Valkyrie Profile Lenneth gfx issues (maybe?)

[judaseffect554]

Hi guys! Awesome job on the emulator. Making me play my favorite PSP games.

BTW, I have an inquiry. As the title suggests, I'm not really sure if it is a gfx issue on the emulator or just a hardware limitation of my phone. I did try tweaking the settings of it but to no avail.

Please see this video for reference 'cause I can't really describe it thru plain text.

I'm using Galaxy S7 Exynos

Here are screenshot of my current settings for the game:

Please help guys! I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

[judaseffect554]

Video link here. Not sure why it didn't show above. https://youtu.be/wcrtzU_nhro

[LunaMoo]

Don't know what you mean by gfx issue, but since you're using x2 render resolution, try changing it to x1 since the game has alignment issues on 2D surfaces when running above native psp res.

[judaseffect554]

Thanks for responding, @LunaMoo! I did try to change the resolution, changing the backend renderer, etc. but I failed. Sorry for the confusion, tho. I'll try to explain what I meant.

In the video linked on the 1st comment, you'll see some sort of 'glitch?' whenever Freya (the girl in yellow hair) appears/disappears. Also, in the video, while in battle, you'll notice black rings pulsating underneath the same character. In addition, black thin lines can be notice whenever every character does their "super" move. No other game that does this, in my experience. Even 2D-2.5D games like Castlevania and Star Ocean 1 and 2, so I can't really get my head around it.

So yeah. I'm not sure if this is just me nitpicking, or just a hardware limitation on my phone. Anyways, I hope I was able to explain to you the "issue" I experienced. Thanks again for responding! I really appreciate it.

[LunaMoo]

Those black rings should be transparent/blended background. So, it is an issue, but your settings are also unsafe. Disable "Lazy texture caching" and "Disable slower effects" also increase Spline/Bezier Curves from low to at least medium(since low is using hardware tesselation and that's buggy), maybe also enable software skinning, but I don't think that one's really differ in quality and also as I said, use render res x1. Finally reload from normal in-game save(not savestate).

[judaseffect554]

Just tried everything you suggested but I'm still having the same issue.

And here's the gameplay video I just uploaded: https://youtu.be/g5RFdiPHLAk

Thanks for helping out.

[judaseffect554]

Help guys.

[judaseffect554]

Closing thread. I guess this is just my phone's hardware limitation. No one has this kind of issue based on my research other than me. That, or no one has ever experienced it. Thanks for @LunaMoo for trying to help out. I really appreciate it. Thanks again.

[LunaMoo]

I think it still can be a valid issue, I just don't have time to test myself. As such reopening.

[judaseffect554]

Thanks, @LunaMoo! I know you're busy so I'll wait here if anything comes up in your end. Thanks again!

[unknownbrackets]

Could you try exporting a GE frame dump when any of these glitches are shown? These help a lot. We can compare with actual rendering on a real PSP to see exactly what is being drawn wrong and narrow it down.

See here for instructions - it's not hard and works on Android too: https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/wiki/How-to-create-a-frame-dump

You can zip that and then drag and drop it into a reply here.

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[ghost]

How about this now @judaseffect554 ?

[nassau-tk]

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