Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams

NTSC-U Boxart Game general and emulation properties: Languages supported: Region NTSC-U: Serial numbers: SLUS-21180 (Disc 1) SLUS-21362 (Disc 2) Release date: March 7, 2006 CRCs: FE44479E Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: Playable Mac Status: ? Region PAL: Serial numbers: SLES-82038 (Disc 1) SLES-82039 (Disc 2) Release date: March 17, 2006 CRCs: 812C5A96 Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ? Region NTSC-J/C/K: Serial numbers: SLPM-66275 (Disc 1) SLPM-66276 (Disc 2) SCKA-20086 (Disc 1) SCKA-20087 (Disc 2) SLPM-74232 (PlayStation 2 The Best, Disc 1) SLPM-74233 (PlayStation 2 The Best, Disc 2) SLPM-74251 (Disc 1, PlayStation 2 the Best - Reprint) SLPM-74252 (Disc 2, PlayStation 2 the Best - Reprint) Release date: January 26, 2006 October 19, 2006 (PlayStation 2 the Best, Japan; BigHit Series, Korea) November 15, 2007 (PlayStation 2 the Best Reprint) CRCs: BD17248E Windows Status: Playable Linux Status: ? Mac Status: ?

Developer(s): Capcom
Publisher(s): Capcom
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Wikipedia: Wikipedia
Game review links: IGN: 8.8, Metacritic: 81/100
Game description: Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams is the latest installment in Capcom's third-person action franchise. You play as Soki, a young and powerful warrior who with the help of some friends attempts to defeat the evil Hideyoshi and the Genma forces. There are new characters, artificial intelligence-controlled secondary characters and a new gameplay system that lets you take control of various characters throughout the game. In addition, you will be able to customize your character, weapons and attacks.

Test configurations on Windows:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
?	?	Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 3.20GHz Yorkfield XE 4 cores GIGABYTE NVIDIA GEFORCE GTS 450 OC. GV-N450OC-1GI	0.9.7 r3353	GSDX r3983	SPU2-X r3983 LilyPad r3919		Dhillel
?	?	? ?	0.9.8	GSDX r4600	SPU2-X r4600 LilyPad r3919	BIOS: USA v02.00, Needs patches to go past intro since 0.9.7.r3878, worked fine in r3113 and 0.9.6. Some of the patches can be found here: patches thread at PCSX2 forums.	Machina
NTSC-U	Windows	Intel Core i7 @ 3.4Ghz Nvidia GTX 285 768MB	1.1.0 r5492	GSdx 5464 SSE41	SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.11.0	Runs above full speed., Intro and menu screens have graphics corrpution.	General-Plot
NTSC-J	Windows	Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66 Ghz Nvidia GTX 260 896MB	1.1.0 r5754	GSdx r5752 SSSE3	SPU2-X 2.0.0 r5733 LilyPad 0.11.0 r5403	Game works fine at a good speed., Intro and Menus have graphical corruption. Game requires the patch to avoid freezing at the beginning.	prafull
PAL	Windows 7 Professional x64	i7 4790K @ 4GHz GTX 770	1.5.0-dev2448-gd09737dbb	GSdx 1.1.0 AVX2	SPU2-X 2.0.0 Lilypad 0.12.1	when playing on 50Hz (PAL setting) some images and videos(intro) gets completely black but when changed to 60Hz they appear again however with some graphical corruption BUT when starting the actual gameplay, in both 50Hz&60Hz, only the HUD appear while everything is black and the PCSX2 log keeps showing "Sync Timeout".	HimaOuji
NTSC-U	Windows 7 Professional x64	i7 4790K @ 4GHz GTX 770	1.5.0-dev2448-gd09737dbb	GSdx 1.1.0 AVX2	SPU2-X 2.0.0 Lilypad 0.12.1	Never made it past the CAPCOM logo.	HimaOuji
PAL	Windows 7 Professional x64	i7 4790K @ 4GHz GTX 770	1.5.0-dev2464-gf80af64a2	GSdx SSE4	SPU2-X 2.0.0 Lilypad 0.12.1	Finally able to play but with some graphical corruption, changed the setting from my two previous test where I used AVX2 I needed to use SSE4 so that i don"t get black screen (see previous test).	HimaOuji
NTSC-U	Windows 10	i7 4790 AMD RX570	1.7.2128	GS Software, D3D11, OpenGL	SPU2 (Async Mix)	Updated IPU patch included in GameDB automatic game-fixes greatly improves the graphical corruption issue, menus are easier to navigate and notes can be read just fine (with the exception of a few). Game speed is consistently high in software and hardware modes, no real performance issues staying close to or at 100%.	Nyahello

