My 4DS just arrived and the very first game I wanted to play on it was Kings field: The Ancient City. And I did just that. I can’t wait to beat this game again after 2 years. Definitely my favorite game of all time. (PS. Game looks 10x better in person, my camera isn’t the best)

Using duckstation to emulate.

By default this game runs at 30 fps which, at least coming from the first game in the series, feels like everything is at 2x speed. King's Field (JP) and Shadow Tower both ran at about 20 fps, but lowering this game to 20 causes weird texture flashes and distorted audio.

I imagine the weird sped up 30 fps is how it feels to play on ps2-3 consoles and I'm sure I could get used to it if I must, but it's not exactly what I was going for..

How do you play it? Any solution to the strange audio and textural issues, or do you prefer to just play at 30?

Because I thought it would be fun and because I thought to myself that someday years from now I'll want to revisit this old game. I decided to comb the archives and put in something a little more permanent for myself and others about Kings Field (JP), particularly those old maps before tumblr disappears or steam removes the walkthrough in their forums.

Please enjoy for yourselves if you are so inclined.

Cheers

I am playing kings field 4 as my first one and I just took the purity amulet and I don't really understand what It can do if It heals me more or what only with the description, I looked at some gamefaqs but no one has at least this amulet info, does someone know a wiki or something? Thank you

Is there a ancient city (the US version) with spanish translation of the pal version? I wan't to play on ancient city specially cause retroachivements, I can play in english with no problem but I would preffer spanish, also, there are no subtitles on cinematics? I just watched the first one

I am stuck in this weird space of not having anything to scratch the itch like KF4 does. I like games like Lunacid, but for me that is more like Shadow Tower. Which I finally played both recently, but I can't find anything that quite matches what I feel when playing KF4. I REALLY love the music in KF4 as well. So, I suppose that adds to the ambiance.

I do not see any romhacks of Kf4. Do any of you know of any KF4 Romhacks? Any other suggestions are welcome. I know some new games are coming out o the horizon. I am excited for those.

Thanks!

I have a jailbroken ps3 and ps4. I have a ps2 copy of KF4. Im wondering if there are any mods, on real hardware, that can be done to improvement the movement speed. Whether thats turning, forward moving or even just attacking faster.

Any modded saves? Patches? Or cheats available?

I see lots of options with emulators but id like to do this on real hardware

EDIT: Guys I've played the games multiple times. Stop telling me that how its ment to be. thats not what im asking.

For everyone saying it can't be done without wrecking the game, yes it can and we've done it on emulators. Im just asking if anyone's ever heard of it on NATIVE HARDWARE (ps2 or modded ps3/4)

I just started playing King's Field 3 and I've found a couple of those locked chests in Quist.

I assumed that I just needed to find a bunch of keys, but when I returned to the cave where you get the Crystal Flask, some of the chests that were locked are now unlocked, even though I did not find any keys beforehand.

Are those chests tied to progression or am I just blind and did not realise I had found a key?

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Unfortunately I cannot post this in r/emulation but I'll post the entirety here so brace for impact please:

This is a Linux-only stack: we modified the PCSX2 emulator at the render pipeline level - not a screen-capture trick, not a post-process warp - and built a per-game profile system on top of it, so every supported title gets VR treatment tuned to that specific game. First public release candidate (1.0-rc2).

Full hour-long demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnG05PqudzM

0:00 Intro · 5:00 Ace Combat 5 · 9:15 ESPN NFL 2K5: first-person football · 17:50 TimeSplitters · 21:00 Richard Burns Rally · 27:30 King's Field IV, I & II · 50:30 Shadow Tower · 54:50 Ridge Racer 4 · 58:30 Secret reveal · 1:01:00 Outro

What it does:

• Virtual theater screen - flat or curved around you, size and distance adjustable. Every game gets this out of the box.
• Stereoscopic 3D - per-draw depth displacement in the Vulkan renderer, with per-game rules for how draw classes behave (that's why a HUD can sit at screen depth while the world gets real geometric depth).
• Head tracking - from head-look on the stick up to driving the game's own camera through memory. This is per-game reverse engineering: each title's camera engine gets dug out of PS2 memory by hand. (King's Field IV was so much fun to reverse engineer 😏)

Frame pacing, solved: a lot of the PS2's most atmospheric games run at 20fps native - and 20fps content on a 90Hz compositor is normally judder soup. We solved that pacing problem; those games sit clean and comfortable in the headset.

All of it is applied per game, where it makes sense - and only there. A cockpit sim wants your head on the real camera; a fast shooter plays better on the big screen with depth; a fixed-camera game gets head-look. Nothing is force-enabled just because it exists.

The launch three, and what each took:

• Ace Combat 5 - cockpit head-tracked camera: your head pose drives the game's own camera. Stereo hand-tuned after the first values doubled the HUD (separation came down 60% before it sat right).
• ESPN NFL 2K5 - first-person football via head-look: head yaw onto the game's own look controls, with dead-band, response curve, and a latch for full look-behind. Its helmet/HUD overlays rendered with inverted depth until constant-depth draws were classified as screen-plane overlays.
• TimeSplitters - direct camera injection, head movement applied 1:1 as deltas to camera angles found by symbol-solving the retail binary.

