System link, stability and compatibility improvements.
Network
- System link over your network — Settings → Network → System link → LAN: hakuX devices on the same Wi-Fi network find each other as Xbox consoles on a LAN do. Devices the network's broadcasts don't reach, on another subnet or a VPN such as ZeroTier or Tailscale, are added by address under Other consoles
- XLink Kai — system link over the Internet through an XLink Kai engine running on a computer on your network; its web page picks the game's arena
- Console identity — each console has its own serial number, network address and online key. A device whose hard disk was copied from another one offers to make itself a new identity, since two consoles with one identity can't see each other
Games
- Sega GT 2002 — the cars have their paint, reflections and sun highlights
- Doom 3 — no longer crashes as its main menu loads
- Fatal Frame II — starts and reads its disc in the order it asks for
- AirForce Delta Storm — answers the controller and the on-screen controls (it ignored all input)
- Silent Hill 2 — no longer crashes when it loads a room
- Splinter Cell: Double Agent — no longer closes on boot
- Super Monkey Ball Deluxe — its title movie plays and its movies aren't black
- Ultimate Spider-Man — no longer crashes a second into boot
- Grand Theft Auto III — no longer shows its bad-disc screen
- Project Gotham Racing 2 — the attract replay no longer goes black
- Dungeons & Dragons Heroes — the tutorial's prompts show
- Sound — games that hold their voices while the sound engine updates them, or stop a voice as it changes, no longer freeze or play a stopped voice on
Performance
- Fewer stutters with Turnip — frames reach the screen without a CPU wait in front of each one
App
- Controllers — only the players with a controller are plugged into the console (player 1 always, for the on-screen controls), and a controller plugs in or out as it connects, disconnects or is assigned to another player, without restarting the game