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PCSX2 1.2.0 released! Emulate your PS2 games at high resolution and frame rates.

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Shepard

Member
Got widescreen to work. For some reason they translated "widescreen" to "fullscreen" in portuguese, thought it was not related. Working great.

Dizzy-4U said:
System -----> Enable Widescreen patches.

Also, change the aspect ratio to 16:9 in the emulation settings.
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thanks!
 
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Zafir

Member
Are the widescreen patches just enabled when you choose 16:9 as the aspect ratio then? I can't see any options to turn on the hack.
 
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Remfin

Member
jsnepo said:
I installed this and ran SOTC. The frames are smooth yet the game is running slow.
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Slow as in how it ran before, or slow as in worse? Its emulating actual hardware, so performance will be the same for something like SOTC that maxed out the hardware already.

If you mean the game is acting weird, SOTC had an issue with setting some slider (VU something?) too high causing a slow-motion bug.
 
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aravuus

Member
Dark Octave said:
The game is great. You shouldn't miss out on it.

Has the issue with diagonals on the 360 sticks been figured out? It always registered as a walk instead of run.
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That's something that can be fixed by re-calibrating the controller in the Windows' control panel though, btw. When it tells you to do a circle motion with the stick, do a smaller circle without the stick touching the edges.

Anyway, I guess I could give this try. FF XII IZJS runs incredibly well on 1.0.0 too but there's that one quickening that drops the framerate to 10 for 5 seconds. It's weird, maybe it's fixed here.
 
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Nibel

Member
The game itself looks pretty good, but there were several slowdowns during cutscenes and menus; also, as you can see in the upper left corner, the HUD isn't scaled properly. Not sure if this can be fixed with different setting - I'll give it another shot later

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Perfect Cha0s

Member
DoubleTake said:
I really wonder if my peasant Laptop can run this emulator...

Intel i5 2450M
Intel HD Graphics 3000

Lol any chance??
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Some games will probably run. No guarantees on what resolution you'll be able to pull off though. The emulator isn't super demanding; it really depends on the game itself, and if you're trying to do all sorts of neat stuff like super-sampling and anti-aliasing.
 
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zeox

Member
is anyone else having problems with sound? I'm not getting any sound for some reason. Worked fine with previous versions :/
 
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Zantetsuken88

Member
Can somebody tell me how to use my Dualshock 3?

I can't figure it out, the only guide I can find doesn't make any sense to me :/

Screenshots look amazing!
 
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zychi

Banned
Fred-87 said:
I have no idea how this works...

'DEV9ghzdrk:

Improved support for online play and make the users MAC address unique.'

Does this mean i can play socom 1 or 2 on this one online? I guess not since an emulator cant provide servers, but yeah
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yes, but its a bitch to get it to work. you can use xlink
 
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stabwound

Neo Member
DoubleTake said:
I really wonder if my peasant Laptop can run this emulator...

Intel i5 2450M
Intel HD Graphics 3000

Lol any chance??
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Honestly, probably not. You might be able to play Final Fantasy 10 with some slowdowns and some 2D games but I doubt anything other than that.
 
onken

onken

Member
Although emulation was a big reason I built my new PC, truth is so many of the PS2 classics have HD remakes now so the need for this has dropped dropped quite a lot. Still super glad this exists, though. Going to try it out tonight!
 
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DoubleTake

Member
Perfect Cha0s said:
Some games will probably run. No guarantees on what resolution you'll be able to pull off though. The emulator isn't super demanding; it really depends on the game itself, and if you're trying to do all sorts of neat stuff like super-sampling and anti-aliasing.
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vazel said:
Try software mode with the AVX version of the gsdx graphics plugin and the EE cyclerate speedhack maxed.
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Thanks will try!

EDIT: Oh damn...will try still! hah
 
RSLAEV

RSLAEV

Member
I resumed my Nocturne playthrough using the Widescreen hack and it looks great, but the UI and fmv elements are stretched out.

Also I guessed they fixed the shadow overlap by removing it altogether?
 
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Knurek

Member
RSLAEV said:
I resumed my Nocturne playthrough using the Widescreen hack and it looks great, but the UI and fmv elements are stretched out.

