- Pages: the two cblock sections render as markdown under GitHub Pages'
kramdown (markdown="1"); the Download block's unparsed `<file>` had swallowed
every heading below it. Gallery alt text says 3840x2160.
- Credit line (README "How it was made" + social preview card): several coding
agents directed by one maintainer, with a handful of contributors; card
findings count 430.
- Release-notes template: drop the stale header-stills comment and the Aztec
re-check-owed note.
- ROADMAP: Windows display-scaling (not DPI-aware) item
D572: CI-tarball verification (glibc floor, X220 + Deck fresh
install, 21/21 pixel gate on both).
Fixes:
- D565: AI awareness no longer follows two player render settings. Fog
distance is floored at 100 (below it the shortened clip hid guards from
AI on-screen checks); the D466 gameplay fog cull is rescaled to the game's
own FOV (identity at defaults).
- D566: Steam Deck Game Mode no longer shows the on-screen keyboard at
launch (SDL text input stopped; screen-keyboard hint off).
- D567: opening PC Options from the front end with a pad no longer drags
the game's crosshair to the top-left corner.
Docs and site:
- README News/Status/Features/controls brought up to date; the unpublished
v0.4.1 work is folded into v0.5.0 everywhere; stats to v0.5.0.
- Release notes reordered: player-facing highlights first, finding labels
and verification at the bottom.
- Site status rewritten; favicon is now the exe icon (make_icon.py writes
docs/favicon.ico).
- ROADMAP: AI review results, update-check follow-up, stale rows closed.
Verified: Windows + Linux builds; Windows pixel gate Surface 1 PASS;
Deck build deployed for the maintainer's Game Mode checks.
Deck/Windows playtest fixes: fog rework (D540) and RSP-style CPU near-plane
clip with per-vertex N64 fog (D543), with fog recomputed on near-plane-clipped vertices as the RSP does,
so the haze around the player stays steady (D553); colour-combiner clamp for banded walls
(D548); rocket and thrown-item stack overflows (D545, D549); menu
double-trigger mitigation (D541); Dam ending first-shot camera swivel
restored by removing an old port look-at workaround (D552); settings standardisation (D546), live
All unlocked (D547), F10 mouse (D544); static window title and the project
mark (the in-game crosshair shape, site gold) as window/taskbar icon and
favicon (D550). Reference frames re-based
on Windows, Linux and Steam Deck (A/B-confirmed); capture_p7.sh runs on
Windows. Opt-in update check, off by default (D551: one HTTPS request to
GitHub per launch when enabled; winhttp.dll loaded only then; the tag CI
job checks the tag against GE007_VERSION). Release notes, ROADMAP,
internals and security docs updated; tree-hygiene pass.
Refs: D540 D541 D543 D544 D545 D546 D547 D548 D549 D550 D551 D552 D553 D554 D555 D556 D557 D558 D559 D560 D561 D562 D563 D564
Public-copy language pass, homepage restructure and Documentation rename,
404 page, dead-anchor and permalink fixes, release-gate sign-off, and the
pre-release review fixes of the 2026-10-05 batch (probe-doc drift,
build-path hygiene, verify.sh and capture safety).
Refs: D533 D534
Linux reference-frame set for all 21 levels and the cross-platform golden
rule (D521); golden tooling made non-destructive (D524); the gate pins a
canonical in-tree save (D529) and the PRNG seed (D532); the capture tool's
per-level re-pin bug fixed and the Linux set re-captured under the
canonical save (D530, D531); no-arg verify.sh exits non-zero. README and
docs visual/consolidation passes; the 15 MB preview gif replaced by stills.
