Core of Light 0.3.0-beta.2

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.3.0-beta.2 (test version).

• Upgrade trees with all their names again: a figure's tree now comes from the game that has the most of its names and descriptions, its own game first. Swap Force's swappers showed Trap Team's or Imaginators' copy, which leaves some path names and descriptions empty.
• Ideas welcome: opening a new issue now offers "Idea or request" next to "Problem", in this repository and in each game's.

Install: either download CoreOfLightSetup-0.3.0-beta.2.exe and run it (no admin rights needed), or take the ZIP above. Neither is signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway".

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with Launcher settings (LB / Q) > "Report a problem" and a new issue (attach the text file it makes).

Not affiliated with Activision, Toys for Bob or Vicarious Visions. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.3.0-beta.1

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.3.0-beta.1 (test version).

• Portable version (#46): CoreOfLightPortable-0.3.0-beta.1.zip is the same launcher without a setup. Unzip it anywhere and run coreoflight.exe. It updates itself from the next release's ZIP (keep portable.txt next to the exe), so launcher managers like Quiver can handle it. Your data stays in Documents\Skylanders either way.
• Settings lists show arrows when they go on above or below (the launcher settings are longer than the screen: export, import and the Imaginators rows come after "Handheld mode").

The games got updates too: soft shadows at resolution scale 2 and up (Imaginators especially), a rare start-up crash fixed, and in Trap Team the portal menu opens on the right element when the villain vault asks for a trap. With "Update games by themselves" on, they come in on their own.

Install: either download CoreOfLightSetup-0.3.0-beta.1.exe and run it (no admin rights needed), or take the ZIP above. Neither is signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway".

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with Launcher settings (LB / Q) > "Report a problem" and a new issue (attach the text file it makes).

Not affiliated with Activision or Toys for Bob. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.9

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.2.0-beta.9 (test version).

• Moving to a new PC: Launcher settings (LB on the pad, or Q) > "Export my data" puts one file on your desktop with your figures, saves (and their copies), achievements, profiles and all settings. On the new PC, "Import my data" brings it back. Nothing gets overwritten; if a game already has settings of its own there, it asks first.
• Check game files: in a game's settings (Y or Tab), the new row "Check game files" says whether the game's disc files are all there and offers to take the disc again if not.
• Handheld mode: on a handheld PC (ROG Ally, Legion Go, Steam Deck with Windows) the screens are a bit bigger and new games are set up at resolution scale 1x. Automatic by default, or on / off in the launcher settings.
• The games' own element symbols in the figure library (the games leave them since their last update; start each game once).
• A real USB portal shows in the top bar when one is plugged in. Click it to see whether the chosen game uses it.
• Collection progress (launcher settings, off by default): each tab of the figure library says how many of its figures you have.
• What's new shows at the bottom right of the launcher settings.
• The element stripe on the figure cards stays inside their round corners.

The games got updates too: Trap Team's portal speaker plays every line to its end, and Spyro's Adventure lost the ghost outline at resolution scale 2 and up. With "Update games by themselves" on, they come in on their own.

Install: download CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.9.exe and run it. It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway". No admin rights needed.

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with Launcher settings (LB / Q) > "Report a problem" and a new issue (attach the text file it makes).

Not affiliated with Activision or Toys for Bob. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.8

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.2.0-beta.8 (test version).

• Imaginators in English, German or French: Launcher settings (LB on the pad, or Q) > "Imaginators language", pick the language, then your own PS3 disc of Imaginators (a decrypted .iso or its unpacked folder). Texts, voices and story movies switch over, takes about a minute. The same row brings your Xbox 360 disc's own languages back. Your 360 disc stays the game's base, the PS3 disc only lends the language.
• A PS3 disc in the disc browser asks for the language instead of failing, and the disc search (Y) lists it too.
• Clearer messages for a PS3 disc of another game, an encrypted PS3 dump and a disc it doesn't know.

The games got an update as well (0.2.0-beta.4, Imaginators 0.2.0-beta.5): no more crash at start when the window moves to another monitor, the portal menu leaves a Skylander alone while the game is still loading it, and Giants and Trap Team have "Nightmare from the start" in F4 > Game. With "Update games by themselves" on (Settings), they come in on their own.

Install: download CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.8.exe and run it. It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway". No admin rights needed.

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with Launcher settings (LB / Q) > "Report a problem" and a new issue (attach the text file it makes).

Not affiliated with Activision or Toys for Bob. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.7

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.2.0-beta.7 (test version).

• Games update by themselves (new setting "Spiele automatisch aktualisieren", on by default): when the daily check finds a new version of a game, it's installed right away, one after the other. A running game updates once you close it. Turn it off if you want to keep a version.
• Figure library by element: a row of element chips under the game tabs (LT / RT, PageUp / PageDown or a click), with Imaginators' creation crystals, the vehicles and Trap Team's traps as groups of their own.
• The top bar with a controller: up from the cards reaches the controllers and the profile, A opens, B goes back.
• Hints in your pad's own buttons: with a PlayStation pad you get cross / circle / square / triangle, L1 / R1, Options; with a Nintendo pad its letters in their places. Xbox pads and Steam Input stay as they are.
• Smoother: the sparks round the chosen card no longer hitch every couple of seconds.
• The details panel fits a figure with a hat, and says "Fallen-Meister" once instead of twice.

