The starting line cutscene doesn't work (graphics bug)

[rockmanomega]

In my newly compiled Linux binary (thanks for the fix :) I have found that, whether you go into Time Trials or on Arcade races, the behavior of a specific graphical element doesn't work as intended. in the OG, the camera hovers around the area your kart is in and then it focuses on your driver for the initial countdown.

But in this version, the camera stays fixed on either an empty corner (in Time Trial) or on one of the racers and then jumps to your main driver during the countdown. I am aware that this is not a critical issue or anything but I thought it would be prudent to at least mention its existence and wondering if it's perhaps missing functionality in the port that causes this or something?

[kkv0n]

i had this issue and it seems to be due to UB and compiler versions, first of all don't use CMD or powershell, make sure to run all commands on mingw32 console including build.bat execution, uninstall msys2 and gcc completely and download the latest version of everything, that solved it on ny case, its totally a compilation bug on your side, its not a ctr-native bug

[rockmanomega]

i had this issue and it seems to be due to UB and compiler versions, first of all don't use CMD or powershell, make sure to run all commands on mingw32 console including build.bat execution, uninstall msys2 and gcc completely and download the latest version of everything, that solved it on ny case, its totally a compilation bug on your side, its not a ctr-native bug

Hmm, but this is on Linux though. I don't have MSYS2 nor CMD/Powershell, I just ran the build.sh script and followed the instructions there. While I'll admit that I have yet to try this out on other distros to see if it can be replicated, at the very least, I am pretty sure that Linux Mint, and, by extension, Ubuntu 24.04 are still supported (LTS releases and all)

Since the README also mentions instructions for Ubuntu/Debian, perhaps it would be ideal which compilers work for this? (since I did installed all deps required to build it too)

[kkv0n]

did you had installed the tools required to build on linux before? if this is the case you can still try to delete everything and reinstall with latest versions

[rockmanomega]

Yep, I deleted the src directory, cloned it back, ran the game with the assets directory in the build directory for good measure and the same bug still applies. I was able to fix Aku Aku hints and the narrator voice not working thanks to dumpsxiso so I have verified that all the contents are in the game.

Mind you though, this bug is not exclusive to me, I saw a streamer running this game and also came about with this bug. (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OteQLbIiks at 50 seconds where the cutscene also doesn't work for them)

[kkv0n]

yeah i know about tdyu's video (i speak spanish), they are experiencing the same problem than you because is a fork and they also have the UB problem when compiling the fork that you have, as i said i had this bug almost on beta 2... when i said to "reinstall" everything i didnt mean download ctr-native again, i meant that you probably used these commands as the README guide told you:

sudo apt install gcc-multilib
sudo apt install libx11-dev libxext-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libasound2-dev libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev

and any other lib that was required right? well the idea is that you should delete all these packages from your computer, update your repositories so they have the latest packages and then you install them again, again im telling you it's not a problem with ctr-native itself because you can easily test the public builds and notice this is not a thing, plus other people can compile the exact same code without these issues, its the compiler, what happened in my case on windows was that i had a very old msys2 build that suddenly got broken after certain commit and updating it manually didnt fixed anything, had to delete gcc, cmake and the whole msys2, rebooted my pc and installed them again, then the same commit suddenly worked fine, no camera bug and no smoke behind the kart

[rockmanomega]

Ah if it's a compiler bug I am somewhat screwed here because packages are frozen in Ubuntu repositories (meaning that you cannot get any newer deps unless you upgrade completely, you only get security fixes on those deps), I did try what you said about deleting and reinstalling the whole thing and that didn't worked, I even went ahead and substituted gcc-13 with gcc-14 on my end (https://dev.to/marcosplusplus/how-to-install-gcc-14-and-use-c23-41od) and that also didn't helped either.

Could you tell me what was the problematic compiler commit? Because GCC 14 is from a couple of years ago, or is it something that requires a minimum GCC?