5454081A - Bully: Scholarship Edition

[TotalCaesar659]

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Tested on https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/commit/f2ad6b8cb8748db78781db914cd15b8f4ce68cd5

Issues:

The game starts fine, despite of video speed-up in intros. But when it goes to gameplay, video turns into garbage with color stripes (see enclosed video). And it's possible to move and start missions, but sometimes, the game may crash (as it happened with me in this video).

Log:

Log file

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Video(s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrgJXH2IUg

Labels:

(state-gameplay) (video-garbage)

[TotalCaesar659]

Tested on https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/commit/f81a99e83a63485ec2414c18144c99bbc9708860

Issues:

The situation with Vulkan is antithetic to the one with OpenGL: there is black screen instead of main menu intro movies, but after blind key key pressing the game goes to gameplay. The colors are spoilt on the street, but normal inside the academy. After the first mission intro the game freezes.

Log:

Log file

Screenshot(s):

Labels:

(state-gameplay)

[Grima04]

I lauched the game yesterday on Xenia and here is what I got. The intro where the car is driven to the academy is looking perfectly. I analyzed the .iso a little bit and found out that this were .bik videofiles playing. As soon as you enter the gate of the academy campus, Xenia begins to render 3D textures. When being outside, the colors are messed up but the sky is bright and beside that issue it is 100% playable. Inside the academy the game is pretty mutch matching the real Xbox360 output. Colors are normal and the lightsources look fine. Only some little lighting issues on the skin can be noticed. Inside and outside the audio is not synchronized with the displayed scene but that doesn't matter that much. Overall you could play this game just fine on Xenia, only a HDD emulation for saving the game is missing but perhaps that will be added soon to Xenia.

Here is a video I made with some gameplay and walking around the town. I included an FPS counter provided by the Steam overlay: https://youtu.be/-39T4uThYfw

[Grima04]

I think that this game should get the label playable since it runs on a stable framerate and the color glitches aren't interfering with the playability of the game itself.

[TotalCaesar659]

@Grima04 , I have a doubt about setting "playable" label. I think It'll be more suitable when a game has no serious bugs in graphics/gameplay/etc (and it can be passed until the end), and Bully doesn't deserve it at the moment.

[Parovozik]

Tested on (https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/commit/84758a3a3faa03aed86611380ead1660f2e4657b)

Fixed color bug and now picture more correct (needed more contrast) Still delay on sound, but globally all works.

Video:

YouTube_Bully_Vulkan

Screenshots:

[Parovozik]

Test on (https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/commit/4e4a1a03c1eb46b0b56f824b61b0dc803712e0a7) Graphics is very good, but picture slightly blurry on outdoor locations. I think here trouble on 'texture_cache' because vram load increase more and more on each new location. Audio still have delay before playback. Save-states not works, but It's easy to fix (https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/issues/784)

Screenshots:

Labels:

gpu-swap-issues audio-garbage state-gameplay

[anishchandra24]

Tested on Jan 4 2021 version Sorry but I do not have a log file. Game works fine, lags at times, saving has a problem where it will just get stuck on saving and will never save. Intro crashes unless I spam A.

https://youtu.be/hZDabUYdUKg

State-gameplay

[Margen67]

Xenia Canary issue: https://github.com/xenia-canary/game-compatibility/issues/19