diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cd784fb..a8be77c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # CheatRunner — Changelog
 
-## v0.17
+## v0.17.1
+
+- **Added: support for 13.60 firmware** — rebuilt against the latest ps5-payload-sdk.
+
+<details>
+<summary><b>v0.17</b></summary>
 
 - **Fixed: the trainer/cheat menu, Settings page, and Support/donate popup could silently fail to appear on some PS5 firmwares** (reported on 4.03) — the "Cheat menu loaded" toast would show, but the menu itself never appeared, same for Settings and Support. Root cause, confirmed against that firmware's actual WebKit source: every full-screen overlay in the dashboard positioned itself with the CSS `inset` shorthand, which is gated behind WebKit's `CSSLogicalEnabled` runtime flag — off by default in this build. With `inset` silently dropped, the overlay never got a `top`/`right`/`bottom`/`left`, so it had no size or position to render at, regardless of `display`/`visibility`/`opacity`. (Two earlier attempts in this same release — switching `display:none` to `visibility`/`opacity`, then adding a `transition` — treated it as a compositing/paint timing issue and didn't address this.) Replaced `inset` with explicit `top`/`right`/`bottom`/`left` everywhere it was used for positioning (the three overlays, plus several decorative background/glow/shimmer effects that had the same silent failure but went unnoticed since they're cosmetic). Confirmed fixed on the reporting user's PS5.
 - **Fixed: the Settings page's ON/OFF toggle switches were too cramped for the text**, and the green "ON" fill sat slightly off-center — a CSS math bug on every toggle switch in the app, not just Settings.
@@ -16,6 +21,8 @@
 - **Added an "Enable hotkey" switch in Settings → Hotkey, off by default.** On some firmwares (seen on 4.xx) the hook can still crash SceShellUI despite the fix above — the rest of CheatRunner works fully with it off; turn it on once you've confirmed it's stable on your firmware.
 - **Fixed a garbled "…" character** ("Search settings…", the health panel's "Loading…") showing as mojibake on the PS5 browser — replaced with plain periods.
 
+</details>
+
 <details>
 <summary><b>v0.16</b></summary>
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fab0b6..0000000
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,194 +0,0 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
-
-set(CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE STATIC_LIBRARY)
-
-project(CheatRunnerPayload C CXX)
-set(CHEATRUNNER_VERSION "0.17")
-
-# Embed CheatRunner.png as a C byte array (cheatrunner_png.h in build dir).
-# If the asset is missing, generate a tiny fallback icon so builds still work.
-if(EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CheatRunner.png")
-  file(READ "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CheatRunner.png" _CR_PNG_HEX HEX)
-  string(REGEX REPLACE "([0-9a-f][0-9a-f])" "0x\\1," _CR_PNG_BYTES "${_CR_PNG_HEX}")
-  file(WRITE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cheatrunner_png.h"
-    "static const unsigned char g_cheatrunner_png[] = {${_CR_PNG_BYTES}};\n"
-  )
-else()
-  message(WARNING "CheatRunner.png missing; generating fallback cheatrunner_png.h")
-  file(WRITE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cheatrunner_png.h"
-    "static const unsigned char g_cheatrunner_png[] = {"
-    "0x89,0x50,0x4E,0x47,0x0D,0x0A,0x1A,0x0A,"
-    "0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0D,0x49,0x48,0x44,0x52,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x01,"
-    "0x00,0x00,0x00,0x01,0x08,0x06,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x1F,0x15,0xC4,"
-    "0x89,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0D,0x49,0x44,0x41,0x54,0x78,0x9C,0x63,"
-    "0x00,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x05,0x00,0x01,0x0D,0x0A,0x2D,0xB4,0x00,"
-    "0x00,0x00,0x00,0x49,0x45,0x4E,0x44,0xAE,0x42,0x60,0x82};\n"
-  )
-endif()
-
-# Embed dist/CheatRunner.pkg as a C byte array (cheatrunner_tile_pkg.h).
-# Build the PKG first with: cd pkg-source && ./build-pkg.sh
-# If absent the auto-install feature is compiled out but everything else works.
