New emulator lets Xbox Series X / S play PlayStation games in 4K

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A PlayStation emulator known for its internal resolution scaling has now been ported to the Xbox Series X and S.

DuckStation is a PS1 emulator that focuses on “playability, speed and long-term maintainability”. According to the developer, “the objective is to be as precise as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices.”

Because of this, when the emulator is run on more high-end devices, it can harness their extra processing power to improve games up to 16 times their original resolution.

A port of DuckStation was recently made for Xbox Series consoles, and a video from YouTuber Modern Vintage Player shows it is running games at native 4K resolution and locked at 60fps.

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In addition to the ability to internally upgrade games to 4K, the Xbox version of DuckStation also allows gamers to enable true color rendering (which turns off the dithering effect used in original PlayStation hardware). and texture filtering (which attenuates the blocking character of textures on 3D objects when they get bigger).

Another supported feature is the ability to correct for texture warping, which was a typical issue with PlayStation games. It takes a lot of processing power, but as the video shows, the Xbox Series S handles it well.

Since many PlayStation games did not originally run at 60fps, in order to avoid creating issues, they run instead regardless of their original default frame rate. However, the emulator also has an option to overclock the emulated processor, which allows some games to run at 60 fps.

An example shown is PowerSlave (aka Exhumed), which has a frame limit of 60 fps but never comes close to that of the PlayStation. By activating processor overclocking, the game can then reach 60 frames per second.

Of course, since it’s an emulator, DuckStation isn’t just available on the Xbox Digital Store. The only way to access it is to set the Xbox Series X / S to developer mode (which requires players to pay a fee to Microsoft to activate it) and install the software manually.

Developer mode has been used in the past to run other emulators on Xbox Series X / S such as RetroArch, but Modern Vintage Gamer says DuckStation is “probably the best PlayStation experience.” [he’s] had performed under emulation ”.


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