I’ve monumental respect (and a good quantity of adoration) for the individuals who make unofficial patches for ageing video games. With every technology of {hardware} and every new working system, we lose just a few extra video games, and these devoted people are working exhausting to maintain that quantity as little as potential.
One of those long-running replace initiatives is SilentPatch, a mixture patch for Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City and San Andreas, three video games that share an engine. It up to date once more simply yesterday, and whereas the change-log isn’t particularly large, a number of the tweaks made are fairly fascinating.
Have you ever wished to run GTA 3, VC and SA concurrently? If so… why? What potential want might you have got for such a factor? You’re clearly very unusual, however not less than SilentPatch has you lined now, because it’s resolved an outdated long-standing bug that prevented the video games from being run in parallel.
More virtually, plainly lots of timing points have been fastened throughout the shared engine. Across all three video games, enter latency for keyboard gamers is lowered by one body. San Andreas’ dancing minigame will now additionally stay synced correctly, wheras it might beforehand drift additional off from accuracy the longer a person play session went on.
Probably essentially the most baffling factor within the patch notes is in San Andreas ‘Setting a BMX on fire will not set CJ on fire anymore.’ Apparently the poor man was psychically linked to his bike. Not a behaviour I’d ever seen in sport, however I’d additionally by no means tried setting a BMX bike on fireplace, on account of it usually not being an particularly flammable automobile. You can take a look at the entire change-log, in addition to grab the latest SilentPatch here.
SilentPatch is way from the one lively traditional fan-patch challenge nonetheless working. Those hard-working followers of Myth 1 & 2 are nonetheless semi-regularly updating Project Magma so that you could nonetheless get pleasure from Bungie’s finest video games that aren’t Halo. Don’t neglect the wonderful NewDark patches for Thief 1 & 2 and System Shock 2, that are included as customary within the GOG variations of these video games, and have opened doorways to new modding prospects.
What are your favorite ongoing fan-patch initiatives? What retains you coming again to one thing fifteen or extra years outdated? Doom is a given, however maybe there’s some neighborhood there nonetheless beavering away at one thing that I haven’t considered in years.
