Midnight Resistance WHDload Slave Update

[Retro1234]

I cant get it working on real Amiga with CD32 pad.

Maybe I should get a PSX adapter

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Hungry Horace

hi Toni, thanks for the input. (if you'll pardon the pun)

So because regular fire is disabled on winuae, the game will not start (as it is looking for regular fire, not red?)

why do this, when on the real amiga, even with a CD32 pad, it still registers the 'red' on the pad as a regular fire (which is checked, and therefore starts the game)


this seems to be the cause of the problem here.

Yes and no

If game only reads CD32 in CD32-mode, "regular" fire and 2nd button won't work at all. (if mapped as regular buttons in emulation). Most games read CD32 pad in both modes (but they may not still have 1:1 mapping between fire and red for example)

I guess emulation should "redirect" these mappings to CD32 RED and BLUE when pad is in CD32-mode. (3rd button line is output and low if I remember correctly)

[Hungry Horace]

ok, thanks Toni. to me at least the situation is clear here.

I have a solution that i am confident will work - i need some time to implement it

watch this space!

[Hungry Horace]

ok. new slave in the Zone which should solve the problem.

When the CD32 inputs are read (even if only on one port) it causes the problem with the 'fire' button on certain pads not working - i found a competition pro pad of my own that this happened on also.

the solution is a simple one, set by CUSTOM1=2

If OFF , the CD32-read code does not happen. this means any 2 button pad (including a CD32 pad) can be used as normal, with the second button operating the second weapon.

if ON , the CD32 mode is enabled, and red and blue buttons should now operate as above, and will also provide the option of using 'green' to jump....

using this mode may mean that certain 2-button pads (such as my MasterSystem Pad i tested) no longer operate correctly, so if you are using a mixture of pads on 2 player, you may find it is better not to use this option.



set;
CUSTOM1=1 : Brightness Mode On - CD32 Control Off
CUSTOM1=2 : Brightness Mode Off - CD32 Control On
CUSTOM1=3 : Brightness Mode On - CD32 Control On


good luck!

[Retro1234]

Works perfectly honestly the palette change and extra buttons realy give a new lease of life to this game.Great Work

[Retro-Nerd]

I have no real CD32 pad. Is it possible to do a custom slave selection for button 2? Either for second weapon or for jump?

[TCD]

WinUAE default CD32 pad in port 1 works a treat Nice one Horace

[Hungry Horace]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

I have no real CD32 pad. Is it possible to do a custom slave selection for button 2? Either for second weapon or for jump?

blimey, you people dont want much do you?

i will have a look into how practical that is to put into place for you R-N. (although you'll have to use the keyboard for second fire!! yuk!)



i am glad it is at least working as-intended now. I will still be looking at adding pause (play button) and sound fx/music toggle (yellow) to the CD32 mode.

and err.. <guilty look> i still need to fix the colours on the hardware sprites :S

[Retro-Nerd]

Thanks, that would be nice. I've completed the game without weapon 2 and don't need it.

[Wepl]

Originally Posted by Hungry Horace

CUSTOM1=1 : Brightness Mode On - CD32 Control Off
CUSTOM1=2 : Brightness Mode Off - CD32 Control On
CUSTOM1=3 : Brightness Mode On - CD32 Control On

I would found it much better to use Custom1 for Brightness Mode and Custom2 for Control Mode...
Bits are good for coders but maybe irritating for users.

[Hungry Horace]

hi Wepl,

i've used the other 4 up on trainers! is there a way of having more than 5?

