2.9.1: Fixed gameplay issues and crash on older CPUs

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Some minor internal changes
• Improved inaccurate masks of original Castle 1, Castle 1 Night and Inferno Night tilesets
• Reworked ModifierHurt event
• Updated translations
• Fixed AreaEndOfLevel event with JJ2+ parameters
• Fixed some player animation glitches
• Fixed crash if CPU without CLFLUSHOPT x86 instruction support was used (older than Intel Skylake)

2.9.0: Some minor features and a lot of gameplay fixes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Allow Cheats and Overwrite Episode Completion (Always / No Cheats Only / Higher Score Only) to Gameplay options
• Added jjmorph cheat
• Added shield timer to HUD
• Increased number of usable gamepads to 6
• Increased Lori's jump distance (if Reforged Gameplay is enabled)
• Improved rendering of player shields and some visual effects
• Adjusted gamepad rumble
• Updated translations
• Reworked Linux ARM64 cross-compilation (on GitHub Actions)
• Fixed Can't destroy PowerUps with some weapons (Bouncer, Toaster, ...)
• Fixed Madder Hatter projectile shouldn't be affected by gravity (if Reforged Gameplay is disabled)
• Fixed Upgraded Bouncer does 1 damage instead of 2
• Fixed Monkeys can't aim, they just throw bananas at the same curve
• Fixed Sparks are always looking the same direction, and chase player constantly in their range
• Fixed 2D Spike Balls are indestructible and can't be frozen (applies also to all moving platform types)
• Fixed Carrots (+1 HP) don't give short invincibility
• Fixed Destructable blocks don't give score on destruction
• Fixed Player shields can kill enemies if player touch them, but it shouldn't
• Fixed Player can't kill frozen enemies when running into them
• Fixed Spaz' sidekick only kills one enemy at a time
• Fixed SugarRush is not immune to hurt events
• Fixed When player buttstomp a turtle shell, can't move until it bounce back up then fall down
• Fixed RF missiles
• Fixed input in GLFW backend
• Fixed extra gamepad buttons (share button, touchpad, mic mute)
• Fixed Menu/Back binding for 2nd player
• Fixed gamepad detection
• Fixed major crash on Switch

2.8.0: Splitscreen

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added local splitscreen co-op support (for up to 4 players)
• Added gamepad rumble (can be set to Disabled, Weak or Strong in Controls options, only supported in SDL2 and UWP backends)
• Added generic XInput gamepad mapping to all platforms (was Windows only before, should fix Steam Input on Linux)
• Added UWP/Mesa build for Xbox Series (untested and highly experimental)
• Added fetching gamepad mappings from SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG environment variable
• Updated French translation by @Mwyann
• Updated Polish translation by @Patrxgt
• Updated Romanian translation by @1NSH4N3
• Updated Turkish translation by @consul
• Improved About section in main menu
• Improved logging
• Adjusted trigger deadzone and default control bindings
• Fixed crash on Android TV
• Fixed tilemap rendering
• Fixed shooting while pushing into wall
• Fixed shooting into a wall with Bouncer and Toaster
• Fixed player shield timer
• Various other fixes

2.7.0: UI tweaks, optimizations and fixes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added new Android icon reflecting reforged/legacy main menu
• Added French translation by @Mwyann
• Added ARM64EC build for Windows (x64 libraries are still used there for now)
• Added optional PlayStation™ button labels (can be set in Controls section)
• Added /log:file startup parameter to create log file, usually in config directory
• Blacklisted every gamepad containing Keyboard and Mouse in name, because it's usually wrongly detected as gamepad on Linux
• Adjusted 3D audio panning
• Reduced number of files created in Cache directory, single file Source.pak is created instead with decreased size and increased speed
• Better exception handling – crash dump is automatically saved to CrashDumps directory for easier troubleshooting on Windows, and stack trace to terminal on some other platforms
• Some minor performance improvements on WIndows
• Adjusted menu layout for non-16:9 aspect ratios and low resolution screens
• Adjusted OpenGL library linkage on Linux
• Improved rendering of some menu elements
• Updated Italian translation by @Hexaae
• Updated Polish translation by @Patrxgt
• Updated Romanian translation by @1NSH4N3
• Fixed some gamepad mappings
• Fixed some player SFXs to be bound to camera
• Fixed player buttstomp
• Fixed loading of some gamepad mappings

2.6.0: Smaller update

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Toggle Run to Controls options (you don't have to hold the Run button if enabled)
• Added better error messages on crash
• Read gamecontrollerdb.txt from parent directory of "Source" directory on Android (or from "Content" directory on other platforms)
• Improved internal audio handling and handling of timers
• Various internal optimizations and refactoring
• Updated dependencies
• Fixed minor graphics glitches
• Fixed version numbering of experimental builds
• Fixed Xbox/UWP version

2.5.0: Welcome screen, legacy menu, better controls...

