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

2.2.1: Fix for player morph crash

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

• Fixed crash after player morph (using swap/morph power ups)
• Fixed some rendering bugs
• Updated Italian translation by @Hexaae

2.2.0: Optimizations, polishing and fixes

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

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation by @EduKara
• Added timestamps to log file
• Added support for flipping tiles vertically
• Added support for tile animation delay jitter
• Added shader cache pruning on every game version upgrade
• Blacklisted also SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad which was incorrectly detected as gamepad on Linux in some cases
• Blacklisted also some devices named Mouse which were incorrectly detected as gamepad on Android
• Reworked big boxes/boulders
• Reworked binary shader cache
• Optimized resource loading
• Optimized various parts of the game
• Improved log console handling on Windows and macOS
• Improved Input Diagnostics menu section
• Improved RGB lighting
• Fixed possible crash in level loading
• Fixed levels using multiple tilesets
• Fixed shield deactivation
• Fixed blur rendering
• Fixed high-performance GPU not chosen automatically on notebooks with Windows
• Fixed frozen boulders not sliding after being pushed (#122)
• Fixed player doesn't duck after jumping (#78)
• Fixed enemies changing direction unexpectedly (#113)
• Fixed crash on armeabi-v7a with error code SIGBUS/BUS_ADRALN (#132)
• Fixed range of left analog stick of some gamepads on Android (#132)

2.1.0: Better font and fixes

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

• Added Browse "Source" Directory to Options
• Source directory can be opened by pressing Enter in main menu (if files are missing) also on macOS
• Prune binary shader cache on Refresh cache
• Improved font rendering
• Updated dependencies
• Improved logging on web (Emscripten)
• Fixed getting stuck after using some warps (#130)
• Fixed screen orientation on Android
• Fixes for Windows Subsystem for Android™
• Fixed minor crash on initialization if bad GPU drivers were used
• Fixed incorrect size of glow under Unicode texts in main menu

2.0.0: More supported platforms

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

• Added support for Nintendo Switch (with custom firmware)
• Added support for FreeBSD
• Added /max-fps:<value> startup parameter
• Internal refactoring and MinGW compiler support
• Adjusted Spaz' double jump
• Adjusted Bilsy and Bolly for different difficulty levels
• Optimized download size of web version
• Updated dependencies
• Fixed controls on NVIDIA Shield TV

1.9.1: Hotfix for shields!

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

• Fixed issue that files were not upgraded correctly from the previous version – you should upgrade to this version as soon as possible
• Fixed shields fire rate
• Fixed Polish translation by @Patrxgt

1.9.0: Shields!

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

• Added fire, water and lightning shields
• Added jjshield cheat
• Added Polish translation by @Patrxgt
• Updated Turkish translation by @consul
• Improved ice shrapnels
• Fixed crash on Linux aarch64 (ARM64) build
• Fixed Graphics Quality label