Community pull requests, fixes for many reported issues, 120/144 FPS presets, and a port that
ships no game code. Everything from the unreleased 1.9.8 is included (listed further down).
From contributors
- Discord Rich Presence (erezeth, PR #77): your area, boss fight, level, Blood Echoes and
Insight on your Discord profile. Off by default: createcompanions.jsonnext to
Bloodborne.exe with{"enabled": ["Discord Rich Presence"]}(see README-Windows.txt). It only
reads the game's memory. - Trophy notifications (GabrielTeles845, PR #115): themes (Original banner, Card, Corner
popup), sounds, time on screen and previews in the guide under Achievements → Trophy
notifications; your own sounds, GIFs, fonts and texts in<saves>/custom_trophy. The default
stays the green banner with no sound. - Stamina cheats (xiaodoudou, PR #101): no stamina use, always or only out of combat; they
switch on and off without a restart. - Hunter's Atlas (xiaodoudou, PR #96): the open map stays fast with fog, pickups and close
zoom, and the Map tile follows the game's menu after submenus and Quit Game. - Frame generation (xiaodoudou, PR #98): FSR 3.1 frame generation no longer leaks video
memory (about 60 MiB a second, until the device was lost), and one long hitch no longer pauses it. - Striped shadows in Chalice Dungeons on NVIDIA with an old shader cache are gone
(xiaodoudou, PR #97). - Controller play hides the mouse cursor (xiaodoudou, PR #102).
- FSR 4 on 32:9 and 8K outputs (MDoloresGui, PR #87, issue #81): the launcher downloads the
4320 tier too (about 45 MB in all). - Co-op finds Tailscale wherever it is installed (danyshs, PR #111).
Fixed issues
- Mouse camera with the "No camera auto-rotation" tweak on (#63, #108): both work together now.
- Hunter's Atlas: left click no longer jumps to the next lamp, and clicking a lamp travels to it (#41).
- Mouse in menus: hold the strong-attack modifier (Shift, or Ctrl with Keyboard prompts) and
click for R2 / right click for L2, e.g. to switch to Storage (#64). - Settings → Controls → Mouse → Hide the mouse cursor in the game for mouse-to-controller
tools; README-Windows.txt lists everykey_*binding and the mouse sensitivity setting (#88, #21). - Closing the launcher while the game starts no longer stops it with "Errno 22" (#84, #91).
- The in-launcher updater delivers every new file (#38); the release zip uses forward slashes, so
it unpacks on Linux and under Proton (#75). - Play Bloodborne.exe starts a Bloodborne.exe set to run as administrator (#46).
- A Game of the Year PKG already at 1.09 installs without a separate update PKG (#43).
- Co-op: the firewall prompt opens in front of the launcher (#49), and account errors say what
went wrong (server not up yet, old invite, name taken, name already signed in) (#28). - The log names the upscaler you chose; it no longer says "FSR 3.1 (on)" while FSR 4 runs (#117).
- Mods with their own menu text (Restored Change Appearance) no longer turn the PC menu's rows
into numbers (#48). - A shader register that does not point at a shader skips the draw instead of crashing (#72).
- 4:3 output resolutions for CRT monitors: 1024×768 to 1920×1440 (#34).
- The game starts when another program's DLL already holds part of the PS4 address range
(exit code 21) (#36); it reserves the free parts around it and logs the module. - A damaged shader cache entry is skipped and compiled again instead of stopping the game at
"loading shaders" (#80, #104).
From 1.9.8 (never released on its own)
- 120 and 144 FPS presets, with fixed frame steps, effect rate, cloth and follow camera
corrected above 60 FPS; an optional frame-limiter grid (Supermedo). - Monitor choice and exclusive fullscreen (Supermedo PRs #66, #68); Circle confirms for
the Japanese/Asian layout (PR #17); Brazilian Portuguese text and voices (PR #20, issue #35). - Stability: buffer arenas no longer migrate (missing objects, device lost); a faulting
resource-table read skips that draw; a garbage PM4 header drops the rest of its buffer; a VRAM
reserve on 4 GB cards; guest handles stay below 1 TiB (#51); 5056 MiB of direct memory when
Windows refuses more; PC-sized graphics heaps for every player. - Debug menu fonts are found in
fontoradhoc/fontin any case; missing fonts leave the menu out. - A plain ELF eboot.bin (no SELF wrapper) is accepted.
- Button prompt mods are no longer in the download. Dommo's Xbox prompts and JinkiJinn's
PCBButtons are edits of the game's own menu file, so the port stops shipping them. Choosing
Xbox or Keyboard in Settings → Controls → Button prompts opens the mod's Nexus page
(30, 460)
and takes the file you downloaded (.zip, .7z, .rar or itscommon.tpf.dcx). Prompts already
in your mods folder keep working. The release script now refuses to package game archives. - Legacy CPU plan without game bytes.
tools/legacy-cpu-plan.json(plan v4) and its span
evidence keep only addresses, lengths and hashes; the original instructions are read from
your own dump when the profile runs. The translated image is byte-identical to 1.9.7's. - No game code anywhere in the port. The red-zone table (
patches/redzone.json, 607 sites)
and every code check in the engine (hooks for the in-game menu, mouse camera, key prompts,
Rebirth, Hunter's Atlas, the map, aspect ratio, respawn and menu-heap fixes, The Hunter's
Dream) now recognise the game's code by length and hash (src/code_check.h); hooks copy the
instructions they displace from the running game. Tests that need original code read it from
a preparedeboot.elfnamed byBB_TEST_EBOOT_ELFand skip without one. - Patch list without game bytes.
patches/Bloodborne.xmldropped 463 lines (1,073 bytes)
that only rewrote the game's own bytes at their address. Every FPS preset, output size and
effect/cheat setting (1,440 combinations) produces byte-identical patched memory.
Full list: CHANGELOG.md.
Problems?
Send last_run.log (from your saves folder) and, for co-op, the newest file in %LOCALAPPDATA%\bbport-coop\BBSC-0.0.1-BBport\bbsc\logs\, in an issue.
SHA-256 (bbport-windows.zip): 0b6d1051eba365dcdda38de0a6e500a04ca08bb10af3448435df0695c767d08e