Star Ocean: First Departure

[MasterBlade007]

(11-01-2013 05:51 PM)Boredcajun Wrote:  I tried playing but after any text box closes the screen goes black with just a little bar of screen visible. Couldn't get any build or setting to stop doing it and only seen 1 other guy mention the same problem but no answer. Star ocean 2 works fine for me but not this one for some reason.

Hello! I have this issue too. After some mucking about, I've come to the conclusion that any black screen issues involve a glitch with dialogue boxes. The initial black screen after the into video is avoidable by making a mad dash to the exit before it darkens. However, after that point any closed dialogue boxes, be it from item gets or npc chat, causes the screen to go black everywhere but where the dialogue box had closed (What you described as the "little bar of screen visible").

http://i.imgur.com/SQ838xQ.png
http://i.imgur.com/uddx8Xj.png

In these screenshots, I had talked to two different NPCs. When exiting a dialogue window, the window will first close vertically before shrinking off-screen. The size of the remaining square is identical to that of the vertical closing before the shrinking, and it is during the shrinking where the black screen appears.

Going into a house will restore the screen back, but as the black screens are caused by dialogue boxes of any kind, its a moot point trying to play further.

I'm currently mucking around trying to find a fix, got nothing so far. Any help would be appreciated.

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QUICK EDIT: After savestating past the initial cutscreen/blackscreen room, hitting escape and returning to game eliminates the black area, similarly to entering a building. This might also be a result of mucking with render settings, but I'm not sure. Makes the game slightly playable (with Disable Stencil Test to fix invisible characters).

As of now the issues I've encountered seem centered around how the emulator handles layers.

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AAAAAAAND crash at first encounter. :X