Install: download CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.7.exe and run it. It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway". No admin rights needed.

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with Settings > "Report a problem" and a new issue (attach the text file it makes).

Not affiliated with Activision or Toys for Bob. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.6

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.2.0-beta.6 (test version).

• Import Imaginators figures (LB > "Imaginators-Figuren importieren"): pick a folder with figure files (subfolders count too). Imaginators checks every file itself, and only the ones the game accepts land in your figures, under their own file names. Nothing you already have gets overwritten, and a note tells you what came in and why the rest didn't. Imaginators' own toys can't be made, only copied from real figures; the earlier games' figures come from the portal menu as before. Needs Imaginators 0.2.0-beta.3 ("Update all").

Everything from 0.2.0-beta.5 is in here too (the clearer saves screen, the controller page, no focus grab after a game, looping title music).

Install: download CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.6.exe and run it. It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway". No admin rights needed.

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with LB > "Report a problem" and a new issue.

Not affiliated with Activision or Toys for Bob. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.5

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.2.0-beta.5 (test version).

• A clearer saves screen (RT on a card): your saves with "last saved: today, 22:32", how many older versions there are, "Back up now", and bringing an older one back in one step.
• Controller page: click a pad at the top (or LB > "Controller") to set how strongly player 1's and 2's controller vibrates. It's set once for all your games, and the pad buzzes at each change so you can feel it. The buzz and the click haven't been tried with a real controller yet.
• No focus grab after a game: the launcher takes the window back only when you use the pad, not when you type somewhere else.
• The title music keeps looping: if it ever stops at the end, it starts over.

Install: download CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.5.exe and run it. It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway". No admin rights needed.

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

The games got 0.2.0-beta.2 at the same time: "Update all" on the start screen brings every game up to date.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with LB > "Report a problem" and a new issue.

Not affiliated with Activision or Toys for Bob. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.4

Core of Light, the launcher for the six recompiled Skylanders games. 0.2.0-beta.4 (test version).

• Settings show what you saved: after saving a game's settings the old values no longer come back.
• One pad under Proton / Steam: Steam's virtual pad no longer counts twice (B also pressed A).
• No title music behind a running game.
• Mouse wheel scrolls the settings without picking every row on the way.
• Music volume is a slider (0-100 %) and you hear it while you change it.
• The version sits small at the bottom right of the start screen.
• The profile picture keeps only its drifting particles.
• The launcher's own update installs into the folder it runs from.
• The first-run setup's data folder row fits on screen; "Report a problem" says where your saves and figures are.

Install: download CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.4.exe and run it. It's not signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click "More info" > "Run anyway". No admin rights needed.

On first start it asks for your own Xbox 360 discs as ISO files and installs the games for them, downloading each game's setup from its repository. Nothing of the games comes with this project.

The games got 0.2.0-beta.1 at the same time: "Update all" on the start screen brings every game up to date.

This is a beta: expect bugs. Please report them with LB > "Report a problem" and a new issue.

Not affiliated with Activision or Toys for Bob. Skylanders is a trademark of its owners.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.3

• Stays out of the way while you play: while a game runs the launcher is hidden and takes no input, so one controller drives only the game (on Steam Deck / Bazzite it used to come back and take the pad's presses while the game was still running).
• One folder for your data: every game now keeps its saves, achievements and shader cache in Documents\Skylanders\<game>, next to your figures and pictures. Your saves from the old per-game folders in Documents are copied over at the first start, then the launcher asks whether the old folders may go (only ones whose files are all in the new place). The settings ("Spieldaten-Ordner") and the first-run setup can move the whole folder somewhere else. Needs the games' 0.1.0-beta.9 ("Update all").
• Shader cache reset: a game's settings, Grafik page, last row. Worth a try if the picture shows errors after an update or a graphics change.
• A bit more life: sparks of light run round the chosen game's card and the profile picture (off with "Animationen").
• If the launcher ever crashes, its log now says how (in "Report a problem").

Update from inside the launcher, or run CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.3.exe over the old one. Games, saves and figures stay.

Core of Light 0.2.0-beta.2

Mostly fixes for running the launcher with Proton / Wine (Steam Deck, Bazzite).

• Fonts under Wine: Wine has no Segoe UI, so the launcher fell back to a tiny pixel font and card lines ran into each other. It now brings its own font (Noto Sans) and uses it when Segoe UI isn't there.
• Games folder in your Linux home: setting up a disc into a games folder under Z:\home\... failed on Bazzite (its /home is a link to /var/home). Folders are now made one by one and the path is resolved to the real one, so this should work now.
• Better problem reports: every step of a disc setup goes into the launcher's log, so "Report a problem" says exactly what went wrong.
• A card line that wraps no longer overlaps the next one.

Update from inside the launcher, or run CoreOfLightSetup-0.2.0-beta.2.exe over the old one. Games, saves and figures stay.