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@github-actions github-actions released this 28 Aug 18:13
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The first release: the campaign plays through, on your own disc.

A native PC recreation of Quake II for the PlayStation — Hammerhead's 1999 port.
Not an emulator: the game's logic runs natively, and the PlayStation's GPU and
GTE semantics are reproduced so it still looks the way it did. The fidelity
switches are individually toggleable, so the same build also runs
perspective-correct at 4K.

What changed

Reconstruction

  • Every on-disc format is read: the .DAT container, zones, scene graph, geometry, collision hulls, spawns, lights, triggers, level scripts, sound banks, models and animation. Checked across the PAL disc's 164 level files — 461,852 vertices, 274,936 quads, 139,240 collision planes, 94,642 collision portals, 1,723 models, 2,036,080 animation keys and 2,475 sounds — with zero failures.
  • docs/openquestions.md closes with no open questions: 157 resolved, 18 partial with the remaining residue stated, and 4 marked terminal because this disc cannot answer them.
  • All seven creature modules are transcribed from their own MIPS, 57 of 57 callbacks, together with the framework they run on — T_Damage, M_ReactToDamage, and the 71-slot import table named end to end.
  • The player's whole frame, the pad read with its nine control styles, and the view's three independently decaying kicks are read out of the executable rather than approximated.
  • The .STX film format is read and written. All 5,301 frames of the three films decode, and the encoder returns every one of TAKE1BP.STX's 7,712 sectors byte-identical, EDC and Reed-Solomon included.

Client

  • q2psx --version reports the build and the commit it came from, the way q2psx-inspect already did.
  • The campaign plays through: eleven levels across five units, Strogg Outpost to Final Showdown, with the mission screen at every unit boundary, the briefing on arrival, and the inventory carried across.
  • The boot chain runs ahead of the menu — four logo screens and the intro film — and the campaign ends on the outro, both played to the frame the original stops them at rather than to the end of the file.
  • The front end: title screen, single- and multiplayer pages, player, sound and video options, the credits, and all nine memory-card screens.
  • Saved games in four slots plus quick save, holding the level clock, the script's flags, trigger residency, collected items, which doors are open and where in their travel, which windows are broken, and who is dead.
  • Multiplayer with --dm: up to four players in split screen, each with its own spawn, pad, camera, viewport and inventory, sharing one world, played through to the frag limit and the scoreboard.
  • Doors and lifts move, rotating brushes turn, scripted ambushes fire, key gates hold, hazards hurt and glass breaks.

Rendering and audio

  • A software rasteriser built to the PlayStation's rules rather than filtered to look like them: exact fixed-point GTE with its saturation flags and reciprocal table, affine texture mapping, ordering-table sort with no depth buffer, 15-bit RGB555 with the ordered dither, all four semi-transparency modes, texture pages, CLUTs and the mask bit. Every one is individually toggleable, so the same build runs perspective-correct at 4K.
  • Models draw textured, animated, lit through the GTE's own three-light gather, and backface-rejected against the model linker's own NCLIP pair.
  • Lens flares, the water warp, the damage flash, and the status bar with the icon and caption for what you just picked up.
  • Audio: SPU-ADPCM sound bank playback for the menu, items, player and every creature; and each map's own seven-track XA playlist.

Tools

  • q2psx-inspect identifies a disc, verifies every level file against the documented schema, and checks every format claim in the docs against the disc — so "we understand this format" is something the build evaluates rather than something a document asserts. It also renders levels, models, HUDs and menus to a PPM with no window, and carries a PS-X EXE loader and an R3000A disassembler for the questions only the executable can answer.
  • stx2avi demuxes a film into the raw video and audio streams ffmpeg can mux, driving the same decoder the game uses rather than a second one.

Fixes

  • The repository could not be cloned on Windows at all. A tracked file was called nul.ppm, and NUL is a DOS device name, so Git refuses to create it: the checkout failed, not the build. Renamed to parity-frame.ppm, content unchanged, and scripts/check_paths.py now fails CI on any tracked path Windows cannot create.
  • Nothing had ever built on Linux. The link failed on undefined sin and sqrt because nothing asked for libm, which glibc keeps in a library of its own where Windows and macOS fold it into the C runtime.
  • disc.c did not compile under GCC either. fseeko, ftello, off_t and strtok_r are POSIX rather than C11, and this project compiles as strict C11, under which glibc hides them — and an implicitly declared strtok_r would have truncated its returned pointer to 32 bits on a 64-bit host. A CD image can exceed what C11's long-based fseek reaches, so the POSIX interfaces are declared rather than given up.

Build and packaging

  • The version lives in one file, VERSION, which CMake reads to seed project() and the generated version.h. A binary, a tag and an archive cannot disagree about what was built.
  • A manual release workflow builds Windows, Linux and macOS, tests each, and only then tags and publishes — so a tag never points at a commit that does not compile. scripts/ holds the version, changelog, release-note and packaging tools it runs, each usable by hand.
  • CI builds and tests on GCC, Clang, MSVC and Apple Clang with warnings as errors, and checks that the version each binary reports is the one in VERSION.
  • A fetched SDL3 never shipped in the Linux or macOS archives, so those would have contained a client that could not start. Shared libraries now build beside the executables and the client carries an $ORIGIN rpath.

Documentation

  • docs/RELEASING.md describes the versioning scheme and how to cut a release.

Getting it

You need your own Quake II PSX disc. This download contains no game assets
and no id Software or Hammerhead code.

Download For
q2psx-pc-0.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz Linux, x86-64
q2psx-pc-0.1.0-macos-arm64.tar.gz macOS, Apple silicon
q2psx-pc-0.1.0-windows-x64.zip Windows 10/11, 64-bit

Unpack the archive and point the client at a .cue, .bin, .img or .iso,
or at an optical drive:

q2psx --disc "Quake II (Europe).cue"
q2psx --disc E:
q2psx

q2psx-inspect is the offline tool: it identifies a disc, verifies every level
file against the documented schema, decodes the audio, textures and films, and
renders a level or a model to an image without opening a window.

Verifying a download

SHA256SUMS.txt is attached and covers every archive here:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt        # Linux
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt    # macOS
Get-FileHash q2psx-pc-*.zip        # Windows PowerShell

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