T5DR Online 1.1.4

Jinpachi and Random in casual matches, Start skips the intros and replays online, a chime when a match is found, the game's own rank plates, and a faster game. Both players need 1.1.4
(the lobby pairs equal game builds, and 1.1.4 changes the game: the skips, Jinpachi and Random online, a stricter
costume check, and ps3recomp patches 0066, 0067 and 0069). The launcher offers the update itself; after it, press
BUILD GAME once (the first build takes about 25 s longer than before). Jinpachi in casual matches, the protection
of password rooms, the spectator limits and Watch between a match and its rematch need the lobby server updated;
older launchers keep working with it.

Online

• Jinpachi and Random in casual matches. In quick matches, rooms and friend invites the character select now has
  Jinpachi (top row, right end) and the game's random cell (top row, left end), for both players -- no Arcade
  clearing needed. Ranked matches and tournament sets stay without them, as before.
• Mokujin and the random cell draw anew in every match. In a rematch Mokujin used to copy the same fighter as in
  the match before (and every match of the session the same one). Now every match draws again, the same on both PCs
  and in the replay. Replays from 1.1.3 play back as they were recorded.
• Skip the intros and the replay after a round: both players press Start. Online they always played to the end:
  the fighters' intros (about 7 s) and the replay after every round (about 9 s). Now the intros before round 1, and
  after a round its slow motion, replay and the way to the next round, are skipped as soon as both players have
  pressed Start during them (not at the same moment). One player alone skips nothing, and Start still never pauses
  an online fight. Both games skip on the same frame; replays and spectators show the skips as they happened.
  Offline nothing changes.
• A chime and a flashing taskbar button when the launcher has something for you: a match found and waiting for
  your Accept, someone joins your room, your turn in a room, a friend's invite, your tournament set ready, your
  opponent asks for a rematch. A short chime (two soft bell tones, made by the launcher itself), and the taskbar
  button flashes until you come back; only when you are not looking at the Online tab, once for each of these.
  Settings -> Sound and taskbar flash when a match is found or someone joins my room switches it off.
• Smoother matches through a relay server. When two PCs cannot connect directly, the launcher passes the game's
  packets on to the relay. On a busy PC they waited for Windows to run the launcher (6 ms more round trip typically,
  up to 26 ms in our test) and arrived late and in bunches: deeper rollbacks and more hitches than the ping explains.
  Now the launcher forwards them the moment they arrive (0.2 ms typically, under 2 ms at worst). Tested at 60/120/200
  ms ping with loss and jitter: relayed matches play like direct ones at the same ping, every match in sync.
• A room stays watchable between a match and its rematch. The Rooms list used to take Watch away as soon as a
  match ended, although the spectators already watching went on into the rematch. Now the room keeps Watch in that
  pause: you join those spectators, from the session's start as always. Only when both players allow spectators;
  switching it off in the pause stops the spectators at once.

Speed

• Faster game code, the same game. The PS3's registers now stay in the PC's registers between calls instead of
  going to memory and back. On 4 cores under load the main thread needs ~7 % less CPU per frame and the drawing
  thread ~18 % less (pool stage and stage 20: +3 to +13 % fps on a busy PC). Old and new builds played each other
  online frame for frame in sync.
• Cheaper memory writes in the game code. The check whether a helper processor of the PS3 watches the spot a write
  goes to is now one quick look instead of a detour: 5-7 % less CPU per frame on the main thread, 15-25 % less on the
  drawing thread, a frame's critical path 5-8 % shorter. More room for a locked 60 fps on 4-core laptops.
• Weak PCs: the frame goes to the graphics card beside the game's next frame. On a 4-core PC slowed to 40-50 fps a
  late frame comes about 1 ms sooner (pool stage: median frame 24.6 -> 23.5 ms; stage 20: 20.1 -> 19.1 ms) and 3-26 %
  fewer frames are slow; a PC that already runs at 60 only gains headroom. RSX_XLAT_OVERLAP=0 (Extra settings)
  turns it off. Details of all three: docs/RENDER_PERF.md.

Launcher

• The game's own rank plates. Next to every name on the Online tab (players, leaderboard, friends, your card, the
  found match, the result, profiles) the launcher shows the rank plate Tekken 5 DR itself uses: Beginner, 9th kyu ...
  Shihan ... Lone Wolf ... Tekken Lord. The plates are not in the download: after BUILD GAME the launcher reads them
  once from your own unpacked game (about a second, in the background) and keeps them in native\cache\ranks; until
  then it shows a tag in the plate's colour with the rank's name. The two highest ranks are now called Tekken Lord
  (Kouryu) and Tekken Lord (Kirin) (were Kouryu and Kirin). Ranks and ratings are unchanged.
• Smoother window. Resizing redrew the Online tab in about 0.34 s per step (Build tab 0.12 s); now about 0.14 s
  (Build 0.07 s). The Online tab opens the first time in 0.3 s instead of 0.7 s, the window is up in about 1 s
  instead of 1.5 s from the second start on, and the first-start search for the game's files no longer freezes it.
• Lists that stay put. The player, room, friend and leaderboard lists change only the rows that changed: no more
  jumping back to the top while you scroll, no flickering selection on every lobby update.
• Clearer Online tab. Empty lists say what to do (nobody online, no rooms, no ranked results yet); with the plates
  the RANK column only says what the plate does not (a placement, a provisional rank); a long status line ends in
  "..." instead of running under the output folder. All new texts are in the launcher's six other languages.

