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Drakengard 3

Developer(s)	Access Games
Publisher(s)	Square Enix
Series	Drakengard
Release date(s)	^JP December 19, 2013 ^NA May 20, 2014 ^PAL May 21, 2014
Release type	PlayStation 3 exclusive
Genre(s)	Action, Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player
GameID(s)	BLUS31197 ^(IRD), NPEB01407, NPUB31251, BLJM61043, BCAS20311
Quick links	Check Compatibility Open Issues Search Google Wikipedia Page

Drakengard 3 (originally released in Japan as Drag-On Dragoon 3) is the third game in the Drakengard series and a prequel to the original game. The game, like the rest of the series, features a mixture of ground-based hack-and-slash combat and aerial battles. The story focuses on Zero, a woman who can manipulate magic through song. Partnering with a dragon named Mikhail, Zero set out to kill her five sisters, who rule the world's regions. As she travels, the player discovers the true reason behind Zero's rampage.

The game, created to cater for hardcore role-playing game audiences, was developed by the same team who created the original Drakengard and series spin-off Nier, including producer Takamasa Shiba, director Yoko Taro and writer Sawako Natori. The music was composed by Keiichi Okabe, who also scored Nier. Unlike previous titles in the series, the team developed the game at Access Games, due to the company's experience at developing action titles and the team's wish to address criticisms laid at the gameplay of previous Drakengard games. Drakengard 3 received mixed to positive reviews and sales in Japan and mixed reviews in the west. The ground-based gameplay and story were generally praised, while common criticisms included the dragon gameplay, graphics and multiple technical issues.

Configuration

Options that deviate from RPCS3's default settings and provide the best experience with this title are listed below.

GPU configuration

Setting	Option	Notes
Anisotropic filter	Auto	Changing to anything other than Auto causes graphical issues.
Resolution scale threshold	512 x 512	To be used when Resolution scaling is set above 100%.

Advanced configuration

Setting	Option	Notes
Vblank rate	120	120 for 60FPS or 240 for 120FPS. To be enabled along with the FPS patch.

Known Issues

Low-resolution Depth-of-Field effect

The depth-of-field buffer created by the game seems to be ~322x322 pixels, which is unfortunately lower than the above recommended resolution scale threshold of 512x512, causing the depth-of-field effect to not get scaled up when using it.

Using a threshold of 321x321 (or lower) can allow DoF to scale properly, but will then cause issues with other effects (eg. most glow effects will become artifacted), until a way is found to possibly resize the DoF buffer separately, a patch to disable it entirely can be found below for certain releases.

Special Notes

Patches

Anchors:
  DOD3_FPS_Notes: &DOD3_FPS_Notes "Need to also change Vblank frequency to 120Hz for 60FPS or 240Hz for 120FPS. Going over 120FPS is possible, but you will break physics a bit (lowering jump height) and make it impossible to lock-on to enemies when flying on the dragon."
  # Min frametime is this value / 30
  # 0.125 / 30 is 4.1ms, so max FPS is 240
  # This game has a second framerate limiter based
  # on Vblank, so set Vblank high to raise the framerate
  # Max FPS is Vblank / 2

  DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Notes: &DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Notes "When using the FPS unlock patch the horizontal camera sensitivity gets very low. This patch changes a multiplier so that the horizontal camera sensitivity slider in the game's settings does something meaningful again. The multiplier can be altered in the patch file."
  # Sensitivity formula is "SliderValue * (Multiplier + 1)"
  # Where SliderValue is the setting (0-15) from the game settings and
  # default Multiplier is 0.125, giving a default range of 0.125 - 2.
  # 0.35 seems good from my testing, feel free to change as you see fit.
  DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Multiplier: &DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Multiplier 0.35000000

PPU-2b393f064786e5895d5a576621deb4c9107a8f0b:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLUS31197: [ 01.00 ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x008edc5c, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS

PPU-f2f7f7ea0444353884bb715152147c3a29f4e790:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLUS31197: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x008edbcc, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS
  Increase Horizontal Camera Sensitivity:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLUS31197: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: RagingCactus
    Notes: *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x0091b69c, *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Multiplier]
  Disable low-res Depth-of-Field:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLUS31197: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: emoose
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0xa5455c, 0x38800000 ] # patch ASqex03GameRender::EnableDOF to override r4 param with 0
  Unprotect game files:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLUS31197: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: emoose
    Notes: "Disables SHA-1 hash checking of the following files: coalesced_int.bin, coalesced_fra.bin, core.xxx, engine.xxx, gfxui.xxx, ipdrv.xxx, gameframework.xxx, onlinesubsystempc.xxx, cdevsounddriver_loc_int.xxx, cdevsounddriver.xxx, sqexsead.xxx, sqex03game.xxx, startup.xxx, cdevsounddriver_loc_fra.xxx"
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x8c50b8, 0x30840000 ]

PPU-b18834a8f21cd29a091b287a66656a279ccba507:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        NPUB31251: [ 01.00 ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x008ecf2c, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS

