I thought I made this comment months ago but I guess not, this video is EXTREMELY outdated and tbh I didn’t even really know wtf I was doing I was just showing what worked for me, if you want help now you’re gonna have to go to the mods official discord server and ask them for help, they can help you with anything you need (the link to their server will be in the description)
Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to do this tutorial. I was reading through the instructions on the mod page and it was kinda confusing. Sometimes, it just helps to have someone demo what you should do and watch them. Thanks, man
After seeing Atlus make an idiotic decision to not release this version, im going to have to do this. Such a great game (may be my favorite in the series). Thank you for the video.
P3P has everything better except the presentation, EVERYTHING, I don't see how it's idiotic, the combat in FES is so boring that it makes Portable better despite it's shortcomings.
For those who also couldn't get it to work even after making sure that they've followed the video thoroughly, I got mine to work by changing the Internal Resolution in the Graphics > Settings tab (mine was initially on the Default Native PS2 setting). Hopefully, this works for the rest! Thanks to OGKiland's suggestion in the GameBanana comments!
For everyone who’s having issues with the cutscenes showing a black screen, use a pcsx2 nightly build from around the time this video was released (August of 2022). Versions from around that time will work with cutscene mods and show the original cutscenes without a black screen. Just don’t update pcsx2. I also found that sometimes when other mods don’t work, load the .elf for a few seconds and then load the iso as shown in the video.
There is more! I also discovered that latest pcsx2 updates added discrete internal .pnach files to all ps2 isos, and they are enabled as default, thus conflicting with the cheats. There is a "widescreen patch" checkbox in screen tab, under graphics config options, that can be disabled, and the fmv video gets back to normal (at least it worked for me) The embebbed patches and cheats are all located under ~your_pcsx2_root_folder/resources/, for the curious, or maybe for the ones tha want to delete/check other .pnach files Have fun playing with cheats enabled :)
Thanks so much dude, no way I'd have been able to follow the written instructions. Crazy how good this looks. It looked pretty terrible on my 4k tv, but holy shit does it look good now lol. Night and day difference. It's my first play through as well, so wanted to make it good. Thanks again my dude! Awesome stuff.
Thank you so much, been trying to mod persona for about a year and just encountered so many errors, ive probably spent 100 hours just turying to get mods to work but your video made mods work for me in just 10 mins, thanks so much
Dude, thank you so much! i was about to give up trying to mod p3 since i didn't understand the bloody instructions but you make them perfectly clear. Everything worked.
Thank you for this I finally got it to work! I've been wanting to try out Persona 3 FES for a while now at least during times when I'm not busy with college so I'm glad I finally got this running.
Thank you so much for making this. I tried when it came out and there weren't any video tutorials I could fine. I thought I followed everything but couldn't get it to work. I don't think I had nightly build for PCSX2 is what it was. Anyway, it worked this time and I could not be any happier. Thank you
Thank you so much, I tried installing the mod for hours but the emulator just kept crashing for no reason, followed your steps and everything works perfectly now. Subbing to your TH-cam and Twitch, you deserve more followers.
Forgot to comment on this, but this was a huge help when I was first going through emulating and modding P3FES. I can't follow written guides for shit, so thank you for providing a visual tutorial! I appreciate it a lot.
Great video, thx, but i ran into a problem - while the game is working fine, all animated cutscenes are just black screen with sound. I don't have a single clue what to do about this
Here's something to note now. You actually don't need the mod programs anymore, you can just put the mod texture replacements in the textures folder in the pcsx2 directory yourself and enable the texture replacement in settings and you basically have the mod ready to go. It can even run on any renderer too so it doesn't have to be vulkan. Then ya get the wide-screen hack up as he said and you turn up the quality in setting (I went for 1080p due to me having a laptop but if you have a stronge pc you can go beyond) and your good!
@@vexywexy No you need to learn the meaning of words. For something to work flawlessly it needs to never have an issue whatsoever when a user attempts it. The proper thing to say is it's inconsistent between people not flawlessy.
"For legal reasons I can't tell you how to obtain a P3FES ISO" *has vegas installer and crack folder sitting on desktop* Lmao, but seriously thank you so much for the tutorial. Was thinking about replaying the game and you've really helped me out, and I'm sure you're helping out a lot of new players as well.
@@keasts4084but if i do, then i can't use the controllable party members mod that lets you play as other characters thats not the protagonist like persona 4 and 5
Hey man! First of all thank you so much for this video, I followed along and can FINALLY replay P3 the way I've wanted to for a long time. I might be late on this, but I believe the hostFS pnach file goes in the cheats folder of the emulator, and not in the cheats_ws one. My font seemed to be super stretched and not like it shows in the trailers of the mod until I put the pnach file in the cheats folder. Thanks again for the vid!