Settings

• Integrated graphics get Internal resolution Auto by default. On a PC whose game runs on built-in graphics
  (laptops, mini PCs, handhelds; the launcher knows from the last game's log) the default is now Auto: the step of
  your screen, at most 1080p. A step you chose yourself stays; if it is larger than Auto's, Settings and the Play
  offline tab say so in orange. A busy built-in GPU also slows the processor (one power budget): a player's 780M mini
  PC at 4K had its GPU busy 61 % of the time and its processor at 81 % of its clock, with 6-10 % late frames.
• "Your processor ran at 2.26 GHz (81 % of its normal speed)". When fights had late frames and the processor ran
  well under its normal clock on AC power, the Play offline tab says so once and suggests Windows' power mode Best
  performance. The launcher changes no Windows setting.
• Stage blur / glow is Off by default: the misty swamp and three more stages are sharp, the scrapyard's sun has no
  glow (on integrated graphics at 4K the scrapyard needs ~10 % less GPU time a frame). Players of older versions get
  Off once too; whoever turns it back On keeps On. Online each player chooses for himself.

Offline

• Random is random at every start. Mokujin's copied fighter and the random cell could come out the same after
  every start of the game. Now the game draws them anew from the start.
• New setting: Unlock Jinpachi and Random select (Settings -> Unlocks): Jinpachi and the random cell on the
  character select without clearing Arcade. Off by default; your save is not changed.

Fixes

• Set up controllers works again: the Controls window sees your pads. Since 1.1.0 the window (Settings -> Set up
  controllers...) found no controller at all -- "not recognized", Xbox pads included. It now looks once it is on the
  screen; the Online tab's controller navigation had the same fault. Checked on a PC with an Xbox pad.
• A place where the game deliberately stops stays stopped. In one function the compiler turned the way into such
  an endless loop into a call through a pointer that may be empty. The game code is now compiled without that
  assumption. The speed profile of 1.1.3 still fits, so it is used as it is.

Security

• Friends with the right password always get into a private room. Somebody guessing a room's password from many
  internet addresses (a home connection with IPv6 has 256 of them) could use up the room's guess budget, and friends
  with the right password were told "try again in N s". Now every network has its own few tries at a room (3, then
  one per 20 minutes), used before the room's shared budget, which guessers elsewhere cannot touch. Guessing stays as
  slow as before. The host of a password room sees how many wrong passwords came in the last 10 minutes (never who
  or from where), and Room settings -> Turn away the guessers refuses those networks from then on. The server
  part also protects rooms of 1.1.3 launchers; the host's count and button need 1.1.4.
• Spectator places go to friends and room members first. About 50 guest connections from a handful of addresses
  could take every match the server can show. Now one internet address watches at most 2 matches at once (an IPv6
  home network 4), guests hold at most half the places of a match and of the server, the last places are kept for
  friends of the players and members of the match's room or tournament, and at a full match a friend takes the place
  of the newest guest ("A friend of the players took your place").
• Custom costumes are checked against the game's own item shop. The opponent's costume check took any colour number
  up to 31 and a part ...

T5DR Online 1.1.3

Tournaments, private rooms, watching live matches, your custom costumes online, matches that connect through a blocking firewall, and more speed on slower PCs. Both players need 1.1.3
(the lobby pairs equal game builds, and 1.1.3 changes the game: its netplay speaks protocol 4 for the costumes, and
ps3recomp patches 0051, 0059, 0061, 0062, 0063, 0064 and 0065, and the game is now compiled with a speed profile).
The launcher offers the update itself; after it, press BUILD GAME once. Tournaments, rooms, spectating and the
firewall fallback need the lobby server updated; older launchers keep working with it and see nothing new.

Online

• Tournaments (accounts): the Online tab's new Tournaments page lists the server's tournaments. Tournament
  hosts create them: single or double elimination, sets of best of 3 or 5, a start time, a player limit of 8, 16, 32
  or 64, an optional check-in, seeding at random or by rating. There are 20 host slots: if you want to host
  tournaments, DM TheWishin on X. Sign up (and check in); when your set is
  ready the tab says "Your tournament set is ready": Accept within 5 minutes and the game starts by itself. Who
  does not accept in time is out. Sets play like casual sets with the in-game select, and leaving one loses it. The
  bracket fills in by itself; the organizer can correct a result, reset a set or disqualify a player. Tournament
  sets do not change your rating unless the server's owner turns that on.
• Private and community rooms. Create room asks how many players (2 to 8) and who can join: anybody, a
  password or an invite code; a room can also be hidden from the list. Join room asks for the password,
  or, with no room selected, takes an invite code. Copy invite code shows the code in a field to copy (the
  launcher never touches your clipboard itself). In a room for 3 or more you take turns, by Winner stays or
  Everyone in turn; Sit out skips your turns. The host's Room settings... changes the password or code,
  hides the room or removes a player. A friend you invite needs no password. Private and community rooms are
  casual; only their players can watch their matches.
• Your custom costumes online. What you bought and put on in ITEM SHOP & EQUIP (head, face, body, colours) in
  your own save now shows in online matches, for both players. Both PCs check it the same way: a damaged save shows
  the default costume, never something only one PC has. Replays and spectators show the costumes too.
• Watch live matches. Watch a friend's match (Friends page), any room's match (Rooms) or a tournament set
  (click it in the bracket). Your game shows it a few seconds behind, exactly as it is played and checked frame by
  frame; you always see the session from its start, since a rematch depends on the matches before it. The
  Spectating card says how far behind you are; Stop watching closes the game. Settings -> Spectators:
  friends and room visitors may watch your matches (on), ranked matches too (off); a match can be watched only when
  both players allow it, and the players see how many watch. Their games never wait for spectators.
• Matches connect when a firewall blocks the game. Clicked Cancel when Windows asked whether t5dr.exe may use
  the network? Matches still connect, some through the relay instead of directly. If a firewall drops everything
  (some antivirus firewalls do), the launcher moves the match onto the relay after 15 seconds of silence and both
  games start it again, about 20 seconds later, instead of giving up after a minute ("Your opponent's game could not
  be reached"). This also works in a tournament set, with custom costumes and with spectators watching. When
  Windows Firewall blocks the game or the launcher, the Online tab says so in one line with a How to fix link
  (the launcher only reads the firewall's rules, it never changes them).

