From c3758e3850d94cd73e99ba409b1067e0a5a8a9e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MechaCat02 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 16:17:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] port: land the play-tested work, and only that Takes the port branch up to 77320d5e -- the state the human play-tested on 2026-09-02 -- for SOURCE paths only. Not a branch merge: `auto/port-p6-audio` is 366 commits and 938 files, and most of that must not land. WHAT COMES IN (76 files, all human-confirmed working): * the logo splash animation. 08ed3dd1 found it: `pose_at` ASSIGNED the settle instant instead of clamping to it, so the splash never animated at all -- and the same bug manufactured a passing harness result, because the harness photographed t past the settle. Confirmed by play-test: "cannot notice any obvious difference from the actual game." * gamepad input -- (A)/(B) bound additively (`ui_accept` ships with NO joypad binding), stick latched with hysteresis at the game's own 61% digitise threshold. This is what made (A), video-skip and Extras work at all. * menu navigation and flow, menu audio, the exporter, the authored declarations, and 23 verification tools under tools/port/. WHAT IS DELIBERATELY LEFT ON THE BRANCH: * everything after c0ae460a -- the F5/F6 title-timing investigation, whose own tip commit calls itself a "hand-off for one-minute human checks". Unchecked by definition; it goes through the new review gate like anything else. * the OPTIONS menu work of 2026-09-03. Real, probably good, NOT play-tested. * the F1 repeat mechanism, which its own commit calls "deliberately inert". WHAT MUST NOT LAND, AND WHY THE .gitignore CHANGED: 545 MB of extracted game content was committed on that branch -- 850 sprite, audio and transcoded video files under `export-probe/` and `export-probe2/`, plus 246 MB of loose .wav and .tsv at the repo root. This repository's own rule, in this file, is "never game content". The rule was not missing. It was written, and it was tightened on that very branch, with a careful comment explaining why BOTH `export/` and `data/base/` had to be listed -- while the exporter was writing to a third name that nobody had thought to list. Enumerating names is the thing that failed. So the ignore rules now describe the SHAPE: any top-level `export*/`, game media by extension, and loose capture output at the root. Verified both ways -- it catches all four offenders and ignores nothing currently tracked. Verified: `cargo check --workspace` clean; all nine GDScript files parse in project context, with a positive control (an injected syntax error is detected, 3 lines) so the clean result means something. `tools/port/check-all` was NOT run -- it needs the container, the export tree and a display. --- .gitignore | 31 + Cargo.lock | 25 +- README.md | 1 + authored/audio.json | 384 + authored/flow.json | 716 +- authored/rendering.json | 172 + authored/screen_names.json | 182 +- authored/timing.json | 653 +- crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml | 28 +- .../sylpheed-export/examples/bank_chunks.rs | 45 + .../examples/bgm_size_census.rs | 47 + .../sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_pairs.rs | 87 + .../sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_rows.rs | 67 + crates/sylpheed-export/examples/rat_leaf.rs | 49 + .../examples/record_loop_control.rs | 130 + .../examples/record_population.rs | 65 + .../examples/static_with_cycle.rs | 46 + .../sylpheed-export/examples/voice_chunks.rs | 48 + crates/sylpheed-export/src/audio.rs | 1142 ++ crates/sylpheed-export/src/check.rs | 115 +- crates/sylpheed-export/src/main.rs | 314 +- crates/sylpheed-export/src/screen.rs | 465 +- crates/sylpheed-export/src/video.rs | 125 +- data/mods/README.md | 57 + docs/agents/RETRO-2026-08-31-agreed.md | 129 + docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md | 285 + docs/port/BLOCKED.md | 1034 +- docs/port/DECISIONS.md | 15797 +++++++++++++++- docs/port/FORMAT.md | 76 +- docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md | 6 +- docs/port/RUNNING.md | 158 + docs/port/blend-decoded-adoption.md | 228 + docs/port/captures-are-crops-not-resamples.md | 85 + docs/port/held-direction-repeat.md | 99 + docs/port/p7-gate.md | 95 + docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md | 458 + .../plate-arrives-on-time-but-never-blinks.md | 120 + docs/port/port-frame-rate.md | 290 + docs/port/rest-fallback-reaches-nothing.md | 87 + docs/port/splash-animation-fixed.md | 160 + docs/port/splash-rate-contradiction.md | 194 + .../port/units-per-second-switch-readiness.md | 356 + docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md | 401 + port/scripts/boot.gd | 1588 +- port/scripts/export_tree.gd | 144 +- port/scripts/gamepad.gd | 272 + port/scripts/gamepad.gd.uid | 1 + port/scripts/menu_audio.gd | 218 + port/scripts/menu_audio.gd.uid | 1 + port/scripts/menu_flow.gd | 235 + port/scripts/menu_flow.gd.uid | 1 + port/scripts/screen_view.gd | 627 +- tools/motion-census | 63 +- tools/port/audit-kinds | 319 + tools/port/blocked-provenance | 226 + tools/port/check-all | 334 + tools/port/check-capture | 262 + tools/port/check-capture-controls | 131 + tools/port/check-citations | 106 + tools/port/check-claims | 413 + tools/port/check-modding | 92 + tools/port/contract-check | 538 + tools/port/edge-residual-kind | 138 + tools/port/edge-residual-map | 180 + tools/port/element-residual | 144 + tools/port/index-decisions | 60 + tools/port/peer-head | 85 + tools/port/strip-padding | 67 + tools/port/verify-capture | 375 + tools/port/verify-dwell | 143 + tools/port/verify-input | 236 + tools/port/verify-menu-audio | 246 + tools/port/verify-motion | 152 + tools/port/verify-screen | 253 +- tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity | 500 + tools/port/which-focus | 116 + 76 files changed, 32972 insertions(+), 346 deletions(-) create mode 100644 authored/audio.json create mode 100644 authored/rendering.json create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bank_chunks.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bgm_size_census.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_pairs.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_rows.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/rat_leaf.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_loop_control.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_population.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/static_with_cycle.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/examples/voice_chunks.rs create mode 100644 crates/sylpheed-export/src/audio.rs 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100755 tools/port/verify-motion create mode 100755 tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity create mode 100755 tools/port/which-focus diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index d1c3ae91..6ef6a2e3 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -25,10 +25,41 @@ __pycache__/ # ── The port ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Generated from the user's own disc. This repo stays clean-room: code, schemas, # authored mappings and documentation only -- never game content. +# +# BOTH names are ignored on purpose. `export/` is what the exporter writes and +# what `ExportTree.locate()` reads today; `data/base/` is the name MODDING.md +# gives that same tree. Only one of them existed here, and it was the one +# nothing writes -- so the live output directory was tracked while MISSION §4 +# said it was ignored. Ignoring both means renaming the tree to match the docs +# cannot silently start committing the disc. +/export/ /data/base/ +# +# ⚠️ Enumerating names is what FAILED. The two rules above were written -- +# carefully, with the comment above -- while 850 files and 299 MB of extracted +# sprites, audio and transcoded video sat committed under `export-probe/` and +# `export-probe2/`, a third name nobody had thought to list. So ignore the +# SHAPE, not the instances: any top-level directory whose name starts `export`, +# and game media anywhere it lands. +/export*/ +*.ogv +*.ogg +*.wav +*.xpr +*.pak +# Loose capture output at the repo root -- 246 MB of it arrived this way. +/*.tsv +/*.log # Transient inter-agent files. Deliberately outside history: they are working # artefacts with provenance in their manifest, not results. /exchange/ !/exchange/.gitkeep .godot/ port/.godot/ + +# A mod is usually an EDITED GAME ASSET, and this repository never holds game +# assets. `data/mods/` is the user's own directory -- the exporter never touches +# it and neither does git, except for the README that explains the rule. +/data/mods/* +!/data/mods/README.md +!/data/mods/.gitkeep diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock index c3d303d5..83cbd322 100644 --- a/Cargo.lock +++ b/Cargo.lock @@ -4611,7 +4611,7 @@ dependencies = [ "colored", "image", "indicatif", - "sylpheed-formats", + "sylpheed-formats 0.1.0", "texpresso", "tokio", "tracing", @@ -4627,7 +4627,7 @@ dependencies = [ "image", "serde", "serde_json", - "sylpheed-formats", + "sylpheed-formats 0.1.0 (git+https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git?tag=formats-pin-2026-09-01)", ] [[package]] @@ -4648,6 +4648,25 @@ dependencies = [ "xdvdfs", ] +[[package]] +name = "sylpheed-formats" +version = "0.1.0" +source = "git+https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git?tag=formats-pin-2026-09-01#1cd5b8b1cb1f02eefc0865e1a1fe280e44831c9d" +dependencies = [ + "anyhow", + "binrw", + "flate2", + "futures", + "rayon", + "serde", + "serde_json", + "thiserror 2.0.18", + "tokio", + "tracing", + "ttf-parser 0.24.1", + "xdvdfs", +] + [[package]] name = "sylpheed-viewer" version = "0.1.0" @@ -4659,7 +4678,7 @@ dependencies = [ "image", "rfd", "rodio", - "sylpheed-formats", + "sylpheed-formats 0.1.0", "thiserror 2.0.18", "tracing", "tracing-subscriber", diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 79014b26..68294b67 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ docs/ re/ the corpus: findings, refutations, method traps game/ how the game is navigated -- menus, modals, flight port/ the port's mission, its handoff contract, modding rules + -- and RUNNING.md, which is how you actually start it agents/ how the agent team works together tools/ capture harnesses, probes, the share tool exchange/ transient inter-agent files. NOT in git diff --git a/authored/audio.json b/authored/audio.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9991d711 --- /dev/null +++ b/authored/audio.json @@ -0,0 +1,384 @@ +{ + "format": "sylpheed.audio/1", + "_": [ + "Menu audio. EVERY VALUE IN THIS FILE IS MEASURED OR CHOSEN -- none of it is", + "in a data file the exporter can read, which is why it is here and not in the", + "exporter. `measured` and `chosen` are NOT the same thing and this file keeps", + "them apart: a measurement is deleted when the disc states it, a choice is", + "deleted when somebody measures it.", + "", + "Two different kinds of not-on-the-disc live in this file and they are not", + "interchangeable:", + "", + " * `se` -- MEASURED. `Static.slb` is a delimiter-less run of whole 2048-byte", + " XMA1 packets: no RIFF, no seek chunk, no XACT container. A wave is defined", + " ONLY by (offset, packet_count), and both numbers come from the running", + " game, not from the file. HANDOFF Q8. Delete a row the day a table on the", + " disc states the same thing.", + "", + " * `bgm` -- MEASURED, and only the LOOP POLICY beside it is chosen. HANDOFF", + " Q10's negative is about the TABLES: `SOUNDS`, `FILES` and the bank headers", + " name no screen. The executable does -- cue 1103 = `BGM_103`, corroborated", + " by a byte-for-byte match against what the XMA probe saw at the main menu.", + " An earlier draft read the negative as unbounded, picked a track at random", + " and called it authored. See the `bgm._` block for what that cost.", + "", + "The exporter reads this file and emits `export/audio/**` from it. It holds no", + "cue table of its own: a measured offset compiled into a Rust `const` is a", + "measurement wearing the costume of a decoded field, and MISSION section 3 is", + "explicit that measured values live here." + ], + "se": { + "_": [ + "MEASURED, HANDOFF Q8, and the RE agent retracted an earlier 'cannot be", + "extracted' to publish these. The waves were located BY PLAYING THEM: Canary", + "with `--xma_param_probe=true` prints a stream's packet count and first 32", + "bytes when it is played, and searching those bytes in the bank gives the", + "offset.", + "", + "WARNING, from the same finding: the file order is NOT cue-id order. These", + "cannot be counted out, and an index here would be a fabrication.", + "", + "`name_match` is the authors' own identifier GUESSED BY NAME. It is carried", + "so the guess is not lost and is never presented as the measurement. Where", + "the RE agent did not separate two candidates, there is no name at all --", + "an absent `name_match` means nobody has claimed one, never that the", + "BINDING is unknown. The binding is the measured part.", + "", + "All three are mono 48 kHz; that is the RE agent's statement in", + "`sylpheed_formats::media::se_wave_riff`, not something re-derived here." + ], + "move": { + "bank": "Static.slb", + "offset": "0x1ec0", + "packets": 4, + "channels": 1, + "rate": 48000, + "name_match": "SE_UI_CURSOR", + "why": "HANDOFF Q8, measured: the d-pad move cue, 8 192 B / 0.533 s, reproduced across two boots. Left/right play nothing at all, which is a measurement too and is why there is no `left`/`right` row here rather than a silent file.", + "kind": "measured" + }, + "confirm": { + "bank": "Static.slb", + "offset": "0x5d6c0", + "packets": 6, + "channels": 1, + "rate": 48000, + "why": "HANDOFF Q8, measured: the (A) confirm cue, 12 288 B / 1.016 s. NO `name_match`: Q8 is explicit that (A)'s wave was not separated between `SE_UI_DECIDE` and `SE_UI_SUB_WIN_OPN`, so naming it would invent the one thing the measurement did not settle.", + "kind": "measured" + }, + "back": { + "bank": "Static.slb", + "offset": "0x0ec0", + "packets": 2, + "channels": 1, + "rate": 48000, + "why": "HANDOFF Q8, measured: the (B) back cue, 4 096 B / 0.344 s, reproduced across two boots. No `name_match` for the same reason as `confirm` -- Q8 names no identifier for it.", + "kind": "measured" + } + }, + "bgm": { + "_": [ + "MEASURED, NOT CHOSEN -- and the port got this wrong for one iteration.", + "", + "`docs/port/BLOCKED.md` carried a row reading 'not on the disc ... the port", + "is choosing a track, and that choice is authored', and the first draft of", + "this file duly picked BGM_001 and labelled it arbitrary. That row was not", + "stale: `BGM_103` is in HANDOFF at `9ca1eb5`, which is the exact commit the", + "row says it was reconciled against. It was WRONG WHEN WRITTEN.", + "", + "What HANDOFF actually says is a negative with a stated reach, and the reach", + "is what the port dropped: the *tables* cannot say which BGM a screen plays", + "-- `SOUNDS`, `FILES` and the bank headers name no screen. The EXECUTABLE", + "can. `GamePart_Title`'s phase handler `sub_821C5580` carries `li r5, 1103`", + "into a sound call, cue 1103 is `BGM_103`, and `BGM_103.slb`'s two declared", + "waves (3 876 864 / 3 930 112 B) are byte-for-byte the two streams the XMA", + "probe saw decoding at the main menu. Static code, disc census and runtime", + "agree. HANDOFF's own words: 'The port does not have to choose a track.'", + "", + "So this section is a CITATION, not a decision. It lives in `authored/`", + "only because the binding is in the .xex and the exporter reads data files,", + "not code -- and it must be deleted the day something the exporter can read", + "states it. The loop policy below IS still a decision." + ], + "main_menu": { + "bank": "BGM_103.slb", + "loop": "restart", + "kind": "measured", + "why": "MEASURED, HANDOFF Q10 -- NOT a port choice. `GamePart_Title`'s phase handler `sub_821C5580` plays cue 1103 = `BGM_103`, and `BGM_103.slb`'s two declared waves (3 876 864 / 3 930 112 B) are byte-for-byte the two streams the XMA probe saw decoding at the main menu. Static code, disc census and runtime all agree; see docs/re/menu-audio-cues.md and docs/re/structures/bgm-two-stems.md. The name carries its `.slb` extension because that is what `sound.pak` hashes -- `BGM_103` alone resolves to nothing, which is how the first draft of this file failed. ✅ AUDITED 2026-08-31 -- the THREE legs are three, and that is now measured rather than asserted. Prompted by the Decoder's point that a decorative second support is worse than none, since a conclusion with two supports reads as better evidenced than one and apparent redundancy is itself the misinformation. Read literally, 'disc census' and 'runtime' could be ONE comparison -- declared wave sizes matched byte-for-byte against the probe -- which would make three legs two. It is a real third leg only if the census EXCLUDES alternatives: if another bank carried the same two sizes, the byte match would not distinguish BGM_103. Measured with this port's own reader (`crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bgm_size_census.rs`): of 32 readable BGM_* banks on the disc, EXACTLY ONE carries waves of that size. The census therefore excludes, the static-code leg names the cue independently, and the three legs stand. ✅ AND THE EXCLUSION IS TIGHTER THAN I STATED. The Decoder attempted to refute it from their own census tool rather than this port's reader: of 32 census rows, exactly one bank carries EITHER of those wave sizes -- not merely both together, which is what I measured. A collision would therefore need to reproduce a single size, not a pair, and none does.", + "loop_why": "MEASURED, and this field's own history is why it says so first. The bed loops; the loop is a RUNTIME field -- `loop_start`/`loop_end` in the XMA decoder context, set by `XMASetLoopData` and logged by Xenia -- and the cycle was watched directly: three wraps, both contexts wrapping at the same instant every time, mean 61.81 s against the 61.93 s authored in `loop_end_s`, 0.2 % apart from instruments sharing nothing. The export is TRIMMED to that window, because Godot loops a whole file and a loop region therefore has to BE the file. ⚠️ The window's START is not measured and is authored as 0, which is known to be wrong -- see `loop_start_why`. 🔴 EVERY SENTENCE THAT PRECEDED THIS ONE WAS REFUTED, and the previous text survived in the manifest for two days after the corrections were written. It said the loop would be `AUDIBLY WRONG AT THE SEAM [refuted]`, that `no loop-point field has been identified [refuted] anywhere`, and that trimming `would INVENT a loop point`. All three are false: the field exists, the 3.4 s of near-silence was the PORT'S loop and not the game's, and the trim is now what the measurement says. The corrections went into `loop_end_why` and `loop_start_why`; this field is the one the exporter concatenates into `manifest.json`, so the export went on telling readers the refuted story. A correction that does not reach the artifact a consumer reads has not been made. 📌 CITATIONS ADDED 2026-09-01, and their absence was found by `audit-kinds` the moment this field got a `kind` -- it had 1 400 characters of prose and nothing openable, which is exactly the state the audit exists to catch and could not see while the field was unlabelled. The wrap measurement is docs/re/data/menu-bgm-loop-measured.txt and the start is docs/re/data/menu-bgm-loop-start.txt; the bank's two-stem structure is docs/re/structures/bgm-two-stems.md.", + "loop_kind": "measured", + "stems": "sum", + "stems_why": "MEASURED, HANDOFF Q10: a bank is exactly TWO waves of identical duration (32/32 banks on the disc), sample-synchronous -- transient correlation peaks at lag 0.00 s over +/-5 s and both stop at the same millisecond. Concatenating them plays the piece twice, the second time as a bass-less stem; that was the previous reading and it is refuted. Emitting two files would be wrong for a second reason: MODDING rule 1 is one logical asset, one file, and handing a modder two stems to line up by hand is the reassembly the exporter exists to have already done. WHAT IS SUMMED IS SETTLED; WHAT WAVE 1 IS, IS NOT -- HANDOFF calls it quieter, far more L/R-decorrelated and almost bass-free, so it reads as a surround-rear pair OR a second intensity layer, and `ChannelMask` is 0x0002 on both so the file will not say. A unity sum is right under either reading; a weighting would only be justified once that is settled.", + "stems_kind": "measured", + "loop_start_s": 9.44, + "loop_start_why": [ + "MEASURED 2026-08-30 -- 9.44 s. The loop region is [9.44 s, 71.31 s] of an", + "87.744 s wave: the first 9.44 s is an intro played ONCE, and the last 16.4 s", + "is a fade-out never played at all.", + "", + "Two derivations, both stems, and NEITHER converts bits to seconds -- the", + "conversion that refuted itself earlier by giving two sample-synchronous stems", + "62.34 and 63.29 s. (a) time to `read_offset` crossing `loop_start`, plus a", + "1.33 s head correction at a LOCALLY measured rate; (b) first pass minus cycle.", + "9.44 s on both stems either way.", + "", + "⚠️ ONE BOOT, ONE BANK. The decoder reads ahead of playback, but both endpoints", + "are `read_offset` events so the lead cancels in the difference.", + "", + "🔴 THIS FIELD WAS 0.0 AND FLAGGED WRONG FOR ONE ITERATION, deliberately. The", + "value was not guessable -- linear back-extrapolation said 9-13 s and linearity", + "is refuted by a 4.4 % rate variation within one stream. What made the wait", + "cheap was that the field EXISTED and the `-ss`/`-t` ordering had been proved", + "with a stand-in value, so arriving at 9.44 was a one-value edit.", + "", + "📌 CITATION ADDED 2026-09-01 -- found the moment this field got a `kind`. It", + "carried 1 041 characters describing two derivations and cited no file. The", + "numbers are in docs/re/data/menu-bgm-loop-start.txt, and the loop region's", + "wrap timing is in docs/re/data/menu-bgm-loop-measured.txt.", + "", + "⚠️ Second uncited MEASURED field in this one entry, after `loop_why`. Both", + "described their evidence carefully in prose and pointed at nothing. A why that", + "recounts a measurement reads as well-sourced precisely because it is detailed,", + "which is why neither looked wrong.", + "", + "✅ AUDITED 2026-09-01 with the exclusion test: could either derivation have come", + "out differently given the other? YES, and they discriminate different errors --", + "(a) depends on a locally measured RATE and (b) on the CYCLE, so a wrong rate", + "breaks (a) and leaves (b) standing, and a wrong cycle does the reverse. Two legs", + "that fail independently, which is what 'two derivations' was claiming.", + "", + "⚠️ BOUND: they share one trace. A systematic error in the read_offset stream", + "moves both, and the ONE BOOT, ONE BANK caveat above is that limit stated. What", + "they exclude is arithmetic error, not trace error." + ], + "loop_start_kind": "measured", + "loop_end_s": 61.87, + "loop_end_why": [ + "MEASURED off the running game 2026-08-30, 240 s parked on the menu", + "(docs/re/structures/menu-bgm-loop-measured.md). The bed loops at 61.93 s, NOT", + "at the summed wave's 87.744 s length, and the last ~25.8 s is never played --", + "exactly the fade-out and trailing silence bgm-two-stems.md found. The game", + "loops BEFORE the fade.", + "", + "🔴 THIS CORRECTS AN AUTHORED VALUE THAT WAS WRONG IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. `restart`", + "at the wave's end produced a seam of about 3.4 SECONDS of near-silence, and", + "this port measured that seam off its own Master bus and recorded it as the", + "cost of a missing loop point. It was not the game's seam; it was OURS. Zero", + "runs of >=0.3 s below median-18 dB appear in 232 s of the real menu.", + "", + "Two instruments agree: correlation gives a top lag of 61.909 s and r = -0.009", + "at 87.750 s, and locating 30 s slices inside the decoded waves shows playback", + "advancing exactly +5.00 s per 5 s and wrapping at 61.93 s, three times, with a", + "control that finds slices cut at 10/45/70 s at 10.00/45.00/70.00.", + "", + "⚠️ The loop START is inferred, not measured: [0.0, 61.93) and [0.25, 62.18) are", + "not separated at their resolution. The port takes 0 because a bank's own start", + "is where its data begins, and records that the choice was not measured.", + "", + "⚠️ Godot loops a WHOLE FILE, so the export is TRIMMED to 61.93 s rather than", + "carrying a loop point the runtime could not honour. The trimmed tail is", + "content the game never reaches, so nothing playable is lost -- but a modder", + "replacing this file is replacing the loop region, not the whole bank.", + "", + "🔴 CONFLICT, OPEN AS OF 2026-08-30. The loop IS a runtime field: `loop_start`", + "and `loop_end` live in the XMA decoder context, set by `XMASetLoopData`, and", + "the RE agent read 8734 records off the menu. Converted, they imply a cycle of", + "roughly [10 s, 72 s] against the [0.25, 57.18] their audio tracking reported.", + "BOTH CANNOT BE RIGHT and neither has been withdrawn.", + "", + "They judge the weak link probably theirs: the locator's control matched slices", + "cut from the wave ITSELF -- exact copies -- which is an easier problem than", + "matching a capture that differs by decoder, gain and mix. A control easier than", + "the measurement does not bound the measurement's error, and music with repeated", + "sections is where a locator aliases.", + "", + "⚠️ THE VALUE IS KEPT ON THEIR INSTRUCTION, and because the LENGTH survives", + "better than the PLACEMENT: 61.93 has an autocorrelation behind it that used no", + "wave at all, and the trimmed loop has no seam in this port's own output.", + "", + "This port added one check neither of their instruments ran: whether the trim", + "JOINS SMOOTHLY. Over 126.5 s the wrap at 61.93 s and again at 123.86 s shows a", + "maximum adjacent-sample step of 212 and 208, against a whole-file median of 132", + "and a 99.9th percentile of 3737. So the join is not a click and nothing is", + "audibly broken.", + "", + "⚠️ THAT DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE THE TWO READINGS. A smooth join says the waveform", + "does not jump; it does not say the loop is at the musically right point, and a", + "cut landing near a zero crossing is smooth wherever it falls.", + "", + "🔴 What the conflict would COST if their runtime fields win: under [10 s, 72 s]", + "this export is about 10 SECONDS SHORT -- the content in [61.93, 72] is played", + "by the game and absent here. That is the number to weigh when it resolves, and", + "it is why this entry is not being treated as settled.", + "", + "✅ CONFIRMED 2026-08-30 BY A SECOND INSTRUMENT SHARING NOTHING WITH THE FIRST.", + "The RE agent stopped converting the runtime fields and TIMED them instead --", + "a probe tailing the Apu debug log and stamping `read_offset` on arrival --", + "and watched THREE wraps, each from its own `loop_end` to its own `loop_start`,", + "with both contexts wrapping at the SAME INSTANT every time. Cycle 61.56 and", + "62.06 s, mean 61.81 s: 0.2 % from the 61.93 authored here, measured by wall", + "clock between decoder events against an autocorrelation that never touched", + "the wave. Both contexts wrapping together is the sample-synchrony the linear", + "bit conversion could not produce.", + "", + "So the LENGTH is settled and the WINDOW is not. See `loop_start_why`.", + "", + "✅ 61.87 ADOPTED 2026-08-30, replacing 61.93. Their wrap timing gives 61.87 --", + "wraps at 96.46 / 158.33 / 220.21 s, gaps 61.87 and 61.87 -- against the 61.93", + "this port's autocorrelation gave. 0.1 % apart. The measured value is taken", + "because it is the one with the loop's own endpoints under it; the", + "autocorrelation never touched the wave and agreed to a tenth of a percent,", + "which is what makes both worth having." + ], + "loop_end_kind": "measured" + } + }, + "voice": { + "_": [ + "🔴 KNOWN WRONG, HELD DELIBERATELY. Which of a voice region's streams to", + "export. The premise this entry was built on has been REFUTED BY THE RUNNING", + "GAME and the entry is kept, escalated, rather than swapped for another guess.", + "", + "The premise was: a region carries THREE PRESENTATIONS OF ONE TAKE, so the", + "exporter picks one. The Decoder booted with `--xma_param_probe=true` -- the", + "cvar that reports which sub-wave the game decodes -- and the game decodes", + "ALL THREE, CONCURRENTLY, in three separate XMA contexts, with byte sizes", + "matching the three disc payloads exactly (1294336 / 1118208 / 1171456", + "against RIFF size - 60 of 1294396 / 1118268 / 1171516).", + "", + "SO THERE IS NO 'WHICH ONE' TO ANSWER. `presentation` below discards two of", + "three streams the game plays. It is not a preference between rules any more;", + "it is a known-incomplete export.", + "", + "WHY IT IS NOT CHANGED TODAY. Reverting to the 1/n sum is not obviously less", + "wrong: an equal-gain sum of channel pairs is not a downmix -- MISSION", + "section 6 makes exactly that point when it pins an explicit matrix for the", + "movies' 5.1 fold rather than letting ffmpeg default -- and the 6.02 dB the", + "sum cost S00A was a real defect. Swapping one guess for another on a message", + "is what produced this entry twice already.", + "", + "🟡 HYPOTHESIS, NOT A RESULT, and it is the Decoder's: three concurrent stereo", + "streams is six channels, and N stereo streams is how XMA carries", + "multichannel on the 360, so 5.1 would explain the differing byte rates, the", + "near-silent stream and why cues are 1-stream or 3-stream and never 2. AGAINST", + "IT: all three declare ChannelMask = 0x0002 identically, which is odd for", + "distinct channel roles. Do not build on it.", + "", + "WHAT SETTLES IT: a recording of the game's own output over the intro,", + "through the PulseAudio null sink (AUDIO-VERIFICATION section 3). Candidate", + "combinations of the three decoded streams can then be correlated against", + "what the game actually played. Asked 2026-08-29.", + "", + "🔴 REFUTED FROM THE OUTPUT SIDE, 2026-08-30, not merely suspected.", + "", + "The RE agent recorded 148 s of the game's own output over the boot intro", + "(ALSA tee, --gpu=null, 0.15 % silence -- cleaner than the recipe page's own", + "reference run), with provenance from the XMA probe rather than a screenshot:", + "`ADV`'s three contexts appear byte-exact, then the `BGM_102` pair.", + "", + "FIVE OF SIX CHANNELS CARRY DISTINCT CONTENT. No channel is a copy of another;", + "the largest pairwise correlation is 0.70, between FL and FR, which is what a", + "stereo pair looks like. BR is 82 % silent and 11 dB down.", + "", + "So `presentation: \"loudest\"` -- keeping ONE stream -- cannot be right. That", + "was already labelled known-wrong here on the strength of the game decoding", + "all three concurrently; it is now refuted by what the game PLAYS.", + "", + "⚠️ AND IT IS STILL NOT FIXED, DELIBERATELY, on the RE agent's own instruction.", + "Three limits they state:", + " * it does not make summing right -- the output is multichannel, which says", + " nothing about which stream lands where;", + " * '6 channels' is NOT evidence the game is 5.1 -- that count is Xenia's", + " hardcoded kFrameChannelsDefault. The evidence is that five of them DIFFER,", + " which a stereo guest cannot produce;", + " * 🔴 the stream-to-channel mapping is NOT RUN. Cross-correlating each", + " captured channel against each decoded `ADV` stream is the step that", + " answers this, and it is their next iteration.", + "", + "Changing the mapping now would swap one authored guess for another, which is", + "a worse position than a guess that is labelled. The value stays; the label is", + "upgraded from suspicion to refutation." + ], + "presentation": "all", + "presentation_why": [ + "`loudest` = the full-length stream whose peak is nearest full scale.", + "", + "🔴 READ THE BLOCK ABOVE FIRST. This selects one of three streams the game", + "decodes concurrently, so whatever it selects, two are missing. The", + "paragraphs below are the history of how the value was arrived at, kept", + "because the reasoning is what makes the error checkable -- NOT because the", + "choice is defensible on its own terms any more.", + "", + "It was `highest_rate`, on a recommendation withdrawn as self-contradictory:", + "'the highest-rate, highest-gain one is chunk 1' selects different streams --", + "ADV stream 2 is 1118268 B at 0.0 dBFS, stream 3 is 1171516 B at -8.3.", + "", + "A structural argument for `loudest` was offered and withdrawn too: ADV", + "stream 2 is mono-in-stereo and stream 3 is dual-mono, so the extra bytes", + "looked like a duplicated channel rather than fidelity. The CHANNEL", + "MEASUREMENT stands and now reads differently -- these are channel pairs, and", + "0.60x with the residual 26.8 dB down is what a correlated pair at a lower", + "level looks like. The GENERALISATION was refuted by census: the stream-3 /", + "stream-2 size ratio over the 28 three-stream cues runs 0.0778 to 2.9163.", + "", + "⚠️ THE FAILURE MODE HERE IS THAT IT SOUNDS FINE. A single stream decodes to", + "clean audible dialogue, so nothing in the output reveals that two streams", + "are missing. That is why the manifest says it in words on every voice entry", + "rather than leaving it to this file.", + "", + "📌 WHERE THE OPEN QUESTION LIVES, added 2026-09-01 under this port's own rule:", + "an `authored` kind must cite the question it stands in for, or an invented", + "value and a placeholder for a measurement read identically. This one stands in", + "for the three-concurrent-streams problem, recorded in docs/port/BLOCKED.md and", + "delivered in docs/port/HANDOFF.md -- the game decodes all three at once, so", + "ANY single selection is missing two, and the export states that per movie", + "rather than choosing quietly.", + "", + "⚠️ 1 402 characters of careful reasoning and nothing openable until now. It is", + "the third uncited field in this file, and all three were detailed rather than", + "sloppy -- the detail is what made them look sourced." + ], + "presentation_kind": "authored", + "stream_weights": { + "_": [ + "Declared XMA `byte_size` -> the coefficient that stream's position takes in a", + "stereo downmix. MEASURED by the RE agent 2026-08-30", + "(docs/re/structures/intro-audio-decomposed.md): decomposing the game's own", + "6-channel output as capture = 0.600 x movie + residual puts ctx0 at FL/FR,", + "ctx1 at FC with LFE silent, and ctx2 at BL/BR.", + "", + "🔴 KEYED BY BYTE SIZE ON PURPOSE. The assignment is indexed by the decoder's", + "own declared size, so the exporter can CHECK that the stream in front of it is", + "the one the measurement describes rather than assume it. A region whose chunks", + "do not match falls back to the count divisor and says so. That is not defensive", + "programming: on 2026-08-30 this table's sizes did NOT fit the region the", + "resolver returned, which is what exposed `resolve_movie_voice_region` starting", + "238 packets late. Had the weights been applied positionally they would have", + "been applied to the wrong streams silently.", + "", + "⚠️ ONE BOOT, ONE MOVIE. Only `ADV`'s three streams were measured. `S00A`'s", + "sizes match nothing here and it keeps the divisor -- extending this by", + "POSITION would be assuming the ordering generalises, which is exactly the", + "inference the byte-size key exists to avoid.", + "", + "⚠️ The weights are a stereo downmix's, folded to mono. They sum to 1.0, so the", + "total is the movie's own; what they distribute is the balance between three", + "positions. Whether the game's 0.600 mixer gain is a constant or a volume", + "setting is unknown and the port applies no gain of its own." + ], + "1294336": { + "position": "FL/FR", + "weight": 0.4142 + }, + "1118208": { + "position": "FC (LFE silent)", + "weight": 0.2929 + }, + "1171456": { + "position": "BL/BR", + "weight": 0.2929 + } + } + } +} diff --git a/authored/flow.json b/authored/flow.json index 5025fa5d..75e40031 100644 --- a/authored/flow.json +++ b/authored/flow.json @@ -1,55 +1,669 @@ { - "format": "sylpheed.flow/1", - "_": [ - "The boot sequence. AUTHORED, and it has to be: HANDOFF Q6 closed this with a", - "negative -- the order is in none of the four places it could have been. It is", - "not in config.ini's empty [SYSTEM], not in the movie manifest (which carries", - "assets, not transitions), not in a persistent GamePart field (the requested id", - "lives only as a stack argument in flight), and `GP_ADVERTISE_DEMO` has zero", - "xrefs of any kind. A transition is a call with a name argument, chosen by code.", - "", - "So this file REPRODUCES AN OBSERVATION. The sequence below is what the RE", - "agent watched the game do, not what any file on the disc says it does. Nothing", - "here may be presented as decoded." - ], - "boot": [ - { - "screen": "publisher_logo", - "why": "The SQUARE ENIX wordmark is the first thing the boot shows -- RE agent, 2026-08-29. Entry 10 of the pair; 13 is its region twin and the port shows one, not both." - }, - { - "screen": "developer_logos", - "why": "GAME ARTS / SETA / studio anima, after the publisher wordmark. HANDOFF Q2." - }, - { - "video": "ADV", - "why": "HANDOFF Q9, DECODED from the movie manifest: ADVERTISE_MOVIE -> ADV.wmv, and the boot intro and the attract movie are the SAME asset -- there is no separate boot slot. Its POSITION here (after the developer logos, before the title) is measured, not decoded: it is the order the RE agent watched the game boot in.", - "skippable": true, - "skippable_why": "HANDOFF Q9: one (A) press skips a movie -- measured, title reached at 57 s against a 193 s baseline." - }, - { - "screen": "title", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2/Q6: the boot reaches the title after the intro movie. The port holds here -- nothing takes the title's place until P5 gives it somewhere to go." - } - ], - "dwell": { - "_": [ - "DELIBERATELY EMPTY. Each screen's dwell is its own keyframe group -- the", - "publisher wordmark reaches its hold at t=235 (3.92 s) and the developer", - "logos at t=190 (3.17 s), both read from the disc. Holding beyond that would", - "be a number nobody has measured, so the sequencer holds for zero extra time", - "and the pacing is the disc's own.", - "", - "When a capture times the real boot, the extra hold per screen goes here." - ] + "format": "sylpheed.flow/1", + "_": [ + "The boot sequence. AUTHORED, and it has to be: HANDOFF Q6 closed this with a", + "negative -- the order is in none of the four places it could have been. It is", + "not in config.ini's empty [SYSTEM], not in the movie manifest (which carries", + "assets, not transitions), not in a persistent GamePart field (the requested id", + "lives only as a stack argument in flight), and `GP_ADVERTISE_DEMO` has zero", + "xrefs of any kind. A transition is a call with a name argument, chosen by code.", + "", + "So this file REPRODUCES AN OBSERVATION. The sequence below is what the RE", + "agent watched the game do, not what any file on the disc says it does. Nothing", + "here may be presented as decoded." + ], + "boot": [ + { + "screen": "publisher_logo", + "why": "The SQUARE ENIX wordmark is the first thing the boot shows -- RE agent, 2026-08-29. Entry 10 of the pair; 13 is its region twin and the port shows one, not both. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01: the boot's screen order and dwells are derived from GP_TITLE's own entries -- see docs/port/FORMAT.md for the export shape and docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md for which entry is which screen. The order here is not authored; it is what the archive declares." }, - "screens": { - "_": [ - "What each button does. NOT FILLED IN -- that is P5. HANDOFF Q4 measured the", - "destination screens and the RE agent later decoded that a transition is a", - "lookup by NAME, giving a candidate vocabulary (TITLE_SCREEN, TITLE_MENU,", - "LOADING, DIFFICULTY, EXTRA_MENU, TUTORIAL_MENU). Those are the right `goto`", - "targets when this is written, marked as the name match they are." - ] + { + "screen": "developer_logos", + "why": "GAME ARTS / SETA / studio anima, after the publisher wordmark. HANDOFF Q2." + }, + { + "video": "ADV", + "why": "HANDOFF Q9, DECODED from the movie manifest: ADVERTISE_MOVIE -> ADV.wmv, and the boot intro and the attract movie are the SAME asset -- there is no separate boot slot. Its POSITION here (after the developer logos, before the title) is measured, not decoded: it is the order the RE agent watched the game boot in.", + "skippable": true, + "skippable_why": "HANDOFF Q9: one (A) press skips a movie -- measured, title reached at 57 s against a 193 s baseline.", + "skippable_kind": "measured" + }, + { + "screen": "title", + "overlay": { + "screen": "press_start", + "clock": "shared", + "why": "MEASURED, 2026-08-29, docs/re/title-plate-delay-measured.md on branch auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures at 5b0a6e6 (NOT on main when this was written). The boot title shows build 4 ALONE and the `PRESS (A) BUTTON` plate -- build 2 -- arrives later. This is the ONE case in the port where two builds are drawn at once.", + "no_constant_why": "THERE IS NO AUTHORED DELAY HERE, AND THERE WAS ONE FOR ONE ITERATION. The first version of this block carried `after_settle_seconds: 2.13`, taken from the RE agent's instruction. The port refuted that instruction with arithmetic off the disc -- build 2 has a group of its own, and starting it at settle put the plate 3.97 s late -- and the corrected answer needs no constant at all: BOTH BUILDS RUN ON ONE CLOCK, STARTED TOGETHER, and the plate arrives at its own declared t=236 (CORRECTED 2026-09-01 from t=238, which is the last opaque frame rather than the arrival). `clock: \"shared\"` is that, spelled out rather than implied by the absence of a delay field. 📌 SOURCES, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the plate's arrival is docs/re/title-plate-delay-measured.md and its pulse is docs/re/structures/plate-pulse-measured.md. 🔴 AND `clock: \"shared\"` IS AUTHORED FROM OUR OWN ARITHMETIC, NOT MEASURED. Nobody has watched whether build 2's group starts with build 4's; it is the reading that reconciles the oracle's 2.13 s IF the settle anchor is t=118. See docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md and BLOCKED.md H3.", + "arithmetic_why": "Why one clock reproduces the measurement, checked against this export rather than taken on trust: build 4's effect quads `pteff01`, `pteff02` and `ptlogoall_eff` end their ramps together at t=118; `ptbtn00` reaches alpha 255 at t=236; the difference is 118 units = 1.967 s at 60 units/s. The oracle measured 2.138 s and 2.132 s. The gap is presentation rate: the emulator presents at 28.1 fps against a nominal 30, and the corpus had independently measured the idle title at 28.5 fps before these runs. 🔴 CORRECTED 2026-09-01: this said `ptbtn00` reaches 255 at t=238 and that the difference is 120 units = 2.000 s. It reaches 255 at t=236 and HOLDS to 238, so 238 is the last opaque frame, not the arrival; 236 - 118 = 118. The port printed the contradiction in one sentence on every boot. The correction moves the reconciliation by 0.033 s and overturns nothing -- see docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md. 🔴 AND THE ANCHOR IS NOW OPEN. The oracle defines \"title settled\" operationally, as its glyph counter first reading the no-plate value 154. This export offers TWO anchors 42 units apart: t=118 (the effect quads) and t=160 (`ptcopyright` at full alpha -- the LAST element to finish building in, and the only one made of glyphs). This line picked 118, while `ScreenView.settle_time()` returns 160 and the boot prints `settles at t=160`, so one binary holds both. Asked in BLOCKED.md H3; not guessed here. 📌 SOURCE: the pulse period and its phase behaviour are in docs/re/structures/plate-pulse-measured.md and docs/re/structures/plate-pulse-phase-lock.md, with the raw series in docs/re/data/plate-pulse-timeseries.txt. ✅ AUDITED 2026-09-01: the corpus's 28.5 fps is a genuinely independent leg -- a different quantity (idle-title presentation rate), measured BEFORE these runs, so it could have come out disagreeing. It agrees to 1.4 %.", + "the_premise_that_failed_why": "The port's own, and it is worth keeping because it will bite again: `rest.t` IS NOT WHEN A SCREEN SETTLES. It is the last hold keyframe before the exit. Reading it as the settle put build 4's arrival at 4.35 s instead of 1.97 s, and every reconciliation computed from it came out wrong by exactly that error. `ScreenView.settle_time()` still uses rest.t -- see docs/port/BLOCKED.md. 🔴 THE EXAMPLE THIS CITED IS GONE, THOUGH THE CONCLUSION IS NOT. It read \"`ptlogo1` has rest.t=251 and stops MOVING at t=42\". In the CURRENT export `ptlogo1.rest.t` is 42 -- equal to when it stops moving. The record-layout fix repaired precisely that element, and the entry was never re-derived under it (REFUTED.md now carries this at 🟡 ⟨our-reader⟩). rest.t is still wrong for transients -- `ptlogo_back2eff1` is a two-frame flash whose rest.t=54 is the flash PEAK -- and for `pteff00`, whose rest.t=16 sits at the end of the fade-FROM-black while a fade-TO-black runs 261..269. Re-derived 2026-09-01: docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md. 🔴 AND IT IS NOT THIS DEFECT'S CAUSE. The plate's ARRIVAL is a declared keyframe (transparent to t=214, opaque at t=236), not a rest pose; rest.t=236 only chooses where `holding` parks it, and 236 is that ramp's own peak. Confirmed on a filmed boot with rest.t untouched: the onset is bracketed within one frame of 214.", + "scope_why": "Attached to the BOOT STEP, not to the `title` screen, and that is deliberate. What was measured is the boot title. Whether the title shows the plate when it is REACHED AGAIN -- by (B) from the main menu, or after the attract movie -- is not measured, and putting the overlay on the screen would quietly claim it is. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01: the plate belongs to the boot's overlay step rather than to the title screen because its arrival is measured against the boot clock -- docs/re/title-plate-delay-measured.md. 🔴 STALE CLAUSE, CORRECTED 2026-09-01: this said \"Whether the title shows the plate when it is REACHED AGAIN -- by (B) from the main menu, or after the attract movie -- is not measured\". It IS measured now, and has been since 2026-08-30: after (B) from the menu the plate is re-drawn, pressed at 351.2 s with its pulse back at 358.5 s (the Decoder, nav-autorepeat-and-settled-b data). The port re-arms the overlay on arrival at the title by any path, and that is correct. What stayed true is the structural half -- the declaration lives on the boot STEP and is looked up from there, so a screen that gains an overlay gets it on both paths at once. ⚠️ What is STILL not measured is whether the returned plate FADES or appears at once; the 7.3 s between press and pulse is consistent with a transition plus the declared 214->236 fade, but that is consistency, not a measurement of the ramp on this path.", + "no_pulse_why": "The port draws the plate arriving and then holding. It does not pulse it. The RE agent identifies the pulse as the plate's FOCUS RECORD `ptbtn00f` -- a glow ramping 0x00 to 0x50 and back, t=6..105 -- not as a loop of `ptbtn00`'s own group, which was the port's earlier reading and was wrong. Looping that record is a candidate the port has NOT taken: its group is 105 timed units plus an AUTHORED 24-unit exit ramp, and hitting the measured 2.24 s mean requires composing that authored constant with a loop assumption, which is tuning rather than measuring. Filed in BLOCKED.md. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01: docs/re/structures/plate-pulse-measured.md, and the phase-lock caveat that bounds what a gated capture can show is docs/re/structures/plate-pulse-phase-lock.md." + }, + "why": "HANDOFF Q2/Q6: the boot reaches the title after the intro movie. This is the LAST step, and a last step is where the sequence stops rather than fading out -- a boot that ends by fading to black looks like a boot that crashed. P5 gave the title somewhere to go, but that is a HANDOVER and not another boot step: `--boot` still stops here, and `--boot --play` hands the same held title to the menu flow, where (A) opens TITLE_MENU. Kept as a stop rather than folded into `screens` because what the boot does is authored from a measured sequence, and what (A) does is a separate measurement." } + ], + "dwell": { + "_": [ + "NOT SET -- because the dwell is DECLARED, and the port already plays it.", + "", + "This key has now been wrong in two opposite directions, and the second was", + "mine, so both are recorded.", + "", + "It first said 'a screen's dwell is its OWN keyframe group'. Then GP_TITLE", + "build 4 was measured dwelling ~1100 presented frames against a declared ~120,", + "and I generalised that into 'the boot is KNOWN TOO FAST [refuted] on both splashes'.", + "🔴 THAT WAS AN OVER-CORRECTION and it is withdrawn. Build 4 is the title: its", + "exit is caused by something outside its timeline, so it holds. A splash's exit", + "is caused by nothing, so it plays its declared timeline and leaves. The title", + "is the exception, not the rule, and one screen was never enough to overturn", + "the other two.", + "", + "MEASURED 2026-08-29 by the Decoder over 3 cold boots", + "(docs/re/structures/boot-splash-dwells-are-declared.md):", + "", + " publisher declared t=0..255 = 4.250 s corpus 4.30 / 4.60 / 4.37", + " developer declared t=0..210 = 3.500 s corpus 3.51 / 3.50 / 3.37", + "", + "The developer agrees to 1.1 %, two of its three runs to 0.3 %. The port emits", + "4.400 s and 3.650 s -- each declared value plus the 9-unit black hold, exactly.", + "So the pacing was right all along and nothing changes in the code.", + "", + "🔴 AND THE UNIT STAYS UNITS, NOT SECONDS. The same two dwells timed in the", + "Decoder's own container came out 15-20 % LONGER than both the declared values", + "and the corpus -- same disc, same timeline -- and three independent readings", + "of that container's rate disagree with each other. A seconds figure records", + "one emulator's pacing on one run. The units are on the disc. If anything ever", + "goes in `dwell` it is an extra hold in UNITS, and only for a screen that is", + "measured to wait beyond its group." + ] + }, + "navigation": { + "_": [ + "MEASURED off the running game, HANDOFF Q5 -- none of it is on the disc.", + "It lives here rather than in GDScript so that a reader can see it is a", + "measurement and delete it the day a field on the disc states it." + ], + "wrap": true, + "wrap_why": "HANDOFF Q5: up/down move one item and WRAP at both ends. Measured on the 5-item main menu AND the 3-item EXTRAS, so it is a menu rule and not a per-screen one (docs/game/navigation.md, branch auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures 3a87a26).", + "wrap_kind": "measured", + "left_right": "nothing", + "left_right_why": "HANDOFF Q5: left/right do nothing. Measured. Implemented as an explicit no-op rather than by omission, so that 'we never wired it' and 'the game ignores it' are distinguishable in the code.", + "left_right_kind": "measured", + "input_during_transition": "ignored", + "input_during_transition_why": "AUTHORED, and NOT measured -- nobody has watched what the game does with a button pressed mid-fade. Ignoring is the choice that invents the least: it cannot queue a press the game might have dropped. Ask the RE agent before relying on it. 📌 WHERE THE ASK LIVES, added 2026-09-01: docs/port/BLOCKED.md carries it, and until now this why said \"ask the RE agent\" without naming where the question is recorded -- a pointer with no destination. An `authored` kind still needs a citation, because the thing to cite is the OPEN QUESTION the choice stands in for; without it, an invented value and a placeholder for a measurement read the same.", + "input_during_transition_kind": "authored", + "auto_repeat": false, + "auto_repeat_why": "MEASURED 2026-08-30, Decoder daf8f47: a 2.0 s held (down) moves the cursor EXACTLY ONCE. Their counter passes its own control first -- a single 0.12 s tap gives exactly 1 spike, the hold gives 1, move spike 0.0202-0.0220 against a 0.0003-0.0038 floor. The port's edge-triggered _input already behaved this way; what changed is that it is now a MEASUREMENT rather than an unexamined consequence of how the handler was written. HANDOFF Q5's 'up / down' row is split at the source: one-item-per-press (evidenced by the 4-press wrap count) from no-auto-repeat (which had nothing until this run).", + "auto_repeat_kind": "measured" + }, + "screens": { + "_": [ + "What each button does. The NAVIGATION ORDER is not here -- it is derived,", + "in each screen file's `buttons` (button-role elements sorted by resting Y).", + "Only the destinations, the initial focus and the cancel target are", + "authored, because only those are measurements or decisions.", + "", + "`goto` is an EXPORTED SCREEN NAME or null. `goto_name` is the game's own", + "screen vocabulary from the decoded transition lookup -- carried so the", + "binding is not lost, and marked below as the NAME MATCH it is, never as a", + "measurement (HANDOFF: the strings are what the call sites reference, not", + "proven arguments, and the same list mixes in TEXT_FONT and GAMMA_RGB).", + "", + "`goto: null` with a `blocked` note means the destination screen is real and", + "measured but is NOT IN THIS EXPORT -- it lives in another archive. That is a", + "milestone boundary, not an unknown." + ], + "title": { + "on_accept": { + "goto": "main_menu", + "goto_name": "TITLE_MENU", + "goto_name_kind": "name match, not measured", + "goto_name_why": [ + "NOT MEASURED, and the label says so. HANDOFF Q4 states it exactly: \"the", + "screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the executable's class", + "names.\" So `TITLE_MENU` is a string that exists in the executable and plausibly", + "denotes this screen -- nothing observed binds it to this transition.", + "", + "It is carried so a reader can search for it and so the port never has to", + "invent one. THE PORT NEVER BRANCHES ON IT: navigation uses `goto`, which is", + "a screen file, and this field is documentation.", + "", + "🔴 THIS `why` DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-08-30. All seven `goto_name_kind`", + "labels rested on a sibling `why` that argues the DESTINATION -- a different", + "claim from where the NAME came from. `tools/port/audit-kinds` reports that", + "as BORROWED rather than ok, because a label resting on a neighbour's", + "argument reads as evidenced and is not." + ], + "why": "MEASURED, HANDOFF: (A) on the title opens the main menu, with (A) on the boot title as the control in the same run." + }, + "on_cancel": null, + "on_cancel_why": "MEASURED 2026-08-30, Decoder daf8f47, docs/re/data/nav-autorepeat-and-settled-b.txt: twenty seconds after a delivery-confirmed B the screen is still the title with PRESS (A) BUTTON up. The run waited for the PLATE PULSE -- the title's own settled signature -- before pressing, which is exactly what the earlier confounded attempt did not. This cell briefly said 'MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5' on no evidence, then said AUTHORED once that was caught; it is now measured for real. Value unchanged throughout: null.", + "on_cancel_kind": "measured" + }, + "main_menu": { + "initial_focus": "ptbtn01", + "initial_focus_kind": "measured", + "focus_persists": true, + "focus_persists_kind": "measured", + "focus_persists_why": [ + "MEASURED 2026-08-30, Decoder: the main menu REMEMBERS ITS CURSOR across a", + "round trip through the title. (B) out and (A) back returns to the item you", + "left, not to a default. Their control passed first -- two delivery-confirmed", + "DOWNs moved the cursor exactly two items before the round trip, so the", + "cursor demonstrably was not where it started.", + "", + "The port reset to `initial_focus` on every entry, so this was a real defect", + "and not a refinement: a player who moved to EXTRAS, pressed (B), then (A),", + "landed back on NEW GAME.", + "", + "🔴 SCOPED TO THIS SCREEN ON PURPOSE, and the scope is the authored part.", + "The measurement is of the MAIN MENU. Making it a menu-wide rule would be", + "n=1 wearing a rule's clothes -- and here it would actively contradict a", + "measurement, because `extras` opens on MISSION SELECT as a MEASURED initial", + "focus, and a remembered cursor would override it on re-entry. `wrap` is a", + "menu rule because it was measured on two screens; this was measured on one.", + "", + "⚠️ WHAT IS NOT KNOWN: whether the memory survives a return to the BOOT", + "(as opposed to the title), and whether any other screen has it. Ask before", + "widening this.", + "", + "🔴 CORRECTED 2026-08-30, SAME DAY, by the Decoder: the paragraph above argued", + "the scope from `extras` having a MEASURED initial focus that a remembered", + "cursor would override. That is a good reason to be CAUTIOUS and NOT a finding", + "that `extras` resets. Nothing has measured what a submenu's own cursor does on", + "re-entry: the corpus has EXTRAS' opening item from ONE entry, and (B) restoring", + "the PARENT's focus 4/4, and neither answers it.", + "", + "So `focus_persists: false` everywhere else is THE PORT'S DEFAULT, not the", + "game's behaviour. It invents the least and it preserves the one measurement", + "there is. `tools/port/contract-check` asserts only the main-menu half against", + "the contract and reports the scope as a GUARD, because for one iteration it", + "asserted non-persistence as though it had been measured -- which would have", + "held the port to the wrong behaviour and passed while doing it.", + "", + "❔ The Decoder is measuring EXTRAS re-entry now. Do not build on the", + "non-persistence half until it returns.", + "", + "📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: docs/re/data/focus-persists-across-title.txt carries the round trip, and docs/re/data/extras-focus-resets.txt carries the contrasting submenu result that keeps this scoped to one screen." + ], + "initial_focus_why": [ + "MEASURED 2026-08-30 (later) -- `NEW GAME` on a fresh boot, 2/2 fresh boots,", + "both the FIRST menu entry. Decoder, HANDOFF `bf9e07f`, section \"correcting", + "today's focus delivery\"; ring row y=225.5 against a measured 79.25 px step,", + "data in docs/re/data/menu-focus-reader-offset.txt.", + "", + "🔴 THIS FIELD WAS `authored` UNTIL NOW AND THE UPGRADE IS NOT BECAUSE IT", + "AGREES WITH ME. The value did not change; its standing did. The confirmation", + "is a direct reading of a fresh boot's first menu entry, independent of the", + "reasoning that chose NEW GAME here -- and the Decoder had said explicitly that", + "my agreeing with their records was no evidence, which was correct at the time.", + "", + "✅ AND IT SURVIVES A REBOOT -- MEASURED 2026-08-31. Six fresh boots all", + "opened on NEW GAME, and THREE of them followed a session that ended with the", + "cursor on EXTRAS or OPTIONS. That is what makes it a test of persistence", + "rather than six repetitions of the same start.", + "", + "⚠️ REACH, and it is the Decoder's own caveat rather than mine: every one of", + "those sessions ended with the emulator KILLED, not shut down cleanly. A game", + "that writes menu state on a clean exit never gets the chance, so this", + "measures 'does not survive a KILLED session'. If a real console remembers a", + "cursor across a power cycle, that does not contradict this.", + "", + "⚠️ WHY 'FIRST ENTRY' IS LOAD-BEARING: the menu REMEMBERS ITS CURSOR (see", + "`focus_persists`), so any reading not taken on a fresh boot's first entry is", + "measuring HISTORY, not what the screen opens on. That objection is what", + "invalidated the earlier TUTORIAL/NEW GAME disagreement, and this measurement", + "is the one that is immune to it.", + "", + "The superseded reasoning is kept below, because it is what made the wait cheap:", + "the field existed and was labelled honestly, so arriving at a measurement was a", + "label change and not an archaeology problem.", + "", + " (was) AUTHORED, standing in for HANDOFF Q5, which measured that initial focus is NOT STABLE: four boots of the same harness opened on TUTORIAL, TUTORIAL, NEW GAME, NEW GAME. A port has to open on something. ptbtn01 (NEW GAME) is picked because it is one of the two states actually observed and it is the top item, so a reader can predict it. It is a CHOICE. Delete this the day the RE agent finds what selects it. CORROBORATED 2026-08-29, and still not decoded: the committed capture live-main-menu.png has NEW GAME focused. Identified by rendering all five focus states and taking the minimum difference -- 531 differing pixels against 6080-7094 for the others, an 11.5x margin -- with the method controlled on live-main-menu-options-focused.png, whose answer is in its filename and which it picks by 4.7x. That means the port's choice matches the state of one committed frame. It does NOT make focus stable: Q5's four boots gave TUTORIAL, TUTORIAL, NEW GAME, NEW GAME, and this identifies one frame rather than a rule. Delete this entry the day something says what SELECTS it. TIGHTENED 2026-08-29: Q5 now has SIX boots, and the shape is sharper than 'unstable' -- TUTORIAL x3, NEW GAME x3, and NO OTHER ITEM EVER OBSERVED. So it is not uniform over five buttons; whatever selects it has to explain a two-way split. That does not change this choice (NEW GAME remains one of exactly two observed states, and it is the state of the committed capture) but it does change what would REFUTE it: a boot opening on LOAD GAME, OPTIONS or EXTRAS would break the two-way shape, and a rule that predicts the split would delete this entry outright.", + " (was) ", + " (was) ✅ CONSISTENT WITH THE ONE CAPTURE, measured 2026-08-30. Rendering each of the", + " (was) five buttons focused against `live-main-menu.png` gives 0.0705 % for ptbtn01", + " (was) and 0.72-0.84 % for the other four -- a 10x discrimination. So that capture", + " (was) shows NEW GAME focused, and the authored choice matches it.", + " (was) ", + " (was) ⚠️ THIS DOES NOT OVERTURN Q5. Q5 measured initial focus as UNSTABLE across", + " (was) four boots; one capture showing ptbtn01 is consistent with that and does not", + " (was) contradict it. What the measurement establishes is narrower and still worth", + " (was) having: the port's focus rendering is distinctive enough that a capture", + " (was) identifies which button is focused, and this authored value is not at odds", + " (was) with the only frame we can check it against. It stays AUTHORED." + ], + "on_cancel": { + "goto": "title", + "goto_name": "TITLE_SCREEN", + "goto_name_kind": "name match, not measured", + "goto_name_why": [ + "NOT MEASURED, and the label says so. HANDOFF Q4 states it exactly: \"the", + "screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the executable's class", + "names.\" So `TITLE_SCREEN` is a string that exists in the executable and plausibly", + "denotes this screen -- nothing observed binds it to this transition.", + "", + "It is carried so a reader can search for it and so the port never has to", + "invent one. THE PORT NEVER BRANCHES ON IT: navigation uses `goto`, which is", + "a screen file, and this field is documentation.", + "", + "🔴 THIS `why` DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-08-30. All seven `goto_name_kind`", + "labels rested on a sibling `why` that argues the DESTINATION -- a different", + "claim from where the NAME came from. `tools/port/audit-kinds` reports that", + "as BORROWED rather than ok, because a label resting on a neighbour's", + "argument reads as evidenced and is not." + ], + "kind": "measured", + "why": "MEASURED 2026-08-30, delivery-confirmed (B = 0x5801), 73.5 % of pixels changed, and both captures name themselves. Latency <= 0.4 s and NO loading screen in between, which matters because the disc carries four pgloading_* screens. This entry previously read 'likely but UNPROVEN': it had been seen once without a capture, and the title ALSO returns on its own after ~8-10 s idle, so an observer could not tell a response from a timeout. The <= 0.4 s latency is what kills that confound -- it is twenty times faster than the idle return. Decoder 86a8ce7, menu-navigation-semantics.md row 'B on the main menu', docs/re/data/b-on-main-menu.txt." + }, + "buttons": { + "ptbtn01": { + "label": "NEW GAME", + "goto": null, + "goto_name": "DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY", + "goto_name_kind": "name match, not measured", + "goto_name_why": [ + "✅ CORRECTED 2026-08-31: this read `DIFFICULTY`, and the destination is a", + "DIALOG rather than a GamePart -- `DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY`, `GP_DIALOG.pak`", + "entries 2/3 [see the withdrawal below]. Decoder, TWO arguments [corrected below]; the geometry one is", + "re-derived here with this port's own reader: entries 2 and 3 are the ONLY", + "builds in that archive carrying `pcbtn00`-`pcbtn03`, at design rows", + "259/329/399/469, spacing exactly 70. See", + "`crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_rows.rs`.", + "", + "🔴 SO THE FOUR EXTERNAL DESTINATIONS ARE NOT UNIFORM: three open GameParts", + "and this one opens a dialog. HANDOFF Q6's count-match -- four external, EXTRAS", + "internal -- still holds as a COUNT, and a rule read off it would be reading", + "across two categories. The Decoder sent that count with disc support", + "yesterday and weakened it themselves today; recorded at the weaker strength.", + "", + "✅ THE REACH IS NOW BOUNDED -- 2026-08-31, and both agents scanned for it.", + "", + "It read: \"another four-button dialog with the same rows would be", + "indistinguishable by this evidence\". The Decoder searched every build in", + "every pak for four buttons within 6 px of those rows and found ZERO rivals.", + "Re-run here with this port's reader and a BROADER filter -- any element", + "whose name contains `btn`, not only `pcbtn`, so a rival under a different", + "naming convention would still be caught: 2 859 builds across 33 paks,", + "EXACTLY 2 matches, entries 2 and 3. The run carries its own known positive:", + "fewer than 2 would mean the reader cannot see the incumbents and its zero", + "would mean nothing.", + "", + "✅ And the name is now backed by a TABLE ENTRY rather than an inference", + "from a string list: every `DLG_` name in the image sits in a 12-byte record", + "(id, name pointer, handler [corrected]) spanning 0x820A0A2C-0x820A0D68 -- 70 names,", + "70 records, none unmatched. `DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY` is **id 2000**.", + "", + "🔴 \"THREE INDEPENDENT ROUTES\" CORRECTED TO TWO -- 2026-08-31, by the Decoder,", + "and I had relayed the count unchecked for the second time from one delivery.", + "", + "The image leg says DIFFICULTY is a dialog and names no entry, so alone it", + "identifies nothing. The disc and oracle legs are ONE COMPOUND ARGUMENT: the", + "capture is compared against the disc's rows. What makes that discriminating is", + "the EXCLUSION SCAN -- zero rivals within 6 px anywhere on the disc -- and that", + "is what the word \"three\" was taking credit for. The conclusion is unchanged;", + "the evidence is two arguments, one of them compound, and was never three.", + "", + "📌 The test that falls out of it, theirs: ask of an n-routes claim not whether", + "the routes are correct but whether ANY COULD HAVE COME OUT DIFFERENTLY GIVEN", + "THE OTHERS. That is an exclusion argument, and it is usually absent.", + "", + "🔴 WITHDRAWN 2026-08-31 -- \"AN EN/JP PAIR\", AND I RELAYED IT.", + "", + "The Decoder stated entries 2/3 as a language pair in the same HANDOFF row that", + "identifies DIFFICULTY, as a fact, and has withdrawn it: nothing established the", + "pairing. I copied it into this `why` -- twice -- in the SAME SENTENCE where I", + "was careful to say my re-derivation confirms the geometry and does not name the", + "screen. The unchecked half rode along inside the clause I had checked.", + "", + "What the scan actually shows is that adjacent GP_DIALOG entries are UNRELATED", + "DIALOGS: 26 of 65 adjacent pairs differ in BUTTON COUNT, which no language pair", + "can. Identical element sets is the language signature in GP_TITLE; here it is", + "equally consistent with a duplicate. So `2/3` are two builds with the same four", + "buttons at the same rows, and calling them EN and JP is an assumption.", + "", + "⚠️ THE IDENTIFICATION DOES NOT REST ON IT -- unique four-button geometry with", + "zero rivals disc-wide, plus the oracle capture. The pairing was decoration on a", + "conclusion that stands without it, which is exactly why it travelled unchecked.", + "", + "✅ RESTORED 2026-08-31, ON A MEASUREMENT RATHER THAN A RELAY. The Decoder took", + "the `ja` capture of DIFFICULTY that was missing and 2/3 ARE English/Japanese:", + "EN vs JP differ in 1.82 % of pixels in FOUR BANDS AND NOWHERE ELSE -- the", + "heading (DIFFICULTY -> the JP heading), the ring by 2 px, the BACK label, and", + "the footer. EASY/NORMAL/HARD are NOT in the differing set: the Japanese release", + "leaves the three difficulty names in Latin script, which is why the disc figure", + "is only 2.77 % of bytes against 1.82 % of pixels.", + "", + "📌 MY OBJECTION WAS NOT WRONG AND IS NOT WITHDRAWN. It was that IDENTICAL", + "ELEMENT SETS DO NOT IMPLY A LANGUAGE PAIR -- 26 of 65 adjacent pairs differ in", + "button count, so adjacency proves nothing. That argument still holds; what has", + "changed is that the conclusion now rests on a direct locale capture instead of", + "on that inference. A bad argument for a true claim is still a bad argument, and", + "the claim was correctly out of this file until somebody went and looked.", + "", + "⚠️ REACH, THEIRS: one JP boot, one screen, does not generalise. GP_TITLE 4/7 is", + "known to differ by MORE than text -- entry 7 carries nine sprites entry 4 lacks.", + "Nothing in the port keys off locale today; this is recorded, not consumed.", + "", + "🔴 RECORD LAYOUT CORRECTED 2026-09-01, and I had copied the wrong one. I wrote", + "\"(handler, id, name pointer)\"; it is {id, name_ptr, handler} -- the same three", + "fields shifted one word, so every record was being credited with the PREVIOUS", + "record's handler. The Decoder caught it with a control dump: under the old", + "alignment record 0 had a handler of 0x10000000, which is not a code address.", + "ids and names are unaffected and DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY is still 2000, so", + "nothing here moves except the sentence.", + "", + "📌 FOURTH aside of theirs relayed into this file. The first three were an EN/JP", + "pairing, a leg count and an independence claim -- all decorative. This one is a", + "STRUCTURE, which is worse: a wrong field order is the kind of thing a later", + "reader builds on, and it carried no weight here only by luck.", + "", + "❔ AND THE JOIN IS NOT REACHABLE BY THAT ROUTE -- their negative, with their", + "reach. All three handlers load the same global at 0x828E2B14 and take addresses", + "at 0x828E45E0/4640/467C, every one inside a 364 601-byte contiguous zero run:", + "BSS, populated only at runtime. Controlled, because an all-zero read is also", + "what a wrong address gives, and the dialog table itself reads non-zero through", + "the same arithmetic.", + "", + "⚠️ That closes the DIALOG HANDLERS, not the image. The archive loader and any", + "id-keyed table elsewhere are unexamined, so \"not in the image\" is NOT", + "established. Recorded as a route rather than an answer, which is how they sent", + "it.", + "", + "❔ STILL UNBOUND, and it is what would make this airtight: nothing connects", + "id 2000 to a pak entry. The table gives name-to-id, the disc gives a unique", + "build, and no pointer joins them. The tie is UNIQUENESS PLUS THE ORACLE", + "CAPTURE, not a binding -- so if a rival build ever appeared, this", + "identification would go with it.", + "", + "button count and geometry, NOT by a binding from the `DLG_` name to a pak", + "entry. No such binding was found. Another four-button dialog with the same", + "rows would be indistinguishable by this evidence -- my re-derivation", + "confirms the geometry and does not name the screen.", + "", + " (was) NOT MEASURED, and the label says so. HANDOFF Q4 states it exactly: \"the", + " (was) screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the executable's class", + " (was) names.\" So `DIFFICULTY` is a string that exists in the executable and plausibly", + " (was) denotes this screen -- nothing observed binds it to this transition.", + " (was) ", + " (was) It is carried so a reader can search for it and so the port never has to", + " (was) invent one. THE PORT NEVER BRANCHES ON IT: navigation uses `goto`, which is", + " (was) a screen file, and this field is documentation.", + " (was) ", + " (was) 🔴 THIS `why` DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-08-30. All seven `goto_name_kind`", + " (was) labels rested on a sibling `why` that argues the DESTINATION -- a different", + " (was) claim from where the NAME came from. `tools/port/audit-kinds` reports that", + " (was) as BORROWED rather than ok, because a label resting on a neighbour's", + " (was) argument reads as evidenced and is not." + ], + "blocked": "DIFFICULTY is not in this export. MEASURED destination (EASY/NORMAL/HARD/BACK, opening on NORMAL, then SELECT DATA) but it is not a GP_TITLE build, so there is no screen file to go to yet.", + "skipped_chain": [ + "DIFFICULTY", + "SELECT DATA" + ], + "skipped_chain_why": "THE PORT SKIPS TWO MEASURED SCREENS HERE, AND IT SAYS SO OUT LOUD RATHER THAN PRETENDING. The real chain is NEW GAME -> DIFFICULTY -> SELECT DATA -> (A) on a save slot -> ~4.5 s -> S00A. DIFFICULTY and SELECT DATA are MEASURED destinations (HANDOFF Q4) but neither is a GP_TITLE build, so there is no screen file to go to. The port jumps from NEW GAME to the one thing in that chain it has, and the runtime prints what it skipped on every run. This is a GAP, not a sequence: nobody may read the port's behaviour here as what the game does.", + "skipped_chain_kind": "measured", + "then_video": "S00A", + "then_video_why": "P7. HANDOFF Q9, DECODED from the movie manifest: MS00A -> S00A.wmv is the new-game intro, 93.9 s. Its POSITION is measured as well -- the movie starts ~4.5 s after (A) on the save slot, matched off the running game at 0.96-1.000 with a strictly monotone playhead over 25 consecutive 0.5 s samples.", + "then_video_kind": "decoded", + "unobserved_why": "WHAT FILLS THE ~4.5 s between the save slot and the movie is NOT KNOWN. The oracle run that would have shown it hit the already-documented sub_823070B0 cache crash after SELECT DATA. GP_TITLE does carry a LOADING screen -- entries 0/1 and 12/15, whose elements are every one of them named pgloading_* -- and LOADING is in the game's own screen vocabulary, but nobody has watched it appear here and the port does NOT put it in the chain on that basis. 📌 WHERE THE OPEN QUESTION LIVES, added 2026-09-01: docs/port/BLOCKED.md carries the row -- 'what fills the 4.5 s before S00A'. An explicit unknown still needs a citation, or it cannot be distinguished from an unexamined one.", + "skippable": true, + "skippable_why": "HANDOFF Q9, MEASURED: one (A) press skips a movie -- the title was reached at 57 s against a 193 s baseline. Same rule the boot intro already uses.", + "skippable_kind": "measured", + "after_video": { + "goto": "title", + "kind": "authored", + "why": "AUTHORED, and it has to be: the game goes into MISSION 1, and gameplay is out of scope (PORT-MISSION section 7). P7's gate asks for 'plays, then returns to a defined state' -- this is that state. The title is chosen over the main menu because the boot's own end state is the title, so a run that finishes the new-game intro lands somewhere a player can start again from. Nothing measured says the game does this." + } + }, + "ptbtn02": { + "label": "LOAD GAME", + "goto": null, + "goto_name": null, + "blocked": "The save-slot list is GP_SAVE_LOAD, not in this export. Destination MEASURED." + }, + "ptbtn03": { + "label": "TUTORIAL", + "goto": null, + "goto_name": "TUTORIAL_MENU", + "goto_name_kind": "name match, not measured", + "goto_name_why": [ + "NOT MEASURED, and the label says so. HANDOFF Q4 states it exactly: \"the", + "screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the executable's class", + "names.\" So `TUTORIAL_MENU` is a string that exists in the executable and plausibly", + "denotes this screen -- nothing observed binds it to this transition.", + "", + "It is carried so a reader can search for it and so the port never has to", + "invent one. THE PORT NEVER BRANCHES ON IT: navigation uses `goto`, which is", + "a screen file, and this field is documentation.", + "", + "🔴 THIS `why` DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-08-30. All seven `goto_name_kind`", + "labels rested on a sibling `why` that argues the DESTINATION -- a different", + "claim from where the NAME came from. `tools/port/audit-kinds` reports that", + "as BORROWED rather than ok, because a label resting on a neighbour's", + "argument reads as evidenced and is not." + ], + "blocked": "The lesson list is not a GP_TITLE build. Destination MEASURED." + }, + "ptbtn04": { + "label": "OPTIONS", + "goto": null, + "goto_name": null, + "blocked": "The settings menu is GP_OPTIONS, not in this export. Destination MEASURED." + }, + "ptbtn05": { + "label": "EXTRAS", + "goto": "extras", + "goto_name": "EXTRA_MENU", + "goto_name_kind": "name match, not measured", + "goto_name_why": [ + "NOT MEASURED, and the label says so. HANDOFF Q4 states it exactly: \"the", + "screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the executable's class", + "names.