v0.1.9 - Optimized builds and launcher fixes

What's changed

• Optimized Release builds for the game and runtime; smooth fast-forward validated in gameplay.
• Selected upstream performance improvements make expensive diagnostics opt-in.
• Play opens the BIOS picker when the BIOS is missing or invalid. Select your BIOS, then press Play again.
• The launcher remembers the selected input device, including on quit. An unavailable preferred controller falls back safely; keyboard input remains available.
• Preserved internal saves, save states, rewind, and safe save-file recovery.
• Pinned runtime and launcher forks, updated project status, and retained the AI-assisted development disclosure.

Download

Download SacredStonesRecomp-0.1.9-win64.zip, extract it, and run SacredStonesRecomp.exe at the archive root. GitHub's automatic Source code archives are not playable builds.

You must provide your own supported USA game ROM and GBA BIOS. Neither is included. Keep your existing saves folder when updating.

Validation and limitations

Built from an isolated clean clone with dependencies fetched from GitHub. All eleven runtime scenarios, four upstream native tests, and project save-file and launcher-policy tests passed. The packaged binaries also passed their isolated pre-publication checks. Gameplay, combat, fast-forward, internal saves, save states, rewind, BIOS selection, and input persistence were validated by the maintainer.

The project is playable and actively developed, not a claim of complete full-game coverage. The maintainer no longer observes the previously reported intro audio artifact in recent releases; its original cause is unconfirmed. Broader upstream launcher and CPU timing changes are deferred.