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[Bartski]

So cool. Shame it will never run on an actual PSX.

Update: Bloodborne PSX Demake Hunts Down January Release Date

You can watch the first 10 minutes of it in the meantime.

www.gameinformer.com

 

[Spaceman292]

Do they know that there's a much better version on PS4?

 

[MidGenRefresh]

I rather play game with these graphics and it 60FPS than what we have on PS4.

 

[BigEmil]

Looks good but is CRT filter meant to be that strong?

 

[SuperColourful]

feels nostalgic

 

[skit_data]

Impressive work, I really like the sound design. I wonder if the creator just kept the original sounds and just lowered the bitrate. Nice touch.

 

[stranno]

PS1 demake
Runs on Unreal Engine -_-

 

[tommib]

I rather play game with these graphics and it 60FPS than what we have on PS4.

Bloody hell. This is what digital foundry has done to our youth.

 

[JimboJones]

Frampacing seems about on par with PS4 version.

 

[Aion002]

Awesome. Sony should get in touch with the maker(s) to release it on psn!

 

[AV]

Those fake scanlines look fucking awful, as they always do.

 

[tommib]

Those fake scanlines look fucking awful, as they always do.

You should try Murder House. Their VHS filters and scanlines are delicious.

 

[crazepharmacist]

Why wouldn’t this run on an actual ps1 or spx?

 

[Bartski]

Why wouldn’t this run on an actual ps1 or spx?

it's made in Unreal Engine, likely 4.

 

[stranno]

Why wouldn’t this run on an actual ps1 or spx?

Lot of people know how to work with Unreal Engine 4, but PlayStation was programmed in C. And you probably want MIPS Assembly as well for hot areas in terms of performance.

I don't see that render distance feasible on PSX as well. The Bloodborne of PlayStation was the Nightmare Creatures series and render distance was way closer. And of course you want to throw some loading screens here and there, PlayStation RAM bus and CD 2x cannot stream a game like that at that speed.

The demake also doesn't exhibit jittering. To get something like that you want to tessellate way beyond the PlayStation capabilities.

It's pretty much like Shovel Knight on NES, it looks like a NES game, but no, it surpasses every limitation of the console.

 

[ParaSeoul]

Looks good but is CRT filter meant to be that strong?

Makes me wonder if they ever saw a crt

 

[ClosBSAS]

Bloody hell. This is what digital foundry has done to our youth.

He's not wrong though.

 

[10101]

Missing chromatic aberration, no buy from me

It’s actually really impressive and I love it, but that draw distance is waaaay too far for PS1. Needs more fog!

 

[tommib]

He's not wrong though.

He’s very wrong!

 

[Con-Z-epT]

I think it is cool. Now we need a bundle with the Bloodborne cart racer i saw some months ago.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Bloody hell. This is what digital foundry has done to our youth.

This is what growing up playing PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC games has done to me.

 

[VGEsoterica]

This is what growing up playing PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC games has done to me.

Right? All I can see is Nightmares Creatures except it's Bloodborne!

 

[IbizaPocholo]

1/31/2022. Happy Halloween

 

[TheGodfather07]

I rather play game with these graphics and it 60FPS than what we have on PS4.

What's wrong with you?

 

[Fuz]

This is really cool.

Reminds me of Nightmare Creatures.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

So cool. Shame it will never run on an actual PSX.

 

[ljubomir]

won’t be playable on an actual PS1 since it runs on Unreal Engine

I know modern tooling is much more approachable to new devs, but with all the fanfare in the video with PSX bios boot screen, scanlines and shimmering it really tries to sell you the idea its running on PSX. I want a real deal, not an intentionally crapified Unreal Engine game. At this point such projects almost seem revisionist to me.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[DeepEnigma]

I would play the shit out of that ugly ass game

 

[Emedan]

0/10, no fog no 15fps

(really though pretty cool)

 

[Fools idol]

 

[nkarafo]

Ugh, these scanlines are ugly as hell. Just black lines and uneven spaces.

If they could not use a better CRT shader it would be better to not use one at all.

 

[The artful mincer]

I like the look of it makes me feel nostalgic. Makes me think that people that bang on about pixel art only like it for nostalgic reasons as well

 

[The artful mincer]

Yes gave me a deathtrap dungeon vibe as well to a lesser extent

 

[UnNamed]

Since it's a DEMAKE it should run on a weaker hardware.

 

[kyussman]

Nightmare Creatures becomes Bloodborne becomes Nightmare Creatures again......how strange,lol.

 

[thismeinteil]

God, I miss cheat codes in video games. I love getting trophies but that is definitely one of the downfalls of the trophy/achievement system. Though I don't know why devs don't do what GTA and Saints Row do and just disable trophies when you activate a cheat. And really there's no reason to deactivate cheats if you have something that only physically changes something about the game, like big head mode.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[Drew1440]

Looks nice, but I'll wait for the PS2 version instead.

 

[PlaystationFan5349]

I rather play game with these graphics and it 60FPS than what we have on PS4.

Lol. I always thought blood borne looked like a ps2 game so this “demake” isn’t so far off.

 

[tusharngf]

this just looks like nightmare creatures.. oh man i miss those days.

 

[GigaBowser]

Kinda cool for nostalgia. Prefer the regular BB though.

 

[Clear]

Fake "de-makes" annoy me.

Do the thing on the real or emulated hardware or don't bother. Its really disrespectful to everyone who actually had to work on the original system and deal with its many limitations when some asshole rocks up with basically a filter on top of a modern engine and goes this is what x game looks like on that hardware.

You want to replicate the PSX experience, turn off the z-buffer and sort with a painter algorithm, turn off perspective correction on your textures and try and figure out what it takes to prevent everything from turning into a warped mess at various angles and distances, and try and make it run good on a Mips R3000 at 33mhz.

 

[Great Hair]

I always thought blood borne

looked like a ps2 game