LEGO Dimensions Recomp

Proof that a toys-to-life game can be recompiled. A native PC build of LEGO Dimensions, made by statically recompiling the Xbox 360 release: unlocked FPS, mod's, DLC's, SDL_GameControllerDB, multilingual support and a real or emulated Toy Pad. Public demo build. See the README below for details.

user_language = 4   # French

user_language = 5    # Spanish
user_country  = 71   # ... as spoken in Mexico

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1. v0.1.32 0.1.32 Pre-release 39 3 h ago
   Release notes

   What's new in 0.1.32

   • Vulkan works again. Choosing F4 → Graphics → Graphics API → Vulkan (unstable) made the game fail to start with "Failed to load GPU plugin 'xenos'". The graphics plugin was missing its Vulkan part; it's back.
   • A bad Graphics API value no longer blocks startup. If the config holds a value the game doesn't know, it now falls back to the default instead of refusing to start.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

2. v0.1.31 Hotfix 0.1.31 Pre-release 1.1k yesterday
   Release notes

   What's new in 0.1.31

   Hotfix: 0.1.30 didn't start for some players and showed "amd_fidelityfx_dx12.dll was not found". That file is now included. Everything from 0.1.30 is in here too (level-end crash fix, smoother fullscreen, older CPUs, FSR 1/CAS back).

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

3. v0.1.30 0.1.30 Pre-release 137 yesterday
   Release notes

   What's new in 0.1.30

   • No more crash right after finishing a level. Finishing some levels (for example Prime Time or Back to the Future!) crashed the game the moment the achievement unlocked. That's fixed.
   • Fullscreen is much smoother. Fullscreen could run at half speed for the whole session, especially on portal/vortex loading screens, until you pressed Alt+Enter twice. The game now paces itself properly from the first frame, and it no longer stalls waiting on the monitor.
   • Runs on older CPUs. Before, the game needed an AVX2 CPU (Intel Haswell / AMD Zen or newer) and silently closed on anything older. Now any 64-bit CPU from about 2009 onward works. Still needs to be tested out!
   • AMD FSR 1 and CAS are back in F4 → Graphics → Upscaling filter.
   • Crash dumps save properly. If the game crashes, a crash-*.dmp appears next to the exe. Zip it and attach it with your game.log.
   • Updating is easier. Click Yes on the "Update available" popup and the game closes by itself, so the updater can install right away.

   Update from inside the game (F4 → Updates), or run rexupdate.exe.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

4. v0.1.29 0.1.29 (Unstable) Pre-release 3.4k 4 days ago
   Release notes

   What's new in 0.1.29

   • Crash dumps actually work now. Every crash-*.dmp so far was 0 KB, so it had nothing in it. Dumps are smaller now and have real data. If the game crashes, zip the .dmp from the game folder and attach it with your game.log.
   • Freezes leave a dump too. When the game hangs (the music keeps playing but the picture stops), it writes hang-*.dmp next to the exe by itself. Please attach it. The log now also shows both threads in the lock, not just one.
   • New console command dump. If the game is acting strange and doesn't write anything, open the console (` key), type dump, press Enter and attach the dump-*.dmp it writes.

   Update from inside the game (F4 → Updates), or run rexupdate.exe.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

5. v0.1.28 0.1.28 (Unstable) Pre-release 774 5 days ago
   Release notes

   • The installer now checks that your game dump is complete. A dump whose copy stopped part way still starts, but shows a black world. The installer now lists any disc file that is missing or too short and tells you to dump again.
   • The installer and updater keep a log. If something goes wrong, the error message tells you where setup.log / updater.log is. Please attach it to your report. A finished install also gets a copy next to the game.
   • Mods you deleted are really gone. The config could keep mods whose folders no longer exist, and their changes stayed baked into the game files, which crashed some levels. Every launch now checks the list against the mods folder and rebuilds the game files from the mods that are really there.
   • The game starts in a window again. Installs from before 0.1.21 kept fullscreen on, on the main monitor. This update switches it off once. Alt+Enter or F4 → Fullscreen turns it back on, and F4 → Monitor picks the screen.
   • Toy Pad app path fixed. A path pasted with quotes (Explorer's "Copy as path") now works, a folder works as well as the exe, and a wrong path falls back to tools\LegoToypad. F4 now shows the path the game actually uses.

