Chonk Blocker Retro 1.2.0

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.2.0

Full couch control: navigate everything with a controller, with pad-family button glyphs, Steam Deck detection, and controller hot-plug fixed.

What's in this release

• Navigate the whole app from the couch: SELECT+START opens settings, the d-pad moves focus, shoulders switch tabs, the bottom face button confirms, and the right face button backs out — on the settings sheet and the exit confirmation alike.
• Show button prompts as original vector glyphs that match the connected pad — Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, or Steam Deck — with keyboard keycaps when no controller is in use.
• Detect controllers plugged in after launch; hot-plug previously required a restart because SDL's device events were never serviced, which also fixes the RESCAN CONTROLLERS button.
• Launch fullscreen with pad-first prompts on Steam Deck and gamescope sessions, and honor a distribution-channel switch (direct / steam / mac-app-store) like the flagship game.
• Add Steam packaging scaffolding (Deck-safe AppImage launcher, default Steam Input profile, SteamPipe publisher) and the Mac App Store entitlement baseline — see docs/steam-and-mac-app-store.md for the remaining owner steps.
• Ship the 1.0.8 cartridge unchanged.

Four ways to play

• Standalone SNES ROM — a native 16-bit cartridge image for compatible hardware and emulators.
• macOS — Apple-silicon DMG, Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Windows — x64 desktop application with Azure-signed executables.
• Linux — x86-64 AppImage.

Every asset has a sibling SHA-256 checksum. The desktop editions contain the exact standalone ROM published here.

Game source release point: 6647ccf06eb7ffc82fe08d27f7292183dd041ccf

Retro application release point: 37760201b93d3aef568b8323630486370ec8dfa5

Chonk Blocker Retro is free. Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES are trademarks of Nintendo; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.1.0

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.1.0

An elegant way out: closing the game now opens a cabinet-styled confirmation instead of quitting instantly, with a quit action reachable from settings and keyboard shortcuts.

What's in this release

• Open a Leave the Arcade confirmation sheet when the window is closed, Alt+F4 or Ctrl+Q is pressed (⌘Q on macOS), or the new QUIT GAME button in settings is used — the game no longer ends without asking.
• Keep playing is the safe default: Enter chooses the highlighted action, arrow keys switch between Keep Playing and Exit Game, and Escape always returns to the game.
• Pause emulation and mute audio while the sheet is open, and return keyboard focus to the game seamlessly on resume.
• Add a quit path reachable in fullscreen, where the window's close button is not available.
• Ship the 1.0.8 cartridge unchanged.

Four ways to play

• Standalone SNES ROM — a native 16-bit cartridge image for compatible hardware and emulators.
• macOS — Apple-silicon DMG, Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Windows — x64 desktop application with Azure-signed executables.
• Linux — x86-64 AppImage.

Every asset has a sibling SHA-256 checksum. The desktop editions contain the exact standalone ROM published here.

Game source release point: 6647ccf06eb7ffc82fe08d27f7292183dd041ccf

Retro application release point: ea647f2fd89af73af5a8c9e9a9a0b66e01b0935f

Chonk Blocker Retro is free. Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES are trademarks of Nintendo; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.9

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.9

Shows the Chonk Blocker icon in the running window, taskbar, and dock instead of the bundled runtime's default logo.

What's in this release

• Apply the product icon to the game window at runtime, so the Windows title bar, Alt-Tab switcher, and taskbar and Linux docks show Chonk Blocker instead of the JetBrains Runtime logo.
• Set the macOS Dock icon from the running application as well as the bundle.
• Ship the 1.0.8 cartridge and desktop behavior unchanged.

Four ways to play

• Standalone SNES ROM — a native 16-bit cartridge image for compatible hardware and emulators.
• macOS — Apple-silicon DMG, Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Windows — x64 desktop application with Azure-signed executables.
• Linux — x86-64 AppImage.

Every asset has a sibling SHA-256 checksum. The desktop editions contain the exact standalone ROM published here.

Game source release point: 6647ccf06eb7ffc82fe08d27f7292183dd041ccf

Retro application release point: a41802f768a506acaf36737065228c30ba9560b7

Chonk Blocker Retro is free. Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES are trademarks of Nintendo; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.8

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.8

Replaces Uptown Circuit with a new night-drive funk arrangement and ships the refreshed cartridge in every desktop edition.

