Tutorial PlayStation 2 / PS2

[Neville]

 

[Grondoval]

Ha sido lanzado el mod/parche Spec II para Gran Turismo 4.

Este mod se utiliza en una beta online que lanzaron del mismo antes de dedicarse a Gran Turismo de PSP y 5.

Incluye un montón de mejoras, modificaciones y añadidos que os pongo en spoiler:

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Gameplay

    Toggleable prize car randomizer with seed based on username
    Added Event Synthesizer with adjustable difficulty
    Added new Driving Missions 35-40
    Added 15+ new events to various event halls
    Tightened restrictions on some events to encourage using different cars and strategies
    Road cars start with Road tires instead of Sport Medium
    Added Circuit Valencia from Tourist Trophy to Arcade Mode and Event Synthesizer
    Cars can now be repainted at GT Auto
    Manufacturer and associated tuner wheels can now be bought for most cars at GT Auto
    Changes to various weeks' used car dealership stock
    Added dealership discounts for certain weeks
    Shortened "1,000 miles!" significantly and renamed to Grand Tour
    Reduced number of races and/or laps in certain extra-repetitive events (e.g. 2CV Championship and Special Condition Hall)
    Changed the tracks of some existing events to provide a fresh experience
    Made all cars and tracks available in arcade mode by default, including Citta di Aria in race modes
    Changed Extreme Events' unlock criteria from GT World Championship completion to International B completion
    Lowered Endurance Events' unlock criteria from 25% completion to 20%.
    Rebalanced some driving missions and licences to compensate for GT4 Online physics changes
    Changed prize cars for most events (hand-picked, present when randomizer is disabled)
    Added ability to bind shift up/down to R3 up/down
    Rigidity Refresher Plan is now scaled as 25% of the car's value up to a maximum of 35,000 Cr
    Added Full Restoration, restoring condition and mileage to brand new, scaled as 50% of the car's value up to a maximum of 250,000 Cr
    Rally cars now have Dirt and Snow tires unlocked by default

General Improvements/Additions

    Enhanced engine sounds for 400+ cars with 130+ new recordings
    Enhanced race transmission and tire skid sound effects
    Added new colour options to various cars
    Restored original Esso variants of Exxon cars
    Added Mini Cooper 1.3i '98
    Added Korea-exclusive Hyundais: Click Type-R '04, Tiburon Turbulence '99, and Tuscani CCS '03
    Added Korea-exclusive Lexus IS200 GT-1 Race Car '04
    Restored regional equivalents of cars such as Vauxhalls and Toyota Altezzas
    Added no-stripe FPV GT '04
    Made no-stripe Ford GT '05 available for purchase in the Ford dealership
    Corrected physics data for many cars such as the Lister Storm, Gillet Vertigo, VW Golf GTi '05 and various kei cars
    Added engine names to most cars' spec sheets
    Removed extra bumper cam leaning and blurry crash effects

Added Options

    Global car assist overrides (no more setting ASM and TCS per-car)
    Enable/disable Gran Turismo 3-style chase camera
    Enable/disable roof, bonnet, and interior camera
    Enable/disable analog or digital gauge HUD on all camera views
    Expanded Race Options menu to allow toggling of individual HUD elements
    Restored multi language selection from retail PAL Gran Turismo 4
    Highlight owned cars in dealerships

UI Improvements

    Overhauled car dealership layout with larger period-accurate brochure images for all dealers
    Added Quick Menu to SELECT for easy access to common functions
    Improved 16:9 scaling in various menus
    Increased username length limit to 30 and enhanced username keyboard to allow for numbers, spaces, special characters
    Added R3 camera zoom to dealerships and garage
    Added dealership descriptions to most cars
    Fixed inconsistent spacing/characters in car and track names
    Current UCD cycle week is now shown on the status menu next to the current day
    Added count and percentage of distinct owned cars to the status menu
    L1/R1 can be used to jump 10 items forward/back in car select and GT Auto wheel menus
    Added Length, Displacement, and Engine Type display/sorting to garage
    Added Typical Opponents button to race select screen
    Added GT Mode shortcut to jump to GT Auto when L2 is pressed
    Added GT Mode shortcut to jump to Tuner Village when R2 is pressed (if a tuner exists for the current car)
    Added quick access to garage when viewing event restrictions
    Secret and Monitor settings in Options have been enabled without requiring button combo
    Manufacturers are now sorted alphabetically in the garage menu
    Added extra game status-based details to Home menu

Por aquí os dejo su web de donde podréis descargar dicho parche.

https://www.theadmiester.co.uk/specii/

Eso sí, necesitaréis haceros con el Gran Turismo 4 Online Public Beta NTSC con MD5 hash: 3306538778dda2ded87ceaf52c944a98 para que se fusione correctamente


Sera glorioso volverlo a jugar con volante+pedales+forcefeedback+palanca de marchas manual. 

