griches/EternalDarknessRecomp v0.9.3

Eternal Darkness Recomp 0.9.3

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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 0.9.3

• Camera options (beta): Options > Game > Camera adds two cameras beside the game's own fixed ones.
  • Third person: behind the character you play, turned with the right stick (up and down bring it closer or further), kept inside the room by the game's own collision, and swinging round what's in the way.
  • First person: through their eyes, looking around with the right stick; the character faces where you push the stick straight away. Looking closely at something hands over to the game's own shot and back, and their arms and weapon appear while you aim.
• Fixed: the picture froze while the game carried on when a sanity effect hit (an enemy's stare in the later chapters, such as Bianchi's and the war chapter), then jumped ahead.
• Fixed: a freeze while fast-forwarding a cutscene.
• Fixed: with frames in between, the sound could loop after the in-game menu.
• The text boxes' scroll arrows are drawn smooth, and a hang is reported after 6 seconds instead of 20.

If you have 0.9.0 or earlier, 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.