I love Metal Slug, so discovering In The Hunt from this video is a treat! ❤ As a general rule, you want to turn off Optimal Frame Pacing when VSync is enabled. This is also advised in Dolphin's tooltips with more explanation. :) Great video as always!
@@warpedpolygon Dude, he banned people from his discord for asking innocent and legitimate questions. He banned me for reporting a very specific bug with the texture replacement feature (when he was still working on it).
@@recklesflam1ngo968 yeah I've seen the 'drama'. He hates being hounded. A lot of devs are the same mate. They get frustrated with all the demands and then eject a few people tbey deem to be wasting their time. Which is what it's all about, nothing worse than someone submitting bug reports when they barely have any knowledge. Man up. Leave them be. Be grateful for the free stuff. Deal with what you get.
You can test PGXP Depth Buffer on games like Twisted Metal 2 and Resident Evil 1, sometime the character’s joints can pop thru like Jill’s elbow, or the Mr. Slam portrait appearing front of his vehicle and the glitching paintings in Twisted Metal 2. Adjust the Depth Clear Threshold values to fix those issues is TM2.
YOOOOOOO you are absolutely right that is a huge change, I just saw Chris's joints close up and it was like he was a fully articulated action figure lol! Excellent find!
What a well-made video, took me a long time to learn and consistently find information about duck station and a wish your video existed at the time. This was a great refresher for me. Thanks for this!
Wow subscribed, this is probably one of the best emulation videos I've seen, you go into so much detail that many others skip. I like that you provided multiple side by side comparison for each and every setting plus gave a thorough description about what they do A+. I'd like to see PPSSPP next if possible.
Absolutely amazing work, extremely helpful! Criminally underrated channel. Keep up the good work, and please post more of these comprehensive graphics guides! Godspeed to the channel!
i never tried duckstation and for a moment feeling overwhelmed with the settings i was gonna abandon trying it but your video helped me a lot it explained things i really hope all emulators have a video like this so thank you really for all your efforts
Thank you so much for this video!!! For several years, I have wanted to use Duckstation to play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, but it was too dark for me. I have searched on and off every time I go to play it, but I never could figure out how to adjust the brightness and contrast on Duckstation, so I would always just go back to using ePSXe because adjusting the brightness on it is easy, but I hate how you have to fuss around with the windows. I didn't know if you clicked on the plus sign in the post-processing window, there were many choices you could choose from. I chose simple brightness and simple gamma, and now SOTN is much brighter! Finally! I can't thank you enough! ❤❤❤
Thank you! Wonderful guide, i couldn't make heads or tails of some of this stuff. Didn't think my old computer could do any emulation but Duckstation and Dolphin are absolute champs. Never thought GT2 could look so good. Love what these nerds have done, breathing new life into the old games.
@@warpedpolygon hi i like your work helping us with emulators . ive some pc parts that will help you GTX 1660TI 9th gen Motherbored and i5 9400 and 16GB ram let me know if that helps
Oh man, amazing! I was waiting for a video like this that goes in-depth for a while!! Thank you so much, I can't think of a better dude to explain all of this to us! :)
Deserves all the likes and views possible. Thanks for putting in the work to go in depth as you did! Helped alot to learn how to configure my games. Currently playing Parasite Eve!
Plenty of games on PSX run sub 30FPS a lot of the time, you can test this in the cave section in Metal Gear Solid. When looking at certain areas in first person view your FPS can drop as low as 20. If you overclock the PSX CPU to about 130% you will have a solid 30fps almost all of the time.
It's also great that we can smooth out frame rate issues using the overclocking features. Quake II benefits from this quite a lot, not only reaching a solid 60 FPS, but also reducing input lag, which is inherent from the lower frame rate.
Those more ambitious games benefit a lot from it, say, Driver and Driver 2, the target is 30, but it hardly reaches and keeps that, but overclocked, it's smoothly locked to 30. Chrono Cross battles too, it's indeed a per-game verification to see if this feature enhances the gameplay or not.
Great video, not only for Duckstation, but emulation in general as many emulators have similar functions. Personally I was enjoying playing fullscreen widescreen, but then I got absorbed by the world of CRT shaders and I haven't been able to escape. Now I play with a combination of CRT shaders and some enhancements like higher resolution and PGXP correction.
Wow! This video is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you so much for the effort you have put into explaining the different settings to newcomers.
I wish I had this video a few months back when I was painstakingly figuring out all the options through trial and error, haha. This is definitely the best emulator feature video I've ever seen. Great job!.
So the whole time I was watching your video I was literally on that screen with Chris just field-testing the different things you explained and at 27:25 to my surprise, yours popped up in the exact same spot doing the exact same thing only your Redfield is wearing the original attire were as mine is wearing the advanced attire lol. You're very smart and insightful about the Duckstation emulator. I appreciate your video and the time you took to do research and comparisons to show as such. Thanks a lot, man 100%
For anyone wondering what PGXP Geometry Correction does, if you're playing a game like Final Fantasy, this will fix a lot of the pixelation on the models, where as before their faces look like a bunch of scrambled squares, this will clear that up and give you a nice clear view of the models. Sometimes this can look a little weird if the backgrounds are more blurry, but in my opinion its better than looking at a bunch of squares making up a face.
