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The Legend of Heroes: Ao no Kiseki is a singleplayer isometric JRPG game in the The Legend of Heroes series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SecuROM DRM disc check.^[1]

This game was released digitally on Joyoland

Essential improvements

Geofront Translation

Besides translating the game in English, the fan translation offers a lot of improvements to the game like support for higher resolutions, turbo mode, increased framerate, as well as support for voice acting from the Japanese exclusive Evolution/Kai versions.

How to enable voice Acting
Download the voice files Move the talk folder in <path-to-game>\data

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\savefile\^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		Geofront fan translation only.
4K Ultra HD		Geofront fan translation only.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Option available in the Geofront fan translation. Used in place of exclusive fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Options for "Point", "Bilinear" and "Anisotropic" filtering available in the Geofront fan translation.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Geofront fan translation only. MSAA (2x-8x) options are available.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Disabled in original release. Toggleable in the Geofront fan translation.
60 FPS		Locked to 30 FPS in the original release. Options for 60 FPS, 120 FPS and 144 FPS are available in the Geofront fan translation.
120+ FPS		Locked to 30 FPS in the original release. Options for 60 FPS, 120 FPS and 144 FPS are available in the Geofront fan translation.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Official release suffers from limited support for modern controllers.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts		Geofront fan translation only.
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers
PlayStation button prompts		Geofront fan translation only.
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts		Options for Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and generic (referred to as "Default") presets and button prompts are available in the Geofront fan translation.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Sliders for "BGM" and "SFX". In the Geofront fan translation, there's an additional slider for "Voice acting".
Surround sound		Stereo only.
Subtitles		N/A for the original release, as the game relies heavily on text boxes. The Geofront fan translation includes an option for subtitles for the opening and ending FMV sequences.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
Simplified Chinese				Available on Tencent Wegame and Joyland platform.
Traditional Chinese
English				Requires Geofront Fantranslation, Japanese audio mod avaiable
Japanese				Available as a voice option in the Steam version, but not as a main language
Korean				Steam version only

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	5 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 9600 GS

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

↑ Verified by User:Itsumi1117 on 2021-05-01

[gamedir-2] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[1] Verified by User:Itsumi1117 on 2021-05-01

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[Note 1]

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 ==Essential improvements==
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-{{++}} Besides translating the game in english, the fantranslation offers a lot of improvements to the game like support for higher resolutions, turbo mode, voice acting from the japanese esclusive Kai version and increased framerate
+{{++}} Besides translating the game in English, the fan translation offers a lot of improvements to the game like support for higher resolutions, turbo mode, increased framerate, as well as support for voice acting from the Japanese exclusive Evolution/Kai versions.
 {{Fixbox|description=How to enable voice Acting|fix=
 # Download [https://mega.nz/file/3ph1nS7B#qJ0B9VbJnJmlAnTouaEI4QD5Ri8GN-b04_nqegbhKPk the voice files]
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 |antialiasing               = hackable
 |antialiasing notes         = Geofront fan translation only. [[MSAA]] (2x-8x) options are available.
+|upscaling                  = unknown
+|upscaling tech             =
+|upscaling notes            =
 |vsync                      = hackable
 |vsync notes                = Disabled in original release. Toggleable in the Geofront fan translation.
@@ Line 137: / Line 140: @@
 |xbox prompts              = hackable
 |xbox prompts notes        = Geofront fan translation only.
-|impulse triggers          = unknown
+|impulse triggers          = false
 |impulse triggers notes    =
 |dualshock 4               = true
@@ Line 186: / Line 189: @@
 |mute on focus lost notes =
 |eax support              =
-|eax support notes        =
+|eax support notes         =
+|royalty free audio        = unknown
+|royalty free audio notes  =
 }}
 {{L10n|content=
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = Simplified Chinese
+ |interface = true
+ |audio     = n/a
+ |subtitles = true
+ |notes     = Available on Tencent Wegame and Joyland platform.
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
 {{L10n/switch
   |language  = Traditional Chinese
@@ Line 205: / Line 219: @@
   |subtitles = hackable
   |notes     = Requires Geofront Fantranslation, Japanese audio mod avaiable
+ |fan       =
+ |ref       =
+}}
+{{L10n/switch
+ |language  = Japanese
+ |interface = false
+ |audio     = true
+ |subtitles = false
+ |notes     = Available as a voice option in the Steam version, but not as a main language
   |fan       =
   |ref       =
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   |subtitles = true
   |notes     = Steam version only
- |fan       =
- |ref       =
-}}
-{{L10n/switch
- |language  = Japanese
- |interface = false
- |audio     = true
- |subtitles = false
- |notes     = Available as a voice option in the Steam version, but not as a main language
   |fan       =
   |ref       =
@@ Line 255: / Line 269: @@
 |windows 32-bit exe     = true
 |windows 64-bit exe     = false
+|windows arm app        = unknown
 |windows exe notes      =
 |mac os x powerpc app   =
 |macos intel 32-bit app = unknown
 |macos intel 64-bit app = unknown
+|macos arm app          = unknown
 |macos app notes        =
 |linux powerpc app      =
 |linux 32-bit executable= unknown
 |linux 64-bit executable= unknown
+|linux arm app          = unknown
 |linux executable notes =
 }}
@@ Line 270: / Line 287: @@
 |OSfamily = Windows
-|minOS    = Windows XP
+|minOS    = XP
 |minCPU   = Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz
 |minRAM   = 1 GB

Developers

	Nihon Falcom
Publishers
China	Joyoland
Release dates
Windows	2013
Taxonomy
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Turn-based
Perspectives	Isometric
Controls	Menu-based
Genres	JRPG
Sports	Fishing
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Steampunk
Series	The Legend of Heroes