Unfortunately no to both of your points. I haven’t come across a widescreen patch that works effectively for the GameCube version yet. It would be nice to get one, but thankfully apart from the slightly better graphics of the GC version, the PS2 version is pretty much similar at least gameplay wise.Thanks for this, I was wondering, Is there a way to resolve this player popping in issue on widescreen on the GameCube version?
Also, Is there a way to fix the LOD on PS2 emulated versions? You get players with polygons missing from their hair and shirt names disappearing from the match camera and it's a bit off putting.
In regards to the shirt and hair issues on PCSX2, I tried fiddling around but can’t get any improvement. Tried increasing the resolution to 4K with 16x anisotropic filtering but nothing has helped. As you said it’s more a LOD issue.