-if(EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/dist/CheatRunner.pkg")
-  file(READ "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/dist/CheatRunner.pkg" _PKG_HEX HEX)
-  string(LENGTH "${_PKG_HEX}" _PKG_HEX_LEN)
-  math(EXPR _PKG_LEN "${_PKG_HEX_LEN} / 2")
-  string(REGEX REPLACE "([0-9a-f][0-9a-f])" "0x\\1," _PKG_BYTES "${_PKG_HEX}")
-  file(WRITE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cheatrunner_tile_pkg.h"
-    "static const unsigned char g_cheatrunner_tile_pkg[] = {${_PKG_BYTES}};\n"
-    "static const size_t g_cheatrunner_tile_pkg_len = ${_PKG_LEN}u;\n"
-  )
-  set(_HAVE_TILE_PKG ON)
-  message(STATUS "CheatRunner tile PKG: embedding ${_PKG_LEN} bytes from dist/CheatRunner.pkg")
-else()
-  file(WRITE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cheatrunner_tile_pkg.h"
-    "/* dist/CheatRunner.pkg not present at configure time — auto-install disabled */\n"
-  )
-  set(_HAVE_TILE_PKG OFF)
-  message(STATUS "CheatRunner tile PKG: dist/CheatRunner.pkg not found — auto-install disabled (run pkg-source/build-pkg.sh first)")
-endif()
-
-# Gzip-compress the dashboard assets at build time on the host (real zlib,
-# not available in the target SDK) and embed the finished bytes — the PS5
-# binary just serves them, it never compresses anything itself.
-# find_package(Python3) instead of a hardcoded "python3" command: on Windows
-# python3.exe is often a Microsoft Store app-execution-alias stub, not a real
-# interpreter, while the actual install is reachable as "python"/"py".
-find_package(Python3 COMPONENTS Interpreter REQUIRED)
-
-foreach(_ASSET html css js)
-  execute_process(
-    COMMAND "${Python3_EXECUTABLE}" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/gen_gzip_header.py"
-            "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/dashboard_${_ASSET}.inc"
-            "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/dashboard_${_ASSET}_gz.h"
-            "g_dashboard_${_ASSET}_gz"
-    RESULT_VARIABLE _GZ_RC
-  )
-  if(NOT _GZ_RC EQUAL 0)
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to gzip-compress dashboard_${_ASSET}.inc for embedding")
-  endif()
-endforeach()
-
-file(GLOB CHEATRUNNER_SRC CONFIGURE_DEPENDS
-  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/*.c"
-  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/*.cpp"
-)
-
-# --- Hotkey injected payload ------------------------------------------------
-# A separate PIE executable, built as its own target then embedded into
-# CheatRunner.elf as a byte array and written into SceShellUI via elfldr_exec.
-add_executable(cr_getdata_payload
-  src/payload/cr_getdata_payload.c
-  src/payload/cr_detour.c
-  src/payload/hde64.c
-)
-set_target_properties(cr_getdata_payload PROPERTIES
-  OUTPUT_NAME cr_getdata_payload.elf
-  RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/payload"
-)
-target_include_directories(cr_getdata_payload PRIVATE
-  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src"
-  "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/payload"
-)
-target_compile_options(cr_getdata_payload PRIVATE -fPIE -Wall -Wextra -O2)
-target_link_options(cr_getdata_payload PRIVATE "-Wl,--allow-multiple-definition")
-target_link_libraries(cr_getdata_payload PRIVATE kernel_sys)
-if(CMAKE_STRIP)
-  add_custom_command(TARGET cr_getdata_payload POST_BUILD
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_STRIP} --strip-all $<TARGET_FILE:cr_getdata_payload>
-  )
-endif()
-
-set(_GETDATA_BLOB_HEADER "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cr_getdata_payload_blob.h")
