Giants Recompiled 0.3.0-beta.6

Giants Recompiled, 0.3.0-beta.6 (test version).

• The log now says where you were. When a level has its Skylander, every few minutes of play, at a crash and with a problem note (F4 > Game > Report a problem), the log gets a line like Where: Level_214_Tutotial_2 at 31.30 0.80 98.38: the level and your Skylander's position. With a report we can go straight to that spot, so most reports no longer need your save. Nothing else about you is in it.

• When the game wants a Skylander back: take one off in a shop or a talk and Giants asks for that very one back ("put the Skylander back on the portal"), as on the console. The portal menu used to offer every figure there, and any other one did nothing. Now it says which Skylander the game wants, and A or B puts it back.

• Play from a USB stick: with Core of Light's new "Portable data" setting (Core of Light 0.3.0-beta.3), a game in Core of Light's Games folder keeps its saves, figures and settings in the Skylanders folder next to Core of Light, on any PC and with any drive letter.

• What got tested, and how it went: every level of all six games, the figures and the end credits, on the test status page.

The easy way: install Core of Light, the launcher. It sets this game up from your disc and keeps it up to date by itself.

On its own: run GiantsRecompSetup-0.3.0-beta.6.exe and point it at your own Xbox 360 disc (an ISO file or an extracted folder). It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": "More info" > "Run anyway". The README says which disc version it needs.

The game's data (graphics, sound, levels, movies) doesn't come with it: the setup takes it from your own disc.

Problems: F4 > Game > "Report a problem" in the game, then a new issue.

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