More PS1 Games Tested With Duckstation Emulation Vs Real PS1 Hardware - Affro's Curiosities 

Hello folks - Many of you are asking me what games were featured in this video and at what time in the video! Here is the list and the time of their appearance - 1:15 - Dead Or Alive 2:14 - Ace Combat 3 2:27 - Einhander 2:38 - Colin McRae Rally 2 3:33 - Tekken 3 5:03 - Tobal 2 5:59 - King Of Fighters 98 6:40 - Vanishing Point 7:16 - Koudelka 8:04 - Syphon Filter 8:51 - Time Crisis Project Titan 9:19 - The Last Blade 9:46 - TOCA World Touring Cars 10:26 - Real Bout Fatal Fury Special 11:08 - Mortal Kombat Trilogy 11:43 - Gradius Gaiden 14:08 - Metal Slug 15:19 - Street Fighter EX2 Plus Also Here Is An Updated Version Of This Video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b9ghMT3QK3s.htmlsi=maJF2jk0Emingfbf Hope this helps!

with duckstation high res and anti wobble, some games looks like they are from the ps2 era. amazing.

I got onto the DuckStation bandwagon several months ago and I've never looked back since. Its *BY FAR* the best emulator for the PS1 that's out there at the moment, leaves others like ePSXe far behind.

it's INSANE how well made some of these PS1 games were!! After the resolution upscale they could easily pass off as early PS2 games or Dreamcast games!

I like to increase my PS1 games resolution to only 480p so that textures and detail get much clearer still maintaining that PS1 look and not drawing too much attention to the low resolution of textures and simple geometry. I haven't tried Duckstation yet, but Retroarch's Beetle PSX core has a really cool feature for games that mix 2D backgrounds and 3D objects, where you increase the internal resolution only as an anti alising process, while the external resolution stays low so that 3D objects don't pop like a sore thumb on 2D backgrounds. It's great for games like Resident Evil 1-3 and Final Fantasy 7-9. 2D-only games benefit from higher resolutions if there's zooming out, like PSX's Blood Omen or Saturn's Darius, those games really look great that way.

Wow, jinc and srb mode make a great different on game, never thought about it. Great video!

I'd never heard of Duckstation, gonna have to check this out. Good vid :)

I run 4k with geometry correction, no texture filtering, and a subtle horizontal scanline shader which mainly shows up in sky or brighter textures. I think that's the best compromise to improve the look of the game while retaining the original art style.

First of all, thank you for this work, it's amazing. It's nice to see this kind of comparisons side by side. I hope you could bring us more of them. I have noticed that Beetle psx HW (Retroarch core) is not on your preferences and I think this emulator is better than epsxe and worthy of mention. Do you know about it? It's would nice to see how Duckstation downsampling works. This is a great feature of Beetle psx HW in conjunction with retroarch shaders. Anyway, great video brother!

Wow I was searching on Duckstation high Quality filters to try on Tobal 2 and here I am just stumbled on a video with a Tobal 2 on it lmao. Thank you sir!

So impressed with what this can do! I still have a PS1 with an xstation, RGB scart cable and CRT so can't bring myself to play any other way but this is simply stunning! ❤️

Here we go with another amazing video. It is incredible how the duckstation looks in 4k, but more incredible is that in arcade-type games like KOF the difference with the original PS1 is not so drastic Nice job

That I see Syphon Filter again in a video in 2021. Thank you for showing. I will try Duckstation out.

First dang PS1 game I tried with this (before even seeing this video) was *Einhänder.* Such a great, underrated gem.

Duckstation is awesome. Although I have never used the standalone I use the retroarch core with vulkan. Converted my library to CHD and m3u's for multi-disc.

We are back!! Duckstation against more real PS1 Hardware & a look at the filters Duckstation offers :) Enjoy!

For me, there's just something about that "graininess" and the everything being so shaky and rough (in the racing game) that gives it a LIVING feeling which is taken away when everything is cleared up. It's like the difference between a brand new leather couch and one that has been used for 15 years. One LOOKS like it'd be comfortable to sit in. The other one simply looks like it would be good for a photoshoot.

