I know this isn't exactly hardware related, but this sub-forum seems to have the most technically inclined people and I didn't get much input in the off-topic section.
The short version is there was a patch years ago for Vampire Chronicle on DC that would make it behave correctly when using RGB video, but I cannot find any details on recreating that patch or the hex to manually modify.
The longer version is the patch was made for some Echelon scene release and it was a .ppf patch. This has made me run into 2 issues:
1.) .ppf patches (as far as I can tell) basically are just a file that tells which hex offsets to overwrite and what data to overwrite with. Since it doesn't tell which data it's replacing, I can't easily reverse-engineer it on a different rip/dump of the game.
2.) I thought maybe I could patch the Echelon release and compare the files before and after to figure out what is being changed, but as far as I can tell the Echelon release has disappeared off the face of the internet. I finally found one place to get it, only to find out one of the many rar files was corrupt.
What it all boils down to is I would like to patch a GDI dump of the game for use in my GDEMU in my Dreamcast. I'm aware there's newer ports of the game, but I have a fondness for DC and would like to have the option of playing it on a CRT in RGB.
I found instructions for which hex values to replace in some other Capcom DC games, but they didn't seem to apply to this. Anybody have some insight?
Recreating old RGB patch for Vampire Chronicle on DC?
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cr4zymanz0r
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Re: Recreating old RGB patch for Vampire Chronicle on DC?
I had this same problem with GigaWing last month actually. I *was* able to find the original Kalisto release, however. With the good original release I was able to PPF patch it using an old command line patcher in a WinXP virtual machine, then run the old BootDreams (also required 32-bit OS) software to make it bootable. I can tell you that NullDC was immensely helpful, although in the end what NullDC said would work, didn't.
I wish I could be more help.
I wish I could be more help.