Super Monkey Ball Deluxe PS2 updated 60 fps cheat! FMVs watchable! (Word balloons bit outta sync ;)
3Playing Story Mode stages from World 1.5 up to World 4 of "Super Monkey Ball Deluxe" (NTSC-U) with an improved version of the 60 FPS "cheat" for the game when run in the PS2 emulator PCSX2 that I came up with last session--now capable of viewing the in-game FMV movies without horrible flicker! = D
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0:00 - start
0:08 - intro movie
5:50 - Prologue movie
8:07 - Scene 1 movie
12:21 - World 1 stages 11-20 (Practice Mode)
33:20 - World 2 stages 1-10 (Story Mode)
46:19 - World 3 stages 1-10 (Story Mode)
1:06:56 - World 2 stages 11-20 (Practice Mode)
1:21:51 - World 3 stages 11-20 (Practice Mode)
1:43:40 - movie caption 30 fps test
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I got the main part of the 60 FPS cheat from a code posted by @Josh_7774 at https://gamehacking.org/game/105097 . The improvement to FMV playback comes from a code contributed by @Gabominated on the PSCSX2 forum!
Alert: The 60 fps cheat makes the "Monkey Golf" and "Monkey Tennis" party games unplayable, and results in the cartoon dialogue balloons of the in-game movies getting out of sync!
I've got the cheat's .pnach file zipped up on my game notes site at
https://paleface.net/cgi-bin/gdb/n.pl...
To use the cheat:
Extract the .pnach file from the .zip, and put the .pnach in the "cheats" folder inside your case PCSX2 directory, wherever you have that installed. Right-click the icon for your Super Monkey Ball Deluxe rip (NTSC-U version only for this particular version of the cheat) in PCSX2's game selector window, select "Properties," click "Cheats" on the menu on the right side of the game's Properties window, click "Enable Cheats" until it has a check mark next to it, then click the "60 FPS" cheat until it has a check mark next to it. The cheat is now enabled and will be in operation the next time you run the game!
I've also posted the cheat, unzipped, in the 60 FPS cheat code thread on the PCSX2 forum: https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-60-fp...
Although you can toggle the cheat off while running the game, you have to Reset the whole game before the toggle will take effect.
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The "http://www.supermonkeyball.com" address on the giant pusher in stage 3-8 U.R.L. currently results in a "Server Not Found" error. : P
I cranked PCSX2's Saturation to max to try to offset the game's slightly faded-out graphics; normally I'd increase Brightness and Contrast first, but that increases the glare from the monkey ball, which is what I had problems with in Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania from Steam.
So far, Monkey Balling hasn't made me motion sick--I'm the type who gets motion sick reading while in a car--BUT it does make me feel a little funny after a while...so I can't really play it for hours and hours in one go. = o
I sure would like to though because having save states in PCSX2 has made getting through stages that were infuriatingly difficult in Banana Mania quite fun! ^ D^
Have to keep remembering to go to Practice Mode after clearing a World in Story Mode--because Story Mode advances to the next World after clearing just 10 out of each World's 20 total stages--so Practice Mode is where you can go to clear the other 10 stages per World.
Oh hm I suppose probably Challenge Mode's 210 stages are the 200(?) Story stages w/ 10 tiny ones tacked on the front--I've only seen the first. So by the time you get to ULTIMATE w/ access to all of 'em where it probably finally DOES track time clear or at least hm well probably has a tough time limit which I dunno that I'd like exactly, you've probably played through the first ones 4 times at least. ; D
It's real weird that Banana Mania, as far as I remember, didn't have the story movies you get in this PS2 version, replacing them with rather meaningless and generic monkey threat/celebration scenes--so while you went through I think more or less the same stages--maybe slightly rearranged--you didn't get any idea of WHY you were in a giant aquatic cavern with wrecked skyscrapers, for instance, which IS fully explained in the story videos you get here in Deluxe.
The out-of-sync issue with the video captions (they're real-time generated by the game OVER the FMV videos, which...is a funky way to go ; D) caused by the 60 FPS cheat make them rather amusingly abstract, even if you can more or less tell what's going on. ; D
The Monkey Ball hero characters are super-powered gods hovering over the mortal world in their impenetrable balls! That evil doctor bad guy seems woefully underpowered in the face of 'em.
The physics-exploit racer I was thinking of was Trackmania.
9/2/24
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