- Trainers on CUSTOM2
1 = Infinite Lives
2 = Infinite Credits
4 = Infinite Ammo (both weapons)
8 = Infinite Money

- Trainers on CUSTOM3
0 = Nothing / 1 = Supercharge on
2 = Barrier on / 3 = Supercharge & Barrier on

- Trainer on CUSTOM4 sets Weapon 1
0 = None / 1 = Shotgun
2 = Blue thing / 3 = Auto
4 = Fire / 5 = Three-Way

- Trainer on CUSTOM5 sets Weapon 2
0 = None / 1 = Homing Missiles
2 = Nitro / 3 = Shower


I mean, supercharge and barrier can be moved to CUSTOM2 as 16 / 32 , but this still means that bits are being used, only elsewhere!

if anyone has any thoughts about the best way of getting so much out of 5 tooltypes, i'd appreciate some opinion on the matter (from user perspective)

[Wepl]

sorry, I didn't read whole thread
in case other CustomN are already used it's ok so

[Retro1234]

Ive realy been enjoying this I havent completed it yet but getting there - I realy wouldnt have bothered playing this game with the fucked up palette, why was this released like this?

Originally Posted by Hungry Horace

look around $68 and you will find reference to some memory locations to start looking in for keyboard routines (doesnt always work, but it's where i start - you can thank BippyM and StingRay for giving me tips like that!)

apologies for going off-topic again - are there particular HEX values I can search for in an attempt to change the controls of a game?
for example - D-Pad Up =? or Fire =?

[dlfrsilver]

it was released like this because of the ST ! Read some post above, someone has explained technically what happened

[Hungry Horace]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Ive realy been enjoying this I havent completed it yet but getting there - I realy wouldnt have bothered playing this game with the fucked up palette, why was this released like this?

As Denis mentioned above, poor conversion.

someone mentioned how the palette values were off, so i investigated!

apologies for going off-topic again - are there particular HEX values I can search for in an attempt to change the controls of a game?
for example - D-Pad Up =? or Fire =?

d-pad up and fire are not keyboard controls?

at $68 in memory, you will find an address, such as $00 01 23 34

disassemble from that address, and you will hopefully find some code for reading the keyboard.... quite possibly it will do something like storing the keyboard value at another address (e.g. $ 00 43 21 00

then you need to find points in the code where the address $ 00432100 is being compared to keybaord scan codes;

http://www.whdload.de/docs/en/rawkey.html

so if you find something comparing it to $61 - you have probably found a routine tied-up to the function of the right shift key


it worked for Midnight Resistance for me


on topic update;

- hardware sprite colours fixed
- currently implementing green/blue switcher for Retro-Nerd (will work on 2 button mode also)

...
then those extra damn cd32 controls to go

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by Hungry Horace

on topic update;

- hardware sprite colours fixed
- currently implementing green/blue switcher for Retro-Nerd (will work on 2 button mode also)

...
then those extra damn cd32 controls to go

I look forward to this

Originally Posted by Hungry Horace

d-pad up and fire are not keyboard controls?

Thanks for your reply - I was thinking what value would replace keyboard value = Fire1/2 and wanted to have a poke around in Final Fight D-pad Up

[Hungry Horace]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Thanks for your reply - I was thinking what value would replace keyboard value = Fire1/2 and wanted to have a poke around in Final Fight D-pad Up

Final Flight does not use d-pad up? or would you be looking to remove its current function?


for mapping a keyboard key, you basically 'insert' a check for joypad button 1/2 (or anything else) next to the keyboard scancode check, so that button does the same thing as the keyboard control.

hope that helps

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by Hungry Horace

Final Flight does not use d-pad up? or would you be looking to remove its current function?


for mapping a keyboard key, you basically 'insert' a check for joypad button 1/2 (or anything else) next to the keyboard scancode check, so that button does the same thing as the keyboard control.

hope that helps

Hope im not driving you crazzy
Im probably out of my depth - in Final Fight Joystick Up /Jump - I wanted to change this to something else only for a test - maybe a keyboard value.
I dont think ill get very far -Ive only been makeing changes to uncompressed WinUae savestates to see what happends.

[Hungry Horace]

you will need to find the joystick up/jump check, or just something that reads in the joystick input as well then.

I have never tried asm disassembly from a save-state. that cant be very safe/reliable can it??

this is perhaps best deferred to another thread

[Retro1234]

Thanks dude -another thread
More on the subject Ive Just completed Midnight Resistance- I didnt rescue everyone but still...........Woo Hoo thanks for your updates -made it worth playing