v1.0.6

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v1.0.6! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

New here? The player's manual walks you through the controls, settings, saves and ways to play.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). Supported formats: CHD, BIN/CUE, and ISO. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder. Keep the included files together, put your disc images beside xem-desktop.exe, and open it. On first launch, the app sorts the images into discs/. Memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel and extract it. Put your disc images beside Xenogears Ex Machina.app and open it. On first launch, the app sorts the images into discs/. Memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, put your disc images beside it, and run it. On first launch, the app sorts the images into discs/. Memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v1.0.5:

• Fixed the game sometimes stopping with "interrupt 0 handler suspended" as a battle ended in the Kislev sewers and the other areas with a map picture.

• The Linux app now starts from Steam, including in a Steam Deck's Gaming Mode.

See all changes.

6 commits since v1.0.5

• --exit-after-frames presents its last frame, so --screenshot writes it (2af371e)
• The AppImage starts from Steam: its launcher is static (#72) (eb8de4e)
• Touch play and headsets read the interface context alone (c6a0cb8)
• The hosts read their queries in the game's memory (#71) (4ebd710)
• Release notes list the commits when no change note was written (8d62c2e)
• README: hero banner and feature screenshots (c96a3f4)

v1.0.5

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v1.0.5! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

New here? The player's manual walks you through the controls, settings, saves and ways to play.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v1.0.4:

• The gamepad's right stick now zooms the field camera: push down to pull the camera back and up to bring it closer, while left and right still turn it.
• In first-person view, the right stick still looks freely in every direction.

See all changes.

2 commits since v1.0.4

• Keep first-person stick movement unrestricted (25702cb)
• Add four-way right-stick camera zoom controls (37bc546)

v1.0.4

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v1.0.4! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

New here? The player's manual walks you through the controls, settings, saves and ways to play.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v1.0.3:

• The game's text can now be read in Brazilian Portuguese: choose Settings → Gameplay → Language → Game text. English stays the default.
• Dialogue, narration, menu commands, item and ability names and descriptions, shop, save and battle messages, enemy names and place names are translated; accented letters are drawn from the game's own font. A few words the game draws as pictures (LV, HP, the battle screen's command and gauge words) stay in English.

See all changes.

9 commits since v1.0.3

• The small font's letter advances are constants in the code (3fd471e)
• The menus' letter-by-letter words are spelled in the chosen language (dd1be24)
• The stat panels' words are spelled in the chosen language (fc0fded)
• The desktop suite's port stage runs the language port tests (ed0e781)
• A refused state load's test differs from the session in its game module alone, the translations being part of a state's identity (c2270b6)
• Brazilian Portuguese: the game's whole text (92ab991)
• Language tests walk a translation as the window does; merge takes chosen files and keeps script-sized windows' pages (7653dc7)
• The menus' command labels are drawn in the chosen language (095bdc1)
• The game's text can be read in another language, chosen in Settings (26adac7)

v1.0.3

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v1.0.3! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

New here? The player's manual walks you through the controls, settings, saves and ways to play.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v1.0.2:

• Opening the menu on the world map now fades the screen out and back in at full resolution, not the console's low resolution.
• Tab closes the world map's menu, just as it does in towns and dungeons.

See all changes.

1 commit since v1.0.2

• The world map's menu fades its screen at full resolution, and Tab closes it (687c3dc)

v1.0.2

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v1.0.2! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

New here? The player's manual walks you through the controls, settings, saves and ways to play.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v1.0.1:

• Burning Lahan in the prologue no longer slows to a crawl or closes the app on Android phones.

See all changes.

1 commit since v1.0.1

• Lahan burning draws each frame in a few render passes, not one a VRAM write (e600b56)

v1.0.1

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v1.0.1! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

New here? The player's manual walks you through the controls, settings, saves and ways to play.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v1.0:

• Settings now works with a controller: move between settings with the D-pad or left stick, change them with left and right, press with the bottom button, go back with the right button and switch sections with L1/R1.
• To set a controller binding, choose its box with the bottom button and press the buttons you want.

See all changes.

4 commits since v1.0

• The settings panel works with a gamepad (8a67e9a)
• Release notes list the commits since the last release (6543c66)
• Update status. (bc37cc3)
• Player manual. (e57d0fc)

v1.0

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v1.0! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

New here? The player's manual walks you through the controls, settings, saves and ways to play.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v0.5.10:

• HD-2D keeps Krelian and Urobolus in focus during the post-Deus sequence, including the battle that follows, while preserving the soft background.

