Ape Escape Recompiled v0.0.6 — new launcher + widescreen fixes

New shared recomp-ui launcher (real disc verification, memory-card management, deep PSX display options, pad modes + full rebinding) and widescreen fixes (stable projection + title-dome). Self-contained Windows x64 build; supply your own BIOS + disc. See RELEASE_NOTES.md.

Ape Escape Recompiled v0.0.5

🕹️ Controls fix — phantom camera rotation

The camera no longer spins on its own, and the analog stick no longer rotates it. On a controller, pushing the left stick to move — or even slight stick centre-drift at rest — was also being read as D-pad left/right, which Ape Escape uses to rotate the camera. So the camera drifted constantly and swung whenever you moved.

The left stick and the D-pad are now independent, exactly like a real DualShock: the left stick moves (analog only) and the D-pad rotates the camera. If your camera was rotating with no input, this release is the fix.

Settings and saves carry over. Thanks to VGEsoterica for the report.

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Everything from v0.0.4 (critical disc-image boot fix), v0.0.3 (L3/R3 stick clicks), and v0.0.2 (memory-card save/load) carries forward. You supply your own PlayStation BIOS and Ape Escape (USA, SCUS-94423) disc — see START_HERE.txt in the zip. An analog controller is strongly recommended.

Ape Escape Recompiled v0.0.4

🛠️ Critical boot fix — v0.0.2 / v0.0.3 could not start on user machines

If you downloaded v0.0.2 or v0.0.3 and the game closed itself moments after launch, this release is the fix. Those builds relied on a reference copy of the game's boot executable that only exists in a development checkout (it's game data, so it is never shipped in the zip). Without it, the runtime's text-integrity guard never armed and the boot died silently right after the BIOS handed control to the game — on every user install, on both boot paths.

The runtime now extracts that reference directly from your disc image — the same bytes the BIOS boots — so it works on every install. Your settings and saves carry over; just replace the old folder's exe (or extract fresh).

Carried forward from v0.0.3

• L3 / R3 (stick clicks) are first-class across the whole input stack: controller stick-clicks out of the box (remappable in input.ini), keyboard T / Y defaults, launcher Controls chips.

Everything from v0.0.2 (memory-card save/load, FMV+audio, OpenGL/Software renderers, instant boot, experimental widescreen) is unchanged.

As always: bring your own legally obtained BIOS (SCPH1001.BIN) and Ape Escape (USA, SCUS-94423) disc image — see START_HERE.txt in the zip.

Ape Escape Recompiled v0.0.3

Caution

This build does not start on user machines - it exits silently moments after launch (a reference file needed by the runtime's text-integrity guard only exists in development checkouts). Download v0.0.4 instead.

🆕 L3 / R3 (stick clicks) now work

Ape Escape uses the stick-click buttons for core moves, and they previously could not be produced by any input device. They are now first-class across the whole input stack:

• Controller: clicking the left/right stick sends L3/R3 out of the box (l3 = leftstick, r3 = rightstick in input.ini, remappable).
• Keyboard: bound to T / Y by default (continuing the Q/W/E/R shoulder row), rebindable on the launcher's Controls page.
• Existing installs pick the new defaults up automatically unless you had explicitly set l3/r3 in your own input.ini/keybinds.ini.

Everything from v0.0.2 (memory-card save/load, FMV+audio, OpenGL/Software renderers, instant boot, experimental widescreen) carries forward unchanged.

As always: bring your own legally obtained BIOS (SCPH1001.BIN) and Ape Escape (USA, SCUS-94423) disc image — see START_HERE.txt in the zip.

Ape Escape Recompiled v0.0.2

Caution

This build does not start on user machines - it exits silently moments after launch (a reference file needed by the runtime's text-integrity guard only exists in development checkouts). Download v0.0.4 instead.

Ape Escape Recompiled — v0.0.2-alpha

Ape Escape boots from the real PlayStation BIOS and plays as a native
Windows program with no emulator behind it, on the
PSXRecomp framework — the same pipeline
behind TombaRecomp and MegaManX6Recomp.

🆕 New in v0.0.2

• Memory-card save / load now works. The card screen completes reliably:
  progress saves and loads back on standard PS1 .mcd images. This closes the
  one gap called out in v0.0.1 (issue #4) — a framework-level fix to how a
  cooperative thread-switch is deferred across interrupt delivery, so the card
  read/write is only resumed at a boundary where its CPU state is coherent.
  Validated against MegaManX6 and Tomba (1) with no regression.

✅ What works

• Boots and plays. PS1 BIOS → disc detect → intro → title → gameplay, with
  no known crashes.
• Dual-analog controller. Ape Escape is built around the DualShock's two
  sticks (the right stick swings the net). Any plugged pad is auto-bound and
  presented to the game as a DualShock; a keyboard folds onto the analog stick.
• Memory-card save / load. Standard PS1 .mcd images, emulator-compatible.
• FMV + audio. MDEC video and XA/SPU audio play; FMVs can be auto-skipped.
• OpenGL renderer by default, with a Software renderer selectable in the
  launcher. Optional supersampling + anti-aliasing.
• Instant-boot (HLE). Skips the BIOS boot animation and drops you into the
  game; the real recompiled BIOS stays linked for everything else.

✨ Experimental: widescreen (16:9 / 21:9)

Off by default — the game ships authentic 4:3. Turn it on in the launcher
(Widescreen — EXPERIMENTAL). It renders a genuinely wider field of view:

• The 3D world fills the wider frame (the render funnel and object screen-culls
  are widened so geometry isn't clipped at the old 4:3 edge).
• The HUD (item ring, ammo, radar) is re-anchored to the true wide corners.
• A native-wide GL compositor optimization keeps it at a locked 60fps.
• 21:9 is also available (a fully-3D title has no authored-parallax ceiling).

Known rough edges on the widescreen path (4:3 is unaffected): the title/menu sky
"dome" doesn't reach the far corners on a few screens, and some objects still
pop in by distance or at the old edge. See ISSUES.md.

Notes

• This package includes no game assets, no disc data, and no BIOS — you
  supply your own legally obtained Ape Escape (USA) disc image and SCPH1001.BIN
  on first launch. The executable contains a statically recompiled
  (machine-translated) build of the game's code, the same distribution model as
  N64: Recompiled.
• Disc formats: .cue+.bin (pick the .cue) or .bin. Do not convert to
  a 2048-byte "cooked" .iso — it discards the XA sectors used for FMV/audio.
• This is a very early preview; a full playthrough has not been verified.

PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. Ape Escape is copyright Sony Computer
Entertainment / SIE.

Ape Escape Recompiled v0.0.1

First preview build of Ape Escape (SCUS-94423) statically recompiled to native Windows code on the psxrecomp v4 framework.

Status: boots from the PlayStation BIOS into Ape Escape's 3D title and gameplay. Very early — a full playthrough is not yet verified, so treat this as a preview, not a certified build.

What's inside: self-contained Windows x64 build (imports only system DLLs) with the RmlUi launcher. You supply your own PlayStation BIOS (SCPH1001.BIN) and Ape Escape (USA) disc image — the launcher asks for them on first run. Ape Escape requires an analog (DualShock) controller; a controller is strongly recommended.

Engine: built on the merged-master CD model (boot-EXE-load SeekL wedge fixed via deferred CD-response presentation). FMV auto-skip on by default; turbo loads on.

See START_HERE.txt in the zip. Private preview.