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MrTheShy 79afded2ff Split-screen networking, window resize, bitmap font fix, and multiplayer stability
Adds the networking layer for non-host split-screen multiplayer, implements
live window resize with swap chain recreation, fixes bitmap font scaling at
small window sizes, and fixes several crash-causing bugs in the multiplayer
stack (compression buffer overflow, TCP stream desync, chunk visibility race,
CompressedTileStorage torn reads, reconnect stability).

== Non-host split-screen multiplayer ==

Each split-screen pad on a non-host client opens its own TCP connection to
the host. From the host's perspective each connection looks like a normal
remote player (gets its own smallId, Socket, PlayerConnection).

WinsockNetLayer: JoinSplitScreen(), CloseSplitScreenConnection(),
SplitScreenRecvThreadProc, per-pad socket/thread/smallId tracking
(s_splitScreenSocket[], s_splitScreenSmallId[], s_splitScreenRecvThread[]).
GetLocalSocket() returns the correct TCP socket for a given local sender's
smallId. GetSplitScreenSmallId() returns the host-assigned smallId for a pad.

GameNetworkManager::CreateSocket: non-host path (localPlayer && !IsHost() &&
IsInGameplay()) calls JoinSplitScreen, sets the IQNet slot's smallId and
resolvedXuid, creates a non-hostLocal Socket + ClientConnection, sends
PreLoginPacket, registers via addPendingLocalConnection.

PlatformNetworkManagerStub::RemoveLocalPlayerByUserIndex: implemented the
formerly-empty stub. Calls NotifyPlayerLeaving, CloseSplitScreenConnection,
and clears the IQNet slot fields so the pad can rejoin cleanly.

SmallId pool: s_nextSmallId starts at XUSER_MAX_COUNT (4), reserving
m_player[0-3] for local pads so remote players never collide.

IQNetPlayer::SendData: non-host local senders now route through
GetLocalSocket(m_smallId) instead of always using SendToSmallId.
IQNet::GetLocalPlayerByUserIndex: rewritten. Pad 0 on non-host uses
GetLocalSmallId() for direct lookup; pads 1-3 check m_player[padIdx].
C_4JProfile::IsSignedIn: pad 0 always returns true (was checking controller
connection, which is unreliable on Win64).

GetGamertag/GetDisplayName: for pads 1-3 with active local players, returns
the pad-specific gamertag from IQNet::m_player instead of always returning
the primary username.

ClientConnection: isPrimaryConnection() (true on host or for the primary pad
on non-host) guards relative-delta and world-modifying handlers to prevent
double-processing of shared state:
- Guarded: handleMoveEntity, handleMoveEntitySmall, handleChunkTilesUpdate,
  handleBlockRegionUpdate, handleTileUpdate, handleTakeItemEntity,
  handleSignUpdate, handleTileEntityData, handleTileEvent,
  handleTileDestruction, handleComplexItemData, handleLevelEvent,
  handleSoundEvent, handleParticleEvent, handleAddGlobalEntity.
- handleSetEntityMotion: secondary connections only accept motion targeting
  their own local player (knockback).
- handleExplosion: world modification (finalizeExplosion) guarded,
  per-player knockback unguarded. Added null check on localplayers[].
- Entity spawn/remove/teleport/data handlers left unguarded (putEntity is
  idempotent, absolute value setters).

handleLogin: added else clause to set level when the dimension already exists
(was leaving level NULL on reconnect).
handleChunkVisibilityArea/handleChunkVisibility: added null check on level.
handleContainerOpen: added null check on localplayers[m_userIndex].

== Reconnect stability ==

PendingConnection: duplicate XUID no longer rejects with eDisconnect_Banned.
Instead it force-disconnects the stale old connection via
stalePlayer->connection->disconnect(), queues the old smallId for recycling
via queueSmallIdForRecycle(), then calls handleAcceptedLogin for the new
connection.

MinecraftServer: swapped tick order so players->tick() (disconnect queue)
runs before connection->tick() (new logins). The old player is removed
from PlayerList before the new LoginPacket's XUID check runs.

PlayerList: PushFreeSmallId and ClearSocketForSmallId moved here from
DoWork, called only after PlayerConnection::disconnect() completes and
the read/write threads are dead. New queueSmallIdForRecycle() method lets
PendingConnection push smallIds into m_smallIdsToClose, which PlayerList::tick()
processes through closePlayerConnectionBySmallId() for deferred cleanup.
Prevents a race where the old write thread could resolve getPlayer() to a
recycled smallId's new connection and send stale packets on it.

SocketInputStreamLocal::close() and SocketOutputStreamLocal::close() now
actually clear their queues (std::swap with empty queue instead of calling
.empty() which is a read-only no-op).

