Yakumo v0.7.5

Yakumo v0.7.5 brings community made translations, more flexible controls, an updated settings menu and fixes for Android rendering and file imports. These notes cover the changes since v0.6.4 (Previously known as v0.6.0-alpha.4).

Highlights

Game-text translations

• Import a community .lang file through System → Text → Import Translation…, choose it in Game Text Language, then restart Yakumo. The translation changes the game's displayed text without modifying the disc image. Entries missing from the translation retain the source text.
• Translation support works with original Japanese and English-patched HD images, including ordinary quest catalogs and active-quest text. Cyrillic uses narrower character cells to avoid excessive spacing. Translation searches are spread across frames to reduce blocking work.
• Community projects: Brazilian Portuguese and Russian. Translation files are downloaded separately and are not bundled with Yakumo. The Russian translation is a rough draft; completeness and wording are maintained by each translation project. Long translations can still exceed a field's visual width. See the translation guide.

Controls, camera and appearance

• Control presets and combinations.
• Controller setup: view connected controllers and configure pads SDL does not recognize. The game follows the controller in use, including adapters.
• Lock-on: follow a large monster with the quest camera and optionally show its target marker.
• Layered armor: choose the hunter's appearance independently of the equipped armor. Layered armor does not yet sync during online play.
• Single-player fast-forward, an experimental free camera and photo mode, frame stepping, full-resolution PNG screenshots and Hide HUD.

Menu, audio and diagnostics

• Yakumo menu's clean up and a new QoL tab, which groups modern features, fast loading, single-player fast-forward and experimental camera options.
• Compact performance overlay: a small line with FPS, game speed and Vsync status, with an optional logging mode.
• Mute in Background and Gamepad in Background, both off by default. Keyboard and mouse input still require focus.
• GPU Compatibility (restart required) explains its performance cost and shows the active mode. Auto enables the fallback when the startup test fails or a shader pipeline is refused. Yakumo displays a notice when On or Auto activates compatibility mode. Changing the setting requires a restart.
• Sharp Text is off by default; an explicitly chosen setting is retained. Optional Sharp Bilinear and MMPX (slow / experimental) modes upscale the game's 2D interface.

Android

• Both PSP and Action touch layouts can be edited. Move, resize, rebind or hide elements; use a fixed or floating stick and add up to eight combination buttons to the PSP layout.
• Texture packs and mod folders import through Android's system folder picker, including Downloads and SD-card providers. Transfers show progress, support cancellation and check the selected contents before installation.
• Android requests the selected surface frame rate on supported systems, allowing high-refresh screens to use their available modes. Android's battery, thermal and display policies still control the final refresh rate.
• GPU descriptor pools grow as needed. Auto compatibility mode avoids enabling the slower fallback merely because a device belongs to a GPU family. These address earlier MediaTek startup and performance problems; some device-specific reports remain open below.
• The picture is centered correctly around display cutouts. Fatal-error dialogs fit landscape screens and include device/GPU details with a Save the log… button.

Windows and saves

• Portable Windows packages keep settings, saves and installed data beside the executable. Unicode user and folder names are handled correctly.
• A new-version save backup reminder offers Back up now. Save import, export and backup remain available in Yakumo's menu.

Fixes and regression checks

• Reduced redundant alpha-test and blend work for draws whose opacity can be proven, while retaining the original rendering path where perspective interpolation requires it. Improvements depend on the device and scene; this is not a universal FPS increase.
• Fixed hot-spring sparkle interpolation and hardened malformed archive, audio, image, font and translation handling.

Open reports and limitations

These reports remain open; this release does not claim to resolve them:

• Dimensity 7025 black screen (#243) and Galaxy A54 Gathering Hall exit crash (#149).
• AYN Thor suspension/lid-close process loss (#306). Save before suspending; save states are not available.
• Layered-armor upgrade freeze (#229).
• Choppy fast monster animations at 120 FPS (#304) and colored menu separator artifacts (#305).
• Talk indicator with Hide HUD (#196) and Amatsu cutscene twitching (#197).

DLC translation and all mod-provided quest layouts have not been fully verified. Existing translation support leaves room for mod integration, but does not promise a complete mod-language API.

Updating and reporting

Back up your saves before updating. On Android, install the APK over the previous version; do not uninstall first, because uninstalling deletes app data. Final packages will include no disc image, original executable, textures, audio or other game assets. Use your own legally obtained copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. (NPJB-40001); the original PSP release is not supported by this port.

For problems, use the bug-report form and include the Yakumo version, device/GPU, OS, settings, reproduction steps and a log. For performance comparisons, use the same scene and resolution and report game speed as well as FPS.

New contributors

• @devdouglasonofre — the game-text translation mechanism and Brazilian Portuguese translation (#227).
• @mnml — background audio muting and controller-input support while Yakumo's window is unfocused (#224).

Thanks for your reports and feedback

Thank you to everyone who tested on Windows, macOS, Linux/Steam Deck and Android, supplied logs and reproducible reports, and checked translations and controller behavior. Device-specific reports help us find problems that desktop and emulator tests cannot reproduce.

In particular, thanks to:

• @MrTrapo2 for a playable-device report and smithy rendering evidence (#206).

• @Kesurage, @Pantarou25 and @Tewislove for device-specific GPU and performance reports (#159, #210, #243).

• @mrRhieee for the layered-armor upgrade comparison (#229).

• @Deemo385 for animation, menu-rendering and AYN Thor suspension reports (#304, #305, #306).

