VCS WIP Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - HD HUD for PCSX2

[zartex]

@TempUser_ Can you also add L1R1/LB/RB textures too?

[TempUser_]

On 1/2/2025 at 9:38 PM, zartex said:

@TempUser_ Can you also add L1R1/LB/RB textures too?

Working with half transparent file is quite complicated, for those who open photoshop 10 times a year. 

 

Here, try this - https://mega.nz/file/gcMghIbQ#4C0c0dKZxF1HAnkq-cQqHNjTb1C9oll2dcLymC0ikZ4

Took quite some time. 

 

 

 

Upd. 

Managed to upscale icon decently, and now that X in menu looks fine. 

But the more I play, the more issues I find. From far away looks okay, but if nitpicking nah. 

Edited January 4 by TempUser_

[zartex]

@TempUser_ great work, thanks

[Flentric]

Hello, I don't really wanna make my own post on this but, I've made an HQ Hud For LCS On PCSX2 which I would like to share, I'm not sure if I should be proud of it or not but I'd like to share it here.

If there's anything missing, feel free to report.

credits are in the readme with installation guide.

 

[Download]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DBAqy3QG6m2Iz0wSI3tfn8YFRlpOlF0W/view?usp=sharing

 

[Only Supported On SLUS-21423]

 

 

 

 

UPDATE - I found motivation to make a topic post for the mod, waiting for it to be accepted.

Edited yesterday at 12:13 AM by Flentric
read the bottom.

[djdarko]

I finally got around to testing this. Regarding the fonts, both the PSP and PS2 versions have a system issue where sometimes the game will overlap letters or put extra spaces between others. This has always bugged me, because I spent so much time pin-pointing the exact spacing for each font character within the game. Maybe a hotfix could be made to prevent it from happening.

 

Also, I never managed to find any type of font spacing chart within the game data. It's basically a .dat/.cel/.txt file full of numbers (216, 224, -1, 202, 102, 368, 102 etc.) that sets the spacing for each letter. If we could find and modify it, I could make the spacing more consistent giving a "perfect as possible" appearance.

 

One thing to note: If you go into the PCSX2 "Per-Game" settings, you can fix a slight cutoff issue that's seen in the game menu.

 

Example:

 

To enable this, from the PCSX2 game selection, right click "Grand Theft Auto - Vice City Stores" > Properties > Graphics > Rendering >

 

Enable this setting:
[X] Manual Hardware Renderer Fixes

 

> Upscaling Fixes
Half Pixel Offset: Align To Native