Trials: ReVolution Collection

At a glance

🏍️ All 3 games in one launcher	🖥️ One resolution setting, up to 4K; Trials HD at 60, 90, 120 or an unlimited frame rate	✨ AMD FSR 1 and NVIDIA NIS upscaling to your resolution
📀 DLC for all 3 games: Big Pack, Riders of Doom, Fusion's first content packs and more, from your own packages	🎮 Any controller, or the keyboard with your own keys	🏆 Achievements with notifications in game
📦 Install from your own packages, found on your PC by themselves	🔓 The full game, always: never the trial version	🔄 Updates itself and every game
💾 Save backups and restore in one click	🛋️ A console style dashboard with sounds, made for a controller	🪟 Borderless fullscreen, windowed, any monitor
🚂 Add to Steam with its own artwork, ready for Big Picture	↩️ Back to the launcher any time: hold Back + Start, or Esc	💬 Join the Discord right from Home

Why recompile the original Trials trilogy when Gold Edition already exists on PC?

While Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is available on Steam, it does not faithfully preserve the original Xbox 360 releases.

The Trials HD content was rebuilt using Trials Evolution's engine, resulting in different physics and changes to the original tracks. This means Gold Edition does not provide the exact same gameplay experience as the original Trials HD.

Furthermore, Gold Edition excludes all four major DLC expansions released for Trials HD and Trials Evolution (Big Pack, Big Thrills, Riders of Doom and Origin of Pain), leaving over 150 additional tracks and other content unavailable in the PC release.

Missing from Gold Edition
The original Trials HD physics	rebuilt on the Trials Evolution engine
Four major DLC expansions	Big Pack, Big Thrills, Riders of Doom, Origin of Pain
Additional tracks	151

Our goal is not to replace or compete with Ubisoft's existing PC releases. It is to preserve the original Xbox 360 versions of Trials HD, Trials Evolution and Trials Fusion as faithfully as possible, including their original physics, gameplay mechanics, content and individual identities.

By recompiling the original games into native PC executables, we aim to provide a long term preservation solution while also exploring modern improvements such as higher resolutions, improved compatibility, performance optimisations and independent community functionality.

Gold Edition lets you play much of the classic Trials content. Our goal is to preserve the original games themselves. If you would like to play it, Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is on Steam; the launcher has a page about it on Home too.

The games

Getting started

You need: Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit) with a DirectX 12 graphics card, and the Xbox Live Arcade package of each game you want to play, copied from your own console (see Which packages you need).

1. Download TrialsCollection-...-windows-x64.zip from the latest release and unzip it anywhere. It holds the launcher and all three games, and everything stays in that folder, so it's portable.
2. Run trials_launcher.exe. It opens in fullscreen on Home. Windows may warn about an unknown publisher the first time: choose More info, then Run anyway.
3. Pick a game and press Play. The first time, the launcher asks for your copy of that game: it finds packages on your PC by itself (or choose the package file, or a folder it was already extracted to), checks it really is that game and copies the game files next to the game.
4. Press Play again, and from then on it starts straight away.

While you play, hold Back and Start on the controller, or hold Esc, to come back to the launcher. No game files are included: they come from your own copies. Xbox Live Arcade games run as their trial unless they were bought, so the collection always unlocks the full game: please only use copies you own. Your saves are kept in Documents\trials_hd, Documents\trials_evolution and Documents\trials_fusion.

Which packages you need

Each game is one file on your console's storage, in Content\0000000000000000\<title ID>\000D0000. Only the title ID is checked, so any copy of these games works. These are the packages the ports were made and tested with:

Game	Title ID	Media ID	Version	Package	SHA1	Installed
Trials HD	5841095A	22E417BF	0.0.1.2	217,092,096 bytes	CAD16E3104B3C584773E1A3F813DF923642CBA94	about 210 MB
Trials Evolution	58410AAD	739182AD	0.0.0.3	1,316,257,792 bytes	6BD8FBCDFC45911F1317D462DC24440C1F277BA1	about 1.3 GB
Trials Fusion	58411401	5AF34C9D	0.0.0.3	1,632,141,312 bytes	5695B9CB78B1A1925043874DAA83BBF7564CE2AA	about 1.6 GB

Title updates are not supported yet. The launcher's install screen shows every detail for each package, MD5 and CRC32 too. To check a package yourself, run this in PowerShell and compare the result with the SHA1 above:

Get-FileHash "C:\Games\Trials HD\6E133151FC02CFA6D6653C9AAE46D1DC8014605158" -Algorithm SHA1

Downloadable content

Each game's page has Add DLC next to Play. It lists that game's DLC; press Install on one and choose your own package of it, from your console's Content\0000000000000000\<title ID>\00000002 folder, or the zip it is in. The launcher checks it really is that DLC and installs it for every profile. Installed DLC can be removed again from the same page.

Game	DLC
Trials HD	Big Pack, Big Thrills
Trials Evolution	Riders of Doom, Origin of Pain
Trials Fusion	Riders of the Rustland, Empire of the Sky, Welcome to the Abyss, Fallen Angel Bike Upgrade, and the Exclusive Content, Uplay Rewards and Season Pass Unlocks (a profile file, 58411401.gpd). Fire in the Deep, Fault One Zero and After the Incident are listed but not supported yet

The Fusion unlocks are merged into your profile's settings, keeping your own options and progress; your settings are backed up first, and Remove puts them back.

Fusion's content packs 4 to 6 came out after the game update this recompilation is built from, and the game crashes while loading with any of them installed, so the launcher does not install them yet.

The launcher

Everything is set up before a game starts, with a controller, the keyboard or the mouse. Each game has its own page and its own settings.

