{"id":48,"date":"2016-11-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/dear-capcom-i-think-ive-finished-your-work-what-no-money\/"},"modified":"2020-04-18T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T14:50:42","slug":"dear-capcom-i-think-ive-finished-your-work-what-no-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.japanese-cake.io\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/dear-capcom-i-think-ive-finished-your-work-what-no-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Capcom, I think I’ve finished your work! What? No money?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you don’t care about the details, just scroll down, you will find the links you are looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To summarize my work, I decided to create this time some gif-like images, I find it more entertaining. I hope it will help understanding the different steps I have been through. I only kept the most relevant ones, mostly because I do not remember all the stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas in some games modifying few bytes is enough to enable VGA output, here it was a different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to mention that the game has been released in 5 versions just for the EURO region, the structure of the code gave me a hard time. Sometimes my patch was working correctly in the emulator but not on the real hardware. I also tried to fix delay with the subtitles when it was only due to emulation\/computing power limitations. The last epic patching issue is even worse. Because I was tired of seeing the game splash screens again and again, I hacked to game so that I reach directly the main screen. But it was a dirty hack, so dirty that it was messing with a specific part of the game: the ending splash screens. As all the rest was working flawlessly, I though that I first had to patch it, like I did with the credits screen. I don’t know how many hours I wasted before I realized that those ending splash screen were just fine the way they were!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So ok, fixing the FMVs was kind of easy. But the subtitles… Arrrgh, I hate them! I remember that after reading the code that generate them, I clearly saw how I could fix them. Every attempt was a step forward. I was getting close to have them displayed correctly (see below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every time I was understanding more about the way the subtitles are generated, I though I was on the right track. Only the “little” glitches you can see below were left to be fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n