I'm totally lost on what role Aemulus played in helping to make this work. It seems like we extracted the elf, configured Aemulus, extracted the base files, and then did nothing with them after that.
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I think I figured it out. You can either pack the new textures into the ISO with Aemulus or manually reference them by putting them in the emulator textures folder. Thanks for the tutorial.
Man is all this still up to date? It won't work if I just drag and drop the SLUS into the textures folder like I do with all my other games? In not may I ask why?
thx man, the written guide tbh didn't explain it to well on how to install this mod like the output folder, it wasn't mention at all on the install guide also can we install other mods such as community enhancement pack? how can i do that? since CEP needs to be installed through aemulus
Got this working great thanks to you. Appreciate it. SUCH an amazing game. Two questions: Can you play at 60fps? Also, is there a way to over ride that weird looking interlacing effect on the fmv? Otherwise, amazing.
Awesome tutorial really helped me a lot. I'm also wondering if there is way to do this thru Xbox emulation? If so it would be great to see a tutorial for it.
I followed everything step by step and when I started up the elf file it told me "PCSX2 requires a PS2 BIOS in order to run." and then it did the same thing for the P3FES Bios. I don't understand
@@KingJJ2345LIVE okay, I got that fixed, thanks a ton btw. The game runs and everything. I saw a comment you posted a few months ago mentioning to change the resolution in the video settings of pcsx2. I cant seem to find these video settings in the current version of pcsx2. did they change the name of it or am i blind?
Hey, so I ran into a very odd and specific problem. The game itself looks phenomenal, I never thought I'd see Persona 3 in an up to date format akin to Persona 4 on PC. All the animated cut scenes in the first 15 or so minutes of playtime (about right when you leave the school and get back to the dorms for the first time) are all looking fine and how I'd expect them to, and the first intro cut scene also works well. However, at the main menu, when that beautiful piano is playing, the game slows down to 1 frame a second, making it impossible to start a new game, the one fix was changing my resolution back from 4X to the default. Doing that I was able to get through the menu just fine, however everything went to the basic resolution without any of the HD restoration, so once I got past the menu and set up a new game I set a save state and turned my resolution back to 4X, where everything goes back to the HD restoration. I need to reiterate, the game itself is perfectly fine, the only slowdown I've ran into is on the main menu. It shouldn't really matter all that much since I can play the rest of the game just fine but it's kind of part of my ritual whenever I play Persona 3 I wait a little bit on the menu title to watch Burn my Dread... the real intro to the game :/. I know that's a really minor thing and since I have a save state set up post intro I can still play the rest of the game but is there anyway to fix this? Again, I know it's really minor but it's gonna erk me if I can't get this fixed. And hopefully everything I said makes sense.
I didn't have this problem, I did the EXACT same thing as you did, it was my ritual on stream as well to let Burn my Dread play so i feel you, how good is your PC or laptop? it may be a hardware issue, but the mod is only 69% (haha yeah joke, but it actually is) complete, so that may also have something to do with it.
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I mean my PC is almost five years old now and could use an upgrade but it can still run most games competently. It’s by no means a graphical power house but most games can run a good 60 frames without looking like shit. Idk I’ll look into it to see if others have had similar problems, and if I can’t find anything meh… it’s not the end of the world… shits just gonna irk me since everything else is completely fine 🙄🙄
gave me errors, also couldnt find the textures folder. [ERROR] Failed to unpack everything from Persona 3 FES! Please check if you have all prerequisites installed!
Thank you so much it worked and I'm grateful to have found the video. For me though my cutscenes have also stopped showing up entirely (only sound). Its not a big deal but i wanted to know if you know how to fix this
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I just downloaded it and it seems the issue is the widescreen pnach file. Once I removed that, cutscenes started working again. Also thank you for the tutorial!
Hey man! First of all, thank you for the tutorial. I followed every step and the game works fine, but for some reason cutscene don't appear at all. I can skip them so It's not a big deal, but I was wondering what might be the cause; i've searched in reddit but I don't see anyone else having this problem.
Well, i have a problem. When i boot up the elf, it's black screen, nothing. I don't see anything other than a black screen. Andddddddd for the ISO file, well, i wait for a few seconds, pcsx2 crashes. I'm getting frustrated, did i do something wrong? I'm not so sure what i did wrong.
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I actually figured out that my pc just wasn’t showing hidden extensions so when I turned it on the .txt showed up so I was able to delete it.
I have a question, I did everything as you said but when I boot up the game it only says that it loaded 1 widescreen patch, also the ELF file doesn't stay on the screen like yours did. What do I do?