[Neville]

Acaba de salir la v2.2.0 de PCSX2, seguramente el mejor emulador de PS2. Las novedades son  numerosas, y serían...

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- USB: Add new SCSI commands used by Zip100 (Florin9doi)
- USB: Sony MSAC- US1/PictureParadise emulation (Florin9doi)
- GSRunner: Correct CMake typo (TheLastRar)
- Build: Add ENABLE_GSRUNNER option to build GSRunner via CMake (TheLastRar)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- GS/Vulkan: Restore VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_layout (JordanTheToaster)
- Deps: Update to SDL 2.30.6 (JordanTheToaster)
- USB: Merge generic HID Keyboard and Konami Beatmania (Florin9doi)
- USB: Remove unused HID data (Florin9doi)
- Add memcardFilter for SLES- 51953 and SLES- 52022 (Pyra Drake)
- 3rdparty/soundtouch: Bump to v2.3.3 (JordanTheToaster)
- GameDB: SMT Nocturne Fixes (JordanTheToaster)
- GS/TC: Adjust how we handle merging targets in PreloadTarget. (lightningterror)
- FSUI: Base Translation Update (KamFretoZ)
- OSD: More Translatable Strings (KamFretoZ)
- OSD: Icon Tweaks (KamFretoZ)
- OSD: Add InputRec/VideoCapture OSD Toggle (KamFretoZ)
- Code: Formatting (KamFretoZ)
- 3rdparty/rcheevos: Bump to v11.5.0 (JordanTheToaster)
- Debugger: Track remaining buffer size for snprintf to prevent fortify fail (Ty Lamontagne)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- workflows: Update sdl controller db script. (lightningterror)
- CI/Appimage: Use fuse3 compatible appimagetool (KamFretoZ)
- CI/Appimage: Drop gcc13 workaround (KamFretoZ)
- GameDB: Snow White and the 7 clever boys fixes (JordanTheToaster)
- GameDB : fix Test Drive Unlimited CRC for patch (Mrlinkwii)
- 3rdparty/imgui: Update to v1.91.0 (JordanTheToaster)
- Core: Replace 'Mac' with 'system' in page size error message (TheLastRar)
- Build: Set Page/Cache line sizes on Windows ARM (TheLastRar)
- gitignore: Fix ignore of bin- arm64 (TheLastRar)
- Build: Copy resources when building for ARM64 with MSBuild (TheLastRar)
- GameDB: Various fixes (JordanTheToaster)
- iR5900: fix heap- buffer- overflow in recompileNextInstruction (oltolm)
- Qt: Update Texture Filtering Description (seta- san)
- GS: Match data types in shaders to be the same when doing bitwise operations. (lightningterror)
- GSTextureCache: Extend Bilinear Upscale to dirty depth (JordanTheToaster)
- GameDB: ATV Offroad Fury 2 Fixes (JordanTheToaster)
- GameDB: add missing serial (Mrlinkwii)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- CMake: Added PACKAGE_MODE option (weirdbeardgame)
- Qt: Update Trilinear Filtering Description (seta- san)
- USB: Set actual_length value for Get HID descriptor (Florin9doi)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- Config: Use directory containing bundle as AppRoot on macOS. (squidbus)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- GS/HW: Rename blend second pass to blend multi pass. (lightningterror)
- GS/DX11: Fix feedback write 1 null pointer crash. (lightningterror)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- 3rdparty/imgui: General cleanup (JordanTheToaster)
- 3rdparty/imgui: Disable the nav menu (JordanTheToaster)
- USB: Fix Konami Capture Eye assert (Florin9doi)
- USB: Store unique disk images for MSD and PictureParadise (Florin9doi)
- FullscreenUI: Fix popup close resetting window scroll (KamFretoZ)
- ImGuiFullscreen: Fix choice popup selected drawing over border (KamFretoZ)
- ImGuiFullscreen: Display checkmark on right of choice dialog (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Slightly increase game list title size (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Fix a couple of theme switching glitches (KamFretoZ)
- Misc: Minor cleanup. (#11717) (Jordan)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- USB: Merge Singstar and Logitech mics in a single device with 2 subtypes (Florin9doi)
- USB: Audio support for EyeToy (Florin9doi)
- USB: Konami ON- SAY microphone emulation (Florin9doi)
- USB: Rename singstar to usb_mic (Florin9doi)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- DiscordRPC: Add game icon support. (KamFretoZ)
- Config: Allow specifying portable directory relative path in portable.txt (squidbus)
- GameDB: Correct two Phoenix Games title names (xperia64)
- GS/HW: Implement PABE(Per pixel alpha blending) on accumulation blend and add optimizations. (lightningterror)
- GameDB: Add multiple fixes (Farran666)
- Vk: Don't try to transition present source during present (TellowKrinkle)
- Image: Fix crash loading corrupted/invalid JPEG files (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Work around theme switching bug (KamFretoZ)
- GSTextureVK: Fix download inside render pass (KamFretoZ)
- FileSystem: Correctly use lstat() on Linux (KamFretoZ)
- ImGuiFullscreen: Fix incorrect notification width (KamFretoZ)
- ImGuiManager: Fix stutter when multiple OSD messages lapse (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Ensure fullscreen UI is stopped on exiting (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Fix incorrect sort indicator on loading (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Center type icon in game list (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Fix a couple of instances of inconsistent sorting (KamFretoZ)
- USB: Fix CaptureEye corruption on dark images (Florin9doi)
- Qt: Set focus to Game Library for improved keyboard navigation (#11719) (deanff)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- Big Picture: Remove ability to make per- game controls (RedPanda4552)
