Shifty1897
Member
No way... That's awesome!
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
What?
. That's crazy. The sprite art looks better agreed..
but the overworld is gone right?
Andrew Evenstar
Member
I still have never played it and i LOVE 1-3, with 3 being my most favorite. I know a lot of people put IV at the top of their list too. Damn, i gotta play it, this is great.
It appears to have been a Japan/European only release. I was also surprised as I thought GoG might have gotten into console emulation.
CrimsonTide
Member
do it!!!!! Use Heroic Launcher!
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Thanks!
Paltheos
Member
Word of warning - looks like the visual fidelity's worse than the PS1 original. From my understanding, the game looks about on par with the original PC release but is notably worse than the PS1.
Below are a couple screenshots from Dragnier, which compares the PS1 and original PC release, and below that I've included a couple more screenshots I took. The fault seems to be with bilinear filtering: It's smoothing over textures in the environment and on sprites and leaving that cheap-looking black outline around sprites. Also, Capcom replaced some of the fonts with jarring HD alternatives (that are only sometimes applied; why?! this is reminiscient of the FF Pixel Remaster fiasco only 20+ years before it):
Dragnier comparison between PS1 and original PC
Screenshot I took from a random PS1 longplay
Screenshot I took playing on GOG
Unfortunately there are no real video options in this release (unsurprisingly; it's budget). Dragnier suggests using a program to enforce point-filtering, and the comparison screenshots they show (same webpage that I linked to) are a substantial improvement. Don't know what to do about the shitty HD font though.
Below are a couple screenshots from Dragnier, which compares the PS1 and original PC release, and below that I've included a couple more screenshots I took. The fault seems to be with bilinear filtering: It's smoothing over textures in the environment and on sprites and leaving that cheap-looking black outline around sprites. Also, Capcom replaced some of the fonts with jarring HD alternatives (that are only sometimes applied; why?! this is reminiscient of the FF Pixel Remaster fiasco only 20+ years before it):
Dragnier comparison between PS1 and original PC
Screenshot I took from a random PS1 longplay
Screenshot I took playing on GOG
Unfortunately there are no real video options in this release (unsurprisingly; it's budget). Dragnier suggests using a program to enforce point-filtering, and the comparison screenshots they show (same webpage that I linked to) are a substantial improvement. Don't know what to do about the shitty HD font though.
NanaMiku
Member
Dang, the font is.....Word of warning - looks like the visual fidelity's worse than the PS1 original. From my understanding, the game looks about on par with the original PC release but is notably worse than the PS1.
Below are a couple screenshots from Dragnier, which compares the PS1 and original PC release, and below that I've included a couple more screenshots I took. The fault seems to be with bilinear filtering: It's smoothing over textures in the environment and on sprites and leaving that cheap-looking black outline around sprites. Also, Capcom replaced some of the fonts with jarring HD alternatives (that are only sometimes applied; why?! this is reminiscient of the FF Pixel Remaster fiasco only 20+ years before it):
Dragnier comparison between PS1 and original PC
Screenshot I took from a random PS1 longplay
Screenshot I took playing on GOG
Unfortunately there are no real video options in this release (unsurprisingly; it's budget). Dragnier suggests using a program to enforce point-filtering, and the comparison screenshots they show (same webpage that I linked to) are a substantial improvement. Don't know what to do about the shitty HD font though.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I'm seeing a lot of talk about this today on Twitter.
Hopefully more people become aware of GOG as a result of this release.
GOG really needs to get more attention. It's the best thing to happen to digital distribution for video games.
Hopefully more people become aware of GOG as a result of this release.
GOG really needs to get more attention. It's the best thing to happen to digital distribution for video games.
64gigabyteram
Reverse groomer.
the sprites look worse but I honestly prefer the filtering on the textures.Word of warning - looks like the visual fidelity's worse than the PS1 original. From my understanding, the game looks about on par with the original PC release but is notably worse than the PS1.
Below are a couple screenshots from Dragnier, which compares the PS1 and original PC release, and below that I've included a couple more screenshots I took. The fault seems to be with bilinear filtering: It's smoothing over textures in the environment and on sprites and leaving that cheap-looking black outline around sprites. Also, Capcom replaced some of the fonts with jarring HD alternatives (that are only sometimes applied; why?! this is reminiscient of the FF Pixel Remaster fiasco only 20+ years before it):
Dragnier comparison between PS1 and original PC
Screenshot I took from a random PS1 longplay
Screenshot I took playing on GOG
Unfortunately there are no real video options in this release (unsurprisingly; it's budget). Dragnier suggests using a program to enforce point-filtering, and the comparison screenshots they show (same webpage that I linked to) are a substantial improvement. Don't know what to do about the shitty HD font though.
it could do with more options, but this is a PC release so we all know modders will come by to do their job
Lokaum D+
Member
apply some CRT reshade on it and done, it ll look better ( this is emulated btw )Word of warning - looks like the visual fidelity's worse than the PS1 original. From my understanding, the game looks about on par with the original PC release but is notably worse than the PS1.
