QoL Hub

Better Pause Menu / QoL Hub

Better Pause Menu turns Pause → Options → QoL Hub into the central native RAC1 interface for quality-of-life tools.

It uses OpenRAC's native menu UI. It does not replace the game's original preview image and it does not add a duplicate gameplay bolt/health overlay.

Integrated features

• Status — current planet, health, deaths, checkpoint state and latest progress.
• Collectibles — Gold Bolts, local remaining Gold Bolts, Infobots and skill-point triggers.
• Missions — lightweight current objective and recent progress events.
• Fast Travel — travel directly from the pause menu to unlocked planets.
• Checkpoints — temporary quick checkpoint create/restore plus optional warm auto-checkpoint.
• Save Manager — inspect real save slots and, on OpenRAC API 1.11+, save the active slot.
• Gameplay Tools — restart the current planet and view session deaths.
• Vendor Info — current wallet and last acquired item.
• Accessibility status — reads Accessibility Pack configuration.
• Cutscene Manager status — reads the safe cutscene background module configuration.

Consolidation

The Hub absorbs the in-game UI/functionality of these earlier standalone projects:

• Better HUD
• Collectible Tracker
• Mission Tracker
• Checkpoint Plus
• Death Improvements
• Improved Vendor

Those should stay disabled when the Hub is enabled.

Fast Travel and Save Manager are also integrated, but remain maintained as standalone packages for players who want only those features.

Accessibility Pack and Cutscene Manager remain separate background modules because their runtime behavior must continue outside the menu.

Safety

• No game assets or disc files are included.
• Level-ending/progression cutscenes are not skipped by the Hub.
• Fast Travel only exposes planets that are already unlocked.
• Save writes target only the game's active save slot.
• The player's own installed game data is used at runtime.

Built for OpenRAC RAC1 PAL/NTSC-U. AI-assisted implementation. GPL-3.0-or-later.

0.8.5 always-visible Options information

The original left Options information box now shows live QoL status immediately whenever Pause → Options is open: planet, health, deaths, checkpoint, enabled mods and collectible progress. QoL Hub and Collectibles remain direct central menu entries. The original right-side game artwork/preview is not replaced or rewritten.