Hacking WiiU VC game injection working on 5.3.2

[KiiWii]

Well you can try using a HEX editor, but IDA Pro has the advantage of having everything in a much more user friendly way, as well as the proper ARM opcodes and commands used.

Thanks! Pretty interesting digging, looks a lot like the multi menu after these configurables:

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Mode............Type............Index...........Address.........MemAddress......Fixcode.........DelayFrame......FadeFrame.......DarkEnable0.....DarkEnable1.....ReduceEnable0...ReduceEnable1...MotionBEnable0..MotionBEnable1..Dark0...........Dark1...........ReduceColorR0...ReduceColorR1...ReduceColorG0...ReduceColorG1...ReduceColorB0...ReduceColorB1...MotionBlur0.....MotionBlur1.........Palette.O...A…U2C0......Input...Menu....AutoFireRelease.SwitchDelay.MenuDelay...AutoFireHold....timelog.capture.loading.dmggray.%s <ON>.%s <%d>.FRM.COR.CPU.CW0.CW1.CW2.SPA.WAT.SPG.RN0.RN1.RN2.msg.rom.net.pre.yes.lcd.red.ch1.ch2.ch3.ch4.file0...file1...file2...file3...file4...file5...file6...file7...file8...file9...cheat...vpad0...reset...green...vsync.......save....load....PDFURL..quit....back....server..client..next....no..saving..deling..blue....mask....filter..dark....reduce..normal..color0..color1..color2..color3..bg..obj0....obj1....Menu>ROM Switch.Do you want switch to this rom?.

 

[VinsCool]

Thanks! Pretty interesting digging, looks a lot like the multi menu after these configurables:

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Mode............Type............Index...........Address.........MemAddress......Fixcode.........DelayFrame......FadeFrame.......DarkEnable0.....DarkEnable1.....ReduceEnable0...ReduceEnable1...MotionBEnable0..MotionBEnable1..Dark0...........Dark1...........ReduceColorR0...ReduceColorR1...ReduceColorG0...ReduceColorG1...ReduceColorB0...ReduceColorB1...MotionBlur0.....MotionBlur1.........Palette.O...A…U2C0......Input...Menu....AutoFireRelease.SwitchDelay.MenuDelay...AutoFireHold....timelog.capture.loading.dmggray.%s <ON>.%s <%d>.FRM.COR.CPU.CW0.CW1.CW2.SPA.WAT.SPG.RN0.RN1.RN2.msg.rom.net.pre.yes.lcd.red.ch1.ch2.ch3.ch4.file0...file1...file2...file3...file4...file5...file6...file7...file8...file9...cheat...vpad0...reset...green...vsync.......save....load....PDFURL..quit....back....server..client..next....no..saving..deling..blue....mask....filter..dark....reduce..normal..color0..color1..color2..color3..bg..obj0....obj1....Menu>ROM Switch.Do you want switch to this rom?.

Yes I remember seeing that a long time ago! I just counldn't figure most of this, sadly.

 

[KiiWii]

Yes I remember seeing that a long time ago! I just counldn't figure most of this, sadly.

My favorite line so far:

Too many open files.Not a typewriter.Text file busy.File too large.No space left on device.Illegal seek

@LuigiBlood ahh I see now where you found that value?:

/vol/content/DDROM/iplrom.n64

@offset 4EC00

Also wtf is "special ogre task"??

 

[ShadowOne333]

My favorite line so far:



@LuigiBlood ahh I see now where you found that value?:



@offset 4EC00

Here's the post I was talking about:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/underst...es-vc-rpx-settings.425474/page-6#post-6339490

it was @shutterbug2000 and not @QuarkTheAwesome, but they both helped a lot to get NES/SNES in full screen.
Right now, the thing @the_randomizer and me were trying to achieve were mostly two things:

• Full screen video image resolution (16:9 instead of the locked 4:3 by Nintendo).
• Remove the gamma filter (Dark overlay that all the VC games eems to have lately).

You can read a few posts before that one to read the details about such thing.

 

[VinsCool]

My favorite line so far:



@LuigiBlood ahh I see now where you found that value?:



@offset 4EC00

Also wtf is "special ogre task"??

Most likely a hardcoded Ogrebattle patch, considering the .ini file of this game has a huge HEX patch in it.

Well, that's my guess.

 

[KiiWii]

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it was @shutterbug2000 and not @QuarkTheAwesome, but they both helped a lot to get NES/SNES in full screen.
Right now, the thing @the_randomizer and me were trying to achieve were mostly two things:

• Full screen video image resolution (16:9 instead of the locked 4:3 by Nintendo).
• Remove the gamma filter (Dark overlay that all the VC games eems to have lately).

You can read a few posts before that one to read the details about such thing.

Slick!

So I have created APS files which patch Star Fox 64 for each of the 82 possible filtering variations.