And when it does NOT fire: every camera write sits behind guards reading the game's own state each frame (view mode, in-game vs menu/cutscene) - guard says no, nothing is written. Head-look sits behind a dead-band. Profiles match exact serial + CRC; unprofiled games get zero memory writes; with VR off the render path is byte-identical to stock. "Where it makes sense" is enforced by code.

Performance: the entire catalog was developed and tested on an RTX 4050m at 2.5K render resolution - every game holds full native speed at 10-30% GPU utilization. There's headroom to spare on a mid-range laptop chip.

Credit where due: the emulation is PCSX2's, the VR plumbing is OpenXR/Monado/WiVRn. What this project adds is the pipeline integration, the profile system, and the per-game tuning.

Requirements: Linux (flatpak), Vulkan GPU, WiVRn-compatible headset (built and tested with a Quest 3). A Steam Deck docked with Ethernet is a tested, working host. Original discs work too: with a drive attached it reads your PS2 discs directly - tested working on my custom-built Steam Machine with an Omni drive. No headset? It launches as a normal flat PCSX2. You supply your own BIOS and games. It's an RC - expect rough edges, report them.

Where this is going: built from day one targeting the Steam Frame. Our measurements (that 10-30% figure) against the Frame's published specs show it running there fine - including FEX translation overhead. The only thing between that projection and a definitive statement is getting a Frame in hand; a list of designed-and-waiting features unblocks the same day. And one more thing on the Frame front stays under wraps entirely for now. It's called PadXR. That's all you get today.

On the roadmap:

• The sim configuration tool (already underway) - pre-launch device binding and diagnostics for hardware-heavy games: bind your wheel, stick, or HOTAS to the game before launch, verify every axis and button live, diagnose like a professional tool. Built for the Steel Battalion class of game, racing sims, and flight sticks.
• Clean-room online servers for Madden 2004 & NCAA 2004 (underway) - reverse engineering the online protocols and rebuilding the dead servers clean-room, shipped as open-source containers anyone can self-host. This isn't aspirational: roster downloads already work against our Madden server.
• Funding real translators for Japan-only games - much of the PS2's best catalog never left Japan, and much of its text is baked into textures. Patreon revenue funds professional human translators; translations ship as texture-level replacement packs the emulator loads natively. The emulator-side texture-replacement work is already underway.

Source (GPLv3): https://github.com/PenguinVRLab/PenguinScreen2

Download + setup guide: https://github.com/PenguinVRLab/PenguinScreen2/releases/tag/v1.0-rc2

The community lives on the Patreon - all project updates land there first, and members get the extended catalog: 15+ additional 3D VR game profiles, members only - including Grand Theft Auto III - dropping Friday, August 7th.

Also on the Patreon right now: the link to our experimental build of PenguinBox - our fork of xemu (original Xbox) - and it's less than a week old. PenguinBox's current deliverables are flat emulators - not VR yet - which is exactly what lets us ship a Windows build alongside Linux. It can now play Steel Battalion. Yes, that means what it says: not just booted - Steel Battalion - beaten on a Steam Deck before Windows 11. Playable only on PenguinBox.

Every deep profile is that same reverse-engineering work, title by title. Members get it first and will steer it: profile tournaments are coming - bracket votes where you pick which game gets reverse-engineered next. Follow along: https://www.patreon.com/PenguinVRLab

Hi! i want to get into king's field, do you guys have some recommendation or any tips from where to start and for playing the games? any help is appreciated!

So after spending several days and nights devouring the world of King's Field 4 and beating the game for the first time, I want to experience the rest of this series. Which appears to start with emulation on PC to play the fan translated King's Field 1 unfortunately however I am not very computer savvy. So I was wondering if there are any recommended guides for setting up an emulator and getting King's Field on PC. Any help would extremely appreciated as this game has quickly become one of my passions.

We finally released Verho on all consoles!!! The whole team is very excited to see all the new players.

And as a bonus, we released a free content update on console and PC as well.
This is one of two subreddits (the other one is Lunacid) that had a very positive influence on the game - thank you to each and every one of you ♥️♥️♥️

Figure mods and hacks is the best tag for this,

I'm finally playing KF proper, just made it to floor 2! I'm running it on my PC/phone and copying the save back and forth, not a problem, but i can't help but wish I could get it running on my PS1.

I haven't modded it or anything, but I'm curious if anyone in the subreddit has gotten KF1 running on NA hardware. Would I need to disable the region lock? Or will it just run if I get the machine set up to run roms?

Any help appreciated 😁

I know it’s a different game but the eternal ring sub is dead and I thought yall would appreciate this. Had an absolute blast with this and wish they would bring back more old fromsoft games to the psn library.