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Emulator Screenshot Thread
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Conkerkid11
Member
So you haven't played 3D World?
Radius4
Member
Please elaborate, what games are not working? maybe here http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637928&page=31
Boulotaur2024
Member
Some shots from 2013
All kind of shaders on top of these. Can't remember which ones exactly
All kind of shaders on top of these. Can't remember which ones exactly
I want to do screens someday!!!
Holy crap!!!Some shots from 2013
All kind of shaders on top of these. Can't remember which ones exactly
Boulotaur2024
Member
Did they fix the hair transparency issue? I played through both of those games via NullDC last years, works pretty great and even allowed me to transfer saves between games.
revolverjgw
Member
I know the fonts and text get messed up, but I just like to set the resolution real high, the picture looks so sharp and clear then. It's like PS1 games were hiding a bunch of detail behind tons of grain. I find scanlines make the picture so dark.
Some Ridge Racer in ePSXe 1.9.0
PS1 games look so beautiful in high res... except for that goddamned texture warping
I don't think anything got fixed recently, NullDC's development has been stale for years.
Played it to completion before christmas on the most recent version of nulldc I could find and it still has the hair issue. I'm not sure if anyone is still working on the emulator.
Some shots from 2013
All kind of shaders on top of these. Can't remember which ones exactly
I didn't know the ps2 could output that many polygons.
sixteen-bit
Member
VP2 also supported 1080i on PS2, IIRC if you had component cables. Really impressive.
Only the Japanese version did as I used component cables and I couldn't get 1080i at all, only 480p.
Spiritwalker
Member
Some random screens from today's FFXII session! I play @ 6x original resolution with MSAA 16x and shade boost. I'm still a big noob when it comes to emulation though.
Feel free to check out my entire FFXII screenshot album here. Note that many of them are old(ish) though.
Feel free to check out my entire FFXII screenshot album here. Note that many of them are old(ish) though.
King Radical
Member
Smash Project M, Wii, Dolphin, 4xNative resolution.
Chrizzy_81
Member
Some shots from 2013
All kind of shaders on top of these. Can't remember which ones exactly
Wow... Just wow. Definitely want to try and check this game out, purely based on these screenshots!
ResidentDante
Member
They do, I just wish someone would make a feature that helped fix the warping!
Some shots from 2013
All kind of shaders on top of these. Can't remember which ones exactly
Stunning.
ResidentDante
Member
Rage Racer - PS1 - ePSXe 1.9.0
Robin64
Member
Anyone know if this is possible? I'd love to see it too.
http://ngemu.com/threads/peteopengl2tweak-tweaker-for-peteopengl2-plugin-w-gte-accuracy-hack.160319/
An emulator named PCSXR that has a hack that helps stabilizing geometry warping/wobbling, but not texture warping.
Without hack:
With hack:
I personally prefer playing most PS1 games at their original resolution. The warping becomes increasingly noticeable the more you increase the resolution. R4 especially looks dreadful in motion. It's too bad this thing seems to be "unfixable."
That game is beautiful it really looks like a water color painting.
TheSlySoul
Member
Yeah I was surprised how good Crisis Core looked on my Gamestick. I will take some pictures for this thread.
Now the only thing I do not get is why it takes so much power to play some N64 games when I can play many PSP games? What a badly designed console.
The N64 was being emulated like 2 years after it released and I would venture to say it's become more efficient since then. That was the time of pentium II processors. If that's par for the course I would hardly call that a lot of power.
Radius4
Member
Why would that make the console badly designed?
The PSP might be far simpler to understand, simpler hardware, well known architecture, those are important factors. On the N64 era most of the hardware was still bespoke, done for the console and only for it.
Plugin based emulators is what hurt N64 and PSX emulation the most in my opinion. plugins gave too much free-reign to plugin authors, they deviated a lot from the core and focused on features first...
Most plugins seem to be HLE hackfests. (not saying a plugin can't be good, it just seems plugin based emulators are always behind).
Portugeezer
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texhnolyze
Banned
Some shots from 2013
All kind of shaders on top of these. Can't remember which ones exactly
I've just restarted the game like two days ago. Yeah it's really pretty, but the bug in the forest is still there, sadly. Fortunately, there aren't many area where the bug occur.
