Dreamcast Widescreen Hacks

Could similar codes work on the sega saturn?

 

Thank you so much for Sonic Adventure hack

If one day we could have a hack for Nba 2k2 it will be a dream for me

 

I don't see why it wouldn't be. This type of approach should be possible for most 3D games.

There are Saturn games with built-in 16x9 options, like NiGHTS for example.

 

Seconding Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver for a widescreen patch, it's the definitive version of the game, would prefer NTSC-U but I guess it doesn't really matter.

 

paul_met user has created two types of hack for 2D Saturn games: deleting black borders and change the resolution. He has not yet created 16:9 hacks , because he works only with 2D games, but he can.
http://www.emu-land.net/forum/index.php/topic,73835.msg1157873.html#msg1157873

You can freely ask anything in english on emu-land forums.

 

It is possible to remove those black bars in certain Dreamcast 2D games too ( I don't know why they are there in the first place....) and do some other cool things




Need to find an adrress to center the image though.

 

I am looking into it, I've managed to make it 16:9, but it has a lot of glitches specially in the "portals" right now it is useless.

 

Hey first post here! Believe it or not we've been doing quite the same thing without knowing eachother for quite some time! I started doing some months ago widescreen patches for PS1 and Dreamcast games. I was about to post the Dreamcast ones on PCSX2 forum but I was directed here instead by a forum member.
Some of them might already be here but I'll go ahead anyway and post them!

Soul Calibur (US)

Code:

16:9
022D6138 3F400000

16:10
022D6138 3EAAAAAB

Eyefinity (48:9)
022D6138 3E800000

Jet Grind Radio (US)

Code:

16:9
0232E12C 3F400000
0232E0FC 43F00000

16:10
0232E12C 3F555555
0232E0FC 44048000

Eyefinity (48:9)
0232E12C 3E800000
0232E0FC 43340000

Sonic Adventure 2 (US)

Code:

16:9
0228DEF8 43F00000
0228DF28 3F400000

16:10
0228DEF8 44048000
0228DF28 3F555555

I'm currently trying to find a way to expand render area on Shenmue games (and any other that may need a render fix).

 

AeroWings 2 - Airstrike v1.001 (2000)(Crave - Ubi Soft)(PAL)(en-de)
022A8750----3F400000




Moero, Justice Gauken (Rival Schools 2 JAP)
02426B74----43700000

Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver v1.000 (1999)(EIDOS)(PAL)
02129FA0---3EF55555
0212A9BC---3EF55555

Tested on the Pal UK, and Pal Spanish versions of the game and it works in both, maybe it will work too on other Pal versions, please try and tell me if it does so.

 

Is this correct? I think it's a bit off in mathematics.

Initial value is 3F200000 which is 0.625 in float
0.625 * 0.75 = 0.46875
0.46875 in float is 3EF00000 not 3EF55555

 

@VIRGIN KLM

Would be interesting to see PS1 games using widescreen. Do you have a few codes for me?

@Esppiral

Thanks
edit: hmm but the energy bar doesn't look like a circle to me

 

We have a thread in PCSX2 forum that everybody is free to post their hacks. Some very nice people are there! Also I've included a pretty easy tutorial how to do yours. If you find anything, make an account (if you don't have one already) and post it over.
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-PSOne-Widescreen-Patches

Also, let's not forget PS2 widescreen hacks, pretty like what started it all (well atleast the trend, I believe chronologically the first widescreen hack in a console was Colin McRae Rally 2.0)
http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-PCSX2-Widescreen-Game-Patches

 

I wonder if we can make widescreen patches for xbox too now that xqemu runs a lot of games.

Also I am acepting requests for dreamcast games I've covered any single Dreamcast game I wanted in widescrren, except for ecco and phantasy star online...any game you want in particular?

 

It's already happening.
http://ps2wide.net/lpx.html

I am trying to do Widescreen patches for NDS games currently, I was only able to do a 16:9 and Eyefinity patch (lol yeah I know!) for Mario Kart DS. I can't find anything similar on other games, or atleast I'm doing/understanding something wrong?

 

Is it possible to have a hack for these following games ? Thank you again Esppiral

-Zero Gunner 2
-Guitly Gear X
-Border Down
-Bomberman Online
-UEFA STRIKER
-NBA 2K2
-Unreal Tournament
-Rez

 

I wouldn't mind a thps2 widescreen hack

 

Already posted
http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/widescreen-hacks.58620/page-7

 

So I know it isn't the case for Shenmue, but for most of the other games, can we simply edit the executable at the right address on disc instead of using codebreaker?

 

just did that!

Zero Hunner 2 (JP)

Code:

16:9
02323CB0 43700000

 

No. Pretty much everything is in memory. Easy way to tell this is if you can modify the address in an emulator via cheat engine. The executable regions will be "locked" to read only in Dynarec mode, at least one of the builds of Demul I was using did this. If the address can be modified via Cheat Engine's memory viewer, it's probably not part of the executable.

Every single one of these can be baked in, but it will involve either game specific assembly hacks or someone coming up with a generic codebreaker-like stub that can be patched into multiple games. It sounds like there might be some room to do this in IP.BIN? I'm not sure though, I don't know how much room for extra code is in there.