WinBack Recompiled v0.3.0

This update adds widescreen and a Controls menu for choosing your controller layout.

You need your own ROM: WinBack - Covert Operations (USA), big-endian .z64, SHA-1 fa04477b321a95e1f7a2edcac5c09bfa6ef72041. No game data is included.

New

• Widescreen: turn it on in the recomp menu's Display screen (or in the launcher's settings). The game shows a 16:9 picture with more of the world at the sides. Objects at the sides are drawn instead of popping out of view, the laser sight stays on target, and the HUD moves to the picture's edges. Off keeps the N64's 4:3.
• Controls menu: choose a controller layout in the recomp menu.
  • PS2 Style (default): the PlayStation 2 release's layout.
  • N64 Style: the N64 controller's buttons where they sit on your pad.
  • Custom: pick what each button does, whether the right stick turns the camera or presses the C buttons, and how the game's menus confirm and go back.
• Camera turning: in PS2 Style, the right stick and LT/RT turn the view the way they point, whichever way the game's own camera option is set.
• Launcher: RecompLauncher's settings page has a Widescreen switch.

Known limitations

• Cutscenes are widened too in widescreen; keeping them at 4:3 is still to do. Split-screen hasn't been checked in widescreen.
• Later missions have had little testing. Freezes or crashes are possible.
• The launcher's Mods tab isn't available yet. Rendering uses Vulkan.

Installing

1. Extract WinBackRecompiled-v0.3.0-Windows-x64.zip anywhere you can write to. To update, extract it over your existing folder; saves and settings are kept.
2. Run WinBackRecompiled.exe and select your ROM when asked (or place it next to the exe first).

Requires 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and a GPU with Vulkan support.

If something goes wrong, please open an issue, say where it happened and attach logs/winback.log if you have one. Running WinBackRecompiled.exe --console also shows the log.