Game: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (JPN)
Status:
In-Game
Emulator: PCSX2 SVN351
Graphics: ZeroGS KOSMOS 0.97.0
Sound: ZeroSPU 0.4.4
Options: VU Skip ON, Disabled Forced ABS and EE/IOP Sync Hack ON
FPS: 50-65 average, Lowest is around 45 in very crowded scenes
CPU: Intel Core 2 T7200 @2.00GHz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS Go
RAM: 2.00GB
Notes:
First, the good news: the game runs pretty well. Dare I say even a little better then P3 FES did. There are a few minor graphical artifacts and sound glitches, but nothing worse then what's found in P3. The overall frame rate even seem to be slightly quicker for me.
The bad news: as anyone who played P3 on the emulator can attest to, the game had a bad habit of hanging during battle after characters perform certain attacks. Unfortunately, it is no different here. Right from the very first battle any attack you make will cause the game to hang indefinitely. Although in this case, you can just hit Guard for a few rounds and the fight will end by itself.
The real problem is when you face off against the first boss, as soon as you enter battle he lets loose with a green shockwave, knocking your character over and forcing the game to hang... There's simply no avoiding it.
I tried the battle out on several different builds, including the latest public beta, all gave the same result.
Attempted Playing without using save states, game still locked up in the same place. (Shown in the last screenshot.)
EDIT: I can now safely verify that changing the line of code to "0xffc0" does fix the hanging bug for Persona 4. I haven't played much past that though, so I can't say if it causes any other issues. Although I did check and can say that swinging your weapon outside of combat does not cause the controls to hang, like CruDeLios said it did for Persona 3 FES. Also, added a few screenshots.
Last edited by Tryptomine; July 17th, 2008 at 00:16..