• @Nephilim-Eclipse, @Yani1978 and @Aceve20 for Android GPU and performance reports and comparisons.

• @BonkReigu, @ThePureiya, @SebKentheinvoker and @leSilva13 for touch-layout and controller reports and feedback.

• @ArkkBarkk, @rVicio, @Milcraft201, @Kirigaia235, @cngjd, @filthydrawings and @longruhai0901 for rendering, saves, mods and device-behavior reports.

• @rogeriootto, @denYOUvo, @FrostR4z0r and @4zv4l for multiplayer and interoperability reports and comparisons.

• @cerroverb for reporting the Linux build running on an Android handheld through FEX.

• [@devdouglasonofre](#227 (comment)...

(test) Yakumo v0.7.0-test.1

⚠️ This is a test build, not a stable release. The latest stable release is Yakumo v0.6.0-alpha.4. If you just want to play, stay on (or go back to) that one. Install this build only if you want to help test.

Note

This build is Android only. Windows, Linux, the Steam Deck and macOS get these changes in a later build. Updating keeps your settings and saves.

What changed since v0.6.6

• The MediaTek performance fix. v0.6.5 and v0.6.6 turned GPU compatibility mode on from the start for every Mali driver older than r38 and every PowerVR driver, which most phones with MediaTek Helio and Dimensity chips have. The mode costs speed, and on those phones it roughly halved the frame rate compared with alpha.4 (#210, #212). Now GPU compatibility mode (Video → GPU compatibility, Auto by default) only switches on when this phone actually needs it: when the start-up self-test draws its test picture wrong, or the driver refuses one of the game's shaders. Everyone else runs at full speed again. The menu says whether it is on and why.
• Sharp text is off by default. Redrawing the sharper text caused hitches whenever the text on screen changed. v0.6.5 and v0.6.6 saved Sharp text as on for everyone, chosen or not, so it is switched off for you too after the update, unless you turn it back on yourself in Video → Sharp text; from now on your choice is kept.
• The v0.6.6 fix for MediaTek Helio phones stays in: the descriptor pools that grow as needed (#159, #169), the error dialog with its Save the log… button, and the dialog that fits the screen.

For everything else since alpha.4 (the touch layout, control presets, generic gamepads, lock-on, layered armor, fast-forward, the free camera and more), see the notes of v0.6.5 and v0.6.6, along with their known issues.

Testers wanted

Especially if you reported #210, #212, #159 or #169, or your phone has a MediaTek chip, please tell us:

1. Your phone model, chipset and Android version.
2. The frame rate in the village and in a hunt, compared with alpha.4 on the same phone (Video → Performance shows it).
3. What Video → GPU compatibility shows: it should say Auto, and the text under it Now: Off. If it says On, the reason after it tells us why.
4. Whether the game starts and plays normally.

Post in the issue you reported, or in #210. A short "same speed as alpha.4 on my phone" with the model is just as welcome.

Download

yakumo-0.7.0-test.1-android-arm64.apk: Android 10 or newer, 64-bit (arm64), Vulkan 1.1. It installs over earlier versions and keeps your saves and settings; don't uninstall the old one first, because that deletes its saves. If Android says the package is invalid, download it again: the file is about 200 MB. As always, no game data is included: pick the disc image of your own copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. from Yakumo's own setup screen (Choose image…). The image is copied into the app, so you need about 2.5 GB free.

Verification

Built from commit ea67239 on release/0.7, signed with the same release key as the earlier releases (same certificate as alpha.4, v0.6.5 and v0.6.6) and checked with apksigner verify; every library import checked against Android 10 (API 29); version name 0.7.0-test.1, version code 369 (v0.6.6 was 364). The packaging checks that the APK holds no game data.

On the Android 15 emulator (API 35, arm64):

• It installed as an update over the alpha.4, v0.6.5 and v0.6.6 release APKs, one after the other; the save and the other files came through unchanged. It started into the game with a copy of a test save: the title, the game menu, the character and the village.
• A settings file written by v0.6.6 with Sharp text on was read as off, and the menu shows Sharp text off.
• GPU compatibility shows Auto and Now: Off; the self-test passed.
• With the self-test made to fail on purpose (MHP3RD_GPU_SELFTEST=fail), Auto turned GPU compatibility mode on, and the menu showed Now: On (Auto: the start-up self-test drew wrong).

The emulator's GPU is not a phone's, and this APK has not been tried on a real phone yet: the speed on MediaTek phones is what we need you for.

SHA256SUMS:

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ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz is the unmodified source of the FFmpeg the APK includes (LGPL).

(unstable) Yakumo v0.6.6 — MediaTek Helio fix (Android)

⚠️ This is a test build, not a stable release. There is no stable release newer than Yakumo v0.6.0-alpha.4 yet. If you just want to play, stay on (or go back to) v0.6.0-alpha.4. Install this one only if you want to help test. Some phones with MediaTek chips (Helio, Dimensity) run slower on this build than on alpha.4 (#210, #212); a fix is in progress.

Note

An Android preview with the fix for MediaTek Helio phones. This release only has the Android APK. Windows, Linux, the Steam Deck and macOS stay on v0.6.5 for now and get these changes in a later release. Updating keeps your settings and saves.

The MediaTek Helio fix

Phones with MediaTek Helio chips (Mali GPUs on older drivers) showed only a black screen after setup, or stopped at start with "Yakumo cannot draw on this device's GPU" (#159, #169). The renderer ran out of descriptor pool space: desktop drivers quietly hand out more than was asked for, but strict mobile drivers keep to the exact numbers.

