v0.5.1

The launcher

• The launcher updates itself. When a new release is out it can download and install it from inside the app.
• One button from a set-up disc to the game. Once a disc is set up, a single button takes you the rest of the way.

The game

• Cutscenes. In-game cutscenes start, and chained cutscenes play back to back.
• Ratchet no longer freezes after the wrench throw, and a thrown wrench leaves his hand.
• Translucent and glowing objects blend properly, including the nanotech cluster's sphere, halo and glass sheen.
• Particles take their textures from the level's own table, so they no longer show the wrong picture.
• The flight between planets shows the planet and the moving stars.
• No flash when the pause menu closes, and its picture fills the 60 Hz frame.

For contributors

• The European decompilation was synced again, and hostgen copes with attribute macros and local externs in stack frames.

The installers are built by the launcher workflow and are not signed for Windows or macOS.

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The game

• Cutscenes play. In-game cutscenes never started, so story triggers did nothing. They now start by walking up to them, and scenes that lead into each other play back to back. The end of Veldin goes from finding Clank, through the scenes and movies, straight into Novalis.
• The wrench works. A thrown wrench leaves Ratchet's hand, and he no longer stays frozen in the throwing pose after it comes back.
• Explosions look right. The bomb glove's blasts and enemy deaths were solid balls with white squares for smoke. The fireballs and flashes are now see-through, and the smoke uses its real textures.
• Nanotech has its glowing sphere, halo and glass sheen.
• Travelling between planets shows the destination planet at the end, and the stars drift past at different speeds.
• Pause menu: no black band at the bottom, and no screen flash when it closes.
• Smoother running. Text no longer caused frame drops while moving around.

The launcher

• One button from your disc to the game. It builds the game if needed, reads and checks the levels, then starts playing. Play also rebuilds first wherever the game can be built, so it never starts an old build.
• Updates itself from inside the app.

For contributors

• The latest rac1-decomp is synced in: the to-90 and to-95 rounds and two contributed waves of matches, functional C repairs, the behave check, and tools that run natively on Windows.
• hostgen counts a folded function's calls together with its split variants, handles attribute macros, and routes the engine's scene and movie hooks to the loaded level.

The installers are built by the launcher workflow and are not signed.