v0.9.0

Crash Bandicoot 2 Recompiled — v0.9.0

Windows x64 · 216 MB download · first public preview

Work in progress. The game is playable from start to finish. There are
still minor sound and graphical issues, so treat this as a preview rather than
a finished release.

This is Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back translated into native code
and run directly, rather than emulated.

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Before you start

You need your own disc image. This package contains no game data: no game
code, artwork, audio or disc content. You supply a .cue with its .bin, or a
.chd, and the game is built on your machine from it. Nothing is uploaded and
your disc is only ever read.

The build targets the North American release, serial SCUS-94154.

Nothing to install. The compiler is included. You do not need Visual
Studio, cmake, Python or anything else.

Windows	64-bit, 10 or later
Disk space	About 3 GB while building, ~1 GB after
First build	Five to twenty minutes, once

Unpack somewhere with a short, plain English path. C:\Games\Crash2 is
ideal. Two Windows limits bite otherwise, and the launcher checks for both and
tells you before wasting your time:

• A folder path with non-English characters will not build. If your Windows
  username has an accent or a non-Latin character, do not unpack into your
  Desktop or Documents.
• A deeply nested folder exceeds the Windows path limit during the build.

Getting started

1. Run Crash2Launcher\Crash2Launcher.exe
2. Setup → choose your disc image → Build the game
3. Play

Your saves and settings live in userdata\. Copy that folder into a future
version and your progress comes with it.

While playing

Key
Home	Pause menu: restart, aspect ratio, image fit, quick save and load. Guide, or Start+Select, on a controller.
F5 / F9	Quick save / quick load
F7	Save state slots
F8	Rewind
F	Performance readout

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