Kingdom Hearts
Developer(s): SquareSoft
Publisher(s): SquareSoft (JP, US), SCEE (EU), SCE Australia (AU), Square Enix (US, JP)
Genre: Action, RPG
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic: 85/100
Game description: For the first time ever, Disney films come together in one game, but it's up to you make it their world the happiest place on Earth. Kingdom Hearts follows Sora in his quest to find his friends and Court Wizard Donald and Captain Goofy as they set out to find the missing King Mickey. The three searchers meet and embark on a magnificent, but dangerous, journey across familiar Disney worlds filled with monsters. Over 100 characters appear in the game including Jafar, Tarzan, and Hercules. Play as Sora, Donald, and Goofy to fight the Heartless!
Kingdom Hearts is the prequel to Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix.
Test configurations on Windows:
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NTSC-U | ? |
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pre 0.9.7 beta (r3113) | GSdx 0.1.16 (r3068) |
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FPS: 60, Works great. | Sev7en77 |
NTSC-U (?) | ? |
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0.9.8 (stable) | GSdx (r4600) |
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Only slow in a couple places, mostly 60+ FPS. | Machina |
NTSC-U (?) | ? |
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0.9.9 (r5001) | GSdx (r5012) |
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EE CycleRate (3): noticeable speedup. INTC Sync Hack: small if any speedup. Idle Loop Fast Forward: noticeable speedup. mVU Flag Hack: Good speed up. mVU Block Hack: Good Speed up. MTVU: Noticeable speedup. Only played the beginning. Only issues are of course the minor graphical glitches in the subtitle text due to upscaling. Rather low on the scale of CPU demand. | Hellbringer616 |
NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.0.0 | GSdx |
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USA v02.00(14/06/2004), Plays Great, 50-60 FPS Steady, doesn't drop during intense scenes. | |
NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.1.0 (r5480) | GSdx SSE41 (r5442) |
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Runs at 200% speed. | |
NTSC-U (?) | ? |
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1.1.0 (r5619) | GSdx (r5464) |
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Works great, played through the whole game, only lag during major effects, mostly water and giant magic effects (during Boss Battles, Cutscenes, Summons) But, only had one major crash with Chernabog (giant black devil in The End of the World) repeatedly, but other then that nothing major. Also, rather low on the scale of CPU demand. | Bot2345 |
PAL | Windows 10 x64 |
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1.5.0 (dev-779 g247d33a) | GSdx |
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Runs extreme good. Resolution at 6x (3072x2682) with 50 FPS on the Island after the Tutorial. | scorpionking95 |
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NTSC-U | ? |
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pre 0.9.7 beta (r1736) | ZZogl 186 |
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Playable from start to finish. No specific issues, only Whales region is slow (30 FPS). Resolve hack 1 recommended, slight improvement of picture. AA x4. | 188.134.4.34 |
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? | ? | ? | There are no test results for this game on macOS. You can help by playing and submitting your test results here. |
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Trivia
- Original names: キングダム ハーツ (SLPS-25105) & (SLPM-66122)
Known Issues
Visual artifacts in subtitles
- Status: Active
- Type: Minor
- Description: When upscaling black lines appear through the subtitles
- Workaround: Go to Config > Video (GS) > Plugin Settings, turn on "Enable HW Hacks", go to Configure Hacks and set the TC offset X to "525", and TC offset Y to "0".
Intro logos/textures change size or show thin lines
- Status: Active
- Type: Minor
- Description: The beginning logos can change scale or have thin lines during up-scaling signifying the texture is either overlapping or is "tiling".
- Workaround: Go to Config > Video (GS) > Plugin Settings, turn on "Enable HW Hacks", go to Configure Hacks and for 2x native set the TC offset X and Y to "100". This value requires tweaking for other Internal Resolution settings.
Flashing floor glitch
- Status: Active
- Type: Minor
- Description: There are sometimes visual artifacts in the ground in-game when you set an internal resolution other than native.
- Workaround: Go to Config > Graphics Settings, set Internal Resolution to "Native (PS2)".
Gameplay Screenshots
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