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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition superwide & multimonitor fix

Added 2021-02-20 10:29:55 +0000 UTC

Two or three days ago, I got a request for a solution for the Game Pass / Microsoft Store version of Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. I downloaded the game shortly after to see if it would share any code with Ori and the Will of the Wisps previously modded by me.

Unfortunately, the only relevant common thing was the known set of bytes of the manual solutions for the Steam and GOG versions of the game, which was absolutely insufficient for forcing the game to use the desired resolution in real time.

Familiar with the other game and the Unity engine, I still had a basic understanding of what to look for, so some hours later I had a way to manipulate the resolution, though I was not happy with the prevalence of relative offsets in the operations. It meant that a solution would not be as reliable as I like to make. Disappointed and sticking to my new rules of burnout prevention, I put the game to rest, later working on the Code Vein solution.

I still thought about Ori and even had trouble sleeping thinking about the unfinished state of my research. I kept spending a few hours every now and then up to just recently, doing a bit more digging and choosing to stick to my initial ideas for forcing the game to pull the display resolution of the user.

Unlike the Will of the Wisps, it had to involve two separate pieces of the code, and some reliance on the relative (not file) offsets was unavoidable. A future update may or may not break it, but it will also allow me to compare the old to the new and figure out a way to do better if I have to.

What we got in practice is a solution just like the one for the other game - fully automated and covering all resolutions (tested up to 32:9x3 aka 96:9 as before), not requiring the user to even know their aspect ratio, let alone convert it to hex.