Status Update - August 2022
Added 2022-09-01 09:01:52 +0000 UTCHello! This month I had a 2-week-long vacation combined with a visit to gamescom 2022, so this status update is going to be relatively short. Once again, to make it a little more interesting I am going to include all notable research from August.
Research:
Ford Racing
At the time of writing this, I'm yet to try Ford Racing (again) myself, but when looking for some info about the game I found some sources claiming Ford Racing and Ford Racing 2001 are not the same game, but an updated version. All sources (like the clip linked above) I could find are in Polish, so I plan to translate and list those differences on PCGamingWiki as version differences. According to this video, the 2001 release has:
- An updated logo (obviously)
- Slightly different fonts
- More options in career menus and a Qualifying option
- Dynamic weather and time of day
- Revised, more realistic physics
- More race cameras, including an interior camera
- Revised car sounds
Other work:
PCSX2
- Workflows: Fetch cheats from a separate pcsx2_patches repository - historically, PCSX2 shipped a cheats_ws.zip archive with widescreen patches. However, this file was included in git as-is, making history and versioning of patches difficult. With this PR, a separate pcsx2_patches repository has been created with cheats in plaintext, and PCSX2 now packs those to an archive during automated builds.
devreorder
- Less invasive alternative to a system-wide installation - a one-time contribution to a tool I needed to get NFS Porsche working fine with my gamepad. I updated the installation instructions with a safer alternative to putting the tool DLLs in a system32 directory, by opting to change registry entries belonging to a current user instead. It's still safest to install devreorder only for specific games, but if the game creates DirectInput8 via COM, it's not an option unless those registry entries get changed.
