GameDB: Various fixes

[JordanTheToaster]

Description of Changes

Just a little fixing for bloom alignment now that Align To Native HPO is safer to use. Very nice.

Fixes #10936
Fixes #11386
Fixes #11389

Rationale behind Changes

Fix good.

Suggested Testing Steps

Make sure CI is happy boi.

[DonelBueno]

May I suggest some changes to the GameDB on this PR?

NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 (Recommend High Blending)
Medium Blending:

High Blending:

Software:

Jak 3 (Recommend High Blending, affects the pause menu and the press start screen, probably more)
Medium Blending:

High Blending:

Software:

Sega Rally 2006 (Remove Blending Recommendation)
Minimum Blending:

Maximum Blending:

Software:

Virtua Racing (Add Round Sprite Full)
Master:

Round Sprite Full:

Software:

TimeSplitters - Future Perfect (Add Round Sprite Full, fixes crosshair doubling and aligns bloom a little better)
Master:

Round Sprite Full:

Software:

Dragon Quest VIII (Change HPO from 2 to 4 and RSO from 1 to 2 - Fixes black lines and aligns shadows better)
Master (HPO Special (Texture) + Round Sprite Half):

HPO Allign To Native + Round Sprite Full:

Software:

[bigol83]

Dragon Quest VIII with HPO to Native and Round Sprite to Full give main character hair red outlines. Even just RS to Full still gives main character red outlines.

Dragon Quest VIII - Journey of the Cursed King_SLES-53974_20240618113511.gs.zip

Actually the only way to make shadows better and remove right side lines without side effects is with Native Scaling at Aggressive but it has that issue that transitioning from overworld camera to battle camera it all becomes pixelated.

[DonelBueno]

Dragon Quest VIII with HPO to Native and Round Sprite to Full give main character hair red outlines. Even just RS to Full still gives main character red outlines.

That's unfortunate. Well, at least HPO align to native seems to be a modest improvement over master and not cause negative effects. Anyway, I honestly think these red outlines are less distracting than the black lines, but of course that's subjective.

[bigol83]

Align to Native alone has the red oulines on the hair, too. Considering that @refractionpcsx2 fixed Valkyrie Profile going pixelated after camera transitions, i wonder if Dragon Quest VIII being pixelated on camera change can be fixed too. Aggressive Native Scaling actually is the only real solution to the right side lines without any side effects whatsoever.
I know he said he didn't like the way character black outlines became too thick with Aggressive Native Scaling, but that would easily be the less distracting issue and the best outcome in my opinion.

This is with just Align to Native

[JordanTheToaster]

Virtua Racing

Not a fan of adding RS Full to TS2 and DQ8 has aforementioned issues but I've added everything else.

[refractionpcsx2]

DQ8 negative effects from Align to Native (look at the water)

and full round kinda breaks the position of the post lighting on the sword in this scene (not that it's great.)

[refractionpcsx2]

As for the pixelation, it still happens, that PR wasn't a magic bullet, unfortunately.

Here's the dump if you wanna try it yourself
Dragon Quest VIII - Journey of the Cursed King_SLES-53974_20230303225648.gs.zip

[crashGG]

Another Century’s Episode 3 THE FINAL
master:
strong flickering on the title screen when use Hardware Rendering
software:

pr:
change deinterlacing : 6
no more flickering, but the brightness of the game screen is halved.

but with this fix
gameFixes:
- SoftwareRendererFMVHack
See here:#11434
The issue is basically solved.

[JordanTheToaster]

but with this fix gameFixes: - SoftwareRendererFMVHack See here:#11434 The issue is basically solved.

Looks fine here?

[crashGG]

but with this fix gameFixes: - SoftwareRendererFMVHack See here:#11434 The issue is basically solved.

Looks fine here?

Fine. Except for the flickering for a few seconds when the game starts, the game screen is normal afterwards. Switching SoftwareRendererFMV seems to be the best stopgap solution until a better way is found.

In addition, I applied No-Interlacing Patches by default.

[crashGG]

but with this fix gameFixes: - SoftwareRendererFMVHack See here:#11434 The issue is basically solved.

Looks fine here?

The new master build 5921 has solved this issue