v0.3.0

Built on THPS64Host v0.3.0, with Full draw distance that reads each course's own zone data. It runs the USA v1.1, USA v1.0
and Europe releases of the N64 game, on macOS (universal) and Windows x64.

Changed

• Built on THPS64Host v0.3.0.
• Full draw distance tells scenery the game hides for distance apart from geometry hidden by course events, which stays as
  the game sets it.
• Known issues now describe the short pop that can occur when music is paused. The original game does the same.
• Tests: the course-cycle test recognizes the PAUSED logo over any course background; test rides claim a controller before
  steering; an opt-in session records and replays a complete ride; the Mall sign-event test brakes into the signs and checks
  the event before and after.

Fixed

• Full draw distance leaves rooms to the game: a zone the course hides from its own doors, such as School's gym, is drawn as in
  the original, so its doorway no longer shows overlapping geometry. This replaces the School-specific safeguard of v0.2 and
  finds such zones in every course from the course's own trigger data.

Built on THPS64Host v0.3.0.

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v0.2.0

Built on THPS64Host v0.2.0: split screen, Picture Border, rebinding, draw distance and the Original and Enhanced
presets. It runs the USA v1.1, USA v1.0 and Europe releases of the N64 game, on macOS (universal) and Windows x64.

Added

• Graphics > Picture Border (border = fill, --border fill): the 3D picture reaches the edges of the window, without
  the thin black frame the game leaves for a TV's overscan. It shows a little more of the scene at the same size (no
  zoom). Menus and loading screens keep their own frame. In a two-player split screen, both views reach the edges too
  and meet at the game's thin divider line in the middle.
• Rebinding in the settings menu: the Controls tab has a row per N64 input with two controller slots and two keyboard
  slots. Choose a slot and press the new button or key; a button another action uses trades places with it, and
  Default puts a row back. A slot that differs from the layout shows in yellow, and Reset all to default (it asks first)
  puts every binding back. Changes work at once and are saved to controls.cfg (MANUAL).
• A Controllers list in the Controls tab: which controller is player 1 or 2, what it is pressing right now, and buttons
  to swap players or give a controller either player. One controller on player 2 with the keyboard alone on player 1
  makes a two-player game with one controller. The choice lasts until you quit.
• Test sessions menu-controls, menu-controls-reload and menu-ports (virtual pads).
• Draw distance (Graphics tab, draw_distance in graphics.cfg, --draw-distance): Original (the game as it
  was), 2x, 4x and Full (the whole course, including the scenery the game hides by area as you skate; secrets and
  items a goal reveals stay hidden until the game shows them). It applies at once, shorter or longer, with no restart: the
  game always gets a bigger matrix buffer at start-up and uses only its own part of it at Original. It steps back on its own if a frame comes close to
  filling one of the game's buffers. Full also draws the scenery that skips the game's distance test but is hidden by
  area (Downhill Jam's lower end: the pool, the blocks and the building below the BRETT wall no longer pop in as you come
  over the edge). dd_buffers = original in graphics.cfg (--dd-buffers original; not in the menu)
  keeps the game's own buffers and memory layout exactly; it needs a restart.
• Tests: Europe's own reference pictures, for the few screens that differ from USA v1.1 (OWN_REFS in
  tests/scenarios.py), are recorded by test.sh --version thps1_eu --record.
• Fog (fog in graphics.cfg, --fog; not in the menu or a preset): Original (the default), Soft or Off. The game's
  fog is thin by design, a haze over the far end of the view (in most courses the last eighth). Soft starts it at 70 %
  of the draw distance, so far scenery fades in instead of popping in; Off shows a long draw distance most clearly. At
  Full draw distance the game's fog is far beyond the courses, so Soft looks like Original there. Test sessions
  fog-check (in the suite) and fog-shot (opt-in pictures).