Nice. An emulator i wasn't aware of, and with modern tech underneath. And really sensible too. I like Vanishing Point! But the version to pick, if one were to play it, is the one on Dreamcast. It's 60fps, it has a much higher geometry resolution and texture resolution. Disagree on Koudelka. The emulator is doing the best it possibly could while rendering at higher resolution. It's just flickery because this is just how the game is. If you look closely, the original Playstation shows the same exact object flicker where objects partially come in front and then behind each other; it's merely obscured by similar colour, dither, and low resolution. I have been able to track down every glitch i looked at here seen in emulation back to original system footage seen here. If you can't quite see it in frame by frame comparison, it's probably because they occur just one or two frames earlier or later in the footage for either system, but they're all there. Newer systems have a Z-buffer, which is a intermediate buffer that for every pixel of the output image, stores its depth, so when a new polygon is drawn, each pixel can be individually depth-tested and discarded if it's occluded. The Playstation doesn't have a Z-buffer, so the way Playstation games solve occlusion, is by using bucket sort to determine the approximate order of polygons or polygon groups, usually convex chunks, like the whole forearm of a character would be one chunk, but there will be smaller chunks too. So the game throws these objects into "buckets", each bucket corresponds to a thin-ish slice of distances from the camera, and then the GPU takes these buckets and draws them starting with furthest and ending with the nearest. This has some fundamental issues. First, if there is one depth value considered per chunk, then the chunks can actually be oriented in such a way that one chunk is visually in front of another, but their average distance values look like the opposite is the case, and this can happen with chunks that are relatively long and thin, such as torso or forearm, or have very dissimilar sizes to another, or where due to the method of estimating the chunk centre, it comes out closer to one side than the other. Second, there just isn't enough resolution in the Playstation math to provide good depth values, and PGXP simply can't follow the value from where it's being generated to where it's being used, so the sorting precision remains unenhanced, it stays like original hardware. And third, objects with different nearby depth values end up in one bucket and are considered equal, so the order in which they are drawn ends up being arbitrary. Currently, no solution is known. Since we have PGXP, so we have actual depth values passed through to the GPU, we can bypass the bucket sort and implement Z buffering - it's actually implemented right here, the "Depth Buffer" option. But this necessarily will break a LOT of stuff, and would be a truly Sisyphean task to unbreak. 9:44 colour me impressed with the audio resampling quality here. The Playstation has interpolation artefacts - normally those don't matter, since the source audio isn't usually this horribly undersampled, so they generally end up above audible band. But the emulator cleans them up a lot. 10:18 those clicks on the other hand don't make me happy, but it seems like the same game on the original hardware has some of those too, so maybe it's just how the game is. The next game clicks on both as well. I'm not sure the emulator can really do much to de-click the SPU without causing more clicks elsewhere. Playstation's own texture rendering is "nearest neighbour" so linear or texture enhancement algorithms tend to backfire, especially at the texture seams where there's no provision to continue interpolation across them, unlike in games on newer systems developed with linear interpolation in mind, which have extra repeating texture data behind the seam to hide it, and are quite careful about inconspicuous seam placement. On PSP the native mode on the other hand is "linear", which however can look pretty blurry when targeting larger than a 5" screen, especially for things like HUD and menu graphics.

4:54 this happens due to that hellsweep animation, it even exist in T7

It's like playing it on a different console rather than the PS1

The bad thing imo: You have to activate "Linear Upscaling" in order for the pixels to be perfectly square, it does add a slight blurr to the picture though AND there is no "Linear Upscaling, except FMVs" option. So you gotta live with blurred out FMVs :I

Tekken 3 actually had Polygons backgrounds in the original Arcade Version. The backgrounds had to be 2D like inside of a square room in the PS1 Version because it probably wouldn't be able to handle the 3D backgrounds. Wish I know how to get Japanese PSN Cards. And what's that Racing game? It looks like it supports true Widescreen. (9:48) That's amazing.

Comparing kof with different stages and characters wasn't very smart, but nice video!