PPU-9c04f427625a0064282432e4edfefe9e0956c303:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        NPUB31251: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x008ececc, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS
  Increase Horizontal Camera Sensitivity:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        NPUB31251: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: RagingCactus
    Notes: *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x0091a99c, *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Multiplier]
  Disable low-res Depth-of-Field:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        NPUB31251: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: emoose
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0xa5385c, 0x38800000 ] # patch ASqex03GameRender::EnableDOF to override r4 param with 0
  Unprotect game files:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        NPUB31251: [ 01.01 ]
    Author: emoose
    Notes: "Disables SHA-1 hash checking of the following files: coalesced_int.bin, coalesced_fra.bin, core.xxx, engine.xxx, gfxui.xxx, ipdrv.xxx, gameframework.xxx, onlinesubsystempc.xxx, cdevsounddriver_loc_int.xxx, cdevsounddriver.xxx, sqexsead.xxx, sqex03game.xxx, startup.xxx, cdevsounddriver_loc_fra.xxx"
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x8c4398, 0x30840000 ]

PPU-e1a44e5d3fb03a37f0445e92ed13abce8d6efdd4:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        NPEB01407: [ All ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x008eceec, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS

PPU-60d4a7e2b5efa835e16f51de649c3e3b202e072e:
  Unlock FPS (For Delisted Ver):
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        NPEB01407: [ All ]
    Author: Whatcookie, Asinine
    Notes: Required for old delisted versions of this gameID. There was a silent update to fix DLC issues. Both versions are listed as "01.00", so the patch can't be separated. Need to also change Vblank frequency to 120Hz for 60FPS or 240Hz for 120FPS. Going over 120FPS is possible, but you will break physics a bit (lowering jump height) and make it impossible to lock-on to enemies when flying on the dragon.
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x8ECF1C, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS

PPU-a017576369165f3746730724c8ae762ed9bc64d8:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLJM61043: [ 01.00 ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x00939a14, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS

PPU-c09c496514f6dc591434575b04eb7c003826c11d:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLJM61043: [ 01.04 ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x008ed62c, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS
  Increase Horizontal Camera Sensitivity:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLJM61043: [ 01.04 ]
    Author: RagingCactus
    Notes: *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x91988c, *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Multiplier]
  Disable low-res Depth-of-Field:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLJM61043: [ 01.04 ]
    Author: emoose
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0xa4e854, 0x38800000 ] # patch ASqex03GameRender::EnableDOF to override r4 param with 0
  Unprotect game files:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BLJM61043: [ 01.04 ]
    Author: emoose
    Notes: "Disables SHA-1 hash checking of the following files: coalesced_int.bin, coalesced_jpn.bin, core.xxx, engine.xxx, gfxui.xxx, ipdrv.xxx, gameframework.xxx, onlinesubsystempc.xxx, cdevsounddriver_loc_int.xxx, cdevsounddriver.xxx, sqexsead.xxx, sqex03game.xxx, startup.xxx, cdevsounddriver_loc_jpn.xxx"
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x8c5310, 0x30840000 ]

PPU-5eb979631fbbe531db5d20f0622dca5a8b64090e:
  Unlock FPS:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BCAS20311: [ 01.02 ]
    Author: Whatcookie
    Notes: *DOD3_FPS_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x008edc5c, 0.12500000 ] # 240 max FPS
  Increase Horizontal Camera Sensitivity:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BCAS20311: [ 01.02 ]
    Author: RagingCactus
    Notes: *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Notes
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ bef32, 0x91ad64, *DOD3_Camera_H_Sens_Multiplier]
  Disable low-res Depth-of-Field:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BCAS20311: [ 01.02 ]
    Author: emoose
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0xa5245c, 0x38800000 ] # patch ASqex03GameRender::EnableDOF to override r4 param with 0
  Unprotect game files:
    Games:
      "Drakengard 3 (Drag-On Dragoon 3)":
        BCAS20311: [ 01.02 ]
    Author: emoose
    Notes: "Disables SHA-1 hash checking of the following files: coalesced_int.bin, coalesced_chn.bin, coalesced_cze.bin, coalesced_deu.bin, coalesced_esm.bin, coalesced_esn.bin, coalesced_fra.bin, coalesced_hun.bin, coalesced_ita.bin, coalesced_jpn.bin, coalesced_kor.bin, coalesced_pol.bin, coalesced_ptb.bin, coalesced_rus.bin, coalesced_slo.bin, core.xxx, engine.xxx, gfxui.xxx, ipdrv.xxx, gameframework.xxx, onlinesubsystempc.xxx, cdevsounddriver.xxx, sqexsead.xxx, sqex03game.xxx, startup.xxx"
    Patch Version: 1.0
    Patch:
      - [ be32, 0x8c5178, 0x30840000 ]

Original EU PSN version DLC bug

The original release (v1.00) of NPEB01407 had a bug where DLCs were not recognised correctly. Instead of pushing an update to fix this issue, Square Enix pulled the entire game from the store and replaced it with the fixed version (v1.01). Users who had downloaded the original version were required to completely uninstall the game and re-download the fixed version. Fortunately, if a user tried to download the game today, only the fixed version will be downloaded. It is therefore important for owners of NPEB01407 to download the newer version of the game using the instructions mentioned in out game dumping guide. License file is unchanged between the two versions.