such a great video. love the detail and effort you have put in to make this video. be cool idea fora vid to go through the cores retroarch supports and explain what they are and how to use them, as theres so many idk wtf they are for
Great guide, however you should really make a video showcasing Duckstations Overclock option, once you get beefier hardware. For example, the game Danger Girl (USA) (SLUS-00881) has in fact an unlocked frame rate, so in Duckstation, I have the Overclock option set to 555% (187.97MHz) for this game, and the game is silky smooth throughout. The vast majority of games however run at 19 and 29 fps, but even so it always pays to have the overclock option enabled, one just has to find the correct overclock percentage for each game individually. How? By having the "Show FPS" option enabled under "Graphics" in the "OSD" tab and enabling the overclock option and clicking on the little slider, and moving it forward a few percentages until you find the correct percentage. If you see that the fps changes from 29 fps to 39 fps, turn it down a percentage by percentage until the fps goes back to 29. That way if the game already runs at 29 fps, you will have the added benefit of overclocking nonetheless, as it will make your inputs and your character movement(s) smoother and the fps won't drop it will always be stable.
Are you going to do this for PCSX2? I've copied most of the settings across but I've got tearing on SSX and can't find the Vsync on PCSX2. Great work on all these vids and settings mate I'm slowly going back through them all.
I just discovered your channel! What an excellent guide! I really hope you'll do other emulators in the future like PPSSPP, dreamcast and Yuzu/Riujinx in the future!
Thank you for being a channel that sells info and not drama. Gaming channels are all about drama now a days and it´s getting old and draining. Great info, love my old dancing polygons on PS1.
Unfortunately for Silent Hill, the widescreen cheat is not good (Harry at bottom of screen) and using the widescreen hack isn't good either (fixes Harry's position but still makes the left and right sides of the screen have pop in rendering). So in the end I just use Auto Native.
An amazing video, thank you very much for all the explanation! But I have two questions - The first one is in the minute 6:02 your Crash Bandicoot has those weird like, square thingies on the sides, if you walk, it looks like the map is generating itself constantly, but in all the other parts of the video, this issue isn't there anymore. I have this issue in this specific game, how can I fix it? I've tried turning on and off many things but I can't really fix it :'c - Also I just wanted to know which game are you playing in minute 19:25 Again, thank you very much for everything!
The issue at 6:02 is not a fixable one. As explained there is simply nothing at the extreme edges of the screen to display. The devs simply didn't put anything there as it would be unseen on a 4:3 display which the game was made for. The game at 19:25 is Vampire Hunter D.
Talking about shaders i use the built in, Cccalibrator only, cause u can nicely adjust how the game looks without going the crt shader way, make the game more hm colorful, like u know bring up the colors a bit, cause some games can look really dull, but its again personal preference and i used also crt lotte etc. with combination of calibrator and maybe gamma, but i dont know, i made one of the gmae looks almost like a cell shaded game and i dont know why but it suited that game specifically not so much with others talking about this game Threads of Fate (really looked almost like a new retro styled indie game :)), anyway i use personalized settings for every game i play, i had set up the main options like for all games to be the same except those that are like a bit questionable to work with every one of them properly. Like PGXP is defaultly on, cause it just makes most of the games i did play so much better. In the rest like with Powerslave i rather kept it off, cause the wobllyness and PGXP in this game makes too much holes in between textures or gaps should i say. So by turning it off entirely makes it better, not perfect but still better and that wobblyness is not that hard like in other games for example Syphon Filter 2 or 3 i think, it was a nightmare, but i guess still playable. Also i know this was about graphics but just saying for those that need it, overclocking option does help but if u can try to be close to max 200%, dont go too much over this treshold cause u might experience side effects like for example that happened to me, u wont be able to save the game, or if u have set up the cd read speed for too fast of a multiplier, with games like Nightmare Creatures 2 ull end up with unfinished monologues during loadings. Really irritating stuff. Also it makes difference sure, but not so much its worth ruining the gaming experience.
@@warpedpolygon Look probably i should explain. (also to be clear i dont care if its legit or not, ill do it if the gameplay wont suffer for it) So i do the OC only with games that are meant to be played at certain fps, so it wont drop below that or at least not too often. There are games that should run 30. But they often hit 20 or lower in some areas or situations etc. cutscene what have u. So in these cases i apply 150% OC. Most games need this boost, some less, some more, but generally 150 is enough to get 30+- or 29.97 stable, in those games that should run at this rate. Those that are same but with 60 limit i do the same if the fps is fluctuating too much, or too often from its desired 60. Thats it. I wont play a game that is designed at 30 and ill OC the shit out of it so it will do 60. Its insane and also itll break things. I was experiencing said drops with Army Men games, so i did OC. But went too far and the game could run at 60. But then immediately u cna see that its just too fast. It wasnt meant to run like that. Things brake. Like for instance the most obvious driving a tank, its just almost not possible. Running with the soldier and shooting kinda possible but still looks weird and not right. So yeah. There are games that break with going too far with OC and there are those that benefit and not like in a way u might call it cheating or its to easy. The opposite. Everything is as it should be. Those timings u mentioned. Id argue that they are off if u let the dips happen. Cause those are the HW faults not the programming itself. U dont need to travel far in the past, or just be now. Certain games cant be run 60fps on PS5 for example and the HW exists to be able to do. But we have a certain kind of hw in those consoles that can run those games but either 4k 30, balanced 60 or performance 60/120. U have options and despite that still occasional drops happen and so they are very few and far between and whats important it wont ruin ur gameplay. But with the PS1 id argue that some games are almost unplayable because of that. Syphon Filter that i mentioned is one of those games, 20fps, i almost clawed my eyes out playing it. But it was made that way and it runs and without OC i add. Again. OC is a blessing for certain games. And curse for others and like a no deal for others cause they are already running as they should and doing the OC wont do anything. I dont know if u meant really the OC or the speedup thing, cause i think those are pretty different things. Whatever all i know is ill keep using it for those troubled games and not with those that dont need that extra umph to achieve the desired fps.
