535507D4 - Raiden Fighters Aces

[BPzeBanshee]

Validation

• I've read the FAQ.
• The Xenia build used is from a canary branch. (not MLBS/AlexVS/master/pull requests, etc)
• This issue isn't for help (tech support) with Xenia, or a game.
• I've checked if this game doesn't already have a compatibility report.

Xbox 360 Marketplace link

https://marketplace.xbox.com/ja-jp/Product/RAIDEN-FIGHTERS-ACES/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802535507d4

Xenia version

xenia-canary/xenia-canary@6bc3191

Issues

For reference, US version reported here on xenia-master: xenia-project#1783
Aside from a bugfix TU for the Japanese release and some replaced publisher splash screens I'm not aware of any differences between regions but as the title ID is different I thought it'd be worth mentioning.

Similar to that report, the ingame graphics are broken, scrolling in wrong directions and occasional glitched sprites. The player ship can only move up and to the right. This being said, there is improved behaviour compared to master, most noticeably the ship select screens in RF1 and 2 are now visually correct.
Left on it's own, eventually the game freezes in at least Raiden Fighters and Raiden Fighters 2. JET crashes immediately after the name entry screen and triggers an emulator message.
Audio eventually halts completely, more likely to halt when intro splash screens aren't skipped.

I've uploaded two logs, one of a run of Raiden Fighters (Xenia - Copy.zip) and one of the Raiden Fighters JET run that triggered the emulator message (xenia_rfjet.zip). The logs mention unimplemented instructions InstrEmit_addex, InstrEmit_rldicx and InstrEmit_negx.

Log

xenia - Copy.zip
xenia_rfjet.zip

Screenshots

Labels

apu-silent, cpu-unimplemented-instruction, gpu-drawing-corrupt, state-menus

[BPzeBanshee]

Can confirm that the above mentioned CPU and visual-specific glitches have been solved as of xenia-canary/xenia-canary@335a390, tested using latest build xenia-canary/xenia-canary@c1d3e35. Thank you to all involved! :)

The game does still suffer from music/sound crashing after random amounts of time, spiking CPU usage to 100% - I'm told this is apparently a known bug across all games in Xenia at present. I'll also note that at least for me, the game does not seem to save progress or configuration settings. Probably also not specific to this game, and compared to what's been resolved I wouldn't call it gamebreaking either.

[giammarcog]

Hello everyone,

I've just tried Raiden Fighters Aces with the latest Canary Build and I've noticed some improvements regarding audio issues: on first Raiden Fighters audio crashed only on Game Over screen after losing all credits!
RF2 and RF Jet still suffer audio diseappering almost immediately after ship selection but I think new XMA decoder is on the right path, really looking forward to further improvements :D

[BPzeBanshee]

From my experience, the audio's still real hit and miss.

If I don't put any input in until "Press Start Button" appears the audio's usually already soft-crashed. If I'm quick and spam Start/A to get in game I can usually get into half of the first stage but it'll always eventually stop. AFAIK new XMA decoder's on a separate branch from main canary, and last alpha of it I tried made no difference.

[Sowa95]

Tested on: xenia-project/xenia@7003e54

xenia.zip

• game speed tied to FPS, don't disable vsync.

Screenshot

backwards-compatibility-unsupported | state-gameplay | vsync-off-speedup