Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil

NTSC-U cover Game general and emulation properties: Languages supported: Region NTSC-U: Serial numbers: SLUS-20151 SLUS-28004 (Trade Demo) Release date: July 25, 2001 CRCs: 2F56CBC9 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region PAL: Serial numbers: SCES-50354 Release date: November 9, 2001 CRCs: 7EBEEBBD Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: Playable Mac Status: ? Region NTSC-J/C/K: Serial numbers: SLPS-25033 SLPS-73404 (PlayStation 2 the Best) SLPM-60138 (Trial) Release date: March 22, 2001 June 27, 2002 (PlayStation 2 the Best) CRCs: 1645DE53 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): Namco
Publisher(s): Namco (JP, US), SCEE (EU)
Genre: Action, Platformer
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic: 91/100
Game description: Klonoa, a long-eared creature, has stumbled on yet another mystical adventure. In Klonoa 2, a dark kingdom threatens the enchanted realm of Lunatea. Now it's up to Klonoa and his friends, Lolo and Popka, to prevent evil forces from bringing monsters and sickness into their world. Help Klonoa through 24 magical stages featuring hover-board gliding, perceptual changes, and new treacherous foes. On your adventure, you'll drop off waterfalls, get shot into the air by cannon, and gain special abilities from your defeated enemies.
The sequel to 1997's sleeper platformer hit "Klonoa: Door to Phantomile" finds our floppy-eared, baseball cap-wearing hero collecting dream stones and over-inflating his enemies with air bullets while protecting the dream world of Lunatea in this "2-D style" action game.

Test configurations on Windows:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
?	?	Intel Pentium E5400 @ 3.60 GHz NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT	0.9.7 stable r3878	GSdx r3673	SPU2-X r3702 LilyPad r3878	BIOS: USA v02.00. Broken in 0.9.8 due to it crashing in the Volk City part which works in 0.9.7 just fine. 60/60FPS	Machina
PAL	Windows	AMD Phenom II X4 965BE @ 4.10 GHz / Intel Core i3-370M VTX ATI HD 6870 / Intel HD Graphics	1.0.0	GSdx	ZeroSPU2/SPU2-X ?	EE/VU Clamp: tried both Normal/Normal or E+P/E+P, tried both OFF/recommended (1/0), Auto = enable manual game fix (not ticked)	Metagondria
NTSC-U/J	Windows	Intel Core i5-3330 AMD Radeon HD 6850	1.3 r5932 SVN	GSdx	SPU2-X ?	USA v02.20(10/02/2006), No bugs.	DESTRUIDOR
NTSC	Windows 8.1	AMD Phenom II X3 720 @ 3.20 GHz (Unlocked 4th core) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460	1.3.0 20140731161737	GSdx 0.1.16 20140731161737	SPU2-X 2.0.0 20140731161737 LilyPad 0.11.0 20140731161737	BIOS: USA v02.20, •Set Audio latency on SPU2-X to around 3MS Set in game audio to stereo •Some fire effects do not appear with or without game fixes •Water and other effects Graphically bugged with Automatic game fixes.	Daemyn
PAL	Windows 7	AMD Phenom II X3 720 @ 3.20 GHz (Unlocked 4th core) AMD Radeon R9 290 (Driver version 16.1)	1.4.0	GSdx 0.1.19 20160105132032	SPU2-X 2.0.0 20151231175709 LilyPad 0.11.0 20151231175709	BIOS: Europe v02.00, •No previous game fix patches seem to work for the PAL version of this game in pcsx2 1.4.0 in 50Hz or 60Hz. Either it will crash at volk or in 60Hz mode's case I get an assertion failed error. •Set Audio latency on SPU2-X to around 3MS Set in game audio to stereo •Some fire effects do not appear with or without game fixes •Water and other effects Graphically bugged with Automatic game fixes.	Daemyn
NTSC	Windows 10	AMD Phenom II X3 720 @ 3.20 GHz (Unlocked 4th core) AMD Radeon R9 290 (Driver version 16.9.2)	1.5.0-dev-1720-g5a63a62	GSdx 20131219235648(MSVC 19.00 SSE2/SSE2) 1.1.0	SPU2-X 20161219235648 2.0.0 [Spu2-X]	BIOS: JPN v02.20, (SCPH-75000_BIOS_VX_JAP_220) •Both the old and new Volk hang patches work however the patch by Prafull will have less graphical glitches. •Set Audio latency on SPU2-X to around 3ms async. Set in game audio to stereo."this may not be needed anymore I was able to boot the game at 16ms async a few times. For the credits video you may want to set the audio to time stretch however. •Some fire effects do not appear with or without game fixes •Water and other effects Graphically bugged with necessary Volk Hang/IPU patches if you wish to play through the whole game at once. •Some effects during cutscenes do not appear correctly however this can be fixed with software renderer and sometimes OpenGL as well. •Some objects appear miscolored. Software renderer fixes this.	Vokadae
NTSC	Windows 10	Intel Xeon E5-2640 @ 2.8 GHz NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 6GB (Driver version 430.86)	pcsx2-v1.5.0-dev-3210-g7d1d88e40	GSdx 20190720121007 (MSVC 19.00 SSE4.1/AVX) 1.1.0	SPU2-X 20190720121007 2.0.0	BIOS: JPN v02.20, (SCPH-75000_BIOS_VX_JAP_220) •Both the old and new Volk hang patches work however the patch by Prafull will have less graphical glitches. •Set Audio latency on SPU2-X to around 3ms async. Set in game audio to stereo."this may not be needed anymore I was able to boot the game at 16ms async a few times. For the credits video you may want to set the audio to time stretch however or use a very large async audio buffer and it may sporadically work.. •Some fire effects do not appear with or without game fixes •Water and other effects Graphically bugged with necessary Volk Hang/IPU patches if you wish to play through the whole game at once. •Some effects during cutscenes do not appear correctly however this can be fixed with software renderer and sometimes OpenGL as well. •Some objects appear appear as wrong color. it may be that there are 2 models in the same location and one is overriding the other on depth?. The Software rendering fixes this usually.	Vokadae
NTSC	Windows 10	Intel i7-8700K @ 3.70 GHz NVIDIA GeForce 1070	1.6.0	GSdx 1.2.0	SPU2-X 2.0.0	Plays surprisingly well at 4k. It looks like in the main menu you HAVE to go into sound settings, set the synchronization mode to Async, then set latency at 3ms. Then, once you're in game, you can revert back to TimeStretch at 100 ms. No crackling or sound complaints at all, it sounded great. Flashing textures were there but they were very minor details like the roof of a train or some wires in a factory. No big deal and nothing that completely ruins the experience. Also should note I did set EE to Nearest and Clamping Mode to Extra + Preserve Sign. Had all speed hacks on, too.	Optim