- GS/HW: Further expand blend multipass. (lightningterror)
- Debugger: Remove the Avast demangler (chaoticgd)
- 3rdparty: Add CCC v2.1 (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Replace SymbolMap class with new SymbolGuardian class (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Add GNU demangler (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Add symbol tree widgets for functions and variables (chaoticgd)
- GS/HW: Add afix to alphas log. (lightningterror)
- DebugTools: Fix iterator invalidation bug in IopBios.cpp (chaoticgd)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- Misc: Minor text and settings changes (#11751) (Jordan)
- DebugTools: Fix some compiler warnings (chaoticgd)
- UI: Enable "System" and toolbar savestate options in OSDSYS (Ty Lamontagne)
- USB: Add support for Type 2 DenshaCon (Joe Stringer)
- USB: Add support for Shinkansen DenshaCon (Joe Stringer)
- USB: Add support for Ryojouhen DenshaCon (Joe Stringer)
- Settings: Add DenshaCon bindings UI (Joe Stringer)
- USB: Add passthrough support to DenshaCon (Joe Stringer)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- Debugger: Bring back the expression parser (chaoticgd)
- FileSystem: Fix handling of symlinks (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- Deps: Update to SDL 2.30.7 (JordanTheToaster)
- Translation: Remove excess double quote (#11777) (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- FSUI: Move Texture Preloading to Advanced (KamFretoZ)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- Flipped the order of "SaveStateAndSelectNextSlot" to "SelectNextSlotAndSaveState" (smasimar@gmail.com)
- Added "SaveStateAndSelectNextSlot" hotkey for alternative save slot cycling functionality. (smasimar@gmail.com)
- Config: Prevent pad settings lingering in game properties blocking profiles (RedPanda4552)
- Bump peter- evans/create- pull- request from 6 to 7 in the ci- deps group (dependabot[bot])
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- CMake: Install translations in PACKAGE MODE (Nenderus)
- Config: Set `{ntsc,pal}FrameRate` bounds to 10- 300 Hz (Martino Fontana)
- Achievements: Reset client state on system reset (Ty Lamontagne)
- ExpressionParser: Add missing include in header (Ziemas)
- 3rdparty/ffmpeg: Bump headers to version 7.0.2 (JordanTheToaster)
- UI: Update mipmapping help description (OctopusButtons)
- DiscordRPC: Further improve icon url call (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Make Settings List Word Wrapped (KamFretoZ)
- Common: Fix Recursive CreateDirectoryPath() on Windows (TheLastRar)
- GameDB: Add Skip MPEG Hack to Never7 (Farran666)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- GS/HW: Reduce sw/hdr colclip in more cases. (lightningterror)
- OSD: Add GPU Info (#11808) (KamFretoZ)
- OSD: Rename various fields (JordanTheToaster)
- Debugger: Make check box widgets in the symbol tree more responsive (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Prevent flicker when resetting symbol tree node children (chaoticgd)
- GameDB: Various fixes (JordanTheToaster)
- GS/HW: Fix/cleanup pabe optimization condition. (lightningterror)
- gh: update the feature request template labels (Ty)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- OSD: Improve main window stat spacing (JordanTheToaster)
- GameDB: Pro Race Driver fixes (Pyra Drake)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- microvu: fix ASAN container- overflow in mVUsetupRange (oltolm)
- microVU: fix block clearing regression (Ty Lamontagne)
- FullscreenUI: Remove unused function. (lightningterror)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- DebugInterface: Try to show the kernel memory mappings, again (Ty Lamontagne)
- DebugInterface: Fix formatting (Ty Lamontagne)
- GS/HW: Merge blend ad a mask separate conditions in to one. (lightningterror)
- GS: Update lottes crt shader. (Stuart Kenny)
- Qt: Fix keyboard SHIFT for non- alpha characters (Joe Wagner)
- CDVD: Added cdvdTrack, cdvdTrackIndex (weirdbeardgame)
- CDVD: 0 index into tracks array (weirdbeardgame)
- Qt: Add a permission error dialog when converting memorycards in a R/O directory (Matthew)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- GS/HW: Make sure it's not a channel shuffle when the alpha of a target is used as source. (lightningterror)
- GS: Add a 10:7 pixel ration option (crashGG)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- translations: Syncing Crowdin translations (#11849) (Tyler Wilding)
- Patches: Implement dynamic patching support in pnaches (Ty Lamontagne)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- DebugTools: Scan for functions from the ELF instead of from memory (chaoticgd)
- Deps: Update to libzip 1.11.1 (JordanTheToaster)
- iop/hostfs: don't replace back slashes with forward slashes on Windows (Ty Lamontagne)
- Debugger: Use safe VTLB functions for memory reading and writing (Ty Lamontagne)
- SaveState: Add configurable compression type and level (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Fix VPS Counter (KamFretoZ)
- Tools: Add shebang to generate fs translation script (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Update Glyph Ranges (KamFretoZ)
- Savestate: Make selector dismissible by opening pause menu (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- 3rdparty: Update Vulkan- Headers to v1.3.296 (JordanTheToaster)
- Deps: Update to SDL 2.30.8 (JordanTheToaster)
