ROM Hack Discussion Astral Chain ROM Hacking Bible

goldcrazyman · Sep 4, 2019

Can someone find the resolution and aliasing settings? Would like to have no AA and a locked resolution of 720p or lower and sadly ReverseNX is not working for me.

masagrator said:
Probably will be no difference.

When I use max overclock settings in handheld mode and the 60fps, the game runs very smooth and there is a noticeable difference.

masagrator · Sep 4, 2019

goldcrazyman said:
When I use max overclock settings in handheld mode and the 60fps, the game runs very smooth and there is a noticeable difference.

You need to read more carefully (posts before also).
I said that there will be no difference between handheld mode and handheld flag in dock with ReverseNX.

Bigkahuna28 · Sep 4, 2019

would i need to repack the files on romfs or can i just use the loose files

gohan123 · Sep 5, 2019

I'm a noob in this one. so I copied the ips file, got reverseNX to run. now I wanted to set overclock but unsure about it. should I set the clock in handheld or dock? which is the highest clock which is save? not even sure if freebird works because if I'm ingame and open freebird, I get an atmosphere exception. besides that, the higher framerate is noticable and this game is finally playable, thanks.

edit: 720p a little bit too jaggy so switched back to dock. And switched to sys-clk instead. Tried:

docked_cpu=1683
docked_gpu=921
docked_mem=1600

god this high fps is beautiful but switch fan so loud, feels like it's dieing inside, are those clocks too high?

edit2: am I going crazy, some weird placebo is going on. so I removed the ips patch but the game still feels more smooth as it used to be. cutscenes are back to normal speed but everything else feels still smooth. If I switch to kirby I immediately see those crappy 30 fps. Those patches can't remain, can't they?

AzazelVII · Sep 23, 2019

Anyone know a way to change the chain from blue to red and the legatus core to dark grey and red i.e Akira raven armor version? or does anyone know how to swap the parts of the texture files that match the chain and legatus core recolor should be easy if it's just the texture that make the color of the chain. (mainly I don't like the blue chain and want to change it to either red ,white, black or purple which should be easy if color is decided by texture just change the hue and saturation levels in image editor)

Niko_of_Death · Nov 22, 2019

Did anyone ever make progress finding a way to change the dynamic resolution settings? It'd be nice to be able to use the docked profile with the 60fps hack while maintaining a low dynamic res floor so the 60 can be more consistent.

lh411 · Jan 2, 2020

Niko_of_Death said:
Did anyone ever make progress finding a way to change the dynamic resolution settings? It'd be nice to be able to use the docked profile with the 60fps hack while maintaining a low dynamic res floor so the 60 can be more consistent.

if we can close dynamic resolution. it is so good

Sinetrix · Sep 1, 2020

Well this is exactly what i've been looking for, game feels much nicer to play in 60fps. However the cutscene issue is kinda making me not want to use it for my first playthrough, has there been anymore research done into potentially fixing the double speed cutscenes or is it not possible?

Deleted User · Oct 30, 2020

Is this still the best 60FPS mod for Astral Chain? Is there an updated version with fixed cutscenes?

EDIT: Having played this game, I recommend not using the 60FPS patch for your first playthrough. The game has good storytelling and having cutscenes play at double speed really detracts from the experience. If you like the game enough to do a second playthrough then replay it with the 60fps patch.

-Musashi- · Feb 3, 2021

can i request @masagrator ?
can you make MOD just like xenoblade chronicles 2 on astral chain like docked mode (max 720p)

its really important to me..hope you make miracle..thank you on advance..
if you play on emulator low end pc like this
Docked Mode the area is too dark,
Undocked Mode the area is good but the graphics looks ugly

i hope you will make mod just like like docked mode (max 720p)

Cabalex · May 23, 2021

MrComputerRevo said:
Well, here it is. I worked on it some more yesterday and now it should actually work more or less fine? (man this game has a weird way of keeping pace) It will now appropriately speed up the animations when it's not hitting 60fps and slow down when it hits that target framerate (the speed multiplier range from 0.5 to 1.0, since this game has hardcoded frame time for animations of 0.03333, so it's either changing all of that, which is not fun, or making the original system work with 60fps which is what I attempted to do here). Cutscenes are still two times faster than they should be though, if anyone finds the multiplier for that, that would be nice. Well, at least it's actually playable now and doesn't slow down in larger areas.

