PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-beta.2

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-beta.2.

• Scanning: Fixed panels and other targets failing to highlight or scan, including the elevator panel in Temple Transport B.
• Save states: Fixed older save states making scan targets invisible to the Scan Visor.
• Visor effects: Visor effects improved.
• SteamVR: Fixed the world tilting with the runtime's tracking space.

Downloads: Extract the Windows-x64 ZIP and run PrimedGunEchoes.exe, or install the Quest APK. Symbols, source, licences and checksums are provided separately.

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-beta.1

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-beta.1, based on Echoes Unbound 0.12.0.

Keep your saves: On Quest, install over your existing Alpha.2 or newer installation without uninstalling. The APK uses Chris’s existing signing key. On Windows, keep your user folder when updating manually. Make a normal in-game save before updating, as save states can depend on the game and port version.

• VR targeting: More responsive pre-lock target switching, reduced stickiness and better selection in crowded rooms.
• Cannon and arms: Repaired incomplete meshes and seams while preserving the original barrel wings and animations.
• Beam transitions: Fixed mismatched clipping between the eyes, including the right-eye mesh bug.
• Map heading: Player arrow follows the headset, including while the map is paused.
• Spring Ball: Enabled by default once Morph Ball Bombs are owned.
• Vulkan PC VR: Added Vulkan support and a launcher graphics API selector.
• Rezbit virus: Fixed headset freezing, reboot controls, controller prompts and text placement.
• Quest launcher: Dark blue/purple theme and Light Suit artwork.
• Scanning and HUD: Fixed unscannable objects, unstable target arrows, crosshair sizing, Dark Visor highlights, boss bars and Morph Ball HUD alignment.
• Maps: Pickup tracking, visited-room tracking, map reveal, click-to-select rooms and separate rotation/panning bindings.
• Gameplay options: Faster beam switching, next/previous lock-on targets, shooting in Scan Visor and seamless pickups.
• Difficulty and cheats: Damage sliders, moon jump, adjustable Boost Ball speed/duration, airborne boosting and boost steering.
• Saving: More reliable save states and Quick Resume, including restored cutscenes, animations, platforms, enemy collisions, music and room layers.
• Disc compatibility: USA/PAL GameCube-to-Trilogy save conversion, disc checks for save states and memory-card import fixes.
• Trilogy: Improved title screens, multiplayer results and returning from completed matches.
• Visuals and audio: Water flicker, effect ordering, widescreen dialogue, portal visibility, movie audio and cutscene-skipping fixes.
• Performance and stability: Improved shader caching and texture memory management, plus fixes for particle overflows, memory races and Steam/Vulkan shutdown crashes.
• Android storage: Improved data-folder moves, remembered disc selection and shader-cache exporting.
• Randomizer logic: Improved route checks for terrain, water, platforms and movement abilities.
• Enemy fixes: Corrected Chykka projectile spawning, Ing death handling, platform aiming and several boss behaviours.
• Convenience: Added an Exit Game option to the main menu.

Downloads: Windows users should extract the Windows-x64 ZIP and run PrimedGunEchoes.exe. Quest users should install the Quest APK. Symbols are for crash debugging. Source, licences and SHA256 checksums are provided separately.

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.4

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.4, based on Echoes Unbound 0.8.0.

Keep your saves: On Quest, install the APK over alpha.2 or alpha.3 - do not uninstall. It uses the same package name and signing certificate. On Windows, use the launcher updater, or keep your user folder when updating manually. Normal game saves are preserved; alpha.3 save states are incompatible. Make a normal in-game save before updating.

Changes

• Seeker Missiles: aiming and target acquisition follow the tracked arm cannon; the charging reticle follows your aim and keeps a consistent size.
• Dark Beam: fixed the gray centers on the bouncing particles after charged shots hit a wall.
• Pickup attraction: charging draws nearby pickups from every direction, including beside and behind you.
• Quest updater: check for releases, read the notes, download the APK and open the Quest installer directly from Setup. Updates verify the download and preserve saves and settings.
• Quest settings: open the full Port Options panel from the launcher's Port Config tab.
• Save states: correctly restore room layers, preventing some room events from replaying after loading.
• Launcher refresh: dark blue and purple palette with Light Suit artwork.