Thanks for the tutorial! But when I open the file, it says something about disabling minmaps and compressing minmaps, do you have an Idea about what that means? 😭
Hey thanks for the video, it worked pretty well. I am having trouble trying to add the controllable party member mod though. I replaced the 94A82AAA.pnach with the one for the controllable party member mod but still not able to control my party members. Can you put a guide for that as well?
I just wanted to relay my fix for this. Keep the original .pnach files in your pcsx2 cheats_ws folder from the video in tact. Put the controllable party member .pnach file (which happens to be the same name as 94A82AAA.pnach) and put it in the cheats folder in your pcsx2 folder. Should work after that.
everything works fine except for in the beginning of the game when you meet the police officer at the station is crashes right there when opening the store any way to fix?
idk why but i use the same version of pcsx2 in the video,and when i install all the mods like in the video and i launch the game with the mod loader, the emulator open in background 💀💀
thank you fo rthe guide, i followed it multiple times and its not loading the game with textures. running "pcsx2-v1.7.3994-windows-64bit-AVX2-Qt" all files are named properly and i made folders for them that i linked pcsx2 textures to. im not sure why it's not
Having a little problem here, i see no textures folder or anything in my pcsx2, i may be perhaps in the wrong pcsx2 folder but i still none of those folders, i enabled cheats and widescreen patches and theres still nothing. Should i be enabling something??? Edit: had to use the nighty build, im so dumb
Nice turtorial but the widescreen patch is not working for me. I got the hostFS and the widescreen patch from your downloads in the "cheats" folder and starting up the game it shows no "loading x widescreen patches" box. When i try to reload cheats it says "no cheats or patches are found/enabled".
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I did. Still no patches. In fact none of the .pnach files work at all... Edit: My CRC was wrong. I dont know why but I only saw it after enabling the console. Changed the .pnaches to the CRC and it worked.
@@KingJJ2345LIVE Ah that worked, thank you! By the way is there a way to upscale the cutscenes too? I've seen some other people do it and I'm not sure if it's a mod or not
Hello, I have done everything that is mentioned here however I have a very different issue. My text and main screen also the game is looking amazing but the pop up arts of the characters never change. They look so old and tires my eyes since everything else looks superb. do you have any idea how can I change that ? I am also having an error about mipmapping or something... Why this is so difficult ! Q_Q
@@KingJJ2345LIVE it’s all good bro I figured it out, I had a space in between the SLUS-2176 folder that wasn’t allowing it to read the folder. Your video was super helpful tho appreciate it 🙌🏽
The Aemulus Package Manager downloads as a notepad and I cant figure out how to make it a folder with just files? any tips? also happens with my persona 3 fes rom
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I’m sorry let me clarify Aemulus wont work at all for pcsx2 1.7 even when install the mod and I follow many TH-cam tutorials I only want the rebirth cutscenes mod I don’t really care for the texture mod I was hoping you can make video that can help
Oh, to be honest I’m not really familiar with installing any other mods. I only made this video because I needed to teach myself to mod P3 FES with the HD mod for stream/yt playthrough and some of my discord members wanted me to record the process, so I can only (kinda) help with the HD mod, it’s been like 3-4 months since I’ve even touched aemulus
Have a weird issue with p3fes where the fmv cutscenes are like cut weird it doesn't show the full fmv its like cut off not showing dislodge in the intro on first boot up. (Unrelated to mod it seems to be working but this is annoying)
Awesome video! I was able to get the hd pack installed and working but I cannot seem to get other mods to work with this method. Edit: well nevermind i feel like an idiot lol, I ended up filling out the rest of the paths in the menu where you selected some file paths and it seemed to work after I got all of those filled. If any of you have a similar situation try filling the rest out. there were a few errors for each blank everytime i ran the build
Im on an ASUS TUF laptop and I can't launch anything on pcsx2 with Vulkan as the graphics menu... but it runs with anything else Edit: When I try to run it via Vulkan, it pops up an error saying: Failed to create host display device context.
gonna be honest, i've been trying to find a solution for days lol, it's either something i cant help with or your computer isnt compatible with the mod (its probably just a solution i cant help with though). Here's a link to the flowchart that can maybe help you cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/923959062243209233/995535353425440858/unknown.png
Update: so I don't know if my assets are modded now but at first the graphics were ps2 ish, pixelated, but I increased the upscaling and made it 4k which made the assets more hd for some reason. Still can't use Vulkan tho, I'm using GL
I thought I made this comment months ago but I guess not, this video is EXTREMELY outdated and tbh I didn’t even really know wtf I was doing I was just showing what worked for me, if you want help now you’re gonna have to go to the mods official discord server and ask them for help, they can help you with anything you need (the link to their server will be in the description)
Just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to do this tutorial. I was reading through the instructions on the mod page and it was kinda confusing. Sometimes, it just helps to have someone demo what you should do and watch them. Thanks, man
Glad I could help !
