Realtime mod / more realistic timescale

[wolfc]

Hi there,
so I´ve played DR2 OTR. Had real fun for about the first 2 cases or so... Had the "mission" to do my thing and she would call me if there´s something new. I was on the other side of the mall complex with 2 crippled survivors and one "normal"...she called and I had like 10 minutes Realtime to get back there *WTF*
After unsuccessfully trying to get them back in time, I just started to shoot everyone and everything up and consider the timescale both a farce and an bug or a very sadistic act of humor...

So I searched for modding tools, unpacked the datafile and started to fumble around in it, changing weapons damage/durability, easy stuff.
Even found the missions.txt duration so I just set it higher and the problem was gone... till the next case should have activated, they said "failed" even though I´ve didnt get the message.

I´ve found the DR2 trainer to set the timescale and the corresponding thread here... but not one for DR2 OTR or an introduction how to recreate it for the game.

My understanding is that it was created with CheatEngine and that it changes the amount of seconds gametime for each second realtime that passed, i.e. 1second RL passed and the game adds 12 seconds to the gametime clock.
The trainer overwrites this value with for example 2 seconds. So for ever second RL it adds only 2 seconds to the internal gameclock.

The only way imho someone found this value would be to repeatedly search for the games timescale (12 in the above example) in cheatengine till the right value(s) were found.


Question 1: Is the timescale in OTR the same as in DR2? (12 secs. if I´m correct)
Question 2: Is there some work on this already been done by anyone?
Question 3: Somebody else already tried to find out how the trainer works? or how it could be re-created?

Such an trainer would circumvent all the problems with other "more time" mods as it would affect directly the timescale thus leaving the missions.txt alone.... no need for "time travel" anymore.


I´m posting this both as an discussion thread and request mod thread to reach as many people as possible, cause I really would like to play the game again... but not with the current time "problem".

[tommah]

towards the birth of this site modders were awful about documenting their modding progress and how they did it... I'm not sure of anyone current that knows how to make the trainer, sorry I can't be of help.

[p34nk]

I also wanted to know if this can be changed like DR2 as the time mod for DR2 works wonderfully. I just dont want the story mode to end so fast is that I'm thinking. I'm sorry I cant help you too, but if I find someone who knows or maybe have the original code and information, I'll definitely post here.

[wolfc]

Thanks for the answers.
I´ll then play other games and hope a mod will correct this issue, a bit of a shame... however dead island is quite fun too and doesnt have such an time problem.

p34nk: I´ve set up an email notification for this thread, so it would be cool if someone came up with an "fix".

[Deleted]

There are no instructions on how to mod this functionality into Dead Rising, it really is an issue of using Cheat Engine, Ie. reading a Cheat Engine tutorial.

You are patching a memory address, ie. changing it's value. The tricky part is you have to find that memory address first. This is done using standard cheat engine methods.

In Dead Rising, and presumably the sequel, you must find where the games time is stored. It updates by 12, every second. Find it via standard cheat engine methods. However changing this location only allows you to stop/freeze time, not to change it's rate.

So then you must use cheat engines ability to set triggers, to literally trace the execution of the games code to find WHAT changes the time address, and find WHERE it does it. This is non trivial, and time consuming.

Once you find that, you can see the address where the timescale factor is. This is the value (default 12) that determins the rate that time progresses in the game. You can then patch/change this via standard cheat engine. And then use the trainer methods to make this.

This is a long and painful process, I really liked DR2 and was motivated enough to do the work so I could play it. I have no interest in DR2-OTR, and so no motivation to put in the time.

Sadly there is no real blueprint to follow to make this mod work, as it's mostly hard work/time required, not knowledge.

[superdemonsam1991]

but that person who made the dr2 trainer said they 'whipped up a 'quick' trainer" for the timescale... so I hope it can be developed so we could use enough time to do the uranus zone bank keys, which I want to.

[superdemonsam1991]

so please, please.