Speed and picture

• Fights on 4-core laptops and on the pool stage run much faster. The game's sound and the fighters' skinning
  (the PS3's SPU work) take about half the processor time they took, with exactly the same results: on a busy 4-core
  test PC fights went from about 39 to 56 fps, and on the pool stage with its crowd from 32 to 41. The game's main
  thread no longer waits for the skinning to finish.
• The game's threads are placed for your processor. On 4 cores without Hyper-Threading (laptops like the
  i5-7300HQ) fights run about 9 % faster, on the pool stage 22 %. On Intel processors with performance and
  efficiency cores (12th gen and newer, Core Ultra) the game stays on the performance cores; on Ryzen processors
  with two core groups (5900X, 7950X, ...) it stays in one group, the one with the bigger cache on an X3D. Online,
  the opponent's inputs are handled at once even when the game keeps every processor busy.
• BUILD GAME compiles the game with a speed profile (profile-guided optimisation): about 3-6 % less processor
  time per frame, also on the pool stage; the build is ~15 % faster and the game file 17 % smaller. Builds with and
  without the profile play each other in sync. The profile holds only function names and counts, no game data.
• A PC a little too slow for 60 fps now runs fights at 45-55 instead of 30-45. A frame that took a bit longer
  than one screen refresh waited for the next one; now it is shown as soon as it is ready. Test games went from 40
  to about 50 fps and from 30 to about 44, online (rollback) from 32 to 46. PCs that make 60 see no change, and the
  game never runs faster than 60. Why some PCs are slow, and what helps: docs/WEAK_PC.md.
• Less processor time per fight frame. The game's own work is about a quarter smaller (its locks no longer call
  Windows when nobody else wants them: 6.3 -> 4.6 ms a frame on 4 cores / 8 threads, online 9-11 -> 6-7 ms), and
  turning the PS3's drawing commands into D3D12 takes about a quarter less too (3.2 -> 2.5 ms). Same game and the
  same picture: PCs with and without it play each other in sync.
• Less GPU work at 1080p, 1440p and 4K, with exactly the same picture: on integrated graphics 17-40 % less GPU
  time around the 3D scene at 1440p and 4K.
• Internal resolution "Auto (matches the screen)": the step that fits your screen, at most 1080p on integrated
  graphics (Native stays the default). At 4K a processor with built-in graphics slows down as a whole (one memory,
  one power budget): a test fight on integrated graphics ran 33-35 fps at 4K and 60 with Auto. On integrated
  graphics a step larger than the screen gets a hint, and after a fight the graphics held back the Play tab says so.
  Power saving Auto now always reaches the game (a PS3_LAPTOP left in Windows' environment no longer
  overrules it).
• Report a problem says more about slow fights: which frames came late and why (the game, its waits, the
  graphics, other programs), how fast the processor really ran, and Windows' Game Mode and GPU scheduling settings.

Building the game

• A failed "Compile" step gets a second try. A file that fails is compiled once more at the end, on its own,
  and the build goes on if that works; fewer compilers run at once when little memory is free. A failure now shows
  the compiler's error lines in the log, and Report a problem adds its full output.
• No false warning for the second PSN package name. The same game also comes from PSN as
  UP0700-NPUB30009_00-0000000000010000 (same size, same program); the Build tab showed it with a yellow "not the
  supported package" warning, although the build always worked with it. It is now a green check.

Security (review 3)

• The relay fallback cannot restart a match any more. Asking for the relay ("my game hears nothing") starts
  the match's session again; within 90 seconds of its start a player losing the first round could ask for it and
  both games began the match anew. Once either game has played the fight for a while (ten seconds: frames that
  only run with the opponent's input), the lobby refuses.
• Blocks hold in community rooms. A friend's invite into a room for 3-8 players brought in a player whom
  another member had blocked (or who had blocked them), and the room's line could pair the two. The invite and its
  accept check every member, and the line never pairs two who blocked one another.
• No game code in problem reports. The compiler quoted the lifted source line under each of its messages, and
  a failed build's log and the report's copy of the compiler's output kept them. The game's code is now compiled
  with -fno-caret-diagnostics (the objects are byte for byte the same), and the report keeps only the compiler's
  message lines (file(line,col): error: ...) of the compile logs and of build.log -- also from builds made before.
• A spectator's launcher takes only what it asked for: a lobby server sending "watching" by itself no longer
  makes it unpack up to 64 MB into a new file, and a stream of state hashes far out of order (which kept the
  spectator's game busy for hours) ends the watch as damaged.

Servers

• Tournaments: settings T5L_TOUR_* (who may organize, the no-show time, limits, rated or not) and read-only
  JSON of the brackets on the status port (/tournaments, /tournaments/<id>) for stream overlays
  (docs/TOURNAMENTS.md). Their tables are created at the first start. An organizer who plays does not decide their
  own sets (a T5L_TOUR_ADMINS account does); a player whose game crashes twice in one set loses the set;
  admin drain also holds the tournaments (no new set starts, no-show times stand still).
• Tournament hosts from the console: t5lobby-admin tour-host add NAME [--admin], tour-host remove NAME and
  tour-hosts decide who may create tournaments (`T5...

T5DR Online 1.1.2

Friends and invites, replays of every online match, opponents nearby first, a training overlay, five more languages, all stages and items unlocked offline, less CPU on laptops. Both players need 1.1.2
(the lobby pairs equal game builds, and 1.1.2 changes the game: ps3recomp patches 0043, 0044, 0045, 0047, 0048,
0052 and 0053). The launcher offers the update itself; after it, press BUILD GAME once.

