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(12-14-2013, 08:23 AM)devina40 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not, and it's still not in widescreen. I'm using your code here, and I have both the PAL and NTSC-U copy of the game.
The emulator says it found the patch and has loaded the addresses, so I don't know.

• Fixed shell menu FOV (dark background image that flashes when the game starts - aka PAL language select menu). The hack for this was already included in the original pnaches, but had been commented out (which I later realized was causing problems).
  
• Fixed tree sprite widths (easy to spot in title menu; likely has in-game benefits too)
  
• Fixed FOV in PAL menus (was caused by a few mixups on my part when the NTSC-U pnach was ported to PAL).
  
• Fixed FOV in 2-4 player pause menus.
  
• Fixed goggles zoom-in/zoom-out FOV in bike shop.
  
• Mostly fixed bike shop shadow width and top/bottom HUDs via conditional live memory hacks (haven't had any luck creating ELF-friendly hacks out of them). The reason I said mostly is because, due to the lack of ELF hacks for these parts, the game engine forces the top/bottom HUDs to their original widths during transition animations.
  
• Implemented minor PAL FOV adjustments
  
• Renamed and reorganized various hacks throughout the pnaches.
  
• Ported the widescreen patches to MTBikers (Japanese version of Downhill Domination).
  

• I've attached an avalanche of NTSC-U screenshots to give a comprehensive overview of these pnaches. Where two 16:9 shots are present, the first one represents the original pnaches, and the second represents the current versions.
  
• Downhill Domination's Japanese name doesn't seem to be accurate in PCSX2's game database. The game DB currently refers to it as "Bakuso! Mountain Bikers". I've referred to it as "MTBikers: Bakusou Mountain Bikers" in my pnach.
  
• All of Incognito's PS2 games use combinations of 2D/3D elements for their HUDs... resulting in nightmare scenarios for widescreen hacking. Having said that, I've been able to develop comprehensive FOV hacks and various HUD fixes for all of Incognito's other games. Stay tuned for new/updated pnaches for those games in the near-future... I also have FOV and basic HUD repositioning hacks working in Eat Sleep Play's PS2 game...
  

(11-21-2013, 04:49 AM)ElHecht Wrote: [ -> ]Patching Project Snowblind (PAL) is tricky as it uses 3 different elf files :

Boot game and load main menu : SLES_531.24
Single Player : BO3GM.ELF
Multi Player : BO3NETGM.ELF

Having 16:9 in main menu, single player and multi player mode you have to hex-edit each elf file :

Code:

SLES_531.24:
search        : 60000524 aa3f013c abaa2134
replace by    : 60000524 e33f013c 398e2134

BO3GM.ELF:
search        : 60000524 aa3f013c abaa2134
replace by    : 60000524 e33f013c 398e2134

BO3NETGM.ELF:
search        : 60000524 aa3f013c abaa2134
replace by    : 60000524 e33f013c 398e2134

I made a pnach file for the PAL version which will work with single-player mode only.

Project - Snowblind (PAL-M4) (SLES-53124)

• PS2 Cheat Device RAW Codetypes
  http://www.codemasters-project.net/guide....php?e=847
  
• Code Type E: Conditional test – multi-line skip (joker)
  http://www.codemasters-project.net/guide...7&epage=16
  

• The width switch (w) must be set to 0.
  
• The valid comparison type value must be set to 0.
  
• The E hack's line should use extended instead of word. Not sure if you can mix in extended and word hacks in the same condition, so it might also be a good idea to set every line to extended, and ensure all the addresses start with 1 or 2 (usually the latter).
  

(12-22-2013, 10:24 PM)Aced14 Wrote: [ -> ]For games with multiple ELF files, like Project Snowblind, it should be possible to use an extended E type hack to make a single pnach compatible with all 3 ELF files at once (without any risk of conflicts).