Square PLEASE FIX THESE ISSUES - BUG REPORTS WELCOME

[JakeDeeJake]

I posted my review saying I couldn't recommend because of all the issues and I wanted to gather all the issues I think need to be addressed ASAP here. Feel free to also post any here.

Below is the review which contains the issues I noticed that NEED fixing:

STEAM DECK ISSUES:

- Audio crackles on my non OLED Steam Deck whenever a BGM is playing. Its distracting and awful to listen to.
- The screen squashes when using the native 16:10 800p resolution, making the feature of supporting the resolution useless.
- The game can randomly nosedive in framerate for a couple seconds. In particular when booting from rest mode.

NEW ISSUES:

- Some of the AI upscaled textures look awful and lack any polish. Any time a texture contains any type of shading thats supposed to create depth or a shadow its completely flattened; All dithered patterns that are supposed to create a gradient are over sharpened and create a grainy pattern instead.
- Some models now load the incorrect textures.

LEGACY ISSUES

- Instability. The game does not handle alt tabbing or framerates higher than 60 well. The games can crash easily losing to hours of progress potentially being lost or corrupted saves.
- Memory leaks. The games leak memory and will continue to do so until they either crash or (hopefully) release all the unused things stored. You can check by looking in memory usage and watch as it grows and grows as you play.
- The game effectively doesn’t function on RDNA3 GPUs
- The fullscreen mode is pointless as the second you alt tab it switches back to windowed mode. It also doesn’t let you chose the refresh rate of
The display just the resolution. The refresh rate option just acts as a vsync instead of actually matching the display’s refresh to the game’s framerate.
- You can’t select your refresh rate on full screen mode.
- Many sound effects are broken and lack reverb like Xigbar's guns.
- The game's frametime delivery system is just broken. If you try to use gsync the game is a suttery mess. If you disable it the game can still stutter on loads.
- The higher framerate options above 60 are worthless not just because of increased instability, but because some objects when rendered on screen force the game back down to 60 anyway.

'These are the main issues but there are others like COM lacking its alt control options or it still lacking basic additions like dual audio or cutscenes above 30 fps, but those I can stand recommending without. The main issues I listed NEED to be addressed. Most of them have needed to be for THREE YEARS on EGS. Please dont leave the games I love in this state"

OTHER ISSUE REPORTS

Originally posted by Dastanovich:

Adding more to the table:

- Stuttering issues are still present, meaning you're still forced to tinker both in-game settings and your control panel
(it's so inconsistent, cuz some say you need to turn off or on the refresh rate)
- Other FPS option are worthless, most stable is 60fps
(and 30, cuz some stuff is bugged on 60)
- You still can't mute voice channels. A 0 option is just absent like EGS
(either add a 0 option, or make 1 mute audio)
- No ultrawide or other monitor support, so it's still black bars
(not even asking for every single monitor in the world, but really, no 16:10?)
- The cutscene framelimiter is still there, so that jittery 30fps is present
(just make it 60)

Stuff I WANT to get added:

-KH1-
open chests in-battle
abilities toggled on Y/Triangle, like KH2

-KH2-
option to 'Prepare and Retry' after dying
unpause Atlantica
add Encounter Plus/Boost

-KH BBS-
remove the cutscene framelimiter when talking to NPCs
add back the ability to rename finishers
add Combo Master/Boost (you have 0 idea how hard this'll fix the game's combat)

BONUS: Re-Fined fixed almost all the issues present above so if fans can do it, I'm SURE Square's port team can

Originally posted by Svenchu:

KH2 Specific Issues

• Port Royal Map Crash is still a thing (when selecting a zone to move to in the Black Pearl's map, there's a chance it can crash.
  
• Some quotes still lack, there's a good video explaining this issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaMcGIJiWVM

Originally posted by add:

ReCoM control issues, please add this because this change is legit terrible:

Left dpad is now to jump to the reload card of your deck and right dpad jumps to your shortcut. On EVERY OTHER VERSION of ReCoM it is up and down dpad. If you calibrate your controller for the DPad change (to be up and down), all your in game pause UI menus are scrolled through by left and right.

This is literally the worst version of ReCoM ever, I have no idea why they altered controls AND removed the option to allow us to switch the shoulder buttons. Even the PS2 version functions better than the PC version.

Originally posted by ♡moonlighteevee♡:

I've also had the following issues:
- Texture bugs: In one cutscene I had a bug where Goofy suddenly turned invisible except for his zippers, and Donald turned beige.
- Voicelines not playing: In another cutscene Riku's voicelines were just not playing at all
And ofc there's the crashes which u've already mentioned.
I'm really disappointed by the lack of polish for this port. Kingdom Hearts is a legendary series and deserves better than this.

Originally posted by Everybody do the flop:

XBox One controller issues:

Menus:
A = X
B = A
X = B

In game:
A = B
B = A
View = Right stick left/right (can't remember which one)
Right stick button = Start

Additional issues:
Right stick up and left won't register when you try to change inputs manually in-game.

