16/08/23: MP3 playback was not working in our first macOS Release, this has been fixed and the DMG has been replaced.
13/03/24. Signed macOS builds for Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel Macs are now available, packaging handled by Mac Source Ports
12/04/24. Music playback in macOS builds now fixed.

New Features/Enhancements

• The backend code for MIDI playback has been changed on Windows and real pause logic
  has been re-enabled. Please be aware that things such as application volume and audio
  quality may change depending on your configuration from ≤0.66
• The original demo gameplay video now plays when the CorsixTH main menu is idle (this
  can be disabled in the configuration file)
• File browser menus now have an OK button (at last!)
• Selecting an existing file in the Save Game/Map browsers will now update the text
  input box to that file name

Changes

• Handymen now always stay in their assigned plots, except when going to rest
• Staff members now have a maximum salary, which can be configured in custom levels
• The game will now always use the GP's choice of next diagnosis room for the patient,
  if available
• Queueing patients are now shown when hovering a door
• Epidemics can no longer fail because an infected patient left before the epidemic was
  revealed
• Balance changes to drug improvement research
• Check for updates can now be disabled in Settings
• Check for updates timeout duration significantly reduced
• "Pause" now shows up when the "Build while paused" setting is on and the game is paused.
• The gamelog file now includes a timestamp
• Support for detecting Theme Hospital game files from an EA Store install
• Many, many, refactors of the code to make it better to understand for future developers
• Contact methods to reach the CorsixTH Team have been updated

Translations

• Chinese Traditional and Simplified translations have been updated. Thanks @lokpro
• Russian has been updated. Thanks Matt1

Bug Fixes

• The windows installer was unintentionally defaulting CorsixTH to full screen.
• Fixed an instance where objects could disappear from the map
• Fixed a bug where the empty action queue message was prevented from happening
• Fixed a bug where dying patients became undead and would have a habit of ruining everything
• Fixed broken dynamic info during epidemics
• Handymen will no longer try to repair machinery while a patient is using it
• Psychiatrist couch has less chance of causing blocked paths
• Roujin's challenge is now properly applied (read: harder)
• Serious Radiation is no longer contagious
• Room blueprints can no longer go beyond external walls
• Fixed incorrect button sounds in the Staff Management window
• Fixed back button behaviour in Font Picker
• Fixed a bug where word-wrapping text on dialogs could crash the game
• Fixed a rare case where the next VIP date may be scheduled in the past
• Fixed a rare case where awarded research points could be negative
• Fixed a rare case of the balance sheet being victim of a green highlighter

Packager Notes

• Option added to build CLI tools for RNC decoding

Changes since 0.67-beta1

• Detection for Theme Hospital installs through the EA Store

New Features/Enhancements

• The backend code for MIDI playback has been changed on Windows and real pause logic
  has been re-enabled. Please be aware that things such as application volume and audio
  quality may change depending on your configuration from ≤0.66
• The original demo gameplay video now plays when the CorsixTH main menu is idle (this
  can be disabled in the configuration file)
• File browser menus now have an OK button (at last!)
• Selecting an existing file in the Save Game/Map browsers will now update the text
  input box to that file name

Changes

• Handymen now always stay in their assigned plots, except when going to rest
• Staff members now have a maximum salary, which can be configured in custom levels
• The game will now always use the GP's choice of next diagnosis room for the patient,
  if available
• Queueing patients are now shown when hovering a door
• Epidemics can no longer fail because an infected patient left before the epidemic was
  revealed
• Balance changes to drug improvement research
• Check for updates can now be disabled in Settings
• "Pause" now shows up when the "Build while paused" setting is on and the game is paused.
• The gamelog file now includes a timestamp
• Many, many, refactors of the code to make it better to understand for future developers
• Contact methods to reach the CorsixTH Team have been updated

