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Skylanders SWAP Force doesn't fully recognize some items #13315

Open robotics13 opened 1 year ago

robotics13 commented 1 year ago

Quick summary

This YouTube video shows the problem and the work around described below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClxOr7qDCPY&t=1410s (video does contain some loud audio distortions). Didn't see an issue open for this so I decided to document it here.

Placing some Adventure Packs, Magic Items, Battle Pieces, or Sidekicks created through the Skylanders Creator on the emulated portal will show the animation for the item being placed on the portal and will activate the item's special effect and countdown/health bar but SWAP Force won't update your collection to show that you have the item.

Details

Steps to recreate

  1. While playing SWAP Force where you do not already have one of the affected items in your collection, create the item with the Skylander Creator.
  2. The item will automatically be placed on the emulated portal and the ‘placed on portal’ animation will run showing the item.
  3. The item's special effect and countdown timer/health bar will appear and work normally.
  4. For adventure packs, the adventure pack cutscene will not run, nor will the adventure pack entrance appear in the Woodburrow.
  5. Hit start and select Collection, use L2 or R2 to scroll over to Player's Skylanders (Spyro icon), move the cursor to the Other Toys item (castle icon) and hit X.
  6. The item you created will still appear dimmed and not register as being in your Other Toys collection.

Expected Result

For adventure packs, the adventure pack cutscene will play and the adventure pack entrance would appear in Woodburrow.

For all items, the item would appear in your collection.

Work Around

SWAP Force doesn't recognize the current Variant ID used by the Skylander Creator.

Users can work around this issue for some items in the Skylander Creator by selecting the affected item from the dropdown list and entering a custom Variant ID.

Affected items

I ran some limited tests with the below items on SWAP Force and found the 8192 Variant ID works for some of the items below.

Items not listed below worked as expected 'out of the box'.

Adventure Packs

Item Current Variant ID Working Variant ID
Sheep Wreck Island 0 8192
Tower of Time 0 8192

Magic Items

Item Current Variant ID Working Variant ID
Battle Hammer 0 8192
Sky Diamond 0 8192
Platinum Sheep 0 8192
Groove Machine 0 8192
Platinum Hidden Treasure 8192 never workd on real game

From some Googling, the real Platinum Hidden Treasure is buggy in SWAP Force and wouldn't actually add to the player's collection like it should. Included in this list for reference. https://forum.darkspyro.net/spyro/viewposts.php?topic=90945

Battle Pieces

Item Current Variant ID Working Variant ID
Scorpion Striker 0  
Fiery Forge 0 8192
Arkeyan Crossbow 0 8192
Dragonfire Cannon 0  

Sidekick

Item Current Variant ID Working Variant ID
Eye Small 0  
Barkley 0  
Mini-Jini 0  
Thumpling 0  
Whisper Elf 0  

Attach a log file

RPCS3.log.gz

Attach capture files for visual issues

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System configuration

Other details

Name: Skylanders SWAP Force Serial: BLUS31076 Version: 01.01

robotics13 commented 1 year ago

I tested these items in Trap Team and the current Variant ID 0 works as expected, the items function normally in the game and they are recorded in the collection. I also tested Scorpion Striker and Dragonfire Cannon in Giants and they unlock the battle arenas as expected. I haven't tested SuperChargers, this may just be a quirk with SWAP Force.