I'll start things off simple:
HERE'S SAMMY, BABY!
Courtier Dorarnae Emmanuel2 Viata Zetor Helly MrRichard999 Dorateen Shackleton Haplo hackncrazy Mustawd Siveon an Administrator Celerity
Ok, i know, confusing. That is a picture of Courtier's best friend, one of the 6 post-game bosses from Elminage: Original (PSP/PC/3DS/PS2 -- Eng. ver. only on PSP); now the other reason I liked this pic is because it's the very first time I have actually ever seen, with mine own eyes, the original PS2 (two) ver. of the original release of Elminage: Original except that original release isn't titled... Elminage: Original.
It's called something or other about a dark seance or some shit. It's in jap: who cares.
...however, I am legitimately floored by how incredibly good the... (last time, promise)-- the original USER INTERFACE / GUI layout looks and is set up in this... o-ri-gi-nal release. WHY THE FUCK DID STARFISH STOP USING THIS VERY, VERY, VERY WELL DONE GUI LAYOUT FOR THE GAMES!?
It's a mystery.
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QUESTION: so I was just googling for pictures of Elminage games and I keep finding a lotttt of pictures from the PSP games, namely Elmi 2 (PSP/NDS/3DS-- No localization) amd Elmi 3 (PSP only-- No localization) and i notice that these pics look fucking amazing. I mean, graphically speaking.
When I play those two games on PPSSPP emu what is displayed on my monitor does not come close to how good these screenshots look. Am I using the wrong shaders? For PPSSPP I mean. Is the reason the following shots look so good is because they're probably taken from PPSSPP emus and the player was using super l33t filters/shaders I don't know about?
THE FOLLOWING ARE PICTURES FOUND ON GOOGLE OF: Elminage 2 (PSP)
Ok, that looks very close to what it looks like when I play it on PPSSPP with the resolution maxed out (no filters, don't like the ones that come with PPSSPP)...
HOLY SHIT. That looks great. So, basically, what I'm asking is:
- Could those in the know point me towards downloading/configuring PPSSPP to look as graphics-whoringly beautiful as possible? Currently I can run games on PPSSPP using 5x resolution coupled w/ 2x Texture Upscaling utilizing the 4th option that says it is a combination of two different methods. I don't bother using filters cos, like I said, the stock PPSSPP ones are all bad.
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Now, don't worry guys I will be posting lots more on this thread, but to finish this first post I wanted to just make the entire 1st post simply about Elminage graphics whoring!
A kind Codexer whose name shall remain nameless in case the Trumpians are watching for inventory removal of items and the like floated my the (new-ish-ly released) Windows PC enhanced port of E: Original. Obviously, it's in japanese, but luckily for us:
- UNLIKE THE 3DS port of E: Gothic, all, and i man aaalll and every single one, i mean ALL enhanced ports of E: Original (one for PC, then another new port just came out for 3DS) _do not contain absolutely anything new content-wise; i repeat, there is zero new content, not 1 single item_ so the English lang. version we play on PPSSPP/PSP is still the definitive version of E: Original.
All that crap said, LOOK AT THE GRAFFIXX OMG OMG
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Bonus pix: let's all point and laugh at the ridiculosuly bad looking Elmi 2 port for Nintendo DS. It's a "remix" version, like what they did with E: Gothic, but there is simply no way in the world I'm playing through Elmi 2 on NDS having to look at THESE SHIT FUCK TEXTURE SHITS wow it looks terrible, especially in-dungeon ugh:
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Psyche, here's random pictures I found on Google of the various post-game, and i mean... possssssst gaaame God-Bosses, most of them being in Elminage: Original and in the 2nd game. (The 3rd game, the one that's PSP-only, AFAIK doesn't feature lots of Gods but I could be wrong. I have not finished it yet, unlike PSP-Elmi 2. And no, I have not killed the god-bosses...).
hah... heh... jesus fuck. Fuck that.
FINE. FINE STARFISH STUDIOS. I'LL TAKE MY BALL!! ILL FUCKING TAKE IT AND GO HOME U HEAR MEEE!!! Btw, for those who aren't aware:
E: Gothic inarguably features the best post-game dungeons, enemies, items, all around content: but E: Original is the complete opposite. It features only 1 so-so post-game dungeon... but the bosses make Incarnation and his other two pals from Ibag's Tower look like fucking children.
The E: Original god-bosses are where it's at. Trust me, they're just insane... probably it's because Elmi 1 (and Elmi 2, which has god-bosses as well, even harder ones) were the first RPGs that Starfish developed right after losing the license to continue making their WIZARDRY EMPIRE games.
In the Empire series of Wiz games, Starfish always made it a point of honor to have god-dragons be the hidden post-game enemies, and they are even beyond the E: Original god-bosses. Even the mighty Dorarnae said he could not man up and kill the final dragon-god in the final floor of the Temple of the Gods in the final post-game dungeon in the Eng. language ver. of WIZARDRY EMPIRE 2 (Windows PC).
Pfft. It's just a dragon dorar. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez....
