Pokopia Recomp 0.2.0 (build F: Fennec fox)

What's new

Our test builds have letters (A, B, C ...). Each entry is what got better for you in that build.

Build A: the starting point

• Everything from the original 0.1.1 release, plus a long list of small fixes to setup, the launcher and stability.
• Colours look right now. Before, the game looked washed out and too bright (the Pokédex was orange instead of red, Ditto was pale pink).
• AMD graphics cards no longer show black or white blocks instead of textures.
• First-time setup is gentler on your PC: it no longer runs out of memory while it builds the game, and a step that fails is retried.
• The launcher checks shaders before every start and warms them up, so there is less stutter the first time you see something new.

Build B: names and menus

• Typing your name works: before, only the first letter was kept ("Ash" became "A").
• The mouse no longer makes the menu selection jump around. Click to pick what is selected.

Build C: Steam Deck and Linux picture fix

• On Steam Deck, Legion Go and other Linux/Proton devices, the game showed a black screen. It now draws the game.
• The sky and backgrounds are no longer black, and there are no more bright white halos around things on those devices.

Build D: tidier game files

• The game files moved into the folder layout the launcher expects. Nothing for you to do.

Build E: one game file, smoother on handhelds

• The launcher can use the game as a single .nup package file instead of a folder of extracted files.
• Name entry: the game accepts your name and characters say it correctly.
• New controller setting: "stick max" (F1 > Controls > Gamepad) for sticks that never reach their edge.
• First speed-up for handheld PCs on Linux/Proton.

Build F: much faster on Legion Go S and Steam Deck class devices

• In the game world on a Legion Go S, about 35 fps before, about 55-60 fps now.
• Windows PCs are not affected by this change.

Also in 0.2.0

• Playing above 1080p (for example 1440p): dark outlines of characters drawn in the wrong place, and blotchy shadows, are fixed.
• Updating: when a new version changes the game code, the launcher now asks you to run Set up again (once), so the fix actually reaches
  your game. Every existing install rebuilds once after this update.
• Steam Deck / Legion Go S tip: if you want more fps, lower the render scale or turn on FSR 3 in F1 > Graphics (about 70-80 fps on a
  Legion Go S at 67%).

Known issues

• Legion Go S: 60 fps, not yet a steady 90 (being worked on).
• First setup still takes a while: about 7 minutes to build the game, then 1 to 2 hours for the shaders (you can pause and continue).

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Release notes for developers

Base: upstream 2c29515 (v0.1.1). Fork PRs on featureJosh/pokopia-recomp; issue numbers are fork issues.

• #1 sweep: build, test, NVN, kernel, shader and launcher fixes (upstream tests compile again).
• #2 spirv_harness with server GC (~4x faster translation). #4 HFMA2/HADD2 .H0_NH1 swaps lanes and negates the low one.
  The package's spirv_harness is built from this source; the upstream 0.1.1 binary does not match its source (34k of 99k shaders
  differ, washed-out colours, fork #8).
• #3 the launcher translates shaders the game built at run time; shader warm-up run before Play.
• AMD depth: D24S8 unsupported -> D32S8 view fallback applied to views as well as images (black/white textures on RDNA).
• #5 setup compiles within free memory and retries a failed unit alone.
• #9 / #20 swkbd: SDK 0x140010 packed 0x530-byte config (use_utf8 at 0x3AA); ngc:u name check answered; text check in UTF-8;
  #16 reverted (fork #6).
• #10 menus: pointer movement no longer drives the selection; click = A on the game's selection (fork #7).
• #14 NVN: every vertex-stage output starts at (0,0,0,1) at module load (spirv_init_outputs, [nvn] init_outputs); RADV left
  unwritten components NaN -> black sky, NaN bloom halos (fork #13).
• #18 heap: private memory under Wine so pools are imported as userptr (Wine sections are file-backed), whole-pool imports
  (fork #11). Under Proton keep [nvn] tex_write_watch = false: write-watch mprotect invalidates the userptr BOs.
• #15 / #17 .nup package as the game source (launcher + runtime, stored zstd blocks).
• #21 [pad] stick_max.
• #22 [nvn] submit_batch (auto = frame under Wine): one kernel submission per frame, merged into the present's
  vkQueueSubmit2; early flush only when a thread waits on or polls a batched serial. amdgpu re-walks every userptr BO on each CS
  (~4-5 ms with 4.7 GB imported). Go S in game 33-39 -> 55-60 fps (fork #19; follow-up #23).
• #25 viewports recorded by 0x17c0420 (64 callers) follow the render size: at render heights above 1080 the G-buffer AO
  composite landed at 1.333x (dark silhouettes, misplaced ground AO; upstream drakolordx7/switch2-recomp#17).
• #26 rebuild on update: pkp_build.py tool stamp (lifter, main.sites, sdk, pkp_rt.lib, flags; FORMAT 2) and --check; the
  launcher treats a stale build as not set up.
• Packaging: game-build/scripts/make-release.ps1 + .github/workflows/release.yml; third-party payload from the upstream 0.1.1 zip.