Comments on the current tool, XBOX support?

[IlDucci]

Hi there, long time no see. I see that kiminru went straight to you and that you have updated the tool, congrats.

I have some info for you and a minor request, just in case you want to take a look.

First, the info: I had a look at this PR: elishacloud/Silent-Hill-2-Enhancements#517 , and found some info that could be useful for other users:

BTW; some quick details about the games, I got the SLPM from the Japanese Saigo no Uta from somebody else:

• On Belek's tool, the line

{ "SLPM_123.45", sh_font::PS2_SH2, 0x002DEAB8, 10065884, 0x000FFF80 },

Should be changed to

{ "SLPM_650.98", sh_font::PS2_SH2, 0x001E49A0, 3147032, 0x000FFF80 },

(Not that it is actually needed by kiminru, considering the problem is Belek's tool and the US version has the entire Japanese sheet).

The font files in XBOX seem to have very similar structures as the PC version, not as the PS2 ones. Still, if someone wants to beat that tool to a pulp, it's not going to detect the elements without the info, so...

Silent Hill 2: Inner Fears (Europe):

{ "default.xbe", sh_font::XBOX_SH2, 0x0038C550, 5054464, (THIS IS THE POINTER DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN RAM POS AND LOCAL POS. UNKNOWN IF IT'S STILL NEEDED FOR XBOX },

Whatever version kiminru sent us (US?)

{ "default.xbe", sh_font::XBOX_SH2, 0x003782B0, 4960256, (THIS IS THE POINTER DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN RAM POS AND LOCAL POS. UNKNOWN IF IT'S STILL NEEDED FOR XBOX },

So the minor request, which I am not that interested in having besides for being complete, would be to add XBOX support. The font header seems to be very similar to the PC version, but that is all I could see. If you want to take a look, I could give you the binaries.

[belek666]

Hi
Thanks, I've added xbox support with minor changes in program. I've had to find offsets to data position which are different between version. "SLPM_123.45" is actually for sh2 E3 version so I will keep it.

[IlDucci]

Thank you!

I have tested the tool and I have some results:

• SLPM_650.98 has issues while extracting the large font. The small font is extracted correctly. Nothing can be reimported. My parameters seem to be wrong.
• SLUS_202.28, SLES_503.82 and SLES_511.56 have issues trying to reimport the fonts (original ones, without touching the bitmap):

Encoding char 6953, size: 2400 : [100%]
         Failed to get last char data: lastChar 6953
         Wrong char parameters: offset: 269476 size: -1 page 3772
         Failed to insert char id: 6953

Encoding char 6953, size: 1536 : [100%]
         Failed to get last char data: lastChar 6953
         Wrong char parameters: offset: 200536 size: -1 page 0
         Failed to insert char id: 6953

• The commands I have used for PS2 are the following:

FONTSH234.EXE SLUS_202.28 n b 100 75 sh2_ps2_SLUS-20228_n.tga
FONTSH234.EXE SLUS_202.28 s b 100 75 sh2_ps2_SLUS-20228_s.tga

FONTSH234.EXE SLUS_202.28 n w 100 75 sh2_ps2_SLUS-20228_n.tga
FONTSH234.EXE SLUS_202.28 s w 100 75 sh2_ps2_SLUS-20228_s.tga

• XBOX seems to work okay (I have an error when trying to export and reimport the altered Korean table, though, but with the original files everything extracts and reinserts without changing the bitmap sheet).
• Have not tested the PC version of SH2.

[IlDucci]

Greetings! Yesterday I was testing the tool against Silent Hill 3 and there seems to be a bug when reimporting the smaller font, while the large font exports and imports correctly.

The error I get when trying to import the small font is simply "Wrong character width!". It happens both with the standalone fondata files, as well as in the PS2 executable.