	Home All three games side by side, with their box art and artwork Each game shows at a glance whether it's ready to play, its version and your achievements Settings for the launcher, and Other TRG Projects Trials Evolution: Gold Edition: Ubisoft's Steam release, with its description and a link to its store page Add to Steam: adds the collection to your Steam library as a non Steam game, with its own artwork (cover, banner, header, logo and icon), and switches Steam Input off for it so your controller keeps working Discord: joins the official server Plays with a controller, the keyboard or the mouse, with interface sounds
Game page Play, the only place a game starts Add DLC: the game's DLC, each one installed from your own package Settings and Saves and install for that game Your achievements so far, your save backups and the release notes of its latest version
	Install from your own copy The launcher finds packages on your PC by itself, or you choose the package file or an extracted folder A card shows exactly which package works: title ID, media ID, version, size, SHA1, MD5 and CRC32 It checks the package really is that game, then copies the files with a progress bar
Display and Graphics Fullscreen or windowed, choose the monitor, vertical sync Resolution: one setting for the game and the window. The game draws for it, and in a window the window has that size Frame rate in Trials HD: Original (60, like the Xbox 360), 90, 120 or unlimited, with the physics at its own 60 steps a second. Trials Evolution and Trials Fusion run at 60: their game speed follows the frame rate Upscaler: AMD FSR 1 or NVIDIA NIS, scaling to your chosen resolution (not just your screen), with Native, Quality, Balanced and Performance modes. With it off, every game draws at your resolution itself Anti aliasing: FXAA or FXAA strong, and texture filtering up to 16x Keep the original shape with black bars, or stretch to fill
	Controller and keyboard Stick deadzone and vibration strength Remap any button on your controller, in the menus too Keyboard play with your own key bindings
Achievements All the achievements of each game, with their pictures and gamerscore Notifications in game when you unlock one, with their sound on or off and its volume A test button to see and hear it
	Other TRG Projects The other TekRantGaming ports, with their artwork and a link to each King Kong Recompiled downloads and plays right from here

Saves and updates

Each game's Saves and install page backs up your saves and restores them, opens the save, backup and game folders, reinstalls from your copy or removes the game. When the launcher opens it checks GitHub for new versions of itself and of each game and installs them by themselves, restarting into a new launcher once nothing else is going on; your games, saves and settings stay as they are. Turn that off in the launcher's own Settings.

Xbox 360 vs PC

	Xbox 360	PC
Resolution	1280 x 720 (Evolution and Fusion a little less)	your choice, up to 4K (Evolution and Fusion start at 720p and behave abnormally above it)
Frame rate	60 fps	Trials HD 60, 90, 120 or unlimited; Evolution and Fusion 60
Upscaling	none	AMD FSR 1 or NVIDIA NIS, to your resolution
Downloadable content	Xbox Live	from your own packages (Fusion packs 4 to 6 not yet)
Anti aliasing	console	FXAA, or higher resolutions
Texture filtering	console	up to 16x
Display	TV	borderless fullscreen or windowed, any monitor
Controls	Xbox 360 controller	any controller, remapping, keyboard
Achievements	console	notifications in game, with sound
Three games	three downloads	one launcher

Good to know

Hotkeys

Key	Action
Hold Back + Start, or hold Esc	back to the launcher while playing
F11	the launcher fullscreen or windowed

Known limits

• No online play: leaderboards, multiplayer and Track Central need Xbox Live.
• No title updates yet: the games run as their first release, so Trials Fusion's content packs 4 to 6 (which need a later update) can't be installed.
• Trials Evolution and Trials Fusion run at 60 FPS. Their engines move everything forward by one fixed step each frame, so a higher frame rate would make the whole game run faster. Changing that means separating the games' updates from their drawing and working out the frames in between, which is closer to a decompilation than this recompilation. Forks and pull requests that take it on are welcome.

Reporting a problem

Please open an issue with the game, what happened, your CPU, graphics card and the resolution and frame rate you play at, or ask on the Discord.

About the games

Trials HD (2009), Trials Evolution (2012) and Trials Fusion (2014) were made by RedLynx. Trials HD and Trials Evolution were published by Microsoft Studios on Xbox Live Arcade, Trials Fusion by Ubisoft. Each is a physics driven motorbike game: throttle, brake and the rider's balance against tracks full of ramps, loops and explosions.

Trials: ReVolution Collection runs the Xbox 360 versions natively on Windows, with their downloadable content, and adds the options you would expect from a PC release.

Building from source (for developers)

See BUILDING.md. The game code is generated from each game's own default.xex, so building a game needs your own copy too.

Credits

• Trials HD, Trials Evolution and Trials Fusion by RedLynx, published by Microsoft Studios and Ubisoft.
• ReXGlue SDK, which does the code translation and runs the games, built on the work of Xenia and XenonRecomp. The 16 bit render target fix is ported from Xenia Canary.
• Trials HD Recompiled by snufflyyy (MIT): the first recompilation of Trials HD, its function list and GPU defaults, the frame smoothing above 60 FPS and the package reader.
• Dear ImGui, SDL and stb for the launcher.
• The TRG Launcher (updater and settings), shared by the TekRantGaming ports.
• Game artwork in the launcher from SteamGridDB, downloaded when the launcher runs. The collection's logo and Steam artwork are made from the original Trials Evolution: Gold Edition art.
• The Discord and Steam marks from Simple Icons (CC0). Discord and Steam are trademarks of their owners.
• Upscaling: AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1 and the NVIDIA Image Scaling SDK, both MIT licensed.
• FFmpeg and libmspack (LGPL), with {fmt}, spdlog, toml++, SIMD Everywhere, xxHash and the other libraries the games are built with.

Every project above, with its licence, is listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, which also ships in the download.