Refs: D521 D523 D524 D525 D526 D527 D528 D529 D530 D531 D532
PD-style F10 menu with six groups, checkbox/slider/dropdown controls (D504),
wording pass and real-unit sliders (D505-D509), overlay/FPS-counter window
scaling (D510, D512), small settings (D511), control scheme Ext/Original
(D513) with the game's own N64 styles (D516-D518), emulator-format save
import on first launch (D514), build arch tag (D515), converter argv quoting
and sidecar size check, one PC options UI (D519) with by-eye follow-ups,
antialiased overlay sliders (D520), README settings paths, ROADMAP trim,
D441 tier-1 all-level sweep (21/21 pass).
Refs: D503-D520 D349 D441
INPUT (17 visible rows) outgrew the fixed 440x330 paper: the 18px pitch
was sized before the D356 profile row, so a full page's last row landed
at y=335 (off the bottom of the screen) and rows past the silent 14-row
cap (Crouch mode, Reset to defaults, Bindings...) were unreachable from
the front screen. Sections now page at 13 rows (the largest that fits);
the vertical stepper crosses page boundaries in both directions and the
title carries a (p/N) marker. F10 overlay untouched (it scrolls its own
window). Headless verification (SkipIntro boot + scripted D-pad stepping
+ GE_FRONTNAVLOG): page 1 -> page 2 down and back up, all 17 rows
reachable. GE_FRONTOPTIONS_AUTO test hook added (diagnostic-only, same
convention as GE_FRONTOPTIONS_SECTION). Findings D406 + index; release
notes: options section list corrected to the shipped Input/Gameplay/HUD/
Graphics/Audio/Display and the D406 line added.
- Docs site: drop jekyll-theme-cayman for a hand-rolled _layouts/default.html
(masthead band + middot text nav + footer with last-updated stamp and legal
line; head re-plumbed with {% seo %}, viewport, favicon); head-custom.html
fully rewritten to the chosen design tokens - charcoal/off-white/amber,
Libre Baskerville headings over system sans, square corners, 1px borders,
flat (no gradients/shadows), mermaid wrapper re-skinned.
- docs/index.md: v0.4.0 status (native widescreen, aim system, rebinding,
crosshair, rumble, rebuilt overlay); Honest status replaced by the v0.4.0
release-notes known issues; body anchor-nav line; legal footer moved to
layout.
- security-and-fidelity-status.md: front matter so {% seo %} titles it.
- README.md: v0.4.0 truth pass (status, Working/Known issues, Deck preset
2x MSAA / 250% per code, background stats 981 commits / 283 findings,
comparison table, GEPD-default controls paragraph, earlier builds) plus
markdown-native motifs matching the site: top anchor-nav line, --- section
rules, last-updated footer stamp, license badge in the amber accent.
- release-notes: SFTP sideload mention (leftover from the Deck session).
The campaign has 20 playable missions (SP_LEVEL_MAX // 20 in
bondconstants.h; mission_folder_setup_entries in front.c has exactly 20
entries). The old '21' counted -level_54 (LEVELID_CUBA), which the front
end jumps to after the final mission for the extended cast display +
credits scroll (do_extended_cast_display / bondviewRenderCredits, D129) -
it is not a selectable mission.
- README, docs/index.md, .github/release-notes.md,
docs/security-and-fidelity-status.md: 21 -> 20 in current-status claims
- AGENTS.md phase status: same correction
- docs/dev/LEVEL-STATUS.md + LEVEL-PLAYTEST.md: relabel the level list;
counting note explains historical '21/21 PASS' sweep results = 21 stage
boots (20 missions + ending sequence)
- social-preview card: stat line 21 -> 20, PNG regenerated (1280x640)
Per the 2026-09-19 adversarial pre-ship review (findings.md M-192):
- d318watchdog.c: one-shot per OCCURRENCE, not per process -- re-arm after
600 ticks of signature absence so a Facility replay in the same session
(AllUnlocked) is still covered.
- model.c: RULE-2-SIGNOFF records for the retained M-183/M-185 and D311
defensive clamps (user-approved retention as the stability-maximizing
option; stale 'Threshold: 50.0' comment corrected to 10.0f; both marked
post-release removal candidates pending full cutscene re-verification).
