v0.5.1

Highlights

• Mouse Menus (experimental mod, off by default): hover a row of the game's own menu lists to move the cursor, click to confirm.
• The card text box in duels scrolls with the mouse wheel, PageUp / PageDown or the right stick.
• Cheats: "Unlock everything" also fills DP to the game's cap and marks the duelists as fully owned.
• Enhanced Textures: Recipe Viewer "User" and "Character" tabs redrawn; the pack is regrouped by theme.
• "Install and play" prepares the texture cache when the Enhanced Textures pack is next to the program (about 5 GB, a few minutes). TagForceRecomp.exe --prepare-textures does the same from the command line.

Fixes

• The HD opening movie no longer appears a moment late.
• Weaker PCs: texture budgets sized to the hardware, Vulkan pipelines compiled ahead of time, automatic resolution capped.
• Audio no longer stutters while an HD texture loads; the BC7 cache is warmed in the background.
• GPU fallback state after a lost device, clean exit on fatal errors, plugin hotkey clashes.
• Deck randomizers find your deck in any Tag Duel slot.

Downloads

Same four files as 0.5.0: runtime, mods, Enhanced Textures (in parts), Full (in parts). Parts of one pack are extracted into the same folder.

How to update

Extract the new runtime over the old one. If you use the Enhanced Textures pack, replace the old mods/EnhancedTextures folder with the new one (the layout changed), then start the game once so the texture cache is rebuilt.

v0.5.0

Highlights

• Four downloads (every mod and the textures start switched off).
• Enhanced Textures pack: HD menus, Deck Edit, duel screens, HD opening movie, EU card art. Cut into parts below 2 GB (GitHub's limit).
• Card style option (TCG / Anime), exclusive fullscreen, Story Duel LP mod, save states (F1 / F12), F4 frame-rate switch.
• Cheats is now built into the exe (its settings moved to cheats.ini).

Credits (Enhanced Textures)

• MikeyMK: the HD texture pack the package is built on.
• Filipe Ramos: the PT-BR texture work.
• Artknightt: the character sprites.
• Real-ESRGAN: AI upscaling of the 2x versions and the opening movie.

Fixed

• Frame interpolation flicker in sliding menus, the 3D summon cut and face-down defense cards; steadier frame pacing.
• Orange duel win screen; seams between 3D pieces at 4x/8x.
• Recovery from a lost GPU device instead of a crash.

Downloads

File	Contents
TagForceRecomp-0.5.0-win64.zip	the plain runtime: no mods, no textures (closest to the original game)
TagForceRecomp-Mods-0.5.0.zip	all behavior mods, each switched off. Copy its mods folder next to TagForceRecomp.exe
TagForceRecomp-EnhancedTextures-0.5.0-partNofM.zip	the Enhanced Textures pack. Extract all parts next to the exe, then set Textures to Enhanced on the launcher
TagForceRecomp-Full-0.5.0-partNofM.zip	everything in one set of parts. Extract all parts into the same folder; mods and textures start switched off

You need your own copy of the game (European release, ULES-00600). See the README.

v0.4.1

Changed

• Mod folders now have English names: BoosterBox, BetterDecks, BetterAI, MonstersOnField. If you have the old folders, they are renamed automatically at startup, keeping their settings and on/off state.

For mod authors

• New HelloMod template (plugins/examples/HelloMod), a list of hookable game functions (docs/HOOKS.md), a TFMOD_REQUIRE version check, and tools/test/sdk_check.sh, which freezes the plugin ABI and checks that every mod still builds and loads.

Downloads

• TagForceRecomp-0.4.1-win64.zip: the game runtime (no mods).
• TagForceRecomp-Mods-0.4.1.zip: all behavior mods (each starts switched off). Copy its mods folder next to TagForceRecomp.exe.

v0.4.0

The main download is now as close to the original game as possible: it contains no mods. All behavior mods are in a second file.

Downloads

• TagForceRecomp-0.4.0-win64.zip: the game runtime (no mods).
• TagForceRecomp-Mods-0.4.0.zip: behavior mods (Better AI, Better Decks, CPU vs CPU, Booster box, Cheats, Card Randomizer, Player/Opponent Deck Randomizer). Copy its mods folder next to TagForceRecomp.exe; every mod starts switched off, turn them on in the launcher's Mods page.

