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Free Riders Recompiled 0.1.1 (preview)

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@YuutaTsubasa YuutaTsubasa released this 22 Sep 15:42
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v0.1.1
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A preview update of Free Riders Recompiled, an unofficial port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Free Riders.

Important

No game data is included. You need your own Sonic Free Riders (USA, Europe) disc image (.iso); the launcher installs the game's data from it. This is still a pre-release.

Changes since 0.1.0

  • Grand Prix: its second part no longer aborts while loading (about one load in four failed with a "pure virtual function call"); three missing kernel string functions it uses are implemented.
  • Speed: races run at about 57–60 fps again (0.1.0's launcher accidentally switched on a profiler, which cost up to 40%), and the renderer binds less state per draw.
  • Scaled windows: a window or full screen that is not 1280×720 no longer shows the whole screen in one colour (blue in races, black in story scenes, flashing colours on Android).
  • Android:
    • Textures now show on GPUs without BC (DXT) formats, such as Adreno.
    • The game survives the screen surface being lost.
    • shaders.pack comes inside the APK, so there is nothing to pick by hand.
  • Shaders: the game creates all 468 of its shaders while it boots, so the bundled pack is complete; Linux and Android no longer stop on a missing shader.
  • Windows: all shaders are compiled with the bundled DirectX Shader Compiler.

Downloads

System File
Windows 10/11 x64 (Direct3D 12 or Vulkan) FreeRidersRecompiled-0.1.1-windows-x64.zip
Linux x86-64 (Vulkan) FreeRidersRecompiled-0.1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
Android 9+ arm64 (Vulkan) FreeRidersRecompiled-0.1.1-android-arm64.apk (licences: ...-licenses.zip)

Unpack into a folder of its own, start FreeRidersRecompiled, choose your disc image, then Start game. On Android the APK installs over 0.1.0 and keeps the installed game and saves.

Known limits

  • Only the USA/Europe disc is supported.
  • Grand Prix has been played through Tails's Ring Grab Challenge; later chapters are untested.
  • The heaviest race scenes can still drop to about 53 fps, so game time runs slightly slow there.
  • Android has been tried in the emulator and on one Adreno 750 handheld; please report problems with your device's model.

Checksums (SHA-256)

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284b9a5180c7c39e94356e9cae987e908dd6b375350663dcd39c99227d8cd151  FreeRidersRecompiled-0.1.1-android-arm64.apk
6d86f7608d3a396dde7ee18f628e484b15de6793e9d1f4164fa751f747c10cd4  FreeRidersRecompiled-0.1.1-linux-x64.tar.gz
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Sonic Free Riders is © SEGA. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by SEGA or Microsoft.

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