What's in this release

• Replace Uptown Circuit with a new 32-bar night-drive funk arrangement in the cartridge soundtrack and hidden sound lab.
• Bundle the refreshed cartridge into the macOS, Windows, and Linux desktop editions, which had shipped the 1.0.6 cartridge in 1.0.7.
• Carry the 1.0.7 Linux desktop fixes unchanged: stable focus and pause behavior on Wayland compositors, resilient audio across focus changes, and correct fullscreen scaling.

Four ways to play

• Standalone SNES ROM — a native 16-bit cartridge image for compatible hardware and emulators.
• macOS — Apple-silicon DMG, Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Windows — x64 desktop application with Azure-signed executables.
• Linux — x86-64 AppImage.

Every asset has a sibling SHA-256 checksum. The desktop editions contain the exact standalone ROM published here.

Game source release point: 6647ccf06eb7ffc82fe08d27f7292183dd041ccf

Retro application release point: 63e8e9b577940731694d1aba99bbb877fd39f032

Chonk Blocker Retro is free. Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES are trademarks of Nintendo; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.7

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.7

Linux desktop fixes: stable focus and pause behavior on Wayland compositors, resilient audio across focus changes, and correct fullscreen scaling.

What's in this release

• Treat the native game surface and the desktop window as a single focus owner and only pause after a short grace period confirms focus left the application, so hovering no longer pauses or mutes the game under focus-follows-mouse compositors such as Hyprland and Sway.
• Mute audio at the producer during pauses instead of stopping and flushing the device line; rapid stop/flush cycles wedged PipeWire's ALSA bridge and left the game permanently silent after focus changes.
• Reopen the audio device automatically after a mid-write failure instead of going silent, and hold a deeper 96 ms startup cushion so PipeWire's first burst reads cannot underrun a freshly primed line.
• Release the OpenGL surface lock between frames on Linux and wait for the game surface to adopt its new size before resuming, so compositor-driven fullscreen and resizes apply instead of timing out after five seconds and leaving the output at its old size.
• Export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 from the AppImage launcher on wlroots compositors and declare StartupWMClass so docks and taskbars group the window correctly.
• Ship the exact 1.0.6 cartridge unchanged; this release updates the desktop application only.

Four ways to play

• Standalone SNES ROM — a native 16-bit cartridge image for compatible hardware and emulators.
• macOS — Apple-silicon DMG, Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Windows — x64 desktop application with Azure-signed executables.
• Linux — x86-64 AppImage.

Every asset has a sibling SHA-256 checksum. The desktop editions contain the exact standalone ROM published here.

Game source release point: 35ab6d4d0dd962c914cc7dcb2d0b0a89e11df200

Retro application release point: 126b7010ca933d1ecbffe984ae18436c9a77ea39

Chonk Blocker Retro is free. Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES are trademarks of Nintendo; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.6

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.6

Three new after-dark tracks, steady musical time under pressure, and cleaner active-pair landings.

• Signal Fires, Eventide Glass, and Static Hearts join the cartridge soundtrack and hidden sound lab.
• Arcade and Endless now rotate through nine match tracks without repeats inside a shuffle bag.
• Attack rows and danger height no longer change the Terrific Audio Driver song clock.
• Fast drops now meet the stack on an exact cell boundary—no shortened final pixel step and no snap-back.
• The finishing-attack reveal and corrected HP sound routing from 1.0.5 remain intact.
• The 256 KiB ROM passed bsnes sound-lab and finishing-hit QA plus all six Java/SNES parity scenarios.

The standalone LoROM cartridge runs in compatible emulators, flash carts, and original hardware. A SHA-256 checksum is included.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.5

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.5

A warmer match soundtrack and a clearer finish when a decisive attack ends the round.

• Pressure District, Power Play, Neon Esplanade, Gold Coast Shuffle, and Shakedown Alley now share Uptown Circuit's warmer production language while keeping their own groove and harmonic identity.
• Brittle lead stacks, constant bright arpeggios, scratchy plucks, and detuned melody doubles are gone from the match bag.
• Decisive inbound attacks now land visibly before the defeat result appears.
• HP hit and KO sounds follow the generated Terrific Audio effect IDs.
• The hidden sound lab, 48 kHz bsnes audio captures, KO reveal, and all Java/SNES parity scenarios passed before release.

