Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: Difference between revisions

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|gameinfo          = The third game in the Star Ocean series, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time is set 400 years after the events of Star Ocean: The Second Story. Fayt Leingod, an ordinary college student, is vacationing on a resort planet which suddenly gets attacked by aliens. A few escapes later, his escape pod crash lands on an undeveloped planet, he gets rescued by a member of a resistance group named Quark, they crash on another undeveloped planet, and they get caught up in local politics. The repercussions of the alien attack, and the reasons for it, are going to catch up with Fayt again...

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|Revision=1.3.0 (svn r5932)

|Graphics=GSdx SSE4 (r5932)

* Renderer: Direct3D11 (Hardware)

* Custom Resolution: 2560x1440

** FXAA: Enabled

** Shadeboost: Enabled

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* SPU2-X (r5893)

|Comments=Runs great and remains stable at 60 FPS while playing in a custom 2560x1440 resolution. I've had no issues playing this game. The only problematic area was due to a controller issue, which is the Barr Mountains area where you had to play the Dragon Flute. This was already a horrendous area even on the actual PS2, but using the workaround mentioned in 'Known Issues' found below, I was able to pass this area just fine.

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==Trivia==

** <b>Battle Trophy Data Update:</b> The save file restriction can be bypassed using the Memory Card Folder system. Simply convert your memory card to a folder and you can then overwrite the BT data files with whichever you want. You will not get the usual 'corrupted' error when trying to load these files.

* There is a section in the dungeons of Barr Mountains that requires you to "play tunes" by pressing the circle button to activate a tune. The game has 4 tunes mapped to the button, differentiated by tap/hold and light/hard pressure. However, most gamepads and keyboards only send a fixed pressure, therefore if you attempt playing tunes normally you will always get the hard tap/hold tunes. To get around this an additional button needs to be mapped to circle as well but configured to deliver "light" pressure. This is done by opening the Controllers plugin configuration and setting a unused or rarely used input(like the button set to select or L2) and (re)mapping it to the circle button, and setting the sensitivity to 0.500 or thereabouts. In-game use that button to deliver "light" tap/hold tunes while the regular circle button can be used normally to deliver "hard" tap/hold tunes.

==Known Issues==

|IssueLevel=0

|Description=A bloom effect misplacement issue occurs when running the game at a higher than native resolution. It's difficult to spot since the game doesn't have many locations that use bloom effect. A place to observe this is Arkives (Disc 2, late game).

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{{Issue

|IssueName=Abnormal high GPU usage

|IssueLevel=1

|Description=Game has massive slowdown in Hardware mode.

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|IssueLevel=0

|Description=In DX11 Hardware mode, game will stutter on loading cutscenes. When going into battle, game will also stutter. Voiced dialog scenes feel "sluggish".

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