v0.46-m45 — clear message when a disc image is refused

God Hand, recompiled to run natively on Android. You bring your own legally owned copy of the game (US version, SLUS-21503) — there is no game data in this download.

What is new

Issue #3: a player picked a disc image, pressed start, and the game never started — no picture, no message. The image was a modded one (an "Uncensor" patch), and the port had refused it, correctly: it is rebuilt from the original disc's code and checks that code before it boots. But the reason only existed in the boot log, where no player would ever see it.

Now the app says it on screen. When the game cannot start because the image is not the original release, a message explains why and what it needs — a clean dump of the original US disc (SLUS-21503) — and one OK button returns to the launcher to pick another image. The message also covers wrong-region and otherwise non-original images, and files that cannot be read as a disc image at all; any other failed start gets a plain could-not-start message that points at the boot log.

The refusal itself is unchanged: same check, same rule — only the exact original SLUS-21503 executable boots. A boot that worked in m44 works identically here and never sees the message. Everything else is the m44 build: the MediaTek (Mali GPU) black-screen fallback, the GPU name in the boot log, the three control styles, Player mode with automatic performance, the auto-dash, the proper START button, widescreen on and 1x resolution as the shipped defaults.

Honest state

Built clean and verified in the shipped artifacts, but not yet run on a real phone. The proof this release asks for: pick an image the port refuses (a modded one, say) and the message should appear within about a second of pressing play; a normal image must boot and play exactly as in m44, with no message. Reports welcome — on issue #3 if that was yours, or in a new issue with a boot log attached (Developer mode, start the game once, then Share boot log in the launcher).

Download

godhand-0.46-m45-bootmsg.zip — 35,571,469 bytes, md5 fe277d9e836fda0a9dbc903a2ab9016e. Extract the APK and install it; it installs over m44 (and m42 and the earlier builds).

Playable, still unstable, still a pre-release — busy areas still drop frames and the sound is about 80% of the way there, same as m44.

by ptraaa