Hacking Devolution - Public Release

[airline38]

So there are 2 new options (Wide Screen and Turn on/off LED) in r142.

Is it correct ?

 

[zerofalcon]

Thanks for the FIFA 07 fix, btw, Wave Race Blue Storm has missing voices when the announcer is presenting the course details before starting a race, it's not a big deal, just noticed after playing the retail disc.

 

[wiismodrome]

btw, Wave Race Blue Storm has missing voices when the announcer is presenting the course details before starting a race, it's not a big deal, just noticed after playing the retail disc.

Is the problem with missing voices a new issue, or does it happen with previous versions as well? If it happens with all versions, it could be that the audio streaming fix is not properly cuing up some of the audio files for playback.

 

[SuperrSonic]

Sonic Heroes seems to have this one graphic problem.

First from Disc Channel, second Devolution r142

 

[tueidj]

Sonic Heroes seems to have this one graphic problem.

What exactly is the problem?

Ah I see now, the effect as the ships appear is missing.

 

[zerofalcon]

btw, Wave Race Blue Storm has missing voices when the announcer is presenting the course details before starting a race, it's not a big deal, just noticed after playing the retail disc.

Is the problem with missing voices a new issue, or does it happen with previous versions as well? If it happens with all versions, it could be that the audio streaming fix is not properly cuing up some of the audio files for playback.

I tested with all versions since r93, same audio issue.

 

[wiismodrome]

I tested with all versions since r93, same audio issue.

OK, that means that is not something that was broken in a newer revision. Perhaps tueidj can have a look at the streaming audio subroutine?

 

[thevoiceover]

BTW: Gun looks great now , I wanted to say my friend at the game store in town has a European Wii (with scart, didn't know they still had that) and his XGIII is that. he also bought Doshin and a few other PAL on only titles (never saw Doshin before now and thought really? as it didn't seem so great) but this version of Devolution is looking very good and most (well some of the triage issues you referred to in past aren't) but I am very happy with this build. Good job @tueidj ! You helped make my evening!!

 

[tueidj]

I tested with all versions since r93, same audio issue.

OK, that means that is not something that was broken in a newer revision. Perhaps tueidj can have a look at the streaming audio subroutine?

Nothing to do with streaming audio, they're regular sound effects.

 

[wiismodrome]

Nothing to do with streaming audio, they're regular sound effects.

Had considered that possibility as well. Are the other "regular" sounds working in the game?

 

[tueidj]

Obviously not all of them.

 

[SuperrSonic]

I found something interesting with the aforementioned Sonic Heroes problem, every time I verify the game for the first time it shows up (the effect) but on the second boot it's no longer there, I've tested this a few times now.

 

[tueidj]

That's odd, sounds like it might be caused by something in libogc that doesn't always get cleaned up.

 

[IncognitoMan]

Just curious will there be support for things like Gecko dotNet?

I have a USB Gecko and would love to be able to take screenshots with it among other things...

Thanks

Still curious about this....

 

[WiiUBricker]

If you go through all the effort to connect a USB gecko with your Wii and PC to run gecko dotnet and take screenshots you may as well load your original disc with gecko os imo.

 

[NJ7]

http://pastebin.com/gSXAZGyx --- Log for 18 Wheeler American Pro Trucker, doesn't seem to work in r142 anymore, am I doing something wrong, crashes and returns to hbc.........

 

[OscarAndrade]

You can only use original discs and burned copies?

 

[tueidj]

http://pastebin.com/gSXAZGyx --- Log for 18 Wheeler American Pro Trucker, doesn't seem to work in r142 anymore, am I doing something wrong, crashes and returns to hbc.........

Looks like the disc is dirty or can't be read for some reason.

 

[JoostinOnline]

You can only use original discs and burned copies?

No, you can only use original discs period. It's not a warez loader.

 

[Nintendo Maniac]

So I've played around with Devolution (r135) with several of my GameCube games and I'd like to bring up a few things...


0. Could you please at least make a note or something in the first post regarding where the memorycard.bin is located? It took me forever to find out that it was on the same partition as the games but in the Apps folder. (Devolution was on the SD card while games were on the USB drive)

1. Now I realize that F-Zero GX doesn't work, but I don't know if the following is known. If you let the title screen song play all the way through, the story mode cutscene doesn't ever play. Not only that, but the whole time my harddrive seemed to not be really loading anything. So to me it looks like the issue is that it won't load anything past the titlescreen music (of course, the trouble is finding out why).

2. Some games (like Midway Arcade Treasures 3) really don't have very great controls (R for gas even when it's just digital in-game?). This got me wondering if it would be possible at all to be able to rearrange the button actions for gamecube controllers? This would also help with games like Medal of Honor: European Assult that lack the "legacy" analog stick arrangement (forward/back & turning on the left stick, look up/down & strafing on the right stick).

3. Once/if wiimote controls ever get added, I hope you'll consider being able to map a combination of buttons to a single button (like Z+L). Spy Hunter in particular had mapped both Z+L and Z+R to seperate functions and were quite a pain to use; they would be so much easier to use mapped to ZL and ZR on the classic controller.

4. Blasphamous idea: support for wired Xbox 360 and wired PS3 controllers! Even crazier: wireless bluetooth support for PS3 controllers! (I don't even own those systems, I just think it'd be cool). And just totally unrealistic: support for DirectInput PC controllers AND Xinput PC controllers!

5. Turns out that you really do need a completely clean rip of a game. I used GCRebuilder to replace a few music tracks in Rush 2049 on Midway Arcade Treasures 3 by putting in some of my favorite songs from the N64 version of Rush 2049, but nope! Devolution would have none of it - just constantly gave me the 5-blinks over and over. I'm honestly surprised since I only replaced a few .BIK media files and none of the game code, but alas...

6. If you sucessfully verify a game, then replace the ISO file with a different file, as expected it wants you to reverify. But if you then replace that with the original ISO you already successfully verified, Devolution will want you to STILL reverify. What gives? This unfortunately prevented being able to play a specific game when I was out of state visiting family for Labor Day weekend...

7. With the sample Devolution loader, once you successfully mount a partition, you cannot press 'B' to go back to the Homebrew Channel. You're only able to load a game and then press the power button on the Wii to go back to the Homebrew Channel.

8. Wifi for normal Wii things didn't seem to want to work after using Devolution and required rebooting the Wii.

9. Not sure if this should go here, but in Configurable USB Loader MOD (r46), Devolution keeps wanting me to verify the disc even if it's already been verified in both the sample Devolution loader and in Configurable USB Loader. It'll run fine if I put the disc in and eject it while the game is running, but it still wants me to reverify every time I launch via Configurable USB Loader (everything works with the sample Devolution loader though).