Alpha 0.1.4

Alpha 0.1.4: display controls, experimental ultrawide, a resizable launcher, and a wider mouse-sensitivity range. Still an alpha for testers: please report what breaks and attach logs\tenchuz.log.

Note

No game files are included. You need your own Tenchu Z for the Xbox 360, USA/Europe release (En, Fr, De, Es, It), as a disc image (.iso) made from your own disc.

New

• F6 > Display: renderer, render scale, monitor, windowed/borderless mode, menu size, and named graphics profiles shared with the launcher.
• Experimental ultrawide: expands the gameplay camera horizontally while preserving vertical framing. The original HUD keeps its proportions and can be resized or moved as a group. Titles, movie playback and scripted camera classes retain original framing; broader cutscene and culling testing is still needed.
• Resizable launcher: contents scale with window width and scroll at shorter heights.
• Output-resolution presets, including 1920x1080 (1080p), 1440p, 4K and ultrawide sizes. Selecting 1080p uses at least 2x internal rendering (2560x1440), downsampled to 1920x1080; the internal renderer still uses integer scales.
• Safe launch: starts a temporary Direct3D 12 recovery run with conservative display settings and mods/effects disabled, without overwriting the saved setup.

Changed

• Mouse sensitivity: 0.01x–100x, available in F6 > Camera > Mouse speed and the launcher. The F6 slider uses a logarithmic scale for finer adjustment. Large mouse deltas are clamped safely at high sensitivity.
• Explicit 1280x720 guest video settings now remain independent of the PC window size, fixing stretched title framing when those values matched the runtime defaults.
• Shader presets remain included. No user-installed mods are bundled. Shader presets require Direct3D 12.
• Framerate selection and the experimental 60 fps patch are unchanged. Graphics profiles and Safe launch preserve the existing frame-timing choices.

Known issues

• Vulkan on NVIDIA: the wooden walkway under the eaves in mission 1 can still appear purple or speckled red and green. This release does not fix that issue. Direct3D 12 remains the default.
• Ultrawide remains experimental. Full-game cutscenes, edge culling, mixed-DPI and multiple-monitor behavior need more testing. HUD controls move the whole overlay, not individual elements.

How to play

1. Download TenchuZ-HoloCattRecomp-0.1.4-alpha-windows.zip below and extract it to a folder you can write to (about 5 GB free needed).
2. Put your .iso in that folder and double-click Setup Tenchu Z.cmd.
3. Start Tenchu Z Launcher.cmd or tenchuz.exe. Press F6 in game for the Tenchu Z menu.

Updating from 0.1.x: extract the new ZIP into a new folder and run Setup again, or copy your extracted folder over from the old one. Back up any custom tenchuz.toml before transferring settings. Saves remain in Documents\tenchuz.

Windows may warn about an unknown publisher (the files aren't signed): More info > Run anyway.