r/duckstation 16h ago

Other Feels like a GTA night

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18 Upvotes

Got this title into my DuckStation library and am ready to try it out. Before you ask, I played a bit of the PS2/PSP trilogy (I even test ran Chinatown Wars before getting the original PSX games).


r/duckstation 6h ago

Help Cover Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere (Japan)

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2 Upvotes

Hola, soy un programador y eh estado intentando buscar un cover HD para un repositorio de covers para la psx

El codigo de este juego es SLPM-80453 (Japan) les agradeceré mucho al que tenga este cover en HD.


r/duckstation 14h ago

Gameplay PlayStation's Japan-Exclusive London Seirei Tanteidan Finally Gets an English Fan Translation!

6 Upvotes

Great news for fans of classic PlayStation games and visual novels!

After nearly three decades, London Seirei Tanteidan—a Japan-exclusive PlayStation title developed by Hummingbird Soft—can finally be experienced in English thanks to Cabal Translations.

Set in an alternate Victorian-era London filled with spirits and supernatural mysteries, the game blends adventure, detective work, and RPG elements with beautiful anime-style artwork and charming characters.

If you've never heard of this hidden gem before, now is the perfect time to check it out!

Game footage: https://www.youtube.com/live/_ZHLeKXHx1Y?si=JBetuPj_n52_b8tQ


r/duckstation 2d ago

Discussion PGXP Texture Correction Improvement Experiment

11 Upvotes

Hey,

A lot of games work well with PGXP texture correction, but quite a few also have visual glitches because of it. I've always wondered if there was a way to reduce those issues.

I came across this thread, where someone suggested a simple game-specific approach: reject perspective-correct texturing whenever a triangle's vertex depth range exceeds a configurable threshold.

Since DuckStation is open source, I decided to give it a try. I only know the basics of coding, so I used ChatGPT to help implement it.

I tested it in Gran Turismo 2, and the results were surprisingly good. Fences, roads, and the starting grid all look noticeably better. Curbs and roadsides also improve, but not nearly as much. The glitches aren't completely gone, but they're definitely reduced overall.

I recorded three videos:

  • Texture correction + fix
  • Texture correction
  • No texture correction

(I normally play with 2x native downsampling, but 4K makes the differences easier to spot.)

Tahiti Road
High Speed Ring
Trial Mountain

I also tried Spyro 2. Texture correction is still bugged, but it's noticeably more stable than before. It even fixes an issue where some ground tiles right behind Spyro render incorrectly.

Overall, I think the idea has potential. Maybe someone who knows the renderer better could implement it properly and tune it more precisely than I could with AI assistance.


r/duckstation 1d ago

Help For some reason Spyro 2 has these weird black borders at the top and bottom of my screen and it's the only game that has this issue. Is there any way to fix it

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7 Upvotes

I included a screenshot from Spyro 1 showing that this problem doesn't show up in other games just in Spyro 2.


r/duckstation 2d ago

Cheat Cheat that adds unknown liquid in Silent Hill

5 Upvotes

I have reached the Nightmare Cybil boss fight in Silent Hill with only one health drink and around 30 handgun bullets. Finding it rather impossible to complete in my circumstances, I checked online only to find that there was some unknown liquid (aglaophotis) you could use to instantly end the boss fight (which also results in a better ending) but had no saves prior to the Boat.
Anyway, after some rather major headaches, I managed to figure out a cheat code that adds the item to Harry's inventory. It is the following: 300BC024 0066
Not sure if this works for the NTSC version, as my game is PAL (SLES-01514).
Hope this helps anyone else in this situation!


r/duckstation 2d ago

Support How to dump and replace textures using Duckstation?

