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I've been away from home on a trip, so I haven't had the chance to play more of Lost Odyssey, but I'll report about the crash point after pirate joins.

Funny you should mention the 3LOD Abu Antar , I think mine also started dying with Lost Odyssey. I can't remember exactly because it was so many years ago, but I definitely played through the game fighting with 3LOD issues, I'd open it up and do the eraser trick etc., it kept stumbling along just enough for me to complete it.
 

Duraframe300

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Stenzek unarchived Duckstation and has added some commits to it.

Could be that it was just a one time maintenance update. Could be he finally managed to simply say *Fuck you Twin Aphex* in his mind and move on. Let's hope its the latter.
So yeah, Stenzek is back on Duckstation (While still contributing to PCSX2 and so on). He also removed the leftover Libretro stuff and Libretro/Retroarch removed the Duckstation core (But kept their own fork *Swanstation*). So I guess the matter is settled.

Also means (among else) his attempt at Texture Replacement for PS1 is moving forward. Good thing too since BeetlePSX's is still crashy and barely usable.
 

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And I just had started moving from Beetle to Duckstation on RA. Have you tried Swanstation, how does it differ?
 

Nifft Batuff

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A bit late but:...
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I've been playing some of the Japan Studios games I missed back in the day.

In Tokyo Jungle (2012) you try to survive as various animals (some have to rely on stealth, some are carnivores, etc.) in a post-apocalyptic scenario, hunting to survive, mating, and so on. Game works perfectly with RPCS3.
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Behold my frightful Pomeranian. He'll tear your dick off.

Original game concepts like this just don't happen anymore, especially not backed by a large company like Sony. It's a great loss.
 
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I played the original ICO back on release more than 20 years ago. It was my favourite game on the PS2. I loved the melancholy atmosphere, the great music, the superb art direction, the scale of it. It ran like shit at a very low resolution, but I didn't care at all.

All these years later, I remembered that there was a remaster for the PS3 that I never played. RPCS3 seems to run it pretty perfectly [edit: I was getting random freezes, but setting "Driver Wake-Up Delay" to 400 in the Advanced configuration tab seemed to solve it], so I'll gladly relive some of that magic. The remaster runs at a decent 30fps, seems to be color-corrected in a way (even though I loved the look of the original, it did seem a bit drab at times, almost monochromatic) and the widescreen aspect ratio is welcome in such a visually-oriented game. Will probably play it to completion. Does anyone know if the remaster is based off of the US or the European version of the game?
 
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Zed Duke of Banville

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Does anyone know if the remaster is based off of the US or the European version of the game?
samuraigaiden recently posted an explanation of the differences between the PS2 versions of Ico, and it seems that the PS3 remastered version, that was accompanied on the same disc by a remaster of Shadow of the Colossus, is based on the Japanese version (which is also the same as the European version, aside from language), while the American version is inferior (and apparently was published first, six weeks before the Japanese version).


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Been playing the 2011 PS3 SotC 'remaster'. Although I was mostly interested in the Ico remaster in the same disc, SotC was the most technically impressive PS2 game of all time for me - the cloth system, the incredible animations, the scale of the colossi, down to the details of the fur system. I loved it and especially the artstyle. However, it ran very poorly (often dropping to single digits) due to to how advanced everything was - the animations, the clothing system, the fur system, the scale of the world and of the colossi, all of it. It really did border on unplayable, especially on later colossi (the last one in particular ran mostly in single digit FPS).

Earlier this year I played the 2018 PS4 remake on the PS5. Although it felt great (especially at 60fps), I thought something felt off regarding the new assets - although technically excellent, they don't accurately translate the look and feel of the original, something I felt was also the case with the Demon's Souls remake (by the same company, Bluepoint). Everything looks too clean and inviting, while the original clearly depicted a hostile and unwelcoming, barren world.

The PS3 remaster is a good compromise, I feel. It uses pretty much the same assets as the PS2 version, with very little tampering (bloom seems to be a little dialed back but I felt it was sometimes excessive in the original), and runs at a very stable 30fps at 720p/half-horizontal resolution 1080p. Although obviously falling short of the PS4 remake's 60fps, it's still quite acceptable and a vast improvement over the original version - with the considerable benefit of preserving the overall look and atmosphere.

RPCS3 runs it perfectly.

Pretty cool. I think RPCS3 made some incredible progress over the past couple of years.
 
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The PS3 version can be made to run at higher fps by increasing the vblank - I got it to run at 70 fps this way, though it also seems to affect some physics (the reins on the horse were freaking out) so I can't say it won't cause other issues.
 

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BROs, since I'm almost done with Fire Emblem Echoes - SoV (one of the best Emblems IMO), I'm once again bothering you with my avatar support. ;)

I've made two (or three) "mugs" for all playable characters and some enemies.

1) The "bigger" mug.

Dumped the "big" portrait (512x512) used as backgorund in menus. Examples:

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Cropped it to 384x384 (3/4 of the original):

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Resized to 128x128. And Voila:

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2) The "smaller" bust.

Dumped the "silhouette" texture (256x256), used in dialogues and item submenu. Examples:

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Cropped it to 128x128. And Voila:

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If certain fag / dyke has some "bonus" texture (used during scenes "in the past" or after promotion), I've dumped these too. Examples:

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Link to the entire package (original tetures + avatars):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5q2zpbxpxggalum/

If somebody wants to go big, HQ art (with transparent background) is available online:

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Links:

https://fireemblemwiki.org/wiki/Category:Shadows_of_Valentia_artwork

https://serenesforest.net/gallery/shadows-of-valentia/

One thing is certain, Hidari-kun certainly has a thing for long legs & thongs... :salute:

That is all. :obviously:
 
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Duraframe300

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Some PCSX2 news:

- MAC nightly Builds will soon become available. (Includes Renderer for Apple's Metal API)
- DX12 renderer has been merged. Most useful for Intel GPU's at the moment since Vulkan is broken on their drivers. There's future work planned though that will bring DX12 to the same/similar level of accuracy as OpenGL/Vulkan.
 
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Duraframe300

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So, will we see Stuntman ever being playable? That game is just pure awesomeness but limited levels you can play irk me to no end. I want to experience it all!

Stuntman requires near perfect Floating Point Accuracy for its AI to work correctly.

So, realistically still ways off in any performant way. Sorry.
 

flyingjohn

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Speaking of windows 7,is there any emu that has serious issues on win 10?
I am especially interested in old computer emu's (the old Japanese ones like the pc 88 particularly).
 

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I don't know about emulators... but Windows 10 has removed support for 16 bit executables, which basically breaks everything from the era of "too new for DOS".
And some things which are 32bit, but depend on some features like inmm (to play CD Audio tracks), which hasn't worked properly since Vista.
 

Hirato

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I don't know about emulators... but Windows 10 has removed support for 16 bit executables, which basically breaks everything from the era of "too new for DOS".
That's always been the case since 64-bit was a thing.
Far as I'm aware, there was no such thing with Windows 7, and 8.1.
It was removed in Windows 10 due to security issues with the feature that microsoft didn't bother to fix.
It was similarly disabled on Linux for 4 or so years, but it's reenabled now and modern wine can run those executables just fine (e.g. Win95 version of HoMM2)
 

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