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Name: | Hellboy: Asylum Seeker |
Console: | Playstation (PSX) |
Release Date: | 2003 |
Publisher: | DreamCatcher Interactive |
Genres: | Action, Adventure |
Hellboy: Dogs of the Night is a 2000 video game for the PC, developed by Cryo Studios. It was ported to the PlayStation titled Hellboy: Asylum Seeker, developed by Hoplite Research and released in 2004. The Hellboy game is based on Dark Horse Comics' science fiction comic book series Hellboy, written and drawn by Mike Mignola. Commercially, the game was a flop. Having spent four years in development, the graphics and game play were quite dated, and at the time of its release, Hellboy was still a mostly unknown independent comic book series, especially abroad. Other factors contributed to the game's commercial failure, as well: the PC version had numerous bugs, the PlayStation version was graphically inferior to most others at the time, and the control of both games was considered abysmal at best. Both Cryo Studios and Cryo Interactive went out of business shortly after Hellboy's PC release. The PC version has a score of 11.50% at GameRankings. |
There are two components for playing a psx Hellboy: Asylum Seeker rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the psx OS and software.
The second component is the Hellboy: Asylum Seeker 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 Hellboy: Asylum Seeker 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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PSXeven 0.19 | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 0.7MB | Download |
WiiSX Beta 2.1 | Playstation (PSX) | Wii | 0.8MB | Download |
PCSX-Revolution rev50 | Playstation (PSX) | Wii | 0.4MB | Download |
AndriPSX | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 1.1MB | Download |
Matsu 2.24.0 | Playstation (PSX) | Android | 15.9MB | Download |