Pokee v0.3.7

Pokee for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (USA, ULUS-10391, version 1.01). It does not include the game. On first start it asks for your own disc image and accepts only that release.

This release is for Windows x86-64 and Linux x86-64. macOS, Android and the Flatpak are not part of it.

Downloads

File	What it is
pokee-0.3.7-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Portable Linux: pokee, Pokee, overlay libraries, SDL3, FFmpeg, the fallback font, and licenses
pokee-0.3.7-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows: Pokee.exe, overlay DLLs, SDL3, FFmpeg, the Visual C++ runtime and licenses. Keeps its data in %APPDATA%\Pokee\MHFU
pokee-0.3.7-windows-x86_64-portable.zip	The same, plus portable.txt: keeps all data in data\ next to Pokee.exe
ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz	Unmodified FFmpeg source for the LGPL libraries in the Linux build
SHA256SUMS	Checksums of the Linux tarball and the FFmpeg source

Linux: sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing.

Windows (Get-FileHash <file> in PowerShell):

c63e7dd42a4f57a43b4746091a44be501c590b3c6df3ad72d0477a7c887840a1  pokee-0.3.7-windows-x86_64.zip
0b7910da0ce749d1953b07f56e5d06dddcc935b44c1441393e5761bab9cda8ad  pokee-0.3.7-windows-x86_64-portable.zip

What changed since v0.3.6

• Join from the command line. Pokee --join [address] starts with Ad hoc play on and the server set to address (host or host:port) for that run only; settings.ini and the recent servers are left alone. Without an address it joins the session hosted on this machine, and gives the run a player address of its own so two instances on one PC are not taken for one player. Commit 5109ff2.
• Steadier names in the gathering hall. A name over a hunter no longer jumps when that hunter takes a quest or readies up, or as the ready mark blinks, and stays over its hunter while the camera turns. The quest paper and ready mark stay on the name they belong to. MHFU_TRACE_HALL_NAMES=1 traces these labels. Commit 53687d9.
• Give Any Rarity Item is off by default. The Guild Hall's Give is back at the game's own limit, Rare 1 to 3, unless you turn the option on in the Mods page (or MHFU_GIVE_ANY_RARITY=1). v0.3.6 saved it as on in every settings file, so it is switched off once on update; turn it on again if you want it. Commit a1f2615.
• Gather icon thickness removed. The gather mark is always a thin ring with the font's own ?, scaled with Gather icon size. A saved thickness is ignored. Commit a1f2615.
• MHFU_TRACE_BODIES. A diagnostic trace of how long a dead monster lies before the game removes it. It does nothing unless the variable is set. Commit 9a4ce83.

Build

Linux

Version: v0.3.7
Commit: a1f261548e5b78118aa5a1ba90ed86048afc0c18
Built: 2026-10-18
Platform: Linux x86-64
Configuration: Release; MHFU_RELEASE=ON
Build environment: Steam Runtime 3 sniper SDK
Needs glibc: 2.29 or newer
SDL3: 3.4.16
FFmpeg: 7.1.5 (LGPL)
Overlay libraries: 298

Windows

Version: v0.3.7
Commit: a1f261548e5b78118aa5a1ba90ed86048afc0c18
Built: 2026-10-18 03:23:47 UTC
Platform: Windows x86-64
Configuration: Release; MHFU_RELEASE=ON
Compiler: MSVC 19.44.35229
SDL3: 3.4.16
FFmpeg: bundled LGPL shared build (ffmpeg-n7.1.5-1-g7d0e842004-win64-lgpl-shared-7.1.zip)
Overlay DLLs: 290

The FFmpeg source for the Windows DLLs is named in licenses/FFmpeg-SOURCE.txt inside each zip.

Checked

• Linux: built from tag v0.3.7 (a1f2615) by release_linux.sh in the Steam Runtime 3 sniper SDK container. The script found no game data in the staged build or the tarball, and a separate scan found no path or user name of the build machine.
• Linux: the tarball was unpacked into a folder of its own, installed from a disc image into a temporary data directory and booted headless: the executable's SHA-256, Functions: 272890, and overlays installed.
• Windows: built with MSVC from tag v0.3.7 (a1f2615) with -DMHFU_RELEASE=ON.
• All 53 ctest unit tests passed on this machine.
• Both zips were packed by release_windows.sh, unpacked again, and checked: 290 overlay DLLs each, no game-data files, and no path, user name or computer name of this machine. The script's own path search aborted inside Git Bash, as for earlier releases, so that search was repeated separately.
• The normal zip was installed from a disc image into a folder of its own and booted headless for 40 seconds: Functions: 272890, 290 overlay corpora, and overlays installed.

Not verified

• The game was not played from these zips. --join, the hall names, the Give default and the gather mark were not looked at on screen from the release build, and --join was not tried between two instances.
• The renderer/UI test binary, which ctest does not run in this build, reports 24 failures in camera, gamepad and diagnostic checks; its gather mark checks pass. Whether those failures also occur on v0.3.6 was not checked.
• The portable zip was scanned but not installed or booted.
• The game was not played from the Linux tarball either, and it was not run on a Steam Deck. ctest was not run in the Linux release build.
• No macOS, Android or Flatpak package for this tag.
• No full TESTING.md smoke test is recorded in COMPATIBILITY.md for this release.