PCSX2 - Widescreen Game Patches

[No.47]

Haha, some of those japanese (kids?!) games are just plain hilarious

[pavachan]

Wanted to ask if anyone had any luck with any Blood Omen 2 version.

Thanks.

[Siveria]

Anyone able to make a widescreen code for the Warriors Orochi 2 NTSC version? It seems this game is not in the emulators database at all, all it says in the title bar is [SLUS-21803] The game plays fine too, I assume its just the pal version converted to ntsc.

[Bositman]

Just use the widescreen helper, it's pretty easy

[pavachan]

Just use the widescreen helper, it's pretty easy

Have tried with Blood Omen 2 NTSC, but not much luck yet. Problem is that using the Widescreen Helper with BO2 tends to freeze/crash the game fairly quickly, at almost any searched value. So this will have to be a tedious Cheat Engine only search if i hope to find anything at all. Who knows, maybe nemesis2000 will come to the rescue. He did do Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance. Im guessing that SR2 and BO2 use the same engine more or less.

[Bositman]

Oh sorry was talking to Siveria since I know it works on Warriors Orochi 2

[synce]

You should try elf patching with some of the values nemesis found. I patched like 5 games with just the HG hack, and about 5 more using variations of xx3F0x3C

[pavachan]

Wooop!

I love you synce!!!

We dont have an elf patch collection on this thread, so hopefully Nemesis will add it to his page so others can use it.

Code:

Legacy of Kain - Blood Omen 2 NTSC SLUS-20024

Initial Value
AA3F013C ABAA2134 00C08144 60006484

Changed To
E33F013C 398E2134 00C08144 60006484

i also found these values, that correspond to Nemesis' fov+ and black border codes from Soul Reaver 2, but they appear to do nothing, though i dont mind, cause the game looks fine anyway

Code:

Gameplay Both FoV+ (no idea what this does - maybe PAL only or Soul Reaver 2 only?)
0044013C 00008144 2D282002 2D20A003
Changed To
C043013C 00008144 2D282002 2D20A003

Black Border Fix for Cutscenes (does not work)
00009644 00000000 00000000 00006145 00000000 00008043
Changed To
00009644 00000000 00000000 00006145 00000000 0000C043

*Note - I edited the ISO file itself, not the extracted ELF.

*Note 2 - The messed up textures are the result of the pcsx2 hardware GSDX not supporting mipmaps. Looks fine in Software mode (Insert key to toggles mipmaps in software).

*Note 3 - It would appear that the Page Up key toggles FXAA in pcsx2 (GSDX Software and Hardware), a nice find ^^

[pavachan]

It would appear that Nemesis' Legacy of Kain - Defiance PAL elf patch works for NTSC SLUS-20773.

initial value (4:3)
803F013C 00008144 00000000 440300E6

changed to (16:9)
403F013C 00008144 00000000 00000000

[mrjared123]

@Synce With using the values that nemesis found, you said that it works for some other games also, and I have a few questions.

1.) You changed the value from xx3f0x3c into different a different one, what exactly do you change them to? Do you just guess or do they have pattern or something...?

2.) Once you find the value, what exactly do you change the values to for widescreen?

I have absolutely no knowledge of any elf hacks, I just use nemesis'...