PlayStation Plus Classics Update Causes Video Issues
Changes are coming to PlayStation Plus, and with them subscribers' libraries will expand significantly, making a large selection of classic and modern games available to download. The service upgrade will finish its regional rollout next month, adding tiers to the pricing.
The new PlayStation Plus Premium tier is already available in Asia, allowing players from the region to download a selection of PS1 games and play them on PS4/PS5. Unfortunately, players quickly discovered problems with the versions distributed, and a new update seems to have made things worse.
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The PS1 games distributed through PlayStation Plus Premium are the PAL versions, meaning they run at 50 frames per second as opposed to 60 in other regions. Following player complaints Sony has released an update to the PS1 Classics emulator to upscale to 60 frames per second, but does so in a lazy way: the new version simply blends the previous frame with the current one to give an illusion of a higher framerate. Doing this does not fix the problems the lower framerate may have introduced and in fact introduces a new one in the form of ghosting artifacts, which similar to motion blur in modern games can ruin screenshots and feel strange to use.
It seems like an easy fix would be to just replace the PAL versions of the games with the NTSC versions, but now that the service is already out in some regions that could cause players' save data to be incompatible. If the emulator was made specifically for the PAL versions that could also cause issues with the games, possibly also leading to frustrating consequences. The problems are a shame since re-releases are an opportunity for legitimate improvements, which actually
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