Added new patches for GT3, GT4 and some other games

[R1C3R21]

The only worthwhile thing to comment is that the God Hand widescreen patch has been disabled because it no longer works, it just stretches out the image and nothing else, the text still presents issues on the slot machine.

[CookiePLMonster]

Regarding the adjustable units cheat, same point I outlined in #521 (comment) applies:

I don't see the point in submitting patches that should be tweaked by the user to their liking, like the remappable controls or customizable units.

[R1C3R21]

Damn that was quick to answer. True, I forgot to edit those out since there were so many patches to filter and reorder them that I completely forgot.

[PeterDelta]

Have they been tested? For example, the Gran Turismo 4 No-interlacing patch isn't necessary and even breaks the game. It works fine with automatic interlacing without judder, and with "Bob bff" it works perfectly.

[R1C3R21]

Sorry, the GT3-4 patches were prepared months in advance, and I forgot to check all of them.
I can confirm as of now the GT3 deinterlacing patch does NOT work, but the 60 FPS does (and includes deinterlacing). Sadly, the 60 FPS accelerates all of the MIDI songs, which has been added to the description of the patch to avoid unnecessary bug reports.

I will check ASAP the GT4 patches since there are way more patches to check, although I do remember testing out most of them, and being fine. Regardless, I will check them once again to see the current results.

[JordanTheToaster]

Sadly, the 60 FPS accelerates all of the MIDI songs

This won't be accepted then patches can't be added if you know they break something.

[R1C3R21]

This won't be accepted then patches can't be added if you know they break something.

Shall I leave it commented then? Like I have done with the God Hand patch.

[PeterDelta]

Please test it properly. The GT3 patch works perfectly. It took me many hours of research and testing. The reason it doesn't work for you is because you tried it without restarting. When you do, you'll see it works correctly. Without that patch, the font doesn't look as good. Regarding the 60 FPS patch, it only accelerates in the main menu; I have it disabled in the options, but it plays normally in races.

Normal With patch, It does not cut out the letters or vibrate the screen. Whenever a patch is enabled, it should be done before starting the game to ensure it is working.

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Gran.Turismo.4_SCES-51719_20250906123041.mp4

This is GT4 with the original Bob BFF interlacing without patches. The image also doesn't shake with the interlacing on automatic and looks fine, but with Bob, the interlacing is the best.

[R1C3R21]

Please test it properly. The GT3 patch works perfectly. It took me many hours of research and testing. The reason it doesn't work for you is because you tried it without restarting. When you do, you'll see it works correctly. Without that patch, the font doesn't look as good. Regarding the 60 FPS patch, it only accelerates in the main menu; I have it disabled in the options, but it plays normally in races.

I did not say that the GT3 60 FPS patch did not work, I said the complete opposite (in fact I have done all of the licenses and most of the game with the patch activated). The problem comes from all of the MIDI songs (main menu, garage, quick race, career mode championship selection...) are accelerated when the patch is activated.
In fact I said to make a compromise an add it to the description of the patch, but the PCSX2 team as you have seen has told me that this is not a valid option to approach.
Oh, and I forgot to mention that while it is obvious and fairly expected, the license tests demo replays don't work properly since the replays were done with 50 FPS in mind.

This is GT4 with the original Bob BFF interlacing without patches. The image also doesn't shake with the interlacing on automatic and looks fine, but with Bob, the interlacing is the best.

Regarding the GT4 patches, yesterday I tested out my PAL copy and I can confirm that ALL of the cheats work without any issues.
Still, considering that for some reason if I activate and deactivate the deinterlacing patch, said deinterlacing only goes away when I close PCSX2 completely, a simple game restart does not work.
While keeping the patch is possible, honestly removing it is better since it's no longer needed.

I will test out later on the other regions/versions too and see how they fair out.

[PeterDelta]

I was referring to the GT3 interlacing patch, as I show in the images with the patch it looks better than without it.

[R1C3R21]

I tested it out and I got pretty inconsistents results for some reason while restarting the game. But closing down the emulator completely helped me obtain the results that you have showed before (specially with the glitchy looking text without the deinterlacing).

Kinda strange honestly.

[Mrlinkwii]

whats the status of this ?

[R1C3R21]

whats the status of this ?

I have this bookmarked since I still have not been able to test ALL of the GT4 patches. I can confirm that the GT3 ones do fully work, and all of the PAL ones do work, I am just missing the NTSC ones. I'll get around testing them next month.

[R1C3R21]

Now all of the original cheat code for GT4 NTSC-U have been revised, but now I've decided to also check the Vyerq's cheats (https://xn--pckq0c4g.com/codes/GT4#1), and some of them are too interesting to not include. I am currently going through all of them and see which ones can be included.

[R1C3R21]

@Mrlinkwii feel free to merge the PR, or at least someone from the PCSX2 team and to see if you validate all of the new patches uploaded. They were tested thoroughly by me.