Downloads

• Windows: extract the Windows-x64 ZIP and run PrimedGunEchoes.exe.
• Quest: install the Quest APK over your existing installation to preserve saves and settings.
• Symbols are for crash debugging; source and license archives are provided separately. SHA256SUMS.txt verifies the downloads.

Save states remain experimental; keep normal memory-card saves. Screw Attack cameras, turrets, PAL/Trilogy VR and local multiplayer remain unsupported or untested. No disc image is included; you need your own Echoes disc image.

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.3

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.3, based on Echoes Unbound 0.7.0.

Keep your saves: On Quest, install the APK over alpha.2”do not uninstall. It uses the same package name and signing certificate. On Windows, use the launcher updater, or keep your user folder when updating manually.

Changes

• Morph Ball camera: improved heading continuity when morphing and unmorphing, especially when looking sideways or behind you.
• VR rendering: preserved per-eye effects and headset scan targeting with the upstream update; fixed an index-buffer corruption bug. Room visibility follows the headset view, reducing disappearing actors when looking around.
• More reliable save states: improved restoration of enemies, bosses, doors, pickups, platforms and triggers; working save/load shortcuts and slot selection.
• Visual fixes: restored Morph Ball trails, boost and Spider Ball effects, rain splashes and drifting snow; improved Scan Visor colours and lens flares with anti-aliasing.
• Audio fixes: improved music looping and rapid-fire sounds, plus music and sound-effect volume above 100%.
• New options and convenience: infinite beam ammo, a reorganised Enhancements page, texture-pack feedback.
• Gameplay and performance: enemy and boss behaviour fixes, improved Trilogy button prompts and fewer unnecessary rendering passes.

Downloads

• Windows: extract the Windows-x64 ZIP and run PrimedGunEchoes.exe.
• Quest: install the Quest APK over your existing installation to preserve saves and settings.
• Symbols are for crash debugging; source and license archives are provided separately. SHA256SUMS.txt verifies the downloads.

Save states remain experimental; keep normal memory-card saves. Seeker multi-lock, Screw Attack cameras and turrets still use the original pad behaviour. PAL/Trilogy VR and local multiplayer remain unsupported or untested. No game content is included; you need your own Echoes disc image.

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.2

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.2, based on the Echoes Unbound native port 0.6.6.

Changes since alpha.1

• Immersive cutscenes without black bars: with "Show cutscenes on cinema screen" off, cutscenes now fill your view in the headset instead of keeping the letterbox (Remove cinematic bars, on by default).
• Cutscene dialogue on the virtual screen: U-Mos's lines and the other cutscene dialogue, with their A prompt, now show on a screen in front of you instead of being stretched across the whole view.
• PC launcher updates: Setup > Check for updates... shows the newest release with its notes, downloads it, checks its SHA-256 and installs it, then restarts the launcher. Your user folder (saves and settings) is kept, and the replaced files are backed up and put back if the installation fails. This is PrimedGun v2's updater, now in PrimedGun Echoes.
• Native port updated from 0.6.0 to 0.6.6: highlights from Echoes Unbound's releases:
  • No more crash after the Dark Alpha Splinter's death cutscene.
  • Scrolling and animated world textures move again.
  • Sound effects no longer go silent after quitting to the title screen and loading a save.
  • Rapid-fire sounds play in sync, and caches drop Dark and Light Beam ammo.
  • Enemy behaviour fixes (Sandworm, SandBoss, Ing, WallCrawler, Dark Guardian, Boost Guardian, the player turret and more).
  • Save state and quick resume fixes: quick resume boots straight into the saved room.
  • New cheats in F1 > Cheats (infinite ammo, no Dark Aether damage) and a Fast option for the controller access room cutscenes.
  • Texture packs can be turned on and off with F7 and imported from a .zip.

Known limitations

• Echoes-only systems keep the original pad behaviour for now: Seeker missile multi-lock, the Screw Attack camera, turrets.
• Cannon Textures has no presets for Echoes' cannon yet, so Remove Shine does not work.
• With Skip cinematics on, a cutscene skips on the second press. The prompt the first press brings up is not shown in the headset.
• PAL and Metroid Prime Trilogy discs are untested in VR.
• Local multiplayer is not supported in VR.
• The launchers do not transfer memory cards. On PC, the game can share or mirror a Dolphin or PrimeHack card itself (F1 > System > Memory card).

