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CTR-AP v0.1.2 - position checks in logic, Universal Tracker, and the Steam Deck

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@dowlle dowlle released this 20 Jul 22:51
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Position checks become real randomizer locations, Universal Tracker works, and the Steam Deck is playable without a keyboard. Plus a batch of fixes from launch week.

Thanks MarioSpore, therawkhawk64, Bethany and Anezia for the reports, and everyone in the Discord who played and broke things.

Downloads

  • Windows: ctr-archipelago-v0.1.2-windows-x86.zip (contains everything)
  • Steam Deck / Linux: ctr-archipelago-v0.1.2-linux-x86.tar.gz (experimental)
  • Hosting? ctr.apworld and Crash.Team.Racing.yaml are attached separately

📖 Setup guide (as shipped). Update the client and the apworld together, they are a pair.

⚠️ Audio sounding wrong? The old extractor truncated audio data. Skip extraction entirely: drop your NTSC-U disc image into assets as ctr-u.bin. Steam Deck users never need the extractor. Thanks Icebound777.

New

  • Position checks in logic. Finish and held-position rungs on the 16 trophy races are full locations, including through Gem Cup legs. (#9, #41)
  • Universal Tracker support. UT rebuilds the seed's real logic from slot data instead of guessing. Reported by Anezia. (#29)
  • Steam Deck connection screen. On-screen keyboard on focus, and the edit works from the pad: X or START saves, TRIANGLE cancels. (#73, #74)
  • DeathLink in the options menu, applied live, no hotkey. (PR #70, building on #6)
  • Seed check on connect. Warns you if a solo seed cannot be finished. Built after Bethany hit one. (#42)
  • Crash reporter. Writes ctr-ap-crash.txt next to the exe. Please attach it to reports. (#43)

Fixed

  • Gem Cups could lock themselves on completion and strand checks behind them, sometimes making a seed unfinishable. Thanks MarioSpore. (#61)
  • Turning off battle arenas did not actually remove their checks, which could still be required. Thanks MarioSpore. (#50)
  • A received DeathLink death could fire a burst of outgoing deaths. (#45)
  • Traps and Wumpa no longer re-fire on reconnect. Thanks therawkhawk64. (#46)
  • Extractor audio truncation. (#47)
  • Shuffled warp pads could route a return exit to the wrong hub. (apworld #8)
  • Two fixes picked from the upstream decompilation project: a crash at the Naughty Dog intro box (CTR-tools/ctr-native#32) and the kart shifting forward during the big turbo (#36). The first may also cover the post-boss softlock.

Known issues

  • Vanilla pad mode can generate an unbeatable seed (#80). Treat it as experimental. The seed check catches it on connect, so reroll if warned. Default randomized mode is fine.
  • Generation can rarely fail (#65). Roughly thirty times rarer than before, fails loudly, reroll. Solo unaffected.
  • Gemstone Valley pause crash (#56) and Mystery Caves crash (#57), both unreproduced. The crash reporter finally gives us something to work with.
  • Post-boss cutscene softlock (#51), likely fixed but not retested.
  • Position rungs through Gem Cup legs are awarded in game but not fully in logic (#86). The "including through Gem Cup legs" claim above was only half true and we missed that at release: the game does send the rungs when you finish a track as a cup leg, but the seed logic and Universal Tracker treat a rung as out of logic until the track's own pad opens, so UT can hide rungs a cup would already grant. This cannot make a seed unbeatable, it only understates what is reachable. Found by Bethany.

Testing

Played in game: the Gem Cup fix, Steam Deck keyboard and controller, the extractor, and a connect and race smoke. The seed checker ran against six option profiles, which is how #80 was found. Generation passed the full Archipelago index check matrix, 14,000 generations, no failures.

Not verified in game: #45 (needs a two player room), #46, #41.

Next

Item packs (progressive boost and character stats) and the character phase, plus fixing vanilla pad mode properly. No dates, hobby project honesty applies.

Checksums

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