I like how some PS1 games can look like PS2 graphics, when applying the right improvements to each game in Duckstation. I personally like the benefit of having these games upscaled, just as long as it doesn't look ugly. I will have to come back to this video later, once I get my new Steam Deck in the mail and it's properly set up.
great video ty , question when i press escape on my keyboard i get 'are you sure you want to shut down the virtual machine?' i dont get the game properties etc , any help please
Hello brother great video i used some of settings but my game doeant look like yours. How did you make ur fmvs look so great mine are worse thay the original psx version.and last why the disable interlacing option is not on my graphics option.thank you
Thank you! A very informative video! Thanks to your video I realized that PGXP breaks Crash Team Racing's graphics (especially the water), so I disabled it and the game looks great now!
PERFECT video, thanx for uploading.. I´m having a issue with Mortal Kombat Trilogy sound, I hear the sound effect but I no music on background playing.
Dont the external texture works anymore on this emulator newest version ? there too lack of video that's show and teach how to use external texture or even make them.
Thanks. I don't really have recommend settings for games, you can copy how I have my defaults in this video and go from there. Tweak it to your preference
@@warpedpolygon Yeah, the overall performance is great, but this game has some weird audio/video desync where the music seems out of rythm and doesnt match the input timing. I've been trying to finetune it for a while but without succes thus far. It's been quite the struggle. On a sidenote: I first came across your previous video, 8 months old now, and then looked through your channel hoping for an updated version since I noticed that some configurations changed in the app. This is the first time I cam across someone actually going in-depth and explaing the features/effects. Tysm.
Any chances of doing a guide video on Duckstation showing how to get Texture Replacements to work? Maybe use the Chrono Cross HD Texture pack as example.
Ahh man I couldn't find a single active download for Duckstation compatible HD Textures. I tried that Crono Cross one but I don't think DS can use it. There's an excellent Resident Evil 2 texture pack where someone has actually drawn (with AI help) proper widescreen. But the links are all dead...
Well done my friend thank you for this amazing detailed video! I really appreciate it. I have one question although because I am not an expert. What exactly makes the game go smoother? Like I am trying to stream and when ever I start the streaming the game goes less smoother. I will try today with your settings and guidance I hope it works!
Could be a bunch of different things if it's connected to streaming. Try using the default Duckstation options as these perform the best, if it's still not smooth you know the issue isn't connected to Duckstation with regards to performance. From there you'll need to figure it out.
Invaluable video. Thanks a lot! Only thing I'm missing are the cheats. The folder is empty and the manager doesn't show any. I guess I just play them in their native aspect ratio. Any idea if PAL or NTSC games are preferred? Afaik, PAL games have better image quality but only run at 50hz while NTSC runs at 60 with less good image quality - not sure if the image quality is noticeable to stick to PAL though.
For me its about native 60hz so NTSC. If you're Upscaling and adding filtering the difference in image quality isn't really going to be noticeable. Maybe pal looks better at native res on a crt but emulated on a digital display, i doubt many could tell the difference even if there is any. Sometimes pal ports can have different stuff going on i suppose, but again I will gladly trade this for 60hz
@@warpedpolygon Fair enough - might get the NTSC versions in the future. I just saw that Cave Story has a PS1 port, maybe you'd like to try it sometime!
I just installed Duckstation and I moticed that the disable interlacing option was not on the interface. Does anyone know if they removed it with the new update?
It's amazing how much better Duckstation is than the old PS1 emulators I was using over 10 years ago, such as ePSXe etc... Thanks a lot for the video, and the resources at the end. Cheers from sunny old Cambridge!
Maybe I'm missing something, I just downloaded Duckstation yesterday. Apply Per Game Settings is not an option on that screen anymore and I've been searching for a way to get it to work now
renderer choices is about usage of you Pc hardware. DX11 - using just GPU. most common thing. DX12 and vulkan i didnt test cus i still use win7, and when i turn on vulkan i got blue screen, (strange cus i use RPCS3 on vulkane and its just fine). OpenGL - best choice for me, it use GPU same as DX11, but also 1 thread of CPU for help. so if someone has lags of emulator work - this is your way, but! cus its OPEN GL - IF you are streamer - your OBS will not catch game at full screen. that how all openGL things work (maybe windowed will work) Software - is just original PS1 hardware lookin for most game JINC2 is best way of filtering. but some games is better for xBR, such as Silent hill, or hogs of war.... keep in mind that xBR is not just a smoother as bilenial or JINC2 - its doin its job al the time, so it abit more tougher for PC Strange thing, but at aspect ratio menu i have AUTO (window match) and it work perfectly without cheats.. whatever i do window size.. 16:9 or 10:1 no mater... BTW, all that stuff as torn on\off PGXP, filters, renderers, render size - its all can be binded in hotkey menu and i might be wrong but - are you didnt say about PS1 CPU OVERCLOCK? to decrease game lags, or increase frame rate in games that allows that...
is there anyway to reduce the ghosting from a modern LCD monitor that we use these days :p? duckstation is awesome and this video guide is the best that i have seen, but honestly the only reason stopping me from using emulator more is the terrible ghosting and blur while moving the screen thank you so much for this AMAZING video!
