sony Computer Entertainment |
Genres: | Combat flight simulator, Action, Arcade, Simulation, Flight simulator |
Air Combat, later known as Ace Combat for the Japanese PlayStation versions, is a semi-realistic flight-sim action game released by Namco in Japan in 1992 for their Namco System 21 "Polygonizer" arcade system, and ported to the PlayStation home video game console in 1995; similar to Ridge Racer, this game was the predecessor of the PlayStation series, and all subsequent games would adopt the Ace Combat name. The game mainly involves dog fighting over three levels of play - Cadet, Captain and Ace. The game later gained an arcade-exclusive sequel, Air Combat 22, in 1995; it was named because it ran on Namco System 22 polygon hardware, and it also allowed the player to choose from three different types of aircraft at the start of the game. |
There are two components for playing a psx Air Combat rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the psx OS and software.
The second component is the Air Combat rom itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest Retroarch – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading Retroarch, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the RetroArch-1.7.5-x86-setup.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Air Combat rom. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Retroarch and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .exe file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.
Emulator | Console | Platform | FileSize | Emulator |
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PCSX-Reloaded | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 0.6MB | Download |
WiiSX Beta 2.1 | Playstation (PSX) | Wii | 0.8MB | Download |
WiiSX Beta 2 | Playstation (PSX) | Wii | 0.8MB | Download |
AndriPSX | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 1.1MB | Download |
PCSX 1.5 | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 0.2MB | Download |