• The pools now grow as needed instead of running out (#209).
• Optional features step back instead of stopping the app. If a set still can't be had, only what needed it goes without: a texture is drawn plain and asked for again a second later, and a sharper UI copy is skipped in favour of the original.
• A fatal error is now a report. The error dialog shows what failed, the GPU with its driver and Vulkan version, the phone, its Android version and chip, and the Yakumo version, so a screenshot of it tells us what we need. Its Save the log… button saves the log right there, even when the game never got to its menu. The end of the log is no longer garbled.
• The dialog fits the screen. On a landscape phone its buttons used to be squashed off the bottom edge; now the text scrolls and Close and Save the log… always stay full size and readable (#211).

As far as we can tell without the phone, this fixes the black screen of #159 and #169.

Testers wanted: MediaTek Helio

If your phone has a MediaTek Helio chip (such as the Infinix Hot 50), or Yakumo showed a black screen or a GPU error on it before, please help us confirm the fix:

1. Install this APK over your current one and start the game.
2. Does it start now: the intro movie, the title screen, the village?
3. If it doesn't, the error dialog names the GPU, the driver and the phone. Take a screenshot of it, then press Save the log… and save the log.
4. If the picture stays black without a dialog, open Yakumo's menu, set Video → GPU compatibility to On, restart and try again, then use System → Save the log….
5. Post in #169: your phone model, its chipset and Android version, whether it started, and the screenshot or log.

A short "it works on my phone" with the model is just as welcome.

Everything else

Apart from the fix above, the Android app is the same as in v0.6.5: the action-style touch layout, control presets and chords, generic gamepads, lock-on, no black bar beside a notch, GPU compatibility mode, sharp text, layered armor, fast-forward, the free camera and the backup reminder. Its notes list them all, along with the known issues.

Download

yakumo-0.6.6-android-arm64.apk: Android 10 or newer, 64-bit (arm64), Vulkan 1.1. It installs over earlier versions and keeps your saves and settings; don't uninstall the old one first, because that deletes its saves. If Android says the package is invalid, download it again: the file is about 200 MB. As always, no game data is included: pick the disc image of your own copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. from Yakumo's own setup screen (Choose image…). The image is copied into the app, so you need about 2.5 GB free.

Verification

Built from commit dab6736 on main, signed with the same release key as the earlier releases (same certificate as v0.6.5 and alpha.4) and checked with apksigner verify; every library import checked against Android 10 (API 29); version name 0.6.6, version code 364 (v0.6.5 was 357). The packaging checks that the APK holds no game data.

On the Android 15 emulator (API 35, arm64):

• It installed as an update over the alpha.4 and the v0.6.5 release APKs; the save and the settings came through unchanged. After each update it started into the game with a copy of a test save: the backup reminder (naming v0.6.6), the intro movie, the title, the game menu, the character and the village.
• With the descriptor pools forced small (64 texture sets in all) it still reached the village with the save loaded; the textures past the limit were drawn plain instead of stopping the app.
• With pools of a single set it stopped at start with the same error the Helio phones showed. The error dialog named the failed pool, the GPU, driver, Android version, device and v0.6.6, with both buttons readable at 2400×1080 and at 1280×576; where the text doesn't fit, it scrolls. A test build of the same fix was also checked at 1600×720, and its Save the log… opened the system folder picker.

The emulator's GPU is not a strict mobile driver, and this APK has not been tried on a real phone yet.

SHA256SUMS:

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ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz is the unmodified source of the FFmpeg the APK includes (LGPL).

(unstable) Yakumo v0.6.5

⚠️ This is a test build, not a stable release. There is no stable release newer than Yakumo v0.6.0-alpha.4 yet. If you just want to play, stay on (or go back to) v0.6.0-alpha.4. Install this one only if you want to help test. Some phones with MediaTek chips (Helio, Dimensity) run slower on this build than on alpha.4 (#210, #212); a fix is in progress.

A big alpha for every platform: controls you can shape as you like, a lock-on camera, a free camera with a photo mode, sharper text, layered armor, a new touch layout for phones, a portable Windows build, and a round of fixes. It gathers everything since v0.6.0-alpha.4. Updating keeps your settings and saves.

Highlights

Controls

• Control presets and combination binds. A preset is a whole layout for the keyboard, the mouse and gamepads. Yakumo ships Default (as before), Modern (attacks on the triggers), Left-handed and Classic keyboard. Changing a binding makes a preset of your own, which you can rename, save as new or delete (#176, #165).
• A new Controls page. Bindings are grouped (movement, attacks, items, camera, system, port features). Each row shows the keyboard and gamepad bindings side by side, with up to four per device. Clear a binding, add one with +, or reset an action to its preset. Conflicts are shown with Remove from … or Keep both (#190, #188).
• The menu remembers where you were. It reopens on the same page and row (#189).
• Any chord, any buttons. A binding can be a chord of up to four inputs from one device, in any order. An action can press any set of PSP buttons. New actions Item left (L + □) and Item right (L + ○) scroll the item bar reliably. By default they sit on the mouse side buttons and a pad's upper back paddles. Your combinations adds actions of your own (#199, #198).
• Unknown gamepads. Controls → Controllers lists every controller with its live state and has a setup wizard for pads SDL doesn't know. Two-port adapters (such as "PS to USB") now work in the game, not only in the menu: the game follows the pad you press. Your layouts are kept in gamecontrollerdb.txt (#202, #147).
• Steam Deck back buttons. Under Steam Input the game sees no back buttons. Give L4/L5/R4/R5 keyboard keys in Steam and bind those keys in Yakumo. See Steam Deck in the README.