(Fucker does 4-6k, yes, "thousands" of damage every single turn with his dragon breath, soooo... there's that. E: Original god-bosses ain't got shit on that. That shit is past ridiculous and back around to "hmm, really... I appreciate the ironical nature of this moment in life!").
Court didn't kill the Empire 2 god-dragon either. There is _someone_ here on the Codex who did, but I forgot his name. He casually, casuaaally cool as you please dropped that into one of his posts in the Empire 2 thread. LOL. Yeah, guy did basically the impossible, and is like yeah so how's the weather.
OH YOU...
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Finishing this up: back to the PPSSPP thing and the graphics. LOOK AT THIS:
No, that is not a magically-translated PC ver. of E: Original... that is a random pic of the PSP game.
WHY... DOES IT LOOK... SO GOOD. Seriously. how do I get my games on PPSSPP looking so amazing, and crisp and -not- blurry?
Here's some final random pics:
Dorarnae: the reason you didn't find Rem, the devilish Valk you can recruit in E: Gothic - 3DS Remix - version is because you need to meet her randomly in the ruined Church, and THEN she will also "randomly" fight you / join you while clearing the Guatella Grotto (Stalactite Cave)...
Here's a "secret" weapon from Elmi 2 (PSP):
Yep. It's an ass. It's a giant pair of butt cheeks used to sit on top of enemies, just like the picture demonstrates. )))))
(LEWL @ it being 2-handed and also "short range" as well. Heh).
I don't know what part of Elmi 2 PSP this pic is from but I found it amusing:
love it when we touch rods boys...
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TWO-PARTER:
POINT THE FIRST:
- Wow. Some people have even more free time than me. That is Elmi 3 (three) which is only available on PSP (jap lang.).
POINT THE SECOND:
- DAMN IT LOOKS BETTER THAN WHEN I PLAY IT ON PPSSPP. It's specifcally the CRISPNESS of the text/numbers that makes everything pop.
On my play time it looks like that, sure, just... not as crisp.
I mean, here's is MY FINAL PROOF:
ELMINAGE GOTHIC PIC INCOMING:
That's a pic from E: Gothic, PSP version (the first release of the game). The PC version is an "enhanced" port of the PSP version, just like the new PC port of E: Original is an "enhanced" port of the PSP/etc game; i.e. content is the same but enhanced graphics.
....EXCEPT THAT PSP PIC OF GOTHIC LOOKS FUCKING BETTER THAN WHAT I SEE ON PC!
almost. WOW. I want my emulator to look that good. Maybe it's natural colors filter combined with sharpening? I dunno.
thanks for reading my blog!
HERE'S SAMMY, BABY!
Courtier Dorarnae Emmanuel2 Viata Zetor Helly MrRichard999 Dorateen Shackleton Haplo hackncrazy Mustawd Siveon an Administrator Celerity
Ok, i know, confusing. That is a picture of Courtier's best friend, one of the 6 post-game bosses from Elminage: Original (PSP/PC/3DS/PS2 -- Eng. ver. only on PSP); now the other reason I liked this pic is because it's the very first time I have actually ever seen, with mine own eyes, the original PS2 (two) ver. of the original release of Elminage: Original except that original release isn't titled... Elminage: Original.
It's called something or other about a dark seance or some shit. It's in jap: who cares.
...however, I am legitimately floored by how incredibly good the... (last time, promise)-- the original USER INTERFACE / GUI layout looks and is set up in this... o-ri-gi-nal release. WHY THE FUCK DID STARFISH STOP USING THIS VERY, VERY, VERY WELL DONE GUI LAYOUT FOR THE GAMES!?
It's a mystery.
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QUESTION: so I was just googling for pictures of Elminage games and I keep finding a lotttt of pictures from the PSP games, namely Elmi 2 (PSP/NDS/3DS-- No localization) amd Elmi 3 (PSP only-- No localization) and i notice that these pics look fucking amazing. I mean, graphically speaking.
When I play those two games on PPSSPP emu what is displayed on my monitor does not come close to how good these screenshots look. Am I using the wrong shaders? For PPSSPP I mean. Is the reason the following shots look so good is because they're probably taken from PPSSPP emus and the player was using super l33t filters/shaders I don't know about?
THE FOLLOWING ARE PICTURES FOUND ON GOOGLE OF: Elminage 2 (PSP)
Ok, that looks very close to what it looks like when I play it on PPSSPP with the resolution maxed out (no filters, don't like the ones that come with PPSSPP)...
HOLY SHIT. That looks great. So, basically, what I'm asking is:
- Could those in the know point me towards downloading/configuring PPSSPP to look as graphics-whoringly beautiful as possible? Currently I can run games on PPSSPP using 5x resolution coupled w/ 2x Texture Upscaling utilizing the 4th option that says it is a combination of two different methods. I don't bother using filters cos, like I said, the stock PPSSPP ones are all bad.
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Now, don't worry guys I will be posting lots more on this thread, but to finish this first post I wanted to just make the entire 1st post simply about Elminage graphics whoring!
