PS2 Widescreen Hack (Codebreaker and ps2rd Codes Only)

I disagree, the reason for versions is that let's say last week some members downloaded the last version. And if they later want to know if there has been any updates, they would not have a point of reference. I understand your point, but I think this will help avoid confusion. :)

Alright, if I need to update it from now on I'll add a version number to the title bar and describe any updates on the thread.

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Originally Posted by pelvicthrustman

Alright, if I need to update it from now on I'll add a version number to the title bar and describe any updates on the thread.

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Great! I plan to let the News Team of our forum know about this GUI version. They might be encouraged to post it in our News Page. I might also ask our Admin team to give you a Developer banner next to your username. You most definitely earned it! :)

Thanks! I do what I can

Silent Hill 2 (SLUS 202.28)

FMV Fix
002a258c 3c027040
002a258d 003c0270
002a258e 00003c02
002a258f 0000003c
002a25bc 34068fc0
002a25bd 0034068f
002a25be 00003406
002a25bf 00000034
002a25d4 24100000
002a25d5 00241000
002a25d6 00002410
002a25d7 00000024
002a2730 34c60000
002a2731 0034c600
002a2732 000034c6
002a2733 00000034
002a2640 34c60000
002a2641 0034c600
002a2642 000034c6
002a2643 00000034
002a27ac 34c60000
002a27ad 0034c600
002a27ae 000034c6
002a27af 00000034
002a26bc 34c60000
002a26bd 0034c600
002a26be 000034c6
002a26bf 00000034

Tested with ps2rd


I'm getting better with FMV codes! Although this one was ridiculously difficult.

JayJay, on the front page you have Silent Hill 2 listed twice, both listings have the same code but different master codes. I have tested the mastercode originally posted on CodeBreaker and it didn't work, on the other hand the mastercode I posted (second listing) will work for both ps2rd and Codebreaker. I would encourage you to delete the first entry (with the non-working F-type mastercode), and add (SLUS 202.28) to the second.

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Originally Posted by pelvicthrustman

I'm getting better with FMV codes! Although this one was ridiculously difficult.

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You got any tips?
There are a couple of games I'd like to try fixing the FMVs for widescreen on my own.

I noticed nemesis only posted an FMV fix for the PAL version of silent hill 2. I assume you must've figured out how to fix the FMV hack on your own then, considering your post contains the NTSC version. I'm curious as to how you went about finding the right address.

flameofrecca,

Yup, I did figure it out on my own, unfortunately the NTSC version of SH2 was significantly more complex than the PAL version, primarily because while the FMV scaling values were easy to find the developers rendered black bars over the FMVs which were pretty difficult to disable, fortunately they were rendered in the same function as the rest of the FMV which allowed me to find them after some hunting.

First let me stress that you're not going to have much luck without a working knowledge of programming and assembly language, in this case MIPS assembly (the EE is a MIPS architecture CPU).

You're going to need ps2dis to find anything, from there you'll need CMPLabelXxX.pis to allow the debugger to find some of the more common functions by name (just like the 90 master code method on page one).

Then you're going to look for (ctrl+g) sceGifPkInit, you highlight and press spacebar to select it then go to Analyzer->Jump to Next Referer in the menu bar. This will take you around to all of the places in the code that call the function sceGifPkInit().
As far as I can tell sceGifPkInit seems to be part of the FMV rendering process (note that there may be more than one instance of sceGifPkInit, which will make looking around a bit harder, one way to tell if it's FMV code is to look for sceGifPkReset right after sceGifPkInit but even then there could be ambiguities.

If you're lucky scaling values will be hard coded in near sceGifPkInit (see Silent Hill 3 below) in which case you're just looking for "li" instructions with some numbers that look helpful, then you change them with a PNACH, load in PCSX2 see if you're right and tweak.

That's pretty much as far as I've gotten in terms of general methodology, the rest is just experimentation and trial and error. It helps a lot if you can see what the code is doing (thus knowing assembly).