   Update from inside the game (F4 → Updates), or run rexupdate.exe.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

6. v0.1.27 0.1.27 (Unstable) Pre-release 91 5 days ago
   Release notes

   • Fixed broken geometry in the Simpsons world (and elsewhere). The background GPU copy added in 0.1.26 could hand the game old data, which tore the level geometry into long spikes, for example when looking at Springfield. It is switched off for everyone. Rendering is back to the 0.1.25 behaviour, so stutters are back at their 0.1.25 level. We will bring the faster copy back once it is fixed properly.
   • The AMD black-world fix and the other changes from 0.1.26 stay.

   Update from inside the game (F4 → Updates), or run rexupdate.exe.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

7. v0.1.26 0.1.26 (Unstable) Pre-release 55 5 days ago
   Release notes

   • Far fewer stutters, on every graphics card. Some of the game's effects are computed on the GPU and then copied back for the game to read. Until now the game stopped and waited for the GPU after every one of them, often about 60 times a frame. Now the copy happens in the background, and the game only waits if it reads the data before the GPU has finished it. In our tests the number of slow frames dropped by about ten times, and cutscenes and level loads should be much smoother. If you see new glitches, you can switch back to the old behaviour by adding readback_memexport_on_demand = false to legodimensions.toml. Please tell us if you had to.
   • AMD: possible fix for a black world. Some textures were sampled with filtering their format doesn't support. NVIDIA tolerates this, but AMD cards can return black. If the world was black for you on an AMD card while cutscenes rendered fine, please try this version and let us know.
   • GPU registers now start with the same values as on a real Xbox 360.
   • Russian translation mod: text fixes.

   Update from inside the game (F4 → Updates), or run rexupdate.exe.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

8. v0.1.25 0.1.25 (Unstable) Pre-release 431 6 days ago
   Release notes

   • Sharp text: anti-aliasing is now off by default. FXAA runs over the whole finished frame, menus and captions included, and the strong variant we set in 0.1.21 made text noticeably blurry. Updating keeps your own choice; if you never touched it, it switches to Off. You can still turn it back on in F4 → Graphics → Anti-aliasing.
   • Country setting in F4 → Language. Some translations share one language and are told apart by the country: pick Spain or Mexico (Latin American Spanish) for Spanish, France or Canada (Canadian French) for French. Takes effect on the next launch.
   • Russian is gone from the F4 language list: the game never shipped it, so choosing it did nothing. Russian is the Lang_Russian mod (F8 → Mods).

   Update from inside the game (F4 → Updates), or run DimensionsRecompiled-Setup.exe.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

9. v0.1.24 0.1.24 (Unstable) Pre-release 237 6 days ago
   Release notes

   • Language page in F4. Pick the game language (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean). It sets the text and voices and takes effect on the next launch. A language the game was not shipped with falls back to English.
   • Mouse cursor hidden during play. It is shown only while a menu is open: F-key overlays, Quit Game, Credits and host prompts.
   • Fix for exploding geometry on late game lvl's (0.1.20-0.1.23). Batched memexport readback could copy stale GPU data over memory the game had already rewritten. Batching is now off (forced in your config on update), and the batch path now keeps the game's own writes.
   • The upscaler list shows only AMD FSR 1. FSR 2 and FSR 3 were options that did nothing.

   Update from inside the game (F4 → Updates), or run rexupdate.exe.

   Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

10. v0.1.23 Hotfix 0.1.23 (Unstable) Pre-release 458 7 days ago
    Release notes

    • Every cutscene can be skipped, even the first ones from a new save. This works as if the N0CUT5 code were always entered. It is on by default; turn it off in F4 -> Mods and fixes -> Skippable cutscenes.
    • Fern and the Mystery Dimension portal fix moved to F4. They are now switches under F4 -> Mods and fixes instead of locked entries in the F8 mod list. Fern can be turned off; that takes effect on the next launch. F8 now lists only regular mods.

    Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

11. v0.1.22 Hotfix 0.1.22 (Unstable) Pre-release 146 7 days ago
    Release notes

    Hotfix.

    • No more crash after closing Credits or Quit Game. Opening either one froze the game underneath while the menu read the controller, and on some machines the game could not recover once it was unfrozen. The game now keeps running while they are open; it just does not receive your button presses.
    • All Worlds now covers every character. The mod only looked at regular minifigures, so characters stored elsewhere, such as Jake and the Powerpuff Girls, could not enter every world. It now covers 134 characters instead of 101. If you have All Worlds enabled, the update re-applies it for you.

    Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

12. v0.1.21 0.1.21 (Unstable) Pre-release 31 7 days ago
    Release notes

    • Credits and Quit Game in the main menu. The two empty circles on the left of the main menu now hold Credits and Quit Game. Quit Game asks before it closes the game. Turn both off in F4 -> Interface.
    • The shader cache now keeps what it compiles. Since the first session, the pipeline cache never grew on any machine, so every play-through recompiled the same pipelines and stuttered in the same places. It now grows as you play and loads back on the next launch. Thanks to SpiderNic96 for the Steam Deck report that led to this.
    • "Compiling shaders, please wait... N / M" appears at the bottom of the screen while new shaders compile, so a short hitch is not mistaken for a hang. It can be turned off in F4 -> Interface.
    • Less CPU use. The GPU thread no longer keeps a whole CPU core busy while it waits. This matters most on 4-core machines and handhelds.
    • Graphics API can be switched in F4. Vulkan is marked unstable and needs a restart.
    • Updated Russian translation.
    • New default settings (kept if you already changed them yourself): windowed mode (it runs faster than exclusive fullscreen), FXAA extreme, FSR quality mode, no depth of field, a bigger texture cache, and the LEGO Toypad app starts with the game when it was installed.
    • Freeze reports now also say what the emulated GPU was doing at the time, and the bug report form accepts a crash dump.

    Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

13. v0.1.20 Hotfix 0.1.20 (Unstable) Pre-release 851 10 days ago
    Release notes

    Hotfix.

    • Far fewer stutters in busy scenes. Effects that write straight to memory (memexport, used by the game's lighting) made the emulator stop and wait for the GPU after every such draw - hundreds to thousands of times per frame. These are now batched and synced only when the game can actually look at the results.
      • Per minute of play: big hitches (frames over 100 ms) 12.7 → 2.6, stutters (over 50 ms) 50 → 4.4.
    • New setting slow_frame_log_ms (off by default): logs a breakdown of every frame slower than the given milliseconds. Useful for performance reports.

    Found any problem? Please report it in Issues right away and attach your game.log.

14. v0.1.19 Hotfix 0.1.19 Pre-release 338 10 days ago
    Release notes

    Hotfix.

    • Saving works with more than one controller connected. If a second (often virtual — Steam Input, DS4Windows) controller was plugged in, the game could say "You do not have an active gamer profile" and refuse to save. Every controller slot now has the profile.
    • F4 → "Reset all to defaults" no longer breaks the game. It used to wipe the compatibility settings the installer writes, and the game crashed on the next start. Reset now restores the settings the installer set up and keeps all paths.
      • If your game already crashes after a reset: run this installer over the same folder (saves and DLC are kept).
15. v0.1.18 0.1.18 Pre-release 143 10 days ago
    Release notes

    Fern is back

    Finn can swap into Fern again, with his own model, animations and items. The Adventure Time DLC shipped without Fern's character cache, so the swap used to hang forever in the portal vortex. The missing cache now ships with the game (PATCH3) and is always on - you will see it greyed out in the F8 mod menu.

    Modding tools (optional)

    The installer has a new Modding tools checkbox, off by default. It installs the latest releases of connorh315's tools into tools\ModdingTools: BrickVault, Flux, AbilityDefEditor, SoundEventEditor, Hologram, Diorama, CBXDecoder, DATPacker, DATManager. Bundled with his permission - huge thanks to him.

    The modding guide was rewritten: docs/how-to-mod.md - building your own PATCH4+ archives (no size limits), tracing what the game looks for, and the Fern recipe as a worked example.

    Fixes

    • F4 Reset all to defaults no longer wipes the game/data paths from the config;
    • The F4 window opens a little smaller;
    • F8 built-in entries no longer show config key names.
16. v0.1.17 Hotfix 0.1.17 Pre-release 215 12 days ago
    Release notes

    Hotfix pre-release on top of 0.1.16. Nothing here changes the game data; it is all runtime and UI.

    Crash logs that name the culprit

    A crash used to leave a host address that meant nothing under ASLR. game.log now records the module and offset, the guest thread it died on, and the chain of game functions that led there - so a log alone is usually enough to find the bug. If you have been hitting crashes or the "stuck lock" freeze in the LEGO Movie world, please update and send the new log.

    Settings you can read

    F4 has been rebuilt for players: Display, Performance, Graphics, Audio, Controls, Keyboard bindings, Shortcuts, Toy Pad, Mods and fixes, Online. Plain names, a tooltip on every line, drop-downs instead of magic numbers, and a wider window so nothing overlaps. Everything technical is still there under Advanced by its raw name.