Translations

• Chinese Traditional and Simplified translations have been updated. Thanks @lokpro
• Russian has been updated. Thanks Matt1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an instance where objects could disappear from the map
• Fixed a bug where the empty action queue message was prevented from happening
• Fixed a bug where dying patients became undead and would have a habit of ruining everything
• Fixed broken dynamic info during epidemics
• Handymen will no longer try to repair machinery while a patient is using it
• Psychiatrist couch has less chance of causing blocked paths
• Roujin's challenge is now properly applied (read: harder)
• Serious Radiation is no longer contagious
• Room blueprints can no longer go beyond external walls
• Fixed incorrect button sounds in the Staff Management window
• Fixed back button behaviour in Font Picker
• Fixed a bug where word-wrapping text on dialogs could crash the game
• Fixed a rare case where the next VIP date may be scheduled in the past
• Fixed a rare case where awarded research points could be negative
• Fixed a rare case of the balance sheet being victim of a green highlighter

Packager Notes

• Option added to build CLI tools for RNC decoding

New Features/Enhancements

• Direct Zoom has been improved and is now enabled by default
• Nurses can now leave the ward without disturbing her patients
• Patients with Serious Radiation now glow a beautiful shade of green
• Patients with Jellyitis now wobble wobble wobble
• The Hotkeys menu has been overhauled to make it easier to use
• You can now reset your zoom level by pressing '0'
• A new fax code cheat has been added!
• The replace machine prompt will now tell you the new strength before purchase (can be disabled in configuration settings)
• A machine's dynamic info will tell you the strength a machine can be upgraded to if you replaced it (can be disabled in configuration settings)
• MacOS users can now place the CorsixTH.app anywhere (e.g. outside /Applications)

Changes

• Improved pee and vomit conditions
• Patients will no longer queue for reception until nearby
• The Adviser will no longer queue repetitive messages
• Dropdown menus will now close when clicked outside of
• Non-visual diseases can now be delayed in the level config of a custom game
• Gamelog.txt will now contain system information instead of within the window title
• Patients no longer become fed up and leave the hospital if already in their treatment room

Translations

• Translations should no longer show random '/' on new lines
• Russian language updated (Thanks @Matvey1705 !)
• Czech language updated (Thanks @jansakos !)
• German language updated (Thanks @Manuel-K !)

Bug Fixes

• Checking for updates should now work moving forward (promise)
• All cured trophy bugfix now properly applied from 0.65.1
• Firing staff from a multi-use object now ensures they leave the hospital
• Missing config and hotkey values will now use default values
• Fixed an instance where an emergency fax could show the wrong cure
• Sound effect boundary is now properly applied on window resize
• The cheats menu is now immediately usable after typing the cheat code on a fax
• User action while paused setting no longer uses configuration default
• Quick Save and Quick Load behaviour has been improved
• The cheats menu dialog will no longer slide off the screen
• You can now purchase plots while wall transparency is on
• Playback of movie audio on surround sound systems is improved
• Resolved formatting issues with numbers after loading a save

Packager Notes

• FFmpeg 5 is now supported
• FFmpeg 3 and below are no longer supported
• LibAV is no longer supported
• CMake minimum version has been increased to 3.10
• MacOS Packagers, please note the macos_luarocks script has been modified
• MacOS versions can now be made portable

Fixes

• Patients no longer leave or become unhappy waiting too long when they are in
  their treatment room
• Loading a save game containing a graph would crash
• More crashing advisor statements have been corrected
• Resolved formatting issues with numbers after loading a save

Fixes

• Crashing advisor statements introduced in 0.66-beta1
• Issue loading 0.65.1 and earlier saves with VIP faxes

New Features/Enhancements

• Direct Zoom has been improved and is now enabled by default
• Nurses can now leave the ward without disturbing her patients
• Patients with Serious Radiation now glow a beautiful shade of green
• Patients with Jellyitis now wobble wobble wobble
• The Hotkeys menu has been overhauled to make it easier to use
• You can now reset your zoom level by pressing '0'
• A new fax code cheat has been added!
• The replace machine prompt will now tell you the new strength before purchase (can be disabled in configuration settings)
• A machine's dynamic info will tell you the strength a machine can be upgraded to if you replaced it (can be disabled in configuration settings)
• MacOS users can now place the CorsixTH.app anywhere (e.g. outside /Applications)

Changes

• Improved pee and vomit conditions
• Patients will no longer queue for reception until nearby
• The Adviser will no longer queue repetitive messages
• Dropdown menus will now close when clicked outside of
• Non-visual diseases can now be delayed in the level config of a custom game
• Gamelog.txt will now contain system information instead of within the window title

Translations

• Translations should no longer show random '/' on new lines
• Russian language updated (Thanks @Matvey1705 !)
• Czech language updated (Thanks @jansakos !)
• German language updated (Thanks @Manuel-K !)