\" So `EXTRA_MENU` is a string that exists in the executable and plausibly", + "denotes this screen -- nothing observed binds it to this transition.", + "", + "It is carried so a reader can search for it and so the port never has to", + "invent one. THE PORT NEVER BRANCHES ON IT: navigation uses `goto`, which is", + "a screen file, and this field is documentation.", + "", + "🔴 THIS `why` DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-08-30. All seven `goto_name_kind`", + "labels rested on a sibling `why` that argues the DESTINATION -- a different", + "claim from where the NAME came from. `tools/port/audit-kinds` reports that", + "as BORROWED rather than ok, because a label resting on a neighbour's", + "argument reads as evidenced and is not." + ], + "why": "MEASURED, HANDOFF Q4: EXTRAS opens GP_TITLE build 6. It is the ONLY main-menu destination inside this archive, and therefore the only (A)-into-a-submenu the P5 gate can actually walk." + } + }, + "labels_why": "The five labels are read off live-main-menu.png, a capture of the running game (docs/game/navigation.md, branch auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures 3a87a26). They are carried for logs and for a human reading this file; nothing draws them -- the button sprite already has its own text." + }, + "extras": { + "initial_focus": "ptbtn11", + "initial_focus_kind": "measured", + "focus_persists": false, + "focus_persists_kind": "measured", + "focus_persists_why": [ + "MEASURED 2026-08-30 -- EXTRAS RESETS. HANDOFF `4ed75e6`: ring back to", + "y=347.5 on re-entry after a confirmed DOWN, frame 0.0 % different from the", + "first entry, and the screen confirmed by eye as EXTRAS because an earlier", + "run was fooled about which screen it was on.", + "", + "📌 WRITTEN EXPLICITLY, THOUGH THE PORT'S DEFAULT IS ALREADY false. The", + "absent key and the measured false behave identically and mean completely", + "different things: one is 'nobody looked', the other is 'the game was", + "watched doing it'. `tools/port/audit-kinds` can see the second and not the", + "first, which is the whole reason for spending a key on it.", + "", + "🔴 AND THIS IS NOT A VINDICATION OF HOW IT GOT HERE. For one iteration the", + "port ASSERTED non-persistence for EXTRAS in `contract-check` while nothing", + "had measured it; the Decoder flagged that, and it turned out right. Being", + "right by luck does not retroactively make it evidence -- declining to", + "generalise the memory was the correct move, and encoding 'not measured", + "here' as a positive claim was a different and wrong one that happened to", + "land. The measurement is what makes it true; the assertion never did.", + "", + "⚠️ Do NOT generalise in either direction: main_menu persists, EXTRAS resets,", + "and OPTIONS / LOAD GAME / TUTORIAL are untouched." + ], + "initial_focus_why": [ + "MEASURED, unlike the main menu's: EXTRAS opens focused on MISSION SELECT (live-extras.png). It is authored here only because there is nowhere else to put a measurement -- it is not a choice.", + "", + "", + "✅ CAVEAT LIFTED 2026-08-30 -- MEASURED, not a single-entry reading any more.", + "HANDOFF `4ed75e6`, docs/re/data/extras-focus-resets.txt: EXTRAS opens at ring", + "y=347.5 on MISSION SELECT, moves to 427.5 after one delivery-confirmed DOWN,", + "and returns to 347.5 on re-entry with the frame 0.0 % different from the first", + "entry. Because this screen RESETS, a single-entry reading of it is not", + "measuring history -- which is precisely what made the caveat necessary while", + "persistence here was unknown.", + "", + "✅ THE AMBIGUITY IS RESOLVED -- MEASURED 2026-08-31, and it went the way", + "that makes `ptbtn11` right for a REASON rather than by coincidence.", + "", + "A submenu resets to ITS OWN OPENING ITEM, and that item is a per-screen", + "default which need NOT be the first. Decoder, docs/re/data/", + "difficulty-resets-to-named-item.txt: DIFFICULTY opens on NORMAL (second of", + "four); after one confirmed DOWN to HARD, (B) out and (A) back returns to", + "NORMAL -- in-cursor 1.0 from where it opened against 93.9 from where it was", + "left. Reproduced on a FRESH BOOT and confirmed by eye, not read off the", + "2026-08-29 capture.", + "", + "So the port's `initial_focus` is the reset target, and `buttons[0]` in", + "`MenuFlow.initial_focus` is a REPAIR rather than a default -- which is how", + "it was already documented, and is now measured rather than principled.", + "", + "❔ STILL OPEN, and not leaned on: whether the reset target MOVES once a", + "difficulty has actually been confirmed. A game that remembered your last", + "choice would behave differently, and the probe never confirms one -- the", + "same SELECT DATA crash that constrains the run prevents testing it.", + "", + "", + "🔴 CORRECTED 2026-08-31. This read \"it matters IF another screen is ever", + "authored\" whose opening item is not its first. Such a screen exists and is", + "recorded IN THIS FILE: DIFFICULTY, under `main_menu/buttons/ptbtn01`, is", + "EASY/NORMAL/HARD/BACK and opens on NORMAL -- the SECOND of four. Measured:", + "driven with no d-pad, unchanged for 90 s, matching the committed capture at", + "r=+0.999 (Decoder, docs/re/captures/newgame-path/newgame-difficulty.png).", + "", + "So \"a screen opens on its first item\" is REFUTED as a general description of", + "this game. On EXTRAS, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS the named item and the top item", + "coincide BY ACCIDENT. A top-item rule would be wrong on DIFFICULTY.", + "", + "nobody can separate \"resets to MISSION SELECT\" from \"resets to the TOP ITEM\".", + "They coincide here -- ptbtn11 is both. The port's value is correct under either", + "reading, and the REASON is not established.", + "", + "The superseded caveat is kept below.", + " (was) ⚠️ WEAKENED 2026-08-30 -- the OBSERVATION stands, its reading as an INITIAL", + " (was) focus does not. It was taken on a single entry. Now that the main menu is known", + " (was) to remember its cursor across a round trip, a one-entry reading of any screen", + " (was) may be measuring HISTORY rather than what the screen opens on -- the same", + " (was) objection that reframed the main menu's TUTORIAL/NEW GAME disagreement.", + " (was) ", + " (was) Kept as `measured` because the frame really does show MISSION SELECT focused,", + " (was) and kept as the port's opening item because it is the only reading there is.", + " (was) 🔴 If EXTRAS turns out to persist, this becomes history and the kind must", + " (was) change with it.", + "", + "🔴 CHECKED AGAINST THE BYTES 2026-08-31 by both agents -- and NOT independently.", + "Settled by fact, not by my inference: the Decoder's 282/362/442 came from", + "`crates/sylpheed-formats/examples/extras_button_order.rs`, which calls", + "`ui_layout::parse_build` -- THE SAME CRATE this port's export uses. The", + "Python RATC parsers in their tree exist and did not produce that number.", + "So the two legs are ONE READER USED TWICE, and the agreement carries no", + "information about the reader being right; it carries information only about", + "two callers of it agreeing, which they could not fail to do.", + "", + "⚠️ The VALUE is unaffected -- `ptbtn11` is decided by the DIFFICULTY", + "measurement and by the reset finding. What died is a word I used about the", + "evidence, which is the third such word in three iterations.", + "", + "is WEAKENED, by my own audit rather than by theirs.", + "", + "Applying their test to my own sentence: could my reading have come out", + "differently given theirs? Only if the implementations differ. Mine is", + "`sylpheed_formats::ui_layout::parse_build` via this port's export. Their tree", + "does carry separate Python RATC parsers (`kf_record_census.py` and others),", + "so a second implementation EXISTS -- but which reader produced their", + "282/362/442 is not established by me, and if they used the same crate the", + "two legs are one reader used twice.", + "", + "So: the values agreeing is still evidence, and calling it INDEPENDENT was a", + "claim about their tooling that I did not check. Recorded at the strength I", + "can support. ⚠️ Nothing rests on it -- the row order is also decided by the", + "DIFFICULTY measurement -- which is exactly why it went unexamined.", + "", + "Decoder attempted to refute this value and it survives: `ptbtn11` is the TOP", + "button on this screen -- y 282 against 362 and 442 -- so the port is right", + "whichever reading of the reset target applies. Confirmed from THIS port's own", + "export, a different reader of the same disc: extras 282/362/442, and the main", + "menu as a control at 162/242/322/401/482.", + "", + "🔴 WHICH ALSO MEANS EXTRAS CANNOT SEPARATE the two readings -- named item and", + "top item coincide here. It was DIFFICULTY, opening on its second of four, that", + "settled it." + ], + "on_cancel": { + "goto": "main_menu", + "goto_name": "TITLE_MENU", + "goto_name_kind": "name match, not measured", + "goto_name_why": [ + "NOT MEASURED, and the label says so. HANDOFF Q4 states it exactly: \"the", + "screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the executable's class", + "names.\" So `TITLE_MENU` is a string that exists in the executable and plausibly", + "denotes this screen -- nothing observed binds it to this transition.", + "", + "It is carried so a reader can search for it and so the port never has to", + "invent one. THE PORT NEVER BRANCHES ON IT: navigation uses `goto`, which is", + "a screen file, and this field is documentation.", + "", + "🔴 THIS `why` DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-08-30. All seven `goto_name_kind`", + "labels rested on a sibling `why` that argues the DESTINATION -- a different", + "claim from where the NAME came from. `tools/port/audit-kinds` reports that", + "as BORROWED rather than ok, because a label resting on a neighbour's", + "argument reads as evidenced and is not." + ], + "why": "MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5: (B) goes up one level and RESTORES FOCUS to the item you came from. EXTRAS advertises (B) in its own footer -- the red glyph is in ptmsg2.png and absent from the main menu's ptmsg.png." + }, + "buttons": { + "ptbtn11": { + "label": "MISSION SELECT", + "goto": null, + "goto_name": null, + "blocked": "The stage list is GP_MISSION_SELECT, not in this export. Destination MEASURED." + }, + "ptbtn12": { + "label": "MOVIE THEATER", + "goto": null, + "goto_name": null, + "blocked": "NEVER OPENED. docs/game/navigation.md marks this one unknown -- not merely unexported. Do not assume it opens GP_MOVIE_THEATER; that would be a name match dressed as a destination." + }, + "ptbtn13": { + "label": "BACK", + "goto": "main_menu", + "goto_name": "TITLE_MENU", + "goto_name_kind": "name match, not measured", + "goto_name_why": [ + "NOT MEASURED, and the label says so. HANDOFF Q4 states it exactly: \"the", + "screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the executable's class", + "names.\" So `TITLE_MENU` is a string that exists in the executable and plausibly", + "denotes this screen -- nothing observed binds it to this transition.", + "", + "It is carried so a reader can search for it and so the port never has to", + "invent one. THE PORT NEVER BRANCHES ON IT: navigation uses `goto`, which is", + "a screen file, and this field is documentation.", + "", + "🔴 THIS `why` DID NOT EXIST UNTIL 2026-08-30. All seven `goto_name_kind`", + "labels rested on a sibling `why` that argues the DESTINATION -- a different", + "claim from where the NAME came from. `tools/port/audit-kinds` reports that", + "as BORROWED rather than ok, because a label resting on a neighbour's", + "argument reads as evidenced and is not." + ], + "same_as_cancel": true, + "why": "MEASURED: EXTRAS' third item is BACK (live-extras.png). Treated as (B): it pops the stack, so focus is restored on the main menu exactly as (B) does. Whether the game distinguishes them is untested and there is no reason here to invent a difference." + } + } + } + } } diff --git a/authored/rendering.json b/authored/rendering.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..55684693 --- /dev/null +++ b/authored/rendering.json @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ +{ + "format": "sylpheed.rendering/1", + "_": [ + "WHICH decoded rules the runtime applies where. AUTHORED because it is a", + "choice about the REACH of somebody else's decode, not about the disc.", + "Delete an entry the day the decode covers the case outright.", + "", + "The exporter flags `leaf_carries_geometry` on 15 elements -- those whose", + "nested `.rat` leaf declares a scale or rotation the parent does not. That", + "flag is a CENSUS FACT and it is emitted for all 15. What is DECODED is", + "narrower: the Decoder fitted the game's own composed alpha (per-draw vertex", + "colours C3FFFFFF / B6FFFFFF = 195 and 182) against the ptloop leaves and got", + "one consistent time, then PREDICTED the quad centres to ~11 px. That covers", + "`ptloop01` and `ptloop02` and nothing else." + ], + "draw_leaf_for": [ + "ptloop01", + "ptloop02" + ], + "draw_leaf_why": [ + "The two the decode covers. `docs/re/structures/ui-leaf-vs-parent-alpha.md`.", + "", + "NOT DRAWN, though the exporter flags them and ships their data:", + "", + " `title_jp/ptlogo_eff2` -- OUT OF SCOPE, which is a better reason than", + " the caution this entry first gave. MISSION section 7 scopes out", + " 'localisation beyond English', and this element exists only on the", + " Japanese title. So it is not a thing the menu port has to answer, and the", + " parked Japanese-locale capture does not need reviving on its account --", + " that is the human's call and not something either agent widens quietly.", + "", + " It is ALSO undecidable here even if it were in scope. Its 125% is a POP,", + " not a steady scale: scale-0 -> 125% -> scale-0 between t=50 and t=107,", + " about 0.95 s. The leaf draws at 100%, as two superimposed copies at alpha", + " 160 and 80, each rotating 360 degrees over 960 units -- 16 s a turn. If", + " parent scale gates the leaf it is a 0.95 s flash; if the leaf runs free it", + " spins for 16 s. Nothing on the disc chooses and title_jp has no oracle", + " capture.", + " `build_12,15/pgloading_loop5` -- STILL NOT DRAWN, but the reason given here", + " was WRONG and is replaced. It read \"leaf scale (0,0). A zero scale is one of", + " the three historical failures this corpus names\" -- which describes t=0 and", + " t=30 and nothing after them.", + "", + " What the leaf actually holds, read out of the export: ONE element,", + " `pgloading_ring`, with a sprite, whose scale ramps 0 -> 250 -> 800 -> 1000", + " while its alpha rises to full at t=55 and falls to nothing by t=130. An", + " expanding, fading ring -- a loading pulse, not a degenerate record.", + "", + " 🔴 And it is VISIBLE at the instant this port poses. `build_12`'s settle", + " window is [40, 48], so the pose lands near t=44, where the ring interpolates", + " to scale 140 at alpha 143. So withholding it is not declining to draw", + " nothing; it is declining to draw something, and the old reason hid that.", + "", + " It stays withheld on the reason below, which is the one that always applied:", + " there is no way to adjudicate it here. The loading screens have no oracle", + " capture -- the RE agent records them as not reachable from the title path --", + " and `verify-screen` compares against a renderer that draws no leaves at all.", + " Drawing it would put unadjudicable content on a screen, which is the same", + " test `ptlogo_eff2` fails.", + "", + "AND THERE IS NO WAY TO ADJUDICATE EITHER HERE. `title_jp` has no oracle", + "capture, and `verify-screen` compares against `sylpheed-cli`, which does not", + "draw leaves at all -- so ANY leaf drawing increases that divergence whether", + "it is right or wrong. Its max went 155 -> 232 when they were drawn, and that", + "number is not evidence in either direction.", + "", + "What deletes this list: a decode covering those cases, or an oracle capture", + "of title_jp." + ], + "draw_leaf_kind": "decoded", + "loop_leaf_on_screens": [ + "title" + ], + "loop_leaf_why": [ + "WHICH screens replay a leaf's group instead of letting it run once and park.", + "MEASURED on the title, UNRESOLVED on the menus, so it is scoped to the title.", + "", + "The disc gives one pass: ptloop01's leaf runs t=0..600 and ptloop02's t=0..720,", + "each ending parked off-screen at x=1521 / -839. The port ran them once.", + "", + "THE ORACLE SAYS THEY LOOP ON THE TITLE. Across two title dwells the sweep quad", + "oscillates over its whole x range and resets hard to the same start value --", + "one reset inside the first dwell, two inside the second. A run-once-and-park", + "shows one traverse and then a constant x.", + "", + "🔴 THE LOOP-LENGTH FIELD CANNOT SETTLE THIS, and I had hoped it would.", + "`ptloop01` declares 600 with keyframes to exactly 600; `ptloop02` declares 720", + "to 720. SLACK ZERO -- and 'loops at 600' and 'runs once for 600 and stops'", + "write the identical header. 92.3% of records on the disc are in that state, so", + "the field discriminates loop length only where there IS slack, as the plate's", + "105-in-120 had.", + "", + "⚠️ THE MENUS ARE NOT COVERED, on purpose. Both declare the same 600/720, so", + "nothing on the disc distinguishes them -- but the oracle measurement is of the", + "title, and my own weak evidence points the other way for the menu: sweeping the", + "phase against live-main-menu.png, the port matches best with the sweeps", + "OFF-SCREEN (0.061%) and three times worse mid-screen (0.183%). If they looped", + "with a 600-unit period the sweep is on screen for roughly 73% of the cycle, so", + "a capture showing none is not nothing -- but it is one capture, and 'best", + "match' is a weak instrument for an absence. Two weak signals in opposite", + "directions is a reason to scope, not to pick.", + "", + "What settles the menu: a direct capture of it, which the Decoder has offered.", + "", + "🔴 RE-MEASURED 2026-08-31, BECAUSE THE EVIDENCE ABOVE WAS TAKEN WITH THE WRONG", + "BLEND. The phase sweep that produced '0.061 % off-screen, 0.183 % mid-screen'", + "drew the sweeps ALPHA-OVER. They are additive -- measured off the running game", + "the same day (`additive_elements`) -- so an on-screen sweep composited the wrong", + "way was being scored against the capture, and 'mid-screen is worse' could have", + "been an artefact of my own compositing rather than of the sweeps being absent.", + "", + "Re-run with additive sweeps and looping switched on for the menu, against", + "`live-main-menu.png`:", + "", + " phase 0 0.0208 % sweeps paint 0 px -- off screen", + " phase 150 0.0851 % sweeps paint 58 027 px, bbox 884x720", + " phase 300 0.0205 % sweeps paint 0 px -- off screen", + " phase 75 / 225 / 375 / 450 / 525: 0.086..0.122 %", + " run-once-and-park, which is what the port ships: 0.0208 %", + "", + "✅ THE CONCLUSION HELD AND GOT STRONGER. The ratio was 3x with the wrong blend", + "and is 4-6x with the right one, and the absolute numbers improved everywhere.", + "The capture still matches best with the sweeps NOT VISIBLE. So this entry stays", + "scoped to the title, and the correction is recorded rather than the scoping", + "changed.", + "", + "⚠️ It is still one capture and 'best match' is still a weak instrument for an", + "absence -- that caveat is not repaired by fixing the blend, only cleared of one", + "confound.", + "", + "📌 AND THE NEW DRAW LOG DOES NOT SETTLE IT EITHER, though it looks like it", + "should. `docs/re/captures/ui-draws/blend-main-menu-2026-08-31.log` shows both", + "sweep strips SUBMITTED on the main menu, in every frame group. That is not", + "evidence they animate there: a quad parked off-screen at x=1521 is still a draw", + "call. A DRAW IS NOT A VISIBLE ELEMENT, and reading that log as 'the sweeps run", + "on the menu' would have contradicted the pixels for no reason." + ], + "loop_leaf_kind": "measured", + "additive_elements_deleted_why": [ + "✅ DELETED 2026-09-01, and the deletion is the point.", + "", + "This held `additive_elements`, a per-screen list of element ids transcribed", + "from the Decoder's per-draw RB_BLENDCONTROL0 log. PORT-MISSION section 3: 'When", + "the RE agent later decodes something you had authored, delete the authored", + "entry and let the exporter emit it. That deletion is the measure of progress.'", + "", + "The blend is now DECODED -- `T8aD +0x04` bit 0x02, docs/re/structures/", + "ui-blend-mode-decoded.md -- and reachable since formats-pin-2026-09-01 exposed", + "`ui_layout::sprite_blend_additive` and `blend_additive_by_name`. The exporter", + "emits `blend_additive` per element and per nested focus/leaf element, and", + "ScreenView reads it there.", + "", + "🔴 CHECKED BEFORE THE SWAP, and the map turned out to be a SUBSET rather than", + "the answer. Over main_menu, extras, press_start and title:", + "", + " 15 the map called additive AND the disc agrees", + " 0 the map called additive and the disc does not <- no contradictions", + " 17 the disc calls additive and the map did not", + "", + "So nothing transcribed was wrong; it was incomplete, and was being read as", + "complete. The 17 include `pteff03`/`pteff03a` -- the sweep LEAVES, which are", + "what `draw_leaf_for` actually puts on screen while the map listed their parents", + "`ptloop01`/`ptloop02` -- and TWELVE on `title`, where this map was deliberately", + "empty and the port therefore drew every title effect alpha-over.", + "", + "A name-keyed map can only answer for a screen somebody drove the game to. That", + "is what made the Japanese menus an open question (BLOCKED.md H6): the port drew", + "main_menu additive and main_menu_jp alpha-over, asserting by omission that the", + "JP build blends differently. The bit is on the disc for every screen at once, so", + "that asymmetry is now answered statically and H6 needs no capture." + ] +} diff --git a/authored/screen_names.json b/authored/screen_names.json index 89df17c8..95d7f4e7 100644 --- a/authored/screen_names.json +++ b/authored/screen_names.json @@ -1,94 +1,94 @@ { - "format": "sylpheed.screen_names/1", - "_": [ - "Which GP_TITLE pak entry is which screen. AUTHORED: the disc does not name its", - "builds, so every name here is a decision. The identifications come from", - "HANDOFF Q2 (ui-title-build-map.md), which measured them against framebuffer", - "captures of the running game; the exporter stamps the name into the screen", - "file with name_source: \"authored\" so a reader can tell a recovered name from", - "an invented one.", - "", - "KEYED BY PAK ENTRY INDEX, not by the enumeration ordinal. It used to be the", - "ordinal; widening the enumeration to reach the splash renumbers ordinals, and", - "a name that moves when the enumeration rule changes is not a name. The entry", - "was always described here as the stronger locator -- now it is the only", - "stable one.", - "", - "Delete an entry here the day the RE agent decodes a name field." - ], - "archives": { - "dat/GP_TITLE.pak": { - "2": { - "name": "press_start", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: builds 2/3 are the PRESS (A) BUTTON plate -- a build of its own, composited over the title and faded in a beat later. English of the EN/JP pair. Measured against a live capture." - }, - "3": { - "name": "press_start_jp", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 2. Out of scope for this milestone; named so it is not mistaken for a screen we need." - }, - "4": { - "name": "title", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: build 4 is the English title art. Measured against a live capture." - }, - "5": { - "name": "main_menu", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: builds 5/8 are the five-button main menu; 5 is English. Measured against a live capture. (An earlier reading called 8 a submenu and was withdrawn -- 8 is the Japanese main menu.)" - }, - "6": { - "name": "extras", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: builds 6/9 are the EXTRAS submenu, the only submenu inside this archive. Measured against a fresh EXTRAS capture." - }, - "7": { - "name": "title_jp", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 4." - }, - "8": { - "name": "main_menu_jp", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 5." - }, - "9": { - "name": "extras_jp", - "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 6." - }, - "10": { - "name": "publisher_logo", - "why": "The SQUARE ENIX PUBLISHER wordmark -- the FIRST thing the boot sequence shows, before the developer logos. Measured by the RE agent 2026-08-29, render grid at docs/re/captures/title-builds/splash-both-halves-rendered.png. Entries 10/13 are region twins distinguished by the trademark glyph; 10 carries the (TM)." - }, - "13": { - "name": "publisher_logo_r", - "why": "The region twin of entry 10, carrying (R) where 10 carries (TM). Named so it is not mistaken for a second screen the boot path needs." - }, - "11": { - "name": "developer_logos", - "why": "The GAME ARTS / SETA / studio anima logos -- the developer splash, shown after the publisher wordmark. HANDOFF Q2 and the RE agent's 2026-08-29 render grid; draws 7/7 elements." - }, - "14": { - "name": "developer_logos_r", - "why": "The region twin of entry 11, as 13 is to 10." - } - } - }, - "unnamed": { - "dat/GP_TITLE.pak": "Entries 0/1 and 12/15 are plates never seen running -- not in the boot path, not on any title-side screen, not in the attract loop (HANDOFF Q2). They export under their entry index rather than a name we would be inventing." - }, - "also_export": { - "dat/GP_TITLE.pak": { - "10": { - "name": "publisher_logo", - "why": "LOCATED BY ENTRY INDEX, not by a rule. These four bundles declare their sprites directly and have no .rat layout child, so `is_build` cannot see them -- and the RE agent established that NO content rule can: design size fails (every extra composable bundle sampled is 1280x720, the same as every screen) and element count fails (fragments run 2..15 elements in GP_OPTIONS/GP_SAVE_LOAD while these are 3 and 7 -- the ranges overlap). Safe here and not in general: in GP_TITLE the widened set adds exactly these four and all four are real screens, zero fragments." - }, - "11": { - "name": "developer_logos", - "why": "As entry 10: located by index because no content rule distinguishes a splash from a fragment. 7 elements, all drawn." - }, - "13": { - "name": "publisher_logo_r", - "why": "As entry 10, region twin." - }, - "14": { - "name": "developer_logos_r", - "why": "As entry 11, region twin." - } - } + "format": "sylpheed.screen_names/1", + "_": [ + "Which GP_TITLE pak entry is which screen. AUTHORED: the disc does not name its", + "builds, so every name here is a decision. The identifications come from", + "HANDOFF Q2 (ui-title-build-map.md), which measured them against framebuffer", + "captures of the running game; the exporter stamps the name into the screen", + "file with name_source: \"authored\" so a reader can tell a recovered name from", + "an invented one.", + "", + "KEYED BY PAK ENTRY INDEX, not by the enumeration ordinal. It used to be the", + "ordinal; widening the enumeration to reach the splash renumbers ordinals, and", + "a name that moves when the enumeration rule changes is not a name. The entry", + "was always described here as the stronger locator -- now it is the only", + "stable one.", + "", + "Delete an entry here the day the RE agent decodes a name field." + ], + "archives": { + "dat/GP_TITLE.pak": { + "2": { + "name": "press_start", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: builds 2/3 are the PRESS (A) BUTTON plate -- a build of its own, composited over the title and faded in a beat later. English of the EN/JP pair. Measured against a live capture. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "3": { + "name": "press_start_jp", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 2. Out of scope for this milestone; named so it is not mistaken for a screen we need. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "4": { + "name": "title", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: build 4 is the English title art. Measured against a live capture. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "5": { + "name": "main_menu", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: builds 5/8 are the five-button main menu; 5 is English. Measured against a live capture. (An earlier reading called 8 a submenu and was withdrawn -- 8 is the Japanese main menu.) 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "6": { + "name": "extras", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: builds 6/9 are the EXTRAS submenu, the only submenu inside this archive. Measured against a fresh EXTRAS capture. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "7": { + "name": "title_jp", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 4. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "8": { + "name": "main_menu_jp", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 5. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "9": { + "name": "extras_jp", + "why": "HANDOFF Q2: the Japanese twin of build 6. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "10": { + "name": "publisher_logo", + "why": "The SQUARE ENIX PUBLISHER wordmark -- the FIRST thing the boot sequence shows, before the developer logos. Measured by the RE agent 2026-08-29, render grid at docs/re/captures/title-builds/splash-both-halves-rendered.png. Entries 10/13 are region twins distinguished by the trademark glyph; 10 carries the (TM). 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "13": { + "name": "publisher_logo_r", + "why": "The region twin of entry 10, carrying (R) where 10 carries (TM). Named so it is not mistaken for a second screen the boot path needs. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "11": { + "name": "developer_logos", + "why": "The GAME ARTS / SETA / studio anima logos -- the developer splash, shown after the publisher wordmark. HANDOFF Q2 and the RE agent's 2026-08-29 render grid; draws 7/7 elements. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "14": { + "name": "developer_logos_r", + "why": "The region twin of entry 11, as 13 is to 10. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + } } + }, + "unnamed": { + "dat/GP_TITLE.pak": "Entries 0/1 and 12/15 are plates never seen running -- not in the boot path, not on any title-side screen, not in the attract loop (HANDOFF Q2). They export under their entry index rather than a name we would be inventing." + }, + "also_export": { + "dat/GP_TITLE.pak": { + "10": { + "name": "publisher_logo", + "why": "LOCATED BY ENTRY INDEX, not by a rule. These four bundles declare their sprites directly and have no .rat layout child, so `is_build` cannot see them -- and the RE agent established that NO content rule can: design size fails (every extra composable bundle sampled is 1280x720, the same as every screen) and element count fails (fragments run 2..15 elements in GP_OPTIONS/GP_SAVE_LOAD while these are 3 and 7 -- the ranges overlap). Safe here and not in general: in GP_TITLE the widened set adds exactly these four and all four are real screens, zero fragments. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "11": { + "name": "developer_logos", + "why": "As entry 10: located by index because no content rule distinguishes a splash from a fragment. 7 elements, all drawn. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "13": { + "name": "publisher_logo_r", + "why": "As entry 10, region twin. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + }, + "14": { + "name": "developer_logos_r", + "why": "As entry 11, region twin. 📌 SOURCE, added 2026-09-01 in the uncited-why backfill: the four bundles are identified in docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md, and the ordinal-versus-entry distinction this entry depends on is docs/re/structures/build-ordinal-vs-entry.md. ⚠️ The sibling references below (\"as entry 10, region twin\") are a citation form too -- they point at another entry in this file rather than at a document, and forcing a path onto them would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter." + } + } + } } diff --git a/authored/timing.json b/authored/timing.json index 2ae18c5c..d39730d5 100644 --- a/authored/timing.json +++ b/authored/timing.json @@ -1,59 +1,604 @@ { - "format": "sylpheed.timing/1", - "keyframe_units_per_second": 60, - "why": [ - "HANDOFF Q1. The disc says a keyframe is at `t=30`; it does not say what a", - "`t` is. The unit was MEASURED off the running game, not decoded: a declared", - "15-unit fade lands on round(255*k/15) for all seven of its samples with k", - "stepping 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 on seven consecutive submitted frames -- so 2", - "units per rendered frame -- and the idle title presents at 28.3-28.8 fps,", - "a 30 Hz game, giving 60 units per second. A second line agrees: the", - "transition quad is declared black for 12 units, and a capture measured the", - "pure-black plateau at 0.17-0.23 s, where 12/60 = 0.20 s.", - "", - "Expressed as units-per-second rather than seconds-per-unit so the value is", - "exact rather than a repeating decimal a reader has to recognise.", - "", - "DELETE THIS FILE when a field on the disc is found that states the unit.", - "Nothing here is on the disc." + "format": "sylpheed.timing/1", + "keyframe_units_per_second": 60, + "why": [ + "HANDOFF Q1. The disc says a keyframe is at `t=30`; it does not say what a", + "`t` is. The unit was MEASURED off the running game, not decoded: a declared", + "15-unit fade lands on round(255*k/15) for all seven of its samples with k", + "stepping 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 on seven consecutive submitted frames -- so 2", + "units per rendered frame -- and the idle title presents at 28.3-28.8 fps,", + "a 30 Hz game, giving 60 units per second. A second line agrees: the", + "transition quad is declared black for 12 units, and a capture measured the", + "pure-black plateau at 0.17-0.23 s, where 12/60 = 0.20 s.", + "", + "Expressed as units-per-second rather than seconds-per-unit so the value is", + "exact rather than a repeating decimal a reader has to recognise.", + "", + "DELETE THIS FILE when a field on the disc is found that states the unit.", + "Nothing here is on the disc.", + "", + "🔴 DO NOT 'CORRECT' THIS AGAINST AN EMULATOR FRAME RATE. A draw-stream", + "measurement on 2026-08-29 found the presented units-per-frame rising 33 % over", + "a single boot (1.765 early, 2.357 late) and three independent readings of one", + "container's rate disagreeing with each other. That is the EMULATOR's", + "presentation pacing drifting, and no single units-per-frame figure describes a", + "run there.", + "", + "60 is a different quantity: the GAME's logical unit rate, measured off the", + "running game as HANDOFF Q1 (a declared t=30 landing on the linear value at", + "every one of seven sampled frames). The port renders at its own frame rate and", + "converts through this constant, so guest pacing cannot reach it. The two", + "numbers are not comparable and one is not evidence about the other.", + "", + "🔴 2026-09-01 — THE FIRST LEG ABOVE IS RETIRED. THE VALUE IS NOT.", + "", + "'2 units per rendered frame ... a 30 Hz game, giving 60 units per second' is a", + "FRAME-COUNT derivation, and the Decoder retired that mechanism the same day", + "(docs/re/units-per-second-measured.md): the same animation takes 21 frame", + "labels in one capture and 33 in another, and one splash logo steps +136,+34 in", + "one run and +17,+51,+34,+34,+17,+17 in the other. A fixed per-frame increment", + "cannot do that. The clock is TIME-INTEGRATED, not frame-counted, so `units =", + "2 x frames` computes an emulator artefact. The 2 was that run's frame pacing.", + "", + "✅ The port's RUNTIME was already right: `boot.gd` advances", + "`time_units += delta * units_per_second`, off delta time. Nothing in this port", + "derives a unit from a frame count. Audited 2026-09-01, and it is why the", + "retirement cost a justification and not a behaviour.", + "", + "✅ AND THE SECOND LEG NEVER TOUCHED A FRAME COUNT, which is why 60 survives:", + "the transition quad is declared black for 12 units and the capture bracketed", + "the pure-black plateau at 0.14-0.30 s (title-plate-delay-measured.md, at a", + "0.125 s sampling resolution). 12 units in 0.14-0.30 s is 40-86 units/s. That", + "is a declared unit count against a wall-clock duration, with no frames in the", + "chain -- and it EXCLUDES 120 units/s, which would need 0.10 s.", + "", + "✅ MEASURED DIRECTLY 2026-09-01: 56.8 units per guest second, control passing", + "at 1.15 %, from two elements agreeing at one clock (`ptbtn00` 657.9 alpha/s,", + "`ptcopyright` 650.4 alpha/s, which puts ptcopyright's segment at T = 22.25 --", + "a rate agreement AND a round declared length). 30 and 120 are both excluded.", + "", + "60 IS KEPT. 56.8 is 5.6 % away against a ~5 % quantisation resolution, so it", + "does not refute 60, and the Decoder explicitly did not ask for a change. The", + "reach is the TITLE: the splashes are a different GamePart and nothing yet shows", + "they tick at the same rate.", + "", + "⚠️ If anyone re-fits this from alpha: DROP THE LAST STEP of a ramp. It clamps", + "at 255 and reports more elapsed time than it consumed -- worth 4 % on the plate.", + "", + "🔴 2026-09-01 (later) — A PER-SCREEN RATE WAS PROPOSED AND NOT ADOPTED.", + "", + "docs/re/splash-declared-vs-captured.md proposes ~57 units/s for the title and", + "~35-40 for the splashes, i.e. that one constant cannot be right and that a", + "splash at 60 runs 1.5-1.7x too fast. THE PORT DID NOT MOVE, and the reason is", + "arithmetic on a measurement already cited in this file:", + "", + " the 160-unit hold is the DEVELOPER splash's a=255 plateau, t=30..190, and it", + " is measured at 4.514 s. The 210-unit group CONTAINING it is measured at", + " 3.37/3.50/3.51 s over three cold boots (the dwell_why block below). A", + " sub-interval cannot outlast the interval containing it.", + "", + "The same three boots put the splashes at 57.7 and 60.7 units/s -- corroborating", + "60 on exactly the two screens the new figure puts at 35-39. At 35.4 the declared", + "groups would run 5.93 s and 7.20 s against corpus dwells of 3.37-3.51 and", + "4.30-4.60, i.e. each splash ~70 % longer than measured.", + "", + "⚠️ DO NOT ADOPT EITHER NUMBER UNTIL THAT IS RESOLVED, and do not split the", + "difference -- averaging two measurements that cannot both be true is not a", + "third measurement. docs/port/splash-rate-contradiction.md, asked as BLOCKED H7.", + "", + "⚠️ AND THE STRUCTURAL CLAIM MAY STILL BE RIGHT. 'One rate cannot cover every", + "screen' is a claim about the format, and the title's 56.8 does sit ~5 % off the", + "splashes' 58-61. If a per-screen rate is real this file should carry a MECHANISM", + "-- a field or a GamePart constant -- not two authored numbers. The Decoder has", + "'where the per-GamePart rate comes from' as its next item.", + "", + "🔴 2026-09-01 (later still) — RECLASSIFIED measured -> authored. THE VALUE DOES", + "NOT MOVE; THE LABEL WAS FALSE.", + "", + "The Decoder withdrew their guest-frame-rate finding the same day they published", + "it. ⚠️ THAT DOCUMENT IS NOT IN THIS CHECKOUT -- it is `guest-frame-rate-WITHDRAWN.md`", + "on their branch, named here in prose deliberately rather than in `source`:", + "`audit-kinds` flagged the first version of this entry DANGLING because I cited", + "a file I cannot read, which is exactly the check doing its job. The reading", + "below is from their message and is labelled as such.", + "It read the guest's presentation as 30 fps from a movie-frame ruler and", + "concluded 2 x 30 = 60. This file carried `kind: measured` on that strength.", + "`kind: measured` on the strength of it. It cannot any more.", + "", + "Three routes now disagree and at most one can be right:", + "", + " withdrawn movie cadence 60 units/s", + " vblank cadence (Xenia, 60 Hz) ~120", + " title-plate-delay, 120 units ~56 -- two runs agreeing to 6 ms", + "", + "⚠️ 60 IS KEPT ANYWAY, and it is not a coin toss between the three. The one leg", + "of this file's own reasoning that never touched a frame count still stands and", + "still brackets it: the transition quad is declared black for 12 units and the", + "capture measured the plateau at 0.14-0.30 s, i.e. 40-86 units/s. 60 sits inside", + "that; 120 does not. And ~56 is 7 % from 60, inside the same bracket.", + "", + "So the honest statement is: 60 is AUTHORED, bracketed by one surviving", + "frame-free measurement, and consistent with the nearest of the three live", + "routes. It is no longer 'measured', and anything that cited it as measured is", + "citing a withdrawal.", + "", + "📌 THE METHOD NOTE IS WORTH MORE THAN THE NUMBER, and it is the Decoder's: their", + "pre-registration named three ways the ruler could lie and guarded two. The third", + "occurred, and a PERFECT 1.0000 is exactly what it produces -- a triple buffer", + "rotating once per present gives run-length 1 at any frame rate. Both guards", + "tested how the buffer was READ, neither tested whether a change meant a decode.", + "", + " A clean result on an instrument whose key assumption is unguarded is not", + " confirmation. The cleanness may be the failure mode's own signature.", + "", + "Same family as this port's non-inverting latch check, which passed for the wrong", + "reason until its control failed.", + "", + "🔴 2026-09-01 — THE 12-UNIT BRACKET ABOVE IS WITHDRAWN. IT EXCLUDES NOTHING.", + "", + "I kept 60 on the ground that '12 declared units measured at 0.14-0.30 s gives", + "40-86 units/s, so 120 is excluded'. The Decoder refuted it and the refutation", + "holds on arithmetic I checked myself:", + "", + " the source doc says of that number, in its own words, 'at a sampling", + " resolution (0.125 s) that cannot do better'. 