As more people have a PlayStation 3 now, I figured this would be more useful now than it was at the time, so I reposted it. The compatibility issue only applies to people with backwards compatible PS3s that don’t include the Emotion Engine.

Also, a few people asked about it anyway.

Sony recently put up a website for people to check the compatibility of PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games with PlayStation 3:

Your version of Kingdom Hearts may result in problems but Kingdom Hearts II shouldn’t. You need to check your product code (found on the spine of the box or on the disk) first. Click to enlarge:

Riku Edit: Apparently if you have the latest software update, codes SCES-50968 and SCES-50969 now run without problems. SCES-50967, previously unlisted, has minor issues. SCES-50970 still has major noticeable issues, and apparently SCES-50971 also does now too. Any codes beginning SLUS should work without issues.

Hey everyone!

Well, this past month we’ve been having a lot of news swarming in. I’ll just post them in a brief sum up of them:

Kingdom Hearts 2008 Calendar

The Kingdom Hearts 2008 Calendar was announced to be released on November 16th in Japan, and to our surprise it was released a day early! A blog user has been kind enough to provide the public with some scans:

Kingdom Hearts: Dawn of a Friend (Trading Card Game)

The Kingdom Hearts Trading Card Game is currently available. You can purchase it in your local store or through: Fantasy Flight’s Game Store. You can also check out the official website for more info, and for the commercial which we will get to later on.

KH: Visual Concept Book

“The KH: Visual concept book is set to be released on December 14th in Japan. A neogaf forum member has posted up the following info:

“The latest issue of Japanese magazine Dengeki PS has announced that Square Enix is to release a new concept visual book on December 14, 2007. The book, called CLOUD, will be published by Media Works.The book is going to feature many Square Enix titles, but will focus mainly on Fabula Nova Crystallis and Final Fantasy VII. Among the titles: It’s a Wonderful World and Kingdom Hearts.Included in the book is a special DVD. This DVD, according to the magazine, features the new trailers of Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy VII AC: Complete.This time, by the way, it’s for real.”

FFG announces KH: TCG commercial

It seems as though a KH: TCG commercial will be airing. Make sure to keep an eye out for it in select cities!

Fantasy Flight Games to Air TV Advertising for the Kingdom Hearts TCG

Roseville, MN (November 19, 2007) Fantasy Flight Games announced today that they are initiating a four week television advertising campaign for the Kingdom Hearts Trading Card Game in select cities.

“We’re excited about reaching a new audience of gamers,” said Jeremy Stomberg of FFG. “Kingdom Hearts is a hugely popular brand, and we’re hoping that these commercials will help make US and Canadian Kingdom Hearts fans aware of the availability of the TCG in North America! We hope that retailers in these markets will experience the blockbuster potential of this new game.”

The 30-second commercial will be shown in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Baltimore, Seattle, and Atlanta media markets. Channels will focus on the Cartoon Network, but will also include Toon Disney(Atlanta only), the Sci-Fi Channel (including spots in the highly anticipated Battlestar Galactica movie on November 23), as well as spots during the December 9th Video Game Awards on Spike TV. The commercial will run continually from November 19th through the 16th of December.

Firstly, Some in-depth descriptions of the trailers showed in the Squenix Closed Mega theater will be featured in a new issue of Gemaga Magazine!

Next,It seems as though a blog user from The Light in Chaos went around the Square-Enix Shop recently, and took some images of the new and old items they have in stock.

Plus, Jeux France updated their website tonight with 3 new Magazine Scans featuring the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. These images, taken from Nintendo Dream magazine, are nothing new, but do give us a better look at King Mickey’s role in the game, alongside a conversation between Axel & Saix..

Lastly, it seems as though Kingdom Heart’s TCG website has now been put up by the publishers Fantasy Flight Night. The website contains various information such as rules, an FAQ, card products, about the game and more! Not only that, they have a video about the game up which you can view on their official website. Here

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Hey Guys! It’s that time of year again…… Jump Festa 2008 is coming and the Kh3 staff will be giving coverage of it! Jump Festa is an annual party or exposition in Japan, all about anime and manga, sponsored by Shueisha, creators of the various Jump anthologies. New movies, manga, games and merchandise are introduced during this event. The tradition is that of already existing material a special item or episode is produced and presented at the convention to prove the makers aren’t out of ideas and to experiment. They also showcase new and old trailers of video games and many announcements. This year it will be taking place on Dec. 22-23.

