The Nimbus Recompilation Project (TNRP) — Alpha 1.4
Released November 3, 2026 · Linux, Windows and Android

Nimbus is a free, closed-source, custom-built project (we plan to open source it later). No donations.
Runtime components for all four games are bundled in each download. No game files are included: you need
your own NTSC-U discs and your own Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors (USA) ROM. Third-party license notices
ship inside every download.

HOTFIX 8 (Nov 4, 2026) - Linux and Windows
- Replaces Hotfix 7 for Linux and Windows, with launcher work on 7z archives and compressed disc images.
  Support for those formats is not announced yet: link a plain .iso or .gcm, or a .zip of one. Hotfix 7 had
  no 7z, and Hotfix 6 failed on real Dolphin GCZ files.
- Only the launcher changed; Android stays on Hotfix 1. Tested with real Dolphin, wit and 7-Zip files in a
  sandbox and on the owner's Linux laptop.

HOTFIX 7 (Nov 4, 2026) - Linux and Windows
- Replaces Hotfix 6 for Linux and Windows, with launcher work on compressed disc images. Support for
  compressed disc formats is not announced yet: link a plain .iso or .gcm, or a .zip of one.
- The decoders it includes (Zstandard, LZMA SDK, bzip2) are credited in the third-party notices inside
  both downloads.
- Only the launcher changed; Android stays on Hotfix 1. Tested with real Dolphin and wit files in a
  sandbox and on the owner's Linux laptop.

HOTFIX 6 (Nov 4, 2026) - Linux and Windows
- Replaces Hotfix 5 for Linux and Windows.
- Find My Files only offers real HD packs: tier folders such as 2x/3x/4x, or a manifest, at the top or
  one level down in a zip. Loose piles of textures and screenshot folders are ignored. A ball whose linked
  pack is only loose images counts as unlinked, so the real pack is offered as BEST and imported by
  IMPORT ALL.
- Find My Files has clickable IMPORT THIS (ENTER) and IMPORT ALL (A: the best candidate for every ball)
  buttons, with a count and a message; an item already imported shows DONE.
- The in-launcher chooser list that texture, movie and pack balls opened is gone: every ball now opens the
  normal system file explorer. For a pack ball, pick the pack's .zip or any file inside the pack's folder
  (the folder is used; from inside a 2x/3x/4x tier folder, the pack folder above it). Dragging a folder or
  zip onto the window still works.
- An empty file named .nimbus-skip keeps a folder out of every search.
- Only the launcher changed; Android stays on Hotfix 1. Tested in sandbox (Linux and Windows) and on the
  owner's Linux laptop.

HOTFIX 5 (Nov 4, 2026) - Linux and Windows
- Replaces Hotfixes 2-4 for Linux and Windows (Hotfix 4 was not published separately).
- Find My Files search order: your browser download folders first (it reads the download settings of
  Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Brave, Chromium and Vivaldi, plus the system/XDG Downloads folder), then folders
  you have linked from before (remembered, and kept when files are moved into the project folder), then
  Documents and Desktop, mounted and removable drives and the rest of the home folder. It runs for a
  minute at most; ESC stops it and keeps what was found, and it stops early once every ball has a
  candidate or is already linked.
- Done panel after imports: ALL DONE or DONE, SOME PROBLEMS, "n OF m LINKED", the linked balls, and
  ENTER to go back to the dragon balls.
- Scouter bar: eases to the true value and never goes backwards. A queue or migration shows as one bar
  with ITEM i OF n; a search shows STEP 1/2 and STEP 2/2, the count found, and 100% when done.
- Star map: fits any number of games per column; stars are colour-coded (discs gold, ROMs cyan, textures
  violet, movies green, saves blue); each game is a constellation that glows and pulses when complete and
  shimmers while in progress.
- Fix: disc zips no longer flash "invalid Game Boy header"; discs get the disc check and .gba files the
  ROM check.
- No hard-coded user paths: folders are worked out from the machine (home folder, XDG, browser settings).
- Only the launcher changed; Android stays on Hotfix 1. Tested in sandboxes on Linux and Windows.

HOTFIX 3 (Nov 4, 2026) - Linux and Windows
- Replaces Hotfix 2 for Linux and Windows. Two small fixes in Find My Files and zip import; nothing else
  changed:
- Find My Files matched game names against the whole folder path, so a file inside a folder named after a
  game could be listed for the wrong ball. It now uses only the file or folder name and its parent.
- A ROM zip dropped on the window with no ball selected is now recognised (it tries every ROM ball)
  instead of being refused as "not a disc".
- Only the launcher changed; Android stays on Hotfix 1. Tested in sandboxes on Linux and Windows.

