Patapon 3

[LunaMoo]

Code:

_S UCUS-98751
_G Patapon 3
_C0 Apply infection workaround on save
_L 0xE00928E8 0x00223874
_L 0x20223874 0x0E200480
_L 0x20223878 0x8E4528E8
_L 0x20001200 0x3C060003
_L 0x20001204 0x24C6A6B4
_L 0x20001208 0x00A63020
_L 0x2000120C 0x34040028
_L 0x20001210 0xACC40000
_L 0x20001214 0x03E00008
_L 0x20001218 0x8E26000C
_C0 Apply infection workaround on save [Disable]
_L 0x20223874 0x8E4528E8
_L 0x20223878 0x8E26000C

This should be the same as the existing "fix"*, but instead of editing memory just activate the cwcheat and save the game, it injects a script that tells the game to patch the same variable right before copying savedata. After saving I would recommend restarting emulation and reloading from that save. I saw old value in your save 3 so your save got glitched at 3 lvl I guess, I got some +5 item from chest so hopefully it means it works.
Note that you don't have to use [Disable] cheat, it's there to restore original game code aka to fully disable the patch without restart, but you really should restart anyway also the patch should be safe, so there's no need to really disable it either.



*I have to add a bit more info - looking at the cheat that caused it and comparing clear savedata without corruption two things are clear to me:
- that fix never was a proper fix, normal unaffected savedata stores current level there and it get's updated so this is NOT indication of any "infection" and 0x28 is NOT what it should have(unless you're at 40 lvl), it's merely a workaround for a game which still is broken,
- the cheat which causes it was made to patch chest data that exist for a short time, however the cheat doesn't have any safety checks and the game swaps memory quite a lot, so effectively this cheat breaks a lot of stuff including some potentially important pointers;p.

I'm suprised it doesn't crash, but all the glitches are most likely a result of it and the whole "infection" thing can be explained by one or more of the broken pointers leading to other players data glitching it if the cheat was active for the person hosting the game. Honestly it might be impossible to revert all effects of such by-luck-not-crashing cheats and quite bothersome to even try since it would require to check everything such cheat affects and it incorrectly affects different stuff in different parts of the game so yeah it sucks.>.> Maybe I'll look at it again when not having anything better to do, but I really don't see any anti-cheat here the game just get's broken. It sure might not be as easy to cheat properly without changing actual code due to moving stuff in memory where data is stored, but that's normal for many PSP games since they have to survive with 24mb limit somehow.