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Hack: Debug Camera Restoration Patch

A debug mode for adjusting the camera’s stereoscopic settings exists in the ROM, seemingly inaccessible in the final build. This patch attempts to restore this feature in the US version. It can be used in conjunction with the save patch if desired.

Controls:

  • Hold Select between shots to trigger the debug camera
  • Left D-Pad Left/Left D-Pad Right: Adjust Z-axis
  • Left D-Pad Up/Left D-Pad Down: Adjust depth
  • Right D-Pad Up/Right D-Pad Down: Move 2D elements like the minimap in/out of screen
  • Right D-Pad Left/Right D-Pad Right: Render out a new frame with current settings
  • Cancel (B or L Trigger in Control Set A, A or R Trigger in Set B): Exit debug camera

This patch is far from a perfect restoration of the debug functionality. It’s unknown where or how it would originally be triggered. The way it’s triggered in this patch, it can only be enabled once per shot and the debug text does not update cleanly, rendering over the top of the previous values until the digits become unreadable. Rendering out a new frame with the Right D-Pad temporarily resolves the issue.

Author: Vague Rant

golf-usa_vb_debug-camera.ips (74 B)
Hack: Save Restoration Patch

While neither the North American, nor Japanese release of (T&E Virtual) Golf has physical save hardware, the latter does support saving, when played in emulators or on flash carts with SRAM on-board. The game checks whether the SRAM is available and functioning correctly and if that check is successful, enables a full save setup, including freeing up the preset default slot. However, if that check fails for any reason, the game falls back to the password system.

Conversely, the US version has had saving disabled in the ROM itself, with the SRAM check hardcoded to fail. This patch restores saving in the US version by porting the hardware check from the Japanese release. The rest of the saving code was left completely intact in the US version. Also allows to erase saves with the normal in-game menu under “Individual Records”.

Sources here.

Author: Vague Rant

golf-usa_vb_save-support_v1.1.ips (154 B)