- v1.28.0.0 — Associate Judge Roster Renamed with Gender-Distinct Sprites - 21 September 2026
- Renamed 2 of the 6 associate judges: Lee Seung-jae -> Seo Suk-hee, Baek Ha-eun -> Choi Henry - Final roster: Seo Chae-won, Jo A-young, Seo Suk-hee (female) / Choi Jae-hyeok, Kim Seung-yoon, Choi Henry (male) - Female associate judges are now drawn with long hair draping past the shoulders, visually distinct from the male judges' short-hair sprites
- Mini Court v1.27.0.0 Patch Notes - 20 September 2026
- Fixed courtroom background to fully fill the screen (removed empty side bars) - Defense/defendant/prosecutor characters now appear seated at their desks (lower body hidden, upper body only)
- v1.24.0.0 Patch Notes - 20 September 2026
1. Associate Judge Renames — Two of the six judges are now permanently named "Choi Jae-hyeok" and "Seo Chae-won" (personalities and lines unchanged; the other 4 stay as they were). 2. Fixed Case 66 Evidence Text — Updated the "semester-ender" community post content to the requested new phrasing, in both Korean and English. 3. New Case: The "Bbangdaeng City" Pre-Dawn Noise Incident (Case 72) — A comedic case where the defendant posted a foretelling message on "Ilgan Worst," then actually caused a 3 a.m. noise disturbance. The original post text is presented verbatim as evidence. 4. New Case: The Indiscriminate Knife Threat (Case 73) — The defendant posted threats on "Ilgan Worst" and "DC Outside" to randomly stab people, then was arrested at the announced location while actually carrying a weapon. Charged under Criminal Act Article 116-3 (Possession of a Dangerous Weapon in a Public Plac…
- v1.22.0.0 Patch Notes - 20 September 2026
Jury Personality Variety — In cases with a jury verdict (Case 10), the jury is now randomly assigned one of 4 personality types each time: "Resolute," "Compassionate," "Deliberate," or "Impassioned." Both the verdict announcement and the jury foreperson's sentencing request are voiced differently depending on the personality, and the jury verdict screen now shows the personality type alongside a brief deliberation-mood description. (This is purely presentational — it does not affect the actual requested years, scoring, or the "Friend of the Jury" achievement.) Court Reporter & Media Reputation Meter — A court reporter now shows up with a short quote after "notable" rulings: perverting-justice endings, a rise in public suspicion from an unjust acquittal, unusually severe sentences (death penalty, life imprisonment, or 15+ years), and clean acquittals. These moments feed into a new "Media…
- Mini Court v1.20.1.0 Patch Notes - 17 September 2026
Removed the standalone "Defendant's Letter of Reflection" HUD button and moved it into the appeal's "Confirming the Original Ruling" screen, right below "Re-check Evidence." The button is now labeled "피고인 반성문" ("Defendant's Letter of Reflection"), and switching the language to English also translates the letter's content. Root-caused and fixed the actual cause of the BGM overlap in appeal/pre-detention hearing mode. The inTrial flag was only ever set to true during a standard first-instance trial, staying false throughout appeal and pre-detention hearing flows. A background watchdog that resumes music if it unexpectedly stalls was checking every 2 seconds whether "we're not in a trial," and — since inTrial was wrongly false — kept quietly resuming the title-screen theme on top of the appeal's own music. Fixed by properly setting inTrial in both modes, and verified music now plays cleanl…
- Mini Court v1.20.0.0 Patch Notes - 17 September 2026
The title screen now supports WASD/arrow-key navigation and Space/Enter to select, like every other screen. Added skin tone (8 options) and hair color (8 options) to avatar customization, on top of the existing robe-trim color and glasses. Also enlarged the avatar preview and the color-swatch buttons. Added a readable defendant's letter of reflection to the appeal mode. Each case gets 3–5 pages (random), with the first page a cover titled "To the Judge"/"To the Presiding Judge." Pages render on a paper-textured background with a slightly wobbly handwritten look, navigable via A/D, the arrow keys, or on-screen Previous/Next buttons. Fixed the bug where starting an appeal or pre-detention hearing played the title screen's music on top of the new scene's music — the BGM-stopping function itself now also silences the title theme, so it's reliably stopped no matter which path triggered it. P…
- Mini Court v1.19.9.0 Patch Notes - 17 September 2026
Increased and bolded the font size of the courtroom seat nameplates ("Defense/Defendant/Prosecutor") Cleaned up tutorial guidance text — removed a duplicate mention of the Summary button During the tutorial, when a specific button (e.g. Evidence/Summary) is highlighted, the rest of the screen is now dimmed to grayscale for better visibility Fixed tutorial tip text overlapping buttons on the verdict reason/sentencing screens; added WASD/arrow-key navigation to the verdict reason screen Fixed a bug where rapidly mashing spacebar could auto-select an item the instant a new screen opened Changed the tutorial's end-of-case button label from "Next Case" to "Next" during the tutorial only
