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What's fixed: GT5 Prologue (and the GT5/GT6 family) had a long-standing bug where, in bumper/hood-cam with no cars ahead, the entire track surface plunged into shadow and strobed as you drove — flipping back to lit at lap lines, ghost spawns, or off-track. It affects every RPCS3-derived emulator on every backend and has been open upstream since 2022. This release cures it at the root — roads render correctly lit and flicker-free. Why it happened (one paragraph) In those frames the game parks its shadow-map texture unit on a tiny 1×1 fallback and leaves the texture remap register fully zeroed. The stock decode reads that as "force every channel to zero," so every track draw sampled a shadow value of 0 → whole-track shadow. Real PS3 hardware treats the unconfigured register as neutral (the console renders lit). The fix decodes that exact state as neutral (ONE) instead of zero — the hardware-matching behavior. Bonus: smoother performance With the flicker gone, the emulator no longer thrashes between two shader pipeline variants each time the shadow unit flips — the per-material shader churn that came with the bug is eliminated. GT framerate is noticeably steadier, especially through the sections that used to flicker. Scope & safety: On by default — nothing to configure. Tightly scoped to the exact bug signature (a fully-zeroed remap on a 1×1 texture), so it doesn't touch normal rendering. Diagnostic escape hatches (env vars): GTK_REMAP0_ONE=0 restores the old behavior (A/B kill-switch); GTK_REMAP0_IDENTITY=1 selects an alternate decode for testing. Validation Confirmed flicker-free on-device across the usual problem tracks (Daytona, Eiger, and others), N≥3, with the fix's code path log-confirmed as engaged. The same root-cause fix has been independently cross-validated on two distinct GPU/API stacks — Adreno 650 + Turnip (native Vulkan) and Apple M1 + MoltenVK (Vulkan-over-Metal) — and in multiple independent RPCS3-derived codebases, strong evidence it's a real emulation fix, not a driver quirk. Installing / updating Updating from a previous ETK-tuned fork: standard in-place update — games, firmware, saves, and shader caches are preserved. On first launch the SPU cache rebuilds once (a few minutes), then it's cached. First ETK fork install: use aPS3e's built-in user-data export/import to back up your game data first, install, then restore.

💎 Added a Games Folder that scans a user-selected directory using all-files access, with direct ISO support. 💎 Boot "content://" ISOs through a SAF file descriptor without extraction. 💎 Sort the library by Last Played or Name. 💎 Filter games with persistent top-bar toggles: 💎 Installed 💎 Games Folder 💎 Only Played 💎 Automatically de-duplicate the same title across different install sources. 💎 Reworked game removal: 💎 Games-folder entries remain in the library until the file is moved out of the folder. 💎 Only installed copies can be deleted, with a confirmation prompt. 💎 Clear Cache now works for every game (keyed by Title ID, including ISOs). 💎 Source ISOs and game folders are never deleted. 💎 Storage permission is requested once during initial setup. 💎 Improved installed vs. folder-game detection. 💎 Hardened startup ("onBoot") against unsynchronized game lists. Launch & Frontends: 💎 Added support for launching games directly from third-party frontends such as Daijisho, ES-DE, and others via Android intents. Power & Gameplay UX: 💎 Added an optional GPU Turbo mode (maximum Adreno GPU clocks, disabled by default). 💎 GPU Turbo cannot be enabled together with Battery Saver. 💎 Added an in-game Home Menu bridge. 💎 Prevent the screen from turning off during shader precompilation and gameplay. 💎 Fixed an ANR when quitting to the recent apps screen. 💎 Fixed scaled overlay D-pad and face-button drift. 💎 Installation failure dialogs are now shown even when notifications are disabled. Online (RPCN): 💎 Added a live, non-blocking connection status indicator. 💎 Automatically reconnects when RPCN is enabled or on startup. 💎 Improved account flow with clearer separation between Create Account and Sign In. 💎 Connection testing is now gated appropriately. Stability: 💎 Added a crash-loop breaker for cores that repeatedly crash during loading. 💎 Fixed a "ProgressRepository" request ID race condition. 💎 Added a Smooth Shaders toggle to Clanker settings.