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Taisei (泰西, lit. Occident) is a free and open-source fangame of the Tōhō series, written in C using SDL2 and OpenGL.

What's new in 1.4.2

This is a stable maintenance release. It features some bugfixes, optimizations, and other improvements backported from the v1.5 development tree. - Reworked gamepad input handling and configuration: - The free/restricted axis distinction is gone; the joystick always operates in "free" mode. - Added direction snapping functionality to help aid exact movement in cardinal and/or diagonal directions. The snapping angle can be adjusted from 0% (disabled) to 100% (similar to the old "restricted" mode). The snapping angle can also be biased towards cardinals or diagonals. - When the maximum zone is less than or equals dead zone, moving the character will always move at maximum speed (as in the old "restricted" mode). - Most of these settings are now visualized in the options menu and can be tested there. - Changed the default Spell Card (Bomb) and Power Surage gamepad bindings to Left Trigger and Right Trigger respectively. - If autorestart is enabled for spell practice, it will now try to load a quicksave if one exists. - Added a "load quicksave" option to the pause menu in practice modes. - Cutscenes that have been seen before can now be completely skipped. - Added an option to reset the config to last saved values. - Reduced some sprite batching CPU overhead. - Optimized rendering of scenes with many lasers. - Optimized loading of webp files. - Optimized various math routines. - Improved performance of some shaders. - Due to bad OpenGL drivers, macOS releases now use ANGLE for rendering by default. This fixes serious performance issues on some Apple systems. - Worked around bro...

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