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God of War 2 Hi Def Mode Code Revealed?

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YYZ

Junior Member
This is real and has already been posted in the big God of War thread on the front page.

It's not an HD mode, it only improves the resolution very slightly
 
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Dot50Cal

Banned
"Sharper Graphics" ......YEEEEEAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhh...... Are people too stupid to understand the term resolution?
 
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gbovo

Member
Yeah, tried this code and have been playing in "HD-mode" for a while. You have to press and hold the buttons b4 the "SCEA" logo appears. If you get it right, the "SCEA" logo should appear purple instead of white. The game basically becomes 95% jaggie-less,and the most beautiful PS2
/last gen
game ever made. It's worth it.
 
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HomerSimpson-Man

Member
Every time I see this game with that crazy ass Colossus of Rodes opening level, it completely floors me with what Santa Monica Team pulled off on the PS2.

Now this is just ridiculous, they even hidden a higher res mode for full frame buffers. Santa Monica am PS2 gods!
 
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Mrbob

Member
Yeah this is actually true. The Sony Computer Entertainment logo in the beginning goes pink instead of white and you know it works.

Just tried it out on my PStriple and LCD TV and the game looks much sharper. What the shit why wasn't this a menu option?
 
B

Bad_Boy

time to take my meds
HomerSimpson-Man said:
Every time I see this game with that crazy ass Colossus of Rodes opening level, it completely floors me with what Santa Monica Team pulled off on the PS2.

Now this is just ridiculous, they even hidden a higher res mode for full frame buffers. Santa Monica am PS2 gods!
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what he said.
 
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Zombie James

Banned
No point trying this on an SDTV, i guess.

edit: Well, I tired it anyways :p

Yup, purple text alright, but I can't tell any difference on my 480i set. Jaggies are still there, performance is the same. Meh.
 
Pimpbaa

Pimpbaa

Member
Quagm1r3 said:
Is this like when the nice person on Counterstrike told me to press f10 and candy would fly out of my moniter?
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No but alt-F4 gives you instant access to high quality porn.
 
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HomerSimpson-Man

Member
Mrbob said:
Yeah this is actually true. The Sony Computer Entertainment logo in the beginning goes pink instead of white and you know it works.

Just tried it out on my PStriple and LCD TV and the game looks much sharper. What the shit why wasn't this a menu option?
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Well they said it was totally last minute. They finished the game, and then like PS2 miracle workers that they are, they thought "Maybe just a little more...." Sounds crazy considering what they did, but I can't believe they somehow found some extra VRAM and hardware cycles calculations to spare for this thing. They didn't finish it until the last minute, so it must of stuck sorta of like a hidden activated debug mode without enough time to code it into a proper menu activated resolution switch.
 
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jmd494

Member
YYZ said:
This is real and has already been posted in the big God of War thread on the front page.

It's not an HD mode, it only improves the resolution very slightly
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You wish! Check out the quality difference:

gow2beforeandaftergd0.jpg
 
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Stabby McSter

Member
Jamesfrom818 said:
Why isnt this in the options instead? Seems just as dumb as trying to get blood mode on for Mortal Kombat
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I would assume that someone would try it from the menu, play it and state "HEY THIS GOD OF WAR 2 IS RUNNING SLOW. BUT IT LOOKS SO PRETTY."

I dunno, really. I think they'd get a lot of complaints for a mode that wasn't FULLY developed and left in the menu.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

Member
HomerSimpson-Man said:
Well they said it was totally last minute. They finished the game, and then like PS2 miracle workers that they are, they thought "Maybe just a little more...." Sounds crazy considering what they did, but I can't believe they somehow found some extra VRAM and hardware cycles calculations to spare for this thing. They didn't finish it until the last minute, so it must of stuck sorta of like a hidden activated debug mode without enough time to code it into a proper menu activated resolution switch.
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If it was a matter of being a last-minute thing, I doubt it was not having the time to code a menu option, but rather not having the time to give it proper testing.
 
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-Rogue5-

Member
If I were any other PS2 1st party or "2nd" party developer (other than Polyphony Digital I guess), I'd feel very very inadequate right now. God of War 2 looks (and runs) as good as anything on the much more powerful Xbox (Ninja Gaiden) and GameCube (RE4.) It's kind of insulting and makes me think GoW3 will definitely 1080p/60fps (or 1080p/30fps, with a sh*tload going on onscreen.) I mean isn't the Emotion Engine slightly less than 300MHz (like 294 or 296 or something)? I'd love to see what these guys could do on the PSP running at 333MHz/166MHz CPU/GPU...WAIT NO... I'd love to see what they could do with a PS3 running at 3.2GHz*8/500MHz CPU/GPU.
 
