Here's a patch for Touge King The Spirits AKA High Velocity that enables full 3D pad support.
Background:
I found that the game uses a combination of digital and analog input to steer when you're using the wheel. The wheel peripheral provides both of these and works fine with the game. With the 3D pad, analog steering is incredibly weak to the point of being almost unnoticeable because it doesn't provide a digital left/right along with its analog. It seems the game uses digital left/right for absolute direction and analog to modify the steering angle or intensity of the turn.
What this patch changes:
This patch adds digital input once analog is beyond a certain threshold, roughly mimicking what the wheel does. This patch also makes it so L and R can be used to shift in manual transmission by adding digital up when L is pressed and digital down when R is pressed. Normal L,R is still preserved. Without the L,R modification you'd have to awkwardly hit up/down on the d-pad. Only the 3D pad in analog mode (type 0x10 packet size 0x06) should be affected by this patch, all other controllers should behave normally.
Use the included SegaSaturnPatcher.exe to apply the patch to the Japanese release of Touge King the Spirits.
AI, specifically Codex/ChatGPT GPT-5.5 was employed during the investigation and creation of this patch.
Background:
I found that the game uses a combination of digital and analog input to steer when you're using the wheel. The wheel peripheral provides both of these and works fine with the game. With the 3D pad, analog steering is incredibly weak to the point of being almost unnoticeable because it doesn't provide a digital left/right along with its analog. It seems the game uses digital left/right for absolute direction and analog to modify the steering angle or intensity of the turn.
What this patch changes:
This patch adds digital input once analog is beyond a certain threshold, roughly mimicking what the wheel does. This patch also makes it so L and R can be used to shift in manual transmission by adding digital up when L is pressed and digital down when R is pressed. Normal L,R is still preserved. Without the L,R modification you'd have to awkwardly hit up/down on the d-pad. Only the 3D pad in analog mode (type 0x10 packet size 0x06) should be affected by this patch, all other controllers should behave normally.
Use the included SegaSaturnPatcher.exe to apply the patch to the Japanese release of Touge King the Spirits.
AI, specifically Codex/ChatGPT GPT-5.5 was employed during the investigation and creation of this patch.
