iChris4/MetroidPrimePortVR v2.0.0-beta.8

PrimedGun v2.0.0-beta.8

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PrimedGun v2.0.0-beta.8, based on native port 0.42.0.

Changes

• Native port updated from 0.37 to 0.42: Integrated 254 upstream commits.
• Original cannon geometry fix: Rebuilt the incomplete body side while preserving textures and animated parts.
• Suit-arm geometry repaired: Applied the repair to Power, Varia, Gravity, Phazon and all Fusion arm variants.
• Stereo beam-change fix: Replaced the old VR screen-copy wipe with a solid/hologram split calculated separately for each eye.
• Headset-directed map marker: The player arrow follows headset direction, including while the map is paused.
• Head-following visor effects: Improved rain, splashes, frost, goo and electrical-hit effects so they follow headset movement and rotation.
• Vulkan PC VR support: Added the Vulkan headset backend and a launcher Graphics API selector.
• Expanded Remastered effects: Improved particles, electrical effects, trails, lighting, decals, clouds and water-effect sorting.
• Remastered rendering fixes: Improved X-ray and thermal models for the cannon and arms, room-model matching, fog visibility and pause-screen lighting.
• Echoes customization imports: Added upstream support for Echoes suits, Morph Balls, first-person arms, cannon appearances and Dark Samus.
• More complete save states: Expanded restoration of script-object fields, animations, cutscenes and enemy material lists. States now record their disc identity.
• Additional port settings: Added beam-colour controls, per-visor crosshair options, optional Morph Ball black bars.
• Performance and memory improvements: Improved pipeline prefetching and caching, reduced unnecessary shader variants, limited Dawn cache growth and eased texture-cache memory pressure.
• Other upstream improvements: Added seamless item pickups, audio fixes and volume above 100%, automatic texture-folder creation, additional cheats and desktop third-person animation improvements.

Downloads and updating

• Windows PC VR: Download PrimedGun-v2.0.0-beta.8-Windows-x64.zip, extract the entire archive, and run PrimedGun.exe. Preserve your existing user folder to keep saves and settings. Select the Graphics API in Port Config; Vulkan VR uses the patched Dawn library included in this package.
• Standalone Meta Quest: Install PrimedGun-v2.0.0-beta.8-Quest.apk over your existing installation. This APK keeps the same application ID and signing key as our previous releases. Do not uninstall when updating; uninstalling deletes app data.
• Built-in updater: Choose Check for updates on the launcher Setup screen and include beta versions to find this release. Quest asks for system installation confirmation.
• Checksums: SHA256SUMS.txt contains SHA-256 checksums for the downloads. The updater verifies downloads automatically; manual downloads can be checked against this file.
• Other assets: The symbols ZIP is for crash debugging, the source ZIP contains source code, and the licences ZIP contains licence texts and notices. These are not separate playable builds.

Save states and Quick resume remain experimental. Keep normal memory-card saves and back them up before updating. No game content is included; you must provide your own supported Metroid Prime disc image.