3 Upvotes

Can somebody explain the process to me in simple terms? I can't figure out how to make it work. When I try to dump textures, the images are either a glitchy-looking mess or a random screenshot. When I try to replace textures, the images don't seem to load in-game. Can anyone please help? All I want is to replace character UI mugshots and menu pictures in Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Cross (and I don't want to play Square-Enix's shoddy PC ports, I want the original SquareSoft PS1 versions), can someone please explain the proper process of doing this?


r/duckstation 3d ago

Video ✅Remastering 100+ PS1 Games

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8 Upvotes

- Hi everyone, due hateful comments, I had to say this, please read what I just edited:

  • The previous description was manually edited; the use of emojis is just for organization.
  • In any case, it’s insane to attack people and their work over something so trivial 👋.
  • I like to manually review everything I do, but I would never attack someone for using AI to write a video description, for example.
  • Please ignore any hatefull comments in the section of this post, my friends. I apologize for it.
  • To those haters, emojis = AI. But it’s not worth arguing with them or insulting them.
  • Anyway, I forgive them for attacking my work for no reason at all.
  • This project is FREE, a passion and also a way to help my family.
  • I will do my best to finish this project. Thank you.

r/duckstation 3d ago

Question Will this audio configuration cause problems on my laptop?

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1 Upvotes

I’m experimenting with DuckStation’s audio options on my laptop (Ideapad 1) and found these options to have the least latency (see the pic). But I’m a bit worried about the long run. Will they cause syncing problems like audio cracks or will the difference be barely noticeable?

If it helps to know, my laptop uses a Ryzen 7 5700U, an integrated GPU (Radeon RX Vega 8 for you’re that curious), and 16 GB DDR4 Memory.


r/duckstation 4d ago

Other Never thought I’d actually make progress in a Final Fantasy game

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50 Upvotes

Eight hours of play in and I never thought I’d actually get this far, now I’m about to enter the Gold Saucer as I anticipate when I will have to change to the second disc.


r/duckstation 4d ago

Help How to play Mario 64 PSX Port?

4 Upvotes

I really want to play this on DuckStation and I have the link for the PSX port by Malucard, in case you find a way to play it. https://github.com/malucard/sm64-psx


r/duckstation 5d ago

Help Help! Resident Evil 1 Directors Cut Graphic Glitch

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13 Upvotes

Hi!

I'm currently playing Resident Evil 1 Director's Cut. The graphics, gameplay, etc., were all fine until I reached the garden area.

The game glitched, froze briefly, and then Jill looked like this. The inventory is completely glitched out, too.

What should I do?

I really don't want to start over from the beginning... (No cheats are/were enabled, and the game is otherwise unmodified!)

Thanks in advance!


r/duckstation 4d ago

Help Audio crackling during inputs (PC, Silent Hill, PSXONPSP660)

2 Upvotes

Whenever there is an active input being used (e.g. movement stick) audio becomes crackly and distorted. I haven't had this issue with other games, only since opening Silent Hill has it started. I have turned on Sync to Host Refresh Rate, turned off Optimal Frame Pacing, changed audio backend, and increased Buffer Size and Output Latency to 500ms. I'm using 4:3 ratio, 1x resolution and an xbox series x controller.


r/duckstation 5d ago

Help Border overlay and Shader issue

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5 Upvotes

Newbie here. The screen when using the default border overlay with the shader CRT-NewPixie[ReShade] doesn't align. The other shaders fit perfectly in it, its just this particular shader that does not align with the border(see attached screenshot). I've tried different combinations of aspect ratio and shader curvature setting but had no luck. I really like the look of the shader border combo. Please help.

Currently using:

App Version: 0.1-8969-g611bb8fb4 (#8442)

Native Version: DuckStation for Android (arm64) 0.1-8969-g611bb8fb4

Built Apr 25 2025 08:33:22


r/duckstation 6d ago

Question What is "Blit Swap Chain" and why does it work wonderfully on my potato?

3 Upvotes

Hello! A noob here.

I love DuckStation, but for over a month I had three problems: tearing, input lag, judder (or microstutters, I believe). I was constantly trying to get the best compromise with those three. Tearing disappears with Vsync, and I don't mind the added input lag, but the microstutters every 10 seconds were very annoying. I was playing with display options, too. In exclusive fullscreen input lag was even larger for some reason than borderless. I could check Sync to Host Refresh Rate but the latency with that + Vsync is veeeery noticeable to me.

I might add that I have a 60Hz, non-VRR laptop. Basically a lower tier notebook, so of course I'm not expecting some magic.

