Thank you for showing Valkyrie Profile 2. It's one of the game and series that's in my heart forever. For VP2 PCSX2 there are some cheats you can enable to fix the beginning zone issues and some other as well.
I personally have no interest in CRT's for my setup & not everyone wants to use them just to play retro games :) If you feel that is the way forward, keep using the CRT but for me & many others, a good way to display these games on current TV's is important to ensure we can continue to play no matter what display we use :)
Is GH3 Guitar Hero III? God Of War 1 & 2 work very well, I have the second game on Steam Deck & the first game I rented many years ago from a good friend :) I can always include them in a future video!
Here's a special update video celebrating 1000 subscribers & giving you all a look at what's to come! (Turns out I was using the MacBook Pro's Built In Studio Microphone's & Not my Usual Blue Yeti So, Sorry For The Audio If It Sounds Weird!)
Thank you for your awesome content, knew your channel from mr sujano, never thought its just 1000 subs just recently. I always thought you already have 10k or more
I never knew this was a thing & although my Macbook indeed has a 120hz screen, I'd rather play at the native hz of the game, but it sounds interesting :)
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial If there was an similar app on Mac I think you would prefer to run them interpolated to 120hz, it is surprisingly seamless. With only a tiny bit of extra latency and some extra artifacts showing. But the extra motion resolution is absolutely worth it in most cases. Check out some videos on it Digital Foundry have one for example.
I'll certainly look into it & if it does indeed work on Mac, I might showcase it if I feel it warrants a look :) But I will say, even if I do like it, more likely than not I'll just play the games natively, that's just me xD
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial Just to be clear. As far as I know this is not available on Mac yet. But the same shaders could run on Mac hardware without any problem if someone makes them available. As far as I know it seem to be based on AMD's FSR3 and that code I think is open source. So it is possible someone port a similar solution.
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial By the way, how strange my previous answer was hidden in the thread but you got it anyway. RU-vid's censor is wild these days.
Input lag for me has & never has been an issue for me:) On Emulation I cannot guarantee if you'll have any :) I've played the two back to back for years with no problems but I think your system & the display you use may impact this :)
If the footage was from my camera, it was shot at 24fps (All of it) and not indicative of what was on screen :) My camera has no 60fps mode in 4K so only use the captured footage to gauge the quality of the emulation on Steam Deck :)
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial no need for 4k 60fps. But at least not make the games look like they runs at snail speed which for certain clips like racing games I wouldn't call 15fps playable. just record at 1080p on your camera or something. Shocking to showcase gameplay running like that on a showcasing video and blame the camera for 24fps recording.
Again I recorded the gameplay properly via capture as you saw :) Next time yes I'll try to record at 30 or 1080p 60 if I must but the frame rate from the camera is not indicative of how it looks on the Deck :) Many people record at 4K30 or 4K24 so I'm not the only one :)
Tomb raider really benefits from a stable 30 fps I can't count the number of times i missed a jump because of random sub 20 fps on my original ps1 (definitely not because i am bad at the game)
I got hold of a retroscaler 2x for free, and by and large was quite happy with it. I don't think I have a green hue on my screen. The retroscaler on this video looks a bit too smooth for my liking, was this done with smoothing on or off? I would say OSSC wins hands down
They are cheaper clone products so quality might differ but on the whole the green hue is minor :) The smoothing was turned off, I hate smoothing, looks natural :) Also bear in mind 2x vs 4x & 5x will always make the 2x scale look blurrier :)
I used to love emulation but as I've grown up I've realised more and more how much of a compromise it is. Yes, it is very close, but the amount of games that have slowdown or missing effects is rather annoying, and upscaling games comes with a host of issues like incongruent textures and HUDs. I'll always love emulation for preservation, especially of obscure systems, but real hardware on a CRT is the way to go for me. Unless it's a handheld, in which case I can overlook these issues.
