Hello folks - Many of you are asking me what games were featured in this video and at what time in the video! Here is the list and the time of their appearance - 1:15 - Dead Or Alive 2:14 - Ace Combat 3 2:27 - Einhander 2:38 - Colin McRae Rally 2 3:33 - Tekken 3 5:03 - Tobal 2 5:59 - King Of Fighters 98 6:40 - Vanishing Point 7:16 - Koudelka 8:04 - Syphon Filter 8:51 - Time Crisis Project Titan 9:19 - The Last Blade 9:46 - TOCA World Touring Cars 10:26 - Real Bout Fatal Fury Special 11:08 - Mortal Kombat Trilogy 11:43 - Gradius Gaiden 14:08 - Metal Slug 15:19 - Street Fighter EX2 Plus Also Here Is An Updated Version Of This Video - ruclips.net/video/b9ghMT3QK3s/видео.htmlsi=maJF2jk0Emingfbf Hope this helps!
It is definitely a product of technology & how far PS1 emulation has come ^^ Next I'll have to look at other PS1 emulators to see if they are worth a look too :)
You mean PGXP (Gemoetry) Filters... and not "anti-wobble". EDIT: Sadly he doesnt mention this detail, but the Geometry Filters are what makes DuckStation stand out against all other Emulators.
@@TheAffroShowGameplay no other Emulator is worth it... trust me. If you wanna get the most out of the PS1 Visuals nothing beats DuckStation because of its Geometry Filter(s). The other features are all the same across the board, but only DuckStation delivers the max possible visuals up to this day.
I got onto the DuckStation bandwagon several months ago and I've never looked back since. Its *BY FAR* the best emulator for the PS1 that's out there at the moment, leaves others like ePSXe far behind.
Mednafen Beetle is also great, but you're stuck with native resolution and no enhancements, but Duckstation absolutely kills it. It's up to 99.5% compatibility with games playable start to finish with almost zero issues and the emulation accuracy almost reaches that of Mednafen Beetle if not surpassing it in several areas. The amazing part is that it can achieve all this while running on a potato PC.
@@elimalinsky7069 You might be thinking of the regular Beetle core, the Beetle HW core gives you the resolution boost and other enhancements, and I would consider Beetle HW in all honesty to be the #2 choice atm. DuckStation though, just makes everything much simpler and works amazingly. Its the one I would still go for in a heartbeat.
@@ThunderTHR I'm less into Retroarch, but I understand what you mean. Duckstation just works so great out of the box, and the UI is very user friendly and easy to navigate around, very intuitive and full of features like easy disc swapping, memory card management and nice enhancements like perpective correction, dithering blending, improved FMV playback and overclocking to improve framerates beyond real hardware.
I run 4k with geometry correction, no texture filtering, and a subtle horizontal scanline shader which mainly shows up in sky or brighter textures. I think that's the best compromise to improve the look of the game while retaining the original art style.
I like to increase my PS1 games resolution to only 480p so that textures and detail get much clearer still maintaining that PS1 look and not drawing too much attention to the low resolution of textures and simple geometry. I haven't tried Duckstation yet, but Retroarch's Beetle PSX core has a really cool feature for games that mix 2D backgrounds and 3D objects, where you increase the internal resolution only as an anti alising process, while the external resolution stays low so that 3D objects don't pop like a sore thumb on 2D backgrounds. It's great for games like Resident Evil 1-3 and Final Fantasy 7-9. 2D-only games benefit from higher resolutions if there's zooming out, like PSX's Blood Omen or Saturn's Darius, those games really look great that way.
Duckstation has that function too although I need to look into it further :) Ah if that is how you play PS1 titles do it! As long as it makes you happy right? :)
it's INSANE how well made some of these PS1 games were!! After the resolution upscale they could easily pass off as early PS2 games or Dreamcast games!
That is not plain Upscaling (even if it sounds like it in this Video), its the PGXP (Geometry) Filters showing off. With regular Upscaling it would still look worse as shown here. EDIT: Its both combined, and no other Emulator features those tight Geometry Filters.
@@TheAffroShowGameplay hhmm got some more then: Remote Control Dandy Gunnm Martian Memory Mizzurna Falls Aconcagua Dr Slump Planet Laika Racing Lagoon Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere (JPN version) Dr. Slump (those above all got english translations) Rising Zan: Samurai Gunman Soukagi Danger Girl Crisis Beat Hokuto no Ken: Seiki Matsukyu Seishi Legend Macross VFX 2 Mobile Police Patlabor - Game Edition Straight Victory TV Animation X - Unmei no Tatakai Option: Tuning Car Battle Rival Schools (okay people know this one) Soul Blade (same) Batman & Robin (okay people know that one) Galerians (same) Tenchu (same) Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi (same) okay thats it : )
My question though, how does this compare to running a true ps1 with the best quality cables on a decent crt considering thats what the system was designed for?
@@Daiyve Yep im still around - i would say the difference is preference. Its like playing old school PC games on a crt - they look smooth and provide a warm image (warm in the sense easy on the eyes) - then play that old game with new patches on a new OLED pc with the latest resolutions, its still good but ultra sharp now and more....pc like? Works well with some older games -eg Duke Nukem 3d and worse with others - mostly the old DOS games with almost hand drawn art and no 3d to them. Depends on the mood you are going for I tend to play a lot of my PS1 games still on a CRT for that reason alone Hope that makes sense
@PierFlies any games with 2d art will look better in crt tv(2d fighting/platform games or games with pre-rendered background like RE or FF) those were native 240p res and will always look pixelated on any display with higher native res than sd crt tv. rgb/component cable is the way to go but dithering will show more with them. 3d games will always look better upscaled with duckstation. best of both world imo is duckstation on crt tv, but there are cases where real hardware on crt is the only option like guncon games or games where accuracy matters.
@@Daiyve its preference but small crt looks different than big crt, the pro model like pvm also look different but as long as its 15khz 240p they will look good for 2d ps1. i have 27 inch and 14 inch and i prefer to play on the bigger one. if i was stronger i would go for 32 inch or bigger crt but i'm small dude even a 27 inch took my all to move around lol. there are also crt shaders that will look good if you have 4k display, its no crt but with good settings it can come close especially on oled.
Using Duckstation through RetroArch guarantees you to play games like KOF98, Last blade, Fatal Fury with perfect quality. Try using Retroarch's shaders and choose the hq4 shader. Your 2D games will look perfect.
I appreciate that but, I already like how those games look as is & I'm not really a filter guy :) I'm sure someone though will do that & love the look more :) I will say it'd be nice if Duckstation had more filters by default:)
Duckstation is awesome. Although I have never used the standalone I use the retroarch core with vulkan. Converted my library to CHD and m3u's for multi-disc.
Duckstation is definitely awesome although I've never used it via retroarch :) I always say as long as you enjoy using it & it's working for you, never stop :)
I don't care what anyone says, compared to using aging native hardware, old displays, expensive converters and overpriced retro games, emulation is the way to go.
First of all, thank you for this work, it's amazing. It's nice to see this kind of comparisons side by side. I hope you could bring us more of them. I have noticed that Beetle psx HW (Retroarch core) is not on your preferences and I think this emulator is better than epsxe and worthy of mention. Do you know about it? It's would nice to see how Duckstation downsampling works. This is a great feature of Beetle psx HW in conjunction with retroarch shaders. Anyway, great video brother!
