Release Changelog

Fixes from the bug reports on Discord.

• Batalia's and Pokitaru's waterfalls keep their white foam from every camera angle.
• Cutscenes start and end cleanly: no flicker, no stray frame of play, and the fades ease in and out.
• Cutscene cuts no longer click.
• Music no longer keeps playing in slow motion while the game has it paused.
• Sounds pause properly while a vendor is open.
• Clank's footsteps stop when you switch back to Ratchet.
• The Magneboots' struggling jump alternates between its two sounds again.
• Helmets, the O2 mask, boots and gloves follow Ratchet's head and arm movements.
• The wrench appears at the right moment when Ratchet climbs ledges.
• The Glove of Doom's glow stays inside the glove.
• The Bomb Glove aims where Ratchet is facing, prefers enemies over crates it cannot see, leads moving targets and throws further with gold upgrades while L1 or L2 is held.
• The Decoy Glove and the Glove of Doom show the right landing spot on boats and the Metropolis train.
• The Gold Bomb Glove throws further in first person.
• Creatures fired from the Suck Cannon leave Ratchet's hand properly.
• The Pokitaru jet no longer leaves the view zoomed after a crash.
• Batalia's turret can be used again once the battle is won.
• The mirrored-levels cheat no longer flashes black.
• Gaspar's turret sounds no longer stack up after a death.
• Oltanis no longer crashes after dying.
• In the Hologuise, Clank and his pack squash along with Ratchet.
• Fly-by cameras zoom smoothly.

Fixes and features from the community's pull requests.

• Coming back to Gemlik after the escape, your ship is waiting for you again.
• Gold weapons look gold all over, as on the PS2.
• The Decoy Glove and the Glove of Doom show where they will land, like the Bomb Glove and the Mine Glove.
• Mines, decoys and Doom bots thrown from the Metropolis train keep the train's speed, land where the reticle shows and ride along with it.
• Kalebo III's breakroom chickens peck, cluck, run from Ratchet and can be hit again.
• Wrench throws in first person follow Ratchet's tilt on the Magneboots.
• The game remembers the language you pick, and the first start follows your computer's language when the game has it.
• A new Fill aspect ratio uses the whole window, for ultrawide and other uncommon screens.
• Every connected controller is read, not just the first, and the 8BitDo Ultimate's buttons are right on Linux.
• The memory card folder can be set in the settings file, and a memcard folder next to the game is used when there is one.

Fixes from the v0.3.6 bug reports on Discord.

• Holding Circle with the Swingshot no longer leaves Ratchet stuck at the end of the pull.
• The auto-aim and weapon reticles are solid again in 16:9.
• Level textures are drawn at the PS2's scale, so cave roofs and walls no longer look twice as dense.
• The Bomb Glove aims from Ratchet's hand, its bombs sink in water and follow the moving platform they're thrown from, and mines and decoys ride platforms too.
• Oltanis: the lightning strikes Clank on arrival, and the course lift returns to the start once you've bought the PDA.
• Buying from the PDA shows the level behind the vendor.
• Quartu: Clank's mother types her words on the monitor.
• Gemlik's lasers move again, and the Hologuise's lights turn red when the guards spot you.
• Novalis' water flowers move aside as Ratchet walks through them.
• Teleporters play their arrival sound.
• Hoverboard races show the boost meter even with a weapon held.
• The Visibomb's view has its scanlines, and In-Level Movies and the Epilogue look right on every planet.
• Picking up a gold bolt hides the Pyrocitor's glow and pilot flame.

Fixes from the v0.3.5 bug reports on Discord and from the community's pull requests.

• The game no longer speeds up on screens where vsync doesn't hold it to 60 frames a second, so music, speech and movement keep their pace.
• The pause menu no longer leaves stray panels behind when it opens on a slow frame.
• The Skill Points page ticks the skill points you've earned, and the wrench reticle is see-through again.
• In-Level Movies no longer show a character twice.
• The Mine Glove, Glove of Doom and Decoy Glove hold their mine, canister and decoy inside the glove.
• The wrench combo lunges toward the enemy or crate you're aiming at.
• On ice, weapons are held level, jumps keep the slide, and throwing and catching the wrench pushes Ratchet along.
• The Persuader, Map-o-Matic and Bolt Grabber show on Ratchet in cutscenes and at the ship's take-offs and landings, and they glow and spin as they should; Clank's scenes no longer show a second antenna light.
• Music plays during the ending credits, and Clank on Orxon has his own track.
• The map fills in as you explore Umbris, Gemlik's base and Quartu.
• Gemlik: the force-field towers no longer take over the Heli-Pack's sound.
• Giant Clank no longer turns red during his beam attack: only the world flashes red.
• The hover troopers' and dropships' shots are bright again, and so are a few effects on Hoven and Gemlik.
• The mouse cursor hides while the game window is in focus.
• Port Options changed from the main menu now take effect, as they do from the pause menu.

