Restored Content, HD Textures and Visual Options

Zero changes by default: how the F1 menu works

A core design rule of rob646464/luigis-mansion-recompiled is that every restored feature, gameplay modifier and visual overhaul is neutral or off by default. Until you toggle an option inside the F1 overlay (Esc closes), recompiled functions execute retail GameCube behavior with byte-identical Original 30 frame dumps.

Restored unused & beta content (F1 > Enhancements)

Luigi's Mansion shipped on GameCube with extensive unfinished mechanics, E3 prototypes and test rooms dormant inside main.dol and its disc archives. The port exposes them safely as live toggles (most hooks target the GLME01 USA code base, with major options also mapped to GLMP01):

Gameplay modifiers, Mirrored Mansion & the Silly tab

Under F1 > Enhancements > Gameplay, sliders modify runtime values in memory while keeping your saved player record in unscaled retail units so saves never permanently drift:

Release v1.1.4 also introduced F1 > Enhancements > Silly (off by default on both USA and PAL): adjust Luigi’s head/body scale, enable wobbly head or flat Paper Luigi, pick Mario/Wario/Waluigi/Fire outfits or custom hex colors for his cap, shirt, overalls, shoes and Poltergust, and toggle Disco Mansion cycling lights, ghost size/color shuffle, Luigi voice pitch, moon gravity for treasure bursts and confetti coins.

Dolphin HD texture packs & built-in texture dumper (v1.1.6+)

Release v1.1.6 added native support for replacement texture packs in Dolphin Emulator’s exact tex1_<w>x<h>... format under F1 > Visuals > Texture packs:

1. Open F1 > Visuals > Texture packs and click Open texture packs folder. This creates and opens texture_packs inside your data directory (for example %APPDATA%\Luigi's Mansion Recompiled\texture_packs on Windows or ~/.local/share/Luigi's Mansion Recompiled/texture_packs on Linux).
2. Copy each Dolphin HD texture pack into its own subfolder, such as texture_packs\MyHDPack\GLME01\..., a region-shared GLM subfolder, or a Dolphin Load\Textures\GLME01 tree. Both .png and .dds (BC1–BC7 and uncompressed RGBA8, including mipmaps) are supported and stream on background threads.
3. Enable Use texture packs and click Reload packs. No game restart is needed to add, reorder or disable packs. When multiple packs replace the same texture, higher entries in the priority list win.
4. Adjust Texture memory for packs (512 MB to 8 GB, default 2 GB) to bound GPU VRAM usage; least-recently-drawn textures evict cleanly when the budget is full.

Compatibility note: Because Aurora hashes base GX texture memory with XXH64, custom Luigi outfit colors in the Silly tab alter Luigi’s CMPR texture bytes in memory; leave Luigi’s Silly colors at their defaults when using an HD texture pack that retextures Luigi. Pack creators can export PNGs in Dolphin’s exact naming convention via F1 > Visuals > Texture packs > For pack makers > Dump textures.

Enhanced Lighting, Hor+ ultrawide, 320 FPS & NTSC CRT signals

• Hor+ Widescreen & Ultrawide: Renders at any arbitrary resolution and aspect ratio (16:9, 16:10, 21:9, 32:9). HUD elements anchor cleanly to screen edges, doorway portal culling widens in Hor+ space so side rooms never vanish at 21:9, and Portrificationizer spotlight / ending iris masks extend across the full frame.
• Up to 320 FPS Object Interpolation: Simulation stays locked at 30 Hz so physics, ghost AI and timers never break. Intermediate frames blend skinned joints via screw-axis math (eliminating Poltergust hose jumps in v1.1.4), particle swarms, boss arena sky domes and 2D message boxes up to 320 FPS, with Match display refresh rate and VRR / G-SYNC / FreeSync pacing. Choose Original for console-exact 30 FPS.
• Enhanced Lighting (F1 > Visuals > Enhanced lighting): Master switch off by default. Adds per-pixel GX lighting, ray-marched volumetric flashlight scattering with volumetric shafts and dust motes, up to 16 colored lights (12 casting real-time shadows), visible ghost glow lights, smooth horizon-based Ambient Occlusion (~0.8 ms at 4K, rebuilt in v1.1 to eliminate blocky character shading), bloom and smooth color-banding dither.
• Anti-aliasing (MSAA): Hardware MSAA supports Off / 2x / 4x / 8x on Windows Direct3D 12 and Off / 4x on Linux Vulkan and macOS Metal (v1.1.2 automatically clamps unsupported 2x/8x counts on Vulkan).
• NTSC 4fsc CRT Filter (F1 > Visuals > CRT filter): Simulates authentic 59.94 Hz analog video signal paths separately from tube scanline presets: choose clean RGB, S-Video, Composite (dot crawl & comb filter) or RF tuner (ghosting, hum and noise) at roughly 0.3 ms GPU cost.