not gonna happen, the fonts are extremely low resolution... you can upscale them some, but that just adds blur...think of them more like an old 8 bit computer and an 8 bit sprite... you have a grid 8x8 and each letter has to be made in that grid (not exactly how it is but just a general example)...there is no way to increase resolution cause it isn't there to begin with and no way to say well, I am going to do xxx to fonts via the emulator cause there is no set way of doing them in a game. every game handles them in their own way, to the hardware it is just more graphics on screen. even @ 1090p resolution, fonts will still look bad..even a full screen smoothing/blur, which makes them look smoother, doesn't work so well cause it blurs everything..

 

Ok so I just ran the game in 320x240 windowed mode and the text looked perfect, but since my monitor's native resolution is 1920x1080 the window was obviously so small that it wouldn't be playable... is the some way to make it full screen and keep the 320x240 resolution?

 

if your monitor can do that resolution you can set the full screen res to it in the video settings (Although 640x480 would probably be better)

 

the lowest my monitor will go is 800x600, but when I set it to that it still stretches the screen to the monitors 16:9 resolution, I've tried messing with the settings to get it to keep its 4:3 resolution with black borders on the sides but nothing is working, starting to get stumped >:\


*LMAO just figured it out after posting that, my monitor's options will only unlock the option for 4:3 resolution after i've chosen one in the graphics card settings, then I can press the options button on the side of my monitor to get the 4:3 ratio, jesus.

 

only other option is to ditch epsxe and use retroarch and use a ps1 core and use a crt shader it will fix that text issue

 

got work in a few so I'll have to give that a try later on tonight or tomorrow thank you for the suggestion! I'll report back with the results

 

Ok after experimenting with many combinations I've come to the conclusion that my best option for the clearest image that looks similar to the ps1 original is to do the lowest possible desktop resolution with the games native resolution in window mode (320x240). This makes a window that doesn't cover much of the screen however, so to get a bigger window you have to start sacrificing image clarity on text and textures. 640x480 is double the games native resolution so you get basically double the pixilation from the native image. If my monitor supported 320x240 I guess that would give the clearest image at full screen.

 

BEST option, if you want PSX graphics is to instead use the software plugin..it will be full screen at native psx resolution ...

and actually I think the native PSX res was 640x480 for ntsc.. or close to it... internally it could go lower, but the output was always around 640

 

How do you even switch between the two? I have options to change the settings for both but nothing that says use one over the other

 

something else you can try.. use scanlines on the hardware plugin, set it to -1 and you'll have a dot matrix crt type of effect that helps blend all that stuff...

 

2 ways, in the drop down, select the software one instead of hardware, OR... keep the hardware one and while the game is running hit F7 (I think it is might be F6) to switch between them

 

Ok for reference here is the game running at my screen's native resolution 1920x1080

https://i.gyazo.com/4d36da17d208320d38f191492fca3438.jpg

And here is the same scene running in software mode

https://gyazo.com/e0d7a9204126f42f50e93a3f5f134708

However in software mode i get about 5 fps and its basically unplayable.

Still need to try retro arch, but if its an improvement over either of these i'll be using it from now on lol

Just gave retroarch a go, the graphics were about in between what i was getting before, but it also ran like absolute booty so thats going to need tweaking as well. Overall I feel like the software emulation gets you closer to the ps1 original, and with tweaking could be the clear victor, hardware emulation with cool shaders has it's place of course.

 

this is what it looks like for me using a shader with some xbr on