GB Studio 4.2.2

What's new in 4.2.2

GB Studio is a quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system.
[4.2.2] - 2026-02-24
Added
- Add setting to control how many frames projectile collision checks are spread over
- Add "Is Touching Wall" as a read only engine field for platformer scenes (gives access to plat_wall_col)
Changed
- Deprecate legacy scriptBuilder plugin APIs. Usage now triggers a warning indicating the replacement function
- Increased plugin compile timeout to 10 minutes (previously 1 minute)
Fixed
- Fix issue where changing Music Tracker Keyboard Layout setting would not take effect until the project was reloaded
- Fix Music Tracker keyboard shortcuts when using non-QWERTY layouts (QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, etc.)
- Fix issue where off-screen actors would sometimes be visible on scene load
- Fix issue where scenes with unicode character names could cause resources to be deleted when saving project
- Fix issue where editing an FX Hammer file wouldn't correctly update the number of sound effects available
- Fix issue where resizing a background image could cause builds to fail until the project was reloaded

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