See all changes.

v0.5.10

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v0.5.10! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v0.5.9:

• Added a clip recorder for source builds that exports scripted gameplay videos with game audio. It supports scheduled inputs, camera and graphics changes, dialogue hiding, rewind, and fast-forward, making repeatable comparison clips easier to create.

Use it from a source checkout with the clip example.

See all changes.

v0.5.9

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v0.5.9! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v0.5.8:

• HD-2D preserves the stars and blood moon in the desert night scene instead of washing them out with haze.
• The sandworm battle's shattering-screen transition now retains the field scene's lighting until the battle takes over.

See all changes.

v0.5.8

Welcome to Xenogears Ex Machina v0.5.8! Pick the download for your device below, or play in your browser.

Installation

You'll need images of your own North American Xenogears discs (SLUS-00664 and SLUS-00669). CHD, BIN/CUE, and raw 2352-byte ISO images work. If you have CUE sheets, keep them with their track files. You don't need a BIOS.

• Windows: Download the Windows ZIP and extract it into a folder you can save files in. Keep the included files together and open xem-desktop.exe.
• macOS: Download the ZIP for Apple Silicon or Intel, extract it, and open Xenogears Ex Machina.app.
• Linux: Download the AppImage for most PCs (x86-64) or ARM devices (AArch64). Make it executable with chmod +x filename.AppImage, then run it. If it won't start, the Linux setup guide covers the permissions it needs.
• Android / Meta Horizon OS: Download and install the APK, then choose your local disc images when the app asks for them.
• Browser: Open Xenogears Ex Machina and import your disc images. They stay on your device. Export a save backup before clearing your browser's storage.

Playing on desktop? Put your disc images beside the executable, AppImage, or .app bundle. On first launch, the app sorts them into discs/. Your memory cards go in cards/, and save states go in saves/.

Steam Deck & Steam Machine

Using SteamOS? You can launch the Linux app straight from your Steam library:

1. Switch to Desktop Mode and create a Xenogears folder inside your home folder.
2. Save the Linux x86-64 AppImage in that folder. Right-click it, open Properties → Permissions, and mark it as executable. Put your disc images in the same folder.
3. Open the AppImage once to finish disc setup. In Steam, choose Games → Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library, browse to the AppImage, and add it.
4. Return to Gaming Mode and open the game from your library's Non-Steam tab.

When you download a newer version, update the Steam shortcut to point to the new AppImage and keep your disc and save folders. Valve's desktop guide has more help with Steam's menus.

Updating

Updating an existing installation? Back up your game folder, then replace the app and its included files. Keep discs/, cards/, saves/, and settings.json. On Android and Meta Horizon OS, install the update over the existing app. Memory cards are the best way to carry progress between versions; save states may need the same version that created them.

Need a hand? The installation guide has more setup help and the current limitations.

What's new

Here's what's changed since v0.5.6:

• Fewer encounters with matching rewards. With Half encounters enabled, battles now award double experience, gold, and deathblow learning progress.
• Clearer party sprites. A new optional setting uses full-resolution character sprites in large-scale areas such as Babel Tower and Gear hangars.
• Enjoy the scenery during dialogue. Hold Select to temporarily hide dialogue windows, portraits, and text in field scenes and scripted battle conversations when using Ex Machina's renderer.
• More convenient controls. Graphics settings have clearer High Framerate and Widescreen switches and a Reset Defaults action for HD-2D and Custom effects. The mouse cursor now hides while idle, with a setting to turn that off.
• Better Battling and smoother motion. Fixed gaps in the arena's distant terrain, extended the sky into widescreen views, corrected nearby ground textures, and made sprites more stable close to the camera.
• Cleaner scene playback and rewind. Fixed corrupted or missing pictures in memory scenes and vehicle interiors, including when rewinding, fast-forwarding, loading states, or changing rendering resolution. Rewind also limits the memory used by stored screen captures.
• More natural HD-2D skies. Battle clouds retain their colors instead of being washed out by haze.
• Debug and Android fixes. Movies launched from Debug now play to their final frame, the world-map test is simpler to launch, and Android no longer closes when it recreates the app during startup.

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