Fixes from playing v0.3.4, from the bug reports on Discord and from the community's pull requests.

• The first start no longer shows a purple or black screen.
• Save slots show the time played and the date in your own time zone, and saving over a slot highlights it.
• The autosave icon shows while the game saves.
• Cheats no longer switch on by themselves, and the Goodies descriptions show on every level.
• The pause menu looks right after a movie or scene, and the escape and air timers and the underwater tint stay off the pause menu and map.
• Port Options open from the main menu too.
• The wrench aims at nearby crates and enemies again, knocks Orxon's bombs away and sets off placed mines.
• Weapons fire along a grind rail and sweep with the stick, and the Morph-o-Ray fires while walking and running.
• The Mine Glove shows the mine in Ratchet's hand and leaves its smoke cloud when a mine goes off.
• The Persuader, Map-o-Matic and Bolt Grabber show on Ratchet once he has them.
• A jump off ice keeps Ratchet's slide, and the thrown wrench no longer flies through closed doors.
• Picking up a gold bolt hides the bomb and the Swingshot's hook, and the ammo counter comes back after dying.
• Warp pads turn the camera behind Ratchet, and the view goes back to normal after the Pokitaru dogfight.
• At the ship's take-offs and landings Clank's antenna glows and Ratchet wears his helmet; the planet title cards fade in without blue bars.
• Clank's hover hum plays, and Veldin Orbit keeps its music after the fleet mission.
• Trees sway in the wind, Ratchet leaves footprints in Hoven's snow, and the map's ship marker sits on the ship.
• The Glove of Doom's canisters and the gold bolts lose the big yellow halo on some planets.
• Quartu: the Codebot door no longer gets stuck.
• Kalebo III: the race water sits at the right height, and the Magician skill point can be earned.
• Gaspar: the cannons aim up and down the right way.
• Giant Clank carries Ratchet along.

Fixes from playing v0.3.3.

• Cutscenes: characters are lit like the place they stand in, Ratchet's head is the right size, and Clank's eyes and antenna glow.
• Lamps, glowing mushrooms and other lights brighten Ratchet again, like in Novalis's caves, Aridia's factory and Al's shop.
• Ratchet raises his gun when standing close to a wall, and his weapons fire along it.
• Aiming with the wrench or the Swingshot shows the reticle.
• The Swingshot's claws fold out once and stay open.
• The Comet-Strike sparks when the wrench hits a wall or an enemy.
• The Bomb Glove's blast throws enemies away from it, and the gold Bomb Glove has its bigger, golden blast.
• Pressing Start on the Hoverboard asks to quit the race.
• Shop messages fit inside their box.
• Novalis: Drek's gunship destroys the bridge only once.
• Aridia: the lifts come for Ratchet from either end, and the shark and nest counters show during the race.
• Kerwan: Ratchet no longer falls off the taxis mid-ride.
• Blarg Station: the pad Clank uses carries Ratchet, the airlock doors stay in step after Clank's section, and the queen's screams and death play out as they should.

Fixes from playing v0.3.2.

• Gemlik Base: Qwark's shield drops again, he flies off when the fight starts, the camera follows his crash, and his health bar goes away afterwards.
• Gemlik Base: after the fight the new ship is waiting, closed, with its orange canopy, and Ratchet can board it.
• Veldin Orbit: the nebulae out past the fleet are back, the windows have their glass, and the two pools near the start have water.
• Quartu: the patrolling guard walks its route again, so the Hologuise gets Ratchet past the barrier.
• Hoven: Ratchet freezes in the icy water.
• Veldin: after dying, the pools drained with the Hydrodisplacer stay drained.
• Blarg Station: broken objects no longer leave oversized pieces behind.
• First person: only a thrown wrench shows in Ratchet's hand.
• The Drone Device works from the pause menu, and its drones show up next to Ratchet there.
• The map page on Veldin shows the right name.
• Cutscene dialogue plays in the chosen language.

Fixes from playing v0.3.1.

