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SharpEmu Fran5: Astro Bot’s intro now plays smoothly on screen!

Fran5 builds on the breakthrough achieved with Fran4: Astro Bot’s complete intro video is now displayed with fluid, synchronized playback instead of running at only a few frames per second.

Significant work from all the community and me has gone into video presentation, audio synchronization, GPU queue scheduling and rendering performance. After the video, the game continues toward the title controller, although text, menus and 3D graphics are not yet rendered correctly.

Highlights

  • Fluid Astro Bot intro video playback
  • Improved audio and video synchronization
  • Major GPU queue and presentation optimizations
  • Reduced stalls during video playback
  • Additional AMD Radeon safeguards and diagnostics
  • Updated with recent upstream improvements
  • Existing Acelogic-derived fixes and Fran4 progress preserved

Known limitations

  • Performance may vary depending on hardware and drivers
  • Text, title/menu and 3D rendering remain incomplete
  • Some AMD, Steam Deck and macOS configurations may still require further testing
  • Crashes, missing graphics and incorrect behaviour are expected
  • This remains an experimental development build, not a stable PS5 emulator

Thank you to the SharpEmu contributors, Acelogic, external testers and everyone in the community sharing logs and feedback.

Fran5 makes the Astro Bot intro fluid. With Fran6, the focus will move toward understanding and implementing the rest of the rendering engine: text, menus and 3D graphics.

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