Resident Evil Code: Veronica X PC Port

v1.1.12 — Processors without AVX2, Discord status and the paid Japanese edition

English

• Processors without AVX2 now run the port. Until now the port only opened on processors with AVX2; on older ones (for example a Core i3-2120) it showed a white window and closed with error 0xC000001D (issue #12). The package now also carries a compatibility version (CodeVeronicaPort_SSE4.exe, _US_SSE4.exe, _JP_SSE4.exe), built for SSE4.1. You still open Code Veronica.exe as always: the port checks the processor when it starts and, when AVX2 is missing, opens the compatibility version by itself. There is nothing to choose.
  • Covered: Intel Core 2nd and 3rd generation (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge), Core 1st generation (Nehalem, Westmere), older Xeons (X5650/X5670, E5 v1/v2), AMD FX. The minimum is SSE4.1 (Intel since 2008); without it the port now explains this in a message instead of closing.
  • Speed depends on the processor. The game uses several cores at once in the heavy 3D cutscenes, so a 2-core processor can drop frames there.
  • With AVX2 nothing changes: the same executables, the same speed.
• Discord status: with the Discord app open on your PC, your profile shows Playing RE Code Veronica X PS3 Recomp PC, with the version (EU/US/JP), the play time and a button to the port’s page. It can be turned off in Advanced → Show on Discord. Without Discord open, nothing happens.
• Japanese version with a paid license (issue #32): the Japanese release exists in two editions under the same NPJB00135: a free-licence one and a paid one whose EBOOT.BIN needs a .rap, like EU and US. The launcher assumed every Japanese copy was free, showed “Not needed” and failed with “Could not decrypt EBOOT.BIN”. It now reads the license from the EBOOT.BIN: the paid edition shows the license field to pick your .rap; the free edition is unchanged.
• Graphics card: the port still needs a card with DirectX 12. The Intel HD 4600 (built into 4th-generation Core processors) freezes on the first frame; this is under investigation.
• For people who build the port from the source code: the repository now builds from any folder; one command, tools/cv_make_spu.py, generates the whole SPU folder (a regenerated folder used to end in a black screen); the FFmpeg DLLs are included; the README has winget commands to install the build tools; and the Portuguese text works in a build run from the repository. The same cellPad.c include fix was also made independently in the fork by zedhqx4.
• Previous improvements are retained, including the optional HD texture pack (separate download, link below).

These builds compiled successfully for EU/US/JP, normal and compatibility. All six executables (EU, US and JP, normal and compatibility) were started through the launcher and reached the game at 30 FPS, and a normal executable sent down the compatibility path started the _SSE4 one by itself. The compatibility version was also run under Intel’s SDE emulator: as a Sandy Bridge processor, the normal executable switched to _SSE4 on its own; as a processor without AVX, _SSE4 ran for 4 minutes with no invalid instruction. It has not yet been played on a real processor without AVX2, so reports are welcome (issue #12). The paid Japanese edition could not be tested here; the free one works as before. This remains a work in progress; a full playthrough on every setup is not verified.

Downloads

• CodeVeronica-PC-v1.1.12.zip — main Windows port. Extract the complete ZIP and open Code Veronica.exe, keeping bin/ and assets/ beside it. SHA-256: ce2106841fea272a42163f9f13bca2ac813c18363f04485d3dd5c7a199f09329.
• Veronica-PKG-Extractor-v1.0.1.zip — PKG preparation tool, a separate ZIP (latest version, unchanged). SHA-256: a88ddfea2b0a9079922c680abab9c6871e98f4e94f9ea252e6a928b8d44e1cc2.

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