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🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added support for Nintendo Switch (with custom firmware)
• Added support for FreeBSD
• Added /max-fps:<value> startup parameter
• Internal refactoring and MinGW compiler support
• Adjusted Spaz' double jump
• Adjusted Bilsy and Bolly for different difficulty levels
• Optimized download size of web version
• Updated dependencies
• Fixed controls on NVIDIA Shield TV

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Fixed issue that files were not upgraded correctly from the previous version – you should upgrade to this version as soon as possible
• Fixed shields fire rate
• Fixed Polish translation by @Patrxgt

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• Added fire, water and lightning shields
• Added jjshield cheat
• Added Polish translation by @Patrxgt
• Updated Turkish translation by @Consul
• Improved ice shrapnels
• Fixed crash on Linux aarch64 (ARM64) build
• Fixed Graphics Quality label

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added 99 lives limit
• Added /cheats-lives startup parameter for unlimited lives
• Added Input Diagnostics to Options to be able to debug gamepad issues
• Updated Italian translation by @Hexaae
• Updated Romanian translation by @Akfiz
• Fixed issues with GPUs that have smaller MAX_UNIFORM_BLOCK_SIZE than usual
• Fixed gamepad detection

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• Added optional Ammo Count to Weapon Wheel
• Added shader cache for faster subsequent startups
• Added macOS ARM64 build (for Apple M1/M2 devices)
• Added Windows Clang/LLVM build – it can yield different performance characteristics
• Updated font
• Updated translations
• Improved logging
• Fixed Robot boss in Legacy mode
• Fixed Bird doesn't act as extra life
• Fixed player corpse
• Fixed Weapon not reverting to base state when ammo runs out
• Fixed TNT not breaking stomp blocks
• Fixed 1UP Crates
• Fixed some hitboxes
• Fixed crash during cache refresh on some Android devices
• Force use fixed batch size also on PowerVR Rogue GE8320 on Android to avoid missing sprites

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Graphics Quality option – Low quality should be used on Mali GPUs which can't render water properly
• Added better approximation of original physics if Reforged Mode is turned off
• Added original HUD if Reforged Mode is turned off
• Added original TNT animation and behavior
• Added Show Player Trails option
• Added full Italian translation by @Hexaae
• Added full Turkish translation by Consul
• Added Ogg Vorbis audio support – used in some JJ2+ levels
• Added JJ2+ tileset palette remapping support
• Added Spring delay support
• Added idle animation to Bat enemy
• Added some JJ2 cheats – see http://deat.tk/jazz2/help#how-to-enable-cheats
• Strip binaries on Linux and macOS – smaller binary size on these platforms
• Adjusted some lighting parameters and water shader
• Adjusted some animations
• Improved font rendering
• Fixed tilemap rendering
• Fixed language selection on Android
• Fixed last trimmed character in some messages
• Fixed Steam Note
• Fixed Bubba boss and possibly other enemies
• Fixed app icon of GLFW build on Linux

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Multi-language support – using standard .po/.mo files, level texts are translatable too now, original .j2s files are not compatible because of different encoding
• Added some JJ2+ (MLLE) features – custom level palette, extra tilesets, additional layers, layer visibility, layer speed model, tinted layer rendering, darkness color, pit type, water level – levels using these additional features should look better now
• Added Allow access to external storage on Android 11 or newer – then you can save Source directory to these additional paths: ‹Storage›/Games/Jazz² Resurrection/Source/, ‹Storage›/Download/Jazz² Resurrection/Source/ which is helpful especially on Android 13
• Save config file to external storage next to Source directory if possible on Android
• Added full Czech translation by @deathkiller
• Added full Romanian translation by @1NSH4N3
• Added full Russian translation by @MAN-biker
• Added partial Italian, Portuguese and Turkish translations – contact me if you want to improve them or add new ones
• Added Keep Aspect Ratio In Cinematics to Options
• Added Discord Rich Presence also on Linux
• Faster scrolling in Custom Level selection screen
• Rollback weapons on player death to Checkpoint
• Added Holiday Hare '17 and Holiday Hare '18 episodes to Episode selection menu – these levels are still not working properly because of incompatible scripting
• Added full macOS support – added application bundle and fixed music playback
• Added DEB and RPM packages (Linux only)
• Added macOS build and Linux aarch64 (ARM64) build to GitHub Actions
• Improved font rendering and added some missing characters
• Replaced JSON library by simdjson
• Improved path handling on Xbox – added \Games\Jazz2 Resurrection\ as alternative path for external storage
• Merged xmas98 episode into xmas99 (internal change to simplify translations)
• Reworked destructible tiles
• Improved some menu sections
• Improved scripting support
• Fixed encoding of level texts
• Fixed wrong layer positioning
• Fixed palettes with emply alpha channel in some tilesets
• Fixed wrong translucent alpha value
• Fixed Ice Block
• Fixed Hurt event
• Fixed some enemies and solid objects
• Fixed Electro weapon
• Fixed Birds shooting in solid walls
• Fixed orientation of some horizontal Springs
• Fixed TNT blocks in xmas3.j2l level
• Fixed Queen boss