Bug Fixes

• Checking for updates should now work moving forward (promise)
• All cured trophy bugfix now properly applied from 0.65.1
• Firing staff from a multi-use object now ensures they leave the hospital
• Missing config and hotkey values will now use default values
• Fixed an instance where an emergency fax could show the wrong cure
• Sound effect boundary is now properly applied on window resize
• The cheats menu is now immediately usable after typing the cheat code on a fax
• User action while paused setting no longer uses configuration default
• Quick Save and Quick Load behaviour has been improved
• The cheats menu dialog will no longer slide off the screen
• You can now purchase plots while wall transparency is on
• Fixed playback of movie audio on surround sound systems is the most accurate

Packager Notes

• FFmpeg 5 is now supported
• FFmpeg 3 and below are no longer supported
• LibAV is no longer supported
• CMake minimum version has been increased to 3.10
• MacOS Packagers, please note the macos_luarocks script has been modified
• MacOS versions can now be made portable

Full Changelog: v0.65...v0.66-beta1

Fixes a bug where the game would crash if you got the All Cured trophy at the end of year awards, when loading a save from 0.64 or earlier.

If you do not load save games from earlier versions there is no need to update.

Note:
CorsixTH-0.65.1-patch.zip contains only the changed files and can be extracted within an existing installation in the directory containing the Lua folder. If you do not know where your game resources are located, or are not comfortable working with files at this level, choose one of the other install methods.

New Features/Enhancements

• CorsixTH is now available as a Flatpak! (thanks to @rmnvgr !)
• On MacOS DMG files are now supported as disk images for Theme Hospital data
• Hospital policies will now carry over to your next level in the campaign
• You can now remove destroyed rooms for a fee (config option)
• The information dialogs that appear when a room is first built can be disabled in the configuration file
• Fire extinguishers in rooms now have a chance to save a smoking machine from exploding
• Advisor has more advice
• Additional trophy of the original game is implemented
• Windows and room size now impact staff happiness
• Roujin's challenge cheat is back
• Experimental direct_zoom config option, for more efficient zoom. Fixes zoom on some hardware. Defaults off.

Changes

• Emergencies with unknown diseases will no longer occur
• The VIP system has been overhauled to provide more balanced ratings
• Overpriced/Underpriced treatments now scale with difficulty
• Placing a receptionist on a desk will now call her to the desk
• Boiler breakdowns now depend on handymen
• Faxes can no longer be opened while paused (unless editing while paused is enabled)
• Improvements to receptionist announcement frequency and behaviour
• The game will now check common locations for Theme Hospital on startup if it has not been configured
• Games compiled without movie/audio can no longer access these settings
• Update check now occurs over TLS for better security
• English names are now shown in a tooltip when hovering over a language option
• Improved TTF font rendering

Translations

• Greek language added! (thanks to dimitrios-iliadis!)
• Updates to Brazilian-Portuguese language
• Updates to English language
• Fixes to Chinese unicode encoding

Bug Fixes

• Issues scheduling emergencies have been resolved
• Games will no longer crash on load if the jukebox was open
• Games will no longer crash because of an empty music folder
• Fixed a scenario where editing a room caused staff to get stuck
• Games that scrolled while saving stop scrolling on load
• Psychiatrists in the Operating Theatre are now properly counted
• Losing a game now gives the reason if the movie is skipped
• Exiting the game will no longer hang when using the Wayland backend
• The mouse will now be freed on game crash

Packager Notes

• Support added for Lua 5.4.x. (5.4.0 and 5.4.1 are not supported)
• CMake minimum version has been increased to 3.5
• The CMake option to enable AnimView is now BUILD_ANIMVIEW=ON

Second beta for the 0.65 release of CorsixTH.

Since the first beta:

• Bug preventing winning level has been fixed
• Bug causing crash on settings screens in some languages has been fixed
• Issue with blue pause overlay appearing when loading saves with a modal window open has been resolved
• TTF fonts are now anti-aliased for improved rendering of languages that do not use the built in bitmap fonts
• The game now pauses when an error dialog is shown