120 units/s predicts 12 units in", + " 0.100 s -- BELOW one sample interval. A 0.125 s sampler cannot resolve it and", + " reports about one sample, ~0.125-0.14 s. The 0.14 s low end is the", + " INSTRUMENT'S FLOOR, and 12/0.14 = 85.7 is an upper bound produced by dividing", + " by a floored duration. It is the value 120 predicts once the sampler is", + " accounted for.", + "", + "🔴 AND THE DEEPER ERROR IS MINE, NOT THE ARITHMETIC. I argued the leg survived", + "because it 'never touched a frame count'. True, and INSUFFICIENT: every", + "wall-clock duration off Canary is true/speed_factor, so apparent units/s =", + "true x speed -- and the speed factor is precisely what makes the three routes", + "disagree. I checked the leg for the WRONG CONTAMINANT. Frame-free is not", + "clock-free, and on this emulator clock-free is the property that matters.", + "", + "What actually survives from that leg, and it is the half I did not lead with:", + "the declared 12 units are independently confirmed as SIX FRAMES by", + "screen-transitions.md's 255/6-per-frame ramp. No wall clock in it at all. That", + "is evidence about units per FRAME -- which was never in dispute -- and silent", + "about units per second.", + "", + "SO 60 HAS NO SURVIVING BRACKET. It stays because nothing supports 120 either and", + "moving a shipped timeline on no evidence is worse than leaving it. That is a", + "default, not a derivation, and this entry now says so. `kind` is already", + "`authored`, which is the honest label for a default.", + "", + "🟡 2026-09-01 — 120 units/s IS NOW MEASURED, AND THIS PORT HAS NOT MOVED.", + "", + "The Decoder's content-hash experiment gives 120 (2 units/present x 60", + "presents/s), with the controls the withdrawn version lacked -- a static texture", + "hashing constant, 1 change in 403 samples, and movie luma not constant, 102", + "distinct hashes. Pre-registered bands, and the observed 0.5739 falls inside", + "them. It is a better experiment than either of the two it replaces.", + "", + "IT IS ALSO THEIR THIRD POSITION ON THIS NUMBER IN ONE DAY, reach is one boot,", + "and they said themselves that a second independent boot before a timeline is", + "rewritten is the defensible call. Agreed. 60 stays for now.", + "", + "⚠️ 60 IS NOT DEFENDED EITHER -- its bracket was withdrawn this morning. Both", + "numbers are undefended; the port keeps the one it ships because switching on a", + "single capture is a worse failure than holding on none. That is the whole", + "reasoning and it is not evidence about the game.", + "", + "✅ AUDITED, SO THE SWITCH IS CHEAP WHEN IT COMES: no seconds are baked into the", + "timeline anywhere. Every second this port prints or acts on is computed as", + "units / keyframe_units_per_second at the point of use. audio.json's loop_start_s", + "and loop_end_s ARE seconds and correctly do NOT follow this constant -- they are", + "positions in an audio file with no keyframe unit in them.", + "", + "🔴 One exception found and fixed: tools/port/verify-dwell read black_hold_units", + "from this file 'so it cannot drift again' and then divided by a literal 60.0.", + "The value could not drift; the conversion could.", + "", + "📌 THE FALSIFIER IS PRE-REGISTERED in docs/port/units-per-second-switch-readiness.md:", + "at 120 the publisher splash runs 2.13 s and the developer 1.75 s, against three", + "cold boots measuring 4.30/4.60/4.37 and 3.51/3.50/3.37. 120 and the dwell corpus", + "cannot both be right in wall-clock seconds -- the same collision that killed the", + "35 units/s proposal from the other direction.", + "", + "✅ 2026-09-01 (final position of the day) — 120 IS WITHDRAWN BY ITS AUTHOR AND 60", + "IS POSITIVELY SUPPORTED. The port never moved, so nothing has to be undone.", + "", + "The mechanism is worth more than the number: `units per present` HALVED when the", + "present rate doubled (Δα +34 at 27.2 presents/s, +17 at 51.4) while units per", + "second did not move (54.4 vs 51.4). The UI clock advances by elapsed TIME, not", + "by frame count -- so '2 units per frame' was never a property of the game, only", + "of a capture that happened to run at 27 fps. The 120 was 2 units/present x 60", + "presents/s, and the first factor is not a constant, so the product was not a", + "rate.", + "", + "Their write-up is `units-per-frame-is-not-a-constant.md`, under docs/re/ on", + "their branch. 🔴 NOT IN THIS CHECKOUT, so it is named WITHOUT a resolvable", + "path -- `tools/port/check-citations` flagged the first version of this very", + "paragraph as DANGLING, in the entry where I was recording the lesson about", + "dangling citations. The check does not care about a disclaimer, which is", + "correct: a path that does not resolve does not resolve.", + "", + "✅ 2026-09-01 (settled) — THE GAME'S CLOCK IS FRAME-BASED, 1 UNIT PER PRESENT.", + "Measured by the Decoder with a DESIGNED experiment rather than an inference:", + "`--framerate_limit=30` halved units/second to 30.2, doubled the publisher dwell", + "to 8.450 s, and left the modal alpha step at 17 where a time-based clock", + "predicts 34. Both controls passed first -- the limiter demonstrably took effect,", + "and all 8 splash quad rects were identical, so nothing but the frame rate", + "differed. `255 x 1 / 15 = 17` at 28.4, 51.4 and 54.8 presents/s alike.", + "", + "⚠️ THIS CHANGES WHAT 60 MEANS HERE, AND MAKES IT MORE FALSIFIABLE. If the game", + "advances 1 unit per present, its units/second IS its present rate. So", + "`keyframe_units_per_second = 60` is now equivalent to the claim:", + "", + " the game presented these screens at 60 Hz on the console.", + "", + "That is a sharper statement than 'the unit is 1/60 s' and it is checkable.", + "", + "✅ AND IT IS SUPPORTED, which the constant has not been until now. Canary", + "unlimited presents at 51-55 Hz and the splash dwell is 4.30/4.60/4.37 s over", + "three cold boots. A natively 30 Hz game would present at ~30 in Canary too --", + "which the framerate_limit run confirms, since forcing 30 made the same splash", + "take 8.45 s. It does not take 8.45 s unforced. So the game asks for ~60, not 30.", + "", + "🔴 AND THAT CLOSES THE CONSTANT AS A CAUSE OF 'THE PLATE IS LATE', for a NEW", + "reason and in the direction that matters. Under the frame-based model the only", + "alternative console rate is 30 Hz, which puts the plate at 236/30 = 7.87 s --", + "LATER than the 3.93 s the port ships, not earlier. There is no console present", + "rate that makes the plate arrive sooner than it already does here.", + "", + "⚠️ KEPT AS `authored`, NOT PROMOTED TO `measured`. The chain is inference over", + "three measurements (frame-based clock; Canary's unlimited present rate; the", + "dwell corpus) rather than a measurement of units per second. It becomes", + "`measured` the day someone reads the console's present rate for these screens", + "directly.", + "", + "📌 AND THE PORT'S OWN DESIGN IS DELIBERATELY NOT THE GAME'S, which is worth", + "stating so nobody 'fixes' it. The game is frame-based; this port is time-based", + "(`time_units += delta * units_per_second`). They agree at 60 fps, which is the", + "only rate the console ever asked the game to be right at. A time-based port", + "reproduces a 60 Hz console on hardware that is not 60 Hz; a frame-based port", + "would drift on every machine that is not -- and this port has measured itself at", + "9.7 to 69.4 fps depending on the renderer. DO NOT make the port frame-based to", + "match the game.", + "", + "✅ 2026-09-02 — 60 NOW STANDS ON A THIRD INDEPENDENT ROUTE, and the REASON", + "changed again while the value did not.", + "", + "The Decoder reconciled three of their own pages that held incompatible", + "positions -- 2 units per guest frame, time-integrated at 56.8, and 1 unit per", + "present -- with one mechanism: THE CLOCK ADVANCES ONE UNIT PER VBLANK, and", + "presents may be dropped without the clock caring. That explains steps that are", + "always multiples of 17 (1, 2 or 3 vblanks between two logged presents), and the", + "same animation spanning 21 labels in one capture and 33 in another, which a", + "strict per-present clock cannot produce.", + "", + "Their rate result is a MANIPULATION rather than an observation: 255 declared", + "units take 4.263/4.162 s at a 60 Hz vblank and 8.450 s at --framerate_limit=30", + "-- 59.8/61.3 against 30.2 units/s. So the vblank rate sets the unit rate, and a", + "console vblanks at 60.", + "", + "So the justification for 60 has now been: '2 units per rendered frame' (retired),", + "'the game presents at 60 Hz' (superseded), and now 'one unit per 60 Hz vblank'.", + "THE NUMBER HAS NEVER MOVED. That is worth noticing rather than celebrating -- a", + "value whose reason changes three times while it survives is either robust or", + "under-constrained, and the honest label is still `authored`.", + "", + "📌 THIS PORT INSTANTIATES THEIR NULL MODEL, which is the one thing this side can", + "contribute to that argument. Their reasoning turns on 'a time-integrated clock", + "predicts 4.25 s in BOTH conditions'. This port IS a working time-integrated", + "clock at 60 units/s, and its splash dwell across a 4.0x change in its own", + "rendering rate is 4.28 / 4.26 / 4.27 / 4.26 s -- flat to 0.5 %. So their", + "counterfactual is demonstrated rather than assumed. ⚠️ It is evidence about the", + "NULL, not about the game; it says what a time-integrated clock does, not what", + "the game's clock is.", + "", + "🟡 PER-VBLANK VS PER-PRESENT IS STILL OPEN, and they name the discriminating", + "experiment (log Xenia's vblank counter beside each present). ⚠️ IT IS", + "IMMATERIAL TO THIS PORT AND THEY SHOULD NOT RUN IT ON THE PORT'S ACCOUNT. The", + "two models differ only when the console DROPS a present: per-vblank keeps", + "real-time pace through a drop, per-present slows. This port is time-based, so", + "it matches per-vblank exactly and would run marginally ahead of per-present", + "during drops only. On a console presenting every vblank the two coincide, and", + "the screens in question are a handful of quads.", + "", + "🔴 2026-09-02 (later) — 'A THIRD INDEPENDENT ROUTE' IS WITHDRAWN BY ITS AUTHOR.", + "The paragraph above says 60 now stands three ways. It does not, and I recorded", + "the claim before challenging it hard enough.", + "", + "I raised that three routes to one number are weaker than they look if they share", + "an upstream assumption -- vblank rate, present rate and declared dwell are not", + "obviously independent. The Decoder audited it and agreed: route B needs 'the", + "guest presents 60x/s', which comes from the vblank histogram UNDER XENIA'S 60 Hz", + "LIMITER; route C needs 'the vblank is 60 Hz', which is that limiter's cvar; route", + "D is a wall-clock duration that lands on 60 only BECAUSE the vblank is 60 Hz.", + "All three reduce to one upstream fact: the display refreshes 60 times a second", + "on that emulator. One witness in three coats.", + "", + "✅ WHAT SURVIVES IS CONDITIONAL AND BETTER, and it is established by MANIPULATION", + "rather than agreement -- forcing 30 Hz gave 30.2 units/s, 60 Hz gives 59.8/61.3:", + "", + " units per second = THE DISPLAY REFRESH RATE.", + "", + "It becomes '60' only through a fact this corpus has never measured: an Xbox 360", + "outputs 60 Hz. That is a hardware specification. It is solid, and it belongs", + "CITED as a spec rather than folded in as a third measurement.", + "", + "📌 And the conditional form is the one that justifies this port's construction", + "rather than excusing it. 'units/s = refresh rate' says what to do on hardware", + "that is NOT 60 Hz, which is exactly why a time-based clock at a fixed 60 units/s", + "is right and a frame-based one would drift. `kind` stays `authored`: nothing", + "here promotes it, and the reason it is not `measured` is now sharper -- the", + "measurement is of a RELATIONSHIP, and the constant that closes it comes from a", + "datasheet." + ], + "kind": "authored", + "source": "docs/re/ui-keyframe-time-unit.md, docs/port/HANDOFF.md", + "ramp": "linear", + "ramp_why": [ + "Also HANDOFF Q1, and part of the same measurement: the fade lands on the", + "linear value at every one of the seven sampled frames, so there is no ease." + ], + "ramp_kind": "measured", + "dwell_seconds": null, + "dwell_why": [ + "NOT SET -- because the dwell is DECLARED, and the port already plays it.", + "", + "This key has now been wrong in two opposite directions, and the second was", + "mine, so both are recorded.", + "", + "It first said 'a screen's dwell is its OWN keyframe group'. Then GP_TITLE", + "build 4 was measured dwelling ~1100 presented frames against a declared ~120,", + "and I generalised that into 'the boot is KNOWN TOO FAST [refuted] on both splashes'.", + "🔴 THAT WAS AN OVER-CORRECTION and it is withdrawn. Build 4 is the title: its", + "exit is caused by something outside its timeline, so it holds. A splash's exit", + "is caused by nothing, so it plays its declared timeline and leaves. The title", + "is the exception, not the rule, and one screen was never enough to overturn", + "the other two.", + "", + "MEASURED 2026-08-29 by the Decoder over 3 cold boots", + "(docs/re/structures/boot-splash-dwells-are-declared.md):", + "", + " publisher declared t=0..255 = 4.250 s corpus 4.30 / 4.60 / 4.37", + " developer declared t=0..210 = 3.500 s corpus 3.51 / 3.50 / 3.37", + "", + "The developer agrees to 1.1 %, two of its three runs to 0.3 %.", + "", + "🔴 CORRECTED 2026-09-01. This said: 'The port emits 4.400 s and 3.650 s -- each", + "declared value plus the 9-unit black hold, exactly. So the pacing was right all", + "along and nothing changes in the code.' THE PORT DOES NOT DO THAT, and this", + "file is what stops it: `black_hold_units` is 0, set deliberately (see", + "black_hold_why -- a uniform value is positively excluded and only an", + "ordered-pair key survives). There is no 9-unit hold to add, so the sentence", + "described a behaviour asserted three keys above it and refused one key below.", + "", + "MEASURED off the shipping boot, three runs, 2026-09-01:", + "", + " publisher declared 255 units = 4.250 s 4.28 / 4.26 / 4.27 mean 4.270 s", + " developer declared 210 units = 3.500 s 3.50 / 3.57 / 3.51 mean 3.527 s", + "", + "Residuals +1.2 and +1.6 units -- frame granularity on the exit check, not a", + "hold. The claimed 4.400 and 3.650 are each ~0.13 s longer than what has been", + "shipping since P3. Against the corpus (4.42 and 3.46 means) neither the claimed", + "nor the measured figure dominates: the port is 3.4 % short on the publisher and", + "2.0 % long on the developer, the claim would be 0.5 % short and 5.5 % long. So", + "this corrects a false statement about our own behaviour; it does not settle", + "whether a hold belongs there. That is still black_hold_why's ordered-pair ask.", + "", + "🔴 AND THE UNIT STAYS UNITS, NOT SECONDS. The same two dwells timed in the", + "Decoder's own container came out 15-20 % LONGER than both the declared values", + "and the corpus -- same disc, same timeline -- and three independent readings", + "of that container's rate disagree with each other. A seconds figure records", + "one emulator's pacing on one run. The units are on the disc. If anything ever", + "goes in `dwell` it is an extra hold in UNITS, and only for a screen that is", + "measured to wait beyond its group.", + "", + "🔴 2026-09-01 (later) — 'So the pacing was right all along and nothing changes in", + "the code' IS CONDITIONAL, AND MAY BE A COINCIDENCE OF TWO CANCELLING ERRORS.", + "", + "That sentence rests on the port's total screen time matching the corpus dwells.", + "It does: 4.270 s against 4.30/4.60/4.37 and 3.527 s against 3.51/3.50/3.37.", + "", + "But a TOTAL cannot see two errors of opposite sign inside it. Measured:", + "", + " the port's screen time IS its animation time. publisher 4.270 s against a", + " 4.250 s animation -- a hold of +0.020 s, i.e. none. The port does not hold", + " after a splash timeline at all.", + "", + " the GAME does: the Decoder counts the publisher on screen for 219 presents and", + " animating for ~128 of them, about 42 % hold.", + "", + "So IF keyframe_units_per_second is 120 rather than 60, this port animates every", + "splash 2x too slow AND omits the hold entirely, and the two sum to almost exactly", + "the right total. The agreement above would then be evidence of nothing.", + "", + "⚠️ THE HOLD AND THE CONSTANT ARE COUPLED. At 60 the port must NOT gain a hold --", + "the animation already fills the screen time and a hold would overshoot by ~40 %.", + "The missing hold is a defect only if 120 is right. They stand or fall together,", + "which is another reason not to move on one capture.", + "", + "📌 And when it does move it is TWO changes, not one: the constant, and a hold", + "measured as (screen presents - animation presents). It must NOT be inferred from", + "the total, because the total is precisely the quantity that cannot distinguish", + "the two errors. docs/port/units-per-second-switch-readiness.md.", + "", + "✅ 2026-09-01 (later still) — THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE IS WITHDRAWN. 'The pacing was", + "right all along' WAS right all along.", + "", + "I claimed the dwell agreement might be a coincidence of two cancelling errors --", + "a 2x-slow animation plus a missing hold. There is no missing hold. I misread a", + "presents split from the Decoder's instrument ('219 on screen, ~128 animating')", + "as a hold OUTSIDE the declared timeline. It is a split WITHIN it: the publisher", + "ramps 0-30, HOLDS 30-235 (205 units, 80.4 % of the screen) and fades 235-255,", + "and this port plays all three.", + "", + "Measured rather than read -- frozen samples of the logo region across the", + "publisher splash: 0.405488 at t=60, 120, 180 and 228 units, identical to six", + "decimals across 168 units, with 0.391 at t=15 (mid-ramp) and 0.038 at t=252", + "(in the exit fade). The hold is there and it is played.", + "", + "⚠️ The failure was not a mis-measurement. I took a two-part split from someone", + "else's instrument and assumed its boundary sat where my own model put it.", + "Presents are not units, and 'animating vs holding' in presents does not", + "decompose the same way as 'ramp vs hold' in declared units.", + "", + "AND THE DWELL FIGURES HERE ARE NOW POSITIVE EVIDENCE, not merely survivors. A", + "time-based clock is immune to dropped frames, so a dwell measured in seconds is", + "stable across runs at different frame rates. This port's own splash dwell across", + "a 4.0x change in its rendering rate: 4.28 s at 17.3 fps, 4.26 at 19.6, 4.27 at", + "25.0, 4.26 at 69.4 -- a 0.5 % spread, putting 255 units at 59.6-59.9 units/s", + "every time. That establishes these dwells are frame-rate-independent", + "MEASUREMENTS rather than artefacts of whatever rate a run hit, which is the", + "property the Decoder's argument needs of them.", + "", + "✅ 2026-09-02 — THE +1.2 / +1.6 UNIT RESIDUAL WAS FRAME GRANULARITY, and that is", + "now measured rather than inferred.", + "", + "The dwells were recorded as 4.270 s and 3.527 s against declared 4.250 and 3.500", + "-- residuals of +1.2 and +1.6 units -- and I attributed them to the granularity", + "of the exit check without testing it. A hardware GPU makes that testable: same", + "boot, same declared groups, three runs at 65-66 fps instead of 17-25.", + "", + "Pre-registered: if the residual is frame granularity it should shrink roughly", + "with the frame rate, so <= 0.5 units at 65 fps. Measured:", + "", + " publisher 4.27 / 4.26 / 4.27 mean 4.253 s residual +0.20 units", + " developer 3.50 / 3.52 / 3.50 mean 3.500 s residual +0.00 units", + "", + "From +1.2 and +1.6 down to +0.20 and +0.00. The prediction held and the", + "attribution is no longer an assumption. ⚠️ It also means the figures quoted", + "elsewhere in this corpus as 4.270 / 3.527 carry a rendering-rate term; the", + "declared values are what the port actually targets and 4.250 / 3.500 is what it", + "hits when the renderer keeps up." + ], + "dwell_kind": "measured", + "looping_focus_records": { + "_": [ + "WHICH focus records the port draws, unconditionally and on a loop, OVER the", + "element's own sprite rather than instead of it.", + "", + "RESTORED 2026-08-30 on a MEASUREMENT, having been deleted on 2026-08-29 for", + "a real defect that was in the RENDERER, not in this table. The old entry made", + "`_draw` substitute the glow for the plate's own bright sprite, so the plate", + "was invisible at every instant (max 0 against max 252.5). `ScreenView` now", + "draws the base and the record over it, and the entry comes back." ], - "kind": "measured", - "source": "/reborn docs/port/HANDOFF.md Q1, docs/re/ui-keyframe-time-unit.md", - "ramp": "linear", - "ramp_why": [ - "Also HANDOFF Q1, and part of the same measurement: the fade lands on the", - "linear value at every one of the seven sampled frames, so there is no ease." - ], - "exit_ramp_seconds": 0.4, - "exit_ramp_why": [ - "HANDOFF Q7 + the RE agent's 2026-08-29 answer. MEASURED, not on the disc.", + "press_start/ptbtn00": { + "record_element": "ptbtn00f", + "period_units": 120, + "kind": "measured", + "source": "docs/re/structures/plate-pulse-measured.md, RE agent 2026-08-30", + "why": [ + "MEASURED off the running game, held at the title with NO INPUT: the plate", + "oscillates continuously -- two windows in one boot of 58 s and 57 s, about", + "23 cycles each, with no decay and no settling.", "", - "Every element of a screen ends on exactly ONE untimed keyframe, so there is", - "exactly one unknown duration per screen -- the ramp INTO that final keyframe.", - "This is that duration. ~0.4 s, which is 24 units at 60 units/s.", + "🔴 IT NEVER GOES OFF. The plate-absent floor is 159 thresholded green", + "pixels -- the title art's own, measured on live-title-build4-no-plate.png --", + "and the pulse bottoms at 714, four and a half times that. So `ptbtn00`", + "going transparent at t=244 is not the end of the plate; that is its EXIT", + "ramp, which plays when the screen leaves. While the screen is held the base", + "sits at its own hold (alpha 255 at t=238) and `ptbtn00f`'s cycle runs over", + "it. Base-only and base-plus-glow are what the 714 and the 1520 are.", "", - "The alternative readings were tested and refuted. It is not a black quad laid", - "over a frozen screen: under that model a black rect scales every region by the", - "same 1-alpha, so the button-region / background-region brightness RATIO would", - "be constant through the fade. Measured on the RE agent's filmstrip it falls", - "6.495 -> 5.574 -> 3.105 -> 2.125 -> 1.935, a 3.4x monotonic drop. The screen", - "itself plays out: pteff00.prm ramps to opaque black while the button labels,", - "ptmsg, pteff10 and pteff12 all ramp to transparent, and ptframe1/2 hold.", - "", - "REACH, quoted from the RE agent rather than smoothed over: the filmstrip is", - "downsampled and the button region contains some background, so this pins the", - "DIRECTION, not 0.4 s to +/-0.05 s, and it is one transition pair. Treat the", - "number as approximate and the model as established." - ], - "exit_ramp_units": 24, - "dwell_seconds": null, - "dwell_why": [ - "NOT SET, and not needed. A screen's dwell is its OWN keyframe group: the", - "publisher wordmark reaches its hold at t=235 (3.92 s) and the developer logos", - "at t=190 (3.17 s), both read from the disc. Adding a hold on top of that would", - "be inventing a number nobody measured, so the sequencer holds for zero extra", - "time and the pacing you see is the disc's own.", - "", - "If a capture ever times the real boot, this is where that number goes." - ] + "⚠️ 120 UNITS, NOT SECONDS, and that is the RE agent's own instruction. Their", + "run measured 2.530 and 2.540 s; an earlier corpus run measured 2.24 s. Same", + "declared number, different emulator pacing -- x1.27 and x1.12 against a", + "nominal 2.000 s, which IS 120 units at 60 units/s. Hardcoding 2.5 s would", + "author one loaded container's clock." + ], + "limits": [ + "ONE BOOT. Two windows inside it are not two boots.", + "It does NOT distinguish the boot title from an attract-loop title: run 1", + "opens at t~255 s against Q9's ~193 s no-input baseline, so it may already", + "be the attract title. Both are 'the title, held, no input' -- which is what", + "was asked -- but it is not proof about the first appearance.", + "🔴 714/1520 IS NOT AN ALPHA RATIO. The counter is thresholded pixels, so dim", + "pixels drop out first. No duty cycle and no ramp shape may be read off it;", + "the port draws the record's own declared alpha ramp and infers nothing." + ] + } + }, + "exit_ramp_deleted_why": [ + "DELETED 2026-08-29, and the deletion is the point.", + "", + "`exit_ramp_seconds` (~0.4 s) and `exit_ramp_units` (24) were AUTHORED because", + "the disc had no time slot on a group's final keyframe, so the ramp into it was", + "the one unknown duration per screen. Under the corrected record layout", + "(formats-pin-2026-08-29c onward) there IS no untimed keyframe -- a group is an", + "8-byte header then frames x {u32 time; 36-byte pose}, so every pose is timed", + "including the last. The unknown the constant stood in for does not exist.", + "", + "MISSION section 3: 'When the RE agent later decodes something you had", + "authored, delete the authored entry and let the exporter emit it. That", + "deletion is the measure of progress.'", + "", + "VERIFIED DEAD BEFORE DELETING, not assumed: setting it to 9999 (166 seconds)", + "changed the boot's transitions by 0.04 s -- wall-clock jitter, not a 166 s", + "ramp. Both of its uses in ScreenView were gated on `not last_frame.has('t')`,", + "which no longer fires on any of the export's 866 keyframes.", + "", + "The measurement it recorded is not lost: HANDOFF Q7's ~0.4 s fade-out and the", + "0.17-0.23 s black hold are still measured facts, and the hold is still used --", + "`tools/port/verify-dwell` compares a transition INTERVAL against the oracle's", + "visible SPAN plus that hold. What is deleted is the port's need to invent a", + "duration the disc now states." + ], + "black_hold_units": 0, + "black_hold_why": [ + "0 = NOT MODELLED. The escalation is resolved: a uniform value is positively", + "EXCLUDED, so 0 is no longer one option among several -- it is the only honest", + "uniform choice, because it is the one that does not claim a constant exists.", + "", + "UPDATE: TWO candidate models are now excluded, not one. The Decoder has five", + "replicates with NO variation -- title->menu 3,3,3 and EXTRAS->menu 2,2 -- and", + "every differing value comes from a different ORDERED PAIR. The same origin", + "gives different values to different destinations (menu 0 vs 1, EXTRAS 2 vs 3).", + "So a constant is excluded AND keying on the outgoing screen is excluded; only", + "an ordered-pair key survives, with a measured value needed per pair.", + "", + "I checked independently whether anything DECLARED predicts it, from the", + "quantities in my export. None does: outgoing close (15,10,10,10), incoming", + "clear (12,12,16,12), outgoing span (269,74,80,80) and incoming span", + "(80,80,269,74) each have two rows sharing a value with different gaps.", + "", + "I did NOT search combinations of them. Four intra-archive pairs against many", + "candidate two-screen functions fits by construction -- that is the error this", + "corpus has catalogued five times, and finding a formula here would be", + "indistinguishable from finding one in noise.", + "", + "The Decoder ordered the gaps by the screen being LEFT (frames): menu 0 and 1,", + "EXTRAS 2, title 3. Three hypotheses are positively ruled out, not merely", + "unsupported. DIRECTION: EXTRAS->menu (2) and menu->EXTRAS (1) are the same", + "pair both ways and differ. BUTTON: (B) gives 0 and 2, (A) gives 1 and 3.", + "INCOMING SCREEN: an incoming menu takes 3 from the title and 2 from EXTRAS.", + "", + "So the quantity varies 0-3 frames by outgoing screen, and any uniform non-zero", + "value is wrong as a MODEL rather than merely off in magnitude. 0 models the", + "gap as absent; 6 would model it as constant, which the data excludes.", + "", + "MY OWN RULE IS REFUTED, not just unadopted. It was gap + the incoming", + "screen's opening black-clear = a constant, holding at 16/16/18 on three", + "transitions. Their fourth gives 16, 14, 16, 18 -- and decisively, the two", + "transitions with the SAME incoming screen (main_menu) have different gaps,", + "so the incoming screen cannot determine it. A fourth point did to a", + "three-point fit exactly what it should.", + "", + "DO NOT key this per outgoing screen yet. Three outgoing screens with one", + "value each restates the data rather than predicting it -- the same objection", + "I raised against my own 16/16/18. Key it when a screen has more than one", + "measured value, and key it on the screen being LEFT.", + "", + "📌 CITATION ADDED 2026-09-01, and its absence propagated from the delivery.", + "This why carried over a thousand characters and NOTHING OPENABLE. The Decoder", + "sent the `(B)`-from-EXTRAS leg as an inline frame table with no file cited,", + "while docs/re/data/fade-four-transitions.txt -- which carries that leg and", + "eight others -- had been committed the whole time. They found it in their own", + "audit and cited it; it had already landed here uncited.", + "", + "⚠️ An uncited measurement propagates as an uncited value. The receiving end", + "cannot tell a summarised measurement from a recalled one, and both read as", + "prose.", + "", + "✅ AUDITED 2026-09-01 and this one needed nothing: it was already an EXCLUSION argument rather than a count. It excludes a constant, excludes keying on the outgoing screen, and excludes every declared quantity in the export as a predictor -- four of them named, each shown not to separate the pairs. That is the form the week's other claims were found to be missing." + ], + "black_hold_kind": "measured" } diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml b/crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml index a8da7e34..cc39da50 100644 --- a/crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml @@ -55,7 +55,33 @@ license.workspace = true # a squash-merge can orphan, and no way for the exporter to be built against a # decoder it was never tested with. A decoder change and the exporter change it # requires now land in the same commit or not at all. -sylpheed-formats = { path = "../sylpheed-formats" } +# PINNED BY TAG, which is what MISSION section 2 prescribes and what the tagging +# rule exists for: "the RE agent tags when it lands something you need and tells +# you over the message channel -- that is how you stay current without floating." +# That is exactly what happened here. +# +# The tag carries the CORRECTED keyframe association: a placement group is an +# 8-byte header then `frames` x {u32 time; 36-byte pose}, so pose 0's time is the +# group's lead-in word and EVERY POSE IS TIMED, including the last. The working +# tree's copy still has the retired `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT` knob -- a superseded +# partial fix that got the association right but left pose 0 untimed, which is +# why testing it moved the untimed frame from last to first instead of removing +# it. The old reading is behind `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_LEGACY=1` here. +# +# 🔴 THE COST, STATED: `sylpheed-cli` builds from the WORKSPACE crate, so until +# this lands on `main` the exporter and the reference renderer read DIFFERENT +# decoders and `tools/port/verify-screen` is comparing two eras rather than +# detecting drift. `tools/port/verify-capture` is unaffected -- it compares the +# port against oracle CAPTURES and never touches the CLI -- and it is the check +# that matters. Revert to the path dependency the day the tag is an ancestor of +# `main`. +# Bumped c -> d 2026-08-29. What I wanted from the new state: `d` carries parser +# and `audio.rs` changes on top of `c`. ⚠️ Its headline change -- Reborn's +# renderer drawing `rotation_deg`, and `compose` drawing a leaf that carries +# geometry -- does NOT reach this port from here: `sylpheed-cli` builds from the +# WORKSPACE crate, so the reference renderer stays unrotated until the tag lands +# on `main`. This bump is for the parser, not for the renderer. +sylpheed-formats = { git = "https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git", tag = "formats-pin-2026-09-01" } serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] } serde_json = "1" diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bank_chunks.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bank_chunks.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d17c54ae --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bank_chunks.rs @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +//! Throwaway probe: what are a music bank's sub-waves, decoded and timed? +//! +//! `export_bgm` sums every sub-wave `media` returns and scales by 1/n. If one of +//! them is not music, the divisor is wrong and every real stem is attenuated for +//! nothing -- the same defect already found and fixed in `export_voice`. +use std::process::Command; +use sylpheed_formats::media; + +fn main() { + let disc = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let src = media::DirectorySource::new(&disc); + for bank in ["BGM_103.slb", "BGM_102.slb", "BGM_001.slb"] { + match media::sound_bank_riffs(&src, bank) { + Ok(riffs) => { + println!("{bank}: {} sub-wave(s)", riffs.len()); + for (i, r) in riffs.iter().enumerate() { + let p = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("bk_{i}.xma.wav")); + std::fs::write(&p, r).unwrap(); + let w = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("bk_{i}.wav")); + let _ = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y", "-i"]) + .arg(&p).arg(&w).output(); + let out = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(["-hide_banner", "-v", "info", "-i"]) + .arg(&w) + .args(["-af", "astats=measure_perchannel=none", "-f", "null", "-"]) + .output().unwrap(); + let t = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).into_owned(); + let get = |k: &str| t.lines().find_map(|l| l.split_once(k).map(|x| x.1.trim().to_string())) + .unwrap_or_else(|| "?".into()); + let dur = Command::new("ffprobe") + .args(["-v","error","-show_entries","format=duration","-of","csv=p=0"]) + .arg(&w).output().ok() + .map(|o| String::from_utf8_lossy(&o.stdout).trim().to_string()) + .unwrap_or_default(); + println!(" sub-wave {i}: {:>9} B -> {:>10} s peak {:>10} rms {}", + r.len(), dur, get("Peak level dB:"), get("RMS level dB:")); + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&p); + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&w); + } + } + Err(e) => println!("{bank}: {e}"), + } + } +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bgm_size_census.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bgm_size_census.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..878e654d --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/bgm_size_census.rs @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +//! Is `BGM_103` the ONLY bank with those two wave sizes? +//! +//! `authored/audio.json` says *"Static code, disc census and runtime all agree"* +//! — three legs. Reading the sentence beneath it, legs two and three are **one** +//! comparison: the disc's declared wave sizes matched byte-for-byte against what +//! the XMA probe saw at the menu. That is a disc-to-runtime match, not two +//! independent confirmations. +//! +//! It is a third leg only if the census independently EXCLUDES alternatives — if +//! some other bank carried the same two sizes, the byte match would not +//! distinguish it. So the sizes are counted across every `BGM_*` bank on the +//! disc. +//! +//! Prompted by the Decoder's point that a decorative second support is worse +//! than none: **a conclusion with two supports reads as better evidenced than +//! one with a single support, so apparent redundancy is itself the +//! misinformation.** +use sylpheed_formats::media; + +fn main() { + let root = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let src = media::DirectorySource::new(&root); + const WANT: [usize; 2] = [3_876_864, 3_930_112]; + let (mut found, mut matches) = (0usize, Vec::new()); + for n in 0..=199u32 { + let name = format!("BGM_{n:03}.slb"); + let Ok(riffs) = media::sound_bank_riffs(&src, &name) else { continue }; + if riffs.is_empty() { continue } + found += 1; + let sizes: Vec = riffs.iter().map(|r| r.len()).collect(); + // Compare on the DATA payload the port sums, not on the RIFF wrapper: + // a wrapper differs by header bytes and would hide a real collision. + let near = sizes.iter().any(|s| WANT.iter().any(|w| s.abs_diff(*w) < 4096)); + if near { + matches.push((name.clone(), sizes.clone())); + } + } + println!(" {found} BGM_* bank(s) readable on this disc"); + for (n, s) in &matches { + println!(" {n:<14} wave sizes {s:?}"); + } + println!("\n {} bank(s) carry a wave within 4 KiB of {WANT:?}", matches.len()); + println!(" Exactly 1 means the census EXCLUDES alternatives and is a real third"); + println!(" leg. More than 1 means the byte match does not distinguish BGM_103,"); + println!(" and \"three legs\" is two. Zero means this reader cannot see the"); + println!(" incumbent and its answer means nothing."); +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_pairs.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_pairs.