The coverage will be starting two days before the event as Pre-Jump Festa coverage. We’ll be sure to keep you up-to-date this year.

See ya real soon!

Info from TKH

Amazon UK has recently put up an English version of the Japanese Trading Card Game “Kingdom Hearts: Dawn of a Friend” which will possibly be available from 31st December 2007. There are 4 products including:

Hi guys, this info just came here from the forums, and so, without explaining, here it is:

Quite a lot of new information was brought up; first, this is the new artwork:

Second, Square-Enix released trailers of the new games. But these trailers were shown privately, so all we have are descriptions. Here they are along with the new logos.

When the video begins, we are introduced with a series of images, followed by the words “Kingdom Hearts: New Concepts and Game Titles.” Right after this, the ending to Kingdom Hearts 2 plays, followed by the phrases “The secret ending has been dealt with, and the worlds extend once again” and “flow”.

The screen fades back in to Jiminy Cricket and the phrase “Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories”. He is peering into his journal, noticing a phrase that he cannot remember writing. It reads “You need to return, to heal the wounds”. This phrase seems to alert Jiminy in some way, as he runs off to report the finding to King Mickey. The King is startled by the discovery, but only replies with “Only he is the one who can solve it.”

We fade in and out to Sora standing on the beach at Destiny Islands. He is wearing his Kingdom Hearts 1 style clothing, but he is only shown as computer data being transmitted.

When the image of Sora disappears, a battle scene commences. As Sora is moving blocks around to finish a puzzle game, heartless are attacking from all angles. The gameplay mechanics seem very odd. After the puzzle is finished, a command called “Debugging” appears on the screen. After being activated, Sora moves extremely quickly and then vanishes.

The last scene includes Sora and Mickey in Traverse Town. Mickey says to no one in particular “I was here on that day.” and “Let’s speak truly.”. We are then presented with the name of the game: Kingdom Hearts: Coded. It has been announced to be a mobile phone game.

We are introduced with the scene where Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories had came to an end, and are then confronted with the phrase “The other side attached to Sora still sleeps”, along with “The mind comes back whenever they touch.”

The video then focuses upon Roxas and Axel, sitting atop the clock tower in Twilight Town. This seems to be the same scene from Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix+. Soon after, the video shows Roxas being invited into Organization XIII. He is being greeted by all, and introduces himself, and they do the same to him. Then the scene fades into Roxas actually joining the Organization.

Following this is a short clip of Mickey talking about Axel, and Saix near Roxas. Roxas is shown pulling out both of his keyblades, and it moves into gameplay. The gameplay confirms definitively that you may play with Roxas, Axel, Saix and Xigbar.

Xemnas then mentions something very interesting. He explains that a 14th member has joined their Organization, and that this member is female. This scene is quickly followed by the title of the game: “Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days” and a whispering Roxas saying “I will disappear from this world in 151 days”
This game is for the beloved Nintendo DS.

We are then confronted by a young boy who looks like Roxas conversing with another young boy with black hair. Their surroundings seem to resemble Hallow Bastion (Radiant Garden). The name “Ven” is thrown outward, referring to the boy who looks like Roxas.

The scene change various times before stopping at an image of the Old Man from the Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix+ Secret Ending. He is called “Master Xehanort” by Terra. Soon after, Terra summons his keyblade and the screen changes.

Various worlds are shown, and one of which is familiar to us all. “Olympus Coliseum” is making another comeback, followed by a brand new world, that of which resembles Sleeping Beauty.

The video then changes back to Terra battling against a dark figure, whom you can tell is male. This is the same man from the Secret Ending of Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix+ that the Old Man creates. Terra is able to forcably get the man’s helmet off, but his face is concealed.

King Mickey is shown summoning his keyblade, and then the scene changes very quickly to Terra on a beach. He seems to be watching two boys play in the ocean. After he rests his weapon into the ground, the two boys he was watching are clearer and they look like Sora and Riku. Soon after, Terra says “Please don’t depend on me, just erase me… friend.” The phrase “Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep” arises, and it is revealed this game is for the PSP.

Note: It has been rumored the DS game is being co-developed by Hand (Chocobo Tales) and the PSP game is being developed by the Crisis Core team. This is not a confirmation, just speculation.