[emansom]

@R1C3R21 The code for this patch seems to be missing here.

https://github.com/R1C3R21/pcsx2_patches/blob/24702d28c03e78a1e448ebbb8b607c35c56e49f2/patches/SCUS-97436_32A1C752.pnach#L109-L114

[Disable track lights lens flares]
comment=Disables the lens flares that appear on light sources on evening/night tracks. Useful for PCSX2 performance.
author=TheAdmiester



[Disable wind noise]

[R1C3R21]

@R1C3R21 The code for this patch seems to be missing here.

https://github.com/R1C3R21/pcsx2_patches/blob/24702d28c03e78a1e448ebbb8b607c35c56e49f2/patches/SCUS-97436_32A1C752.pnach#L109-L114

[Disable track lights lens flares]
comment=Disables the lens flares that appear on light sources on evening/night tracks. Useful for PCSX2 performance.
author=TheAdmiester



[Disable wind noise]

😳 ...

It's the same patch, just with the original description done by TheAdmiester that is not really that descriptive of the actual changes done in the patch. On the night variant of the tracks the difference is so minuscule that you cannot even tell the differences, unlike some tracks during the evening, hence why his patch description was rephrased.

[emansom]

It's the same patch, just with the original description done by TheAdmiester that is not really that descriptive of the actual changes done in the patch. On the night variant of the tracks the difference is so minuscule that you cannot even tell the differences, unlike some tracks during the evening, hence why his patch description was rephrased.

No, what you committed was an empty patch, just the title and the comment. I even quoted, screenshotted and linked it in my previous comment. There's no room for shifting blame to TheAdmiester here.

"the actual changes done in the patch" were not there. The patch code is there in TheAdmiester's upstream repo however, so if you copy them, make sure to copy the patch= part(s) too.

Deleting the mistake, like you have done in the commits since that comment; is an alternative solution too, I guess.

[R1C3R21]

It's the same patch, just with the original description done by TheAdmiester that is not really that descriptive of the actual changes done in the patch. On the night variant of the tracks the difference is so minuscule that you cannot even tell the differences, unlike some tracks during the evening, hence why his patch description was rephrased.

No, what you committed was an empty patch, just the title and the comment. I even quoted, screenshotted and linked it in my previous comment. There's no room for shifting blame here.

"the actual changes done in the patch" were not there. The patch code is there in TheAdmiester's upstream repo however, so if you copy them, make sure to copy the patch= part too.

Deleting the mistake, like you have done in the commits since that comment; is an alternative solution too, I guess.

I wasn't blaming the mistake to Admeister, I blamed me for the error... IIRC the patch was tested on the NTSC-U version first, and since the patch is exactly the same on both versions, I just copied and pasted the description to the PAL region, and then put the correct patch for the specific region. Keep in mind that I had to check a lot of patches, and I was reordering them to be in alphabetical order.

Oh, I just checked that patch. I got confused with the previous one since the names are almost the same. I did remove that one because the changes are just... not there? If someone is able to see the changes let me know, but if these changes are less noticeable than a PS5 vs PS5 Pro comparison, is it even worth it?
I didn't even see any performance increase with that patch activated too, so...

[CoolsyNitro]

Why is the 60 FPS patch for SCES-50294 (GT3) commented out and then re-added to the patch? Also, the Adjusted triggers sensitivity patch has also been added to this file twice. First instance shows up at line 14 and second instance shows up at line 60

I should point out that #667 has already added these GT3 patches to the main branch

[R1C3R21]

Why is the 60 FPS patch for SCES-50294 (GT3) commented out and then re-added to the patch? Also, the Adjusted triggers sensitivity patch has also been added to this file twice. First instance shows up at line 14 and second instance shows up at line 60

I should point out that #667 has already added these GT3 patches to the main branch

Oh, so you reenabled it back? Read this: #602 (comment)

The other patches were added because if you knew how Git works, you would see that the latest commit was a merge from main... Gonna disable back the 60 FPS patch.

Also now that I see it... how the fuck did they allow for these patches when you can see the FIRST comment in this PR?!
#602 (comment)

I want those to be there, but if nobody can make up their own mind... I guess that Silent just got tired of repeating the same stuff over and over.

[CoolsyNitro]

The other patches were added because if you knew how Git works, you would see that the latest commit was a merge from main... Gonna disable back the 60 FPS patch.

This is pretty much my first time using GitHub and committing stuff to it, so I apologise for not being intimately aware of how every part of GitHub fully works. It's stuff I will have to learn and get used to over time if I am going to contribute more

Oh, so you reenabled it back? Read this: #602 (comment)

I never re-enabled it. It was already part of the PNACH file. If you check the file changes, you can see that for yourself.

Also now that I see it... how the fuck did they allow for these patches when you can see the FIRST comment in this PR?!
#602 (comment)

The patches that I added were made by @CookiePLMonster and @AeroWidescreen themselves. I added them purely out of booting up Gran Turismo 3 for the first time on PCSX2, noticing that those patches were available in the NTSC version but not the PAL version, and then asking how to get those patches added. I didn't make any modifications to those patches, except for re-arranging some of the notes to make it look neater and in-line with the already existing patches. The NTSC version of GT3 already had the Adjustable triggers and Adjustable units patches, so I assumed it was safe to just add those two.