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Welcome (first run) menu section to select Legacy/Reforged mode
• Added sound effects to intro video (first startup will be without sound, because cache must be recreated first)
• Added legacy (purple) main menu background
• Change main menu background and music with Reforged Main Menu option without game restart
• Added possibility to assign up to 6 assignments (keys, buttons or axes) to any action in Controls section
• Added possibility to remap also quick change to weapon 1-10 actions in Controls section
• Added possibility to remap controls with touch screen in Controls section
• Added /reset-controls startup parameter to force reset all saved controls settings
• Rollback food eaten (sugar rush) on checkpoint (if Reforged Gameplay is enabled)
• Allow to slightly move left/right while buttstomping
• Force collisions every frame even if player doesn't move
• Improved player weapon flare and player outline
• Improved Reforged HUD
• Improved About menu section
• Adjusted font letter spacing
• Adjusted Turtle Shell
• Reworked input handling (and because of this, all controls settings will be reset)
• Reworked rendering to be top-left aligned instead of center – it can improve image quality in some cases
• Reworked camera smoothing to fix jittering
• Various internal performance optimizations
• Updated Polish translation by @Patrxgt
• Updated Romanian translation by @1NSH4N3
• Updated Turkish translation by @consul
• Fixed some internal bugs
• Fixed Barrel, Trigger Crate, Fencer, LabRat, MadderHatter, Raven, Queen, Moth
• Fixed Don't kill enemies with Pole and PushableBox (if Reforged Gameplay is disabled)
• Fixed Remap Controls menu section
• Fixed food eaten in saved state
• Fixed Windows 7/8 support

2.4.1: New year update

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Flatpak package and published on Flathub
• Added player weapon flare
• Added Reforged HUD and Reforged Main Menu as separate options
• Added jjk cheat
• Load gamepad mappings also from config directory if exists
• Don't show custom levels that should be hidden
• Improved Gameplay Enhancements menu section
• Various internal performance optimizations
• Fixed Fish and LabRat enemies
• Fixed Airboard
• Fixed horizontal Spring orientation in some levels
• Fixed alignment of some level messages
• Fixed crash while rendering a lot of particles
• Fixed jumping out of water in some levels
• Fixed some cases where symbolic link to file couldn't be used

2.4.0: Full of changes for end of the year

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Episode logos/images to episode selection
• Added asynchronous loading to custom level selection
• Added AppImage packages – all dependencies and Content directory is already in the package (Linux only)
• Added support for JJ2+ ammo crates (event 54)
• Show upgraded ammo pickup if player has upgraded weapon
• Reset current weapon to Blaster if player has no ammo in current weapon on checkpoint
• Changed to use "$XDG_DATA_HOME/{NCINE_LINUX_PACKAGE}/" path for Cache and Source instead of "$XDG_DATA_HOME/Jazz² Resurrection/" on Linux ({NCINE_LINUX_PACKAGE} is still set to to "Jazz² Resurrection" by default in CMake)
• Various internal performance optimizations
• Improved some sprites
• Improved 3D sound
• Improved Sounds section in Options (long press is supported now)
• Updated Italian translation by @Hexaae
• Updated Polish translation by @Patrxgt
• Updated Romanian translation by @1NSH4N3
• Adjusted Pinball Bumper
• Adjusted Bird's fire rate
• Replaced libdeflate with zlib-ng on Windows to fix random crashes (zlib is used everywhere now)
• Fixed transition between standing and crouching while shooting
• Fixed Fast Fire power up and default fire rate
• Fixed Raven enemy
• Fixed Bolly boss and Uterus boss
• Fixed Pepper explosion
• Fixed destructable blocks on Continue
• Fixed Esc key in main menu

2.3.0: Continue from checkpoint and other changes

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Added Continue to main menu – to quickly continue from the last checkpoint in the last played level
• Added quick resume on the last checkpoint to Android if the game was minimized and then terminated by OS
• Added loading screen if the device is too slow
• Improved rendering of tile map (added 1px padding to every tile)
• Added Unaligned Viewport option to improve rendering on some GPUs
• Skipping ambient light transition at the beginning of level
• Added new texts to translation files
• Adjusted Springs
• Adjusted Power up hitbox
• Adjusted Monkey hitbox
• Reworked Pinball Bumper
• Optimized debris/particle rendering
• Various other optimizations
• Improved menu transitions
• Updated Romanian translation by @1NSH4N3
• Fixed crash when player shoots while converted to frog by witch
• Fixed behaviour when a solid object falls on player
• Fixed Lori's lifting animation
• Fixed Float Up event
• Fixed Copter Ears
• Fixed TNT
• Fixed Sugar Rush in water

2.2.2: Fix for even worse crash

🚧 Release notes can be found here. For more information, visit the official website.

• Fixed crash due to critical bug in resource management
• Fixed player crouch animation
• Fixed blue spring strength (if Reforged Gameplay is disabled)
• Added --version startup parameter on Linux
• Updated expired UWP certificate