Beta 0.4.0

Beta for testing. See SETUP.md.

Mouse and keyboard now work from the title screen. With Mouse / keyboard mode on (launcher → CONTROLS), Enter or X passes "Press START" and WASD drives the menus; before, no key got past the title screen without a controller. The mouse aims, left click fires, right click locks on. Mouse look now follows mouse speed and starts just past the stick deadzone, so small movements turn the camera at any frame rate. The CONTROLS tab has a sensitivity slider and the key list; every key can be rebound in crackdown.toml (see SETUP.md).

Portable saves (new). Launcher → SAVES → Keep saves with the game copies your saves into userdata\ next to the game and uses them from there (portable.txt marks it). Turning it off goes back to Documents\crackdown; nothing is deleted.

Linux (Vulkan): large GPU resolves are no longer read back to the CPU every frame, matching Windows. This should help performance on Linux builds.

Docs: SETUP.md lists the keys, portable mode, and the 0xc0e90002 "This app can't run on your PC" error as a known issue (Windows Smart App Control blocks unsigned programs; no code signing is planned).

Not yet tested (reports welcome):

• Portable mode (saves copied to userdata\, the game loading them, switching back).
• Linux frame rate with the Vulkan readback limit (0019), and that sunlight still looks right there.
• The new mouse aiming feel: if it's too fast or slow, use the sensitivity slider and tell us the value you like.

Tested: Windows boot into the city and back out (unattended replay, same log as 0.3.2); keyboard Start and menu navigation on a PC.

No game data included; you must supply your own Crackdown (World multi-language) disc dump. Unsigned beta: Windows SmartScreen/Defender may warn; see SETUP.md.

Assets: CrackdownRecomp-beta0.4.0.zip and its .sha256 (used by the launcher's updater); crackdown.apworld and Crackdown.yaml for Archipelago (unchanged).

Beta 0.3.2

Beta for testing. See SETUP.md.

Fixed: Agency Director voice lines cut off at 60 fps. The game gives every sound a safety timeout counted in frames, so at 60 fps longer lines (the Director's radio calls) were stopped about halfway. The timeout now runs on the 30 Hz game clock (sim_audio_timeout_30hz, on by default). Stock 30 fps (--vsync=true) is unchanged.

Fixed: launcher ignored the Archipelago profile settings (an empty setting was passed to the game as a blank argument; from 0.3.1, which was not published separately).

Source is now public in this repository under BSD-3-Clause (game hooks, SDK patches, launcher, tools and reverse-engineering notes). No game data or generated code.

Co-op and the Archipelago randomizer are still experimental; see the 0.3.0 notes. crackdown.apworld and Crackdown.yaml are unchanged from 0.3.0.

No game data included; you must supply your own Crackdown (World multi-language) disc dump. Unsigned beta: Windows SmartScreen/Defender may warn; see SETUP.md.

Assets: CrackdownRecomp-beta0.3.2.zip and its .sha256 (used by the launcher's updater); crackdown.apworld and Crackdown.yaml for Archipelago.

Beta 0.3.0

Beta for testing. See SETUP.md.

New: two-player co-op (experimental). Campaign co-op over System Link between two PCs on the same network or over a virtual LAN such as Tailscale. Set the other player's address in crackdown.toml, then Campaign → Play Now - Co-op → Host/Join System Link Game. See SETUP.md → Co-op.

• So far it has been tested with two copies of the game on one PC: both players spawn into the city together and stay connected. Not yet tested between two PCs. Reports welcome.
• Co-op runs at the original 30 fps. At 60 fps the connection drops a second after spawning.

New: Archipelago randomizer (experimental). Orbs, supply points, weapon deposits and bosses are checks; skills and weapons are items; goal: defeat the three kingpins. Needs Archipelago 0.6.8 or newer. Install crackdown.apworld, make a YAML (Options Creator or Crackdown.yaml), then connect from the launcher's ARCHIPELAGO tab. See SETUP.md → Archipelago.

Also: launcher archipelago:// room links.

No game data included; you must supply your own Crackdown (World multi-language) disc dump. Unsigned beta: Windows SmartScreen/Defender may warn; see SETUP.md.

Assets: CrackdownRecomp-beta0.3.0.zip and its .sha256 (used by the launcher's updater); crackdown.apworld and Crackdown.yaml for Archipelago.

Beta 0.2.0

First public beta for testing. See SETUP.md.

• Launcher: install from your own ISO or extracted folder, full file verification, save profiles, settings, opt-in update checks.
• Game: 60 fps default (30 fps option), native PC Settings menu, Quit to Desktop.
• No game data included; you must supply your own Crackdown (World multi-language) disc dump.
• Unsigned beta: Windows SmartScreen/Defender may warn; see SETUP.md.

Assets: CrackdownRecomp-beta0.2.0.zip and its .sha256 (used by the launcher's updater).