Kosmos (Geode)

Website: https://porqueijjmzm1.github.io/Kosmos/ (the docs/ folder, published by .github/workflows/pages.yml; the settings list there is made from mod.json by scripts/site_settings.py).

By timbodev, based on Click Before Frames by BASU.

Keys

6 cycle stage | 7 or Right Shift menu | F8 copy the console log | F9 open/close the in-game console | F10 path view | F11 forget this level's memory

Practice use only; do not use for verified or leaderboard runs.

v2.4 options (mod settings)

• Wave auto-release (practice only, off by default): lets go for you when holding would crash within the window and letting go survives.
• Orbs: also try the other choice: if a prediction dies after touching an orb, it is retried with the opposite click/skip choice.
• Don't buffer near moving objects (experimental, off by default): inputs are left untouched when the ghost's path hits recently moved spikes/blocks.
• Drift check (debug): logs in the in-game console how far you strayed from the prediction after each input.
• Wave (v2.7): cube-style. A crash you could still turn away from counts as safe; the smallest delay that clears the obstacle wins; inputs during a delay keep their rhythm. "Wave: old v4.6 logic" brings back the v4.6 rules. Platformer levels are never buffered.
• Orb alignment (v2.6): a press made up to 4 frames before an orb is held back until you're inside the orb, so it hits.
• v2.8: the ghost copies the full player state (slopes, reverse, sideways, forces, dash), size portals are simulated and mirror portals no longer stop the prediction.
• v2.10: wave tries 3 turn-away points, stops runs as soon as they are good enough (faster), and centers saves with a 1-tick safety margin. Console is see-through.
• v2.12 robot: presses count as safe if some hold length survives; robot auto-release (practice only).
• v2.13 level memory: learns per spot from your runs (delays that worked are tried first, spots where saves failed are left alone, risky spots marked in the path view).
• v2.15 spider: flips are judged by landing on the new surface, and crashes you could flip away from count as safe.
• v2.16 orbs: orbs usable on any tick inside them in predictions, orb alignment picks the best tick inside the orb, dash orbs held through in predictions, dash releases buffered, dash auto-release.
• v2.23 unlocked FPS: all windows (look-ahead, delays, landing, spam gap, auto-release window, memory) are converted from 240/s ticks to the real physics step rate, and the ghost uses the average step length.
• v2.24 FPS: prediction ghosts no longer spawn visual effects or leave nodes/actions behind (the FPS used to sink a little with every save).
• v2.25 ship (opt-in): ship presses/releases buffered with recovery-aware scoring, own small max delay, feathering passes through.
• v2.26 orb timing: presses already inside an orb are re-timed within the orb if that survives, learned orb timings are tried first, predictions try later clicks inside orbs.
• v2.27: late cube/ball crashes skip the search; experimental moving-object prediction (straight-line motion).
• v2.28 robust saves: each save is checked with the player slightly ahead/behind; fragile edge saves are swapped for a nearby delay that survives all three.
• v2.31: hazards overlapping you at the click (player-following spikes, noclip) are ignored by predictions.
• v2.34: with noclip, being inside a spike no longer makes the mod re-press the held button every tick.
• v2.35: Click Between Frames sync is back; low latency mode (no chained delays, max 1 frame, 3 ms searches).
• v2.36 CBF: rest of a split tick is collision-checked like the game does; logs show where in the tick a CBF click landed (@0.43) and separate 'safe' from 'safe only if you react by tX'.
• v2.37: position read from the per-step node position (CBF sync actually active now, drift check / path view / memory slices correct; memory restarts per level).
• v2.39: CBF Extrapolate is detected and shown in the console/export (it's visual only; predictions are unaffected).
• v2.40 UFO: crashes you could have flapped away from count as safe, landing counts as safe, smallest delay wins, spam guard for fast flapping.
• v2.41 FPS: moving-object tracking drops far objects and keeps a short moving-now list (was checking up to 4096 objects every step and every prediction).
• v2.43: more time at death spots - where you keep dying, react-only-safe inputs get the delay that pushes the crash furthest away.
• v2.44: in-game menu (pause menu 'Buffer' button or F7): stage, main switches, status, all settings / copy log / forget level. Ship: own spam gap (feathering is buffered), max delay 4, on by default.
