Odrannnn/MetroidPrimePort v0.19.0

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A built-in randomizer, turbo fire and a floating touch stick, custom Vulkan
drivers on Android, an update notifier, and fixes for missing boss music (#20),
the scan visor on wide screens (#31), a sliding crosshair (#24), the map's right
stick (#21), scan dashing with mouse aim (#30) and black screens on machines without a usable GPU (#33).

You need your own disc image. Metroid Prime (USA) v1.00, GM8E01 disc 0
revision 0. Nothing here contains any part of the game — no disc, no assets.

What changed

New

• Built-in randomizer: F1 > Randomizer generates a seed that is checked to
  be beatable and plays it, without an Archipelago server. Options include a
  random start room and beam, blast shields and locked doors. Seeds switch at
  the title screen, and old seeds can be deleted. See docs/RANDOMIZER.md.
• Turbo fire (#10): bind "Turbo fire (hold)" in F1 > Controls (unbound by
  default). On Android, F1 > Touch controls > "Turbo fire button" adds a T
  button.
• Remastered rapid-fire charge (optional, F1 > Controls > Buttons or the
  pause menu): holding fire shoots a few quick shots and then charges, as in
  Remastered.
• Original experience toggle (F1, pause menu, MP_ORIGINAL=1): turns off
  every port enhancement at once without losing your settings.
• Update notifier: once per launch the port checks GitHub for a newer
  release and shows a toast you can click or tap. Turn it off in F1 > About.
• Shaders compile at startup from a cache that covers the whole game, so
  rooms stutter much less the first time you enter them. An optional toast
  shows the progress (F1 > Video > Quality "Show shader compilation").

Fixes

• Boss music plays again (#20): a track queued behind one fading out was
  sometimes dropped.
• The scan visor locks the target in the centre on 16:9 and ultrawide
  screens (#31), not one at the bottom left.
• The crosshair stays fixed with smooth uncapped frames (#24) instead of
  sliding and snapping back while turning.
• Scan dashing works with mouse aim (#30): the dash keeps its momentum
  instead of slowing to walking speed.
• The right stick pans the map under the Remastered and Modern controller
  schemes (#21).
• No more black window on machines without a usable GPU (#33): the port
  falls back to software rendering (slow, but it draws), and shows an error if
  no renderer starts at all.
• Remastered import reads .xci dumps and converted .nsp files (#35).
• The Flatpak reports its real version and has network access (Archipelago and
  the update check work there).
• Less memory use at the title screen after quitting a game.

Android

• Floating left stick (#13), on by default: the stick appears where your
  thumb lands on the left half. Turn it off in F1 > Touch controls.
• Jump and Turbo aim when slid, like the Fire button.
• Custom Vulkan drivers (Turnip): F1 > Video > Compatibility > "Vulkan
  driver" installs an AdrenoToolsDrivers zip. If a driver crashes, the port goes
  back to the system driver. If one starts but draws wrongly, switch back to
  "System" there.
• "Adreno shader fix" (F1 > Video > Compatibility, Auto/Off/On) for the
  black world on Adreno 7xx (#7); Auto turns it on for every Adreno 7xx under
  Vulkan.
• The mouse stays captured unless the F1 overlay is open.

Remastered import (very experimental, unsupported)

The Remastered import and everything built on it are very
experimental and currently unsupported. Remove mods/remastered-models
to get the retail game back. Nothing changes unless you run the import
yourself, and nothing of Remastered ships with the port. Everything below
needs a re-import.

• Materials draw much closer to Remastered: over a hundred of its shaders now
  match, including exact colour space handling, vertex tangents, alpha cutouts,
  wind on foliage, Phazon, glass and refraction, and the HUD's pictures.
• Remastered's point and spot lights now light rooms, and its ambient probes
  are sampled as Remastered does.
• More effects are paired with Remastered's.

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Licence

MIT covers this project's own work, but not the game code under
src/ and include/, which remains Nintendo's. See LICENSE and NOTICE.
Metroid Prime is a trademark of Nintendo. This project is unaffiliated with
Nintendo and Retro Studios.