Hacking New Classic Controller Hacks

[frankybuster_]

Has anyone requested Crash of the Titans and Mind Over Mutant yet? it'd be very cool to have classic controller mods for these games since they're better looking than the PS2 versions, especially the latter which almost matches the 360 version in asset quality but without being as demanding to emulate and having a 60fps hack.

I'm requesting this mainly for because these games require pointer and waggle usage for certain things, like for projectile based mutants and for using their super attacks (not to mention that the TK mutant has a strafe only seen in the Wii version). If possible it'd be great if a classic controller setup somewhat matched the controller layouts seen in the other versions

Oh yeah, and classic controller codes for the Skylanders games would be really cool too if it could be done sometime in the future, those games have pretty basic waggle and pointer usage, with the waggle stuff being simplified to mashing the X button in the Wii U ports.

 

[FredericVincent0]

Hello, is this hack possible for the zelda wii games skyward sword and twilight princess?

 

[awesomeee]

Hello, is this hack possible for the zelda wii games skyward sword and twilight princess?

Skyward sword wont be happening, it uses motion plus and might not be possible. The accelerometer implementation is too hard to hack in.

Twilight princess is a low priority, since you can already play it in nintendont with Widescreen, and is very good.

The game does have debugging symbols though, and there is a lot of documentation on these hacks, so i might give it a shot

 

[FredericVincent0]

Skyward sword wont be happening, it uses motion plus and might not be possible. The accelerometer implementation is too hard to hack in.

Twilight princess is a low priority, since you can already play it in nintendont with Widescreen, and is very good.

The game does have debugging symbols though, and there is a lot of documentation on these hacks, so i might give it a shot

Maybe one day for skyward sword or never?

 

[awesomeee]

Maybe one day for skyward sword or never?

Maybe one day by someone else, but it will be super complicated.

 

[FredericVincent0]

Maybe one day by someone else, but it will be super complicated.

However, the hd version has the classic controls, but perhaps even Nintendo had trouble getting them to work. Perhaps that's why it's difficult to get them to work on the Wii version.

 

[Vague Rant]

@Vague Rant Hi. Game resquest : Ougon No Kizuna/Golden bonds, a jap exclusive Wii game, translated in english by Brand Newman. This game looks very cool but isn't classic controller compatible. Thanks.

Ooh, that's neat. Always cool to be getting "new" Wii games. I'll add it to my list of games to investigate.

Has anyone requested Crash of the Titans and Mind Over Mutant yet? it'd be very cool to have classic controller mods for these games since they're better looking than the PS2 versions, especially the latter which almost matches the 360 version in asset quality but without being as demanding to emulate and having a 60fps hack.

I'm requesting this mainly for because these games require pointer and waggle usage for certain things, like for projectile based mutants and for using their super attacks (not to mention that the TK mutant has a strafe only seen in the Wii version). If possible it'd be great if a classic controller setup somewhat matched the controller layouts seen in the other versions

Oh yeah, and classic controller codes for the Skylanders games would be really cool too if it could be done sometime in the future, those games have pretty basic waggle and pointer usage, with the waggle stuff being simplified to mashing the X button in the Wii U ports.

I don't think anybody's requested the Crash games before, but they're definitely a couple that I've thought about as potential candidates. I haven't gone any further than thinking about them currently, but they're certainly something I'd be interested to investigate.

I have literally zero familiarity with Skylanders, is it possible to run those without any of the NFC hardware stuff? I wouldn't have any way to test them on real hardware, but I could potentially test them via emulation if there's a way to fake the accessories.

Hello, is this hack possible for the zelda wii games skyward sword and twilight princess?

awesomeee covered this already, but the short version is, not by me. Gyroscopes (as used in the MotionPlus) are even more complex than accelerometers to simulate so I wouldn't even want to try, and Twilight Princess as mentioned has a GameCube version that's already designed for traditional controls and playable on Wii, so not really one I'm interested in. Sorry!

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Let's close out 2024 with another video game adaptation of a 2012 box office flop, Hasbro's Battleship, developed by Magic Pockets. Rather than adapting the actual tabletop Battleship game, the version for Wii, DS and 3DS was a blatant clone of the Advance Wars franchise. For the unfamiliar, these are turn-based strategy games where two commanding officers with unique strengths and weaknesses send their rock-paper-scissors unit types into grid-based battles. Gameplay has players juggling considerations of health, fuel, fog of war, etc. while managing existing units and/or deploying new ones. While there's no new ground (or water) being broken here, Battleship is a remarkably solid game which easily outshines the FPS released on HD consoles.

Spoiler: Gecko Codes

Despite coming out at the very tail end of the Wii's lifespan, Battleship only supports fullscreen 4:3 display. That's wild, so I've included a widescreen code here as well.

