Lagoon 0.2.4 — official release

This official release addresses reports from the owner's completed campaign and exploration of every map. It remains a mixed native/interpreter port; the safety net stays enabled.

• Faster area changes: ordinary doors reuse more source-qualified native loading work and shorter fades. Four Atland/Gold Cave and Elf Field/Voloh crossings use 40–71% fewer loading fields, with the same destinations.
• Widescreen enemy simulation: ordinary enemies visible beyond the old screen boundary can run their original AI and animation. Authored attack distances remain unchanged.
• Thor's bridge: escorted safe jumps now cross the tablet bridge, including recovery after a mid-jump state reload. Existing wall routing and collision remain.
• Castle landing: the cloud exit has a 16-pixel larger landing catchment on each side, using the original castle transition.
• Equipment screen: fixes the split rightmost selection outline around the Moon Sword, armor and shield in widescreen.
• Boss health: first-phase Evil Spirit and Zerah bars track their actual fighting actors instead of a proxy or retired NPC. Combat, damage and later Thor/Bird health remain unchanged.
• Achievements: notices are 68% smaller and appear at the top right. The ending detector no longer mistakes the palette-animation byte for part of the completion counter. Existing completed-state loads do not retroactively grant achievements.
• Music audit: all 75 room descriptors and 17 replacement file identities/loops were checked. Unmapped cues retain SNES music. The prisoner disappearance includes an original short white flash; that scripted effect was preserved.

Focused source/original-opcode, save/load, health-drain, equipment navigation, actual 1080p GPU and packaged-launcher checks accompany this release. Hidden GPU/real-audio pacing averaged about 60 fps, with occasional intervals up to 23 ms; this is not a locked-60 or full-native claim. The map/special-menu visual redesign and zoom-out remain future work.

Extract the complete Windows ZIP, run Setup Lagoon.cmd or lagoon.Companion.exe, and supply your clean USA ROM. The game EXE, Companion, icons and reviewed X68000 soundtrack are included; the ROM is not. Keep your existing saves/settings when moving to the new package.

The owner has completed campaign playtesting. This is the official playable release. Future maintenance will address reported bugs; replacing every interpreter path is not a release requirement.