Echo Night: Beyond

Echo Night: Beyond

PAL cover art Game general and emulation properties: Languages supported: Region NTSC-U: Serial numbers: SLUS-20928 Release date: July 27, 2004 CRCs: 2DE16D21 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region PAL: Serial numbers: SLES-53414 Release date: August 26, 2005 CRCs: BBF8C3D6 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region NTSC-J/C/K: Serial numbers: SLPS-25314 SCAJ-20064 Release date: January 22, 2004 CRCs: B6AA81EE Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): From Software
Genre: Horror, Adventure
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic
Game review score: Metacritic: 60/100
Game description: The game tells a science fiction ghost story, set in the not-too-distant future. Players take the role of a Richard Osmond, off for a honeymoon on the moon. The vessel crashes before reaching its lunar resort destination, however, separating the just-married couple and leaving the hero alone at an abandoned research base. Players explore the station from a first-person perspective, inside a spacesuit. In addition to the many spiritual anomalies that haunt the forgotten station, strange lunar lighting and relative weightlessness add to the atmosphere of the game's environments.
The game is played from a first-person perspective, but unlike most other first-person games there is no use of firearms in the game.

Test configurations on Windows:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
NTSC-U	Windows	Intel Core i7 @ 3.4Ghz Nvidia GTX 285 768MB	1.1.0 r5754	GSdx 5752 SSE41	SPU2-X 5733 2.0.0 LilyPad 5403 0.11.0	Has missing walls, etc.. in hardware mode. Looks fine in software mode. Runs at full speed.	General-Plot
PAL	?	Intel i5 2500K @3400MHz GeForce GTX 460 SE 768MB	v1.1.0 r5782	GSDX AVX r5818	SPU2-X r5776 XPad v0.2.0	HACKS: Default ones and MTVU. The game has an unknown status in the game DB., Has some serious issues in hardware mode. Walls are transparent. Doors are black or transparent. Some models have shadow issues or are fully black. Plays fine in software mode, so it is emulated correctly. Runs fine in hardware (3x upscale) and software modes. Sadly the hardware mode is broken. Needs around 60% CPU with the mentioned config in software mode.	Yuri
NTSC-J	Windows	I5 3330 HD radeon 6850	1.1.svn5840	GSDX	SPU2-X ?	USA v02.20(10/02/2006), Much	DESTRUIDOR
PAL	Windows	Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67Ghz (3.0GHz OC) AMD Radeon HD 5850 1024MB	1.3.0 Git 2014/06/07	GSdx 0.1.16 SSE41	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.11.0	EUROPE v02.00(14/06/2004), Defaults + MTVU (Multi-Threaded microVU1), Game works fine at 50fps in Gsdx software mode with a few slowdowns whenever you free a ghost.	Altomar

Trivia

• Original names: NEBULA -ECHO NIGHT- (SLPS-25314), ネビュラ エコーナイト (SLPS-25314)
• Also known as Nebula: Echo Night (JP)
• The game has widescreen support built-in but it vertically stretches the screen. Because of that, parts of the HUD and the rims of the helmet are out of screen.

Known Issues

Transparent walls, black doors and models

• Status: Active
• Type: Serious
• Description: The walls, floors and ceilings are transparent (I think only the ones with reflection effect on it). Doors on the other hand are opaque black. Some models are black too with transparency. Other models disappear, but can be used.
• Workaround: Use software mode.

Flashlight charge HUD display in HW mode

• Status: Active
• Type: Minor
• Description: If you charge your flashlight with a portable battery or the flashlight is depleted, the HUD acknowledgement is not shown in hardware mode.
• Workaround: Use software mode.

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	Echo Night Beyond (SLUS 20928) (U) Echo Night - Beyond (SLES 53414) (E) Nebula Echo Night (SLPS 25314) (J)