Author Topic: a site for "patches" to viper games  (Read 8728 times)

janusmaxwell

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a site for "patches" to viper games
« on: January 02, 2007, 02:19:24 pm »
I've decided to cruise around online to find patches (like uncensored patches) to the Viper games.

today I googled 'viper ctr patch' and this was the first site to pop up.

http://nawa.sakura.ne.jp/

I go back and have google translate it.
on the left side, the translation for one part is 'Patch Database' (Its the first one under the "Support" tab)
Click on it, and there's a 120+ pages of patches with a search bar at the top
type in Viper CTR in the search bar and hit enter, (This will shut off the google translation, I don't know why)
There will be writing, and at the top will be:

UPDATE 1997/08/30 BRAND:© Sogna [関連/IA] DL:りぺあ [関連]

the characters "りぺあ" can be clicked on, do so.
you will be taken to a screen with a black backround and green letters that are links.  Click the top one.
different page, same colors (green writing on black) these are links to various viper game patches, except some are down, (like the CTR one)

However the sixth from the top leads to a file for Viper GT1 that is active.  Click on it, then find the small-ish grey box with a file link in it.

I downloaded it, opened the RAR file that I got from it....
...
...
...and that's as far as I got.

To Hyperguy, and All the other senior members who are fans of the games and have the techy know-how about these things:
Did I find something good?

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Re: a site for "patches" to viper games
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2007, 11:26:27 am »
dunno, lol

But if people on Windows 98 were having problems, this might just fix them.

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Re: a site for "patches" to viper games
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2007, 05:48:46 pm »
You found something that I thought was lost forever.  I had always hoped to find these for my forthcoming VIPER site.

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Re: a site for "patches" to viper games
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2007, 12:18:57 pm »
so I did find something good. *squee* but what do these patches do?

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Re: a site for "patches" to viper games
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2007, 09:41:20 pm »
Quite obviously, they fix minor issues with the Sogna games.  Most issues they fix are not visible to most people.
However, I'm hoping the V12 patch fixes the long-outstanding issue with the SGS engine freezing up near the beginning on Magical Gambler Totocal Chomi on 2000/XP/2003 systems  (for which I've already posted a suitable workaround).  And I highly suspect the GT1 patch corrects the locale setting in two of the director files that results in the Shift-JIS text not rendering correctly, making several phrases of text unreadable (probably Sogna's most visible bug)
I've not gotten around to trying either yet.