Alek's Ultimate NX Edition v1.0.0

The first release this project considers stable.

Everything from v0.1.2 is preserved. No save or configuration migration is
required — existing tmc.sav, autosave data and config.json are used as-is.

Added

In-app updater

The game can now check for, download and install its own updates from the
second screen, under CONFIG → SYSTEM. No PC required after this release.

It is deliberately conservative about touching your installed game:

• Update metadata comes from a project-controlled manifest with a closed
  schema. An unknown key, a duplicate key, a non-HTTPS URL, the wrong channel
  or a malformed field rejects the whole manifest instead of being ignored.
  It is not a GitHub release scrape.
• The expected size and SHA-256 are pinned before a single byte of the new
  build is downloaded, and the download is verified against them.
• HTTPS only, HTTPS-only redirects, certificates verified.
• Installing creates and verifies a backup of your current build at
  /switch/tmc/tmc_aleks_ultimate_nx.bak before the installed game is touched.
  If any step fails, that backup is restored automatically and your installed
  game is left exactly as it was.
• Progress is journalled, so an interrupted install is recoverable rather than
  leaving a half-written game.

After installing, close the game and open it again to run the new version.

The updater replaces the game program and nothing else. Your ROM, saves,
autosave data, extracted assets and settings are never read or written by it.

Link's position marker on the MAP tab

The second-screen map now shows where you actually are, live.

Changed

• Rebuilt autosave storage — a checksummed three-slot ring with an explicit
  discovery rule. It never renames a file into place, and it migrates older
  autosave data forward on first run, so a crash or power loss mid-write cannot
  leave you without a readable autosave.
• Corrected lineage and attribution. Earlier releases credited
  EstebanPdN/zelda-tmc-3ds only
  as a reference. That was wrong, and this release fixes it. This edition's
  core descends from that project: the Switch tree was branched from its
  native port at commit afdde1b7 (2026-05-10), where 742 of 768 core source
  blobs match. It is now credited as a direct code ancestor. See
  CREDITS.md.

Fixed

• Pause map regressions — stale HDMA state is reset when the pause map is
  opened, map layer offsets use the native layout, and missing map assets are
  repaired on the fly instead of rendering wrong.
• Autosave recovery — data written by older versions is quarantined rather
  than misread, and recovery no longer depends on write ordering the SD card
  does not guarantee.
• Menu fixes in the figurine viewer and the pause menu.
• Further native-port gameplay fidelity work, including collision handling.

Known limitations

• True widescreen is not part of this release.
• Built and tested as the USA edition (BZME). Use a USA ROM.

Installation

Copy the NRO to /switch/tmc/, provide your own legally obtained USA ROM, and
launch in application mode. Full guide in
docs/INSTALLATION.md.

If you are already on v0.1.2 or earlier, copy this NRO over
/switch/tmc/tmc_aleks_ultimate_nx.nro by hand once. From this version on, the
in-app updater handles it.

Verification

SHA-256  f3308db78e042a326509b5d7972fbb8cb71b9b7b1ed795b06546e8b7939771fc
         tmc_aleks_ultimate_nx_v1.0.0.nro
Size     13870771 bytes