Merges upstream AstroQuest 0.21 and 0.21.1, while retaining this fork's full-framerate option, higher resolutions, timing safeguards, transparency fixes and crash reporting.
Changes
- Includes upstream's shader-constant, eye-copy, pipeline-cache and texture-cache performance improvements.
- Fixes missing depth synchronization between eye renders, which upstream identified as the cause of right-eye black squares.
- Includes upstream's texture-cache double-unregister fix for a reported final-boss crash.
- Adds upstream Quest startup options for distant detail, foveated rendering, FSR 1 and display refresh rate. Our FOV and resolution sliders remain, with fixed resolutions through 2160 × 2304 per eye and the same maximum in Auto mode.
- Full framerate remains the default in this fork; Quest users can select upstream's Steady 30 FPS mode. Full framerate removes the forced pacing divisor but does not guarantee headset-refresh FPS.
- PC launcher includes upstream's 80 FPS choice, smaller console-resolution presets and package-extraction fixes alongside our existing options.
Windows PC VR
Download and extract AstroQuest-PC-VR-v0.8.5.zip. Place your own decrypted game dump at games/<game-folder>/eboot.bin, or select its eboot.bin when prompted. Start your VR runtime and run Play Astro Bot VR.bat. Preserve games and pc-vr/user when replacing an existing installation. Crash reports are created in pc-vr/reports; Collect Crash Report.bat also collects them manually.
Standalone Quest 3 preview
Download AstroQuest-Standalone-0.8.5-preview.apk and sideload it with SideQuest or adb install -r. It uses the same enhanced-preview package and signing key as the previous Quest download. The support ZIP includes installation instructions and the Quest log collector.
Place your own extracted game at /data/local/tmp/astro/games/CUSA12392/eboot.bin, with the rest of the game's files beside it, or use the app's files/games/CUSA12392 folder as documented in the support ZIP. No game files or saves are included.
Validation and limits
Windows and ARM64 builds, Android host compilation, APK signature verification, and focused launcher, game-patch, scene-parameter, timing, controller-routing and menu-placement tests passed. This merged build has not yet had a headset gameplay test. The final-boss fix is inherited from upstream and has not been reproduced here. Quest remains a preview; high resolutions can reduce performance. PICO experimental builds are not included.
Source and licensing information are included in the repository; download checksums are in AstroQuest-v0.8.5-SHA256SUMS.txt.