Astérix Speedrunning: olympic-games

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Some of you know maybe that the Avermedia LGP comes with a proprietary video input cable, that has all component RCAs (female)

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So even years ago it was possible for me to plug the PS2 using component Y Pb Pr to the capture card. However, that came with limitations.

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Download 20250306151955.mp4:

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The video would be forced to progressive 25fps, completely ignoring the fact that the game shown here can output 50 unique fields per second ( not everywhere of course, the graphics for this game pushed hard and the framerate would often go way below! )

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Even worse, the HDMI output of the capture card doesn't even work with my PC monitor, and i recall my TV back then also having massive trouble keeping the signal on.

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Now, instead, you could let the Retroscaler do the HDMI conversion for you.

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As a result, you get the full 50fps, interlaced 576i of course ( the game renders internally at 512x512 )

Download 20250306152542.mp4:

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excuse the shitty 5mb/s bitrate, i forgot to upgrade the bitrate setting from my VHS workflow.

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It's hard to get progressive output out of the PS2, very few games actually do that, and progressive actually forces 480p and not 576p on PAL games. Rayman 3 is a game with progressive support so i'm going to test that quickly.

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( it does make me confused as to how so many games, including XXL2/OG don't interlace on emulator. XXL for GC is also interlaced on console ( the PAL gamecube did not support progressive for any PAL games for the matter ), but perfectly progressive on Dolphin.

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I have good news for PS2 users that have a FreeMCBoot memory card

File 20250306195854.mp4 is currently not available to download:

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Open PS2 Loader can change the display mode of games ( GSM mode ), and setting OG to "HDTV 576 PAL" results in getting the *exact 1:1 512x512* framebuffer of Asterix OG, still at 50fps! i had to take out the Retroscaler for that tho!

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( this time i show that yes, the game skips frames looking at the full level, so you can see the difference better between 25 and 50 )

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Of course, repeating the same for XXL1 gives you a line-doubled 256p, but remains 50fps, so technically it's appreciable on modern monitors. Time to see if my emulator patch works on console too.

Download 20250306201538.mp4:

baku69

WR by over 20 min :ooo

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Tenor GIF

thanasakis

yeah heso really caried

baku69

i see, you can't sometimes even move xDD cause heso is too fast

baku69

funny lol

#olympic-games