Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Sui [BLJM61255]

Played around with some settings, and checking "Write Color Buffers" in GPU tab seems to fix the two issues of black bars appearing and black splotches replacing sprites, though the opening video still flickers red with crackling in the song's audio.

Loading a chapter using the in-game menu, either through a save or the scenario chart, causes the black bars and splotches to appear, though they seem to go away after a minute or two of playing.

Videos played through the gallery don't show any flickering, though the audio still crackles.


Overall, the game plays free from graphical glitches (for the most part - may need to restart if you want to load a save/chapter and don't want to see any glitches), aside from videos.



Edit:
The audio does stutter fairly frequently, especially when characters start speaking. It's not a huge deal, but it'd be nice if there were a simple menu option to fix this. Not sure if this is related, but these exact three lines appear in the log every time a sound (voice line, song, etc.) starts playing:

U {PPU[0x10000d2] Thread (StreamSound) [0x00257d80]} sys_spu TODO: Unimplemented SPU Thread options (0x2)
U {PPU[0x10000d2] Thread (StreamSound) [0x0025de58]} sys_prx TODO: _sys_prx_get_module_id_by_name(name=“cellLibprof”, flags=0, pOpt=*0x0)
E {PPU[0x10000d2] Thread (StreamSound) [0x0025de58]} 'sys_prx_get_module_id_by_name' failed with 0x8001112e : CELL_PRX_ERROR_UNKNOWN_MODULE [1]