## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
#410
## Description of change
Forcibly minimize all windows before showing the crash dialog. Without
this, the dialog shows "behind" the game when launching multi-monitor
fullscreen games (TDJ, VM)
## Testing
Tested TDJ and VM in fullscreen.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
#345
## Description of change
Show a MessageBox when signal detects a crash.
## Testing
Tested full screen and windowed games.
## Description of change
Detect and log troubleshooter messages for:
* (early) hook DLL load failure
* data_mods folder without ifs_hook.dll
* spice version (print out current version and add a link to github
download)
## Testing
## Description of change
Finally figured out where the deadlock was coming from - it's because
the `dump_to_logger` was writing `SuperstepSound: Audio device is not
available` to the logger which calls back into the log hook, and then
emits another deferred message, trying to acquire the lock again on the
same stack.
## Testing
Tested the superstep sound failure case again.
## Description of change
Various fixes to deferred logger -
* Rename to "auto troubleshooter"
* Fix potential deadlock
* Reword the error messages to fit in a narrower column
## Testing
tested all the error cases
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
[#390 ](https://github.com/spice2x/spice2x.github.io/pull/390)
## Description of change
Just like the normal logger, deferred logging can be called from any
component at any time, so accessing the vector needs to be guarded.
## Testing
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
#388
## Description of change
Instead of setting flags in `signal` and logging when we crash, create a
class for logging deferred semi-fatal messages, and dump them to the log
immediately before crashing or shutting down.
## Testing
Tested each failure case by injection.
## Description of change
When the game library fails to load, recursively iterate its import
table to narrow down the missing library.
If the dependency is a commonly missing one, give the user a hint on
where to find it.
## Testing
System with an AMD GPU and LDJ-010 IIDX:
```
[2025/10/01 00:32:41] M:dependencies: bm2dx.dll
[2025/10/01 00:32:41] M:dependencies: |-- nvEncodeAPI64.dll
[2025/10/01 00:32:41] W:dependencies: | |-- [!] NVIDIA Graphics Driver
[2025/10/01 00:32:41] W:dependencies: | |-- For non-NVIDIA GPUs, copy the stub file from the spice2x release .zip.
[2025/10/01 00:32:41] F:libutils: DLL failed to load - this is a common error. Please carefully read ALL of the following steps for a fix:
```
Same system, but with SDVX:
```
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] M:dependencies: soundvoltex.dll
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] M:dependencies: |-- nvcuda.dll
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] W:dependencies: | |-- [!] NVIDIA Graphics Driver
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] W:dependencies: | |-- For non-NVIDIA GPUs, copy the stub file from the spice2x release .zip.
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] M:dependencies: |-- nvcuvid.dll
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] W:dependencies: | |-- [!] NVIDIA Graphics Driver
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] W:dependencies: | |-- For non-NVIDIA GPUs, copy the stub file from the spice2x release .zip.
[2025/10/01 00:33:53] F:libutils: DLL failed to load - this is a common error. Please carefully read ALL of the following steps for a fix:
```
Contrived example of a missing dependency of a dependency:
```
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] M:dependencies: bm2dx.dll
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] M:dependencies: |-- libaio.dll
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] W:dependencies: | |-- [!] The library could not be loaded. (126)
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] M:dependencies: |-- libaio-iob.dll
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] M:dependencies: | |-- libaio.dll
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] M:dependencies: |-- libaio-iob2_video.dll
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] M:dependencies: | |-- libaio.dll
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] M:dependencies: | |-- libaio-iob.dll
[2025/10/01 00:30:59] F:libutils: DLL failed to load - this is a common error. Please carefully read ALL of the following steps for a fix:
```
Another example of a missing file, but with 32-bit IIDX 24:
```
[2025/10/01 00:42:13] M:dependencies: bm2dx.dll
[2025/10/01 00:42:13] M:dependencies: |-- libafp-win32.dll
[2025/10/01 00:42:13] W:dependencies: | |-- [!] The library could not be loaded. (126)
[2025/10/01 00:42:13] M:dependencies: |-- libafputils-win32.dll
[2025/10/01 00:42:13] M:dependencies: | |-- libafp-win32.dll
[2025/10/01 00:42:13] F:libutils: DLL failed to load - this is a common error. Please carefully read ALL of the following steps for a fix:
```
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Co-authored-by: aixxe <me@aixxe.net>
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
n/a
## Description of change
Adds support for Polaris Chord
## Testing
Tested with XIF:J:A:A:2024122300. IO/ICCA works, game successfully
connects to server and is playable.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
#41 (partially)
## Description of change
This PR adds support for outputting IIDX tape LED data via spiceapi
(`iidx_tapeled_get()`). It returns the data as a `dict`, with the key
being the LED name and the value being the list of RGB values. You can
optionally pass in a variadic list of names to filter the returned data.