@@warpedpolygon well i was playing spyro and medievil, and turning camera around just feels much worse than how i remember it on a crt with console, am i crazy?
@@majmunbezgaca5220 without seeing exactly what you are referring to it's hard to help. Keep in mind PS1 games were made with CRT's in mind, and that is really the best way to play if you are sensitive to the transition to digital displays. Without seeing the issue directly I can't tell you if it's an actual issue, or if you are picking up on the inconsistencies inherent with displaying games made for CRT on a digital display.
@@warpedpolygon ye i feel like its the second thing "inconsistencies inherent with displaying games made for CRT on a digital display." :p anyway thank you for reply and awesome video guide
I love Metal Slug, so discovering In The Hunt from this video is a treat! ❤
As a general rule, you want to turn off Optimal Frame Pacing when VSync is enabled. This is also advised in Dolphin's tooltips with more explanation. :)
Great video as always!
@@KatRollo i didn't know that one. Thanks again Kat. I'll pin this
Amazing guide man, greetings from Indonesia :)
Thanks. I like hearing from people all around the world.
Great video! I've been using various PS1-emulators for almost 20 years and DuckStation is hands down the best I've ever seen!
Stenzek is one of the best
@@warpedpolygon Great emulator, but Stenzek himself can be a bit of a prick
@@recklesflam1ngo968 who cares about his personality. I'm not going over for dinner or anything. He does amazing work, that's all I care about.
@@warpedpolygon Dude, he banned people from his discord for asking innocent and legitimate questions. He banned me for reporting a very specific bug with the texture replacement feature (when he was still working on it).
@@recklesflam1ngo968 yeah I've seen the 'drama'. He hates being hounded.
A lot of devs are the same mate. They get frustrated with all the demands and then eject a few people tbey deem to be wasting their time. Which is what it's all about, nothing worse than someone submitting bug reports when they barely have any knowledge.
Man up. Leave them be. Be grateful for the free stuff. Deal with what you get.
You can test PGXP Depth Buffer on games like Twisted Metal 2 and Resident Evil 1, sometime the character’s joints can pop thru like Jill’s elbow, or the Mr. Slam portrait appearing front of his vehicle and the glitching paintings in Twisted Metal 2. Adjust the Depth Clear Threshold values to fix those issues is TM2.
Cheers mate, just tested and yeah fixes those issues. Will pin this
YOOOOOOO you are absolutely right that is a huge change, I just saw Chris's joints close up and it was like he was a fully articulated action figure lol! Excellent find!
What a well-made video, took me a long time to learn and consistently find information about duck station and a wish your video existed at the time. This was a great refresher for me. Thanks for this!
Wow subscribed, this is probably one of the best emulation videos I've seen, you go into so much detail that many others skip. I like that you provided multiple side by side comparison for each and every setting plus gave a thorough description about what they do A+.
I'd like to see PPSSPP next if possible.
Thanks for subbing! PPSSPP will be covered after PCSX2.
Fantastic setup guide. I've been using DuckStation for a long time, and I still learned a bunch from this video.
Thanks man. I like to show as much as possible, without going into a ducks butt lol
Absolutely amazing work, extremely helpful! Criminally underrated channel. Keep up the good work, and please post more of these comprehensive graphics guides! Godspeed to the channel!
i never tried duckstation and for a moment feeling overwhelmed with the settings i was gonna abandon trying it but your video helped me a lot
it explained things i really hope all emulators have a video like this
so thank you really for all your efforts
Thank you so much for this video!!! For several years, I have wanted to use Duckstation to play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, but it was too dark for me. I have searched on and off every time I go to play it, but I never could figure out how to adjust the brightness and contrast on Duckstation, so I would always just go back to using ePSXe because adjusting the brightness on it is easy, but I hate how you have to fuss around with the windows. I didn't know if you clicked on the plus sign in the post-processing window, there were many choices you could choose from. I chose simple brightness and simple gamma, and now SOTN is much brighter! Finally! I can't thank you enough! ❤❤❤
This is very well put together! Thanks for making this guide, the side-by-side comparisons help a lot!
Thank you! Wonderful guide, i couldn't make heads or tails of some of this stuff. Didn't think my old computer could do any emulation but Duckstation and Dolphin are absolute champs. Never thought GT2 could look so good. Love what these nerds have done, breathing new life into the old games.
very useful guide, it would be great if you make a video like this but for pcsx2, that emulator is very complex
Thanks mate.I really do want to do one but my hardware is too crappy to demo anything at any meaningful FPS lol.
@@warpedpolygon hi i like your work helping us with emulators . ive some pc parts that will help you GTX 1660TI 9th gen Motherbored and i5 9400 and 16GB ram let me know if that helps
@@Sulaiman544 that would most definitely help. I could cover pcsx2 and a bunch of higher end emulators.
Oh man, amazing! I was waiting for a video like this that goes in-depth for a while!! Thank you so much, I can't think of a better dude to explain all of this to us! :)
Thanks so much. Glad this is sating the need to know!
Thanks
Dude....thanks so much. This is going into the new PC pot!
