(Killer 7 ps2 notes)
(Killer 7 has in common audio beeps or freezes like ........... shadowman on ps2, and there was a fix released for that game on the ps2
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4845/.............)
A user posted a few pages ago the compatibility list for killer 7 was wrong, the game crash or sound beeps was not rare but happened ever hour.............and DID NOT indicated, if the game was loaded as an ".iso" or prepared to a "ps2 classics package (with idps.dat and act.dat)............as an iso loader has been know to cause issues with other games, not sure about the details about that.................
Using "killer 7 pal 50/60" which works on a ntsc super slim (and can be played @ the 50 hertz display option from game on ntsc tv), when prepared as a "ps2 classics package" haven't noticed a problem, but I guess I will have to play for 2 to 3 hours straight to see if anything happens..............but comparing this to "shadowman ps2 with a known audio issue and fix" (it seems like the original theory was form a bad ps2 port to ntsc for killer 7.
(btw, thanks for the spyro patch on the ps3, and did you know it also has a fix for black screen, you can apply with pnatch patcher to the iso and then play from the ps3, also using the, emulator fix that was made here, and that may fix that hiccup in the cloud9 level (and also the ps2 console played from hdd.........just a thought.........)
(using black screen patch
https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Spyro:_Enter_the_Dragonfly)
Spyro Dragon Fly Test
PS2 (phat) (using 16x9 causes noticable slowdown in game option) Using "Open PS2 Loader v1.0.0" Mode 6 (disable in game reset).....gets in game with no black screen or freezes. (if you leave the camera setting to passive it does main a somewhat smooth experience) (mode 1, 6 also works)
(the main problem is many micro pauses in game when kill and enemy or jump, most of the time on the ps2)
(mode 2 that is needed to stop, the random micro pauses in game, you most likely won't get that mode to work on the ps2, using either the greatest hits version or non-greatest hits version..........so some more testing) (not sure which one I have, but the solutions for mode 2 that is reported using a specific version of Open PS2 Loader failed on the PS2) (its the original version, that failed to work with mode2, with more then one version of OPL tested on the PS2) (not sure about the greatest hits version)
(there was a widescreen patch released for this game, that got taken down, it forced 16x9 i think, it may of fixed that issue, but by losing performance in that mode, it wasn't a big loss, that was some time ago)
(I did manage to get mode 2 working, using OPL936 mode 2,3,6 (no vmc, real memory card in real phat ps2)......with the black screen patch (from PCSX emulator using pnatch patcher on the .iso, in hdd on phat ps2 clone adaptor) you can clearly see from the loading animation the mirco pauses are fixed, but it then freezes on a loading screen............these micro pauses are clearly on the PS3, game protection, so its not normal) -https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=3
The sugestion from the "ps2-home" is to play this game from usb stick, OPL_973 also allows use of mode 2, or 2,3,6.........but on hdd also freezes on loading screen before in game
(comparing this to "spyro a hero's tail", its sequal on PS2, gameplay its clearly a protection in "dragonfly") (games also don't seem to benefit from widescreen, without scrunching things up too much, but there was widescreen patch for "dragonfly" that was posted and then removed from the official forums, and the archive widescreen package, some time ago..........may of contained a fix, but i remember it didn't work well 16x9 in games causes some frame drops)
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from usb stick on ps2, the game works as indicated (opl 1.0.0) inthe official comp list mode 2, 5 only, "in game reset works"........the micro pauses are gone, the game has a little less frame versus the hdd, but, its playable,
(now if you compare the micro pauses from the hdd on ps2 using just "mode 6", (you won't get mode 2 to work and game load, in game, on hdd), to the usb stick you can tell for sure the PS3 is hit with game protection and "random micro pauses")
Spyro Dragon Fly Test
PS3 (retesting this) (on the ps3 using "ps2 classics package with idps.dat and act.dat files, its not as choppy as using "16x9" setting on the ps2, which is not recommended, but it does have a few less frames
(the freezes reported in the cloud9 level maybe specifically tied to the non-greatest hits version or the greatest hits version)
(apart of the slowdown , the micro pauses appears to be game protection, this is very clear on the ps2 and with user reports.............on the ps3, I don't think anyone has properly identified this as a game protection, that kind of slowdown just shouldn't be there, even with a few less frames)
(the game has framerate issus, and micro pauses, the HONEST TRUTH is, few ps2 games have a large enough draw distance without popups to benefit from the ps3's emulators, a good example of this is, xenosaga 1 and 2, not long draw distances, but xenosaga 3 on the PS3 emulator you can really see the difference in draw distance...............)
