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Kingpin: Life of CrimeA small widescreen patch(23 posts)(23 posts)
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Posted October 26, 2010
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I decided to play a bit of Kingpin but my resolution (1920x1080) wasn't supported by the ingame menu. Using the instructions from the other thread i figured out where the resolution is coded in the game's executable. Instead of hardcoding them myself (and because i might want to play using another resolution at some point in the future) i decided to write a small utility that patches the game's executable without a need for a hex editor, etc.

You can download the utility from here (35kb - ) ([url=https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=318FA6AECDF203A5!1309&authkey=!AFKlcQD6LMScqIY&ithint=file%2c.exe]mirror). Just use the "..." button to locate your kingpin.exe file, put the desired resolution in the two boxes below and press Patch. Then from within the game select the 1600x1200 resolution (instead of 1600x1200 the game will use the resolution you specified).

For details on the method see this thread. It is basically the same, except that by using this patch you don't need to fiddle with a hex editor :-).

EDIT: well now that i think about it, it isn't only a widescreen patch but you can use other resolutions too :-P

EDIT2: i saw that Vagabond's 1st mirror deleted the file from all the servers. So again just in case i added it to my Mediafire account. The URL above still works, but i've added way too much stuff in there and it might be temporarily disabled due to outgoing bandwidth at some points.

EDIT3: pff, dropbox disabled outgoing URLs from my account. I replaced the main link with the Mediafire one and added a mirror in OneDrive.
Post edited June 22, 2014 by badsector
Posted October 29, 2010
Man, you are wonderful!!! Thank you so much!
Posted October 31, 2010
Fantastic! I've mirrored it just in case.

Re-uploaded on August 7, 2014.

Re-re-uploaded on July 12, 2015.
Post edited July 12, 2015 by Vagabond
Posted November 10, 2010
I've just bought the game and will definitely use this when I install it, thanks! I take it this patch works with Windows 7 x64?
Posted November 10, 2010
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the_voivod: I've just bought the game and will definitely use this when I install it, thanks! I take it this patch works with Windows 7 x64?
Yep. Works fine.
Posted November 10, 2010
Hi, is this the good kind of widescreen, i.e. is it hor+? Thanks. :)
Posted December 16, 2010
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blsessex: Hi, is this the good kind of widescreen, i.e. is it hor+? Thanks. :)
Unfortunately, I think it is "Ver-". However, it looks ok (probably the game had a big FOV by default so it doesn't look as "narrowsighted" as other Ver- games). The only issue i noticed was that in cutscenes the camera target is a bit off.
Posted June 09, 2011
I've updated my mirrors! Check my initial post in this thread.
Posted June 30, 2011
Hey good job mate.. I saw the other thread too but didn't want to get my hands dirty and searched for a patch and here it is! Well done :)

You should submit this to the widescreengamingforum
Posted August 13, 2011
hello, i have an absolutely preposterous proposal for allowing expanded FOV in Kingpin.

1. Q2 source is available. Years ago, I modified the Q2 source to make an *.exe that didn't cause the gun to disappear at FOV>90. It expanded this value to FOV>179, I think.
2. There are hex editors that compare two files and identify the differences.
3. If someone could compare my quake2.exe with an unmodified quake.exe compiled directly from the source, they could probably find hex data that needs to be changed to allow FOV>90. (Of course, if anyone has the time to compile the source themselves, they might as well make their own modified exe.)
4. After identifying this data in the quake2.exe, it should be easy to find it in the kingpin file as well.

A note if you're going to try this--be sure to use visual c++ 6.0 to compile. Newer versions won't work. Also, be sure to compare to a freshly-compiled exe, because the source actually contains changes that were never released in a patch.

The reasons I'm not doing this myself are that Visual C++ 6.0 won't run under Windows 7 and that I don't even own Kingpin.
Posted February 13, 2012
The patch worked when I used the exe the gog installer places on the desktop, but when I select the resolution of my screen, its so zoomed in that I only see like 1 tenth of the screen and I can't even read any of the stuff written on the menu. :(
Post edited February 13, 2012 by isyankar
Posted December 13, 2013
Causes SecuRom to have a hissy fit on the GameFly Unlimited PC Play version.
Posted January 10, 2014
There is another widescreen patch for KP by Captain Death that works for all versions of Kingpin except the Steam version.
It also includes some other fixes and tweaks. Check the link below for a complete list of what the patch does.

http://www.captaindeath.com/kingpin/utilities/multipatch3.aspx

There is also another patch made by Monkey Harris that includes custom screen resolutions plus heaps of other tweaks and fixes.

The Monkey Harris patch works for all versions of Kingpin.

More details and download from here:-

http://www.gamefront.com/games/kingpin/downloads/monkey-harriss-kingpin-patch-ver2
Post edited March 06, 2018 by MrDamage
Posted February 13, 2014
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MrDamage: There is another widescreen patch for KP that works for the gog and steam versions of KP.
For the gog version it also includes some other fixes as well. Just check the readme.

http://downloads.kingpinforever.com/Kingpin_Multi_Patch.rar
I have checked this patch on virustotal.com.
Seven (of 50) antivirus engines detected or at least suspected a virus.
Posted December 10, 2014
Doesn't work. Also broke my game. Kingpin failed to start (error code 51)
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