TekRantGaming/king-kong-recompiled v1.5.1

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Peter Jackson's King Kong PC Port v1.5.1

What's new

• No more antivirus warnings. Some antivirus programs, including Windows Defender, wrongly flagged a file that comes with the port (rexruntime.dll, part of the ReXGlue toolkit the port is built with) as a virus. It was a false alarm, but it could block the download. This release ships that file rebuilt from the exact same ReXGlue source, and antivirus programs no longer flag it.
• Saving always works. Some players were told to sign in before they could save, and the game never offered their save slots. This happened when the PC saw more than one controller, which is common with Steam Input, DS4Windows, or a handheld's built-in controls. The game then treated the player as player 2, and only player 1 can save. Every controller, plus keyboard and mouse, now counts as player 1, so saving works whichever one you use (#9).
• Rumble reaches your controller. The game shakes the controller, for example when you fire a gun, but that rumble only went to the first controller Windows listed. With Steam Input, a wireless receiver or more than one pad, that wasn't always the one in your hands. It now reaches every connected controller, so you feel it whichever one you use.
• Freeze reports. If the game ever stops responding for 20 seconds, the port now writes a freeze report to the logs folder. If the game recovers, the log notes how long it froze. Attaching those files to a bug report lets us find what caused the freeze (#11).

Full changelog

• Ships rexruntime.dll rebuilt from the same ReXGlue v0.10.0 source, unchanged. The official build was an antivirus false positive (rexglue/rexglue-sdk#485). rexgpu-xenos.dll is the official one, which was never flagged.
• Controllers: all controllers and keyboard & mouse now count as player 1. Before, each controller got its own player number in connection order, and the game refuses to save for players 2 to 4 because they have no profile. The game's rumble for player 1 now goes to every connected controller too.
• Freeze reports: a watchdog writes logs\hang-<date-time>.txt (where every part of the game was at that moment) and logs\hang-<date-time>.dmp when no frame has been drawn for 20 seconds. Time the PC spends asleep isn't counted.
• Crash and freeze reports can now be traced to the exact part of the game's code, so problems players report are quicker to fix.

How to update

If you have v1.4.0 or later, the launcher offers this update when it opens: click Update now. Otherwise download KingKong-v1.5.1-windows-x64.zip below and copy everything in it over your KingKong folder.

New install

1. Unzip KingKong-v1.5.1-windows-x64.zip anywhere and run king_kong.exe.
2. Click Install from disc image... and pick your own King Kong disc image (USA/Europe, title ID 555307D3, version 0.0.0.1).
3. Click Download shader pack.
4. Press PLAY.

No game files are included. See the README for details.

Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a DirectX 12 graphics card. Linux version in development.

This port was made with AI (Claude Code). See the README for details.