Not sure if this was already a given, but upon digging up/interpreting the BXM files used for the game's cutscenes (event/ folder in the romfs holds the cutscene data in DAT-like EVNs), it seems like the frame rate is hardcoded at 30 FPS... perhaps with a mod we could change this to 60 FPS in every cutscene? It seems doable from what I've seen.

CutList.bxm holds the framerate and cuts, with the CutNo used in other BXMs and the MOT animations (<model name>_<SubNo>_<CutNo>.mot)

Code:

<lib MotionRate="30" PlayRate="30">
    <Cut CutNo="0" FrameNum="85"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="1" FrameNum="90"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="2" FrameNum="96"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="3" FrameNum="59"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="4" FrameNum="91"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="5" FrameNum="95"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="6" FrameNum="129"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="7" FrameNum="90"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="8" FrameNum="171"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="9" FrameNum="69"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="10" FrameNum="43"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="11" FrameNum="66"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="12" FrameNum="60"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="13" FrameNum="55"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="14" FrameNum="111"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="15" FrameNum="84"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="16" FrameNum="75"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="17" FrameNum="100"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="18" FrameNum="67"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="19" FrameNum="64"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="20" FrameNum="30"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="21" FrameNum="43"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="22" FrameNum="76"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="23" FrameNum="31"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="24" FrameNum="20"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="25" FrameNum="19"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="26" FrameNum="55"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="27" FrameNum="19"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="28" FrameNum="89"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="29" FrameNum="112"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="30" FrameNum="75"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="31" FrameNum="107"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="32" FrameNum="115"></Cut>
    <Cut CutNo="33" FrameNum="87"></Cut>
</lib>

Hazerou · Oct 12, 2021

ASTRAL CHAIN v1.0.1
TID: 01007300020FA000
BID: 4B159F0F7A360669

60 FPS Patch is needed. You can get it here;
https://gbatemp.net/threads/astral-chain-rom-hacking-bible.547050/post-8777070

Code:

[Cutscenes Speed Fix For 60 FPS Patch]
14050000 0CCA6764 3D088889
580F0000 0CCB7B08
580F1000 00000070
780F0000 00000F14
640F0000 00000000 00000002
20000000
14030000 0CCA6764 3D088889
580F0000 0CCB7B08
580F1000 00000070
780F0000 00000F14
640F0000 00000000 00000001
20000000

- Forces The Cutscenes' FPS to 30. It's the only way that I can think of to fix the Cutscenes from Speeding up.

60 FPS Patch by @MrComputerRevo
Cheat by @Hazerou

Tetsuo9999 · Oct 6, 2022

Got it fixed myself. oops!

masagrator · Dec 29, 2023

Added to FPSLocker Warehouse config which also allows playing real time cutscenes at 60 FPS with correct speed.

TheJadenXD · Jan 10, 2024

Hi
how did you make it work
cutscene 60 fps mod no speedup not double speed
can you share the mod

masagrator · Jan 10, 2024

TheJadenXD said:
can you share the mod

masagrator said:
Added to FPSLocker Warehouse

TheJadenXD · Jan 11, 2024

I mean on yuzu or ryujinx

ceevee · Jan 15, 2024

masagrator said:
Added to FPSLocker Warehouse config which also allows playing real time cutscenes at 60 FPS with correct speed.

Thanks, I waited until something like this was released before I started playing. Tested on Switch v1. Cutscenes play correctly at 60 fps.

First time FPSLocker user. For any other noobs, you need to convert the config file to a patch in the FPSLocker overlay. Then relaunch the game (close, start again). I also deleted any previous .IPS 60 fps patches from the atmosphere/exefs_patches folder, but not sure if I needed to do that. I did it in case there was some conflict.

OC v1 switch to 1785/921/1600 (I accept any risks). Game is pretty GPU bound, so few drops to below 60 FPS will occur, even with switch forced to handheld mode while docked. However, I only played the first 15 minutes of the game. Will test further and report experience in future.

Ethelbert · Jan 17, 2024

Will you also try RAM OC?

StevensND · Jan 27, 2024

TheJadenXD said:
I mean on yuzu or ryujinx

FPSLocker doesn't work on Yuzu/Ryujinx

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