Head.spawn
Junior Member
I never thought about it that way. It's all down to perspective.
The developers did their part in making excellent games worth fixing. He's a saint for doing it either way, it's not his job.
Megaton. Durante helped Xseed fix up the Little King's Story port
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I never thought about it that way. It's all down to perspective.
The developers did their part in making excellent games worth fixing. He's a saint for doing it either way, it's not his job.
capylikesgames
Banned
This game chokes my i7 2600 + GTX 1060 with any of the fancier effects enabled. Can't seem to downsample without big hits, either. It doesn't seem like trying to hit 60fps on my rig would be worth it, so I've no issues sticking at the 30fps cap it was intended to be played at. I can manage to hit that at least, so I can only imagine its state before Durante helped out. Also, I wish there was an alternative for the bloom filters. They're a bit too much at some points, but the game looks bland otherwise. All that aside, this game is so much fun. Although it isn't as polished as, say, the Pikmin games, it's incredibly charming and mechanically satisfying.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Wow. Thank you so much Durante and XSEED for not leaving this game in the state it was in!
foobarry81
Member
Well, it's not their own game. Doing a bad port could damage their reputation with the rights owner, and potentially with other Japanese IP holders down the line. It's "easier" to do a bad port when you own the IP. If Capcom does a bad PC port, it's not going to have as much of an impact on their business.
Also, there are competitors out there (e.g. Ghostlight's been doing quite a bit of PC ports) who are also making a name for themselves. They are ready to step in if XSEED falls out of the race.
Of course, to their credit XSEED did realize that and understand how important their reputation is. But if it was purely for the love of games that they did what they did, they would've likely never released a bad port to begin with.
That's primarily my fault. Be assured that it will be there, the problem is that I'm leaving on a business trip tomorrow, so it might take until the 9th or 10th to show up. Sorry about that.So... when is this patch dropping on GOG?It certainly ain't there, yet.
Weltall Zero
Member
Durante making the world better one game at a time as usual. Mad props.
Also I shouldn't be surprised that there are people cynical enough to downplay both him and XSEED, but I fully admit I didn't expect it. I especially love the "other programmers also work hard and don't get recognition" as an argument to complain about him getting recognition; basically the "all lives matter" argument. Fuck that noise, and I say this as a programmer working my ass off for almost two decades getting zero public recognition. If you truly care about us, make a thread about us, nobody is stopping you.
Apologizing for taking a business trip on a weekend; what a very Durante thing to do.
Also I shouldn't be surprised that there are people cynical enough to downplay both him and XSEED, but I fully admit I didn't expect it. I especially love the "other programmers also work hard and don't get recognition" as an argument to complain about him getting recognition; basically the "all lives matter" argument. Fuck that noise, and I say this as a programmer working my ass off for almost two decades getting zero public recognition. If you truly care about us, make a thread about us, nobody is stopping you.
Apologizing for taking a business trip on a weekend; what a very Durante thing to do.
dragonlife
Member
This is awesome. I'll see if I can pick it up before the sale ends. I wanted to buy it a while back but the "mixed" reviews scared me for sure.
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But back on topic - I know the contact was done via twitter at the start, but did you have to prove your credentials at all? Or was it more like, "oh, you are that Durante. In that case, let me send you the Git ASAP."
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Doesn't Marvelous own the rights to LKS? XSEED is Marvelous USA.
XSEED also doesn't port anything themselves, the Falcom releases were already on PC and they have a programmer that updated them. LKS is their first console->PC port, which was outsourced to an unnamed Japanese studio. I don't really think they are competing with companies like Ghostlight in the way you imply. Doubt they are tripping over each other to port games.
me0wish
Member
UI issues with ultra wide:
Other than that, Ultra wide almost works perfectly, the biggest problem is that the map is messed up and things won't appear on it correctly.
I'm also having terrible IQ issues, everything looks terribly jaggy and blurry for me, when I take a screenshot it doesn't show and the image is much more clear.
Other than that, Ultra wide almost works perfectly, the biggest problem is that the map is messed up and things won't appear on it correctly.
I'm also having terrible IQ issues, everything looks terribly jaggy and blurry for me, when I take a screenshot it doesn't show and the image is much more clear.
Remember reading about this game in Nintendo Power when I didn't have a Wii at the time and really wanted to play it (think it got a 9 or so in the review). Game's pretty much what I wanted - Pikmin in a medievalish setting with some charm.
I'm only two hours in but loving what I've played so far. Using a gamepad and have no issues.
I'm only two hours in but loving what I've played so far. Using a gamepad and have no issues.
StarCreator
Member
Just heard about this randomly and now I've bought it too despite my computer I use Steam on not even being in one piece at the moment.
icecold1983
Member
How many man hours was this? This was entirely done by you right?