@@warpedpolygon anytime. It was worth it just to get model 3 working nicely 😂
@@76sagman i literally maxed out that configuration, my finest work lol
Deserves all the likes and views possible. Thanks for putting in the work to go in depth as you did! Helped alot to learn how to configure my games. Currently playing Parasite Eve!
Much appreciated! If you didn't know there's a secret squeal to Parasite Eve on PSP called 3rd Birthday
Plenty of games on PSX run sub 30FPS a lot of the time, you can test this in the cave section in Metal Gear Solid. When looking at certain areas in first person view your FPS can drop as low as 20. If you overclock the PSX CPU to about 130% you will have a solid 30fps almost all of the time.
Yeah a lot of PS1 games didn't have the best performance. I made this OC guide a few months ago ua-cam.com/video/SeNrYQD_nLE/v-deo.html
It's also great that we can smooth out frame rate issues using the overclocking features. Quake II benefits from this quite a lot, not only reaching a solid 60 FPS, but also reducing input lag, which is inherent from the lower frame rate.
That's funny, I used quake 2 as the example in my overclocking guide.
Didn't know about the input lag thing tho.
@@warpedpolygon Interesting, I should have known you might have covered overclocking before, this was the first video I've watched from your channel.
@@roberto1519 I'm fussy with the systems I like to overclock. PS1 is hit and miss, but when it works it works well.
Those more ambitious games benefit a lot from it, say, Driver and Driver 2, the target is 30, but it hardly reaches and keeps that, but overclocked, it's smoothly locked to 30. Chrono Cross battles too, it's indeed a per-game verification to see if this feature enhances the gameplay or not.
This was a great guide for duckstation. Thanks a lot!
Yet another fantastic video. Thanks for the effort. I pretty much set up all my emulators based on your work, so can't thank you enough
Ahh man this makes me happy!
really well made, clear and straight to the point. thanks for this mate
W video MATE! I'm STILL fiddling with settings with Duckstation after over a year to get "optimal" settings lol it's so much fun!
Thanks mate. There's rarely 'optimal' lol, just what works and looks good is my only criteria.
Amazing video, really helped me to get the best experience while playing, cheers mate.
Glad it helped!
Great video, not only for Duckstation, but emulation in general as many emulators have similar functions.
Personally I was enjoying playing fullscreen widescreen, but then I got absorbed by the world of CRT shaders and I haven't been able to escape. Now I play with a combination of CRT shaders and some enhancements like higher resolution and PGXP correction.
Thanks mate!
Can you do this on Steam Deck?
Don't see why not
Wow! This video is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you so much for the effort you have put into explaining the different settings to newcomers.
Glad it was helpful!
I wish I had this video a few months back when I was painstakingly figuring out all the options through trial and error, haha. This is definitely the best emulator feature video I've ever seen. Great job!.
This video is absolute 🔥, never take it down!!
So the whole time I was watching your video I was literally on that screen with Chris just field-testing the different things you explained and at 27:25 to my surprise, yours popped up in the exact same spot doing the exact same thing only your Redfield is wearing the original attire were as mine is wearing the advanced attire lol.
You're very smart and insightful about the Duckstation emulator. I appreciate your video and the time you took to do research and comparisons to show as such. Thanks a lot, man 100%
Thanks man!
Awesome guide, thank you! I understood a lot of stuff I kept reading over the years without getting a single thing lol
For anyone wondering what PGXP Geometry Correction does, if you're playing a game like Final Fantasy, this will fix a lot of the pixelation on the models, where as before their faces look like a bunch of scrambled squares, this will clear that up and give you a nice clear view of the models. Sometimes this can look a little weird if the backgrounds are more blurry, but in my opinion its better than looking at a bunch of squares making up a face.
Thanks. Everything i needed to know about duckstation ❤
Glad it was helpful!
such a great video. love the detail and effort you have put in to make this video.
be cool idea fora vid to go through the cores retroarch supports and explain what they are and how to use them, as theres so many idk wtf they are for
Yes, this is a good idea. I am planning to do this for my beloved Flycast
@@warpedpolygon learning more about flycast would be cool. I'm very unfimilia with that, great vids your doing a fantastic job
Awesome guide. Cheers dude. Love your content.
Thanks mate. Glad you enjoy the content!
Great guide, however you should really make a video showcasing Duckstations Overclock option, once you get beefier hardware.
For example, the game Danger Girl (USA) (SLUS-00881) has in fact an unlocked frame rate, so in Duckstation, I have the Overclock option set to 555% (187.97MHz) for this game, and the game is silky smooth throughout.
The vast majority of games however run at 19 and 29 fps, but even so it always pays to have the overclock option enabled, one just has to find the correct overclock percentage for each game individually.
How? By having the "Show FPS" option enabled under "Graphics" in the "OSD" tab and enabling the overclock option and clicking on the little slider, and moving it forward a few percentages until you find the correct percentage.
If you see that the fps changes from 29 fps to 39 fps, turn it down a percentage by percentage until the fps goes back to 29. That way if the game already runs at 29 fps, you will have the added benefit of overclocking nonetheless, as it will make your inputs and your character movement(s) smoother and the fps won't drop it will always be stable.
Thanks for the advice, but I have already made an overclocking guide for Duckstation here ua-cam.com/video/SeNrYQD_nLE/v-deo.htmlsi=uElEtIOZzFua0umP
@@warpedpolygon Ah, my apologies, I didn't see this!
Seriously thanks for this video, very informative and it has helped me configure Duckstation to look great on a 4k monitor.
Glad it helped!