Using Duckstation through RetroArch guarantees you to play games like KOF98, Last blade, Fatal Fury with perfect quality. Try using Retroarch's shaders and choose the hq4 shader. Your 2D games will look perfect.

I'm sure in future we will get intelligent polygon tesselation and automatic a.i. texture upscaling

My question though, how does this compare to running a true ps1 with the best quality cables on a decent crt considering thats what the system was designed for?

the video was very informative

@13:50 That xRB mode made that game a modern painted art style. Love it. But i think it will only work with few games. Have to try it out asap. Thanks for showcasing it!

I need some help, when using this emulator in game the audio seems to stutter quite frequently, anyone know what to do?

Duckstation 4K looks amazing! It maintains all the charm of PS1 era with the pixelated textures and low res models, adds a crisp image, and eliminates the excessive jaggies, glitching, wobble, and dithering technical limitations that to me always detracted from the overall presentation.

Even though the visual clear the flickering happens even in duckstation... How to fix flickering in duckstation?

The widescreen hack , plus 16:9 aspect ratio is clean af. It's amazing. I play all my games in widescreen now in duckstation 4k, 16:9 is the way to go.

what was the game at 13:07 ? crazy first person view model for the ps1

Is there a list of these PS1 games anywhere? Some of them aren't mentioned :(.

The over clocking feature of duckstation is interesting. I wish there was a website that went through every ps1 game to test the over clocking feature. I know Tomb Raider 2 runs a lot better if you set the overclock to 150%

King of fight ,always was one the hardest game to scale but it dos not scale fully unless you have a crt with correct specs to even get close plus custom scaling sliders like old mame plus had.

I'm surprised that you were expecting changes on KOF, which is a 2D sprite-based game. 3D polygon games are improved because the graphics are computed, and are not bitmaps drawn by an artist. Games like KOF do not use 3D polygons: they are entirely hand-drawn artwork.

Hopefully duck station gets ability to recording video and after trying it it looks amazing and plays really well

I also own a professional upscaler. The graphics don't look as good as an emulator. I'm going to build a mini retro PC. I have subscribed to your channel.

Awesome video like the last duckie vid...i confess i also installed duckstation and tried a ton of games just to see how they looked..and on some games is really amazing i think Colin McRae 2.0 is a great example of when it works but on some other games i did not like the result like crash team racing...it just looks weird..still it is very very impressive how duckie changes the games but i think Colin McRae 2.0 is probably enjoyed best on composite (I'm serious) or s-video asmax...when I play it on the ps2 it already looks ugly to me over component.. hard to explain when composite blurriness helps acting as a cheap antialiasing filter. Regardless duckie is closer than ever to madnafen in accuracy and it is pretty amazing how quickly it has become the number 1 ps1 emu. Free,having lower requirements and also for available for mobile phones. This guy's should help pscx2 developers with their emulator.

If you don't mind me asking what game is that at 9:19?

Any videos out there with DS vs PS1 digital?

11:43 which is that game? his song is like Lisa Stansfield's this is the right time

hi. nice comparision! why has duckstation stutter and to fast pace issues sometimes. only in a few games? l.e. need for speed. can sadly only use direct3d11 and Software. thanks

Do you know why would Duckstation run slow sluggish in some games? Like Tekken 3 and Tobal 2 are unplayable for me :/

It would really be nice if you provided the names of each game as it is played. There are some titles i didnt know about and id like to try them. Hopefully someone will answer with the names.

what is the game at 3:19 ? I love games with Cockpit view!

tnx!! :)

Were is Multisampling Antialiasing in the latest build of DuckStation

Por que windows defender lo bloquea?

I saw a PS1 racing game at 10:00, then i saw a PS2 racing game at 10:10

Please tell me the name of these games : 9:00 the shooting game 9:39 the fighting game 10:00 the racing game 12:00 the galactic side shooter Thank You!!

I max it out at 16x resolution. I don't use filters because I can't really tell the difference. It's barely noticeable.

KOF sprites becomes awesomely blend and not pixelated.. Amazing!

Scary ducky has entered the scene

Is GTX 1070 more than enough for Duckstation with these epic settings?

