Punch Glitch

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Punch glitch is a bug that is exclusively encountered on the PlayStation 3 Jak and Daxter Collection. It would seemingly change Jak's punching direction at random and would cause frustration amongst casual players and speedrunners. For this reason, many speedrunners refused to run on PS3.

Technical

During the development of the PC port for Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, it was discovered that punch glitch was occurring.

The issue is the acos in logic-target.gc. In PCSX2/PS2 it can never quite return 0.0. But on PC it does, and it causes 0/0 instead of 0/very-small-number. This is used as the input to a slerp and it ends up setting the output quaternion to 0 0 0 0. Over the next 2 frames, this completely breaks the dir-targ and unknown-quaternion00 and the target/camera rotation matrix ends up being identity. This sudden change rotates jak's velocity so it is entirely in the global x direction.

My understanding is that this should only happen when the dir-targ aligns with jak's velocity exactly. It may only be catastrophic if the camera is also aligned so that pushing forward on the stick will move jak in this direction.

I don't think the location has anything to do with it. It's possible that it only happens on ground that's perfectly level but I don't know. Instead, I think it tends to happen in places where people are lined up well with the camera and punching in/out of the camera exactly.

- Water111

The following code was added to acos in trigonometry.gc to fix the problem:

(defun acos ((arg0 float))
  "Inverse cosine. Returns rotation units"
  (let ((result (- 16384.000000 (asin arg0))))
    (#when PC_PORT
      ;; to avoid punch glitch:
      ;; (note: it might be a better fix to change the global rounding mode,
      ;;  but it's not super clear to me that the mode picked by PCSX2 is
      ;;  more accurate than normal in all cases. So, we'll do this for now.)
      (when (= result 0.0)
        (set! result 0.00000000001)
        )
      )
    result
    )
  )

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