0.0.22-13626-ec2d5298 Alpha | master
R5 3600, GTX 1660S, 16GB DDR4-3200, Windows 10 Home 19043
Happy to report as Playable with the Vulkan renderer. I've played a couple of games as a starting pitcher in Road to the Show & a couple of complete nine-inning exhibition game. The game runs stable & smoothly.
RPCS3.log.7z (Size: 7.2 MB / Downloads: 121)
The only issues are visual, and they're some of the usual graphical bugs common to this series: the frequent flickering and humorously-chaotic rendering of the fan textures, particularly on the pitcher's mound and in major-league stadiums. Not severe enough to affect playability, and these issues could likely be mitigated with some tweaks in the settings. I didn't notice any slowdown even on my modest six-core 3600.
Notably, in RttS, this game does NOT suffer from the issue of a blank/untextured player character model in RttS. This issue is seemingly common in The Show series (your character looking either like Noob Saibot or Casper the Ghost, depending on which game you play) but my pitcher rendered perfectly. I did leave him with the stock/default appearance, so he might've lost his skin if I had customized his appearance.
The screenshots include two taken during cutscenes in a Road to the Show game I played with my pitcher, & the other four are from the exhibition game: one shot each of the main pitching and batting interfaces (in the latter you can see the writhing mass of fans rendered behind the opposing pitcher on the mound, instead of in their seats), a shot of the game's instant replay option in action, and a strikeout after the sun had set in-game, to show the contrast with the bright lighting of the early innings (I know the lighting used to misbehave in these games, so it's nice to see it seemingly working as intended).
I suspect a few of the other currently Ingame entries in The Show series are also now playable, thanks to the awesome progress the emulator has shown over the last couple of years. I'm hoping to try to test some of them, too, next time I have some downtime.
