BannerHub v6

🩹 Component Manager removal fixes

Two bugs found right after 1.0.0-631, both in the remove → re-inject path. Removing a component no longer breaks the games that used it: the PC Engine wires the selected translator / DXVK into each game prefix as symlinks and never re-points an existing one, so after a Remove those links dangled and the game died on launch (could not load libarm64ec_import.dll, Wine exit 53). Remove — and opening Component Manager — now clears dead links; the engine plants fresh ones on the next launch. And re-injecting a component you removed no longer claims it "already exists": the name check read a stale in-process copy of the plugin registry; it now reads the registry file fresh, tells catalog rows from injected ones, and silently heals an orphaned row instead of prompting. Device-proven: inject → use → remove → re-inject (no prompt) → launch.

Nothing else changed since 1.0.0-631 — same PC Engine plugin (111-7), same firmware, same banner.hub package and keystore; installs in place.

🧱 Rebased onto GameHub 6.3.1 (versionCode 141)

The biggest base jump so far: from 6.0.9 (versionCode 121) straight to XiaoJi's 6.3.1. Since 6.1.0 the whole Wine runtime, launch screen and component system live in a separately-downloaded PC Engine plugin, and 6.3.x added XiaoJi's community/social layer, a newer Steam stack and transactional cloud sync. The 6.1.0 and 6.1.1 lines were onboarded but never shipped as stables. Every BannerHub patch was re-derived against 6.3.1 and confirmed on-device; two obsolete PC-engine signature patches were retired.

🔌 BannerHub-served PC Engine plugin

The host only accepts a plugin its manifest names, so BannerHub v6 now serves its own re-signed, patched 6.3.1 plugin (schema 7) from the BannerHub API. Inside it: the component catalog and firmware come from the BannerHub Worker, firmware downloads are forced to HTTP/1.1 (upstream's downloader corrupted the image over multiplexed HTTP/2), the BannerHub launch badge is back, and loader hooks make host-injected components visible in every picker. Plugin updates arrive automatically on app start; firmware stays pinned at 1.4.2 and no earlier BannerHub or v6 build is affected.

🛒 Full GOG store with the Rust download engine

GOG login is fixed (no more white screen after sign-in) and the GOG screen is now a full store ported from Bannerlator — Store / Library / Downloads / Profile tabs, catalog browse + search, Steam-style detail pages with media, generation badges from GOG's content system — with downloads on Bannerlator's Rust engine (staged, verified chunked transfers; 57 MB/s measured on device). Games land in your library and launch like any other PC game.

🧩 Component Manager — inject your own components

A new Components tile in Banner Tools brings v6 to parity with BannerHub 3.8.1's injector: inject any .wcp (DXVK, VKD3D, FEX/Box64 translators, libs) or a GPU-driver .zip from storage, or pull them from the same online repos plus the Turnip Nightlies from a Download screen. Injected components register with the plugin, appear in the right picker next to the catalog, and are removable in one tap. Device-proven end-to-end: a game ran on an injected Turnip driver, an injected DXVK and an injected FEX nightly at the same time, and removal leaves no ghost entries.

💬 Steam · Friends overlay rebuilt · 🔐 login bypass that survives the plugin

The game now runs inside the plugin process, so the in-game Steam · Friends overlay got a new transport (a main-process relay with an IPC fallback for invites) and never blocks the UI thread. Steam sign-in, the Friends list and online play are confirmed on 6.3.1; chat send/receive and voice calls have not been re-verified on this base yet. Bypass login now seeds a synthetic account into the app's Room database (through Room's own bundled SQLite driver) because the plugin reads the signed-in user from there — clean install → first launch → game running with no account is confirmed.

⏸️ Paused on 6.3.1 · ⚠️ upgrade note

Two features lost their host anchors and are paused: the offline component picker (the plugin owns the pickers now) and the recording-compatible audio toggle (the Audio tile is present; that switch does nothing on this base). The heartbeat-disable patch is moot because those calls now go to the BannerHub Worker. Same banner.hub package and public keystore, so Android accepts an in-place update over v1.0.0-609, but the 6.0.9 → 6.3.1 database migration is XiaoJi's and untested by us — a clean install is recommended (sign in to Steam and GOG again afterwards).

🧱 Rebased onto GameHub 6.0.9 (versionCode 121)

BannerHub v6 moves to XiaoJi's first feature release of the 6.0.x line. 6.0.9 adds a native "Team Room" co-op mode with Tencent in-room voice, but no Wine / DXVK / Box64 / FEX / Turnip changes — so component compatibility is unaffected. As always XiaoJi's R8 pass reshuffled the obfuscated class/method map, so every BannerHub patch was re-fingerprinted against the 6.0.9 bytecode and confirmed on-device. (Upstream's own Team Room voice is gated behind XiaoJi's paid cloud "Instant Play" service, so it never unlocks on these builds — BannerHub's WebRTC overlay stays the working in-game voice.)

🛠️ Offline component picker fixed — first build it actually works

The offline component picker now correctly lists your already-downloaded components when you're offline. A long-standing result-wrapper bug (present on earlier bases) was caught and cured in this rebase. PC-accurate vibration (sustained dual-motor + live intensity scaling), the full per-game menu chain, and the analytics-redirect (net-verified live: zero telemetry egress) are all re-pinned and device-verified.

✅ Everything carries over

The in-game Steam chat + voice-call overlay (including voice room codes, cross-compatible with BannerHub 3.8.0), GOG integration, the Explore homepage, the in-game performance overlay (root), recording-compatible audio, portrait PC-settings and the full privacy-hardening stack all ship forward unchanged. Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as the -608 line — installs straight over it.

🔊 Voice room codes — cross-play with BannerHub 3.8.0

The Steam overlay's 🔊 screen can now create or join a voice room by a short code — no Steam friends and no Steam login required. Create mints a 5-character code (or type someone else's to join), and the call box drops straight into the room showing the room code and who's in it, upgrading from a "waiting for others to join…" state to a live call timer the moment someone connects. A BannerHub v6 user and a BannerHub 3.8.0 user can share the same room and talk, in either direction — room codes use the same format on both builds, and it's device-confirmed both ways across different networks. It rides the same WebRTC mesh + Cloudflare Realtime TURN as the 1:1 / party calls; your Steam-native friend & party calls are unchanged.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as 1.3.0-608 — installs straight over it.

🎧 In-game Steam voice calls (1:1 & party)

The Steam overlay can now place real voice calls while you're in a game — no root, no extra app. Tap a friend's 🎙 to ring them; the call rides on WebRTC served from the BannerHub Cloudflare Worker (a real HTTPS origin, so the mic actually opens) with Cloudflare Realtime TURN for cross-network / strict-NAT peers — device-confirmed across different ISPs. A draggable call window (independent of the chat panel) collapses to a compact 🎧 N in call tile with a running timer, mute and hang-up; incoming calls pop an Answer / Ignore box labelled with the caller's name (30 s auto-dismiss) with full ringtone settings — synth tones, bundled ringtones, your own MP3 or silent, plus volume, preview and vibrate. Party calls add more friends to a connected call over a peer-to-peer mesh with a live roster, and a 🔗 share-call link lets anyone with a browser (a PC, another emulator, a non-BannerHub device) join as a guest. The collapsed pill shows a green 🎧 party-count badge and a blue unread-message count.

💬 Steam chat overlay v2

The friends/chat overlay (still no root) gains a 3-tab picker (Unicode emoji, Steam emoticons, stickers), send image (hosted via the BannerHub Worker so it sidesteps Steam's flaky web-upload), game-invite cards (rendered from BBCode invites with live / expired state), typing indicators, auto-scroll, and a collapsible pill-opacity slider.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as the 1.2.0-608 / 1.1.0-608 line — installs straight over it.

🔒 Firebase Crashlytics fully disabled

Verifying the privacy patches with a live DNS/SNI capture revealed that GameHub's own startup code was re-enabling Crashlytics data collection at runtime, silently overriding the manifest kill-switch — so Crashlytics was still phoning home to firebase-settings.crashlytics.com, firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com (the Firebase "Firelog" transport) and firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com. The new Disable Firebase auto-init patch stops that runtime re-enable while leaving FirebaseApp initialized (so the app launches normally), so the manifest "off" finally holds. Device-confirmed: those three Firebase hosts no longer appear in the app's traffic, and the Firebase-driven share of play.googleapis.com drops too. Firebase Analytics was already dead via a hard manifest flag — so this completes the Firebase shutoff. See the privacy page.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as the 1.1.0-608 / 1.0.0-608 line — installs straight over it.

💬 In-game Steam friends & chat overlay

A new draggable 💬 pill over your game opens your full Steam friends list — avatars, online / in-game presence, and unread badges — and lets you read and reply to chats inline without leaving the game. Conversations render like the native client: left/right message bubbles, sender names, timestamps, inline images and live incoming messages; opening a chat marks it read and clears its badge. Pin it anywhere down the right edge and fade it with a per-pill opacity slider. Just needs you signed into Steam in GameHub — no root required.

🧹 Banner Tools → one "In-game Overlays" menu

The Steam-chat and performance overlays now share a single In-game Overlays tile that opens for everyone. The Steam-chat toggle is free; the performance toggle is root-gated in place (with a tap-to-grant prompt) instead of locking the whole tile — so non-root users get the chat overlay without hitting a root wall.

Same banner.hub package and stable keystore as the 1.0.0-608 line — installs straight over it.

🧱 Rebased onto GameHub 6.0.8

6.0.8 is a tiny upstream bump — the only native change is libsteamkit_core.so (Steam game-library management, plus the GPU-spoof PC-settings keys moved to a …V2 namespace); no Wine, renderer, DXVK or Turnip changes. But XiaoJi's R8 pass reshuffled the obfuscated class/method map again, so all 41 patches were re-fingerprinted against the 6.0.8 bytecode and the build is green end-to-end.

✅ Device-verified on 6.0.8

Re-tested on device after the rebase: the Banner Tools menu + grid, the custom catalog API, local-game import into the library, and PC-accurate controller vibration (per-game mode + live intensity scaling) all confirmed working.

✅ Everything carried forward

GOG integration, the BannerHub Explore homepage, PC-accurate vibration, the in-game performance overlay (root), recording-compatible audio, the offline component picker and the full privacy-hardening stack all ship forward from the 607 line unchanged. As on 6.0.7 there's still no separate Lite build, and the GPU Spoof & Legacy renderer tiles stay retired. Same keystore as the 607/604 lines — installs in place.

🧱 Rebased onto GameHub 6.0.7

First stable on the 6.0.7 base (versionCode 118). Every BannerHub v6 patch was re-fingerprinted against the 6.0.7 bytecode — R8 reshuffle, the :wine process folded into the main process, the Compose menu rewrite — and device-verified end-to-end. Same keystore as the 6.0.4 line, so it installs in place over the 604 series.

🪶 Smaller — and no separate Lite

XiaoJi's own −46% size pass keeps each variant to ~47 MB — already smaller than the old 6.0.4 Lite, so there's no separate Lite build anymore; the concept is absorbed into every variant.

⚠️ GPU Spoof & the Legacy renderer toggle removed

Both are now 6.0.4-only. 6.0.7 ships its own native GPU spoof (so the patch is redundant), and its rewritten Vulkan X-server is incompatible with the old GLES2 libxserver.so / libwinemu.so pair (device-confirmed SIGABRT), so the renderer patches stay pinned to 6.0.4.

✅ Everything else carries over

GOG integration, the BannerHub Explore homepage, PC-accurate vibration, the in-game performance overlay (root), recording-compatible audio, the offline component picker and the full privacy-hardening stack all ship forward unchanged.

• In-game performance overlay (root) — a draggable edge pill slides out CPU-governor → performance and Adreno min-clock boost toggles, with an opacity slider; off by default and auto-reverts on exit.
• Banner Tools moved into the Explorer screen as strictly per-game options.

• Redesigned Explore homepage — wordmark hero, a What's-New article that auto-syncs from release notes, live JSON override, still fully offline-capable.
• In-app update check — installed-vs-latest version readout with an amber update banner and settings cog.
• GOG "Set .exe" / "Copy to Downloads" doubled-directory path fix.

• GOG integration — log in, browse your owned library, download & install GOG games in-app; they launch like any other PC game.
• BannerHub Explore screen (offline, GOG card) replaces the stock discovery feed.
• Recording-compatible audio toggle — routes PulseAudio through the mixer so screen recorders capture in-game sound.

• Imported / Epic / GOG games now launch from Beacon, ES-DE, RetroHRAI, NeoStation & Daijishou.
• New Banner Tools menu groups PC Vibration, GPU Spoof, Renderer & Show Game ID.

• External launcher integration (Beacon device-confirmed; ES-DE/Daijishou shared impl).
• Show Game ID menu row + a View All Games dialog (copy any game's id); proper per-row menu icons; portrait layout for the PC Vibration dialog. (PR #6, TideGear)

• Strict per-game settings store (explicit Save/Cancel, crosses the :wine process boundary).
• GPU Spoof and Legacy renderer (GLES2) toggle, both per-game.
• Sustained-rumble launch fix and an offline component picker for every per-game picker.

• Preload-free vibration — defeats SDL2's auto-stop via an on-disk winebus.so patch, fixing the x86_64 / Box64 launch crash.

• Privacy-hardening stack — 8 functional patches killing Firebase Analytics & Crashlytics, Mob Push, Ad-ID, OTA, heartbeat, GMS Measurement and the analytics /events endpoints, plus a public PRIVACY.md disclosure.
• Show PC Game Settings row for every game type.

• First v6 stable — PC-accurate XInput rumble, a per-game PC Vibration Settings menu row, the BannerHub v6 visual rebrand, and a stable signing keystore enabling in-place updates.