Blockyness in Samurai Shodown Anthology

themanuel · (This post was last modified: 06-23-2020, 03:36 AM by themanuel.)

2D character graphics in this game show an artifact where the body seems divided in large blocks as seen in the picture. It is more as if the region where the character is displayed is divided in quadrants and the body passes through those sectors.

I've tried deactivating every graphic setting I could think of, running at native resolution, and multiple back-ends, but the result is always the same.

Is there a solution to this?

https://imgur.com/PDCerdQ

**JMC47** · 06-23-2020, 04:50 PM #2

Is it possible this happened on console as well but typical CRT TVs aren't good at showing such sharp details? That's all I can think, especially if it would show up in software renderer.

Miksel12 · 06-23-2020, 06:42 PM #3

I think forcing no texture filtering could fix this. This PR has the option to disable filtering: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/8645

themanuel · 06-23-2020, 09:48 PM #4

(06-23-2020, 04:50 PM)JMC47 Wrote: Is it possible this happened on console as well but typical CRT TVs aren't good at showing such sharp details? That's all I can think, especially if it would show up in software renderer.

Good point. Interestingly, of the 6 games in this collection, only Samurai Shodown VI, the one in the picture, seems to have this issue. The rest of the games were released on the NeoGeo with 320x224 resolution, while this one was on the Sammy Atomiswave with 480p resolution. However, from what I've read, it seems the sprites were rendered at the resolution of the older games, while the background was rendered at 480p. This might have to do something with it.

(06-23-2020, 06:42 PM)Miksel12 Wrote: I think forcing no texture filtering could fix this. This PR has the option to disable filtering: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/8645

I would love to try it. I'm sorry if this is obvious but, is there a build associated with this?

Miksel12 · 06-24-2020, 12:06 AM #5

You can download PR builds from the build bot which can found at the bottom of the page. Here is a direct download link for the windows build: https://dl.dolphin-emu.org/prs/2e/33/pr-8645-dolphin-latest-x64.7z

themanuel · 06-24-2020, 03:44 AM #6

Thank you for the link. I tried it an it has the same issue, unfortunately.
This game in general doesn't seem to work very well. The first game in the collection has pretty serious lag in inputs and graphics. Maybe it is all related to a common issue.

**KHg8m3r** · 06-25-2020, 09:39 AM #7

Did you check to make sure you've got a good dump of the game? Right-click the game in Dolphin game list > Properties > Verify Tab > Verify button.

Also, can you post pictures of your Dolphin general settings and graphics settings?

themanuel · (This post was last modified: 06-25-2020, 10:17 AM by themanuel.)

Hi. I had checked it, and here it is what got:

"The update partition is missing - Low severity
The format that the disc image is saved in does not store the size of the disc image - Low severity
Errors were found in 55616 unused blocks in the DATA partition - Low severity
Problems with low severity were found. They will most likely not prevent the game from running."

Below are my dolphin configuration settings. However, I tried changing almost every graphic setting and always got the same result.
If you prefer pictures of the settings, I'll post some.

Thanks.

Dolphin.ini:

Code:

[General]

ShowLag = False

ShowFrameCount = False

ISOPaths = 5

ISOPath0 = D:/Disc Images/Wii

ISOPath1 = D:/Disc Images/Gamecube

ISOPath2 = D:/Disc Images/Wii/WiiWare

ISOPath3 = D:/Disc Images/Wii/Virtual Console

ISOPath4 = D:/Disc Images/Wii/System Channels

RecursiveISOPaths = False

WirelessMac = 00:17:ab:ee:cb:46

UseGameCovers = True

UseDiscordPresence = False

[Interface]

ConfirmStop = False

UsePanicHandlers = True

OnScreenDisplayMessages = False

HideCursor = True

LanguageCode = en

ExtendedFPSInfo = False

ShowActiveTitle = True

UseBuiltinTitleDatabase = True

ThemeName = Clean Blue

PauseOnFocusLost = False

DebugModeEnabled = False

[Display]

FullscreenDisplayRes = Auto

Fullscreen = True

RenderToMain = False

RenderWindowXPos = 0

RenderWindowYPos = 0

RenderWindowWidth = 682

RenderWindowHeight = 591

RenderWindowAutoSize = False

KeepWindowOnTop = False

DisableScreenSaver = True

[GameList]

ListDrives = False

ListWad = True

ListElfDol = True

ListWii = True

ListGC = True

ListJap = True

ListPal = True

ListUsa = True

ListAustralia = True

ListFrance = True

ListGermany = True

ListItaly = True

ListKorea = True

ListNetherlands = True

ListRussia = True

ListSpain = True

ListTaiwan = True

ListWorld = True

ListUnknown = True

ListSort = 1

ListSortSecondary = 3

ColumnPlatform = True

ColumnBanner = True

ColumnDescription = True

ColumnTitle = True

ColumnNotes = True

ColumnFileName = True

ColumnID = True

ColumnRegion = False

ColumnSize = True

ColumnTags = False

ColumnFilePath = False

[Core]