-add_custom_command(
-  OUTPUT "${_GETDATA_BLOB_HEADER}"
-  COMMAND "${Python3_EXECUTABLE}" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/gen_blob_header.py"
-          "$<TARGET_FILE:cr_getdata_payload>"
-          "${_GETDATA_BLOB_HEADER}"
-          "g_cr_getdata_payload_elf"
-  DEPENDS cr_getdata_payload
-  COMMENT "Embedding cr_getdata_payload.elf as a byte array"
-)
-add_custom_target(cr_getdata_payload_blob DEPENDS "${_GETDATA_BLOB_HEADER}")
-
-add_executable(CheatRunner
-  ${CHEATRUNNER_SRC}
-  src/third_party/cJSON.c
-  src/third_party/stb_impl.c
-  src/third_party/mc4/aes.c
-  src/third_party/mc4/base64.c
-  src/third_party/mc4/mc4decrypter.c
-)
-
-set_target_properties(CheatRunner PROPERTIES
-  OUTPUT_NAME CheatRunner.elf
-)
-
-add_dependencies(CheatRunner cr_getdata_payload_blob)
-
-target_include_directories(CheatRunner PRIVATE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")
-target_include_directories(CheatRunner PRIVATE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src")
-target_compile_options(CheatRunner PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra -O2)
-target_compile_definitions(CheatRunner PRIVATE CHEATRUNNER_VERSION="${CHEATRUNNER_VERSION}")
-target_link_options(CheatRunner PRIVATE "-Wl,--allow-multiple-definition")
-target_compile_definitions(CheatRunner PRIVATE CHEATRUNNER_HAVE_BROWSER_OPEN=1)
-
-set(CHEATRUNNER_LIBS
-  kernel_sys
-  SceSystemService
-  SceUserService
-  SceAppInstUtil
-  SceHttp
-  SceSsl
-  SceNet
-  ScePad
-  pthread
-)
-
-# ps5-payload-sdk exposes sceLncUtil* through libSceSystemService.
-# Do not link -lSceLncUtil: many SDK bundles do not ship a separate library,
-# but libSceSystemService contains the needed stubs.
-target_compile_definitions(CheatRunner PRIVATE
-  CHEATRUNNER_HAVE_SCE_LNCUTIL=1
-  CHEATRUNNER_HAVE_SCE_USER_LIST=1
-)
-if(_HAVE_TILE_PKG)
-  target_compile_definitions(CheatRunner PRIVATE CHEATRUNNER_HAVE_TILE_PKG=1)
-endif()
-message(STATUS "Using sceLncUtil* symbols from SceSystemService")
-message(STATUS "sceUserServiceGetLoginUserIdList: enabled")
-
-# SQLite-backed app.db scanner (primary game list, falls back to folder scan).
-#
-# The ps5-payload-sdk does not ship libsqlite3. To enable:
-#   1. Download the amalgamation from https://sqlite.org/download.html
-#      (sqlite-amalgamation-*.zip  →  sqlite3.c + sqlite3.h)
-#   2. Place both files in src/third_party/
-#   3. Re-run cmake with -DCHEATRUNNER_SQLITE_BUNDLED=ON
-#      (or flip the option(... OFF) below to ON before configuring)
-#
-option(CHEATRUNNER_SQLITE_BUNDLED "Bundle sqlite3 amalgamation (src/third_party/sqlite3.c)" OFF)
-if(CHEATRUNNER_SQLITE_BUNDLED)
-  if(NOT EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/third_party/sqlite3.c")
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "CHEATRUNNER_SQLITE_BUNDLED=ON but src/third_party/sqlite3.c not found. "
-                        "Download the amalgamation from https://sqlite.org/download.html")
-  endif()
-  target_sources(CheatRunner PRIVATE src/third_party/sqlite3.c)
-  target_compile_definitions(CheatRunner PRIVATE
-    CHEATRUNNER_HAVE_SQLITE_APPDB=1
-    SQLITE_THREADSAFE=0
-    SQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0
-    SQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION
-  )
-  message(STATUS "app.db scanner: SQLite bundled from src/third_party/sqlite3.c")
-else()
-  message(STATUS "app.db scanner: disabled (folder fallback only) — see CMakeLists.txt to enable")
-endif()
-
-target_link_libraries(CheatRunner PRIVATE ${CHEATRUNNER_LIBS})
