Cat Quest III (PPSA15065)

[WallisSkill]

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Title

Cat Quest III (PPSA15065)

Content version tested

01.000.001

AnyPS5 commit

main 5a6ad0e + WallisSkill:fix/cat-quest-3-ppsa15065 (PR number in a reply below), also run with #5627 merged locally

System tested

Windows 11 Pro 26200, MinGW GCC 15.2.0, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 (NVIDIA 616.92), AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

Title screen, main menu, loading a save and playing in the overworld, caves, sailing and the in-game menus. Picture, audio and pad input work.

With the fixes below on current main: 107-115 FPS in the overworld (the title caps at 120).
Without them, main runs the same scene at about 22 FPS, because every sampled-texture cache hit over host-imported memory compares the whole texture.
New shaders cause a one-time hitch; it is gone once the shader cache is warm.

Current blocker

Loading screen hang (#4909): sceKernelClose(0) closed the host's stdin. Fixed in the pull request below.
Audio stutter: one output mutex was shared by every port. Fixed in the pull request below.
Black screen after opening the settings menu: needs the pull request below (pending storage images served from the latest writer) and #5627 (HTILE fast clears from Unity's clear kernels; it carries #5111).
Overworld frame rate on main: fixed in the pull request below. #5627 adds a per-draw HTILE readback over untracked memory, about 29% of the queue worker, which needs the same write-watch stamp.

How it was run

Unwrapped the fSELFs; the Unity IL2CPP modules come from the .esbak ELF backups.
Relinked with: relinker --windows --registry --module-dir Media/Plugins --module-dir Media/Modules eboot.elf CatQuest3.exe
Ran with APS5_AUDIO_LATENCY_MS=100. No other switches were needed.

[WallisSkill]

PR: #5892 (fixes the loading hang, audio stutter, the black screen together with #5627, and the overworld frame rate on main)