The Tantalus games (Cars Race-O-Rama, MX vs ATV Reflex and Untamed, SpongeBob)
turn depth into fog with a CLUT16 read of the swizzled depth mirror, stretched
2x into a 565 view of an 8888 buffer. A following 8888 copy writes the scene's
RGB and keeps the alpha, so each pixel's fog factor is the upper 565 half.
At a higher render scale, the depth X swizzle snapped every render pixel to its
PSP pixel's left edge, so the fog came out in PSP-pixel blocks. It now keeps the
position within the PSP pixel. That leaves the upper half sampling the right
half of the depth texel, half a pixel off the scene, which drew magenta halos on
the right of objects in Cars. With the new DepthCLUTIntoHalves compat flag, the
depal pass outputs twice as wide so each render pixel reads its own 8888 pixel's
depth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The shader depal CLUT8 mode now handles 565, 5551 and 4444 framebuffers
(the format goes in the depal format bits, which this mode didn't fill
before), rebuilding the 16-bit pixel and taking its low or high byte.
This replaces SOCOMClut8Replacement, which assumed the high byte.
- The GE samples a pixel at its corner, the GPU at its center. With u
stepping two bytes per pixel (SOCOM and Bend's games use u = 1 + 2x)
that's a whole byte, so the shader steps back to the corner.
- The CLUT index shift, mask and start are applied, as in the other
depal modes.
- The self-render copy region counted CLUT8's U in pixels, not bytes.
SOCOM, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and the NPJG90068 dumps improve a
lot. Syphon Filter and Resistance: Retribution now read the right bytes,
which exposes a 16-bit precision difference in their bright pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The game reduces the scene to 8x8 on the GPU, block transfers that into RAM,
and the CPU sets its brightness adaptation from it. With BlockTransferAllowCreateFB
the copy went into a GPU-side buffer instead, the CPU read stale RAM, and the
game kept getting darker on the hardware backends (#15914).
New compat flag BlockTransferReadbackSmall: transfers of up to 64 pixels into
RAM are still read back, a frame late, so it doesn't stall. Brightness from
the issue's savestate now follows the software renderer's (72 vs 84 at 6 s,
84 vs 95 at 20 s, from 25 and falling), at the same speed as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Headless replays frame dumps to compare them with references and with the PSP, which a game's
workarounds skew: DarkStalkers' present hack (16510) replaces the game's final upscale, so the
replay didn't match the PSP's. The app still applies them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Partial red, green and blue write masks now always go through the shader with
a framebuffer read. Across the frame dump set this only improves games outside
the old list (Split/Second, Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins, older DiRT 2 and OutRun
dumps without a game ID). Partial alpha masks keep the old heuristic: alpha is
the stencil, with its own write mask, and taking the shader path for them made
Pro Yakyu Spirits and Gangs of London worse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
There are a few games that seem to rely on performance problems or
timing quirks to hold the correct pace when playing sceMpeg - have not
been able to nail down any other timing mechanism.
This adds a timing enforcement function.
Coded by Claude.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes#21776
Since only two games are known to need the cull-after-clip behavior
(previously known as inversion), we flag those and avoid unnecessary
soft clipping.
I had hoped to find a dynamic check that would work, but haven't managed
to figure out a good one yet.
This will improve performance a little bit in some other games since we
can avoid clipping in software at all in many cases.
This reverts to the old behavior before we started parsing mpeg headers,
that is, in 558b462 which is part of #8867.
LunaMoo has this under "HackFixVideo" in his build.
See #8991. This doesn't really "fix" that, but works around it.
* Rename LogType to Log
* Explicitly use the Log:: enum when logging. Allows for autocomplete when editing.
* Mac/ARM64 buildfix
* Do the same with the hle result log macros
* Rename the log names to mixed case while at it.
* iOS buildfix
* Qt buildfix attempt, ARM32 buildfix
Henrik Rydgård