-
-if(CMAKE_STRIP)
-  add_custom_command(TARGET CheatRunner POST_BUILD
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_STRIP} --strip-all $<TARGET_FILE:CheatRunner>
-  )
-endif()
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c162ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+# Standalone Makefile for CheatRunner.elf — compiles directly with the PS5
+# payload SDK toolchain.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   make                 # build build-make/CheatRunner.elf
+#   make clean
+#   make SQLITE=1        # force-enable bundled sqlite3 (auto-detected otherwise)
+#   make SQLITE=0        # force-disable it
+#   PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK=/path/to/sdk make
+
+VERSION := 0.17.1
+
+BUILD_DIR := build-make
+GENDIR    := $(BUILD_DIR)/gen
+OBJDIR    := $(BUILD_DIR)/obj
+ELF       := $(BUILD_DIR)/CheatRunner.elf
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- SDK resolve
+PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK ?=
+SDK_ROOT := $(patsubst %/toolchain/prospero.cmake,%,$(firstword \
+  $(wildcard $(PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK)/toolchain/prospero.cmake) \
+  $(wildcard ../../ps5-payload-sdk/toolchain/prospero.cmake) \
+  $(wildcard ps5-payload-sdk/toolchain/prospero.cmake) \
+  $(wildcard /opt/ps5-payload-sdk/toolchain/prospero.cmake)))
+
+ifeq ($(SDK_ROOT),)
+$(error PS5 payload SDK not found. Set PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK, or place it at ../../ps5-payload-sdk, ./ps5-payload-sdk, or /opt/ps5-payload-sdk)
+endif
+
+CC     := $(SDK_ROOT)/bin/prospero-clang
+CXX    := $(SDK_ROOT)/bin/prospero-clang++
+STRIP  := $(SDK_ROOT)/bin/prospero-strip
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- sources
+SRC_C := $(wildcard src/*.c) \
+  src/third_party/cJSON.c \
+  src/third_party/stb_impl.c \
+  src/third_party/mc4/aes.c \
+  src/third_party/mc4/base64.c \
+  src/third_party/mc4/mc4decrypter.c
+SRC_CPP := $(wildcard src/*.cpp)
+
+SQLITE ?= $(if $(and $(wildcard src/third_party/sqlite3.c),$(wildcard src/third_party/sqlite3.h)),1,0)
+ifeq ($(SQLITE),1)
+SRC_C += src/third_party/sqlite3.c
+endif
+
+OBJ_C   := $(patsubst src/%.c,$(OBJDIR)/%.o,$(SRC_C))
+OBJ_CPP := $(patsubst src/%.cpp,$(OBJDIR)/%.o,$(SRC_CPP))
+OBJS    := $(OBJ_C) $(OBJ_CPP)
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- generated headers
+PNG_SRC := $(wildcard CheatRunner.png)
+PKG_SRC := $(wildcard dist/CheatRunner.pkg)
+HAVE_TILE_PKG := $(if $(PKG_SRC),1,0)
+
+PAYLOAD_ELF := $(BUILD_DIR)/payload/cr_getdata_payload.elf
+PAYLOAD_SRC := src/payload/cr_getdata_payload.c src/payload/cr_detour.c src/payload/hde64.c
+
+GEN_HEADERS := $(GENDIR)/cr_getdata_payload_blob.h $(GENDIR)/cheatrunner_png.h $(GENDIR)/cheatrunner_tile_pkg.h \
+  $(GENDIR)/dashboard_html_gz.h $(GENDIR)/dashboard_css_gz.h $(GENDIR)/dashboard_js_gz.h
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- flags
+DEFINES := -DCHEATRUNNER_VERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" \
+  -DCHEATRUNNER_HAVE_BROWSER_OPEN=1 \
+  -DCHEATRUNNER_HAVE_SCE_LNCUTIL=1 \
+  -DCHEATRUNNER_HAVE_SCE_USER_LIST=1
+ifeq ($(HAVE_TILE_PKG),1)
+DEFINES += -DCHEATRUNNER_HAVE_TILE_PKG=1
+endif
+ifeq ($(SQLITE),1)
+DEFINES += -DCHEATRUNNER_HAVE_SQLITE_APPDB=1 -DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=0 \
+  -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0 -DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION
+endif
+
+INCLUDES := -I$(GENDIR) -Isrc
+CFLAGS   := -fPIE -Wall -Wextra -O2 $(INCLUDES) $(DEFINES)
