griches/EternalDarknessRecomp v0.9.0

Eternal Darkness Recomp 0.9.0

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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem as a native game for the Mac, Windows and Steam Deck / Linux. The game's files (its program, graphics, sound and music) come from your own disc.

European disc only (GEDP01, an .iso or .gcm). The USA disc is not supported.

What's new in 0.9.0

• Smoother on a fast screen: on a 90 Hz, 120 Hz or faster screen the game shows frames in between its own 60 (Options > Frame rate). In fullscreen on a PC the row offers each rate your display has, and switches to it. The FPS counter counts every frame shown.
• Fast-forward the cutscenes: while a movie plays, or a scene plays in the black bars, an RB sign shows at the bottom right. Hold RB (Tab on the keyboard) and the scene runs at up to four times speed, without sound. It works only in cutscenes, so RB keeps its usual job in play.
• Every button picture matches your controller: the game's own pictures of GameCube buttons are redrawn with your controller's icons and layout. That covers the "Press A to Continue" screens (the European memory-card screen too), the language screen, the quick-spell slots, the Tome map's lines, the organ's notes and sheet music, and the button icons in the game's text.
• The Tome: in the Modern layout its buttons sit where its pages say (A, B, X, Y on the face buttons, LB and RB to turn pages), and its controls page lists your own controls instead of a drawing of a GameCube pad.
• Fixed: at 4K, a one-pixel line of the scene showed at the right edge of the screen during letterboxed cutscenes in 16:9.

If you have 0.8.x, copy the new folder over your old one (on a Mac, replace the app): your saves, settings, disc and textures stay.

Download

• Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later): EternalDarkness-mac-....zip. Unzip it, move Eternal Darkness.app to Applications, right-click it and choose Open the first time (it is not notarised), then drop your disc image on its window. The first start builds the game from your disc (a minute or two).
• Windows: EternalDarkness-windows-x64-....zip. 64-bit. A ready-made game: unzip it somewhere you can write to (Documents or a Games folder, not Program Files), put your disc image (any name) in the dump folder and double-click play.bat (or start EternalDarkness.exe itself). If SmartScreen appears, choose More info, then Run anyway. The first start reads the game's program from your disc (a second or two).
• Steam Deck / Linux: EternalDarkness-linux-x86_64-....tar.gz. x86-64. Unpack it (Ark in Desktop Mode on a Deck) to get an EternalDarknessRecomp folder, put your disc image in it and run play.sh. On a Deck, add play.sh to Steam as a non-Steam game and play it from Game Mode. The first start translates your disc and builds the game (about a minute on a Deck); after that it starts straight away.
• PlayStation 5: a ready-made title from PS5_EternalDarkness; you add your disc.

HD textures

• Eternal Darkness HD Texture Pack by Zombie (DDS, 2.9 GB, Google Drive)
• PAL supplement (DDS, 10.7 MB, Google Drive): the European disc's screens and words the pack misses, and highlights without hard edges

Put both folders side by side in the game's textures folder; the README's set-up steps show where that is on each system.

See the README for setting it up, the controls and how it all works.