Source: Kairi (KH3.org member)

Source: Famitsu

It’s been awhile since any news has been posted, so I thought I should post this. GermanSeabass has recently done his second fantastic medley of Kingdom Hearts music improvised on piano. It also includes an interpretation of “Fate of the Unknown” using the arrangement on this site:

Thanks to some of the excellent authors amongst the Kingdom Hearts 3 readership, we’ve been able to establish a brand new section, the Kingdom Hearts Editorials section!

In this section, we’ve already got articles by readers which include a comparison of Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy (which some argue is a little harsh!), an interesting theory on the future of the series, and more general KH3 Theories, which has attracted a great deal of interesting discussion.

Wanna have your theories, editorials, fan fiction, or artwork submitted to the KH3 website?! You can! We now have two ways for readers to submit articles to us, either via email or by direct website submission.

The email address you should use to submit content to Kingdom Hearts 3.net is Submit@KingdomHearts3.net, and should only be used for content submissions!

To directly post, check out this page.

In other other news, fans of Naruto should check out our networks brand new site, on which you can watch episodes for free, and even watch the movies. The name of the site is Naruto Online, and the address for the website is: http://naruto.ffnet.org/, so please be sure to bookmark it!

Welcome to our brand new network site, The Kingdom Hearts! The site is to be run by myself, Alex, Kota (a content writer for Kingdom Hearts 3), Endless, Xaldin (of KH-Vids.net fame), and Brad. It will cover Kingdom Hearts news and content for all the Kingdom Hearts series.

The website will also provide access to brand new forums, which will be launched in the near future. If you’d like to read the site, go ahead and visit www.TheKingdomHearts.com, and feel free to chat on much the same way you can chat here on Kingdom Hearts 3!

For those who own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy sites, please feel free to email us after reading the affiliation information!

So, we here at the Panic Network hope you full enjoy your time on The Kingdom Hearts.com - your number one KH2, KH3, and CoM source!

Still no real news about the upcoming “New Project” for now, so I decided to upload some more remixes that I’ve received, most of them absolutely brilliant! You can download them from FileFactory or MegaUpload from the new “More KH Remixes” page.

Also, for those of you still waiting for the English versions of the Atlantica songs, I should be able to get them up sometime over the coming week.

With so little Kingdom Hearts News around and plenty of people wanting to get their hands on a Keyblade, I decided I should show you where to do so. Unfortunately, this only applies to people in the US (which means I can’t get any of this so I don’t know the true quality).

Although there are real swords on the market at very expensive prices, there are some very reasonably priced replicas of Keyblades around, and Amazon.com currently has them on sale cheaper than anywhere else, including their supplier “Top Swords”:

Sora’s Keyblade (14lb) Price: $25.49 All Metal Construction Hanging Chain Included 35” Overall Length Shipping Weight: 14lb

Sora’s Keyblade (12lb) Price: $24.49 Unknown Material Unknown Overall Length Shipping Weight: 12lb

As for other Kingdom Hearts Merchandise, there’s a site that has imported items from the Official Square-Enix Store, including some of the items that were available at the Square-Enix Party 2007, and has them available at reasonable US prices:

GKWorld

Other than confirming again that the next game will NOT be called “Kingdom Hearts III”, it has now been confirmed in Dengeki PS Magazine that:

Unfortunately, this may mean very little news for a couple of months, but we’ll still keep you up-to-date on anything new!

• TheWertle is still working on translating the Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ Ultimania book. We’ll hopefully be getting more scans of it as well. If you want to buy it yourself, you can get it at Play-Asia, but bear in mind that it’s 511 pages almost all in Japanese.
• We are also still getting translations on Kingdom Hearts: Another Report. The Proto Type Report should be the next to be translated.
• More Kingdom Hearts Novels are going on sale soon, apparently possibly with a little bit of information that we haven’t found out yet, but this is unconfirmed.
• After the great feedback on the “Fate of the Unknown” Piano Sheet Music, I’m working on the requests of other arrangements for that piece, as well as creating piano versions of other music from the Kingdom Hearts series by Yoko Shimomura. The Kingdom Hearts OST Complete is still available.
• The Square-Enix USA Online Merchandise Store should be opening soon, so if you’re a big fan, sign up to find out when the store opens.
• The Kingdom Hearts Complete Visual Art Book will be on sale in July if you wish to pre-order it now.
• If there are any unanswered questions about this site or about the Kingdom Hearts series that I might know, please ask in the Frequently Asked Questions section and read the Summary of Kingdom Hearts Interviews.