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AfroSamuraiRecomp v0.2.1 – Key bindings and loading screens

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AfroSamuraiRecomp v0.2.1 – Controls and loading screens

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-v0.2.1.exe

SHA-256 ea941b8bbca7561b9e09111ece003d49a20ae3ee53fe26b2f39b327599a899ed

1845049 bytes.

Already on 0.1.x or 0.2.0: run it, choose Update and pick your install folder.
Your extracted game, saves and launcher settings stay. Update now rebuilds only
what changed.

Fixes

  • Fresh installs work again. Microsoft's newest compiler libraries (MSVC 14.52)
    refuse the setup's Clang 20, so a new 0.2.0 install stopped at the game build.
    The setup now uses MSVC 14.51 and Windows SDK 28000. An install that already got
    14.52 is repaired the next time you run the setup.
  • Switching between keyboard and controller no longer leaves the mouse cursor on
    screen.

Improvements

Controls

  • New Controls tab in Settings: control mode, mouse sliders and Key bindings....
  • Every keyboard and mouse action can be rebound. A key already in use moves to the
    action you changed. The keyboard icons in game show your keys.
  • The same window remaps controllers, one layout per family: Xbox, generic pads
    and Steam Deck    , PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Buttons are named as
    printed on each pad, and the icons in game follow the remap.
  • Action names follow the original manual (Light/Heavy attack, Guard, Overfocus,
    Dash, Center camera, Pause, Skill menu).

Gameplay

  • Difficulty: Normal (default) or Game Journalist, where you can't die.
    It is saved like the other settings.
  • Loading screens: the lore shown while a level loads plays in full again, as
    on the Xbox 360 (on PC the level loads in about a second and the story was cut).
    Once the level is loaded the screen reads Press any button to continue, and
    any button skips it; otherwise it goes on by itself when the story ends. Fast
    restores the old behaviour.

Display

  • Borderless fullscreen (default, as before), Window or Exclusive
    fullscreen    .

RecompLauncher

  • Afro Samurai can be played from RecompLauncher.
    Installing it there runs this setup. Its settings (language, display, resolution,
    frame rate, VSync, difficulty, loading screens, controls, mouse) show in
    RecompLauncher, and it backs up your saves. Started from RecompLauncher, the
    game's own launcher window stays closed (hold Shift to open it).

Tested

  • Fresh install into an empty folder with this setup (11 min): MSVC 14.51, the game
    built and started; a RecompLauncher-style start (no arguments) found the game data
    and skipped the launcher window.
  • Repair of a fresh 0.2.0 install that had stopped at the game build (MSVC 14.52):
    the setup swapped in 14.51 and the game built.
  • Played on one PC: key bindings and controller remapping (keyboard, Xbox
    pad), Difficulty (Game Journalist), Exclusive fullscreen, the cursor when switching
    between keyboard and controller, and the loading screens of Justice (full pass,
    44 s) and Okiku at the start of the Daimyo level (39 s), with and without a button.
  • The whole patch stack applies to a clean ReXGlue bd833a2.

Still not claimed

  • At 60, scenes that show two camera views at once can still drop below 60.
  • The "Afro!" voice on the loading screen's eyes starts slightly cut (as before).
  • Only the Justice and Okiku loading stories were checked one by one; others follow
    the same two rules.
  • No install time is guaranteed on HDD, SSD, or NVMe.
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