After seeing Atlus make an idiotic decision to not release this version, im going to have to do this. Such a great game (may be my favorite in the series). Thank you for the video.
P3P has everything better except the presentation, EVERYTHING, I don't see how it's idiotic, the combat in FES is so boring that it makes Portable better despite it's shortcomings.
@@evzenvarga9707 just use controllable party members mod and bam fes is the ultimate best version
Atlus made a tremendously dumb decision
ahh shit here we go again
@@navis7428 aged like fine wine right?
For those who also couldn't get it to work even after making sure that they've followed the video thoroughly, I got mine to work by changing the Internal Resolution in the Graphics > Settings tab (mine was initially on the Default Native PS2 setting). Hopefully, this works for the rest!
Thanks to OGKiland's suggestion in the GameBanana comments!
actually huge, thanks
an actual legend, this worked for me thank you so much
This is what I was missing, thank you so much!
LEGEND! Thank you for this!
Thank you! I'm glad I read this comment!
For everyone who’s having issues with the cutscenes showing a black screen, use a pcsx2 nightly build from around the time this video was released (August of 2022). Versions from around that time will work with cutscene mods and show the original cutscenes without a black screen. Just don’t update pcsx2. I also found that sometimes when other mods don’t work, load the .elf for a few seconds and then load the iso as shown in the video.
Pinned for convenience, but also turning off cheats should help with the cutscenes (according to other comments)
There is more! I also discovered that latest pcsx2 updates added discrete internal .pnach files to all ps2 isos, and they are enabled as default, thus conflicting with the cheats. There is a "widescreen patch" checkbox in screen tab, under graphics config options, that can be disabled, and the fmv video gets back to normal (at least it worked for me)
The embebbed patches and cheats are all located under ~your_pcsx2_root_folder/resources/, for the curious, or maybe for the ones tha want to delete/check other .pnach files
Have fun playing with cheats enabled :)
This is going to help a lot of begginer since there's no real videos on this, also looking forward to the p3 play through lmaoo
PROBABLY SHOULD'VE SAID THIS MONTHS AGO, BUT MAKE SURE YOU SET YOUR VIDEO RESOLUTION TO 4X IN THE VIDEO SETTINGS!!! THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STEP !
Yep! That was the missing step! Thank you for this. It looks so crisp now.
Hey, how do I do that? :) I can't find it anywhere.
@@domezbodi5671 in graphics you will get the resolution options
Why does the video resolution have to be set to 4x? What happens if I set it below 4x?
@@KidNamedKewlHam it will be very blurry. But 2x can also work
Thank you very much for a well spoken, short tutorial. Also, thank you to Rendall Draw for the input of changing the internal resolution to 2K
Thanks so much dude, no way I'd have been able to follow the written instructions. Crazy how good this looks. It looked pretty terrible on my 4k tv, but holy shit does it look good now lol. Night and day difference. It's my first play through as well, so wanted to make it good. Thanks again my dude! Awesome stuff.
Enjoy the game, it’s definitely an experience !
thank you so much!! you have no idea how many headaches you just saved in tryna piece this all together man, ur that goat!!
Thank you for making this, I was about to Persona 3 myself, and not with an Evoker 😂
😭😭😭
Thanks, nowhere else mentioned changing the 0x to 00... finally got it working after an hour or so, thank you!!
Thank you so much, been trying to mod persona for about a year and just encountered so many errors, ive probably spent 100 hours just turying to get mods to work but your video made mods work for me in just 10 mins, thanks so much
Glad I could help!!
This is one of the best guides I've used, I was completely lost looking at the mod maker's flowchart. I must of been spoiled by 3ds modding.
this is definitely the most frustrating thing i've modded
Dude, thank you so much! i was about to give up trying to mod p3 since i didn't understand the bloody instructions but you make them perfectly clear. Everything worked.
Hope you enjoy the game !
Didn't like how we only got to play p3p so decided to emulate fes on pc. very helpful guide thank you for making it easy and straightforward!
About to play persona 3 for the first time ever thanks bro
Enjoy it bro, I just finished my playthrough on it a couple weeks ago, I loved it 🙏
Thank you for this I finally got it to work! I've been wanting to try out Persona 3 FES for a while now at least during times when I'm not busy with college so I'm glad I finally got this running.
Glad I could help!
