v0.2.0-alpha — Widescreen, better controllers, remembers your settings

Tomba! Recompiled — v0.2.0-alpha

The biggest update yet: widescreen, a much better controller experience, and the game now remembers your settings.

✨ What's new

Widescreen (experimental 16:9)

Play in 16:9 with a genuinely wider field of view — you see more of the world to the sides, not a stretched-out picture. Turn it on in the launcher under Settings → Widescreen (it works on both the OpenGL and software renderers).

It's experimental, so expect rough edges: some menus/HUD elements and the occasional background seam can look a little off, and ultrawide (21:9) isn't ready yet. Leave it at 4:3 for the most faithful look.

Better controller support

• Analog stick and D-pad both work at the same time — no controller mode to toggle. Push the stick gently to walk and harder to run (true variable speed); the D-pad keeps working too.
• DualShock / analog is on by default now (both player slots).
• New analog stick deadzone slider in the launcher (Settings → Controller) if your stick drifts or feels too touchy.

Remembers your settings

Your in-game OPTION choices — text speed, sound, vibration, screen adjust — now stick between launches. Set text speed to Auto and turn vibration off once, and that's how it'll be every time you boot. No more re-doing it on every launch.

Smoother performance

• The OpenGL renderer is more efficient now, clearing up slowdown in busy areas (and in widescreen).
• The game converts more of itself into fast native code as you play and reuses that work on later launches — so spots that hitched the first time run smoothly afterward.

Even better crash reports

Building on the last release's crash safety net: reports now name the exact function involved in the rare runaway-recursion crash, and a new guard catches a class of stack-overflow crashes gracefully (writing a report) instead of just closing. If you hit the rare Underground Maze / seesaw crash (issue #1), the report now has what's needed to fix it — please attach psx_last_run_report.json.

Launcher polish

• The two Player cards stay an even 50/50 size when you pick a controller (they no longer go lopsided).

📝 Notes

• As always, bring your own PlayStation BIOS and Tomba! (USA, SCUS-94236) disc image — the launcher asks for each.
• Widescreen is opt-in and experimental.
• The overlay cache grows as you play; please keep overlay_captures.json private — it contains game code read from your disc (see README).