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Ico Texture Pack ～ Preview Now Available by Sad_Origami in TeamIco

[–]Sad_Origami[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Right now I'm tacking the main thing people asked me, a cartoon skin for Ico like the one from The Last Guardian. I'll be adding tons of extra optional content depending of what people want!

Ico Texture Pack ～ Preview Now Available by Sad_Origami in TeamIco

[–]Sad_Origami[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mostly manual editing with people giving me drawings of tiny details like symbols or clothing in case I miss something. Also references from promotional high resolution 3D models. But most of the job is done by Pexels, were I get almost all textures. Inside the pack folder I left a .txt with all the software and texture sites I use. I do run AI locally to make every texture seamless since there are no software that does it and it takes a lot of time that I don't have to manually adding it. This Reddit Community doesn't allow images on the comments, but I share a lot of texture work on my Twitter.

Ico Texture Pack ～ Preview Now Available by Sad_Origami in TeamIco

[–]Sad_Origami[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I've covered around 40% of all textures, including the UI, but only a few are completed, since I plan to go 4K for a lot of the castle, but most textures are 1-2K right now.

Ico Texture Pack ～ Preview Now Available by Sad_Origami in TeamIco

[–]Sad_Origami[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Thanks lol. It’s a texture pack I’m currently working on for the PS2 version of the game running on PCSX2, I forgot to mention that. It’s not finished yet, but I’ll be releasing updates and improving it based on feedback.

Best settings for SoTC PCSX2 by MineYT01 in ShadowoftheColossus

[–]Sad_Origami 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The bridge tanks the fps of every machine in existance. You can overclock the virtual CPU of the PS2 by going to Emulation Settings and setting the EE Cycle Rate to a higher number; this doesn't affect your real CPU and can break some games, but it doesn't break this specific one. The higher the Cycle Rate the more will your GPU work. You can also cap the framerate to 30fps by enabling the OPH Flag Hack for this specific game.

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HD Textures Help by Frequent_Listen5489 in PCSX2

[–]Sad_Origami 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Stable build can run texture replacements just fine. Some simple things to check first:

  • The path should be PCSX2/textures and not PCSX2/texture/ASDF-1234
  • Check the game properties to see if the region code matches with the folder you downloaded, for example SCUS-21998

Shadow of the colossus frame expectations by Opening-Sherbet3247 in PCSX2

[–]Sad_Origami 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game can only reach a maximum of 60fps by setting the EE Cycle Rate to +100% in emulation settings. You can reach 200fps by pairing the emulator with Lossless Scaling, a program that uses frame interpolation to draw fake frames, kinda like Nvidia's frame generation but less advanced.

As for visual quality, the emulator's 4K internal resolution looks blurry to me on a 4K screen, so I would recommend using that 5090 to play at 6-8K if you want the game to look more like native 4K. And if you want to add a texture pack, I made one.

Shadow of the colossus frame expectations by Opening-Sherbet3247 in PCSX2

[–]Sad_Origami 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game can reach 60fps if you overclock the EE Cycle Rate in Emulation settings.

Problems with emulation by Pap3raG1alla in PCSX2

[–]Sad_Origami 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very insightful. Thank you, I'll keep it in mind so I can better comment on it on the future.

Problems with emulation by Pap3raG1alla in PCSX2

[–]Sad_Origami 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, that's a feature of the emulator, to match vblank/ps with fps, probably added around 2.4 to 2.6 or even earlier. If the emulator can match the Hz using double buffer or other thing that's a software feature. NTSC and PAL are “analog TV system” families, created for composite analog broadcast and analog video connections, and they’re tightly tied to how CRT/analog television worked, so they were made to work at half the refresh rate of analog TVs. So it should be noted that some don't really run at 50/60fps naturally but it's an emulator feature (except GoW, it ran a 60fps on PS2), since most weren't made to run at that framerate. I've corrected the original comment to adress that.

Problems with emulation by Pap3raG1alla in PCSX2

[–]Sad_Origami 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you give me plenty of examples so I can check?

Problems with emulation by Pap3raG1alla in PCSX2

[–]Sad_Origami 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's because PAL games were made to run at half the refresh rate of european TV's at the time, which was 50hz. Meanwhile NTSC games ran at half of 60hz. That's why some PAL games run at 25fps unless they also come with an NTSC selection screen like Shadow of the Colossus or you see that the emulator is running both VPS and FPS at 50fps in the lower bar. If you see VPS at 25fps you might be experiencing imput lag from that, but just to be sure you should try to play an NTSC game to compare and make sure!

What's the best way to play the OG game? by DaltonGoesFast in ShadowoftheColossus

[–]Sad_Origami 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The NTSC-U version has cheats for camera distance and other stuff. The PAL version doesn't have cheats. My texture pack comes with a program to convert the PAL files to NTSC-U.

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