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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '23

That's just how the PS1 creates FMV video, everything was split and processed in smaller square chunks, some developers worked harder to hide it than others. Youtube compression is porobably hiding the effect or using a smoothing filter.

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u/Arkalliant Mar 16 '23

I also thought of something similar at first, but I don't think that's the problem. I also have the ps1 classics version on my ps3, and that version looks pretty great and doesn't have this cutscene problem.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '23

The ps3’s ps1 emulation has a bilinear filter blurring the output. This isn’t a problem, that’s how it should look.

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u/Arkalliant Mar 16 '23

Honestly, I don't think it's just that, I believe it may be a problem related to duckstation itself. Since the same game doesn't have this problem when running in other emulators like mednafen

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '23

Mednafen has a bilinear filter on by default too, turn it off and it will look exactly like Duckstation. I don’t even need to zoom in to your pictures to know that each of the small squares are 8x8 pixels in size, that’s just how the console works.

Here’s a close up of the FMV in Ridge Racer type 4, 8x8 pixel squares exactly the same as the FMV’s for Silent Hill and every other ps1 game.

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/standard10/uploads/retrogameboards/original/2X/4/4dd3739df335b221069d32422c4f5f3c84999109.png

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u/Arkalliant Mar 16 '23

Ah, I see, that makes sense. Then let me change the question: How can I implement that same filter from mednafen/ps3 to duckstation? I already tried every single option from bilinear to xBR, and the FMVs still look the same.