- reference/mouse-injector/: removed from the public repo (GPLv2 source +
prebuilt discord-rpc.lib in an MIT project; never compiled here).
Provenance stub README remains; path gitignored for local re-vendoring.
AGENTS.md / GEPD-INPUT-PLAN.md / optionsoverlay.c refs updated.
- scratch/: untracked + gitignored (19 session logs/probe sources were
committed in the release window).
- findings-index.csv: D317 (and 5 other stale rows) now CLOSED -- added
CLOSED to gen_findings_index.py's verdict vocabulary.
- docs: D310 perf gauge (no change warranted), GE_DEBUG_UNLOCKALL noted in
security-and-fidelity-status.md, release notes gain the missing D318
watchdog bullet + FOV-clamp clarification.
Build verified: ./build-pc.sh ntsc-final clean; gen_findings_index.py
--check and gen_env_probes.py --check pass.
- GE-ENV-PROBES.md reconciled (18 new vars documented, GE_D243X3 tombstoned
after the M-170 permanent fix removed it) — CI gen_env_probes.py --check passes
- release notes gif alt text: ~32 s -> ~12 s (matches README/index captions)
- agentic-development.md stats regenerated for the month-one milestone
- docs/index.md status bumped to v0.3.0, honest-status synced with README
- .gitignore: local/ working-junk dir
- release-notes: drop the internal 'carried forward' meta paragraph; move the
D251 bottom-row duplication out of Known Issues into the F10 fix bullet
(no longer occurring per user live playtest of the D304 build)
- findings: close D251's last symptom; mark D304 live F10 playtest done;
de-stale D266/D271 'uncommitted' cells (landed in 532092c7); regen index CSV
- README: link the security & fidelity status page
- docs/security-and-fidelity-status.md: publish — re-verified for v0.3.0 on
2026-09-18 (bundle contents, no-networking source check, asset converter);
D271 now landed; D284 RNG history reworded as found-and-fixed pre-v0.3.0
Verified: build-pc.sh ntsc-final clean (243/243); tools_pc/verify.sh sweep
21/21 PASS on this tree (scratch/verify_sweep_v030_final.json).
Root-caused via a live Steam Deck session over SSH: sub_GAME_7F09BAC4
(vtxstore_fix_refs) read an active OBJ record's Model* through
((Model*)((ChrRecord*)prop->chr)->chrflags) - a union pun onto
ChrRecord.chrflags, which is typed CHRFLAG, a 4-byte enum. On 32-bit
N64 this is bit-exact (the enum and a pointer are both 4 bytes, so
casting the enum's value to Model* reproduces the real stored bytes).
On 64-bit PC, Model* is 8 bytes but the enum read is still only 4 -
the cast reads just the pointer's low 32 bits as an int and
zero-extends it back to a 64-bit address, discarding the real high
bits. This is the D3x pointer-width ABI class from AGENTS.md - a
struct field misread across the 32-to-64-bit pointer-width transition.
This was actually flagged as suspect (a) in the very first D255
investigation, then wrongly deprioritized in favor of a "destroy-path
race" theory once a register capture happened to show Rdi=(nil) and
looked like it confirmed a different, unrelated NULL-model theory. It
didn't: (nil) is exactly what a 32-bit-truncated read produces
whenever the real pointer's low 32 bits happen to be zero - a
coincidence that pointed two sessions' worth of investigation at the
wrong field. Proof: reading the same record through the correctly
64-bit-typed ObjectRecord.model field (this session's diagnostic
probe) was always a valid, non-NULL pointer - the object's model was
never actually missing.
Fix: read the pointer through ObjectRecord.model (the same union
memory, correctly typed) instead of through the mistyped
ChrRecord.chrflags alias, at both use sites in the function. Identical
bytes and identical result on N64; correct on 64-bit PC.
