The Nimbus Project — Alpha 1.1
Released November 2, 2026 · Linux, Windows and Android

Nimbus is a free, closed-source, custom-built project (we plan to open source it later). No donations.
The three games' runtime components are bundled in each download. Original disc images are not included:
you need your own NTSC-U discs. Third-party license notices ship inside every download.

WHAT'S NEW

Android touch controls
- Cleaner, translucent GameCube-style buttons with clearer labels and visible feedback when pressed.
- Shoulder buttons sit below the performance overlay, START is a wider pill, and the D-pad has arrows.
- Buttons respond to their drawn shapes (with a little thumb margin), plus a touch-opacity slider (30-90%)
  and a small stick dead zone.
- The four-star Dragon Ball menu button has an amber finish, and dragging it no longer opens the menu by accident.
- Touch controls hide automatically when a gamepad is connected (the menu ball stays). You can still show
  or hide them manually.

Sagas outlines
- Fixed black character outlines disappearing during projectile and explosion effects, including in co-op.

Components: versions and rollback
- New Components > Versions / rollback screen on Linux, Windows and Android.
- See whether each part is the bundled one or a replacement, its signed version label where available,
  and its exact fingerprint.
- Your previous selection is kept: Rollback restores it, and Restore bundled goes back to the stock parts.
  Both take effect the next time you launch a game and don't touch saves or linked files.
- A damaged previous file is rejected without changing what's active.
- Rollback restores your previous selection; it is not an automatic recovery system.

Under the hood
- Shared renderer v5zz-shared, host shared-20261101 (component API 1, netplay protocol 1).
- The game cores and host are the same approved binaries as Alpha 1.0.
- Module version labels (for example c19r2-bolt or v5zz-shared) are separate from the main distro version (1.1).

REQUIREMENTS
- Linux: Ubuntu 26.04, x86-64.
- Windows: Windows 11 x64, AVX2-class CPU, Vulkan-capable GPU, Microsoft Visual C++ x64 Redistributable.
  This release is Vulkan only.
- Android: Android 13+, arm64. Installs as an update over Alpha 1.0; your app data is kept.

MODULE DOWNLOADS (new)
The host, renderer and the three game cores are now also available as separate signed downloads for each
platform (see modules/catalog.json). The main distro still bundles and automatically selects its cores;
you don't need the modules to play.
- Android: select the .nimbus-component file directly in Components.
- Linux / Windows: extract the ZIP, keep the binary next to its .ticket file, then select it in Components.
- Changes apply the next time you launch a game. There is no automatic downloading or updating, and no
  swapping mid-game. Launcher updates come through the main distro.
- Standalone Linux core modules require an x86-64-v3 CPU. Baseline-CPU variants stay bundled in the distro.
- Each platform has its own files and checksums; don't mix them.

Crossplay coverage is unchanged from Alpha 1.0's published test matrix; this release doesn't claim new
platform/game pairings.

Contact: TheNimbusProject@yahoo.com