+CXXFLAGS := $(CFLAGS)
+LDFLAGS  := -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition
+LIBS     := -lkernel_sys -lSceSystemService -lSceUserService -lSceAppInstUtil \
+  -lSceHttp -lSceSsl -lSceNet -lScePad -lpthread
+
+.PHONY: all clean
+
+all: $(ELF)
+
+$(ELF): $(OBJS) | $(BUILD_DIR)
+	$(CXX) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
+	@if [ -x "$(STRIP)" ]; then $(STRIP) --strip-all $@; fi
+
+$(OBJDIR)/%.o: src/%.c $(GEN_HEADERS)
+	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+
+$(OBJDIR)/%.o: src/%.cpp $(GEN_HEADERS)
+	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+
+# Hotkey payload: built as its own PIE ELF, then embedded into CheatRunner.elf
+$(PAYLOAD_ELF): $(PAYLOAD_SRC) | $(BUILD_DIR)
+	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
+	$(CC) -fPIE -Wall -Wextra -O2 -Isrc -Isrc/payload $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(PAYLOAD_SRC) -lkernel_sys
+	@if [ -x "$(STRIP)" ]; then $(STRIP) --strip-all $@; fi
+
+$(GENDIR)/cr_getdata_payload_blob.h: $(PAYLOAD_ELF) tools/gen_blob_header.py | $(GENDIR)
+	python3 tools/gen_blob_header.py $< $@ g_cr_getdata_payload_elf
+
+$(GENDIR)/cheatrunner_png.h: $(PNG_SRC) | $(GENDIR)
+	@if [ -f CheatRunner.png ]; then \
+	  python3 -c "d=open('CheatRunner.png','rb').read(); open('$@','w').write('static const unsigned char g_cheatrunner_png[] = {'+','.join(str(b) for b in d)+'};\n')"; \
+	else \
+	  printf '%s\n' 'static const unsigned char g_cheatrunner_png[] = {0x89,0x50,0x4E,0x47,0x0D,0x0A,0x1A,0x0A,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0D,0x49,0x48,0x44,0x52,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x01,0x08,0x06,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x1F,0x15,0xC4,0x89,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0D,0x49,0x44,0x41,0x54,0x78,0x9C,0x63,0x00,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x05,0x00,0x01,0x0D,0x0A,0x2D,0xB4,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x49,0x45,0x4E,0x44,0xAE,0x42,0x60,0x82};' > $@; \
+	fi
+
+$(GENDIR)/cheatrunner_tile_pkg.h: $(PKG_SRC) | $(GENDIR)
+	@if [ -f dist/CheatRunner.pkg ]; then \
+	  python3 -c "d=open('dist/CheatRunner.pkg','rb').read(); open('$@','w').write('static const unsigned char g_cheatrunner_tile_pkg[] = {'+','.join(str(b) for b in d)+'};\nstatic const unsigned long g_cheatrunner_tile_pkg_len = %du;\n'%len(d))"; \
+	else \
+	  printf '/* dist/CheatRunner.pkg not present -- auto-install disabled */\n' > $@; \
+	fi
+
+$(GENDIR)/dashboard_%_gz.h: src/dashboard_%.inc tools/gen_gzip_header.py | $(GENDIR)
+	python3 tools/gen_gzip_header.py $< $@ g_dashboard_$*_gz
+
+$(GENDIR) $(BUILD_DIR):
+	@mkdir -p $@
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf $(BUILD_DIR)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50da003..2d87325 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Recommended project layout:
 CheatRunner/
 ├── CheatRunnerPayload/
 │   ├── src/
-│   ├── CMakeLists.txt
+│   ├── Makefile
 │   └── build-cheatrunner.ps1
 └── PS5-Payload-dev/
     └── sdk-master/
diff --git a/src/cr_api.c b/src/cr_api.c
index 173a1ca..7cf83d1 100644
--- a/src/cr_api.c
+++ b/src/cr_api.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifndef CHEATRUNNER_VERSION
-#define CHEATRUNNER_VERSION "0.17"
+#define CHEATRUNNER_VERSION "0.17.1"
 #endif
 
 #define MAX_GAMES CR_APPDB_MAX_GAMES
diff --git a/src/cr_api_dashboard.c b/src/cr_api_dashboard.c
index 5b882c7..58be70d 100644
--- a/src/cr_api_dashboard.c
+++ b/src/cr_api_dashboard.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ cr_api_dashboard_handle(int fd, const char *method, const char *path,
