Shin Megami Tensei: Persona - ULUS10432

[megaten666]

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There are a few minor bugs, which don't hamper the gameplay except for the last one:
-Do NOT Enable Vertex Cache, as it will corrupt textures and cause black artifacts to appear while moving, and may render a block or two of the dungeon completely black when facing certain directions.
-Loading a Savestate seems to completely mute sound effects, but it still decodes music with SonicStage.
-It seems a certain line in the enemy formation is completely wrong, and makes the enemies there look as if they're the frontmost (See attached screenshot), confusing the player! As you can see, the blue enemy on the screenshot should be placed on the empty red square. Since it's the only formation line affected, if the actual frontmost enemies are defeated and they move forward, they appear correctly on their corresponding line, but the enemies that were behind it move to the buggy line and they start appearing as the frontmost. Player formation is not affected and appears correctly.

I would truely appreciate a fix for the last two, especially the third one as it looks like a quick fix. And thank you for this excellent emulator!

1: as for black artifacts, enable:
-Only GE graphics
-Use vertex cache
-Enable VAO
-Max method size: 500

You could set it to fullscreen with 640x480 (in this way, you get fullscreen still maintaining the full speed). These settings are winner for me, no bugs, my PC config is in my signature. ATI cards usually needs different settings than Nvidias, you may experience something else with my settings, however, it's worth a shot.

2: Savestates, I could say it's common problem with (almost) every game.

3: Enemy line bug, there is no fix to this problem yet.

The game is (aside from the enemy line bug) is bug-free and fully playable graphics wise. However, audio may confuse you in the future, because JPCSP's decoder is a mess (not an insult toward the development team, I'm grateful for what we have, I just think it needs some improvement). So to enjoy Persona to the fullest, I recommend decoding audio manually. Guide for decoding:
http://www.emunewz.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=1160
If you still have questions about it (why, how, what to use, etc.) ask me Hope I was helpful