DKC3Recomp v0.0.6 - Windows fullscreen menu bar fix

This release fixes the Windows menu bar staying on screen in fullscreen and
two smaller Windows host problems. The latest existing Mac build is included
unchanged.

Downloads

• Windows: DKC3Recomp-v0.0.6-windows-x64.zip. Extract the entire folder
  and run DKC3Recomp.exe. Keep the bundled SDL2.dll and assets beside it.
  This build is unsigned.
• macOS: DKC3Recomp-v0.0.4-macOS-arm64.zip. This is the exact archive
  from the previous releases, not a new Mac build. It requires Apple silicon
  and macOS 26 or newer, and retains its existing ad-hoc signature.

Supply your own headerless North American (En,Fr) DKC3 ROM (4 MiB), SHA-256
2277a2d8dddb01fe5cb0ae9a0fa225d42b3a11adccaeafa18e3c339b3794a32b.
No ROM, save files, generated C, or gameplay captures are included.

Windows fixes

• The Game/View menu bar no longer stays drawn across the top of the display
  in fullscreen. It is detached when the borderless fullscreen window appears
  and reattached before the windowed frame is restored, so the fullscreen
  image covers the whole display. This applies to View > Toggle Full Screen,
  Escape, and a saved fullscreen preference that starts the game fullscreen.
• Installing the menu bar had trimmed its height from the requested window
  size; the first window is again exactly the chosen window scale.
• With "skip launcher" enabled the game started without the launcher's DPI
  settings and was bitmap-scaled by Windows; the game now sets the same
  DPI awareness itself.
• The Windows CMake configure failed after the 2026-09-10 runtime adaptation
  work because its manifest used backslash paths; it now uses POSIX paths.

Host-only changes. No cartridge, widescreen, dispatch or Mac code changed.

Verification and scope

• All 28 Windows project tests pass, including private-ROM boot and the
  four aspect-ratio smoke checks; windows_menu now also asserts the
  retained client size, menu detach/restore, command routing while detached
  and the fullscreen label.
• Live check with the private ROM in an isolated directory on a 3456x2170
  display: windowed 960x720 with the bar; the menu item and the saved
  fullscreen preference both produced a borderless window with no menu and a
  client area equal to the monitor; the menu item and Escape restored the bar
  and the 960x720 window.
• The Mac archive was checked against the previous release's SHA-256:
  5b8966c44d6973f8244939c49c23a2d25fc0085bc7513ae87e3ab6259f986601.
  It was not rebuilt or rerun on this Windows machine.

Full-game traversal, broad hardware/controller coverage and cross-machine
frame-pacing benchmarks remain unverified. See docs/BRINGUP.md for the
specific checks.

DKC3Recomp v0.0.5 - Windows and macOS

DKC3Recomp v0.0.5 - Windows and macOS

This release adds a native Windows x64 build with the shared Mac/PC settings
and dark Windows menus. The latest existing Mac build is included unchanged.

Downloads

• Windows: DKC3Recomp-v0.0.5-windows-x64.zip. Extract the entire folder
  and run DKC3Recomp.exe. Keep the bundled SDL2.dll and assets beside it.
  This build is unsigned.
• macOS: DKC3Recomp-v0.0.4-macOS-arm64.zip. This is the exact archive
  from the previous release, not a new Mac build. It requires Apple silicon
  and macOS 26 or newer, and retains its existing ad-hoc signature.

Supply your own headerless North American (En,Fr) DKC3 ROM (4 MiB), SHA-256
2277a2d8dddb01fe5cb0ae9a0fa225d42b3a11adccaeafa18e3c339b3794a32b.
No ROM, save files, generated C, or gameplay captures are included.

Windows improvements

• Dark title bars in both the launcher and game, plus dark Game/View menus
  and nested dropdowns. The product title is now simply DKC3Recomp.
• Native Pause / Settings, quick save/load, fullscreen, About and Quit commands.
• Live 4:3, 16:10, 16:9 and 21:9 selection; nearest, bilinear and reconstruction
  scaling; all five reconstruction modes including dither decoding; level-edge
  policies and Raw/CRT/Composite/Trinitron screen models.
• Shared detailed settings for reconstruction strength, softness and shading,
  audio, controls and Assist Tools. Open Game > Pause / Settings > Settings.
• Settings and native menu checkmarks stay synchronized and persist locally.
• Closing the game also works while its settings overlay is open.

The Mac source, menus, display-link pacing and platform-specific build paths
remain in the repository. Windows additions are platform-guarded; portable
presentation and audio-rate control remain shared. The carried-forward Mac
archive retains its original embedded version and UI labels.

