- 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- README News/Status/Features/controls brought up to date; the unpublished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
- v0.4.0 status framing (the most complete release to date; the common
defect classes fixed; a short list of known caveats) and the pre-1.0
note, on both the README and the Pages home page.
- Dated release news section with links to the GitHub release tags.
- Keyword-reinforced meta descriptions; site masthead tagline.
- Accuracy: options section list per the shipped overlay, Xbox 1.1 (Jinx)
controller roles (D394), Select opens the overlay, Deck 2x MSAA / 250%
preset, background stats, footer last-updated stamp.
- 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)
- 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
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
Bing Webmaster re-flagged the site after the first SEO pass (32f193a0):
- Every Jekyll-processed doc page (building.md, dev-process.md, internals.md,
porting-notes.md, dev/agentic-development.md, plus index.md caught last
time) opens with its own "# Heading" on top of the Cayman theme's masthead
<h1 class="project-name">, so all of them emitted two h1 tags, not just the
homepage. Demoted each page's opening heading to h2 -- anchor slugs are
unaffected (kramdown ids don't depend on heading level).
- index.md's meta description was 161 chars (1 over Bing's 160 limit) and
still said v0.2.0; re-trimmed to 133 chars and bumped to v0.2.1.
- README.md and docs/index.md's Status lines/comparison table bumped from
v0.2.0 to v0.2.1 to match the actual current release.
Verified against a live, cache-busted fetch of the deployed Pages site
(the first Bing report was reading a stale CDN edge cache from before the
32f193a0 deploy, per its own Last-Modified header) that the underlying fix
was already live; this pass addresses what was still genuinely wrong.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KwZViAFaXua3PKgHHjNgvi
_config.yml's description was ~230 chars once jekyll-seo-tag spliced it
into the masthead tagline and home <title>; index.md's page description
was ~277 chars for the same og/meta tag. Also removed index.md's manual
"# GoldenEye 007 PC Port" h1 -- the Cayman theme already renders the site
title as an h1, so the page was emitting two.
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.
The old attract-bunker1/attract-dam PNGs predate the D227 sky, D229 water
and 60 fps fixes. Point both pages at the Sept-13 playtest gallery instead
(shot-06 Bunker 1, shot-01 Dam) — same files as the gallery below, honest
captions — and drop the stale PNGs.
- README and docs/index.md (Pages) now embed goldeneye-gh-preview.gif
where the mp4 <video> tag was; release notes already used the GIF
- git rm the 27 MB mp4 (GIF stays — it is the release-notes asset, pinned
to the v0.2.0 tag)
- remove three unreferenced docs/img/bugs screenshots left over from the
culling/D176 A-B captures
* README: 32 s gameplay preview montage (mp4) + preview-video runbook
* Prune: drop superseded goldeneye-demo.gif (replaced by gh-preview montage)
* Docs: v0.2.0 finalization pass — final wording, aligned known issues, Deck-verified line, social preview card
- README + pages site: 'v0.2.0 (pre-release)' -> v0.2.0 throughout; the
stale 'not yet verified on real Deck hardware' line is replaced with the
playtest fact (D253 fixed, D255 still open).
- Known-issues lists in README + site now match the release notes one-for-one
(adds the F10 bottom-row duplicate D251 and the intermittent Deck SIGSEGV
D255; D243/D230/D252/D245/D246/D75 carry their finding labels).
- Working list mentions AllUnlocked default-ON (D257) with the F10 opt-out.
- First-public-release note added to the README hero and site status line,
hedged with 'to our knowledge'.
- social-preview.png (1280x640 GitHub link card) composed from a gameplay
frame of the preview montage; scratchpad/make-social-preview.py is the
local recipe (gitignored, like make-preview.py).
- Commit docs/img/shots/manifest.csv (gallery -> source recording map);
gitignore the regenerable CONTACT-SHEET.jpg; drop scratch-gdb-cmds.txt.
* Social preview: regenerate card from updated briefing HTML (v0.2.0 final wording)
The PNG committed earlier was a screenshot of the rendered site (stale
wording, video element unrendered). The canonical source is
.github/social-preview.html per .github/social-preview.md; update its
Status/Statistics lines to the v0.2.0 final state and re-render:
- Status: RELEASED v0.2.0 — WINDOWS · LINUX · STEAM DECK
- All 21 solo missions — full campaign completed in playtesting
- ~22k lines C/C++ · ~10k Python (port layer + tools)
- ~250 bugs root-caused · two coding agents, one human, part-time
Verified by pixel-diff against the previous render: only the four text
bands changed; title/fonts/layout identical. Drop the unreferenced
root-level social-preview.png.
