[PS1] Duckstation Showcase: Time Crisis w/ Fixed GunCon Support (Read Description)

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Published on December 22, 2020 5:58:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5HogNw8E9A

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Time Crisis (1995)

Duration: 13:19

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(An Epic Fail at the end, ono)
Happy Holidays everyone. I'm sure most of us had a harsh 2020 so let's hope for a better time next year.
Duckstation is a new-ish Playstation 1 emulator that has been making the realms recently. Not only is it a great emulator in its own right, you can also very easily upscale the resolution of any game, apply post-processing to it, apply filters to the textures etc.
If you are a Time Crisis fan, you might especially want to check it out. The emulator comes natively with GunCon support (so you can use either a mouse or any PC gun you happen to have, like Aimtrak or Sinden), but far more notably, it comes with the ability to apply X-axis offsets to your point of aim. This is relevant, since the original Time Crisis had permanent calibration issues where your point of aim went progressively more askew as you aimed closer to the edges of the screen. Setting the X-axis offset to 0.94, you can actually fix this issue, finally making your aim match where your crosshair is pointing. Coupling this with an upscaled resolution does wonders to help make the port far more bearable by modern standards!
This is by far the best way to play the PS1 port of Time Crisis I can think of. Real hardware will still have the calibration issues, on top of requiring a working PS1 or PS2, a still-working copy of the game, a CRT and a GunCon. The possibility that you have all of these on hand nowadays is minimal. MEDNAFEN - the previous best way to emulate the game - not only does it still have calibration issues, but that emulator has input lag problems. The PS2 port (from Gunvari Collection) actually fixes the calibration issues, but much like MEDNAFEN, that port has input lag issues.
This isn't necessarily the video I wanted to be making at this time of the year, but I wanted to give my channel some activity and bridge the gap between this and some of my other projects. I wanted to make something perhaps a little more ambitious, if completely unusual for my channel's standards. Maybe something Katawa Shoujo related? I'm rambling at this point, but I do feel like I want to have content for all of the games that mean a lot to me in my channel, even if just one video.

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