• Windows: the black window on some PCs is fixed.
• Gold weapons look gold, in Ratchet's hand, in the menus and in the cutscene that now plays after buying one.
• Ratchet gets darker indoors, like in Veldin's garage, and so do his weapon and Clank.
• Ratchet glares at enemies, and makes faces when hurt, holding his breath or pulling out a big weapon.
• Things that should stand on the ground no longer float: Qwark at Oltanis's Gadgetron stand, Umbris's Hydrodisplacer spots and more.
• Oltanis: the round tilting platforms are solid again.
• Kalebo III: the lifts go all the way up and down.
• Gemlik Base: Ratchet no longer dies outside the base during the space battle, and the asteroids drift.
• Umbris: the turrets fire from their guns.
• The map: Ratchet's arrow turns the right way, the markers are in the right places, and the map no longer goes blank after skipping a cutscene.
• The oxygen meter no longer shows up after drowning.
• Options: the pages keep their layout after leaving Port Options, which now scrolls.

Fixes from playing v0.3.0, smoother frame pacing, and new graphics options.

• Dying no longer empties every weapon.
• Gemlik Base: Ratchet wears his O2 Mask from the start.
• Clank and Giant Clank no longer get stuck in first person.
• The weapon counter no longer keeps the vendor's ammo icon, and each weapon shows its own ammo.
• Vendor: one weapon per press when browsing, and the selection frame shows again.
• The Comet-Strike works on Magneboots walls and ceilings.
• The Metal Detector's head points at what it scans.
• The boots hide Ratchet's feet.
• Gadgets and Weapons pages: Ratchet plays each item's animation on every planet, and the Heli-Pack spins and folds.
• Jet fighter missions: locking on to a target close to the ship no longer crashes the game.
• One game step per frame, at up to 60 frames a second: no more doubled or skipped frames, and less work for the computer.
• New graphics options under Options, Port Options: a preset, anti-aliasing, detail distance, texture filtering and HUD scaling. Every option starts at Original, the PS2's picture on a TV, so the game now looks soft like the original. Set Anti-aliasing to Off for the sharper look of earlier versions.
• The Port Options page fits all its rows.
• A Linux version (64-bit PCs), not tested yet: reports welcome.

Dying now works the way it does in the original, and a long list of fixes from play-testing Umbris, Orxon, Gemlik and the rest.

• Dying brings back enemies, crates and pickups the way the original does, and saves remember which enemies stay defeated and what they dropped.
• Lifts and gates you already opened stay open after loading a save.
• After dying, the ship can be boarded and has its glass, nanotech no longer gets stuck in the air or turns see-through, and leftover fog no longer lingers.
• Kerwan: the troopers and the info bot are on the train.
• Umbris, Gaspar, Orxon and the last two planets: breaking ammo crates no longer crashes the game, and the vendor sells ammo again.
• Umbris: the first landing no longer leaves the screen dark with Ratchet missing.
• The Snagglebeast: its fire sweep, suck beam, shockwave and shield work like the original, and rapid fire no longer lands every shot. A few other enemies had the same problem and are fixed too.
• Boss health bars no longer freeze after dying.
• Orxon: the gate at the start of Clank's section opens without dying first, dying there brings Clank back at the checkpoint, and Clank no longer gets stuck after the landing or the turret cutscene. The gadgetbots' glass bubbles show.
• Gemlik Base: Ratchet walks the curved Magneboots rails, and the robots' rolling fire wall shows and hurts.
• The Suck Cannon pulls in Eudora's robots, the crew on Drek's fleet and the hoppers on Veldin.
• Ratchet no longer holds the wrench on ledges or while swimming.
• Space travel: planets show their real colours, and the ship's canopy stays in place in every flight and cutscene.
• The planet preview in the ship's menu turns smoothly, and the "Enter Ship" prompt no longer shows behind the planet menu.
• Qwark's broadcast on Rilgar no longer takes on the TV screen's tint.
• Vendor: weapons face the right way, and the item bar fits the list.
• Ammo and other pickups no longer show their insides as they fade in.
• Ratchet, the crate and the ship stay on the title screen behind the main menu.

Mostly Blarg Station, plus fixes for Clank's sections and a few other planets.

• Blarg Station: the energy doors' beams cross the right way, Clank's bridge extends once he has the Hydrodisplacer, and freed gadgetbots no longer fly off and die. Their command voices play.
• Blarg Station: the big red button's cover opens once the room is clear, and the self-destruct countdown shows on screen.
• Blarg Station: the countdown voice lines play, and the escape, the shuttle flight and the launch tube have their explosion sounds.
• The queen's health bar on Blarg and the Umbris boss's health bar go away when the boss dies.
• Dying in a Clank section no longer brings you back as Ratchet, leaves Clank unhurtable or leaves a frozen Ratchet standing around.
• Clank: the pause menu greys out what he can't use, ledge climbs work, and his antenna glow and heli-pack stay in place when he turns.
• Ratchet's ship is solid again: you can no longer walk through it.
• The info bot movie from Drek's henchman on Eudora plays once.
• The quick select no longer opens during scripted scenes or when △ is used on a prompt.
• Info bot and other messages at the top of the screen no longer stay up too long.
• The weapon counter keeps its shape in widescreen.
• Oltanis's lightning thunders.

