Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.4

Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.4: lighter default and dedicated graphics card on laptops. Setup pack: no ROM or game data is included.

Changed

• A fresh install starts with no shader (the plain picture), the lightest option. A full-screen CRT shader made the game drop frames on weaker laptops. Pick CRT Lottes or another preset under Settings → Shader; your choice is saved and kept. An install that already has a shader keeps it. If the game runs slowly, choose None.
• On laptops with two graphics cards (NVIDIA Optimus, AMD switchable graphics), the game now asks for the dedicated graphics card instead of the integrated one. If it still runs slowly, set the game's executable to High performance in Windows Settings → System → Display → Graphics.

Updating from 0.1.3: accept the update offer when the game starts, then press Generate & rebuild. Saves, save states and settings are kept (checked for this release: those made in 0.1.3 survive the update and load in 0.1.4).

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Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.3

Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.3: fixes the black screen after saving at Candy's Save Point. Setup pack: no ROM or game data is included.

Fixed

• Black screen after saving at Candy's Save Point. The screen went black while the sound kept playing. Saving now returns to the map, and the saved slot loads from the file select screen.
• A one-frame stall on the game's first frame is gone too.

Updating from 0.1.2: accept the update offer when the game starts, then press Generate & rebuild. In-game saves, save states and settings are kept (checked for this release: a save and a save state made in 0.1.2 survive the update and load in 0.1.3). From this version on, the updater also backs up your saves before installing.

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Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.2

Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.2: CRT Lottes by default, settings during play, audio interpolation, new upscalers, and saves that are never lost on update. Setup pack: no ROM or game data is included; same first-run steps as before (see the README).

New

• Settings during play: Ctrl+L (or Select+L3 on a controller) reopens the
  launcher. Shader, window scale, volume and controls apply when you press
  Resume, without restarting the game.
• Audio interpolation: press I to cycle Gaussian (the console's own,
  default), Cubic (crisper highs) and Sinc. It changes only what you hear;
  the game, its echo and save states are unaffected. The choice is kept.
• New upscaler shaders: ScaleFX, NNEDI3 (neural) and NNEDI3
  (neural, high).
• A fresh install starts with the CRT Lottes shader. An install that
  already has a shader chosen keeps it.
• Updates never cost you a save. From the next update on, the updater
  copies your in-game saves and save states to save-backups\<date>_before_<version>\ before
  installing, leaves save files out of the copy and puts the backup back if
  they changed anyway. Save states from earlier versions keep working, and
  every release is now checked for that before it is published.

Fixed

• HDMA raster effects (per-line color, layer and scroll changes) started one
  line late; they now start on the line the game asks for.
• Choosing None as the shader during play no longer leaves a black
  screen.
• Multi-pass shaders that read the original game frame from a later pass
  (ScaleFX) no longer draw black.

Updating from 0.1.1: accept the update offer when the game starts, then press Generate & rebuild. In-game saves, save states and settings are kept (checked for this release: a save and a save state made in 0.1.1 survive the update and load in 0.1.2).

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Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.1

Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.1: renderer fixes, automatic updates and CRT by default. Setup pack: no ROM or game data is included; same first-run steps as before (see the README).

New

• Check for updates on start (next to Skip launcher on boot, on by default): when a newer release is out, the game offers to install it. It downloads the new pack, copies it over the install without deleting anything, keeps your ROM selection and opens the setup window: press Generate & rebuild. In-game saves, save states and settings are kept; save states from an older version may not load in a newer one, in-game saves always do.
• A fresh install starts with the CRT Geom (curved) shader. Whatever renderer or shader you pick in the launcher is saved and kept (Settings → Shader → None for the plain picture).

Fixed

• Renderer: sprites use the sprite table that was current on each line, HDMA effects enabled during vblank start on the first line, and writes made at the start of vblank are no longer applied one frame late.

Updating from 0.1.0: download this zip and unpack it over your install folder (0.1.0 has no updater yet), then run DonkeyKongCountrySNESRecomp.exe and press Generate & rebuild. Later versions update themselves.

Known limits

Most game code still runs through the snesrecomp interpreter; levels, saves and a full play-through are not yet verified.

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Donkey Kong Country Recomp 0.1.0

First Windows release of Donkey Kong Country Recomp.

This is a setup pack, not the game. It contains the launcher, the recompiler and the source code (with the framework patches applied); no ROM or game data is included or downloaded.

First run

1. Unzip anywhere and start DonkeyKongCountrySNESRecomp.exe.
2. Let it download the portable build tools (one time per machine), or point it at a cmake-clang-v1 zip you already have.
3. Pick your own Donkey Kong Country (USA).sfc — USA v1.0, CRC32 c946dca0.
4. Press Generate & rebuild. The playable game is built into build/ and started; run it from there afterwards.

What's in 0.1.0

• Boots through the Nintendo/Rare logos into the opening intro (Cranky's gramophone and DK's boombox scenes).
• DKC's NMI handler never returns with RTI and uploads sound data across several frames with NMI off; a framework patch treats such a handler as the main thread, so its idle-loop WAI ends the frame and a long upload resumes on the next frame instead of freezing the intro.
• Launcher Settings → Shader: 6 scanline, 5 CRT and 4 upscaler presets from libretro/glsl-shaders; choosing one switches the renderer to OpenGL automatically.
• Opens without a console window; diagnostics go to DonkeyKongCountrySNESRecomp.log.

Known limits

Most game code still runs through the snesrecomp interpreter. Levels, saves and a full play-through are not yet verified.

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