shipa-2/Xerenge v0.4.6

0.4.6

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The game comes built: the installer only needs your own Burnout Revenge disc image (PAL, see SETUP.md).

Windows: download Burnout_Revenge_Installer-win-amd64.exe and run it.

Linux: download Burnout_Revenge_Installer-x86_64.AppImage, then

chmod +x Burnout_Revenge_Installer-x86_64.AppImage
./Burnout_Revenge_Installer-x86_64.AppImage

Run the installer again over an installed copy to update it; your settings are kept.

Android (arm64, Adreno or Mali): install Burnout_Revenge-android-arm64.apk. It opens as the installer: pick your disc image. A Mesa Turnip driver .zip is optional, for Adreno phones whose own driver misbehaves. This release is signed with a fixed key: uninstall an earlier build once, and later ones install over it, keeping your saves.

macOS (Apple silicon): download Burnout_Revenge_Installer-macos-arm64.zip, unzip it and run the app inside. It puts Burnout Revenge.app in ~/Applications, so the game starts from Launchpad or Spotlight. The app is signed ad hoc, so macOS stops it the first time it is opened after a download; allow it under System Settings, Privacy & Security, Open Anyway. The installed game logs to ~/Library/Logs/xerenge-burnout/. An Intel build is on the way, held up only by a long CI queue for that runner - it'll follow in a later release.

Online play works out of the box - the installer already points at a shared lobby server (94639.snk.wtf), so you do not need to run your own. Your own online server, if you want one instead: ealobby-linux-amd64 or ealobby-win-amd64.exe is a lobby server for the online mode. Run it on a machine whose TCP ports 31860 and 31861 the players can reach, and point the installer's "Server address" field at it (or start the game with --lobby-server=<that machine>).

0.4.6 is an emergency hotfix for Android (GitHub #4: a black screen or a hang right after loading on many phones):

• Phones with a Linux kernel older than 4.17 (most Android 10 and older devices: Snapdragon 845/660, Helio G80, Kirin 960...) crashed while starting the game: guest memory was mapped at the wrong address. Fixed in the SDK.
• ARMv8.0 CPUs (Snapdragon 660, Kirin 960: Cortex-A73/A53) stopped at start with an illegal instruction; the APK is now built for ARMv8.0, with atomics chosen at run time.
• Adreno 5xx (Redmi Note 7 and the like): textures came out as black and grey slabs and cars were invisible - BC textures are re-encoded as ETC2 where the GPU lacks them, and its broken depth clamp is avoided. A new hack, "Textures as ETC2", forces the re-encoding on any GPU.
• Vertex inputs fit the 16 a Mali-G71 takes (its GPU hung at the first frame).
• Vulkan 1.0 drivers (old Mali) can now start the game, but this is not fully tested yet: a Mali-G71 still shows a black screen.
• An unhandled crash no longer spins and fills the log with one line; it is logged once, with where it happened.
• The installer has a log folder, chosen like the disc image: the logs are copied there, since the app's own folder cannot be opened from a file manager.
• On-screen controls: a layout editor (drag and resize every button, the stick and the menu button; Done saves it, Reset restores it) and Xbox View/Menu glyphs for Back and Start, from PredatorWoah's XerengePlus fork.