* docs: refresh social preview + status for v0.2.0 playtest results
- Social card: 'RELEASED v0.2.0', 21/21 missions completed in playtesting,
~250 bugs fixed, two agents + one human; re-rendered the PNG from the
canonical .github/social-preview.html source (pixel-diff vs the old render
shows only the four edited text bands changed)
- README Status: campaign now claimed as completable end to end (user
playtest: full campaign, Agent difficulty, PC); Working list matches
- findings: D255 updated with the Deck register capture (Rdi=nil -> NULL
ObjectRecord.model, destroy-path ordering case confirmed; truncation ruled
out) and the rule-#2 sign-off question for a guard; D254 field-verified
* docs: regenerate findings index (D254/D255 status updates)
- 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.
Resized to 1600px width / q85, clean names (shot-NN.jpg), in a
collapsible section so the landing page stays light. Raw captures and
the curation work-products (contact sheet, manifest) stay local under
docs/img/screenshots/ (gitignored). Per-image captions/level names and
trimming pending owner review of the contact sheet.
README:
- compress the Background section (two-agent detail now one tight
paragraph; full write-up stays in agentic-development.md)
- new 'Beyond playing' section: tweak it (ini/F10/-fresh), read it
(internals + porting notes as the entry points, src/ vs port/ split),
mod it (MIT port layer, CONTRIBUTING ground rules, docs/dev record)
- Quick start no longer implies NTSC-U only
Pages (docs/index.md, served from main:/docs):
- status was stale ('alpha, v0.1.0') -- now v0.2.0 pre-release with the
honest rough-edges summary linking to README #status
- new Downloads section up top: Windows + Linux/Steam Deck bundles with
the no-ROM note and the four-step path
- 'Play it - or take it apart' CTA mirroring the README sentiment
(try it / read the code / mod it / research angle)
- in-engine gallery (attract views + demo clip); more captures land
here as playtesting continues
* docs(M-102): fix findings-index false-positive, release <version> bug, land parked site cleanup
Docs triage pass (docs/dev/notes/PROMPT-docs-triage-session.md).
- gen_findings_index.py: D194's row was silently bucketed FIXED (an open
design item) because it had no distinct status cell, so the generator's
fallback keyword search matched "fixed" somewhere inside 6,500 chars of
narrative -- the same misleading-index failure mode that cost a session
on D227 (see docs/dev/findings.md SS H "D227 -- M-98"/"M-99"). Gave D194
a real status cell. Also extended LEAD_RE/bucket() with 5 verdict tokens
already in use in the doc (ANALYZED, GUARDED, DIAGNOSTIC SHIPPED,
ROOT-CAUSED, NOT A BUG) and added a leading verdict word to 4 more rows
that had a status cell but no recognized token -- fixes all 10 rows the
generator previously bucketed "?" (D175 D174 D173 D220 D160 D133 D136
D156 D153, plus D194). findings-index.csv regenerated; --check passes;
diff reviewed, only these 10 rows moved.
- ci.yml: release-notes.md's <version> placeholders were never substituted
before `gh release create --notes-file`, so every published release body
(including the live v0.1.0 release) ships the literal text. Now sed'd to
the tag first.
- Landed docs/dev/notes/UNLANDED-docs-site-cleanup-steps3-5.{md,patch}
(parked M-101, never pushed, branch deleted): deletes the orphaned
docs/StructureGuide.md (0 tracked references), adds title/description
frontmatter to 5 published Pages docs, rewrites docs/index.md's stale
"Phase 2 of 4 / no audio yet / 19-of-21" status text to match the
current README. The 2 files whose hunks no longer applied via `git am`
(docs/index.md, docs/dev/agentic-development.md) were redone by hand
against current main.
- docs/BACKLOG.md (local, gitignored): retargeted a dead
docs/PORT-LEARNINGS.md reference to docs/porting-notes.md.