Changed

• Built on THPS64Host v0.2.0.
• Frame Rate (Graphics tab, refresh in graphics.cfg, --refresh) is now Original (30) or 60, default 60. "Match display"
  and 120 are gone: at 120 Hz (what "Match display" gave on a ProMotion Mac) the picture stuttered. A graphics.cfg with
  refresh=display or another rate moves to 60 once, with a log line.
• Graphics > Preset (--preset original|enhanced): Original sets 4:3, the HUD in the 4:3 area, the 4:3 split screen,
  the black frame, 30 fps and the game's draw distance, as on the N64. Enhanced sets 16:9, the HUD at the screen edges,
  the wide split screen, Picture Border Fill, 60 fps and Full draw distance. Choosing one replaces your choices in those
  six rows; Custom shows when they match neither. A new install starts with Enhanced. An existing graphics.cfg keeps
  its values, and a setting it lacks takes the new default (so an older file gets Picture Border Fill and Full draw
  distance). Fog is in neither preset.
• Removed the known issue "at 21:9, a far wall can drop out at the right edge". It doesn't happen in v0.1.0. New tests
  check that widescreen never hides scenery at the edges of the picture.
• Two-player split screen fills the picture in widescreen (16:9, 21:9, following the window): each player's view is widened
  to its half, and each player's HUD sits at its own view's edge (also with HUD Placement original). 4:3 is unchanged.
  It's on by default; Graphics > Two-Player Split Screen (split, --split original) keeps both views in the 4:3 area,
  each with its HUD inside it, and black bands at the sides.
• Level starts freeze the picture for about 0.13 s instead of 0.2 s, and the attract demo's pauses are a third shorter:
  the shared host unpacks the game's data twice as fast and runs the game's memset and memcpy natively.
• BUILDING.md: on Windows use python instead of python3 and a C:/... path in THPS1_ROM, with a link to the Windows
  test checklist; how tools/check.sh shares the build's runtime; --first-run needs build_host.py --split first; where
  the test output goes; how to test Europe.

Built on THPS64Host v0.2.0.

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v0.1.0

The first public release, built on THPS64Host v0.1.0. It runs the USA v1.1, USA v1.0 and Europe releases of
the N64 game, on macOS (universal) and Windows x64.

Added

• A first start that builds the game from your own dump, on your machine, with progress, Cancel and Retry. On macOS it
  offers Apple's installer if the Command Line Tools are missing; the Windows zip brings its own compiler.
• Native rendering through RT64 (Metal, Direct3D 12), scaled to the window, with MSAA 4x.
• Widescreen: 16:9 by default, 21:9, or following the window. The in-level HUD moves to the screen edges
  (hud = expand); original keeps it in the centred 4:3 area.
• Frame interpolation to the display's rate (60 Hz, 120 Hz on ProMotion) over the game's 30 fps.
• The in-game settings menu (Esc, or Back on a controller): general, controls, graphics, sound and cheats.
• An Xbox-style controller layout (tricks on the face buttons) and the N64 layout; keyboard and SDL controllers, two
  players, hot-plugging; every binding in controls.cfg.
• Controller Pak saves as a standard 32 KiB .mpk file.
• Cheats for testing: Unlock All Levels, Perfect Balance, Slow Motion and Skip to Restart. They're off by default and
  named in the log and crash.log while on. The cheats aren't stored in the save; progress made with one on is saved as usual.
• Europe runs at 60 Hz, like the USA releases.
• Portable mode: a portable.txt beside the app keeps settings and saves next to it.

Fixed

• Far scenery in Downtown dropped out for a frame on quick turns, and logos in levels such as the Warehouse flashed. The
  host now redoes RT64's split of the camera matrix when the camera faces along the world's z axis.
• Short pops in the sound while paused or quiet, when the audio output ran dry for a moment (loads, unpausing, a busy
  machine). The output now fades out and back in instead of cutting.
• A crash in RT64's display-list parser: the runtime told the game the graphics task was done before RT64 had read it
  (an N64ModernRuntime patch).
• The special meter's fill spilled out of its frame with the HUD at the screen edges.
• OPTIONS > PLAYER 2 CONTROLS couldn't be left with one controller or the keyboard.
• The name-entry screen showed only the first letter on macOS (an RT64 Metal patch).
• Stale picture edges in the Chicago competition intro, and a flashing border on the select screens.
• A controller connected at start was opened twice.
• Windows: the settings migration was never saved, and the frame-interpolation time budget never applied.

Built on THPS64Host v0.1.0.

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