   if (!strcmp(path, "/cache.appcache")) {
     static const char appcache[] =
       "CACHE MANIFEST\n"
-      "# CheatRunner v0.17\n"
+      "# CheatRunner v0.17.1\n"
       "# Build: " __DATE__ " " __TIME__ "\n"
       "\n"
       "CACHE:\n"
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 17d2919..669fc88 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #include "cr_tile_pkg.h"
 
 #ifndef CHEATRUNNER_VERSION
-#define CHEATRUNNER_VERSION "0.17"
+#define CHEATRUNNER_VERSION "0.17.1"
 #endif
 
 /* Async-signal-safe crash handler: writes a one-line entry to the crash log
diff --git a/tools/gen_blob_header.py b/tools/gen_blob_header.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d081047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/gen_blob_header.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Build-time helper: embeds a binary file as a static C byte array.
+#
+# Usage: gen_blob_header.py <blob_path> <header_out_path> <array_name>
+
+import sys
+
+
+def main():
+    blob_path, header_path, array_name = sys.argv[1:4]
+    with open(blob_path, "rb") as f:
+        data = f.read()
+
+    with open(header_path, "w") as f:
+        f.write("static const unsigned char %s[] = {\n" % array_name)
+        for i in range(0, len(data), 20):
+            f.write(",".join(str(b) for b in data[i:i + 20]))
+            f.write(",\n")
+        f.write("};\n")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/tools/gen_gzip_header.py b/tools/gen_gzip_header.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c394be2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/gen_gzip_header.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Build-time helper: extracts a dashboard .inc asset's exact byte content by
+# compiling and running it through the host C compiler (so C string-escape
+# parsing is never reimplemented by hand), gzip-compresses it, and writes a
+# header with the compressed bytes as a static C array.
+#
+# Usage: gen_gzip_header.py <inc_path> <header_out_path> <array_name>
+
+import gzip
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
+
+
+def extract_raw_bytes(inc_path):
+    inc_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inc_path))
+    inc_name = os.path.basename(inc_path)
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as td:
+        src = os.path.join(td, "dump.c")
+        exe = os.path.join(td, "dump")
+        with open(src, "w") as f:
+            f.write('#include <stdio.h>\n')
+            f.write('static const char DATA[] =\n#include "%s"\n;\n' % inc_name)
+            f.write('int main(void) { fwrite(DATA, 1, sizeof(DATA) - 1, stdout); return 0; }\n')
+        subprocess.run(["cc", "-I", inc_dir, src, "-o", exe], check=True)
+        return subprocess.run([exe], check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
+
+
+def main():
+    inc_path, header_path, array_name = sys.argv[1:4]
+    raw = extract_raw_bytes(inc_path)
+    gz = gzip.compress(raw, compresslevel=9, mtime=0)
+
+    with open(header_path, "w") as f:
+        f.write("static const unsigned char %s[] = {\n" % array_name)
+        for i in range(0, len(gz), 20):
+            f.write(",".join(str(b) for b in gz[i:i + 20]))
+            f.write(",\n")
+        f.write("};\n")
+        f.write("static const unsigned long %s_len = %dul;\n" % (array_name, len(gz)))
+        f.write("static const unsigned long %s_raw_len = %dul;\n" % (array_name, len(raw)))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()