Absolutely brilliant tutorial. Thanks!!!
Thanks so much. Glad it helped
Finally a decent guide that explains what this stuff means to the best of your ability for sure, but more than helpful for me to fix my settings!!
Glad it helped!
Are you going to do this for PCSX2? I've copied most of the settings across but I've got tearing on SSX and can't find the Vsync on PCSX2. Great work on all these vids and settings mate I'm slowly going back through them all.
I just discovered your channel! What an excellent guide! I really hope you'll do other emulators in the future like PPSSPP, dreamcast and Yuzu/Riujinx in the future!
Downsampling is such a great feature honestly, especially for playing on actual CRTs screens.
Ever Since the recent CRT filters, I'm happy. It really gives the Assets the intended look IMO, full nostalgia until I get an actual CRT
mannn love the tutorials. youre amazing... i would like one especifically for Gran Turismo 1 and 2. followed shared and subscribed! great work mate
Dude there are some excellent update hacks for GT2, 60FPS, Updated cars and a bunch of other stuff
Thank you for being a channel that sells info and not drama. Gaming channels are all about drama now a days and it´s getting old and draining. Great info, love my old dancing polygons on PS1.
Haha no drama here mate! It's just games at the end of the day. Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks again for more teaching.
Thanks Troy! You've been commenting since the beginning of my UA-cam journey. It's always appreciated.
Unfortunately for Silent Hill, the widescreen cheat is not good (Harry at bottom of screen) and using the widescreen hack isn't good either (fixes Harry's position but still makes the left and right sides of the screen have pop in rendering). So in the end I just use Auto Native.
Sometimes widescreen just doesn't have it
Second 0:56 how do I fix that Tony Hawk issue?
Amazing video my friend! Duckstation is the best! Really appreciate the detailed video!
Thank you! 👍
An amazing video, thank you very much for all the explanation! But I have two questions
- The first one is in the minute 6:02 your Crash Bandicoot has those weird like, square thingies on the sides, if you walk, it looks like the map is generating itself constantly, but in all the other parts of the video, this issue isn't there anymore. I have this issue in this specific game, how can I fix it? I've tried turning on and off many things but I can't really fix it :'c
- Also I just wanted to know which game are you playing in minute 19:25
Again, thank you very much for everything!
The issue at 6:02 is not a fixable one. As explained there is simply nothing at the extreme edges of the screen to display. The devs simply didn't put anything there as it would be unseen on a 4:3 display which the game was made for.
The game at 19:25 is Vampire Hunter D.
Very helpful video, thanks!
Thanks!
I'm on the latest update and the is no apply per game option
Thank you so much for the information that is extremely necessary for many!!!
12:20 Can you tell how to get this look without textures?
can you make videp on how to setup arcade64 mame ui like how to set nvrams
yes
fantastic guide! Thanx!
Glad it helped!
Talking about shaders i use the built in, Cccalibrator only, cause u can nicely adjust how the game looks without going the crt shader way, make the game more hm colorful, like u know bring up the colors a bit, cause some games can look really dull, but its again personal preference and i used also crt lotte etc. with combination of calibrator and maybe gamma, but i dont know, i made one of the gmae looks almost like a cell shaded game and i dont know why but it suited that game specifically not so much with others
talking about this game Threads of Fate (really looked almost like a new retro styled indie game :)), anyway i use personalized settings for every game i play, i had set up the main options like for all games to be the same except those that are like a bit questionable to work with every one of them properly.
Like PGXP is defaultly on, cause it just makes most of the games i did play so much better. In the rest like with Powerslave i rather kept it off, cause the wobllyness and PGXP in this game makes too much holes in between textures or gaps should i say. So by turning it off entirely makes it better, not perfect but still better and that wobblyness is not that hard like in other games for example Syphon Filter 2 or 3 i think, it was a nightmare, but i guess still playable.
Also i know this was about graphics but just saying for those that need it, overclocking option does help but if u can try to be close to max 200%, dont go too much over this treshold cause u might experience side effects like for example that happened to me, u wont be able to save the game, or if u have set up the cd read speed for too fast of a multiplier, with games like Nightmare Creatures 2 ull end up with unfinished monologues during loadings. Really irritating stuff. Also it makes difference sure, but not so much its worth ruining the gaming experience.
Yeah overclocking I see as a bit of fun, not a legitimate way to play if timings authenticity is important.
@@warpedpolygon
Look probably i should explain. (also to be clear i dont care if its legit or not, ill do it if the gameplay wont suffer for it)
So i do the OC only with games that are meant to be played at certain fps, so it wont drop below that or at least not too often.
There are games that should run 30. But they often hit 20 or lower in some areas or situations etc. cutscene what have u.
So in these cases i apply 150% OC. Most games need this boost, some less, some more, but generally 150 is enough to get 30+- or 29.97 stable, in those games that should run at this rate.
Those that are same but with 60 limit i do the same if the fps is fluctuating too much, or too often from its desired 60.
Thats it. I wont play a game that is designed at 30 and ill OC the shit out of it so it will do 60. Its insane and also itll break things.
I was experiencing said drops with Army Men games, so i did OC. But went too far and the game could run at 60. But then immediately u cna see that its just too fast. It wasnt meant to run like that. Things brake. Like for instance the most obvious driving a tank, its just almost not possible. Running with the soldier and shooting kinda possible but still looks weird and not right.
