PSOne Widescreen Patches

[paul_met]

Haven't tried the patch for Vagrant Story, but did anyone notice the wall by the door and cask closest to the door had a sharp drop in texture quality?

This is a feature of the game. As the camera moves away, some objects seem to lose focus. Simply with a smaller screen size, this is less noticeable.

[PsxFan107]

@paul_met Wrong. The loss of texture quality is a negative effect due to changing that HOR value.

This is a better hack without loss of texture detail:

Code:

GS Code:

8007AE6C 0D80 // Widescreen
800AED50 12F5 // Box Fix

File: "battle/battle.prg"

Offset Value
------ -----
1266C 800D // Widescreen
46550 F512 // Box Fix

   
   


Also, I was quite fortunate with the crash bash demo, so I ported my code.

Crash Bash NTSC-U:

Code:

GS Code:

8001443C 0900
8001443E 2402

File: SLUS_945.70

Offset Value
------ -----
4C3C 0009
4C3E 2402

   
   

[paul_met]

@paul_met Wrong. The loss of texture quality is a negative effect due to changing that HOR value.

Nothing wrong. You just didn't notice this before. Here are screenshots without widescreen. Look into red frame.

               

[PsxFan107]

Nothing wrong. You just didn't notice this before. Here are screenshots without widescreen. Look into red frame.

  

You are indeed right about that. However, your hack was causing a drop in texture quality that shouldn't be happening.

My hack:
   


Your hack:
   


GTE:
   

[VIRGIN KLM]

Also, I was quite fortunate with the crash bash demo, so I ported my code.

Crash Bash NTSC-U:

Code:

GS Code:

8001443C 0900
8001443E 2402

File: SLUS_945.70

Offset Value
------ -----
4C3C 0009
4C3E 2402

Nice! You should also post the code for the demo. There are alot of people that actually play the demo with hacks that make it a full debug version.

[gamemasterplc]

If you are doing it for the spyro 3 demo you need conditionals on it.

[paul_met]

You are indeed right about that. However, your hack was causing a drop in texture quality that shouldn't be happening.

Yes, your version is better in terms of quality of textures. I check it.

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VIRGIN KLM, well, you can add another combination of search values to the list.
1200 => 0D80

[gamemasterplc]

Crash Team Racing Widescreen GameShark Code NTSC-U:
8006C2F8 0C00
80043168 0400
8004316A 2404

[VIRGIN KLM]

VIRGIN KLM, well, you can add another combination of search values to the list.
1200 -> 0D80

Added! Gonna recheck all my library using that one too.

[PsxFan107]

Crash Bash Demo NTSC-U (Spyro 3):
D00127C4 1012
800127C8 0900
D00127C4 1012
800127C8 2402