Originally posted by ThreeSon:

Please add the shadow flickering issue under Steam Deck. I'm worried Square won't notice it, and the issue has been reported by multiple people so it's very much a confirmed bug:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2552430/discussions/0/6364229748854102698/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2552430/discussions/0/6364229748853628802/#c6364229748853919394

Originally posted by Fishonastick:

Reported in another post too, but I experienced the same menu glitch with KH2 on critical mode and it doesn’t go away. Rebooting the game only fixes it for 10 minutes and sometimes the game crashes. Playing in windowed mode btw.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2457357436943800035/F05A2F8C1F5A34DC3639DF0701AEE776CC8CC4D3/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Originally posted by LAA:

Thanks for making a post collating all the known issues.

I would also add for KH2, I have had corrupted sounding audio happen occasionally during battles, as well as the audio volume becoming low suddenly in battle for a brief moment, seemingly because too much SFX happens at once?

Also more minor, but noticed these issues in KH1.
- Giant Ursula boss eye tracking doesn't seem to work so well (This is at 60fps), both of her eyes don't fully track the player so she appears cross eyed regularly through the fight.
- In the beginning area of "End of the World", as you get further away from the rock where you start at, a bunch of blue polygons appear around the rock

Really hope SE take fixing these issues more seriously now, these could and should be the definitive versions of these games.

[add]

the recom control issue literally makes 0 sense, it just goes to show how much testing they actually did.

[psxlover]

Originally posted by ♡moonlighteevee♡:

- Voicelines not playing: In another cutscene Riku's voicelines were just not playing at all
And ofc there's the crashes which u've already mentioned.
I'm really disappointed by the lack of polish for this port. Kingdom Hearts is a legendary series and deserves better than this.

There is nothing wrong with the port on that one. The scenes that were not in the original and were added in Final Mix don't have any English voice overs (they may have japanese if playing with japanese voiceovers but I can't confirm that). It has been like that since ps2.
Check "Cutscenes" in https://kingdomhearts.fandom.com/wiki/Kingdom_Hearts_Final_Mix

Originally posted by HotWater250:

Originally posted by HotWater250:

I find the resolution squash on Steam Deck only occurs when the game is set to Borderless Fullscreen. Setting it to Windowed or Fullscreen fixes it.

Idk if anyone else in the thread pointed this out.

Just launched the game again and Borderless Fullscreen/Fullscreen output at 16:9 with Windowed outputting a stretched 16:10.

Seems to only be a case with the launcher. Same issue as the quoted one applies when in the actual games. Fullscreen will give ideal results.

Borderless Fullscreen is locked to 800p, Windowed to 720p and in Fullscreen you can switch between the two and a few other resolutions. As it's written in the original post 800p is wrong. It is as if black bars are added at the top and the bottom to make 800p contain a 720p picture and then that framed image is outputted as 720p making have twice the size of empty bars up and down making the image look squashed.

Using "Stretch" as Scaling Mode in Steam Deck's performance menu makes 720p fill the whole screen, while using it with 800p makes it look like 720p.

[Dastanovich]

Originally posted by TheOneManFoxOffice:

Originally posted by Dastanovich:

Adding more to the table:

Stuff I WANT to get added:

-KH1-
open chests in-battle
abilities toggled on Y/Triangle, like KH2

-KH2-
option to 'Prepare and Retry' after dying
unpause Atlantica
add Encounter Plus/Boost

-KH BBS-
remove the cutscene framelimiter when talking to NPCs
add back the ability to rename finishers
add Combo Master/Boost (you have 0 idea how hard this'll fix the game's combat)

BONUS: Re-Fined fixed almost all the issues present above so if fans can do it, I'm SURE Square's port team can

You do realize that this would require more programming, considering that with KH1, it's based on code written for a game from 2002.

I'm gonna blow your mind:

Re-Fined added all of the stuff I mentioned here as part of the games (except Combo Boost for BBS). Not via an external program, not via mod. Just seamlessly part of the in-game menu

If fans can do it, so can Square if they remotely cared. And did I mention it also added proper 16:10 support and 60fps cutscene that don't crash the games

[add]

Originally posted by TheOneManFoxOffice:

Originally posted by Dastanovich:

Adding more to the table:

Stuff I WANT to get added:

-KH1-
open chests in-battle
abilities toggled on Y/Triangle, like KH2

-KH2-
option to 'Prepare and Retry' after dying
unpause Atlantica
add Encounter Plus/Boost

-KH BBS-
remove the cutscene framelimiter when talking to NPCs
add back the ability to rename finishers
add Combo Master/Boost (you have 0 idea how hard this'll fix the game's combat)

BONUS: Re-Fined fixed almost all the issues present above so if fans can do it, I'm SURE Square's port team can

You do realize that this would require more programming, considering that with KH1, it's based on code written for a game from 2002.

they can definitely fix all these issues, they fixed the pink agaricus issue from PS3 on PS4 and also fixed the games to accommodate for 60FPS.

