Oni 2 (Angel Studios)/Running: Difference between revisions

[[Image:Oni 2 - Initial Attack.JPG|right|thumb|x220px|Characters will often be "blacked out" due to an issue with the lighting code. This is normal.]]

The dev build is playable on a modded PS2 or in an emulator. The only mature PS2 emulator is [https://pcsx2.net/ PCSX2] for Windows and Linux.

To prevent glitched shadows when playing Oni 2 in PCSX2, you need to switch the GSdx plugin to Software mode; this will severely cut performance compared to rendering in Hardware mode. A separate issue with the lighting in this dev build will cause characters to become silhouettes in many settings; this cannot be corrected.

Once Oni 2 is running, there is only one level available by choosing New Game. Fourteen additional levels, however, can be chosen from the Load Game menu. Beyond this, an additional 80 layouts can be made available by patching the game disc ISO with the tool [http://mods.oni2.net/node/347 HERE]. "Layout" is the engine's term for what we would call a level or a room; some layouts are quite small, and others are large and complex. This makes a total of 95 layouts in the game (1 + 14 + 80). However, many of these (24, by one count) are nonfunctional. All the layouts are documented in their current functional or nonfunctional state on the [[../Levels|Levels]] page. Levels can take a couple minutes to load, and some do not have loading screens, instead displaying a gray screen until they're done loading.

Oni 2 accepts various launch arguments. To pass arguments to the game, you must use a [https://buildbot.orphis.net/pcsx2/index.php recent nightly build] of PCSX2 which supports this feature, as the current stable release does not have it. Calling PCSX2 on the command line, pass it the argument <tt>--game-args="-arg1 -arg2 -etc."</tt>. Note that the patch tool provided in the previous section will allow you to play any level without using launch arguments.