Added

• Player Deck Randomizer and Opponent Deck Randomizer: a random whole deck of the game each duel, with its own name shown at the start. Use one or both.
• Card Randomizer: decks refilled with random cards from the whole card pool.
• Fast-forward cheat (1x to 8x, music keeps its pitch).

Changed / Removed

• More compact launcher.
• MSAA removed (cost performance, barely visible).
• The game window's menu bar is gone; every setting lives in the launcher.

Fixed

• Deck Edit no longer freezes when moving a card from the Deck to the Trunk.

v0.3.3

Fixes only.

Fixes

• Audio crackling on slower PCs (new WASAPI output, adaptive audio reserve).
• 60 FPS suspension now recovers after heavy scenes.
• Steadier frame pacing.
• Faster startup from the second run on.
• Sharper app icon at all sizes and display scales.

v0.3.2

Fixed

• Fixed the public build crashing when starting Story mode from Part 1.
• Fixed the public build crashing when entering the tutorial.

v0.3.1

Highlights

• The executable now uses the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force logo as its icon.
• More stable 120 FPS pacing while exploring the map.
• Smoother audio transitions in demanding scenes.

Fixes

• Fixed the public build closing immediately on startup.
• Fixed startup when the package is extracted to a path containing accented characters.

Updating

Download the ZIP and extract it over your existing installation. Keep the jogo/ and ms0/ folders to preserve the installed game data and your save. On first launch, select your own European ISO (ULES-00600); game data is not included in the ZIP.

v0.3.0

Highlights

• Mods page in the launcher: turn mods on/off and change their priority order.
• Cheats page in the launcher; "Unlock everything" also on the F2 key.
• Window mode (windowed / fullscreen) in the launcher and in the Graphics menu.

Changed

• Smoother audio transition between areas.
• The mouse cursor hides after 3 s when a controller is on.

Fixes (120 FPS)

• Text letters appearing gray or sliding when a message changes.
• NPC head detached from the body; menu item bar bending; map character freezing when changing pose.

Requires your own copy of the game (no game data is distributed). To update, replace the folder with the new zip, keeping ms0/.

v0.2.0

Highlights

• 120 FPS option and a smoother 60 FPS for the whole session (interpolation; experimental).
• HD textures compressed to BC7 (a quarter of the memory), with disk cache and background loading.
• Title menu with Continue, New Game and Exit to Desktop; player name typed inside the game; in-game Graphics page with an Original/Enhanced texture switch (F5).
• Menus, dialog boxes and the Duel Result screen redrawn in navy/gold (Enhanced Textures pack); the HD font is now part of it.
• Cheats: Unlock everything (cards, packs and Free Duel duelists).
• One F8 (or F7 / L3+R3) report key records graphics and CPU state with a single note.
• Readable C++ rewrites (decomp/) of the title, boot, story mode, map and duel result screen; tools/tf.py plays the game by itself for tests.

Fixes

• Lines/seams on HD portrait heads and on card art at high resolution; Polymerization cards disappearing; wrong deck in Free Duel (Zane got Jaden's).
• Flicker on message changes and character entrances at 60/120 FPS; first-run stutter; a crash on the story map.

Breaking changes

• Removed the Integer scale and Texture Upscaling options (use the Enhanced pack).

Requirements / how to update

Windows 10/11 64-bit and your own copy of the European release (ULES-00600). Extract the zip anywhere and run TagForceRecomp.exe. This is still an early preview: see docs/PREVIEW.md. Full list in CHANGELOG.md.

v0.1 preview

Early preview. Windows 10/11 64-bit. Read docs/PREVIEW.md for what is tested and what is not.

How to play

1. Extract the zip anywhere (not inside Program Files).
2. Run TagForceRecomp.exe, click Select ISO... and choose your own copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force (European release, ULES-00600).
3. Click Install and play. The first run copies the game files and translates the game's code on your machine (a few minutes, only once). Afterwards just click Play.

Nothing needs to be installed. The zip (~9 MB) contains no game data and no game code.

Included behavior mods (Mods menu): Better AI, Better Decks, CPU vs CPU, Booster box, Cheats.

Third-party components in the zip (a slim LGPL-only FFmpeg build, TinyCC, embedded Python) are listed in THIRD_PARTY.md.

SHA-256: 07a194c36668010afeb49c9e5ef7bbe17977189ca2b9b850e75d03d5a227176e