Oh definitely & if you want to see more, there's plenty on the channel already but I definitely will be making more in the future :)) I was told about Beetle PSX back in my original coverage of Duckstation Emulation but I will get there eventually, many people have suggested many great emulators to me :)) I appreciate that & thank you for the comment! I try my best :)
Nice. An emulator i wasn't aware of, and with modern tech underneath. And really sensible too. I like Vanishing Point! But the version to pick, if one were to play it, is the one on Dreamcast. It's 60fps, it has a much higher geometry resolution and texture resolution. Disagree on Koudelka. The emulator is doing the best it possibly could while rendering at higher resolution. It's just flickery because this is just how the game is. If you look closely, the original Playstation shows the same exact object flicker where objects partially come in front and then behind each other; it's merely obscured by similar colour, dither, and low resolution. I have been able to track down every glitch i looked at here seen in emulation back to original system footage seen here. If you can't quite see it in frame by frame comparison, it's probably because they occur just one or two frames earlier or later in the footage for either system, but they're all there. Newer systems have a Z-buffer, which is a intermediate buffer that for every pixel of the output image, stores its depth, so when a new polygon is drawn, each pixel can be individually depth-tested and discarded if it's occluded. The Playstation doesn't have a Z-buffer, so the way Playstation games solve occlusion, is by using bucket sort to determine the approximate order of polygons or polygon groups, usually convex chunks, like the whole forearm of a character would be one chunk, but there will be smaller chunks too. So the game throws these objects into "buckets", each bucket corresponds to a thin-ish slice of distances from the camera, and then the GPU takes these buckets and draws them starting with furthest and ending with the nearest. This has some fundamental issues. First, if there is one depth value considered per chunk, then the chunks can actually be oriented in such a way that one chunk is visually in front of another, but their average distance values look like the opposite is the case, and this can happen with chunks that are relatively long and thin, such as torso or forearm, or have very dissimilar sizes to another, or where due to the method of estimating the chunk centre, it comes out closer to one side than the other. Second, there just isn't enough resolution in the Playstation math to provide good depth values, and PGXP simply can't follow the value from where it's being generated to where it's being used, so the sorting precision remains unenhanced, it stays like original hardware. And third, objects with different nearby depth values end up in one bucket and are considered equal, so the order in which they are drawn ends up being arbitrary. Currently, no solution is known. Since we have PGXP, so we have actual depth values passed through to the GPU, we can bypass the bucket sort and implement Z buffering - it's actually implemented right here, the "Depth Buffer" option. But this necessarily will break a LOT of stuff, and would be a truly Sisyphean task to unbreak. 9:44 colour me impressed with the audio resampling quality here. The Playstation has interpolation artefacts - normally those don't matter, since the source audio isn't usually this horribly undersampled, so they generally end up above audible band. But the emulator cleans them up a lot. 10:18 those clicks on the other hand don't make me happy, but it seems like the same game on the original hardware has some of those too, so maybe it's just how the game is. The next game clicks on both as well. I'm not sure the emulator can really do much to de-click the SPU without causing more clicks elsewhere. Playstation's own texture rendering is "nearest neighbour" so linear or texture enhancement algorithms tend to backfire, especially at the texture seams where there's no provision to continue interpolation across them, unlike in games on newer systems developed with linear interpolation in mind, which have extra repeating texture data behind the seam to hide it, and are quite careful about inconspicuous seam placement. On PSP the native mode on the other hand is "linear", which however can look pretty blurry when targeting larger than a 5" screen, especially for things like HUD and menu graphics.
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Haha i was sleepy and probably haven't worded myself all that well :D I used to develop my own PSX emulator GPU plugin 15 years ago but it never worked right and so stayed unreleased. I'll take another stab at it someday for sure, probably will fail less hard.
Please tell me the name of these games : 9:00 the shooting game 9:39 the fighting game 10:00 the racing game 12:00 the galactic side shooter Thank You!!
Tekken 3 actually had Polygons backgrounds in the original Arcade Version. The backgrounds had to be 2D like inside of a square room in the PS1 Version because it probably wouldn't be able to handle the 3D backgrounds. Wish I know how to get Japanese PSN Cards. And what's that Racing game? It looks like it supports true Widescreen. (9:48) That's amazing.
Yeah I noticed that in Tekken 5's classic section where Tekken 1, 2 & 3's arcade versions could be played :) Ah the Tekken 3 game you saw in this video was the Japanese version xD Toca World Touring Cars or Jason & Labonte Stock Car Racing as it's called in the US & yes it does indeed support 16:9 widescreen :)
I'm surprised that you were expecting changes on KOF, which is a 2D sprite-based game. 3D polygon games are improved because the graphics are computed, and are not bitmaps drawn by an artist. Games like KOF do not use 3D polygons: they are entirely hand-drawn artwork.
Ultimately I had to test these games in case the audience might have expected changes :) At least by showing this, they know it won't affect 2D games much outside of using filters :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay What are the differences? I remember seeing something about the Japanese version being better in a comment section elsewhere too.
To be honest I really don't know, I only brought that version because the American version has stupidly high prices & since I'm from the UK, not many people imported the American version so paying for shipment is expensive too xD
So impressed with what this can do! I still have a PS1 with an xstation, RGB scart cable and CRT so can't bring myself to play any other way but this is simply stunning! ❤️
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Same, having options is fantastic, I feel like this might attract a younger audience to play some PS1 classics they may not have otherwise
I'm impressed too. I'm not sure I've said it before Duckstation makes PS1 games look like PS2 or even PS3 games. Perhaps this video will help spread the word. Regarding the filters, I'd go no filter as well. When I get a new gaming PC, I might do Duckstation.
Maybe not PS2 but I'd say more like PC versions of the games drastically upscaled since upscaling PS2 or PS3 content will look better than this :) Still interesting though ^^ Duckstation is definitely worth a try ^^
I also own a professional upscaler. The graphics don't look as good as an emulator. I'm going to build a mini retro PC. I have subscribed to your channel.
King of fight ,always was one the hardest game to scale but it dos not scale fully unless you have a crt with correct specs to even get close plus custom scaling sliders like old mame plus had.
To be fair at that point you wouldn't be using the PS1 port if you really wanted to go that route but it's a decent port if you have to have a version to play :)
Here we go with another amazing video. It is incredible how the duckstation looks in 4k, but more incredible is that in arcade-type games like KOF the difference with the original PS1 is not so drastic Nice job
It is incredible how some games don't benefit much but still great to see the upscale doesn't ruin them either :)) Thank you for the kind words and continued support 😊
At first I am using ePSEXe and my Tablet is low-end,it doesn't work on Duckstation,When I finally have a higher end Tablet,it can run Duckstation on it and I was impressed by it,You can adjust resolution than ePSXe emulator
My ex ps1 has no twitching in any games or problems. Runs perfect 60 fps if games are not frame locked.teckken runs 60 frames second no drops.its smooth.duck should run it flawles.
My PS1 doesn't twitch either, it's because I'm using the OSSC & it's Bob Deinterlacing at line 4x, that's why the PS1 picture twitches with the Hi-Res games :) Yes Duckstation is perfect as shown in this video with picture :)
Try a different Direct drive (OpenGL to Vulkan for example) Try also lowering enhanced settings if they are too high or lower resolutions, they are the first things I can think of :)
The over clocking feature of duckstation is interesting. I wish there was a website that went through every ps1 game to test the over clocking feature. I know Tomb Raider 2 runs a lot better if you set the overclock to 150%
On a few games you can remove the slowdown when there is too much 3D stuff on the screen with a slight overclock, but on other games it increases the games speed too much, so they will run unnaturally faster. One example would be: Rugrats - Search for Reptar In that game you can get slowdowns from 30 FPS down to 15 FPS (for example in the kitchen area), with a slight overclock (130%-150%) it stays 30 FPS stable all the time with a few exceptions where it goes faster.