I'm impressed too. I'm not sure I've said it before Duckstation makes PS1 games look like PS2 or even PS3 games. Perhaps this video will help spread the word. Regarding the filters, I'd go no filter as well. When I get a new gaming PC, I might do Duckstation.

very nice

At first I am using ePSEXe and my Tablet is low-end,it doesn't work on Duckstation,When I finally have a higher end Tablet,it can run Duckstation on it and I was impressed by it,You can adjust resolution than ePSXe emulator

What are the names of the games in the video?

Dos it gave it for xp 32 bit?

14:20 what game is that

What's the game on 2:41 ?

is it possible to see doom 1 how close it comes to the original?

just downloaded duckstation and it's fantastic - the games look incredible

What are the games presented in the video?

Anyone knows the best settings for Final Fantasy Tactics?

I am always late to the party Sorry .... I waited and waited for a game to be shown this game is the best on Duckstation you even have it as you scroll up you CD colletion, the game is R Type Delta you could run this on Duckstation in an arcade cabinet and it would not look out of place, Epic Emulator for an Epic Game, Thanks for the Domo was fun to watch..

What is the name of that girls fighting game (blue and red dress)? U showed

Legendary

Now we need a Duckstation 2 for the PS2 :D

Im glad Duckstation exists. But im going to play original hardware on a crt.

Can someone tell me the name of the game at 7:16?

the name of each game tested would've been nice.

Honestly looks like a different generation console on duckstation. Cannot believe so many details are there but just cannot be seen due to the poorer resolution

You can play Chrono Cross @ 60FPS with DuckStation.

whats the game name in 2:27

What's with the creepy background music? Doesn't look quite as good even with the same settings on a mid-level powerful Android tablet that I own. But it makes sense a tablet is no match for a PC.

At least two cores in Retroarch let you play ps1 games in true widescreen 4k long before duckstation was a thing. Has everybody forgotten about this?

good now add scanlines

Only thing it lacks is good texture filters... bilinear is blurry, xbr is ugly, i tried contact with developer to try to tell him this, but was rejected.

xBR not xRB Also you've totally forgot to mention a widescreen hack! It makes PSX games exceptionally playable to those who was unlucky enough to get born in current millennium. So it does for me, 'cuz I always wanted to, but I never had any console after the Sega Megadrive in my childhood. And seeing now, how did it really looked liked make me really sad... As a girl, who I've loved in the school being old now, and unpretty 😭

I'll be honest I really hate the xRB and JINC2 filters. They turn the beautiful and detailed pixel art into a smudgy mess.

Duckstation is breathtaking.

My ex ps1 has no twitching in any games or problems. Runs perfect 60 fps if games are not frame locked.teckken runs 60 frames second no drops.its smooth.duck should run it flawles.

XBR looks best. JINC2 seems like it gives everything a lower quality.

10:00 Game name?

para que un juego 2D se vea mejor se debe de utilizar una televisión CRT por las imperfecciones que estas tenian, hacian que las imagenes 2d tuvieran una especie de msaa 4x de forma analógica

1:16 name of the game

Just one thing Ray-Tracing!

I really like the pixelation of the original texture so I'm not a fan of filters either. The large clearly defined blocky zones of the large 2D backgrounds are especially funny and glaring with the filters on. heheh

the only bad thing is the input lag :/

2k xrb mode the best.

I still don't know why retro players insist that playing it on the original hardware is somehow a better experience to all the improvements that come with emulation. I like collecting old videogames, but I'm not blind to the reality that it's not the optimal way to play nor justify my purchases with that pretense.

I don't care what anyone says, compared to using aging native hardware, old displays, expensive converters and overpriced retro games, emulation is the way to go.

I hope the dev team of Duckstation implement DLSS or AI based upscaling algorithm to make the images look even better in the future updates!

Funny name, maybe they meant it with an F not D

Duckstation = make your own Remaster 😂

Duckstation is certainly better than epsxe, but i still can't increase the video quality of the legend of dragoon. If anyone can share me their display & enhancement settings for the game I'd really appreciate it

Kudos for ps1 for it's tech in it's time