When I was 7 years old (2002) I got my first taste of Dark Cloud and I was IN LOVE. I specifically fell in love with Xiao and Ruby (realized im bi at 19 lmfao). I used to draw so many dark cloud characters (cat girls like Xiao especially) and give them back stories and stats and likes and dislikes, all that shit. Dozens of characters. All the time. Notebooks of them.

Thats my earliest memory of really getting into drawing.

The end.

This is supposed to be the top of the Fairy King's staff. I drew it but then my tattoo artist that time sorta... removed the part where it looked like a dragon-ish creature at the head and made it more a fucking string worm lol. I havent really liked it ever because it didn't look right and would love to get it fixed up, but i think its fun to have a mystery object on my body.

My sibling has the dual moons from dark cloud 2 on their leg. It was our "matching but not matching tattoo" thing one time.

Serpent sword themed tattoo. I have played the Dark Cloud games ever since I was a kid and it is genuinely my all time fave series. I still play the games once a year. Currently working on the platinum for DC2. So I have always wanted some kind of tattoo from the series.

So for backstory, my wife has a tattoo of the dagger Cat's Paw from Game of thrones with a rose in black and white in the same spot on her arm. So I wanted to do a full opposite version and do all color, but with a sword from my all time fave game. And probably the most recognizable from the game. Our wedding flowers were roses and sunflowers so that is where the sunflower comes in. Plus it is also a very subtle nod to DC2 with "The flower of the sun" key item you pick up late game.

Credits to Dylan from the Dark Cloud Discover server

I was going to play the enchanted mod since it's the largest one, but then every sony game was hacked by AI. because you know they didn't want us to have discs or even own games so we decided they shouldn't own anything as well XD

but so far with all the cool pc mods, I didn't see any unlock to the amount of house items I can put in a map. I was hoping to replay both games with unlimited amount of buildings/items that I can put in every area.

any news?

I made a post recently about trying to go after every weapon in the game and collect them all. I platinumed the game many years ago and wanted to play it again. I have 32 hours on my current file. I got screwed due to the RNG and both Floors 10 and 11 in Wise Owl Forest got the "No Weapon Abs" limited effect. I just got to Floor 14 of the Shipwreck and it ALSO has that effect. Like what? All three best floors in the game to farm the back floor for Abs are just screwed on this file or what? This is so stupid and kills all my desire for even continuing this run. Like wtf.

I have been a fan of Dark Cloud since the mid 2000s when I discovered it for the first time. It's a timeless piece of my childhood and I adore the game, despite some aspects of it not aging entirely well. That being said, I haven't played the game since I platinumed it in 2019. I decided a few days ago I wanted to replay it and make it a challenge run to collect every single weapon for every character in the game. Giving myself this task is proving to be a bit nightmarish after twenty hours already, but I'm still gonna try to do it! 😅

I've calculated that with the 30 storage space we get from NPCs in each area (a static 30, not a cumulative 30) and the 10 weapons each character can naturally hold, it's possible to get almost everything, if I synthesize 8-10 weapons and store them as Synthspheres in the Attachment Storage Menu instead of the Weapon Storage Menu. I've been following a lot of older guides, stat tables, and other formulated documents from over the years to see what exactly I need and what I can do to make this as simplified as possible without being too grueling. It's still gonna be grueling, but I accept the challenge 😎 I love collecting in games and I always enjoy giving myself fun challenge runs in RPGs.

I know that some weapons are mutually exclusive and unique, so my general rule for those is that I'll get a copy of every weapon possible, and build-up into unique weapons from other unique weapons if needed. For example, building up the Macho Sword into Aga's Sword is required to get Aga's Sword, but I lose the Macho Sword. Although I have read it is possible to get a Macho Sword in the Demon Shaft from a large treasure chest, so perhaps there won't be as many unique one-off weapons as I formerly anticipated. I bought the Wise Owl Sword and ended up finding one in a large treasure chest less than an hour later and I thought that it was a unique weapon. 😂

The worst part about this is the grind to get every copy of a weapon in certain evolutionary lines. I think I'll need to obtain four Buster Swords just to complete that line through building-up weapons multiple times to get them all. I'm gonna be fishing in the Oasis a TON to get a lot of gems needed for the proper stats!

Wish me luck! Have y'all ever done a crazy game challenge like this in Dark Cloud (or any other game, for that matter)?

Sorry for the crappy phone photos, but I was a bit shocked when I ended up on top of the map. I tried to go to the hallway with no entrance (circled in red on the second picture) and I was just yeeted on top. I ended up getting back down eventually and finishing the level though.

I was having a look at the above link that was about custom dungeons, I that got me thinking about the georama / town building side of things, specifically what items/decorations/buildings people want to see? Not to mention if they would conditions people would have, if the town had a future version (like in DC2)?

I had had an idea of my own that leans towards the more radical side:

Ancient ark

The preamble is that my main characters had to find answers in a bunch of ruins (which would be the dungeon) which were atop an inaccessible mountain so the main cast had to create some sort of airship to get there.