So yeah. There are games that break with going too far with OC and there are those that benefit and not like in a way u might call it cheating or its to easy. The opposite. Everything is as it should be. Those timings u mentioned. Id argue that they are off if u let the dips happen. Cause those are the HW faults not the programming itself.
U dont need to travel far in the past, or just be now. Certain games cant be run 60fps on PS5 for example and the HW exists to be able to do. But we have a certain kind of hw in those consoles that can run those games but either 4k 30, balanced 60 or performance 60/120.
U have options and despite that still occasional drops happen and so they are very few and far between and whats important it wont ruin ur gameplay.
But with the PS1 id argue that some games are almost unplayable because of that.
Syphon Filter that i mentioned is one of those games, 20fps, i almost clawed my eyes out playing it. But it was made that way and it runs and without OC i add.
Again. OC is a blessing for certain games. And curse for others and like a no deal for others cause they are already running as they should and doing the OC wont do anything.
I dont know if u meant really the OC or the speedup thing, cause i think those are pretty different things.
Whatever all i know is ill keep using it for those troubled games and not with those that dont need that extra umph to achieve the desired fps.
Also, sorry for this long text. read it if u want to or dont, or some parts. It just turned out to be longer then i wanted to. sorry
I like how some PS1 games can look like PS2 graphics, when applying the right improvements to each game in Duckstation. I personally like the benefit of having these games upscaled, just as long as it doesn't look ugly. I will have to come back to this video later, once I get my new Steam Deck in the mail and it's properly set up.
Wipeout 3 is a personal fav to upscale for this very reason. It totally solid with barely any wobble
Amazing video, it's all really well explained. Thank you for that.
Wow, this really is very informative ! Great job !
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for your detailed tutorial. I enjoyed each second of it. But what happened to ePSXe? Is Duckstation better?
@@HasanShokri I'd say duckstation is better these days. Easier to use imo
Really good results!
Thanks mate!
great video ty , question when i press escape on my keyboard i get 'are you sure you want to shut down the virtual machine?' i dont get the game properties etc , any help please
@@cfc3972 have a look in hotkeys to see what the emulator menu button is bound to.
One thing is CPU overclocking improves FPS (while not speed up the video) for some games like Gran Turismo 2 and Need For Speed High Stakes.
Hello brother great video i used some of settings but my game doeant look like yours. How did you make ur fmvs look so great mine are worse thay the original psx version.and last why the disable interlacing option is not on my graphics option.thank you
Can you upload a video for how to mod PC games? Specifically I was attempting to get 4K resolution for MGS1 for MGS Master Collection.
I'm not the best guy for that at the moment. My knowledge is mediocre with PC game patching, need a better understanding before I can show others.
@@warpedpolygon Copy, thanks. I appreciate your response. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Awesome tutorial! Any idea where I can get texture replacement video?
If I could find a duckstation compatible packs, I'd do it. Cannot find any live projects with dl's.
Great video! Learnt alot! 😁
What is the pixel run-and-gun game during the intro at the :27 second mark? Thanks
CT Special Forces. It's a PAL only release, there's 3 in the series on PS1 and all pretty good.
@@warpedpolygon That's awesome! I love discovering PS2 games I haven't played. They look great. Thanks
Super super well made video. Thank you so much
This was very helpful, thank you!
Thank you! A very informative video! Thanks to your video I realized that PGXP breaks Crash Team Racing's graphics (especially the water), so I disabled it and the game looks great now!
Thanks man!
PERFECT video, thanx for uploading.. I´m having a issue with Mortal Kombat Trilogy sound, I hear the sound effect but I no music on background playing.
For the downsampling option would I want that on if I’m playing games like Yugioh forbidden memories ?
Only you can answer that. Turn it on and take a look
what's the next system you are working on for mame and when can we expect them?
its finished, just need to put together a video
Dont the external texture works anymore on this emulator newest version ? there too lack of video that's show and teach how to use external texture or even make them.
The ones that work with Duckstation are hard to find. I was gonna cover it but every link I found to a texture pack was dead
I'm struggling with unstable polygons for Spider-Man 2000 and It's seem like no matter what I do to with pgxp, it won't seem to work. Any suggestions?
Try activating CPU Mode. It could break stuff tho
This video is an absolute godsend. Do you by any chance have a recommended setting for Busta a Groove 2?
Thanks. I don't really have recommend settings for games, you can copy how I have my defaults in this video and go from there. Tweak it to your preference
@@warpedpolygon Yeah, the overall performance is great, but this game has some weird audio/video desync where the music seems out of rythm and doesnt match the input timing. I've been trying to finetune it for a while but without succes thus far. It's been quite the struggle.
On a sidenote: I first came across your previous video, 8 months old now, and then looked through your channel hoping for an updated version since I noticed that some configurations changed in the app. This is the first time I cam across someone actually going in-depth and explaing the features/effects. Tysm.
Any chances of doing a guide video on Duckstation showing how to get Texture Replacements to work? Maybe use the Chrono Cross HD Texture pack as example.
Ahh man I couldn't find a single active download for Duckstation compatible HD Textures. I tried that Crono Cross one but I don't think DS can use it. There's an excellent Resident Evil 2 texture pack where someone has actually drawn (with AI help) proper widescreen. But the links are all dead...
why some game cant see it.. and must open folder and drag it into duckstation?
crash bandicoot has a widescreen fix hack to solve the issue of the missing rendering on the supposedly hidden edges
Oh damn, i thought that there just wasn't anything there due to being made in 4:3
I think only CTR.
