Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2: Sisters Generation

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2: Sisters Generation

Developers
	Idea Factory
	Compile Heart
	Felistella
Publishers
	Idea Factory International
Release dates
Windows	May 29, 2015

Hyperdimension Neptunia

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1	2015
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2: Sisters Generation	2015
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3: V Generation	2015
Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed	2016
Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart	2016
Megadimension Neptunia VII	2016
MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies	2016

Key points

Offers some improvements over Re;Birth 1, including native borderless windowed mode, fix for analog sticks axial direction lock and fixed issues with cutscenes.

Many fixes available for the Re;Birth 1 should work with Re;Birth 2, including Hyperresolution Neptunia mod.

Games resolution option is for windowed mode only and game doesn't feature any other graphical settings. Use Hyperresolution Neptunia to increase either performance or visuals.

Has pretty widespread issue, where FPS drops when Guard break is performed in combat.

General information

Official site

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Amazon.com
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

All versions require Steam DRM.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Free DLC is already included with base installation and can be toggled from main menu before starting the game.

Some DLC (Anime Collaboration Set, Histy's Rescue Plans and Nepgear's Beam Zapper ZERO) are known to break games leveling curve, by giving items that far surpass stats of the normal game items from the very start.

Name	Notes
Histy's Rehabilitation Package	Free DLC.
Histy's Beginner Package	Free DLC.
Believe in Pippin Set	Free DLC.
Nepgear's 『Nepgear Eye Mask』	Free DLC.
Anime Collaboration Set	Free DLC.
Additional Content Pack 1
Additional Content Pack 2
Additional Content Pack 3
Histy's Rescue Plans
Nepgear's Beam Zapper ZERO

Essential improvements

Hyperresolution Neptunia

PCGamingWiki mirror of newest version

Game's resolution options only go up to 1920x1080. With fullscreen game always uses desktop's resolution despite selected resolution option and resolution overall does not go above roughly 1080p. This may become problematic for low end machines as resolution is only graphical option to get more performance and high end will get blurry visuals.

With this mod it's possible to force games renderer to use specific resolution. This means it's possible to improve performance with lower values, get better visuals when using desktop's native resolution and use it for downsampling as when using higher resolutions.

Install the mod[citation needed] Download archive and extract it into <path-to-game>. Open gliConfig.ini with preferred text editor. Change values renderWidth and renderHeight at the top of the file to desired values. Save the file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows
Steam	<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\351710\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows
Steam	<Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\351710\remote\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Graphics settings.

Graphics option	Option	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
4K Ultra HD		Use Hyperresolution Neptunia.
Field of view (FOV)		Camera distance can be changed with d-pad up/down and mouse scroll.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Uses a DoF/blur filter. For downsampling use Hyperresolution Neptunia.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Always enabled.
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input settings

Controller prompts are always used.

Device select.

Keyboard and controller rebinding.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping		Keys are bind into controller buttons.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		All button prompts can be clicked on to perform their functions and right mouse button is back. Scroll wheel doesn't scroll in scrollable lists.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		XInput and DirectInput. With DirectInput rebind the buttons.
Full controller support		If game doesn't detect controller it has to be selected with mouse or keyboard from settings. Cursor stays on the screen.
Controller remapping		Select controller on Device Select.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion		Supported both through rebinding and direct axis inversion.

Additional information
Button prompts		DualShock buttons hackable. See here.
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback

Audio settings

Audio and camera settings.

Some cutscenes completely lack voice acting and lipsyncing, including in Japanese.

Even though audio sliders are provided, audio mixing is somewhat inconsistent. Most notable example is overworld map music, which much higher constant volume.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, effects, voice and movie.
Surround sound
Subtitles		Videos are subtitled only if japanese audio has been selected.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		True for windowed mode.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
Japanese				Lipsyncing is done for japanese audio.

Issues unresolved

Severe FPS drop with Guard Break

This seems to have been the problem since closed beta state and is occurring even on higher end machines. Using Hyperresolution to lower rendering resolution and playing from SSD doesn't fix the issue, but will make the drop last much less.

Game crashing in certain parts

In game parts include entering the "LAN castle" for the first time.

Codecs and codec packs (CCCP, KCP, K-Lite) may be causing issues with the game.^{[citation needed]}

Uninstall all third party codecs[citation needed] Uninstall all third party codecs. Try to resolve if there's any codec conflicts (e.g. with Microsoft Fixit Codec tool, Codec Tweak tool, InstalledCodec, etc.) and clean registry from possible leftover values (e.g. with CCleaner). Reboot the machine and try out the game. Notes You may also try resetting codec packs settings to defaults.

For some users, this issue seems to be related to some DLC. Playing without DLC solves the issue.^{[citation needed]}

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	7, 9
OpenGL	3.3
Shader Model support	4
64-bit executable

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	E-mote

System requirements

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5xxx, 1GB VRAM 5000 series may not work properly with this game.

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7
Processor (CPU)	Core2Duo 2.66 GHz	3GHz Intel i3
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	7 GB
Video card (GPU)	1 GB of VRAM OpenGL 3.3 compatible DirectX 10 compatible Shader model 4 support
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card