USAEUR

1. Classic Controller Support [Vague Rant]
   C2037D50 00000002
   28030001 41820008
   28030002 00000000
   C21002B8 0000001B
   90010024 2C040000
   408200CC 8803005C
   2C000002 408200C0
   9803005E 2C160001
   40820078 48000015
   80230CB7 3FAAAAAB
   3D19999A 3F800000
   7CA802A6 80030004
   70008000 41820010
   38000000 90030020
   90030024 80850000
   88840000 2C040001
   C0450004 40820008
   EC4200B2 C0650008
   C0030020 C023006C
   FC211024 4800002D
   D0030020 C0030024
   C0230070 FC200850
   48000019 D0030024
   80010024 7C0803A6
   38210020 4E800020
   FC0100FA C025000C
   FC000800 4180000C
   FC000890 48000014
   FC200850 FC000800
   41810008 FC000890
   4E800020 00000000
   C2101218 00000012
   4E800421 2C160001
   40820080 4800000D
   3F000000 00000000
   7C6802A6 C0430000
   C0630004 809EFFA0
   80BEFFA4 80DEFFA8
   C03E000C 39000001
   48000021 C03E0010
   39000004 48000015
   909EFFA0 90BEFFA4
   90DEFFA8 48000034
   FC000A10 FC001040
   4D800020 FC011840
   41800008 5508083C
   7CC04039 40820008
   7CA54378 7C844378
   7CC64079 4E800020
   60000000 00000000
   04101220 7FC3F378
   04102610 39000000
   041027B0 39000000
   C20FF174 0000001A
   2C040002 408200C0
   38800001 71000800
   41820008 60E78000
   71000001 41820008
   60E70008 71004000
   41820008 60E70004
   71000002 41820008
   60E70001 71008000
   41820008 60E70002
   71000010 41820008
   60E70800 71000040
   41820008 60E70400
   71000008 41820008
   60E70010 71000020
   41820008 60E70100
   71002000 41820008
   60E72000 71000200
   41820008 60E74000
   71000080 41820008
   60E72000 71000004
   41820008 60E74000
   71000400 41820008
   60E70200 71001000
   41820008 60E71000
   7CC63B78 70C09FFF
   60000000 00000000

   16:9 Widescreen [Vague Rant]
   C203C364 00000004
   EC420024 3CA08023
   88A50CB7 2C050001
   40820008 EC4200B2
   60000000 00000000

2. Classic Controller Support [Vague Rant]
   C2037D8C 00000002
   28030001 41820008
   28030002 00000000
   C21002F8 0000001B
   90010024 2C040000
   408200CC 8803005C
   2C000002 408200C0
   9803005E 2C160001
   40820078 48000015
   80230CF7 3FAAAAAB
   3D19999A 3F800000
   7CA802A6 80030004
   70008000 41820010
   38000000 90030020
   90030024 80850000
   88840000 2C040001
   C0450004 40820008
   EC4200B2 C0650008
   C0030020 C023006C
   FC211024 4800002D
   D0030020 C0030024
   C0230070 FC200850
   48000019 D0030024
   80010024 7C0803A6
   38210020 4E800020
   FC0100FA C025000C
   FC000800 4180000C
   FC000890 48000014
   FC200850 FC000800
   41810008 FC000890
   4E800020 00000000
   C2101258 00000012
   4E800421 2C160001
   40820080 4800000D
   3F000000 00000000
   7C6802A6 C0430000
   C0630004 809EFFA0
   80BEFFA4 80DEFFA8
   C03E000C 39000001
   48000021 C03E0010
   39000004 48000015
   909EFFA0 90BEFFA4
   90DEFFA8 48000034
   FC000A10 FC001040
   4D800020 FC011840
   41800008 5508083C
   7CC04039 40820008
   7CA54378 7C844378
   7CC64079 4E800020
   60000000 00000000
   04101260 7FC3F378
   04102650 39000000
   041027F0 39000000
   C20FF1B4 0000001A
   2C040002 408200C0
   38800001 71000800
   41820008 60E78000
   71000001 41820008
   60E70008 71004000
   41820008 60E70004
   71000002 41820008
   60E70001 71008000
   41820008 60E70002
   71000010 41820008
   60E70800 71000040
   41820008 60E70400
   71000008 41820008
   60E70010 71000020
   41820008 60E70100
   71002000 41820008
   60E72000 71000200
   41820008 60E74000
   71000080 41820008
   60E72000 71000004
   41820008 60E74000
   71000400 41820008
   60E70200 71001000
   41820008 60E71000
   7CC63B78 70C09FFF
   60000000 00000000

   16:9 Widescreen [Vague Rant]
   C203C3A0 00000004
   EC420024 3CA08023
   88A50CF7 2C050001
   40820008 EC4200B2
   60000000 00000000

Button Mapping​

Wii Remote/Nunchuk	Classic Controller	Function
Wiimote Home	Home Works normally	Open/Close Home Menu
Wiimote D-Pad	D-Pad Left Stick	Menus/Gameplay Navigation
Wiimote A	A	Menus Confirm Gameplay Confirm Show Movement Range
Wiimote B	B	Menus Cancel Gameplay Cancel Show Attack Range
Wiimote 1	Plus	Gameplay Pause
Wiimote 2	Y	Not used?
Wiimote Plus	X	Gameplay Toggle Minimap
Wiimote Minus	Minus	Gameplay Show Unit Details
Wiimote Pointer	Left Stick	Gameplay Duel Aiming Home Button Menu Navigation
Nunchuk Stick	Right Stick	Menus Navigation Gameplay Camera Control
Nunchuk C	R ZR	Gameplay Next Unit
Nunchuk Z	L ZL	Gameplay Previous Unit

General Notes​

• Not much to say for this one. The controls are pretty simple and everything works pretty much how you'd expect it to. The most complex part are the Duels, which have you aiming a reticle with the "IR pointer" (Left Stick) and shooting at the enemy ships.
  