Attachment 40807

Hopefully this helps you get started, just try to remember not all games do it the same. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the y-scaling value for Silent Hill 4 at the moment. In that game the code uses a formula for y-position so even that value wasn't simply apparent in the code.

Jay-Jay, please, add one working code more to the front page:

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"XIII /ID SLUS_206.77"
Mastercode
90125154 0C04B906
Wide screen
206EC728 3F400000

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Notes:
1. Tested with OPL + ps2rd
2. FMVs and in-game menu are stretched. To watch cinematic sequences in proper format you should switch your TV back to 4:3 mode.

I took widescreen codes from .pnach. Mastercode taken from codeseek didn't work, another one taken from ps2dis froze game during initial loading. That one, which works, is converted to RAW codebreaker enable code.

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Originally Posted by pelvicthrustman

flameofrecca,

Yup, I did figure it out on my own, unfortunately the NTSC version of SH2 was significantly more complex than the PAL version, primarily because while the FMV scaling values were easy to find the developers rendered black bars over the FMVs which were pretty difficult to disable, fortunately they were rendered in the same function as the rest of the FMV which allowed me to find them after some hunting.

First let me stress that you're not going to have much luck without a working knowledge of programming and assembly language, in this case MIPS assembly (the EE is a MIPS architecture CPU).

You're going to need ps2dis to find anything, from there you'll need CMPLabelXxX.pis to allow the debugger to find some of the more common functions by name (just like the 90 master code method on page one).

Then you're going to look for (ctrl+g) sceGifPkInit, you highlight and press spacebar to select it then go to Analyzer->Jump to Next Referer in the menu bar. This will take you around to all of the places in the code that call the function sceGifPkInit().
As far as I can tell sceGifPkInit seems to be part of the FMV rendering process (note that there may be more than one instance of sceGifPkInit, which will make looking around a bit harder, one way to tell if it's FMV code is to look for sceGifPkReset right after sceGifPkInit but even then there could be ambiguities.

If you're lucky scaling values will be hard coded in near sceGifPkInit (see Silent Hill 3 below) in which case you're just looking for "li" instructions with some numbers that look helpful, then you change them with a PNACH, load in PCSX2 see if you're right and tweak.

That's pretty much as far as I've gotten in terms of general methodology, the rest is just experimentation and trial and error. It helps a lot if you can see what the code is doing (thus knowing assembly).

Attachment 40807

Hopefully this helps you get started, just try to remember not all games do it the same. I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the y-scaling value for Silent Hill 4 at the moment. In that game the code uses a formula for y-position so even that value wasn't simply apparent in the code.

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Thanks for the quick reply, dude. Nemesis2000 doesn't seem to reply to requests, so thanks.

As for your tutorial, yeah, I figured you would need some assembly knowledge especially considering how fast nemesis finds these codes. I always wondered if you could just change values in cheat engine searching through the 00xxxxxx range, and see what happens, but I guess knowing the actual assembly is best. Thanks though.

On Another Note, here's some more codes.
Thanks to a few tutorials, I managed to easily convert some of Nemesis2000's elf hacks. And I also found some more widescreen codes on my own using cheat engine.

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Fullmetal Alchemist 2 - Curse of the Crimson Elixir SLUS_211.66
Master Code
90116724 0C046F4A
Widescreen Code
202c3410 3f9e859f

Megaman X8 - NTSC - SLUS_209.60
Master Code
90129698 0C13EF1A
Widescreen Code
20b46730 3f400000

Half-Life - NTSC - SLUS_200.66
Master Code
9A3C23BE 18E5FC2B
Widescreen Code
002aa91c 3c013fe3
002aa920 34218e38
002aa158 3c013f2b

Wild Arms 4 - NTSC - SLUS_212.92
Master Code
9A384B44 18EF0288
Widescreen Code
001596d0 3c064500
0015976c 3c023f40
00159574 3c05442b

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Originally Posted by flameofrecca

Nemesis2000 doesn't seem to reply to requests

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Have no time, because making FMV's fixes isn't so easy and fast process, especially for a games that uses CRI SFD format.