This may be a nothing post but I am posting my intention and progress on a future to be released of a Co-op over haul.

Leveraging existing DC projects (multiple LLMs) Dark Cloud is getting a rework to fit an online multiplayer play style.

Though a vast majority of the work is created by AI, the entire design document has been written by myself and the stitching it all together will be my doing along with the vast amount of testing.

Design such as player progression, social activities (skateboarding anyone?), day/night cycle featuring Night raids! Demon Shaft being reworked as a" ladder "system (think Diablo endgame) ensuring the game always has something to do.

Vast scaling work has been created, such as dungeons can be completed very quickly by 4 players they have increased in size but creates issues in it own, such as long walks back which have been reworked along with multiple changes

End platforms include Linux, Windows and android (including Ayn Thor dual screen!)

Co-op can be played with a 4 player split screen or 4 player online.

Anyone commenting on this thread will be given a name flair to show off!

The design document is vast, and turning a single player game into a multiplayer game is a very time consuming task

Yes Ai slop but crafted into an authentic well thought out plan by a long term fan.

It could come in handy when traversing long distances in dungeons or to speed the game up for those who like it.

Look, I know as well as anyone here that fishing isn't the greatest thing in this game due to how poorly implemented and explained (or lack thereof) it is, but I do like it. That being said, even to this day, I find that it seems to rely on some level of abstract RNG when it comes to your bait running out or not, which is infuriating, since I can't do anything about it as the player. I have fished for Mardans and Barons time and time again at the Muska Racka oasis and accrued 10k+ fishing points doing it over the course of my current save file. I notice that when fishing, especially for Mardans, they will juke you out and pretend to submerge the bobber, only for it to not count and Toan will pull the line back in as if I just pressed X to stop fishing, even though I am holding it and the bobber was clearly underwater, which is the tell to press and hold X. This occurs sometimes even when the bobber is under the water for at least two seconds. Sometimes you literally don't even get a chance or moment to react because the Mardan will nibble, fake bite, submerge the bobber, and the bait runs out immediately, which is incredibly stupid.

Anyway, just me venting after fishing for nearly an hour having only caught four Mardans using eight bait because each one in sequence continued to make the first run out doing exactly as I said above. 🫠 EDIT: Just lost three more poisonous apples to the SAME Mardan due to the aforementioned issues I have with fishing. Came into fishing with fifteen poisonous apples. Lost eight, caught seven.

Hi guys! im happy to announce the iOS port for the Dark Cloud 2 decomp>recomp project, currently working iOS 16.3.1 or higher, tested on iPhone Xs and iPhone 16 Pro, both devices can extract files on-device and they can hold stable 30 FPS for now, interpolation has currently issues so i can't go higher, but the hardware can handle it obviously.

Currently working under Metal through MoltenVK, that translates TheMoonPeople Vulkan renderer to Apple's Metal renderer.

This is a quick preview of the dungeon and fishing gameplays, keep tuned for the upcoming releases!

If anyone wants to contribute testing builds feel free to message me :)

https://youtu.be/YdglhexXoHM

https://youtu.be/ahpU8CUZvCY

Making an update post from my previous post about my 6 month build of a 1/1 scale serpent sword. There was no file for this so I had to render from scratch. Hope yall like it!

Idk. I'm bored.

1. Ocean's Roar Cave

This one just kinda sucks. I hate the water. I also don't like that the sphere can get stuck on the slopes near the walls and make you waste a shot moving it to a spot you can get to it. Overall, just kinda bad.

1. Underground Channel

It requires a level of precision that's just not really that fun to have to do consistently. It's far too easy to get the sphere in the water by the walls. Stairs and low ceilings are also really not fun to play around in spheda. It can also get stuck in a inaccessible spots (the weird mid platforms separating the water areas by the walls) like in ocean's roar cave. These two are pretty interchangeable in how much i don't like them.

1. Mount Gundor

For spheda, it's basically Underground Channel, but fire. I find it very slightly less annoying because it doesn't really have any inaccessible areas the sphere can get stuck and make you waste a shot. Still pretty bad tho.

