Yes I have, Brave fencer looks much much better. Please remember that the ps2 does not save your settings, everytime you turn on your ps2, you must tell it to do that in the bios. so boot with out cd the put the cd in after changes. Somes games there arn't any improvement, others there is a lot. If anyone has images to compair that would be great.

 

I can upload PS2 ver. screenshots from few games... I make pics using my TV tuner, so give me titles, maybe I have some of them in my collection

 

The enhancements of PS2 on old games are texture interpolation (like BI-filtering) and faster CD loading times. One of the best examples of both is Tekken 3.

Some games are incompatible with the enhancements (Silent hill can’t use either and Metal gear can’t use the CD speed up without bad glitches.)

(Remember, you have to re-enter the PSOne driver menu each time to re-do the settings)

From the main menu, press Triangle to bring up the Version info screen. This screen shows the version numbers for the various functions within the system. Select "PlayStation® Driver" and press the Triangle to bring up the driver options.


Drive Speed sets how fast the drive reads the CDROM. Fast is the upgrade, while Compatible is normal speed. Some games (such as Final Fantasy VII and VIII) experience glitches when running under the Fast option as they were programmed with carefully calculated disc access.While it doesnt make a massive difference (the load times on games that work with this are only decreased by about two or three seconds), it is a very nice option.

Texture Mapping smooths out textures in the games that it is used on. Again, not all games will work with this since some used software tricks to enhance the textures in the game when running on the existing PlayStation.

Note: if you do encounter a problem with a PlayStation game while running one or both of the enhancements, simply turn it off from the menu

 

Kind of off topic, but what enhancements with the ps3 bring us, and did that say anything about being able to save settings, or even maybe have a profiler for differnt games.

 

has anyone seen any improvment at all in final fantasy on a ps2???

 

I DID FF9 looks great with texture interpolation. (FF8 looks ok with it and FF7 only gets little bits of Improvements with it because it rarely uses full textures)

 

If we get some time we will upload comparison screenshots

 

just to throw in my two cents, i've tried vagrant story on PS2, it looked pretty cool

 

Yeah it does look pretty nice. ps1 games ran in 16bit color right? I wonder if when bilinear is enabled it it can use the rest of the colors for 3d.

 

im pretty sure PSX games ran in 32bit, actually.

 

They run in 32-bit color but are dithered to 16-bit color before being output to the video port. I've compared PSX games running on PS2 with emulation, and you can see in constant-colored areas the Playstation dithering the color whereas it's not dithered in emulation.

This 16-bit color dithering applies whether or not the PS2's texture interpolation enhancement is turned on.


Dan

 

Yeah, that's what I though, becaue I remember seeing the ati ads on how "32bit can be done with out a performance hit!" and that was like a year or two after the psx was released, maybe more. Funny it was just color that did the performance hit, then AA and AF, and now soft shadows. wonder what's next.

 

next is where the game comes to you, you are playing the game in your own room and everything is real

 

...only everything has a funny green tint to it, there are some guys in black business suits with ties and sunglasses making sure you're not using a sploit and other guys in black leather and mirrorshades offering you red and blue pills...


Dan

 

cant wait to burn that game for my friends

 

Just tried ff9 on the ps2 and it luks great with the smooth settings. but when i choose 'fast' there is a bit of slowdown in the game.
However ive cum across a weird problem. Upon running mk trilogy on ps2 and the fight begins, the controller pauses by itself???????

 

Yes there will be problems. They why the default is tuned off each time you turn you ps2 on. I wouldn't mess with setting when in a 2d game, because it only make the 3d textures look good. As someone said before ff games don't like fast cd beacuse it was built to work at the psones speed of disk (2x?)

 

but when i try my silver controller, it works fine and the game deosnt pause, how can that be?, shudda mentioned this earlier!

 

clouds bro>> I have the exact same problem with MK Triology, the controller pauses and presses left (or right dont remember) all the time...it actually does it when I play it on my PSONE too..I think that a few other games do it aswell...dunno why

 

oooooooooh so thats what that stuff does xD .....ive always wondered what the speed and tex. mapping things did.......i thought it made all games better.....actually i had never thought to try it with a ps1 game. always thought it made the ps2 games better somehow? i dunno. so just to clarify, those things only make the ps1 games better on the ps2? oh wow i never noticed it said Playstation driver.....wow im slow......okay im going to go shut up now and try it out lol.

- Dave

 

]then.............can ps2 emulator play ps1 games....Im new here,,,"HI TO ALL OF YOU"

 

]then.............can ps2 emulator play ps1 games....Im new here,,,"HI TO ALL OF YOU"

no. please read that post and all its links.

 

okey thanks for that...