Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.6

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.6

Fixed

• VSync on Linux and Steam Deck (#5): the launcher's VSync switch could not be turned on, because it changed a Windows-only setting. It now works on Linux too (pressing Play restarts the game to apply it). Thanks to @ZacOnGH for the report.

This build ships the same antivirus-clean rexruntime.dll as v0.9.4 (SHA-256 e87c3555602c41b18579ef8932639f7afc9324b0ca448f6e7608010d10edbbc3).

How to update

Open the launcher: it offers the update and installs it for you (or About > Check now). Your game files, saves and settings are kept.

New install

• Windows: unzip EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.6-windows-x64.zip anywhere, run earthworm_jim_hd.exe, click Install from package... on the Play page and pick your own Earthworm Jim HD Xbox Live Arcade package (title ID 584109E2, game version 1.0.0.11; see the README for the exact file).
• Linux / Steam Deck: download EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.6-linux-x86_64.AppImage, make it executable and run it; the README has the Steam Deck steps.

No game files are included.

SHA-256 and VirusTotal

• EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.6-windows-x64.zip: 2c940956830f735b9c9ff31e2e590eb955ad4776ba20606ba1aa3beec8383bc7 (VirusTotal)
• EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.6-linux-x86_64.AppImage: 19d04f23268b9716d8e80808b6434aa98deb2cbe6eba19879bc0255d2e372c00 (VirusTotal)

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.5

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.5

New

• Fullscreen hotkey (#4): press F11 or Alt+Enter while playing to switch between fullscreen and windowed. No restart needed. Your choice is saved, so the launcher and your next start keep it. Thanks to @Bighead-SMZ for the suggestion.

Fixed

• Saving settings while playing no longer writes out two runtime settings the port sets itself at every start.

This build ships the same antivirus-clean rexruntime.dll as v0.9.4 (SHA-256 e87c3555602c41b18579ef8932639f7afc9324b0ca448f6e7608010d10edbbc3).

How to update

Open the launcher: it offers the update and installs it for you (or About > Check now). Your game files, saves and settings are kept.

New install

• Windows: unzip EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.5-windows-x64.zip anywhere, run earthworm_jim_hd.exe, click Install from package... on the Play page and pick your own Earthworm Jim HD Xbox Live Arcade package (title ID 584109E2, game version 1.0.0.11; see the README for the exact file).
• Linux / Steam Deck: download EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.5-linux-x86_64.AppImage, make it executable and run it; the README has the Steam Deck steps.

No game files are included.

SHA-256

• EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.5-windows-x64.zip: 95772702d57a2a0f16744029c817396020b4d33c5116ec1b335b38d76e0faecf
• EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.5-linux-x86_64.AppImage: c3396679bc18355a023b0cd9c1900e35604fb2963728f3792d3a244bc1165b0b

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.4

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.4

Fixed

• Antivirus warnings on the Windows download. The warnings came from rexruntime.dll, the runtime from the ReXGlue SDK v0.10.0 that the port is built on: several antivirus engines, Windows Defender among them, wrongly flag that particular build of it (reported upstream: rexglue/rexglue-sdk#485). This release ships rexruntime.dll built from the same ReXGlue v0.10.0 source, so the game itself is unchanged.

Nothing else changed since v0.9.3.

How to update

Open the launcher: it offers the update and installs it for you (or About > Check now). Your game files, saves and settings are kept. If Windows quarantined a file from an earlier version, download this release fresh instead.

New install

• Windows: unzip EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.4-windows-x64.zip anywhere, run earthworm_jim_hd.exe, click Install from package... on the Play page and pick your own Earthworm Jim HD Xbox Live Arcade package (title ID 584109E2, game version 1.0.0.11; see the README for the exact file).
• Linux / Steam Deck: download EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage, make it executable and run it; the README has the Steam Deck steps.

No game files are included.

SHA-256

• EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.4-windows-x64.zip: 76f5b79823718760222ad68c320d388b5937fe87deecbf7d20566318c8c5c734
• EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.4-linux-x86_64.AppImage: 4828f5ddae29d3ae36ce47f436084ad9cd40234c116f2b4547b9627cf015a2f5
• rexruntime.dll (inside the zip): e87c3555602c41b18579ef8932639f7afc9324b0ca448f6e7608010d10edbbc3

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.3

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.3

New: Cheats

A new Cheats page in the launcher (#1):

• Infinite health: hits no longer drain Jim's health. Pits and other instant deaths still count.
• Infinite lives: Jim keeps his lives when he dies, so it is never Game Over.
• Infinite ammo: the plasma gun never runs low.
• Rapid fire: the plasma gun fires three times as fast.
• High jump: Jim jumps higher.
• Fast run: Jim runs half as fast again.

Every cheat is off by default. Turn them on or off on the Cheats page before you press Play; turning one off gives you the game's normal values back. They work in Jim's platform levels. Achievements can still be unlocked with cheats on.

How to update

Open the launcher: it offers the update and installs it for you (or About > Check now). Your game files, saves and settings are kept.