- GS/TC: Clamp TW/TH to 11 in source flush. (lightningterror)
- OSD/Savestate: Add close menu hint to the selector (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Move savestate related options to its new home (KamFretoZ)
- GameDB: Add hwfixes to Armored Core 3 and Sandlot titles. (#11873) (wxvu)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- CI: Add other translations related scripts script to the daily workflow (KamFretoZ)
- HostFS: Retain File Handles in Save States (pips3)
- Debugger: Destroy and re- create the debugger on theme change (Ty Lamontagne)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- Debugger: Fix crash in symbol tree menu code (chaoticgd)
- QT: Clear m_status_verbose_widget text on VM stop (TheLastRar)
- Deps: Update to Qt 6.8.0 on Windows and Linux (JordanTheToaster)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- IOP HLE: Only track handles to valid files. (Ty Lamontagne)
- OSD: Update OSD Text on SW mode so no overlap keyword appears (#11881) (Chromaryu)
- DEV9: Rework tx_process based on HW tests (TheLastRar)
- Translations: hotfix a translation mistake causing fmt to crash (Ty Lamontagne)
- Qt: Call 'map_text_to_keycode()' only when Shift modifier is being used (Bobby Smith)
- DEV9: Replace incorrect SPD_R_20 behaviour (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Allow 8bit reads/writes to all SPEED regs (TheLastRar)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- GameDB: Various fixes (JordanTheToaster)
- GS: Default to OpenGL on intel GPUs that support it. (lightningterror)
- USB: Work around FFB dropouts with modern wheels (badfontkeming)
- OSD: Clarify Min/Avg/Max label to Frametime counter (KamFretoZ)
- GSDevice11: Don't try to get the adapter name twice (KamFretoZ)
- IOP/EE: Add SBUS interrupts (Ziemas)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- DEV9: Support 8bit reads/writes for most ATA regs (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Rewrite suppression of diagnostics IRQ during reset (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Implement ATA pending interrupts (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Disable interrupts on reset (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Allow writes to ATA_R_CONTROL while busy (TheLastRar)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- DEV9: Move call to network backend reset (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Move adapter detection hack (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Use ReceivedPayload more in TCP_Session (TheLastRar)
- IOP: Seperate completing DMA8 to a seperate function (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Don't fake the FIFO (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Correct implementation of SPD_R_DBUF_STAT reset (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Correct SPD_XFR_DMAEN define (TheLastRar)
- DEV9: Add note regarding IF_CTRL bit 3 (TheLastRar)
- Debugger: Split out SymbolImporter into its own class (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Add settings to control the analysis passes (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Cache hash match results on symbol tree nodes (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Hash functions scanned in by the MIPS analyst (chaoticgd)
- Debugger: Be smarter about deciding when functions should be hashed (chaoticgd)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- Misc: wire up and refactor trace logging (Ty Lamontagne)
- DEV9: Add ATA commands used by PS2 Linux (#11925) (TheLastRar)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (#11932) (github- actions[bot])
- EE: vtlb handler for writes to IOP mem (Ziemas)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- TraceLogging: Fix SIF trace logging (Ty Lamontagne)
- Qt: Replace QTreeWidget with QTreeView for cheat list (Rares- Alexandru Fodor)
- Qt: Add search bar for cheats (Rares- Alexandru Fodor)
- DEV9: Set/Clear SEEK bit in all relevent commands (#11931) (TheLastRar)
- USB: Fix FFB quality and dropouts for most wheels, make workaround optional (badfontkeming)
- VMManager: Add renderer selection warning (JordanTheToaster)
- Debugger: Avoid resetting symbol trees while single stepping (chaoticgd)
- Qt: Fix symbol sources list in per- game settings dialog (chaoticgd)
- GS: Check feature level 12 as a requirement when selecting auto renderer on intel. (lightningterror)
- GS/D3D12: Disable DX12 if feature level is not detected. (lightningterror)
- GS/Qt: Adjust how we handle Default adapter. (lightningterror)
- GS/OGL: Only paste all available extensions in dev/debug build. (lightningterror)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- Qt: Hackfix settings icon stretching on Windows themes (TheLastRar)
- FSUI: Fix and Tweak BPM Buttons and Legends (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Properly Grey Out Checkboxes When Perf OSD is Disabled (KamFretoZ)
- OSD: Fix Input Overlay Clipping (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- CI: Fix Translation Workflow Scripts Order of Operation (KamFretoZ)
- Qt: Update Base Translation (PCSX2 Bot)
- PAD: Update to latest controller database. (PCSX2 Bot)
- PAD: Fix negon and jogcon BPM crash (Ty Lamontagne)
- Dis5900asm: Fix an out of bounds access on invalid pmfhl formats (Ty Lamontagne)
- Patches: Fix a regression that broke gamedb dynpatches (Ty Lamontagne)
- translations: Syncing Crowdin translations (#11970) (Tyler Wilding)
- CI: Default to flatpak beta branch (Ty Lamontagne)

