PCSX2 - Widescreen Game Patches

[Devina]

Alright, I'll get started on the .elf hack archive. In the meantime, enjoy this banner I made.

[Argon]

Alright, I'll get started on the .elf hack archive. In the meantime, enjoy this banner I made.

Nice one!

You had better include the .elf hacks .txt (or .doc) to the existing achieve, as it is only one additional file. Then anyone who download main achieve can embrace hacks in all its variety and decide which is easier for him to apply in his case In case of PC2SX everything is OK.

[Devina]

Nice one!

You had better include the .elf hacks .txt (or .doc) to the existing achieve, as it is only one additional file. Then anyone who download main achieve can embrace hacks in all its variety and decide which is easier for him to apply in his case In case of PC2SX everything is OK.

Nah, I think it'll have to be in a separate archive. ;P

Having all the .elf hacks in a single .txt file would be bad for organization (versus Window's folder sorting). Just wait and see if this archive will work first.

[Argon]

Well yeah, it would be more convenient your way, but you will spend a lot more of your personal time on things that only a few are requesting. To be honest, I was really surprised that despite that archive has been available for 7 or 8 months already, it has been downloaded only 6k times. How many units of PS2 Sony has sold... How many retail copies of the games... I can't believe that only few thousands actually still playing PS2 games. Nobody else had a happy childhood, owning PS2 console? Nobody has nostalgic feelings?

Probably most of the people don't know about widescreen hacks, that is the only explanation I have got. I am looking for .elf hacks and I know a few guys more who using them, but is it really worth your time? If you keep it simple and make sure that nothing is lost, I will get happy enough

[Devina]

Pffffft, I've organized almost 500 .pnachs, it's no problem for me. I'm OCD.
And actually, I began the archive around December 1 2012, so it's actually only been 2 and a half months or so.

With time, we'll get more PCSX2 users. With the PS4 being unveiled in a week, people will rely on PCSX2.

[Argon]

Well, that is good for us
Oh, for two month 6k is not that bad Just consider PS2 and PS3 users also. When PS2 Classic titles from PSN get decrypted, we will need all .elf hacks we can find

[Devina]

Okay, .elf hack archive is up, and I think I got all of them. If I'm missing any, let me know!

Remember: if there's both an .elf hack and a .pnach available for a game, stick with the .pnach.

[Argon]

Okay, .elf hack archive is up, and I think I got all of them. If I'm missing any, let me know!

Remember: if there's both an .elf hack and a .pnach available for a game, stick with the .pnach.

Well, I took a quick look and noticed that you have missed

1. all nemesis2000' hacks at ps2wide.net
2. latest, but untested hacks by sergx12
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f293/ps2-wid...dex28.html
Post: #276
3. some hacks on front page here:
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f293/ps2-wid...ly-105475/
4. I think you have also missed some hacks from my re-post at psx-scene like

Haunting Ground value by nemesis2000
initial value (4:3)
00000000 00000000 43AD1346 00000000
changed to (wide)
403F013C 00008144 43AD1346 02C60046
works on
Suikoden 4 SLUS 209.79
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis SLUS 217.35
Shadow of Destiny SLUS 201.46
Nanobreaker SLES 529.64

I haven't check everything though, so some more games may be missing.


Also, it would look better if it organised instead of

search
0100 0524 803F 023C 0060 8244
replace by
0100 0524 403F 023C 0060 8244

like this

Rumble Racing SLUS_2??.??

Initial value:
0100 0524 803F 023C 0060 8244

Widescreen value:
0100 0524 403F 023C 0060 8244

with comments like fmv fix, so user will know if he should switch his TV back to 4:3 to view cutscenes in proper aspect ratio. Look how nemesis have been doing it at his website.


P.S.
I take a look again and noticed that a lot of elf hacks are not included from posts at psx-scene, which links I had posted few hours ago.

[No.47]

Regarding the organization and preservation of the widescreen hacks/patches IMO it would be the best if the contributors would send their (tested and working!) hacks/patches together with a nice screenshot comparison to nemesis2000, so he can add them without big effort to ps2wide.net. This would be much better than having to search forums, or downloading ZIP archives, etc... everyone could browse through the site while watching the screenshots, take a look at the HEX codes, download the corresponding PAL/NTSC-U/NTSC-J PNACH files, ...

Honestly his site is just perfect for the purpose and it would be great to have all quality hacks/patches there. Improving the existing code database would work better as well, since there would be one place containing all the codes that are up-to-date and nothing else. Contributors could easily check which patches/hacks/conversions are already available, add converted patches for other regions, submit improvements for existing patches (such as new render fixes). This would leave the forums for discussion instead of releasing stuff. At the moment it's more like taking existing codes, converting/altering them and posting them as 'new patches' while the old ones are still around (and credit is given seldomly which isn't a big deal but still). With all the different versions our code database becomes more and more inconsistent.

Of course this will only work if nemesis2000 and some of the other contributors are interested (so that ps2wide.net becomes the universal resource site for PS2 widescreen hacks/patches). Actually, nemesis2000 already wrote a message many months ago and wanted us to do exactly what I described above. Unfortunately I didn't have much time since then, I still have to make all the comparison screenshots for my patches. But I still intend to do so, I hope he's still interested.

Best regards
No.47

[Devina]

Alright Argon, I updated the .elf archive~
The reason I skipped some of those elf hacks is because there are already updated .pnachs for most of them (e.g. Haunting Ground, Shadow of Destiny, etc).
I also skipped Tomb Raider because of 16:10.
Later on, I'll re-do the formatting so it looks nicer.

I don't really understand No.47, some people find it more convenient to have all the patches in a single, quick downloadable archive (drag-and-drop).
I've heard nothing but positive comments about the archive so far.
I also don't see why comparison shots are really necessary, everyone knows they're just the same games in 16:9.
Plus credit can always be given in the .pnach file themselves, so people can know who to go to.
I'm all for improving ps2wide.net though.