Raptor: Call of the Shadows (PPSA94002)

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Title

Raptor: Call of the Shadows (PPSA94002)

Content version tested

00.008.000 (sce_sys/param.json), catalog release v1.0.0-rc.2 from the homebrew catalog (ChaDea1/RaptorPS5, GPL-3.0; raptor-ps5-v1.0.0-rc.2.zip, SHA-256 b6620582b5561f36fe1cfbb8f2866f88c9670c850beef1bc9270b1eb3b0106f6, matching the catalog)

AnyPS5 commit

main 27bcd6a with #9178 on top

System tested

Windows 11 Pro (26200), AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, WinLibs GCC 15.2.0 r7, Release

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

The title starts and renders its first-launch setup screen, the Apogee intro and the pilot registration screen; menus respond to the controller.

• First launch, "Download free Apogee shareware": fails with "Download failed (HTTP 0, code 0x80431063)". libSceHttp is offline by design (libSceHttp: every request fails with ERROR_NETWORK; six catalog titles send HTTP requests (would a host-backed client be accepted?) #3844), so the shareware was installed by hand instead: DOSBOX_RAPTOR.ZIP from dosgames.com (SHA-256 2c6afef09ebc5e3d48700db0e715f61607c019280ab849101aade206633fd389, the hash the title pins), with FILE0000.GLB and FILE0001.GLB extracted into data/RaptorPS5/. With them the title skips setup and plays the intro.
• Pilot registration: on main the on-screen keyboard (hold Options) opens and moves with the D-pad, but Cross types nothing and Circle leaves the screen instead of closing the keyboard. Cause: the title's SDL opens the system remote control port and turns its buttons into keys, and scePadOpen returned the DualSense for that port, so every Cross also arrived as Return and overwrote the typed key. Fixed by fix(libScePad): open the system remote control port as a disconnected device #9178: with it, NAME accepts typed characters (1AS and ASD with injected pad input) and the overlay keeps redrawing.
• Gameplay (with fix(libScePad): open the system remote control port as a disconnected device #9178, played by hand with a DualSense): the first mission plays through at 60 FPS. Music plays, the controller works in gameplay, and there was no crash.

Current blocker

None known with #9178 through the first mission. Open pull requests the title needs:

• fix(libScePad): open the system remote control port as a disconnected device #9178 (on-screen keyboard; depends on feat(pad): support up to 4 controllers with dynamic user discovery #7881)

How it was run

eboot.bin and sce_module/libc.prx unwrapped with tools/unwrap_self.py, relinked with relinker --windows --registry, run from the output folder with the catalog files in app0 (original eboot.bin kept) and the shareware GLBs in data/RaptorPS5/. Menus driven with APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE and tools/pad_input.py (registration: Cross through the intro, then hold Options for the keyboard), frames captured with APS5_DUMP_FRAMES; the keyboard failure was also reproduced by hand with a DualSense, and the first mission was played by hand with a DualSense.

AI-assisted: yes (Claude Code)