Heretic + Hexen (PPSA26525)

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Title

Heretic + Hexen (PPSA26525)

Content version tested

01.003.000 (UP1003-PPSA26525_00-MEDUSA0000000000)

AnyPS5 commit

main 69e7138 for the stop; main 84b01f9 plus the pull request linked under Current blocker for the run.

System tested

Windows 11 Home (26200), AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (NVIDIA 616.92), WinLibs GCC 15.2.0 r7, Release

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

On main the title ends 1.5 s after start, before any frame, with exit code 0xC0000409. Its log (app0/stderr.txt, where it redirects stderr) is empty; under gdb the thrown message is:

sceNgs2RackGetVoiceHandle: invalid argument

The title creates a sampler rack, a mastering rack and a one-voice reverb rack (0x2001, max_voices = 1), takes voice 0 and then asks for voice 1. The library throws instead of returning an error.

With the fix, a 90 s run with no input shows the Raven and id logos, the Heretic episode menu at 30 s and the attract demo in game at 75 s, both at 120 FPS on the window counter (3,000 frames presented at 30 s, 8,450 at 75 s). The title loads H_DARK.ogg, reports P_SetupLevel, picks up items in the demo and writes a quick save to /savedata0/saves/quick.sav. Audio and controller input were not checked. Hexen was not started.

Current blocker

None with the fix. On main: sceNgs2RackGetVoiceHandle: invalid argument at 1.5 s, same stop as STAR WARS: Dark Forces Remaster (PPSA19728, #4310), which runs the same engine. Pull request: see the reply below.

How it was run

Decrypted dump unwrapped with tools/unwrap_self.py: eboot.bin, sce_module/libc.prx, sce_module/libSceNpCppWebApi.prx and the five modules in prx/ (libcohtml.Prospero.prx, libPlayFabMultiplayer.prx, libRenoirCore.PS5.prx, MediaDecoders.Prospero.prx, party.prx). Both sce_module/ and prx/ stay beside the input, which the relinker accepts.

relinker --windows --registry source/input.elf run/app.exe

app0/ is the dump folder (the fakelib/ directory and ampr_emu.index written by the dump tool were left out). libs/ holds the built libraries and the three MinGW runtime DLLs. ANYPS5_GPU='RTX 5090' selects the discrete GPU on a machine that also has an integrated Radeon. Nothing else beyond the usage guide. tools/import_audit.py reports no absent import from the system libraries; the 37 it lists for party.prx come from the library name Party.prx and resolve when the title loads.

[JosepBove]

Pull request for the stop on main: #5916 (sceNgs2RackGetVoiceHandle returns 0x804A8305 for an index beyond the rack's voice count instead of throwing). With it the title reaches the episode menu and the in-game attract demo at 120 FPS, as described above.