pe2-pc-port v0.4.0

Needs your own Parasite Eve II (USA) discs: the game reads them at runtime (see README.md in the zip).

pe2-pc-port-v0.4.0-windows-x86.zip SHA-256: 3eba3e22ce746fb0d4d9b2e62918804bfb8e12a6a9a870d3fb1601e9e4addc5d

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

What's new in v0.4.0

Fixes

• No more crash after long sessions. Mods' HD backgrounds and textures piled up in memory until the game ran out of it after a few hours. They now stay within a budget and load again when needed.
• Movies play clean. Disc movies no longer show frames a column off, flicker a strip of the next frame, or break after you skip the previous one, and they keep the console's pace.
• HD movie mods no longer fall back to the original movie when the disc is slow.
• One-hit kills now really kill. A critical hit could overflow the damage and heal the enemy (the cafeteria Stranger in particular).

Mods

• Install mods from a .zip straight from the launcher's Mods screen. Installing an update keeps the mod on and in its place.
• Backgrounds are named by where they are on the disc, so pictures taken from another version's discs (a translation's loading screens, for example) work as extracted.
• Faster HD backgrounds. They load as soon as the game reads their file, so loading screens show the HD picture right away, and from the second start even the very first screens do.
• Tidier extract. pe2 --extract files textures and backgrounds in folders by what they are (characters, enemies, items, rooms by area and room). Mods can use any folders inside textures/ and backgrounds/.

Translations

• Fuller translation mods from translated discs. tools/import_strings.py now also brings over the translation's loading captions, redrawn in sharp HD text, and every picture it translated (maps, signs, game over and ending screens). Each shop gets its own wording, and several text fixes went in (cedilla, special characters, items that share a description).
• The Brazilian Portuguese fan translation by Gledson999 can now be turned into a mod that covers dialogue, menus, items, loading captions, maps and signs.

Reporting problems

• Crash logs name the DLL the crash happened in (a graphics driver or an overlay, say), and the log starts with the game's version.
• New issue forms for bug reports and feature requests. Please attach your pe2.log.

Only unmodified dumps of the original USA discs are supported. Translations and other changes go in as mods.

See docs/MODDING.md for making mods.

pe2-pc-port nightly

The last build of main, from 610e7b2: not a release, only built and tested by CI.

Needs your own Parasite Eve II (USA) discs: the game reads them at runtime (see README.md in the zip).

pe2-pc-port-nightly-windows-x86.zip SHA-256: 8c4cb8672613126614b79b072dcddb631d8c5dcceebd5223a9691c6911de7e4e

pe2-pc-port v0.3.0

Needs your own Parasite Eve II (USA) discs: the game reads them at runtime (see README.md in the zip).

pe2-pc-port-v0.3.0-windows-x86.zip SHA-256: 78ff684ba5b2e5d037f5c497a31efe8e77719e4eff8d66f18501ef1b85b4c9e5

What's new in 0.3.0

• Pause menu in the game's own windows: Esc (or a controller's Guide
  button) opens Resume / Options / Quit to title / Quit game, with
  confirmations. It also works on the title screen.
• Options screen: change video (resolution, 60 fps motion, texture and
  background filters, CRT look, integer scaling, full screen, HD fonts),
  audio volume, controls (tank or modern movement, quick turn, vibration)
  and cheats without leaving the game. Most apply at once; resolution and
  HD fonts after a restart. Changes are saved to pe2.toml.
• Volume setting, also in the launcher.
• The launcher now closes once the game starts.
• The pause menu's and Options' texts can be translated (the extract lists
  them in dumps/strings/pc/).

pe2-pc-port v0.2.0

Needs your own Parasite Eve II (USA) discs: the game reads them at runtime (see README.md in the zip).

pe2-pc-port-v0.2.0-windows-x86.zip SHA-256: beb91fb142dfbebc42d642bf5503c5deb2a45ee3200be8ba1494e973942d5aca

What's Changed

• List the port on recomp.fyi by @adrianopteodoro in #1
• Add more translation support, font fixes and launcher enforce dark mode by @adrianopteodoro in #2

New Contributors

• @adrianopteodoro made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

pe2-pc-port v0.1.0

Needs your own Parasite Eve II (USA) discs: the game reads them at runtime (see README.md in the zip).

pe2-pc-port-v0.1.0-windows-x86.zip SHA-256: a77c63a9c4b9bcc4c3aed11289c007c603603f87eb79eed10eb589751fa1d2cc

Full Changelog: nightly...v0.1.0