Release notes — written 2026-10-25

An original PlayStation player preview, separate memory cards, and gallery page controls

The preserved USA disc has a separate emulation preview with raw Card 1 backup/import controls. Its actual browser boot and in-game save/reload remain unverified. The artwork gallery also gains coordinated page controls.

What changed

• Added a separately labeled original PlayStation emulation preview with self-hosted EmulatorJS 4.2.3 and PCSX-ReARMed. The unchanged supplied BIN and BIOS are retained; a unique relative CUE preserves both original disc tracks.
• Added raw 128 KiB PS1 Card 1 format checks, explicit browser-storage flushes, card backup/import controls, separate save naming and one-tab locking. Invalid imports are refused before writes; failed imports attempt recovery and retain a downloadable pre-import backup.
• Disabled emulator save-state controls in the original edition and enabled SRAM protection so original-card progress is kept separate from snapshots. The Java build and its eight reconstruction checkpoint slots are unchanged.
• Added top Previous/Next buttons, a page chooser and existing zoom integration to the Castlevania artwork gallery through two coordinated changes. The shared gallery assets were already published and their actual HTTPS hashes were verified.
• Preserved all earlier dated journal entries and the frozen 0.19 source archive. Added source hashes, licenses and explicit verification limits for the new edition.

Still unfinished

• The original player is an unverified preview: actual browser boot, keyboard gameplay and an in-game memory-card save followed by browser reload have not yet been tested. Both project chats were refused automated browser control by the Work setting.
• The 79 card-module checks cover synthetic card validation, filesystem persistence callbacks, imports and rollback; they do not prove original-game save-room behavior or browser persistence in a running game.
• The editable Java 0.19 reconstruction is still incomplete. Its campaign, original memory-card compatibility and full game systems remain unfinished; its checkpoint JSON stays separate from the emulated original’s raw PS1 card.
• Physical controller/touch testing and a full campaign playthrough remain outstanding. Browser gallery layout/interaction was not retested; source preservation, syntax and 260 page-picker state checks passed in the coordinated gallery work.

The original PlayStation edition

Play the original through the pcsx_rearmed emulator core. Its save format is ps1-raw-memory-card-128k, separate from Java reconstruction checkpoints.

Memory-card saving: not yet verified.

• 79 card-adapter checks and static source/asset verification passed. The source BIN/BIO​S and Java engine remain unchanged.
• Actual browser boot and in-game card save/reload are not yet verified. The original is labeled as a preview.

Java milestone 0.19.0. Java website cards retain their separate reconstruction-checkpoint format.

Engine SHA-256: c4aca6fd75c478b273412b7dcd7527bdc07cc0f57d44b65568937b0603a27631
Project content SHA-256: e75ffc11cae7ad5ebb2273fd25a0276a0bd68781c0ad5141019fe0887368caea