Online

• Match scores are the real round counts. The game reported the winner right, but the
  score was made up: a 3-2 or 3-1 showed as 3-0, and now and then a 3-0 showed as 0-1. A
  drawn match (time-out with equal health, or a double KO, in the deciding round) was counted
  as Player 1's win. The game now reads the rounds each fighter won and reports draws as
  draws. This matters beyond the result card: when the opponent's connection broke after the
  last round, only a full score lets the lobby keep the win (a wrong score voided the match).
  docs/NETPLAY.md "Match result".
• Invite buttons show the wait after a no. When a friend declines your invite (or you take
  it back), the lobby holds the next invite to that friend back for 30 seconds. The invite
  buttons are now off for that friend during the wait, and the one you would use counts the
  seconds down ("Invite in 27 s"), for match and room invites alike. The seconds come from the
  server, which still has the last word.
• Friends and invites (accounts): add friends by account name on the Online tab's new Friends page. The
  list shows who is online, searching, in a match or offline, as it changes. Invite a friend to a casual match
  or into your room: one click on Accept (or A / Cross on a pad) starts it, no ready check (a ranked room keeps
  its ready check, which says it is ranked). Blocking a player ends the friendship. Limits against spam: 20 friend
  requests a day (60 per internet address), 100 friends, one invite at a time; after a no, the same player can
  invite or challenge you again only after 30 seconds, and a friend request taken back and sent again does not pop
  up again.
• No accepting a question by accident: a challenge or invite only takes a controller press made after it came
  up (the A for the search button could accept one that popped up in that same moment).
• Opponents nearby first. Quick and ranked search try opponents with a low ping first and widen the search
  while you wait (any ping after 30 s in quick, 60 s in ranked). The ping shown for a found match now counts the
  nearest relay server: two players in California see about 50 ms instead of about 300 ms through Germany.
• Replays. Every online match is saved (a few KB, in native\replays). The new Replays tab lists them;
  Watch plays a match again in the game exactly as it happened and checks it against the live match. START
  pauses, SELECT ends it. Recording and the players' names can be switched off there. A replay needs the game
  version that recorded it; a damaged or odd replay file is refused with a reason and leaves the rest of the list
  alone. Report a problem adds your newest replay, without names.
• No pausing online. START in an online fight opened the pause menu in both games, so one player could freeze
  the other in the middle of a combo. Now nobody can pause an online fight; START still skips the replay after a
  round, and offline it pauses as before. To leave a match, close the game (counts as a loss, as before).
• No more frozen character select before the next match. On a busy PC the select screen for a rematch or a
  new opponent could stay frozen while loading until the game was closed. Fixed; and should a select screen ever
  stop loading anyway, the game closes itself after 10 seconds and the launcher starts a fresh one for the match.
• No more broken game after cancelled matches. When four to eleven matches in a row ended at the character
  select without a fight (the opponent left during the pick, or the lobby cancelled), the open game broke. Now 60
  in a row are fine.
• No more voided matches at the start of a fight on stage 27 (the crowd of fighters behind the ring): in about
  one match in 30 the desync check saw a value that only belongs to the picture (the box the shadows are drawn in)
  differ for a few frames, and the match was voided although the fight was the same on both PCs. That value is no
  longer compared; everything the fight depends on still is.
• Different saves no longer desync. Another round time or unlocks in one player's save could make a match go
  apart and be voided. Online games now use a fresh save of their own (gamedata-online), the same on both PCs.
  Your own save is never touched online; the game's own OPTIONS (button layout, round time) apply offline only, so
  set your buttons in the launcher.
• You stay logged in when the lobby server restarts. A saved login was forgotten whenever the server could not
  be reached (an update, an outage). Now the launcher keeps it and logs you in again by itself once the server is
  back (not during a fight, and not after you logged out).
• A slow PC no longer desyncs the whole match. Online, each frame waits until the game's
  loading threads are done, so a load finishes in the same frame on both PCs. That wait gave up
  after 2 seconds: on a PC with a slow disk or a very busy CPU the game then went on with its
  loads still running, the fight's intro ended a frame earlier or later than on the other PC,
  and every frame of the fight was apart (the match was voided). Now the frame waits as long as
  the loading takes, and the other game waits for it (it knows the opponent is loading, so it
  does not give up on it). A load that really hangs ends the match after 2 minutes with
  "Loading the fight took too long" instead of a desync. Three more places that gave up after a
  fixed time and could part the two games now wait or end the match cleanly: with rollback a game
  no longer runs ahead on guessed input beyond its limit while the opponent is slow, the step before the
  character select waits for the title's autosave however long it takes, and a pick that never
  comes from the opponent ends the match instead of a guessed fighter (docs/NETPLAY.md "Slow
  loading").

Controllers

• A pad that works offline now works online too. Online, the game takes your input from the
  controller you press, whatever player port it has. Before, online play read player port 1 only, so
  a DualSense behind another controller -- a virtual Xbox pad from DS4Windows or DSX, a handheld's
  built-in pad, a second pad -- got port 2 and did nothing online, while it still played offline
  (player report: "my DualSense works only in offline mode"). A controller you don't press never
  takes over. If you set player 1's controller in controls.ini ([port1] device = ...), that one
  stays the only one. Both netcodes, in sync (docs/NETPLAY.md "Which controller plays online").
• The launcher sees DualShock 4, DualSense and DualSense Edge -- also over Bluetooth after Steam
  or DS4Windows used them, when it saw nothing from them before. The Online tab's A / B buttons work
  with them, and Settings -> Set up controllers... lists them, so you can set their buttons and
  which player they are. The launcher reads them like the game does, only while its window is in
  front, never sends anything to the pad and never keeps it from the game.
• The game window comes forward when a match starts after you clicked Accept or Rematch in the
  launcher, so the keyboard works without clicking into the game first (pads always worked).
• Every button gets its own key or button, also on the keyboard (Settings -> Set up controllers...):
  L1, R1, L2, R2, L3, R3, Start and Select, the four attack buttons and every Tekken combo (1+2, 3+4,
  1+3, 2+4, 1+2+3+4 ...), on a pad, a stick or the keyboard. The keyboard is now in that window like a
  controller (click its row): press the key for a button, start from a keyboard layout (arrows + A S Z
  X, WASD + U I J K, or the number pad), choose which player it is. A key or button that did something
  else is taken from there and the window says so; the game's own keys (Esc, F11, F2) are refused.
  Online the bound buttons arrive as what you set (owner: "R2 and L2 should have their own binds
  too").
• The Controls window no longer keeps the launcher busy while it is open (it kept re-selecting its
  controller row).