Test configurations on Linux:

Environment			Configurations			Comments	Tester
Region	OS	CPU/GPU	Revision	Graphics	Sound/Pad
NTSC-U	Manjaro Linux	Ryzen 5 2600X @3.6Ghz RX 5700 XT	v1.7.0-dev-r4046-gff15de9fa	OpenGL	Cubeb SPU2-X 2.0.0 LilyPad 0.12.1	Runs perfectly with only minor frame drops when alt+tabbing, switching between fullscreen and windowed, at random times or when there is a lot going on in-game. I've played many hours, almost done with Disc 1 at time of writing. Deinterlacing:(Auto) or it will have jittering parts of the screen (I have it set to Bob (Bottom Field First) to reduce the motion blur effect). Texture and post-processing bilinear filtering are both set to OFF. Dithering: Scaled, CRC Fix Level: Aggressive to fix white lines on the right side of the screen, but disables the blurry, fading loading screen effect in exchange. 5x Internal Resolution for a sharp image, but this is mostly down to preference.	Corrine Alastor

Trivia

• Original names: 新 鬼武者 ドーン・オブ・ドリームス (SLPM-66275) & (SLPM-66276), 신귀무자 Dawn of Dreams (SCKA-20086) & (SCKA-20087)
• Also known as Shin Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (JP, KO)

Patches

De-interlace NTSC-U -asesega
Deinterlace Patch for FE44479E : patch=1,EE,20178424,extended,00001825 Only works on gameplay, menus and FMVs still shake.

Disable some effects NTSC-U -felixthecat1970

Effect disable test codes FE44479E : patch=1,EE,E0010E0A,extended,0084F480 //unk patch=1,EE,0084F480,extended,00 patch=1,EE,E0010D03,extended,0084A200 //df patch=1,EE,0084A200,extended,00 patch=1,EE,E0010D05,extended,0084FC80 //df sce patch=1,EE,0084FC80,extended,00 patch=1,EE,E0010D05,extended,0084F880 //df sce 2 patch=1,EE,0084F880,extended,00 Partial "no effects" (minimize/disable blur, dof in gameplay - important cutscenes). https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-No-interlacing-codes?pid=619401#pid619401

Known Issues

Broken post processing

• Status: Active
• Type: Minor
• Description: When increasing internal resolution above 1x, post processing will become mis-aligned and fragmented. Bloom will separate into chunks and effects will never fully align. The worst case example being the first encounter with Tenkai when he casts his illusion, none of the hardware hacks properly handle this.
• Workaround: Set CRC hack level to aggressive. It will remove most of the post processing entirely, including the area/door transition effect (unfortunately).

Fixed Issues

Bad graphics in the intro/in-game menus

• Status: Fixed
• Type: Minor
• Description: Bad graphics that are seen in the intro and in the in-game menus.
• Workaround: Fixed in 1.7.0
• Notes: 1.7.0 builds have an improved IPU over 1.6.0 build. The issue is completely fixed in later 1.7.0 builds.

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  Bad graphics in the intro before 1.7.0

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  Graphics after IPU was improved in the 1.7.0 build.

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