What did you think of it? c:
Thank you so much for making this. I tried when it came out and there weren't any video tutorials I could fine. I thought I followed everything but couldn't get it to work. I don't think I had nightly build for PCSX2 is what it was. Anyway, it worked this time and I could not be any happier. Thank you
Thank you so much, I tried installing the mod for hours but the emulator just kept crashing for no reason, followed your steps and everything works perfectly now. Subbing to your TH-cam and Twitch, you deserve more followers.
Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it and enjoy the game !
Forgot to comment on this, but this was a huge help when I was first going through emulating and modding P3FES. I can't follow written guides for shit, so thank you for providing a visual tutorial! I appreciate it a lot.
you're welcome !
Bro you just saved me so much time you are a KING! This was so helpful there is not shot I was getting this by myself
Great video, thx, but i ran into a problem - while the game is working fine, all animated cutscenes are just black screen with sound. I don't have a single clue what to do about this
Here's something to note now. You actually don't need the mod programs anymore, you can just put the mod texture replacements in the textures folder in the pcsx2 directory yourself and enable the texture replacement in settings and you basically have the mod ready to go. It can even run on any renderer too so it doesn't have to be vulkan. Then ya get the wide-screen hack up as he said and you turn up the quality in setting (I went for 1080p due to me having a laptop but if you have a stronge pc you can go beyond) and your good!
Not true since mines doesn't work at all.
@@atomickaiser1934 That's true since mine works flawlessly.
@@vexywexy And the fact that my bad experience exist disproves that already.
@@atomickaiser1934 But the fact that my good experience exist disproves your disproof.
@@vexywexy No you need to learn the meaning of words. For something to work flawlessly it needs to never have an issue whatsoever when a user attempts it. The proper thing to say is it's inconsistent between people not flawlessy.
"For legal reasons I can't tell you how to obtain a P3FES ISO" *has vegas installer and crack folder sitting on desktop*
Lmao, but seriously thank you so much for the tutorial. Was thinking about replaying the game and you've really helped me out, and I'm sure you're helping out a lot of new players as well.
Lmfaooooooo, no problem !
thank you for the simplicity of this tutorial bro
Everything works amazing for me except I can't watch any of the anime cut scenes for some reason
Same
Fun fact: unchecked "enable cheats" box help with this issue
@@keasts4084 thank you bro, you are truly a giga chad
@@keasts4084but if i do, then i can't use the controllable party members mod that lets you play as other characters thats not the protagonist like persona 4 and 5
TYSM for the very thorough tutorial.
Hey man! First of all thank you so much for this video, I followed along and can FINALLY replay P3 the way I've wanted to for a long time.
I might be late on this, but I believe the hostFS pnach file goes in the cheats folder of the emulator, and not in the cheats_ws one. My font seemed to be super stretched and not like it shows in the trailers of the mod until I put the pnach file in the cheats folder.
Thanks again for the vid!
Thanks for letting me know, others have had that problem and I didn’t know what was wrong lol so I really do appreciate it, enjoy the game !
im assuming the controllable party mod also goes in cheats noot cheats.ws
I’d assume so, yes, I didn’t use them so I wouldn’t know for sure
@@KingJJ2345LIVE fair enough thanks anyway
Thanks a lot, the first tutorial that has worked for me!
Glad it worked !
I'm totally lost on what role Aemulus played in helping to make this work. It seems like we extracted the elf, configured Aemulus, extracted the base files, and then did nothing with them after that.
I just followed the instructions of the mod makers man lol
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I think I figured it out. You can either pack the new textures into the ISO with Aemulus or manually reference them by putting them in the emulator textures folder. Thanks for the tutorial.
thank you! tutorial is easy, worked on first attempt
For anyone having issues with black screen on cutscenes: do the tutorial step by step but don't turn on cheats, that should fix it
most straight forward, thank ya
Man is all this still up to date?
It won't work if I just drag and drop the SLUS into the textures folder like I do with all my other games?
In not may I ask why?
Detailed, love it
Worked and helped a lot, thanks dude
I love your Crack folder right on your desktop
Aye man that could be anything 😳
thx man, the written guide tbh didn't explain it to well on how to install this mod like the output folder, it wasn't mention at all on the install guide
also can we install other mods such as community enhancement pack? how can i do that? since CEP needs to be installed through aemulus
No problem, as for other mods, I know you can however, I have no experience with other mods so I’m unsure how to do that
Thanks for this. Do you know how to get controllable party with this? Edit: Nevermind found it when trawlling the comments
Got this working great thanks to you. Appreciate it. SUCH an amazing game. Two questions: Can you play at 60fps? Also, is there a way to over ride that weird looking interlacing effect on the fmv? Otherwise, amazing.
The cutscenes aren’t in HD if that’s what you mean by fmv, also make sure you set the video resolution in the settings to 4x
@@KingJJ2345LIVE Can you play in 60fps?
