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Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix- English Translation!
- Thread starter JVIDICAN
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Palette Swap
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Excellent news.
Just read that on the site:
That would make for an interesting prosecution though.
Just read that on the site:
I see where he's coming from but that's pretty stupid considering he's already mildly infringing on someone else's copyright.
That would make for an interesting prosecution though.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Aeana said:
Woah...this tool...launches HD Loader after it sets a Progressive Scan mode??
MIND BLOWN
I got to download this and try it.
You can launch anything after you set the mode in the app. If you select "PS2 Browser" as your exit method, then from there you can do anything you want on the system and whatever video mode you selected will be forced until you shut the system off.Unknown Soldier said:
Just be warned that not every game works with 480p - some will just give a black screen. Sadly. But most of the games I've tried do work with the 1080i mode. Unfortunately, that scales using nearest neighbor or something so there's some pixelation.
EDIT: Also, some people might be interested to know that it also supports VGA resolutions provided you have a VGA cable for the PS2.
There are ways to make it much, much harder, almost like BBS's Critical Mode where tons of enemies can kill you with one or two attacks and bosses will rape you hard if you're a little underpowered. And this without sacrificing gameplay "depth" (not that this is Bayonetta or anything). Basically, just think that some of the abilities like EXP Boost & other such ones (the kind that don't affect what you can do in battles) as kind of "driving assists", and like in driving simulation games, don't use them if you want to have the better experience that requires more skill. That way it'll take you much longer to level-up, you won't be quite as strong and you won't be as easily overpowered, leaving you much more vulnerable to enemy attacks and things like when to use different Drive forms takes much more thought. You'll still get to use the abilities that give you longer combos or add something to your move list otherwise so that you'll have all the tools available you otherwise would. You're just not as strong as you otherwise would be. And if you want even harder, you can try to use weaker equipment.LiK said:
Looks alright. Could be improved in spots, but hey, it's KH2:FM+ in English.
Can't complain too much about it.
On that note, I'm kinda surprised nobody's done a translation for KH:FM.
I figured they would've done something similar to how the FFXII:IZJS patch was made, unless the file structure is just THAT different. Barring that, there wouldn't be much to be actually translated (a few items, some abilities, enemy names, and dialog).
Can't complain too much about it.
On that note, I'm kinda surprised nobody's done a translation for KH:FM.
I figured they would've done something similar to how the FFXII:IZJS patch was made, unless the file structure is just THAT different. Barring that, there wouldn't be much to be actually translated (a few items, some abilities, enemy names, and dialog).
H_Prestige
Banned
Didn't Nomura kind of hint at this in a recent interview? He said they were doing HD technology tests with past titles. It's a goddamn crime SE never brought this over. I have a feeling a lot of complaints about KH2 would go away if people played the Final Mix. It has so much more stuff to do it's insulting.Kagari said:
Anyway, I guess this is kind of neat. I played FM+ back in 2008 without any problems and I don't know any Japanese. Just printed out a translation for the abilities and eventually I didn't need that even. It's one of those games where, if you played the original, you'll have no problem navigating it in Japanese. Hardly any reading required.
Ugh, I keep getting the MSVCR100.dll problem, despite that I've installed the necessary runtime from Microsoft.
And if I copy that DLL from my Sys32 folder to where the patcher is, it gives me a (0xc000007b) error..
Edit: Needed the x86 package installed too, for some reason. I guess it was compiled on a 32-bit machine.
And if I copy that DLL from my Sys32 folder to where the patcher is, it gives me a (0xc000007b) error..
Edit: Needed the x86 package installed too, for some reason. I guess it was compiled on a 32-bit machine.
The Last One
Member
There's something like that for Kingdom Hearts 1 Final Mix?
King of the Potato People
Member
I checked the battle against
on YouTube, that looks sweet. I still wish Square put much more effort into making the worlds feel more like well worlds, not just action set pieces. Hollow Bastion and Twilight Town were emptier than they should have been. The worst example is Pride Lands where Pride Rock and the Oasis are right next to each other.
Roxas
H_Prestige
Banned
Yeah, the level design in KH2 is a complete joke compared to KH1. It's one of the reasons they went back and made the Cavern of Remembrance so the game could actually have a dungeon.King of the Potato People said:
It's good that this finally came out. I was wondering what the holdup was, since FFXII's International Version got a pretty quick translation patch. In KHII's case, almost all of the new stuff was translated almost immediately and it could have utilized the FFXII International method of lifting the translation from the prior version.
