XPSemu Alpha 3.5
Resolution up to x10, ambient occlusion, fixes.
What's new
Resolution up to x10
- Resolution now goes up to x10: a 640x480 game draws at 6400x4800, over 30 million pixels, then is shrunk to your screen.
- Pick it in Settings > Video or in a game's settings > Settings.
Warning
From x6 up the game already draws more than a 4K TV can show, so x7 to x10 only make edges a little smoother and hard to notice. x10 is about 3x the GPU work of x6: most 3D games will slow down a lot, and heavy games can run out of GPU memory and close. If a game struggles, go back to x6 or lower.
Ambient occlusion
- Soft shadows in corners, creases and where things touch the ground, so 3D scenes look less flat.
- Off, Low or High: for every game in Settings > Video, for one game in its settings > Settings, and in the quick menu's Picture group.
- Off by default. Some games look the same with it on or have an UI effect issue so not compatible with every game.
Smoother grass, leaves and fences with MSAA
- With MSAA on, the edges of see-through shapes (grass, trees, fences, hair) are smoothed too, not only the edges of solid shapes.
- Always on with MSAA, nothing to set.
More 60 FPS and widescreen
- Breakdown: 60 FPS Patch (on by default).
- Otogi: Myth of Demons (Europe): the 60 FPS mod from hakuX, now for the European disc too.
- Widescreen for Otogi (Europe) and Otogi 2 (Europe): the US patches, now for the European discs.
More accurate graphics
- Effects many games use are now drawn the way the Xbox draws them: signed textures, shadows from depth textures, the video overlay's colour key and scaling, depth clip ranges, multiple clip rectangles, colour-keyed textures, wireframe, blur filters and more.
- Each one only changes games that use it: everything else is drawn exactly as before.
Game fixes
Fixed this release
- Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks: no longer crashes after the Midway intro (#38).
- RalliSport Challenge 2 (#33):
- "dirty disc" error: a read the PS5 refused for a moment is now tried again, for every game.
- Leaving a multiplayer race no more hangs on the loading screen.
- Breakdown: no longer crashes when the first level loads (#37).
- The Matrix: Path of Neo: movies flash white fixed (#37).
Note
Known issue: in RalliSport Challenge 2, trees, dust and waterfalls can pop in and out at a distance. xemu has the same bug (xemu #1380).
Installation
- Download
PPSA97358.zip, extract it, and copyPPSA97358/to/data/homebrew/. - Copy your Xbox games to
/data/xpsemu/games/and your Chihiro games to/data/xpsemu/chihiro/games/(orxpsemu/chihiro/games/on a USB drive). - Launch XPSemu.
Updates
- System > Check for updates does it for you.
Important
run XPSemu with kstuff lite, and at least ShadowMountPlus.