New install

• Windows: unzip EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.3-windows-x64.zip anywhere, run earthworm_jim_hd.exe, click Install from package... on the Play page and pick your own Earthworm Jim HD Xbox Live Arcade package (title ID 584109E2, game version 1.0.0.11; see the README for the exact file).
• Linux / Steam Deck: download EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.3-linux-x86_64.AppImage, make it executable and run it; the README has the Steam Deck steps.

No game files are included.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a DirectX 12 graphics card, or a 64-bit Linux system / Steam Deck with Vulkan.

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.2

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.2

Fixed

• Crash when choosing Continue, for real this time (#2). v0.9.1 only fixed half of it. Continue opens the level select, which reads the leaderboards; without Xbox Live the game still crashed on one of those reads. The port now answers like a leaderboard with no entries, so Level Select opens and shows "World record: No data...". Tested with a save that has Continue on the main menu.

New: Linux and Steam Deck

EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.2-linux-x86_64.AppImage runs natively on Linux and the Steam Deck.

On a Steam Deck:

1. In Desktop Mode, download the AppImage, right-click it > Properties > Permissions and tick Is executable.
2. Copy your Earthworm Jim HD package to the Deck (USB stick, SD card or network).
3. Double-click the AppImage. On the Play page click Install from package... and pick your package. The game files go in a game folder next to the AppImage.
4. In Steam, Games > Add a Non-Steam Game and pick the AppImage, then play it from Game Mode.

In the launcher, use the touchscreen or the trackpad to change settings; Start presses Play. You can turn the launcher off on the Play page (hold Shift at start to bring it back).

How to update

Open the launcher: it offers the update and installs it for you (or About > Check now). On Windows it replaces the program files; on Linux it replaces the AppImage. Your game files, saves and settings are kept.

New install (Windows)

1. Unzip EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.2-windows-x64.zip anywhere and run earthworm_jim_hd.exe.
2. On the Play page click Install from package... and pick your own Earthworm Jim HD Xbox Live Arcade package (title ID 584109E2, game version 1.0.0.11; see the README for the exact file).
3. Press PLAY.

No game files are included.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a DirectX 12 graphics card, or a 64-bit Linux system / Steam Deck with Vulkan.

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.1

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.1

Fixed

• Crash when choosing Continue (#2). The game reads its leaderboard stats when you continue a saved game, and the runtime answered that request with garbage, so the game crashed. It now answers the way an Xbox 360 does when it isn't signed in to Xbox Live: the game skips the leaderboard data and carries on. Your saves were never affected.

How to update

Open the launcher: it offers the update and installs it for you (or use About > Check now). You can also download EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.1-windows-x64.zip below and copy it over your current folder. Your game folder, saves and settings are kept.

New install

1. Unzip EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.1-windows-x64.zip anywhere and run earthworm_jim_hd.exe.
2. On the Play page click Install from package... and pick your own Earthworm Jim HD Xbox Live Arcade package (title ID 584109E2, game version 1.0.0.11; see the README for the exact file).
3. Press PLAY.

No game files are included.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a DirectX 12 graphics card.

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.0

Earthworm Jim HD PC Port v0.9.0

Play the Xbox 360 edition of Earthworm Jim HD natively on Windows, with the TRG launcher and modern PC options.

Install

1. Unzip EarthwormJimHD-v0.9.0-windows-x64.zip anywhere and run earthworm_jim_hd.exe.
2. On the launcher's Play page click Install from package... and pick your own Earthworm Jim HD Xbox Live Arcade package.
3. Press PLAY.

No game files are included. You need your own package, this exact release:

Title ID	584109E2 (Xbox Live Arcade, content type 000D0000)
Package file	8510D3A10187458FD69203D1E4067E736923865658 (455,823,360 bytes), found in Content\0000000000000000\584109E2\000D0000\ on an Xbox 360 drive
Game version	default.xex 1.0.0.11 (2010-04-27), 26,726,400 bytes, CRC32 D6366187, no title update

The launcher checks both and explains if your package is a different version.

What's in it

• The TRG launcher, with art from your copy of the game
• Up to 8K render resolution with quality presets, FXAA, 2x MSAA and 16x texture filtering
• Frame-rate caps from 30 to unlimited at the game's normal speed
• Letterbox or stretch, windowed or fullscreen, monitor choice
• All six languages
• Saves work (fixed: the game could not read its profile data under the runtime)
• Xbox 360 style achievement pop-ups with your choice of sound
• Deadzone, vibration, button remapping and keyboard play
• The full game unlocked (switch to the trial on the Play page if you want)
• Updates: the launcher checks GitHub when it opens and offers to install new versions (About page: Ask / Automatic / Off)

Other download

EarthwormJimHD-Builder builds the same thing on your own PC from source and your package (about 15 to 30 minutes).

Reporting problems

If the game crashes, please open an issue and attach the crash-*.txt and .dmp files from the logs folder next to the game.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a DirectX 12 graphics card.