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When available I just buy the GOG versions instead, but even those versions sadly often have issues.
Meanwhile slightly older games from the DOS era works perfectly everywhere thanks to DOSBox. I would love to see something like that for old Windows. Merge DOSBox with WINE, someone?
I have had very bad success rate with my old Windows CDROM/DVD era games. Pretty much all of them either have some kind of DRM or they run but with bugs. When available I just buy the GOG versions instead, but even those versions sadly often have issues. Meanwhile slightly older games from the DOS era works perfectly everywhere thanks to DOSBox. I would love to see something like that for old Windows. Merge DOSBox wi…
I have had very bad success rate with my old Windows CDROM/DVD era games. Pretty much all of them either have some kind of DRM or they run but with bugs. When available I just buy the GOG versions instead, but even those versions sadly often have issues. Meanwhile slightly older games from the DOS era works perfectly everywhere thanks to DOSBox. I would love to see something like that for old Windows. Merge DOSBox wi…
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The author linked to the repo and the code is at https://github.com/seritools/castrol-honda-dinput-fix/blob/m... Seems pretty straightforward. They hook DirectInputCreateA() and pass their own device enumeration wrapper with the offending flag removed.
The flag DIDEVTYPE_JOYSTICK was added by this fix not removed. The idea is, rather than handle up to 8 devices, otherwise UB and usually crash, handle up to 8 "joysticks" and disregard any beyond that.
I have had very bad success rate with my old Windows CDROM/DVD era games. Pretty much all of them either have some kind of DRM or they run but with bugs. When available I just buy the GOG versions instead, but even those versions sadly often have issues. Meanwhile slightly older games from the DOS era works perfectly everywhere thanks to DOSBox. I would love to see something like that for old Windows. Merge DOSBox wi…
Otherwise, 86Box is a pretty good full-system emulator for everything up to the early 3D era.
As for DRM, there's various ways around it of course :)
Why an extra DLL instead of just patching the game executable? With some luck it is a one byte patch (from push 0 to push 4).
But yeah, with the info provided it should be patchable. It's a `push esi` though, where esi has to stay 0 for a few further usages, so it's a bit more than a one-byte patch. It also wouldn't fully resolve the OOB write in the rare case where you _do_ have 9+ game controllers connected.
> Microsoft has only kept the documentation for the DX8 version of EnumDevices left online This saddens me. Who knows how much valuable info has been lost. I recall back in the days of MSDN, we had docs back to early Windows, and it was a wonderful historical record. Today's Docs site seems to keep info only for a few versions.
Why an extra DLL instead of just patching the game executable? With some luck it is a one byte patch (from push 0 to push 4).