HOTFIX 2 (Nov 4, 2026) - Linux and Windows
- Linux and Windows launcher: builds its own NimbusProjectDBZ folder, copies or unpacks whatever you link
  into it (zips included), moves links from earlier versions in, backs up your saves, and has a star map (X).
- The NimbusProjectDBZ folder holds discs/, roms/, textures/, movies/ and saves/. It goes in your home
  folder by default (Windows: your user folder); choose another place with P on the dragon ball screen.
  Linking copies a disc or ROM in, and unpacks a .zip straight into it; your originals and zips are left
  alone. A wrong file is refused before anything is copied. Compressed disc formats (.rvz, .ciso, .gcz,
  .wbfs, .nkit) are still not supported: use a plain .iso or .gcm.
- Find My Files (F): searches Downloads, Documents and Desktop first, then the rest of your home folder,
  including inside zips, and lists what it finds. Nothing is copied until you press ENTER on an item, or A
  for the best candidate for each ball. Shift+F searches a folder you choose. Android ASTC/lite packs and
  empty folders are skipped.
- Pack chooser: clicking a texture, movie or pack ball opens one list of folders and .zip files (a chooser
  built into the launcher). Disc and ROM balls keep the system file picker, which accepts zips.
- Restore links: unlinking only forgets a ball; the files stay in the folder. Folders on the star map that
  hold files but are not linked show UNLINKED, and L on the star map or dragon ball screen links them all
  again.
- Self-updating star map: it re-measures every few seconds while open and refreshes after imports,
  migration and restore; R refreshes it on demand.
- Saves: memory cards and GBA .sav files are copied into saves/ at start and after every game, with the
  last 8 versions kept. Live saves and save states are never moved or deleted.
- Friendlier wording: ball hints say "click to choose your disc (ISO or ZIP)", and the no-disc message
  points to F.
- Only the launcher changed: hosts, cores, renderer, catalog and packs are the 1.4 ones. Android stays on
  Hotfix 1. Tested in sandboxes on Linux and Windows.

HOTFIX 1 (Nov 4, 2026) - Android
- Android launcher: a disc image or GBA ROM can now be linked from a .zip (the app unpacks it, as it does
  for texture pack zips). Pick the zip you downloaded: the app finds the .iso/.gcm or .gba inside, checks
  that it is the right game and links the unpacked copy. Compressed formats such as .rvz, .ciso, .gcz,
  .wbfs or .nkit are not supported: use a plain .iso or .gcm. A GameCube disc is about 1.4 GB, so unpacking
  takes a minute and needs that much free storage. The zip itself is never changed.
- Only the Android app changed; Linux, Windows, modules and packs are unchanged. Same Alpha 1.4; install it
  over the existing app (your links and saves are kept).

UPDATE 2 (Nov 4, 2026)
- Updated Android APK: fixes "Cannot prepare game" on newer Android phones such as Pixels on Android 17.
  When the system won't let the app reopen a linked ROM or disc, linking now copies it into the app's own
  storage once. Only the Android app changed; the game code is the same. Keeps update 1's faster HD
  texture linking. Same Alpha 1.4; install it over the existing app.

UPDATE 1 (Nov 3, 2026)
- Updated Android APK: much faster HD texture linking on Android. Same Alpha 1.4; install it over the
  existing app. Linux, Windows, modules and packs are unchanged.

WHAT'S NEW

Supersonic Warriors is here
- Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors (Game Boy Advance) joins the launcher on Linux, Windows and Android.
- It's a true native port: the game's program is statically recompiled into its own game module. No emulator,
  no interpreter.
- Nimbus draws the picture itself through the same shared renderer as the GameCube games, so it can go far
  beyond the original resolution.
- Link your own ROM on the Z Capsules page.

Fight your friends
- Online multiplayer across Linux, Windows and Android, with your ping shown on the HUD.
- Quick Match with automatic results: both players see the knockout and the winner is reported. If a fight
  ends on time-out, the launcher asks who won.
- Link VS: two linked consoles in one app, with Team Select, fights, Quick Match, Local Two Players and save
  states.

HD all the way up
- Internal resolution from 1x up to 8x.
- HD texture packs with 1x-4x tiers. In the F1 menu, "Texture pack resolution" picks Auto or a tier.
- With the full HD pack at 8x, fights run at a steady 60 fps on the Retroid Pocket 5.
- Three pack downloads on the website: PC (Linux/Windows, PNG 2x-4x), Android (lossless WebP 1x-4x) and a
  small Android 2x lite pack.

Online fixes
- When you join a match, your controller now drives your own fighter.
- The host's game window opens while waiting for the other player.
- In online Link VS, each player sees and hears their own console.
- Hotkeys (F1-F7, Esc) act once per press: holding a key no longer re-triggers save states or toggles.

Known limitations
- Timing uses a provisional model: in busy moments the game can run about one frame early compared with the
  original, and some sound timing differs. Both players in a match always stay in sync with each other.
- The Supersonic Warriors module is still development-qualified, so online play uses its one approved
  version.
- Link VS on a single device shows one console at a time (you can switch), not two screens.
- Performance figures are from the Retroid Pocket 5; the RG Slide wasn't measured for this release.

Everything else
- The three GameCube games are unchanged.
- New modules: renderer v601-shared (adds the GBA picture path; GameCube paths unchanged), GBA host
  agb-host-r3 and the Supersonic Warriors core agb-native-r1. The 12 GameCube core and host modules are the
  same files as in 1.3. Component API 1 and online play compatibility are unchanged.

Testing
- An online Supersonic Warriors Quick Match ran through the real lobby between a Linux laptop and a Retroid
  Pocket 5: both sides detected the same knockout with the same game state and reported the result.
- Packaged Linux and Windows builds replayed all four games to their reference checkpoints.
- This is targeted testing, not every game, platform pair and version.

REQUIREMENTS
- Linux: Ubuntu 26.04 x86-64 (x86-64-v3 core when available; base core otherwise).
- Windows: Windows 11 x64 with a Vulkan or D3D12 GPU.
- Android: Android 13+ arm64 (tested on the Retroid Pocket 5). Installs over the existing app and keeps your data.

Contact: TheNimbusProject@yahoo.com

Official site: https://nimbusrecomp.org · GitHub: https://github.com/thebabyhippo303/nimbus-recompilation-project