SkipIPL = True

TimingVariance = 40

CPUCore = 1

Fastmem = True

CPUThread = True

DSPHLE = True

SyncOnSkipIdle = True

SyncGPU = False

SyncGpuMaxDistance = 200000

SyncGpuMinDistance = -200000

SyncGpuOverclock = 1.00000000

FPRF = False

AccurateNaNs = False

EnableCheats = True

SelectedLanguage = 0

OverrideGCLang = False

DPL2Decoder = False

AudioLatency = 20

AudioStretch = False

AudioStretchMaxLatency = 80

AgpCartAPath = 

AgpCartBPath = 

SlotA = 8

SlotB = 255

SerialPort1 = 255

BBA_MAC = 

SIDevice0 = 6

AdapterRumble0 = True

SimulateKonga0 = False

SIDevice1 = 6

AdapterRumble1 = True

SimulateKonga1 = False

SIDevice2 = 6

AdapterRumble2 = True

SimulateKonga2 = False

SIDevice3 = 6

AdapterRumble3 = True

SimulateKonga3 = False

WiiSDCard = True

WiiKeyboard = False

WiimoteContinuousScanning = True

WiimoteEnableSpeaker = False

RunCompareServer = False

RunCompareClient = False

EmulationSpeed = 1.00000000

Overclock = 1.00000000

OverclockEnable = False

GFXBackend = D3D

GPUDeterminismMode = auto

PerfMapDir = 

EnableCustomRTC = False

CustomRTCValue = 0x386d4380

EnableSignatureChecks = False

AutoDiscChange = True

OverrideRegionSettings = False

MMU = False

DPL2Quality = 2

WiimoteControllerInterface = False

[Movie]

PauseMovie = False

Author = 

DumpFrames = False

DumpFramesSilent = False

ShowInputDisplay = False

ShowRTC = False

[DSP]

EnableJIT = False

DumpAudio = False

DumpAudioSilent = False

DumpUCode = False

Backend = WASAPI (Exclusive Mode)

Volume = 55

CaptureLog = False

WASAPIDevice = default

[Input]

BackgroundInput = False

[FifoPlayer]

LoopReplay = True

[Analytics]

ID = 

Enabled = True

PermissionAsked = True

[Network]

SSLDumpRead = False

SSLDumpWrite = False

SSLVerifyCertificates = True

SSLDumpRootCA = False

SSLDumpPeerCert = False

[BluetoothPassthrough]

Enabled = True

VID = 1406

PID = 773

LinkKeys = 

[USBPassthrough]

Devices = 046d:0a03

[AutoUpdate]

UpdateTrack = 

HashOverride = 

[Debug]

JitOff = False

JitLoadStoreOff = False

JitLoadStoreFloatingOff = False

JitLoadStorePairedOff = False

JitFloatingPointOff = False

JitIntegerOff = False

JitPairedOff = False

JitSystemRegistersOff = False

JitBranchOff = False

JitRegisterCacheOff = False

[NetPlay]

TraversalChoice = direct

Gfx.ini:

Code:

[Enhancements]

ArbitraryMipmapDetection = True

DisableCopyFilter = True

ForceTrueColor = True

MaxAnisotropy = 4

PostProcessingShader = (off)

ForceFiltering = False

[Hacks]

BBoxEnable = False

DeferEFBCopies = True

EFBAccessEnable = True

EFBEmulateFormatChanges = False

EFBScaledCopy = True

EFBToTextureEnable = True

ImmediateXFBEnable = False

VertexRounding = True

XFBToTextureEnable = True

EFBScaledExclude = 160

EFBAccessDeferInvalidation = False

SkipDuplicateXFBs = True

[Hardware]

VSync = True

[Settings]

AspectRatio = 0

BackendMultithreading = True

BorderlessFullscreen = False

CacheHiresTextures = True

Crop = True

DumpTextures = False

EnableGPUTextureDecoding = False

EnablePixelLighting = True

FastDepthCalc = True

HiresTextures = True

InternalResolution = 6

InternalResolutionFrameDumps = False

LogRenderTimeToFile = False

MSAA = 0x00000004

SafeTextureCacheColorSamples = 128

ShaderCompilationMode = 2

ShowFPS = False

SSAA = False

SWDrawEnd = 100000

SWDrawStart = 0

WaitForShadersBeforeStarting = True

SaveTextureCacheToState = False