The space background is not supposed to look like that

[ThreeSon]

This port of Katamary Damacy has the exact same problem with the space background as the PS2 game does when emulating it using PCSX2.

This is what space looks like when playing the game on real PS2 hardware: https://wiki.pcsx2.net/images/a/a1/Untitled.png

This is what it looks like in this port: https://wiki.pcsx2.net/images/8/8d/20170810030715_1.jpg

I guess I'm not holding out hope that the developers will fix this, but I can't believe they didn't notice it in the first place. It looks ugly.

[sumolagann]

Yeah, looked a lot better when playing on ps2, they should have darkened it or something.

[PinkPony]

I did notice the oddly obvious texture mirroring, but I didn't realise that whole pattern was unintentional. To be honest, it's a pretty lazy "remaster" anyway - they couldn't add Cousin functionality, or even just a voice language option?
If someone was able to extract/package the cutscene audio (see here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/848350/ ), I don't see why they couldn't do the same for a texture. Perhaps try contacting them?

[ThreeSon]

I would but Monkeycraft is an entirely Japanese language developer. Here is their website: https://monkeycraft.co.jp

The "contact us" button is on the upper-right, but clicking it just leads me to a 404 error. And that's assuming they could even understand me if I explained the problem to them.

[PinkPony]

Monkeycraft? No, I was talking about the person who posted that thread, assuming they were the ones that made the mod.

[ThreeSon]

Oh. Well I left a comment on his guide page but I think that's a long shot.

The problem is probably not something that could be fixed by replacing a file or two, it's a problem with how the image is being rendered, because even the original PS2 game will show the same corrupted background when being emulated with PCSX2.

So actually, I think the most likely fix would come from the PCSX2 emulator development community - if someone there could figure out what is causing this bug in emulation and find a fix for it, then maybe that fix could also be implemented in a patch for this port on Steam.

Even then though, since this port uses the Unity engine, making a community patch might be difficult without the help of the developers.

[Kain]

Looks like this for me https://imgur.com/sUdTP3d
Is it correct or not?

[PinkPony]

Originally posted by Kain:

Looks like this for me https://imgur.com/sUdTP3d
Is it correct or not?

No, it's that repeating pattern of squares in the background that's the issue. It should be pure black.

[Kain]

Originally posted by PinkPony:

Originally posted by Kain:

Looks like this for me https://imgur.com/sUdTP3d
Is it correct or not?

No, it's that repeating pattern of squares in the background that's the issue. It should be pure black.

Whoops, i mixed up

[Buu342]

Bumping this thread to post my guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2242089349