Pre-Release 0.803

Pre-release v0803

Changes since v0802 (October 10, 2026).

This update focuses on smoother diorama presentation and startup feedback, with an early Android support in progress (build from source, no binary here).

Presentation

• Smooth layered background scrolling in Aitos, Northwall and Death Heim, fixing jumps and drift when the camera stops or the foreground reaches a level's edge.
• Fix gaps where diorama framing extended beyond the captured terrain, including at 4:3 and in very wide windows using Screen ratio → Auto. Refine Death Heim boss-room framing to show less floor.
• Restore the missing statue heads on Death Heim's hub platform.
• Let 3D church interiors fill widescreen displays and move the church HUD to the screen edges. Keep the original 2D artwork centered without repeating background tiles.
• Fix blue borders around 3D church scenes, including seams visible with CRT effects at 16:10 and wider aspect ratios.

Room-by-room widescreen and diorama presentation touch-ups remain ongoing.

Startup and stability

• Prepare diorama action-stage shaders at startup or when the mode is enabled, reducing pauses when entering action stages.
• Show an animated loading indicator during lengthy GPU preparation.
• Prevent gameplay from briefly fast-forwarding after a host stall.
• Log shader and pipeline compilation times to help diagnose slow startup and graphics-driver issues.

Android preview

• Add an early native Android build for arm64 devices running Android 10 or
  newer with Vulkan support.
• Add on-screen controls for gameplay and menus. They follow existing keyboard
  bindings and hide when a gamepad is connected.
• Fix effect-shader compilation failures encountered on an Adreno GPU.

Android is currently a source-build preview, with no Android target in the Builder. Use make android ROM=/path/to/your-usa-rom.sfc; see the Android guide for setup and installation. The generated APK includes your ROM and is for your own device.

Action editor and tooling

• Add editable light boxes with brightness, soft edges, and separate effects on scenery, the player and enemies. Matching brightness regions merge without applying their lighting twice where they overlap.
• Place native effect guides over their actual source regions and refresh them after edits. Preview stays focused on the region being edited.
• Support Emscripten 6.0.12 alongside 5.0.7 for action-editor builds.
• Add project metadata for recomp.fyi tracking.

For desktop installations, rebuild your game with the updated Builder. See Updating an installation.