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..261e32e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_pairs.rs @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +//! Test the Decoder's UNTESTED reading of a residual they recorded as odd. +//! +//! `GP_DIALOG` holds 140 entries against a 70-record dialog table — a 2:1 ratio +//! that would make the id→entry join an ordering question. It does not hold: +//! adjacent pairing gives identical element-name sets on **2 of 65** pairs, +//! halves pairing on **0**. In `GP_TITLE` a language pair shares its element set +//! exactly, so identical sets are the signature there and almost nothing matches +//! here. +//! +//! The residual: the only two adjacent pairs that DO match are entries `0/1` and +//! `2/3` — and `2/3` is the DIFFICULTY build. Their plausible reading is that +//! dialog text is baked into language-specific sprites, so EN/JP entries differ +//! by construction. ⚠️ **They flagged it as untested and did not assert it**, and +//! it has a hole they named themselves: it would explain the 63 that differ and +//! leave the 2 that match needing their own explanation. +//! +//! This prints what the differences actually look like, so the reading is judged +//! against the names rather than accepted as plausible. +use sylpheed_formats::{pak, ratc, ui_layout}; +use std::collections::BTreeSet; + +fn main() { + let root = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let ar = pak::PakArchive::open(format!("{root}/dat/GP_DIALOG.pak")).expect("GP_DIALOG.pak"); + let sets: Vec>> = ar.entries().iter().map(|e| { + let by = ar.read(e).ok()?; + if !ratc::is_ratc(&by) { return None } + let b = ui_layout::parse_build(&by)?; + Some(b.elements.iter().map(|el| el.name.clone()).collect()) + }).collect(); + + let (mut same, mut diff, mut pairs) = (0usize, 0usize, 0usize); + let mut shown = 0; + for i in (0..sets.len().saturating_sub(1)).step_by(2) { + let (Some(a), Some(b)) = (&sets[i], &sets[i + 1]) else { continue }; + pairs += 1; + if a == b { + same += 1; + println!(" entries {i:>3}/{:<3} IDENTICAL sets, {} element(s)", i + 1, a.len()); + continue; + } + diff += 1; + // The stage-dialog pairs, checked by name and by SPRITE COUNT. A + // translation of one dialog carries the same amount of text; a + // different stage does not. This is the Decoder's closing evidence for + // the 37 pairs that differ WITHOUT a button-count mismatch, re-derived + // here because it settles a bound I had recorded as unlikely to be + // tested -- and saying so is what got it tested. + if (10..=15).contains(&i) { + let sp = |x: &BTreeSet| x.iter().filter(|n| n.ends_with(".t32")).count(); + let stage = |x: &BTreeSet| -> Vec { + let mut v: Vec = x.iter().filter_map(|n| n.strip_prefix("pzstg") + .and_then(|r| r.get(..2)).map(|s| s.to_string())).collect(); + v.sort(); v.dedup(); v + }; + println!(" entries {i:>3}/{:<3} stages {:?} vs {:?} sprites {} vs {}", + i + 1, stage(a), stage(b), sp(a), sp(b)); + } + if shown < 3 { + shown += 1; + let only_a: Vec<_> = a.difference(b).cloned().collect(); + let only_b: Vec<_> = b.difference(a).cloned().collect(); + println!(" entries {i:>3}/{:<3} differ: {} only-in-first, {} only-in-second", + i + 1, only_a.len(), only_b.len()); + println!(" first : {:?}", &only_a[..only_a.len().min(4)]); + println!(" second : {:?}", &only_b[..only_b.len().min(4)]); + } + } + // 🔴 THE DECISIVE DETAIL, not the impressionistic one. Two languages of one + // dialog cannot differ in BUTTON COUNT. If adjacent entries do, they are + // different dialogs and the whole adjacent-pairing premise is wrong -- which + // is a stronger statement than "the language reading is untested". + let btns = |s: &Option>| -> usize { + s.as_ref().map_or(0, |x| x.iter().filter(|n| n.contains("btn")).count()) + }; + let mut mismatched = 0; + for i in (0..sets.len().saturating_sub(1)).step_by(2) { + if sets[i].is_none() || sets[i + 1].is_none() { continue } + if btns(&sets[i]) != btns(&sets[i + 1]) { mismatched += 1 } + } + println!("\n adjacent pairs whose BUTTON COUNTS differ: {mismatched}"); + println!(" A language pair cannot. Every one of these is two different dialogs."); + println!("\n {pairs} adjacent pair(s): {same} identical, {diff} differing"); + println!(" Their reading -- text baked into language-specific sprites -- predicts"); + println!(" the differing names look SYSTEMATIC (a locale suffix, a parallel set)."); + println!(" Judge it against the names above rather than against its plausibility."); +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_rows.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_rows.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a42c5f8b --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/dialog_rows.rs @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +//! Independent check of "DIFFICULTY is a dialog: GP_DIALOG entries 2/3". +//! +//! The Decoder identified `DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY` as `GP_DIALOG.pak` entries 2/3 +//! by TWO arguments, one of them compound — corrected from "three routes", which +//! was taking credit for the exclusion scan. The image leg names no entry, and +//! the disc and oracle legs are one argument, since the capture is compared +//! against the disc's rows. One of them is button count and geometry. That half is +//! readable from the disc with this port's own reader, so it is checked here +//! rather than taken on their word — the same form as re-deriving `ptbtn11`'s +//! row order from my export when they offered it. +//! +//! ⚠️ What this CANNOT check is their binding claim, and they flagged it first: +//! entries 2/3 are identified by button count and geometry, **not** by a binding +//! from the `DLG_` name to a pak entry. Another four-button dialog with the same +//! rows would be indistinguishable by this evidence. Reproducing the geometry +//! confirms the geometry; it does not name the screen. +use sylpheed_formats::{pak, ratc, ui_layout}; + +fn main() { + let root = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + // 🔴 WIDENED 2026-08-31 to every pak, to check the Decoder's rival search + // independently. They report zero four-button builds within 6 px of + // 259/329/399/469 anywhere on the disc, which turns "another dialog with + // these rows would be indistinguishable" from a standing reach into a + // bounded one. A disc-wide negative is exactly the claim worth re-running + // with a different reader, because its whole content is an absence. + const WANT: [i32; 4] = [259, 329, 399, 469]; + const TOL: i32 = 6; + let mut paks: Vec<_> = std::fs::read_dir(format!("{root}/dat")).expect("dat/") + .flatten().map(|e| e.path()) + .filter(|p| p.extension().and_then(|s| s.to_str()) == Some("pak")).collect(); + paks.sort(); + let (mut hits, mut scanned) = (0usize, 0usize); + for path in &paks { + let Ok(ar) = pak::PakArchive::open(path) else { continue }; + let arch = path.file_name().unwrap().to_string_lossy().to_string(); + for (i, e) in ar.entries().iter().enumerate() { + let Ok(by) = ar.read(e) else { continue }; + if !ratc::is_ratc(&by) { continue } + let Some(b) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by) else { continue }; + scanned += 1; + // Any button-shaped record, not just `pcbtn`: a rival need not share the + // naming convention, and restricting by name would answer a narrower + // question than the one asked. + let mut rows: Vec<(String, i32)> = b.elements.iter() + .filter(|el| el.name.contains("btn")) + .filter_map(|el| el.rest().map(|r| (el.name.clone(), r.y))) + .collect(); + if rows.is_empty() { continue } + rows.sort_by(|a, b| a.1.cmp(&b.1)); + let ys: Vec = rows.iter().map(|r| r.1).collect(); + let gaps: Vec = ys.windows(2).map(|w| w[1] - w[0]).collect(); + if rows.len() == 4 && ys.iter().zip(WANT.iter()).all(|(a, b)| (a - b).abs() <= TOL) { + hits += 1; + println!(" {arch} entry {i:>2} {} record(s): {}", rows.len(), + rows.iter().map(|r| r.0.as_str()).collect::>().join(" ")); + println!(" rows {ys:?} gaps {gaps:?}"); + } + } + } + println!("\n {scanned} build(s) scanned across {} pak(s); {hits} match the", + paks.len()); + println!(" DIFFICULTY row signature within +/-{TOL} px."); + println!(" Expected: exactly 2 -- the EN/JP pair. More means a RIVAL exists and"); + println!(" the geometric identification is not unique; fewer means this reader"); + println!(" cannot see the incumbents and its zero would mean nothing."); +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/rat_leaf.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/rat_leaf.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..908e3132 --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/rat_leaf.rs @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +//! Probe: does a `.rat` leaf record carry geometry the parent element does not? +//! +//! The GPU capture says the title submits `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` scaled 600 %/800 % +//! and rotated +30.26°/−45.28°, while the export writes scale 100 % and rotation +//! 0 for both. `ui_layout`'s own note says the rotated quads come from the +//! **nested `.rat` leaf records**, which is where `export_screen` already looks +//! for focus records and nowhere else. +use sylpheed_formats::{pak::PakArchive, ui_layout}; + +fn main() { + let disc = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let ar = PakArchive::open(format!("{disc}/dat/GP_TITLE.pak")).expect("open"); + let e = &ar.entries()[4]; // entry 4 = the English title + let bundle = ar.read(e).expect("read"); + let b = ui_layout::parse_build(&bundle).expect("parse"); + println!("build has {} elements, {} records", b.elements.len(), b.records.len()); + let mut names: Vec<&String> = b.records.keys().collect(); + names.sort(); + println!("records: {names:?}"); + for el in &b.elements { + if !el.name.starts_with("ptloop") { continue; } + let r = el.rest(); + println!("\nPARENT {} sprite={:?} -> rest scale {:?} rot {:?}", el.name, el.sprite, + r.map(|r| (r.scale_x, r.scale_y)), r.map(|r| r.rotation_deg)); + if let Some(&(off, size)) = b.records.get(&el.name) { + match ui_layout::parse_build(&bundle[off..off + size]) { + Some(leaf) => { + println!(" LEAF {} parses: {} element(s)", el.name, leaf.elements.len()); + for le in &leaf.elements { + let lr = le.rest(); + println!(" {:<20} rest scale {:?} rot {:?} pos {:?}", + le.name, + lr.map(|r| (r.scale_x, r.scale_y)), + lr.map(|r| r.rotation_deg), + lr.map(|r| (r.x, r.y))); + for k in &le.keyframes { + println!(" t={:?} scale=({},{}) rot={} pos=({},{}) fade={:#010x} u4={} u8={}", + k.time, k.scale_x, k.scale_y, k.rotation_deg, k.x, k.y, + k.fade, k.unknown_4, k.unknown_8); + } + } + } + None => println!(" LEAF {} does NOT parse as a build", el.name), + } + } else { + println!(" no record named {}", el.name); + } + } +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_loop_control.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_loop_control.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bbee584d --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_loop_control.rs @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +//! Run the Decoder's own falsifier for "a nested record's `+0x08` is its loop +//! length" against the bundles THIS PORT SHIPS, before shipping 120 for 105. +//! +//! HANDOFF (`27938aa`, delivered at `07e93ce`) says the plate's glow cycles over +//! **120** units while its keyframes end at 105, and instructs the port to stop +//! shipping 105. The port's `ScreenView` derives a looping record's period from +//! the element's largest keyframe time, so it does ship 105 — and the field that +//! would fix it is decoded in an *example* and a *test* on the Decoder's branch +//! and **exposed in `sylpheed_formats`' public API on no ref at all**. +//! +//! ✅ **Since then the crate exposes it** — `ui_layout::loop_length_units`, taken +//! at `formats-pin-2026-08-30b` — and `screen.rs` has deleted its local copy. +//! +//! 🔴 **This file deliberately did NOT follow it.** The read below is still the +//! raw four bytes, because the moment a control calls the API it is meant to +//! check, it stops being a control and becomes the API tested against itself. It +//! is the independent reading that makes the falsifier mean anything. +//! +//! So this re-runs both of their controls: +//! +//! * **the falsifier** — `+0x08 < max keyframe time` must never occur; an +//! animation cannot restart before its own last pose; +//! * **non-triviality** — if every record had `+0x08 == max t` the field would +//! carry nothing and the name would be a relabelling of the keyframes. +//! +//! and adds the one they could not run: the same two, restricted to the records +//! **this port actually animates**. A disc-wide 0.00 % violation rate says +//! nothing about my six screens if all six sit in the exceptional tail. +use sylpheed_formats::{pak, ratc, ui_layout}; +use std::collections::BTreeMap; + +/// The records the port animates: the plate glow, the five menu focus records, +/// and the title's two sweeps. Named rather than pattern-matched, because the +/// point is to check the ones that are shipped, not the ones that match a glob. +const SHIPPED: &[&str] = &[ + "ptbtn00f", "ptbtn01f", "ptbtn02f", "ptbtn03f", "ptbtn04f", "ptbtn05f", + "ptloop01", "ptloop02", +]; + +/// Which header word to read as the loop length. `0x08` is the decoded one; +/// `--offset=N` re-runs the same falsifier at a neighbour, which is the only way +/// to learn whether the falsifier is evidence for the offset or just for the +/// disc. +static mut OFFSET: usize = 8; + +fn main() { + let off: usize = std::env::args().find_map(|a| a.strip_prefix("--offset=") + .and_then(|v| v.parse().ok())).unwrap_or(8); + unsafe { OFFSET = off }; + println!(" reading the loop length at header +0x{off:02x}"); + let root = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let mut paks: Vec<_> = std::fs::read_dir(format!("{root}/dat")).expect("dat/") + .flatten().map(|e| e.path()) + .filter(|p| p.extension().and_then(|s| s.to_str()) == Some("pak")).collect(); + paks.sort(); + + let (mut total, mut exact, mut holds, mut violations) = (0usize, 0usize, 0usize, 0usize); + let mut slack_hist: BTreeMap = BTreeMap::new(); + let mut shipped: BTreeMap = BTreeMap::new(); + + for p in &paks { + let Ok(ar) = pak::PakArchive::open(p) else { continue }; + for e in ar.entries() { + let Ok(by) = ar.read(e) else { continue }; + if !ratc::is_ratc(&by) { continue } + let Some(b) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by) else { continue }; + for (rn, &(o, s)) in &b.records { + if o + off + 4 > by.len() || o + s > by.len() { continue } + if &by[o..o + 4] != b"RATC" { continue } + // 🔴 THE FALSIFIER IS RUN AT NEIGHBOURING OFFSETS TOO. The + // Decoder's struct-layout control showed that a homogeneous + // repeated table type-checks at every field boundary, so an + // interior test carries no information about phase -- 69 of 70 + // records passed under BOTH shifted alignments of their dialog + // table. My falsifier (`+0x08 >= max keyframe time`) is an + // interior test of exactly that kind, and I re-ran it as + // "confirmation" without asking whether it discriminates the + // OFFSET or merely the file. + let len = u32::from_be_bytes(by[o + off..o + off + 4].try_into().unwrap()) as i64; + let Some(lb) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by[o..o + s]) else { continue }; + let maxt = lb.elements.iter() + .flat_map(|el| el.keyframes.iter().filter_map(|k| k.time)) + .max().unwrap_or(0) as i64; + if maxt == 0 { continue } // static: declares no cycle at all + total += 1; + let slack = len - maxt; + *slack_hist.entry(slack).or_default() += 1; + if slack == 0 { exact += 1 } else if slack > 0 { holds += 1 } else { violations += 1 } + let stem = rn.trim_end_matches(".rat"); + if SHIPPED.contains(&stem) { + shipped.entry(stem.to_string()).or_insert((len, maxt)); + } + } + } + } + + println!("disc-wide, records with timed keyframes: {total}"); + println!(" +08 == max t (exact) : {exact:5} {:5.1} %", pc(exact, total)); + println!(" +08 > max t (a hold) : {holds:5} {:5.1} %", pc(holds, total)); + println!(" +08 < max t <- FALSIFIER : {violations:5} {:5.2} %", pc(violations, total)); + println!("\nslack distribution, most common first:"); + let mut h: Vec<_> = slack_hist.iter().collect(); + h.sort_by_key(|&(_, n)| std::cmp::Reverse(*n)); + for (k, n) in h.iter().take(8) { println!(" slack {k:>6} : {n}"); } + + println!("\nthe records THIS PORT animates:"); + println!(" {:<12} {:>6} {:>7} {:>7}", "record", "+0x08", "max t", "slack"); + let (mut ship_exact, mut ship_hold, mut ship_bad) = (0, 0, 0); + for (n, (len, maxt)) in &shipped { + let slack = len - maxt; + match slack { 0 => ship_exact += 1, s if s > 0 => ship_hold += 1, _ => ship_bad += 1 } + println!(" {n:<12} {len:>6} {maxt:>7} {slack:>7}{}", + if slack < 0 { " 🔴 FALSIFIED" } else { "" }); + } + println!("\n shipped: {ship_exact} exact, {ship_hold} hold, {ship_bad} falsified"); + if shipped.len() < SHIPPED.len() { + let missing: Vec<_> = SHIPPED.iter().filter(|s| !shipped.contains_key(**s)).collect(); + println!(" ⚠️ not found on the disc: {missing:?} -- a name the port ships and"); + println!(" this control never checked is worse than a violation it found."); + } + println!("\n verdict: {}", if ship_bad > 0 { + "🔴 the reading fails on a record the port animates -- do NOT adopt" + } else if ship_hold == 0 { + "⚠️ every shipped record is exact, so this port cannot tell loop length\n from max keyframe time -- adopting 120 would change nothing here" + } else { + "✅ falsifier clean and the field is non-trivial ON THE SHIPPED SET" + }); +} + +fn pc(n: usize, d: usize) -> f64 { if d == 0 { 0.0 } else { 100.0 * n as f64 / d as f64 } } diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_population.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_population.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e186b7db --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/record_population.rs @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +//! Why do two "every pak, every timed record" scans disagree by 86 %? +//! +//! This port counts 1 781 timed nested records and reports `+0x08 == max t` at +//! 92.3 %. The Decoder counts 3 311 and reports 49.6 %. Both scans are described +//! the same way, so at least one of them is narrower than its own description -- +//! and the exactness figure this port has quoted repeatedly is a property of +//! whichever subset it actually walks. +//! +//! Counts the survivors at each filter, so the gap is located rather than +//! guessed at. +use sylpheed_formats::{pak, ratc, ui_layout}; + +fn main() { + let root = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let mut paks: Vec<_> = std::fs::read_dir(format!("{root}/dat")).expect("dat/") + .flatten().map(|e| e.path()) + .filter(|p| p.extension().and_then(|s| s.to_str()) == Some("pak")).collect(); + paks.sort(); + let (mut records, mut in_bounds, mut magic, mut parsed, mut timed) = (0, 0, 0, 0, 0); + let (mut untimed, mut all_at_zero) = (0usize, 0usize); + for p in &paks { + let Ok(ar) = pak::PakArchive::open(p) else { continue }; + for e in ar.entries() { + let Ok(by) = ar.read(e) else { continue }; + if !ratc::is_ratc(&by) { continue } + let Some(b) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by) else { continue }; + for (_, &(o, s)) in &b.records { + records += 1; + if o + 12 > by.len() || o + s > by.len() { continue } + in_bounds += 1; + if &by[o..o + 4] != b"RATC" { continue } + magic += 1; + let Some(lb) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by[o..o + s]) else { continue }; + parsed += 1; + let maxt = lb.elements.iter() + .flat_map(|el| el.keyframes.iter().filter_map(|k| k.time)) + .max().unwrap_or(0); + // 🔴 `maxt == 0` merges two different populations, and the + // Decoder's cause -- `.max()` returning `Some(0)` -- is only one + // of them. A record with NO timed keyframe has no largest + // keyframe time; a record whose keyframes all sit at t=0 has + // one, and it is 0. Only the first is a question without + // content. Both of us called all 1 530 "the question has no + // meaning"; that is true of one group and an assumption about + // the other. + let any_timed = lb.elements.iter() + .any(|el| el.keyframes.iter().any(|k| k.time.is_some())); + if maxt == 0 { + if any_timed { all_at_zero += 1 } else { untimed += 1 } + continue; + } + timed += 1; + } + } + } + println!(" records declared by parse_build : {records}"); + println!(" within the entry's bounds : {in_bounds}"); + println!(" carrying the RATC magic : {magic} <- {} dropped here", + in_bounds - magic); + println!(" parsing as a nested build : {parsed}"); + println!(" with a largest keyframe time > 0: {timed}"); + println!(" of the {} excluded:", untimed + all_at_zero); + println!(" NO timed keyframe at all : {untimed} <- the question has no content"); + println!(" timed, but every pose at t=0 : {all_at_zero} <- a largest time EXISTS, and it is 0"); +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/static_with_cycle.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/static_with_cycle.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0e8b114c --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/static_with_cycle.rs @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +//! Do any screens THIS PORT SHIPS carry a record that declares a cycle while all +//! its poses sit at t = 0? +//! +//! The substantive finding from the denominator thread: 1 530 nested records +//! disc-wide are timed with every pose at t = 0 and still declare a nonzero +//! `+0x08`. A static record that declares a cycle length is a real thing, not a +//! counting artefact — so the question for the port is whether it holds one of +//! those still while the disc says it cycles. +//! +//! Scoped to `GP_TITLE`, because that is the archive the port exports. +use sylpheed_formats::{pak, ratc, ui_layout}; + +fn main() { + let root = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let ar = pak::PakArchive::open(format!("{root}/dat/GP_TITLE.pak")).expect("GP_TITLE.pak"); + let (mut total, mut hits, mut multipose) = (0usize, 0usize, 0usize); + for (i, e) in ar.entries().iter().enumerate() { + let Ok(by) = ar.read(e) else { continue }; + if !ratc::is_ratc(&by) { continue } + let Some(b) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by) else { continue }; + for (name, &(o, s)) in &b.records { + if o + 12 > by.len() || o + s > by.len() || &by[o..o + 4] != b"RATC" { continue } + let Some(lb) = ui_layout::parse_build(&by[o..o + s]) else { continue }; + let maxt = lb.elements.iter() + .flat_map(|el| el.keyframes.iter().filter_map(|k| k.time)).max().unwrap_or(0); + let len = ui_layout::loop_length_units(&by[o..o + s]).unwrap_or(0); + total += 1; + if maxt == 0 && len > 0 { + hits += 1; + // A cycle can only produce motion if there is more than one pose + // to move between. All-at-t=0 with a single keyframe per element + // is visually inert however it is played. + let kf: usize = lb.elements.iter().map(|el| el.keyframes.len()).sum(); + let multi = lb.elements.iter().filter(|el| el.keyframes.len() > 1).count(); + if multi > 0 { multipose += 1 } + println!(" entry {i:>2} {name:<16} {len}-unit cycle, {kf} keyframe(s) \ +across {} element(s), {multi} with >1 pose", lb.elements.len()); + } + } + } + println!("\n {total} nested record(s) in GP_TITLE; {hits} declare a cycle while static."); + println!(" Of those, {multipose} have an element with MORE THAN ONE pose -- the only"); + println!(" ones where looping could differ visibly from holding. A record whose"); + println!(" elements each carry a single pose renders identically either way, so a"); + println!(" declared cycle there is inert rather than a defect."); +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/voice_chunks.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/voice_chunks.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0c630168 --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/examples/voice_chunks.rs @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +//! Throwaway probe: how long is each region chunk of a movie's voice? +//! +//! The question it answers is whether the chunks of a resolved voice region are +//! CONSECUTIVE SEGMENTS (concatenate them) or ALTERNATE TAKES (chunk 0 is the +//! whole track). Getting that backwards plays the dialogue three times over. +use std::process::Command; +use sylpheed_formats::{media, slb::VoiceLang}; + +fn main() { + let disc = std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").unwrap_or_else(|_| "/disc".into()); + let src = media::DirectorySource::new(&disc); + for movie in ["ADV", "S00A", "RT01A"] { + let Some((s, e)) = media::resolve_movie_voice_region(&src, movie, VoiceLang::English) + else { + println!("{movie}: no region"); + continue; + }; + let riffs = media::voice_region_riffs(&src, s, e).expect("riffs"); + println!("{movie}: region [{s}, {e}) = {} bytes, {} chunk(s)", e - s, riffs.len()); + for (i, r) in riffs.iter().enumerate() { + let p = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("vc_{movie}_{i}.xma.wav")); + std::fs::write(&p, r).unwrap(); + // XMA declares no duration, so DECODE it and measure the result. + let w = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("vc_{movie}_{i}.wav")); + let _ = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y", "-i"]) + .arg(&p) + .arg(&w) + .output(); + let out = Command::new("ffprobe") + .args(["-v", "error", "-show_entries", "format=duration", "-of", "csv=p=0"]) + .arg(&w) + .output() + .unwrap(); + let dur = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout).trim().to_string(); + if std::env::var("KEEP_WAV").is_ok() { + let keep = std::path::Path::new(&std::env::var("KEEP_WAV").unwrap()) + .join(format!("{movie}_chunk{i}.wav")); + let _ = std::fs::rename(&w, &keep); + println!(" kept -> {}", keep.display()); + } else { + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&w); + } + println!(" chunk {i}: {} bytes -> {dur} s", r.len()); + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&p); + } + } +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/audio.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/audio.rs new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1323f053 --- /dev/null +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/audio.rs @@ -0,0 +1,1142 @@ +//! Menu audio: disc XMA → Ogg Vorbis, because Godot 4 plays Vorbis natively and +//! will never be taught to read XMA or to open `sound.pak`. +//! +//! Two kinds of thing come out of here and they are not symmetric: +//! +//! * **SE cues** — three short mono waves out of `Static.slb`, one per menu +//! event. Where each one lives was *measured off the running game* (HANDOFF +//! Q8) and is **not on the disc in any findable form**. +//! * **BGM** — one bank of `sound.pak`, which is **two stems of one +//! performance** (HANDOFF Q10). They are summed here into a single file. +//! +//! ## Neither table lives in this file +//! +//! Both come from `authored/audio.json`, and that is the point of the module +//! rather than an accident of configuration. MISSION §3: a value that is +//! *measured* rather than *decoded* lives in `authored/`, carries a `why`, and +//! is deleted the day the disc states it. A measured offset compiled into a Rust +//! `const` is a measurement wearing the costume of a decoded field — it reads +//! like the exporter derived it, and nobody deletes it, because nobody can see +//! it. Contrast [`crate::video::MOVIES`], which *is* a `const` here: Q9 decoded +//! that mapping from the movie manifest on the disc. +//! +//! ## The assembly is not reimplemented here +//! +//! `sylpheed_formats::media` owns every question of the form *"which bytes +//! belong together"* — segment-spanning reads, multi-sub-wave banks, and the +//! delimiter-less `Static.slb` where a wave is only `(offset, packet_count)`. +//! This module asks it for `RIFF`s and converts them. The seam is deliberate: +//! everything before it is disc knowledge, everything after it is a codec +//! choice, and re-deriving the first half here is exactly the mistake the +//! mission names. + +use anyhow::{bail, Context, Result}; +use serde::Deserialize; +use std::collections::BTreeMap; +use std::path::{Path, PathBuf}; +use std::process::Command; +use sylpheed_formats::media::{self, DiscSource}; + +/// One menu sound effect, and where its wave sits in a delimiter-less bank. +/// +/// `offset` is a string so the file can carry `"0x1ec0"` — the form the RE +/// finding is written in. A reader comparing the two should not have to convert +/// 125 632 in their head to believe they match. +#[derive(Deserialize)] +pub struct CueSpec { + pub bank: String, + pub offset: String, + pub packets: usize, + pub channels: u8, + pub rate: u32, + /// The game's own cue identifier, where one has been *guessed by name*. + /// Absent means nobody claimed one — never that the binding is unknown. + #[serde(default)] + pub name_match: Option, + pub why: String, +} + +impl CueSpec { + fn offset(&self, event: &str) -> Result { + let s = self.offset.trim(); + let parsed = match s.strip_prefix("0x").or_else(|| s.strip_prefix("0X")) { + Some(hex) => usize::from_str_radix(&hex.replace('_', ""), 16), + None => s.replace('_', "").parse(), + }; + parsed.with_context(|| format!("cue `{event}`: `{s}` is not an offset")) + } +} + +/// One music bank and what to do with it. +#[derive(Deserialize)] +pub struct BgmSpec { + pub bank: String, + /// What happens at the end of the file. Carried through to the manifest so + /// the runtime does not have to reach into `authored/` to find out, and so + /// that the *why* travels with the decision. + #[serde(default)] + pub r#loop: Option, + pub why: String, + #[serde(default)] + pub loop_why: Option, + /// How a bank's two sub-waves become one file. **Only `"sum"` is + /// implemented**, and this field exists to say so when it is not. + /// + /// 🔴 It was `stems_why` alone until 2026-08-30 — the *reason* was + /// deserialised and the *value* was not, so `stems` sat in + /// `authored/audio.json` being ignored by serde. Changing it to anything at + /// all did nothing and warned nobody, which is the seventh instance in this + /// port of an authored value with no reader. + /// + /// It is ASSERTED rather than implemented: a weighted mix is not written, + /// and inventing one would be a level decision nobody measured (HANDOFF Q10 + /// settles that the two waves are summed, not what wave 1 *is*). + /// Seconds of the summed bank the game actually plays before wrapping. + /// `None` = the whole wave. + /// + /// 🔴 Godot loops a WHOLE FILE, so a loop region has to BE the file. The + /// exporter therefore trims to this length rather than carrying a loop + /// point the runtime could not honour, and the trimmed tail is content the + /// game never reaches. + /// Seconds into the summed bank where the loop window BEGINS. + /// + /// 🔴 Split out from `loop_end_s` on 2026-08-30 because carrying only an end + /// silently asserted a start of zero, and that start is now known to be + /// WRONG — the measured window begins about ten seconds in. An assumption + /// that has to be inferred from the absence of a field is not one a reader + /// can weigh. + #[serde(default)] + pub loop_start_s: Option, + #[serde(default)] + pub loop_end_s: Option, + #[serde(default)] + pub loop_end_why: Option, + #[serde(default)] + pub stems: Option, + #[serde(default)] + pub stems_why: Option, +} + +/// Which of a voice region's full-length presentations to export. +/// +/// A region carries three presentations of one take and **nothing on the disc +/// ranks them** — `wEncodeOptions`, channel count and channel mask are +/// byte-identical across them. So this is a CHOICE, it lives in +/// `authored/audio.json` with its `why`, and it is deleted the day a capture +/// says which one the game plays. +#[derive(Deserialize, Default, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)] +#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")] +pub enum Presentation { + /// Every equal-length survivor, summed at unity. **The authored value.** + /// + /// Measured from the game's own output: all three play. See `export_voice`. + All, + /// Peak nearest full scale. Kept so an older `authored/audio.json` loads, + /// and because the history of why one stream was chosen is worth reading. + #[default] + Loudest, + /// Most bytes per second. + HighestRate, +} + +/// `authored/audio.json`, with the documentation keys dropped. +pub struct Config { + pub se: Vec<(String, CueSpec)>, + pub bgm: Vec<(String, BgmSpec)>, + pub voice: Presentation, + /// Declared XMA `byte_size` -> stereo-downmix coefficient, from + /// `authored/audio.json`. Empty means no region is weighted. + pub stream_weights: std::collections::BTreeMap, +} + +/// Read `authored/audio.json`, or `None` when there is no such file. +/// +/// Absent is not an error: an export with no audio is what every milestone +/// before P6 produced, and it should stay possible to take one. +pub fn load(authored: &Path) -> Result> { + let path = authored.join("audio.json"); + if !path.exists() { + return Ok(None); + } + #[derive(Deserialize)] + struct File { + #[serde(default)] + se: BTreeMap, + #[serde(default)] + bgm: BTreeMap, + #[serde(default)] + voice: BTreeMap, + } + let raw = std::fs::read_to_string(&path) + .with_context(|| format!("read {}", path.display()))?; + let file: File = serde_json::from_str(&raw) + .with_context(|| format!("parse {}", path.display()))?; + + // `_` is the house convention for a prose block explaining the section it + // sits in -- see `authored/flow.json` and `authored/timing.json`. It is + // documentation, not an entry, and the schema must skip it rather than + // force the reasoning out of the file that holds the decision. + fn entries( + m: BTreeMap, + what: &str, + ) -> Result> { + m.into_iter() + .filter(|(k, _)| k != "_") + .map(|(k, v)| { + let parsed = serde_json::from_value(v) + .with_context(|| format!("authored/audio.json: {what}.{k}"))?; + Ok((k, parsed)) + }) + .collect() + } + + // Absent means `loudest`, which is what the file says today. A default here + // is safe in a way a default matrix is not: the manifest records which + // presentation was taken and why, on every entry. + let voice = match file.voice.get("presentation") { + Some(v) => serde_json::from_value(v.clone()) + .with_context(|| format!("authored/audio.json: voice.presentation {v}"))?, + None => Presentation::default(), + }; + // Declared `byte_size` -> stereo-downmix coefficient. Keyed by size so the + // exporter can CHECK the stream is the one the measurement describes. + let mut stream_weights: std::collections::BTreeMap = Default::default(); + if let Some(serde_json::Value::Object(m)) = file.voice.get("stream_weights") { + for (k, v) in m { + if k == "_" { + continue; + } + let size: usize = k + .parse() + .with_context(|| format!("authored/audio.json: voice.stream_weights key {k}"))?; + let w = v.get("weight").and_then(serde_json::Value::as_f64).with_context(|| { + format!("authored/audio.json: voice.stream_weights.{k} has no numeric weight") + })?; + stream_weights.insert(size, w); + } + } + Ok(Some(Config { + se: entries(file.se, "se")?, + bgm: entries(file.bgm, "bgm")?, + voice, + stream_weights, + })) +} + +/// Vorbis quality. `-q:a 5` is ffmpeg's usual transparent-ish setting and is +/// what [`crate::video`] already uses for the movies' audio; using one value +/// across the export means a level difference between a cue and a movie cannot +/// be a codec artefact. +const VORBIS_Q: &str = "5"; + +/// Bytes of RIFF header `to_xma_riffs` prepends to a chunk. The decoder's +/// `byte_size` is the payload, so a size comparison must subtract it. +const RIFF_HEADER: usize = 60; + +pub struct Exported { + pub name: String, + pub file: String, + pub command: String, + pub why: String, + /// dBFS peak of the decoded result. Recorded because the BGM sum can clip + /// and a clipped file is not visibly different from a correct one. + pub peak_dbfs: Option, + /// Seconds, as ffprobe reads them back off the finished file. Recorded + /// because the cue durations are the one thing about the SE export that an + /// outside finding predicts, so they are the one thing that can be checked. + pub duration_s: Option, + pub kind: &'static str, + /// The game's own identifier where it is a name match, never a measurement. + pub name_match: Option, + /// How many of `sub_waves` this export actually carries. 1 while a voice + /// region shipped one of three; equal to `sub_waves` once all are summed. + /// Exists so a "known incomplete" warning fires on the gap and not on the + /// mere presence of more than one stream. + pub kept_waves: usize, + /// How many of `sub_waves` carry SIGNAL. A dropped stream that is digitally + /// silent is not missing content, and a warning that fires on it is crying + /// wolf: `S00A`'s third chunk is 93.694 s of exact zeroes, so dropping it + /// costs nothing and saying "KNOWN INCOMPLETE" over it would train a reader + /// to ignore the one case that means something. + pub content_waves: usize, + /// What the runtime should do at the end of the file, where that was + /// authored. `None` on a cue: a cue ends. + pub loop_mode: Option, + /// How many sub-waves `media` returned for a bank. Carried out of here so + /// the caller can warn when it contradicts HANDOFF's census -- this module + /// does not get to decide that one of them is not a stem. + pub sub_waves: usize, +} + +/// Run ffmpeg, writing to a temp name and renaming on success. +/// +/// The rename is not tidiness: the filesystem is shared with another agent, and +/// a reader that catches a half-written Ogg gets a confident wrong duration +/// rather than an error. `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` records that this +/// already happened once on a video. +fn run_ffmpeg(argv: &[String], out: &Path) -> Result<()> { + // The extension goes LAST, not the `.partial`. ffmpeg picks its muxer from + // the output filename, so `.back.ogg.partial` is not a slightly uglier + // temp name -- it is a hard failure before a byte is written: "Unable to + // choose an output format". `video.rs` already had this shape; this + // function was written from scratch and did not. + let stem = out.file_stem().unwrap_or_default().to_string_lossy().into_owned(); + let ext = out.extension().unwrap_or_default().to_string_lossy().into_owned(); + let partial = out.with_file_name(format!(".{stem}.partial.{ext}")); + let mut argv = argv.to_vec(); + let last = argv.len() - 1; + argv[last] = partial.display().to_string(); + let res = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(&argv) + .output() + .context("run ffmpeg -- is it on PATH?")?; + if !res.status.success() { + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&partial); + bail!( + "ffmpeg failed writing {}:\n{}", + out.display(), + String::from_utf8_lossy(&res.stderr) + ); + } + std::fs::rename(&partial, out)?; + Ok(()) +} + +/// Peak level and duration of a finished file. +/// +/// Measured rather than assumed because the BGM is a **sum of two stems** and a +/// sum can clip, and because silence is the audio failure that looks like +/// success: a file of exactly the right duration, full of zeroes. Both numbers +/// pass every check that is not looking for them, so the export looks for them. +fn measure(path: &Path) -> (Option, Option) { + let out = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(["-hide_banner", "-v", "info", "-i"]) + .arg(path) + .args(["-af", "astats=measure_perchannel=none", "-f", "null", "-"]) + .output(); + let Ok(out) = out else { return (None, None) }; + let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).into_owned(); + // `astats` writes through the filter log, so every line carries a + // `[Parsed_astats_0 @ 0x…] ` prefix. Matching on the line START silently + // finds nothing and reports "peak unmeasured", which is the failure this + // measurement exists to catch -- so it is found as a SUBSTRING. + const KEY: &str = "Peak level dB:"; + let peak = text + .lines() + .find_map(|l| l.split_once(KEY)?.1.trim().parse().ok()); + let dur = Command::new("ffprobe") + .args([ + "-v", "error", "-show_entries", "format=duration", + "-of", "csv=p=0", + ]) + .arg(path) + .output() + .ok() + .and_then(|o| String::from_utf8_lossy(&o.stdout).trim().parse().ok()); + (peak, dur) +} + +/// Write one XMA `RIFF` beside the output so ffmpeg has something to open. +/// +/// Kept next to the result rather than in `/tmp` so a failed export leaves the +/// intermediate where the person debugging it will look, and removed on success +/// so the tree holds only formats a modder can open (MODDING rule 3). +fn stage_riff(dir: &Path, stem: &str, riff: &[u8]) -> Result { + let path = dir.join(format!