v0.2.0

Skip intro patch might be causing stutters, if you get them try disabling it.

Changelog

v0.2.0 — the first public release (Windows)

IzunaRecomp's first release: Ninja Gaiden II recompiled for Windows and drawn
natively by the Kasumi Renderer. Compared with Ninja's Dawn, which it forks:

Rendering

• The Kasumi Renderer: the game's Direct3D calls drawn through Vulkan — no GPU
  emulation is built or linked. The game's shaders are recompiled from your
  copy at the first start (a progress bar shows it) and kept for later starts.
• Any resolution: Auto (your screen's) or 720p to 2160p, each a true
  resolution; anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, output filters.
• Threaded command recording and pipelines linked from per-shader parts, built
  ahead of their first draw; video memory reserved up front, so allocations do
  not stall play.

Pacing and latency

• V-Sync Auto follows the monitor (60, 120, 144 Hz…, G-Sync / FreeSync), or
  60 / 59.94 Hz; a high-resolution timer instead of spinning.
• Input latency Standard / Low; controllers polled on a thread of their own.

The app

• A hub (from the PS5 work) with every setting, an in-game menu, performance
  readouts, saves import and DLC; keyboard play with rebindable keys;
  PlayStation or Xbox prompts.
• Two builds in one: ng2.exe (AVX2) starts ng2-compat.exe on older CPUs.
• Crash minidumps; a Logging switch that turns all logging off.

Steadiness

• The game's file reads — including its large archive loads — run on an I/O
  thread instead of the game's main thread.
• Audio (XMA) and clock fixes; the cutscene audio fix keeps sound in step.

Mods

• A Mods folder and a MODS page: file replacement, texture replacement up to
  2048 × 2048, hiding draws by shader, Lua script mods, hooks on any game
  function (docs/MODDING.md).

Known issues: see the README.