Launcher

• Five more languages: Español, 한국어 (Korean), 日本語 (Japanese), Português (Brasil) and Français, besides
  English and Deutsch. Settings -> Language; Auto follows Windows. The new translations were made with machine
  help: corrections are welcome.
• Unlocks (Settings -> Unlocks, offline only, both off by default): Unlock all stages gives you the
  Tekken 5 stages without the roughly 50 fights they normally take; your save is not changed.
  Unlock all customization items makes everything in ITEM SHOP & EQUIP cost 0 Fight Money; what you take
  stays in your save, which the launcher backs up once first (save-backups).
• The Settings tab scrolls (mouse wheel, scrollbar), so every setting is reachable at 133 % display scaling
  and more.

Game

• Training overlay (Settings -> Training overlay, on by default in Practice): your inputs with how long each
  was held, and the frame data of the last move: startup (i10) and who can act first on block, hit or counter hit
  (+3, -12). It can also show in the other offline modes, and online (your own inputs only). F2 switches it
  in the game.
• Stage blur and glow look right at every internal resolution. At 1080p, 1440p and 4K the soft focus of the
  misty swamp and three other stages showed two or three sharp copies of every edge, and the sun's ...

T5DR Online 1.1.1

Better connections, smoother rollback, PlayStation pads without Steam. Both players need 1.1.1
(the lobby pairs equal game builds, and 1.1.1 changes the game: patches 0039 and 0042). The launcher
offers the update itself; after it, press BUILD GAME once.

Online

• Direct connections are much more reliable. Before, whether two homes connected directly was
  partly luck (who started sending first); then the match fell back to the relay in Germany. Both
  sides now start at the same moment, try every address at once for longer, predict the ports of
  routers that change them, and open the game's port on the router (UPnP / NAT-PMP / PCP). In a
  network simulator, direct connections went from 926 to 1,130 of 1,400 router pairs, and a match
  that had to start on a relay switches to direct as soon as that works.
• A relay server in the USA (Oregon): players in America no longer detour through Germany when
  their routers can't connect directly (see Servers).
• Smoother rollback at high ping: a rollback costs 15% less; at 150 ms ping the slowest frames
  went from 23.1 to 21.4 ms and visible stutters per match from 56 to 37 (at 250 ms: 389 to 221).
• No more desyncs on stage 27. The fighters in the crowd at the back of the stage start their
  fights on timers that the stage set up from a timing-dependent random source, and their moves
  draw from the same random numbers as the two players. When the two PCs' crowds started a fight
  at different moments, the players' moves went apart too, minutes into a match, in lockstep and
  rollback alike (3 of 7 real games on stage 27 were voided). The stage now gets the same random
  numbers on both PCs, and the ambient sound no longer steps a random number the fight uses
  (docs/NETPLAY.md "Desync hunt 2").

Controllers

• DualShock 4 and DualSense work without Steam, over USB and Bluetooth (DualSense Edge
  too). Over Bluetooth these pads switch to a fuller report once Steam ("PlayStation
  Controller Support"), DS4Windows or another game has used them, and keep it until they are
  turned off; Windows' DirectInput, which the game used, gets no input from that report, so
  the pad "only worked through Steam". The game now reads these pads itself in every report
  mode, with the same buttons and layouts as before, short taps included. It sends nothing to
  the pad, so other programs see it as before. Started through Steam with Steam Input on, the
  game uses Steam's virtual pad and leaves the real one alone (one pad, one player).
  hid = 0 in controls.ini goes back to DirectInput. Not tried with a real pad yet: tested
  with reports of every mode built from the published formats (ps3recomp patch 0042).

Launcher

• VSync on/off (Settings -> VSync): Off shows each picture at once (lowest latency, the
  picture may tear). The game still runs at 60 fps, like on the PS3; there is no frame rate
  setting. Online, both players can choose differently.

Servers

• Regional relays. When two routers cannot connect directly, the match goes through a
  relay, and with one lobby server in Germany that meant Germany even for two players in
  California (300-400 ms ping). The lobby can now use small relay-only servers in other regions:
  each launcher measures its ping to every one of them, and a match that needs a relay goes
  through the one with the smallest sum of both players' pings (the lobby server's own relay
  included). Lobby, accounts and ranks stay on the one server. Both players need 1.1.1 (a
  future launcher-only update that pairs with older ones falls back to the lobby server's relay). A relayed match still
  switches to the direct connection when one opens up. For hosts: install.sh --relay-only now
  sets up such a relay server (docs/HOSTING.md "Adding a relay server"); the old option of that
  name, relaying every match, is --force-relay.

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Download

T5DR-Online-1.1.1.zip below. Unpack it into a folder of its own, start T5DR Online.exe, pick your own .pkg and .rap (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, PS3 PSN, NPUB30009 v01.00) and click BUILD GAME. Nothing else needs to be installed.

The zip contains no part of the game -- no game files, no translated game code, no keys. It was scanned for all three before it was published.

SHA-256	e59f03eb5f9473025abfd673e8db94fcd8c1fb4d2c2ed15552c3aa126e833b09
Compiler in the zip	LLVM 23.1.3 (clang-cl, lld-link), used on your PC to build the game code
Python in the zip	CPython 3.12.10 (private copy, with tkinter and pycryptodome)
ps3recomp	f17bcd3 + 34 patches from patches/ps3recomp
Code ID	cafa37445d66a586 (the launcher asks for a rebuild when this changes)
Source	932b1c97c6b55b339f056c6248454eb048af4302

Check the download: certutil -hashfile T5DR-Online-1.1.1.zip SHA256 (Windows) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

T5DR Online 1.1.0

Online that holds up, a new launcher, ranked sets. Both players need 1.1.0 (the lobby
pairs equal versions). After the update press BUILD GAME once. From this version on the
launcher updates itself: it offers every new release, one click.

