v3.4

This is a smaller bugfix release

• Fix GFDM v4/v5 libavs again (no md5 functions, so layeredfs now contains its own implementation)
• Fix GFDM v4/v5 pkfs again (different exports for pkfs_clear_hdd_error)
• Added ultra-verbose pkfs_unpak variant

Behind-the-scenes

• The README is now (hopefully!) much better. I added several example paths for all the kinds of mod you can do, as well as made a list of "known good" games.

v3.3

• Significantly improve cache timestamp handling. Caches on systems with a broken RTC / bad system time will now work without constantly regenerating the cache
• Fix potential HDD error in jubeat
• v3.1 and v3.2 accidentally included a random IIDX texture in the example data_mods folder. This was a mistake and has been fixed in those zips

v3.2

• Fix broken song ifs modding in jubeat

v3.1

• Fix broken modding of IFS files (oops)
• ramfs demangling is now more reliable - you can have a modded .ifs file as well as replacing sub-files inside of it
• Support even older libavs, v2.5.4 from GFDM v5

v3.0

First major release in 2 years! 🎉

New features

• Modding .bin textures from jubeat and Gitadora are now supported!
  • Check out data_mods/MOD_README.txt for instructions!
• Layeredfs logs now appear in the same place as all other logs (restore the old behaviour with the flag --layered-logfile=ifs_hook.log)
• Auto-injectors for games where d3d9.dll doesn't work are now supplied (opengl32.dll for jubeat and Gitadora, dxgi.dll for Bombergirl and some other newer games)
• IIDX 19 is now supported
• Games that use pkfs (jubeat(2008), jubeat ripples, gfdmv8) can now be modded without needing to extract the pak files
• pkfs games don't have a file list: every filename must be guessed. An auto-extractor for pkfs games is now provided inside special_builds to make this process easier.
• Games with very old AVS versions are now supported (such as jubeat 2008)

Bugfixes

• Several cases where filesystem case sensitivity was breaking things have been fixed (notably, if a modfile has capital letters and the game rootfs has posix=1, mods no longer fail)

Behind-the-scenes

• Layeredfs is now built with mingw-w64 and Meson. Microsoft broke Windows XP compatibility, so I moved away from MSVC. The .dll is 5x bigger, but it's much less painful to build!
• Special build variants (such as "always logs to file" and "always verbose logs") are now generated, in case you don't trust the commandline args
• The source for the d3d9/opengl32/dxgi injectors is now provided and built in meson

Acknowledgements

Without the incredible work done by windyfairy on gitadora-texbintool, this release would never have happened. Thank you for the time you spent reversing the format.

v3.0 Beta 5

• Support jubeat(2008) correctly
• Add new special_build that dumps .pak file contents as you access them

v3.0 Beta 4

• Games that use pkfs (jubeat(2008), jubeat ripples, gfdmv8) can now be modded without needing to extract the pak files

v3.0 Beta 3

• Several cases where filesystem case sensitivity was breaking things have been fixed (notably, if a modfile has capital letters and the game rootfs has posix=1, mods no longer fail to work)
• Fix layeredfs for AVS <= 2.13
• Fix broken texbin rect repacking when the texture name was the same as a rect name
• Special build variants (such as "always logs to file" and "always verbose logs") are now generated, in case you don't trust the commandline args propagating
• The source for the d3d9/opengl32/dxgi injectors is now provided and built in meson
• The zip is now built with build.sh

v3.0 Beta 2

• Fix sometimes broken caching (led to long loads on jubeat)
• Allow mismatched texture sizes (I've been informed the game can handle this fine)
• More resilient parsing (old texbintool emitted sizes differently)
• Disable LTO (only saved 10KiB on 3MiB DLL, linking is "basically instant" now instead of 3 seconds)

v3.0 Beta 1

Features

• .bin textures from Jubeat and Gitadora can now be modded with bare .png images
• Logs now go to the same place all other game logs go
• IIDX 19 is now supported

Backend

• layeredfs is now built with mingw-w64 and Meson. Microsoft broke Windows XP compatibility, so I moved away from MSVC. The .dll is 6x bigger, but it's a lot less painful to build...

If nobody finds bugs in this release, it will become stable in ~2-3 weeks.

Acknowledgements

Without the incredible work done by windyfairy on gitadora-texbintool, this release would never have happened. Thank you for the time you spent reversing the format.