H-Bomb resolution on sig3?

No, I don't think it provides any specific dlls for H-Bomb. I think it just overwrites the good ones with garbage (SH4) ones, so you have to be careful.

As far as the error you're getting, you need wceloadext or you will need to modify the DLLs from SA1110 (hex 11 0A) to XScale (hex 20 07).

Edit: maybe not SH4 ones, maybe just....not good ones. I dunno. But when I let it overwrite the DLLs on my sig it didn't work. But when I didn't let it overwrite them it worked fine.

Edit2: Sorry, I just realized I didn't actually answer your question. I used the one marked "thumb" and it installed fine.



Edited by thenzero 2023-09-09 11:21 PM

Perfect! Okay, that makes sense.
lol....this sounds like it'll be fun to fix in the SCL.
Off topic question then...in your experience, non-scientifically?

How much percentage of programs you've used require a dll modification, vs just extracting the cab and running manually from the folder?
^If it's the latter, we could always have a list of the programs we use the most, and I could one-day generate new cabs that would install on the Sigmarion III...

^If that makes sense. Sometimes I'm a little dense .

No I'm with you. It's hard for me to even give a WAG for that because when I first got the sig I was hex editing cabs left and right (I haven't extracted any, btw), but since I got wceloadext I have installed tons of stuff without paying attention to it anymore.

p.s. I'm not crazy about the idea of filling up the SCL with cabs for the sig3 apart from ones that were specifically made for it by the authors, since the community has already reckoned with that problem and come up with the wceloadext solution. Just my $0.02.

If you are still interested in adding those features, over the weekend I compiled the code I have to modify window styles for eVB and packed them up in a (hopefully ) easy to use module: Module to Modify eVB Window Styles.



Just out of curiosity, would you be able to post what the exact error message was?
Most of the weirdness I have encountered with eVB can be traced back to the CommandBar control, it appears to be very buggy. I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with that, since one of the first things H-Bomb appears to do is set that up.

While developing Telephone Alphabet, there were times where I couldn't get the application to start at all, and it would crash the entire runtime (it was not something you could catch from eVB). Often, shuffling the CommandBar initialization code around would solve it, even though under normal conditions the order of execution of those statements shouldn't matter at all.

No worries, I understand now. I'll just use wceloadext like you suggested. BUT going forward, we need to make sure any cabs we generate work on the Sig3 - i.e. projects, open source re-compile - etc


Okay, I did some research and figured out I didn't copy the required .bmp file dependencies to the same folder as H-Bomb
With that in mind, here's my test data
Version 1.3 Official in SCL,
I get
x86 it says "Application Error - Application pvbload.exe has encountered a serious error and must shut down.

Now, I tried 1.3 in the last post by thenzero
I still get that error BUT check the screenshot, we actually start to see a window!


Works great on my Sigmarion thank you





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Awesome!

Totally agreed about generating the cabs for the sig for future stuff.