ServerConnection::stop(): pending and players vectors are snapshot-copied
before iterating (prevents iterator invalidation). Remote players receive
a DisconnectPacket via disconnect(eDisconnect_Quitting) instead of raw
close(). tick(): added else clause so flush() only runs on live connections.

WinsockNetLayer::Shutdown(): accept thread stopped first (prevents new recv
threads from spawning), then all recv threads are collected and waited on,
then connections are closed and split-screen sockets cleaned up. Clears
disconnect and free-pool vectors before deleting critical sections.

WinsockNetLayer::JoinGame(): waits for old s_clientRecvThread to fully
exit before creating a new TCP connection. Prevents the old recv thread
from reading bytes off the new socket and desynchronizing the stream.

== Compression buffer overflow ==

CompressLZXRLE and CompressRLE wrote RLE intermediate output into a fixed
100KB buffer with no bounds checking. Full chunk columns are ~160KB and
the RLE step can expand 0xFF bytes to 2 bytes each, easily overflowing
into rleDecompressBuf and heap metadata. This caused delayed crashes in
unrelated code (Packet::readPacket, LevelRenderer::updateDirtyChunks) after
the first autosave, since that's when full chunks get compressed.

Fix: dynamic allocation when worst-case RLE output (SrcSize * 2) exceeds
the static buffer. Static buffer still used for small inputs (zero overhead).
CompressRLE: moved LeaveCriticalSection after dynamic buffer cleanup.

DecompressLZXRLE: now checks zlib return value (was completely ignored).
On failure, bails out immediately with *pDestSize = 0. Added RLE input
bounds checking (pucIn >= pucEnd before reading count/data bytes) and
output bounds checking (pucOut + count > pucOutEnd). Same bounds checks
applied to DecompressRLE.

== Stream desync (Connection write thread) ==

The write thread had two output paths to the same TCP socket: bufferedDos
(5KB buffered stream) and direct sos->writeWithFlags(). Chunk data sent
via queueSend() used the direct path with shouldDelay=true, while other
packets used bufferedDos. If bufferedDos had unflushed bytes, the direct
write arrived at the client first, reordering the TCP stream and producing
bad packet ID crashes.

Fix: flush bufferedDos immediately before every direct sos->writeWithFlags().

== Chunk visibility race (empty first chunk after 30s) ==

BlockRegionUpdatePacket (direct socket write via queueSend) could arrive
at the client before ChunkVisibilityAreaPacket (buffered). The client
called getChunk() on a chunk that didn't exist yet in the cache, got
EmptyLevelChunk (whose setBlocksAndData is a no-op), and silently lost
the block data. On superflat this left one invisible chunk; on normal
worlds it crashed the renderer.

Fix: handleBlockRegionUpdate calls dimensionLevel->setChunkVisible() for
full-chunk BRUPs before writing data, making it independent of packet
ordering. Added post-write verification logging.

CompressedTileStorage race: get() reads indicesAndData twice without a
lock. compress() can swap the pointer between reads, producing indices
from the old buffer paired with data from the new buffer. Fix: snapshot
indicesAndData into a local variable before deriving both pointers. Same
snapshot pattern applied to getData() (non-Vita path), isRenderChunkEmpty(),
getHighestNonEmptyY(), getAllocatedSize(), and write(). All methods now
also guard against NULL snapshots.

== Window resize ==

ResizeD3D() destroys the old swap chain, creates a new one at the target
size, then patches InternalRenderManager members directly via memory
offsets (0x20=swap chain, 0x28=RTV, 0x50=SRV, 0x98=DSV, 0x5138/0x513C=
backbuffer width/height). Offset verification cross-checks known pointers
(device at 0x10, swap chain at 0x20) before patching. Old RTV/SRV are
intentionally leaked (orphaned with the old swap chain) to avoid fighting
unknown ref holders in the precompiled RenderManager.

The flow: Suspend RenderManager, ClearState+Flush, release views,
gdraw_D3D11_PreReset, destroy old swap chain, create new swap chain via
IDXGIFactory, patch offsets, recreate RTV/SRV/DSV, rebind render targets,
update UIController (updateRenderTargets + updateScreenSize),
gdraw_D3D11_PostReset + SetRendertargetSize, IggyFlushInstalledFonts,
Resume, PostProcesser::Init.

WM_SIZE handling defers resize during window drag (WM_ENTERSIZEMOVE/
WM_EXITSIZEMOVE). Immediate resizes (maximize, programmatic) call
ResizeD3D directly. Removed the old UpdateAspectRatio() function.

