Valkyrie Profile 2 Silmeria Let's Play #01 Ch. 1 Defiers of the Gods! (PS2/PCSX2 HD)
Channel: mrnygren2
Date: 22/03/2022

The first part of my new Let's Play of the PS2 game VALKYRIE PROFILE 2: SILMERIA, using the PCSX2 EMULATOR to play the game - I've been owning the PAL DVD of this title since 2007, and it's a game from 2006 - I've never finished the game before.

I used to have a Walkthrought (like a let's play but where you don't speak,) like back in 2007-2008 but sadly I did lose all the episodes (22 I think) and I did replay the first episode at 10:59 seconds and upload it to this channel like back in 2010-2011 but I never played more than that. 

I've never finished this game before and I think it's about time that I do. The game is a tactical-RPG by Square-Enix - the same company behind the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games.

It's a very beautiful game for the Playstation 2. Unfortunately with the PCSX2 Emulator certain games require different settings in order to run properly. I did have big issues with this particular title as it had graphical errors and no matter what I tried it wouldn't be solved - instead I managed to make other games that worked fine before start to lag and such.. I were really about to pull my hair in frustration! But then finally I found a tool named "Launchbox" which allows you to run games directly through it (I am using a ROM-file because the DVD would lag in the cinematics and have the voice speak after or before the scenes - while the ROM didn't have this issue, I suspect the DVD has some scratches causing that) and the Launchbox can be found on a specific site if you search for it on Google - it allows you to install a configuration-utility for the PCSX2 Emulator which in turn allows you to download presets for each PS2-game before starting them so that you do not have to individually set-up every game - instead you click "download preset" and get it ready to be run immediately - I did need to add the PS4-controller buttons manually though.

So I'm using the version of PCSX2 for Win 7.

In this first episode I'll be watching the intro, visiting every place in the town of Solde and reading all the tutorials, I'll be going to the glitched Forest which is the only area in the game that will be glitched when using the emulator no matter what you do - unless you play with the native PS2 resolution which is much worse - the glitch will cause cinematics to lag and also have weird stripes on the screen when in the Forest - but after you leave this area the game will work fine in 1920/1080 HD resolution. I'll be playing through the battle-tutorial and also playing up until the save point before entering the secret Underground Path to Dipan.