[[OCN] John Wick ~ Rabbit]

Well this is sad all these issues are here. I was gonna get this as i been waiting a long time for the series to hit PC, but now think I'll put my money towards paper mario The thousand year door.

[uraizen]

This needs to be pinned ... but won't be.

[the_randomizer1889]

Originally posted by superbegita76800:

Originally posted by the_randomizer1889:

60 fps feels very sluggish on my end, RTX 4070 and Core i7 9700K, there's no reason for them to run this badly

Hi ! desactivate your VRR (g synch or freesynch) and put refresh rate on. Normally it will fix it

Did that, didn't help

[JakeDeeJake]

Originally posted by TheOneManFoxOffice:

Originally posted by Dastanovich:

Adding more to the table:

Stuff I WANT to get added:

-KH1-
open chests in-battle
abilities toggled on Y/Triangle, like KH2

-KH2-
option to 'Prepare and Retry' after dying
unpause Atlantica
add Encounter Plus/Boost

-KH BBS-
remove the cutscene framelimiter when talking to NPCs
add back the ability to rename finishers
add Combo Master/Boost (you have 0 idea how hard this'll fix the game's combat)

BONUS: Re-Fined fixed almost all the issues present above so if fans can do it, I'm SURE Square's port team can

You do realize that this would require more programming, considering that with KH1, it's based on code written for a game from 2002.

Literally any amount of work on any game regardless of the year it was mode would require more programming, yes.
To be clear though this isn’t PS2 code. That was lost forever ago. These ports life as a PS3 collection that is reverse engineered Ps2 game. So technically its PS3 code, that’s then modified to run at 60 for the PS4, then translated for the DX12 API so it can run on Xbox and Windows 🤓

[TrishaCat]

I'm having audio de-sync in most cutscenes in Re:Chain of Memories. If cutscenes last a while it seems to get worse over time.

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by TrishaCat:

I'm having audio de-sync in most cutscenes in Re:Chain of Memories. If cutscenes last a while it seems to get worse over time.

Try reducing FPS to 30.

[Jason Avis]

Originally posted by Jason Avis:

I'm having the audio crackle issue on my desktop PC. Intel i7 11700KF, Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070, 32GB RAM, using Corsair HS80 Headset. Doesn't happen with pre-rendered cutscenes.

Found solution to my problem. Change audio channels to 2 in system settings. Not sure if this is doable on a Steam Deck though.

[TheOneManFoxOffice]

Originally posted by JakeDeeJake:

Originally posted by TheOneManFoxOffice:

You do realize that this would require more programming, considering that with KH1, it's based on code written for a game from 2002.

Literally any amount of work on any game regardless of the year it was mode would require more programming, yes.
To be clear though this isn’t PS2 code. That was lost forever ago. These ports life as a PS3 collection that is reverse engineered Ps2 game. So technically its PS3 code, that’s then modified to run at 60 for the PS4, then translated for the DX12 API so it can run on Xbox and Windows 🤓

True that. I am aware that they had to make the game again from the ground up for the PS3 due to losing the original code. The fact does remain that it would still require additional programming, and I doubt Square is going to dump some of their resources to make any of that happen.

[Hiroki Etsuko]

Originally posted by Hiroki Etsuko:

When playing with a headset, during fights the sound simply goes VERY low for 1-2 seconds and then goes back to normal and can occur frequently.
With speakers sound seems okay.

I think it happens when there's multiple sound effects occurring at once.

Tried 7.1 surround and many other things and nothing fixed it.
It's not game breaking, but annoying nonetheless.

Hope Refined fixes my issue.

[MilkshakeGuru]

Originally posted by TheOneManFoxOffice:

Originally posted by Dastanovich:

Adding more to the table:

Stuff I WANT to get added:

-KH1-
open chests in-battle
abilities toggled on Y/Triangle, like KH2

-KH2-
option to 'Prepare and Retry' after dying
unpause Atlantica
add Encounter Plus/Boost

-KH BBS-
remove the cutscene framelimiter when talking to NPCs
add back the ability to rename finishers
add Combo Master/Boost (you have 0 idea how hard this'll fix the game's combat)

BONUS: Re-Fined fixed almost all the issues present above so if fans can do it, I'm SURE Square's port team can

You do realize that this would require more programming, considering that with KH1, it's based on code written for a game from 2002.

Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't they lose the source code for the PS2 game and had to build KH from the ground up for these PS3 collections? I thought I remember somewhere that they had to use a copy of the game to help build the new by playing the old cause they messed up somewhere.

(Which also begs the question why make a 1 to 1 remake at that point. Could of updated the camera at least to KH2 levels lol)

[GauzRoman]

If you leave the first Kingdom Hearts in sleep mode on the Steam Deck, the game completely freezes after waking up, and it’s impossible to access the Steam Deck menu. You have to completely shut down the Steam Deck by holding the power button. It's really annoying. This doesn’t happen with other games (not Kingdom Hearts).