• v2.45 ball: short flips count as landings, landings must last 8 ticks, spam guard for fast flipping; menu switch.
• v2.46 watermark (always on, not configurable): 'Basu Input Buffer | stage' in the level while the buffer is on, and 'Basu Input Buffer was on' on the level complete screen if it was on during the attempt.
• v2.49: ghost no longer touches collision blocks (could break collision triggers); spam guard sends waiting inputs instead of dropping them (lost clicks broke click/event triggers).
• v2.50: cuter menu: pink theme, pulsing hearts, floating hearts and sparkles, your own icon in the corner; switches turn pink when on.
• v2.51: cube jumps that bump a ceiling count as landings (buffer works under blocks); smart swing (flip-back scoring + spam guard); per-level settings; practice stats (per attempt + Stats button); training mode (hints only, no delays); death heatmap on the progress bar.
• v2.52: no popup after a death; attempt stats stay in the console, the Stats button and the level complete screen.
• v2.53: ghosts respect 'disable controls' from Options triggers (a hidden Player 2 parked under spikes no longer jumps into them in predictions; fixes 'no save: press dies in 0t' on every jump in Relief).
• v2.54: when the level disables Player 1's controls and you play Player 2 (Relief's wave parts), Player 2 is predicted; death log shows both players' modes.
• v2.55: in two-player levels, P2-side inputs made outside dual mode move Player 1, and are now buffered as P1 inputs (Relief's wave parts were predicted on the idle Player 2).
• v2.56: ding when a click is saved (setting + menu switch, on by default); menu opens smaller (78%).
• v2.57: watermark hidden in practice mode (always shown in normal mode while the buffer is on).
• v2.58: fix v2.51 regression (every cube landing counted as a ceiling bump, so short hops were called safe too early); settings changed in the settings popup during a level are kept for that level; ding sound preloaded.
• v2.59: low latency on by default and on every level (not per level); the F6 stage is one setting for every level and is kept between levels and restarts.
• v2.60: low latency off by default and switched off once on every install (still one setting for all levels).
• v2.61: prediction back to v2.48 behaviour: collision objects collide again in predictions, spam drops waiting inputs again, no ceiling-bump landing rule.
• v2.62: per-level settings off by default (switched off once): every level uses the same switches, like v2.43.1.
• v2.63: late-crash rule only skips clicks whose jump already landed (long jumps like Acheron's first were never saved); cube saves prefer the smallest delay whose jump lands safely.
• v2.64: a spot memory marked as 'saves failed here' gets saves again after you die there with the input left alone (it no longer blocks a jump forever).
• v2.65: live path view (F10): between clicks the path keeps updating (blue = do nothing, yellow = click now); a click's own path stays up briefly.
• v2.66: spam guard no longer drops waiting clicks: they fire one per tick in order, then the new input (no lost wave turns).
• v2.67: 'more time' at death spots delays wave / ship inputs by at most 1 frame (was up to the full max delay, which made fast zigzags feel late).
• v2.68: moving-object prediction follows curved / circular paths (rotate triggers) and spinning objects, not only straight lines; objects are put back exactly after each prediction.
• v2.69: cube / ball jump saves must land safely (no more 8-10 frame 'saves' that only moved the crash later in the same jump); memory delays are only reused if they land safely.
• v2.70: performance: a click's extra runs (robust check, drift check, path view) are skipped once the click has used its time budget; live path view updates 20x a second instead of 40x.
• v2.71: performance mode (menu switch): 4 ms per click, no robustness runs, no late orb-click retries, no drift check / live path; in-game console redraws once per step instead of per line.
• v2.72: searches stop after 4 delays when the crash comes at the same moment however late you click (next obstacle, not this click): far fewer budget hits and frame drops, mostly for robot and UFO.
• v2.73: robot / UFO / spider searches do a quick pass over every delay first (plain runs only), then the full scoring with the time left: saves further out are no longer missed because the time ran out after a few delays.
• v2.74: predictions can never change the real level: group toggles / spawns, item pickups, counters and item triggers caused by the hidden ghost are blocked (toggle orbs etc. could break triggers).
