argonlefou

DemulShooter updated for Bug Busters

Instructions : here

To make it short :

- make sure your exe is named BBPC.exe (not BBPC pachted.exe !)

- use F2 and F3 to navigate the TEST menu and change settings

- remove crosshair with "-nocrosshair" option if needed

- enjoy light and rumble outputs

Il y a 5 heures, hippopippo a dit :

3 different antivirus report oddities with the patched file, so you can download the original ISO from here and mount it to avoid the CD check (you can also launch the original exe from the unzipped folder, the important thing is that the ISO is mounted) .. maybe it's a false positive but to avoid taking risks ..

 

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/bug-busters-oyv

Looking with Hex editor, there's just 1 and only different byte between patched and unpatched files(CD-ROM check skip)

I'm talking about the files to download from this topic. Still haven't downloaded the iso

As for credits, controls, settins, coop etc....I'll cook a quick support with Demulshooter in the next days

Il y a 6 heures, Gtguy a dit :

Only possible with 1P without TP?

There is no "player" connected hardware in this game, but a pool of balls to throw at the screen.

Points are awarded according to "player zone" the ball hits on screen.

So you can basically play with 4 lightguns at the same time with the launcher, even without RawInput, because the game does not neet to know who is shooting, but only where the ball hits

Rawinput support is only usefull in that game if you need to add crosshairs to visually separate your aiming devices (ex: using multiple mice or joypads)

Sorry I don't have the answer, I just ran the non VR exe file and the game just started

il y a une heure, Rocamoya a dit :

You are the man Argonlefou !!!

 

I'm asking you, are you working on something else? Do you have something in hand?

I'm always working on something, but the something is not always computer related 😆

Bugs cleared in latest release (v11.3)

Also added crosshair-removal option in DemulshooterX64 command line for this game : -nocrosshair

Il y a 9 heures, Rocamoya a dit :

I found it!. Argonlefou may you can make a patch for no crosshairs ?

 

I give you a logo I made for Hyperspin and Coinups

 

Hiding crosshair is possible, but I need to find a way to pass the info from Ds to the plugin as I don't want to create so plugin config file with options

There's apparently a bug related to the Outputs handling with the game, causing DemulShooterX64 to crash and controls not working if Outputs are disabled in DemulShooter_GUI

Untill a corrected released is available, enabling Outputs in DemulShooter_GUI should solve issue with this game

Il y a 12 heures, Omar2 a dit :

Bro Can you do anything regarding the new dolphin emulator and teknoparrot 

 its loses when playing with sinden guns

 

No...

For TP fix, ask TP team.

Same answer for Dolphin.

Those 2 projects have many updates

Il y a 10 heures, erdoboy43 a dit :

Thanks very much for this argonlefou. I am using a Wiimote with a Mayflash Bar using mode 2. The aiming works fine for me until I have to stand up (come out of cover like in Time Crisis) and then the aiming sometimes is not accurate for me i.e i can not shoot fully to the left hand side of the screen and the aiming feels off. Is there any fix for this please?.

 

 

If it's "sometimes" then the issue is on the gun side, if the rest of the "sometimes" aiming is good

Il y a 4 heures, cardet a dit :

For me the problem is that when I pull the trigger demulshooter64 crashes

You can try to get a DemulShooter log to share : https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki/Debugging

DemulShooter v11.2 updated with Op Wolf return support : https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki/Windows-games#operation-wolf-returns

With a quick test, I'm pretty positive that it can be done for 1P (and outputs)

I'll try to finish this during the week

Nothing sure for local coop, though

And not sure that it would work with gamepad/mounted guns as the game menus seems to stick to mouse to navigate

You don't need the serial port emulator, the game uses a config file in which you can disable the COM check.

It's either in D:\CE Games\Photo Finish\PhotoFinish.ini or C:\CE Games\Photo Finish\PhotoFinish.ini

Set RelayErrExit= 0

Just run the game once to make it create the path and store the file

Il y a 5 heures, petran79 a dit :

solved the issue. Apparently real launcher was in a separate folder titled exe, instead in the root folder. I used that path and game runs fine

Indeed, the game binary is hod3pc.exe in the separate folder.

This is explained on the github readme for the arcade mod 

(https://github.com/argonlefou/Hotd3pc_ArcadeMod#mod-configuration):

• Set the path to your hod3pc.exe file.

Enjoy !

Il y a 15 heures, petran79 a dit :

I installed the game via Abandonware France setup file. Game exe is titled hotd3pc.exe dated 12/02/2005 and hotd3launch.exe dated 7/12/2004 . Game runs fine on its own, however it refuses to run via Arcadeloader . When I click, nothing happens. I set the path correctly in setup file.

