Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

Game general and emulation properties: Languages supported: Region NTSC-U: Serial numbers: SCUS-97268 SCUS-97268GH (Greatest Hits) SCUS-97381 (GameStop Demo) SCUS-97322 (Regular Demo) SCUS-97323 (Retail Employees Demo) SCUS-97513 (Greatest Hits) Release date: November 11, 2003 2004 (Greatest Hits) CRCs: 38996035 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region PAL: Serial numbers: SCES-51607 SCES-51607/P (Platinum) Release date: November 21, 2003 August 13, 2004 (Platinum) 2003 (Australia) CRCs: 2F486E6F Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: Playable Mac Status: ? Region NTSC-J/C/K: Serial numbers: SCPS-15056 SCKA-20011 (Korea) SCPS-19302 (PlayStation 2 the Best) SCPS-19317 (PlayStation 2 the Best Reprint) SCAJ-20052 (Asia) Release date: December 11, 2003 February 19, 2004 (Korea) July 8, 2004 (PlayStation 2 the Best) February 22, 2005 (BigHit, Korea) November 2, 2005 (PlayStation 2 the Best Reprint) Windows Status: ? Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): Insomniac Games
Publisher(s): SCEA (US), SCEE (EU), SCEI (JP, KO), SCE Australia (AU)
Genre: Action, Platformer
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic: 90/100
Game description: From the creators of Ratchet & Clank comes the next installment of this sci-fi action adventure series. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando features more than 50 imaginative weapons and gadgets. The more things you blow up, the stronger Ratchet gets and the more advanced the weapons you'll have. Participate in all-new side challenges; destroy hordes of enemies in gladiator arenas, upgrade your ship and pick off enemies in space combat, and leave competitors to eat your dust in hi-speed challenge. Are you up for it?
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando is a 2003 3D platformer video game developed by Insomniac Games. The gameplay of Going Commando is similar to that of the original Ratchet & Clank. The player explores planets in the "Bogon" Galaxy and undertakes missions. It contains more mini-games than were present in the previous game. The game also introduces role-playing game (RPG) elements, such as upgradeable weapons. Going Commando was released roughly a year after its predecessor, and received very positive reviews. Critics noted the game's improved graphics, longer gameplay, and added role-playing elements as being major improvements over the original, but also criticized the game for its very high difficulty.