Verified live on the user's own Steam Deck hardware over SSH, running
their own prepared ROM assets: held through the entire Facility level
including repeated terminal destruction (the most consistent prior
repro) and through Caverns' radio-objective terminals (the second
confirmed level), zero crashes. Windows rebuild + full 21-level
verify.sh sweep also clean.
The separate audio-thread crash (D285, caught during this same live
session) is unrelated and unaffected by this fix.
Further Steam Deck testing on the published v0.2.1 release reconciles
the two competing D255 repro theories: the trigger is an object dying
via explosion, not terminal activation. Confirmed on four levels:
- Facility: every terminal crashes consistently when destroyed
- Caverns: terminals near the radio objective crash when they explode
- Archives: a similar crash when a guard's grenade detonates (no
terminal involved at all - narrows the real trigger to "object dies
via explosion damage" in general)
- Frigate: negative control - shooting a room of terminals there did
not reproduce it, so it isn't simply "any destructible OBJ record
exploding" either
Updated the D255 finding with a static lead for the next session (the
objFree destroy path never explicitly nulls ObjectRecord.model, so the
NULL likely comes from a freed-slot-reuse or list-modify-during-iterate
race rather than a direct field write - untested, needs a live Deck
capture with the GE_D255 probes already in tree). Updated
.github/release-notes.md's D255 bullet to match.
Batched pass across README/release-notes/Pages (one commit instead of the
scattered per-fix pushes earlier this session, per new commit-cadence
preference):
- New known issues surfaced that weren't documented anywhere: no real
widescreen (16:9 stretches 4:3 rather than expanding FOV), no controller
rebinding UI / macOS-ARM builds, culling/LOD dropout on Streets/Egyptian
(D249), gunshot SFX oddities under sustained fire (D240/D241).
- Fixed a stale claim (in three places) that a wrong-sounding-instrument bug
was still open; it was fixed in v0.2.0 (D230).
- Softened the D259 "All unlocked" fix to reflect reality: still breaks
audio/aim if enabled before any save exists; flagged experimental
(new finding D281).
- Corrected D255's repro to the precise, deterministic trigger found this
session (Facility's door-opening computer terminals, Linux-wide not
Deck-specific) instead of the vaguer original combat-crash description.
- Logged D282 (front-end menus need right stick not left on gamepad) and
D283 (Steam Deck first-run preset skipped by an early Desktop Mode
launch) with user-facing workarounds.
- Refined D263 (Ourumov/Trevelyan) internally with a position-sensitivity
caveat; no public bullet since it doesn't block progression.
- Added pre-1.0 framing and a new README Roadmap section (known-issues
cleanup, PAL/JP, real widescreen, rebinding, macOS/ARM, LAN multiplayer
explicitly "under consideration, no ETA", plus an explicit "not currently
planned" list) across README/release-notes/Pages.
- Added an AI-development disclosure (agentic development as a genuine
study of the process, not just a port) across the same three docs.
- Pinned the release-notes hero GIF to the v0.2.1 tag instead of v0.2.0.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KwZViAFaXua3PKgHHjNgvi
User spot-check of the v0.2.1 draft found that enabling Skip intro breaks
audio. It was already off by default (D216); removing the menu row so
players can't enable it until the audio interaction is root-caused. The
config var and lv.c hook are untouched (dead unless an existing ini already
has it set).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KwZViAFaXua3PKgHHjNgvi
User playtest reports against v0.2.0:
- D259: geEepromPatchAllCheats left an all-zero fresh save at volume 0
(silence) instead of seeding max volume like fileResetSave would.
- D260: swap wheel-up/wheel-down to match the PC wheel-menu's on-screen
order (was inverted vs. user expectation).
- D261: watch-menu stick-held navigation had no repeat past the smooth-scroll
band, so holding W/S or a pegged stick crawled one item per tap; added a
bounded auto-repeat.
- D263: GE_INPUTSCRIPT stick tokens were applied after the stick was already
written out and silently discarded (test-harness fix, kept from the D263
Facility/Ourumov investigation, which itself found no port bug).
