holdmysocks/rusty-mcla v0.9.6

Rusty MCLA 0.9.6

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Fixed

• The game no longer closes at start-up (issues #21 and #22, and every report of 0.9.5 not starting). v0.9.5 shipped without one line of the headlight fix: the night shader used the head lamps' cone array without declaring it, so the graphics driver refused to build the city shader and the game stopped before the first frame, on every machine. The line is in now, and the headlight flash from 0.9.5 (high beams, the street lit at night) works with it. If you are on v0.9.5, update to this one; the launcher offers it, or replace RustyMCLA.exe and the game package by hand from this release page.

This release changes nothing else from v0.9.5; its notes still apply (the launcher's github.com fallback, the police fixes, roaming racers on the road, the slowdown that grew over a session, the car badges, the police light bars).

Known issues

This is still an early release. Expect bugs; please report problems on GitHub.

Update

• This update changes the game program and the launcher; the install data version is unchanged, so there is no rebuild offered. An install built before 0.5.0 has no pond water shader file yet, and the fountain basins and ponds keep their generic look until the game data is built again.
• If something goes wrong, Export Logs on the Support tab, and Settings > General can go back to the previous game version.

Game

• Not everything on the police list is done yet: how easily you get pulled over, how the cops ram, busted scenes (guns, your character's hands) and a few more are still being worked through (issue #17).
• The white paint on some AMD drivers (issue #14) and the frame rate on RTX 50-series cards (issue #12) have not been confirmed on the machines that showed them. DirectX 12 has been tried on very few machines, and its first start takes a few minutes while shaders compile.
• Mods are being implemented slowly and are not ready to use.
• The pad and rumble fixes have not been tried with a real pad here (PS4 pad especially), and the sound fix has not been confirmed on the machine that had no sound.
• The GT-R's tuning, sound and cameras are borrowed from other cars, because the disc has none of its own.
• Some sounds are approximations: the opponents' engine blend uses speed only, the traffic's obstacle, lane-limit and emergency-brake sounds are stand-ins, the junction warning follows the port's signalled junctions, the wipeout loops follow the port's wipeout flag, and the air-ride sounds are not played.
• Delivery and garage icons on the minimap are in the wrong place or have the wrong design.
• South Central's two hangout entries are not armed, and the rear-view mirror is an option that you have to switch on.
• Gear shifts at the start of a race can look delayed.
• Two-wheel-drive cars pull slightly harder than they should. Some bike behaviours (stoppie, burnout), some particle effects and parts of the pedestrian behaviour are approximations.
• The far city and a few places at dusk and dawn differ slightly from the original.
• Online play is not available.

Settings and extras not available yet

• The launcher shows the display and performance options, but the game reads settings.toml when it starts; changes in the game's OPTIONS pages are applied at once and saved. Ultrawide handling and upscaling are not available. Fullscreen has been tried on one machine only (on DX12 it runs borderless), and choosing a second monitor has not been tried.
• Custom music (including Spotify), controller adaptive triggers and racing wheels are not available. The launcher's Music tab is a locked preview.

Launcher

• Windows only for now. Linux and macOS are planned and only compile-checked.
• It is not code-signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info, then Run anyway, after checking the SHA-256 below.
• It needs the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime (built into Windows 11 and current Windows 10) and about 14 GB of free space for the game data, plus the disc image itself.
• Only the Xbox 360 Complete Edition (USA, Europe) disc image is supported. PS3 saves can only be imported from the US release.
• The fallback through github.com has not been tried on a network that really blocks the API host. The Gamepad tab is read-only and does not show the layout yet. Only English is available.

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.

Already installed? The launcher offers this update by itself. You can always skip it.

The launcher is not code-signed, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info, then Run anyway, after comparing the SHA-256 below with your download.

Build

Built on GitHub Actions from commit e451f2effbe406cb28d32e28812548effbf5c19c: https://github.com/holdmysocks/rusty-mcla/actions/runs/40901423306

SHA-256:

4b3234b9df3c615e26d421298612eb2660bec522531aa7672dbf3a67e6a83003  RustyMCLA.exe
fd6b11cf3298aa9bdd3ef102f47280f4e250322d50f04bd33ebb146f1ab0c6d7  game-0.9.6.zip

This is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3 only.