@@4t1overhv a member of my discord told me that yeah it’s possible, but it makes the game look weirder for most of the textures
Awesome tutorial really helped me a lot. I'm also wondering if there is way to do this thru Xbox emulation? If so it would be great to see a tutorial for it.
There is no way to do it on Xbox to my knowledge as it’s only compatible with the nightly build of pcsx2, also I’m glad it helped
@KingJJ2345LIVE I hope one day it will work. It's great on steam deck but it would be nice to have the extra horse power since i got a toaster pc lol.
thank you so much i'm in love with u rn
❤️
i did not expect this to have so many steps modding my 3ds was easier lol
Literally, I had to teach myself just to start the play through I spent so many hours on it, it was ridiculous
Nice and clean work like it should :D
Did literally everything you said but it still doesn’t work
Hey man I can't find psxc2 avx2 qt version right now, can I you the latest qt vesion instead
Same question
You can for anyone curious!
thx man, you made my day
For the Aemulus Package manager downloading: Do I have to make the folder myself or does it come in one?
For me it came in one
Ah ok, mine came as an actual application
You should be fine, you don’t need anything else from aemulus
thank you it worked perfect, like legit
Enjoy the game !
Why does it only recognize 157 wide-screen patches and not my textures? I've been fiddling with this for nearly 4 hours and I'm so conflicted.
im unsure
Hey dude, I think I'm having the same issue as you, were you able to figure this out?
I followed everything step by step and when I started up the elf file it told me "PCSX2 requires a PS2 BIOS in order to run." and then it did the same thing for the P3FES Bios. I don't understand
Because you need a PS2 BIOS to run the emulator, games don’t have BIOS, but consoles do
@@KingJJ2345LIVE okay, I got that fixed, thanks a ton btw. The game runs and everything. I saw a comment you posted a few months ago mentioning to change the resolution in the video settings of pcsx2. I cant seem to find these video settings in the current version of pcsx2. did they change the name of it or am i blind?
For some reason i can't move the file in the iso to the folder i made (1:44)
Hey, so I ran into a very odd and specific problem. The game itself looks phenomenal, I never thought I'd see Persona 3 in an up to date format akin to Persona 4 on PC. All the animated cut scenes in the first 15 or so minutes of playtime (about right when you leave the school and get back to the dorms for the first time) are all looking fine and how I'd expect them to, and the first intro cut scene also works well. However, at the main menu, when that beautiful piano is playing, the game slows down to 1 frame a second, making it impossible to start a new game, the one fix was changing my resolution back from 4X to the default. Doing that I was able to get through the menu just fine, however everything went to the basic resolution without any of the HD restoration, so once I got past the menu and set up a new game I set a save state and turned my resolution back to 4X, where everything goes back to the HD restoration.
I need to reiterate, the game itself is perfectly fine, the only slowdown I've ran into is on the main menu. It shouldn't really matter all that much since I can play the rest of the game just fine but it's kind of part of my ritual whenever I play Persona 3 I wait a little bit on the menu title to watch Burn my Dread... the real intro to the game :/. I know that's a really minor thing and since I have a save state set up post intro I can still play the rest of the game but is there anyway to fix this? Again, I know it's really minor but it's gonna erk me if I can't get this fixed. And hopefully everything I said makes sense.
I didn't have this problem, I did the EXACT same thing as you did, it was my ritual on stream as well to let Burn my Dread play so i feel you, how good is your PC or laptop? it may be a hardware issue, but the mod is only 69% (haha yeah joke, but it actually is) complete, so that may also have something to do with it.
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I mean my PC is almost five years old now and could use an upgrade but it can still run most games competently. It’s by no means a graphical power house but most games can run a good 60 frames without looking like shit. Idk I’ll look into it to see if others have had similar problems, and if I can’t find anything meh… it’s not the end of the world… shits just gonna irk me since everything else is completely fine 🙄🙄
@@snozer6966 if it doesnt work, i guess just play the op on YT before playing that game lol
gave me errors, also couldnt find the textures folder.
[ERROR] Failed to unpack everything from Persona 3 FES! Please check if you have all prerequisites installed!
I can help you personally if you join the discord, I suck at explaining through words lol
Does this mod work with the persona 3 community enhancement pack? Thanks for the video!
I tested it and can confirm it does work!
Thank you so much it worked and I'm grateful to have found the video. For me though my cutscenes have also stopped showing up entirely (only sound). Its not a big deal but i wanted to know if you know how to fix this
Turn off cheats to fix the cutscenes
@@KingJJ2345LIVE thank you
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I just downloaded it and it seems the issue is the widescreen pnach file. Once I removed that, cutscenes started working again. Also thank you for the tutorial!