- D264: watch item-preview ModelRenderData template read across two globals
that no longer sit adjacent on PC, zeroing renderdata.flags and gating all
geometry emission in the preview's subdraw pass.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KwZViAFaXua3PKgHHjNgvi
- Drop-in ROM wording everywhere (README quick start, Pages landing,
release notes, bundled README): first launch auto-generates the
derived assets via the frozen converter; no Python/toolchain needed.
PAL/JP marked not-yet-supported with issue #85 pointers.
- building.md: Linux build is CI-compiled and ships in the bundle
(was 'never built or run on Linux'); bundle note now describes the
frozen ge007-convert auto-spawn; PAL/JP sidecar caveat (D258).
- Status rewording across README/Pages/release notes: drop the
'first open-source port to our knowledge' claim; cutscene glitch
description aligned to 'mostly with James Bond'; index.md status
no longer contradicts the open D255 Deck crash.
- Em-dash cleanup across all GitHub Pages docs (index, building,
internals, porting-notes, dev-process, agentic-development,
release notes); internal dev logs untouched.
* Drop-in ROM: first-run sidecar conversion, no Python (issue #6, Part A + interim)
The release bundle now turns a dropped-in NTSC-U ROM into a playable game
with zero tooling: when data/pcmodels-* / data/pccg-* are missing at boot,
the engine spawns the frozen prepare-assets converter shipped in the bundle
(prepare-assets/ge007-convert[.exe], PyInstaller --onefile), waits for it,
and re-checks before continuing (port/src/romconvert.c, called from
romdataInit after ROM validation). Failure aborts boot with a message
instead of the later D179-class crash.
- prepare-assets.py: runs in-process via runpy when frozen (no user Python
to exec); NTSC-U-only gate with a clear message for PAL/JP ROMs; d88's
sibling import needs an explicit sys.path entry (run_path does not set
one). Verified: frozen exe output byte-identical to the unfrozen path and
to the shipped sidecars.
- CI (linux + windows): PyInstaller freeze step before bundling
(ensurepip / --break-system-packages for MSYS2's pip-less python).
- bundle scripts: copy ge007-convert into prepare-assets/ (hard-fail if not
frozen), size guard 60 -> 120 MB.
- Release notes: US-only drop-in instructions, no Python required.
- D258: PAL/JP filelist naming defects documented; multi-region deferred to
the Part B follow-up.
* CI: install pip via pacman on Windows (MSYS2 ensurepip is disabled); regen findings index for D258
The one broken bass instrument on Control/Cavern/Runway is a plain
byte-order bug in a corner the earlier passes never looked at. The
instrument bank's only two AL_RAW16_WAVE wavetables (instruments 2 and
51, sharing base 0x2118 / len 790) decode as a clean ~110 Hz soft-attack
bass sample when read big-endian s16 -- which is how the N64 CPU reads
them. The PC mixer's resampler consumes host-native (little-endian) s16,
so every sample arrives byte-swapped: deterministic per-instrument
corruption, exactly the M-106 repro. ADPCM nibble data is byte-order
agnostic, which is why every other instrument sounds right.
romdataFinishCartMap() now walks both bank trees (same ALBankFile layout
as romdataFixupAudioBank) and bswap16s each RAW16 [tbl+base,+len) range
in place in the cart map -- where alBnkfNew() points the mixer at it
directly. Shared ranges are deduped (swapping twice undoes the swap);
all reads bounds-checked. D55 in-place-fixup idiom; port-only, no game
logic touched.
Startup log: 'romdataInit: D230 byte-swapped 1 RAW16 wavetable range(s)
in place'. Owes a by-ear pass on the three repro tracks.
findings.md D230 -> FIXED with full root cause; release-notes.md drops
the music known-issue bullet.