The standalone 256 KiB LoROM cartridge runs in compatible emulators, flash carts, and original hardware. A SHA-256 checksum is included.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.4

Cartridge audio update

This is a ROM-only publication while the self-hosted macOS, Windows, and Linux build runners are unavailable. The existing signed desktop downloads remain the current desktop release; their 1.0.4 rebuild will use this exact cartridge when the runners return.

What changed

• Replaced Uptown Circuit with a warmer night-drive funk arrangement.
• Removed the piercing upper-register layer, detuned lead double, and brittle saw harmony.
• Preserved the cartridge song ID, loop timing, and hidden Chonk Lab track browser.
• Revalidated the complete loop through bsnes at 48 kHz stereo.
• Passed sound-lab input, audio-RAM, production-menu, and Java/SNES parity gates.

Cartridge lineage

• Source: iconidentify/chonkblocker@6647ccf06eb7ffc82fe08d27f7292183dd041ccf
• SHA-256: b66357abafc553394b34a7f4d2e8842dbb07bcc1914c54fe6952bdadce85f04d
• Size: 262,144 bytes

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.3

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.3

A desktop performance release with exact-latch controls, explicit GPU presentation, full CRT effects, and resilient hardware-shaped audio.

What's in this release

• Sample keyboard and controller state at the emulated SNES hardware latch, with a native input path that bypasses Swing's repaint queue.
• Present through an explicit OpenGL 3 backend with calibrated late submission, adaptive frame-delay timing, and no driver-queued video frame.
• Move the full CRT treatment to a multi-pass linear-light shader pipeline with scanlines, phosphor masks, convergence, composite bleed, persistence, bloom, curvature, glare, vignette, gamma, and dither.
• Rebuild S-DSP playback around four-point Gaussian interpolation and continuous resampling, then feed a clock-adaptive host audio queue without discontinuous sample dropping.
• Exercise raw and packaged GPU, focus-resume, frame-age, timing, and audio-recovery gates on macOS, Windows, and Linux before publication.

Four ways to play

• Standalone SNES ROM — a native 16-bit cartridge image for compatible hardware and emulators.
• macOS — Apple-silicon DMG, Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Windows — x64 desktop application with Azure-signed executables.
• Linux — x86-64 AppImage.

Every asset has a sibling SHA-256 checksum. The desktop editions contain the exact standalone ROM published here.

Game source release point: 472ba22ce21671b6e7e0b3513194713fa0570165

Retro application release point: 2c11f99731c9c0c4f9d851212a2e7ab97a308891

Chonk Blocker Retro is free. Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES are trademarks of Nintendo; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.2

Chonk Blocker Retro 1.0.2

A cartridge update that adds a hidden, native 16-bit sound lab for auditioning the complete Chonk Blocker soundtrack and effects catalog.

What's in this release

• Open the hidden Chonk Lab from the SNES title menu by holding L + R + Select, then pressing Start.
• Browse and play all ten named Terrific Audio music tracks directly from the cartridge.
• Switch to an isolated sound-effects catalog containing all sixteen named effects, with scrolling, playback status, and a global silence control.
• Exit cleanly back to the normal title menu; the utility shell is structured to host additional internal cartridge tools in future updates.
• Ship the same approved 256 KiB ROM in the browser player, standalone download, and signed macOS and Windows editions, with a Linux AppImage and SHA-256 checksums.

Four ways to play

• Standalone SNES ROM — a native 16-bit cartridge image for compatible hardware and emulators.
• macOS — Apple-silicon DMG, Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Windows — x64 desktop application with Azure-signed executables.
• Linux — x86-64 AppImage.

Every asset has a sibling SHA-256 checksum. The desktop editions contain the exact standalone ROM published here.

Game source release point: 472ba22ce21671b6e7e0b3513194713fa0570165

Retro application release point: 21d0b43d0d2c00cb1b54095b844d4293cbd0d40d

Chonk Blocker Retro is free. Super Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES are trademarks of Nintendo; this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.