Disable post-process effects and fog?

[Devina]

I already made some visual hacks for Fatal Frame 3 (NTSC-U). It's in the widescreen code.

//Dither + Ghost post-process Effect Off
//patch=1,EE,00156cb4,word,00000000
//Focus Effect Off
patch=1,EE,00156cfc,word,00000000
//Disable dark filter (cutscene)
//patch=1,EE,00156d2c,word,00000000

//Disable all bloom (speedup, but makes the game seem dull)
//patch=1,EE,00156df4,word,00000000

//Disable overbloom (cutscene)
patch=1,EE,00156d90,word,00000000
//Decrease overbloom (gameplay)
patch=1,EE,2036B904,word,3F400000

//Bloom offset (fixes bloom glitch)
patch=1,EE,2036B910,word,43A30000 // 43A00000 - TC X-offset
patch=1,EE,2036B914,word,43660000 // 43600000 - TC Y-offset

Try running the game with widescreen hacks and see if it makes a difference.

If you want to go further, you can disable "Dither + Ghost post-process Effect Off" which turns off the noise filter, however, it also disables a creepy filter when ghosts are nearby, and I like the creepy filter so I prefer to leave it on. The noise filter isn't too bad in this game anyway.

The "disable dark filter (cutscene)" just brightens cutscenes a little, it's kinda useless and unimportant.

The "Disable all bloom" does what it says, but I think it makes the game seem way too dull and boring.
I think the surreal bloom helps add to the dream-like atmosphere of the game. If you're having FPS issues with the game, however, turning it off will give you a nice FPS boost.

[Coal48]

I already made some visual hacks for Fatal Frame 3 (NTSC-U). It's in the widescreen code.

Okay, searched google about pcsx2 widescreen hacks and found a small tutorial on youtube

I found the widescreen pack and FF3's pnach file, moved it to the cheat folder of pcsx2's root

checked "enable cheats" and "enable widescreen patches" then ran the game

It works!! thanks a lot for making this Devina, it may not seem much but it's a huge game changer to me, I really appreciate it, thank you very much

I'm still a bit confused though, how do I turn on/off some options?

[KeyToTruth12]

Put // in front of the codes/patches.

[Coal48]

here are some comparison pictures

normal 1
-1 skipdraw (can't see menus, text, camera)
hack

normal 2
-1 skipdraw (can't see menus, text, camera)
hack

the hack definitely looks better than without it personally, though I'm not sure if it's better than the skipdraw trick but that's not actually an option since that makes the game unplayable

[Coal48]

Put // in front of the codes/patches.

by opening the files in notepad right, thanks, got it

[Devina]

You might want to up the in-game brightness to compensate for the lack of bloom.