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@NDRWhun NDRWhun released this 22 Aug 13:38
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy — single-player
Built on OpenJK with a native sceGxm rendering backend.

Thanks to the testers who played the broken builds on real hardware and reported what they
saw: BlackOp, Miso, Celtic Gaming, Cobra, Gene Parmesan, HoldenWave, midniteneon,
Og_Olibernd, Snk_knS and EchoFox. This release is as much theirs as mine.

Requires

  • PS Vita / Vita TV with HENkaku or h-encore
  • Jedi Academy game data (assets0.pk3 – assets3.pk3) from your own PC copy,
    placed in ux0:data/JAVITA/base/

Highlights

  • Multithreaded renderer — game logic, rendering and audio each on their own core
  • World geometry batched into GPU buffers, including fogged areas
  • Character draws merge across NPCs that share materials
  • Fog volumes render through the real Q3 fog pass again
  • Menu transitions show a loading screen instead of a frozen or blank frame

Frame rates are substantially higher and steadier than 0.9.1
(measured on a 500 MHz-overclocked unit; stock clocks run lower).

Fixed since 0.9.1

  • Save/checkpoint scripting broke after dying and reloading (ICARUS state survived a reload)
  • Trees and props from the previous map appearing in the next one
  • Fog ending in a hard grey edge instead of a gradient (rail, tram)
  • Sky missing on several maps
  • White or frozen frame between mission end, debrief and map load
  • Debrief menu load time cut from ~24 s to ~2.5 s
  • Decal depth-bias leaking onto the whole scene (z-shimmer after scorch marks)
  • Two out-of-bounds reads in savegame code
  • Shadows respect the in-game setting again (blob shadows on by default)

Known issues

  • Mirrors and portals draw unclipped (no user clip planes in the GXM backend)
  • Dynamic glow is unavailable

Install

  1. Install JAVITA.vpk with VitaShell
  2. Copy the four assets*.pk3 files to ux0:data/JAVITA/base/
  3. Launch — controls and tuning are in the README

Upgrading from 0.9.x: install over it; saves and settings carry over.

Source

GPLv2 — full source for this build: https://github.com/NDRWhun/JAVITA

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