Mega Man X4 Recompiled v0.0.4 Audio Latency Test 1

Diagnostic prerelease for audio-latency testing.

What changed:

• Mega Man X4 now requests a 60 ms host audio cushion instead of the framework's conservative 180 ms default.
• Other games keep the 180 ms default unless they explicitly opt in.
• Built from the latest MegaManX4Recomp master, latest psxrecomp master plus the per-game audio-buffer knob, and latest recomp-ui master.
• Includes the redistributable OpenBIOS; you only need your own Mega Man X4 disc image.

Please report:

• whether sound effects feel more immediate;
• whether you hear any new crackle, especially during stage transitions, cutscenes, or loading.

SHA-256: 467346DD4E0DC9062583A9F5C3F1DCBB8FCB8F6A419CE211A36DA6EC8E2D8A61

MegaManX4Recomp v0.0.3-alpha - shared ImGui launcher

Replaces the old RmlUi launcher with the shared Dear ImGui recomp-ui launcher. BIOS and disc selection, settings, controls, memory cards, and the Launch button now use the DPI-independent shared layout, addressing #3. Existing alpha gameplay caveats remain unchanged.

Mega Man X4 Recompiled v0.0.2-alpha

🆕 New in v0.0.2

• Experimental Widescreen (true 16:9). X4's opt-in wide field of view is now available from the launcher's Widescreen (EXPERIMENTAL) toggle — it widens the three-layer scrolling background and re-anchors the health/weapon HUD to the true 16:9 edges, without disturbing world sprites. 4:3 remains the default; flip the toggle to try 16:9.
• OpenGL is now the default renderer (full-rate hardware presentation). Software is still one click away in the launcher (Settings → Renderer).
• A large batch of framework engine improvements since v0.0.1 — full-rate OpenGL presentation, audio reserve/transient hardening, and byte-verified static + overlay dispatch. X4 was re-recompiled and re-validated against the updated framework.

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You supply your own PlayStation BIOS and Mega Man X4 (USA, SLUS-00561) disc — see START_HERE.txt in the zip. Digital controller (X4 predates the DualShock). Stage code streams as overlays and JIT-compiles on first visit via the bundled toolchain, then caches.

MegaManX4Recomp v0.0.1-alpha

Mega Man X4 Recompiled — v0.0.1-alpha

The first public cut, made days after first boot. Mega Man X4 boots and
plays as a native Windows program — no emulator behind it — on the
PSXRecomp framework, the same one behind
TombaRecomp,
MegaManX5Recomp and
MegaManX6Recomp. The game's MIPS
code is machine-translated ahead of time into native C and compiled into a real
Windows executable that runs on a faithful simulation of the PS1 hardware plus
the recompiled PS1 BIOS.

✨ Highlights — what works

• Boots and plays. BIOS → disc detect → engine load → intro cinematics →
  title → attract demos → into the game, with no known crashes on the covered
  path.
• The intro cinematics decode and play (the X vs. Zero opening), riding the
  faithful CD read/seek-timing work that unlocked MMX5's FMV.
• Correct-by-hardware controller handling. X4 shipped before the
  DualShock existed and its pad driver rejects analog pads outright — exactly
  like the real console, where a DualShock with the analog LED lit is ignored
  by this game. The runtime presents the plain digital pad X4 expects, and the
  launcher offers no pad-mode selector (there is exactly one valid mode).
  Keyboard and SDL gamepads both work.
• A recompiler milestone made X4 possible: X4's engine keeps inline data
  tables inside its code, which tripped the old function-extent heuristic into
  classifying ~261 KB of real engine code (7,373 functions) as data. The new
  control-flow-aware extent analysis recovers them — this fix benefits every
  PSXRecomp title.
• Fast loading (turbo loads). Loads fast-forward the whole machine at full
  host speed while keeping authentic 1× guest CD timing (and audio) intact.
• Supersampling + anti-aliasing. Internal-resolution SSAA (1×–4×) with
  optional linear present filtering.
• Graphical launcher. Pick BIOS / disc / memory cards, verify the disc, and
  configure renderer, supersampling, and controller — choices persist between
  launches.
• Self-contained overlay toolchain. As you explore new areas the runtime
  converts the game's streamed ARC overlay code to native code in the
  background — no developer tools needed; the release bundles a fully
  self-contained toolchain (embedded Python + TinyCC).

⚠️ Known issues

• Early preview — not verified deep into stages. The covered path (intro,
  title, menus, attract, starting a game) works with no known crashes, but X4
  has ~2,800 not-yet-recompiled code regions that an unvisited area may hit. By
  design that halts the program loudly instead of silently misbehaving — if it
  happens to you, please report where you were.
• Memory-card save/load not yet verified end-to-end in this build (the
  card hardware layer is exercised and healthy).
• No widescreen this release. X4 ships 4:3 only; the launcher's
  Widescreen toggle is hidden for this title until the 2D wide field-of-view is
  ported (same mechanism as MMX6's).

📝 Setup

• Bring your own PlayStation BIOS (SCPH1001.BIN) and Mega Man X4 (USA,
  SLUS-00561) disc image — the launcher asks for each. Verify your disc against
  DISC.md before reporting regressions. Use .cue + .bin (or .bin); do
  not convert to a 2048-byte "cooked" .iso — that discards the XA sectors
  the movies and audio stream from.
• Options live in the launcher's Settings and are remembered between
  launches.
• The overlay cache grows as you play; please keep overlay_captures.json
  private — it contains game code read from your disc (see README).