• v2.75: run check (records your longest run from the start, replays it on the hidden player to compare versions); level memory starts fresh (v3 files) and fades after 12 h away; robot / UFO / swing saves must be fully safe; auto time budget from your FPS; eased moving objects predicted; toggle orbs switching groups off are followed in predictions; presets (Safe / Balanced / Aggressive); rebindable keys; menu themes (Pink / Blue / Green / Dark).
• v2.76: auto budget fixed: no longer caps every click at 45% of a frame (2 ms at 240 fps cut cube searches short); it only lowers the budget to 4 ms while the game is already dropping frames. 'No save' lines say when a click was too late.
• v2.77: frame drops: each click's prediction time is capped at about one frame at your FPS (at least 4 ms); the run-check recording is saved when you leave or finish the level instead of on every new-best death.
• v2.78: orb timing for hard orb levels (Orbit): every tick inside the orb is tried, later orbs are clicked in the prediction too (several timings), the middle of the safe timing window is picked, and it must survive being half a tick off.
• v2.79: auto-click (practice only, off by default: clicks for you when doing nothing would crash and a click now is fully safe; cube / ball / UFO / robot / spider / swing); predictions go through mode portals (the hidden ghost switches mode instead of stopping); 'Spam: inputs in a row' setting; Purple menu theme (new default); stage / menu keys default to 6 / 7, and the console hint shows your keys.
• v2.80 (merged from the other v2.80 build): physics TPS setting + menu slider (240-1000; anything but 240 isn't legit, the watermark shows it); a mode portal you're still inside at the click no longer stops every prediction at t0 (Amethyst's first pink orb); after a portal switch only surviving the look-ahead counts; orb timings compared by when they crash counted from now (ORBIT), orb scans get 1.75x the time; the whole click shares its time budget (wave saves on GRIEF took 2-3 frames); level memory reuses the last delay that worked instead of the average, and each working save takes back one old failure; ghosts no longer play orb / trigger / destroy effects or leave particles on the real level; low latency's overrides stick (the wave margin was read again after it).
• v2.81: keys are real Geode keybinds (mod settings or Geode's keybinds popup, modifiers like Shift+ work; defaults 6 / 7 / F8 / F9 / F10 / F11 - keys you changed before go back to these once); update check on game start (setting, on by default) with a popup on the main menu when a newer version is on GitHub.
• v2.82: Android support (32 and 64-bit builds); a Console button in the menu (phones have no F9); the separate Windows console setting only shows on Windows.
• v2.83: macOS builds. iOS isn't built yet: Geode's iOS bindings currently fail to compile (missing FMOD types in the generated bindings), so it waits for a Geode update.
• v2.84: fixed the icon holding by itself at the start of an attempt: a delayed release that was still waiting when you died (or restarted) was dropped, so the game kept the button down. The game now always gets the release.
• v2.85: the cube no longer jumps by itself at the start of an attempt: a release made while your icon was dead never reached the mod, which then pressed for you when the attempt started. Every attempt now starts from the game's own button state.
• v2.86: fixed a crash when leaving a level and opening one again (v2.84/v2.85 could send a button to a level that was still loading); leaving a level now also forgets the button state.
• v2.87: Android crash when leaving a level fixed: the hidden ghost players were deleted while the level was still being torn down; on Android they're now only let go of.
• v2.88: dash orbs no longer flash before you reach them: effects a prediction ghost added to the real level (the dash start effect) are removed after each prediction.
• v2.90: v2.89 reverted (the full "Click Before Frames" watermark is back, no progress bar end cap).
• v2.92 (merged from the other build): new menu: a draggable window with tabs (Buffer, Prediction, Modes, Custom, Tools) in a space theme (black sky full of twinkling stars, sparkles, shooting stars), Orbitron / Exo 2 fonts, and a heart button on the main menu to open it outside levels too. Custom tab: per-mode frames, a slider for each game mode (your own icons) to pick how many frames cube, ship, ball, UFO, wave, robot, spider and swing can be held back. Prediction: move / rotate / toggle / spawn triggers ahead of you are predicted (with easing, group-parent pivots and spawn delays) and a self-check turns it off on levels where it keeps being wrong; predictions go through teleport, dual and solo portals; plan two clicks ahead (a crash your next click would handle isn't blamed on this one); smarter robot (tries other hold lengths); no-hitch searches (a search out of time goes on next tick instead of giving up). Pads no longer animate before you reach them.
