Jul -- The Cutting Room Floor: Weird Discoveries

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Posted on 10-29-13 11:06:05 PM (last edited by Foxhack at 10-29-13 11:07:28 PM)

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So.

Ride to Hell: Retribution. Currently holds the lowest Metascore ranking on Steam. Arguably one of the buggiest games I've ever heard of. A game that made Angry Joe, a guy I don't usually like to watch, lose his mind.

So of course, I had to buy it.

I installed it, and what's the first thing I see in the binaries folder? Well that looks like a ton of Unreal Development Kit binaries! What else? Oh, looks like ScaleForm AMP and Scaleform CLIK Tools!

And a program called "gfxexport.exe" with a DLL file called PVRTexLib.dll. Hm! Wonder what they used that for?

Oh and there's three logs in there from June 26, 2013. The day the game shipped to Steam. The logs contain the name of the user who built the game, the folder it was stored in, basically how the game was built.

AND, I found something really curious: Apparently this game was supposed to ship with something called "Silverlink", which would enable exclusive features or something. This is also mentioned in Saints Row IV - people seem to think it was supposed to be DLC, but judging from this, it isn't. It's just another stupid social networking tool.

About="About Silverlink"
AboutText="Silverlink is a rewards system for Deep Silver games. A free, no-hassle Silverlink account lets you unlock exclusive rewards for any Silverlink-enabled Deep Silver game, just by playing! With the help of Silverlink, we can deliver new content and bonuses directly to your device. Deep Silver values your business and respects your privacy. Start using Silverlink right now and see for yourself."

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Posted on 10-30-13 01:02:03 AM

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I was wrong about the Eely-Mouth sounds. It's just snippets of Pianta voices slowed down by varying amounts.

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Posted on 10-30-13 04:30:55 AM (last edited by Eon at 10-30-13 04:31:08 AM)

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Woot. Fitting for Halloween, long unused content has risen from the dead.
Advance Wars Days of Ruin is finally coming to Japan. 3DS-only DSiWare and initially Club Nintendo exclusive.

http://club.nintendo.jp/rank2013/famicomwars/index.html

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Posted on 10-30-13 05:08:10 AM

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Lego Rock Raiders, PC. LegoRR0.wad/Sounds/NotOkay.wav contains some interesting metadata.

Comment (ICMT) chunk:

Designed by
Maz & Kilgore

www.halcyon.com/mazkil/

Copyright (ICOP) chunk: "1995 Microsoft Corporation"
Creation date (ICRD) chunk: "1995-07-04"

Did the developers steal this sound effect from a Microsoft product?

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Posted on 10-30-13 10:47:25 AM

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It could be a sound from their SDK / libraries.

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Posted on 10-30-13 12:08:09 PM

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Don't know if it's worth mentioning here, or if it's the right place. But after looking at Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the Gamecube, I found that looking for the words "debug menu" in a hex editor brings up a message that says "press START to open debug menu." Though I can't find a debug menu.

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Posted on 10-30-13 11:23:43 PM

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A debug menu in Game Center CX 2 has been located, but apparently doesn't do much (?).

http://gbatemp.net/threads/game-center-cx-arino-no-chosenjo-2-new-start.353523/page-8#post-4816484

A few posts above that, there is some discussion about some unused scenarios involving a player being chased to hell, or something like that :o

Originally posted by Peardian
I was wrong about the Eely-Mouth sounds. It's just snippets of Pianta voices slowed down by varying amounts.

Hey, that's still really cool and worth mentioned

Originally posted by Eon
Woot. Fitting for Halloween, long unused content has risen from the dead.
Advance Wars Days of Ruin is finally coming to Japan. 3DS-only DSiWare and initially Club Nintendo exclusive.

http://club.nintendo.jp/rank2013/famicomwars/index.html

I'm really hoping this bodes well for a new Advance Wars game. The series had a bad run in Japan starting from the first Advance Wars, and it was seemingly abandoned when the latest one was redesigned to cater to western audiences

It wasn't even the Japanese version that was first revealed, but a French version of the game. But since this is the first DS game available for download like this, it is interesting at the very least! They could have gone with a much more well-received title in Japan.

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Posted on 10-31-13 04:55:19 AM

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Originally posted by Foxhack
So.

Ride to Hell: Retribution. Currently holds the lowest Metascore ranking on Steam. Arguably one of the buggiest games I've ever heard of. A game that made Angry Joe, a guy I don't usually like to watch, lose his mind.

So of course, I had to buy it.

I installed it, and what's the first thing I see in the binaries folder? Well that looks like a ton of Unreal Development Kit binaries! What else? Oh, looks like ScaleForm AMP and Scaleform CLIK Tools!

And a program called "gfxexport.exe" with a DLL file called PVRTexLib.dll. Hm! Wonder what they used that for?

