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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes for Android 0.3.1

Tag: v0.3.1 · versionCode 31 · arm64-v8a · Android 9+ · Vulkan 1.1

This is the first release since 0.2.7. Changes are listed against 0.2.7.

New

  • Launcher. The app now opens on a start screen, like the LEGO Batman and Skyrim ports.
    • Pick the folder that holds your LEGO Marvel Super Heroes install (anywhere on internal storage or the SD card), then press Play.
    • The launcher checks the folder before you play: LEGOMARVEL.exe, the GAME*.DAT files, and D3DX9_43.dll / D3DCompiler_43.dll (in the folder itself or in redist). It also warns you if your LEGOMARVEL.exe isn't the Steam build the port was made from.
    • Files the port writes now live in <game folder>/port: saves and settings in port/save, plus log.txt and last_exit.txt. The first launch copies your saves across from the old Android/data/com.tj.legomarvel/files/save, and an install still in Android/data/com.tj.legomarvel/files/game is filled in for you.
  • Custom GPU drivers. The launcher's GPU driver section installs driver zips in the format emulators use (Turnip, Mr. Purple's Adreno builds, or anything with a meta.json). Pick a driver or the system driver before pressing Play. The drivers are loaded with libadrenotools.
  • Decode textures on the CPU. A launcher test switch that decodes DXT textures on the CPU instead of the GPU. Loading is slower and memory use is higher, but it might fix Mali GPUs.

Fixes

  • Crash: "unimplemented instruction maskmovdqu at 0089abcf" no longer happens. The port was also missing 12 other MMX instructions, and those are now implemented too.
  • Graphics: shaders now follow D3D9's maths rules (DXVK float emulation), so a zero-length vector gives 0 instead of an invalid value.

Performance

  • The recompiled game code is now built with full optimisation (-O2), tuned for the phone's CPU.
  • Fixed a race in the indirect-call cache, where one thread could be handed another thread's function.
  • The game's threads use every CPU core again. Fixing that race made multicore stable in testing. To pin them to one core (as in 0.2.7), create an empty singlecore.txt in port/save. The old multicore.txt switch is gone.
File Effect
singlecore.txt Pins the game's threads to one core, as in 0.2.7.
cpu_textures.txt Decodes textures on the CPU. This is the launcher's "Decode textures on the CPU" box.
serial_shaders.txt Compiles shaders one at a time, with an on-screen status line.
async_shaders.txt Draws while shaders compile, so objects pop in as they finish.
dxvk_user.conf Not an empty file: any DXVK settings you put here are applied at launch.

Asset

File SHA-1
LegoMarvel-0.3.1.apk 7c876cfd5a0d55d4fda7b442fad8fd35eb9fff06

The APK is debug-signed. It contains no game data: use your own copy of the PC game, as described in the README.

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