Most games I've tried work with 190% overclocking just fine-anything higher often tends to break timings. Even if game has a frame limiter, OC still reduces lags in some places (yep, those lags, which occur even on the original hardware). Quake II, on the other hand, works perfectly well with 350% overclocking, which makes it run at steady 60 FPS.
It could be slowdown due to the emulator speed or maybe the audio settings might be too high or wrongly set :) Try lowering the resolution first before messing with the audio as the default settings normally work just fine :)
Please refer to the pinned comment for the timestamps for the games shown in this video :) However to save you time, the game in question was The Last Blade, a port of the Neo Geo classic, though being released in Japan only, the name might be different:)
Duckstation is certainly better than epsxe, but i still can't increase the video quality of the legend of dragoon. If anyone can share me their display & enhancement settings for the game I'd really appreciate it
When you say video quality, you might mean the games pre-rendered backgrounds? Unfortunately you can't increase the quality of those, the only way is to have someone redraw them in higher quality, like the Seamless HD Project from Resident Evil:) You can try to add a basic filter to make them look a bit better but anything that's not 3D will not get the benefits Duckstation truly offers :)
Yeah unfortunately pre-rendered backgrounds never get better, if you play a battle scene in the game, the graphics will jump up because those backgrounds are 3D :)
I never used retroarch before so I have no experience or idea of what It can do :p That's why it's great I make videos like this, people can recommend or tell me about other emulators out there for me to have a play with :)
Only thing it lacks is good texture filters... bilinear is blurry, xbr is ugly, i tried contact with developer to try to tell him this, but was rejected.
@@wolker213 Admittedly because I don't use filters myself, my knowledge on them is very limited but, if that is true I hope they try that one :) Soon though I'll be looking at a Resident Evil 2 mod that replaces all of the pre-rendered backgrounds with Machine Learning AI upscaled versions so very interesting stuff ^^
hi. nice comparision! why has duckstation stutter and to fast pace issues sometimes. only in a few games? l.e. need for speed. can sadly only use direct3d11 and Software. thanks
If you use options such as sync to monitor or enable v-sync, I find this drastically helps :) The stutter occurres because your refresh rate doesn't exactly match the output of real hardware but, using those settings & also using optical frame pacing may also help with this:)
@chaitai2533 No worries, using many devices & this emulator for so long, I just know the common issues xD I also recommend using the overclocking feature to make some games speed up :)
The bad thing imo: You have to activate "Linear Upscaling" in order for the pixels to be perfectly square, it does add a slight blurr to the picture though AND there is no "Linear Upscaling, except FMVs" option. So you gotta live with blurred out FMVs :I
I was perfectly happy with how the images looked & since then using integer upscaling but I can always try linear in a future video to see the difference between the two:)
Duckstation 4K looks amazing! It maintains all the charm of PS1 era with the pixelated textures and low res models, adds a crisp image, and eliminates the excessive jaggies, glitching, wobble, and dithering technical limitations that to me always detracted from the overall presentation.
I still don't know why retro players insist that playing it on the original hardware is somehow a better experience to all the improvements that come with emulation. I like collecting old videogames, but I'm not blind to the reality that it's not the optimal way to play nor justify my purchases with that pretense.
Playing on real hardware is the easiest way to hook up those systems to a CRT TV and CRT TV are really the way to play those games no doubt. You can hook up a PC to one but it is not as easy, and the hardware will probably end up costing more than a console with accessories and mods, but with a PC you can play basically all the consoles. Is a choice that each one has to make. I use emulators up to the Dreamcast, everything newer I use real hardware as emulators for those consoles aren't that great.
It would really be nice if you provided the names of each game as it is played. There are some titles i didnt know about and id like to try them. Hopefully someone will answer with the names.
For me, there's just something about that "graininess" and the everything being so shaky and rough (in the racing game) that gives it a LIVING feeling which is taken away when everything is cleared up. It's like the difference between a brand new leather couch and one that has been used for 15 years. One LOOKS like it'd be comfortable to sit in. The other one simply looks like it would be good for a photoshoot.
Ultimately, you can make Duckstation look pretty much exactly like real hardware but this video & most of my emulation videos just show what can be possible using the software enhancements if you choose :)
some games look better with the wobbly picalated graphcis becase it adds extra noise to the picture which makes it look more detailed when its not. 4k at times looks to basic
Wow I was searching on Duckstation high Quality filters to try on Tobal 2 and here I am just stumbled on a video with a Tobal 2 on it lmao. Thank you sir!
I am always late to the party Sorry .... I waited and waited for a game to be shown this game is the best on Duckstation you even have it as you scroll up you CD colletion, the game is R Type Delta you could run this on Duckstation in an arcade cabinet and it would not look out of place, Epic Emulator for an Epic Game, Thanks for the Domo was fun to watch..
@@TheAffroShowGameplay that would be great as I played on original ps1 so much that I would like to see how good is the emulator from a visual and audio point of you, without at the rame original resolution to keep it as close as possible to the original...looking forward to it if you decide to do it...thank you! :-)
Honestly looks like a different generation console on duckstation. Cannot believe so many details are there but just cannot be seen due to the poorer resolution
What's with the creepy background music? Doesn't look quite as good even with the same settings on a mid-level powerful Android tablet that I own. But it makes sense a tablet is no match for a PC.
I wanted it lol :p Well this is only a taste of what's possible, of course this video is old & updates can change everything:) Plus my PC is 7 years old so, not the cutting edge of current technology xD
@lisao10 That's ok, it was long overdue but all future videos do have timestamps in the video description so this shouldn't be an issue on newer videos :)
The widescreen hack , plus 16:9 aspect ratio is clean af. It's amazing. I play all my games in widescreen now in duckstation 4k, 16:9 is the way to go.
I have a video coming up where I look at the wide-screen hack among other things to see how it changes the look of the game so you might want to look out for it!
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Already downloaded it and am playing brave fencer musashi right now. So glad I get to experience several games for the first time like Vagrant Story, Legend of Legaia, Legend of Dragoon, Vandal Hearts, Saga Frontier 2
Awesome video like the last duckie vid...i confess i also installed duckstation and tried a ton of games just to see how they looked..and on some games is really amazing i think Colin McRae 2.0 is a great example of when it works but on some other games i did not like the result like crash team racing...it just looks weird..still it is very very impressive how duckie changes the games but i think Colin McRae 2.0 is probably enjoyed best on composite (I'm serious) or s-video asmax...when I play it on the ps2 it already looks ugly to me over component.. hard to explain when composite blurriness helps acting as a cheap antialiasing filter. Regardless duckie is closer than ever to madnafen in accuracy and it is pretty amazing how quickly it has become the number 1 ps1 emu. Free,having lower requirements and also for available for mobile phones. This guy's should help pscx2 developers with their emulator.
Thank you for the praise again mate, very appreciated ^^ Yeah Duckstation's features don't work well in every game & not all games benefit but trying out the features is awesome 😊 Nah I'd rather play with RGB Scart with sharp pixels on my OSSC although I do love S-Video which I would love to use again once I get a certain part for the OSSC ^^ A PS2 Emulator of this calibur would be incredible 😊
@@TheAffroShowGameplay of course mate! you make great content! yep super hard going back to composite i know but on the rare game it works somehow. By the way I bet you've seen it... Retrotink 5x..the 480i to 1080p adaptive mode looks completely insane.basically makes it 480p to my eyes.. but I will never spend 275 euros or whatever on an upscaler. hopefully that tech goes cheaper quick. Take care!
