Fixed
- Stuttering in the driving cameras (issue #47, and the camera jitter in #43 and #46, in this build): v0.18.0 left the chase, bumper and cockpit cameras stepping at the original's 30 Hz while the car drew at your frame rate, so above 30 fps the view jumped against the car. The camera is now drawn between its last two steps, and a frame that holds two or more game steps gives each its own camera step.
- Everything else that moves is drawn smoothly at any frame rate or refresh rate too: pedestrians, knocked props, the thrown bike rider, story scenes' cast and cameras, hangout people and scene cars used to move in 60 Hz steps and are now blended between their last two updates. Measured at 144 fps, the frame-to-frame jitter dropped by 5 to 30 times.
- The intro film's subtitles follow the SUBTITLES option, as the original does.
Added
- The camera system follows the original more closely: the cameras' collision probes run on the level's real objects, the camera shake is skipped on a frame where the camera hit a wall and while the police hold the car, the event camera reads the car's air time, and the look-back release follows the original's refusal rules.
- Sound: the speed-driven mix, the distant one-shots while a scene plays.
- Garage colour pages were checked against the original: the SECONDARY COLOR picker opens on the second colour the car wears.
- Driver animation, police brains and the TOP GPS arrow were checked against the original's code.
Known issues
- Items marked "in this build" were checked against measurements and the original's code, not yet by the reporters; please confirm #47. #43, #45 and #46 from v0.18.0 are still waiting for their reporters to confirm.
- Bikes have the neon's light quads but not its shadow body quad.
- The missing-texture reports in issue #45 are not all addressed yet.
- DX12 was not run on AMD.
Install and update
New here? Download RustyMCLA.exe, put it in a folder of its own and start it; it walks you through the setup. You need your own disc image of the Xbox 360 version of the game (Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Complete Edition). Nothing of the game is included.
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Build
Built on GitHub Actions from commit 04a136a2921ba150e38edfc1eb9844c10f51db2e: https://github.com/holdmysocks/rusty-mcla/actions/runs/42641393229
SHA-256:
b131d8caa1706c4ade5f58aca6e3b506c6a6fbf0300f65e82a02e15b1e39ea6c RustyMCLA.exe
76ad00ac0c45ab19ca9357b15d042faa4c9b331e2ee8e93c34c6d295ca2ce2b3 game-0.18.1.zip
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