Test configurations on Windows:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
NTSC/PAL	?	Intel Core i5 @ 4.50 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570	0.9.9 (r5347)	GSdx	? ?	Sometimes when a video loads the game crashes (PAL version, NTSC seems fine); EE timing gamefix resolved it. •50-60+ FPS (software mode) depending on scene with speedhacks, no EE cycle rate and no VU Cycle stealing speedhacks. •To fix texture issues(Mipmap) use software mode with mipmap enabled, but you will need CPU power like hardcore to run it smooth.	Mkav
NTSC-U	Windows	Intel Core i7 @ 3.40 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 @ 768 MB	1.1.0 (r5492)	GSdx SSE41 (r5464)	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.11.0	Runs near full speed. Texture graphics distortion is present, but doesn't inhibit gameplay too much.	General-Plot
PAL	Windows	Intel Core i7 @ 3.80 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 @ 1368 MB	1.1.0 (r5829)	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	Europe v01.70(27/02/2003), GSdx: Requires software mode to fix the graphics (MipMaps). The game can be quite slow. Lowering the extra threads to 2 seems to be optimal for this game and most of the time is full FPS. Speedhacks: VU Cycle Stealing set to 1 can bring the FPS up for the remainder of the slowdowns but the game can appear slightly jumpy as a result.	refraction
PAL	Windows 7 Home Premium x64	Intel Core i3-550 @ 3.20 GHz ATI Radeon HD 5670 @ 512 MB	1.2.1 (r5875)	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	Performance: Laggy as hell, 24-50 FPS. It's very unlikely that you'll get stable 50 FPS or even like 45-50... I say it needs an i5 with at least maybe 2.5 GHz or something similar, otherwise don't even bother it's not worth it. Use GSdx software mode, hardware mode is buggy as hell but it has better FPS. If you want to minimize the speed hit experiment with the extra rendering thread option, choose values between 0 and 4. Speedhacks here really come in handy even the VU cycle steal seems to have some effects, but keep in mind that it can show false FPS. Overall: Heavy demanding you really need a powerful PC to run this at a decent speed.	Razor96
NTSC-U	Windows 7	Intel Core i5-460M @ 2.53 GHz ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650	1.3.0 (svn 05-Aug-2014)	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	Used all recommended speedhacks. Using hardware mode, it ran at playable speeds with lag when there are a lot of on screen elements.	Clank
PAL	Windows 10 Pro x64	Intel Xeon X5460 @ 4.00 GHz EVGA GeForce GTX 480 SSC @ 830 MHz	v1.5.0	GSdx SSE4	SPU2-X 2.0.0 ?	BIOS: Europe v1.6, I just made it to Thug HQ on planet Snivelak, and i didnt face any difficulties so far. The game runs great using all recommended speed hacks, and EE set to -1.	GouStoulos
NTSC	Windows	Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20 GHz Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 @ 4 GB	v1.5.0 (26-Sep-2016)	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	Mipmapping now works in Hardware renderer and has been mostly fixed (hooray). I didn't encounter the Thugs-4-Less cutscene freeze as mentioned here. The game runs mostly smooth, but there's still a bit of slowdown when alot of action is occuring onscreen ;).	CK1
PAL	Windows 10 Pro	Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.50 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 @ 2 GB	v1.5.0 (dev-1646 g483b3d6)	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	Works better as expected, really smooth, no lag here. Unfortunately game crashed on the Thugs-4-Less cutscene.	_AG
PAL	Windows	Intel Core i5-5200U @ 2.20 GHz NVIDIA GeForce 840M @ 2 GB	v1.5.0 (Sep-2017)	GSdx SSE41	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	Runs at solid 60 FPS on Hardware mode without slowdowns.	Martin.kosecky5
NTSC-U	Windows 10 Pro Build 1809	Intel Core i7-9700k OC'd @ 4.9GHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 OC'd	v1.5.0 (dev-2982)	GSdx 1.1.0 SSE4.1	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	Runs perfectly fine, hardware mipmapping is amazing and works very well! No slowdowns thus far at all. Only had 1 crash, and it happened when the game was flying/loading to Endako when visiting a second time.	TJ8
NTSC-U	Windows 10 Pro x64	AMD Ryzen 1700 @ 3.40 GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070	v1.5.0 (dev-3291)	GSdx 1.1.0	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	Much better graphical fidelity than 1.4.0 (especially with mipmapping), though minor issues persist such as the pause menu being completely opaque. Slowdown between 90 and 100% is somewhat common. However, more demanding levels such as Endako will frequently be in the high 80s and low 90s, and will sometimes even dip down into the mid-to-high 70s. No crashes thus far. Note: I did not see a noticeable speed difference between D3D11 and OpenGL, although Ratchet's shadow was broken with D3D11.	TheTechnician27
NTSC-U	Windows 10	Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.0GHz Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070	PCSX2 1.6.0-20200506140834	GSdx AVX2 1.2.0	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	BIOS: USA 2.00. Played at full speed. Opaque background to menus, but it's worth it to stay in hardware mode. Crashed once when a level was being loaded, but it was after hours of play. The game auto-saves before this. Anisotropic Filtering is optional.	Otamajakushi
NTSC-U	Windows 10 Pro x64	Intel i7-4790k @ 4.00Ghz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	1.7.0-dev-191-g5118aba45	GSdx 1.2.0	SPU2-X 2.0.0 Synchronizing Mode: Async Mix Lilypad 0.12.1	Game is very demanding. Occasionally slows down with EE Cyclerate 0, but setting to -1 activates the game's internal frameskipping. This may make the game play better but YMMV, it slows some sections down to a crawl. Solid background menus are fine, since other than that and some minor lighting glitches, the game looks great.	Darkshadows
NTSC-U	Windows 10	Intel Core i9 10900K @ 4.80 GHz NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti	1.7.2952	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	I had zero game breaking issues with Going Commando and I played it all the way through completion. Zero crashes and zero visual bugs (other than the menu screen ofc). I DID have minor fps drops at the very start of my playthrough, but that went away on it's own and I never had them again. Might have been some weird nightly build regression or something. Anyway that was only for the first hour, the rest of my hours were near perfect.	Optim
NTSC-U	Windows 10 Home x64	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.7GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (2GB VRAM)	1.7.4314 (SSE4)	GSdx 1.2.0	SPU2-X v2.0.0	PCSX2 crashed when loading Maktar in challenge mode, but the game never crashed again and loaded after a restart, so this was probably a one-off. When loading a savestate saved when moving between planets, PCSX2 ejects the memory cards, but you can still save after landing. Models stretched/warped on Oozla and Snivelak, but in the latter case PCSX2 updated after I closed it and the issue was fixed when I restarted the game. Towards the beginning of the game the pause screen showed solid colours, but after an update this was fixed, though the screen changed to native resolution when paused. There was some relatively minor lag in the opening cutscene before the first visit to Aranos and at the beginning of some planets, most notably Maktar and Dobbo, but this stops once you move the camera. The only area where lag affected gameplay at all was in some parts of Grelbin. It never reached unplayable speed but not much seemed to be going on when it did lag. These were all GS bottlenecks so GPU palette conversion would probably have improved performance. Other than that, full speed. Fully playable.	PandoraGTX