@@trashcan9001 Thank you ^^ Ah me personally I'll never go back to composite but hey its there if you want to play that way :)) You bet!! I've been looking to get one, maybe next year & I'd happily pay for one even at the price xD But yeah, most won't get that yet :o You too :)
Sorry, it was the early days of the season, I have since adopted that way of naming chapters, I might go back and rework this one as many people do ask me for game names :)
Well, the creator of Duckstation is currently collaborating with the PCSX2 team, he helped add Vulkan support, remove plugins and also is working on a new GUI for PCSX2 based on Qt...and it looks just like Duckstation.
@@koffing2073 There's the official nightlys already with Qt. I already made the swtich, it even has auto-updates and soon they are implementing more features.
The games are as follows in order of appearance - Ace Combat 3 Colin McRae Rally 2 Tekken 3 Tobal 2 The King Of Fighters 98 Vanishing Point Koudelka Syphon Filter 2 Time Crisis: Project Titan The Last Blade Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing Real Bout Fatal Fury Special Mortal Kombat Trilogy Gradius Gaiden Metal Slug Street Fighter EX Plus 2 Hope this helps!
@@TheAffroShowGameplay My only concern is the text bubble, dialog, title, all are kinda blurry. I've played around with the settings, and only ended up with native 1x (default settings). 😵
Ah I would usually use 9x & the nearest neighbour filter :) 1x is basically the native resolution of PS1 games (240p or 288p for PAL games) Try 2x maybe as I did in my latest video showing Squaresoft PS1 games that missed the European market :)
Hello folks -
Many of you are asking me what games were featured in this video and at what time in the video! Here is the list and the time of their appearance -
1:15 - Dead Or Alive
2:14 - Ace Combat 3
2:27 - Einhander
2:38 - Colin McRae Rally 2
3:33 - Tekken 3
5:03 - Tobal 2
5:59 - King Of Fighters 98
6:40 - Vanishing Point
7:16 - Koudelka
8:04 - Syphon Filter
8:51 - Time Crisis Project Titan
9:19 - The Last Blade
9:46 - TOCA World Touring Cars
10:26 - Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
11:08 - Mortal Kombat Trilogy
11:43 - Gradius Gaiden
14:08 - Metal Slug
15:19 - Street Fighter EX2 Plus
Also Here Is An Updated Version Of This Video - ruclips.net/video/b9ghMT3QK3s/видео.htmlsi=maJF2jk0Emingfbf
Hope this helps!
Dead Or Alive 2 is a PlayStation 2 game. This is Dead or Alive (1).
Thank you! That was my mistake, that was a typo I didn't spot :)@VanisherXP
with duckstation high res and anti wobble, some games looks like they are from the ps2 era. amazing.
It is definitely a product of technology & how far PS1 emulation has come ^^ Next I'll have to look at other PS1 emulators to see if they are worth a look too :)
You mean PGXP (Gemoetry) Filters... and not "anti-wobble". EDIT: Sadly he doesnt mention this detail, but the Geometry Filters are what makes DuckStation stand out against all other Emulators.
@@TheAffroShowGameplay no other Emulator is worth it... trust me. If you wanna get the most out of the PS1 Visuals nothing beats DuckStation because of its Geometry Filter(s). The other features are all the same across the board, but only DuckStation delivers the max possible visuals up to this day.
Yep some look like HD ps2 games
I got onto the DuckStation bandwagon several months ago and I've never looked back since.
Its *BY FAR* the best emulator for the PS1 that's out there at the moment, leaves others like ePSXe far behind.
Luckily, I'm currently uploading a video talking about ePSXe and how it fares against Duckstation ^^
The results are interesting to say the least:)
Mednafen Beetle is also great, but you're stuck with native resolution and no enhancements, but Duckstation absolutely kills it. It's up to 99.5% compatibility with games playable start to finish with almost zero issues and the emulation accuracy almost reaches that of Mednafen Beetle if not surpassing it in several areas. The amazing part is that it can achieve all this while running on a potato PC.
@@elimalinsky7069 You might be thinking of the regular Beetle core, the Beetle HW core gives you the resolution boost and other enhancements, and I would consider Beetle HW in all honesty to be the #2 choice atm.
DuckStation though, just makes everything much simpler and works amazingly. Its the one I would still go for in a heartbeat.
@@ThunderTHR I'm less into Retroarch, but I understand what you mean. Duckstation just works so great out of the box, and the UI is very user friendly and easy to navigate around, very intuitive and full of features like easy disc swapping, memory card management and nice enhancements like perpective correction, dithering blending, improved FMV playback and overclocking to improve framerates beyond real hardware.
I run 4k with geometry correction, no texture filtering, and a subtle horizontal scanline shader which mainly shows up in sky or brighter textures. I think that's the best compromise to improve the look of the game while retaining the original art style.
Well to each their own & I love how we have the power to make the game look as we personally want now thanks to emulation ^^
I like to increase my PS1 games resolution to only 480p so that textures and detail get much clearer still maintaining that PS1 look and not drawing too much attention to the low resolution of textures and simple geometry. I haven't tried Duckstation yet, but Retroarch's Beetle PSX core has a really cool feature for games that mix 2D backgrounds and 3D objects, where you increase the internal resolution only as an anti alising process, while the external resolution stays low so that 3D objects don't pop like a sore thumb on 2D backgrounds. It's great for games like Resident Evil 1-3 and Final Fantasy 7-9. 2D-only games benefit from higher resolutions if there's zooming out, like PSX's Blood Omen or Saturn's Darius, those games really look great that way.
Duckstation has that function too although I need to look into it further :)
Ah if that is how you play PS1 titles do it! As long as it makes you happy right? :)
Downsampling is love.
I like Beetle 3 Point filtering, too bad Duckstation doesn't have it.
it's INSANE how well made some of these PS1 games were!! After the resolution upscale they could easily pass off as early PS2 games or Dreamcast games!
It just goes to show how upscaling & modern features like perspective correction can change some games completely:)
That is not plain Upscaling (even if it sounds like it in this Video), its the PGXP (Geometry) Filters showing off. With regular Upscaling it would still look worse as shown here. EDIT: Its both combined, and no other Emulator features those tight Geometry Filters.
Lmao....not even close. DC and Ps2 games even the early ones have like 10 times the polygon count
We are back!! Duckstation against more real PS1 Hardware & a look at the filters Duckstation offers :) Enjoy!
Do a vid for Atlus fighitng game Yuusha: Heaven's Gate
I certainly can, I actually played the game before so I'll see what I can do:)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay thanks! Oh also throw in Ray Tracers : )
Noted :)
Might make another video like this filled with games people don't know about xD
@@TheAffroShowGameplay hhmm got some more then:
Remote Control Dandy
Gunnm Martian Memory
Mizzurna Falls
Aconcagua
Dr Slump
Planet Laika
Racing Lagoon
Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere (JPN version)
Dr. Slump
(those above all got english translations)
Rising Zan: Samurai Gunman
Soukagi
Danger Girl
Crisis Beat
Hokuto no Ken: Seiki Matsukyu Seishi Legend
Macross VFX 2
Mobile Police Patlabor - Game Edition
Straight Victory
TV Animation X - Unmei no Tatakai
Option: Tuning Car Battle
Rival Schools (okay people know this one)
Soul Blade (same)
Batman & Robin (okay people know that one)
Galerians (same)
Tenchu (same)
Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi (same)
okay thats it : )
I'd never heard of Duckstation, gonna have to check this out. Good vid :)
I didn't know about it until late 2020 but it was worth it & I recommend to try it out :)
My question though, how does this compare to running a true ps1 with the best quality cables on a decent crt considering thats what the system was designed for?
