Ever wondered how Sony got Gran Turismo looking so good on the PSP? As if the had anti Aliasing x 2? Which we know the PSP hardware cannot do. Well Graphics Horse of the NeoGAF forums found that Sony has developed a rather cool little software trick to reduce the jagged look some other PSP games suffer from.
This software trick moves the camera frame to the right by one pixel ever second frame. As shown here below, the result is a image that looks like it has AA x 2 on. Clever, I hope this is applied to future PSP titles.

The first Grand Turismo frame rendered.

The second GT frame rendered, one pixel out

The two frames in slow motion mixed together

And the final result you see displayed on the PSP.
Source: NeoGAF
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October 15, 2009 at 5:44 am
Yes i see, it looks better then when its not.
i hope this also comes to other new games
October 15, 2009 at 5:46 am
very interesting idea-I really like this
hope that games start to use it
October 15, 2009 at 7:32 am
yey Third
really cool but sad for psp 1k users who’s graphics can’t be fixed to be 3k like
October 15, 2009 at 7:33 am
wow interesting indeed
October 15, 2009 at 7:36 am
That is rely cool. I have GT2 PSX on my PSP and GT PSP looks way better. Kinda funny that a portable game looks better than a console.
October 15, 2009 at 9:12 am
plz hack 5.50 version of psp 3000….it will be a challenging task…..
October 15, 2009 at 11:39 am
shut up and go whine somewhere else its not our fault you updated
October 15, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Lmfao honestly if you dont like what u have sell it and get a phat or a 2000 with a v2 mobo
October 15, 2009 at 10:09 am
hence the game’s epilepsy warning?
October 15, 2009 at 11:09 am
LOL true!
October 15, 2009 at 10:17 am
Uhm… They look all the same to me…
October 15, 2009 at 11:42 am
Mine appers to have a slight fuzz, and the inside view of cars are missing. Maybe its jut a bad iso but i notice alot of fuzz when its on the saving screen and the images on my psp 2k dont look nearly as good as these idk maybe its just me
October 18, 2009 at 3:52 pm
there is no inside of the cars. that’s it. that camera angle is rubbish and could have been done a lot better
October 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Cool, my cuz got it and now i know y the game looks good
October 16, 2009 at 12:33 am
If ALL future PSP games use this sort of technique, I’ll gladly disregard the fact that I have to get used to the idea of the PSPgo as the next gen Sony portable.
October 17, 2009 at 10:35 am
cool, love the idea, more games should run like this
October 17, 2009 at 7:14 pm
ghosting is still a problem though hope they’ll fix that next
October 18, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I dont get ghosting effects anymore in video playback/game playback, since 5.00 ofw/5.03 cfw release, is that the case with any others?
October 18, 2009 at 3:51 pm
im not being funny, but gran turismo is terrible graphics on the psp. regardless of this fake anti aliasing which i dont even notice anyway
October 19, 2009 at 9:38 am
personally i’d have to say this is one of the best games on psp you can get, only problemi’ve found is aqcuiring money, unless you know someone else with a psp but other than that this games great, great graphics considering this is on a PSP,….im seeing alot of people not taking that into consideration…oh my god no the graphics aren’t phenominal, but being on a portable platform like this i think the graphics are outstanding, the “ghost effect” is for time trials only, read the in game manual people, for the dude with the fuzziness problem, its your iso, get a better one, mine’s 986 MB FYI, also if you didnt know this if you get an ISO there’s an option to download additional data in the options menu located in the main menu, this data makes the game run much faster…..onnly quams about this game is 1 no story mode, 2 cant upgrade your cars, and 3 in multiplayer mode you can set your driver to be an A.I. driver so you dont have to drive but in single player you cant use it…just seems like it should be the other way around considering how GT4 was, but the positives are you have an option from about 935 cars, outrageous, the driving on it is great, not like NFS where you can take a hairpin at 180, there’s actually an in car view,grantid the interior is blacked out but hey its on a psp what do you expect, and all the cars you acquire in the psp game along with prologue can be transferred over to GT5 when it comes out…… just got the Ferrari F2007 WOOOO
October 21, 2009 at 2:35 am
I’ve tried the game on M33, and looks it looks impressive