Fatal Frame
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Developer(s): Tecmo
Genre: Horror type action/adventure
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Link
Game review score: Metacritic: 74
Game description: A young girl named Miku Hinasaki has ventured into the mysterious Himuro Mansion, the last known whereabouts of her missing older brother, Mafuyu.
Test configuration on Windows:
| PCSX2 version: | PCSX2 0.9.7.r3113 |
| Graphics by GSDX SSE2: | untested |
| Sound by SPU2-X: | untested |
Comments: There are minor problems ingame, see below for the issues and the fixes.
Test configuration on Linux:
| PCSX2 version: | untested |
| Graphics by ZZogl: | untested |
| Sound by SPU2-X: | untested |
PC specs used to test the game:
| CPU: | Phenom II x6 1055T |
| GPU: | Geforce GTX 260 |
Widescreen support
Available as a .pnatch file. Grab it from the PCSX2 forums.
Known issues
Hard to focus camera
The camera actually helps you focus on the ghosts. This issue makes the first ghost battle almost impossible to finish. Here is a video of the problem.
- Solution: Use GSdx software mode (F9).
- Alternative solution: Enable logaritmic z in gsdx options (seems to help only some systems).
Update:
This issue actually makes not just the first ghost battle, but all of them nearly impossible.
There is a real solution however, if the above does not work for you: use revision 2842, the game works perfectly with that (both with software and hardware renderer).
It is even mentioned in the commit messages, that revision 2853 is the one, that broke the camera attack mode.
You can read about it here:
http://code.google.com/p/pcsx2/source/detail?r=2853
Getting a build of r2842 is not easy though, but googling long enough for it, it can be found.
Last boss freeze
The game will not continue (sound still playing though), while going into finder mode.
- Solution - Use savestates as stated here
Update:
This problem seems to surface when you enter finder mode facing towards the path going down to the gate, which is actually the direction you are in when the battle begins.
The solution is to run around the final boss and enter finder mode facing the gate, not the path leading there.