Not related to shaders, really… I dont plan on playing the game again but I always struggled with finding a proper aspect ratio that wouldnt make Dracula look like a fat version of Chris Cornell.
The intro is also showing a moon and a clocktower that look also a bit stretched IIRC.
lol yeah sotn uses funky resolutions. I think they did it to fit sprites and assets from Rondo of Blood (and maybe other older games from the franchise) in the ps1’s 240 line framebuffer. What I do is stretch it vertically a bit. Not perfect but it looks good enough like this I think 
Yep it’s some kind of frankenstein of a game in term of resolution. I’ve played trough it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0u9TfByif0
Still not convinced with that aspect ratio, I think I overcorrected. It’s also the Saturn version modded with the excellent Medusa teams’s extended patch. And I think Konami corrected the stretched portraits in that version.
That version was looked down, notably because the Saturn port downgraded transparency and used dithering instead, but the extended patch solves that.
The unmodded game also benefits from JINC2 in that regard and restore transparency very well IMO. https://forums.libretro.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/8/287df81b9e0d51fb9e87ef2977d1453d8fe80853.jpeg
Yes, you certainly over-corrected
If you play the game again, I think you can safely use the screens I posted for reference. If I remember correctly, the Saturn version was 320x224, while the PSX 256x240. Konami stretched the latter to fit the former and the result was funky as all hell. Then you have the fact that it was not a traditional 2D game. A PS1-optimized 3D engine runs the whole thing, and textured poligons are used for rotations and all those gorgeous special effects. Porting it to the Saturn must have been a nightmare. That said, I too love that version, and didn’t know about that patch. It looks amazing!
If I ever play the game again I’ll use the preset with NewPixie I linked in the last link. The screen you posted look stretched to me except maybe the last one. And then again, the moon and castle shot look stretched. It’s a good game, but resolution wise I think it’s a mess, and it certainly seems paradoxical to me that presumed artists having thought about red color bleeding from the eyes wouldnt think the art was stretched compared to portraits in the menu and the promo material…
They are stretched, of course. Vertically like I told you. You need 64 lines to get from 256 to 320 and a normal 4:3, that was the basis for my stretching and I went from there. And also like I told you those proportions I set may not be geometrically perfect, but not off by much, and certainly look way more natural than that strange native aspect ratio, with all its fat count Cornells 
Maybe that’s just me… I mean they still look streched horizontally, despite correcting. The moon on the 512x240 shot seems to be some digitized picture. Yet it doesnt look like the real moon at all, it’s squashed. There’s no aspect ratio consistency in the game between the resolutions used in the game itself, the menu and the cinematics.
Fat count Cornell. He lived like a murder, how he’d fly so sweetly.
There is a Qol version for ps1 that removes the black bars; and setting an 8/7 aspect ratio the portraits look better, the moon might be not “round” by design 
to get a circle had to go with 16/15 
but then portraits don’t look very good…
When listening to the soundtrack of the game, there’s a fan favourite in the song of “The Tragic Prince” where the electric guitar is out of tune. I believe Tak Fuji, who recorded the track, admitted he was not happy with his take. But the game being cult, people could argue nowadays that the guitar solo sounded flat by design. XD
Anyway, Jobima linked one of my post to this thread, maybe to get some feedback on the shaders. They look gorgious. My issues are with the game itself, I wont derail this thread further.
Yes, they are slightly stretched horizontally still and I repeat, not geometrically perfect, and that’s because if you stretch the game further vertically, menus and prerendered cutscenes go out of bounds. That’s the reason why I posted a “select your destiny” shot too. It’s a carefully thought out compromise (I love SOTN and I play it often).
Fair enough!
Doesn’t the moon not show up as a perfect circle when it’s near the horizon anyway?
I was want to link my post here
but seems I linked your post above it, sorry
I’ve downloaded your all in one pack and put it in shaders_slang/presets as per the readme, but Sony V2 doesn’t load; and a lot of the others in that folder don’t load either. Sony V1 does load though. References seem iterative which might be causing issues? I’ve checked through and the guest stock you reference is in the correct place on my system. Odd that some work and some don’t…
with the last updates of V8.15
Edit: with V8.16
Edit: with V8.17
Edit: with V8.18
interlace test with Sony CRT Pixels V2, https://odysee.com/@JobimaInOdysee:a/PS2-Silent-Hill-3-using-Jobima-Sony-CRT-Pixels-V2-shader-preset:0
keep in mind that the real quality not show up because of video compression and there are out of sync problem in obs that make interlaced video worst sometimes