I love real hardware although I've switched to upscalers because of HDMI, no matter how you play, CRT or otherwise, there's a place for all hardware & best part is you can softmod the PS2 for cheap :) I will soon invest in a Memory card SD adapter so I can download Roms onto the PS2 & play them that way on the actual hardware :) I agree with your assessment of PS2 emulation but it really has come along way & many games fuctiom well & if you want more accurate PS2 graphics, simply use software rendering :)
It's not that bad, although I agree to stick with the original if possible. Here in the UK, a lot of Retrotink products aren't sold here, making it difficult to acquire them :)
Nooooooo! Man, why are you using openGL? You are just capping the full power of the system with that. Try vulkan, bro, that's a native library with the deck. With that i'm sure you'll be capable to scale to 720 or even 1080 the games
I've used both renderers for years & on the Steam Deck. OpenGL has always been the more reliable performer for me :) Usually Vulkan does work but I noticed there's frame drops more often as opposed to OpenGL in my experience, that's why I always recommend people use that first when using PCSX2:) Of course everyone has different systems & maybe on your personal system Vulkan could work better, but OpenGL does the job & this video was not about pushing the system anyway :) It was just showing people the PS2 games actually work :) I'm more than happy to make a video on both renderers to see which work best for the Steam Deck running PCSX2!
I just got a retro scaler 2x for 37$ U.S. I need to use it as a passthrough using my Retrovision component cables on my Saturn and RGB modded Genesis so that I can connect the HDMI out to a Morph 4k input, since the Morph4k currently does not have an analog bridge available. This video gives me hope that it will work well. I wont be using the scaling features, just a passthrough so that the Morph does all the upscaling on its own. Its just until Pixel FX releases the analog bridge. Appreciate you uploading this!
This device should work although bear in mind that I used 2x throughout because with Sega Saturn & Genesis the 240p signal might be too low depending on the display used :) If you do get it & use passthrough mode & nothing gets displayed, try the 2x mode for a 480p output :) Passthrough with Saturn games with Hi-Res modes (480i) should work straight away though :)
It looks better than what most people think although, I've since switched to passthrough mode for interlaced content & allowed OBS via the Yadif 2x setting to deinterlace the footage & it looks even better in my opinion:) I have several recent videos showing this:)
I wish the OSSC had it, luckily the Pro does indeed have it but, these days I use the OSSC in passthrough for interlaced content, using OBS's Yadif 2x to deinterlace the content:) Much better!
Also how do you get it so that the OSSC doesn't cut off the top hand bottom on 5x. Is it just on a game by game basis? I have to be honest i only use 4 x as a result.
You can minimise it by using 1600x1200 but sadly no matter what settings you use, the 5x mode will always cut some information from the top & bottom of the screen, that's by design :) Usually it doesn't bother me & the effect is less pronounced with NTSC software as apposed to PAL software :)
I have in many videos but they take time & a lot of processing work :) While I will put some in, the whole video won't be full of them as the differences are pretty obvious :)
You're doing some amazing work here for people interested in these products. I love my OSSC thanks to your recommendation. I almost got a retro scaler 2 x because of s-video and the N64. I don't have an N64 anymore, but I'll think I'll get an RGB modded one if I do get one to use with my OSSC. Though I need to be careful or else I'm gonna get tempted by the retrotink 5 x. Have you ever been tempted by that?
I got the OSSC in 2020, long before the Tink 5x or 4K were even made :) I of course want a Tink 5x but the price of one & import charges means I cannot get one yet :) Still love my OSSC & I'm glad you are enjoying yours :)
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial I didn't realise they didn't sell it in the U.K. I can't afford it either so I'll hold off for now and dream about the 4k variant!
Yes this is the main problem & people assume the UK has it when it does not :) Quite a few people don't realise we can't just drop that amount when other priorities take place xD One day I'll get the 5x!
I wanted to compare two upscalers for retro gaming: The OSSC & the Retroscaler 2x or simply put a Retrotink 2x clone! Here's the results using the highest settings available using Component cables! I tested a mixture of PAL & NTSC software! Enjoy!
I wouldn't say unfixed, clearly a lot of attention has been paid to the emulator & I can confirm this game is running so much better now :) Also, was updated, if you see my PCSX2 video on the Steam Deck, although still not perfect, the game has seen great improvements :)
Unfortunately I'm not a tutorial channel but, a channel called Retro Game Corps has a fantastic Steam Deck emulation guide & I used that :) It'll be called Emu Deck Verson 2 & his video explains the whole process better than I ever could :)
I don't mind them, never have done but if you want to minimise them, just upscale the graphics and maybe add a bilinear filter to help soften the graphics :)
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficialOh i see! Thanks for pointing that out. Man, i cannot wait for the time when these emulators are finally able to perfectly render everything with 1:1 accuracy to its original system. Those dof effect would look gorgeous on higher resolution.