    Depth of field off

    Performance -> Depth of field blur. The game never had a switch for it, so the recomp drops the render pass itself. Sharper picture, slightly less GPU work. (For the curious: ps_frame and ps_skip in the console let you find and drop any other full-screen pass the same way.)

    Russian translation

    The installer now offers the translation mod by koctr113 in place of the two older language mods. If you had the old ones enabled, pick the new one in the mod menu (F8).

    Full install: DimensionsRecompiled-Setup.exe. Existing installs get update-0.1.17.rxp through the in-game updater.

17. v0.1.16 0.1.16 Pre-release 45 13 days ago
    Release notes

    Xbox One Toy Pad Support

    The Xbox One Toy Pad (0E6F:0141, "LEGO(R) DIMENSIONS(TM)") now works over USB, alongside the Wii U / PS3 / PS4 and Xbox 360 pads.

    It is a different one from the other pads: it speaks Xbox One GIP, so every LEGO frame travels inside a GIP packet and the pad only opens its gateway after a GIP handshake. The game now does all of that for you - swap the driver once with Zadig (libusb-win32, check the USB ID 0E6F 0141 - Windows lists it under the same name as the Xbox 360 pad), untick toypad_emulation under F4 > Input, restart.

    If the pad stays silent after a driver swap or a previous session, unplug it and plug it back in: it goes mute when poked the wrong way and only a power cycle wakes it.

    Protocol work and testing on real hardware by my friend Amirust. Thank you, brother!

    Also in this build

    • modcli: adding a new file to a .CC40TAD archive (DLC packages) now keeps the archive valid - the header size field is updated and the entry is inserted in CRC order, which is what the game's lookup needs. Previous builds could make a DLC report as "not installed" after such a mod.
18. v0.1.15 0.1.15 Pre-release 456 16 days ago
    Release notes

    Vertical sync is locked off

    The vsync setting is now greyed out in F4, and an update turns it off for anyone who had turned it on.

    After receiving many reports that this feature is not working, I tried to look into it. For now, it seems that Vsync is reducing the FPS so much and so suddenly. Unfortunately, I don't have much time to investigate it further at the moment. Sorry!

    Add DLC without reinstalling the whole game

    Bought a pack after installing?
    Run the installer again and pick "Add DLC to an install I already have" on the first screen. It asks for two things - the folder with your packages and the folder you installed into - and writes only the DLC. Your save, settings, mods and the game files are left exactly as they are.

    Settings: reset to defaults

    F4 has a Reset all to defaults button next to Save, behind a confirmation.
    It also writes the config straight away, because a setting that only takes effect on the next start is exactly the kind that leaves a game unstartable.

    Building it yourself got fixed

    Someone built the whole project from a clean clone on a CPU without AVX2 and wrote up every place the guide was wrong. All of it is fixed:

    • The SDK and the two sibling repositories are git submodules, so one

      git clone --recursive replaces the steps that sent you looking for them.

    • LEGODIMENSIONS_X86_BASELINE and REXGLUE_X86_BASELINE make the instruction

      set a supported setting rather than a source edit, for older CPUs.

    • Configuring the SDK without --preset no longer fails to compile.
    • README-dev.md now says to put Default.xexp next to Default.xex before

      generating. The loader applies the update itself from there - xextool was
      never needed, the guide just never said where the file goes.

    • The release script finds the files it needs instead of demanding they be

      copied into place by hand, and says what to do about anything missing.

    Thanks to Kimm from Discord for that report - it was detailed enough to act on line by line!

19. v0.1.14 0.1.14 Pre-release 205 19 days ago
    Release notes

    Pre-release. Tested on one machine, so treat it as a test build.

    Xbox 360 Toy Pad Support

    Every retail Toy Pad is now supported except Xbox One - Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and, new here, Xbox 360.

    The 360 pad was never going to be found before: it is not the same USB device as the others. PDP shipped the pad under two identities, and we only knew one of them.

    Shows up as	USB ID	Pad
    LEGO READER V2.10	0E6F 0241	Wii U / PS3 / PS4
    LEGO(R) DIMENSIONS(TM)	24C6 FA01	Xbox 360

    It also needed the command frames sent in a different shape — the 360 pad speaks the wrapped Xbox frame that a PC pad does not, and we were unwrapping it for everybody.

