Mark Eldridge
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A new dockable tracker window (Randomizer menu, alongside the other trackers) that records every hint the player has been shown and presents them in two tabs: - Locations: every hint location grouped by area, with hint text masked as "???" until the stone or NPC has actually been read. Auto-scrolls to the current area on scene transitions. - Journal: only hints the player has already read, grouped by hint type with the most valuable first. Way of the Hero and Foolish entries render as compact area lines in configurable colors defaulting to the in-game textbox palette; item hints are ordered by the same adjusted item category that drives chest appearance, so ice trap disguises rank as their cover item, and Mysterious Shuffle disables the ranking. The design is strictly spoiler-free: the tracker only ever shows what the player has been told in-game. There is no reveal option, the Journal hides unread hints entirely (its headers show read counts only, never totals), and requirements like Mask of Truth are respected because detection sits on the exact message-resolution paths that decide whether a hint is shown. Detection: a new OnRandoHintRevealed GameInteractor hook fires from ReadHintMessage helpers in the gossip stone and static hint message builders whenever a hint message is resolved for display; the tracker subscribes to it. Read state persists per save file in a new "hintTrackerData" SaveManager section as canonical hint names (robust against enum reordering; unknown or malformed entries are skipped on load), with the read set mutex-guarded against the threaded save path. The window follows the sibling trackers' conventions: BeginFloatWindows window/floating modes with combo-button and pause gating, a two-column settings popout matching the Check Tracker's layout (behavior settings left, colors right), header visibility toggles, font scaling, search filtering, and per-save scoping with a placeholder on vanilla saves. User-facing strings go through CustomMessage with EN/DE/FR text. Co-authored-by: meldridge <meldridge@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Website
Official Website: https://www.shipofharkinian.com/
Discord
Official Discord: https://discord.com/invite/shipofharkinian
If you're having any trouble after reading through this README, feel free to ask for help in the Support text channels. Please keep in mind that we do not condone piracy.
Quick Start
The Ship does not include any copyrighted assets. You are required to provide a supported copy of the game.
1. Verify your ROM dump
You can verify you have dumped a supported copy of the game by using the compatibility checker at https://ship.equipment/. If you'd prefer to manually validate your ROM dump, you can cross-reference its sha1 hash with the hashes here.
2. Download The Ship of Harkinian from Releases
3. Launch the Game!
Windows
- Extract the zip
- Launch
soh.exe
Linux
- Place your supported copy of the game in the same folder as the appimage.
- Execute
soh.appimage. You may have tochmod +xthe appimage via terminal.
macOS
- Run
soh.app. When prompted, select your supported copy of the game. - You should see a notification saying
Processing OTR, then, once the process is complete, you should get a notification sayingOTR Successfully Generated, then the game should start.
Nintendo Switch
- Run one of the PC releases to generate an
oot.o2rand/oroot-mq.o2rfile. After launching the game on PC, you will be able to find these files in the same directory assoh.exeorsoh.appimage. On macOS, these files can be found in/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/com.shipofharkinian.soh/ - Copy the files to your sd card
sdcard
└── switch
└── soh
├── oot-mq.o2r
├── oot.o2r
├── soh.nro
└── soh.o2r
- Launch via Atmosphere's
Game+Rlauncher method.
4. Play!
Congratulations, you are now sailing with the Ship of Harkinian! Have fun!
Configuration
Default keyboard configuration
| N64 | A | B | Z | Start | Analog stick | C buttons | D-Pad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keyboard | X | C | Z | Space | WASD | Arrow keys | TFGH |
Other shortcuts
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| ESC | Toggle menu |
| F2 | Toggle capture mouse input |
| F5 | Save state |
| F6 | Change state |
| F7 | Load state |
| F9 | Toggle Text-to-Speech (Windows and Mac only) |
| F11 | Fullscreen |
| Tab | Toggle Alternate assets |
| Ctrl+R | Reset |
Project Overview
Ship of Harkinian (SOH) is built atop a custom library dubbed libultraship (LUS). Back in the N64 days, there was an SDK distributed to developers named libultra; LUS is designed to mimic the functionality of libultra on modern hardware. In addition, we are dependant on the source code provided by the OOT decompilation project.
In order for the game to function, you will require a legally acquired ROM for Ocarina of Time. Click here to check the compatibility of your specific rom. Any copyrighted assets are extracted from the ROM and reformatted as a .o2r archive file which the code uses.
Graphics Backends
Currently, there are three rendering APIs supported: DirectX11 (Windows), OpenGL (all platforms), and Metal (MacOS). You can change which API to use in the Settings menu of the menubar, which requires a restart. If you're having an issue with crashing, you can change the API in the shipofharkinian.json file by finding the line gfxbackend:"" and changing the value to sdl for OpenGL. DirectX 11 is the default on Windows.
Custom Assets
Custom assets are packed in .otr archive files. To use custom assets, place them in the mods folder.
If you're interested in creating and/or packing your own custom asset .otr files, check out the following tools:
Development
Building
If you want to manually compile SoH, please consult the building instructions.
Playtesting
If you want to playtest a continuous integration build, you can find them at the links below. Keep in mind that these are for playtesting only, and you will likely encounter bugs and possibly crashes.
Further Reading
More detailed documentation can be found in the 'docs' directory, including the aforementioned building instructions.