Software rendering is the answer to this :) I does everything 1:1 if you want accurate PS2 graphics and effects :) However yes in terms of hardware rendering we still have some way to go before every effect is captured and upscaled properly :)
U definitelly should push the emulation to a next level. But with mostly OpenGl at ur disposal it might be hard to squeeze a better result out of the games, but who knows. I was also surprised that GoW on A52s 5g can run hw native without too much issues. Kingdom hearts 2x and no issue. It all comes down to the games and how hard is to emulate them. Some are lightweight like Kingdom Hearts some are heavy like GT4 or even GoW but if u can do GT4 i think all games should be good to go. Vulkan would be the ideal renderer nowadays, but well if it runs worse then opengl on SD. I use Vulkan and so far its been great. Not on SD though so theres that. Eventually in the end u decide whether if its a fun idea to make thsi video happen. Hope u do decide yes.
I'm more than happy to do this :) I just wanted to show people the PS2 games actually work & now if people want, I'm more than happy to push the Steam Deck with higher res & even overclocking via the EE Cycle Rate :) I'll also use tougher games like God Of War II :)
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial for sure. In the meantime I'm gonna play Boku No Natsuyasumi on my m1 macbook air with pcsx2. I just realized in your video it already has an english translation patch.
No problem, now you can see how it looks and how it performs, at least using native resolution :) I would also suggest trying 2x rendering for 720p, make sure any supported game is put in 480p progressive scan mode & make use of the EE Cycle Rate overclock to iron out slowdown in certain PS2 games :) 180% should do the trick!
Vulkan performance was not as fast as OpenGL, this gave me the fastest speeds :) You can try Vulkan if it works better for your personal system but, OpenGL has and still is my go to where available :)
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial That's very very strange. Something must be up. PCSX2 is notorious for having problem with GPU pinning. Try locking the frequency to 1400 or 1600.
I did try this trick & sadly it only seems to make the game run worse xD I think I may need to make a video testing the two renderers on Steam Deck to see which is best!
I found THE GAME for testing PCSX2, and that is the game called Frequency. Its a time sensitive musical game. If the settings between graphics and sound aren't correct, you will have a bad time. From stutters, to missing notes even though you pressed at the right time. It took me forever to figure out the best settings for my system. But once I did, every other game played literally flawlessly. its the gold standard for setting up the emulator in my opinion. because all games play perfectly after settings it to play frequency.... on that note, the biggest hurdle is audio settings. timestretch is fine, but you have to reduce the settings. with x-audio2, reduce latency without touching the advanced settings as low as possible before the sound starts sounding like shit. then back up a notch to make it clear again. after that, go into the advanced settings for timestretch and reduce settings to their lowest (sequence 20, seekwindow 10, overlap 5). this will make frequency run PERFECTLY. and thus every other game follows. and yes, audio issues can cause games to lag/stutter when in reality they shouldn't.... for games with tileset issues, there was a fix build into pcsx2.... i remember where they are in the original verison (v1.6) but don't know where the settings are in the new v2.x editions.
Can I mention two points - First, I defiantly will find this game, try it for myself & then see how the rest of my games play going forward :) Second, I wish more people would comment in this manner when suggesting ways to improve our emulation experience, not people saying x system is terrible or that I the creator is dumb lol xD Thank you for pointing all this out & people need to remember I'm still learning about the ins and outs of this great piece of software!
Here is a slightly new look to Affro's Curiosities EX & my video on how PS2 games fare using PCSX2! The version of the emulator used was V2.1.18 & recorded on July 18th! The goal was to see if the games worked & I wanted to use minimal enhancements so native resolution was used & thankfully the games still look good!
Really? AMD has bad OpenGL support, it's gotten better but it should still be slower than Vulkan. I find that hard to believe it performs better. Did you run benchmarks between the two?
I sure have and the performance is usually the same but in games like Gran Turismo 4 or even Tekken 4, I found OpenGL was much more stable whereas Vulkan dropped frames :) Granted on more powerful systems the difference could favour Vulkan but on the Steam Deck, OpenGL is still better for speed & performance :) I've had the Steam Deck for nearly two years & I always switch between the two to see if anything changes :) OpenGL is the go to but you can always try Vulkan if you prefer it :)
@@AffrosCuriositiesOfficial Ok thanks for the info. I don't own a deck. Someday when I do I will test it. Waiting for a higher refresh rate deck with VRR and OLED. I want the ultimate deck! Fingers crossed it will happen some day.
I'm now waiting for Valve to make a true Steam Deck successor before I part with my current LCD one but, I do love it & I still recommend it to anyone! But yes, I hope a second generation Steam Deck will have big gains in performance, compatibility & battery life!