Información y descarga aquí.

[Gelon]

Se ha filtrado un prototipo del Duke Nukem: D-Day, un shooter en tercera persona que estuvo en desarrollo durante los primeros dos miles. No se sabe hasta qué punto está completo, porque el prototipo es de 2001 y el desarrollo continuó hasta 2003. Desarrollado por N-Space, los que hicieron la mayoría de shooters en primera persona (007, Call of Duty, etc) de Nintendo DS y el Geist (un juegazo, en mi opinión) de Gamecube.

Tiene varios niveles inspirados, por no decir directamente plagiados, de otros juegos clásicos.

Por defecto tiene controles "tipo tanque", como shooters en tercera persona anteriores, pero el modo debug incluye un modo moderno "dual stick". Enlazado queda un parche para PCSX2 que lo activa automáticamente. Para corregir texturas corruptas hay que activar "DMA Hack" en Game Fixes y se recomienda overclock a la CPU para que vaya más fluido.

Fuente
Parche Analógico Dual PCSX2

[Neville]

Gracias por avisar. No sé muy qué pasó con los juegos de Duke Nukem tras el 3D, pero creo que todos terminaron o bien cancelados o saliendo con mucho retraso. En fin.

[RodrigoH17]

Super interesante!

Gracias por la info, habra que probarlo, se ve genial, veremos que tan completo es este prototipo.