These 82 files are all combinations of:
- Video tables only
- Gamma correction on/off
- Gamma dithering on/off
- Divot filter on/off
- Dither filter on/off

You can download the APS files from: here, or download the archive directly from here (.zip).

I could be wrong but I think you can adjust gamma via aps?

 

[ShadowOne333]

Slick!




I could be wrong but I think you can adjust gamma via aps?

Sadly the gamma correction is applied via the emulator and not the ROM.
From what I see in there, the gamma correction is being applied to the ROM itself.
I don't believe that might help out with the VC injections to remove the awful gamma correction.

 

[the_randomizer]

Sadly the gamma correction is applied via the emulator and not the ROM.
From what I see in there, the gamma correction is being applied to the ROM itself.
I don't believe that might help out with the VC injections to remove the awful gamma correction.

Sorry I didn't see this till now, had work, I haven't done this in some time; isn't there a tool that converts RPX to ELF and back to RPX that doesn't require the SDK commands? I can't seem to recall the command used.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Sorry I didn't see this till now, had work, I haven't done this in some time; isn't there a tool that converts RPX to ELF and back to RPX that doesn't require the SDK commands? I can't seem to recall the command used.

You mean the one on my signature?

 

[the_randomizer]

You mean the one on my signature?

*Headdesk* How did I not see that? Anyway, I'l need to reisntall HxD or whatever it was I used, that, and I don't even know if anyone has found anything. Is there nothing new about forcing video stretching? Or removing that hideous
piss poor audio sampling in Rare games? (Rare games and injections suffer from what sounds like linear interpolation)

 

[ShadowOne333]

*Headdesk* How did I not see that? Anyway, I'l need to reisntall HxD or whatever it was I used, that, and I don't even know if anyone has found anything. Is there nothing new about forcing video stretching? Or removing that hideous
piss poor audio sampling in Rare games? (Rare games and injections suffer from what sounds like linear interpolation)

From what I've heard, sadly no.
There hasn't been any more progress in that part.
Nor the stretching nor the gamma filtering, much less audio sampling.

 

[the_randomizer]

From what I've heard, sadly now.
There hasn't been any more progress in that part.
Nor the stretching nor the gamma filtering, much less audio sampling.

Ugh, dammit, but at least we can easily convert from RPX to ELF and then back, so that's a big plus for testing. I just wish there was a way to find out the Snes filter, because clearly the NES emulator does it somehow, there has to be a way.... @QuarkTheAwesome

 

[QuarkTheAwesome]

From what I recall while playing with the SNES emu; GX2 function calls are a dead end (even if they have "Gamma" in the name!) There's a lot of "that didn't do anything" while dealing with this stuff. I suspect the framebuffer is butchered directly from software.

 

[the_randomizer]

From what I recall while playing with the SNES emu; GX2 function calls are a dead end (even if they have "Gamma" in the name!) There's a lot of "that didn't do anything" while dealing with this stuff. I suspect the framebuffer is butchered directly from software.

Guess we've hit a dead end with Snes -_- Well bollocks, that's what I was afraid of; any progress on the forcible 4:3/16:9 stretching in N64 games at least? Leave it to Nintendo to use crappy emulators

 

[KiiWii]

Where is emukidid when you need him eh?.... yawn.... Xtremes Not64 could also be pretty nice on wii u.... just need porting and dynarec I guess?

 

[ShadowOne333]

Where is emukidid when you need him eh?.... yawn.... Xtremes Not64 could also be pretty nice on wii u.... just need porting and dynarec I guess?

Just need them to work on it. xD
They seems to work on other stuff rather than the Wii64 emu.
You see releases every now and then of other stuff, but that.

And you could somehow circumvent the porting problem if Cafe2Wii becomes accessible.
Cafe2Wii is the one who provides the usage of the Wii U Gamepad inside vWii, meaning we could use the Gamepad as a Classic Controller Pro inside vWii.
That way we could have all of the Wii emulators playable with the Gamepad alone, no more Wiimote needed.

 

[the_randomizer]

Where is emukidid when you need him eh?.... yawn.... Xtremes Not64 could also be pretty nice on wii u.... just need porting and dynarec I guess?

Among others things I believe, it would greatly benefit from dynarec, unfortunately though, he is pretty busy, but there is an IRC channel where the devs meet on Extrem's site.

 

[KiiWii]

Disappointingly I haven't had a second to even fire up my laptop today absolutely zero time dedicated to N64 injection progress.

#frustrated <life takes over)

 

[ShadowOne333]

Disappointingly I haven't had a second to even fire up my laptop today absolutely zero time dedicated to N64 injection progress.

#frustrated <life takes over)

Give life the middle finger.
Works wonders sometimes

 

[ploggy]

I asked Extrems if he would port Wii64 to WiiU a while ago but he said he had no interest in doing it