Hey man! First of all, thank you for the tutorial.
I followed every step and the game works fine, but for some reason cutscene don't appear at all. I can skip them so It's not a big deal, but I was wondering what might be the cause; i've searched in reddit but I don't see anyone else having this problem.
Turn off enable cheats, that’s fixed it for others
For some reason the Atlus logo at the start is still stretched out for me.
Man, a legend!!
Well, i have a problem.
When i boot up the elf, it's black screen, nothing. I don't see anything other than a black screen.
Andddddddd for the ISO file, well, i wait for a few seconds, pcsx2 crashes. I'm getting frustrated, did i do something wrong? I'm not so sure what i did wrong.
Are you using the nightly build?
yeah
@@supersaiyanwhatever3009 did you ever figure it out? i have the same problem.
Same problem here, any fix?
When I try saving the pnach file it doesn’t say .txt at the end but always downloads as a text document. Even if it only says .pnach?
you have to delete the .txt WHEN you ctrl s on the page and save it the first time
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I actually figured out that my pc just wasn’t showing hidden extensions so when I turned it on the .txt showed up so I was able to delete it.
it just doesnt work for me.
I'm so confused, I follow the exact steps yet it makes no difference.
I have a question, I did everything as you said but when I boot up the game it only says that it loaded 1 widescreen patch, also the ELF file doesn't stay on the screen like yours did. What do I do?
Same thing is happening with me rn too it only says it has loaded 1 widescreen patch, if you figure it out please lmk!
@@tylerk2638 I got it to load 18k patches, but the texture patch isn't activated
Not sure why it only says 1 widescreen patch, but the textures thing, it’s probably cause you have to set the video resolution to 4X
@@KingJJ2345LIVE Nevermind, it works now somehow
how did it happen to work might i ask? I've been having the same issue
Thanks for the tutorial!
But when I open the file, it says something about disabling minmaps and compressing minmaps, do you have an Idea about what that means? 😭
no idea what it means tbh
Hey thanks for the video, it worked pretty well. I am having trouble trying to add the controllable party member mod though. I replaced the 94A82AAA.pnach with the one for the controllable party member mod but still not able to control my party members. Can you put a guide for that as well?
I just wanted to relay my fix for this. Keep the original .pnach files in your pcsx2 cheats_ws folder from the video in tact. Put the controllable party member .pnach file (which happens to be the same name as 94A82AAA.pnach) and put it in the cheats folder in your pcsx2 folder. Should work after that.
Thank you for commenting this, I would’ve had no idea how to fix it lol, enjoy the game
For some reason it still doesn't load up the mods for me
Idk
For some reason the opening cutscene is just cut out now whenever i use this for no reason
everything works fine except for in the beginning of the game when you meet the police officer at the station is crashes right there when opening the store any way to fix?
idk why but i use the same version of pcsx2 in the video,and when i install all the mods like in the video and i launch the game with the mod loader, the emulator open in background 💀💀
All of the movies show a black screen or don't show at all, am I dumb or did I mess this up?
I’ve seen people comment that toggling off enable cheats fixes it
@@KingJJ2345LIVE this was the solution, thanks man! Excited to play P3 for the first time!
Hope you enjoy it!
I bought P3P on steam and I'm not sure where to find the ISO for it on my computer. I'm new to this form of modding so any advice would help
This is for persona 3 fes, not persona 3 portable
what version of pcsx are you using? im using 1.6.0 and cant find the vulcan renderer
The nightly build
I cant find stuff. I dont have the override folder im super confused
thank you fo rthe guide, i followed it multiple times and its not loading the game with textures. running "pcsx2-v1.7.3994-windows-64bit-AVX2-Qt" all files are named properly and i made folders for them that i linked pcsx2 textures to. im not sure why it's not
You didn't even use aemulus, I'm gonna try to do that with aemulus because this is too much of a headache and I want other mods as well.
this is hell
Can you just drop the entire P3FES overhaul folder into the textures folder instead?
Having a little problem here, i see no textures folder or anything in my pcsx2, i may be perhaps in the wrong pcsx2 folder but i still none of those folders, i enabled cheats and widescreen patches and theres still nothing. Should i be enabling something???
Edit: had to use the nighty build, im so dumb
the newest version of pcsx2 1.7 there is no widescreen patch checkbox will it still work
Nice turtorial but the widescreen patch is not working for me. I got the hostFS and the widescreen patch from your downloads in the "cheats" folder and starting up the game it shows no "loading x widescreen patches" box. When i try to reload cheats it says "no cheats or patches are found/enabled".
Check the pinned message that might help
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I did. Still no patches. In fact none of the .pnach files work at all...