Verification and scope

• All 23 Windows project tests pass, including private-ROM boot and checks at
  all four aspect ratios with reconstruction, overlay, rewind, fast-forward
  and save/load. The separate ROM-free configuration passes all 17 tests.
• Packaged Windows launcher, game, dark menus, nested aspect selection,
  detailed settings and clean window-close were verified locally.
• The Mac archive was checked against the previous release's SHA-256:
  5b8966c44d6973f8244939c49c23a2d25fc0085bc7513ae87e3ab6259f986601.
  It was not rebuilt or rerun on this Windows machine.

Full-game traversal, broad hardware/controller coverage and cross-machine
frame-pacing benchmarks remain unverified. See docs/BRINGUP.md for the
specific checks and known runtime diagnostics.

DKC3Recomp v0.0.4 (Alpha) - macOS

Alpha / pre-release

DKC3Recomp is still in bring-up. This build fixes the widened presentation
of Riverside Race's water and the strip that flashed at the top of the
margins, and carries the Floodlit Fish tint fix; it is not a claim of
full-game compatibility.

You must supply your own headerless North American (En,Fr) DKC3 ROM. The
supported 4 MiB image has SHA-256
2277a2d8dddb01fe5cb0ae9a0fa225d42b3a11adccaeafa18e3c339b3794a32b.
No ROM, save data, generated C, screenshots, music, or extracted game assets
are included in the download.

What's new in v0.0.4

• Riverside Race's water keeps its reflection into the margins: the second
  layer's rows that stream a strip of the level map are served from the
  terrain store at the row offset they prove every frame, and its static
  underwater backdrop wraps as a plane judged per map row rather than per
  VRAM page.
• The first visible row of the margins decodes like the rest; a rule
  carried over from DKC2Recomp blanked it on tile boundaries, which showed
  as a strip flashing at the top of the margins as the camera drifted.
• Floodlit Fish's underwater tint reaches the margins; the fill that
  supplies it runs only where the native subscreen row is fully covered.
• Headless diagnostics: per-frame PPU window, color-math, and HDMA table
  state, the second-layer verifier's trace, and the prefill's phase and
  row pairing per frame.
• Includes v0.0.3's 21:9 mode and placement activation fixes.

macOS build

• Apple silicon (arm64), macOS 26 or newer.
• Ad-hoc signed and not notarized. If Gatekeeper blocks the first launch,
  Control-click DKC3Recomp.app, choose Open, and confirm once.
• Includes its SDL2 runtime and original project icon.
• Open the app and select the supported ROM in the launcher; the ROM remains
  outside the application bundle.

Validation

• Built from commit 5afdacb with the pinned submodules.
• All CTest checks passed, including the private-ROM headless boot and the
  hidden macOS app, 16:10, and quick-state smoke tests.
• Riverside Race: at the reported save and 128 pixels on, the reflection
  continues into both margins; the native window is unchanged and the
  Lakeside Limbo corpus keeps every native and margin cell matching its
  decode on every frame.
• The 4:3 replay of the Lakeside Limbo run is bit-for-bit unchanged.
• The extracted release ZIP passed strict code-signature verification and a
  hidden app run.
• ZIP SHA-256: 5b8966c44d6973f8244939c49c23a2d25fc0085bc7513ae87e3ab6259f986601.

Whole-game traversal, crowded-screen OAM behavior at the maximum width, Intel
Macs, notarization, and the carried-over Windows host remain unverified.
Floodlit Fish was not re-checked after the fill's gate.

DKC3Recomp v0.0.3 (Alpha) - macOS

Alpha / pre-release

DKC3Recomp is still in bring-up. This build adds 21:9 presentation and fixes
the reported late enemy activation in ultrawide; it is not a claim of
full-game compatibility.

You must supply your own headerless North American (En,Fr) DKC3 ROM. The
supported 4 MiB image has SHA-256
2277a2d8dddb01fe5cb0ae9a0fa225d42b3a11adccaeafa18e3c339b3794a32b.
No ROM, save data, generated C, screenshots, music, or extracted game assets
are included in the download.

What's new in v0.0.3

• Added a selectable 21:9 mode at 446x224 (approximately 20.91:9), alongside
  4:3, 16:10, and 16:9.
• Widescreen placement scans now include the adjacent 256-pixel spatial cells,
  preventing enemies and collectibles in those cells from waiting for the
  camera to cross a native-screen boundary before activating.
• The culling fix works with existing quick saves; it does not rebuild or reset
  their preserved object state.
• Includes v0.0.2's Murky Mill widescreen light-cone fix.

macOS build

• Apple silicon (arm64), macOS 26 or newer.
• Ad-hoc signed and not notarized. If Gatekeeper blocks the first launch,
  Control-click DKC3Recomp.app, choose Open, and confirm once.
• Includes its SDL2 runtime and original project icon.
• Open the app and select the supported ROM in the launcher; the ROM remains
  outside the application bundle.