  
• Being cross-platform with the DS and 3DS, this game is tiny. Most of the disc is just the boilerplate update titles, the game itself is practically WiiWare. I'm not making any kind of judgment call about that, I just thought it was interesting.

Technical Notes​

Code breakdown:

• C2: bypass Nunchuk error
• C2 in calc_dpd_variable(): simulate IR pointer
• C2 and 04 in read_kpad_ext(): D-Pad emulation on Left Stick, Nunchuk Stick on Right Stick
• 04 and 04 in KPADRead(): potential lag frame bug fix
• C2 in read_kpad_button(): button injector

Spoiler: read_kpad_button.asm

; read_kpad_button
; 800FF174 for USA
; 800FF1B4 for EUR
; r4 holds extType
; r6 holds wiimote bitfield
; r7 holds wiimote+nunchuk bitfield
; r8 holds classic bitfield
  cmpwi r4, 0x2
  bne- RETURN

  li r4, 0x1            ; i'm a nunchuk

    CLASSIC_HOME:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x800
      beq- CLASSIC_UP
      ori r7, r7, 0x8000    ; home

    CLASSIC_UP:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x1
      beq- CLASSIC_DOWN
      ori r7, r7, 0x8       ; up (v) / left (h)

    CLASSIC_DOWN:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x4000
      beq- CLASSIC_LEFT
      ori r7, r7, 0x4       ; down (v) / right (h)

    CLASSIC_LEFT:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x2
      beq- CLASSIC_RIGHT
      ori r7, r7, 0x1       ; left (v) / down (h)

    CLASSIC_RIGHT:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x8000
      beq- CLASSIC_A
      ori r7, r7, 0x2       ; right (v) / up (h)

    CLASSIC_A:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x10
      beq- CLASSIC_B
      ori r7, r7, 0x800     ; a

    CLASSIC_B:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x40
      beq- CLASSIC_X
      ori r7, r7, 0x400     ; b

    CLASSIC_X:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x8
      beq- CLASSIC_Y
      ori r7, r7, 0x10      ; plus

    CLASSIC_Y:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x20
      beq- CLASSIC_L
      ori r7, r7, 0x100     ; 2

    CLASSIC_L:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x2000
      beq- CLASSIC_R
      ori r7, r7, 0x2000    ; z

    CLASSIC_R:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x200
      beq- CLASSIC_ZL
      ori r7, r7, 0x4000    ; c

    CLASSIC_ZL:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x80
      beq- CLASSIC_ZR
      ori r7, r7, 0x2000    ; z

    CLASSIC_ZR:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x4
      beq- CLASSIC_PLUS
      ori r7, r7, 0x4000    ; c

    CLASSIC_PLUS:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x400
      beq- CLASSIC_MINUS
      ori r7, r7, 0x200     ; 1

    CLASSIC_MINUS:
      andi. r0, r8, 0x1000
      beq- CLASSIC_DONE
      ori r7, r7, 0x1000    ; minus

    CLASSIC_DONE:
      or r6, r6, r7

RETURN:
  andi. r0, r6, 0x9FFF

 

[awesomeee]

Good job! I have an idea for when you do Epic Mickey 2.

So instead of mapping the right stick to pointing, why not just map the right stick to the D pad so you dont need to point? It would be like the remakes controls lol, just a cool idea i had. It would also make gameplay easier as we dont want the lock on button toggling a lot on accident.

 

[KeinesR]

Master @Vague Rant , tried battleship and worked perfect on wii u with gamepad support and widescreen.

About resident evil archives, forget it.

thanks as always for all this amazing job. Happy new year!

 

[awesomeee]

I'll cry if i look at this game for one more minute.

Chick Chick BOOM was a game. (By tons of bits)
This game needed the IR pointer, and supported multiplayer! (yay)

This hack will not work reliably, what do you expect? Its meant to be played with Wii Remotes (Lol)

Classic Controller Support (Awesomeee, Vague Rant)
You know the drill, Vague made the helpful PPC assemblies, thanks!

C222ED38 00000029
90010024 2C040000
40820138 8803005C
2C000002 4082012C
48000021 80210D90
3FAAAAAB 3C54FDF4
00000000 00000000
3DCCCCCD 3F800000
7CA802A6 90A1000C
5727083C 38E7000C
C0030074 FC000210
C0230078 FC200A10
C083006C FC802210
C0A30070 FCA02A10
FC00082A FC84282A
FC00202A C0450014
FC001040 4180000C
38C0012C 48000014
7CC53AAE 28060000
408100B0 38C6FFFF
7CC53B2E 38C00002
98C3005E 81850000
7D8803A6 4E800021
2C030001 7FE3FB78
80A1000C C0450004
40820008 EC4200B2
C0650008 C0030020
C0230074 C083006C
FC21202A FC211024
48000035 D0030020
C0030024 C0230078
C0830070 FC21202A
FC200850 48000019
D0030024 80010024
7C0803A6 38210020
4E800020 FC0100FA
C0250018 FC000800
4180000C FC000890
48000014 FC200850
FC000800 41810008
FC000890 4E800020
60000000 00000000
C222DBF4 00000019
2C040002 408200B8
71000800 41820008
60C68000 71000001
41820008 60C60008
71004000 41820008
60C60004 71000002
41820008 60C60001
71008000 41820008
60C60002 71000010
41820008 60C60800
71000040 41820008
60C60400 71000008
41820008 60C60100
71000020 41820008
60C60200 71002000
41820008 60C60800
71000200 41820008
60C60800 71000080
41820008 60C60800
71000004 41820008
60C60800 71000400
41820008 60C60010
71001000 41820008
60C61000 70C09FFF
60000000 00000000

For this game, i tried to make the pointer as fast/slow as i could, since you need to be precise, but i couldnt really find a good point, so I set the speed to 13. (I think)

Controls
CC Wii Remote
ZL, ZR, L, R , A A Button

B B Button

X / Y 1/2 Buttons (Not mapped?)


