1.0.9 Stable Public Beta

Split-screen presentation polish:

• Each player keeps their own HUD and camera through story cutscenes and pause fades.
• Returning from Continue / Quit keeps each player's own pause portrait.
• Scene fades preserve the world's colors while independent menus prepare their portraits.

The reproduced cutscene HUD and Quit-return portrait failures pass native checks. Please retest the reported one-frame duplicate-view flash when pausing; that exact symptom was not reproduced in the controlled baseline routes.

Includes all 1.0.8 fixes. Diagnostic recording remains optional and off by default. Both netplay peers must update. Your native memory-card saves carry forward. The original, unmodified USA disc is required; no game data is included. CD Speed, Fast Loading and developer cheats are absent.

Four Player Co-op is available separately as a prerelease.

Validation: Windows 39/39 and Linux 34/34 checks passed. The exact public Windows ZIP and Linux AppImage boot the original USA disc into playable native gameplay. Package audits and uploaded asset digests passed.