Release 0.6.0

Bloodborne for Apple Silicon 0.6.0

This release introduces the independent Bloodborne launcher with profiles, save management and GitHub release notifications, plus opening-video and renderer fixes.

Launcher

• First-profile setup adopts existing saves on upgrade. Additional profiles start with new saves. Create, rename, select or delete profiles; deletion requires confirmation and removes that profile's saves and backups.
• Back up and restore save sets from the Saves tab. Profile ownership and recovery use SQLite with transactional migrations; shader caches are shared between profiles.
• The active profile is visible on Home. Trophy collection and save editing are marked as in development; they are not available in this release.
• The launcher can hide to the menu bar while playing and return when the game exits. Turn this off in Advanced to follow logs. The tray menu can show the launcher or stop the game.
• Stable app releases are checked automatically, with a changelog modal and GitHub release link. Advanced includes manual checks and an automatic-check preference. Installation is manual.
• Settings are grouped by Graphics, Game, Profiles, Saves and Advanced. The launcher supports all 20 game languages.

Runtime

• Shared movie/render state is guarded across updates and draws, addressing the captured opening-video null-read race.
• Video queue access and frame ownership are synchronized. Audio/video clock state is locked and uses steady time.
• Condition-variable retirement handles the movie-thread destroy/signaling race; NV12 frame invalidation covers the padded copy size. Credit: Bloodborne-Android bf1e6cf.
• The portable SRT interpreter is the arm64 default, removing translated SRT code from the renderer. BB_SRT_INTERP=0 remains the fallback. Credit: ARM_bloodborne_pc 3d56243 and Bloodborne-Android bf1e6cf for its 0.51 adaptation and cache handling.
• Deferred clears are enabled by default, folding eligible clears into attachment load actions. BB_DEFER_CLEARS=0 remains the off switch. Experimental renderer migration stays opt-in.

Verification and known issues

Seven accepted pre-release opening-video trials completed and were observed as successful, including two self-contained downloaded-package runs and one empty project-cache check. Packaged copied-save gameplay passed a 90-second hold on an M3 Pro: 47.3 FPS and 22.9 ms p90 at 1920×1080 output / 1130×636 scene. These are short acceptance checks, not a guarantee that rare faults are eliminated. See stability results.

• Offline play on macOS. Online integration is not included.
• Black sky and object popping in some Yharnam areas remain under investigation.
• Rare sampler/GPU assertions and movie shutdown faults seen in earlier development runs remain on the watch list; none appeared in this acceptance batch.
• Packaged first-profile setup and Home were verified with synthetic data on this Mac. Full clean-machine/Gatekeeper behavior has not been verified on another Mac.

Install or update

Download the Apple Silicon DMG and replace Bloodborne.app. Saves/settings remain in ~/Library/Application Support/bloodborne_mac. No game files are included: supply your own Bloodborne dump with update 1.09. The app includes its runtime, bash, Python and libraries.

The app is signed ad hoc, without an Apple Developer ID. On first launch use macOS's Open / Privacy & Security approval flow as described in Installation.

Based on bbport and shadPS4; additional contributors and licenses are listed in Credits. Our app version follows this project's releases independently of upstream bbport versions.