Star Fox Enhanced

Star Fox Enhanced 0.0.8.8.3

Changes since 0.0.8.8.2. Supply your own supported retail ROM; no ROM or private game data is included. Nintendo 3DS remains paused and is not packaged.

Smaller downloads and new icons

• Converted enhanced backgrounds to lossless PNG: the embedded artwork drops from about 179 MB to 61 MB with the same decoded pixels and dimensions.
• Moved Windows x64 DLSS and DLSS 4.5 runtimes to one optional separate DLSS add-on download. Extract its contents beside starfox_pc.exe, so the dlss folder sits next to the game. Both DLSS menu options use it; the base game works without the add-on. Compatible NVIDIA hardware is still required. Existing installed optional runtime files survive game updates.
• Added the new Star Fox Enhanced application icon across desktop, mobile and supported console packages.
• Updated Android’s embedded-artwork verification for lossless PNG resources, preserved the older Steam Frame toolchain’s bit-cast compatibility, and corrected Vita decoder linking and Steam Frame icon/notice packaging.

MODERN renderer

Includes the merged MODERN renderer update by CarltonCracker (PR #64):

• DYNAMIC LIGHTING adds coloured weapon/explosion/bomb lights and engine glow. Ray-traced sun shadows support the landscape, models, corridors and Space Armada boss room. Dynamic lighting is optional and off by default.
• Added optional HIGH POLY ARWINGS, including broken-wing variants, without changing simulation collision shapes or timing.
• Added MODERN output for SBS, over-under, interlaced, anaglyph and cross-view stereo. Leia SR continues to use its existing dedicated presentation path.
• Added MODERN build support for Android and PS5, plus a 3D Space Armada boss room, corridor/background accuracy fixes, 2D filters and level-select audio corrections. Android/PS5 device acceptance remains hardware-dependent.
• Renamed the renderer MODERN - VERY FAST and marked settings it does not implement as GPU ONLY, rather than suggesting those settings are active.

Compatibility fixes

• #32: prevented retained exterior cruisers from drawing through Space Armada’s final corridor/boss room across flat and shared stereo/VR paths. Kept the source object-removal correction and preserved outdoor ships.
• #49: added automatic host cartridge composition for Windows AMD/Radeon Vulkan while keeping GPU geometry/effects enabled. Live graphics-setting changes retire prior GPU work once before reconfiguration. This mitigates the reported driver-loss path; confirmation on the affected Radeon hardware is still needed, and this is not a claim that every AMD hang is resolved.
• Kept enhanced ground and enhanced sky/backgrounds independent of ray tracing. Reflections and ray-traced shadows retain their own requirements.

Updates and installation

• Preserved the full 0.0.8.8.3 version in the in-game updater, including upgrades from 0.0.8.8.2. The updater selects the game package, never the optional DLSS add-on. Automatic installation remains for portable Windows x64/x86 and Linux x64; other platforms keep their existing update methods.
• Increased native platform build revisions for install-over updates. Android and Quest retain the existing release-signing certificate.
• Settings, saves and compatible locally generated game data remain usable. Source/build directories do not support in-place auto-update: use an extracted release installation.

Platform packages are published only after the release build gates, Windows Defender package scans and checksum inventory pass. Build success is not a claim of hardware acceptance for every console, VR headset or graphics driver.