Camera and pictures

• Lock-on (R3 on a gamepad, T or the middle mouse button on the keyboard). Tap it to lock the quest camera onto the nearest large monster; tap again for the next one, or to let go. Moving the camera yourself lets go too. A small ring marks the locked monster; Lock-on and Lock-on marker are under Controls (#200, #163).
• Experimental free camera with a photo mode (Controls → Experimental → Free camera, off by default). F6, or Back + R3, detaches the view: fly with W A S D / E Q or the sticks. P or Start freezes the game for a photo; . or D-pad right steps it one game frame (#178, #191, #162, #187).
• Screenshots (F12, or R3 + D-pad left): the game's picture at the internal resolution, as a PNG, without Yakumo's own interface. System → Open the screenshots folder shows where they go (#191).
• Hide HUD (F7, or Video → Hide HUD) hides the health bars, clock, item bar, map, name tags and prompts. Menus and dialogs stay. The free camera hides the HUD while it flies (#193, #184).

Play

• Fast-forward (single player only). Hold the key under Esc (`) to run the game 3× faster; 2×–8× and a toggle mode are under Video. Sound is muted while it runs. It is off during ad hoc play (#177, #166).
• Layered armor (Mods → Layered armor, off by default). Draw your hunter in other armor, part by part, while defense, skills, the save and what other players see keep the real armor. The new look shows after the next area, quest or equipment change (#204, #172, #155).

Picture

• Sharp text (Video, on by default): at ×2 and above, the game's text is drawn again at the internal resolution instead of being magnified.
• UI textures (Video, off by default): Sharp bilinear or the MMPX pixel-art upscaler for the game's 2D interface (#195, #164).

Android

• Action-style touch layout (Controls → Touch screen → Layout → Action): a stick, a big attack button, combined attack, evade, swipes for the D-pad, and haptic feedback. Edit the action layout… lets you move, resize, rebind and hide every element. The PSP buttons layout stays the default (#179, #174).
• No more black bar beside a notch or camera hole. The picture now fills the screen, or is letterboxed evenly (#194, #170).
• GPU compatibility mode (Video → GPU compatibility): a safer rendering path for older GPU drivers. Auto turns it on for older Mali drivers and PowerVR. At start Yakumo now tests the GPU, logs what it found, and says so on screen when something is wrong (#181, #169).

Windows

• Portable mode. The new -portable.zip keeps all its data (settings, the copied disc image, saves, logs) in a data folder next to Yakumo.exe, for a USB drive or a folder you move around. On a PC where Yakumo is set up already, its first start offers to copy your data (#175, #152).
• Unicode paths. A user or folder name outside your system's code page (for example Cyrillic on a Western Windows) no longer breaks setup, saves or texture packs (#130, #129).

Saves

• Backup reminder. The first start of a new release asks you to back up your saves, with a Back up now button that copies them into save-backups/. You'll see it once after this update. It never moves or deletes anything, and System → Saves can turn it off (#182, #167).

Fixes

• Hot spring sparkles no longer flicker with frame interpolation (#192). The ripples of #168 are still open.

Testers wanted: MediaTek Helio

If Yakumo shows only a black screen on your phone after setup (reported on MediaTek Helio phones such as the Infinix Hot 50, #169), please help us find out why:

1. Install this APK over your current one and start the game.
2. Look at what happens: does the intro movie, the title screen or the village appear? Is there a message over the picture?
3. If the picture stays black, open Yakumo's menu, go to Video → GPU compatibility and set it to On, then restart Yakumo and try again.
4. Either way, open System → Save the log… and save the log.
5. Post in #169: your phone model, its chipset and its Android version, whether the picture appeared with GPU compatibility off and on, and attach the log.

Downloads

As always, no game data is included: on first start, point the setup at the disc image of your own copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver.

• Windows: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.5-windows-x86_64.zip. Extract the whole folder and run Yakumo.exe. Or yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.5-windows-x86_64-portable.zip, which keeps all its data next to Yakumo.exe.
• Linux and the Steam Deck: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.5-linux-x86_64.flatpak, or the portable .tar.gz.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.5-macos-arm64.dmg. Drag Yakumo to Applications. On first open, macOS says it can't verify the developer: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.
• Android: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.5-android-arm64.apk (Android 10 or newer, 64-bit, Vulkan 1.1). Pick the disc image from Yakumo's own setup screen. The image is copied into the app, so you need about 2.5 GB free. If Android says the package is invalid, download it again.

Updating over an earlier version keeps your settings and saves; at the first start the backup reminder offers to back up your saves. Don't uninstall the Android app between versions, because that deletes its saves.

Known issues

• With the HUD hidden, the talk icon over characters stays visible (#196).
• Amatsu twitches at the start of its in-engine cutscene (#197).
• The hot spring's ripples still flicker (#168); the sparkles are fixed.
• Lock-on has no touch button on Android yet (#201).
• Frame interpolation may stutter briefly every 11–17 seconds with Vsync on: the game runs at 29.97 fps and displays at 60 or 90 Hz.
• With Fill, some full-screen 2D frames made of pieces, such as the Quest Retire frame, are squeezed like the HUD (#119).
• Windows at 90/120 fps is untested and may fall back to lower rates (#124).
• Samsung (Exynos) phones: a crash when leaving the Gathering Hall has been reported and is being looked into (#149).

