v0.0.3

Patch release for the built-in Mods catalog, opt-in coverage proof bundles,
and the first merged early-route user coverage profile. This is still
preview quality: an early-game replay segment has been checked against the
regenerated build, but the full game has not been verified end to end by a
human playthrough.

What's new

• Built-in Mods tab support. Release builds now ship a preloaded SMRPG mod
  catalog so recomp-ui's Mods page shows game-owned entries.
• Widescreen moved to a mod. Adaptive widescreen is no longer a Display
  setting. Enable the built-in Widescreen mod from the Mods tab; its HUD option
  selects split-edge or authentic centered HUD placement.
• Coverage proof capture mod. Enable Coverage proof capture from the Mods
  tab to write a coverage_bundles/smrpg_<timestamp>_p<PID>/ folder with the
  merge-ready manifest, append-only journal, summary, and saves when present.
• Merged early-route coverage. The first user-provided early-game coverage
  bundle was imported into recomp/tier2_coverage.json, raising the profile to
  1,939 discoveries and 5 RAM routines.
• Analyzer scaling fix. The shared native analyzer now reads large coverage
  root sets from temporary files instead of expanding them onto the process
  command line, avoiding Windows/MSYS Argument list too long failures during
  regeneration.
• SDL3 release path. SDL3 is the default desktop backend and was used for
  the validated Windows build.

Validation

• SMRPG coverage merge tests passed.
• tools/regen.sh succeeded with the merged coverage profile.
• Windows SDL3 release build succeeded and smoke-booted with 2 Mods-tab
  features loaded.
• A user replayed roughly the same early-game segment against the regenerated
  build and reported it played correctly.

Known limitations

• Static recompilation coverage remains small: the generated manifest has 2
  AOT-eligible variants and 8 LLE-only variants. Other code continues through
  the correctness-floor interpreter.
• The imported coverage proves the profile is mergeable and rebuildable; it
  does not prove every observed target is trusted native/static code.
• The full game still needs a completed end-to-end human playthrough.
• Gamepad bindings remain fixed in code. The launcher and keybinds.ini edit
  keyboard bindings only.

Install

Extract the Windows zip or make the Linux AppImage executable, place your own
verified Super Mario RPG (USA) ROM beside it, and run it. The ROM is not
included; expected hashes are documented in the README.