I don't own a CRT unfortunately so I can't answer that but I'm sure there's channels out there that have tested this aspect :)
@@Daiyve Yep im still around - i would say the difference is preference. Its like playing old school PC games on a crt - they look smooth and provide a warm image (warm in the sense easy on the eyes) - then play that old game with new patches on a new OLED pc with the latest resolutions, its still good but ultra sharp now and more....pc like? Works well with some older games -eg Duke Nukem 3d and worse with others - mostly the old DOS games with almost hand drawn art and no 3d to them.
Depends on the mood you are going for
I tend to play a lot of my PS1 games still on a CRT for that reason alone
Hope that makes sense
@PierFlies any games with 2d art will look better in crt tv(2d fighting/platform games or games with pre-rendered background like RE or FF) those were native 240p res and will always look pixelated on any display with higher native res than sd crt tv. rgb/component cable is the way to go but dithering will show more with them. 3d games will always look better upscaled with duckstation. best of both world imo is duckstation on crt tv, but there are cases where real hardware on crt is the only option like guncon games or games where accuracy matters.
@@Daiyve its preference but small crt looks different than big crt, the pro model like pvm also look different but as long as its 15khz 240p they will look good for 2d ps1. i have 27 inch and 14 inch and i prefer to play on the bigger one. if i was stronger i would go for 32 inch or bigger crt but i'm small dude even a 27 inch took my all to move around lol. there are also crt shaders that will look good if you have 4k display, its no crt but with good settings it can come close especially on oled.
Using Duckstation through RetroArch guarantees you to play games like KOF98, Last blade, Fatal Fury with perfect quality.
Try using Retroarch's shaders and choose the hq4 shader.
Your 2D games will look perfect.
I appreciate that but, I already like how those games look as is & I'm not really a filter guy :) I'm sure someone though will do that & love the look more :)
I will say it'd be nice if Duckstation had more filters by default:)
Duckstation is awesome. Although I have never used the standalone I use the retroarch core with vulkan. Converted my library to CHD and m3u's for multi-disc.
Duckstation is definitely awesome although I've never used it via retroarch :)
I always say as long as you enjoy using it & it's working for you, never stop :)
I don't care what anyone says, compared to using aging native hardware, old displays, expensive converters and overpriced retro games, emulation is the way to go.
Every one is different & while I don't agree with everything retro, it is nice that emulation is a thing & we can use it whenever we want:)
First of all, thank you for this work, it's amazing.
It's nice to see this kind of comparisons side by side. I hope you could bring us more of them.
I have noticed that Beetle psx HW (Retroarch core) is not on your preferences and I think this emulator is better than epsxe and worthy of mention.
Do you know about it?
It's would nice to see how Duckstation downsampling works. This is a great feature of Beetle psx HW in conjunction with retroarch shaders.
Anyway, great video brother!
Oh definitely & if you want to see more, there's plenty on the channel already but I definitely will be making more in the future :))
I was told about Beetle PSX back in my original coverage of Duckstation Emulation but I will get there eventually, many people have suggested many great emulators to me :))
I appreciate that & thank you for the comment! I try my best :)
It's like playing it on a different console rather than the PS1
It's amazing what 4K & the various enhancements can do when all are combined:)
Nice. An emulator i wasn't aware of, and with modern tech underneath. And really sensible too.
I like Vanishing Point! But the version to pick, if one were to play it, is the one on Dreamcast. It's 60fps, it has a much higher geometry resolution and texture resolution.
Disagree on Koudelka. The emulator is doing the best it possibly could while rendering at higher resolution. It's just flickery because this is just how the game is. If you look closely, the original Playstation shows the same exact object flicker where objects partially come in front and then behind each other; it's merely obscured by similar colour, dither, and low resolution. I have been able to track down every glitch i looked at here seen in emulation back to original system footage seen here. If you can't quite see it in frame by frame comparison, it's probably because they occur just one or two frames earlier or later in the footage for either system, but they're all there.
Newer systems have a Z-buffer, which is a intermediate buffer that for every pixel of the output image, stores its depth, so when a new polygon is drawn, each pixel can be individually depth-tested and discarded if it's occluded. The Playstation doesn't have a Z-buffer, so the way Playstation games solve occlusion, is by using bucket sort to determine the approximate order of polygons or polygon groups, usually convex chunks, like the whole forearm of a character would be one chunk, but there will be smaller chunks too. So the game throws these objects into "buckets", each bucket corresponds to a thin-ish slice of distances from the camera, and then the GPU takes these buckets and draws them starting with furthest and ending with the nearest. This has some fundamental issues. First, if there is one depth value considered per chunk, then the chunks can actually be oriented in such a way that one chunk is visually in front of another, but their average distance values look like the opposite is the case, and this can happen with chunks that are relatively long and thin, such as torso or forearm, or have very dissimilar sizes to another, or where due to the method of estimating the chunk centre, it comes out closer to one side than the other. Second, there just isn't enough resolution in the Playstation math to provide good depth values, and PGXP simply can't follow the value from where it's being generated to where it's being used, so the sorting precision remains unenhanced, it stays like original hardware. And third, objects with different nearby depth values end up in one bucket and are considered equal, so the order in which they are drawn ends up being arbitrary.
Currently, no solution is known. Since we have PGXP, so we have actual depth values passed through to the GPU, we can bypass the bucket sort and implement Z buffering - it's actually implemented right here, the "Depth Buffer" option. But this necessarily will break a LOT of stuff, and would be a truly Sisyphean task to unbreak.
9:44 colour me impressed with the audio resampling quality here. The Playstation has interpolation artefacts - normally those don't matter, since the source audio isn't usually this horribly undersampled, so they generally end up above audible band. But the emulator cleans them up a lot. 10:18 those clicks on the other hand don't make me happy, but it seems like the same game on the original hardware has some of those too, so maybe it's just how the game is. The next game clicks on both as well. I'm not sure the emulator can really do much to de-click the SPU without causing more clicks elsewhere.
Playstation's own texture rendering is "nearest neighbour" so linear or texture enhancement algorithms tend to backfire, especially at the texture seams where there's no provision to continue interpolation across them, unlike in games on newer systems developed with linear interpolation in mind, which have extra repeating texture data behind the seam to hide it, and are quite careful about inconspicuous seam placement. On PSP the native mode on the other hand is "linear", which however can look pretty blurry when targeting larger than a 5" screen, especially for things like HUD and menu graphics.
Can I say your knowledge on these things is incredible xD
Not going to lie my head was spinning trying to read all of the words you wrote 😆
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Haha i was sleepy and probably haven't worded myself all that well :D I used to develop my own PSX emulator GPU plugin 15 years ago but it never worked right and so stayed unreleased. I'll take another stab at it someday for sure, probably will fail less hard.
Please tell me the name of these games :
9:00 the shooting game
9:39 the fighting game
10:00 the racing game
12:00 the galactic side shooter
Thank You!!
1. Time Crisis
2. The Last Blade
3. Toca World Touring Cars (PAL) Jarrett And Labonte Stock Car Racing (NTSC)
4. Gradius Gaiden
Hope this helps!
Tekken 3 actually had Polygons backgrounds in the original Arcade Version. The backgrounds had to be 2D like inside of a square room in the PS1 Version because it probably wouldn't be able to handle the 3D backgrounds.
Wish I know how to get Japanese PSN Cards.
And what's that Racing game? It looks like it supports true Widescreen. (9:48) That's amazing.
Yeah I noticed that in Tekken 5's classic section where Tekken 1, 2 & 3's arcade versions could be played :)
Ah the Tekken 3 game you saw in this video was the Japanese version xD
Toca World Touring Cars or Jason & Labonte Stock Car Racing as it's called in the US & yes it does indeed support 16:9 widescreen :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Okay. Thanks.
