DinoTale 0.1.5

0.1.5

• Expand: water reflections (4-2), goo (2-3) and the page-turn transition
  cover the whole wide screen.
• The Graphics API setting (Auto, D3D12, Vulkan) is shown in the graphics
  options. If the game crashes in the graphics driver on Windows, try Vulkan.
• Expand: no more flashing strip at the right edge after a teleport (and
  at a level's start): the backgrounds are filled all the way across.
• Message boxes and clouds (images drawn in strips) have no lines at the
  joins, and their edges no longer wiggle as they move.
• Fixed lines through the clouds on the continue / game over screen.
• Less wobble in moving scenery: 1-1's picket fence and fruit are calmer,
  and hills and clouds move smoothly when Yoshi jumps.
• Expand: things no longer vanish at the edge of the 4:3 area: enemies like
  5-4's bob-ombs stay until they leave the wider screen, and the stilt Shy
  Guys' stilts show across it.

DinoTale 0.1.4

• Windows: larger thread stacks, which should fix the random crashes in NVIDIA’s graphics driver (nvwgf2umx.dll) (#6, #17).
• Expand in a window wider than 16:9: black bars at the sides instead of smeared, flickering edges (#15).
• Fixed lines through rotated sprites: 3-3’s tilting platforms, 4-3’s balls, 6-1’s cogwheels (#12, #13, #14).

Known issues: in Expand, water reflections, goo and the page-turn transition only cover the middle 4:3 area (#9, #11). With the framerate above Original, some backgrounds wiggle (#16); setting the framerate to Original avoids it.

You need your own copy of Yoshi’s Story (USA); see the README.

DinoTale 0.1.3

• Expand: Yoshi walks smoothly to the edge of the wider screen instead of jumping out from the 4:3 edge, and can no longer walk off the left end of a level at its start (#8).

You need your own copy of Yoshi’s Story (USA); see the README.

0.1.2

0.1.2

Fixed

• Blocks of wrong background tiles in 4-1 (and anywhere else the game draws background tiles this way), in every aspect ratio
• Expand: the zoomed-out treehouse in 4-1 now fills the whole widescreen

You need your own copy of Yoshi's Story (USA), .z64 SHA-1 B13072FEF6C6DF48C07D8822C01E5BC59036F6DA. No game files are included.

0.1.1

0.1.1

Added

• Screen filters (Settings > Graphics > Screen Filter): CRT (flat, no curve), Scanlines, LCD, and the xBR, xBRZ and HQ2x pixel-art upscalers
• Hybrid Dimming slider: how dark Hybrid's stretched sides are, down to 0% (not dimmed, nice for ultrawide)
• The game can be picked inside a .zip or .7z archive (not .rar yet)

Fixed

• Expand: Yoshi can walk all the way to the edge of the screen where the camera stops (an invisible wall stopped him short, e.g. in 3-2)

Changed

• Hybrid and Expand are marked experimental
• The Resolution setting's description says what each option renders at
• crash_log.txt names the module and thread a crash happened in. If you get a crash, please attach it

You need your own copy of Yoshi's Story (USA), .z64 SHA-1 B13072FEF6C6DF48C07D8822C01E5BC59036F6DA. No game files are included.

0.1.0

0.1.0 (first release)

Yoshi's Story, recompiled and running natively on PC.

Features

• Windows and Linux builds (Linux is new and untested on Steam Deck, let me know how it runs)
• Aspect ratios: Original, Stretch, Hybrid and Expand (true widescreen up to 16:9, showing more of each level)
• HUD Placement setting for Expand
• Saves, keyboard and controller input, audio

How to play

• Windows: unzip anywhere and run DinoTale.exe
• Linux / Steam Deck: extract and run DinoTale (on the Deck, from Desktop Mode; add it to Steam as a non-Steam game to play in Game Mode)
• Settings are in the in-game menu. Choose Expand before starting a level.

You need your own copy of the game

Yoshi's Story (USA). Any byte order (.z64, .n64, .v64) works.
SHA-1 of the .z64: B13072FEF6C6DF48C07D8822C01E5BC59036F6DA
The game asks for it on first launch. No game files are included.

Still being tested: later pages and boss fights, especially in Expand. If you find an issue, a screenshot plus the level name and where it happened helps a lot.