Suggestions Thread

[Kormann]

Hello guys!
Throw here some ideas/suggestions to improve this port of BOR for our lovely PS2.

I'll start with two okay?
1)I said to pixel once to add Hdd support in the future.. but if he cant do it now, there is a suggestion for others that want to help him to improve this port.

2) I know that it may sound dumb but it would be nice to add maybe a LAN/Network play to the game. Why? Because we could play BOR with a friend that is far from you at home... so we could use xlink kai evolution vii to host a room and invite a friend there (I wasnt going to play this game on LAN, come on.. I have two pads :P), it would work almost the same as Kaillera client for some windows arcade/console emulators.

Ok.. cya dudes next time!

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Kormann

[Pixel]

For the 1) I have no HDD, so, I can't test/port the actual code. But maybe it would work straight, thanks to the "where am I run from" detection code. Feedback welcome.

For the 2), hum, well, that would eventually mean changing the internals of the engine. Rather a work for senile's team I'd say, but, well, in order to achieve that, one has to do "data synchronization". And I've never tried that in my own coding life

[Kormann]

For the 1) I have no HDD, so, I can't test/port the actual code. But maybe it would work straight, thanks to the "where am I run from" detection code. Feedback welcome.

Humm you mean installing it with hdloader?
Cause I had a good idea.. (based in the same idea that i said to you once about dms3hddformat partitions in the first news about PS2BOR). I know that you dont have a spare HD for testing porpose (ok, but let me continue :P)... You could use "where am I run from" detection code to detect a BOR partition on hdd..
For example.. the default partition name that PS2BOR.ELF would look for would be +PS2BOR (+ because it means that is a storage partition.. its the same type of partition used for pgen roms) and there would be PAK files that would be also detectable. And you ask me "how are you planning to exec PS2BOR.ELF" and I say "from DMS HDD Explorer" .. "But i said i dont have hd.. how i will test it?" I can help with it

For the 2), hum, well, that would eventually mean changing the internals of the engine. Rather a work for senile's team I'd say, but, well, in order to achieve that, one has to do "data synchronization". And I've never tried that in my own coding life

Thats a problem.. Senile team is excelent (I loved their game and i will love the next) but I doubt they would care about a network gameplay.

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Kormann

[Drakonite]

Humm you mean installing it with hdloader?
Cause I had a good idea.. (based in the same idea that i said to you once about dms3hddformat partitions in the first news about PS2BOR). I know that you dont have a spare HD for testing porpose (ok, but let me continue :P)... You could use "where am I run from" detection code to detect a BOR partition on hdd..

No, he means that if you put it on the HDD and use something like PS2MENU to run it (I'd assume DMS HDD explorer as well), it might work already, as it checks the path it was run from to load the files from.

For example.. the default partition name that PS2BOR.ELF would look for would be +PS2BOR (+ because it means that is a storage partition..

Actually, the + means it's a shared partition, and not everone agrees we should be doing it... but it's become sorta the defacto standard since the main partition tool uses it...

[Pixel]

Drake is right, and, bor won't ever work with hdthing.

[Kormann]

Drake is right, and, bor won't ever work with hdthing.

Sorry for my dumb question.. Did you say it wont EVER work with HD?

I'm curious, did you compress BOR.ELF with ps2-packer? Or is it uncompressed already?

And Drakonite I said to PS2BOR mods use +PS2BOR partition (common/shared partition) because it would be easy to send mods through ftp with execftps

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Kormann

EDIT: Tried with HDLoader but it hanged at Disclaimer screen.. now trying as E P did.

[E P]

Well Pixel I tried BOR on the HD. I loaded it using PS2MNU-K and it works great. Took three attempts to get EXECFTPS to transfer that large pak file to my +MAIN partition. Hopefully the bugs with EXECFPTS will be worked out soon. Anyway no sound problems that I was aware of and I played to stage 6 on easy until I died. I really could use rapid fire as my fingers get tired after a while that and no analog hurts. Sorry, I can't speak for how the game is supposed to play as I have not played BOR until today.

Anyway thanks for opening this game up to the ps2 homebrew scene, as I probably never would have been able to play it on my console.

[Pixel]

I mean it won't work with either hdloader or hdadvance

Thanks E P for the great news

And, hum, maybe if you're smart enough, you could find how I managed to finish up the game without beeing an hardcore gamer ^_^

And no, I didn't compress the binary.

[Kormann]

Pixel.. I tested with DMS3HDDxplorer:
pfs:/__BOOT/PS2BOR.ELF
pfs:/__BOOT/bor.pak
and it didnt work buuuuuut after it i tried to execute PS2BOR.ELF with PS2MNU-K and it worked 100%

Great job with your port Pixel.. Honestly your port is smoother than Neil's port.
I hope you port the next senile game in the future for ps2 too

(Loading from HDD is better .. thank you E P)

The only glitches that I noticed on PS2BOR until round 4 (im playing now hehe) are some gfx glitches that are linked to the fonts (like score and time). The rest is perfect

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Kormann

[Pixel]

Yeah, I noticed that glitch as well. I quite don't know where it comes from exactly, but I suspect some non-reentrant problem into printf or something similar...