Edit: My CRC was wrong. I dont know why but I only saw it after enabling the console. Changed the .pnaches to the CRC and it worked.
I don't see a textures folder in my pcsx
nvm it's in my c drive, how do I change that directory over to my b drive
ive followed every step and it doesnt work for some reason
For some reason only the widescreen mod worked for me? I might have done something wrong im not sure
did you set the video quality to 4x? i may have forgot to mention that in the video
@@KingJJ2345LIVE Ah that worked, thank you! By the way is there a way to upscale the cutscenes too? I've seen some other people do it and I'm not sure if it's a mod or not
@@gersonguy3781 probably another mod, mine are in the same original quality
Holy shit live savior thank you so much
What do you mean undubbed version? Someone else mentioned that and I have no idea what it means lol, you mean like a Japanese iso?
@@KingJJ2345LIVE Yeah It's like a modded iso of the english game but with japanese voices
Hello, I have done everything that is mentioned here however I have a very different issue. My text and main screen also the game is looking amazing but the pop up arts of the characters never change. They look so old and tires my eyes since everything else looks superb. do you have any idea how can I change that ? I am also having an error about mipmapping or something... Why this is so difficult ! Q_Q
I can't seem to find the texture folder for PCSX2 anywhere I look...
You either have to run the unmodded game first, or create the texture folder yourself, it’s been months so I forget tbh
Hey bro, I seem to get the wide patch, and the 3D models in HD, but can't seem to get the text boxes and 2D character models in HD, any ideas? Thanks!
I may have forgot to mention it in the video, but did you set the video resolution to 4x?
@@KingJJ2345LIVE it’s all good bro I figured it out, I had a space in between the SLUS-2176 folder that wasn’t allowing it to read the folder. Your video was super helpful tho appreciate it 🙌🏽
the overhaul works but i cant get the widescreen patch to work
any tips?
everytime I try to launch it keeps crashing
The Aemulus Package Manager downloads as a notepad and I cant figure out how to make it a folder with just files? any tips? also happens with my persona 3 fes rom
Is aemulus being downloaded as a .zip file? And the rom should be an .iso
I can’t talk about getting roms through here though
How did you get the P3hd 7z file it didn't come up when I downloaded it
Does this fix the whole “you can’t control your party members” thing
No, that’s a separate thing that you can do on top of this
Hello the rebirth cutscene mod won't work can you make video to help
The HD mod isn’t compatible with some mods
@@KingJJ2345LIVE I’m sorry let me clarify
Aemulus wont work at all for pcsx2 1.7 even when install the mod and I follow many TH-cam tutorials
I only want the rebirth cutscenes mod I don’t really care for the texture mod
I was hoping you can make video that can help
Oh, to be honest I’m not really familiar with installing any other mods. I only made this video because I needed to teach myself to mod P3 FES with the HD mod for stream/yt playthrough and some of my discord members wanted me to record the process, so I can only (kinda) help with the HD mod, it’s been like 3-4 months since I’ve even touched aemulus
@@KingJJ2345LIVE that’s a shame
Thanks for help anyway man
Where did the pinned comment go
the game works but the opening cutscene doesn't work for some reason 💀
Same
Fun fact: unchecked "enable cheats" box help with this issue
Have a weird issue with p3fes where the fmv cutscenes are like cut weird it doesn't show the full fmv its like cut off not showing dislodge in the intro on first boot up. (Unrelated to mod it seems to be working but this is annoying)
turn off cheats
Awesome video! I was able to get the hd pack installed and working but I cannot seem to get other mods to work with this method.
Edit: well nevermind i feel like an idiot lol, I ended up filling out the rest of the paths in the menu where you selected some file paths and it seemed to work after I got all of those filled. If any of you have a similar situation try filling the rest out. there were a few errors for each blank everytime i ran the build
Thanks it works but the dialog text looks stretched. Do you know how to fix this?
What do you mean?
There are mods on gamebanana that makes the text look better on widescreen patches
widescreen patch doesn't work
Im on an ASUS TUF laptop and I can't launch anything on pcsx2 with Vulkan as the graphics menu... but it runs with anything else
Edit: When I try to run it via Vulkan, it pops up an error saying: Failed to create host display device context.
gonna be honest, i've been trying to find a solution for days lol, it's either something i cant help with or your computer isnt compatible with the mod (its probably just a solution i cant help with though). Here's a link to the flowchart that can maybe help you cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/923959062243209233/995535353425440858/unknown.png
Update: so I don't know if my assets are modded now but at first the graphics were ps2 ish, pixelated, but I increased the upscaling and made it 4k which made the assets more hd for some reason. Still can't use Vulkan tho, I'm using GL
@@KingJJ2345LIVE thank you so much!