Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose
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Developer(s): Monolith Soft
Publisher(s): Namco (AS, JP, US), SCEE (EU), SCE Australia (AU)
Genre: RPG
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic: 73/100
Game description: Episode II of the Xenosaga series takes you 4,000 years into a war-torn future. The survival of the human race depends on the discovery of Zohar, a legendary artifact that can help you eradicate your alien enemies and usher in an era of universal peace. Now you can rejoin Shion, KOS-MOS, and their companions as they search for Zohar in a variety of expansive environments. Defeat your opponents with cooperative combat techniques and refined boost systems. You can customize your party with an array of power-ups, advanced attacks, and more than 100 different skills.
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose is the direct sequel to Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht and is the predecessor to Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Test configurations on Windows:
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| PAL(?) | ? |
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r3113 | GSdx r3068 |
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BIOS: EU 2.00, Runs pretty decently, only slowdowns in some screens with high scaling or with many mechs in picture. DX9 has minor transparency glitches. DX10 has a consistent shadow glitch on the ground. All recommended Speed Hacks work safely. Allowing 8-Bit textures increases FPS and makes the game run smoother. The EE and GS% are always pretty low, so I assume this game works also on slower machines. However I would not recommend to increase the internal resolution too much, if your GPU is weak. | 88.152.21.188 |
| NTSC-U | Windows 8 Pro 64-bit |
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r5460 | GSdx r5440 | ZeroSPU2 r5403 | I tried this game on r5350 as well as r5460. The game will work perfectly fine with the default settings (Audio plugin of SPU2-X) and speed hacks up until fighting the Patriarch (the final story boss). At that point, the first part of the fight will be okay. During the second part of the fight, the program itself is fine but windows will crash it every time. I was able to work around it by changing the audio plug-in to ZeroSPU2. It makes the audio sound like crap but the game will proceed just fine without crashing | Lucky482 |
| NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.1.0 r5517 | GSdx 5464 SSE41 |
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Runs at 200% speed. | |
| NTSC-U | windows XP 32bit |
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r5873 | GSdx ? | LilyPad ? | BIOS: USA 2.20 NTSC, 2x Scaling, DX9 hardware. With default settings around 10fps. But turning on 8bit textures MASSIVELY increases the framerate to the 60fps cap! MTVU actually slows down framerates, turning it off gives around 5fps improvement. Also the ground and shadows was not rendered properly with default settings, I fixed it by enabling alpha correction and skipdraw 1 in hardware hacks. In addition, there were some bright lines on the bottom border in cutscenes so I cropped it out by setting zoom to 101 in gs window settings. | Kuroko |
| NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.3.0 Git 2014/07/08 (v1.21-213) | GSdx 0.1.16 SSE41 |
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US v02.00(14/06/2004), Defaults + MTVU (Multi-Threaded microVU1), Work fine at max speed (60fps) in hardware mode using also custom resolution (1920x1080) with only a few slowdowns (40-50fps) . | |
Test configurations on Linux:
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? | ? | ? | There are no test results for this game on Linux. You can help by playing and submitting your test results here. |
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Test configurations on macOS:
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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: ゼノサーガ・エピソードⅡ ~善悪の彼岸~ (SLPS-25368) & (SLPS-25369) & (SLPS-25366) & (SLPS-25367)
- Also known as Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Known Issues
There are currently no known, active issues for this title. If you find one, please add it here.
Non-Issues
Lines around hair in cut scenes when upscaling
- Type: Not an issue
- Description: When upscaling, the edges of hair show fine lines. (UV/rounding issue?)
- Workaround: Use Texture Offsets: X 0000, Y 1000.
- Notes: Not recommended. Texture Offsets cause other issues, especially this high.
Black surfaces when upscaling
- Type: Not an issue
- Description: Upscaling can cause some surfaces to turn black.
- Workaround: Use the "Disable Safe Features" option for 1.6. Use fractional upscaling multipliers (2.25/2.5/2.75/etc) for v1.7.3425+.
Bloom artifacts when upscaling
- Type: Not an issue
- Description: Bloom will have artifacts at the edges of the screen when upscaling.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Shadow and bloom misalignment when upscaling
- Type: Not an issue
- Description: Upscaling can cause shadow/bloom misalignment.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Line through the middle of the screen when upscaling
- Type: Not an issue
- Description: Upscaling causes a line to appear in the middle of the screen.
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Gallery
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Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose (SLUS 20892)
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Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose (SLUS 20892)
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Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose (SLUS 20892)
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