I've been following this thread for a while now and the progress on these hacks is amazing. Howard has done a great job, hopefully he'll be better soon and continue creating these awesome hacks for Outrun.
In the meantime, I noticed somewhere in this thread that BadMouth had the same thought as me:
That's some crazy stuff!
Would it be possible to make a version that loads straight to the arcade version contained in 2006, bypassing all the other menus?
This would be a really nice feature as it would make it much more like the arcade version.
So I've had a little look at this myself by hooking Cheat Engine up to Outrun 2006. Having never used Cheat Engine I ran through a few tutorials and after a while I could control the initial menu system that we are greeted with after pressing enter on the title screen.
It seems that the five menu items are a simple 0 indexed array with a length of 5 contained within a memory address:
Single Player: 0
Multiplayer: 1
Outrun 2SP: 2Rankings: 3
Options: 4
By changing the value of this memory location the menu items will change.
This is as much as I have looked at so far as I have hardly experience with Cheat Engine. I've asked a question over at the CE forums but have had no response as of yet.
I was just wondering if anyone else had an experience with CE as I'm a bit stuck at the moment. I assume that I would need to find the trigger upon entering the initial menu and then using that to fire off the trigger on menu 2 which is Outrun 2SP. I don't know if thats even possible.
Currently, I could
probably make a mod so that menu items 0 and 2 are swapped so that Outrun 2SP is the default option, which is only slightly better than what we have now.