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added winter theme to main menu (Holiday Hare '98 or Christmas Chronicles required)
• Added Swinging Vine
• Added Pole and Pinball Paddle SFX
• Added some missing player idle SFX
• Added Discord Rich Presence (Windows only)
• Added /log startup parameter to show log console (Windows only)
• Blacklisted also Razer DeathAdder Mice which were incorrectly detected as gamepad on Linux in some cases
• Save config file to external drive if Source is also on external drive on Xbox
• Show active external drive indicator in main menu (Xbox only)
• Improved Checkpoints
• Improved input handling and fixed gamepad support on Android
• Reworked input handling on UWP
• Optimized shaders and debris
• Updated SDL library to v2.26.1
• Improved Checkpoint spawning
• Fixed high-DPI support
• Reorganized and fixed CRT shaders – desired Rescale Mode must be chosen again
• Fixed audio popping
• Fixed many enemies
• Fixed frozen Spring, Ice Block, Rolling Rock
• Fixed Freezer weapon
• Fixed Devan animation
• Fixed Alt+Enter (switch fullscreen) on GLFW and UWP
• Fixed numeric keys to switch weapons
• Fixed NTFS external drive support (Xbox only)
• Fixed Emscripten (web) version on Xbox

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added time smoothing to prevent microstuttering
• Added external (USB) storage support on Xbox (UWP) – the application must be set to Game type, Source directory must be located in \Games\Jazz² Resurrection\Source\ on an external drive, exFAT is recommended or correct read/write permissions must be assigned
• Added Scanlines rescale mode
• Switch to next weapon on short press instead of weapon wheel
• Added Copter SFX
• Added gamepad axis normalization on Android
• Increased gamepad refresh interval to 2 seconds on Android
• Increased gamepad deadzones from 5% to 10%
• Changed internal name of UWP package
• Blacklisted Razer Keyboards which were incorrectly detected as gamepad on Linux in some cases
• Blacklisted fingerprint sensor uinput-fpc which was incorrectly detected as gamepad on Android
• Added more verbose diagnostics logging
• Improved main menu if no Source found or Shareware Demo is used
• Improved weapon wheel
• Improved high-resolution icons
• Improved Android path handling
• Reduced instances array size in shaders
• Fixed critical crash on Android
• Fixed wrong resolution on UWP
• Fixed gamepad triggers on UWP
• Fixed poor performance on UWP
• Fixed loading of unsupported versions
• Fixed player jumping on Springs
• Fixed flickering of stuck enemies (Helmut, Demon and LabRat)
• Force use fixed batch size on PowerVR Rogue GE8300 on Android to avoid missing sprites

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added automated experimental builds – no need to wait for release to try some new features
• Added Play Custom Levels section
• Added logging to file on Android – log can be found in /­Android/­data/­jazz2.­resurrection/­files/Jazz2.log
• Content directory is included in APK on Android for easier installation – if you have previous version, just install the newer one and run it
• Added /bypass-cache startup parameter to avoid creating Cache directory (advanced use only)
• Improved weapon wheel
• Improved gamepad support – triggers can be also used now
• Better error messages
• Reduced application size for Android
• Fixed some issues with paths and main menu
• Fixed Shareware Demo
• Fixed Uterus boss
• Fixed spawning of enemies near starting point
• Fixed TNT doesn't break "TNT blocks" sometimes
• Fixed music sometimes doesn't play
• Fixed some gamepad issues