Left AND Right stick: IR Pointer

Not much to say really, have fun!

 

[ExData7]

Any chance of looking at Project Zero 2 Wii edition and Zero Tsukihami no kamen(aka Fatal Frame 2&4)?

 

[awesomeee]

Update, Epic Mickey 2 doesnt use select_1obj_continue, apologies for the false report.

 

[frankybuster_]

I have literally zero familiarity with Skylanders, is it possible to run those without any of the NFC hardware stuff? I wouldn't have any way to test them on real hardware, but I could potentially test them via emulation if there's a way to fake the accessories.

Yeah! In fact Dolphin has full portal emulation, even including support for Trap Team's speaker stuff, and you can also create figure data to play as any character and such, it's awesome. If you go to Tools>USB Devices>Skylanders Portal, you'll see a whole window dedicated to portal emulation, it's fairly straightforward i think, and recently some fixes were pushed so that the portal no longer disconnects with Superchargers Racing, so it can properly emulate all of the entries on the console. (Also i'd recommend setting a hotkey to quickly bring up the portal emulation window while playing, it's a lifesaver)

I don't think anybody's requested the Crash games before, but they're definitely a couple that I've thought about as potential candidates. I haven't gone any further than thinking about them currently, but they're certainly something I'd be interested to investigate.

Ah i see, good to know that you've considered them, i'd love to see some more support for these games.

 

[Vague Rant]

Good job! I have an idea for when you do Epic Mickey 2.

So instead of mapping the right stick to pointing, why not just map the right stick to the D pad so you dont need to point? It would be like the remakes controls lol, just a cool idea i had. It would also make gameplay easier as we dont want the lock on button toggling a lot on accident.

Definitely something to consider, but depends a bit on how Epic Mickey 2 works. That wouldn't really work for the first game because the game behaves differently depending on whether you're using the IR pointer currently. When you splash (not shoot) paint/thinner while the pointer is off-screen, Mickey simply splashes in the direction he's facing. When the pointer is on-screen, the splash goes toward the pointer instead. Having the pointer permanently centered would break this, so that all attacks require you to rotate the camera to face your target, which might just be bad in a different way. This is kind of why I haven't done many pointer-focussed games, every potential solution causes another issue.

Any chance of looking at Project Zero 2 Wii edition and Zero Tsukihami no kamen(aka Fatal Frame 2&4)?

Project Zero 2 is one that I looked into as far as reading the manual for it and I kind of just noped out due to how complex the motion controls seemed. Anything that wants to use both the Wiimote and Nunchuk accelerometers in a bunch of diverse ways (i.e. tracking specific motions rather than just whether there is motion) is a lot tougher to work with. Not to say they're impossible, I just suspect they would end up on my failed hack pile if I tried.

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Happy new year! Tecmo's Rygar: The Battle of Argus is a port of the PlayStation 2 original, Rygar: The Legendary Adventure. A reboot of the classic arcade and NES games, this entry takes on the form of a third-person exploratory action game with "search action" and RPG elements. The player character fights using magical chained shields known as Diskarmors, which can be thrown and swung around like deadly yo-yos. Alongside the combat, a story combining elements of Greek, Roman and Egyptian history and myth has often seen this game compared to the God of War series, though Rygar was actually released a couple of years earlier.

Spoiler: Gecko Codes

Rygar doesn't officially support 16:9 widescreen, but there is actually an unused widescreen mode left over in the game, so I've included a code to restore that feature as well.

USAEURJPN

1. Classic Controller Support [Vague Rant]
   C200C288 00000002
   28000001 41820008
   28000002 00000000
   C21B7374 00000015
   8803005C 2C000002
   40820098 48000011
   4059999A 40000000
   00000000 7CA802A6
   C0250000 C0450004
   A8C50008 2C060000
   4182000C FC211024
   48000010 80830004
   70800080 4182001C
   D02304A8 68C60001
   2C0F0001 4082004C
   B0C50008 48000044
   80830000 70800800
   4082000C 38C00000
   48000024 A8C5000A
   38C60001 2C060008
   41800014 C0030060
   FC000050 EC0000B2
   D00304A4 2C0F0001
   40820008 B0C5000A
   80C3000C 00000000
   C21B7DBC 0000001B
   90010024 2C040000
   408200CC 8803005C
   2C000002 408200C0
   9803005E 2C0F0001
   40820078 48000015
   803E2F14 3FAAAAAB
   3D4CCCCD 3F800000
   7CA802A6 80030004
   70008000 41820010
   38000000 90030020
   90030024 80850000
   80840000 2C040001
   C0450004 40820008
   EC4200B2 C0650008
   C0030020 C0230060
   FC211024 4800002D
   D0030020 C0030024
   C0230064 FC200850
   48000019 D0030024
   80010024 7C0803A6
   38210020 4E800020
   FC0100FA C025000C
   FC000800 4180000C
   FC000890 48000014
   FC200850 FC000800
   41810008 FC000890
   4E800020 00000000
   041B8C74 7FC3F378
   041B9360 39200000
   C21B9364 0000001A
   2C040002 408200C0
   38800001 71200800
   41820008 61088000
   71200001 41820008
   61080208 71204000
   41820008 61080004
   71200002 41820008
   61080001 71208000
   41820008 61080002
   71200010 41820008
   61080080 71200040
   41820008 61082000
   71200008 41820008
   61080400 71200020
   41820008 61080800
   71202000 41820008
   61080001 71200200
   41820008 61080002
   71200080 41820008
   61084000 71200004
   41820008 61080004
   71200400 41820008
   61080010 71201000
   41820008 61081000
   7CE74378 70E09FFF
   60000000 00000000