Oh and there's three logs in there from June 26, 2013. The day the game shipped to Steam. The logs contain the name of the user who built the game, the folder it was stored in, basically how the game was built.

AND, I found something really curious: Apparently this game was supposed to ship with something called "Silverlink", which would enable exclusive features or something. This is also mentioned in Saints Row IV - people seem to think it was supposed to be DLC, but judging from this, it isn't. It's just another stupid social networking tool.

About="About Silverlink"
AboutText="Silverlink is a rewards system for Deep Silver games. A free, no-hassle Silverlink account lets you unlock exclusive rewards for any Silverlink-enabled Deep Silver game, just by playing! With the help of Silverlink, we can deliver new content and bonuses directly to your device. Deep Silver values your business and respects your privacy. Start using Silverlink right now and see for yourself."

Woah... that's an impressive find. What's in those logs though? Whoever made it obviously doesn't know what they need to delete to ship a game though, as they left in Scaleform tools like you've said. I may just check this out sometime. Let me guess though, if you add the commandline "editor" or "-editor" to the .exe file's shortcut, you can access the Unreal Editor?

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Posted on 10-31-13 05:35:17 AM

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Originally posted by omega59
Woah... that's an impressive find. What's in those logs though? Whoever made it obviously doesn't know what they need to delete to ship a game though, as they left in Scaleform tools like you've said. I may just check this out sometime. Let me guess though, if you add the commandline "editor" or "-editor" to the .exe file's shortcut, you can access the Unreal Editor?

I have no idea, I have no experience with UnrealEd.

There seems to be some leftover debugging text in the ini files, but I don't want to screw up my main account's achievements - thankfully I can just share this game with one of my old TF2 idling accounts so I can futz around with it there. XD

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Posted on 11-01-13 09:14:12 AM

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Excuse me, if this is the wrong place to ask, but does someone know of a good or at least functional PSX emulator, which also support cheat codes? Thanks in advance!

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Posted on 11-01-13 12:45:45 PM

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Originally posted by MUGEN-tan
Excuse me, if this is the wrong place to ask, but does someone know of a good or at least functional PSX emulator, which also support cheat codes? Thanks in advance!

Have you considered just using a regular PSX emulator and Artmoney?

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Posted on 11-01-13 02:44:09 PM

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I don't have an Artmoney list for the game I have the cheats for (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure NTSC/U).

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Posted on 11-01-13 02:44:18 PM (last edited by MainMemory at 11-01-13 02:44:43 PM)

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Originally posted by MUGEN-tan
Excuse me, if this is the wrong place to ask, but does someone know of a good or at least functional PSX emulator, which also support cheat codes? Thanks in advance!

PSX Emulation Cheater supports several emulators via a GPU plugin, and can use and create GameShark codes.

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Posted on 11-01-13 05:59:48 PM

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Originally posted by MainMemory
Originally posted by MUGEN-tan
Excuse me, if this is the wrong place to ask, but does someone know of a good or at least functional PSX emulator, which also support cheat codes? Thanks in advance!

PSX Emulation Cheater supports several emulators via a GPU plugin, and can use and create GameShark codes.

Sorry, but that plugin seems that it only works with one particular PSX emulator. And said PSX emulator doesn't work for me.

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Posted on 11-01-13 06:09:16 PM (last edited by MainMemory at 11-01-13 06:10:14 PM)

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Originally posted by MUGEN-tan
Originally posted by MainMemory
Originally posted by MUGEN-tan
Excuse me, if this is the wrong place to ask, but does someone know of a good or at least functional PSX emulator, which also support cheat codes? Thanks in advance!

PSX Emulation Cheater supports several emulators via a GPU plugin, and can use and create GameShark codes.

Sorry, but that plugin seems that it only works with one particular PSX emulator. And said PSX emulator doesn't work for me.

Originally posted by http://pec.duttke.de/features.php

Support for all PSX Emu's with PSEmu Pro Plugin support.
Like ePSXe, PSEmu Pro, AdriPSX, PSinex, PCSX, FPSE.

Support for Bleem!
Version 1.0 - 1.5b

Support for Connectix Virtual Game Station
Version 1.3, 1.4, 1.41

I personally have used ePSXe with it just fine.

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Posted on 11-01-13 07:43:51 PM

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Damn, psxfin isn't listed here, and it is the only PSX emulator that works for me...

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Posted on 11-03-13 01:53:01 AM

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Game Genie code 074-A5F-C42 will enable the unknown counter in Ballstic GBC. It is impossible to know exactly what it counts but from the looks at the code, it appears to count certain animation frames.

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Posted on 11-04-13 07:11:58 PM

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Hole In One Golf.gbc contains the SGB border from Medarot 2: Kabuto.

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Posted on 11-12-13 04:03:57 AM

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Almost all of the Wayforward GBA games have debug menus... the font taken from compile (of course not).

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