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Why is the quality so bad? How can I improve it? (self.ps2)

submitted 10 months ago by Lafari to c/ps2

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All PS2 games look really blurry on Panasonic Viera TV.

For comparison, when I play the Jak trilogy on PS5 (which is just the PS2 ports), it has a sharp and crisp image. But the same games on an actual PS2 are much lower quality. This leads me to think there's some scaling issue that the PS5 automatically fixes since I don't think they remastered it or anything. And the same applies to every PS2 game.

It's currently connected via RCA component cables, and I tried messing with the game mode settings on the TV but it didn't really do anything noticeable. I'm wondering if I should buy a PS2 to HDMI converter or if that might be even worse than the current set up. I don't have much money I can spend but if I need to I will, just whatever it takes to get it looking good. It looks like sh*

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm gonna guess that the resolution of the TV is pretty high and the reason it looks so bad is because the image is being stretched to fit the screen. There are devices you can get to pass through before going to the TV that can fix this, but I've never used any myself. I just live with the stretched out picture or play on an emulator through my PC where I can control the output.

The PS5 uses modern upscaling tech that didn't even exist when the PS2 was built.