New hit for the PS Plus Premium. This time it’s retro games that take the spotlight after an update makes them almost unplayable.
The launch of the PS Plus Premium was decidedly painful. Early gamers of classic titles saw many problems after the upgrade scandal that prompted Sony to react to price drops. Several graphic decoding experts have also analyzed the emulators of PS1, PS2 and PSP games and the result is unequivocal: they do not live up to expectations. Sony rolled out an emergency update to improve things, but it didn’t entirely backfire.
PS Plus premium retro games ugly due to patch
Since the launch of PS Plus Premium, Asian gamers have found that all first-party PS1 games are based on original PAL versions, not NTSC, which run at 60Hz instead of 50Hz. In other words, Sony has chosen to emulate the slower version. However, the publisher has a patch for ” improve rendering of PAL games”,
A Twitter user has noticed that the update is working ghosting strong, even on elements that do not move. More specifically, retro games are now marred by pixel trails and ghosting when players rotate the camera or move quickly. The example in the pictures is quite revealing, with split columns or cubes creating a particularly ugly sense of blur.
The issue only affects a few PS1 games, including Jumping Flash, Everybody’s Golf, and Kurushi (Intelligent Qube). We just have to wait for the patch that will fix the problem, unless another bug is added to PS Plus Premium retro games with the next update.