RatchetPort V2.0 — Stellar Update

A clearer image, a more flexible control setup, and independent language choices.
V2.0 brings the 1440p/4K black-world correction together with memory improvements,
dynamic button prompts and a redesigned control editor.

Fixed and delivered

• The world renders again at 1440p and 4K. Corrected the high-resolution resource-allocation path that left the 3D world black while menus and the HUD remained visible. Gameplay verification confirmed the fix at both resolutions. #19
• Your selected game language stays selected. Launching from RatchetPort preserves supported saved languages, including Latin American Spanish, instead of resetting them to English. #14
• Game languages are selectable in the launcher. Text/subtitles and voice have separate selectors; the launcher interface language remains independent. This delivers the language-selection request in #5. Silent non-English gameplay dialogue remains tracked separately in #31.
• Higher resolution and frame-rate options are available. Choose Original, 720p, 900p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K internal resolution, with Original/30 FPS or experimental 60 FPS timing. These address #8 and #27. Higher frame-rate modes are not included.
• Original PlayStation artwork is recognized correctly. Corrected the source texture identities that could reject restored game files with a prompt-identity mismatch.
• Save and Play remain accessible. Long status text no longer takes over the footer space.

Controls and dynamic prompts

• Separate Primary and Secondary bindings for each keyboard/mouse action.
• One selector per stick: WASD, Arrow keys, Mouse movement or None.
• Duplicate inputs are rejected immediately across Primary, Secondary and both sticks. The conflict message identifies the existing assignment; no binding is silently moved. Save and launch retain a final validation.
• Diagonal movement combines both axes. Mouse movement preserves its direction and releases the emulated stick when movement stops.
• Digital triggers stay held until release, and controller analog trigger pressure is preserved. Grenade behavior still needs scene-specific gameplay testing.
• Keyboard, mouse and Xbox prompts follow the saved mappings, including standalone camera-stick and Cross tutorial prompts. Secondary bindings supply the icon when Primary is unbound.
• Choose Original / PlayStation, Xbox, Keyboard & mouse, or Auto at launch. Auto selects a style at startup; it does not switch with the last device used during gameplay.

Memory and rendering improvements

• Adaptive texture-cache cleanup follows the driver's memory budget and spreads work across bounded sweeps while retaining the selected resolution.
• More room for high-resolution resources: 1440p and 4K receive larger native graphics heaps and matching direct-memory reservations. This corrects the allocation path behind the tested black-world issue.
• Safer deferred rendering commands: copied command data remains alive across recording-chunk rollover, fixing a use-after-free path in large batches.
• Clearer allocation diagnostics help identify memory pressure and failed rendering resources.

The larger high-resolution reservations add approximately 384 MiB at 1440p
and 768 MiB at 4K to startup commit. They improve allocation headroom, not
reduce every device's RAM use. Performance and available memory still determine
which preset fits a device; no universal FPS increase is claimed.

Graphics, audio and languages

Low, Medium, High, Very High and Ultra presets coordinate internal/output
resolution, shadow-map limits, anisotropic filtering and motion blur. Manual
changes produce a Custom setup. Shadow caps include 1024, 512 and 256 px.

Audio recovery discards excessive stale queued sound after a stall, with clearer
diagnostics for starvation and backlog. This is separate from missing voice data.

The supported CUSA01047 USA v1.00 language choices are:

If a voice language is silent

Select the game folder and voice language in Game and saves, then wait for the
launcher's Voice archive check to finish. It shows the expected archive and
checks whether it is missing, empty or contains obvious repeated-block damage.
The launch log also includes the selected locale and the check result.

A warning or failure means the archive needs investigation; restore damaged or
missing data from your own original game dump. OK means the sampled checks
passed, not that every audio asset or dialogue line was verified. If the archive
passes but gameplay dialogue remains silent, the issue is still tracked in
#31, with earlier reports in
#5. English voice can be
selected independently of text/subtitles. Save and restart after changing game
languages. Cinematic and gameplay voice behavior can differ.

Launcher additions

• Check for updates finds newer stable releases. Automatic installation verifies the Windows package's SHA-256 digest and checks archive paths.
• Optional diagnostic reports include hardware information and filtered technical log excerpts. Upload is off by default, with bounded report size and delivery frequency.
• Consistent V2.0 identity in the launcher, executable properties, build metadata and download names.

Compatibility and remaining reports

Requires CUSA01047 USA v1.00 and your own game files. Other regions and game
updates are not added by this release. Mouse camera control remains analog-stick
emulation with the game's turn-speed limit.

The 1440p/4K black-world fix does not establish a fix for every graphics problem.
The distinct reports for unchanged resolution (#21),
RX 570 startup crashes (#24),
character flicker (#25) and
the Plasma Striker/overlay shortcut conflict (#29)
remain open. The project remains experimental; long-session and broad hardware
compatibility are not established by a successful build.

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