Validation

• Built from commit bc2856e with the pinned submodules.
• All 20 CTest checks passed, including the private-ROM headless boot, hidden
  macOS app, 16:10, 21:9, and quick-state smoke tests.
• On the supplied 21:9 quick save, the reported Sneek and nearby K token now
  activate before the old placement-cell boundary; the Sneek is rendered by
  replay frame 7.
• The exact 4:3 replay remains bit-for-bit unchanged. With cull widening
  disabled, all four aspect modes reproduce their pre-change frame and machine
  state hashes.
• The extracted release ZIP passed strict code-signature verification, a
  180-frame hidden app run with overlay, rewind, and fast-forward, and a
  separate 21:9 hidden-app run.
• ZIP SHA-256: 8518359417c2c4a622e3460966d69e6ac648201429bcb794f7fe7bb841d4a93b.

Whole-game traversal, crowded-screen OAM behavior at the maximum width, Intel
Macs, notarization, and the carried-over Windows host remain unverified.

DKC3Recomp v0.0.2 (Alpha) - macOS

Alpha / pre-release

DKC3Recomp is still in bring-up. This build fixes the reported Murky Mill
widescreen light-cone clipping; it is not a claim of full-game compatibility.

You must supply your own headerless North American (En,Fr) DKC3 ROM. The
supported 4 MiB image has SHA-256
2277a2d8dddb01fe5cb0ae9a0fa225d42b3a11adccaeafa18e3c339b3794a32b.
No ROM, save data, generated C, screenshots, music, or extracted game assets
are included in the download.

What's new in v0.0.2

• Murky Mill's HDMA-windowed BG3 light cones now continue through the 16:10
  and 16:9 margins instead of clipping at a native edge and repeating on the
  opposite side.
• Windowed 32-column backgrounds are rendered over the physical widescreen
  span so the SNES PPU window is evaluated at the correct screen position.
• Ordinary bounded backgrounds retain their authentic 256-pixel repeat, and
  the native 4:3 presentation is unchanged.

macOS build

• Apple silicon (arm64), macOS 26 or newer.
• Ad-hoc signed and not notarized. If Gatekeeper blocks the first launch,
  Control-click DKC3Recomp.app, choose Open, and confirm once.
• Includes its SDL2 runtime and original project icon.
• Open the app and select the supported ROM in the launcher; the ROM remains
  outside the application bundle.

Validation

• Built from commit 9f6e50b with the pinned submodules.
• 19 of 19 CTest checks passed, including the private-ROM headless boot and the
  hidden macOS app, 16:10, and quick-save smoke tests.
• At the reported quick-save state, the 16:9 native center and the complete
  4:3 frame are pixel-identical with the fix toggled off and on.
• The extracted release ZIP passed an additional 180-frame hidden-app run with
  overlay, rewind, and fast-forward enabled.
• Deep strict code-signature verification passed before and after archiving.
• ZIP SHA-256: 60088991f9e2e438145d6402bce1807a16fa3d990e510cd84e6023ef6a630af8.

Traversal through the whole stage and other windowed-effect variants, Intel
Macs, notarization, and the carried-over Windows host remain unverified.

DKC3Recomp v0.0.1 (Alpha) - macOS

Alpha / pre-release

DKC3Recomp is still in bring-up. This build makes the current native macOS
foundation available for testing; it is not a claim of full-game compatibility.

You must supply your own headerless North American (En,Fr) DKC3 ROM. The
supported 4 MiB image has SHA-256
2277a2d8dddb01fe5cb0ae9a0fa225d42b3a11adccaeafa18e3c339b3794a32b.
No ROM, save data, generated C, screenshots, music, or extracted game assets
are included in the download.

macOS build

• Apple silicon (arm64), macOS 26 or newer.
• Ad-hoc signed and not notarized. If Gatekeeper blocks the first launch,
  Control-click DKC3Recomp.app, choose Open, and confirm once.
• Includes its SDL2 runtime and a new original macOS app icon.
• Open the app and select the supported ROM in the launcher; the ROM remains
  outside the application bundle.

Included in this alpha

• Native boot through the Rare logo, title, Northern Kremisphere map, and
  Lakeside Limbo attract path.
• Experimental 16:10 and 16:9 presentation, with native centering when a scene
  has not passed its widescreen evidence gate.
• Widened Lakeside Limbo terrain, placed-object activation, sprite culls, and
  static banana arcs.
• Configurable input, launcher and in-game overlay, rewind, fast-forward, and
  quick save/load support.

Validation

• Built from commit b65360d with the pinned submodules.
• 19 of 19 CTest checks passed, including the private-ROM headless boot and the
  hidden macOS app, 16:10, and quick-save smoke tests.
• The extracted release ZIP passed an additional 180-frame hidden-app run with
  overlay, rewind, and fast-forward enabled.
• Deep strict code-signature verification passed before and after archiving.
• ZIP SHA-256: 9ea6d3e939f2d67aad04d05596ef510a7350da84fa1addd9304477e38b231112.

Full-game completion, Intel Macs, notarization, and the carried-over Windows
host remain unverified.