- Mini Court v1.19.9.0 Patch Notes - 17 September 2026
Increased and bolded the font size of the courtroom seat nameplates ("Defense/Defendant/Prosecutor") Cleaned up tutorial guidance text — removed a duplicate mention of the Summary button During the tutorial, when a specific button (e.g. Evidence/Summary) is highlighted, the rest of the screen is now dimmed to grayscale for better visibility Fixed tutorial tip text overlapping buttons on the verdict reason/sentencing screens; added WASD/arrow-key navigation to the verdict reason screen Fixed a bug where rapidly mashing spacebar could auto-select an item the instant a new screen opened Changed the tutorial's end-of-case button label from "Next Case" to "Next" during the tutorial only
- v1.19.7.0 Update - Redesigned Main Menu, Expanded Keyboard Controls - 17 September 2026
■ Redesigned Main Menu - Consolidated the trial-start menu into a single "Play" button. Tapping it lets you choose between Criminal Trial (1st Instance), Appeal, and Pre-Detention Hearing. - Simplified the trial mode selection screen (after starting a 1st-instance trial) down to two options: "Start Full Trial (Random Order)" and "Case Select (Practice Mode)." - You can now press ESC to go back on these menu screens. ■ Expanded Keyboard Controls - On the sentencing screen, use WASD or the arrow keys to move between options, and Space or Enter to select. - The detention decision screen in the Pre-Detention Hearing mode supports the same keyboard controls. - You can press ESC to cancel the sentencing confirmation popup ("Are you sure you want to sentence X?"). ■ Greatly Enhanced Tutorial - Now explains dialogue progression, the Evidence/Summary buttons, the law card, keyboard controls on t…
- Mini Court v1.19.4.0 Patch Notes - 17 September 2026
New Content Added a new scene where the judge directly questions the defendant — choose one of 4 questions, hear the defendant's answer, then judge whether the answer was credible. Improvements Fixed dialogue box size so it no longer grows/shrinks depending on text length Replaced the hard-to-read font with a clearer typeface for both Korean and English Fixed handcuffs on defendants being barely visible (also adjusted appearance rate) Normalized volume across 6 BGM/result tracks — no more jarring volume jumps between songs Added Enter/Space keyboard shortcuts for the "Pass Sentence" button Bug Fixes Fixed some lines where the prosecutor and defense attorney's dialogue was swapped (making the prosecutor sound like they were criticizing their own side and defending the defendant)
- Mini Court Patch Notes v1.19.2.0 - 16 September 2026
1. Fixed a bug that could completely freeze the screen during the Appeals Court mode. Clicking the Evidence button in the top-right HUD and then closing it triggered an error that locked up the screen. This affected every screen that uses the Evidence button, not just the Appeals Court. 2. Added a mention of studying Supreme Court precedents to the Developer info text.
- Mini Court Patch Notes v1.19.1.0 (cumulative: v1.18.2.0 to v1.19.1.0) - 16 September 2026
1. Enlarged text on the Objection screen, the Final Verdict screen, and the Sentencing Complete screen on wide PC displays. 2. Fixed intermittent background music dropouts during sentencing, caused by background renderer throttling when the window lost focus. 3. Lengthened the defendant's final statement. The paper-reading variant gained an extra line, and a new rare variant (about 8 percent chance) shows an extended, tearful statement. 4. Removed the old low-frequency synthesized sound that used to play alongside the sentencing gavel. Only the user-provided gavel mp3 plays now. 5. Added profanity-laced lines to the courtroom outburst event, plus a trembling animation and a thrown-object animation during the outburst. 6. Enhanced CCTV detail. When the evidence identifies a specific weapon (knife, gun, or blunt object), the figure now holds that weapon instead of a bare fist, and break-i…
- Mini Court Patch Notes v1.18.1.0 - 16 September 2026
1. Redesigned the Objection! screen into a two column layout on wide PC screens: the left side shows the title through the argument review prompt in larger text, and the right side shows the evidence photo or video, all visible without scrolling. Narrow screens keep the original stacked layout. 2. The Evidence list, Evidence detail, and Summary screens can now be closed with the ESC key, matching the existing Settings behavior. 3. Replaced the synthesized gavel sound played on sentencing completion with the real gavel sound mp3 file provided by the user.