Verification

All builds are made from commit cf05203 on main, the target of this release's tag. Each packaging step checks that its artifact holds no game data and no path of the build machine.

• Windows: MSVC 19.44 release build; every DLL the executable and overlays import is in the package or in System32. The portable zip was unpacked into a fresh folder with a copy of a test save and booted without a window: it reported portable mode with its data in data\, loaded the save from there and installed overlays as the game loaded them, and wrote nothing to %APPDATA%.
• Linux: built on the Steam Deck in the Steam Runtime 3 "sniper" SDK container with the bundled SDL3 and LGPL-only FFmpeg; the release script checked that neither the Flatpak nor the tarball holds game data, and their checksums were verified after copying.
• macOS: Apple Silicon, ad-hoc signed, minimum macOS 13; checked with codesign --verify --deep --strict and the macOS 13 import check. The app from the disk image started to the setup screen with an empty data folder, and booted the game from a copy of a test save (355 overlays from the bundle).
• Android: signed with the same release key as earlier releases (same certificate as alpha.4) and checke...

Yakumo v0.6.0-alpha.4

The next alpha for every platform: much lighter rendering, loading screens that finish in a fraction of the time, and a round of fixes. It gathers everything since v0.6.0-alpha.1, including the Android-only alpha.2 and alpha.3. Updating keeps your settings and saves.

Highlights

Faster everywhere

• Lighter renderer. The CPU and GPU now work on two frames at once instead of waiting for each other; new textures no longer stop the GPU while they upload and decode about five times faster, in the background; shaders are kept between runs and prepared at start-up, so scenes and effects don't hitch the second time; about a third as many draw calls per frame; no needless early-depth-test killers in the shaders (#139, #142). On the Steam Deck at ×6 and 90 fps the render time per frame fell from 16–18 ms to about 11 ms; on phones that lagged badly (Snapdragon and Exynos) the game now runs at full speed.
• Fast loading (on by default, Video → Fast loading): while the game loads, it runs as fast as your machine allows instead of at PSP speed, so loading screens finish 2–5× faster — for example 6.9 s → 1.7 s from the village to a quest. It never speeds up gameplay, menus, cutscenes or online play (#141).
• Android: the game tells the system it needs steady performance, so the cores don't drop to low clocks between frames (#139).

Fixes

• Garbled textures on models that use the PSP's DXT compression, such as the Metal Gear collaboration armor and Rathian's wings (#146, #144).
• Android: the game stays in landscape even with auto-rotate off, and the picture is rebuilt only when the screen really turns (#138).
• Android: a disc image picked through the system's fallback file dialog is copied like any other instead of failing with "is not a file Yakumo can open" (#150).
• A GPU hang on AMD graphics (Steam Deck) at the character select screen, caused by an experimental GPU vertex path, is gone: that path is off by default (#145).

Platforms

• Android 10 is now supported, besides 11 and newer (#148, #140).

For developers

• A developer menu (only in builds from source, with MHP3RD_DEBUG_MENU=1; never in releases): give items and equipment, money, and quest cheats for testing (#151).
• MHP3RD_GPU_BREADCRUMBS=1 pinpoints the GPU work behind a hang; a lost GPU is now reported in the log (#145).

Downloads

As always, no game data is included: on first start, point the setup at the disc image of your own copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver.

• Windows: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.4-windows-x86_64.zip. Extract the whole folder and run Yakumo.exe.
• Linux and the Steam Deck: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.4-linux-x86_64.flatpak, or the portable .tar.gz.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.4-macos-arm64.dmg. Drag Yakumo to Applications. On first open, macOS says it can't verify the developer: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.
• Android: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.4-android-arm64.apk (Android 10 or newer, 64-bit, Vulkan 1.1). Pick the disc image from Yakumo's own setup screen. The image is copied into the app, so you need about 2.5 GB free. If Android says the package is invalid, download it again.

Updating over an earlier version keeps your settings and saves. Don't uninstall the Android app between versions, because that deletes its saves.

Known issues

• Frame interpolation may stutter briefly every 11–17 seconds with Vsync on: the game runs at 29.97 fps and displays at 60 or 90 Hz.
• With Fill, some full-screen 2D frames made of pieces, such as the Quest Retire frame, are squeezed like the HUD (#119).
• Windows at 90/120 fps is untested and may fall back to lower rates (#124).
• Windows: a user or folder name with characters outside your system's code page (for example Cyrillic on a Western Windows) can make setup, saves or texture packs fail. Keep Yakumo and its data under a plain-ASCII path until the fix lands (#129).
• Samsung (Exynos) phones: a crash when leaving the Gathering Hall has been reported and is being looked into (#149).

Verification

The Windows, Linux and Android builds are made from the tag v0.6.0-alpha.4 (commit 692e9b2); the macOS build from that tag plus one macOS-only fix, #153 (commit 41c1d32). Each packaging step checks that its artifact holds no game data and no path of the build machine.