   
   

   16:9 Widescreen [Vague Rant]
   06008FD4 00000054
   2C030000 4180002C
   2C030003 41810024
   41820014 2C030001
   4182000C 900D8F4C
   4800000C 38600001
   906D8F4C 900D8F48
   7C0802A6 900D8F54
   38610008 38800001
   4816B809 800D8F54
   7C0803A6 88010008
   900D8F54 00000000
   0229A55A 0000029E

2. Classic Controller Support [Vague Rant]
   C200C31C 00000002
   28000001 41820008
   28000002 00000000
   C21BC62C 00000015
   8803005C 2C000002
   40820098 48000011
   4059999A 40000000
   00000000 7CA802A6
   C0250000 C0450004
   A8C50008 2C060000
   4182000C FC211024
   48000010 80830004
   70800080 4182001C
   D02304DC 68C60001
   2C190001 4082004C
   B0C50008 48000044
   80830000 70800800
   4082000C 38C00000
   48000024 A8C5000A
   38C60001 2C060008
   41800014 C0030060
   FC000050 EC0000B2
   D00304D8 2C190001
   40820008 B0C5000A
   80C3000C 00000000
   C21BD074 0000001B
   90010024 2C040000
   408200CC 8803005C
   2C000002 408200C0
   9803005E 2C190001
   40820078 48000015
   803F179C 3FAAAAAB
   3D4CCCCD 3F800000
   7CA802A6 80030004
   70008000 41820010
   38000000 90030020
   90030024 80850000
   80840000 2C040001
   C0450004 40820008
   EC4200B2 C0650008
   C0030020 C0230060
   FC211024 4800002D
   D0030020 C0030024
   C0230064 FC200850
   48000019 D0030024
   80010024 7C0803A6
   38210020 4E800020
   FC0100FA C025000C
   FC000800 4180000C
   FC000890 48000014
   FC200850 FC000800
   41810008 FC000890
   4E800020 00000000
   041BDF48 7FC3F378
   041BEC34 39000000
   041BED90 39000000
   C21BC0D0 0000001A
   2C040002 408200C0
   38800001 71090800
   41820008 60E78000
   71090001 41820008
   60E70208 71094000
   41820008 60E70004
   71090002 41820008
   60E70001 71098000
   41820008 60E70002
   71090010 41820008
   60E70080 71090040
   41820008 60E72000
   71090008 41820008
   60E70400 71090020
   41820008 60E70800
   71092000 41820008
   60E70001 71090200
   41820008 60E70002
   71090080 41820008
   60E74000 71090004
   41820008 60E70004
   71090400 41820008
   60E70010 71091000
   41820008 60E71000
   7CC63B78 70C99FFF
   60000000 00000000

   
   

   16:9 Widescreen [Vague Rant]
   0600908C 0000003C
   2C030000 4182000C
   2C030001 4082000C
   906D8FB4 906D8FB0
   7C0802A6 900D8FBC
   38610008 38800001
   4816FF59 800D8FBC
   7C0803A6 88010008
   900D8FBC 00000000

3. Classic Controller Support [Vague Rant]
   C200C288 00000002
   28000001 41820008
   28000002 00000000
   C21B6E84 00000015
   8803005C 2C000002
   40820098 48000011
   4059999A 40000000
   00000000 7CA802A6
   C0250000 C0450004
   A8C50008 2C060000
   4182000C FC211024
   48000010 80830004
   70800080 4182001C
   D02304A8 68C60001
   2C0F0001 4082004C
   B0C50008 48000044
   80830000 70800800
   4082000C 38C00000
   48000024 A8C5000A
   38C60001 2C060008
   41800014 C0030060
   FC000050 EC0000B2
   D00304A4 2C0F0001
   40820008 B0C5000A
   80C3000C 00000000
   C21B78CC 0000001B
   90010024 2C040000
   408200CC 8803005C
   2C000002 408200C0
   9803005E 2C0F0001
   40820078 48000015
   803DEF34 3FAAAAAB
   3D4CCCCD 3F800000
   7CA802A6 80030004
   70008000 41820010
   38000000 90030020
   90030024 80850000
   80840000 2C040001
   C0450004 40820008
   EC4200B2 C0650008
   C0030020 C0230060
   FC211024 4800002D
   D0030020 C0030024
   C0230064 FC200850
   48000019 D0030024
   80010024 7C0803A6
   38210020 4E800020
   FC0100FA C025000C
   FC000800 4180000C
   FC000890 48000014
   FC200850 FC000800
   41810008 FC000890
   4E800020 00000000
   041B8784 7FC3F378
   041B8E70 39200000
   C21B8E74 0000001A
   2C040002 408200C0
   38800001 71200800
   41820008 61088000
   71200001 41820008
   61080208 71204000
   41820008 61080004
   71200002 41820008
   61080001 71208000
   41820008 61080002
   71200010 41820008
   61080080 71200040
   41820008 61082000
   71200008 41820008
   61080400 71200020
   41820008 61080800
   71202000 41820008
   61080001 71200200
   41820008 61080002
   71200080 41820008
   61084000 71200004
   41820008 61080004
   71200400 41820008
   61080010 71201000
   41820008 61081000
   7CE74378 70E09FFF
   60000000 00000000

   
   

   16:9 Widescreen [Vague Rant]
   06008FD4 00000054
   2C030000 4180002C
   2C030003 41810024
   41820014 2C030001
   4182000C 900D8F2C
   4800000C 38600001
   906D8F2C 900D8F28
   7C0802A6 900D8F34
   38610008 38800001
   4816B319 800D8F34
   7C0803A6 88010008
   900D8F34 00000000

Button Mapping​

Wii Remote/Nunchuk	Classic Controller	Function
Wiimote Home	Home Remember that Y is your A button	Open/Close Home Menu
Wiimote D-Pad	D-Pad	Menus Navigation
Wiimote D-Pad Left/Right	L/R	Menus Navigation Gameplay Cycle Diskarmors
Wiimote D-Pad Down	ZR	Gameplay Slide
Wiimote A	Y	Menus Confirm Gameplay Standard Attack
Wiimote B	X	Menus Cancel Gameplay Strong Attack
Wiimote 1	D-Pad Up	Gameplay Toggle Minimap
Wiimote 2	Not mapped	Not used?
Wiimote Plus	Plus	Gameplay Pause
Wiimote Minus	Minus	Gameplay Open Menu
Wiimote Swing	A Y + Left Stick Left/Right	Gameplay Various Attacks
Nunchuk Stick	Left Stick	Menus Navigation Gameplay Movement
Nunchuk C	ZL	Gameplay Guard
Nunchuk Z	B	Gameplay Jump

General Notes​

• First up: I did not hack the Gladiator Mode at all and you cannot play that mode via this hack. This is a minor, separate part of the game, selectable from the menu, which is entirely motion-controlled. This hack is intended for playing the main story mode, known as Conquest Mode. If you want to play the motion control minigame, break out the motion controllers. You're not missing anything anyway, reviews described this mode as "tedious".
  
  
• The control layout is mostly based on the original PS2 control scheme. In that version, you had two attack buttons. On Wii, there are three, with the third "button" being a swing of the Wiimote. Fortunately, the PS2 game was very fond of doubling up its mapping (there are two Guard buttons and two Standard Attack buttons), which gave us room to map the Slide and Wiimote Shake abilities to their own buttons, without sacrificing any functionality.
  
  
  • Replicating the PS2 controls did mean that the menu controls are very weird here, with Y/X for Confirm/Cancel. You can either deal with it or change the mapping to suit your preferences using the source in the Technical Notes section.
  
  
• This game puts control of the copy ("deflicker") filter entirely in the user's hands. You can configure it to your preferences on the Options screen. Set Anti-Aliasing to 1 to disable the filter.
  
  
• I'm not done talking about this game yet because I think it's fascinating. This is all just weird details that aren't relevant to the actual hack, so stop reading now if you don't care about Rygar trivia.
  
  
  • So the guy you play as in the Rygar series ... Rygar, right? Not exactly. It's kind of a Metroid situation. ライガー (literally Raigaa) is actually the name of the villain from the first Rygar game (called Warrior of Argus in Japan). The character you play as was initially given no name beyond "Warrior of Argus". When that game was localized into English as Rygar, everybody kind of just assumed Rygar was the guy you play as. Due to the vagaries of transliterating Japanese L/R sounds, the villain ended up being called Ligar, which left "Rygar" open to become the hero's presumed name. Ultimately, this means Rygar is a game where two guys fight over the correct pronunciation of their name. So that's fun.
    
    
  • In Rygar: The Legendary Adventure/Battle for Argus, the character you play as is explicitly called Rygar. He identifies himself as Rygar in the narration, other characters call him Rygar in cutscenes, there's no question: you are Rygar, Warrior of Argus. Except there is question, because in the Japanese versions (where the voiced dialogue is all still in English), the player character is actually named Zehn. So if you want to go by the creators' intent, Rygar/Ligar is just some bad guy and you're playing as a dude called Zehn. So that's fun.
    
    
  • The original PS2 release was a pretty high-effort game for Tecmo. Rebooted alongside another of their major franchises, Ninja Gaiden, this was another attempt at modernizing a classic action game for the new millenium. Tecmo staff travelled to Greece to find inspiration and reference materials to use in the game's design. On the audio side, it has fully voice-acted dialogue and a massive orchestral soundtrack performed by the Moscow International Symphonic Orchestra. So that's fun.
    
    
  • The Legendary Adventure was highly acclaimed (83 on Metacritic!) but despite its obvious quality, did not find much of an audience on PS2. Having cost Tecmo quite a bit to produce, they weren't willing to give up on it after a single attempt, and the Wii's let's-call-it-"legacy" hardware design offered the perfect opportunity to re-release an unsuccessful last-gen game for a new audience. In an attempt to make Rygar/Zehn more appealing, they gave him an edgy redesign with a more muted color scheme (OG Rygar dressed entirely in red), anime hair, a bare, tattooed chest and more accessories than you can swing a Diskarmor at. So that's fun.
    
    
  • Besides the cosmetic overhaul, Tecmo added all-new motion controls for several Diskarmor attacks. Though fairly restrained in their use (you could play the entire game without ever using them, but a few attack varieties are not available via the buttons), the developers made a big deal about how important these were to the game. Between you and me, I think they just wanted to justify doing a Wii port: developers noted that without the new motion controls, it could have been a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 game, but they wanted to take advantage of the the Wii Remote. I suspect the motion controls are just an excuse and the real reasoning is that they didn't want to remaster all of the game's standard-def assets for the HD consoles. That's about medium fun.
    
    
  • Another addition to the Wii port were some new enemy types, making combat less repetitive, as well as a separate Gladiator game mode which sees you using motion controls to dispatch waves of enemies. None of these additions or changes seem to have helped the game's performance, either critically or commercially. The edgy redesign of the main character was roundly mocked, the gameplay was criticized as dated (it was a 2002 game re-releasing in 2009), and many were disappointed in the lack of technical improvements, with not even widescreen support being added to the Wii game. The game bombed for the second time in a row, this time losing the critics as well. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with the Wii port in a technical sense, it's just that the game had already been out for 7 years. Reviews showed this, with this version netting just a 52 on Metacritic. That's not very fun.
    
    
  • I have terrible opinions all the time, but I love this game. I don't mean that it's fun because it's terrible or anything like that, it's just a ridiculously fun time. You absolutely have to come to Rygar accepting all of its 2002-ness. The Resident Evil-style fixed camera, the unintentionally comedic voice-acting, the poorly translated English, this game is one of the last gasps of a dead era of gaming. We've come a long way, in many ways for the better, but I miss games like this that got weird with it and succeeded, or at least almost did. Besides God of War, Rygar really reminds me of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy, Devil May Cry or the late Wii exclusive, Pandora's Tower. If you like any of those and can tolerate the jank, give it a shot.

Technical Notes​

Spoiler: Boring

Code breakdown:

• C2: bypass Nunchuk error
• C2 in read_kpad_acc(): fake Wiimote swings and shakes
• C2 in calc_dpd_variable(): simulate IR pointer
• 04 in read_kpad_stick(): redirect Classic Left Stick into Nunchuk Stick
• 04 (USA/EUR/JPN) and 04 (EUR only) in KPADRead(): potential lag frame bug fix
• C2 in KPADRead() (USA/JPN)/read_kpad_button() (EUR): button injector

Spoiler: Button Injector

USA/JPNEUR

1. ; button injector
   ; 801B9364 for USA
   ; 801B8E74 for JPN
   ; r4 holds extType
   ; r7 holds wiimote bitfield
   ; r8 holds wiimote+nunchuk bitfield
   ; r9 holds classic bitfield
     cmpwi r4, 0x2
     bne- RETURN
   
     li r4, 0x1            ; i'm a nunchuk
   
       CLASSIC_HOME:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x800
         beq- CLASSIC_UP
         ori r8, r8, 0x8000    ; home
   
       CLASSIC_UP:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x1
         beq- CLASSIC_DOWN
         ori r8, r8, 0x208     ; 1 and up (v) / left (h)
   
       CLASSIC_DOWN:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x4000
         beq- CLASSIC_LEFT
         ori r8, r8, 0x4       ; down (v) / right (h)
   
       CLASSIC_LEFT:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x2
         beq- CLASSIC_RIGHT
         ori r8, r8, 0x1       ; left (v) / down (h)
   
       CLASSIC_RIGHT:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x8000
         beq- CLASSIC_A
         ori r8, r8, 0x2       ; right (v) / up (h)
   
       CLASSIC_A:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x10
         beq- CLASSIC_B
         ori r8, r8, 0x80      ; shake
   
       CLASSIC_B:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x40
         beq- CLASSIC_X
         ori r8, r8, 0x2000    ; z
   
       CLASSIC_X:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x8
         beq- CLASSIC_Y
         ori r8, r8, 0x400     ; b
   
       CLASSIC_Y:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x20
         beq- CLASSIC_L
         ori r8, r8, 0x800     ; a
   
       CLASSIC_L:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x2000
         beq- CLASSIC_R
         ori r8, r8, 0x1       ; left (v) / down (h)
   
       CLASSIC_R:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x200
         beq- CLASSIC_ZL
         ori r8, r8, 0x2       ; right (v) / up (h)
   
       CLASSIC_ZL:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x80
         beq- CLASSIC_ZR
         ori r8, r8, 0x4000    ; c
   
       CLASSIC_ZR:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x4
         beq- CLASSIC_PLUS
         ori r8, r8, 0x4       ; down (v) / right (h)
   
       CLASSIC_PLUS:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x400
         beq- CLASSIC_MINUS
         ori r8, r8, 0x10      ; plus
   
       CLASSIC_MINUS:
         andi. r0, r9, 0x1000
         beq- CLASSIC_DONE
         ori r8, r8, 0x1000    ; minus
   
       CLASSIC_DONE:
         or r7, r7, r8
   
   RETURN:
     andi. r0, r7, 0x9FFF

2. ; read_kpad_button
   ; 801BC0D0 for EUR
   ; r4 holds extType
   ; r6 holds wiimote bitfield
   ; r7 holds wiimote+nunchuk bitfield
   ; r8 holds classic bitfield
     cmpwi r4, 0x2
     bne- RETURN
   
     li r4, 0x1            ; i'm a nunchuk
   
       CLASSIC_HOME:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x800
         beq- CLASSIC_UP
         ori r7, r7, 0x8000    ; home
   
       CLASSIC_UP:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x1
         beq- CLASSIC_DOWN
         ori r7, r7, 0x208     ; 1 and up (v) / left (h)
   
       CLASSIC_DOWN:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x4000
         beq- CLASSIC_LEFT
         ori r7, r7, 0x4       ; down (v) / right (h)
   
       CLASSIC_LEFT:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x2
         beq- CLASSIC_RIGHT
         ori r7, r7, 0x1       ; left (v) / down (h)
   
       CLASSIC_RIGHT:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x8000
         beq- CLASSIC_A
         ori r7, r7, 0x2       ; right (v) / up (h)
   
       CLASSIC_A:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x10
         beq- CLASSIC_B
         ori r7, r7, 0x80      ; shake
   
       CLASSIC_B:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x40
         beq- CLASSIC_X
         ori r7, r7, 0x2000    ; z
   
       CLASSIC_X:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x8
         beq- CLASSIC_Y
         ori r7, r7, 0x400     ; b
   
       CLASSIC_Y:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x20
         beq- CLASSIC_L
         ori r7, r7, 0x800     ; a
   
       CLASSIC_L:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x2000
         beq- CLASSIC_R
         ori r7, r7, 0x1       ; left (v) / down (h)
   
       CLASSIC_R:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x200
         beq- CLASSIC_ZL
         ori r7, r7, 0x2       ; right (v) / up (h)
   
       CLASSIC_ZL:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x80
         beq- CLASSIC_ZR
         ori r7, r7, 0x4000    ; c
   
       CLASSIC_ZR:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x4
         beq- CLASSIC_PLUS
         ori r7, r7, 0x4       ; down (v) / right (h)
   
       CLASSIC_PLUS:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x400
         beq- CLASSIC_MINUS
         ori r7, r7, 0x10      ; plus
   
       CLASSIC_MINUS:
         andi. r9, r8, 0x1000
         beq- CLASSIC_DONE
         ori r7, r7, 0x1000    ; minus
   
       CLASSIC_DONE:
         or r6, r6, r7
   
   RETURN:
     andi. r9, r6, 0x9FFF

As mentioned, the widescreen support here is actually a restoration of a feature left behind by the original developers. It's certainly not perfect--HUD elements are stretched, sometimes the fixed camera can see things off the sides that were never meant to be visible--but the game plays quite nicely with a bit of extra breathing room. Even the Home Button Menu was adjusted to support widescreen before the feature was dropped entirely. The hack checks the console aspect ratio setting to determine whether it should (re-)enable widescreen support. There was also a bug in the USA version which only occurs when running at widescreen 480p: the game misconfigures the width of the video interface to 711 pixels (670 is the intended width), so I fixed that too.

The EUR release came out quite a bit later and is built on a newer SDK version than the JPN and USA versions. I don't really have anything interesting to say about that, it just meant stuff moved around a lot and some of the SDK functions are different.

 

[SPAC3W4IFU]

Oh, what the heck?! I was LITERALLY just thinking about this game and you bring this out the very minute the new year started, lol.

Anyways, I remember playing this on the PS2 back then and it was fun. It’s nice to see the Wii port can be played with a similar control scheme now. Now, I just wish there was a hack that reverted that stupid redesign, lol.

 

[frankybuster_]

Yeah that was my thought, i love the ps2 version and having the Wii one with better controls now is pretty cool even if the redesign is still tacky and out of place, but having a more instant slide without the original's delay is probably pretty good for movement, and i'm curious about the new enemies function wise.

 

[awesomeee]

Happy new years! I found out a reliable way to track down KPADRead via WPADProbe.

So when you set a breakpoint and run to the thing a few times, there will usually be a callstack thing looking like “LR = XXXXXXXXXX”. I am not sure of the full amount of digits.

Usually that is almost always KPADRead. To further confirm this, check if the call’s area is colored white, basically meaning dolphin could not identify what symbol or whatever it is.

Sometimes it will be the wrong callstack thing, so press run to there a few more times, and a new one might appear. That can also be the right one.

Of course, some games do not have the LR= call, so it might be a different one.

Thanks, and happy new year!

 

[frankybuster_]

Oh yeah, out of curiosity how complex is Madworld's use of motion to convert into a classic controller scheme? It'd be great to have an alternative control option for that game, i remember it being fun but it's heavy use of motion control made it kind of tiring to play.

 

[awesomeee]

Do you know the insertion address for some game's Accelerometer data? I know this is a silly question since motion controls are super hard to implement, but I think i am getting close to getting my hack to work!

 

[Technician]

Any chance for a cc hack of "world of goo"? I mean yes, it's an IR pointer driven game, but I like the art style and humour of it. And since it has no shaking components in it, it should be easy to do. The IR emulation in the cc hacks is pretty on point and smooth