Below are a couple screenshots from Dragnier, which compares the PS1 and original PC release, and below that I've included a couple more screenshots I took. The fault seems to be with bilinear filtering: It's smoothing over textures in the environment and on sprites and leaving that cheap-looking black outline around sprites. Also, Capcom replaced some of the fonts with jarring HD alternatives (that are only sometimes applied; why?! this is reminiscient of the FF Pixel Remaster fiasco only 20+ years before it):
Dragnier comparison between PS1 and original PC
Screenshot I took from a random PS1 longplay
Screenshot I took playing on GOG
Unfortunately there are no real video options in this release (unsurprisingly; it's budget). Dragnier suggests using a program to enforce point-filtering, and the comparison screenshots they show (same webpage that I linked to) are a substantial improvement. Don't know what to do about the shitty HD font though.
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StereoVsn
Gold Member
To be fair these are all easy to emulate and BoF 3 has a PSP version with better graphics.
Proper emulation for all of these will produce better results vs PC version.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Word of warning - looks like the visual fidelity's worse than the PS1 original. From my understanding, the game looks about on par with the original PC release but is notably worse than the PS1.
Below are a couple screenshots from Dragnier, which compares the PS1 and original PC release, and below that I've included a couple more screenshots I took. The fault seems to be with bilinear filtering: It's smoothing over textures in the environment and on sprites and leaving that cheap-looking black outline around sprites. Also, Capcom replaced some of the fonts with jarring HD alternatives (that are only sometimes applied; why?! this is reminiscient of the FF Pixel Remaster fiasco only 20+ years before it):
Dragnier comparison between PS1 and original PC
Screenshot I took from a random PS1 longplay
Screenshot I took playing on GOG
Unfortunately there are no real video options in this release (unsurprisingly; it's budget). Dragnier suggests using a program to enforce point-filtering, and the comparison screenshots they show (same webpage that I linked to) are a substantial improvement. Don't know what to do about the shitty HD font though.
Thanks for this post - I've been curious how the PC version actually stacks up. I'm wondering if tinkering with the DirectX settings in the GOG version would improve things - that worked wonders in getting the RE games looking clean.
Though, considering this was a 2003 release and was from the same batch of PC ports as Dino Crisis 2 and Mega Man X5 (both of which had this issue), this might just be what we're stuck with.
So yeah, I think it's great that GOG brought this one back from the dead, but I suspect the PS1 version is still the best way to play it by far.
Paulistano
Member
Word of warning - looks like the visual fidelity's worse than the PS1 original. From my understanding, the game looks about on par with the original PC release but is notably worse than the PS1.
Below are a couple screenshots from Dragnier, which compares the PS1 and original PC release, and below that I've included a couple more screenshots I took. The fault seems to be with bilinear filtering: It's smoothing over textures in the environment and on sprites and leaving that cheap-looking black outline around sprites. Also, Capcom replaced some of the fonts with jarring HD alternatives (that are only sometimes applied; why?! this is reminiscient of the FF Pixel Remaster fiasco only 20+ years before it):
Dragnier comparison between PS1 and original PC
Screenshot I took from a random PS1 longplay
Screenshot I took playing on GOG
Unfortunately there are no real video options in this release (unsurprisingly; it's budget). Dragnier suggests using a program to enforce point-filtering, and the comparison screenshots they show (same webpage that I linked to) are a substantial improvement. Don't know what to do about the shitty HD font though.
Just update to the newest version and you now have the option to use Point Blank to get crisp visuals, I think the HD font is better.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Oh wow. I gotta see what point rendering looks like for this - that could be a game changer for this version.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Call me surprised, didn't expect Capcom to do anything extra. I will definitely check this out.
Paulistano
Member
Capcom is doing nothing, GOG is developing this version.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
And based GOG.
Plies
Banned
My dream woman is one with no GOG reflex .
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Oh, that's pretty damn awesome.
Shadowstar39
Member
I owned this on ps3 (and the first 2 on my snes mini), but never played them Is this game standalone or do I need to play the others first?
Playing suikoden again and now playing Lunar silver star story for thr first time has got me pumped for more classic jrpgs.
Playing suikoden again and now playing Lunar silver star story for thr first time has got me pumped for more classic jrpgs.
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Shadowstar39
Member
Nice and easy yeah right. It freezes on anything larger than a few gig. And now it won't load sync anything. It's bad. I am afraid to mess with it as I have heroes of might and magic 3 installed and I don't want to mess that up. Steams version of homm3 is the ubisoft HD version that is missing the expansions.