[REL] PS1 - Crime Patrol 2: Drug Wars (russian bootleg + ENG ppf)

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Source/history:

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there were times when russian bootleg pirates made a decision to make their own "commercial homebrews" erotic/quest/puzzle/etc. games on playstation for internal bootleg market just for fun, so this is one of the their works. The content of this "port" was taken from CP2 DW DOS version 1994 year, but the engine that running on PS with this content is weird (it's abandonware right now as i know, so i think it is permissible to share anywhere). Also there is some evidence, that i have found inside of resources which indicates to erotic DOS game engine from - "Vida (1993)(Interactive Girls Club)" so i'm little confused. Anyway it was sold on internal russian market in about ~2000's and i've got it, idk was it released earlier or not anywhere, but english patch is made by me for this release (iso exe date is: 18.01.2001). The reason of sharing this is not meaning that port/game is good, it is not, but it's semi-rare (in non-russian communities) unlicensed playstation kinda-port, so it's might be interesting for someone. You can also see label on the covers like "V-Вектор" (cyrillic characters) it's russian localisation-pirates team, but things is they've just paid money for many hackers to do this kinda of "homebrew" games. So the real author is anonymous, but maybe his nickname is "IRAVEN" or not, it can be truly random russian/ukrainian/byelorussian/etc guy. If you like this, maybe i will to release another similar things later.

Eng edited covers 300dpi:


Original covers:
CD, front, back

Download: https://yadi.sk/d/sjQbkYP1phHpR
(standart zip acrchive, readme about ppf inside, ppf-o-matic3.exe is not a virus)

Running this on real PS1/PSP/PsVita:

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the disk structure is outstandingly awful, but it's still works and this is some kind of miracle lol. You can burn this iso to 80 min CD-R without troubles, but your real ps1 hardware won't boot this game without troubles, anyway game will load sooner or later on your PS1 (ISO was created with IsoBuster from original disk without sector errors. Of course will work only in region free consoles, Modchip/etc, might work on first japanese/fat PS1 models with disk swap trick or not). Process of running the game on real ps1 will be a little tricky: firstly you will hear strange noise from laser (don't fear) and maybe you will be forced to do hard reset about 5-7 times or more, until you will see that game is starting to load (regardless of scratches on the disk). It's may freeze several times on PS logo or before - if not - will work fine to the end. From PS logo to main menu about 5-10 seconds completely black screen (it's normal, don't do reset of your playstation on black screen). Video, gameplay can lag and may make this game unplayable and yes this is normal too. Anyway it's running normal on any emulator and on PSP/PsVita too. Convert this iso only with "Popstation GUI" tool (not with psx2psp) and select any Sony ID that starts with "SLES...", then you can change name of the selected ID to "drug wars", don't enable PAL->NTSC patches too, just click convert as is and set 9 level of compression. On some PSP CFW you will need to run this EBOOT with pops 3.30 (tested on 6.60 PRO-mod). On PsVita TN-V v9.6 - convert it just like for PSP, but it will run without any pops with default Total Noob ps1 sound plugin settings. Default iso mode and default TN-V settings with normal sound (TN-V recovery menu -> advanced -> reset settings). Also it's may crash your TN-V on blue screen after trying to exit the game to XMB - nothing bad about this - just push START for restart and nevermind. (also running normal on ps2 modchip/softmodded)

English patch description/technical stuff: patched only text and textures from original DOS version source. Video sound is still as russian dubbing on english audio mixed with bad quality (Video: 288x192, 15.000 fps. Audio: Mono, 18.900 KHz, 16 bits - yep mono, sound will be only from one channel and fps is too low). PS logo is PAL, game running in PAL 60, so it's might be PAL region but i'm not sure. Also no dualshock analog support or vibration function. The game will not save or load anything on memory card. "Save" and "load" buttons seems like based on RAM only and... i'm still not sure is it really works or not. Controls is bad, much harder to play, than on original DOS version with mouse (no PS mouse support too). There is also DOS exit button and it is functional, if you click it - disk will stop and "turn me off" message will appear on screen.

Game controls:
D-pad in main menu - navigation (unlike the dos version you can't move cursor in menu)
X button on difficulty level options - accept selected item
||, X buttons on calibration icon - lower or raise cursor sensitivity
"menu" bottom button - will pause the game and will let you save or load (may glitch)
bullets bottom button - press X to reload on this icon

Screens/comparison:

 

thanks

 

Dumb question but, can i run this on my PS3 Slim?

 

if CFW/BD emu - yes
if OFW - no, only on super slim with hot swap trick (but there is also regional lockout issue, so i'm not sure...)

 

Oh, is it possible to do iso burning disc patching method similar to the Sega Dreamcast? I wish you could do that nowadays since I'm pretty sure alot of members here has the tools and knowledge of making that possible

 

You mean bleemcast/bleem! self loader? It is semi-possible, but bleemcast on Dreamcast can't handle with STR video files, so it is useless. Use PlayStation PC emulator for running this stuff, there is no possibilities to run this on ps3 slim ofw, no patching available.

 

I see, and thanks again for helping out

 

Thanks! Ive seen other Russian originals on other emulation sites and Ive been very interested in seeing and playing more of these. Thanks for the upload!

 

Wow, some people are really interested with my English patch (65 downloads on mediafire). Well, i will try to make more English patches to some "russian bootleg homebrews" games in near future and release it here. (some other ports is much better than this)

http://www.retrocollect.com/News/un...lease-drug-wars-gets-english-translation.html
http://retrogamingmagazine.com/2014...wars-for-psone-translated-to-english-updated/

 

I was wrong.