MuxaJlbl4/Taz_Wanted_trainer_and_patcher

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Custom launcher, trainer and resource repacker for Taz: Wanted game

🖼 Screenshots

🍱 App Interface

👀 Enhanced Draw Distance

↔ Custom Resolution

💡 Smooth Actor Lighting

☢ Texture Filtering

📦 Resource Repacking

👻 Visible Alpha Textures

✏ Requirements

Taz: Wanted PC Game - Europe/US installed full version
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 or newer - Already preinstalled on Windows 10 (version 1903) and newer
Internet Access (Optional) - for downloading custom graphics wrappers (d3d8to9, dgVoodoo2 and DXVK) and ReadMe view
DirectX® End-User Runtime (Optional) - for some custom graphics wrappers

🔩 Patches

Select patches and click Patch & Play
Patch game button just patches files without starting game
To reset patches click Restore patches or just uncheck excess patches before applying

⌛ Launch options

Language: - Change game language:
- English - Text + Sound
- French - Text + Sound
- German - Text + Sound
- Italian - Text + Sound
- Spanish - Text + Sound
- Russian - Text only
NoCD Patch - Remove CD check during startup
No Draw Limit - Limitless world draw distance
No Warning Banner - Disable unskippable intro warning screen
Disable Logo Videos - Disable Blitz, Infogrames and WB intro logos
XInput Pause Remap - Assign Map and Pause actions to Back and Start controller buttons

📺 Video options

API: - Download and replace graphics API to custom wrapper:
- D3d8 · vanilla - Default DirectX 8.1
- D3d9 · d3d8to9 - DirectX 9 wrapper
- D3d11 · dgVoodoo2 - DirectX 11 wrapper
- Vulkan · dxvk - Vulkan wrapper
Res: - Video resolution, prefilled with system defaults
Aspect: - Aspect ratio, prefilled with calculated resolution proportions
Windowed Mode - Windowed mode with selected resolution and ratio
Voodoo Compatibility - Simplified graphics mode, incompatible with windowed mode
Point Texture Filtering - Nearest-Neighbour filtering for all textures (magnified textures only)

💲 Trainer

While game is running, use keys to activate/deactivate hacks:

☣ Cheats

F1 - Invisibility Mode - Timeless test tube effect
F2 - Burp Soda Mode - Timeless super burp soda can effect
F3 - Moon Jump Mode - Hold jump to move up
F4 - Freeze Timers & Boxes - Freeze all level timers and Whack-in-the-boxes
-/= - Change Game Speed - Decrease/Increase in-game time speed; See Settings for custom speed

🐱‍💻 Hacks

F5 - Open Debug Menu - Open developer debug menu with cool features; Choose File -> Exit to close
Num0 - Photo Mode - Free look camera without text prompts; Press Bite button to teleport Taz in camera position
Num1/3 - Save/Load Taz Position - Store/Restore current Taz position; See Settings for manual input
Num5 - Fly Mode - Toggle fly mode:
- Num4/6 - Move in X coordinates
- Num2/8 - Move in Z coordinates
- Num7/9 - Move in Y coordinates

🧩 Tweaks

F6 - Inf Draw Distance - Toggle draw distance limitations
F7 - Texture Filtering - Toggle Nearest-Neighbour/Bilinear texture filtering
F8 - Show Alpha Textures - Toggle alpha textures visibility (allows to see invisible walls)(use Show Invisible hack in debug menu as addition)
F9 - FPS Cap - Toggle FPS limit (allows to use wall clipping glitches)
- / * - Adjust - Decrease/Increase max FPS value; See Settings for manual input
F10 - Smooth Actor Lighting - Toggle smooth lighting feature for actors (unstable)

📎 Miscellaneous

F11 - No Jumps Mode - Toggle jump ability
F12 - Ball/Mouse/Taz(Ghost) - Transform Taz to Ball or Mouse; Works only on levels with Zapper object (Taz: Haunted)
Ins - Show Debug Info - Show Taz angle, position and game tick rate
Home - No Destructions - Indestructible world mode
End - Bulldozer Mode - One touch destructions mode

⚙ Settings

🗺 Game path

You can select game path manually by Browse and Apply buttons; It changes Windows registry value with Taz path

🛠 Trainer/Patcher options

Audio msg on trainer keys - Play sound on trainer key press
Auto save config on exit - Auto save app settings to Patcher.xml file on exit
In-game text messages - Show/Hide in-game trainer messages
FPS limit: - Set max FPS (Default = 20)
Max speed: - Set max in-game speed (Default = 2.0)
Saved pos: - Set saved Taz x/y/z coordinates (Default = 0/0/0)
Save app config - Save app settings to Patcher.xml file
Reset app config - Delete Patcher.xml file and restart app with default settings
Update graphic API's - Download latest graphics API wrappers to game folder (D3D9, D3D11 and Vulkan)
Kill Taz.exe (Alt+F4) - Terminate game process (hooked as Alt+F4 in game)

