Nuevos parches VGA RE: CV y Skies of Arcadia

gatoh escribió:Pues he buscado y no he encontrado que se haya publicado ya. Han salido unos parches para poder jugar a la versión PAL de estos dos juegos con VGA, que era de los pocos que aún se resistían a funcionar. Notición, a mi modo de ver. Mas info:

http://japanese-cake.livejournal.com/6841.html
http://japanese-cake.livejournal.com/6434.html

RolleR escribió:Y en el skies como lo juegas luego? creo que no cabía en cd no?

Gromber escribió:estaria bien un cdboot con el parche en memoria para poder usar tus originales, al menos del skies of arcadia.
ahh y un parche para el KOF 99 DM

Gromber escribió:estaria bien un cdboot con el parche en memoria para poder usar tus originales, al menos del skies of arcadia.
ahh y un parche para el KOF 99 DM

Gromber escribió:Bueno, había copias americanas de varios cds de 99min, aunque es un engorro...

EDIT: Nuevo parche WWF Attitude (PAL/EURO) 60hz and VGA patch http://japanese-cake.livejournal.com/7376.html

I hope it will make the VGA freaks happy: no more boot disc required! (Except for some games but no worries, I'm going tackles them down soon

melovampire escribió:Voy a contribuir a la causa. Intenté postear pero nada, no hubo manera.

Gromber escribió:

melovampire escribió:Voy a contribuir a la causa. Intenté postear pero nada, no hubo manera.

Tiene habilitado el spam automatico si escribes como invitado, de todos modos para esos asuntos es mejor enviarle un correo:

jc.dcdev@gmail.com
japanese_cake@livejournal.com

sonoro escribió:como se aplican los parches?
solo tengo .gdi
track01.bin
etc
1ST_READ.BIN nada

el ppf a donde se lo aplico, se lo he puesto al pista 3 y no va

saludos

sonoro escribió:eso me parecía, Gdi2Data es que lo toqueteo y no va nada
GDIbuilder lo encontré pero ya me di cuenta que es para armar la .gdi

seguiré hasta que vaya

gracias

jesusete_2 escribió:Buenas!
Justo hoy me acabo de agenciar por aliexpress el ansiado cable VGA,llevaba tiempo detrás de el..al fin!

Alguien me podría explicar como aplicar estos 2 parches?


Gracias de antemano

Natsu escribió:Me encantaría que alguien fuera capaz de conseguir modificar los juegos para que funcionaran a 16:9 de verdad, ( en la consola) se ha conseguido con ps2, psx, N64 y Gamecube, y Xbox no sé por que es tan dificil de hacer en Dreamcast.

RolleR escribió:Me encantaría jugar por VGA mi Skies original...Ya que hacer un backup de este es imposible y los que hay por ahí van fatal...

About 5 years ago, I released one of my 1st Dreamcast 60Hz-VGA patches: Resident Evil: Code Veronica. I have always been scared to play that kind of games, to the point that I just played the very beginning to do my testing and missed that the patch was not fixing the video output settings everywhere in the code. A new version of the patch was then necessary. But why did it take me that long to make a new one? Let’s dig into the details.

What was wrong with the first patch? Let me explain some technical details first. All SEGA licensed Dreamcast games were built with the official SDK, for either Katana or Windows CE operating system, providing libraires and code snippets to speed up development. In Katana SDK, used for Resident Evil CV, sbInitSystem is a piece of code in charge of initializing the system main components. It’s in this file that the video stack chosen by the development team (Ninja, Kamui or Kamui2) is initialized to whatever video mode the game developers want. Quite often, the video mode is set only once by sbInitSystem routine, early in the execution. The developers can however decide to change it later on to for instance switch to 60hz after asking the player whether her screen supports that frequency. It can also happen when the game plays a FMV as the playback is handled by a dedicated middleware (remember my post about Dino Crisis VGA patch?). If your patch only changes the sbInitSystem parameters, It may miss other entry points and it is exactly what happened with my first patch! The new version fixes the source of those parameters, used everywhere in the code rather than just the parameters themselves.

Now that we have the patch fixed, it is time to release it, right? Wait, not yet, it was just the easy part. The torment is now about to begin…

Unlike most PAL Dreamcast games but with Capcom staying true to itself, there isn’t one PAL version but one per language region. The countries like Germany, Spain or else France have their own localized version whereas other European countries had to deal with the English one. Note that Italy which has several localized Dreamcast games did not get one for this game. When it comes to patch the game, the main executable (read 1ST_READ.BIN) is almost the same across the versions. And unfortunately almost doesn’t mean equal in terms of programming!

Each version of the main executable embeds region specificities: subtitles, new font characters, new sentence layout, etc. It means you have to make not 1 but 4 different patches, even though the patching logic remains the same. And remember you also have two discs per version which could theoretically lead up to 8 different patches! And if you also want to release patched GDI images along with a patch as I do, it means you have to prepare as many images as discs… But luckily, disc 1 and 2 share the same main binary file and it’s located at the same offset. Phew!

So I think now you understand: releasing all the patches and the patched images took me a long time for good reasons. Usually we say no pain no gain but I save it for later as playing Resident Evil has never been a big thing to me. Anyway, I hope all the Resident Evil CV fans will enjoy playing the Dreamcast version!

RolleR escribió:@Gromber Al final me hice con un gdemu, pero gracias! seguro que a maás de uno le sirve

SuperPadLand escribió:

RolleR escribió:@Gromber Al final me hice con un gdemu, pero gracias! seguro que a maás de uno le sirve

Con GDemu ya va en VGA bien sin parchear?