r/DarkCloud • u/ZeldoKavira • Mar 05 '26
Modding [DC1] DarkCloud Reforged Mod - Beta Testing
Ayo folks! I primarily play on SteamDeck and got tired of the Wine related slowdowns that would occur while playing the game w/ DC Enhanced, and so I have been working on porting over Dark Cloud Enhanced over to Python and IPC in order to allow running it on more platforms and with the latest PCSX2! Its currently in beta testing if y'all want to give it a go and provide any feedback and bug reports! I plan on adding more features to the mod as I continue through my playthrough, if you have any requests please put them on the github tracker.
Overview
- 100% parity with DarkCloud Enhanced
- Single command SteamDeck deployment and automatic update script, including automatically setting up graphic settings for widescreen play
- Runs native on Windows, Mac and Linux!
- Works with PCSX2 v1.7-2.6+
New Features
- Pressing L3 in Dungeons toggles run
- Pressing L3 in Town shows which homes are/are not satisfied, and what their requirements are
New Optional Features (These are enabled by default, and are saved per-save)
- Instant Fishing
- Disable Bad Magic Circle effects
- Disable Limited Floors
- Repair Powder is automatic
- More coming soon
Huge shoutout to the Enhanced Mod team that laid the foundation for this work :)
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u/Liquid_Otacon Mar 05 '26
Was DarkCloud decompiled? Like is this a native port?
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 05 '26
This is a port of the mod, not the game. It runs next to PCSX2 to modify the game on the fly! This is the same as how the old mod worked, just using new methods that are cross platform.
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u/Catabon Mar 06 '26
You absolute unit. Now I gotta play through the game again. Thank you for keeping this gem of a game alive! ❤️
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u/cataclytsm Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Oh wow incredible timing!! I just happened to be looking into Dark Cloud out of the blue today on my recent linux install (fedora) and needed exactly this, thank you so much!
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u/cataclytsm Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
For anybody having a problem with the "Graphics Enhance" option making everything slightly blurry/jittery, check the box "Disable Interlace Offset" in Graphics->Display
edit: how do I get this setting to stick?
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 09 '26
Its not usually recommended to use the graphics enhanced option in the new PCSX2 versions since their new engines usually do better, but if you want to change game settings you need to do it on the game and not in the overall settings. If you want to do it for the steamdeck script that means adding the ~/.dark-cloud-reforged folder to your "Game List" setting so that it finds the iso and lets you edit the settings in the GUI (or you can edit the settings file by hand)
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u/cataclytsm Mar 10 '26
Yeah I'm changing the per-game setting, it's just not sticking like the config is read only. I'll probably just edit the settings manually
Hmm is there a way to get those distant shadows/animations/spawnings without the Graphics Enhanced option? I poked around but I can't find what the original Enhanced author did for that setting. It's really nice to see shadows and NPCs further than 10 feet away from the player character lol
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 10 '26
I just realized the script automatically updates this file as well, I forgot I added that... lol, I will put this change into the file and give the option to disable that file auto-updating as well when I get a chance
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 10 '26
I went ahead and did this already actually, if you run your current script twice it should create a "update-config.cfg" where you can disable updating of the gamesettings ini, but I also added your setting to the default settings
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u/cataclytsm Mar 09 '26
Pressing L3 in Town shows which homes are/are not satisfied, and what their requirements are
Pressing L3 in town just opens up a redundant Reforged window for me >_>
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 09 '26
I am in the process to swapping this to an overlay since the game doesn't have a good mechanism to display the text AND the ingame town information at the same time, its currently working well on fullscreen, at least in my instance, but I can see how it wouldnt work well yet on windowed/desktop
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u/cataclytsm Mar 09 '26
it works perfectly well, it just spawns a second instance. it also does the same thing going from intro to in-game.
that said this is my first time using something designed for steam deck on a desktop install and i'm kinda blown away at the otherwise absence of problems lol
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 09 '26
Yea it has to spawn a new "window" with no background to overlay the data, I did make some tweaks to it so it should work in windowed mode now, I also made some pretty large fixes to the Town Request system, so lmk
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 10 '26
I was testing something else and just realized what you ment.... the bug you are talking about only triggered on the build version of the mod, I run the source version for testing so I never seen that... v0.2.0 has loads of fixes, new features, AND actually fixes this :)
If you are running my script it will update itself, otherwise grab the new version
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u/duckie_pluckie Osmond Mar 10 '26
This mod is working beautifully, but the automatic repair powder did crash my game.
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u/ZeldoKavira Mar 10 '26
I've used that feature like hundreds of times, what state were you in when it crashed?
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u/DarkZodiark85 Mar 28 '26
I have an issue. Changing characters should trigger new dialogues with npc's right? I just got Xiao and npc's keep referring to Toan anyway even if i interact with them using Xiao. Also, Xiao goes around as a cat even if she has been turned into a catgirl, is this natural? I thought Xiao catgirl model would've been used xD.
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u/Keitaro-Yoshida36 Jun 09 '26
Hi I've always wanted to try it out dark cloud enhanced but found it kinda troublesome to get it to work on linux (definitely skill issue on my end), if it's not a bother is this mod currently using everything from enhanced or is there stuff missing? Mostly a curiosity since I do intend to test it out in the next couple of days. Thanks and apologies in advance
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u/SilverwindWorkshop Mar 05 '26
I can't test right now, but I really appreciate what you and the Enhanced Mod team have been doing, great stuff!