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I was pleasantly surprised to find that the muppet* behind the SilentPatches mods have not only worked on the game to make it run on modern systems but made what amounts to almost a remaster two years ago, for the games twentieth anniversary:
- Support for modern systems
- Multiple bugfixes
- HD UI
- (Ultra)widescreen support
- Graphical fixes and improvements
- Support for texture replacements and higher resolution assets
- Game is made portable (no settings in the registry!)
The changelog goes on and on...
Heck, even the cheats function in the game that generates a code you had to exchange for the actual cheat (over the telephone!) have been remade! So much love for this old game!
I posted a few screenshots (with dubious commentary) below but to see the full extent of the changes I highly recommend watching the official trailer!
It does work very well in Proton, but some minor fixes are needed:
- The xcopy call in setup.bat (used to patch the exe) fails and need to be replaced with copy (or copy the file manually and comment out the xcopy call)
- Add a dll override for dinput8.dll (this is how the SilenPatch hooks into the game)
- I could not get separate gas/brake axes to work, only combined. This is supposed to work according to the notes in patch 1.1 so I'm not sure if it's a bug in the game, the patch or Proton?
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If in Sweden you stop at any red cottage like this and make the right börk, börk, börk noises, the people inside will serve you meatballs with lingonberries - delicious!
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The Queensland girls really knock me out! Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh! I'm back! Back in the A.U.S!
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It's impossible to have a bad time in Finland. Well, maybe if you complain about the heat in the post-rally sauna or request ketsuppi for your memma?
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Ceci n'est pas une rally car.
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"You can't park that there sir."
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Mechanics hard at work removing the turbot that got stuck in my turbo on Special Stage Bikini Bottom.
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Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheat? At €1.27 per call, more like listen to the Moneytalks!
* Get over it!
* Not a slur! Actual muppet, check their Github profile!
https://www.moddb.com/mods/colin-mcrae-rally-3-wrc-2002-cars-livery-and-texture-upscale
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And unlike the real muppet...... This muppet doesnt waste so much food while eating........
"SilentPatch has been thriving as a “brand” and I’ve expanded into many more games, so I hope it continues. I’ve recently also been taking contracts to help re-release older games on modern digital gaming platforms that I suppose can be called “official SilentPatches”; even though they don’t carry the name, internally they work just like SPs, patching the game’s code at runtime 🙂
That said, I have very high hopes for 2024 – if everything goes well (and it still might not), perhaps next year we will see the first game officially released carrying the SilentPatch name… Fingers crossed!"
From https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2023/12/29/silentpatch-10th-anniversary/
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