[HN Gopher] Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
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Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
Author : breakingcups
Score : 226 points
Date : 2023-01-15 16:50 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (cookieplmonster.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (cookieplmonster.github.io)
| ivero wrote:
| This is so cool! This game is one of my favorite games of all
| time. I bought the Xbox version when it first came out back in
| 2002. I remember the sticker advertising 9/10 in realism, haha.
|
| My friends and I mostly played against each other using split-
| screen mode. In fact, a childhood friend and I never stopped
| playing the game. My good old Xbox is still connected to the TV
| at my parents house. Whenever I am visiting my hometown, usually
| twice a year, my friend and I still play through all the stages
| at least once to see who wins the most. The playthrough usually
| takes between 2 and 3 hours.
|
| The game is still as exciting and nerve wracking as it was back
| in 2002. Really cool seeing this game getting the love and
| attention it deserves!
| Aardwolf wrote:
| There was a similar game in the late 90s I liked a lot from the
| same makers, TOCA 2 touring cars. Played it split screen on pc
| with one player using force feedback steering wheel and the
| other using force feedback sidewinder joystick. Great times!
| peoplefromibiza wrote:
| upvoted without even checking the link
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| I spent an unreasonable amount of time playing Colin McRae Rally
|
| I also watched him winning the Sanremo WRC Rallye in 1996, it
| really was epic.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMzrEqxMJI
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| [flagged]
| eCa wrote:
| Not really the place to joke about Colin's death, in my
| opinion.
| georgebcrawford wrote:
| That was poorly done, mate.
| peoplefromibiza wrote:
| seriously?
| ArtWomb wrote:
| same. v-rally3 on gba by vicarious visions has a terrific
| renderer. i guess it's just "pseudo-3d raster roads" all the
| way down ;)
|
| http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/
| SimonPStevens wrote:
| Interesting comparing CMR3 to the newer Dirt Rally 2.
|
| CMR3 roads are much much wider. I find DR2 almost too hard to
| keep the car from hitting the side all the time.
|
| I wonder why that is. The narrower road seems more true to real
| life. But I'm not clear why CMR3 was made with the wider roads.
| dijit wrote:
| I remember trying to play a game from the mid-90s on an era
| appropriate content consumption device.
|
| I was thrown by how awful the control systems were, not only in
| the game, but it was clear to me that our input devices have
| come a long way.
|
| Perhaps thats why?
| KORraN wrote:
| My guess would be the target audience. CMR, then Dirt games
| (but not Dirt Rally 1 & 2) were targeted for casual gamers,
| with more arcade driving model. Only a year later, Richard
| Burns Rally has been released, which is considered a
| simulator and to this day there's a very active community of
| simrally drivers playing it. Hardware got improved a lot,
| that's true, but simulators existed even in 90's - see: Grand
| Prix Legends.
| vermaden wrote:
| I would love to see same amount of work (and ideas) but for CMR
| 2.0 instead :)
| altcoin wrote:
| https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchCMR2
|
| There you go
| coscorrodrift wrote:
| Nice! So many memories playing this one on my old netbook
| LOL, having installed it with an external CD reader
| MuffinFlavored wrote:
| Is the author doing this without source code? As in, there was
| never a leak? This is all done through reverse engineering, no
| debug symbols?
| pjc50 wrote:
| No mention is made of such a thing, so presumably yes.
|
| Edit: here's the file that actually does the patching and
| hooking. Even if you were to have source, the binary patching
| relies on finding particular bytes sequences.
| https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchCMR3/blob/main...
| [deleted]
| b7894 wrote:
| SilentPatch is incredible. GTA San Andreas goes from being a
| janky mess that hardly (if at all) works on modern hardware to
| being better than the official "remaster."
| sph wrote:
| * * *
| aledalgrande wrote:
| I assume this is Win only? I tried to find exactly what
| SilentPatch is, but I couldn't find a definitive answer.
| varenc wrote:
| https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchCMR3
| dabeeeenster wrote:
| Even with some googling I'm still none the wiser what SilentPatch
| is. Can anyone shed any light? Is it a modding team? Person?
| Community?
| terramex wrote:
| Silent is a person who creates unofficial patches for video
| games, called "SilentPatches".
| lalalandland wrote:
| You can read more about it here:
| https://cookieplmonster.github.io/about/
| jakzurr wrote:
| Whew! Thanks guys.
|
| That game & this guy's mods are way over my head, but I
| really love mods. Great article.
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