What in the hell was this game doing, rendering-wise? Some kind of tricky field-rendering that doesn't play nice with de-interlacing? I have a fully backwards-compatible PS3 (original 60GB model), and even when outputting at 480p with the PS3's internal scaler turned off the game looks like a blurry mess. Strangely enough, none of the menus have this issue and the opening tutorial level (and I think one other level later on) don't either, but for the majority of the game the whole image looks like one giant de-interlacing artifact. I have never encountered this with any other PS2 game running on my PS3.
Fatal Shadows is typically janky for a PS2-era FromSoft game, but it does feature some surprising graphical flourishes at times.
Running it in an emulator on PC seems to avoid this, but that comes with other graphical issues as the game just isn't perfectly emulated even with an assortment of game-specific "fixes" selected in the emulator options.
I'd love to hear from someone who has some insight into what's going on under the hood of this game. Like I said originally, I suspect field rendering is to blame, but other field-rendered games (e.g. Tekken Tag Tournament) seem to look totally fine on my BC PS3.
Fatal Shadows is typically janky for a PS2-era FromSoft game, but it does feature some surprising graphical flourishes at times.
Running it in an emulator on PC seems to avoid this, but that comes with other graphical issues as the game just isn't perfectly emulated even with an assortment of game-specific "fixes" selected in the emulator options.
I'd love to hear from someone who has some insight into what's going on under the hood of this game. Like I said originally, I suspect field rendering is to blame, but other field-rendered games (e.g. Tekken Tag Tournament) seem to look totally fine on my BC PS3.
