Summer Games Challenge 2015

[Exhuminator]

I've heard the SoM remake has issues, like bugs and missing content, so it's best to stick to the original PS1 game.

Looks like fans have fixed many of the bugs and missing content, and rebuilt several of the other titles in the engine.

Well that's good for the community's sake. I'm sticking with the originals personally. Nothing like the real thing.

[fastbilly1]

I've heard the SoM remake has issues, like bugs and missing content, so it's best to stick to the original PS1 game.

Looks like fans have fixed many of the bugs and missing content, and rebuilt several of the other titles in the engine.

Well that's good for the community's sake. I'm sticking with the originals personally. Nothing like the real thing.

No doubt, I am just about to sell my last Sony console, so this is great news for me. Ive gotten rid of everything but my SCPH-1001 that was chipped and had a Dreamcast fan added by Snow Kitty, as you can imagine it is a tough mental debate.

[Exhuminator]

Well with a USA PS1, indeed you can play King's Field II, King's Field III, and Shadow Tower legit. And the modded system can play King's Field I and King's Field III: Pilot Style in English too, with burned discs of the prepatched images.

Now, if you're already willing to play remakes of these games as an alternate solution, I would suggest using a PS1 emulator like ePSXe or pSX to play the original games instead. ePSXe would be nice because you could play with the polygons rendered at higher resolution, making them far cleaner, as well as increasing the frame rate. Also playing via emulation you'd still be able to play King's Field I and King's Field III: Pilot Style, both in English. Setting up ePSXe is easy, and pSX is even easier (though not as powerful insofar as features go). (You probably already knew all that, but for anyone else who didn't.)

Either way, legit hardware or emulation, both are better options for experiencing the KF & ST series, rather than playing fan handled remakes. At least in my opinion.

[prfsnl_gmr]

According to howlongtobeat, it appears I can get through the King's Filed games in 15-20 hours...I own both, and I may have to give them a shot.

[Exhuminator]

According to howlongtobeat, it appears I can get through the King's Filed games in 15-20 hours...I own both, and I may have to give them a shot.

I checked my own HLTB times for the two games I've finished in the series:

King's Field I (Japan) took me 13 hours and 15 minutes to complete.

King's Field: The Ancient City (AKA King's Field IV) took me 33 hours to complete.

As a related aside; Eternal Ring took me 13 hours and 30 minutes to complete.

All of those were beaten without using a walkthrough though, so my times are a bit longer than others'.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Nice. That length sounds perfect, and I upload my copies of the games to my PSP sometime soon.

[Exhuminator]

Nice. That length sounds perfect, and I upload my copies of the games to my PSP sometime soon.

I'd love for that to work out for you, but I wonder how that will work. King's Field uses all four shoulder buttons, as well as all four face buttons. So can the PSP accommodate that control setup somehow given it only has two shoulder buttons?

[Sarge]

Sort of. You can map the L2/R2 buttons to the analog stick. Or the L1/R1 if preferred. It's not ideal, but it'll do in a pinch.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Sort of. You can map the L2/R2 buttons to the analog stick. Or the L1/R1 if preferred. It's not ideal, but it'll do in a pinch.

I will probably try that.

BTW...what do the shoulder buttons do in King's Field? GameFAQs does not have a guide listing the controls, but it appears that at least two of them are used for strafing. (I would probably keep those mapped the the PSP's shoulder buttons.)

[Exhuminator]

BTW...what do the shoulder buttons do in King's Field?

The King's Field games do not use analog controls, not even King's Field IV on PS2 does. So that means to look up and down, you have to use buttons. That's what L2 and R2 do. L1 and R1 make you strafe left and right. The d-pad moves you forward and back, and turns you left and right. Square melee attacks, triangle magic attacks, X button investigates, circle button opens up your menu. Select button is mappable to whatever item you want, and the start button also opens up your menu.

Those controls are the same through the whole series from what I've played. Eternal Ring uses those same controls as well. Shadow Tower Abyss on PS2 actually uses the analog sticks for movement and camera control though.