How to port Soul Calibur III: Arcade Edition to PS2

[TopazHacker]

I just set the VU Cycling mode to Extra, and while it did fix the teleportation, it didn't fix Ivy and Yoshimitsu.

At least it fixed the teleportation, right?.. Right?

By the way, I found the character images' location. While Byros found the database, I figured out the images location. But, you will need to change the hex codes in order to change char icons... HARD? Well... not quite. I will upload the text file that has all the hex codes for it on the Modding Soulcalibur 3 thread.

Good Evening.

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

At least it fixed the teleportation, right?.. Right?

By the way, I found the character images' location. While Byros found the database, I figured out the images location. But, you will need to change the hex codes in order to change char icons... HARD? Well... not quite. I will upload the text file that has all the hex codes for it on the Modding Soulcalibur 3 thread.

Good Evening.

Great! Thanks a lot.

 

[TopazHacker]

Great! Thanks a lot.

I have made a new thread for it. Here it is: http://8wayrun.com/threads/how-to-mod-character-selection-icons-in-sc3.19391/

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

Now let's take a look at the original lifebars, and compare them to the AE lifebars.

Here are the original PS2 lifebars.

The lifebars were updated in the AE, and they look like this:

Now, for some reason, if you port the lifebars over to the PS2 version, they don't actually look right. (They are stored in File3.olk->File6.pkg)

The wings that should be on the edges of the lifebars appear at the start/end of the character name instead, and there are other inaccuracies there, too. I wonder if there's a way to fix it...

Also notice that the SC4 and SC5 lifebars look a bit like the SC3AE lifebars.

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

I've got news about Ivy and Yoshimitsu! I've just tried importing two AE movesets into Ivy: Hwang and Cassandra. Hwang's moveset was slightly bigger than Ivy's PS2 moveset, and that required an extra allocation, while Cassandra's style was smaller. Turns out that Ivy will crash with Hwang's moveset, but not with Cassandra's moveset. So that means that Ivy's and Yoshi's moveset files just don't like space allocations at all.

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

One more thing about Ivy and Yoshi: their movesets won't work even if you replace other characters' movesets with them.

I've also found out that only File1.pkg from AE File6.olk is needed for the AE movesets to work properly. The other three files don't change anything.

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

Yes, now I'm sure the problem lies in these movesets, not in the OLK Explorer.

 

[TopazHacker]

Yes, now I'm sure the problem lies in these movesets, not in the OLK Explorer.

I think that the movesets gets corrupted when imported... Made from the start... For the Arcade?

 

[TopazHacker]

Yes, now I'm sure the problem lies in these movesets, not in the OLK Explorer.

To make Ivy and Yoshi work, you could try to import custom moves alike them. Will try to use OLK Exp. newest version and see if any problems with standard movesets :P

 

[limejuice]

Is there a way to play the Arcade Edition via PCSX2?

 

[limejuice]

Thanks. I'll give it a try today.

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

I believe if you do everything in the OP, then yes you can run that same ISO on PCSX2. From experience, modified ISOs do work on PCSX2.

Exactly.

 

[flaccid_pianist]

Anyone still working on this? I've ran into this bug, I wonder if anyone knows what went wrong.
The physics of blocking few moves is completely off as you can see in the link here.

This is the modifications I've done:
- Imported AE's File6.olk, File1-4.pkg into SC3's File7.olk, File1-4.pkg
- Imported AE title screen (File5.olk, 761.pkg)
- finally wrapped everything up into an iso.

Did I do anything wrong? Thanks!

 

[TopazHacker]

Anyone still working on this? I've ran into this bug, I wonder if anyone knows what went wrong.
The physics of blocking few moves is completely off as you can see in the link here.

This is the modifications I've done:
- Imported AE's File6.olk, File1-4.pkg into SC3's File7.olk, File1-4.pkg
- Imported AE title screen (File5.olk, 761.pkg)
- finally wrapped everything up into an iso.

Did I do anything wrong? Thanks!

Currently, it's impossible to fully port AE to PS2. A lot of physics are broken and they will be.

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

Anyone still working on this? I've ran into this bug, I wonder if anyone knows what went wrong.
The physics of blocking few moves is completely off as you can see in the link here.

This is the modifications I've done:
- Imported AE's File6.olk, File1-4.pkg into SC3's File7.olk, File1-4.pkg
- Imported AE title screen (File5.olk, 761.pkg)
- finally wrapped everything up into an iso.

Did I do anything wrong? Thanks!

The files 1-4 from the AE do not work correctly with the original movesets. If you import the AE movesets, this problem will be fixed.

 

[Amysorel3]

So replacing File 3 changes Amy's select pose

 

[Amysorel3]

But messes up the select screen.
Where exactly are the character select poses I know it's in File 3 but.............

 

[Amysorel3]

Interesting find. Any idea if it fixes the issue I was having with weapons being in the wrong hands as well?

EDIT: And I'm still searching for a way to swap those memory card slots and the bonus slot out with a normal character slot.

I don't have any problem with weapons in the wrong hand at all, it just mixes up the characters and messes up the select screen, cause File 3 has some things the PS2 ver. doesn't have.

Did you install the files properly???

 

[Amysorel3]

Also are the Extra characters styles like Lynette or Strife have an AE moveset cause I can't find them?

 

[Anthony Ryuki]

What exactly is contained in the files 1-4; Do you know?

Actually, if I remember something I did a while a go correctly, it turned out that only File1 is different from the original version, so only that file is required for these movesets to work. That's all I know, though.