I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Here's the start of a little pet project that I've been wanting to do for a long time now. This all stemmed from the fact that I am not satisfied with the quality of my original GH1 and GH80's videos. I recorded them over 3 years ago using a composite-to-HDMI converter, and the quality is not great. There are other converters available that will get better video quality out of a PS2, but you can only go so far. Using an emulator really opens up the possibilities of improved visual quality because you can bump up the internal resolution far beyond 480p.
Granted, the emulation of this game is not perfect. There's a portion of the score and multiplier that are missing. A lot of animations do not work properly. There's times where there's seemingly a blur filter applied over the background that looks pretty bad. There are occasional frame drops unrelated to my hardware, but seemingly an issue with PCSX2 itself. I wrote a small disclaimer that you will see at the bottom of every description to hopefully answer some questions people will inevitably have about a graphical glitch they saw.
In this playthrough I will not be caring about getting a high score. I loosely followed the star power paths for every song, but did not try hard at squeezing or anything. Also, I did not waste too much time going for FCs. Every video will be an FC of the song, but a handful of the harder songs will be FC'd using save states. Save states allow me to save my place in the song and restart at that point if I miss a note. For example, I can play bark at the moon up until the hard part of the solo, save my progress, then be able to restart the song right before the hard part of the solo instead of having to restart the entire song. I already proved I can FC these songs and get decent scores, I don't feel the need to do it again.
One more quick thing, I think I'll be keeping most descriptions brief unless there's something really noteworthy to be talked about. I'm getting lazy in my post-dual-FSFC retirement phase ;)
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Note:
This was played at 3840x2160 on PCSX2, a PS2 emulator, not original hardware. Because of this, various graphical glitches can occur, such as broken animations, lighting glitches, and more. The purpose of this video is to showcase this game running at the highest quality possible, not to showcase skill or score.
PCSX2 Settings:
i.imgur.com/y0MHA8e.png
PC Specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
NVIDIA RTX 3080 Founder's Edition
32GB Ram