Anyone have screens of other PS2 RPGs worth sharing? Rogue Galaxy? Xenosaga? Wild Arms? They seem to especially benefit from the higher rendering resolution. I'm thinking about trying Okami. Those VP2 screens are impressive.
I wonder if those cartoony Atlus games (eg Odin Sphere) benefit at all.
I set fraps to take a screenshot every three seconds while I'm playing Dolphin, but only through Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess so far. I have like 50GB of screens, if anyone wants to see something specific. I've finished SS and played TP up to the end of Snowpeak.
I wonder if those cartoony Atlus games (eg Odin Sphere) benefit at all.
I set fraps to take a screenshot every three seconds while I'm playing Dolphin, but only through Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess so far. I have like 50GB of screens, if anyone wants to see something specific. I've finished SS and played TP up to the end of Snowpeak.
Don't know about the rest but Odin sphere does not it's using sprites for everything so blowing them up just smudges them.
I have Rogue Galaxy and all 3 Xenosaga games.
That's what I figured. Too bad.
You would be surprised, the sprite assets are usually heavily scaled and therefore of better quality than the game's native res would require, e.g. for zooming in and out of the screen. They end up looking pretty great at higher rendering resolutions. Static elements (read: stuff that gets not scaled) like character art or backgrounds don't benefit that much though.
GrimGrimoire | PS2 | PCSX2 | 3x native res
You would be surprised, the sprite assets are usually heavily scaled and therefore of better quality than the game's native res would require, e.g. for zooming in and out of the screen. They end up looking pretty great at higher rendering resolutions. Static elements (read: stuff that gets not scaled) like character art or backgrounds don't benefit that much though.
GrimGrimoire | PS2 | PCSX2 | 3x native res
I didn't know the Odin Sphere team released anything else on the PS2.
ResidentDante
Member
Ridge Racer Type 4 - ePSXe 1.9.0
MaximusCrime
Neo Member
After skimming through the thread I gave PPSSPP a go myself on my 5 year old laptop, and I have to say, color me impressed. Tried Monster Hunter FU and ran with a steady FPS, although I just took a picture at the beginning of the game.
Monster Hunter Freedom United 4x rendering
Definitely going to try some other games.
Monster Hunter Freedom United 4x rendering
Monster Hunter Freedom United original resolution
Definitely going to try some other games.
Ridge Racer Type 4 - ePSXe 1.9.0
R4, in motion it's maybe the best looking 3D game of its generation.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Started Shadow of the Colossus and immediately did one of my favorite things
You can even shoot while standing on Agro and riding.
Playing through Dark Cloud 2 again reconfirmed my love for it. Fantastic game.
You can even shoot while standing on Agro and riding.
Playing through Dark Cloud 2 again reconfirmed my love for it. Fantastic game.
ResidentDante
Member
R4, in motion it's maybe the best looking 3D game of its generation.
Agreed, it looks amazing. The night tracks when you get faster and faster cars, man all the lighting and the up and down tunnels whizzing past; looks incredible.
Started Shadow of the Colossus and immediately did one of my favorite things
You can even shoot while standing on Agro and riding.
Playing through Dark Cloud 2 again reconfirmed my love for it. Fantastic game.
Maybe it's just me but those looked a bit stretched.
It kinda does. Messing around with resizing it does look like the game looks the most natural with a 16:10-ish ratio, which was relatively common back during that era when you couldn't be sure if people's TVs were 4:3 or widescreen (or whatever else), so you just went for in between and hope it didn't annoy people too much. This was way before aspect ratio settings became more commonplace in options/configs. (See also: games up to the Wii era requiring widescreen hacks to not look like ass on modern 16:9 displays)
edit: For reference: original PS2 game screenie http://www.the-nextlevel.com/reviews/ps2/dark_cloud_2/dark_cloud_2_3.jpg
4:3, looks a little squashed, but that might just be my opinion.
Dark cloud 2 definitely is
IAmRandom31
Banned
DQVIII
Such a beautiful game man
Such a beautiful game man