Changelog — Swordigo Desktop

The Wastelands release. Two game-breaking freezes killed, SRE expanded to 30+ hooks, full GUI stack, and a complete PostFX pipeline.

🎉 FIXED: Wastelands spinlock — the infamous game-breaking freeze that locked the main thread in an infinite ARM loop

🎉 FIXED: Death freeze — instant checkpoint respawn via SRE hook, bypassing the ad/prompt system entirely

🔧 SRE expanded to 30+ active hooks (was 17 in v5.0)

🖼️ Full GUI DrawRect stack — 8 native hooks for buttons, labels, frames, and sliders

💚 GameSceneView::Update recovered — HP bar, mana orb, coin counter, and damage flash all functional

🪙 Smart coin bar with shop-aware auto-hide logic

💾 Save Editor built into the launcher — edit gold, HP, items, and quest flags

📦 Asset Viewer for browsing PVR textures, PNG sprites, and audio files

✨ PostFX pipeline: 6 presets — Cinematic, Retro, Fantasy, Noir, Ethereal, Atmospheric

🛡️ Crash safety: luaD_throw + ProgramPanic + __cxa_throw interception

⚠ Known issue: Bolt/timer misbehavior — some enemies fire projectiles too fast due to ARM timer drift.

The SRE release. Introduced libsre.so as a guest-side hook library, replacing binary patching with proper function interception.

🚀 libsre.so introduced — 17 active hooks into libswordigo.so at runtime

🎵 Full music system replacement via OpenAL command interface

💀 Death/respawn system — skip ads, instant checkpoint teleport

📊 HUD reimplementation through GameSceneView::Update

⚛️ Non-atomic string ops — STXR elimination for x86 compatibility

📡 Player stats (HP, mana, gold, position) exported to host for HUD rendering

Launcher tools and rendering improvements. The Save Editor was revamped and integrated directly into the launcher UI.

💾 Save Editor revamped and moved into the launcher

🔩 ARM64 entity loop fix — corrected iteration over game objects

🎮 GPU draw call batcher for reduced overhead

✨ PostFX pipeline groundwork — SSAO and god rays shaders

Architecture overhaul. PolyMC-style launcher with instance management, ARM64 emulation via Unicorn Engine, and full SDL3 migration.

🖥️ PolyMC-style launcher with instance manager and version selector

🦾 ARM64 emulation via Unicorn Engine (replaced ARM32 core)

🪟 SDL3 migration complete — modern windowing, input, and audio

The beginning. First successful boot of Swordigo on a Linux desktop — proof of concept with ARM32 emulation and basic GLES translation.

🏁 Initial release — first native Linux port of Swordigo

⚙️ ARM32 emulation core (Unicorn Engine)

🔺 Basic GLES 1.x translation layer

🎮 SDL2 platform support

Release Notes