From what I've read, the V-beam speed hack will make a game run faster, but not slower.
After some research, It seems that the only way to change the framerate is to find out what code in the game is controlling motion parameters. If you were to simply change the framerate itself, games would run the same as if the frame limiter in Dolphin's settings were set to a higher or lower rate, meaning faster and slower game
play. This is not what we want, and the reason this happens is because the game's motion is frame dependent. PC games do not slow down at lower frame rates because their motion is bound by time and not individual frames. This means that if you want to change the frame rate, you have to change the rate in which motion is spread across the frames. So if you wanted a lower framerate, you would increase the motion speed twice and the opposite for a higher one. Now finding out what code in the game that is responsible for motion is the most challenging part (for me anyway, given my skills). Apparently, there were some folks on the PCSX2 forums that were able to find the code in Kingdom of hearts II using Cheat Engine (Google "Kingdom of Hearts II 60fps hack" to read the thread) They show that is is possible, but it's a matter of finding the codes. One user said something about finding CE tables for motion, but I'm not sure what they meant. Anyway, that's about I could find out on how to achieve this. If we can find the codes in Cheat Engine, record them and make game specfic patches to alter the motion speed, then it seems we have a fesable way to do this. If the devs find a way to intercept the code at runtime in Dolphin itself and give the user the option to change the speed, that would be even better; however, I don't know if that's even fesable given the diversity of how games might handle motion.
So, that's about where I'm at with this so far. It would be great to have people who've done this before to offer advice about how they did it, and get some skilled coders to find these codes!
After some research, It seems that the only way to change the framerate is to find out what code in the game is controlling motion parameters. If you were to simply change the framerate itself, games would run the same as if the frame limiter in Dolphin's settings were set to a higher or lower rate, meaning faster and slower game
play. This is not what we want, and the reason this happens is because the game's motion is frame dependent. PC games do not slow down at lower frame rates because their motion is bound by time and not individual frames. This means that if you want to change the frame rate, you have to change the rate in which motion is spread across the frames. So if you wanted a lower framerate, you would increase the motion speed twice and the opposite for a higher one. Now finding out what code in the game that is responsible for motion is the most challenging part (for me anyway, given my skills). Apparently, there were some folks on the PCSX2 forums that were able to find the code in Kingdom of hearts II using Cheat Engine (Google "Kingdom of Hearts II 60fps hack" to read the thread) They show that is is possible, but it's a matter of finding the codes. One user said something about finding CE tables for motion, but I'm not sure what they meant. Anyway, that's about I could find out on how to achieve this. If we can find the codes in Cheat Engine, record them and make game specfic patches to alter the motion speed, then it seems we have a fesable way to do this. If the devs find a way to intercept the code at runtime in Dolphin itself and give the user the option to change the speed, that would be even better; however, I don't know if that's even fesable given the diversity of how games might handle motion.
So, that's about where I'm at with this so far. It would be great to have people who've done this before to offer advice about how they did it, and get some skilled coders to find these codes!
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