Any comparison screenshots?

Actually PSX version doesn't have hot air effects on lava levels so they are also 256x192

What about in Mednafen?

Should be interesting to see in action, I've always heard that the PS1 version had a higher color depth but it's quite hard to tell in stills 🙁.

look at:
- whole left part of the waterfall under the bridge
- wall of the destroyed building
- grass over the boy's head

Nice observational skills, these all do tend to showcase the dithered PC palette. However, it seems like the PC version features somewhat higher quality backgrounds? For example, the destroyed hut beneath Andy seems far more compressed in the PS1 version. Could this just be ePSXe messing with the output?

Just zoom both pictures in separate tabs (turn off filtering) and ctrl-tab between them.
You will notice the difference almost everywhere.

Mednafen

Thanks for this comparison. So you would say that the colors and certainly having a good gamepad make the PSX the best version?

holaplaneta wrote on 2020-04-28, 01:02:

Thanks for this comparison. So you would say that the colors and certainly having a good gamepad make the PSX the best version?

At this point it is probably worth considering HODE, the engine rewrite.
http://cyxdown.free.fr/hode/

Well the PS1 version sure has more colors, but some parts of the picture look a bit like a compressed jpeg. This is my personal opinion, but not everything looks better imo. It depends what I look at. The water is better, but the picture overall looks "compressed" to me.

The PS1 version seems a tiny bit darker? I wonder why, it seems pretty random

Thanks to the open source nature of the HODE engine, this game has been fan ported to the original XBox*. You can read about it here:

https://www.emuxtras.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=6935

* Your XBox has to be modded (i.e. able to run unofficial software, using either a hard mod or a soft mod) to run this, of course.