A kind Codexer whose name shall remain nameless in case the Trumpians are watching for inventory removal of items and the like floated my the (new-ish-ly released) Windows PC enhanced port of E: Original. Obviously, it's in japanese, but luckily for us:
- UNLIKE THE 3DS port of E: Gothic, all, and i man aaalll and every single one, i mean ALL enhanced ports of E: Original (one for PC, then another new port just came out for 3DS) _do not contain absolutely anything new content-wise; i repeat, there is zero new content, not 1 single item_ so the English lang. version we play on PPSSPP/PSP is still the definitive version of E: Original.
All that crap said, LOOK AT THE GRAFFIXX OMG OMG
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Bonus pix: let's all point and laugh at the ridiculosuly bad looking Elmi 2 port for Nintendo DS. It's a "remix" version, like what they did with E: Gothic, but there is simply no way in the world I'm playing through Elmi 2 on NDS having to look at THESE SHIT FUCK TEXTURE SHITS wow it looks terrible, especially in-dungeon ugh:
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Psyche, here's random pictures I found on Google of the various post-game, and i mean... possssssst gaaame God-Bosses, most of them being in Elminage: Original and in the 2nd game. (The 3rd game, the one that's PSP-only, AFAIK doesn't feature lots of Gods but I could be wrong. I have not finished it yet, unlike PSP-Elmi 2. And no, I have not killed the god-bosses...).
hah... heh... jesus fuck. Fuck that.
FINE. FINE STARFISH STUDIOS. I'LL TAKE MY BALL!! ILL FUCKING TAKE IT AND GO HOME U HEAR MEEE!!! Btw, for those who aren't aware:
E: Gothic inarguably features the best post-game dungeons, enemies, items, all around content: but E: Original is the complete opposite. It features only 1 so-so post-game dungeon... but the bosses make Incarnation and his other two pals from Ibag's Tower look like fucking children.
The E: Original god-bosses are where it's at. Trust me, they're just insane... probably it's because Elmi 1 (and Elmi 2, which has god-bosses as well, even harder ones) were the first RPGs that Starfish developed right after losing the license to continue making their WIZARDRY EMPIRE games.
In the Empire series of Wiz games, Starfish always made it a point of honor to have god-dragons be the hidden post-game enemies, and they are even beyond the E: Original god-bosses. Even the mighty Dorarnae said he could not man up and kill the final dragon-god in the final floor of the Temple of the Gods in the final post-game dungeon in the Eng. language ver. of WIZARDRY EMPIRE 2 (Windows PC).
Pfft. It's just a dragon dorar. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez....
(Fucker does 4-6k, yes, "thousands" of damage every single turn with his dragon breath, soooo... there's that. E: Original god-bosses ain't got shit on that. That shit is past ridiculous and back around to "hmm, really... I appreciate the ironical nature of this moment in life!").
Court didn't kill the Empire 2 god-dragon either. There is _someone_ here on the Codex who did, but I forgot his name. He casually, casuaaally cool as you please dropped that into one of his posts in the Empire 2 thread. LOL. Yeah, guy did basically the impossible, and is like yeah so how's the weather.
OH YOU...
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Finishing this up: back to the PPSSPP thing and the graphics. LOOK AT THIS:
No, that is not a magically-translated PC ver. of E: Original... that is a random pic of the PSP game.
WHY... DOES IT LOOK... SO GOOD. Seriously. how do I get my games on PPSSPP looking so amazing, and crisp and -not- blurry?
Here's some final random pics:
Dorarnae: the reason you didn't find Rem, the devilish Valk you can recruit in E: Gothic - 3DS Remix - version is because you need to meet her randomly in the ruined Church, and THEN she will also "randomly" fight you / join you while clearing the Guatella Grotto (Stalactite Cave)...
Here's a "secret" weapon from Elmi 2 (PSP):
Yep. It's an ass. It's a giant pair of butt cheeks used to sit on top of enemies, just like the picture demonstrates. )))))
(LEWL @ it being 2-handed and also "short range" as well. Heh).
I don't know what part of Elmi 2 PSP this pic is from but I found it amusing:
love it when we touch rods boys...
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TWO-PARTER:
POINT THE FIRST:
- Wow. Some people have even more free time than me. That is Elmi 3 (three) which is only available on PSP (jap lang.).
POINT THE SECOND:
- DAMN IT LOOKS BETTER THAN WHEN I PLAY IT ON PPSSPP. It's specifcally the CRISPNESS of the text/numbers that makes everything pop.
On my play time it looks like that, sure, just... not as crisp.
I mean, here's is MY FINAL PROOF:
ELMINAGE GOTHIC PIC INCOMING:
That's a pic from E: Gothic, PSP version (the first release of the game). The PC version is an "enhanced" port of the PSP version, just like the new PC port of E: Original is an "enhanced" port of the PSP/etc game; i.e. content is the same but enhanced graphics.
....EXCEPT THAT PSP PIC OF GOTHIC LOOKS FUCKING BETTER THAN WHAT I SEE ON PC!
almost. WOW. I want my emulator to look that good. Maybe it's natural colors filter combined with sharpening? I dunno.
thanks for reading my blog!
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