Illinois, USAIt'd help a lot. It's not allowed though. No one has tested it. Might get an SSD to test it (and because I want one for my PS3 anyway)
I saved the Steamapps/common/Refunct folder before it updated, which, according to some of the forums I've been looking at, should allow me to downgrade back to Update 4(?) and do runs of NGG. Do I need to do anything else? Any% w/ NGG was my favourite category to run and I still wanna do it, need to be 100% certain that this will work for it, so if anyone knows please lmk
This helps a lot actually. The thing that is really bad about everything is because of the PS2 being hard to romhack and mod and with no solid emulation no one has really done much with rom hacks. http://ps2home.freeforums.net/thread/497/modding-formats-working-tools-chart this right here is pretty much all I can find and what I'm working with. With PS2 each developer and sometimes each game has a completely different filesystem and everything is different, Crash and Ratchet have very similar filesystems so I'm taking apart the GCN Wrath of Cortex and comparing it to the PS2 until I can find something solid. No one has any tools for anything except a really outdated tool called Apache that can only replace files, not read them or extract them (luckily Daemon tools can extract the ISOs or I wouldn't even have an ISO dump at this point). When I find a PS2 game that was also released for the Gamecube and has a simlar filesystem or uses the same files I should be able to find ways to read PS2 files, which would pretty much make everything possible for all 4 Ratchet PS2 games. Hopefully these really wordy updates are okay, very little but really big progress. Super duper actually really important update. UYA has a debug mode that no one knows much about, only two codes have been discovered. Ratchet 1 has a debug mode that no one knows much about.
So far I have a full ISO dump of Ratchet and Clank 3, not much has been done with PS2 modding and until I can get a debug emulator working with a PS3 extracted save file (which is completely doable and should be easy once I have everything set up), apparently not too much has been done with PS2 stuff, progress should be very slow until I can actually get things readable, once we can open all the files everything will go super super smoothly and everyone should be able to mess with anything they want to. I'm almost certain that these programs already exist, but PS2 modding is very hard to find. I might have to work with PSP and PS2 Size Matters before anything else because the PSP is more mod-able and modded than the PS2. If anyone has ever worked with PS2 or PSP stuff your help would be greatly appreciated on this.
Suprised people hadn't done anything like this TBH, When I have access to an actual good computer I might import a save to check it out. Specifically really interested in Skrunchless for some reason, I'd ask someone who has an okay computer to do some testing, but I'm not too sure what I'd be looking for. I'd totally reccomend looking into stuff though if you want to, just download PCSX2 and see what's possible. Everything helps. I'll definitely look into IJs too. Good idea to do this on RaC 1 too. EDIT: So for looking into IJs I realized I would need to do TAS stuff, not completely impossible for me, but I'm using a very low end laptop so I'm not sure i could handle PS2 emulation (I can emulate Gamecube and frame by frame Wii though, so I may be able to, can't say for sure until I get all my PS2 stuff up and running fully though). I'll try what I can but if someone is able to run PCSX2 and test that that would be great.
I actually really like this. I'll set up a Google Drive document when it's not 3AM.
So while I was in Xem's stream I learned that we don't know much about the game compared to other games. I will be softmodding my PS2 and messing with games soon in any way I can (just as I did with my Wii for about 2 years until that bored me, I learned a lot and I started without knowing how to softmod it, which is what I'm doing here so it may take a while to get things running how I want them to). I'm gonna be trying to learn things about UYA through whatever I can. My cousin is pretty into stuff like this and said he would like to help, so I should have something going really soon, even if it is just exporting a bunch of files and seeing what they are. What truly inspired me to look into this game was when Xem said we don't know how big the Skrunchless rail thing is. SMS and other games that have easy emulator support have much more known about them because of the codes they're able to use and extra features they can use for training. The plan is to be able to bring everything that games like Mario 64 and SMS have with emulators onto the PS2 console for easy accessability and not having to make a PS2 emulator that works until we get what we need to do things (it may seem hard to get emulator-like features onto normal console, but if I learned anything from modding Wii stuff, it's definitely possible). First step is to extract everything readable from UYA, then make everything that can't be read readable. Hopefully we can figure out more about this game through this and I hope to do the same to Ratchet 1 & 2. If people could comment everything they know about skrunchless that'd be great and would help alot, if there is anything similar to it (as in, we don't know much about it and it would help if we did know more about it) please comment it and what you know about it as well. SOrry if this is poorly written or repetitive, I wrote this at 3AM
I've been doing a lot of time attack and was wondering if maybe we could add a category for it. What I've been doing is time attack on a 100% file with whatever character I want to use (mainly Super Sonic because the times you can get are amazing), what I believe it would be is Resort Island-Radiant Emerald in Time Attack mode, we could have a normal and reverse category for this because both of those things are very different, while the 100% and any% (no OoB) runs are pretty fun, I think the challenge of beating your time and yourself without having to worry about being a character like Knuckles or having to get the chaos emeralds is the most fun way to run the game. So far I've been able to get some pretty great times because of being able to play Super Sonic in this (I just did a test run and my final RTA time across all tracks was 8:41 (from first pressing Time Attack to crossing the finish line of Radiant Emerald). I think this would be a good category to include because of the amount of fun it is to run, also even with me being a not so good runner I got 8:41 from my first real run of this, which means it's quicker than 100% and with optimization can potentially be quicker than the any% GP runs). Another great thing about this run is runners could Netplay VS. mode on Dolphin to have more practice with the run and get to see other runners play the game. If you would like I could also record a run of this (with my horrible quality webcam because I don't have a good computer, but it should be watchable). If any other runner would like to comment on why this category would be good/bad to have please do so, I would love to hear your input on this. If anyone has questions about this just comment them and I'll make sure I reply. Right after this I'm going to work on the rough draft for a rule set (not starting at Time Attack press because that adds ten seconds to the run and that's always gonna make someone mad (me)). If anyone else would try this run to make sure it works too that would be great, I mainly thought of it as an excuse to do an entire run with Super Sonic, and I hope others think that's a fun idea too.
(Sorry about the bad formatting and long-ness of this post, it's midnight and I have problems knowing when to stop typing, if anyone wants me to clean it up a bit I can do that tomorrow, hopefully this is readable enough)
About to start recording some runs of this game and submitting them soon so just a quick question. Is Nintendont on the Wii console considered emulation? I USB load the game because my physical copy of Sonic Gems Collection no longer works from all the scratches so I'm not sure whether that would be considered Gamecube console or emulation.
I am going to be going for WR run today and I am not going to be able to record it. I could record it on my laptop, include the timer, and upload it to YT. It would be recorded on the TV with my laptop camera and audio would likely be cut out because of dogs and family and house noise and stuff. Just wanted to know whether I should go through that before I have everything set up for the run and stuff. Didn't realize jumping helped so I didn't do that in my first run and now I'm ready to tackle the WR so I want it to be accepted so I can stop playing this game.