KOF sprites becomes awesomely blend and not pixelated.. Amazing!
Hopefully one day filters in Duckstation will help out 2D games further when they introduce a lot more of them :)
I'm surprised that you were expecting changes on KOF, which is a 2D sprite-based game. 3D polygon games are improved because the graphics are computed, and are not bitmaps drawn by an artist. Games like KOF do not use 3D polygons: they are entirely hand-drawn artwork.
Ultimately I had to test these games in case the audience might have expected changes :) At least by showing this, they know it won't affect 2D games much outside of using filters :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Fair enough. :)
First dang PS1 game I tried with this (before even seeing this video) was *Einhänder.* Such a great, underrated gem.
It's a wonderful game and owning the Japanese version is definitely the way to go if you don't already own it :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay What are the differences? I remember seeing something about the Japanese version being better in a comment section elsewhere too.
To be honest I really don't know, I only brought that version because the American version has stupidly high prices & since I'm from the UK, not many people imported the American version so paying for shipment is expensive too xD
So impressed with what this can do! I still have a PS1 with an xstation, RGB scart cable and CRT so can't bring myself to play any other way but this is simply stunning! ❤️
It just shows how far we've come in emulation 😊
I love playing on real hardware myself still so I'm glad we have options ^^
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Same, having options is fantastic, I feel like this might attract a younger audience to play some PS1 classics they may not have otherwise
I'm impressed too. I'm not sure I've said it before Duckstation makes PS1 games look like PS2 or even PS3 games. Perhaps this video will help spread the word. Regarding the filters, I'd go no filter as well. When I get a new gaming PC, I might do Duckstation.
Maybe not PS2 but I'd say more like PC versions of the games drastically upscaled since upscaling PS2 or PS3 content will look better than this :) Still interesting though ^^ Duckstation is definitely worth a try ^^
I also own a professional upscaler. The graphics don't look as good as an emulator. I'm going to build a mini retro PC. I have subscribed to your channel.
Well as long as you enjoy the experience whether it's Real hardware or not, to me that's the most important thing :)
King of fight ,always was one the hardest game to scale but it dos not scale fully unless you have a crt with correct specs to even get close plus custom scaling sliders like old mame plus had.
To be fair at that point you wouldn't be using the PS1 port if you really wanted to go that route but it's a decent port if you have to have a version to play :)
Here we go with another amazing video.
It is incredible how the duckstation looks in 4k, but more incredible is that in arcade-type games like KOF the difference with the original PS1 is not so drastic
Nice job
It is incredible how some games don't benefit much but still great to see the upscale doesn't ruin them either :))
Thank you for the kind words and continued support 😊
Even though the visual clear the flickering happens even in duckstation...
How to fix flickering in duckstation?
What do you mean by flickering? You mean the graphics or the resolution?
At first I am using ePSEXe and my Tablet is low-end,it doesn't work on Duckstation,When I finally have a higher end Tablet,it can run Duckstation on it and I was impressed by it,You can adjust resolution than ePSXe emulator
Duckstation has definitely gotten much better on smartphones & tables since this video came out :)
My ex ps1 has no twitching in any games or problems. Runs perfect 60 fps if games are not frame locked.teckken runs 60 frames second no drops.its smooth.duck should run it flawles.
My PS1 doesn't twitch either, it's because I'm using the OSSC & it's Bob Deinterlacing at line 4x, that's why the PS1 picture twitches with the Hi-Res games :)
Yes Duckstation is perfect as shown in this video with picture :)
I'll be honest I really hate the xRB and JINC2 filters. They turn the beautiful and detailed pixel art into a smudgy mess.
I don't like those filters either, nearest neighbour everytime for me :)
Do you know why would Duckstation run slow sluggish in some games? Like Tekken 3 and Tobal 2 are unplayable for me :/
Try a different Direct drive (OpenGL to Vulkan for example)
Try also lowering enhanced settings if they are too high or lower resolutions, they are the first things I can think of :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Thank you! It worked 🙏🏼
Hopefully duck station gets ability to recording video and after trying it it looks amazing and plays really well
I think it's best to record it with OBS or in my case Nvidia Shadowplay as shown in this video :) But yes Duckstation is excellent ^^
I used streamlabs to record and stream and the sound and picture looked amazing! Doing a Tekken stream soon now I know everything works great!
@@gaminggirlclips7212 That is amazing to hear & I know most people may use Duckstation to relive memories ☺
I'd love to see you stream Tekken!
And there Playstation killed PC, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast it could not before.
Well it certainly proved to be a super popular console for home systems :)
Wow, jinc and srb mode make a great different on game, never thought about it. Great video!
Glad to help show off the differences ^^
the video was very informative
Thank you, although there's another one I made which I'd way more up to date, but I'm glad you had a good experience :)
what was the game at 13:07 ? crazy first person view model for the ps1
Colin McRae Rally 2 :)
the best thing about this app is that it is FREE .... luck u ducky
Absolutely the best aspect indeed :)
The over clocking feature of duckstation is interesting. I wish there was a website that went through every ps1 game to test the over clocking feature. I know Tomb Raider 2 runs a lot better if you set the overclock to 150%
I will be making a video soon which will test games with & without the overclock feature to see which ones benefit ^^
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Sounds good!
Ah I try, people always ask me questions & I try to deliver when possible ^^
On a few games you can remove the slowdown when there is too much 3D stuff on the screen with a slight overclock, but on other games it increases the games speed too much, so they will run unnaturally faster.
One example would be: Rugrats - Search for Reptar
In that game you can get slowdowns from 30 FPS down to 15 FPS (for example in the kitchen area), with a slight overclock (130%-150%) it stays 30 FPS stable all the time with a few exceptions where it goes faster.
Most games I've tried work with 190% overclocking just fine-anything higher often tends to break timings. Even if game has a frame limiter, OC still reduces lags in some places (yep, those lags, which occur even on the original hardware).
Quake II, on the other hand, works perfectly well with 350% overclocking, which makes it run at steady 60 FPS.
I need some help, when using this emulator in game the audio seems to stutter quite frequently, anyone know what to do?
It could be slowdown due to the emulator speed or maybe the audio settings might be too high or wrongly set :)
Try lowering the resolution first before messing with the audio as the default settings normally work just fine :)
Is there a list of these PS1 games anywhere? Some of them aren't mentioned :(.
You mean in the video itself? Usually in these video comparisons I don't tend to list them out :)
Was there a game that interested you?
If you don't mind me asking what game is that at 9:19?
Please refer to the pinned comment for the timestamps for the games shown in this video :) However to save you time, the game in question was The Last Blade, a port of the Neo Geo classic, though being released in Japan only, the name might be different:)
I saw a PS1 racing game at 10:00, then i saw a PS2 racing game at 10:10
It's the same game, just showing how Duckstation can both upscale & change some of the graphics using it's in built advanced software features:)
Comparing kof with different stages and characters wasn't very smart, but nice video!
Sadly trying to get the same match to play out was not possible but there you go!
Duckstation is certainly better than epsxe, but i still can't increase the video quality of the legend of dragoon. If anyone can share me their display & enhancement settings for the game I'd really appreciate it
When you say video quality, you might mean the games pre-rendered backgrounds?
Unfortunately you can't increase the quality of those, the only way is to have someone redraw them in higher quality, like the Seamless HD Project from Resident Evil:)
You can try to add a basic filter to make them look a bit better but anything that's not 3D will not get the benefits Duckstation truly offers :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay hmm ok, maybe that's why. Ok thanks
Yeah unfortunately pre-rendered backgrounds never get better, if you play a battle scene in the game, the graphics will jump up because those backgrounds are 3D :)
XBR looks best. JINC2 seems like it gives everything a lower quality.