CleanupDevice() was leaking g_pDepthStencilView and g_pDepthStencilBuffer.

InitDevice: swap chain BufferUsage now includes DXGI_USAGE_SHADER_INPUT
(needed for the SRV created from the backbuffer for CaptureThumbnail).

New globals: g_rScreenWidth/g_rScreenHeight (real window dimensions,
updated on resize) vs g_iScreenWidth/g_iScreenHeight (fixed logical
resolution, stays 1920x1080).

ComputeViewportForPlayer and getFovAndAspect now use g_rScreenWidth/
g_rScreenHeight instead of the fixed startup values, so 3D perspective
and split-screen viewports adapt to window size.

Main loop: rendering skipped when window is minimized (IsIconic check)
to avoid 100% GPU usage on a hidden swap chain.

Windows64_UIController: new updateRenderTargets(rtv, dsv) method updates
cached D3D pointers used by gdraw_D3D11_SetTileOrigin every frame.
UIController.h: new inline updateScreenSize(w, h) sets m_fScreenWidth/
m_fScreenHeight so all downstream UI code picks up the new size.

== Bitmap font scaling ==

At small window sizes, dynamic text (scrollable list items, HowToPlay
pages) showed overlapping characters. Static SWF text was unaffected
because it uses embedded vector glyphs.

Root cause in UIBitmapFont.cpp GetGlyphBitmap: when display scale is
smaller than the bitmap's native scale (pixel_scale < truePixelScale,
glyphScale stays at 1), Iggy displayed the glyph at native 1:1 pixel
size but advanced the cursor by the smaller display-scale amount.

At intermediate window sizes (e.g. 1678x756, scale factor ~0.7), a
second bug appeared: some SWF font sizes produced pixel_scale just above
truePixelScale (13 for Mojangles_11) while others fell just below,
splitting glyphs across the small-display and normal cache branches.
The normal branch cached all glyphs in a single [truePixelScale, 99]
range, so the first glyph cached set pixel_scale_correct for every
subsequent request regardless of font size. Different font sizes then
got scaled by wrong ratios (e.g. 18.9/13.3 = 1.42x with point sampling),
producing visibly inconsistent letter sizes. This only happened at
specific window sizes where the display scale put some fonts above and
others below the truePixelScale boundary. Full 1080p and very small
windows were unaffected because all fonts landed in the same branch.

Fix: on _WINDOWS64, always use pixel_scale_correct = truePixelScale so
every cache entry is consistent regardless of which font size creates it
first. Two cache ranges: downscale (pixel_scale < truePixelScale) uses
bilinear for smooth reduction, upscale uses point_sample for crisp
pixel-art rendering. At most two cache entries per glyph. The console
code path (fixed resolution, integer-multiple scaling) is preserved
behind #else.

UIScene.cpp loadMovie: always load 1080.swf on _WINDOWS64 regardless of
window size. The old height-based selection could pick 480 or 720 variants
which either crashed or loaded the wrong skin library (skinHD.swf vs
skin.swf). Display size is now set via Fit16x9 BEFORE the init tick so
Iggy's ActionScript text field creation sees the same scale that render()
will use. IggyFlushInstalledFonts() called after init tick to clear stale
glyph cache entries from previous scenes.

Font.cpp addCharacterQuad/renderCharacter: yOff was computed with
m_charWidth instead of m_charHeight, producing wrong texture coordinates
for non-square glyph cells. This is the world-rendering font (chat, signs,
name tags), not the Iggy UI font.

== XUID generation ==

Split-screen pad XUIDs derived by hashing baseXuid + iPad through Mix64
(DeriveXuidForPad in Windows64_Xuid.h) instead of simple addition. Pad 0
returns the base XUID unchanged for save compatibility. Includes validity
fallbacks if the hash produces an invalid XUID. (Suggested by rtm516)

== Misc ==

Packet::readPacket: thread-local ring buffer tracks last 8 good packet IDs.
On bad packet ID, dumps the history plus next 32 bytes of stream for
diagnosing TCP desynchronization.

PendingConnection/PlayerList: debug logging for the reconnect flow
(duplicate XUID handling, force-disconnect, handleAcceptedLogin,
placeNewPlayer with smallId/entityId/dimension).

ClientConnection::handleBlockRegionUpdate: warning log when a full chunk
arrives with ys==0 (empty full chunk, data loss indicator).