I loved this game on Wii, but skipped the PC port due to all the performance reports. Wanted to thank both XSEED and Durante on their work post-launch, and to mention that thanks to the patch I did purchase the PC version on Steam this weekend and am looking forward to checking it out.
If you like Pikmin, you definitely need to check this out.
If you like Pikmin, you definitely need to check this out.
R10Neymarfan
Member
Could Durante like be a consultant or at least a teach to these guys that port PC games. Surely it would be cheaper in the long run and better if companies just hire him to train their staff to make competent PC ports
HeroInGreen
Member
Thank you Durante, XSEED and everyone who make an effort to make games better. But the best way of saying thanks is buying the game, so I did that too.
Exactly.
Just wanted to also post my thanks to XSEED and Durante. I was interested in this game but because of the reported issues stayed away until now.
I'm still only one hour in but it appears to be a really charming game.
I'm not using ultrawide but did have a similar problem where the image appeared to be scaled but on screenshots everything was normal (1440p). It was particularly noticeable on the steam overlay. In my case the issue was the DPI scaling of Windows. Here I have it at 125% font size. Reverting to 100% made the problem go away on the game, but then of course the text on Windows got small.
Setting "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" on the compatibility tab for the game executable did nothing, but setting on Steam itself fixed the problem.
I'm still only one hour in but it appears to be a really charming game.
I'm not using ultrawide but did have a similar problem where the image appeared to be scaled but on screenshots everything was normal (1440p). It was particularly noticeable on the steam overlay. In my case the issue was the DPI scaling of Windows. Here I have it at 125% font size. Reverting to 100% made the problem go away on the game, but then of course the text on Windows got small.
Setting "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" on the compatibility tab for the game executable did nothing, but setting on Steam itself fixed the problem.
I was chatting to a person I game on XBL yesterday. He mentioned he liked A Kingdom For Keflings and suddenly this thread popped into my head. I told him to have a look and he saw that it was reduced in price on Steam, too. He might give it a go.
I actually have this game on Wii, but don't think I've ever played it. Might still be unopened.
I actually have this game on Wii, but don't think I've ever played it. Might still be unopened.
That's awesome, man! Glad you were able to turn being the PC patron saint into a business. I know this kinda stuff probably requires a ton of work by you and you definitely should get paid for it. Thanks for the great work!
deadscreensky
Member
I'd like to be playing it, but like a lot (?) of people I'm unfortunately having some kind of deadzone drift issue. Tried some third party hacks with no success, hopefully it gets patched soon. (Apparently the bug is new for this release.)
Visual upgrades look very nice, at least.
Visual upgrades look very nice, at least.
And because he's awesome.
Durante is their god too because he goes back to fix their work when they fuck it up
me0wish
Member
Disable display scaling on high DPI settings seems to have fixed this for me, thanks for letting me know its a scaling issue.
capylikesgames
Banned
Is there any way to get this game running in exclusive fullscreen? Seems to only have a borderless windowed option in the launcher. My PC doesn't work well with games using that display option, and I wouldn't be surprised if exclusive fullscreen eliminated the occasional 1-2 frame drops I get.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
You didnt read the article nor know of the Kiseki Curse.
charlequin
Banned
They're a localization company, not a developer. They have zero programmers on staff.
Tizoc
Member
What about Sera?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Sara was contracted originally, but I recall seeing something that indicated they had hired her at some point.
She wouldn't have been involved with this project anyway, so the point mostly stands. She just works on fixing up existing PC games, not porting console games.
charlequin
Banned
Last I recall she was working on contract, not on staff.
EDIT:
Ah, okay, so I'm wrong: they have one programmer. Regardless: they get by pretty far on pretty minor resources here, but the actual best way to get this kind of fix done is just contract someone like Durante who knows how to do it.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I may be mistaken, I can't even remember what it was that I saw. May have been something on their forums. Her Twitter profile mentions being "with XSEED" specifically which is the closest thing I can find right now, but that doesn't necessarily prove they hired her.
Hopefully their next port proves to be easier to deal with, based comments from both Durante and XSEED it sounds like LKS was a pain to work with. Wyrdwad/Tom made it sound like they were at least considering further console->PC ports. [source]
Hopefully their next port proves to be easier to deal with, based comments from both Durante and XSEED it sounds like LKS was a pain to work with. Wyrdwad/Tom made it sound like they were at least considering further console->PC ports. [source]
me0wish
Member
Game is fantastic, I can't believe how good it is, might end up being one of my favorite games of all time if the quality keeps increasing.
Finally tried it out and as mentioned above there's a big deadzone issue (at least with a 360 controller), even if I'm not touching anything I just automatically slowly walk around. Hopefully this will get fixed too because I'd really rather not have to put up with that the whole game.
As a workaround, you should be able to use Steam's controller api to increase the deadzone before the game sees it. I did that with Marvellous Misstake that also had a similar problem on my end.