(".{stem}.xma.wav")); + std::fs::write(&path, riff).with_context(|| format!("write {}", path.display()))?; + Ok(path) +} + +/// The menu cues, as `audio/se/.ogg`. +pub fn export_cues( + source: &S, + out: &Path, + cues: &[(String, CueSpec)], +) -> Result> { + if cues.is_empty() { + return Ok(Vec::new()); + } + let dir = out.join("audio/se"); + std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir)?; + let mut done = Vec::new(); + for (event, cue) in cues { + let offset = cue.offset(event)?; + // `media` owns the assembly. Asking it for the RIFF rather than reading + // `Static.slb` here is the whole point of the seam -- and it REFUSES a + // short read rather than returning a truncated stream, because a + // truncated XMA decodes to plausible-sounding garbage. + let riff = media::se_wave_riff( + source, &cue.bank, offset, cue.packets, cue.channels, cue.rate, + ) + .map_err(anyhow::Error::msg) + .with_context(|| format!("assemble the {event} cue"))?; + + let staged = stage_riff(&dir, event, &riff)?; + let ogg = dir.join(format!("{event}.ogg")); + let argv: Vec = [ + "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y", + "-i", &staged.display().to_string(), + "-c:a", "libvorbis", "-q:a", VORBIS_Q, + &ogg.display().to_string(), + ] + .iter() + .map(|s| s.to_string()) + .collect(); + let command = format!("ffmpeg {}", argv.join(" ")); + run_ffmpeg(&argv, &ogg)?; + let (peak, dur) = measure(&ogg); + std::fs::remove_file(&staged).ok(); + + done.push(Exported { + name: event.clone(), + file: format!("audio/se/{event}.ogg"), + command, + why: format!( + "{} AUTHORED because it is measured, not decoded: authored/audio.json \ + se.{event}. Located in {} at {:#x} for {} packet(s); the ASSEMBLY is \ + sylpheed_formats::media::se_wave_riff, which refuses a short read.", + cue.why, cue.bank, offset, cue.packets + ), + peak_dbfs: peak, + duration_s: dur, + kind: "se", + name_match: cue.name_match.clone(), + loop_mode: None, + sub_waves: 1, + kept_waves: 1, + content_waves: 1, + }); + } + Ok(done) +} + +/// One music bank, as a single `audio/bgm/.ogg`. +/// +/// **The two stems are summed, not concatenated and not split into two files.** +/// +/// HANDOFF Q10: a bank's sub-waves are two stems of one performance, played +/// together — sample-synchronous, equal duration, on all 32 banks. +/// Concatenating them is explicitly wrong. Emitting two files would be wrong +/// here for a different reason: MODDING rule 1 is *one logical asset, one +/// file*, and a modder who had to line two stems up by hand would be +/// reassembling exactly what the exporter exists to resolve. +/// +/// **The sum is scaled by 1/n, and an earlier version of this comment argued the +/// opposite.** It said `normalize=0` sums at unity "because halving is a mix +/// decision nobody made". That was wrong twice over. Unity summing IS a decision +/// — and it is the one that can clip, which it duly did: `BGM_103` came out at +/// **+1.8 dBFS**. And 1/n is not a taste call but the smallest constant that +/// makes an n-input sum of unity-scale signals provably clip-free, which is the +/// same reasoning `video.rs` already uses for its 0.4142-normalised 5.1 downmix. +/// It is written out as an explicit `volume=` rather than left to `amix`'s +/// `normalize=1` default so the coefficient appears in the manifest's command +/// line: a default is a decision nobody made, and it can move under an ffmpeg +/// upgrade. +/// +/// It preserves the stems' relative balance exactly, which is the only thing +/// about the sum that HANDOFF Q10 actually settles. The peak is still measured +/// and reported. +/// +/// The file is named for the **role** (`main_menu`), not for the bank +/// (`BGM_001`). Which bank plays here is authored and expected to change; the +/// role is what the runtime asks for, and a rename of the disc asset should not +/// be a change to the Godot project. +pub fn export_bgm( + source: &S, + out: &Path, + role: &str, + spec: &BgmSpec, +) -> Result> { + // Assert the authored value this function was built for, rather than + // silently doing something else. Only `sum` is implemented. + if let Some(mode) = spec.stems.as_deref() { + if mode != "sum" { + bail!( + "authored/audio.json bgm.{role}.stems is {mode:?}; \ + export_bgm implements only \"sum\" (HANDOFF Q10 settles that a \ + bank's two waves are summed; a weighting would be an unmeasured \ + level decision)" + ); + } + } + let riffs = match media::sound_bank_riffs(source, &spec.bank) { + Ok(r) if !r.is_empty() => r, + Ok(_) => return Ok(None), + // "This disc does not have that bank" is a MISSING ASSET, not a broken + // exporter: the manifest carries a warning and everything else still + // exports. Any other failure -- a short read, a malformed bank -- is a + // real error and stops the run, because a partly-read bank produces a + // file that plays. + Err(e) if e.contains("not present in sound.pak") => return Ok(None), + Err(e) => bail!("{}: {e}", spec.bank), + }; + let dir = out.join("audio/bgm"); + std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir)?; + + let mut all = Vec::new(); + for (i, riff) in riffs.iter().enumerate() { + all.push(stage_riff(&dir, &format!("{role}.{i}"), riff)?); + } + + // DROP DIGITALLY SILENT SUB-WAVES BEFORE SUMMING -- arithmetic, not a + // decoding decision, and the same rule `export_voice` already applies. + // + // Every music bank returns THREE sub-waves where HANDOFF Q10's census says + // two, and the extra one is identical in all three banks measured: + // + // BGM_103 / BGM_102 / BGM_001 sub-wave 0: 10 300 B -> 0.009 s, peak -inf + // + // 10 300 B is 10 240 + a 60-byte RIFF wrapper, and 10 240 B is exactly what + // the Decoder's disc-wide census identifies as the BANK HEADER. So it is not + // a stem, it is silence, and counting it in the divisor attenuated every + // real stem by 1/3 instead of 1/2 -- **3.52 dB, on all the menu music this + // port has shipped since P6**. A silent input contributes nothing to a sum; + // including it in the normalisation is my error, not a judgement about + // content. + let quiet: Vec = (0..all.len()) + .filter(|&i| decoded_chunk(&all[i]).1 <= -90.0) + .collect(); + let staged: Vec = (0..all.len()) + .filter(|i| !quiet.contains(i)) + .map(|i| all[i].clone()) + .collect(); + if staged.is_empty() { + return Ok(None); + } + + let ogg = dir.join(format!("{role}.ogg")); + let mut argv: Vec = ["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y"] + .iter() + .map(|s| s.to_string()) + .collect(); + for s in &staged { + argv.push("-i".into()); + argv.push(s.display().to_string()); + } + if staged.len() > 1 { + argv.push("-filter_complex".into()); + argv.push(format!( + "amix=inputs={n}:normalize=0,volume={:.6}", + 1.0 / staged.len() as f64, + n = staged.len() + )); + } + // 🔴 TRIM TO THE MEASURED LOOP REGION. Godot loops a whole file, so the + // region has to be the file; carrying a loop point the runtime cannot + // honour would leave the fade-out playing every cycle. + if let Some(start) = spec.loop_start_s.filter(|v| *v > 0.0) { + argv.push("-ss".into()); + argv.push(format!("{start}")); + } + if let Some(end) = spec.loop_end_s { + // A LENGTH, applied after any `-ss`, so the pair is (start, duration) + // and moving the start does not silently change how much is kept. + argv.push("-t".into()); + argv.push(format!("{end}")); + } + argv.extend( + ["-c:a", "libvorbis", "-q:a", VORBIS_Q, &ogg.display().to_string()] + .iter() + .map(|s| s.to_string()), + ); + let command = format!("ffmpeg {}", argv.join(" ")); + run_ffmpeg(&argv, &ogg)?; + let (peak, dur) = measure(&ogg); + for s in &all { + std::fs::remove_file(s).ok(); + } + + let mut why = format!( + "{} authored/audio.json bgm.{role} names bank {}. Of its {} \ + sub-wave(s), {} are SUMMED into one file and the sum is scaled by 1/{}, \ + which is the smallest constant that cannot clip.{}", + spec.why, + spec.bank, + riffs.len(), + staged.len(), + staged.len(), + if quiet.is_empty() { + String::new() + } else { + format!( + " DROPPED {} DIGITALLY SILENT sub-wave(s) before summing -- each 10 300 B \ + decoding to 0.009 s at peak -inf, which is the 10 240-byte BANK HEADER plus \ + a RIFF wrapper, not a stem. Counting them in the divisor attenuated every \ + real stem by 3.52 dB. This is arithmetic, not a decoding decision.", + quiet.len() + ) + } + ); + if let Some(s) = &spec.stems_why { + why.push(' '); + why.push_str(s); + } + if let Some(s) = &spec.loop_why { + why.push(' '); + why.push_str(s); + } + + Ok(Some(Exported { + name: role.to_string(), + file: format!("audio/bgm/{role}.ogg"), + command, + why, + peak_dbfs: peak, + duration_s: dur, + kind: "bgm", + name_match: None, + loop_mode: spec.r#loop.clone(), + sub_waves: staged.len(), + kept_waves: 1, + content_waves: 1, + })) +} + +/// One cutscene's voice-over, as `audio/voice/.ogg`. +/// +/// ## Why this is a separate file from the movie at all +/// +/// A human play-test heard music under the intro and no dialogue, and the +/// obvious reading — "the transcode dropped a channel" — is wrong. `ADV.wmv` +/// genuinely carries **music and effects only**. On this disc a cutscene's voice +/// is a *different asset*: one continuous XMA stream in `sound.pak`, bound to +/// the movie by the movie manifest in `tables.pak` (`ADV` → `VOICE_ADV`). It was +/// not dropped by [`crate::video`]; it was never exported, because nothing here +/// asked for it. +/// +/// ## The binding is resolved, never matched by name +/// +/// `sylpheed_formats::media::resolve_movie_voice_region` walks +/// movie → cue token → sound id → byte region. It is the only route taken here, +/// and the reason is that the cheap route looks correct on exactly the movies a +/// person would check first. Measured on the retail disc: +/// +/// | movie | region | inside the bank named after it? | +/// |---|---|---| +/// | `ADV` | 433 930 240…437 044 592 | yes | +/// | `S00A` | 452 798 464…455 499 120 | yes | +/// | `RT01A` | 437 044 592…437 345 648 | **no — it is inside `VOICE_ADV.slb`** | +/// +/// So `VOICE_.slb` is a name that happens to hold the right audio twice +/// out of three, and the two it gets right are the two in this port's scope. +/// Reading the bank by name would have shipped, verified clean, and been wrong +/// for the radio cutscenes the moment anybody extended the export. +/// +/// ## What a `None` means, and what it must not become +/// +/// A movie whose region does not resolve is **genuinely unvoiced** — that is a +/// real answer for most `hokyu_*` resupply cutscenes, and the corpus already +/// paid for the alternative: resolving unbound movies through a shared demo line +/// played the *wrong recording*. Nothing is substituted. A `\Movie\` token that +/// resolved a clip but not a region stays silent for the same reason +/// `sylpheed-viewer` keeps it silent: its raw `.slb` is off by one chunk, so it +/// is not this movie's dialogue. +/// +/// ## Three choices made here, and the reason each is not a guess +/// +/// * **One file per movie** (MODDING rule 1), and **exactly one region chunk is +/// kept**. Not concatenated, not summed. This function got that wrong twice +/// before it got it right, and the history is kept below because each wrong +/// reading was ended by a measurement, not by an argument. +/// +/// ## A region holds THREE PRESENTATIONS OF ONE TAKE — decoded, and not by me +/// +/// A resolved region decodes to several chunks. Decoded and timed against the +/// movies' own lengths: +/// +/// | movie | movie | chunk 0 | chunk 1 | chunk 2 | +/// |---|---|---|---|---| +/// | `ADV` | 137.437 s | 84.553 | **137.324** | **137.324** | +/// | `S00A` | 93.779 s | 68.072 | **93.694** | **93.694** | +/// | `RT01A` | — | 0.009 | **34.034** | — | +/// +/// **Reading 1, concatenate:** 359 s of dialogue for a 137 s movie. Dead. +/// +/// **Reading 2, sum them as HANDOFF Q10's two stems** — equal duration, each +/// spanning the movie, which is exactly Q10's *music* shape. ❌ **Refuted here, +/// and the claim had already been adopted into the RE corpus before I tested +/// it**: `S00A`'s second full-length chunk is **digital silence** (peak −inf) +/// and `ADV`'s is **0.60 × the first** with 26.8 dB of residual. Equal duration +/// was a shape match and carrying a music census across on it was my error. +/// +/// **Reading 3, one stream. ✅ Decoded disc-wide by the Decoder**, by counting +/// stream starts inside every inter-descriptor span: **258 spans hold one +/// stream, 28 hold three, and nothing holds two or any other number.** The 95 +/// movie-voice regions decompose 70 + 8 + 17. So a region is three presentations +/// of one take, and `359 = 84.55 + 137.32 + 137.32`. Summing a take with a +/// scaled copy of itself adds ~4 dB and colours it. +/// +/// 🟡 **Which presentation to keep is a recommendation, not a field.** The +/// selector is the **highest byte rate** among the equal-duration survivors, on +/// the Decoder's advice. Nothing on the disc says which one the game plays, and +/// on `ADV` this picks the **quieter** of the two — −8.3 dBFS against 0.0. It is +/// stated in the manifest with that consequence so the choice is reversible; a +/// capture of the intro with dialogue audible settles it. +/// +/// ## Chunk 0 is dropped, and it is a DUPLICATE rather than a truncation +/// +/// This comment first guessed it was `BGM_103`'s third sub-wave — a bank header +/// — and a census over all 95 regions showed that is a *different structure*: +/// 78 open with a 10 240 B bank header, 17 with a leading headerless stream at +/// the disc's own `1392 mod 2048` data offset, and **the chunk count +/// discriminates neither**. The byte-span test then found it is **this movie's +/// own dialogue, 17 of 17** — not an in-mission line, which was the standing +/// hypothesis. +/// +/// Which raised the real question: is dropping it a truncation? **No.** Measured +/// here with a decoder the RE container does not have — sliding envelope +/// correlation, overhang allowed, normalised over the overlap: **r = 0.998** +/// (`ADV`) and **0.932** (`S00A`), against controls of 1.000 (self) and 0.289 (a +/// different movie), with both lags placing chunk 0 **flush against the end** of +/// the kept stream. Confirmed in the sample domain at 16.7 / 23.2 dB of +/// residual. It is the tail of the take, presented again. +/// +/// So the selection rule is stated in terms of what was measured — *the longest +/// duration, ties broken by byte rate, minus anything digitally silent* — and +/// every dropped chunk is named in the manifest with its length and peak. +/// * **Mono**, with the fold chosen from the stream's own declared channel +/// count rather than by passing `-ac 1` and hoping. A voice track that is +/// already mono is passed through untouched. +/// * **No sync offset.** The voice plays from the video's first frame, so the +/// runtime needs no delay and none is authored. The decoded length is +/// recorded beside the movie's own length in the manifest so a disagreement +/// is visible rather than absorbed. +pub fn export_voice( + source: &S, + out: &Path, + movie: &str, + video_duration_s: Option, + presentation: Presentation, + stream_weights: &std::collections::BTreeMap, +) -> Result> { + use sylpheed_formats::slb::VoiceLang; + + // English only: MISSION §7 puts localisation beyond English out of scope. + // The language is a parameter of the resolution, not of the file layout, so + // adding Japanese later is a second call and a second file, not a re-think. + let lang = VoiceLang::English; + let region = media::resolve_movie_voice_region(source, movie, lang); + let Some((start, end)) = region else { + return Ok(None); + }; + let riffs = media::voice_region_riffs(source, start, end) + .map_err(anyhow::Error::msg) + .with_context(|| format!("decode the {movie} voice region"))?; + if riffs.is_empty() { + return Ok(None); + } + + let dir = out.join("audio/voice"); + std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir)?; + let mut all = Vec::new(); + for (i, riff) in riffs.iter().enumerate() { + all.push(stage_riff(&dir, &format!("{movie}.{i}"), riff)?); + } + + // Classify before mixing. XMA declares no duration, so each chunk is decoded + // and timed -- the only way to tell a stem from the leading region, and the + // measurement that showed concatenation to be wrong here. + let probed: Vec<(f32, f32)> = all.iter().map(|p| decoded_chunk(p)).collect(); + let lengths: Vec = probed.iter().map(|&(d, _)| d).collect(); + // A DIGITALLY SILENT chunk is dropped before anything else, and that is + // arithmetic rather than a judgement about content: it contributes nothing + // to a mix, and counting it in the 1/n normalisation costs 6.02 dB for + // nothing. `S00A`'s second full-length chunk is exactly this -- 4 497 300 + // samples of zeroes, peak -inf -- and summing it is why that movie's voice + // came out at -16.2 dBFS against a source peaking at -4.2. + let silent: Vec = (0..all.len()).filter(|&i| probed[i].1 <= -90.0).collect(); + let longest = (0..all.len()) + .filter(|i| !silent.contains(i)) + .map(|i| lengths[i]) + .fold(0.0f32, f32::max); + // A tie at 1 ms. The two stems agree to six decimals and the chunk that is + // not one of them misses by tens of seconds, so nothing sits near this + // bound: it separates the measured cases without being a tuned threshold. + // ONE STREAM, NOT A SUM -- and this is the third reading of these chunks, each + // one refuted by a measurement rather than by an argument. + // + // They were concatenated (359 s for a 137 s movie), then summed as HANDOFF + // Q10's two stems (refuted here: `S00A`'s second is silence, `ADV`'s is + // 0.60x the first). The Decoder then decoded the shape disc-wide -- counting + // stream starts inside every inter-descriptor span gives 258 spans with ONE + // stream and 28 with THREE, and nothing with two or any other number, so a + // region carries **three presentations of one take**, not a mix. Summing a + // take with a scaled copy of itself adds ~4 dB and colours it. + // + // WHICH of the equal-duration survivors is a CHOICE, and it lives in + // `authored/audio.json` rather than here -- see [`Presentation`]. It was + // `highest_rate` on the Decoder's recommendation until that was withdrawn as + // self-contradictory. `loudest` is a PER-ASSET CONTENT choice and nothing + // more: the disc masters its other audio near full scale, and it puts the + // two cutscenes' dialogue at comparable levels. + // + // ⚠️ A structural argument for it — `ADV`'s higher-rate stream is dual-mono, + // so its extra bytes encode a duplicated channel rather than fidelity — was + // offered here and **does not generalise**. The channel measurement is + // `ADV`'s and stands; the inference was tested disc-wide over the 28 + // three-stream cues and the size ratio runs 0.0778 to 2.9163. Neither rule + // has a structural argument behind it, which is exactly why the choice is + // authored rather than derived. + let tied: Vec = (0..all.len()) + .filter(|&i| !silent.contains(&i) && (longest - lengths[i]).abs() < 0.001) + .collect(); + // 🔴 `All` KEEPS EVERY SURVIVOR, and it is the authored value since + // 2026-08-30. Keeping one was refuted from the OUTPUT side: the Decoder + // recorded the game's own 6-channel output over the intro and decomposed it + // as `capture = 0.600 x movie + residual`, where the residual is THREE + // signals at three positions -- front pair (r 0.918), rear pair (r 0.929), + // and a centre whose partner LFE is empty to -115 dB. All three play. This + // exporter was shipping one and discarding two. + // + // ⚠️ WHICH stream sits at which position is NOT determined -- their + // assignment is by position, not by content -- so the port does not attempt + // a 5.1 build and a positional downmix. It sums at unity, which is the same + // decision `stems: "sum"` records for a BGM bank and for the same stated + // reason: a unity sum is right under either reading, and a weighting would + // only be justified once the assignment is settled. + let keep: Vec = match presentation { + Presentation::All => tied.clone(), + Presentation::HighestRate => tied + .iter() + .copied() + .max_by_key(|&i| riffs[i].len()) + .into_iter() + .collect(), + Presentation::Loudest => tied + .iter() + .copied() + .max_by(|&a, &b| probed[a].1.total_cmp(&probed[b].1)) + .into_iter() + .collect(), + }; + let dropped: Vec = (0..all.len()) + .filter(|i| !keep.contains(i)) + .map(|i| { + format!( + "chunk {i} ({:.3} s, {} B, peak {})", + lengths[i], + riffs[i].len(), + if silent.contains(&i) { + "SILENT".to_string() + } else { + format!("{:.1} dBFS", probed[i].1) + } + ) + }) + .collect(); + if keep.is_empty() { + return Ok(None); + } + let staged: Vec = keep.iter().map(|&i| all[i].clone()).collect(); + + // The fold averages the channels that CARRY SIGNAL, not the channels the + // stream declares. + // + // This function's first version averaged all declared channels, and the doc + // comment above it warned in as many words that "a stereo matrix applied to + // a mono voice track is not an error, it is a -6 dB attenuation that nothing + // reports". It then did exactly that: **channel 2 of both voice streams is + // digitally silent** -- peak -inf over the whole file, on `ADV` and on + // `S00A` -- so this is a mono recording carried in a nominally stereo + // stream, and averaging it with silence cost 5.94 dB. Checking the declared + // count is not checking the content, and only the content is the fold. + // + // Same principle as the silent-chunk drop above, one level down: a silent + // input contributes nothing to an average and counting it in the divisor is + // arithmetic, not a mixing decision. `sylpheed-viewer`'s `pan=mono|c0=c0` + // reaches the right answer here for a reason it does not state. + // Each kept stream is folded to mono on ITS OWN live channels -- the fold is + // per input, because "which channels carry signal" is a property of the + // stream and not of the set. + let fold_of = |p: &PathBuf| -> String { + let live = live_channels(p); + let channels = probe_channels(p).unwrap_or(1); + if live.len() <= 1 && channels <= 1 { + String::new() + } else if live.len() == 1 { + format!(",pan=mono|c0=c{}", live[0]) + } else { + let g = 1.0 / live.len() as f64; + let terms: Vec = live.iter().map(|c| format!("{g:.6}*c{c}")).collect(); + format!(",pan=mono|c0={}", terms.join("+")) + } + }; + + let ogg = dir.join(format!("{movie}.ogg")); + let mut argv: Vec = ["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y"] + .iter() + .map(|s| s.to_string()) + .collect(); + for s in &staged { + argv.push("-i".into()); + argv.push(s.display().to_string()); + } + // One input, so no mix and no normalising coefficient: the stream reaches the + // Ogg at the level the disc has it, and the only filter is the mono fold. + // 🔴 `normalize=1` -- the mix DIVIDES by the input count, and that is right + // here for a reason the two earlier divisor bugs in this file are not. + // + // Those were wrong because an input contributing NOTHING was counted in the + // divisor: a digitally silent chunk summed, a silent channel averaged. Both + // attenuated a signal by counting silence as a voice. + // + // This is the opposite case. The three streams are not stems of one signal; + // they are three POSITIONS in a 5.1 field (front pair, centre, rear pair -- + // measured). A stereo downmix of that field weights them 0.4142, 0.2929 and + // 0.2929, which SUM TO ONE whatever the assignment. So the total is fixed + // even though the distribution is not, and dividing by three preserves that + // total while claiming nothing about which stream sits where. + // + // ⚠️ Unity summing was tried first and `check` refused it: `ADV` reached + // **+2.62 dBFS**, over the +1.0 bound. The bound is there precisely because + // "clipping is the other failure the BGM can produce, being a sum at unity + // gain" -- and it caught a mix that was 3x a downmix's level. + let filter = if staged.len() == 1 { + format!("[0:a]anull{}[a]", fold_of(&staged[0])) + } else { + let mut parts: Vec = Vec::new(); + for (i, p) in staged.iter().enumerate() { + parts.push(format!("[{i}:a]anull{}[m{i}]", fold_of(p))); + } + // 🔴 MEASURED POSITIONAL WEIGHTS where every kept stream's declared size + // is in the authored table, and the count divisor otherwise. + // + // The table is keyed by the decoder's own `byte_size`, so this is a + // CHECK and not an assumption: if the streams in front of us are not the + // ones the measurement describes, the sizes do not match and the mix + // falls back. That mattered once already -- on 2026-08-30 these sizes + // did NOT fit the region the resolver returned, which is how a + // 238-packet late start was found. Applied positionally instead, the + // weights would have gone onto the wrong streams in silence. + let sizes: Vec = keep.iter().map(|&i| riffs[i].len() - RIFF_HEADER).collect(); + let ws: Option> = sizes.iter().map(|s| stream_weights.get(s).copied()).collect(); + match ws { + Some(w) if w.len() == staged.len() => { + // Weights sum to one, so the total is the movie's own and what + // they distribute is the balance between three positions. + let terms: Vec = w + .iter() + .enumerate() + .map(|(i, g)| format!("[m{i}]volume={g:.4}[w{i}]")) + .collect(); + parts.extend(terms); + let ins: String = (0..staged.len()).map(|i| format!("[w{i}]")).collect(); + parts.push(format!("{ins}amix=inputs={}:normalize=0[a]", staged.len())); + } + _ => { + let ins: String = (0..staged.len()).map(|i| format!("[m{i}]")).collect(); + parts.push(format!("{ins}amix=inputs={}:normalize=1[a]", staged.len())); + } + } + parts.join(";") + }; + argv.push("-filter_complex".into()); + argv.push(filter); + argv.push("-map".into()); + argv.push("[a]".into()); + argv.extend( + ["-c:a", "libvorbis", "-q:a", VORBIS_Q, &ogg.display().to_string()] + .iter() + .map(|s| s.to_string()), + ); + let command = format!("ffmpeg {}", argv.join(" ")); + run_ffmpeg(&argv, &ogg)?; + let (peak, dur) = measure(&ogg); + for s in &all { + std::fs::remove_file(s).ok(); + } + + let against = match (dur, video_duration_s) { + (Some(d), Some(v)) => format!( + " Decoded length {d:.3} s against the movie's {v:.3} s (delta {:+.3} s); \ + NOT trimmed to fit -- a clamp would hide a resolution error, and the \ + runtime stops the voice when the video ends.", + d - v + ), + _ => String::new(), + }; + + Ok(Some(Exported { + name: movie.to_string(), + file: format!("audio/voice/{movie}.ogg"), + command, + why: format!( + "DECODED, not authored: the movie manifest in tables.pak binds {movie} to a \ + voice cue, and sylpheed_formats::media::resolve_movie_voice_region walks \ + movie -> token -> sound id -> byte region [{start}, {end}) of the continuous \ + voice stream. NOT matched by filename: RT01A's voice lives inside \ + VOICE_ADV.slb, so the name is right for this movie by luck and wrong for \ + others. ✅ ALL {} region chunk(s) are exported, summed. Keeping ONE was \ + REFUTED FROM THE OUTPUT SIDE 2026-08-30: a recording of the game's own \ + 6-channel output over the intro decomposes as capture = 0.600 x movie + \ + residual, and the residual is THREE signals at three positions -- front pair \ + (r 0.918), rear pair (r 0.929), and a centre whose partner LFE is empty to \ + -115 dB. The load-bearing number is LFE reproducing to -115.73 dBFS: where \ + nothing is added the two decoders agree exactly, so the other residuals are \ + ADDED CONTENT and not codec mismatch. ⚠️ WHICH stream sits at which position \ + is NOT determined -- the assignment is by position, not content -- so this is \ + a mono sum divided by the count, never a positional downmix. The three \ + downmix weights sum to one whatever the assignment, so the total is right and \ + the distribution is the only thing unclaimed. ⚠️ The movie's OWN track is WMA \ + Pro 5.1 and carries the bed; these streams are additional. {} kept under \ + presentation `{}`, folded to mono on each stream's own live channels. \ + Chunks found, in region order: {}.{}{against}", + riffs.len(), + staged.len(), + match presentation { + Presentation::All => "all", + Presentation::Loudest => "loudest", + Presentation::HighestRate => "highest_rate", + }, + // The INVENTORY, not just what was dropped. A reader mapping these + // onto the decoder's own `byte_size` values -- which is how the + // stream-to-speaker assignment is indexed -- needs every chunk's + // size, and the dropped list only ever showed the ones that lost. + (0..all.len()) + .map(|i| { + format!( + "chunk {i} {} B ({:.3} s{})", + riffs[i].len(), + lengths[i], + if silent.contains(&i) { ", SILENT" } else { "" } + ) + }) + .collect::>() + .join("; "), + if dropped.is_empty() { + String::new() + } else { + format!( + " Also dropped: {}. A chunk marked SILENT carries no signal and \ + contributes nothing; one of a different duration is not a \ + concurrent stream of this take. \u{1f534} THIS SENTENCE USED TO SAY \ + the leading chunk was `the TAIL of the kept stream [refuted]`, on a sliding \ + envelope correlation of r=0.998. The CORRELATION was sound and the \ + INTERPRETATION was refuted: `resolve_movie_voice_region` was \ + starting 238 packets inside the first stream, so what matched \ + end-flush was a START-TRUNCATED SIMULTANEOUS stream, not a \ + duplicate tail -- which is why it aligned at the end. Fixed in \ + formats-pin-2026-08-30; that chunk is now kept at full length and \ + nothing is dropped for that reason any more.", + dropped.join(", ") + ) + }, + ), + peak_dbfs: peak, + duration_s: dur, + kind: "voice", + name_match: None, + loop_mode: None, + sub_waves: riffs.len(), + kept_waves: staged.len(), + content_waves: riffs.len() - silent.len(), + })) +} + +/// How many channels a staged `RIFF` declares, per ffprobe. +fn probe_channels(path: &Path) -> Option { + let out = Command::new("ffprobe") + .args([ + "-v", "error", "-select_streams", "a:0", + "-show_entries", "stream=channels", "-of", "csv=p=0", + ]) + .arg(path) + .output() + .ok()?; + String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout).trim().parse().ok() +} + +/// Seconds a finished media file runs, per ffprobe. +/// +/// Exposed so the caller can hand [`export_voice`] the movie's own length: the +/// voice is a separate asset with no shared container to agree with, so the only +/// way a resolution error shows up is a length that does not match the picture. +pub fn probe_duration(path: &Path) -> Option { + let out = Command::new("ffprobe") + .args([ + "-v", "error", "-show_entries", "format=duration", + "-of", "csv=p=0", + ]) + .arg(path) + .output() + .ok()?; + String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout).trim().parse().ok() +} + +/// Seconds and peak dBFS that one staged XMA `RIFF` decodes to. +/// +/// XMA carries no duration in its header, so the chunk is decoded to PCM and the +/// result measured. That is expensive and it is the only instrument that can +/// separate these chunks at all: `ffprobe` on the `RIFF` itself returns `N/A` +/// for duration, which a caller that trusted it would read as zero, and the +/// corpus records `sylpheed-cli audio info` mis-reading the same headers as +/// 16 channels at 4 310 Hz. +/// +/// A silent chunk returns `-inf`, which the caller drops. +fn decoded_chunk(riff: &Path) -> (f32, f32) { + let wav = riff.with_extension("probe.wav"); + let ok = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y", "-i"]) + .arg(riff) + .arg(&wav) + .output() + .map(|o| o.status.success()) + .unwrap_or(false); + let out = if ok { + let (peak, dur) = measure(&wav); + (dur.unwrap_or(0.0), peak.unwrap_or(f32::NEG_INFINITY)) + } else { + (0.0, f32::NEG_INFINITY) + }; + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&wav); + out +} + + +/// Which channel indices of a decoded stream are not digitally silent. +/// +/// `astats` reports per-channel blocks: a `Channel: N` line followed by that +/// channel's own `Peak level dB`. A channel whose peak is `-inf` carries +/// nothing, and folding it into an average is a pure loss. +/// +/// Falls back to "every declared channel is live" if the parse finds nothing, +/// because the failure to prefer is the one that changes no level. +fn live_channels(riff: &Path) -> Vec { + let wav = riff.with_extension("chan.wav"); + let ok = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(["-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y", "-i"]) + .arg(riff) + .arg(&wav) + .output() + .map(|o| o.status.success()) + .unwrap_or(false); + let mut live = Vec::new(); + if ok { + if let Ok(out) = Command::new("ffmpeg") + .args(["-hide_banner", "-v", "info", "-i"]) + .arg(&wav) + .args(["-af", "astats", "-f", "null", "-"]) + .output() + { + let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).into_owned(); + let mut current: Option = None; + for line in text.lines() { + if let Some((_, n)) = line.split_once("Channel: ") { + // astats numbers channels from 1; `pan` addresses c0 upward. + current = n.trim().parse::().ok().map(|n| n.saturating_sub(1)); + } else if let Some((_, v)) = line.split_once("Peak level dB: ") { + if let Some(c) = current.take() { + if v.trim().parse::().map(|p| p > -90.0).unwrap_or(false) { + live.push(c); + } + } + } + } + } + } + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&wav); + if live.is_empty() { + live = (0..probe_channels(riff).unwrap_or(1) as usize).collect(); + } + live +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/check.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/check.rs index 7a7e9e24..82f71b1c 100644 --- a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/check.rs +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/check.rs @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ //! * a `buttons` entry naming an element that is not a button, or out of //! resting-Y order; //! * a sprite path that does not exist, or a PNG that does not decode; -//! * a name presented as recovered when it was authored. +//! * a name presented as recovered when it was authored; +//! * an audio file that is silent or clips -- the two audio failures that pass +//! every check that is not looking for them. //! //! It deliberately does **not** check that the export matches the disc. That is //! what `sylpheed-cli screen render` is for. @@ -184,10 +186,26 @@ fn check_screen(root: &Path, rel: &str, errors: &mut Vec) -> Result<()> for (k, kf) in kfs.iter().enumerate() { check_pose(&mut c, &format!("{at} keyframe {k}"), kf); } - // The last keyframe of a group carries no time slot on the disc, and - // an invented one is exactly the kind of value this format refuses. - if kfs.len() > 1 && kfs.last().is_some_and(|k| k.get("t").is_some()) { - c.err(format!("{at}: the final keyframe has a `t`; the disc has no time slot there")); + // 🔴 INVERTED 2026-08-29, and the old rule is the more interesting + // half. It read: "the last keyframe of a group carries no time slot + // on the disc, and an invented one is exactly the kind of value this + // format refuses." That was true of the OLD keyframe association, + // where a group's data stopped four bytes short of its final block's + // time slot. + // + // Under the corrected layout (`formats-pin-2026-08-29c` onward) a + // group is an 8-byte header then `frames` x {u32 time; 36-byte + // pose}, so **pose 0's time is the group's lead-in word and EVERY + // POSE IS TIMED, including the last.** The rule now says the + // opposite, and an untimed keyframe is the thing to refuse. + // + // ⚠️ This fired 150 times on a re-export and I had not run `check` + // between pinning the tag and measuring against the oracle -- the + // pixel harness was green while the format validator was failing on + // every screen with a multi-keyframe group. A correctness harness + // does not replace a format one; they fail at different layers. + if kfs.len() > 1 && kfs.iter().any(|k| k.get("t").is_none()) { + c.err(format!("{at}: a keyframe has no `t`; every pose is timed under the corrected record layout")); } } } @@ -267,6 +285,8 @@ pub fn run(root: &Path) -> Result { check_screen(root, file, &mut errors)?; } + check_audio(root, &m, &mut errors); + if !errors.is_empty() { for e in &errors { eprintln!(" ✗ {e}"); @@ -275,3 +295,88 @@ pub fn run(root: &Path) -> Result { } Ok(screens.len()) } + +/// The `audio` array, checked the way a consumer would have to. +/// +/// Two of these are content checks rather than schema checks, and they are here +/// on purpose. `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` names silence as "the failure +/// that looks like success": a file of exactly the right duration, the right +/// channel count and the right size, full of zeroes, because something opened +/// the wrong thing. Every structural check passes it. So does clipping, which +/// the BGM can produce because it is a **sum of two stems** at unity gain. +/// +/// The exporter measures both at export time and writes them here; this refuses +/// the tree if what it wrote is a file nobody would want to play. Neither is a +/// judgement about whether the audio is the RIGHT audio — nothing in this +/// binary can know that, and `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` says which parts are still +/// authored guesses. +fn check_audio(root: &Path, m: &Value, errors: &mut Vec) { + let Some(audio) = m.get("audio").and_then(Value::as_array) else { + // Absent is correct for every export taken before P6. + return; + }; + for a in audio { + let name = a.get("name").and_then(Value::as_str).unwrap_or("?"); + let kind = a.get("kind").and_then(Value::as_str).unwrap_or(""); + if !matches!(kind, "se" | "bgm" | "voice") { + errors.push(format!( + "manifest.json: audio `{name}` has kind {kind:?}, which a consumer cannot dispatch on" + )); + } + for key in ["file", "command", "why"] { + if a.get(key).and_then(Value::as_str).is_none_or(str::is_empty) { + errors.push(format!("manifest.json: audio `{name}` has no `{key}`")); + } + } + let Some(file) = a.get("file").and_then(Value::as_str) else { continue }; + if !root.join(file).exists() { + errors.push(format!("manifest.json: lists audio {file}, which does not exist")); + continue; + } + match a.get("peak_dbfs").and_then(Value::as_f64) { + None => errors.push(format!( + "manifest.json: audio `{name}` carries no `peak_dbfs` -- it was not measured, \ + and silence is the audio failure that passes every check that is not looking \ + for it" + )), + Some(p) if p <= -90.0 => errors.push(format!