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@Morten_Elgaard Greetings from the mod dev, I hope you guys had a good laugh over at IOI HQ. It took a few months of reverse engineering and programming to make this happen but it was worth it.

@turntechCatfish You can find instructions here: gist.github.com/pawREP/acc9b60…

I cracked the #DarkSouls2 network test client today. Let's see if there's anything interesting in there 🔍

@DarkSoulsII’s network test map is filled with signs that describe the function and design ideas behind various elements of the map. Very interesting stuff!

@manfightdragon It happens to the best of us

@DriftItem she died

@Abraham0Link Extracting audio has been possible for a long time, you don't have to be able to play the game for that. Check out this playlist of tracks from the network test: soundcloud.com/demons-lantern…

@DriftItem Is it possible to extract the audio from its files? Particularly, the music files have me interested.

@ZullieTheWitch It's pretty clear at this point that they have no intentions to hinder any online cheating, but hey, at least they fixed the bug where the "anti-cheat" would crash after detecting modified code, which is nice.

Oh good. I'm sure they'll finally put a stop to all the extraordinarily easy malicious hacking that the anti-cheat currently does nothing to prevent, instead of just getting really worked up over someone touching the camera functions.

@manfightdragon Oh ok, I have no idea where it is either, sorry.

@DriftItem Oh there’s a special font renderer for the debug menu that’s totally broken in the retail build of Bloodborne and I wanna disable it. I just can’t find it. Something to do with FD4Font

Looks like some key functions related to debug menu labels got stubbed. So the DSR in-game debug menu dream is dead for now. An empty box is all I got out of this research :(

@manfightdragon I'm not sure what you mean by "retn it out". You want to bypass some font rendering function to get rid of all text on screen? If that's your goal, it's probably easier to set all strings to length zero in one of the TextProcessor classes.

@DriftItem In order to get this far, did you need to retn out a sub that attempts to render the font by any chance? I'm trying to find the font renderer in Bloodborne so I can retn it out but not sure where to look.

@manfightdragon I don't, but I'll try to figure it out today.

@DriftItem Do you know where the jump is to enable the in-game debug? I know where it is in Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 (not that they work, it crashes the game)

@manfightdragon’s debug adventures inspired me to take a closer look at #DarkSoulsRemastered. After some hacking I managed to boot into debug mode. The menu currently doesn’t respond to controller inputs though. Let’s see if this can be fixed.

@manfightdragon Nice, let me know when you get it. I'd be happy to share my patch for the PC version as reference.

@DriftItem I wonder if it will work in the PS4 Network Test in this case. I haven’t got a dump of it yet but hopefully will in the near future.

@mugeca @manfightdragon yep, it's the PC version

@manfightdragon I actually used another pause menu replacement to get the debug menu. I'll figure out how to properly add it later. I'm busy with looking through the menus for now :D

@DriftItem Great work! I hope my screenshots were helpful hahahah

Dark Souls 3 secret menu

@manfightdragon I found the debug menu as well! Some options crash the game but it works fine for the most part. The travel menu has all the names and images working.

@DriftItem Oh hell YES full wrap menu with all locations unlocked! That's gonna make life a LOT better

@manfightdragon Awesome!

@manfightdragon Would you happen to have a link to the screenshot? I can't find it anymore. The possibility that the menu might be useful in the NT intrigues me!

@DriftItem If that debug tab screenshot is real, I’ll see if there’s a msg file with a string “Debug” in English or Japanese and check if it gets LEAed somewhere in the network test binary. Good place to start.