== Known issues / future work ==

SendOnSocket global lock (WinsockNetLayer.cpp): s_sendLock is a single
CriticalSection serializing ALL TCP sends across ALL connections. If one
client's send() blocks (TCP window full, slow network), every other write
thread stalls — no data flows to any player until the slow send completes.
Each PlayerConnection has its own write thread, so with 8+ players one slow
client can cause latency spikes or timeout disconnects for healthy players.
Fix: replace s_sendLock with per-socket locks indexed by smallId. The lock
only needs to prevent header+payload interleaving on the SAME socket; sends
to different sockets are independent. Deferred to a separate PR to keep
this one focused.

Textures::releaseTexture: early return for id <= 0, checks
TextureGetTexture(id) != NULL before calling glDeleteTextures. Prevents
crashes on stale texture IDs after RenderManager reset.

UIController TextureSubstitutionDestroyCallback: null guard on
Minecraft::GetInstance() and mc->textures before calling releaseTexture.
Prevents crash during shutdown.

StringTable: removed __debugbreak() on language load failure in debug builds.
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MinecraftConsoles

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Introduction

This project contains the source code of Minecraft Legacy Console Edition v1.6.0560.0 (TU19) from https://archive.org/details/minecraft-legacy-console-edition-source-code, with some fixes and improvements applied.

Download

Windows users can download our Nightly Build! Simply download the .zip file and extract it to a folder where you'd like to keep the game. You can set your username in username.txt (you'll have to make this file) and add servers to connect to in servers.txt

Platform Support

  • Windows: Supported for building and running the project
  • macOS / Linux: The Windows nightly build may run through Wine or CrossOver based on community reports, but this is unofficial and not currently tested by the maintainers

Features

  • Fixed compilation and execution in both Debug and Release mode on Windows using Visual Studio 2022
  • Added support for keyboard and mouse input
  • Added fullscreen mode support (toggle using F11)
  • (WIP) Disabled V-Sync for better performance
  • Added a high-resolution timer path on Windows for smoother high-FPS gameplay timing
  • Device's screen resolution will be used as the game resolution instead of using a fixed resolution (1920x1080)
  • LAN Multiplayer & Discovery
  • Added persistent username system via "username.txt"

Multiplayer

Basic LAN multiplayer is available on the Windows build

  • Hosting a multiplayer world automatically advertises it on the local network
  • Other players on the same LAN can discover the session from the in-game Join Game menu
  • Game connections use TCP port 25565 by default
  • LAN discovery uses UDP port 25566
  • Add servers to your server list with servers.txt (temp solution)
  • Rename yourself without losing data by keeping your uid.dat

Parts of this feature are based on code from LCEMP (thanks!)

servers.txt

To add a server to your game, create the servers.txt file in the same directory as you have Minecraft.Client.exe. Inside, follow this format:

serverip.example.com
25565
The name of your server in UI!

For example, here's a valid servers.txt

1.1.1.1
25565
Cloudflare's Very Own LCE Server
127.0.0.1
25565
Localhost Test Crap

Launch Arguments

Argument Description
-name <username> Sets your in-game username.
-fullscreen Launches the game in Fullscreen mode

Example:

Minecraft.Client.exe -name Steve -fullscreen

Controls (Keyboard & Mouse)

  • Movement: W A S D
  • Jump / Fly (Up): Space
  • Sneak / Fly (Down): Shift (Hold)
  • Sprint: Ctrl (Hold) or Double-tap W
  • Inventory: E
  • Chat: T
  • Drop Item: Q
  • Crafting: C Use Q and E to move through tabs (cycles Left/Right)
  • Toggle View (FPS/TPS): F5
  • Fullscreen: F11
  • Pause Menu: Esc
  • Attack / Destroy: Left Click
  • Use / Place: Right Click
  • Select Item: Mouse Wheel or keys 1 to 9
  • Accept or Decline Tutorial hints: Enter to accept and B to decline
  • Game Info (Player list and Host Options): TAB
  • Toggle HUD: F1
  • Toggle Debug Info: F3
  • Open Debug Overlay: F4
  • Toggle Debug Console: F6

Build & Run

  1. Install Visual Studio 2022.
  2. Clone the repository.
  3. Open the project by double-clicking MinecraftConsoles.sln.
  4. Make sure Minecraft.Client is set as the Startup Project.
  5. Set the build configuration to Debug (Release is also OK but has some bugs) and the target platform to Windows64, then build and run.

CMake (Windows x64)

cmake -S . -B build -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64
cmake --build build --config Debug --target MinecraftClient

For more information, see COMPILE.md.

Known Issues

  • Native builds for platforms other than Windows have not been tested and are most likely non-functional. The Windows nightly build may still run on macOS and Linux through Wine or CrossOver, but that path is unofficial and not currently supported

Contributors

Would you like to contribute to this project? Please read our Contributor's Guide before doing so! This document includes our current goals, standards for inclusions, rules, and more.

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