RGB patching Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast?

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cr4zymanz0r
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RGB patching Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast?

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When you run this game in RGB mode unpatched, it only shows you the top left portion of the screen.

I've seen patches for it, but they're a .ppf patch for some old Echelon scene release that I can't find a download link for that isn't dead.
I have the GDI version and I'm fine with modifying things in a hex editor, but I have no idea what values I need to change in the GDI version.

Does anybody know?
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Re: RGB patching Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast?

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Just play the 360/PS3 version through HDMI with smoothing off, the achievement sidebars disabled and the scanline/phosphor filter on.
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Re: RGB patching Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast?

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That simulates convergence issues... at least it did on 3rd strike and I thought that was idiotic.
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Re: RGB patching Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast?

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Strider77 wrote:That simulates convergence issues... at least it did on 3rd strike and I thought that was idiotic.
Sorry for further derailment, but there seems to be misunderstanding within some circles that people need scanlines to make games look old (hence the uncalled for features like bilinear filtering or imitating bent picture displayed by CRTs), whereas we need scanlines to make the picture look simply good (some XIXth Century's line engravings anticipate the effect).
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Re: RGB patching Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast?

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This is all well and good, but I just want to play the Dreamcast version with the elusive RGB patch :P
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