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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 3d

Particle effects have been patched for HFR, this video is the game running at 60fps, so this is normal behaviour.

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Isaac @isaacmarovitz.com · 3d

Nothing much to report this week, but here's a sneak peek at what @hyperbx.bsky.social is cooking up :)

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 15d

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Isaac @isaacmarovitz.com · 18d

This week, we've fixed several more high FPS issues, including particles, UI animations, and bullet collision, improvements for the debug camera, and added patches for rendering Shadow's shadow-Mephiles in crispy high res!

Marathon Recompiled running Mephiles Phase 1, showing high resolution Mephiles "shadow" rendering.

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 25d

I'm finally free from aspect ratio code

A person facing the sunset with their hands raised in the air breaking chains between their arms.

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Isaac @isaacmarovitz.com · 25d

Here it is! The most anticipated patch yet...

Ultrawide support in the UI, along with several restoration patches and high frame-rate fixes.

This took a lot of work, so make sure to give your thanks to @hyperbx.bsky.social

Marathon (Sonic '06) Recomp, Castle Town in ultrawide aspect ratio showing correctly aligned UI and town map.

Marathon (Sonic '06) Recomp, Kingdom Valley A - Sonic in ultrawide showing correctly aligned UI.

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 26d

Oh the entire game was letterboxed, not just the main menu. A 60Hz 16:9 display was required to play this game. lol

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 26d

clearly you don't own a HDTV

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 26d

'06 was letterboxed at 4:3, this implementation is entirely custom.

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 26d

So here we have the main menu scaling to aspect ratios like 16:10, 4:3 and AAAAAAAAAAAA

Marathon Recompiled main menu at 16:10 with correct border scaling.

Marathon Recompiled main menu at 4:3 with correct border scaling.

Marathon Recompiled main menu at 9:16 with... "correct" but unreasonable border scaling.

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 28d

You know you're screwed when you search for CPU instructions and get results for HP printers instead

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · 28d

I think there might be a problem

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Sep 7

(not actually running on a phone... yet)

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yup

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Sep 7

In my fork yeah, it's getting closer to being finished and merged, just got a few things left to sort out.

github.com/sonicnext-de...

Implement dynamic UI aspect ratio scaling and controller icons by hyperbx · Pull Request #145 · sonicnext-dev/MarathonRecomp

This PR makes the UI scale dynamically to the viewport aspect ratio, allowing the game to be played at narrow or ultrawide aspect ratios without it stretching. The UI Alignment Mode option can be u...

github.com

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sonic '06 for the telephone

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Sep 5

So this is the level of procrastination I'm on today huh

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Sep 2

My last lobby in CrossWorlds before the beta servers closed, I'm gonna miss this game. 🫡

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Sep 1

I need to get off this vibe coded OS man, I'm so tired of something new just breaking in every update and nothing actually important being addressed, just more Copilot+ garbage nobody is actually asking for

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Aug 31

The game is remaining pretty much stock but with optional gameplay enhancements, similar to Unleashed Recompiled.

Most of the work has already been done in the form of old mod manager patches that we've been porting over with some exceptions for new stuff.

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Aug 31

Cursed

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (2006) displaying a message window from Sonic Unleashed that says "Are you sure you want to quit?" due to leftover ImGui layouts from Unleashed Recompiled

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today in pointless details that I put way too much effort into, I've adjusted the CRIWARE logo screen in Marathon Recompiled to make the technology logos align to the bottom right corner.

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sometimes those crazy late night (morning) ideas you have are worth noting down and giving a try.

A Discord message sent at 5:43 AM on August 24th that reads "I could force the existing arrow instances to be skipped (no draw), then clone a single background arrow and keep cloning until it reaches the right edge of the display, then do the same for a single foreground arrow to the left and control the cast colour manually for fading"

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Aug 25

I got ultrawhyde covered too, don't worry (it's so wide that Bluesky forced me to letterbox it).

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Hyper @hyperbx.bsky.social · Aug 25

These arrows have been the bane of my existence for the past couple days, but I finally got them extending dynamically at ultrawide.

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