Online fixes

• Matches no longer go out of sync after switching opponents. The game has a second
  random generator (the camera uses it, and the camera decides which fighter stands on the
  left, so which way a sidestep goes). Netplay never reset it, so a game that had played
  someone else, or had just shown other effects, drifted apart from a freshly started one.
  It is now set the same on both PCs at every match start. Checked with 24 opponent
  switches, 240 Hz against 60 Hz, 4 against 16 cores, FMA against non-FMA CPUs, stalls and
  slow disks: all in sync. This also fixes Mokujin's pick and Devil Jin's third costume.
• Rollback no longer crashes or hangs. About one match in eight ended with the game
  closing (the game's file thread) when both players mashed; a rare freeze waited for a
  draw thread forever; a KO taken back by a rollback could leave no result at high ping.
  32 of 32 heavy-stutter matches and 12 of 12 KO matches at 250 ms ping ran clean.
• Rematch works, also after a new session and when a player changes character
  (moving from Bruce or Kuma to the top row used to loop). Closing the game window counts
  as leaving (a loss), not as an out-of-sync match.
• No more frozen picture. The graphics command ring overflowed on the first fight load
  on some PCs (6 and 8 cores) and froze the picture in the menus; fixed.

In-game character select

• Online, you now pick your fighter and costume on the game's own select screen, like on the
  PS3: the confirm button picks the costume, Select picks at random, and after 30 seconds the
  character set in the launcher is taken. A rematch goes back to the select screen, so you can
  change fighter. In a ranked set you pick in game 1; games 2 and 3 keep both fighters and
  costumes.

Offline fixes

• Sound needs 43% less processor time (crackles on weaker PCs), long sessions no longer use
  up the game's thread slots, and every background thread has its own memory again.

New launcher

• Dark theme; Play offline and Play online tabs; the Online tab as clear cards
  (login, lobby, searching, match found with ping, in match, result).
• German and English (Settings: Auto / Deutsch / English).
• Internal resolution in Settings: Lowest, Lower, Native (720p), 1080p, 1440p, 4K. Both
  players can use different settings online.
• Updates itself from the published releases (checks the download, keeps your game
  and settings, goes back to the old version if anything fails).
• Launcher exe built with Microsoft's compiler (fewer virus-scanner false alarms).

Ranked sets: best of 3, rated once

• A ranked match is now a set: the first player to win 2 games wins it (each game is still first to 3
  rounds). The rank moves once, at the end of the set. Between two games the next one starts by itself
  after a short countdown, with the same characters; the Online tab shows "Set 1-0 -- game 2 of 3", and
  the names in the fight show the games won ("Alice [1]").
• Leaving or quitting in the middle of a set loses it. A game that went out of sync is played again (at
  most twice per set). The daily limit of ranked results between the same two players counts sets.
• Needs the new launcher on both sides; against an older one every ranked game counts on its own, as
  before. docs/RANKED.md "Ranked sets".

Controls screen

• New in the launcher: Settings -> Set up controllers.... Pads, arcade sticks and
  hitboxes get their buttons there instead of by editing controls.ini. It lists
  the controllers per player with a live "press a button" test, asks "Press the
  button for 1 (Left Punch)..." one button at a time (1 2 3 4, the macros 1+2, 3+4,
  1+2+3+4 and the others, Start, Select, directions) with Skip and Clear, and starts
  from a layout if you like: Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, arcade stick with 8 buttons
  (Vewlix), 6 buttons (Noir / Sega Astro), hitbox. It also sets which player a
  controller is, the left stick mode and the SOCD mode (left+right at once).
• Save writes the controls.ini the game reads, in the same format; your comments and
  other keys stay (the old file is kept once as controls.ini.bak). Reset to
  defaults takes a controller back. The controller itself works the screen once it
  is chosen (Up / Down, Cross, Triangle, Start, Circle).
• Checked against the game's own controls.ini parser (a test compiles the runtime's
  file reader and compares hundreds of generated files) and with simulated controllers;
  not yet tried with a real arcade stick by a person.

Lobby server hardening (server only; 1.0.0 launchers work unchanged)

• Ranked results: a desync reported by one side only is no longer an instant void (the other
  game's clean report wins it, the claimant gets a strike); nobody is blamed for not reporting
  a match that may still be running (T5L_MAX_MATCH_SECONDS); a winner who reported and then
  logged out no longer loses; "disconnect" against a finished game counts the finished result;
  repeat disputers lose disputes (T5L_DISPUTE_LIMIT); two accounts on one address never play
  ranked against each other (T5L_RANKED_SAME_IP); a player behind in a ranked set who makes the next
  game's connection setup fail (blocked UDP, mute on the relay) loses the set (the server's evidence names
  the side; void only when it cannot tell).
• Abuse limits: TLS handshake only after the address checks (10 s), a cap on connections that
  have not logged in, rate limits for expensive and lobby-changing requests and for lobby-wide
  chat, at most 2 password hashes at once, parallel password guesses counted, look-alike and
  disguised reserved names refused, client text cleaned, IPv6 counted per /64, clients that
  stop reading dropped at once, the relay carries only game packets (per address and time
  limits).
• Durability: one database transaction per server step (a crash never leaves half a ranked
  result), matches running at a restart are voided cleanly, admin drain for restarts without
  voiding matches, crash-safe certificate and host.json writes, interrupted backups cleaned.
• Tools: lobby/tools/soak_test.py (simulated players and abusers, CPU, memory, threads,
  latency over time).

Report a problem

• New launcher button Report a problem... (Play tab, Build tab, and the Online
  tab after a match). It makes one zip on the Desktop and opens its folder: the
  newest game logs, build.log when the build failed, the launcher's own log
  (launcher.log, new), the files of the last online match, controls.ini, desync
  dumps and system.txt (Windows, processor, graphics card and driver, memory,
  screens with refresh rate and scaling, release version and build id, the
  settings in use). A box "What happened?" is saved as report.txt.
• Private data is removed first: the Windows user name in paths (<user>), internet
  IP addresses (<ip>, local network addresses stay), passwords, tokens and match
  keys. The zip holds at most 20 MB; a huge log keeps its start and its end.

