Port Casper's Scare School: Spooky Sports Day dcache hack to PAL

It's the same hack as we already have for the NTSC version, except the instruction we overwrite is at a different location.
Ben754 · Apr 30, 2019 · 25eca53 · 25eca53
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+# RX4PMT - Casper's Scare School: Spooky Sports Day
+
+[OnFrame]
+# Work around a dcache issue by preventing the game from doing something pointless.
+#
+# The game's DVD read function writes 0x87654321 to the entire read buffer and 0x12345678 to the
+# last 4 bytes. It then calls DVDReadAsync() and without waiting for the read to complete at all,
+# it checks if the last 4 bytes are still 0x12345678. If they are, then the game fails.
+#
+# The check always passes on console because DVDReadAsync() -> issueCommand() calls
+# DCInvalidateRange() (dcbi) on the read buffer.
+#
+# Dolphin cannot emulate this without an extremely significant performance hit.
+#
+# .text:80164B8C lis       r7, game_dvd_read_callback@ha
+# .text:80164B90 stw       r0, 0(r17) # write 0x12345678 to the end of the buffer
+# .text:80164B94 mr        r5, read_length # length
+# .text:80164B98 mr        r6, read_offset # offset
+# .text:80164B9C addi      r3, this, file.file_info # file_info
+# .text:80164BA0 subi      r4, r4, dvd_read_buf@l # addr
+# .text:80164BA4 addi      r7, r7, game_dvd_read_callback@l # callback
+# .text:80164BA8 li        r8, 2         # unknown
+# .text:80164BAC bl        DVDReadAsync
+#
+$Fix file reads (dcache bypass)
+0x80164b90:dword:0x60000000