* Release notes: finalize for v0.2.0 final (CI re-stamps the body on tag cut)
- Drop '(pre-release)' from the title; <version> stamps to 0.2.0, so the
Downloads/Verify tables already name the final assets correctly.
- Blockquote rewritten: no more 'cut is for playtesting'. Claims what is true
(21 missions load and run crash-free) without claiming an end-to-end
completable campaign; adds the first-public-release note, hedged with
'to our knowledge'.
- New What's-new bullets: Everything-unlocked-by-default (D257, ON by default,
F10 opt-out, no active cheats) and the Steam Deck first-run preset + the two
new F10 rows (No hit flash / Skip intro).
- Known issues unchanged — all eight walked with the user and confirmed still
open; wording already matches the latest reports.
- Preview montage GIF at the top of the body (release pages can't play mp4);
raw URL pinned to the v0.2.0 tag, so it resolves once PR #80 has merged and
the tag is cut.
* Release notes: campaign-completed claim + D255 register-capture diagnosis
- Blockquote: full campaign playtested end to end (all 21 missions, Agent
difficulty) per the v0.2.0-pre PC playtest
- D255 bullet: updated from 'narrowed to a stale model reference' to the
pinned diagnosis (NULL ObjectRecord.model on an active record during
mid-firefight destruction; repros on Bunker + Frigate)
D256 (Linux saves/config now persist from any launch dir) is in this cut
and Deck-verified; the D255 line reflects the narrowed diagnosis and the
register-capturing crash handler. Drop the 'no known crashes' claim from
the pre-release blurb since D255 is open.
The POSIX handler re-entered on SIGABRT (sysFatalError -> abort) and
truncated ge007.crash.log, so field crashes came back as bare abort
records with no faulting PC or registers. Guard against re-entry,
terminate directly with _exit(), and dump si_addr + the general register
set from the ucontext — a Deck crash now names the bad pointer on its
face.
Also documents D255 (new SIGSEGV in vtxstore's active-object walk during
a Facility firefight on the Deck; disassembly shows the fault is a
32-bit-zero-extended read of ObjectRecord.model, misnamed ChrRecord.
chrflags by the decompiler) and updates the release notes' Deck status.
- D197 (Silo face wrap): closed per user playtest, dropped
- D75: reworded — Nintendo logo still broken, Rareware logo filtering off;
mission-complete/mode-select screens have no 3D models (old framing wrong)
- F10 ghost row: now deterministic bottom-row duplicate of the selected item
(D251 addendum); earlier intermittent 4K framing superseded
stanCheckLinkedSpecialTile was decompiled with an all-s32 middle-arg
prototype while its callers pass it through the standTileLocusCallback_B_t
typedef (f32 f32 f32). On x86-64 SysV the int/float class split puts the
6th arg (outFlags/record) in %rdx per the typedef but %r9 per the
definition, so the FORCECROUCH/LADDER store hit a stale scratch register.
MIPS o32 passes both through GPRs a0-a5 identically, which is why the
mismatch was invisible on N64 and in the decompilation.
ABI-class edit (AGENTS.md #2 narrow exception): body never uses the three
middle params; N64 codegen unaffected. Verified under gdb on WSL:
pre-fix SIGSEGV at stan.c:2441 with r9=0x3 and a valid record in the
caller frame; post-fix the same walk route completes clean.
- README: manual Contents TOC dropped (GitHub auto-generates); Download
table moved to the top with Quick start under it; Status compressed to
a Working paragraph + tight known-issue list (D-numbers live in the
release notes / finding log now); How-it-works tightened.
- Pages (docs/index.md): demo gif is the hero; download table up top;
new How-it-works and Honest-status sections; legal footer; the 19-shot
playtest gallery unchanged.
- Options overlay is now gamepad-driven: README Steam Deck section, the
bundle README (new @DECK@ block on Linux, controller column added to
the controls table), and the release-notes template all document
Select / D-pad / A / B / Start instead of a Steam key-mapping workaround.
James Dansereau