    Installing the driver - do this first

    If Device Manager shows your 360 pad as "Driver is unavailable", nothing is broken. Windows ships no driver for that pad at all. You install one yourself, once, and it takes about a minute:

    1. Download Zadig and run it.
    2. Plug the Toy Pad in.
    3. In Zadig, tick Options → List All Devices.
    4. Pick your pad in the drop-down and check the USB ID against the table above before you touch anything — pointing Zadig at the wrong device will take that device away from Windows.
    5. Choose libusb-win32 as the driver, then press Install Driver.

    On a pad Windows already had a driver for, that button reads Replace Driver instead. Same step.

    6. In game press F4, open Input, untick toypad_emulation, and restart the game.

    The pad lights up a few seconds after the game starts. Put a figure on it and it appears in game, exactly like on a console.

    To give the pad back to Windows later — for a real console, or other software — uninstall that driver in Device Manager.

    If the pad stays dark

    There is a new setting, toypad_passthrough_frame (F4 → Input). Leave it on auto; it picks the right frame shape from the pad it found. If some pad revision disagrees, keep and strip force it either way, and game.log says which one is in use.

    Updating

    Either file works. update-0.1.14.rxp is the small one and applies to any install from 0.1.0 onward; DimensionsRecompiled-Setup.exe is the full installer and repairs an install without touching saves.

    The README that came with your install is written at install time, so an in-place update leaves the old one. Everything new is above.

20. v0.1.13 0.1.13 Pre-release 103 20 days ago
    Release notes

    Pre-release. Tested on one machine, so treat it as a test build.

    A cheat menu, on Del

    A memory scanner and value freezer built into the game — the job people use Cheat Engine for, without needing Cheat Engine.

    Pick a value type, type the number you can see on screen, First scan, then change it in game and Next scan = until a few addresses are left. Click one and Write once or Freeze it. If the number is not shown anywhere, start from Unknown value and narrow down with Increased / Decreased / Changed / Unchanged.

    Save as cheat stores an address under a name beside the game and re-applies it on every launch, only while its tick box is on.

    Scans run on their own thread, so the game keeps moving while they work.

    If you would rather use Cheat Engine itself, it works, but two settings are not optional: turn on MEM_MAPPED scanning, and scan as big-endian. docs/cheat-engine.md explains both, tools/cheatengine has ready-made big-endian types, and the new membase console command prints where guest memory landed for that run.

    BACK is no longer on Backspace

    It sits on = now. Backspace is where people reach for a delete key, and it kept sending BACK to the game by accident. If you rebound it yourself, your binding is kept.

    Smaller things

    • The updater closes itself once an update is applied, after a five-second countdown that any click cancels. This one takes effect from the next update: the pack you are about to install is applied by the updater you already have.
    • Closing the game gives it three seconds to shut down cleanly instead of eight before the process is taken out.

    Updating

    Either file works. update-0.1.13.rxp is the small one and applies to any install from 0.1.0 onward; DimensionsRecompiled-Setup.exe is the full installer and repairs an install without touching saves.

    The README that came with your install is written at install time, so an in-place update leaves the old one. Everything new is above.

21. v0.1.12 Hotfix 0.1.12 Pre-release 251 22 days ago
    Release notes

    Hotfix. One thing is fixed, and it only concerns people who make or install mods. If you are on 0.1.11 and everything works, there is nothing here for you.

    A mod can reach the disc archives now

    Most of what is worth modding lives in the update archive, PATCH.DAT. Some things do not: the on-screen button prompts, for one, sit in GAME.DAT under GUI/FONT. A mod that named one of those never had a chance - the tool that injects the files was told where the update folder was and where the DLC packages were, and nothing else, so it could not find GAME.DAT, gave up on the whole mod, and left F4 -> Mods saying modcli failed, see the log. Mods touching PATCH worked, which made it look like the mod was at fault.

    The game folder is searched too now. datfiles/GAME/... finds GAME.DAT, and so do GAME0..GAME4 and INSTALL0_*. Existing mods need no changes.

    Reach for the disc copy only for something the update does not carry. If a file exists in both, the update's copy wins, so modding the disc copy of it changes nothing, PATCH is still where almost everything belongs.

    DLC mods survive an install and an update

    The installer applies mods at the end of a Russian install, and the updater re-applies whatever you had enabled after it patches. Both drive the same tool the F8 menu does, and neither told it where the DLC packages were. So a mod targeting a DLC archive, Super Sonic Infinite lives in DLC16, failed the install outright, and was quietly dropped on every update. Both pass the right folders now.

    Also

    • docs/how-to-mod.md now says which archive to target and why the update usually wins.

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