Gaulish Gaming Banquet: xxl

mr.rubinshtein

Not only storywise but also repaired village is not optimised for gameplay

mr.rubinshtein

It was made purely for cutscene purpose

pixeltheretro

I think I screwed up something or didn't understand it correctly. I've changed it to actual size - 12 and it still doesn't want to be read

adrientd

There are actually two values to fix

adrientd

First one at address 4

adrientd

Second one at around 0x7F8 (right after 0F 08 00 00)

adrientd

for the second size value in this case it should be fixed to filesize-0x800 (since the sound data starts at 0x800)

adrientd

Download 1_WIN0_fixed.rws:

pegperegogaucho

Arent there actually 2 size values specified for the data chunk size?

pegperegogaucho

One should take padding into count and the other not

pegperegogaucho

At least it was like that for music

adrientd

I believe the other data chunk size value must be already correct (otherwise it would also break ingame)

adrientd

It's only the sizes of Renderware headers that are incorrect, which the game doesn't care since they are not used

adrientd

the size value in the headers are only used in case the game wants to skip the chunk so it can do a seek with the size value without having to read inside

adrientd

but the game never skips them so it doesn't matter

adrientd

The only case I've seen in XXL1 where it skips Renderware structures is in the geometries for Asterix and Obelix, they have 4 RwGeometry inside them (one for every costume), and the game would only attempt to read one of them, and the others are simply skipped by doing a seek with the size value of the header

pegperegogaucho

I guess the devs assigned to the polish port of XXL made their own tool to hack in the audio

pegperegogaucho

Also since you mentioned costumes, I noticed that your editor wont import the dff correctly when I try to replace a costume, am i doing something wrong or is it currently not supported?

adrientd

Yes, the polish port was most likely done without ELB (I believe it was released around 2008 when Atari already broke their contracts with them), thus they let some reverse engineers (at CD Projekt?) do it instead

adrientd

I think I heard in some documentary that CD Projekt did some translation hacks of games and then contacted the official devs to release official Polish translations of their games

#xxl