PSX - Spyro 3.5 on PSOne (FreePSXBoot - Anticheat)

[popckorn]

Hello guys and gals, I hope this message finds you comfy and in peace.

I post regarding the fan mod of Spyro 3, called. Spyro 3.5,
Is there a way to patch the Anticheat to play this on a modded PSOne?

I reckon Spyro 3 needs to be patched, but the patch goes over a virgin Spyro 3, not Spyro 3.5.
(Unless I am mistaken, hopefully)

I am using FreePSXBoot and I got the "Software Terminated" error due to modified console.
I imagined this reversion of the game would have patched the anticheat, I don't see a purpose of leaving that function in.

I already reached to the author at Twitter, but I have gotten no response.
Hopefully, someone could help shed some light on this.

Much appreciated, and much obliged!
popckorn

 

[Turd Curator]

Is it possible there's an old, non stealth modchip installed in your playstation? That would likely still cause the anti-piracy check to fail.
If you're using a slim ps1, I doubt that would be the reason though, non-stealth chips were long gone by the time the slim rolled around

 

[popckorn]

Is it possible there's an old, non stealth modchip installed in your playstation? That would likely still cause the anti-piracy check to fail.
If you're using a slim ps1, I doubt that would be the reason though, non-stealth chips were long gone by the time the slim rolled around

It is weird though.

I have two PSOnes, the one with the best Laser Module is not chipped, but it had its Faraday Cage badly corroded by oxide, so I used only the Faraday Cage of the Chipped one (because its laser is not working well).

| could later try the chipped motherboard with the good Laser Module to check whether the chip is stealth...

But my issue is... my current configuration is VIRGIN Mother Board, with a FreePSXBoot memory card.
I had to patch DinoCrisis because it catched FreePSXBoot as if it is a non-stealth chip.
So I know I could simply patch Spyro 3.5, in theory.

But the patcher does not accept the checksum of the Spyro 3.5 ROM for obvious reasons.

I am surprised the author did not remove that "feature".

 

[Turd Curator]

I don't know how helpful this will be because I don't have a softmodded ps1 to verify how it works but I was able to patch out the APv2 check that causes the software terminated message using APrip, then I applied the Forgotten Realms mod to that file without any issue.

Here's a link to APrip that I used

APrip: PSX Anti-Piracy Protection Bypass Generator

Software, Docs, & More!

alex-free.github.io

And a link to the Forgotten Realms mod I used, I chose v1.1.0 to test, but you probably already have that

Spyro 3.5: Return to the Forgotten Realms v1.0.0 - v1.1.0 : Hwd405 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Spyro 3.5: Return to the Forgotten Realms by Hwd405 and Jeremy ThompsonRelease versions 1.0.0 - 1.1.0

archive.org

 

[popckorn]

This might just as well be the sought for solution!!

Too bad I finished burning the last lot of CDs
But I will order more next week and try this solution ASAP.

Of course I will let you know!
How did I not think of patching the anti-chip feature Spyro 3 before applying the game mod!?

Much obliged my friend!!

 

[Turd Curator]

I'm glad I could help. Yeah definitely let me know how it goes, and if there's any issues I can look at it again.
Enjoy your game