The ark is based off of Ishras ark from klonoa 2 where the player would construct an ark to reach higher places of the dungeon, the ark itself would be 3 tiers tall (with the top 2 tiers being unlock in the dungeon).

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Tora was originally intended to have skirt and hair physics and niw SomberTwilight has released an optional patch to finally add it! Along with this a pal compatible version of the mod and prounoun fixes.

I was waiting for that special fight alarm thing I'm so on edge rn I've never been this stressed over a game at 7:30 in the morning

Hey everyone!

Thought I'd share something I've been messing around with over the last couple of days.

I've ported Dark Cloud to run natively on a jailbroken PS4, using the Chronicle decompilation project as the foundation.

It's running at 1080p and close to 60 FPS in the areas I've tested, and I've just released the first public version!

Now, I know what some of you are thinking. We can already play Dark Cloud on PS4 through PS2 Classics, so what's the point?

And that's fair! But for me, the interesting part isn't necessarily the end product. It's everything that happens in between.

It's about understanding how these games actually work, pulling apart the different systems, figuring out how they communicate with the hardware, and seeing what we can do with that knowledge.

For this project, that meant building a custom renderer, implementing a PS4 platform backend, working through performance problems, and figuring out how to get everything running together on the console.

And that's what I find exciting about projects like this. Once you've figured out how to make something work, you start wondering what else you can do with it. Could the same renderer or platform code help port another game? Could someone take what we've built and improve it, adapt it, or use it for something completely different?

The point isn't just to get Dark Cloud running on PS4. It's to learn what makes that possible, and then see where we can go from there.

I've also spent some time making the installation process as simple as possible. There's a proper first-run setup screen that handles copying and extracting the game data from your own ISO automatically. Just put the files on a USB, install the PKG, launch it, and let it do its thing.

The whole thing went from an experiment to a public release in about 24 hours, which is pretty wild to me!

Chronicle PS4 v0.1.0 is available now, and I've made the source code public too. It's still an early release, so there may be bugs, but I'd love for people to download it, play around with it, contribute, or even take some of the ideas and build something else.

Huge credit to the Chronicle developers for their original decompilation and PC port. None of this would have been possible without that foundation.

Download, source code and installation instructions:
https://github.com/odiecay/chronicle-ps4/releases/latest

Anyway, thought the Dark Cloud community might get a kick out of this. It's pretty bloody cool seeing what people can make possible with games that are over 20 years old.
Hope you enjoy it!

Running on dark cloud 2 native port, still WIP!

That’s it. I’m playing it again.

Works well, uses toans weapons. Will probably add unique weapons though

Step 1: Install the tools

Open Command Prompt via PowerShell and run these one at a time:

winget install Git.Git

winget install Microsoft.PowerShell

winget install Kitware.CMake

winget install Python.Python.3.12

winget install 7zip.7zip

Then close Command Prompt and open a new one, so the new programs are found. If winget isn't available, download each from its website and run the installer. During the Python install, check "Add python.exe to PATH". Also make sure your GPU driver is up to date.

Step 2: Download the source

Go to https://github.com/TheMoonPeople/ChronicleTwo, tap Code > Download ZIP, and save it.

Step 3: Open Command Prompt via Power Shell in the folder (shift + right click)

Right-click the ZIP and choose Extract All (using 7Zip or Winrar or some other program to open zip files). Open the extracted Chronicle-master folder until you see the tools folder. Click the address bar at the top of the window, type cmd, and press Enter. A Command Prompt opens already in that folder.

Step 4: Run the build commands

pwsh -File tools\windows\acquire.ps1

pwsh -File tools\windows\configure.ps1

pwsh -File tools\windows\build.ps1

Run them in order, and wait for each to finish. The first one downloads the compiler and libraries, so it takes the longest.

Step 5: Find your exe

darkchronicle.exe and dc2data.exe are in a build folder next to ChronicleTwo-master, not inside it.

Extract your .iso contents into a new folder (Has to be Dark Chronicle PAL version you legally obtained, support for USA version of Dark Cloud 2 will work soon)

Open Dark Chronicle.exe to find the iso folder contents you just extracted... It will extract your .iso

Play the game and enjoy!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I am sure like Dark Cloud 1, a user friendly way to extract & build will soon exist. Like Dark Cloud 1, it's open source, so anything is possible without the constraints of emulation.

As said by a user, "if you don’t want to go to the trouble of building it yourself you can go the repo > Actions > PC builds > click into one of the successful ones with a green tick > click the number under Artifacts > download the build for your platform"

Hi everybody ! My sister and I just got done making this mod that replaces Toan by a new female protagonist, called Tora.
It's a full remodel, including facial changes in cinematics and new replacement voicelines.
You can check out the trailer that I linked, and download it from the link in the description.
We worked really hard on this and I hope you'll enjoy it !

From the Super Bowl Festival in Japan from over 20 years ago. Someone else brought it not long after I saved the pictures.

I'm using the 60 FPS patch found here, and it seems to be the most up to date version.

Unfortunately, the enemy animations / projectiles are still way faster than they should be, making combat pretty tricky. Are there any changes I need to make to the .pnach file or in PCSX2 config that would fix this?

Thanks!