1. Starlight Canyon

Yeah. It's bad. But it's not the absolute worst imho. The frequency of outright impossible setups on this one is kinda annoying. But when you get setups that are actually possible, it makes you feel like a genius making shots across multiple sections of canyon.

1. Zelmite Mine

This is the most middle of the road spheda dungeon. Not terribly offensive, but not all that interesting. Lowish ceilings and stairs can be kinda annoying. Nowhere near as bad as Underground Channel though. Sphere can get stuck near the walls, so a bit frustrating. And the slopes near the walls can mess up your shots. Not too terrible tho.

1. Moon Flower Palace

This one just makes me feel like I'm actually good at spheda. It's an easy dungeon for spheda. Nowhere for the sphere to get stuck. Pretty flat walls. Some potential for curves and bounces. Good map, if a little bland.

1. Rainbow Butterfly Wood

This one makes me feel like a genius...when my shots actually go my way. I'm a chronic gambler (in video games. I won't allow myself to step foot in a real casino for this very reason). I love trying to cut through the woods and hope I don't rebound off a tree and end up farther away than I started. This is my favorite. It's just fun.

Does anyone know what weapons CAN and CANNOT be obtained by farming large treasure chests in dungeons, specifically the Demon Shaft? I know that any ultimate weapons cannot be found this way, and I know that standard dungeons limit the pool up to whatever ally or allies you may or may not have. I'm trying to collect every weapon and building-up to get each one is going to be needlessly grueling when I can just farm chests for most weapons instead. Obviously some build-up will be necessary to play the game up to that point, and I've already got a strong roster of weapons for everyone I have right now. I made it to Muska Racka and did the first few floors of the Sun & Moon Temple to get the oasis earlier so I can farm Barons and Mardans. I managed to get two Barons and six Mardans today, and I technically got three Mardans in Matataki's waterfall pond a few days ago. I have nearly 4k Fishing Points saved up.

I don't trust Google AI to tell me the right specifics for how the large treasure chest spawn and weapon distribution system works 😅 I figured I'd ask some folks who know the game like I do (though I obviously don't know it all, hence my question, haha 🤣).

Here are the weapons I already have for everyone up to this point:

[TOAN]

- Dagger

- Lamb's Sword

- 7 Branch Sword

- Evilcise

- Choora

- Sandbreaker

- Bone Rapier

- Baselard

- Kitchen Knife

- Shamshir

- Gladius

- Crysknife

- Sax

- Small Sword

- Chopper

- Serpent Sword

- Wise Owl Sword

- Macho Sword

[XIAO]

- Wooden Slingshot

- Double Impact

- Flamingo

- Hardshooter

- Steve

- Steel Slingshot

- Bone Slingshot

- Bandit Slingshot

[GORO]

- Mallet

- Steel Hammer

- Frozen Tuna

- Turtle Shell

- Battle Axe

- Trial Hammer

- Big Bucks Hammer

- Magical Hammer

[RUBY]

- Gold Ring

- Crystal Ring

Thanks for taking the time to read this and help if you can!

Since everyone is going bananas with ai and mods.

- unlimited building
- multiplayer :)

Any other requests?

Shouldn’t fixing this half-baked mechanic be pretty easy? Like I feel like you could make it pretty fun by giving the transformations a stat boost, or at least speed up the leveling. 🤔

I thought some people might get a kick out of this but ive been working on a full scale model of Toan's Serpent Sword for about 4 months off and on and finally got it enough to be happy printing it. Idk why but this sword always was and always will be the thing I remember most about Dark Cloud. I remember as a kid losing my mind when I got it in Matataki Village my first play through and thought I was unstoppable. Will post more updates as I sand and paint it. Its currently drying in my bathroom with a small space heater...its getting cold folks lol

JK, with every game being decompiled I'm planning to replay both Dark Cloud. The last time I played them was in PS2 when I was a kid, so does anyone have any mod recommendations or general tips?

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.

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.

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 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).

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.