The new API function is only implemented in Python since I'm not able to
test the wrappers in other languages.
An example script using the new API is available in this Beef Board PR:
https://github.com/HWXLR8/beef-board/pull/133.
Demo use case: https://streamable.com/pq5e1e
## Testing
Tested in IIDX 32 with custom Beef Board firmware along with a Python
script to read and send the tape LED data over USB.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
Fixes#320
## Description of change
Replacing the existing logic that searches for game window to hook touch
on.
Eventually, we should fix all the other games that hook touch by
matching on window title with a call to `FindProcessWindowBeginsWith`.
## Testing
Tested with notepad open that was also titled `LovePlusAC`. Game hooked
correctly when the game was in focus during boot, and also when notepad
was in focus.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
n/a
## Description of change
Dump monitor resolution and refresh rate to the log on launch.
## Testing
Tested with two monitors.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
n/a
## Description of change
Log a message if d3d9.dll (and friends) are found in the game root or
the modules directory.
This is to help with troubleshooting in cases where the user is unaware
that d3d9 is being used to inject other DLLs (e.g., ifs_layeredfs), or
when DX9 reimplementation is causing issues / crashes (e.g., dxvk).
## Testing
Observed the new messages being logged in both modules / root directory.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
#304
## Description of change
Complain loudly about DLL conflicts. Show warnings for each DLL that
exists in both modules directory and the root.
This is not based on LoadLibrary hooks, just enumerating DLLs via
filesystem access.
Deliberately not using `log_fatal` since these are not necessarily going
to crash the game. Some people just love to have messy installs and if
the game booted fine before, it should continue to boot.
## Testing
Tested with/without `-modules`, with/without duplicate DLLs.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
n/a
## Description of change
For JSON config files of the following features:
* patch manager
* screen resize
* IIDX camera hook
* card manager
when saving a new file, store them in %appdata%\spice2x instead of
%appdata%.
On load:
1. If the JSON file exists in %appdata%\spice2x, use that (new path)
1. If the JSON file exists in %appdata%, continue to use that (legacy
path)
It's common for people to have mixed versions of spicetools/spice2x so
we'll continue to read from the %appdata% root if the files are there,
but with a preference for the new path. We will not forcibly move files.
spicetools.xml will continue to live in the %appdata% root. Moving this
will confuse a lot of people, so I'm avoiding this.
Also, this fixes `-patchcfgpath` and `-resizecfgpath` to create
directories as needed (previously the parent directory must have existed
first)
## Testing
Tested -
* existing config files are continued to be read from %appdata%
* new files get created in %appdata%\spice2x\... (both in spicecfg and
in overlay)
* can provide custom path for `-patchcfgpath` `-resizecfgpath` and
observe directories + file created in custom path, try absolute or local
relative paths
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
n/a
## Description of change
Adds a new option to forcibly set the full screen resolution.
Same idea as -windowscale.
## Compiling
🔺
## Testing
Seems to be showing similar results as -windowscale:
* Works GREAT for IIDX/SDVX
* popn launches at correct resolution but only draws a small image (at
native res) - can be scaled with F11 menu
* nostalgia is broken in weird ways, image is drawn correctly but bottom
`credits` text draws at wrong offset, game's wintouch logic broken
(perhaps expectedly)
## Other notes
In theory this could enable "play sdvx in landscape mode" option but the
image scaling doesn't quite work with extreme values.
## Link to GitHub Issue, if one exists
n/a
## Description of change
Adds Mahjong Fight Girl Support
## Compiling
+
## Testing
Tested with VFG:J:E:A:2024100800 in HG mode with VFG IO. No
modifications made to data, other than avs-config.xml and
ea3-config.xml. B and C modes don't work because of serial touchscreen.
UKS mode doesn't work because of IO.
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