• v2.93: auto update: the update popup's "Update now" downloads the .geode from the latest GitHub release, checks it's this mod and newer, and installs it (restart to use it).
• v2.94: the pause menu has a button (purple heart, bottom right) for the menu again, so phones can open it inside a level.
• v2.95: watermark back (v2.92 had dropped it) and smaller: "CBF | stage" in the bottom left, smaller still on phones, hidden in practice mode.
• v2.97: v2.96 reverted (no per-frame time budget, TPS setting read every frame again).
• v2.98: automatic updates removed (no update check, no popup, no downloads from GitHub; the "Check for updates" setting is gone).
• v2.99: "Remove watermark" setting (off by default, also a switch in the menu's Tools tab) hides the "CBF | stage" label in levels.
• v2.100: "Hide menu buttons" setting (off by default, also a switch in the Tools tab) hides the heart buttons on the main menu and pause menu; Right Shift opens / closes the menu in a level and on the main menu.
• v2.101: renamed to "Input Buffer" (developer timbodev); "Flash when save" setting (off by default, also a switch in the Tools tab) flashes the screen green on every save.
• v3.0: new id timbodev.input-buffer (settings, saved values and level memory are moved over from basu.input-buffer once); new menu: clean dark window, header with a mouse icon and a live ON/OFF status pill, sidebar tabs with icons, tap-anywhere switch tiles, stage chips (pick any stage in one tap), preset cards, Frames tab with per-mode sliders, session saves counter; blue accent by default (Menu theme: Blue, Purple, Pink, Green, Dark); mouse button instead of the heart on the main and pause menus.
• v3.0.1: less stutter on clicks: every click and every search that goes on next tick in one rendered frame now share one time budget (35% of a frame on PC, 30% on phones). A frame has several physics ticks and each search part used to get a fresh full budget, so one frame could hold 8-40 ms of predictions. "Auto time budget (no stutter)" off brings back the old behaviour.
• v3.1: Themes tab in the menu (Blue, Purple, Pink, Red, Orange, Gold, Green, Teal, Dark, with a preview of each; the window redraws in the new colours at once); auto update (setting on by default): on game start the latest GitHub release is checked, a newer one is downloaded and installed in the background, and the main menu offers a restart.
• v3.2: settings and saved values are written to disk at safe moments (game start, entering / leaving a level, pausing, main menu, closing the menu, right after a settings change) instead of only when the game closes normally; a crash or a phone closing the app no longer loses them.
• v3.3: update window in the menu's style: when a newer release is out the main menu shows what's new (the release notes, in a scrolling box) and you choose Download (with a progress bar, then Restart now), Later or Skip version; Tools > Updates checks by hand; the setting is now "Check for updates" (nothing is downloaded without asking); release notes are in English.
• v3.3.1: small release to show the update window.
• v3.4.0: renamed to "Kosmos" (the mod id stays timbodev.input-buffer, so updates and saved settings carry over); white Saturn logo and menu icon; new themes that change the whole window (a gradient, drawn art behind it, accent pair, tinted text): Deep space (Kosmos, Nebula, Void), Planets (Saturn, Mars, Neptune), Phenomena (Aurora, Supernova, Comet); the Themes tab shows them by group with a small preview of the window on each card; the update window uses the theme too.
• v3.5.0: every theme is animated: stars drift and twinkle, nebula clouds wander and swell, comets fall across the window, shooting stars in Kosmos, the aurora waves, the Supernova's rays turn with shock waves, Saturn's ring shines with a moon going round, Mars dust blows, Neptune's bands sway with a moon crossing, Void's moon orbits; the theme cards' previews move too.
• v3.6.0: iOS support (an iOS build in every release; Geode's generated iOS bindings miss FMOD's header, so CMakeLists.txt hands it to them); macOS builds are universal (Apple silicon and Intel); the repository is now github.com/porqueijjmzm1/Kosmos (the update check uses it; GitHub redirects the old name); website at porqueijjmzm1.github.io/Kosmos (also the mod's homepage link in Geode).