Test configurations on Linux:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
PAL	Ubuntu 17.04 x64	Intel Core i5-4670 @ 3.40 GHz VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200	1.5.0~git201708311541	GSdx (GCC 6.3.0, SSE2) 1.0.0	SPU2-X 2.0.0	Full speed.	Marc

Trivia

• Original names: 風のクロノア2〜世界が望んだ忘れもの〜 (SLPS-25033) & (SLPS-73404), Kaze no Klonoa 2: Sekai ga Nozonda Wasuremono (JP)

Known Issues

Bugged reflections

• Status: Active
• Type: Minor
• Description: Reflections on some objects like cannons and the Wind Ring are bugged (see screenshots).
• Workaround: Go to Config > Emulation Settings > VUs tab, and set Clamping Mode to "Extra".

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Flashing or garbage textures

• Status: Active
• Type: Minor
• Description: At certain points of the game, and especially during the train cut scene at the end of Volk Vity, the textures will randomly flash and change around to garbage textures or wrong colors.
• Workaround: Reducing the EE cyclerate in speed hacks can alleviate it at −1 or 75 % speed, but still doesn't completely remove it. Reducing it to −3 or 50 % speed will fix nearly all of the flashing textures, but with the risk of game slowdowns. Inversely, speeding up the EE cycle rate will make the texture flashing much worse.

Cutscene full-screen effects may not appear correctly

• Status: Active
• Type: Minor
• Description: The cutscenes at the end of Maze of Memories, at the end of Noxious La-Lakoosha, and at the start of Embryo Compass all have graphical issues.
• Workaround: To fix Maze of Memories and La-Lakoosha, go to Config → Video (GS) → Plugin Settings and set Renderer to "OpenGL (Hardware)". To fix Embryo Compass, go to Config → Video (GS) → Plugin Settings and switch to Software mode by setting Renderer to any of the "(Software)" options.

Fixed Issues

Missing Sound

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: Some areas have no music, and sound effects are missing completely.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Bad graphics from automatic game fixes

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: When automatic game fixes are enabled, there are missing floor textures or bad colors as a side effect from the patches (see screenshots). Volk City, Volkan Inferno, and Dark Sea of Tears are the most likely to crash without the patches. Other Levels may load and be completely playable. Fixed on the 1.7 nightly builds, there should be no more crashes on the default settings and no graphical side effects from them.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Miscolored objects or enemies

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: Certain objects and enemies appear as the wrong colors such as moving red Goomis (usually green orbs you can hang from) and Golden Kitons (Helicopter/hovering enemy).
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Required objects missing

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: Some objects needed to progress further don't appear where they should.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Missing fire effects

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: Fire effects do not display in Volk Inferno and Joilant (see screenshots).
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

Volk City hang

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Severe
• Description: When moving to one of the parts in Volk City, you get just a black screen with sound.
• Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.

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