[BUG]: Football Kingdom: Trial Edition - a whole bunch of things really, mostly graphical annoyances

[SecularSteve]

Describe the Bug

While the game is fully fun and playable, it still has tons of graphical bugs in annoying places. Not game-breaking, but it is something that needs to be ironed out.

First of all, the weird graphical bugs as soon as the event camera is zoomed in on the players after either a goal, or a fumble.
Sometimes the top half of the screen is a grid, and sometimes the bottom is fully black.

Don't even get me started on the audio pauses/stutters when the game transitions between cameras.

Reproduction Steps

Just choose any Exhibition match, and you're bound to see them all at some point.

Expected Behavior

For it not to happen, obviously.

PCSX2 Revision

2.6.3

Operating System

Linux (64bit) - Specify distro below

If Linux - Specify Distro

SteamOS (Steam Deck OLED)

CPU

n/a

GPU

n/a

GS Settings

No response

Emulation Settings

No response

GS Window Screenshots

No response

Logs & Dumps

No response

[SecularSteve]

🤔 . . .

Now that I think of it, this could be somehow related to why Ridge Racer V still has issues running in Hardware mode.
Both are made by Namco, and both probably use bits of each other's rendering code to achieve the same results.

It could explain away the performance stutters in hardware mode, if nothing else.

[lightningterror]

Can you post gs dumps of the issues?

[SecularSteve]

Football Kingdom - Trial Edition_SLPS-20374_2026061623.zip

Hope this helps, had to get them all just right at the right moments.

ZIP contains all 5 of them.

FYI once again, this only happens in Hardware mode. Most evident on the fade-in effect between cameras.

[SecularSteve]

P.S.
This page needs to be updated:
https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Football_Kingdom:_Touring_Edition