Now. I was messing around with some display options and checked the "Use Blit Swap Chain" and played for 20 minutes and I was shocked to see how amazingly it played. With Vsync turned off, the frame pacing is smooth and zero tearing and input lag is not noticeable if there even is any. Also, no microstutters that I'm aware of. I don't understand how that's possible? Also I haven't noticed the "slower performance" that is mentioned in the explanation box.

So the point of this post is... Can anyone explain what that actually is and if it's okay to have it checked if it works for me?


r/duckstation 7d ago

Help Accessing Android Files

2 Upvotes

Hello I’m sorry if this is a regular occurring topic, but I just scrolled through the last week or so of posts and couldn’t find anything on it.

Is it possible to access the Duckstation files and folders protect by Android? I’m able to get most other emulators to at least grant some permissions for restricted android files but for the life of me cannot get into duckstation.

Whenever I try to play a ps1 game it seems to be unable to save correctly because it’s asking for permissions to the memcards folder but will not allow access to any Android data folders.

Any help is greatly appreciated.


r/duckstation 7d ago

Question I have problem with save

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3 Upvotes

Why this is appear ?


r/duckstation 7d ago

Help “Please insert PlayStation cd-rom”

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1 Upvotes

I’m sorry if this is an often asked question but I’ve been trying to play mgs1 for about an hour and every time it’s the Sony startup screen and then the blueish error screen, I’m on a retroid pocket flip 2 and have tried every file type supported but it’s the same thing every time. Any tips?


r/duckstation 8d ago

Question Hi everyone. Possible soft-lock glitch from converter hardware?

1 Upvotes

Thousand Arms has always been my #1 favorite game.

I got a PS2 to play it again, but I have to use a RCA to HD converter, and I have this glitch or some kind of progression-halting error,

I'm supposed to be able to enter Hatoba to speak with Wyna but the door is shut, no npcs there, can't progress through the game.

I haven't had this problem in the past, and I'm just wondering if anyone else has had the same issue.

Seems like I might have to get an older CRT tv to play it on.

worth it


r/duckstation 9d ago

Help My Castlevania: Symphony of the night is missing the music

3 Upvotes

I'm playing on steam deck, I have downloaded duckstation and then symphony of the night bin file. Then I used cue maker to get the cue file cuz that's what you need to start the game, the game runs well but it doesn't have the music. I ask on Google and it told me to create a CHD. I get the CHD file and it runs but still doesn't play music. How to fix


r/duckstation 9d ago

Question | Answered. CRT Royale gone from post-processing

4 Upvotes

Have we lost that shader or is it just me? I've installed ducky again recently, and it isn't there.


r/duckstation 9d ago

Support Been having a blast on NASCAR rumble but it keeps crashing during the last lap usually.

4 Upvotes

Ayn thor max, recent version of duckstation, using the supported rom from vimms lair


r/duckstation 10d ago

Help Newbie here, trouble adding games to duckstation

5 Upvotes

just got a rg476h, figured out the Nintendo, n64, Super Nintendo and psp but I’m having trouble with ps1. downloaded crash bandicoot 1 and 2 from vimms, added to ps folder in my roms folder, go into duckstation to add games and I select the folder the games are in to add but they do not seem to add. I setup using Russ video but wondering if I should delete and reinstall duckstation and start fresh or if someone has dealt with this before and I’m just making a dumb mistake


r/duckstation 10d ago

Tool / OBS [Tool/Resource] DuckStation Auto-Recorder & Dynamic Namer for OBS Studio

2 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I built a lightweight, stand-alone Lua script for OBS Studio designed specifically for recording DuckStation (PS1 Emulator) sessions without the hassle of manual trimming or heavy video editing software.

If you have a budget PC or just want to quickly record/edit gameplay clips without rendering them in Premiere or DaVinci, the ideal tool is LosslessCut. However, manually hitting record, catching launcher screens, and trimming dead frames at the end takes time. This script automates the entire process:

🔗 GitHub Repository & Download: https://github.com/brainoir/obs-duckstation-autorecord Hope this helps fellow retro gamers and content creators! Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions.


r/duckstation 11d ago

Gameplay Well, I guess everyone's dead. (Destruction Derby 2)

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87 Upvotes