PCSX2 missing automatic Software FMV Fix

[SHuth78]

Currently Batocera includes a development version of PCSX2. (Can't really tell wich, the config app doesn't say in about)
Unfortunately somewhere since 1.6.0 the PCSX2 devs chose to remove the Automatic Software FMV game fix.

As far as i could find this is due to it causing issues when the game already runs in Software mode.
But really, who runs their games in Software mode?

This gamefix is essential to fix FMV problems in many, many games.
Popular examples being Kingdom Hearts, Grandia 3 and FFX-2.

Therefore i'd like to suggest "downgrading" to stable 1.6.0 if possible.

[liberodark]

That is not possible to downgrade too many features is on 1.7.0 dev

[nadenislamarre]

i guess we shoudl find why " the PCSX2 devs chose to remove the Automatic Software FMV game fix."
there is proably a very good reason.

[SHuth78]

Here is the statement:
PCSX2/pcsx2#3806

And here is the ongoing thread for (some) affected games:
PCSX2/pcsx2#3805

So basicly the ongoing work broke the hack, and they chose to ignore it in favor of fixing the HW renderers.
Sure makes sense in the long term but alreay half a year has passed and the HW renderers still have mostly the same issues, so 1.6.0 is still the better option imho.

[nadenislamarre]

reverting to 1.6.0 is not easy. 1.6.0 was a 32 bits version and we changed our way to do and switch it to 64 bits now that it is allowed by developent versions. The performances increased seriously with the dev versions (mainly thanks to that), and on my computer, it is night and day. For sure, we will not come back to 1.6.0 => not simple, and performances are really under.
what we can do is to upgrade the dev version (for 32, not 31).

[SHuth78]

reverting to 1.6.0 is not easy. 1.6.0 was a 32 bits version and we changed our way to do and switch it to 64 bits now that it is allowed by developent versions. The performances increased seriously with the dev versions (mainly thanks to that), and on my computer, it is night and day. For sure, we will not come back to 1.6.0 => not simple, and performances are really under.
what we can do is to upgrade the dev version (for 32, not 31).

If it's that much trouble it's not worth it. I forgot about the whole 64bit thing tbh.
Lets live with the way it is and hope the next stable PCSX2 has a solution.