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Please post the contents of the emulog.txt file after the problem occurs. The file can be found in "My Documents\PCSX2\logs" for the installer version or in "PCSX2\logs" for the portable/binary version.
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11-23-2023, 10:12 PM
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Thanks! I wasn't sure what else was needed. This is after booting up the game and pressing "new game" to start the opening FMV
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11-23-2023, 10:22 PM
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And you said pressing f9 solves it ?
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11-23-2023, 11:31 PM
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(11-23-2023, 10:22 PM) jesalvein Wrote:
On the current stable release of PSCX2 (1.6.0), FMVs play with a black bar covering the video itself. Pressing F9 solves that issue and the FMV plays normally with no black bars on or around the video.
On the nightly release, FMVs are played in software rendering mode automatically. The video itself looks fine, but there is a black bar at the bottom as shown in the screenshots that I attached. It looks like the actual resolution is different between movie and gameplay.
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12-15-2023, 02:54 PM
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The old version was wrong, if you look at the following screenshots (one of my actual PS2 and one of the new PCSX2 with screen offsets enabled, plz ignore the aspect ratio), the picture has a gap top and bottom, it was never intended to fill the whole screen, it was supposed to be letterboxed.
The only issue is when screen offsets are not enabled, the picture isn't shifted down correctly, so you get just a gap at the bottom, but the old behaviour was more incorrect.
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There isn't, I'm afraid, but screen offsets on PS2 games are rarely actually lined up, so they are off slightly, you wouldn't notice this on an actual TV.
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The blurry image was the one without screen offsets. The image actually becomes sharper using screen offsets, but then the interlacing gets messed up: the shadows in battle are black stripes instead of solid grey, and other visual effects also suffer. For some reason, checking and then unchecking "anti blur" so it becomes a dark unchecked box mostly fixes this.
Having played the game a few times, there were some interesting emulation errors on the stable release:
A boss from chapter one, Boris, always appeared backwards at the start of the fight, meaning that he could be defeated more easily with back-attack damage. Valefor also started backwards every time although this could not be exploited. Yuna started backwards in both these fights as well. These things do not happen on PS2 and no longer occur on PCSX2 1.7.x either.
Directional controls inverted in the "tetris" room in Zanarkand, meaning you would have to press down in order to move up, and so on. This is also fixed on 1.7.x.
The menu cursor in battle sounded unusually high-pitched before; on version 1.7.x, it's truer to how the game sounds on PS2.
It's wild that actual gameplay and RNG elements were different in the stable release. Nightly is definitely truer to the PS2 experience even if the graphics feel a little worse.
I'll include an image of my game graphics settings in case others want to use them, but this bug report can probably be considered (mostly) resolved.
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