Also I guessed they fixed the shadow overlap by removing it altogether?
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Same thing with Digital Devil Saga and (judging from screenshots) Persona games.
Not really something I'd call proper Widescreen, 2D layers look terrible when stretched. :\
 
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Ettie

Member
So does this mean I can run the snowblind engine games with enhancements or only that I can run them reliably in their original form?
 
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Ivan A Nguyen

Member
I am hyped. I was testing a Diego game for my son a month ago and it had some shader problems. Hopefully this will keep me from breaking out the PS2.
 
N

Nemo

Will Eat Your Children
Is there a youtube channel out there or something that records playthroughs at 1080p? Most of the RPGs I try to find are low res as shit
 
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crazyjah2003

Member
Does anyone know wheter there's been any changes to support in the Ratchet and Clank series? Am I wrong in thinking not one of them is playable at this point?
 
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KojiKnight

Member
Khaz said:
It's because the DVD is used like a data drive: the emulator fetchs the data it needs as fast as it cans and makes the drive rest when it's loaded. Such behaviour is normal for hard drives but a disc drive is much slower to start spinning. As such, everytime you load some assets there will be some slowdowns corresponding to your disc accelerating to its reading speed. On a PS2 the disc is kept spinning and the data is accessed faster (but not loaded faster though).

DVD-based slowdowns would be easy to avoid, you just need to get CDVD to keep the disk spinning and you will have the same behaviour as on a real PS2, with faster loadings. I don't know why they havent squashed that bug yet, I guess everybody plays with pirated images anyway.

[edit] I know you know, I was just expanding a bit.
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This behavior is NOT the fault of the emulator, it's the fault of PC DVD drives and their firmware. It's not a "bug" they can fix because it's impossible to make the DVD drive continue to spin or pull data if the PS2 game isn't constantly polling the disc for data.

About the only way this could actually work is with a very complicated caching system and a lot of ram (essentially dumping the disc to memory as you're playing it). Caching the entire disc into memory wouldn't be the hard part, but pre-caching the entire game into memory would be best to prevent any slowdowns... but that would take a long time (5 to 15 minutes before you even started playing)... So the complicated part would be being able to read the whole disc as the game is playing and intentionally caching what a game would most likely need to draw first.

Hmm... thinking on it, it wouldn't even be possible to cache quite a few games... since PCSX2 is a 32-bit program, it'd be limited to 4GB of ram including video ram... so it would have to be a very intelligent system that could be a huge mess.


Sorry, I kind of went off on an aside there... The reason why you can't "idle" a DVD drive is the firmware of the DVD drive itself. The firmware is a basic OS in itself that manages the DVD drive hardware. If the drive isn't constantly being polled for data, that firmware shuts down the drive to conserve power and wear and tear on the drive. A huge part of this is simply because PC drives works so much faster than the PS2 drive. That high speed on constantly would wear out the motor surprisingly fast.
 
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InfiniteNine

Rolling Girl
Knurek said:
Same thing with Digital Devil Saga and (judging from screenshots) Persona games.
Not really something I'd call proper Widescreen, 2D layers look terrible when stretched. :\
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The Persona patches should have HUD fixes in them unless they regulated them to cheats.

.Hack//G.U. still has some haloing around characters sadly.
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Sykotik

Member
The UI for Berserk is still screwed up in HW mode. It's a shame, I tell you! The English translation was updated not too long ago, too.
 
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KojiKnight

Member
InfiniteNine said:
The Persona patches should have HUD fixes in them unless they regulated them to cheats.

.Hack//G.U. still has some haloing around characters sadly.
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You can manually fix this by playing with the offset hacks in the gsdx settings. You'll just have to play around with it a little bit till you get it where you want it.
 
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Spiffy_1st

Member
That's good news, I only recently got into PS2 emulation. Nocturne looks the same as far as I can tell, I don't remember that white line on the left though. Looks like a couple of you guys have the same line.

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Cess007

Member
Is there anyway to play with the DS4? I plugged it and reaches the Main Menu of FFXII but nothing happens when i press any key :(
 
Teletraan1

Teletraan1

Banned
Tekken Tag finally works for me. Haven't tried it in the last few SVN releases but it is smooth as butter for me on this release.
 
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