Birth by Sleep

Hey everyone, over the past 2 weeks I've been making this Command Melding Tool for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. As of today, it's feature-complete! If you've ever been annoyed by how you can't see what commands/abilities you'll get through command melding, this interactive tool will make your next playthrough go a lot smoother. It has 2 modes:

- Meld Mode: Select the commands you want to meld together, and see the resulting new command, as well as all possible abilities (based on the crystal you use), and probability of success.


- Recipe Mode: Select the command you want to create, and see all possible ways to make it. Can also see abilities and chance of success.


All menus are searchable so you can quickly find what you're looking for.

If you find any inaccuracies, please report them to me. I was very careful, but there are literally hundreds of recipes, so chances are I made a few mistakes (already caught/fixed some while testing). You can DM me here or on Discord (iwt_explode). You can also reach out on Twitter (@KHVidsNET) or Bluesky (@Kh-Vids.net), I should those as well.

Meld responsibly!

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of 'Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep', series director, Tetsuya Nomura, provided some insight one of the important elements in the game (and the series as whole), and that is the infamous crossroads where important events occurred (and hint of potentially what's to come). You can check out Nomura's comments below:


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In a surprise move, Disney and Square-Enix today have released the soundtracks of 358/2 Days, Re:coded, Birth by Sleep, and Dream Drop Distance to streaming services (Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music), giving fans the chance to stream many great tracks from these games, many of which haven't been included in the HD 1.5 and 2.5 OSTs!
The tracks for Days, Re:coded, and BBS are compiled under the same album, while the tracks from DDD are in a separate album. Be sure to check it out if you have any of the above listed subscription services!

Hey everyone! Got another batch of videos for ya.

This time it's Kingdom Hearts 0.2 in 4K! This is the first game in the series that was made with HD/4K in mind, so you'll really notice the difference here: all that fine texture detail looks beautiful. And as a first for us, all real-time cutscenes run at 60 frames per second. Unfortunately this game has a considerable number of pre-rendered scenes so this only applies to about half of them. But it's very exciting dipping our toes into the new world of 60FPS. Maybe we'll see more of that in the future...

To account for double the number of frames, I had to double the bitrate in order to preserve video quality, so just bear in mind these files are going to be on the chonky side.

You can download these gorgeous, silky-smooth cutscenes here:

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -a fragmentary passage- (4K)(60FPS)(No Subtitles)(Music Toggle)

Other features of these videos include:
-Opening movie upscaled to 4K (using Topaz A.I. Gigapixel V3.1.1)
-Credit text from Opening movie removed. Possble thanks to the textless version of the OP that Square Enix uploaded to YouTube. (Can also download the version with text)
-No subtitles
-Dual audio tracks: one standard, and one without background music

Check out our full Cutscene Archive to download scenes from all throughout the series.

More to come, enjoy!

It's been announced today that Dark Horse Books will publish the first ever Ultimania Kingdom Hearts book in the west, titled 'Kingdom Hearts Ultimania: The Story Before Kingdom Hearts III'. This Ultimania book is based on the 'Kingdom Hearts Series Memorial Ultimania' book released in Japan back in 2014 around the time of the release of 'Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMix'. The book can be pre-ordered from Amazon for $44.99.