(09-13-2016, 12:11 PM)zabrakspam1 Wrote: I'm having what I think is a game-breaking bug, and I hope this is the right place to post for help. I get the feeling that the following symptoms are related:
1. Despite having Ilia's Scent (screenshot), I'm not able to see the red trail when wolf senses are on (screenshot).
2. I'm no longer seeing the black patches with gold sparkles with wolf senses on which indicate I can dig in that spot, although I do get the button prompt at the bottom of the screen (screenshot).
3. When I enter Castle Town, I can see lots of floating green orbs with wolf senses off (screenshot), but only some of them show up as spirits when I turn senses on, while others stay as blue orbs (screenshot). I gather that I'm supposed to interact with a spirit called Fyer in dried-up Lake Hylia, but when I go up to his place, I only get a blue orb with senses on (screenshot). From what I've read, this means I can't proceed in the game.
I've got the Hyrule Field hack enabled, as well as the NTSC-U version of the Widescreen gecko code given in the Twilight Princess wiki. I've tried turning both of them off, but I'm not sure I was successful because loading up saved states still gives me a widescreen and no horrible lag.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I had this problem too with the sense trails not showing up. For me it only happens when I have the gecko code wide screen fix enabled. Whenever I had to go through such parts I would need to turn that off to proceed. So I would save state as well as save in game (just to be safe because I've already had it tell me that my save state wasn't compatible - believe I was messing around with the graphics more than just changing the ratio though which is all you would want to do after disabling gecko widescreen) and then disable the gecko and force 4:3 in graphics settings. Restart the game and load save state and everything was dandy again. Hyrule field hack is fine to always leave enabled as well as the no blooms ar code. And then when you're done needing your senses (for some reason the poes you have to kill aren't affected which is honestly kind of convenient) then just resave everything over again and stop emulation and reenable the gecko and you're good to go in awesome wide screen again.
Update 9/14/2016: So I would definitely not use the save state actually that was wrong information - I hadn't had to do it in a while but I just got to a place that required scents again and tried to reload state and noticed it was squashed. So states actually seem to save the codes used at that time that's neat.