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acklame

Member
JB1981 said:
unless i'm doing something wrong, this doesn't seem to work on the pstriple.
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it does. first plug your sixaxis to the usb cable to make it sync faster. then launch the game, quickly press the ps button and press and hold the code. The SCEA text will be pink/purple when you did it.
 
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jmd494

Member
JB1981 said:
unless i'm doing something wrong, this doesn't seem to work on the pstriple.
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It's very hard to do on the trip without using the USB cable...as SOON as the controller turns off...turn it back on and AS SOON AS ITS BACK ON, HOLD (Don't tap!) L1, L2, L3, [], and O at the same time..you'll know it worked if the legal info screen is bright purple text
 
S

Sho Nuff

Banned
Wow, I'm glad that I knew about this mode before completing the game on my 100-inch projection screen that makes every jaggie the size of your god damn fist.
 
Y

YYZ

Junior Member
Justin Dailey said:
You wish! Check out the quality difference:

gow2beforeandaftergd0.jpg
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lol, took me a few seconds but I see what you did there.

I don't really want this game to be running any slower anyway. Let's just wait for GoWIII to blow us all away with the hi-def hotness.
 
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JB1981

Member
acklame said:
it does. first plug your sixaxis to the usb cable to make it sync faster. then launch the game, quickly press the ps button and press and hold the code. The SCEA text will be pink/purple when you did it.
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can't get it to work :(
 
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jmd494

Member
JB1981 said:
can't get it to work :(
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Try reading my post (the one where I quoted you)...see if you still can't get it to work.

If you can't though, don't sweat it too much...it's really not THAT noticeable.
 
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JB1981

Member
Justin Dailey said:
Try reading my post (the one where I quoted you)...see if you still can't get it to work.

If you can't though, don't sweat it too much...it's really not THAT noticeable.
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i got it to work, but even after I get the pink/purple screen i'm asked if i want to run the game in progressive scan mode. if i select yes all i get is 480p output. when you guys do this does your tv say your getting a 720p resolution or no?
 
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Lobster

Banned
YYZ said:
lol, took me a few seconds but I see what you did there.

I don't really want this game to be running any slower anyway. Let's just wait for GoWIII to blow us all away with the hi-def hotness.
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WTF did he do there? :( I notice the black scribbles..but wtf is it supposed to mean :(
 
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jmd494

Member
JB1981 said:
i got it to work, but even after I get the pink/purple screen i'm asked if i want to run the game in progressive scan mode. if i select yes all i get is 480p output. when you guys do this does your tv say your getting a 720p resolution or no?
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It isn't 720p...it's just 480p with SOMETHING done (I dont know technically what) to make it look better
 
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jmd494

Member
Lobster said:
WTF did he do there? :( I notice the black scribbles..but wtf is it supposed to mean :(
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I just overaccentuated the difference with photoshop...just a dumb joke to make poke a little fun at the people who are claiming that the TINY difference this code makes is a night and day difference.
 
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Fafalada

Fafracer forever
It isn't 720p...it's just 480p with SOMETHING done (I dont know technically what) to make it look better
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A lot of last gen games don't run exactly 640x480 internally (there's a milion and one different resolution choices, one that was pretty common is 512x512). This applies to lots of 480P games as well.

Difference is subtle, and you need a HDTV to notice it. Official explanation seems to agree as well, so my guess would be the GOW2 code goes from 512x512->640x480. I'll try and check this if I can get GoW2 to run on the Tool.
 
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Nuclear Muffin

Banned
WTF that's crazy! does it lower the framerate at all? (I don't see how they could increase the resolution to a full 640 x 480p without impacting performance, it's just not possible!)

Fafalada said:
A lot of last gen games don't run exactly 640x480 internally (there's a milion and one different resolution choices, one that was pretty common is 512x512). This applies to lots of 480P games as well.

Difference is subtle, and you need a HDTV to notice it. Official explanation seems to agree as well, so my guess would be the GOW2 code goes from 512x512->640x480. I'll try and check this if I can get GoW2 to run on the Tool.
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Only on PS2, that's why PS2 games look so much worse than GCN and X-box games on a HDTV.
 
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JB1981

Member
Nuclear Muffin said:
WTF that's crazy! does it lower the framerate at all? (I don't see how they could increase the resolution to a full 640 x 480p without impacting performance, it's just not possible!)



Only on PS2, that's why PS2 games look so much worse than GCN and X-box games on a HDTV.
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The dev said the game doesn't run quite as well. But from what I've played of it in this mode, it runs pretty frickin' good.
 
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jmd494

Member
f@luS said:
damn i dont know if im doing it right
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If you did it right...you'll see VERY noticeable purple text on the legal screen while the game loads up...as opposed to the normal white text.

You'll know when you did it right...there will be no doubt about it.
 
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