Honestly i just bought the game, publishers need to understand that a good job is worth infinitely more than a fucking DRM.Amazing work as always Durante. Might as well do this in case you guys feel like Re-tweeting it or whatever.
Megaton. Durante helped Xseed fix up the Little King's Story port
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A Durante themed Musou?
Zenaku
Member
Durante, if you get the chance, suggest to Tecmo to include Japanese in the Atelier ports and the like please. Really disappointed to see they don't have it (according to the Steam page) and it has me worried they may not support it in Toukiden 2, considering Toukiden had full Japanese support.
I will never understand why many ports of japanese games don't have full japanese language support (or aren't even sold in japan). Seems utterly bizarre to me.
Wow.
capylikesgames
Banned
Seeing as there are no proper mouse controls, the lack of analog movement was pretty much the only thing keeping me from buying this port at launch. I've got no excuses now, and if it can help send a message to the developers, I have no issue purchasing it. Granted, there are apparently some game-breaking bugs that haven't really been addressed, but I'll grab the game in good faith, and hope it encourages XSEED to get it figured out.
I don't know how common it is but part of the reason is probably the fact that some of the Japanese PC games can cost $80 or more. So living the JP translation in could hurt the domestic sales.
Both I and the people at K-T America seem to be on one page on this (and some other issues), but its not easy to communicate their importance to higher level decision makers.
Garmonbozia
Member
Durante is a god among men. Buying it now for sure
Ricerocket
Member
Too late I saw it.
Guys, he uses a Game Genie to fix things. But seriously though, if it's not needed to be out there then don't be afraid to not share. It's understandable.
hersheyfan
Member
Bought a copy when I read this, very nice to hear. Never played this version of NLKS before, excited to give it a shot. Thanks, Durante!
Dictator93
Member
What a hack, real professionals use ActionReplay!
(To be fair, I had to use Gecko cheats to get 30 FPS in LKS on Wii since the PAL version was locked at 50hz for some fucking reason)
GhostWriter24
Member
What a fucking WIZARD!
FunkyDealer
Banned
Is it obvious when this occurs?
Perhaps there should be a HUD message to let people know when to toggle it off/on?
I just finished reading your blog post. It's very well written and interesting stuff! The language used makes it understandable even for laymen like myself, without feeling too oversimplified.
even if it may be 
Sparrowhawk
Member
I just found out about this! Hopefully more devs will look to Durante to save their ports. I might actually buy this now as I really enjoyed it back in the day on the Wii.
I spent some time making a video which is designed to illustrate the "stuttering" difference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP653CrLR9M
It shows 60 FPS footage slowed down to make the changes more obvious.
But really, you should notice them while playing. Basically, the old version would stutter for 2 or more frames whenever specific textures were loaded, and the new one simply doesn't.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Well, I'm biased obviously, but I implemented entirely new framepacing and it's fucking perfect. If it isn't, send me a message on Steam and we'll figure it out!
You don't want to know.
texhnolyze
Banned
Amazing.
You really should make one. How can others usually reach you, from the blog? LinkedIn will make things easier.
Tbh, it's just me wanting more of your involvements in future Japanese games ports.
I don't have a LinkedIn account
You really should make one. How can others usually reach you, from the blog? LinkedIn will make things easier.
Tbh, it's just me wanting more of your involvements in future Japanese games ports.
Oh, so you changed that, too? I definitely trust you, just assumed it was the same since you didn't mention it in the blog post (or I missed it).
That's very exciting! Such a rare thing to get without the need of external software. Though I am glad that I can at least use external software to fix it, instead of being forced to deal with Bloodborne's awful pacing, but that's a different story.
formasymphonic
Member
Awesome to hear. I have absolutely zero knowledge on this but would like to someday make something. So I'll gladly take the chance to learn what you have to say on optimisation / game engines / performance etc.
Nice.
thesaucetastic
Unconfirmed Member
I wanna be like Durante when I grow up.
Bony Manifesto
Member
To be fair, there is an element of truth to that. Not lazy in the sense that they're half-assing things so the can bunk off early, but because they've got a deadline to meet and when it comes down to it, it's better to get things working in an ugly, hacky, poorly-optimised way than not working at all. Especially when it's a one-off thing like this Wii game where nobody will ever have to look at the code again after it ships (or so they thought).
CertifiedFP
Member
No amount of skill can fix a port of a game using the worst FPS engine of the past decade.
I really don't, if I as much as look at a line of code my head starts to hurt. It's all techno wizardry to me
goldenpp72
Member
I'd like to say that while I am not a PC gamer, I see enough about Durante that I know he deserves props, so, good job
Muskieratboi
Member
Not only did you manage to do all that amazing stuff to the game, but you had to do it in another language?!
Holy crap, dude...
exmachina64
Banned
Thanks, Durante.
mobilesworking
Member
Impressive. I'm ashamed to say this is the first I've learned of Durante.