• Windows: MSVC 19.44 release build; every DLL the executable and overlays import is in the package or in System32. The unpacked zip was set up from a disc image and played on a Radeon RX 5600 XT (Vulkan).
• Linux: built in the Steam Runtime 3 "sniper" SDK container; Flatpak and tarball. The Flatpak was installed from scratch on a Steam Deck, set up from a disc image and played from Steam in Game Mode.
• macOS: Apple Silicon, ad-hoc signed, minimum macOS 13; checked with codesign --verify --deep --strict. Installed from the disk image and played on macOS 27. It includes #153: MoltenVK's asynchronous queue submits are off again after a test build crashed on MoltenVK's dispatch thread.
• Android: played on a phone; signed with the same release key as earlier releases and checked with apksigner verify; every library import checked against Android 10 (API 29); version name 0.6.0-alpha.4.

SHA256SUMS:

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ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz is the unmodified source of the FFmpeg the builds include (LGPL).

Yakumo v0.6.0-alpha.3

Note

An Android preview for players whose phones run the game slowly. Only the Android APK is here; Windows, Linux, the Steam Deck and macOS stay on v0.6.0-alpha.1 for now. It includes the rotation fix from v0.6.0-alpha.2.

What's new for Android

Speed

Several players saw low frame rates on phones that should run the game easily, from Snapdragon 8 flagships to mid-range Exynos. This build removes the renderer's worst habits on mobile GPUs:

• The CPU and GPU now work on two frames at once instead of waiting for each other (#139).
• New textures no longer stop the whole GPU while they upload, and they decode about five times faster, in the background (#139, #142).
• Shaders are kept between runs and prepared at start-up, so there are no hitches the second time a scene or effect appears (#139, #142).
• Fewer, larger draw calls: about a third as many per frame (#142).
• Shaders that don't need it no longer disable the GPU's early depth test (#139).
• The game thread tells Android it needs steady performance (ADPF), so the cores don't drop to low clocks between frames (#139).

On the emulator the render time per frame fell from 10.9 to 6.5 ms.

Also in this build

• Fast loading (on by default, Video → Fast loading): loading screens finish 2–5× faster (#141).
• Garbled textures fixed on models that use the PSP's DXT compression, such as the Metal Gear collaboration armor (#146).

If it is still slow

In the menu, set Performance to overlay and log, play for a minute where it's slow, then use Save log and attach the file to an issue at https://github.com/TeamGDB/Yakumo/issues together with your phone model and the Resolution and Frame rate settings. Video → Resolution ×2 and Frame rate 30 are the lightest settings.

Download

yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.3-android-arm64.apk: Android 11 or newer, 64-bit (arm64), Vulkan 1.1. It installs over earlier versions and keeps your saves and settings; don't uninstall the old one first. If Android says the package is invalid, download it again: the file is about 200 MB. Pick the disc image from Yakumo's own setup screen (Choose image…), not by opening the .iso from a file manager (that case is being fixed).

Verification

Built from the tag v0.6.0-alpha.3 (commit 58a6ff9), signed with the same release key as the earlier releases and checked with apksigner verify; version name 0.6.0-alpha.3. The speed-ups were measured on the Android emulator and on a Mac; this APK itself has not been tried on a real phone yet.

SHA256SUMS:

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744463b97002292bf5825ef183ce7d639a86eda085e1fc8bd57b6127be4bbf23  yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.3-android-arm64.apk

ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz is the unmodified source of the FFmpeg the APK includes (LGPL).

Yakumo v0.6.0-alpha.1

Important

A newer version is out: v0.6.0-alpha.4, for every platform. It is much faster (especially on phones and the Steam Deck), has 2–5× faster loading screens, fixes garbled textures and adds Android 10. It installs over this version and keeps your settings and saves.

The first alpha of the next version. It is a big step in how the game plays and looks, and it adds two new platforms, macOS on Apple Silicon and Android. Everything new since v0.5.0 is still settling, so expect rough edges and please report them.

Highlights

Camera and aiming

• Analog camera (on by default): the right stick turns and tilts the quest camera in proportion to how far it is pushed, instead of the game's fixed-speed turn and vertical presets (#107).
• Analog bow and bowgun aim: the aim moves in proportion to the stick. The game still decides when aiming may move, so rolling, walking and the scope behave as in the original (#109, #110, #113).
• Trigger profiles for shooters: Bows (R and △ on the triggers) and Bowguns (R and ○) (#114).

Frame rate and picture

• 45, 60, 90 or 120 fps through frame interpolation. The game still simulates at 30, so its speed and timings are unchanged. The rate lowers itself when the device can't keep up, which you can turn off (#123, #125).
• Fill any window: the view takes the window's shape (16:10, 16:9, 21:9…) with the HUD kept in proportion, and the resolution can follow the window (#118).
• Faster renderer: on the Mac, about a third less render CPU time per frame. On the Steam Deck, the #92 frame-time spikes at high resolution are gone (#122).
• Jhen Mohran and other 1024×1024 textures now draw (#116).

Controls and content

• Keyboard and mouse: full, rebindable controls, with the mouse turning the camera and aiming; the pointer is captured only during play (#120).
• HD texture packs in PPSSPP's textures.ini format, installed from the menu with Video → Import texture pack… (#93, #121).
• The pad is read when the game asks for it, which reduces input latency (#8).
• Mods (experimental): replace and patch the game's files with community mods in the usual mod.ini format, managed from the new Mods page of the menu. It is new and has been tried with few mods, so back up your saves first (#132).

Fixes

• The HUD and parts of the ground no longer vanish in the busiest areas, such as the Flooded Forest's area 3 and the Tundra's area 2 (#134).
• The mouse aims in the bowgun scope too, and mouse aiming no longer jitters (#133).
• The menu follows a gamepad that connects while the game runs (#131).