The Last One
Member
King of the Potato People said:
Oh, I got one video of me fighting roxas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrCUJKyE7o
I was using PCSX 2. This games runs great on the emulator.
MiloFoxburr
Member
duckroll said:
BBS FM has/is being translated by someone. It's mostly complete. Not sure I can link to the site though because they also have ISO links in other sections :/. Easy enough to find the thread on google anyway.
PixyJunket
Member
I tired playing my copy of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix earlier this year.
The new bosses battles are pretty annoying, to be honest. I was playing on Critical Mode, so that may PARTIALLY have something to do with it, but considering how breezy the rest of the game was going for me, I'd say it's probably not the main culprit. Still, this is kind of cool so it may prompt me to try playing it again at some point if I can stomach the worst (and longest) opening segment of a video game ever again.
The new bosses battles are pretty annoying, to be honest. I was playing on Critical Mode, so that may PARTIALLY have something to do with it, but considering how breezy the rest of the game was going for me, I'd say it's probably not the main culprit. Still, this is kind of cool so it may prompt me to try playing it again at some point if I can stomach the worst (and longest) opening segment of a video game ever again.
H_Prestige
Banned
Once you figure out his pattern, he's even easier than Sephiroth.
badcrumble
Member
I'm pretty sure that if Square-Enix and Disney wanted to rerelease Kingdom Hearts 1 in HD (or KH1:FM translated to English) they'd be able to keep the Tarzan levels in. It'd still be a rerelease of the same material; they wouldn't be able to do a downloadable digital release, I'm pretty sure, and they might not be able to release it bundled as part of a Collection either. It's not like they can't keep printing KH1 discs if they want to, even if the copyright has expired.
Anyone who's more of an expert on copyright law, though, please feel free to correct me on this.
Anyone who's more of an expert on copyright law, though, please feel free to correct me on this.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Nice. Been waiting for one! Now just hoping I can get it to work...
H_Prestige
Banned
I wouldn't mind if they cut out the tarzan level. The freaking vine swinging pissed me off so much. I was literally seething.badcrumble said:
You know I just realized that a HD port of KH1 would actually have camera controls mapped to the right stick, and maybe fully rotate-able like the one in KH2. That's the only thing that makes the game unplayable to me. It's a ps2 game, but it plays like a psp game.
RPGCrazied
Member
knowing my luck, I'll buy this(don't own the FM, seeing as how I don't know Japanese), and they will announce an HD collection for PS3 that has both FM's.
RPGCrazied
Member
Andrefpvs said:
I'd still have to buy it, and since I'm already importing Xenoblade this month, leaving me kinda scrapped.
Napalm_Frank
Member
Can pcsx2 emulator run non-PAL games on PAL bios?
Seven Force
Banned
It definitely does. Critical Mode is a completely different ballgame compared to the other difficulties.PixyJunket said:
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Sigh. A PS3 Kingdom Hearts would have been nice :/The Last One said:
Napalm_Frank
Member
Runs like a charm on emulator! Was a little confused when told to press O to jump and nothing happened, then I realized it was X to jump in FM . Guess not perfect translation after all .
Very glad someone finally pulled this off. Best KH game imo.
. Guess not perfect translation after all .Very glad someone finally pulled this off. Best KH game imo.
Fimbulvetr
Member
I forgot how pretty this game was.
Yeah I've notice a few things that could be improved. The mini-game menus are still in Japanese, and.... the....subtitles....are....kind....of....spacey....Napalm_Frank said:Runs like a charm on emulator! Was a little confused when told to press O to jump and nothing happened, then I realized it was X to jump in FM
Very glad someone finally pulled this off. Best KH game imo.
It's a pretty good translation overall though.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Yeah I remember playing and importing this, came with Re:COM. Without a doubt the BEST KH experience.
Napalm_Frank
Member
I think the mini game menus can't be translated like the rest of the text since the whole info screen is a picture with text being part of itJVIDICAN said:Yeah I've notice a few things that could be improved. The mini-game menus are still in Japanese, and.... the....subtitles....are....kind....of....spacey....
It's a pretty good translation overall though.
.I havent noticed subs being spacey but they do seem to have those weird mini clips of subtitles on top of them. Nothing annoying though and I'm really enjoying the patch.
Melhisedek
Member
I've only played KH back in the days but thought about getting KH:BBS for my PSP.
Should I play this one first or can I go with BBS? I mean storywise...
Should I play this one first or can I go with BBS? I mean storywise...
PetriP-TNT
Member
I wonder if the story makes some sense in this translation because I definitely didn't know what the hell was going on in the original