Downloads and updating

• Windows PC VR: Download PrimedGunEchoes-v1.0.0-alpha.2-Windows-x64.zip, extract the entire archive and run PrimedGunEchoes.exe. To keep your saves and settings, copy the user folder from your alpha.1 folder into the new one. No user profile is included in the ZIP.
• First update with the new button: alpha.1 has no updater, so install alpha.2 by hand once. Later releases can be installed from Setup > Check for updates....
• Standalone Quest: Install PrimedGunEchoes-v1.0.0-alpha.2-Quest.apk over alpha.1 with SideQuest or adb install. It uses the same package name and signing key, so your saves and settings are kept. Do not uninstall to update.
• Checksums: SHA256SUMS.txt contains SHA-256 checksums for the release downloads. On Windows, run Get-FileHash .\PrimedGunEchoes-v1.0.0-alpha.2-Windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256 and compare the result with the matching entry.
• Other assets: The symbols ZIP is for crash investigation; the source ZIP and licenses ZIP contain the corresponding source and notices.

PrimedGun Echoes installs alongside PrimedGun v2 (Metroid Prime) on both PC and Quest. Save states remain experimental; keep normal memory-card saves as well. No game content is included: you need your own Metroid Prime 2: Echoes disc image (USA; PAL and Trilogy are experimental).

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.1

PrimedGun Echoes v1.0.0-alpha.1, based on the Echoes Unbound native port 0.6.0.

The first public alpha of PrimedGun Echoes: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes in native VR on Windows PC VR and standalone Meta Quest, with the controls and VR experience of PrimedGun v2 (Metroid Prime) carried over to Echoes.

Features

• Native OpenXR VR: Windows PC (Direct3D 12, or Vulkan for SteamVR headsets such as PSVR2) and standalone Quest (tested on Quest 3).
• PrimedGun controls: room-scale movement, 6DOF arm cannon aiming with grapple and lock-on, snap or smooth turning, left-handed play, and height calibration with a right stick click.
• Beam wheel and visor selection for Echoes' beams and visors; the Screw Attack keeps chaining with the jump input.
• In the headset: head-locked HUD and helmet, Dark Visor and Scan Visor in both eyes, look to scan, pause screens with their 3D models, the 3D map held in your hand, and message boxes.
• VR menu (left stick click) for controls, calibration, graphics and more. The quick resume question also shows in the headset.
• Launchers: PrimedGunEchoes.exe on PC and the launcher panel on Quest, with every PrimedGun setting. Import PrimedGun Settings brings over your VR settings from PrimedGun v2 or from PrimedGun on Dolphin.
• Cannon Textures: import your own textures for Echoes' arm cannon into five slots.
• Fix over the native port: the stray pixel in the middle of the screen is gone.

Known limitations

• Echoes-only systems keep the original pad behaviour for now: Seeker missile multi-lock, the Screw Attack camera, turrets.
• Cannon Textures has no presets for Echoes' cannon yet, so Remove Shine does not work.
• PAL and Metroid Prime Trilogy discs are untested in VR.
• Local multiplayer is not supported in VR.
• The launchers do not transfer memory cards. On PC, the game can share or mirror a Dolphin or PrimeHack card itself (F1 > System > Memory card).

Downloads and installing

• Windows PC VR: Download PrimedGunEchoes-v1.0.0-alpha.1-Windows-x64.zip, extract the entire archive and run PrimedGunEchoes.exe. Select your disc image, set your headset's OpenXR runtime as active, then press Play. Saves and settings are kept in the user folder next to the executables; keep it when you update.
• Standalone Quest: Install PrimedGunEchoes-v1.0.0-alpha.1-Quest.apk with SideQuest or adb install, then open PrimedGun Echoes from Unknown Sources. Select Game copies your disc image into the app's folder. Later releases install over this one and keep your saves; do not uninstall to update.
• Checksums: SHA256SUMS.txt contains SHA-256 checksums for the release downloads. On Windows, run Get-FileHash .\PrimedGunEchoes-v1.0.0-alpha.1-Windows-x64.zip -Algorithm SHA256 and compare the result with the matching entry.
• Other assets: The symbols ZIP is for crash investigation; the source ZIP and licenses ZIP contain the corresponding source and notices.

PrimedGun Echoes installs alongside PrimedGun v2 (Metroid Prime) on both PC and Quest. Save states remain experimental; keep normal memory-card saves as well. No game content is included: you need your own Metroid Prime 2: Echoes disc image (USA; PAL and Trilogy are experimental).