AfroSamuraiRecomp v0.1.2 – Controller button prompts + keyboard and mouse

AfroSamuraiRecomp v0.1.2 – Controller button prompts + keyboard and mouse

Source-only release. The downloadable program is the setup installer. It builds
the game on your PC from your own Europe disc. No game executable and no game
files are included.

HDD installation can take a long time; SSD/NVMe recommended.

Download

afrosetup-v0.1.2.exe

SHA-256 bf5127c1a9b52324739db5cf791e2d5f7c7aa677f09c095106964cc16dd469a1

1419348 bytes.

Already on 0.1.0 or 0.1.1: run it, choose Update and pick your install folder.
Your extracted game, saves and launcher settings stay.

Improvements

Button prompts that follow your controller

• The on-screen button icons change to match the device you are using:
  PlayStation (cross, circle, square, triangle, L1/L2...), Switch
  (B/A/Y/X in Nintendo positions, ZL/ZR...), Steam Deck / Steam Controller,
  and keyboard and mouse (key caps and a mouse).
• Xbox controllers keep the game's original icons.
• They switch live, mid-game, as soon as you press a button on another device.
• Replaced so far: A, B, X, Y, LB, LT, RT and the D-pad prompt.
• The icons are original art made for this project (tools/make_glyphs.ps1).
  --afro_button_glyphs=playstation|nintendo|steam|keyboard|xbox forces a set.

Keyboard and mouse are playable

• Fixed the crash that closed the game 25 to 110 seconds after turning on
  the keyboard (heap corruption from two threads rebuilding the input device list).
• Action-game default keys: left click attack, right click second attack, Space
  jump, E kick (and menu back), Q block, R focus, Esc menu, arrows D-pad, mouse
  camera (Shift + arrows also move the camera).
• The mouse camera follows mouse speed and starts moving right away, whatever the
  game's polling rate. Sensitivity, dead zone and smoothing are sliders in the
  launcher.

Launcher

• New Control row: Auto (default: keyboard and mouse on, a controller
  takes over when it connects or is used), Controller, Keyboard.
• Advanced settings... now holds the tested options: render path, the three
  mouse sliders and Invulnerability (a checkbox, still for that launch only).
• Its Experimental... button holds the options that are not fully tested,
  with the warning: frame rate and the sepia filter.
• Labels say (default) instead of (original).

Setup

• Copies the button icons to game\glyphs.
• Applies the two new ReXGlue patches (zzzz-afro-button-glyphs,
  zzzzz-afro-input-lock) on install and on update.

Tested

• Played on the test PC: PlayStation (DualSense) and keyboard icons, switching
  between controller and keyboard mid-game; the LB, LT and D-pad icons; keyboard and
  mouse play with the mouse camera and the arrow-key D-pad.
• Switch icons were checked in the main menu with the icon set forced.
• Keyboard play ran about 6 minutes, 2.5 of them in gameplay, with no crash. Before
  the fix it crashed in 3 runs out of 3.
• Update from a 0.1.1 install to 0.1.2, run with the install.ps1 command this
  setup uses and the source unpacked from this exact afrosetup-v0.1.2.exe:
  finished in 7 minutes, applied the two new patches, copied the icons, and the
  game started.
• Clean install of 0.1.2 into a new folder with the published
  afrosetup-v0.1.2.exe, through the graphical setup: finished in 14 minutes,
  applied all nine patches, copied the icons, and the game ran correctly.
• The whole patch stack applies to a clean ReXGlue bd833a2.

Still not claimed

• RB, Start, Back and the stick-click prompts have not been found yet and keep the
  Xbox icon.
• Switch icons were checked only with the icon set forced, and Steam icons were not
  looked at in game. No real Switch or Steam Deck controller was tested.
• Keyboard icons show the default keys, not keys you rebind.
• Experimental (60) can still run cutscenes fast and drop frames.
• No install time is guaranteed on HDD, SSD, or NVMe.