Larger triage items (findings.md monster-row convention, full
status-accuracy sweep, duplicate-defect clustering, dev-notes plan
triage, HANDOFF rotation policy) scoped but not started -- see
docs/dev/notes/FOLLOWUP-docs-triage-session.md (gitignored).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016TaKy6AAsVUTfjkhrX6CjG
* docs/index.md: fix stale in-level-music claim before merge
This PR predates the M-102c/M-105 correction (already landed in the
README via PR #55): in-level music is NOT absent, it plays with some
tracks having wrong-sounding instruments / occasional garbling (D77
fixed, D230 filed for the residual). This branch's own rewritten Status
paragraph still said music 'doesn't yet' play -- fixing it to match
before merge so main doesn't briefly regress to a stale claim this
session already corrected elsewhere.
* docs: step 1 of the docs/site cleanup - whitelist Pages site config, fix cross-links to excluded docs, drop game-behavior-reference index bullet
Publish only the curated set (index/building/internals/porting-notes/
dev-process/agentic-development); everything else under docs/ stays in
the repo but out of the Pages build and sitemap. Cross-links from the
published pages to excluded docs now point at GitHub blob URLs so they
still resolve. No content rewrite yet -- steps 2-5 (README update, per-
page descriptions, light copy passes, repo hygiene) remain.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016TaKy6AAsVUTfjkhrX6CjG
* docs(dev-process): add §6 -- keep PR/git-history noise low
Squash-merge single-purpose/docs PRs, batch same-session docs updates
into one branch instead of one-PR-per-finding, keep unrelated
housekeeping off active branches, declare stacked-PR dependencies, and
triage the open-PR list every session -- close stale PRs (superseded
by newer main content) rather than force-merging or endlessly
rebasing them.
Prompted by this session's PR #26: real conflicts against main because
D191/D193/D149 were all fixed/closed since it was opened; closed
rather than rebased.
Update the public-facing docs to the M-49 state (v0.1.0 alpha, first
full-campaign playtest: 19/21 missions completable, D191 crashes Bunker ii
+ Statue, D193 AI pacing is the top flaw).
- README: lead with what it is + status, research angle second; new
Quick start section; Status/Download rewritten for the alpha + dual
platform; "By the numbers" refreshed (~3 weeks, ~320 commits, ~190
findings, ~49 sessions, 69 PORT files).
- .github/release-notes.md: v0.1.0 title + known-issues rewrite.
- .github/social-preview.html: status/stat lines (regen + re-upload the
PNG separately).
- docs/index.md, docs/dev/LEVEL-STATUS.md: M-49 status.
- docs/dev/findings.md, docs/dev/GRAPHICS-BACKLOG.md: D191-D197 +
D148/D170/D173 M-49 escalations.
Hygiene:
- Fix the `&` literal in internals.md H1.
- Repoint two ../README.md links that 404 on the Pages site.
- Standardise British -> American spelling across the public docs
(behaviour->behavior, colour->color, catalogue->catalog,
centre->center, etc.). Deep internal logs left untouched.
- .gitignore: document the local-notes convention (docs/HANDOFF.md,
docs/BACKLOG.md, and a new docs/dev/notes/ drop for roadmaps and
session plans) so it survives a fresh clone.
Nothing runs end to end (Phase 2 WIP), so the 'pre-built Windows bundles
are published under Releases' language in the README and site was
inaccurate. Reword to: no binaries yet, build from source; bundles may
follow once the port is playable. Also rename the local model Qwen 3 ->
Qwen 3.8 in the docs to match reality.
- README: lead with what it is + the AI-agent-collaboration research
framing + current status in the first paragraph; rename H1 to
"GoldenEye 007 PC Port"; add a live CI badge.
- New "How this differs from the other GoldenEye PC projects" section:
this is a source port of the N64 original; the Recomp projects
binary-translate the Xbox 360 XBLA remaster (different game, no shared
code).
- CITATION.cff for GitHub's "Cite this repository" widget / Zenodo.
- GitHub Pages site off /docs (_config.yml + index.md landing page).
- agentic-development.md: searchable title + abstract.
- .github/social-preview.{png,html,md}: repo social-preview card styled
after the GE mission-briefing screen, kept editable (CSS source + a
regen/how-to doc beside the PNG).
- docs/dev/game-behavior-reference.md: distilled the raw GameFAQs
walkthrough dump down to the behaviour-defining parts (combat/AI model,
difficulty scaling, per-level objective sets, timers, weapon data,
original-game quirks). Credits: Brett "Nemesis" Franklin, marshmallow.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GULf6knbsqfsnW39tMr9WT
James Dansereau