re: a second JP capture closes the transfer -- and corrects my own noise claim

Last turn I transferred the EN title's capture noise to the JP box and flagged
the gap: build 7 carries ptloop01/02.rat which may animate inside that region
where the EN plate does not, and the era adjudication rests on a single capture.
Took a second, independent capture from a fresh boot in a separate session
(jp_title_session.sh -- sets ja, captures, always restores en; verified back at
language=1).

Within-run stability reproduces: 0 of 138 600 px in the ROI across four
comparisons, with 47k-73k px moving whole-frame as the contrast control.

BETWEEN SESSIONS, inside the box the adjudication uses: 645 of 164 124 px
differ, RMSE 0.3215, against 116 492 px whole-frame -- genuinely different
sessions. And the verdict reproduces to three decimals: stale 58.412 -> 58.413,
fixed 41.690 -> 41.692, margin 16.722 -> 16.721.

The shape is the useful part: capture noise moves both candidates together, so it
nearly cancels in a MARGIN. Absolute scores moved 0.001-0.002 while the margin
moved 0.001 against an in-box noise of 0.32. A margin between two renders scored
on one capture is far more robust than either score is.

CORRECTION to a claim I made earlier today and sent to the port: I said the
settle-vs-rest negative was STRENGTHENED because 1.48 sits below the whole-frame
capture spread of 2.8. Wrong comparison -- the measurement lives in the box, and
in-box between-session noise is 0.32, so 1.48 is well above it. The negative
rests on the render axis alone (1.2, ratio 1.2x), exactly as first stated. I
reached for a number that was to hand rather than the one that applies, which is
the same family as the errors we have both been cataloguing.

METHOD gains: match the noise floor to the quantity, including which noise
applies; and sylpheed-port's point that an instrument which rounds away the thing
being verified cannot verify it (they called a harness reproducible from an RMSE
printed to two decimals when the residual was 0.0565).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v

tools/re-capture/jp_title_session.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Drive a JAPANESE title capture end to end, and ALWAYS put the locale back.
+#
+# The first JP capture (2026-08-30) demonstrated the logo stack is at rest
+# WITHIN a run: five frames ~1.5 s apart, byte-identical over the port's ROI,
+# against a whole-frame contrast control showing 5-8 % of the screen moving.
+# That does not test the axis sylpheed-port's drift was on -- BETWEEN runs, where
+# a free-running clock lands somewhere else on a fresh boot. This script exists
+# to take a second, independent capture so that axis can be measured.
+#
+# Usage: jp_title_session.sh OUTDIR [wait_s]
+set -u
+export HOME=/sylph-home/re SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy DISPLAY=:98
+SD="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
+OUT="${1:-/sylph-home/re/jp2}"; WAIT="${2:-700}"
+mkdir -p "$OUT"
+
+restore() {
+  echo "-- restoring locale --"
+  python3 "$SD/set_console_language.py" en || echo "RESTORE FAILED -- check by hand"
+  python3 "$SD/set_console_language.py" --show
+}
+trap restore EXIT INT TERM
+
+ps -o pid= -C xenia_canary | xargs -r kill -9    # kill by NAME: `pkill -f` matches this shell
+python3 "$SD/set_console_language.py" ja
+python3 "$SD/set_console_language.py" --show
+
+( cd "$OUT" && nohup run-canary --mem_watch=false \
+    --logged_profile_slot_0_xuid=B13EBABEBABEBABE \
+    >"$OUT/canary.stdout" 2>"$OUT/canary.stderr" & )
+sleep 8
+timeout $((WAIT + 120)) python3 "$SD/jp_title_capture.py" "$OUT" "$WAIT"
+echo "CAPTURE STEP DONE"
+ls -la "$OUT"/*.png 2>/dev/null | head