Shenmue 1 and 2 widescreen hacks Dreamcast

[Radar]

found one for Shenmue I PAL Demul - 2C231EF9 ,change type to 2 bytes and decrease value.

[Esppiral]

Thanks but what is the equivalent to the codebreaker code? I want to use it on real hardware.

[Radar]

Thanks but what is the equivalent to the codebreaker code? I want to use it on real hardware.

I have no idea, but you may try
02231EF9 43800000 or
02231EF8 43800000
and tell us if it works or not

[Anthony817]

Esppiral, if and when you do get it working, could you please show some video of it?

[Sappharad]

found one for Shenmue I PAL Demul - 2C231EF9 ,change type to 2 bytes and decrease value.

Thanks but what is the equivalent to the codebreaker code? I want to use it on real hardware.

Thanks but what is the equivalent to the codebreaker code? I want to use it on real hardware.

I have no idea, but you may try
02231EF9 43800000 or
02231EF8 43800000
and tell us if it works or not

The correct code will be the 02231EF8 43800000 one, as long as your address is correct.

The "02" code type changes 4 bytes, which will be in reverse order from how you see them in a memory viewer. So if you go to 2C231EF8 in DEmul and see 00 00 A0 43, you'll want the code value to be 43A00000, the reverse of what you see in the memory viewer. All 4 byte codes need an address that is a multiple of 4, which is why it needs to be at 231EF8 instead of 231EF9. All 2 byte codes need to be at an address that is a multiple of 2.

When you're using Demul, it puts the DC's memory at 2C000000, so any address that you want to turn into a code just use the last 6 characters of the address and slap a code type onto the front as the first two.
"00" - 8-bit, writes a single byte to any address, value needs to be 000000XX
"01" - 16-bit, writes two bytes to any even address, value will be 0000XXXX, but XX XX will be in the opposite order of the memory viewer because Dreamcast is Little Endian.
"02" - 32-bit, writes four bytes to any address that is a multiple of 4, value should be a full XXXXXXXX, but in opposite order of the memory viewer because DC is LE.

On the second page of the assemblergames thread, I posted a brief rundown of the brute-force method to find widescreen codes. This just has you searching for a specific value and changing each of the results until you find the area in memory with the view matrix. If you're familiar with cheat searching, you should be able to follow those instructions to port the code to other versions of the game. That approach won't work for all games, but it works on many, include Shenmue 1 & 2.

[Anthony817]

Hey Sappharad, thanks for rejoining at mine and Ziming's request. I hope you contribute more here. I hope this is the beginning of a lot of hacks/mods.

[Sappharad]

Hey Sappharad, thanks for rejoining at mine and Ziming's request. I hope you contribute more here. I hope this is the beginning of a lot of hacks/mods.

Thanks for inviting me back!

You probably got the biggest one that I'll ever do last year, when I released GDIBuilder. I had just gotten a GDEmu board for my Dreamcast and wanted to do a "proper" original files English voices mod as an actual GD-ROM image so that I could play through the game again last winter. I rolled my own, but I'm glad someone eventually did a public version of that. I also wanted to see some of the patches that required a GDI as input spit a GDI back out as output instead of a CDI. I know one of the people doing a translation of the first game had emailed me about it earlier this year, so I'm glad it got used.

I have some things on my wish list, which I don't want to mention in case I don't get around to them, but they're things I've wanted to see changed so I hope to accomplish them at some point. Widescreen was a good one to knock off the list though.

[Radar]

Sappharad
Thanks for explanation, now I know how codebreaker works!
and yes, 02231EF8 43800000 seems the one

[Ziming]

Can someone provide me a widescreen code for the Shenmue Undub by Kogami? I also need the enable code.

GDI download
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/24ydxz ... ndub%20GDI

[Esppiral]

Thanks but what is the equivalent to the codebreaker code? I want to use it on real hardware.

I have no idea, but you may try
02231EF9 43800000 or
02231EF8 43800000
and tell us if it works or not

The correct code will be the 02231EF8 43800000 one, as long as your address is correct.

Thank you!! It works.

Contrary to what happens to Shenmue II, in Shenmue, the geometry popping, is as bad as when you use the widescreen hack on nullDC, it seems weird to me since Shenmue II is putting bigger scenarios and a lot more characters on screen, than Shenmue, but it seems Shenmue II is less aggressive "cutting" geometry.

Anyway I am very happy with this hack since I prefer wider field of view with some popping rather than 2 huge black bars or a disgusting streched image.

[fittersau]

screens from Demul

These look fantastic...

[Esppiral]

Esppiral, if and when you do get it working, could you please show some video of it?

Done, this is the prologue

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I'll post a short gameplay soon, still uploading to youtube.

[Anthony817]

Wow that gave me chills it looks amazing! I really need to buy some more blanks. What version of Codebreaker are you guys using? On TIZ there are too many to chose from, and I am confused by what it means about the bootloader version.

[fittersau]

Esppiral, if and when you do get it working, could you please show some video of it?

Done, this is the prologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93g42dzE48

I'll post a short gameplay soon, still uploading to youtube.

Nice! Are you using a 1080p upscaler as well or a simple VGA to HDMI adapter with that?

[fittersau]

Can someone provide me a widescreen code for the Shenmue Undub by Kogami? I also need the enable code.

GDI download
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/24ydxz ... ndub%20GDI

Please bake this into Shenmue 1 undub!