DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined (PPSA17942)

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Title

DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined (PPSA17942)

Content version tested

01.001.000

AnyPS5 commit

main 51acb79 (merge of #5828). Includes #5494, #4491, #3435, #3238 and #6033; does not include #6236. Two uncommitted local edits (DirectMemory.cpp, State.cpp, an MSAA experiment for another title); their effect on this game is unknown.

System tested

Windows 11 (build 28000.3086), RTX 5070 Ti (NVIDIA 617.14), MinGW-w64 GCC 15.2.0 (WinLibs), CMake 4.4.4

Furthest point

Reaches the main menu and the in-game area (see "What is shown").

What is shown

After the PlayGo change described under "Current blocker", the menu and the in-game area show correct text and icons. Menu: about 23 to 28 FPS. In-game area: about 10 to 15 FPS in an earlier run. Audio plays, with occasional drop-outs. Minor visual glitches, not analysed.
The opening logo/cutscene is fully black while its audio plays; a click skips it and the menu is correct.

Current blocker

1. PlayGo. The package has no playgo-chunk.dat or playgo-scenario.json, so startup aborts with "scePlayGo: sce_sys/playgo-chunk.dat and sce_sys/playgo-scenario.json are missing, so chunk ID 1 cannot be checked" (same as libScePlayGo: since #5494, High on Life (PPSA15388) aborts at startup on chunk ID 1; a setting to answer unlisted ids, fix branch ready #6205). With an empty playgo-chunkdefs.xml (no <chunk> entries) the game starts, but all UI text shows raw keys and several icons are grey; Procmon showed pakchunk1 (.pak/.ucas/.utoc) opened but never read. After adding <chunk id="1"/> to playgo-chunkdefs.xml (inside the <psproject> element), text and icons are correct. My tree predates fix(libScePlayGo): let users answer unlisted chunks #6236, so I have not tested APS5_PLAYGO_UNLISTED_CHUNKS (installed/absent) and do not know whether either is enough for this title.
2. Black opening logo/cutscene. With APS5_TRACE_VIDEODEC=1, libSceVideodec2 Decode is called with VP9 1920x1080 frames, so data reaches the decoder. Why nothing is shown is unknown.
3. Low FPS and growing RAM are not analysed yet.

How it was run

Relinked eboot with: relinker.exe --windows --windows-fixed-base 0x400000000 --sce-module-path <dir> eboot.bin app_main.exe. Run ./app_main.exe from a folder where app0 points to the game's doll and sce_sys folders. Extra file: app0/playgo-chunkdefs.xml with this content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><psproject fmt="playgo-chunk" version="1000"><chunk id="1"/></psproject>

No environment variables are needed for normal runs (only for tracing). The game language is read from /savedata0/LanguageSaveData998.dat (e.g. "fr" plus zero bytes) and a change in the in-game menu applies after a restart.