- [Patch Notes v1.18.0.0 - 2026-09-16] - 16 September 2026
- Fixed the argument summary screen showing dialogue that hadn't happened yet; it now shows only the lines actually reached so far. - The settings screen can now be closed with the ESC key. - Dialogue can now be advanced with Enter as well as Space. - Removed most decorative emoji throughout the game (buttons, title screen, achievements, trial records, etc.). Icons that identify evidence type were kept for functional clarity. - Added a brief recap of the last line or two of dialogue to the evidence objection ("Objection!") screen, so context isn't lost. - Added alley background detail to some CCTV scenes that previously looked empty (e.g. stalking, drug deals).
- [Patch Notes v1.18.0.0 - 2026-09-16] - 16 September 2026
- Fixed the argument summary screen showing dialogue that hadn't happened yet; it now shows only the lines actually reached so far. - The settings screen can now be closed with the ESC key. - Dialogue can now be advanced with Enter as well as Space. - Removed most decorative emoji throughout the game (buttons, title screen, achievements, trial records, etc.). Icons that identify evidence type were kept for functional clarity. - Added a brief recap of the last line or two of dialogue to the evidence objection ("Objection!") screen, so context isn't lost. - Added alley background detail to some CCTV scenes that previously looked empty (e.g. stalking, drug deals).
- [Patch Notes v1.17.2.0 - 2026-09-13] - 13 September 2026
- Fixed screen stuttering and choppy background music right after sentencing: caused by an ever-growing trial record log that made every save operation slower over time. The log now keeps only recent entries, and the save no longer interferes with the screen transition.
- 📢 Patch Notes (v1.17.1.0 · 2026-09-13) - 13 September 2026
⚖️ Fixed a bug where mitigating evidence (e.g., restitution deposit receipts, abuse-history medical records) was submitted by the prosecution as if it proved guilt. Evidence is now submitted by whichever side its actual content favors. 🎥 Improved CCTV/photo evidence visuals: "assault" scenes now show an actual striking motion with an impact effect, and group assaults get a dedicated scene with multiple attackers. "Defendant"/"Victim" labels now appear directly on screen. 🗣️ Strengthened appeals: added on-the-spot rebuttals between prosecution and defense, a reminder to review the evidence before ruling, and a new "Re-check Evidence" button on the original-ruling confirmation screen. 🔒 Improved the detention warrant screen: the "Deny" button is now automatically disabled once any ground for detention is checked, and text/buttons throughout the screen are larger. ⚙️ Settings screen now…
- 📢 Patch Notes (v1.16.1.0 · 2026-09-13) - 13 September 2026
🧑⚖️ Character sprite fix: removed the stray sparkle/highlight artifacts on the eyes, hair, and clothing of the defense attorney, defendant, and prosecutor sprites. Fixed the issue where eyes looked like they had multiple overlapping pupils. ⚖️ The "this game is a fictionalized dramatization" disclaimer now appears every time you launch the game (previously shown only once). 🖥️ Fullscreen support: the game now launches in fullscreen. Press F11 to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode.
- Major Update: 10 New Cases, Detailed Sentencing & More - 13 September 2026
NEW CONTENT • 10 new cases added (65 total) — dismemberment murder, murder-for-hire, poisoning, wrongful accusation, suspected patricide, love-triangle murder, business-partner murder, domestic-violence self-defense, cold-case DNA re-analysis, and an indiscriminate killing case • New evidence types: fingerprints, footprints, contracts, and autopsy reports • Animated main-menu background using real courtroom photography SENTENCING & COURTROOM • Detailed suspended-sentence system — set an underlying term, suspension period, probation, community service hours, and an education order, just like real criminal law • New "repeat outburst" event: defendants who ignore a warning may act up again, and two bailiffs now step in to restrain them • 4 new appeal-mode twists (fake apology letters, last-minute restitution, detention misconduct, visitor conversations) plus narration on why the lower cour…
- Mini Court v1.16.0.0 Patch Notes - 13 September 2026
⚖️ Detailed suspended-sentence system — combine an underlying term (6mo–3yr), a suspension period (1–5yr), probation, community service (0–300h), and an education order (0–100h, auto-suggested by case type) for realistic sentencing 🎬 Animated main-menu background using real courtroom photography with a slow crossfade 😡 New "repeat outburst" event — defendants who ignore a verbal warning may act up again 👮 Two bailiffs now appear beside the defendant during outbursts, and step away once order is restored 🐛 Various bug fixes (evidence misclassification, UI layout issues)