New platforms

• macOS (Apple Silicon): an app bundle, ad-hoc signed.
• Android (11 or newer, arm64, Vulkan): touch controls with an on-screen D-pad, gamepad support, and saves and the disc image picked with Android's file picker. Tested on the emulator and on a real phone (#127).

Downloads

As always, no game data is included: on first start, point the setup at the disc image of your own copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver.

• Windows: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.1-windows-x86_64.zip. Extract the whole folder and run Yakumo.exe.
• Linux and the Steam Deck: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.1-linux-x86_64.flatpak, or the portable .tar.gz.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.1-macos-arm64.dmg. Drag Yakumo to Applications. On first open, macOS says it can't verify the developer: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.
• Android: yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.1-android-arm64.apk. Allow installing from unknown sources and pick your disc image on first start. The image is copied into the app, so you need about 2.5 GB free.

Updating over an earlier version keeps your settings and saves. Don't uninstall the Android app between versions, because that deletes its saves.

Known issues

• Frame interpolation may stutter briefly every 11–17 seconds with Vsync on: the game runs at 29.97 fps and displays at 60 or 90 Hz.
• With Fill, some full-screen 2D frames made of pieces, such as the Quest Retire frame, are squeezed like the HUD (#119).
• Windows at 90/120 fps is untested and may fall back to lower rates (#124).
• Windows: a user or folder name with characters outside your system's code page (for example Cyrillic on a Western Windows) can make setup, saves or texture packs fail. Keep Yakumo and its data under a plain-ASCII path until the fix lands (#129).

Verification

The Linux, macOS and Android builds are made from the tag v0.6.0-alpha.1 (commit 83060fb). Each packaging script checks that its artifact holds no game data and no path of the build machine.

• Linux: built in the Steam Runtime 3 "sniper" SDK container; Flatpak and tarball. The Flatpak was installed and played on a Steam Deck, from Steam in Game Mode.
• macOS: Apple Silicon, ad-hoc signed, minimum macOS 13; checked with codesign --verify --deep --strict. Installed from the disk image and set up from scratch on macOS 27; other versions have not been tried.
• Android: signed with the release key and checked with apksigner verify; version name 0.6.0-alpha.1. Played on a real phone.
• Windows: portable build, built and tested on Windows by @mojitosunrise.

SHA256SUMS:

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ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz is the unmodified source of the FFmpeg the builds include (LGPL).

Yakumo v0.6.0-alpha.2

Android hotfix. Only the Android APK changes; Windows, Linux, the Steam Deck and macOS stay on v0.6.0-alpha.1, which has everything else.

Fixes

• The game stays in landscape. It no longer turns to portrait when the phone's auto-rotate is off, where it showed a narrow picture with the buttons around it. It still flips between the two landscape sides with the phone (#138).
• Fewer picture rebuilds on some GPUs. The swapchain is rebuilt only when the screen's rotation or size really changes, so a driver that keeps asking for one can no longer make it happen every frame (#138).
• Each rebuild is written to the log (Save log in the menu), with the rotation the GPU reports, so rotation problems on other phones can be traced.

Download

yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.2-android-arm64.apk: Android 11 or newer, 64-bit (arm64), Vulkan 1.1. It installs over v0.6.0-alpha.1 and keeps your saves and settings; don't uninstall the old one first. If Android says the package is invalid, download it again: the file is about 200 MB and an interrupted download looks like that.

Verification

Built from the tag v0.6.0-alpha.2 (commit cfb0daa), signed with the same release key as v0.6.0-alpha.1 and checked with apksigner verify; version name 0.6.0-alpha.2. Tested on the Android 15 emulator: it starts in landscape with auto-rotate off, turning the phone rebuilds the picture once, and the touch controls stay in place. Also tested on a real phone, an Infinix GT 30 Pro.

SHA256SUMS:

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0e19d4a9aed1fe9ab9bc2a771bc49e233e8b1a1604c8669dbad15e4577cf3077  yakumo-0.6.0-alpha.2-android-arm64.apk

ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz is the unmodified source of the FFmpeg the APK includes (LGPL).

Yakumo v0.5.0

Yakumo v0.5.0

Windows, Linux and the Steam Deck, all built from this tag.

Highlights

• Import, export and create timestamped backups of save data from the Yakumo menu.
• Fixed the reward screen and other graphics copied through GE block transfers.
• Fixed textures sampled from a framebuffer.
• Removed seams between 2D tiles above 1x internal resolution.
• Reduced renderer CPU time by updating lighting data only when it changes. The busiest village spot on a Steam Deck holds full speed again, where it fell to 92–94%.
• Documented working Windows save data.
• Renamed the native executable and window to Yakumo and added the project emblem as the Windows icon.

Windows

Download yakumo-0.5.0-windows-x86_64.zip, extract the complete directory and run Yakumo.exe. On first start, select the disc image from your own legally obtained copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. Yakumo checks the image and prepares the game data in the Windows user data directory.

The archive includes the 355 overlay DLLs, SDL3, the required FFmpeg DLLs, the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime DLLs and their licence notices. It contains no game assets, disc image, original game executable or save data.

Linux and the Steam Deck

Two ways to install, both x86-64 and both containing the same build:

• Flatpak: flatpak install --user yakumo-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.flatpak, then run it from your menu, or add it to Steam as a non-Steam game for Game Mode.
• Tarball: extract yakumo-0.5.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz anywhere and run yakumo from it. It needs glibc 2.29 or newer.