• Fixes a black screen after the opening movies of a new game, after loading a save and after flying to another planet.

Fixes from the first round of testing, and new display settings.

• Port Options has three new settings: Aspect ratio (4:3 as on a TV, or 16:10 and 16:9 widescreen), Resolution (Window, or 416p up to 2160p) and Fullscreen. Widescreen shows more of the world at the sides while the HUD and menus keep their shape. F11 also switches fullscreen.
• Fullscreen and maximised windows now have black bars, and the menus no longer break in them.
• Loading a save on Kerwan brings back the enemies of later missions, and Helga no longer offers the Swingshot again once you have it.
• Reaching the info bot on Kerwan's train no longer throws Ratchet off the map.
• The Qwark bot on Kerwan no longer repeats its cutscene.
• A thrown wrench brings back the bolts and ammo it hits, as in the original.
• The bomb glove no longer floats in the air during cutscenes, at the vendor or when boarding the ship, and Clank's antenna glow no longer floats in cutscenes.
• The ship's canopy shows during take-off and landing.
• The planet selection screen shows the button hints and your gold bolt count.
• Enemies and objects that could turn invisible while still active now show.

The first test build of ReRAC. It's an early alpha: every planet is in, from Veldin to Drek's fleet, but only the first few have been played through properly, so expect rough edges, missing details and the odd crash further on.

• Made for Macs with Apple Silicon. There's also a Windows build, but nobody has tried it yet, so it may not even start; please tell us how it goes. Linux comes later.
• You need your own copy of the game (the NTSC-U disc, SCUS-97199). No game files are included; the ReRAC launcher sets the game up from your disc.
• Veldin, Novalis, Aridia and Kerwan are complete. The other planets have all their enemies, machines and bosses, and are waiting for a full play-through.
• The main menu, saving and loading, flying between planets, the Gadgetron vendor, and cutscenes with their sound and music all work.
• If something goes wrong, please report it with the log the launcher keeps.

Installing Going Commando no longer fails just before it finishes.

• Windows (untested): [rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.3.1-alpha/rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi)
• Linux (untested): [rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.3.1-alpha/rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage)

Only the macOS versions have been tried so far. The Windows and Linux downloads are built

automatically and have never been run; please report what happens if you try them.

Each game now has its own version, chosen from the Version list right above the Play button. When a newer release is out, the list says so and offers it, and nothing downloads until you pick it. Version Management in the settings has a tab for each game, and a downloaded version can be deleted there.

Going Commando has its own page now. Its releases will show up there once they are published.

From this version on, the launcher keeps itself up to date: it downloads a new launcher in the background and asks you to restart when it is ready, never while a game is running. This one version still has to be installed by hand.

• Windows (untested): [rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.3.0-alpha/rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi)
• Linux (untested): [rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.3.0-alpha/rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage)

Only the macOS versions have been tried so far. The Windows and Linux downloads are built

automatically and have never been run; please report what happens if you try them.

A fix for macOS: v0.2.0-alpha could be refused as "damaged" after its first launch. The app is now signed as a whole, so macOS asks once whether to open it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. The Version Management button on the game screen now opens the Release-channel releases.

• Windows (untested): [rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.2.1-alpha/rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi)
• Linux (untested): [rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.2.1-alpha/rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage)

Only the macOS versions have been tried so far. The Windows and Linux downloads are built

automatically and have never been run; please report what happens if you try them.

The first test release of the ReRAC launcher. It sets up ReRAC, the native rewrite of Ratchet & Clank (2002), from your own disc: point it at an image of your NTSC-U disc (SCUS-97199), and it checks the disc, copies the game data once and starts the game with one click. It downloads ReRAC itself from the published releases, so you can install a new version or switch back to an older one from the Versions settings. From the game screen you can also export the game's textures, sounds, models and levels, or extract the data again if something went wrong. Mod support comes later.

This is an early alpha, so expect rough edges. The macOS app is not signed yet, so macOS blocks it the first time you open it: go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. The Windows installer isn't signed either and has never been tried; if Windows SmartScreen warns you, choose More info → Run anyway. The launcher contains no game files; you need your own copy of the game.

• Windows (untested): [rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.2.0-alpha/rerac-launcher-windows-x64.msi)
• Linux (untested): [rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage](https://github.com/re-rac/rerac-launcher/releases/download/v0.2.0-alpha/rerac-launcher-linux-x86_64.AppImage)

Only the macOS versions have been tried so far. The Windows and Linux downloads are built

automatically and have never been run; please report what happens if you try them.