It could be helpful to share a debug file from the launcher. To do so, run 

Hotd3Arcade_Launcher.exe -v

Either by openning a command prompt / powershell window or by adding the -v argument in a shortcut

The debug file will be created in the launchers folder

Le 07/07/2023 à 09:58, llll55 a dit :

thanks a lot for the mod...is there a way to make the "free play" logo, stop blinking ingame? i find it distracting and give me headache.

will be great to be able to disable it in screen or at least make it static.

If I remember correctly, this text is either a clone of, or an already existing and reused, blinking text asset that was already there.

So, although there has to be a way to change it to another kind of asset (or maybe disable the blinking), I do not plan to update the plugin for this but I can point out where to look in the code if you want to compile your own

Edit : Or I might be blinking the text myself (depending on which text you're talking about) and, again, I can point out where to change

Please understand that I can't change everything each time people asks me to for their personnal preference (text color, text font, text size....yes these examples happened already !😅)

Patcher updated to correct the Coin issue (Credits not decreasing when used).

Please re-patch clean original exe with the tool before using the mouse_input  tool.

EA_Invasion_MouseTool_v2.0.zip

Il y a 3 heures, Safur a dit :

The crosshair is aligned on Y axis but not with X axis. Actually it take into account all the screen and the game has black borders in 16/9.

That's why it is not aligned on X axis.

Do you have a solution with that?

If you're using DemulShooter you can try playing with a option, you can add

-ForceScalingX=9/16

into the command line and play with the ratio. 9/16 should be good in theory but some people needed to put 32/9.....play with the numbers and you'll see how the crosshair will be more accurate or not

Only working with the latest release, option was not in DemulShooterX64 before

Il y a 3 heures, gStAvEn a dit :

Hey Boss!

 

How do we enable the "extreme content (gore)" to enable? Would really like red blood if possible rather than the green stuff 😘

The only information I got on the internet about that "Gore" mode seem to allow the engine to dismember characters.

Blood color looks like a splatter/effect/shadder created by the engine, where the parameters (shape, color, strenght, etc..) lies somewhere in the resource file (I guess). But as it's not a drawing or a color image....it's not that easy to find (especially when you have no knowledge at all in Unreal Engine modding or programming)

This has nothing to do with the analog gun and RAWINPUT.

The error comes from the OS : Windows does not allow DemulShooter to access the game process.

This is usually caused by privilege issue with the exe/demulshooter.....unfortunatelly I don't have any other solution than really checking that Demulshooter is run as an administrator. The rest is up to your OS and your settings

exe should not be modified, that's what can cause the issue sometimes. That's why I asked.

Make sure you run DemulShooterX64 as an Admin, and please try to get a debug file (https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki/Debugging#step-3)

Did you rename the .exe file ?

What is the exe file name ?

il y a 59 minutes, nosoucy62 a dit :

salut angonlefou

chez moi le jeu fonctionne parfaitement grâce à toi par demulshooter!!!!

par contre pour le shader il faut passer obligatoirement par arcCabView? pas possible avec voodoo ou autre?

chez moi avec arcCabView le viseur reste bloqué en faut à gauche......grrr

Malheureusement comme je l'ai dit sur d'autres jeux, le rendu graphique c'est pas mon domaine du tout...je ne pourrais pas t'aider sur ce point, je ne fais que recopier ce que les autres ont trouvés et en appliquant les tutoriels au dessus, ça fonctionne avec ArcCabView en plein ecran sans soucis

il y a 22 minutes, Shin Endymion a dit :

If you watch a video with someone actually playing the arcade machine, you get the elevator double doors open and shut in-between levels and elevator scenes. When playing on PC you just get a black screen, and several Windows warning sounds (probably a bunch of commands to open and shut the doors if it were the actual machine). Be nice if we had the elevator doors emulated like the Teknoparrot team did with the first game!

If you hook the game with demulshooter you'll get both door commands sent by the game as output through MameHooker

I can also add a button to simulate doors switch detection....but what more would you want to have emulated ? (Real question, never used the first game with TP)

Il y a 3 heures, YoBoys a dit :

Not sure if I hit submit or it was deleted...

Gun cursor moves slow when going far left or right edge, Using Arccabview for bezels and demulshooter with 2 gun4ir

That can be caused by the fullscreen mode and the black bars

If you feell like the edge of the playable area is corresponding to the edge of the screen (to point with a lightgun), you have a setting in gun4ir to change the screen ratio.

I don't know the name as I usually use a command in DemulShooter for that, but I just realized I didn't put it in the X64 version 😓

Anyway, gun4ir users can try 9/16 ratio, should make thinks better.

I'll add the missing command in x64 asap

Il y a 6 heures, YoBoys a dit :

Does 2 player work on 1 screen with Demulshooter?

 

As long as there is no patch to run the game with both player side by side ( like gundam ) : there is no way to have 2 players on 1 screen

il y a 8 minutes, YoBoys a dit :

What's the target for demulshooter?

You should find all usefull details here : https://github.com/argonlefou/DemulShooter/wiki/UNIS-Technology#elevator-action-invasion