Thank you for your kind words! I do not personally have any way of accepting donations, nor do I really want them. I joined this project to give back to the community, and that is what I plan to do. If you still want to donate, then I recommend considering a donation to Sega Xtreme to thank them for hosting the patch and helping keep retro SEGA alive.
While I am not entirely sure how the Japanese psx is arranged (I haven't looked at it), if it is anything like the English copy, then the documentation from this project would likely facilitate such an effort (would be happy to share what we know). That said, we do not plan on tackling the PSX version.
We are editing files from the "original" so that is the only version we can guarantee to work. If the Sakatore version works as well, please let us know.
I tested for the crash in Mednafen and Yaba Sanshiro (both stand alone and on PC). To be clear, 4-3 is the battle over the soup bowl in the game's file structure, but I tried pausing frequently throughout a playthrough of all of Area 4 and had no crashes in either emulator.
Patch is incompatible with the Satakore version right now. From the original version (v1.003) to Satakore (v1.100), six files were changed:
Knowing this, I will do my best to make the final patch version compatible with both versions!
Awesome work!!
I do not think it will be all that difficult to make a patch for Satakore as well. Mid-Late October v1.0 release still on track.
Nice! Now, I had a hard time getting the 0.73 patch to work on my Phoebe ODE -- I couldn't get it to load past the Tutorial -- but that could be that either I patched the wrong version of Silhouette Mirage, or I simply need to update the firmware on my Phoebe. Fingers crossed that I don't have to do either with patch 0.90!
I do not have a Phoebe to test unfortunately. I have heard from Phoebe users that previous versions worked, so fingers crossed.