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Download

T5DR-Online-1.1.0.zip below. Unpack it into a folder of its own, start T5DR Online.exe, pick your own .pkg and .rap (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, PS3 PSN, NPUB30009 v01.00) and click BUILD GAME. Nothing else needs to be installed.

The zip contains no part of the game -- no game files, no translated game code, no keys. It was scanned for all three before it was published.

SHA-256	ba157a27d75427c46879df7df720769287ac1a894c023865a3ece26f0974ed98
Compiler in the zip	LLVM 23.1.3 (clang-cl, lld-link), used on your PC to build the game code
Python in the zip	CPython 3.12.10 (private copy, with tkinter and pycryptodome)
ps3recomp	f17bcd3 + 32 patches from patches/ps3recomp
Code ID	9b02bbbf600843b7 (the launcher asks for a rebuild when this changes)
Source	1c4cd0503b1fb2e0b28093d102840f9dd28aae42

Check the download: certutil -hashfile T5DR-Online-1.1.0.zip SHA256 (Windows) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

T5DR Online 1.0.0

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online 1.0. Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection runs
natively on Windows -- recompiled, not emulated -- built on your PC from your own
copy (.pkg + .rap), with online play like Tekken 6 Native Online. First
online matches between two real PCs over the internet were played on 2026-10-18:
direct connection, 26 ms ping, 60 fps, rollback not noticeable.

Same game as 0.1.9-preview. Both players need 1.0.0 (the lobby pairs equal
versions). After the update press BUILD GAME once.

Play

• All offline modes at 60 fps, music, sound effects and movies, saves.
• Keyboard, Xbox pads, PlayStation pads, arcade sticks and hitboxes; short taps
  are never lost (tried with an Xbox pad and an arcade stick).
• Runs on weaker PCs (60 fps fights on 4 threads), 3D resolution setting,
  any refresh rate, Windows 10/11 incl. N editions, any folder name.

Online

• Launcher Online tab: account (username + password) or guest, quick and
  ranked matches, lobby rooms, the public server preselected.
• Rollback netcode, input delay by ping (launcher Settings: Auto/0/1/2;
  ranked fixed), 60 fps at 150 ms ping, one frame less input lag than before.
• The game starts directly in the fight and stays open for the next match
  (about 4 seconds to the next fight).
• Ranked: Glicko-2 rating with Tekken 5's rank names; names and ranks in the
  fight; block players, strict matchmaking, post-game lag check.
• Direct connection between the PCs, relay through the lobby server when routers
  don't allow it. Any two x64 PCs compute the same game (Intel/AMD, with or
  without AVX2).

Fewer virus-scanner false alarms

• The zip carries no script files any more (0.1.8/0.1.9 were flagged as
  "Generic.BAT.Downloader" by 8 of 62 scanners because of helper scripts that
  never ran). The release build now refuses any script file.
• T5DR Online.exe is now an ordinary Windows application with an icon,
  version information and a manifest (the old 3.5 KB starter was flagged by 3 of
  71 machine-learning scanners). It is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen
  may still ask once: "More info" -> "Run anyway".

Known issues (fixes planned for 1.0.1)

• Closing the game with Alt+F4 during a match voids the match instead of
  counting it as a loss, and the next one or two matches against the same
  opponent can be voided as "desync". Please end matches normally.
• With a very bad connection a rare crash can still happen after many matches;
  the launcher then starts the game again.
• The game's own Online menu entry and the Gallery need Sony's/Namco's old
  servers and show an error; use the launcher's Online tab.

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Download

T5DR-Online-1.0.0.zip below. Unpack it into a folder of its own, start T5DR Online.exe, pick your own .pkg and .rap (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, PS3 PSN, NPUB30009 v01.00) and click BUILD GAME. Nothing else needs to be installed.

The zip contains no part of the game -- no game files, no translated game code, no keys. It was scanned for all three before it was published.

SHA-256	487f44eeb8b5421789fcef5a290ea96099cc463edca7f011cc72dba7d7460e76
Compiler in the zip	LLVM 23.1.3 (clang-cl, lld-link), used on your PC to build the game code
Python in the zip	CPython 3.12.10 (private copy, with tkinter and pycryptodome)
ps3recomp	f17bcd3 + 28 patches from patches/ps3recomp
Code ID	aab9cb523c06a67b (the launcher asks for a rebuild when this changes)
Source	3634a00ffad75d2410d8c738fc8468ea5aa3e9ca

Check the download: certutil -hashfile T5DR-Online-1.0.0.zip SHA256 (Windows) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

T5DR Online 0.1.9-preview

Same game as 0.1.8, with one file fewer in the zip.

• Virus-scanner false alarm fixed. 8 of 65 scanners on VirusTotal flagged
  0.1.8's zip as "Generic.BAT.Downloader". The cause was a one-line helper script
  for macOS developers that ships with every Python (fetch_macholib.bat, it
  calls svn export with a web address). Nothing ever ran it. It is no longer in
  the zip, and the release build now refuses any batch file in its Python.
• 0.1.8 and 0.1.9 can play each other only if both have the same version: please
  both update.

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Download

T5DR-Online-0.1.9-preview.zip below. Unpack it into a folder of its own, start T5DR Online.exe, pick your own .pkg and .rap (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, PS3 PSN, NPUB30009 v01.00) and click BUILD GAME. Nothing else needs to be installed.

The zip contains no part of the game -- no game files, no translated game code, no keys. It was scanned for all three before it was published.

This is a pre-release: expect bugs, and please report them.

