What this PR primarily does is to sort out the PAL-E mess.
Some have used PAL-E for Englsh, others for Europa (PAL-M5), and others still for España.
With this PR all PAL-E should refer to English, while the ones referring to Europa have PAL-M5 or something as a code, and the ones referring to España have PAL-S as a code.
Generally only one letter is used for the more common languages; English etc.
So is the case in this PR.
For some PAL-M2 entries in particular, though maybe also for some PAL-M3 entries, there can be 2 or more discs of the same game having this code; it's not necessarily a disc specific code - it only tells how many languages the disc supports.
So is the case in this PR.
Language codes used:
E - English
G - German
I - Italian
S - Spanish
F - French
P - Portuguese
R - Russian
DU - Dutch
NO - Norwegian
SE - Swedish
DA - Danish
FI - Finnish
CZ - Czech
PL - Polish
HR - Croatian
HI - Hindu
This informs PCSX2 which games want to access more than just their own save files so it can load them into the virtual folder memory card.
This includes:
- Multi-disc games which obviously need to access saves from the other disc(s).
- Games that allow importing data from prequels.
- Games that unlock bonuses if they find data from other games in the series, by the same developer, etc.
This is almost certainly not all games that would want to access other saves, but it should cover a lot them.
Game still doesn't look quite right in hardware renderer (too bright)
but the hideous graphics errors are fixed by changing clamp mode. This
game is considered something of a "hidden FPS gem", so it's nice to
think people will be able to play it on PCSX2 now.
using the data from the forums and web site.
update summary:
Not at dbf (and added): 21
Unchanged: 1832
Better compat: 656
Worse compat: 23
new status:
Compatibility 1: 8 games
Compatibility 2: 38 games
Compatibility 3: 54 games
Compatibility 4: 67 games
Compatibility 5: 2607 games
Nice easy one to fix. Will need logs from recent SVN ( r5743 or higher) dev builds, not SVN builds in order to fix other versions.
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All "macflag" reads are patched to ensure there's no other issues. I might have a go at the EU one soon (unless somebody can get me a dev build log of it all the way up to the first gate)
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Also 3 patches for ace combat 4 (US). As I'm not aware of any physics problems I'm a bit confused about what this might fixed but the code is executed so it should fix something.
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-Added patch for Drakan (SCES-50006) to improve the corruption problems when using resolution scaling.
-Many comment modifications and console comments explaining that BIOS boot is required for correct language selection.
Thanks for the updates :)
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-Elemental Garde - Fixed up D-Bit so it remembers the microVU state when recompiling, this fixes the bad geometry that was introduced with T/D bit handling.
-WRC Rally Evolved - Changed the XGKick delay to an increased number, solves all remaining SPS problems.
-Crash Twinsanity - Increased XGKick delay resolves geometry issues on Crash, thanks to Autoran1 for debugging this :)
GameDB Changes: Added XGKick hack to Crash Twinsanity auto gamefixes, checked the main entries for the others above have it too.
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Current status: the pad rpc hangs in the second iteration of the main game loop for an unknown reason.
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GSdx Hackfixes: Lego Batman changed to aggressive list, doesn't really fix ingame and breaks the title screens.
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A proper fix for this is not happening nor is it even desirable because of the performance impact it would have, the game seems to unintentionally rely on the RPC arguments remaining in cache until sceSifCallRpc. A slightly better patch is possible, this one eats some extra EE cycles and might theoretically make the game emulate at less than full speed (but probably won't in practice).
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Summary of changes...
Fixed menus and HUD for Spyro: A New Beginning and Spyro: the Eternal Night.
Fixed missing dialogs and reduced the VRam usage a bit for Tales of Legendia ("8-bit textures" help a bit more with Vram/speed). Should be playable now in hardware mode. Thanks to rama for figuring it could be hackfixed this way and the initial patch :)
Half-screen fixes for Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2, X-men Origins: Wolverine, Call of Duty: World at War - Final Fronts.
Modified the Star Wars: Force Unleashed hackfix a bit, shouldn't have the see-thru objects anymore.
Also modified the Metal Gear Solid 3 and Gran Turismo 4 hackfixes as they needed different skip values for each region (PAL/NTSC). Thanx to avih for the region code... and the free C/C++ lessons :P
The hackfix for Sly 3 was still showing stripes for 3-D and two-player modes, fixed for NTSC version now and hopefully works for PAL one too.
Couple GameDB updates after the gif rewrite.
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it kinda works better if you make the hackfix use the function...
GSdx: Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2's hackfix works with NTSC version now too.
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The Lord of the Rings: the Third Age (Removing fat stripes on screen).
Digimon Rumble Arena 2 (Half screen issue).
Star Wars - The Force Unleashed (Hiding HUD and 3d issues. Not perfect and NTSC-U only, not sure if it works with PAL).
Star Wars Battlefront 1/2 (Huge VRAM usage issue. NTSC-U only, not sure if it works with others).
Black Hawk Down - Team Sabre (Half screen issue and removes the night vision filter which was broken and using a lot of VRAM).
Minimal changes to other CRC hackfixes and GameDB.
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GameDB: Onimusha 4: Dawn of Dreams playable again with a patch. Minor other updates.
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These nice games should be playable at last.
Thanks to Lana for finding them! :)
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Also added Valkyria Profile 2 Italy to the gamedb and GSdx crc list. By Leucos.
Thanks guys :)
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Also a few changes for Tekken 5, "City at sunset" stage, hopefully there's nothing else wrong with this game anymore.
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Also removed the effect in the burning temple stage which had thin lines over it when using high res.
GameDB: More updates ~_~
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These games will not work with newer PCSX2 versions anymore.
Game database: A few updates
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This should be mandatory but (most probably) timing issues make this break more games than it fixes.
Notable exception: Mana Khemia 1 (going "off campus"), so I added it to the auto gamefix database (Only NTSC so far, anyone got the PAL CRCs?).
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- Added an EE roundmode patch entry for AR Tonelico 2 that fixes a fall through floor bug
- Disabled an exception in the ISO file reader. It now continues working when it runs into incomplete game rips (may need a review).
- Disabled 2 annoying logs :p
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Another round of configuration dialog renovations.
Fixes the leftover "Skipdraw" text when hacks are disabled.
Group the options a bit nicer. Group hardware Anti Aliasing with hacks.
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