[SCES-53409] Sly 3 : Honor Among Thieves

[jpd002]

Last Tested On August 12, 2018 - https://github.com/jpd002/play-/commit/bbdff17 Windows 7 x64

Ingame

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Known Issues & Notes

• Game runs anywhere from 10-60fps (not 50 despite being a PAL game) ¹, the upper end in simple indoor areas areas like the tutorial and the lower end in large complex outdoor areas like Venice.
• FMVs and their audio work, run at 20-30fps.
• Visual issues
  • Translucent green [something] covers the screen a large portion of the time; bugged shadows maybe ²?
  • Almost everything seems to have a purple/pink hue. ³.
  • Health and Gadget meters have 2D rectangles extending outwards from them ⁴.
  • Missing projected cooper gang marker ⁵.
  • A number of missing particle effects.
  • Stealth aura sparkles ⁶.
  • Orange balls of laser-fire ⁶.
  • Dust/smoke clouds from impacts ⁶.
  • 'Charging' particle effect on Sly's cane when charging (triangle) ⁷.
  • Missing 3D character portraits during cutscenes ⁸.
  • Scrolling text at center top of the screen is displayed as the topmost layer, when it goes outside the bounds of the ticker box it overlays on top of everything rather than being hidden underneath. ⁹.
• BGM, SFX, and character voices work but BGM drops off shortly after you go ingame.
  • Upon loading into the tutorial area I hear the BGM for all of 2 seconds before it vanishes.
• Starting a new game works.
  • Early on into the cutscene, when Bentley is checking to make sure everyone is on the same page, the game gets stuck in endless loop.
• Loading existing save data works.
  • Same tendency to loop endlessly during cutscenes as in new game and it also hung a few times.
  • I was able to skip parts of dialogue by mashing buttons (?), AFAIK they shouldn't be skippable.
    • Skipping over parts of dialogue lets you get further before it starts looping than you would if you didn't.
    • Some dialogue still unskippable (or more difficult to skip) like the part where it loops in the new game prologue or the first mission cutscene in Venice.
    • Starting from The Hazard Room tutorial I was able to get to the first mission briefing for Venice, it loops while Bentley is telling you about the security.

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Related US version [SCUS-97464] is more or less the same except it loops a couple dialogue boxes further into the conversation.

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Screenshots & Videos

1. Doesn't adhere to the PAL 50fps limit.

2. Translucent green something or other, shadows maybe?

3. Purple/pink hue - ^{click image to view full size}.

4. Rectangles extending outwards from the HUD.

5. Missing projected cooper gang marker - Play! [left] vs. PCSX2 [right].

6. Missing particle effects ^{click image to view full size}.     i. Stealth aura sparkles, orange balls of laser-fire, and dust/smoke clouds - Play! [left] vs. PCSX2 [right].     ii. Charging cane - Play! [left] vs. PCSX2 [right].

8. Missing 3D character portraits in comm screens during cutscenes - ^{click image to view full size}.

9. Scrolling text drawn on top of everything instead of being hidden once it goes outside the bounds of ticker box.

[boberto5888]

jpd002: Moved info in the opening post! Thank you very much!!

[boberto5888]

● I was able to skip parts of dialogue by mashing buttons (?), AFAIK they shouldn't be skippable.

Not sure why I thought button mashing did anything. The dialogue skips on its own and whether or not it gets stuck in a loop seems semi-random based on when you enter the cutscene...or something.

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6. Missing particle effects - Play! [left] vs. PCSX2 [right]

i. Stealth aura sparkles, orange ball of laser-fire, dust/smoke clouds.



ii. Charging cane.

Enabling "accurate alpha test" fixes most/all issues with particles.

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8.Missing 3D character portraits in comm screens during cutscenes.

This issue was resolved with the merge of of the gif_qtemp_reset branch.

Click to view example

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Didn't mention it in the OP but I had also noticed some odd clipping/z-fighting issue. Anyway, it's corrected by the directdepth_poc branch.

Click to view example.gif

[jpd002]

Nice! Thanks for the updated info! Really insightful!