CRT shader or scanlines all the way, but it´s nice
Wonder if you have a list of recommended settings for mgs1 on the latest duckstation version?
If I enable the pgxp geometry, the duckstation often auto close. Do you know why?
use quads for what you don't understand, it helps the 3d assets.
It's amazing how the emulation scene has moved away from tinkering manually with the plugins to make games work, to this. The future is bright.
Please make a video for setup and running correct zinc emulator for psx arcade boards.
I don't use zinc to be honest. All of them are based on 0.199 and normal mame handles them fine imo. Is there a new zinc available?
Well done my friend thank you for this amazing detailed video! I really appreciate it. I have one question although because I am not an expert. What exactly makes the game go smoother? Like I am trying to stream and when ever I start the streaming the game goes less smoother. I will try today with your settings and guidance I hope it works!
Could be a bunch of different things if it's connected to streaming. Try using the default Duckstation options as these perform the best, if it's still not smooth you know the issue isn't connected to Duckstation with regards to performance. From there you'll need to figure it out.
Invaluable video. Thanks a lot! Only thing I'm missing are the cheats. The folder is empty and the manager doesn't show any. I guess I just play them in their native aspect ratio.
Any idea if PAL or NTSC games are preferred? Afaik, PAL games have better image quality but only run at 50hz while NTSC runs at 60 with less good image quality - not sure if the image quality is noticeable to stick to PAL though.
For me its about native 60hz so NTSC.
If you're Upscaling and adding filtering the difference in image quality isn't really going to be noticeable. Maybe pal looks better at native res on a crt but emulated on a digital display, i doubt many could tell the difference even if there is any. Sometimes pal ports can have different stuff going on i suppose, but again I will gladly trade this for 60hz
@@warpedpolygon Fair enough - might get the NTSC versions in the future.
I just saw that Cave Story has a PS1 port, maybe you'd like to try it sometime!
I just installed Duckstation and I moticed that the disable interlacing option was not on the interface. Does anyone know if they removed it with the new update?
Please let me know: Can I put scanlines in the switch version? Where can I download It? Thanks
Nice and informative video! Can you please tell me what the game is called which is showed in the “Adaptive downsampling” chapter?
Descent. It's brutally hard
It's amazing how much better Duckstation is than the old PS1 emulators I was using over 10 years ago, such as ePSXe etc...
Thanks a lot for the video, and the resources at the end. Cheers from sunny old Cambridge!
Thanks mate!
Awesome guide!
Thanks!
would you say duckstation is the best (in your opinion) emu for ps1?
Hell yeah!
Can you show to install Custom Textures pls , i've download bunch of 'em
Great video again some cheats don't work as they're for different region games and versions👍
Cheers mate. Yes they are region specific, forgot to mention damn it,
@@warpedpolygon Don't worry I'll keep you in the right! 🤣
Maybe I'm missing something, I just downloaded Duckstation yesterday. Apply Per Game Settings is not an option on that screen anymore and I've been searching for a way to get it to work now
Did you have issues with the bios files when downloading duckstation
@@Sc00byg00ky I did not
are the retroarch versions up to date or should i separate install this
@@clmnyng duckstation doesn't have a retroarch core. Standalone only so install this
renderer choices is about usage of you Pc hardware. DX11 - using just GPU. most common thing. DX12 and vulkan i didnt test cus i still use win7, and when i turn on vulkan i got blue screen, (strange cus i use RPCS3 on vulkane and its just fine). OpenGL - best choice for me, it use GPU same as DX11, but also 1 thread of CPU for help. so if someone has lags of emulator work - this is your way, but! cus its OPEN GL - IF you are streamer - your OBS will not catch game at full screen. that how all openGL things work (maybe windowed will work) Software - is just original PS1 hardware lookin
for most game JINC2 is best way of filtering. but some games is better for xBR, such as Silent hill, or hogs of war.... keep in mind that xBR is not just a smoother as bilenial or JINC2 - its doin its job al the time, so it abit more tougher for PC
Strange thing, but at aspect ratio menu i have AUTO (window match) and it work perfectly without cheats.. whatever i do window size.. 16:9 or 10:1 no mater...
BTW, all that stuff as torn on\off PGXP, filters, renderers, render size - its all can be binded in hotkey menu
and i might be wrong but - are you didnt say about PS1 CPU OVERCLOCK? to decrease game lags, or increase frame rate in games that allows that...
is there anyway to reduce the ghosting from a modern LCD monitor that we use these days :p?
duckstation is awesome and this video guide is the best that i have seen, but honestly the only reason stopping me from using emulator more is the terrible ghosting and blur while moving the screen
thank you so much for this AMAZING video!
Can you give me an example game so I can see the ghosting and then try to fix
@@warpedpolygon well i was playing spyro and medievil, and turning camera around just feels much worse than how i remember it on a crt with console, am i crazy?
@@majmunbezgaca5220 without seeing exactly what you are referring to it's hard to help.
Keep in mind PS1 games were made with CRT's in mind, and that is really the best way to play if you are sensitive to the transition to digital displays.
Without seeing the issue directly I can't tell you if it's an actual issue, or if you are picking up on the inconsistencies inherent with displaying games made for CRT on a digital display.
@@warpedpolygon ye i feel like its the second thing "inconsistencies inherent with displaying games made for CRT on a digital display." :p anyway thank you for reply and awesome video guide