Ace Combat - nightly PCSX2-qt test run

Best viewed at 60 fps.

It's been a while, isn't it? You can blame my absence on real life duties and lack of motivation.

Heard the news that the PCSX2 dev team has finally fixed most of the issues plaguing the Ace Combat games when being emulated using the "Hardware" renderer option which allowed to increase a game's own internal resolution as well performance, all at the cost of some graphic issues.

Glitches like the "Black plane" one, screen blurring, missing particle effects, missing clouds and whatnot are (partially in some cases) no more in the latest nightly builds of the emulator so I decided to upload a video playing a random mission from each game to show how the games look now. Also did some alterations to the game's stage environment setting to emphasize these fixes. Great improvement overall, especially the emulation performance gaining a huge boost which is very noticeable if you have an almost decade old low-end CPU/GPU (like moi). This video was recorded using the Vulkan renderer on PCSX2-v1.7.4518 nightly.

Another reason for this upload is to let you know that PCSX2 now supports texture replacement. You can now replace any texture from the game with a PNG file equivalent that will be loaded from a specific folder, meaning that now you can create and add your custom liveries or whatever graphic mod you have with much more ease. If you have played around with PPSSPP's texture replacement option, the process is more or less the same. The custom liveries you're seeing in this video were applied using this option.

I've written a tutorial detailing how to use PCSX2's texture replacement here: https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-comba....

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[Liveries used:]
AC04:
F-22A [PHOENIX] by Comebackking41
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-comba...

AC5:
F-2A [Wildenten] by BelkanLoyalist
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-comba...

ACZ:
Eurofighter Typhoon [UPEO] by me
https://www.moddb.com/games/ace-comba...

ACE COMBAT and related stuff belongs to PROJECT ACES/BANDAI NAMCO.
No copyright infringement was intended.
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ACE COMBAT 04 SHATTERED SKIES
ACE COMBAT 04
AC04
ACE COMBAT 5 THE UNSUNG WAR
ACE COMBAT 5
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ACE COMBAT ZERO THE BELKAN WAR
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ACZ
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0:00 - Sitting Duck - Ace Combat 04
05:28 - Frontline - Ace Combat 5
17:38 - Juggernaut (Costner) - Ace Combat Zero