⛳ Shortcuts

Play - Start game
Launcher - Open native Taz: Wanted launcher
Video - Open native video setup
Audio - Open native audio setup
Controls - Open native controls setup
Explorer - Open game folder in Windows explorer
GitHub - Link to Taz: Wanted · Trainer & Patcher project

🎲 Repacking

📤 Unpacking

Make sure you have at least 1 GB free memory space if you want unpack all files
Press Unpack game resources
Choose Taz Pak files (.pc, .xpb, .ps2) in the first file dialog
Choose output folder in the second file dialog
Multiple files unpacking can take much time. It's Ok if app looks like not responding
Use specific tools for opening and editing unpacked media files (Audacity, Foobar2000+vgmstream, Bitmap/Hex editors...)

📥 Repacking

It's recommended to make backup of original Pak files
Press Repack game resources
Choose folder with unpacked resources in the first file dialog
Choose output file in the second file dialog

🎨 Modding

As an example, you can add vehicles at the level:

Unpack any .pc file with .lom file
Add objects to .lom file:

Level
{
    ...
	Object
	{
		Name = "floorpolisher"
		SPECIALTYPE = "VEHICLE"
		TYPE = "FLOORPOLISHER"

		Instance
		{
			Name = "floorpolisher00"
			PosX = 0.000
			PosY = -5050.00
			PosZ = 0.000
			RotX = 0.000
			RotY = 1.000
			RotZ = 0.000
			RotW = 0.000
			SclX = 1.000
			SclY = 1.000
			SclZ = 1.000
		}
	}
	
	Object
	{
		Name = "MOTION"
		SPECIALTYPE = "VEHICLE"
		TYPE = "ROCKETBIKE"

		Instance
		{
			Name = "MOTION00"
			PosX = 200.00
			PosY = -5050.00
			PosZ = 0.000
			RotX = 0.000
			RotY = 0.000
			RotZ = 0.000
			RotW = -1.000
			SclX = 1.000
			SclY = 1.000
			SclZ = 1.000
		}
	}
	
	Object
	{
		Name = "trolley"
		SPECIALTYPE = "VEHICLE"
		TYPE = "TROLLEY"

		Instance
		{
			Name = "trolley00"
			PosX = 0.000
			PosY = -5050.00
			PosZ = 200.00
			RotX = -0.000
			RotY = -0.500
			RotZ = 0.000
			RotW = -0.500
			SclX = 1.000
			SclY = 1.000
			SclZ = 1.000
		}
	}
    ...
}

Replace PosX/Y/Z with STARTPOSITION (or any other) values
Create folders and files (copy from other unpacked .pc files):

\objects\floorpolisher.obe - vrmuseum.pc
\objects\motion.obe - vrgrandc.pc
\objects\trolley.obe - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\cleaner.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\cleaner2.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\cleaner2a.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\cleaner3.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\cleaner3a.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\cleaner4.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\cleaner5.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\cleanera.bmp - vrmuseum.pc
\textures\trolleyhandle01.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleyhandle03.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleyhandle04.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleymesh01.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleymesh02.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleymesh03.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleywheel01.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleywheel02.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc
\textures\trolleywheel03.bmp - vrdeptstr.pc

Repack results back as original .pc file

💡 Known Issues and Solutions

Custom graphics API behavior may vary on different videoadapters and OSes: In case of possible problems: try launch game/patcher with integrated/discrete graphics in windowed/fullscreen mode or try debug (dbg) DLL version
dgVoodoo watermark can be disabled by ...\Taz Wanted\Wrappers\dgVoodoo2\dgVoodooCpl.exe (DirectX Tab -> Miscellaneous -> dgVoodoo Watermark: Uncheck -> Apply)
Levels loaded from debug menu crashes on scoreboard - make sure you have created user on 3rd save slot
Once used Smooth Actor Lighting tweak crashes game in some scenes - use with caution
Russian game version crashes in Cheats Debug Menu - use another language to avoid it
Unpacking doesn't support GameCube (.gc) files - use QuickBMS with blitz_games.bms script

📝 Notes

👍 Thanks for these cool repos:
⚠️ Be careful with storing personal files in game folder - it can be modified/deleted by patches
🏆 This app is not allowed in competitive speedrun.com runs
😎 Fell free to report any Issues and Pull Requests
⭐ Also don't forget to give me a star :) Thanks!

❤ Special Thanks to:

Milk Games, Cyclone FN and to the whole Taz: Wanted Speedrunning Discord Community

MuxaJlbl4 / Taz_Wanted_trainer_and_patcher