I prefer Neatest Neighbour myself but this is why I'm glad we have choices for how we want the games to look :)
At least two cores in Retroarch let you play ps1 games in true widescreen 4k long before duckstation was a thing. Has everybody forgotten about this?
I never used retroarch before so I have no experience or idea of what It can do :p
That's why it's great I make videos like this, people can recommend or tell me about other emulators out there for me to have a play with :)
Difference is that Duckstation is faster, more efficient and is more compatible than Mednafen/Beetle
@@occmglxy8251 Ok, I'll give it a try then.
Even ePsxe with widescreen hack option but this duck is just impressive
@@occmglxy8251 ...and is much easier to setup and configure, and doesn't have cumbersome menus to deal with.
That I see Syphon Filter again in a video in 2021. Thank you for showing. I will try Duckstation out.
Got to give it some love! & hope you enjoy Duckstation ^^
I will (i think) 😅
Only thing it lacks is good texture filters... bilinear is blurry, xbr is ugly, i tried contact with developer to try to tell him this, but was rejected.
I mean this could be put in a future firmware update but I'd imagine it takes a lot of work to put in a good texture filter :o
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Really? I know that for example really good hq2x is open source, so you can possibly implement it.
@@wolker213 Admittedly because I don't use filters myself, my knowledge on them is very limited but, if that is true I hope they try that one :)
Soon though I'll be looking at a Resident Evil 2 mod that replaces all of the pre-rendered backgrounds with Machine Learning AI upscaled versions so very interesting stuff ^^
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Yea, i love to mess up with pixel upscale, its incredible filter can make snes/segaG game look impressive for example.
@@wolker213 That's fair & obviously its good to have choices for those who do like filters :D I like how we can play how we like these days :)
Duckstation = make your own Remaster 😂
Depends on the game but many do come across that way using these high settings:)
hi. nice comparision! why has duckstation stutter and to fast pace issues sometimes. only in a few games? l.e. need for speed. can sadly only use direct3d11 and Software. thanks
If you use options such as sync to monitor or enable v-sync, I find this drastically helps :)
The stutter occurres because your refresh rate doesn't exactly match the output of real hardware but, using those settings & also using optical frame pacing may also help with this:)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay OK, will try this out, thank you for the fast response 😊
@chaitai2533 No worries, using many devices & this emulator for so long, I just know the common issues xD
I also recommend using the overclocking feature to make some games speed up :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay wow, just works!! (-:
The bad thing imo:
You have to activate "Linear Upscaling" in order for the pixels to be perfectly square, it does add a slight blurr to the picture though AND there is no "Linear Upscaling, except FMVs" option. So you gotta live with blurred out FMVs :I
I was perfectly happy with how the images looked & since then using integer upscaling but I can always try linear in a future video to see the difference between the two:)
Duckstation 4K looks amazing! It maintains all the charm of PS1 era with the pixelated textures and low res models, adds a crisp image, and eliminates the excessive jaggies, glitching, wobble, and dithering technical limitations that to me always detracted from the overall presentation.
It is very impressive what it can do & it is flexible for how you want the games to look for you :)
What's the game on 2:41 ?
Colin McRae Rally 2 :)
I still don't know why retro players insist that playing it on the original hardware is somehow a better experience to all the improvements that come with emulation. I like collecting old videogames, but I'm not blind to the reality that it's not the optimal way to play nor justify my purchases with that pretense.
I mean to each their own, a lot of them say playing on a HDMI tv is very bad too so, I always say just play games the way you want to :)
They were made for CRT
Playing on real hardware is the easiest way to hook up those systems to a CRT TV and CRT TV are really the way to play those games no doubt. You can hook up a PC to one but it is not as easy, and the hardware will probably end up costing more than a console with accessories and mods, but with a PC you can play basically all the consoles. Is a choice that each one has to make. I use emulators up to the Dreamcast, everything newer I use real hardware as emulators for those consoles aren't that great.
I'm sure in future we will get intelligent polygon tesselation and automatic a.i. texture upscaling
If we did get those built in, that would be a game changer for emulation!
It would really be nice if you provided the names of each game as it is played. There are some titles i didnt know about and id like to try them. Hopefully someone will answer with the names.
Don't worry I know them all so I will answer, all my future videos from this one has all the games listed :)
For me, there's just something about that "graininess" and the everything being so shaky and rough (in the racing game) that gives it a LIVING feeling which is taken away when everything is cleared up. It's like the difference between a brand new leather couch and one that has been used for 15 years. One LOOKS like it'd be comfortable to sit in. The other one simply looks like it would be good for a photoshoot.
Ultimately, you can make Duckstation look pretty much exactly like real hardware but this video & most of my emulation videos just show what can be possible using the software enhancements if you choose :)
Were is Multisampling Antialiasing in the latest build of DuckStation
They took it out for some reason, not sure why, I liked that feature but Duckstation is still very sharp despite missing that feature :)
its in the Advanced options
some games look better with the wobbly picalated graphcis becase it adds extra noise to the picture which makes it look more detailed when its not. 4k at times looks to basic
4:54 this happens due to that hellsweep animation, it even exist in T7
I'll have to play Tekken 7 again to see, very interesting:o
@@TheAffroShowGameplay i have accurate screenshot
Maybe post it to me on Twitter/X :)
Wow I was searching on Duckstation high Quality filters to try on Tobal 2 and here I am just stumbled on a video with a Tobal 2 on it lmao. Thank you sir!
No worries, glad you found what you was looking for :)
the only bad thing is the input lag :/
It seems to vary but I personally can't tell a difference but you can go to the settings to try & decrease it if it bothers you :)
What is the name of that girls fighting game (blue and red dress)? U showed
That was Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind
Or as we know it, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Thanks I liked the Visual Style of that game
Neo Geo ports usually do have good visual styles :)
Funny name, maybe they meant it with an F not D
😂
I am always late to the party Sorry .... I waited and waited for a game
to be shown this game is the best on Duckstation you even have it as you
scroll up you CD colletion, the game is R Type Delta you could run this
on Duckstation in an arcade cabinet and it would not look out of place,
Epic Emulator for an Epic Game, Thanks for the Domo was fun to watch..
R Type Delta is a great game & it looks great using Duckstation:]
Metal gear glitches on Duckstation. Cutscenes are most problematic.
I haven't actually tried Metal Gear Solid on Duckstation so I can try and include that in a future video :)
what is the game at 3:19 ? I love games with Cockpit view!
Colin McRae Rally 2 :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay ah, lo jugué pero se ve oh, I paly that game, but never see or used that car, hahaha, only Peugeot 206
I max it out at 16x resolution. I don't use filters because I can't really tell the difference. It's barely noticeable.
Plus the resolution is already acting as an anti alising system since the lines are so smooth:)
Duckstation is the best 👍👍💪😁
It is a great emulator & I'm not done with it yet :)
Dos it gave it for xp 32 bit?
I have no idea unfortunately, I don't own an XP system & I assume this works with Windows 10 onwards:)
Im glad Duckstation exists.
But im going to play original hardware on a crt.
That's fine, I'd rather play on my 4K TV & I'm happy we can experience real hardware or emulation ^^
is it possible to see doom 1 how close it comes to the original?
I unfortunately haven't played Doom 1 on the channel but its something I can do in the future :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay that would be great as I played on original ps1 so much that I would like to see how good is the emulator from a visual and audio point of you, without at the rame original resolution to keep it as close as possible to the original...looking forward to it if you decide to do it...thank you! :-)
I'll see what I can do :) I definitely want to do another video like this updated & I'll include Doom if possible:)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay it would be great...:-)
Honestly looks like a different generation console on duckstation. Cannot believe so many details are there but just cannot be seen due to the poorer resolution
Just goes to show how upscaling 3D graphics can make such a huge difference to textures and so on! Pretty impressive :)
2:27, 2:35, 2:40, 5:05, 6:45, 9:20, 10:30, 11:45, Please, what are the names of these games in the video?
