[THPS3] PARTYMOD

[PARTY MAN X]

Happy 21st birthday to THPS3!  To celebrate, I've put together a mod that fixes up a number of issues in its PC port.  Okay, maybe not necessarily just for the occasion, its more that I've wanted to spend more time with the game (and speedrunners have long since complained about how hard the game is to run) but using joytokey and/or other hacks to make the game reasonably playable was frustrating. 

Download (Installation instructions are available in the included readme):
https://github.com/PARTYMANX/partymod-thps3/releases/tag/1.0

As of 1.0, the mod does the following:

• Replaced input system entirely with new, modern system using the SDL2 library
• Movement stick now controls menus
• Improved cursor handling, no longer moving the cursor and only showing it when relevant
• Improved window handling allowing for custom resolutions and configurable windowing
• Fixed aspect ratio to be based on window dimensions (previously it was based on the PS2 framebuffer at 10:7/640x448)
• The game no longer opens the game's launcher when run directly
• Replaced configuration files with new INI-based system (see partymod.ini)
• Custom configurator program to handle new configuration files
• Fixed ledge warp bug where the skater is teleported down farther than intended
• Fixed visually missing geometry in various areas (notably, the airport entrance and destructable wall in Skater Island)

Shoutout to gone for creating the ClownJob'd series of mods that inspired this one. 

The source is available in the github repository here:
https://github.com/PARTYMANX/partymod-thps3

[charkleybarles]

Made an account just to say thanks for this. Been 100%ing the game with this, works pretty much flawlessly. Only issue I could find was that the Goals List doesn't work during runs.

[TuF]

I recently found out about your party mods through Reddit and I'm pretty hyped since THPS3 and 4 didn't allow me to set the controls exactly like they were on PS2 (buttons couldn't be mapped twice for example like for reverts and spine transfers). I wanted to replay those last year on my laptop on my breaks at work but this was a major turn-off. So within a discussion on Reddit about this he would let me know.

By reading the GitHub description, it says the mod is made for the English version. Not that I have any problems with English but I'm totally nostalgia driven and I wanted to replay both games in German (THPS3 even had a German dub). I guess it will fail installing it over the German versions so my question is: Is there any chance this will work after maybe swapping out audio files and those containing text after patching? Or will there be a patch for different versions someday maybe? Anyway, thank you so much for these major improvement mods.

Best,
TuF