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This branch has shifted focus slightly, from just porting Cave Story
as-is, to porting it while also trying to recreate the original 2004
experience.

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 Notably, this means bugs should still be left intact. However, bugs and other

 coding errors that affect portability should be fixed.

+Unlike the `accurate` branch, the focus of this branch is not to reproduce the

+exact behaviour of the original code, but rather to reproduce the original

+experience of the game, as it was back in 2004. This means changes are allowed

+if they 'de-age' the game: for example, when playing Cave Story on Windows XP,

+the dialogue font will not be anti-aliased - however, when playing on later

+versions of Windows, it will be anti-aliased. This conflicts with the game's

+colour-keying system, creating an ugly black outline around the letters. This

+issue is corrected in this branch, so that the original behaviour is preserved.

+

 For comparison, I believe this branch shares some parallels with the

 Chocolate Doom project, except perhaps more strict. See the link below for their

 list of philosophies which may be applicable here: