XenonLive Launcher v1.0.1

The launcher now speaks the games' six languages, shows the achievements in the game's own words, and — for the developer — turns the Issues tab into the bug queue.

Players on v1.0.0 are offered this update on Home (Update and restart); the files below are the same ones it fetches.

What's new

• Six languages — English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Korean, the ones Case Zero and Case West ship in. The launcher starts in your system's language; the picker is on the sign-in screen and under Account. Japanese and Korean need nothing installed. The in-game overlay follows the launcher's language.
• Achievements in the game's own words — names and descriptions come from the game's translations for your language, in the launcher, in the overlay and in the Achievement unlocked popup.
• Issues: pick the game — a game filter above the search, so a report is found among one game's.
• Issues: the developer's queue — an account the server marks as a developer sees every report with its state filter, who sent it and their machine, fetches the capture into a folder, sets open/fixed/closed and deletes. Players see exactly what they saw before.
• Self-update offers only a release newer than the one running, and the Windows swap is rewritten — the 1.0.0 one could hang after the launcher closed, leaving nothing running. If that happened to you, unzip this release over the old one.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	XenonLiveLauncher-windows-x86_64.zip
Linux (x86_64)	XenonLiveLauncher-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Linux without FUSE	XenonLiveLauncher-linux-x86_64.tar.zst
Steam Deck	XenonLiveLauncher-steamdeck-x86_64.tar.gz

Each launcher installs the games built for it. Unzip or unpack over the previous version, or let v1.0.0 update itself.

Checksums

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Translations are one table, common/strings.tsv; a correction is a pull request against it. Built with AI assistance.

XenonLive Launcher v1.0.0

The first release of the XenonLive Launcher: Xbox Live for the Dead Rising 2 PC ports — Case Zero and Case West — with one account, friends, invitations into co-op, achievements and gamerscore, messages, and an overlay inside the game.

You need your own copy of each game (the XBLA package from your Xbox 360). The launcher installs the ports and ships no game data.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11 (64-bit)	XenonLiveLauncher-windows-x86_64.zip — unzip anywhere, run xenonlive_launcher.exe
Linux (x86_64)	XenonLiveLauncher-linux-x86_64.AppImage — chmod +x, run
Linux without FUSE	XenonLiveLauncher-linux-x86_64.tar.zst — unpack, run XenonLiveLauncher/xenonlive_launcher
Steam Deck	XenonLiveLauncher-steamdeck-x86_64.tar.gz — unpack in Desktop mode, add xenonlive_launcher as a non-Steam game

Each launcher installs the games built for it: Windows the zip, the AppImage the games' AppImages, the tarball their .tar.zst, the Steam Deck tarball their Steam Deck builds. Installs are checked against each game release's SHA256SUMS.

Windows shows a SmartScreen warning the first time ("unknown publisher") — More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS below lets you check what you downloaded.

What is in it

• Account — a gamertag and a password. An email is optional and exists only to recover a forgotten password; nothing else is ever sent to it and no other player sees it. Without one, a forgotten password means the account is lost.
• Games — install, update and play Case Zero and Case West from their GitHub releases; new releases are found by themselves (at start and every five minutes) and offered once.
• Friends — add by gamertag, see where a friend is, invite them into your co-op session. A friend's profile with their games and Compare achievements.
• Messages — up to 256 characters to friends; the last 20 between two people are kept.
• Invites — Accept starts the game and joins, like the console did.
• Achievements — with art, descriptions, score and unlock dates; secret ones stay secret until earned.
• Bug reports — the game's capture key saves a screenshot, the last minute of its log and your machine; the Issues tab lets you describe it and send it, or delete it. Everyone can search the words of every report; only the developer sees the files.
• The overlay — Shift+Tab or View+Menu on a pad, over the game: friends, invites, messages, achievements, an add-friend box, a notifications switch, and the Achievement unlocked popup with the achievement's picture.
• Controller and Steam Deck — the whole launcher works from a pad: stick or d-pad moves, A picks, B goes back, LB/RB switch tabs. On a Deck it runs full screen with a larger UI; typing uses Steam + X.
• Updates itself — a newer launcher shows a banner on Home; Update and restart downloads, verifies and swaps it in.

Known limits

• The games' capture key for bug reports is arriving in the ports' next releases; until then, report game bugs on the port's GitHub page (links on the Support tab).
• The Windows build is cross-compiled and has been run under Wine, not on Windows; if something misbehaves there, the log is at %APPDATA%\XenonLive\launcher\launcher.log.
• Typing in the overlay needs a keyboard (or the Steam Deck's Steam + X); there is no on-screen keyboard yet.

Games

Game	Port
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero	https://github.com/wivi514/Dead_Rising_2_Case_Zero_Xenon_Recomp
Dead Rising 2: Case West	https://github.com/wivi514/Dead_Rising_2_Case_West_Xenon_Recomp

Both need their v1.1.0 or later for the XenonLive features.

Checksums

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