The tmp folder is cleared whenever IOS resets, meaning by the time the system menu is loaded the next time around, it's gone. What the game would do is copy it to the tmp folder, so all we'd have to do is load the game and check the tmp folder, right? Wrong. As such, a potential work-around for this would be to copy the music to the NAND and stream it from there! Thanks to analyzing other executables on the disc and a blind guess, we got the idea that maybe Red Steel was writing streaming audio files to the NAND and then streaming them from there.īecause Red Steel was developed on an earlier devkit, it's possible that they had designed their game to take advantage of GameCube features like DTK audio that no longer work on the Wii due to it having encrypted discs. Neogamma is one of the few loaders that support both alt-dol and Gecko hooks.Īlt-dol lets us use a different dol to boot various discs, and in most loaders we can just tell them to directly load the main game! While Gecko OS doesn't support this, Neogamma does and is how I previously had dumped OSReport messages from Red Steel earlier this year. To go at a game without symbols increases the difficulty tenfold. Nintendo has an awesome habit of including symbols with a lot of their games, and that has made debugging games like Wind Waker much easier in the past.
Red Steel includes no symbol maps and the executable is stripped, meaning that we have no clues for figuring out what the game code is actually doing. These symbol maps allow developers to look inside at what would be a mess of instructions and addresses and see actual functions and names to what they're doing! For a game without a symbol map, the hardest part of debugging difficult bugs can be figuring out what the game is actually doing. Some of the easiest games to debug come with symbol maps. The Ballad of Red Steel A Symbolic Gesture Feeling that there was some importance to it, I kept a running diary going as Leoetlino began his dive into a game that has baffled developers for years. now.ĭolphin 5.0-5395 brings compatibility to Dolphin. Yet this 2006 Wii Launch title remained unplayable until. Every time there's a huge feature merged into Dolphin, I always say in the dev channel, "I never imagined X would work in Dolphin before Red Steel." Ubershaders, Dragon Quest X, Majora's Mask (VC) and even the Wii Shop Channel have all been conquered.
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