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Haunting Ground Recomp 0.1 (test release)

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@N900x4 N900x4 released this 27 Oct 21:37
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The first public test build of a native Windows and Linux version of Haunting Ground (PS2, North American release, SLUS-21075). The game's program is statically recompiled to C and compiled on your PC from your own disc; a hand-written runtime stands in for the PS2 hardware. It is not an emulator and it does not use PCSX2 code.

No game code is in this download. You need your own copy of the game, dumped to a plain .iso. The launcher checks your disc image, copies the files the game needs, and builds the game on your PC with the compiler included in the download (about a minute on a fast PC). Nothing needs to be installed and nothing is downloaded.

HD textures are included. The textures folder holds high-resolution versions of the game's own textures (Capcom's artwork), upscaled with AI models; they are used only together with your own disc. Delete the folder, or set HD textures to Off in the Options menu, to play with the original textures. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Capcom or Sony.

What is in 0.1

  • Windows: unzip, double-click HauntingGround.exe, choose the .iso, play. Linux (64-bit, glibc 2.34 or later: Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora, Debian 12, Arch, SteamOS desktop mode): unpack, run HauntingGround.sh, choose the .iso; needs python3 and SDL2 (installed on most desktops). The first start builds the game; later starts go straight to it.
  • GPU renderer (Vulkan), pixel-identical to the project's reference software renderer at native resolution; upscaling up to x6 (x5 is about 4K); 60 fps by frame interpolation (120 at native resolution); software renderer as a fallback.
  • HD textures for the stages, the characters and the menus (BC7-compressed: a quarter of the video memory of plain images), with an HD textures On/Off row in the Options menu.
  • Settings inside the game's own Options menu (Down past Screen Position): renderer, resolution, frame rate, display, V-Sync, HD textures, keyboard and controller remapping, vibration strength, light bar colour. Saved in hg.ini.
  • Native DualSense, DualShock 4 and Xbox controller support (USB and Bluetooth), with the game's vibration.
  • Sound and cutscenes in sync: the sound processor keeps the console's own timing.
  • Saving and loading on a memory card folder (memcards/port0), verified at the first save point.
  • Every session's input is recorded, so bugs can be replayed exactly.

Requirements

  • Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit; or Linux, 64-bit (see above). A Vulkan GPU is recommended.
  • Your own Haunting Ground disc, North American release (SLUS-21075), dumped to .iso. Other regions are not supported yet.
  • About 6 GB of free disk space (most of it the HD textures and the game files copied from your disc).

This is a test release

Tested in depth: the opening, the castle grounds, the first castle rooms and the first meeting with Debilitas, on one PC (Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5090; Windows 11 and CachyOS Linux). We are looking for playtesters: how far can you get, and what goes wrong on your hardware? Known issues: docs/known-issues.md.

Reporting bugs: open an issue with what happened, your PC (Windows version or Linux distribution, CPU, GPU), and logs/play.log, logs/launcher.log and, if you can, the newest recordings/.../pad.txt from the game folder. Never attach anything from game, bin, textures or crashes, or your disc image. Details: docs/release/crash-reports.md.

Downloads

File For Size SHA-256
HauntingGround-Recomp-0.1-win64.zip Windows 1,574.6 MB 285bcfa7d74ffd3490ed8ed04edbaad878d1a1751ea77b6685fe6ebdf1ff940a
HauntingGround-Recomp-0.1-linux-x64.tar.gz Linux 1,633.7 MB 778902f977cddabab9a97f82d0bdc554576095d77e5481e570acec9b69a8534b
HauntingGround-Recomp-0.1-compiler-sources-win64.tar Source of the compiler in the Windows zip (not needed to play) 334.6 MB dabe5331537fb6838f0ad90c8496c999a05e770ed60adf1eec71335c429498d4
HauntingGround-Recomp-0.1-compiler-sources-linux-x64.tar Source of the compiler in the Linux archive (not needed to play) 263.1 MB 2f01eba0da4814dc08564a3eb1c1223f4b4f4b5f68865ead09da8d2a740ae698

The Windows zip bundles unmodified GCC, binutils, MinGW-w64, SDL2 and Vulkan loader binaries from MSYS2 and Python from python.org; the Linux archive a GCC toolchain from Bootlin and the SDL2 and Vulkan headers. Each keeps its own licence (THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt in the download); the source code of the bundled compilers (GPL and LGPL) is attached here as the two compiler-sources files. The project itself is GPL-3.0; its source is this repository at the tagged commit, and a copy of the sources the build uses is inside each download (engine/src). The HD textures are not covered by the project's licence (see above).

Windows may warn that HauntingGround.exe is from an unknown publisher (it is not code-signed): "More info", then "Run anyway".

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