See the pinned comment for all the games featured in this video :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay The game at 2:27 is not on that list.
@umutkurtoglu9952 The game in question is Einhander :)
Also added it to the pinned comment!
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Thank you very much for your answers.
@umutkurtoglu9952 Glad I could help :)
Is GTX 1070 more than enough for Duckstation with these epic settings?
I'm using a GTX 970 so yes, the 1070 will be able to do even more at higher resolutions :)
Duckstation is very well optimised!
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Epic win!
What's with the creepy background music? Doesn't look quite as good even with the same settings on a mid-level powerful Android tablet that I own. But it makes sense a tablet is no match for a PC.
I wanted it lol :p
Well this is only a taste of what's possible, of course this video is old & updates can change everything:) Plus my PC is 7 years old so, not the cutting edge of current technology xD
14:20 what game is that
A port of the original Metal Slug for PS1 :)
You can play Chrono Cross @ 60FPS with DuckStation.
Yes I saw a video from MVG about that, I will look into overclocking & more in a future video :)
PS1 games + DUCKSTATION = DREAMCAST GAMES
Not quite but I agree the improvements can be quite drastic in some games :)
What are the games presented in the video?
Hello, I've now made a pinned comment in this video which shows you the games & their timestamps:)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay thank you so much
@lisao10 That's ok, it was long overdue but all future videos do have timestamps in the video description so this shouldn't be an issue on newer videos :)
The widescreen hack , plus 16:9 aspect ratio is clean af. It's amazing. I play all my games in widescreen now in duckstation 4k, 16:9 is the way to go.
I have a video coming up where I look at the wide-screen hack among other things to see how it changes the look of the game so you might want to look out for it!
@@TheAffroShowGameplay yeah that would be cool to watch. What's neat is it doesn't stretch out the image at all in most games.
Yeah it is very impressive although not perfect as I discovered xD
Still the enhancements are worth trying, you never know!
@@TheAffroShowGameplay yep not perfect in some fighting games you can see a blank colored wall on edges lol
just downloaded duckstation and it's fantastic - the games look incredible
It is one of the best ways to experience PS1 games, both in it's native look & with software enhancements :D
I also have more videos on Duckstation if you are interested:)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Already downloaded it and am playing brave fencer musashi right now. So glad I get to experience several games for the first time like Vagrant Story, Legend of Legaia, Legend of Dragoon, Vandal Hearts, Saga Frontier 2
All great games & I hope you enjoy the experience!
good now add scanlines
I'm not too concerned about Scanlines personally but if you want them, feel free to add them :)
Any videos out there with DS vs PS1 digital?
I'm sure someone has done it although sadly in the UK this board is not available:o At least from what I tried to search :o
Just one thing Ray-Tracing!
Maybe when we get more powerful graphics cards in everyone's hands lool
Scary ducky has entered the scene
It has and it's killing it or so they say in today's world xD
11:43 which is that game?
his song is like Lisa Stansfield's this is the right time
Gradius Gaiden, I have timestamps on the video of all the games in this episode:)
Sorry mate, I looked at the timestamps & am an idiot xD
If you want to know the other games, let me know!
Awesome video like the last duckie vid...i confess i also installed duckstation and tried a ton of games just to see how they looked..and on some games is really amazing i think Colin McRae 2.0 is a great example of when it works but on some other games i did not like the result like crash team racing...it just looks weird..still it is very very impressive how duckie changes the games but i think Colin McRae 2.0 is probably enjoyed best on composite (I'm serious) or s-video asmax...when I play it on the ps2 it already looks ugly to me over component.. hard to explain when composite blurriness helps acting as a cheap antialiasing filter. Regardless duckie is closer than ever to madnafen in accuracy and it is pretty amazing how quickly it has become the number 1 ps1 emu. Free,having lower requirements and also for available for mobile phones. This guy's should help pscx2 developers with their emulator.
Thank you for the praise again mate, very appreciated ^^
Yeah Duckstation's features don't work well in every game & not all games benefit but trying out the features is awesome 😊
Nah I'd rather play with RGB Scart with sharp pixels on my OSSC although I do love S-Video which I would love to use again once I get a certain part for the OSSC ^^
A PS2 Emulator of this calibur would be incredible 😊
@@TheAffroShowGameplay of course mate! you make great content! yep super hard going back to composite i know but on the rare game it works somehow. By the way I bet you've seen it... Retrotink 5x..the 480i to 1080p adaptive mode looks completely insane.basically makes it 480p to my eyes.. but I will never spend 275 euros or whatever on an upscaler. hopefully that tech goes cheaper quick. Take care!
@@trashcan9001 Thank you ^^ Ah me personally I'll never go back to composite but hey its there if you want to play that way :))
You bet!! I've been looking to get one, maybe next year & I'd happily pay for one even at the price xD But yeah, most won't get that yet :o
You too :)
Duckstation is awsome
Yes it certainly is :)
the name of each game tested would've been nice.
Sorry, it was the early days of the season, I have since adopted that way of naming chapters, I might go back and rework this one as many people do ask me for game names :)
I hope the dev team of Duckstation implement DLSS or AI based upscaling algorithm to make the images look even better in the future updates!
That would be very interesting for 2D based games!
Duckstation is breathtaking.
It's certainly very good & worth trying out :)
The filters look bad.
They aren't for me, that's why I don't use them personally :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay The only filters I will use are CRT filters, for low resolution games if I don't have access to a CRT.
Which is fair but for me it's no filters unless it's to counter scaling issues :)
very nice
Glad you enjoyed :)
Now we need a Duckstation 2 for the PS2 :D
I hope the team can do the PS2 & make it as amazing as it should be :)
Well, the creator of Duckstation is currently collaborating with the PCSX2 team, he helped add Vulkan support, remove plugins and also is working on a new GUI for PCSX2 based on Qt...and it looks just like Duckstation.
@@MoonOvIce wow, thanks for the info
@@koffing2073 There's the official nightlys already with Qt. I already made the swtich, it even has auto-updates and soon they are implementing more features.
What are the names of the games in the video?
The games are as follows in order of appearance -
Ace Combat 3
Colin McRae Rally 2
Tekken 3
Tobal 2
The King Of Fighters 98
Vanishing Point
Koudelka
Syphon Filter 2
Time Crisis: Project Titan
The Last Blade
Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing
Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Gradius Gaiden
Metal Slug
Street Fighter EX Plus 2
Hope this helps!
Kudos for ps1 for it's tech in it's time
I still love it even now :)
2k xrb mode the best.
If you like the filter keep using it :D
I personally like the original PS1 look but I can see why most would prefer higher resolutions.
I like both too although I prefer real hardware:)
1:16 name of the game
Dead Or Alive mate :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay thank you for much ❤
Anyone knows the best settings for Final Fantasy Tactics?
It depends on what you are looking for, I say play with the settings until you see a result that's up to your liking :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay My only concern is the text bubble, dialog, title, all are kinda blurry. I've played around with the settings, and only ended up with native 1x (default settings). 😵
Ah I would usually use 9x & the nearest neighbour filter :)
1x is basically the native resolution of PS1 games (240p or 288p for PAL games) Try 2x maybe as I did in my latest video showing Squaresoft PS1 games that missed the European market :)
@@TheAffroShowGameplay Thanks, will do.