James Dansereau
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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.
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GoldenEye 007 PC Port — (pre-release)
Pre-release. The full single-player campaign runs at a steady 60 fps with no known crashes, audio (music + SFX) playing throughout. This cut is for playtesting: a full end-to-end confirmation that all 21 missions are completable on this build is still owed, and the known issues below are real.
What's new since v0.1.0
- Steady 60 fps in normal play (the software RSP runs off the presentation
critical path);
Video.DisplayFPSin the F10 overlay shows it. - Audio: in-level music and sound effects throughout (the alpha was silent). A handful of tracks have wrong-sounding instruments (below).
- Mouse: click-to-lock capture (click to grab, ESC to release) with a
proportional GEPD-style aim mode; sensitivity / Y-inversion / aim-turn split
tunable in
ge007.inior the F10 overlay. The legacy always-grab mode is gone. - Rendering: outdoor skies render correctly; water no longer renders green/pulsing; reflective surfaces (glass, chrome weapon skins) work.
- Crash fixes: the two v0.1.0-era crashing levels (Bunker ii, Statue) and the AI-pacing bug that broke Cradle are fixed and playtest-verified — all 21 solo missions load and run crash-free. Also fixed: the Steam Deck / Linux Facility crash triggered by walking into the crouch-forcing spot at the level's opening (D253) — this also revives the auto-crouch and ladder signals, which were dead on PC before.
- QoL: F10 in-game options overlay (fullscreen, resolution, frame cap, MSAA, texture filtering, FOV/draw distance, sensitivity), mute-on-focus-loss, F12 screenshot.
- Modern dual-stick controller layout (the scheme used by the console re-releases): left stick move/strafe, right stick look, right trigger fire, left trigger aim, A/X use, B/Y crouch/cancel, RB/LB cycle weapons.
- Linux / Steam Deck: the Linux bundle now ships its own SDL2 — it runs as-is on any distro, and sideloads onto a Steam Deck with nothing installed.
Known issues
- Cutscenes frequently glitch — skipped beats, wrong camera, misplaced or hovering actors, wrong timing; the Dam level-end cutscene is racy (D243). The most visible gap in this release.
- Music quality on some tracks — a wrong-sounding bass instrument on a few elevator/level tracks (D230).
- Particle colours cycle through a rainbow palette — bullet-impact sparks and lingering smoke/explosion residue drift through the hues over time instead of holding their intended grey/orange palette (D252).
- Water on
IsWaterlevels shows a moving seam between two patterns (D245); thin pixel strips at the left/right screen edges at non-integer window scales (D246). - The front-end Nintendo logo renders as two white blobs, and the Rareware logo is close but its texture filtering looks off (D75).
- The F10 overlay's bottom row duplicates whatever item is currently selected (e.g. the MSAA value appears both on its own row and again at the panel bottom); earlier builds showed it as an intermittent 4K- fullscreen ghost of the top row.
- Steam Deck: one open crash remains — the v0.1.0-era Facility crash is
confirmed fixed on Deck hardware, but a new SIGSEGV can occur during a
firefight in Facility (D255); diagnosis is in progress. Other levels are
untested there so far — please report any Deck-specific faults (a
ge007.crash.lognext to the exe helps; recent builds now capture full faulting registers in it).
Downloads
| File | Platform |
|---|---|
goldeneye-pc-port-<version>-win64.zip |
Windows x86-64 |
goldeneye-pc-port-<version>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz |
Linux x86-64 (incl. Steam Deck) |
Each contains the engine executable, a README, license texts, and the
prepare-assets tool. No ROM, no game assets. The Windows bundle carries
its runtime DLLs; the Linux bundle carries SDL2 — on both platforms nothing
needs to be installed first.
Running it
You supply your own GoldenEye 007 N64 ROM (.z64, big-endian) that you
legally own — NTSC-U (US), PAL (EU) or NTSC-J (JP); the asset step detects the
region from the SHA-1. US is the best-tested.
- Unpack the archive.
- Make a
data/folder next to the executable and put the ROM in it, named per region (ge007.ntsc-final.z64/ge007.pal-final.z64/ge007.jpn-final.z64). - Run the one-time asset step (needs Python 3.8+):
python3 prepare-assets/prepare-assets.py— it reads your ROM and writes the twodata/pc*-<region>/folders the engine needs. Standard library only; a few seconds. - Run the executable from that folder.
Steam Deck: sideload the unpacked folder (USB or a file manager), do steps 2–4, then add the executable to Games → Add Game as a non-Steam game.
In-game settings on the Deck: the options overlay is fully gamepad-driven — it opens with Select, the D-pad or left stick (up/down) moves between options, A steps the selected option forward, B steps it back, and Start (or Select again) closes. No keyboard needed.
Full steps are in the bundled README.md.
Verify the download
sha256sum -c goldeneye-pc-port-<version>-win64.zip.sha256
sha256sum -c goldeneye-pc-port-<version>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz.sha256
Source & docs
https://github.com/jkdansereau/goldeneye-pc-port — built on the GoldenEye 007 decompilation, architecture after the Perfect Dark PC port. Non-commercial fan preservation/research project; not affiliated with any rights holder.