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Status Update - February 2024
Hello! It's a month with no new releases, but I've been working practically all month.SilentPatchWork on SilentPatch continued all month, with around a dozen new fixes for San Andreas this month alone. The update for SA is nearing completion, and after that - Vice City and III!Flipper Zero F...
Status Update - January 2024
Hello!In January I took it easy, so for once I have no updates on any contributions and/or new releases. However, I have a few things in progress. Let's get to it.SilentPatchMy original plan of going open source in January has failed, but for a good reason - I've been going back to the codeb...
Status Update - December 2023
Hello, and Happy New Year! December was a month of tidying up loose ends, and a month when SilentPatch turned 10 years old!SilentPatch turns 10To celebrate a decade of patching, I have launched a page dedicated to SilentPatch, with an explanation of what it is, its goals, history, and a full list of...
Status Update - November 2023
Hey! This month's update is rather short, as November was slower - but the one release I published is quite interesting.SilentPatch for EA Sports WRCReleased last week, this is effectively "the newest" SilentPatch - both in terms of how new the game is, and how shortly after the official...
Status Update - October 2023
Hello! This update is slightly delayed due to my long overdue holidays. In October, I released yet another new SilentPatch together with a game research post and cleaned up my backlog a little.SilentPatch for Juiced DemosEarlier this month I released a comprehensive write-up on the history of Juiced...
Status Update - September 2023
Hello! September was quite busy - I released a new SilentPatch, submitted contributions to several more projects, and started research for a future first-of-its-kind SilentPatch for a demo version of a game. Oh, and I also accidentally caused the news of Midnight Club 2 shipping a pirated executable...
Status Update - August 2023
Hello. This month I was mostly busy with archiving my old covermount CDs and trying out random demos, but I also released a widescreen fix for a PS2 game.007: Agent Under Fire (PS2)The current widescreen fix shipped in PCSX2 was underwhelming and didn't cover the driving sections of the game at ...
Status Update - July 2023
Hello! Although no big new releases happened this month, I pushed a compatibility hotfix to one of the patches and had a chance to contribute to emulators again.SilentPatch for Colin McRae Rally 3Recently, I received several reports that CMR3 would consistently crash with DXVK installed, but only if...
Status Update - June 2023
Hello! This month I was busy with professional commitments, so I don't have much to talk about. For this reason, billing for this month has been paused.PCSX2 Minor fixes for Achievements and Patches - minor fixes for Hardcore Mode in PCSX2 where it was possible to play in HC with user-supplied p...
Status Update - May 2023
Hello! Once again no new-new releases this month, but I pushed a few updates to the existing mods instead.SilentPatch for Colin McRae Rally 3The patch for CMR3 was released with a few smaller issues (one of which was caused not by me, but by a compiler bug!), so it was time to finally update it. I a...
Status Update - April 2023
Hello! Not much has happened this month, but I've been able to contribute to Redump by sorting out my small collection of physical games, and I tied up loose ends with mkpsxiso.mkpsxisoAs mentioned, I was able to wrap up and merge the latest dev changes to mkpsxiso, a PS1 disc image building too...
Status Update - March 2023
Hello! This month I updated one of the Gran Turismo cheats and submitted some usual contributions, so it's one of those months where I tie up loose ends.One of my professional contracts also has been concluded this month - DeathKeep was released last week on Steam and GOG 🙂Gran Turismo cheats...
Status Update - February 2023
Hello! This month I've been mostly relaxing after the release of SilentPatch for Colin McRae Rally 3, but I managed to get a few nice fixes for OpenRCT2 in.OpenRCT2 Fix a division by zero in TitleScreen::TitleInitialise if there are no installed sequences - a simple fix to avoid a crash if some ...
Status Update - January 2023
Hello! This month has been relatively productive - SilentPatch for Colin McRae Rally 3 has finally been released, and I had the chance to submit a few usual other contributions.SilentPatch for Colin McRae Rally 3Earlier this month I finally released a patch for Colin McRae Rally 3 that I've been...
Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
The biggest SilentPatch release since GTA San Andreas is now out!
Status Update - December 2022
Hello and Happy New Year! In December I was busy exclusively with World Racing 2 CE and with SilentPatch for CMR3, so this update is going to be very short.SilentPatch for Colin McRae Rally 3The project is ongoing for 3 months now, but at the time of writing this update it's reaching the end - i...
Status Update - November 2022
Hey! In this update, November may look like it wasn't that busy, but in fact, it's the opposite due to work-in-progress projects! Let's get to it.SilentPatch for Colin McRae Rally 3That project is still ongoing and the very same Twitter thread is still growing in size. My progress since ...
Status Update - October 2022
Hello! As anticipated last month, October was indeed busy. While I haven't released anything new, I spent quite a bit of effort on Hacktoberfest contributions and researched Colin McRae Rally 3 a lot which resulted in a work-in-progress SilentPatch. More on that later.Gran Turismo 2 Combined Dis...
Status Update - September 2022
Hello! As you might have noticed, billing has been paused for this month, since I've been mostly busy with work and I haven't had the chance to do much hobby stuff.GInputThis month I dusted off the code for GInput, untouched since 2016. The development version received some improvements over...
Status Update - August 2022
Hello! 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 RacingAt the time of writing this, I'...
Status Update - July 2022
Hello! This month, I didn't publish any new releases, but I did invest plenty of time into research - so I'm going to shuffle the formula a little.I also played Stray 🐈Info for Box of cookies supportersI have migrated my to-do list to a new version of GitHub Projects, which means the link...
Status Update - June 2022
Hello! First of all, I apologize for the delay in publishing this post, I was on a trip and didn't get to writing the update a week ago.This month I "only" released a single cheat-code-based mod and a tool, but I also did some investigation that I'm going to briefly mention.Main rele...
Status Update - May 2022
Hello! In May, I briefly came back to Xbox emulation, and also released a minor update to one of the SilentPatches. Let's get to it.Main releases:SilentPatch for ScarfaceThanks to ermaccer, SilentPatch for Scarface now has an option to customize on-foot FOV and camera rotation speed! To get this...
