What's new (detail)

Options menu

• Six sections in the Perfect Dark port's order: Video, Audio, Mouse,
  Controller, Key Bindings and Game. Display mode is a dropdown; Backspace goes back.
• The F10 overlay and FPS counter are the same on-screen size in the front end
  and in a level, and Game.HudScale scales them with the in-game HUD.
  Sliders and arrows are drawn smooth at any window size.
• The OS cursor stays visible over the overlay (no main-menu flicker),
  right-click goes back, and the tip follows the hovered row.
• Clearer wording: 27 menu-wording edits, sliders with real units (percent,
  frames, seconds, pixels), wrapped tips, one Key: Action hint style and
  consistent names (Original / Extended, "Original layout"). Skip intro and
  All unlocked are no longer marked experimental, and All unlocked applies
  live. The game's own Look up/down row is gone; use Invert look on the
  Mouse and Controller pages.

Controls

• Control style: Ext (this port's scheme, unchanged) or Original
  (the game's N64 styles 1.1-2.4), chosen per seat.
• The Xbox-release presets (1.1 Jinx, 1.2 Christmas, 1.3 Frost, 1.4 Elektra)
  and Custom rebinding carry over. Preset names refer to the Xbox
  release's control styles; this project is not affiliated with Microsoft or Rare.
• The right stick aims and the D-pad strafes, as on the N64; the Xbox
  release's "left stick aims the crosshair" and "D-pad copies the left stick"
  behaviours are not reproduced.
• New profiles default to Crouch Toggle and Look ahead off (it fights mouse look
  on PC). Existing untouched empty save folders get the same on first play;
  played or customised profiles are not changed.

Saves

• An emulator-format data/ge007.eep is converted on first launch (the
  original is kept as ge007.eep.emulator.bak). The converter eep_convert.py still does explicit two-way conversion.

Picture and settings

• Fog and near-plane clipping closer to the N64 (details under the technical
  section below). Forced aspect ratios letterbox/pillarbox without re-cropping
  the play area.
• Draw and LOD distance default to 2.0x (N64 = 1.0x), stick deadzone to 25%,
  mouse sensitivity maximum is 4x. FOV is vertical degrees, 30-90, with
  60 = the N64 view. "Guard AI uses full wide view" is now Gameplay view
  area (Original / Extended). Old values migrate once; existing ge007.ini
  files still load.

Window and updates

• The title bar is static (the FPS readout is still in the F10 overlay) and
  the window/taskbar icon is a new project mark.
• Check for updates (Game, off by default): when on, one HTTPS request
  to GitHub per launch and an "Update available" row linking to the releases page.

Also new since v0.4.0

• Split-screen multiplayer for 2-4 players, played live in 2P on every
  multiplayer map and in 4P on Temple.
• Controller presets and rebinding, PlayStation and Nintendo button names,
  master volume and audio-device selection.
• A steady 60 fps on low-end GPUs (tested on an Intel HD 3000 laptop).
• Fidelity fixes checked against the N64 game: AI visibility at long draw
  distances, sniper zoom, turret pacing, Dam/Caverns water, weapons.
• Fixes for reported issues: fire rate (#114), the tank-crush sound loop
  (#115), tank movement (#116), weapon sway (#117), recoil on some GPUs (#118)
  and light fixtures that didn't react to shots (#119).

Fixes and changes, with finding labels

Menu and settings work:

• One options UI: the file-select entry opens the F10 menu (D519). Six
  PD-ordered sections with checkboxes, sliders and dropdowns (D504); display
  mode dropdown and Backspace-back (D504 follow-up).
• Control styles: Ext / Original with the N64 styles 1.1-2.4 (D513, D516),
  chosen per seat and saved with the Bond file (D518, D516).
• Emulator ge007.eep import (D514).
• F10 overlay and FPS counter match in size front-end vs level (D510); HudScale
  covers them (D512).
• Fullscreen mode, Center window, crosshair opacity and crosshair colour by
  health: the four settings the Perfect Dark port had that this port lacked (D511).
• Wording, units, tips and spelling: D505, D506, D507; settings wording pass
  and tip wrapping (D554); Look up/down row removed (D564).
• Settings standardised: defaults, FOV in vertical degrees, Gameplay view area (D546).
• Optional update check (D551). All unlocked applies live (D547).
• Crosshair mouse pointer and scrollbar (D555, D556); long tips no longer cut
  off inside a level (D558). New defaults: Crouch Toggle, Look ahead off (D556,
  D557); same for untouched empty save folders (D559).
• Crosshair always on, opt-in, off by default (D436, #123 by dolent). Crosshair colour is
  Original or Custom RGB with 0-255 sliders, as in the Perfect Dark port; a
  saved named preset carries over as Custom (D569). Long dropdowns stay on
  screen (D568).
• F10 overlay mouse behaviour (D544). Static title bar and new icon (D550).
• Overlay slider wedges, markers and dropdown arrows used to step in whole
  canvas pixels and grew visibly at large window sizes; now smooth (D520).
  Holding left/right on a Bond settings row no longer drops the FPS counter (D517).
• Watch menu: closing the in-level Watch menu saves the watch's own screen
  size and ratio, which no longer fight the front-end Aspect ratio setting;
  the earlier findings-log note was corrected (D349).

