To play: download ng2recomp-v1.0.7-win-amd64.zip below, unzip it
anywhere, run ng2.exe and point it at your own copy of Ninja Gaiden II (a
disc image or an extracted disc folder) and, if you have them, your DLC
packages. The zip holds the executable, the runtime, the Visual C++ runtime it
needs, the controller database and the texture tools, and no game assets or
data of any kind. The executable contains the game's code in translated form;
without your copy of the game it does nothing. Updating an existing install:
python tools/make_release.py --update <your install folder> from a source
checkout, or unzip over it; game\, dlc\, user\ and your settings are
never touched.
Fixed - Escape took three seconds to quit, with a black window
Escape released everything the port owns, asked the runtime to quit
gracefully, and then waited: that graceful path never returns on this title,
so the process sat with a black window until the three-second watchdog killed
it. The window's close button never had the problem, because the SDK's close
path terminates the title and hard-exits at once. Escape now takes that same
path after saving the settings and joining the port's own threads; the
watchdog stays as a backstop and no longer fires. Measured: 0.7 seconds from
the key to the process being gone, where it was 3.3.
Everything in v1.0.6 (the red-mist chapter transition fix, the texture-pack
content hash, the bundled Visual C++ runtime) is included. Every issue and its
fix: docs/ISSUES_AND_FIXES.md.