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Blur removal patches for Genki's games (Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Fuun, Ninkyouden) are out! I will prepare blog pages for those a bit later, but for now you can grab them directly from GitHub. Kaido Racer also got patches to autostart in PAL60 and in English. github.com/CookiePLMons...

Ridge Racer Type 4 at 60 FPS is commendable, but what blows my mind even more is the UI and all the menus that are fixed for 16:9 gbatemp.net/threads/i-cr...

It's worth to note that this update removes custom IL2CPP obfuscation entirely, which may have been deemed suspicious by some virus scanners

At last, BeamNG enabled ASLR on their core engine DLL; the high entropy flag (0x20) is still off, but it's considerably less relevant and would be "nice to have". Glad to see a change of heart here

As of PCSX2 v2.9.145, those patches are bundled with the emulator, and can be enabled for each game individually through the Game Settings -> Patches -> "Remove Blur"!

Enough modding, time to play

Polish game development peaked here www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDqc...

What part of "Don't Ship It With Your Game" do you not understand?

25 years ago, on October 22, 2001, Grand Theft Auto III was released. This is the team that made it. (I'm second from the right) Here's what I remember about making it.

Gran Turismo 4 does the same kind of a blur as Genki games do, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined Now I can't help but think how many people (and in how many games) think "smear" is caused by interlacing, when in reality it's this anti-flicker/AA pass.

All PS2 games from Genki except for the very first one (TXR Zero) share the same underlying tech, which means they all benefit from blur removal patches: here's Fu-un Shinsengumi that finally looks sharp when upscaled.

My opus magnum has arrived ✨

Food for thought: with so many Next Fest demos, how many of them have some sort of malware inside?

I'm afraid that the initial launch ended up being so bad that their rep never recovered enough, and that's the consequence. It was a very respectable attempt, but something along the way must've gone very wrong and they may have ended up overspending and underdelivering.

One more QOL improvement - Kaido Racer can now auto-select PAL60/NTSC and the language, so it's no longer necessary to go through those two screens at startup every time.

its late and my head hurts

"You get ONE hour off for selling out your colleagues" would be considered too corny to be parodied in GTA, and yet it happened here

While the sharpness patch works even in Software mode, it then becomes clear what was its original purpose - with this render pass deleted, the game looks really jagged. Here is C1 Grand Prix in software mode, accurate to the console.

Other games from Genki react to the same changes very well: TXR3 and TXR Drift 2 look the sharpest they have ever been, and since it works fine in the oldest and the newest affected games, everything in-between (like Kaido Racer and C1GP) will definitely work great too.

TXR Drift always looked kind of blurry, and it was accurate to the console - it has a postfx pass that is offset by one scanline. Un-offsetting it preserves effects like the depth of field, but clears up the upscaled image considerably. I think I'm now ready for my playthrough.

Riviera Xtreme Racer

Japanese Soundtrack patch for Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Drift is now out! What was thought to be Crave's localization changes was actually a set of bugs. This patch restores full OST parity with Kaido Battle: unique menu music, boss battle music, names and more. silentsblog.com/mods/tokyo-x...

My veins can't take more of this, send help

Will certainly be checking it out

GearClub Unlimited 3 Low (equivalent to Switch 2 Quality setting) vs Ultra Not a huge difference, but a nice incremental improvement dialing up the draw distances and resolutions of effects

what the fuck

I've been participating in multiple playtests they hosted over the dev cycle, so I spent a lot of time with over the hill throughout - it's the most fun I had playing with friends for a long time. Chill, relaxed, yet provides a good challenge. Looking forward to replay it!

TOCA Kogey Racer confirmed

Is GearClub Unlimited 3 the first Unity game with Path Tracing (not RT)?

The GTA Speedrunning Community's fork of @cookieplmonster.bsky.social's Silent Patch is finally live and legal for runs! This is a great step for speedrun future proofing and stability, allowing us to fix what's needed but not stray too far from "true" vanilla runs github.com/Grovespaz/Sp...

I'll have so many games to catch up on when I return

Cookie car spotted

Huge props to GearClub Unlimited 3 for having both Porsche and RUF

I'll be playing GearClub Unlimited 3 more when I'm back home, but for now I tried it on a Steam Deck - and it can hold 30FPS with XeSS Balanced when connected to a 1080p screen, and still looks reasonably nice. Pretty cool

Boss intro music "worked" in TXR Drift, they just played wrong tracks, just like most other discrepancies. Boss battle music was completely nonfunctional in this release, though, and only played Race Night music. Once again possibly hinting at Drift using earlier code - now fixed

September Status Update has been published on Patreon and GitHub Sponsors! Not much happened this month - I focused on catching up with games coverage and updated the indie games list. Available for all Patrons & Sponsors, starting from $1/month. www.patreon.com/CookiePLMons...

Real Kaido Battlers will know what this is about

The irony is strong with this one, but according to the reports, The Witcher 3 Remaster earns a spot on the Ŭ̴̹͝n̴̢̫͍̈́i̷͇̟̓̆ĉ̷͙̺̝̽͠o̶̳̾͋͗d̶̫̠̓͑͜e̶̘̽̎̕ ̸̮͙̉l̷̝̞͙͆i̴͓̜͓̋ṣ̸̏t̷̙̃̄͊ ̴̬̩͆̒̽͜ò̴͍̲f̶̱͉͌ ̷̺̼̤͆̕s̶͉̈̍̊ẖ̸͝a̷̱̩̟̋̚͘m̵͌̍͜ȩ̷̭̿̿̋ A Polish game can't handle Polish diacritics 😭 Repost to scare @cdprojektred.com

People never used mods like this seriously, they were always made to prove a point: in the past, they were made to flex your understanding of both the source and the target game, "I documented them so well, I can do this". Now they flex... that you have tokens to burn, I guess?

Surround yourself with bug fixes and Quality of Life improvements with Fusion Fix 5.1 for GTA IV! Featuring Quick Save, water physics and particle fixes, auto-climb options and much more! www.nexusmods.com/gta4/mods/71... github.com/ThirteenAG/G... PS: Delete GTAIV.EFLC.FusionFix.cfg first

I'm putting together a collection

Traversing the Canadian wilderness is super fun

This post is one for the history books I think

Me every time a video game has a drivable muscle car and a parking garage

Show us what you can do...