Rendering and gameplay fidelity:

• Dam ending camera: the first shot of the ending cutscene swivels up onto
  Bond again, as on the N64; an old port workaround snapped it straight onto
  him (D552).
• Fog rework (Surface 2, from Deck playtest): ground fog no longer "chunks"
  away tile by tile, and the sky fades into fog toward the horizon as on the
  N64 (D540). Large near-camera triangles are now clipped against the near
  plane the way the N64's RSP does, with per-vertex fog recomputed on the
  clipped edge, so the haze around Bond stays steady as he moves instead of
  brightening and darkening (D543, D553; compared against hardware-level
  emulation). A new Fog distance setting (100% = N64) is independent of
  Draw distance, and Draw and Fog distance now apply live instead of on the
  next level load.
• Banded walls near explosions: in Aztec's dark corridor, walls near rocket
  fire turned into black/white/yellow/blue bands (also seen on the Deck); fixed
  by clamping colour-combiner inputs to the range the N64 can produce (D548).
• Rocket and thrown-item crashes/clipping: a player-fired rocket could pass
  through the ground when fired near Bond's feet (a stack-layout difference
  from the N64, D545), and the same class of bug is fixed in thrown grenades,
  knives and objects (D549).
• Menu double-trigger (Steam Deck): one A press could advance two menu
  screens, and one B could back out two overlay pages. A short release
  hold-off on menu A/B/Start and a single back action per press are now in
  place. This is a mitigation: the exact cause is unconfirmed (the Deck
  re-check passed) (D541).
• Fog snap: objects far in fog are hidden as on the N64; in widescreen
  the wider view can still show a faint distant building edge (e.g. Surface's
  dish from the start area); 4:3 matches the N64 (D503).
• Aspect ratio: forced ratios letterbox/pillarbox without re-cropping the
  play area (D508); the rare gun/hand model glitch after changing ratio
  mid-level is largely fixed, a rare remainder is logged (D509).

Build, tooling and harness:

• A fresh build directory no longer produces an untagged executable name (D515).
• The asset converter's argument quoting and sidecar size check are
  tightened; the CI cache actions no longer carry stale ROM paths.
• The reference-frame tooling is non-destructive and drift-free: a verification
  sweep used to overwrite your own data/ge007.ini and leave the previous
  level's save file behind, and now pins both idempotently (your ini and save
  are restored whatever the run does); the capture helper reads its frame
  windows out of the gate instead of a stale hardcoded copy (D524). The gate's
  recipe was re-based: per-level windows in settled gameplay rather than the
  intro flyby, and the save file pinned present (D522, D523).
• Debug env vars are documented: GE_PCDUMP must be first-last:step (a colon
  where the dash belongs silently dumps every frame, D527), and a
  GE_STARTMENU boot skips the EEPROM import, so the imported-save test must
  run from a normal boot (D528). A per-triangle draw-state census probe
  (GE_D526/GE_D526BOX/GE_D526MAX) is available for transparency/texture
  triage (D526; the P13 Dam-ending grate show-through it targeted was confirmed
  faithful N64 behaviour on 1964/GEPD, so no change shipped).

Verification

Reference-frame gate for this release: Windows, Linux and Steam Deck each
carry the full 21-level reference-frame set (63 frames each) at the same stems,
re-captured for this release's fog and near-plane changes and confirmed by two
independent capture passes per platform. The full pixel gate is green on all
three against their own goldens on the final build: Windows 21/21, Linux
(Intel HD 3000) 21/21 and Steam Deck 21/21. The recipe pins the run for you: the
save file's CONTENT is pinned (the gate installs its own canonical save per
level, the same way it pins the display ini — D529) and the PRNG seed is
hard-pinned (a stray GE_RSEED in your environment warns and is ignored rather
than re-seeding the gate — D532), so a gate run and a capture run see the same
starting state. The cross-platform spread on the shipped sets (0.188-4.553% of
pixels over tol 2 on the 20 non-Cuba levels) is informational only — it is not
a cross-platform pixel-parity claim.