Point it at your own disc image on first start, the same as on Windows. Updating over an earlier version keeps your settings and saves.

Verification

Built from tag v0.5.0, commit 61870a704681e03d0d50dcb1fd4b0ba00559e61c.

Windows — Windows 11 x86-64, MSVC 19.44.35229.0, Release, MHP3RD_RELEASE=ON, bundled FFmpeg 7.1.5.

• All three test suites passed.
• All 355 overlays were rebuilt from the tag; every DLL imports Yakumo.exe.
• A fresh extraction opened the first-run setup screen.
• The installer accepted the supported disc image, copied it into a throwaway data directory and prepared the executable.
• The installed game booted for 40 seconds without rendering or audio, reported 362,482 recompiled functions and installed its initial overlays.
• Matching Windows builds were manually tested for gameplay, save and reload, multiplayer and the reward screen.

Linux and the Steam Deck — built in the Steam Runtime 3 "sniper" SDK with GCC 14 and bundled FFmpeg 7.1.5; the Flatpak runs on org.freedesktop.Platform 25.08. Needs glibc 2.29 or newer. SDL3 3.4.16.

• Both artifacts were set up from a disc image into a throwaway data directory and booted headless: each reported the expected executable hash, 362,482 recompiled functions, and overlays being installed as the game loaded them.
• The Flatpak's files were checked on their runtime without installing the bundle, so no existing installation or player data was touched.
• The Flatpak was then installed on a Steam Deck and played in Game Mode.

Third-party

ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz is the source for the FFmpeg included in these builds, as its licence requires. SHA256SUMS covers every file attached here.

This release contains no game assets. You must provide the files from your own legally obtained copy of the game.

v0.4.0 — prebuilt for Linux and the Steam Deck, multiplayer

The first prebuilt release: Linux and the Steam Deck. Download it, point it at your own disc image, and play. No build needed.

This release does not include any game assets. You must provide the files from your own legally obtained copy of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. (NPJB-40001). On first start, Yakumo checks that copy, accepts only the original release, and prepares the game from it. Fan translation patches that change only DATA.BIN (such as the English patch v6.1.0) are accepted.

Download

File	For
yakumo-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.flatpak	Steam Deck and desktop Linux: recommended
yakumo-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Any x86-64 Linux with glibc 2.29 or newer, without Flatpak
SHA256SUMS	Checksums of the files above
ffmpeg-7.1.5.tar.xz	Source of the FFmpeg libraries included in both packages (LGPL)

Full instructions: docs/LINUX.md.

Steam Deck

1. In Desktop Mode, open the .flatpak file from Dolphin. Discover opens it; choose Install.
2. Start Yakumo from the menu. Pick your disc image with the gamepad in the built-in file browser; SD cards appear in the row of places.
3. For Game Mode, add Yakumo in Steam with Add a Non-Steam Game.
4. Updating from an earlier Yakumo Flatpak: Discover does not update an app from a file. Remove the old Yakumo first (your settings and saves stay), then install the new file.

Saves live in ~/.var/app/io.github.teamgdb.Yakumo/data/Yakumo/MHP3rd/ms0/PSP/SAVEDATA/ (Flatpak). A save folder copied from a PSP or PPSSPP (ULJM05800) loads as it is, and so does your downloaded-quest folder (ULJM05800QST).

New since v0.3.0

• Prebuilt Linux packages (Flatpak and tarball). They bundle SDL3 and an LGPL-only FFmpeg and need nothing else installed.
• Multiplayer (ad hoc).
  • Play with others through the ad hoc servers PSP and PPSSPP players use.
  • Or host a session straight from the game (Menu → Network → Host a session); friends on the same network find it automatically, or join by address over a VPN.
  • Tested: a Mac and a Steam Deck met in the gathering hall and finished quests together.
• On-screen keyboard for gamepads: name your hunter and your Felynes with the Deck's controls alone. The menu's text fields use it too.
• Game text: clipped and missing glyphs are fixed, and the font can be chosen in the menu.
• Menu:
  • The game can keep running behind the menu.
  • During multiplayer it does so by default, so other players aren't stalled.
• Music and movies work out of the box. FFmpeg is now built with the project.
• Building from source is documented in one place, docs/BUILDING.md, with Windows included.

Verified

On a Steam Deck (SteamOS 3.8) in Game Mode:

• Installed this Flatpak and completed the first-run setup from the disc image.
• Played with music, the opening movie and lighting.
• Saved and reloaded, named characters with the on-screen keyboard.

Multiplayer was played between a Mac and a Steam Deck, through a server and with in-game hosting.

Known issues

• The quest reward screen shows noise behind its panels (#48).
• Faint seams on tiled 2D screens above ×1 resolution (#55).
• 60 fps frame interpolation is not ready yet (#39).
• No prebuilt builds for macOS or Windows yet.
  • Windows builds from source, but the game closes at the first save (#13) and runs slowly in the village on some discrete GPUs (#7).
  • macOS builds from source and is tested.

Build information

• Built from: ff76fba (tag v0.4.0), in the Steam Runtime 3 (sniper) SDK.
• Flatpak runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform//25.08.
• Needs glibc 2.29 or newer.
• SDL3 3.4.16; FFmpeg 7.1.5, configured with --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-programs --disable-doc --disable-avdevice --disable-avformat --disable-avfilter --disable-swscale --disable-swresample --disable-network --disable-autodetect --disable-everything --enable-decoder=atrac3,atrac3p,h264 --disable-x86asm --disable-debug.