( + "{file}: peak is {p:.1} dBFS -- this file is silent" + )), + // The bound differs by kind, and the difference is the point. A + // `bgm` is something WE combined -- a sum of stems -- so a peak at + // or above full scale is our arithmetic and is refused outright. An + // `se` is a single wave off the disc: it is mastered near full + // scale, and a lossy decode of a near-full-scale signal overshoots + // by a fraction of a dB (`confirm` lands at +0.18). Refusing that + // would be refusing the disc's own mastering, and "fixing" it would + // mean attenuating a game asset to make a number smaller. + // + // 🟡 +1.0 dB is a JUDGEMENT, not a measurement: a few tenths is + // reconstruction overshoot, a whole dB is not. Nobody has measured + // the overshoot distribution across a corpus of cues, and if a cue + // ever trips this the right response is that measurement, not a + // looser bound. + // `voice` was on the strict side of this bound while it was a SUM of a + // region's chunks. It no longer is: a region carries three + // presentations of one take, so the exporter keeps ONE stream and + // performs no arithmetic on it. That puts `voice` with `se` -- a + // single wave off the disc, mastered near full scale, whose lossy + // decode overshoots by a fraction of a dB. `ADV`'s louder + // presentation measures +0.0003 dBFS at source; refusing that would + // be refusing the disc's own mastering. + Some(p) if kind == "bgm" && p >= 0.0 => errors.push(format!( + "{file}: peak is {p:.1} dBFS -- a SUM we produced clips" + )), + Some(p) if kind != "bgm" && p > 1.0 => errors.push(format!( + "{file}: peak is {p:.1} dBFS -- too far over full scale to be decode overshoot" + )), + Some(_) => {} + } + match a.get("duration_s").and_then(Value::as_f64) { + Some(d) if d > 0.0 => {} + _ => errors.push(format!( + "{file}: no positive `duration_s` -- a zero-length asset plays as silence" + )), + } + } +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/main.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/main.rs index 9b128f08..58c5a8d3 100644 --- a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/main.rs +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/main.rs @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ //! //! See `docs/FORMAT.md` for the schema and `docs/MISSION.md` for scope. +mod audio; mod check; mod video; mod screen; @@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ use anyhow::{Context, Result}; use clap::Parser; use serde::Serialize; use std::path::{Path, PathBuf}; -use sylpheed_formats::{pak::PakArchive, ui_layout}; +use sylpheed_formats::{media, pak::PakArchive, ui_layout}; /// The revision of `sylpheed-formats` this exporter is pinned to, recorded in /// every file it writes. Keep in step with `Cargo.toml` — it is what makes an @@ -76,6 +77,48 @@ struct ManifestVideo { /// dislikes the quality re-runs one line rather than reverse-engineering it. command: String, why: &'static str, + /// What the runtime should have played, so it can report what it did. + /// See `video::Transcoded::duration_s` — the port measured its player + /// presenting 28–47 % of a stream's frames, and seconds alone hide that. + duration_s: f64, + fps: f64, +} + +/// One exported audio file. Carries the same provenance a video does, plus the +/// measured peak and duration: silence and clipping are the two audio failures +/// that pass every check that is not looking for them. +#[derive(Serialize)] +struct ManifestAudio { + /// `se` or `bgm`. The runtime dispatches on it, so it is a field rather + /// than a prefix on `name` that a consumer would have to parse. + kind: &'static str, + name: String, + file: String, + command: String, + why: String, + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + peak_dbfs: Option, + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + duration_s: Option, + /// 🔴 One line saying what this asset is KNOWN to be missing, for the + /// runtime to announce. Absent means nothing is known to be missing -- + /// never that the asset was checked and is complete. + /// + /// It exists because the export could already say this and the RUNTIME + /// could not. `why` carries the full account, but it is a paragraph aimed + /// at a reader of the manifest; a player hears clean dialogue and has no + /// way to learn that a stream is absent from it. This port already + /// announces the two measured screens NEW GAME jumps over, on the principle + /// that a gap is announced before it is opened. Audio had no equivalent. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + incomplete: Option, + /// The game's own cue identifier where one is a NAME MATCH. Absent means + /// nobody has claimed one -- never that the binding is unknown. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + name_match: Option, + /// What the runtime does at the end of the file, where that was authored. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + loop_mode: Option, } #[derive(Serialize)] @@ -88,6 +131,8 @@ struct Manifest { screens: Vec, #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")] videos: Vec, + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Vec::is_empty")] + audio: Vec, warnings: Vec, } @@ -195,11 +240,53 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> { fn run_export(disc: &Path, out: &Path, authored_dir: &Path) -> Result<()> { let names = load_names(authored_dir)?; + // Built up as the export runs. A warning is a thing a CONSUMER of the tree + // has to know about; it is not an error, and it is not a log line, because + // the person who needs it reads `manifest.json` and never sees stdout. + let mut warnings: Vec = vec![ + "GP_TITLE screen builds only. No other archive, and only the two movies \ + MISSION section 6 puts in scope." + .into(), + "The four splash bundles (entries 10/13 publisher, 11/14 developer) have no .rat \ + layout child, so `is_build` cannot see them and no content rule can: element \ + count and design size both overlap with two-element fragments in other archives. \ + They are located by ENTRY INDEX from authored/screen_names.json `also_export`, \ + which is a locator and not a claim -- see each one's name_why." + .into(), + ]; + // Derived output is regenerated wholesale: clear it, so a screen that stops // being exported stops existing rather than lingering as a stale file that // still validates. + // + // 🔴 EXCEPT `video/`, and leaving it out was a bug that hid in plain sight. + // `video::transcode` has always carried a cache -- it writes a `.cmd` + // sidecar with the exact command, the source size and the channel count, and + // skips the encode when all three still match. Its own doc comment says + // "without it every re-export pays ~4 minutes to produce a byte-identical + // file". **This wipe deleted the sidecar and the output immediately before + // the check, so the cache had never hit once.** Six exports in one session + // paid ~48 minutes of Theora to produce five byte-identical files, and + // nothing reported it: the cache is silent when it works and silent when it + // does not. + // + // The wholesale guarantee is kept rather than weakened -- everything else is + // still cleared outright, and `prune_videos` below deletes any file in + // `video/` that this run did not claim, so a movie that stops being exported + // still stops existing. if out.exists() { - std::fs::remove_dir_all(&out).context("clear the output tree")?; + for entry in std::fs::read_dir(&out).context("clear the output tree")? { + let entry = entry?; + if entry.file_name() == "video" { + continue; + } + if entry.file_type()?.is_dir() { + std::fs::remove_dir_all(entry.path()) + } else { + std::fs::remove_file(entry.path()) + } + .with_context(|| format!("clear {}", entry.path().display()))?; + } } std::fs::create_dir_all(&out)?; @@ -261,20 +348,153 @@ fn run_export(disc: &Path, out: &Path, authored_dir: &Path) -> Result<()> { // MISSION §6: the boot intro and the one new-game intro only. let mut videos = Vec::new(); + let mut movie_lengths: Vec<(&'static str, Option)> = Vec::new(); + // 🔴 The export deviates from a HUMAN decision, and until this warning + // existed nobody could tell. MISSION §6 pins the 5.1 fold; `video.rs` ships + // that matrix scaled by 0.4142, i.e. 7.65 dB quieter. The deviation is + // justified for one of the two movies and over-broad for the other, and + // which of the three options to take is not the exporter's call -- so it is + // reported on every run rather than left in a doc comment nobody opens. + if video::MOVIES.iter().any(|m| disc.join(m.src).exists()) { + warnings.push( + "video/*.ogv: the 5.1->stereo fold is NOT the matrix MISSION §6 pins. §6 fixes it at FL = 1.0*FL + 0.707*FC + 0.707*BL (a human decision, 2026-08-29); this export ships that matrix scaled by 0.4142 -- same weighting, 7.65 dB quieter. Measured over the whole of both movies, float-decoded so nothing is pre-clamped: under the PINNED matrix ADV peaks at +4.26 dBFS with 4406 samples at or over full scale (1874 more than 1 dB over, longest clamped run 0.333 ms), while S00A peaks at -1.34 dBFS and never clips. So the pin overloads ADV and this constant is over-broad for S00A; the smallest single scalar under which neither clamps is 1/1.6339 = 0.612. NOT changed on the exporter's own authority -- the level of a mix is what §6 reserves to a human. See docs/port/DECISIONS.md." + .to_string(), + ); + } for m in video::MOVIES { match video::transcode(disc, out, m)? { Some(t) => { println!(" video {} -> {}", m.src, t.file); + movie_lengths.push((m.stem, audio::probe_duration(&out.join(&t.file)))); videos.push(ManifestVideo { name: t.name, file: t.file, command: t.command, why: t.why, + duration_s: t.duration_s, + fps: t.fps, }); } None => println!(" video {} not on this disc -- skipped", m.src), } } + prune_videos(out, &videos)?; + + // P6. Both tables are AUTHORED, for two different reasons -- the cue offsets + // because they were measured off the running game and are on the disc in no + // findable form, the BGM choice because HANDOFF Q10 is a negative and + // nothing states which track a menu plays. See `authored/audio.json`. + let mut audio = Vec::new(); + let audio_cfg = audio::load(authored_dir)?; + match &audio_cfg { + None => println!(" no authored/audio.json -- no audio exported"), + Some(cfg) => { + let source = media::DirectorySource::new(disc); + for a in audio::export_cues(&source, out, &cfg.se)? { + println!( + " se {:<8} -> {} ({})", + a.name, + a.file, + describe(&a) + ); + audio.push(ManifestAudio::from(a)); + } + for (role, spec) in &cfg.bgm { + match audio::export_bgm(&source, out, role, spec)? { + Some(a) => { + println!( + " bgm {:<8} -> {} ({}, bank {}, {} sub-wave(s))", + a.name, + a.file, + describe(&a), + spec.bank, + a.sub_waves + ); + // HANDOFF Q10's census is "exactly two waves of + // identical duration, 32/32 banks on the disc". When + // `media` hands back a different number, SAY SO -- the + // port does not get to decide that one of them is not a + // stem, and silently summing an extra region into the + // music is precisely the media-assembly mistake MISSION + // section 2 names. The decoder's answer is what ships; + // the disagreement is what gets reported. + if a.sub_waves != 2 { + warnings.push(format!( + "audio/bgm/{role}.ogg: sylpheed_formats::media::sound_bank_riffs \ + returned {} sub-wave(s) for `{}`, but HANDOFF Q10's bank census \ + says a music bank is EXACTLY TWO waves of identical duration \ + (32/32 banks). All {} are summed, because choosing which to drop \ + is a decoding question and this exporter does not answer those. \ + See docs/port/BLOCKED.md.", + a.sub_waves, spec.bank, a.sub_waves + )); + } + audio.push(ManifestAudio::from(a)); + } + // Not an error: the authored bank may simply not be on this + // disc, and the export of everything else is still good. + None => warnings.push(format!( + "authored/audio.json bgm.{role} names bank `{}`, which is not in \ + this disc's sound.pak -- no BGM exported for that role.", + spec.bank + )), + } + } + } + } + + // The cutscene voices are DERIVED, not authored, so this runs outside the + // `authored/audio.json` block above: the binding comes off the disc (the + // movie manifest in `tables.pak`), and an export with no authored audio + // should still carry the dialogue for the movies it ships. + // + // A movie that resolves to no region is genuinely unvoiced and gets a + // warning rather than a substitute -- for both movies in scope this port + // expects a region, so a warning here is a real signal and not noise. + { + let source = media::DirectorySource::new(disc); + for (stem, len) in &movie_lengths { + // The presentation choice is AUTHORED and this block runs even when + // there is no `authored/audio.json` -- the voice binding is decoded, + // so the dialogue exports either way and only the choice defaults. + let want = audio_cfg.as_ref().map(|c| c.voice).unwrap_or_default(); + let weights = audio_cfg.as_ref().map(|c| c.stream_weights.clone()).unwrap_or_default(); + match audio::export_voice(&source, out, stem, *len, want, &weights)? { + Some(a) => { + // 🔴 A TOP-LEVEL WARNING, not just a `why` on the entry. The + // export is known to be missing audio the game plays, and + // the failure sounds like success: one stream decodes to + // clean dialogue, so nobody listening finds out. + if a.kept_waves < a.content_waves { + warnings.push(format!( + "{}: KNOWN INCOMPLETE. This region holds {} streams and the RUNNING \ + GAME DECODES ALL OF THEM CONCURRENTLY (Canary --xma_param_probe: \ + three XMA contexts, byte sizes matching the disc payloads exactly). \ + The export carries ONE. Nothing in the audio reveals this -- a \ + single stream is clean audible dialogue. Held rather than summed \ + because an equal-gain sum of channel pairs is not a downmix and \ + would be a second guess, not a fix. See authored/audio.json voice \ + and docs/port/BLOCKED.md.", + a.file, a.sub_waves + )); + } + println!( + " voice {:<8} -> {} ({}, {} of {} stream(s){})", + a.name, + a.file, + describe(&a), + a.kept_waves, + a.sub_waves, + if a.kept_waves < a.content_waves { " -- KNOWN INCOMPLETE, see warnings" } else { "" } + ); + audio.push(ManifestAudio::from(a)); + } + None => warnings.push(format!( + "movie `{stem}`: the movie manifest binds it to no voice region, so no dialogue was exported. That is a real answer for an unvoiced cutscene -- nothing is substituted, because resolving an unbound movie through a shared demo line was measured to play the WRONG recording." + )), + } + } + } let manifest = Manifest { format: "sylpheed.manifest/1", @@ -283,16 +503,8 @@ fn run_export(disc: &Path, out: &Path, authored_dir: &Path) -> Result<()> { disc: disc.display().to_string(), screens, videos, - warnings: vec![ - "P0 scope: GP_TITLE screen builds only. No audio, no video, no other archive." - .into(), - "The four splash bundles (entries 10/13 publisher, 11/14 developer) have no .rat \ - layout child, so `is_build` cannot see them and no content rule can: element \ - count and design size both overlap with two-element fragments in other archives. \ - They are located by ENTRY INDEX from authored/screen_names.json `also_export`, \ - which is a locator and not a claim -- see each one's name_why." - .into(), - ], + audio, + warnings, }; std::fs::write( out.join("manifest.json"), @@ -301,3 +513,81 @@ fn run_export(disc: &Path, out: &Path, authored_dir: &Path) -> Result<()> { println!("wrote {}/manifest.json", out.display()); Ok(()) } + + +impl From for ManifestAudio { + fn from(a: audio::Exported) -> Self { + ManifestAudio { + kind: a.kind, + name: a.name, + file: a.file, + command: a.command, + why: a.why, + peak_dbfs: a.peak_dbfs, + duration_s: a.duration_s, + incomplete: (a.kept_waves < a.content_waves).then(|| { + format!( + "{} of {} streams. The running game decodes all {} concurrently. \ + Nothing in the audio reveals the gap -- what plays is clean dialogue. \ + WHICH streams are dropped and why differs per asset; the manifest \ + entry's `why` says, and it is not the same story twice.", + a.kept_waves, a.sub_waves, a.sub_waves + ) + }), + name_match: a.name_match, + loop_mode: a.loop_mode, + } + } +} + +/// The two numbers worth reading on an audio line, in the console. +/// +/// Printed rather than left to the manifest because the failure this catches is +/// a SILENT file: the right duration, the right channel count, the right size, +/// and nothing in it. `-inf dB` on stdout is the one form of that failure a +/// person notices without being told to look. +fn describe(a: &audio::Exported) -> String { + let peak = match a.peak_dbfs { + Some(p) => format!("peak {p:.1} dBFS"), + None => "peak unmeasured".into(), + }; + match a.duration_s { + Some(d) => format!("{d:.3} s, {peak}"), + None => peak, + } +} + + +/// Delete anything in `video/` this run did not produce. +/// +/// `video/` is the one directory the wholesale wipe spares, so that the +/// transcode cache survives to be consulted. This restores the guarantee the +/// wipe exists for: a movie that stops being exported stops existing, rather +/// than lingering as a file the manifest no longer lists. +fn prune_videos(out: &Path, kept: &[ManifestVideo]) -> Result<()> { + let dir = out.join("video"); + if !dir.exists() { + return Ok(()); + } + let mut keep: Vec = Vec::new(); + for v in kept { + if let Some(name) = Path::new(&v.file).file_name() { + let name = name.to_string_lossy().into_owned(); + keep.push(name.clone()); + // The cache sidecar goes with the file it stamps. + if let Some(stem) = Path::new(&name).file_stem() { + keep.push(format!("{}.cmd", stem.to_string_lossy())); + } + } + } + for entry in std::fs::read_dir(&dir)? { + let entry = entry?; + let name = entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().into_owned(); + if keep.contains(&name) { + continue; + } + println!(" video {name} is no longer exported -- removed"); + let _ = std::fs::remove_file(entry.path()); + } + Ok(()) +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/screen.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/screen.rs index 92735855..e505f239 100644 --- a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/screen.rs +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/screen.rs @@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ pub struct FocusElement { pub id: String, pub declared: String, pub sprite: Option, + /// `true` when the game draws this sprite ADDITIVE — `T8aD +0x04` bit + /// `0x02`, decoded. Absent when the sprite resolves to no `T8aD` header. + /// + /// A leaf's sprite may live in the leaf's own table or in the parent + /// bundle's, so the bit is looked up in the same two places, in the same + /// order, that the PNG is written from. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + pub blend_additive: Option, pub pivot: [u32; 2], pub rest: Rest, pub keyframes: Vec, @@ -112,6 +120,34 @@ pub struct FocusElement { pub struct Focus { /// The `.rat` leaf this came from, e.g. `ptbtn01f.rat`. pub record: String, + /// The record header's `+0x08`: **where the cycle restarts**, in keyframe + /// units — which is not the same thing as the last keyframe's time. + /// + /// `ptbtn00f`, the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate's glow, ramps 0→80→0 over **105** units + /// inside a **120**-unit cycle and rests dark for the remaining 15. Deriving + /// the period from the largest keyframe time — what the port did until now — + /// runs it 14 % fast and deletes the dark rest entirely. + /// + /// Decoded by the Decoder (`07e93ce`, `docs/re/structures/ui-record-loop-length.md`, + /// delivered in HANDOFF `27938aa`) and **re-run here before adoption**, with + /// their falsifier and their non-triviality control (⚠️ the 92.3 % below is + /// "of records where the question is meaningful" -- 1 643 of the 1 781 with a + /// timed keyframe. 3 311 nested records exist; the other 1 530 have no + /// keyframe time at all, so `+0x08 == max t` is not a question there. Quoted + /// bare until 2026-09-01, which is a population-scoped statistic reported + /// without its population): + /// `cargo run -p sylpheed-export --example record_loop_control`. Disc-wide + /// 1 781 timed records, 92.3 % exact, 7.7 % hold, **0 declaring less than + /// their own last pose**; on the eight records this port animates, seven + /// exact and `ptbtn00f` the one hold. + /// + /// ✅ **The port no longer owns this reading.** For one iteration `screen.rs` + /// held its own guard and byte read, because the field was decoded in an + /// example and a test and exposed in no public API on any ref. It is now + /// `ui_layout::loop_length_units`, taken at `formats-pin-2026-08-30b`, and + /// the local copy is deleted — the doc comment that promised that deletion + /// is the only reason it did not quietly become permanent. + pub loop_length_units: Option, /// Back-to-front, in the leaf's own declaration order. pub elements: Vec, } @@ -141,6 +177,59 @@ pub struct Element { /// convention and a consumer may still want the bare highlight texture. #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] pub focus: Option, + + /// This element's own `.rat` leaf, when its declared name is itself a + /// record in the bundle. + /// + /// 🔴 **DECODED DATA THE EXPORTER USED TO DROP.** `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` on + /// the title declare scale 100 % and rotation 0 at the parent, and their + /// leaves declare **(100, 600) at +30°** and **(100, 800) at −45°** — and + /// the leaves *move*, x from −639 → 1521 and 1721 → −839. `ui_layout`'s own + /// note says so: *"the rotated quads come from its two nested `.rat` leaf + /// records, which the census never opened."* Neither did this exporter: it + /// opened a leaf only for a FOCUS record, via `highlight_name`. + /// + /// That omission is measurable. It is the whole of the title's 1.82 % + /// disagreement with the oracle — the port draws two 400 px sprites upright + /// and static at (441, 270) where the game sweeps two ~1080 and ~1440 px + /// quads across the frame at opposite leans. + /// + /// ⚠️ **Emitted, not yet drawn.** Parent and leaf each carry their own alpha + /// ramp on a different span — parent 0→255 over t=70…238, leaf + /// 255→0x80→255 over t=150…600 — so how the two compose is a *decoding* + /// question and not the port's to answer. The data is exported so it stops + /// being invisible; `ScreenView` ignores it until the composition rule is + /// known. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + pub leaf: Option, + + /// True when the leaf's geometry DIFFERS from the parent's, so the leaf is + /// what the game draws. + /// + /// Decided here rather than in the runtime because it is disc knowledge. + /// The Decoder's rule: *"the discriminator is which record carries the + /// geometry, not a fixed order"* — and the census over this export splits + /// cleanly, with no ambiguous middle: + /// + /// * **30 of 46** leaf elements duplicate the parent's scale and rotation + /// exactly. That is the BASE-record case `screen.rs` already handled: the + /// leaf may differ by a unit of position (`ptbtn04`: parent y=401, leaf + /// y=402) and the parent wins. Flag is false; nothing changes. + /// * **16 differ**, and all of them differ in scale or rotation, not by a + /// rounding unit: the ten `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` sweeps ((100,600) at +30° + /// and (100,800) at −45° against an identity parent), two + /// `pgloading_ring` (leaf scale **(0,0)**), and `title_jp`'s + /// `ptlogo_eff2` (**parent 125 %, leaf 100 %**). + /// + /// ⚠️ **Only the `ptloop` case is decoded.** The Decoder fitted the game's + /// own composed alpha — vertex colours `C3FFFFFF`/`B6FFFFFF`, i.e. 195 and + /// 182 — against the two leaf ramps and got one consistent time, t=355, then + /// *predicted* the quad centres at 981 and 478 against 992.0 and 467.2 + /// measured. The other two are the same shape and are **not** separately + /// confirmed; they are flagged so the harness can adjudicate them rather + /// than being asserted. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "std::ops::Not::not")] + pub leaf_carries_geometry: bool, /// The raw `opt ` link inside this element's `.rat` record. /// /// ⚠️ **This is not a focus link.** It was read as one, and that was @@ -161,6 +250,23 @@ pub struct Element { /// Paint-order key. `"sprite"` = read from the `T8aD` header at `+0x0A`. /// `"implied"` = **measured off the running game**, for elements that carry /// no header. `"none"` = neither; sorts last. + /// `true` when the game draws this element ADDITIVE — `T8aD +0x04` bit + /// `0x02`. + /// + /// 🔴 **DECODED, and it replaces an authored map.** The port carried an + /// `additive_elements` table in `authored/rendering.json`, keyed by SCREEN + /// NAME and transcribed from the Decoder's per-draw `RB_BLENDCONTROL0` log. + /// A name-keyed map cannot answer for a screen nobody drove the game to, + /// which is why the port was drawing the English menus additive and the + /// Japanese ones alpha-over — asserting by omission that the JP build + /// blends differently. The bit is on the disc for every screen at once. + /// + /// ⚠️ `kind_raw` is NOT this field. `kind` is `+40` of the RATC declaration + /// entry; this is `+0x04` of the sprite's own `T8aD` header. Tested over + /// four screens: `kind & 0x2` is *anti*-correlated with the measured map — + /// 0 of 14 additive elements set it and 9 non-additive ones do. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + pub blend_additive: Option, pub layer_source: &'static str, #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] pub layer: Option, @@ -201,6 +307,35 @@ pub struct Screen { /// **Geometric, not a decoded neighbour graph** — right for a vertical menu /// and not to be trusted for anything else. pub buttons: Vec, + + /// The instant every element of this screen is settled at, and the width of + /// the interval it was taken from — `[start, end, midpoint]` in keyframe + /// units, absent when the screen has fewer than two keyframe times. + /// + /// 🔴 **A SETTLED SCREEN IS ONE INSTANT, AND THE DISC SAYS WHICH.** Posing + /// each element at its own `rest()` is right for anything that ends the + /// screen settled and **exactly wrong for a transient**: the title's + /// `ptlogo_back2eff1` is a two-frame flash — 0 until t52, 255 at t54–56, 0 + /// again by t58 — so its last *hold* is the flash peak and `rest()` leaves + /// it burning forever. There are five of these, and `rest()` draws all five + /// at once, saturating the light arc. + /// + /// The window is the **longest interval containing no keyframe time**, over + /// this bundle's TOP-LEVEL elements only. Nested leaves are excluded, and + /// that exclusion is what reproduces the Decoder's independently computed + /// `[160, 236]` for the title: including the `ptloop` leaves gives + /// `[269, 540]` instead. + /// + /// ⚠️ **Emitted for every screen; USABLE only where it is wide.** Across this + /// export the widths split with nothing in between — `press_start` 214, + /// `publisher_logo` 190, `developer_logos` 145, `title` 76, then + /// `main_menu` 12, `extras` 12, the loading screens 8 and 4. A 12-unit + /// "settle" on a menu that builds in until t=70 is not a settled pose, it is + /// a gap between staggered ramps. The Decoder's disc-wide census agrees on + /// the shape: only 30 % of bundles have a window ≥ 30 units and 42 % have + /// one under 10, the latter mostly `loop*` fragments meant to be in motion. + #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")] + pub settle_window: Option<[i64; 3]>, /// What this file does not answer. A consumer needing one of these must get /// it from `authored/`. pub unresolved: Vec<&'static str>, @@ -316,6 +451,76 @@ pub fn export_build( // Contrast with a BASE record, where the leaf duplicates the parent's // placement and the two can differ by a unit (ptbtn04: parent y=401, // leaf y=402). There the parent wins. Here there is no parent. + // Reads one record in the bundle as a nested build and returns its + // elements. Used twice: for a FOCUS record (`ptbtn0Nf.rat`) and for an + // element whose OWN declared name is a record (`ptloop01.rat`). One + // implementation, because the second case was missing for eight + // milestones and a second copy is how it would go missing again. + let read_leaf = |rec: &str, + written: &mut std::collections::BTreeMap, + missing: &mut Vec| + -> Result> { + let Some(&(off, size)) = b.records.get(rec) else { return Ok(None) }; + let Some(leaf) = ui_layout::parse_build(&bundle[off..off + size]) else { + return Ok(None); + }; + let mut fes = Vec::new(); + for fe in &leaf.elements { + let sp: &str = fe.sprite.as_deref().unwrap_or(&fe.name); + let mut fsprite = None; + if write_from(&sprite_dir, written, sp, &bundle[off..off + size], &leaf.sprites)? + || write_from(&sprite_dir, written, sp, bundle, &b.sprites)? + { + fsprite = Some(sprite_rel(sp)); + } else if sp.ends_with(".t32") { + missing.push(sp.to_string()); + } + let Some(r) = fe.rest() else { continue }; + fes.push(FocusElement { + id: id_of(&fe.name), + declared: fe.name.clone(), + sprite: fsprite, + blend_additive: ui_layout::blend_additive_by_name( + &leaf, &bundle[off..off + size], sp) + .or_else(|| ui_layout::blend_additive_by_name(&b, bundle, sp)), + pivot: [fe.pivot_x, fe.pivot_y], + rest: Rest { + pos: [r.x, r.y], + scale: [r.scale_x, r.scale_y], + tint_rgba: hex32(r.tint), + fade_argb: hex32(r.fade), + rotation_deg: r.rotation_deg, + t: r.time, + }, + keyframes: fe + .keyframes + .iter() + .map(|k| Keyframe { + t: k.time, + pos: [k.x, k.y], + scale: [k.scale_x, k.scale_y], + tint_rgba: hex32(k.tint), + fade_argb: hex32(k.fade), + rotation_deg: k.rotation_deg, + }) + .collect(), + }); + } + Ok(if fes.is_empty() { + None + } else { + Some(Focus { + record: rec.to_string(), + loop_length_units: ui_layout::loop_length_units(&bundle[off..off + size]), + elements: fes, + }) + }) + }; + + // An element whose own declared name is a record in this bundle carries + // its geometry THERE, not in its parent entry. See `Element::leaf`. + let leaf = read_leaf(&el.name, &mut written, &mut missing)?; + let mut focus = None; if let Some(rec) = highlight_name(&el.name) { if let Some(&(off, size)) = b.records.get(&rec) { @@ -341,6 +546,9 @@ pub fn export_build( id: id_of(&fe.name), declared: fe.name.clone(), sprite: fsprite, + blend_additive: ui_layout::blend_additive_by_name( + &leaf, &bundle[off..off + size], sp) + .or_else(|| ui_layout::blend_additive_by_name(&b, bundle, sp)), pivot: [fe.pivot_x, fe.pivot_y], rest: Rest { pos: [r.x, r.y], @@ -365,7 +573,11 @@ pub fn export_build( }); } if !fes.is_empty() { - focus = Some(Focus { record: rec, elements: fes }); + focus = Some(Focus { + record: rec, + loop_length_units: ui_layout::loop_length_units(&bundle[off..off + size]), + elements: fes, + }); } } } @@ -397,10 +609,21 @@ pub fn export_build( sprite: sprite_out, focus_sprite, focus, + leaf_carries_geometry: leaf.as_ref().is_some_and(|l| { + let p = el.rest(); + l.elements.iter().any(|le| { + p.is_none_or(|p| { + le.rest.scale != [p.scale_x, p.scale_y] + || le.rest.rotation_deg != p.rotation_deg + }) + }) + }), + leaf, opt_link: el.focus_link.clone(), pivot: [el.pivot_x, el.pivot_y], size: (role == "primitive").then(|| [el.pivot_x * 2, el.pivot_y * 2]), parent: el.parent, + blend_additive: ui_layout::sprite_blend_additive(&b, bundle, el), layer_source, layer, focused: el.focused, @@ -427,6 +650,12 @@ pub fn export_build( .collect(); buttons.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.cmp(&b.0).then_with(|| a.1.cmp(&b.1))); + let window = settle_window(&elements); + let order = forced_backdrop_first( + ui_layout::derived_paint_order(&b, bundle), + &elements, + [b.design_w, b.design_h], + ); let screen = Screen { format: "sylpheed.screen/3", exporter: exporter.to_string(), @@ -441,8 +670,9 @@ pub fn export_build( name_why, design: [b.design_w, b.design_h], elements, - paint_order: ui_layout::derived_paint_order(&b, bundle), + paint_order: order, buttons: buttons.into_iter().map(|(_, n)| n).collect(), + settle_window: window, unresolved: vec![ // The time unit is measured off the running game, not on the disc. "keyframe_time_unit", @@ -473,3 +703,234 @@ pub fn export_build( missing, }) } + + +/// The longest interval containing no keyframe time, over TOP-LEVEL elements. +/// +/// See [`Screen::settle_window`] for why this is the settled instant and why +/// nested leaves are excluded. Returns `[start, end, midpoint]`. +fn settle_window(elements: &[Element]) -> Option<[i64; 3]> { + let mut times: Vec = elements + .iter() + .flat_map(|e| e.keyframes.iter().filter_map(|k| k.t.map(i64::from))) + .collect(); + times.sort_unstable(); + times.dedup(); + if times.len() < 2 { + return None; + } + // 🔴 A GAP IN WHICH NOTHING IS VISIBLE IS NOT A SETTLE WINDOW. + // + // The widest keyframe-free interval is only a settled state if the screen is + // actually PRESENTING something across it. `press_start` is the case that + // proves it: its keyframes are 0, 214, 236, 238, 244, so the widest gap is + // 0..214 -- the dead stretch BEFORE the plate appears, where `ptbtn00` is + // alpha 0 throughout. Taking its midpoint gave a settle instant of t=107, + // and the runtime then answered every question about that screen at t=107. + // The result was that the PRESS (A) plate could not be drawn at any instant + // at all, including the boot's own end state, whose entire purpose is to + // show it. + // + // The fix is not a tuned threshold: it is that the heuristic was reading an + // interval where the screen is BLANK as the interval where it has arrived. + // Rejecting those leaves `press_start` with 214..236 (22 units), which is + // under the runtime's 30-unit bar, so it falls back to each element's own + // hold -- which is the plate, opaque, exactly as the disc declares it. + // + // ⚠️ This does not disturb the windows the settle instant was measured on. + // `title` keeps [160, 236]: elements are visible across it, and the + // Decoder's draw stream independently found the game's clock freezing in + // that same interval. + let visible_at = |t: i64| elements.iter().any(|e| alpha_at(e, t) > 0); + let (a, b) = times + .windows(2) + .map(|w| (w[0], w[1])) + .filter(|(a, b)| visible_at((a + b) / 2)) + .max_by_key(|(a, b)| b - a)?; + Some([a, b, (a + b) / 2]) +} + + +/// Alpha of one element at instant `t`, under the linear ramp the port uses. +fn alpha_at(e: &Element, t: i64) -> u8 { + let ks = &e.keyframes; + let a = |k: &Keyframe| (u32::from_str_radix(k.fade_argb.trim_start_matches("0x"), 16) + .unwrap_or(0) >> 24) as i64; + let timed: Vec<&Keyframe> = ks.iter().filter(|k| k.t.is_some()).collect(); + if timed.is_empty() { + return 0; + } + if t <= timed[0].t.unwrap() as i64 { + return a(timed[0]) as u8; + } + for w in timed.windows(2) { + let (t0, t1) = (w[0].t.unwrap() as i64, w[1].t.unwrap() as i64); + if t < t1 { + if t1 <= t0 { + return a(w[0]) as u8; + } + let f = (t - t0) as f64 / (t1 - t0) as f64; + return (a(w[0]) as f64 + (a(w[1]) - a(w[0])) as f64 * f).round() as u8; + } + } + a(timed[timed.len() - 1]) as u8 +} + +/// Scale of one element at instant `t`, in percent per axis, under the same +/// linear ramp as the fade. Interpolated rather than stepped, because a scale +/// that animates passes through every value between its keyframes. +fn scale_at(e: &Element, t: i64) -> [f64; 2] { + let timed: Vec<&Keyframe> = e.keyframes.iter().filter(|k| k.t.is_some()).collect(); + if timed.is_empty() { + return [100.0, 100.0]; + } + let g = |k: &Keyframe, i: usize| k.scale[i] as f64; + if t <= timed[0].t.unwrap() as i64 { + return [g(timed[0], 0), g(timed[0], 1)]; + } + for w in timed.windows(2) { + let (t0, t1) = (w[0].t.unwrap() as i64, w[1].t.unwrap() as i64); + if t < t1 { + if t1 <= t0 { + return [g(w[0], 0), g(w[0], 1)]; + } + let f = (t - t0) as f64 / (t1 - t0) as f64; + return [ + g(w[0], 0) + (g(w[1], 0) - g(w[0], 0)) * f, + g(w[0], 1) + (g(w[1], 1) - g(w[0], 1)) * f, + ]; + } + } + let l = timed[timed.len() - 1]; + [g(l, 0), g(l, 1)] +} + +/// Move a full-screen opaque primitive to the FRONT of the paint order when the +/// file forces it there. +/// +/// 🔴 **The rule is a constraint, not a preference**, and it is the Decoder's: +/// *an element that covers the screen and is fully opaque at some instant cannot +/// paint above anything visible at that instant; where the elements visible +/// during its opaque span are ALL of them, its position is forced to first.* +/// +/// It was found because `build_12`/`build_15` are **black at every instant** of +/// their declared timeline under the old rule — `pgloading_eff00` is opaque for +/// 39 instants while all 9 other elements live and die inside that span. A +/// screen that is black for its whole life is impossible on its face, which is +/// the only kind of check that survives two renderers sharing an assumption: +/// `sylpheed-cli` agreed with the port here because it agreed about +/// `implied_layer_key`. +/// +/// Two measured controls, both prior orders off the running game: +/// +/// | primitive | measured | opaque instants | forced below | | +/// |---|---|---|---|---| +/// | `palogo_eff0.prm` | **first** | 211 | 6 of 6 | ✅ forced | +/// | `pteff00.prm` | **last** | 2 | 3 of 23 | ✅ permitted on top | +/// +/// ⚠️ **Do NOT reduce this to a name heuristic.** `*base*` first / `*eff*` last +/// matches 77 of 80 and fails on exactly the three families that cross it — +/// `palogo_eff0`, `pgloading_eff00`, `pzeff00`. `palogo_eff0.prm` is *named like +/// an overlay* and is measured painting first. The name is not the rule. +/// +/// 🔴 **And it is restricted to elements with NO SPRITE**, which is the limit +/// that the rule's own disc-wide test caught: applied to sprites it claimed 22 +/// `.t32` textures must sort first *against their own layer keys*. **An +/// element's alpha says nothing about whether its texture covers the screen** — +/// most of a sprite may be transparent. +/// +/// ⚠️ Reach: assumes straight alpha-over. Blend mode is undecoded, and an +/// additive quad at alpha 255 would not occlude. It is a lower bound, not an +/// ordering — it says nothing about elements that are constrained but not +/// forced. Delete this when a pinned `sylpheed-formats` does it. +fn forced_backdrop_first(order: Vec, elements: &[Element], design: [u32; 2]) -> Vec { + let screen_end: i64 = elements + .iter() + .flat_map(|e| e.keyframes.iter().filter_map(|k| k.t)) + .map(i64::from) + .max() + .unwrap_or(0); + let forced: Vec = elements + .iter() + .enumerate() + .filter(|(_, e)| { + // 🔴 UNTEXTURED SOLID QUAD, tested positively -- NOT merely "has no + // sprite". Those coincide in GP_TITLE and the distinction is still + // the whole point, because the negative test guards a SYMPTOM. + // + // The rule needs the element's alpha to BE its pixels' alpha. That + // is true of a `.prm` solid quad and of nothing else. The Decoder + // found this the expensive way twice: first `.t32` sprites (an + // element's alpha says nothing about a texture that is mostly + // transparent), guarded with "no sprite" -- and then `.tbm`, which + // is 38 of their 80 forced-first verdicts and declares fade + // `ffffffff`. A solid WHITE quad painted first at alpha 255 would + // make the screen white; no screen is white, so a `.tbm`'s white is + // a modulation ON a texture and its element alpha proves nothing + // about coverage either. + // + // "No sprite" would keep admitting a `.tbm` that this exporter + // happens not to emit a sprite for. `role == "primitive"` cannot. + // GP_TITLE has no full-screen `.tbm` at all -- every layerless + // full-screen element here is `.prm` and pure black, checked -- so + // this changes no verdict today and is a guard against a corpus + // that grows. + // Cheap prefilter only -- the binding coverage test is per-instant, + // in `covers` below. An element scaled ABOVE 100 could cover the + // screen from a smaller declared size, so this deliberately does + // not reject on size. + e.role == "primitive" && e.sprite.is_none() && e.size.is_some() + }) + .filter(|(i, e)| { + let span: Vec = e + .keyframes + .iter() + .filter_map(|k| k.t) + .map(i64::from) + .collect(); + let Some(&lo) = span.first() else { return false }; + // 🔴 COVERAGE IS TESTED AT EACH INSTANT, NOT ONCE FROM `size`. + // Declared size alone is not what the element draws: scale is a + // percent per axis and it animates. `pbafc.prm` is the disc's own + // counterexample -- declared 844x600, scaled 2 % x 3 %, so it draws + // about 17x18 px, a moving glint rather than a wash. A rule that + // read its declared size would call it screen-covering. + // + // Nothing in GP_TITLE needs this: every layerless full-screen + // element here is at scale 100 on every keyframe, so no verdict + // moves. It is in because the data that would break it exists on + // this disc, which is a better reason than a failure would have been. + let covers = |t: i64| { + let sc = scale_at(e, t); + e.size.is_some_and(|s| { + s[0] as f64 * sc[0] / 100.0 >= design[0] as f64 + && s[1] as f64 * sc[1] / 100.0 >= design[1] as f64 + }) + }; + // An element HOLDS ITS FINAL POSE to the end of the screen -- it does + // not vanish at its own last keyframe. `palogo_eff0.prm` is the case + // that shows why: it declares ONE keyframe, opaque black full-screen + // at t=0, and reading its span as `0..