Square needs to restore soft reset functionality in the PC ports

[add]

The current epic versions DO NOT have any sort of soft reset in the older games. KH1, ReCoM, BBS, 0.2 ect are mysteriously missing it. This is a new change exclusive to the PC port. KH2 has never had soft reset, but it would be a nice gesture instead of forcing us to go to a save menu every time. There's already mods to soft reset, but it would be nice to have this on steam deck, and make an easy way to do it on M+KB. If you mod the game for soft reset and use M+KB you have to use horrid button combinations to do it.

[Oscar92player]

Light circles now have a "Return to title screen" option and we can always use Alt+F4 with Keyboard and the "Exit game" option on Steam Deck. I say we have plenty of options to restart the games like that.

We had soft resets with R1+R2+L1+L2+Select+Start on PS2 because the games did lack the options to return to the title screens. I do not see them necessary anymore.

[add]

Originally posted by Oscar92player:

Light circles now have a "Return to title screen" option and we can always use Alt+F4 with Keyboard and the "Exit game" option on Steam Deck. I say we have plenty of options to restart the games like that.

We had soft resets with R1+R2+L1+L2+Select+Start on PS2 because the games did lack the options to return to the title screens. I do not see them necessary anymore.

I don't get how inconveniently going to a save circle/ menu is better than instantly soft resetting the game lol. And the "Alt F4" way is extremely slow since you have to renavigate through the entire game selection screen and sit through copy right stuff.

The KH1 save menu reset also does not consistently work, it can crash the game.

[Zunnoab #931]

I can guarantee if old school Square Soft reset was implemented, there would be several topics every sale with people wondering why their game went back to the title screen, complaining about the bug.

I was never upset about it, but I definitely reset a few times by mistake in those older games. Thinking back on it I'm not sure how, considering holding start and select isn't normal. Honestly, I think I'm thinking of accidental ctrl + alt + delete in DOS FPS games. So never mind that.

It was neat how much you could break Secret of Mana with it though. (There was a bugged save spot where if you landed there and saved the "previous screen" data would be bugged, and it would normally lock the game but with a soft reset it would take you to whatever screen you were in last when loading the file. So you could teleport anywhere either with a new game or loading a different save first.)

[add]

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

I can guarantee if old school Square Soft reset was implemented, there would be several topics every sale with people wondering why their game went back to the title screen, complaining about the bug.

I was never upset about it, but I definitely reset a few times by mistake in those older games. Thinking back on it I'm not sure how, considering holding start and select isn't normal. Honestly, I think I'm thinking of accidental ctrl + alt + delete in DOS FPS games. So never mind that.

It was neat how much you could break Secret of Mana with it though. (There was a bugged save spot where if you landed there and saved the "previous screen" data would be bugged, and it would normally lock the game but with a soft reset it would take you to whatever screen you were in last when loading the file. So you could teleport anywhere either with a new game or loading a different save first.)

In KH, you have to use the shoulder buttons + start/ select, so it's not just something you can probably accidentally press. It's a feature that I doubt many people even know exists.

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by add:

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

I can guarantee if old school Square Soft reset was implemented, there would be several topics every sale with people wondering why their game went back to the title screen, complaining about the bug.

I was never upset about it, but I definitely reset a few times by mistake in those older games. Thinking back on it I'm not sure how, considering holding start and select isn't normal. Honestly, I think I'm thinking of accidental ctrl + alt + delete in DOS FPS games. So never mind that.

It was neat how much you could break Secret of Mana with it though. (There was a bugged save spot where if you landed there and saved the "previous screen" data would be bugged, and it would normally lock the game but with a soft reset it would take you to whatever screen you were in last when loading the file. So you could teleport anywhere either with a new game or loading a different save first.)

In KH, you have to use the shoulder buttons + start/ select, so it's not just something you can probably accidentally press. It's a feature that I doubt many people even know exists.

Yeah that's why I added the strike through. In hindsight I was almost certainly thinking of Ctrl+Alt+Del, which was very easy to do in FPS games in the mid '90s. Back then, it meant instant computer restart with no prompt.