SHA-256	5b61c17404cf3a439354378ade02a3237c6c2e7638c05a6b03328f7a346477c5
Compiler in the zip	LLVM 23.1.3 (clang-cl, lld-link), used on your PC to build the game code
Python in the zip	CPython 3.12.10 (private copy, with tkinter and pycryptodome)
ps3recomp	f17bcd3 + 28 patches from patches/ps3recomp
Code ID	ddeb8f631a3b6b96 (the launcher asks for a rebuild when this changes)
Source	a4bb2b7fe436773bd81f586f6e821e4f329858d1

Check the download: certutil -hashfile T5DR-Online-0.1.9-preview.zip SHA256 (Windows) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

T5DR Online 0.1.8-preview

Less input lag, steadier online. Both players need 0.1.8. After the update press
BUILD GAME once.

• One frame less input lag offline and online: the game reads the pad later
  and shows the frame as soon as it is ready.
• Online input delay follows the ping, like Tekken 6 Native Online: as low as
  possible for your connection. New launcher setting (Settings): Auto, 0, 1 or
  2 frames; both players' choice must allow it. Ranked uses a fixed delay.
• Rollback holds 60 fps at 150 ms ping (median; was about 50).
• No more hang at the end of a match with a bad connection: tested with a
  stuttering opponent, 13 matches without a hang (it hung at 3 of 4 before).
• The lobby server is updated for the fixed ranked input delay.

---

Download

T5DR-Online-0.1.8-preview.zip below. Unpack it into a folder of its own, start T5DR Online.exe, pick your own .pkg and .rap (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, PS3 PSN, NPUB30009 v01.00) and click BUILD GAME. Nothing else needs to be installed.

The zip contains no part of the game -- no game files, no translated game code, no keys. It was scanned for all three before it was published.

This is a pre-release: expect bugs, and please report them.

SHA-256	9e3c1e628141fbc46d450eefb54458076435a70588b638d70335361b7e5e48e8
Compiler in the zip	LLVM 23.1.3 (clang-cl, lld-link), used on your PC to build the game code
Python in the zip	CPython 3.12.10 (private copy, with tkinter and pycryptodome)
ps3recomp	f17bcd3 + 28 patches from patches/ps3recomp
Code ID	d84a92dd206d346c (the launcher asks for a rebuild when this changes)
Source	27310211426ab81122ab7bf7ccd128e9bb13aded

Check the download: certutil -hashfile T5DR-Online-0.1.8-preview.zip SHA256 (Windows) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

T5DR Online 0.1.7-preview

More robust online play. Both players need 0.1.7. After the update press
BUILD GAME once.

• After an aborted match (opponent gone, connection lost) the open game is
  clean again and the next match starts normally. Tested: 10 of 10 cycles of
  "match -> abort -> next match" in one game, with rollback and with delay netcode.
• A button pressed in the very first frames of a fight no longer makes the game
  hang while loading (rollback).
• Some pairings (e.g. Asuka vs Law) no longer go out of sync against a freshly
  started game.
• If the game still gets stuck, it closes itself after 60 seconds and the
  launcher starts a new one.

Known: with a very bad connection (many corrections right at the final KO) the
game can still get stuck at the end of a match; it then recovers as above. A
fix is in progress.

---

Download

T5DR-Online-0.1.7-preview.zip below. Unpack it into a folder of its own, start T5DR Online.exe, pick your own .pkg and .rap (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, PS3 PSN, NPUB30009 v01.00) and click BUILD GAME. Nothing else needs to be installed.

The zip contains no part of the game -- no game files, no translated game code, no keys. It was scanned for all three before it was published.

This is a pre-release: expect bugs, and please report them.

SHA-256	44c4d7e3384fdc2cd9e53fd4c3b6f2474857260b8365826b67c5f72875791fdc
Compiler in the zip	LLVM 23.1.3 (clang-cl, lld-link), used on your PC to build the game code
Python in the zip	CPython 3.12.10 (private copy, with tkinter and pycryptodome)
ps3recomp	f17bcd3 + 27 patches from patches/ps3recomp
Code ID	b1bb4159cd0a65b9 (the launcher asks for a rebuild when this changes)
Source	d6c99fc45caa20ecdcb1ec49fe0f5daf1cbba6b2

Check the download: certutil -hashfile T5DR-Online-0.1.7-preview.zip SHA256 (Windows) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.

T5DR Online 0.1.6-preview

Important online fix: choosing Devil Jin online gave you Feng and the other
way round, and Kuma came out as Panda. Every character is now the one you pick
(checked for all 35 on the select screen). Both players need 0.1.6. After the
update press BUILD GAME once (about 2 minutes).

• Delete Save Data no longer deletes every save at once: a list shows your
  saves, you pick one and confirm.
• 18 system functions the game asks for now answer properly (e.g. Options ->
  Online Manual says "not available" instead of failing).
• The sound core's 13 effect functions (reverb, pitch, mix, ...) run as compiled
  code instead of an interpreter: less CPU work in fights.
• Checked: all 35 characters and 34 stages render; the background figures and
  the game's own Online menu (clean "network error", no crash) are fine.

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Download

T5DR-Online-0.1.6-preview.zip below. Unpack it into a folder of its own, start T5DR Online.exe, pick your own .pkg and .rap (Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online, PS3 PSN, NPUB30009 v01.00) and click BUILD GAME. Nothing else needs to be installed.

The zip contains no part of the game -- no game files, no translated game code, no keys. It was scanned for all three before it was published.

This is a pre-release: expect bugs, and please report them.

SHA-256	aab0959c6ca7bad12ad89fc6325580ecaf0700156ff708c7fed81d9a272f3b1b
Compiler in the zip	LLVM 23.1.3 (clang-cl, lld-link), used on your PC to build the game code
Python in the zip	CPython 3.12.10 (private copy, with tkinter and pycryptodome)
ps3recomp	f17bcd3 + 27 patches from patches/ps3recomp
Code ID	10a14cdec6026ec8 (the launcher asks for a rebuild when this changes)
Source	5337f7f29bed13689c8797e4beabb66343b9d426

Check the download: certutil -hashfile T5DR-Online-0.1.6-preview.zip SHA256 (Windows) or sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.