[BUG]: Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Glitched artifacts on edge of screen during battle transition

[SilentHeII]

Describe the Bug

Minor graphical bug, but when engaging a battle, there is glitched textures on the edge of the screen transition. It varies in severity depending on where in the game your are. The one I captured just happens to be more subtle than the others.

Video (Appears as blue garbage on bottom of screen.):

2025-12-14.1-51-47.AM.mp4

Reproduction Steps

Enter a random battle.

Expected Behavior

2025-12-14.1-53-04.AM.mp4

PCSX2 Revision

2.5.383

Operating System

Windows 10 (64bit)

If Linux - Specify Distro

No response

CPU

Ryzen 9 5900X

GPU

RTX 4070 Super

GS Settings

Emulation Settings

GS Window Screenshots

Logs & Dumps

Shadow Hearts - Covenant [Disc 1 of 2]_SLUS-21041_20251214020726.gs.zst.zip

[JordanTheToaster]

It's also there in software just a different colour best you can do is just crop right and bottom by 2.

[SilentHeII]

The thing is, when the game does the transition, it "breaks" the screen and the garbage colors fly into view regardless of cropping. In other areas, it's more intrusive.

Shadow Hearts - Covenant [Disc 1 of 2]_SLUS-21041_20251214022153.gs.zst.zip

[refractionpcsx2]

Shadow Hearts - Covenant [Disc 1 of 2]_SLUS-21041_20251214082236.gs.zip

Here's a dump from software so it properly only shows the blue crap in hardware.

[SilentHeII]

I don't know if it's related or if I should make a new issue form, but I also noticed that during certain attacks or spells, there is distortion of the screen that isn't present in software when executing an attack. It can be seen in the video below.

Shadow Hearts - Covenant [Disc 1 of 2]_SLUS-21041_20251217170048.gs.zip

Edit: Youtube video link because I encoded the video wrong:
https://youtu.be/6fH4r4yrUq4