The launcher and studio ship as Retro Launcher and Retro Studio now,
from the RetroPortingToolKit org, so the old product name is gone from
display text, documentation and release asset filenames.
The split is by case, and it is not cosmetic. CamelCase RetComM was
always the product; lowercase retcomm and RETCOMM_ are identifiers --
the C++ namespace, the binaries, the data directories, the CMake and
environment variables, the Cloudflare service names, the readme markers.
Renaming those would orphan existing installs for no benefit, so they
are untouched: 1101 lowercase retcomm and 205 RETCOMM_ still stand in
the launcher alone.
Four things are deliberately still spelled RetComM, and three of them
would have been real breakage:
- RetComM-Data is CamelCase but it is a directory on disk --
<exe_dir>\RetComM-Data\{runtime,config,data} for a portable install.
Renaming it strands every portable user's config, toolchains and
catalog cache.
- TechnicallyComputers/RetComM-Launcher in readme_has_launcher() is the
historical half of a both-slugs test. Renaming it makes it a duplicate
of the line above and sends every port built before the transfer back
to reporting its launcher section missing.
- _LEGACY_LAUNCHER_RE matched "^## RetComM Launcher". A sweep renamed it,
which would have silently stopped it matching every README already out
there; it now accepts both headings.
- The portable-stub lookup gained the pre-rename filenames back as
fallbacks, because old zips stay on the releases page and a rollback
downloads one.
Release assets become Retro-Launcher-* / Retro-Studio-*. That is safe
for installed clients: pick_launcher_asset() gates on *linux*/*windows*/
*macos* plus extension and arch, not on the product name, and the
Windows portable stub is identified by its RCM1 trailer rather than its
filename.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013DpaQqVguHFpBuCmdoFYWY
- Host may sit in a spectator seat: session slot 0 stays the sim authority
with a muted pad and no port; slot->port map keeps players on the port of
their lobby seat (host first). Rematch path copies the same plan.
- Seat self-service on LAN (MOTK5 SEATMOVE / SWAPASK / SWAPANS / SWAPRES)
relayed by the host; online swap requests accept a gallery seat as target.
- Lobby chat ring + join/leave lines; country codes from the server.
- Keybinds: a key drives one input per player (binding S to Cross unbinds it
from Circle), and keybinds.ini is re-read after the rematch launcher too.
- LAN registry file anchored to the exe directory.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V1dT6h1ZshMVUUVKTPxsCD
Seat 1 (P2) can bring its LOCAL slot-1 card to a match: it uploads the card
to the host at launch over the new recomp-net MEMCARD op, the host installs
it as the match's slot-2 card, and the usual card broadcast carries it to
everyone. The host's real slot-2 file is rebound to netplay/guest_card2.mcd
for the session and restored on shutdown; guests already sandbox both slots.
Lobby side: a per-seat memcard_offer on set_ready (has_card, share), a host
allow flag in match_caps, and guest_memcard_active settled ONCE by the host
at start and shipped with the launch, so a toggle racing the start cannot
split the room. LAN carries the same over MOTK5 UPDATE / MEMCARD / JOIN
tail / a trailing START line. PSX_NET_GUEST_MEMCARD=1 for CLI sessions;
a host waiting on a card that never comes stalls at a named phase
(mc_guest_wait), not a silent "ok".
Two latent guest-sandbox bugs fixed on the way: a disabled slot 2 had no
bound path, so a host blob carrying a card for it failed to import and the
guest stalled forever; and leaving the sandbox re-bound a disabled slot to
the sandbox file. Both slots are now bound in the sandbox and restored per
slot (memcard_rebind_path, which can also unbind).
Lobby chat: the client keeps a ring fed by the server's echo (op:chat);
LAN rooms relay through the host (MOTK5 CHATREQ guest->host, MOTK5 CHAT
host->everyone). Wired to the launcher's chat_send/chat_count/chat_get.
Also carries the spectator-seat work that was in the tree alongside this
(spectator seats in the lobby client, spectator_wire_slot in the launch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V1dT6h1ZshMVUUVKTPxsCD
Alex Vanderveen