Test configurations on Linux:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
PAL	Ubuntu 17.10 x64	Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.20 GHz EVGA GeForce GTX 1080	1.5.0	GSdx (GCC 7.2.0 SSE2/AVX) 1.1.0 [libGSdx]	SPU2-X 2.0.0 [libspu2x-2.0.0]	BIOS: Europe v2.20 The game runs smooth almost all the time. Sometimes the game slows down to 50% after a cutscene which is only fixable with a full restart of PCSX2. Saving and restoring the state does not work in this case, you have to load the save game after restart of PCSX2!	Programie

Test configurations on macOS:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
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Trivia

• Original names: ラチェット&クランク2 ガガガ!銀河のコマンドーっす (SCPS-15056) & (SCPS-19302) & (SCPS-19317), 라쳇&클랭크: 공구전사 대박몰이 (SCKA-20011)
• Also known as Ratchet & Clank 2: Locked and Loaded (EU, AU), Ratchet & Clank 2 (JP), Ratchet & Clank 2: Gagaga! Ginga no Commando-ssu (JP)
• The game has a built in 16:9 widescreen mode that results in a smaller portion of the world being visible.

Known Issues

Vertex stretching

• Status: Active
• Type: Minor
• Description: Some polygons on Ratchet, Clank, and most enemies' models stretch/warp on Oozla and Snivelak.
• Workaround: Restart PCSX2. If this doesn't fix it, enable Full VU0 Synchronisation under Properties/Game Fixes. This does increase EE usage, but is unlikely to affect performance on most recent midrange or higher systems.

Fixed Issues

Glitched menu backgrounds

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: Most menu backgrounds are glitched in GSdx hardware modes.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Broken textures

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Major
• Description: Many textures are broken until you stand close to objects due to GSdx not supporting mip-mapping in Hardware mode.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Megacorp Trooper Freeze

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Affected Game Versions: All
• Description: Killing certain Megacorp troopers in the Planet Dobbo level will cause the game to freeze.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Game slows down after a cut-scene

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: After certain cut-scenes (e.g. the final Siberius cut-scene) the game will slow down to 50% normal speed.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Crash after finishing the Jammer Array level

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Major
• Description: During the level completion cut-scene you can only hear the audio while the screen remains black. The game crashes after the cut-scene.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
• Github: Issue #964

Megaturret Glove's turrets don't work

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: The upgraded turret glove's turrets loop the deployment animation and sound continuously and can't shoot anything. By revision 1.5.0, this issue only affects the PAL version.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
• First tested on: v1.2.1
• Last tested on: v1.7.4721
• Github: Issue #354

Non-Issues

Framerate dips

• Type: Not an issue
• Description: R&C's framerate may dip when many enemies or allies are in view. This occurs on original hardware.
• Workaround: First verify that your device is not the bottleneck if you experience framerate dips. If your device is too slow and you attempt the following fix, you will make the problem worse. Try to overclock the EE Cycle Rate under Settings > Emulation. 130% fixes almost all slowdowns in exchange for a higher GPU and CPU utilization. Higher values than 130% lead to certain instabilities.

Gallery

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	Ratchet & Clank 2 - Locked and Loaded (SCES 51607) (E) Ratchet & Clank - Going Commando (SCUS 97268) (U)