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re: I cannot measure this emulator's clock -- and that answers the port's 2%

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The port put two of my pages against each other: settle->plate 2.135 s and one
focus-ring revolution 2.177 s, both a declared 120 units during a static hold,
2% apart against a 6 ms run-to-run agreement. Fair challenge.

The resolution is that the question assumes a stable wall clock. Same interval,
same container, same day: 2.138, 2.132, and 2.549 s -- a 19% swing, caused by
adding --log_ui_draws=true. The 2% is a fifth of that. The two pages were never
in conflict about the game; they are three readings of one declared quantity
through a clock that moves. What settles the quantity is the disc.

Wall clock cannot separate the hypotheses, so I tried to measure frames instead.
Both instruments are recorded as failures rather than published as numbers:

  * Canary's own [UI-CAP] counter -- the one that produced the corpus's 28.5 fps
    -- costs a third of the frame rate. 300 frames in 16.567 s = 18.11 fps on a
    screen that gives ~28 without it. That reclassifies 28.5 as a load-dependent
    lower bound; it does not overturn it.
  * A distinct-frame counter over the spinning ring FAILED its decisive control:
    15.88 fps against the game's own 17.59 in the same window, 10% low, so the
    ring does not change on every presented frame. Its static control also read
    2.63 instead of ~0. Dead, not tuneable, per METHOD.md.

The rule that follows, and it applies to everything I hand the port: a measured
interval landing near a round number of declared units almost certainly IS that
number of units. Ship the units.

Also recovered here, because the same question needed it: the static PPC route.
Four tools open /work/xenia-rs/sylpheed.db and nothing in this repository builds
it -- no disassembler, no PPC decoder, and default.xex is encrypted (zero
plaintext "GamePart"). Xenia decompresses the image at load, so dump_image.py
reads it out of guest memory and validates it against the corpus's own landmarks:
the 29-entry GamePart id table at 0x820A1630 and the Xbox 360 D3D runtime
strings. String search and table dumps work again; instruction-level work does
not, and the present interval I wanted is an immediate, not a string.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014voBspJ6kFncNErZJuZcLw
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