=0` makes the splash's backdrop + // a single-instant event instead of the thing that is on screen for + // the whole splash. So the span runs to the SCREEN's last keyframe. + let hi = screen_end.max(*span.last().unwrap()); + let opaque: Vec = (lo..=hi) + .filter(|&t| alpha_at(e, t) == 255 && covers(t)) + .collect(); + if opaque.is_empty() { + return false; + } + // Every OTHER element must be visible somewhere inside that span. + elements.iter().enumerate().all(|(j, o)| { + j == *i || opaque.iter().any(|&t| alpha_at(o, t) > 0) + }) + }) + .map(|(i, _)| i) + .collect(); + if forced.is_empty() { + return order; + } + let mut out = forced.clone(); + out.extend(order.into_iter().filter(|i| !forced.contains(i))); + out +} diff --git a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/video.rs b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/video.rs index 963eef81..54751487 100644 --- a/crates/sylpheed-export/src/video.rs +++ b/crates/sylpheed-export/src/video.rs @@ -63,8 +63,34 @@ pub const MOVIES: &[Movie] = &[ /// coefficient rounding — and peak and mean levels agree to 0.1 dB. ffmpeg's /// default *is* this matrix; the point is that the manifest now says so. /// -/// The unnormalised form was measured too and **clips**: peak 0.0 dBFS. That is -/// why the normalisation is here rather than the textbook coefficients. +/// # 🔴 This is NOT the matrix MISSION §6 pins, and that was never said out loud +/// +/// MISSION §6 records a **human decision of 2026-08-29** fixing the fold at +/// `FL = 1.0·FL + 0.707·FC + 0.707·BL` (plus 7.1 terms a 5.1 source does not +/// have). This constant is that matrix scaled by 0.4142 — the same relative +/// weighting, **7.65 dB quieter** — and until now nothing in the code, the +/// manifest or the docs said so. Recording the command you ran does not disclose +/// that it is not the command you were given. +/// +/// The original justification for the deviation was *"the unnormalised form +/// clips: peak 0.0 dBFS"*, and that is a peak reading — the instrument +/// `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` records this port declaring unfit for the clipping +/// question, because one sample at full scale and two seconds of square wave +/// give the same number. Re-measured properly (float decode, whole file, count +/// the samples that would clamp): +/// +/// | | peak | ≥ full scale | > +1 dB over | longest run | +/// |---|---|---|---|---| +/// | `ADV`, MISSION §6 | **+4.26 dBFS** | 4 406 / 13 187 900 | 1 874 | 0.333 ms | +/// | `S00A`, MISSION §6 | −1.34 dBFS | **0** | 0 | — | +/// +/// So the pin really does overload `ADV` — and this constant is over-broad, +/// because `S00A` never needed it. The smallest single scalar under which +/// neither clamps is `1/1.6339 = 0.612`, +3.39 dB on today. +/// +/// **Not changed here.** The level of a mix is what §6 reserves to a human +/// (*"adjust it deliberately, as a commit"*), so the export carries a warning +/// with these numbers instead. See `docs/port/DECISIONS.md`. const DOWNMIX_51: &str = "pan=stereo|FL=0.4142*FL+0.2929*FC+0.2929*BL |FR=0.4142*FR+0.2929*FC+0.2929*BR"; /// How many audio channels the source declares. @@ -80,6 +106,34 @@ fn channels(src: &Path) -> Result { Ok(String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout).trim().parse().unwrap_or(2)) } +/// Duration and frame rate of a finished transcode, straight from the file. +/// +/// Probed from the OUTPUT, not the source: what the runtime will play is this +/// file, and the two differ — `ADV` is 137.44 s against a 137.71 s source. +/// Returns zeros rather than failing, because a missing number should make the +/// runtime say "unknown", not stop an export that otherwise succeeded. +fn probe_timebase(out: &Path) -> (f64, f64) { + let probe = |entries: &str, stream: bool| -> String { + let mut c = Command::new("ffprobe"); + c.args(["-v", "error"]); + if stream { + c.args(["-select_streams", "v:0"]); + } + c.args(["-show_entries", entries, "-of", "csv=p=0"]).arg(out); + c.output() + .map(|o| String::from_utf8_lossy(&o.stdout).trim().to_string()) + .unwrap_or_default() + }; + let secs = probe("format=duration", false).parse().unwrap_or(0.0); + // `r_frame_rate` is a rational, "30/1". + let rate = probe("stream=r_frame_rate", true); + let fps = match rate.split_once('/') { + Some((n, d)) => n.parse::().unwrap_or(0.0) / d.parse::().unwrap_or(1.0), + None => rate.parse().unwrap_or(0.0), + }; + (secs, fps) +} + fn args(src: &Path, out: &Path, channels: u32) -> Vec { let mut v: Vec = [ "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-y", @@ -108,6 +162,30 @@ pub struct Transcoded { pub file: String, pub command: String, pub why: &'static str, + /// The transcode's own duration and frame rate, probed from the file that + /// was just written. + /// + /// Recorded so the RUNTIME can say what it actually presented. + /// + /// 🔴 CORRECTED 2026-09-01. This read: *"Godot's video player drops frames to + /// hold its schedule, and it drops a lot of them here — measured at 28 % of [refuted] + /// `S00A`'s frames presented and 47 % of `ADV`'s"*. **Both numbers are + /// retracted.** They came from CONTENDED runs, and the counter is an upper + /// bound on ENGINE frames that is vacuous once the engine outruns the stream + /// — quiet, `ADV` draws 6 480 frames across a 4 123-frame video. On a quiet + /// box the bound is 88–90 % for `S00A`, and playback runs **+6.7 %…+6.9 %** + /// long for both films. What survives is that elapsed seconds hide whatever + /// the player does, which is why the count is in the manifest. Without a frame count in the manifest a run can only + /// report elapsed seconds, and elapsed seconds are exactly what stays + /// plausible while three frames in four go missing. + /// + /// 🔴 This field exists because the port asserted the opposite. The claim was + /// *"a player that runs long decoded everything"*, argued from the absence of + /// an overrun rather than measured; the measurement was four lines and + /// refuted it. **The instrument is now permanent so the argument cannot be + /// made again from a run that never counted.** + pub duration_s: f64, + pub fps: f64, } /// Transcode one movie, skipping the encode when the output already exists and @@ -131,10 +209,35 @@ pub fn transcode(disc: &Path, out: &Path, m: &Movie) -> Result String { + s.lines() + .filter(|l| !l.starts_with('#')) + .collect::>() + .join("\n") + }; let fresh = ogv.exists() - && std::fs::read_to_string(&stamp).map(|s| s == want).unwrap_or(false); + && std::fs::read_to_string(&stamp) + .map(|s| cache_key(&s) == cache_key(&want)) + .unwrap_or(false); if !fresh { // Encode to a temp name and rename on success. A reader that catches // this mid-write sees no file at all rather than a valid-looking one @@ -155,12 +258,26 @@ pub fn transcode(disc: &Path, out: &Path, m: &Movie) -> Result **Our controls verified capability, not configuration.** + +* The Port's additive material passed every control — they tested whether the + *method* detects a blend difference, not whether *this run* had `blend_mode` set. + It was left at Godot's default, `MIX`. The change predicted a large move and + delivered **0.03**, and would have been publishable as a careful negative. +* The Decoder's vertex dump passed every control — they tested whether NDC→pixel + conversion is right, not whether the dump captured all six quads. It captured + **two**, with a well-formed line and no ellipsis, and four elements therefore + appeared *in no draw on any screen*. + +## 3. The gap neither of us had noticed + +> **We have never given a NEGATIVE a positive control.** + +Every *"undecodable, with reach"* page lists **where we looked**. Not one shows +that the search method **can find a property that is there**. *"Absent"* and +*"my search does not work"* are indistinguishable in all of them — and *"the blend +is not on the disc"* is exactly that failure, published. + +## 4. The rules we agree to work by + +| | rule | replaces / from | +|---|---|---| +| **R1** | **A refutation whose instrument is one of our renderers is not a refutation.** It is *"our renderer disagrees"* — 🟡, not ❌. Each register entry names its `instrument:`, and a `--stale ` mode lists everything that instrument killed, for re-opening when it changes. | Port P2, strengthened by Decoder | +| **R2** | **State the expected number before you read the actual one** — the effect size for a change, the *count* for a parse. *"This draw declares 24 indices, so I expect 6 quads."* | Port P3+P4, merged by Decoder | +| **R3** | **Instruments print their own completeness**: *n* resolved of *n* declared, and refuse to be trusted otherwise. | Port P4 | +| **R4** | **A negative carries a positive control.** Before publishing *"no field encodes X"*, show the same search finding a field known to exist. | Decoder D1 — **neither agent had this** | +| **R5** | **Label provenance is part of the artefact.** A field hunt states where its ground truth came from, and **renderer-derived labels are disqualified for disc-side questions.** | replaces Port P1, which had no teeth — the question *was* asked and answered wrongly | +| **R6** | **Suppression localises disagreement; only the oracle labels it.** It is two renders of ours: it found the frames, it could not have said *additive*. | Decoder's correction of Port P5 | +| **R7** | **Coverage is computed against a declared denominator** — *"35 of the 41 elements entry 6 declares"*, never *"everything is covered"*. | Port P6 + Decoder | +| **R8** | **Hold the role line even when the answer looks obvious.** The asymmetry is the argument: refusing to infer `ptframe4` cost one message; inferring *"frame-shaped and mostly transparent ⇒ additive"* would have cost a wrong renderer until the title was captured — **and the title capture killed that exact rule.** | Port P7, agreed | +| **R9** | **The message carries the delta and names the file and section; it does not summarise it.** Short messages are safe only when the pointer is precise. | Port P8 + Decoder's caveat | +| **R10** | **A disagreement is evidence about the CHAIN — disc → decode → render → capture — not about a link.** A chain-level residual gets a named owner and a next experiment, or is recorded as unowned. | Decoder F | +| **R11** | **A cross-agent pointer must fail loudly when it goes stale.** Every staleness incident here was silent. | Port, new | +| **R12** | **Each iteration names the gate it moved, or says plainly that it moved none.** | Port, new — see §5 | + +## 5. The efficiency finding neither review led with + +**The record has grown faster than the artifact.** `DECISIONS.md` is past 13 000 +lines. This session produced twelve Port commits of genuine measurement — and the +milestone gate did not move, because **P5's gate has needed a human, not code, the +whole time.** Writing more is not free, and a capability that lives only in the +record is, to the person who needs it, absent. + +R12 exists so that a run of iterations that moves no gate **says so**, rather than +reading as progress because each entry is individually rigorous. + +## 6. What each agent changes, without a human + +* **Decoder:** a standing pointer at the top of `HANDOFF.md` — which their brief + already forces them to read every iteration, and which is theirs to write — to + `git show origin/auto/port-p6-audio:docs/port/BLOCKED.md`. **One line in a file + they own**, routing the Port's standing asks into a file they must already open. + This closes a gap `BLOCKED.md` records as having cost three sessions. +* **Port:** `instrument:` provenance and `--stale` in `check-claims`; completeness + lines (R3) and predicted counts (R2) in the port's tools; a loud staleness + failure for peer pointers (R11). + +## 7. What needs the human + +1. ✅ **The register re-classification (R1) — DONE 2026-09-01, by the human**, on + `docs/re/REFUTED.md` at the Decoder's tip. All **222** entries now carry an + `⟨instrument⟩`; the file opens with a reading guide naming which instruments + are ours; R1 is now standing text in `PROTOCOL.md`; and + `tools/stale-instrument` is the `--stale` query — run it whenever you improve + a renderer, a reader or the harness, and it lists what that instrument killed. + + **Ten entries moved ❌ → 🟡**, each naming what would settle it: eight + `render-vs-capture`, one `our-reader`, one `harness`. + + Three things the pass turned up that neither self-review had: + + * **The `rest()` question is open, and had been reading as settled in both + directions.** *"rest = last keyframe"* was refuted by the sibling argument; + that refutation was then refuted by correlating our render against + captures. Both legs run through our renderer, so under R1 neither survives + — and which one you believed depended on which entry you found first. + 🔴 **This one is load-bearing for the port**: `rest()` decides the pose + every plateau-less element is drawn at. + * **A withdrawal never reached its sibling.** *"2 391 frames, max glyph 0"* + was withdrawn because a long-lived `x11grab` stream degrades and then + repeats a stale frame. The 1 674-sample negative three lines above it — + same probe, same instrument, comparable duration — was left standing as a + *reinstated measurement*. §1's lesson, inside the register itself. + * **83 of 222 entries — 37 % — record no instrument at all.** Not disputed, + not safe: **unauditable**. `stale-instrument unrecorded` is the backfill + queue, and it is larger than every other group combined. + +2. **P5's gate** — a person clicking through the port. Unchanged, and it is the + only thing standing between the milestone and done. diff --git a/docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md b/docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md index 6ca19b4d..0599ca00 100644 --- a/docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md +++ b/docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md @@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ rec.set_recording_active(false) rec.get_recording().save_to_wav("user://master.wav") ``` +**This is implemented.** `godot --path port -- --menu … --audio=/tmp/p6.wav` +installs the effect, records for the whole run, and saves on exit — in +`_exit_tree` rather than beside each `quit()`, because there are eight of those +and the one that would get missed is an error path, i.e. exactly the run whose +audio somebody wants to look at. The run prints the driver name beside the file +it wrote. + Then feed that WAV through §1 against the source. That closes the loop: it proves the asset is right **and** that the engine reached it, which no amount of file comparison can show on its own. @@ -109,9 +116,287 @@ silent**, because silence is the failure that looks like success: a WAV of exactly the right duration, full of zeroes, because the application opened a different sink. A duration check alone would pass it. +## 5. A multichannel capture must pass a provenance check BEFORE it is analysed + +`tools/port/check-capture FILE.wav` — run it first, every time. + +⚠️ **This section exists because a capture of the game's own 6-channel output was +analysed at length and the file was corrupt.** It got three controls, a +drift test and a written-up negative, and every one of those was sound; none of +them could see that channels were missing, because the corruption was upstream of +everything they tested. + +**PulseAudio was remapping between two mismatched channel maps, and a 6-channel +remap silently drops and duplicates.** The Decoder proved it with a control that +needs no emulator and no disc — six channels each carrying a different tone, +through the same sink and the same `parec` invocation +(`docs/re/audio-capture-channel-map-trap.md`): + +| ch | played | recorded | +|---|---|---| +| 0 | 400 | 400 | +| 1 | 800 | **3200** | +| 2 | 200 | 200 | +| 3 | 1600 | **800** | +| 4 | 3200 | **800** | +| 5 | 6400 | **200** | + +**Two source channels were gone entirely** and two were duplicates. Setting the +sink's `channel_map` to the guest's own (`FL,FR,FC,LFE,RL,RR`) and passing the +same map to `parec` returns all six. + +### The signature is an exact duplicate pair, and only a hash finds it + +Duration is right. Channel count is right. `Corked: no`. There is no error +anywhere, and the **per-channel levels look entirely reasonable** — which is the +whole difficulty. In the tool's own known-bad control, all six channels report a +peak of **−18.063656 dB, identical to six decimals, while containing three +duplicate pairs.** A level check cannot see this. Hashing each channel can. + +Two channels of a real surround mix are never byte-identical over tens of +seconds. On the corrupt game capture the tool reports: + +``` +ch2 peak -4.466272 ba497de78217c438a3e430c5ef6b951b +ch5 peak -4.466272 ba497de78217c438a3e430c5ef6b951b +🔴 ch2 and ch5 are BYTE-IDENTICAL +``` + +⚠️ **It is a necessary check, not a sufficient one.** Passing says the file has no +duplicated channels. It says nothing about whether the right thing was recorded — +that is what §1's correlation against a known source is for, and a capture should +survive **both** before anything is concluded from it. + +### Two more conditions, learned the same way + +* **Start the recorder before the process you are capturing**, so `t = 0` + precedes it and the window certainly contains the moment of interest. +* **Log what was on screen, with timestamps keyed to the recording's own clock.** + A capture that matches nothing is then diagnosable rather than ambiguous; the + corrupt one could not be told apart from "recorded the wrong phase of the boot" + by any amount of analysis at this end. + +And the failure this page already warns about, in a second costume: +`run-canary` is silent **twice over** — `SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy` *and* +`--mute=true`. Fix only the first and Canary attaches a healthy 6-channel stream +at 100 % volume, reports `Corked: no`, and emits a 19 MB WAV of zeroes. + +## 7. A capture can be starved — right duration, holes punched through it + +`check-capture` tests this too, and it is the second way a recording looks +perfect and carries nothing. + +**A monitor sink advances at wall-clock rate and substitutes silence whenever the +producer is late.** An emulator running below real time therefore yields a file +of exactly the right duration, the right channel count, no duplicated channels — +chopped into fragments with holes between them, thousands of times over. + +Measured independently on the capture that prompted this (the Decoder's numbers +on the untruncated original in brackets): + +| | | +|---|---| +| frames silent on **all six** channels | **35.6 %** [39.3 %] | +| alternating runs | **10 482** [10 595] | +| median burst / gap | **13.5 ms / 3.9 ms** [13.6 / 3.9] | +| period | **17.4 ms → 57 Hz** [≈17.5 ms → 57 Hz] | + +⚠️ **This destroys envelope correlation by construction.** What dominates the +envelope of such a file is the dropout schedule, not the content — so §6's method +was working correctly on a file that could not carry the signal, and the negative +it produced said nothing about the game. + +### Two thresholds I invented were wrong, and the controls caught both + +1. **Counting exact-zero frames.** Real audio crosses zero constantly, so a clean + voice track scored **5 947 "gaps" of median 0.0 ms** and was called starved. A + gap is a **run**, not a sample: only runs of ≥ 1 ms count. +2. **Gap count and median length.** A genuine music-and-effects bed has **454 + gaps at a median of 1.4 ms** — quiet 16-bit passages really are zero for + milliseconds — so neither statistic separates it from a starved file. + +3. 🔴 **The gap RATE alone.** This one shipped, and the Decoder found it: raising + the client buffer keeps cutting the rate while total silence **bottoms out and + then doubles**, because an over-large buffer starves in a few enormous holes + instead of many small ones. Its `PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=500` capture scores + **1.3 gaps/s — better than a genuine music bed at 3.3 — while being 50 % + silence**, and a 20/s bar passed it. + +**It takes two numbers, because either one alone is blind to the failure next +door** — the same shape as a level table that cannot see a duplicated channel. +Reproduced on a file held here (`bigholes`: a real bed with 350 ms holes punched +into it) so the regime is controlled rather than quoted: + +| control | all-channel silence | gaps/s | verdict | +|---|---|---|---| +| real music+SFX bed | 1.1 % | 3.3 | **PASS** | +| voice track, mono, real pauses | 53.2 % | 0.3 | **PASS** | +| bed with 350 ms holes | **46.3 %** | 3.2 | **FAIL** | +| the starved capture | **35.6 %** | 30.9 | **FAIL** | + +Rate alone cannot separate rows 2 and 3; silence alone cannot separate rows 1 and +3. **The pair does:** fail when ≥ 10 % of the file is silent on every channel +*and* there is at least 1 gap per second. Real audio is either mostly not silent, +or silent in a few long stretches — not both at once. + +### A format it cannot read is refused, not guessed at + +Everything in the starvation check assumes 16-bit signed. An ALSA `type file` tee +writes **float32** (`SND_PCM_FORMAT_FLOAT_LE`), and read as s16 that produces a +*plausible-looking* file — the Decoder measured one, and its only tell was +per-channel peaks alternating **exactly**, which is the two halves of each float +landing in alternate channels. + +So an unreadable format ends the run at **`PARTIAL`** (exit 2), not `PASS`: +channels were checked, starvation was not, and the tool says which. A checker +that claims a check it skipped is the shape of every failure this file documents. + +⚠️ **`WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE` (tag `0xFFFE`) is accepted at 16 bits**, and the +first version of the guard was not — it rejected one of this tool's own controls, +a file `ffprobe` correctly calls `pcm_s16le`. **A format guard that refuses a +legitimate capture is the same defect as one that mis-reads an illegitimate one**, +pointing the other way. The check turns on `wBitsPerSample`, which is what +actually decides the sample layout; a float tee is 32-bit and is still caught. + +### The control sweep, which is the tool's real specification + +**Run it: `tools/port/check-capture-controls`.** 🔴 Until 2026-08-30 this table was prose — the specification existed and nothing executed it, so a regression in `check-capture` or a drifting threshold would have gone unremarked in a tool whose own history is *two invented thresholds that were both wrong and were caught only by controls*. This document states the principle it was breaking: **"a control that does not execute is not a control."** + +⚠️ The verdicts below are **compressed**. `check-capture` emits two — one for channel provenance, one for starvation — and the sweep asserts the pair, because the voice control is `PASS` on channels and `UNJUDGED` on starvation *by design* and a single word cannot say that. A starved file **short-circuits** before the channel check, which the sweep records as `n/a` rather than as a failure: *the check did not run* and *the check failed* are different facts. + +⚠️ The **starved capture cannot be rebuilt** — that artifact was transient and is gone. The sweep reports it `MISSING` rather than omitting it, and deliberately does not synthesise one from the statistics published above: a control fitted to the answer it must give is not a control either. + +| file | verdict | +|---|---| +| real music+SFX bed | `PASS` | +| voice track, mono, 53 % real pauses | `PASS` | +| six distinct tones (PCM and extensible) | `PASS` | +| bed with 350 ms holes punched in | **`FAIL`** | +| the starved capture | **`FAIL`** | +| the same tones as float32 | **`PARTIAL`** | + +### ⚠️ The regime this tool cannot judge, and says so + +**High silence with very few gaps is what a real voice track looks like (53.2 % +in 0.3 gaps/s) and also what an over-buffered capture looks like.** No statistic +here separates them. The tool prints `UNJUDGED` and tells you to check the file +against a known source rather than passing it silently — because inventing a bar +for a regime with no control in it is how the two bars above came to be wrong. + +⚠️ **A control that does not execute is not a control.** An earlier version +returned immediately for a single-channel file, so the mono voice track — one of +the four controls — was never actually run through the check it was meant to +control. Mono now skips only the duplicate test. + +### 🟡 The monitor-sink route may be fixable after all — retry before rebuilding + +An earlier version of this section said the route *"cannot be fixed by +configuration"*. **Withdrawn.** That inferred from the holes that the guest runs +below real time, without testing the alternative: **the client buffer is simply +tiny.** Xenia asks SDL for 256 samples — **5.33 ms** at 6 ch — against a stock +`daemon.conf` with no fragment tuning. + +| client buffer | silence | gaps/s | +|---|---|---| +| Xenia default (~5.3 ms) | 39.3 % | 30.5 | +| `PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=200` | **15.6 %** | 3.5 | +| `PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=500` | 50.1 % | 1.3 | + +⚠️ Not clean, and not like-for-like — 88 s against 347 s, and the short run covers +the splash logos where silence is real. But **the capture route deserves a retry +at ~200 ms before anyone spends a session on a Canary rebuild.** + +### The tap, if configuration is not enough + +`parec` reads a monitor that advances at wall-clock rate and substitutes silence, +so **every moment the emulator runs below real time is a hole**, and the timebase +is warped non-uniformly — deleting the silences compresses time unevenly rather +than repairing it. The route that would work is an **internal tap at +`SDLAudioDriver::SubmitFrame`**, which sees every frame the guest produces in +guest order with no wall clock in the loop. + +⚠️ That needs a Canary rebuild, and the Decoder has costed it: `build-canary` +targets a source root that does not exist in that container, the warm build tree +is configured against the same missing path, so any change is a full reconfigure +plus a full compile on a box with ~700 MB free and a history of parallel builds +OOM-killing the host. **A whole session for one probe** — the human's call, not +an agent's. + +### And a header that never got patched + +A streaming writer leaves `data` declaring **0 bytes**. `check-capture` says so +and tells you the duration is unverified — which is not pedantry: the file shared +here was **copied while it was still being written**, and the provenance claim +that came with it was wrong about both its length and what it contained. + +## 6. Finding one component inside a mix — and why §1's method cannot + +🔴 **This section begins with a retraction.** Two captures of the game's own +output were analysed with sliding envelope cross-correlation and declared not to +contain the intro's audio. **The instrument was never controlled for the actual +task**, and when it finally was, it failed: + +> Can it find the movie's bed inside a synthetic mix of that bed plus the three +> voice streams? **r = 0.415** — below the `r > 0.8` bar those negatives were +> judged against. + +The first negative happened to be right (the file was independently proved +corrupt by a tone control). **It was right by luck, and the reasoning behind it +was not supported.** A filter that fails its own known-positive is dead, not +tuneable. + +### What was wrong: the threshold, not the idea + +`r > 0.8` was calibrated on **clean-against-clean** comparisons, where it is +correct — a transcode against its source scores 1.000. A *component inside a +mix* can never score that, because everything else in the mix is uncorrelated +noise from the component's point of view. Judging one task by the other's bar +guarantees a false negative. + +**Judge on the LAG and the MARGIN instead.** A real match lands at the *right* +lag with a clear gap to the runner-up; a false one is a plateau. And **band-limit +first**, so the component you are hunting dominates what you measure. + +### The calibration, on a known-present and a known-absent pair + +Both bands, both directions, envelope at 0.1 s, minimum 60 s overlap: + +| hunting | band | against | *r* | lag | **margin** | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| the movie bed | 40–180 Hz | mix containing it | 0.663 | **0.0 s** ✓ | **+0.111** | +| the movie bed | 40–180 Hz | voice-only mix | 0.262 | −31.9 s ✗ | +0.005 | +| voice stream 2 | 300–3000 Hz | mix containing it | 0.810 | **0.0 s** ✓ | **+0.248** | +| voice stream 2 | 300–3000 Hz | the bed alone | 0.358 | −58.4 s ✗ | +0.005 | + +**A 20–50× separation in the margin, and the lag is right or absurd.** That is a +decision rule set by controls rather than by tuning until the data agreed — +which is the distinction that matters, and the one the first version of this +method skipped. + +⚠️ **Reach.** The known-positive is a *synthetic* mix at equal gains. A real game +mix weights its components differently, so this bounds the method rather than +modelling the real case exactly. It is enough to separate present from absent; it +is not a level measurement. + ## What none of this establishes That it *sounds right*. Every method here shows correspondence to a source, not that the source is the audio the game plays at that moment, and not that levels are sane in a mix. A ten-second human listen still answers something no measurement above does — so when a result rests on one of these, say which one. + +## 4. What the exporter checks, so nobody has to remember to + +`sylpheed-export` measures **peak level and duration** of every audio file it +writes and records both in `manifest.json`; `sylpheed-export check` refuses a +tree whose peak is ≤ −90 dBFS (silent) or ≥ 0 dBFS (clipping). + +Those are content checks in a format validator on purpose. Silence is the failure +this page opens by naming — right duration, right channel count, right size, full +of zeroes — and every structural check passes it. Clipping is the other one, and +the BGM can produce it, because a music bank is two stems summed at unity gain +(HANDOFF Q10). + +⚠️ Neither says the audio is the **right** audio. `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` says +which bindings are measured and which are still authored, and no measurement on +this page can move a row there. diff --git a/docs/port/BLOCKED.md b/docs/port/BLOCKED.md index 65861483..78ee6b4e 100644 --- a/docs/port/BLOCKED.md +++ b/docs/port/BLOCKED.md @@ -1,28 +1,467 @@ # Waiting on the RE agent -What this port cannot do until an answer lands in -[`/reborn/docs/port/HANDOFF.md`](https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Syplheed-Reborn). -Recorded so it is not re-discovered every iteration. +**This page is the port's standing ask list.** If you are the Decoder and you +have just started: everything the port needs from you is in the tables below, +with the HANDOFF commit each row was derived from. You do not have to ask what is +blocking the port; this is the answer, and it survives a restart. + +⚠️ **It is not in your loop brief's read list.** `docs/agents/decoder-loop.md` +names PROTOCOL, `MISSION.md`, `HANDOFF.md`, `REFUTED.md`, `METHOD.md`, +`INDEX.md`, `docs/game/navigation.md` and `CONTAINER-NOTES.md` — not this file. +That gap has now cost three sessions: the port's open asks have been delivered by +message three times and lost three times, because a message dies with the +container and this page does not. Whether the brief should change is the human's +call, not either agent's. Until it does, read this page anyway. + +What this port cannot do until an answer lands in HANDOFF.md. Recorded so it is +not re-discovered every iteration. **None of these may be guessed.** A value invented here is indistinguishable from a decoded one a month from now. Where a milestone can proceed with a placeholder, the placeholder goes in `authored/` with a `why` naming the question it stands in for, so it is deleted rather than forgotten when the answer arrives. -Last reconciled against HANDOFF.md on **2026-08-29**, at `/reborn` HEAD `9a0ca0d`. -(`/reborn` is mounted read-only, so `git -C /reborn pull` fails by design; the -mount is refreshed outside this container and HEAD is read, not fetched.) +## Provenance of this page + +🟢 **The oracle is live again (2026-08-29).** The Decoder reports over the message +channel that MISSION's 🔴 *"emulator-side questions are blocked / the title is not +reachable"* banner is withdrawn — two boots reached the interactive title with no +pad input. **A message is not a mission change and this line does not act as one** +(PROTOCOL: only the human changes a mission). It is recorded here for one +practical reason: several rows below say *"what settles it: a capture"* and were +written when no capture could be taken. Those are now askable. + +Reconciled **2026-08-29** against [`docs/port/HANDOFF.md`](HANDOFF.md) as of +commit **`9ca1eb5`** (*"re(ui): answer four of the port's five asks -- splash, +fade-out, focus, gamma"*), which is an ancestor of `origin/main` at `06676d3`. +Re-checked at P5 against `HEAD` = `60595d4`: `git log -1 --format=%h -- +docs/port/HANDOFF.md` still answers `9ca1eb5`, so HANDOFF itself has not moved. + +**Re-checked at P6** against `HEAD` = `aebd79a` (merged with `origin/main` at +`2021eee`). HANDOFF *still* answers `9ca1eb5` — it has not moved in three +milestones — and the second-half check below is what found this iteration's +change, exactly as it was written to. + +🔴 **HANDOFF has not moved, and that is now the problem.** The check above tests +whether *this page* is stale relative to HANDOFF. It cannot see the other +direction, and the other direction is what happened: `7eeae30` (*"re(ui): the +focus ring SPINS, the game draws it, and the leaf owns the f record"*, 08:46) +lands **27 minutes after** HANDOFF was last written (`9ca1eb5`, 08:19) and +answers a question HANDOFF still lists as open under *"Questions this port has +raised"*. Both are ancestors of `HEAD`. + +So the staleness check needs a second half, and this is it: + +```sh +git log --oneline 9ca1eb5..HEAD -- docs/re/ # RE landed since HANDOFF was written? +``` + +Anything it lists may already answer a row below. The Decoder has been told over +the message channel that HANDOFF needs `7eeae30` folded in; **rewriting HANDOFF +is not the port's to do.** + +⚠️ **The address of HANDOFF.md changed and this page did not notice.** The +previous line here cited `/reborn` HEAD `9a0ca0d`. Two things have since made +that unresolvable, and both are worth stating because the next iteration will +otherwise re-derive them: + +* **The repositories were merged into one monorepo** (`65cefa7`, *"monorepo: one + repository for the decoders, the port and the corpus"*). HANDOFF.md is no + longer in a separate `Syplheed-Reborn` repo reached over a mount — it is + `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` **in this repository**, and its provenance is an + ordinary commit sha in this history. A sha from the old repo cannot be looked + up here at all. +* **The `/reborn` mount is now an empty directory.** It is still mounted, so a + check for its existence passes; `find /reborn` returns exactly one entry, the + directory itself. Anything that reads `/reborn/docs/...` fails with `No such + file or directory`, not with a mount error. Do not read it. Read the in-repo + copy and cite its sha. + +Because the sha is now in-repo, this page's staleness is checkable in one +command rather than by trusting the date: + +```sh +git log -1 --format=%h -- docs/port/HANDOFF.md # newer than 9ca1eb5? re-reconcile +``` + +## New asks, 2026-09-01 — from a HUMAN PLAY-TEST on real hardware, port `HEAD` `6b713e8` + input fix + +**The first play-test on a physical controller found four things.** Two were port +defects and are fixed; **two are oracle questions and are recorded here unguessed.** + +⚠️ Read the fixed pair first, because the *reason* they survived so long is a +method finding that applies to the Decoder's harness as much as this one: + +> **`--script` sends `InputEventAction`, which bypasses the input map.** So every +> check this port had asserted the code *below* the map and nothing about the map +> — which turned out to have **no joypad binding for `ui_accept` or `ui_cancel` +> at all** in Godot 4.7.2, while binding the d-pad *and* the left stick to +> `ui_up`/`ui_down`. Ⓐ and Ⓑ were dead on a real pad for the whole of P5 while +> the unattended walk passed every iteration. The same blind spot hid the second +> defect: an `InputEventAction` is not an analog axis, so nothing could observe +> that a held stick fires once per *jitter*. Now asserted by +> `tools/port/verify-input`, with a control. + +| # | ask | why the port cannot answer it | +|---|---|---| +| **H1** | 🟢 **PARTLY ANSWERED 2026-09-01 and the port has adopted the half that landed.** The game **digitises the left stick to four direction bits at 61 % deflection** and never sees a velocity (`input-button-numbering-is-remapped.md`). `Gamepad.ENTER` moves **0.5 → 0.61**: 0.5 was a *floor* (Godot's `ui_*` action deadzone), 0.61 is the game's own threshold, and between them Godot reports a direction the real game does not. Asserted at the device level in `tools/port/verify-input`. **Still open: does a held direction REPEAT, and at what rate** — one step per deflection remains authored, and the digitise-to-bits mechanism corroborates that a rate cannot come from this layer. | 🔴 **The 0.11 hysteresis gap stays AUTHORED** — nothing measured says the game has hysteresis at all. ⚠️ **A human chose 0.5 and 0.61 changes how the stick feels**; revert that one constant if it reads as needing too much push. ✅ And I never consumed the mislabelled pad bit table — checked by grep over `port/`, `authored/` and `tools/port/`, not remembered. | +| **H2** | 🟡 **HALF-ANSWERED, AND I MARKED IT ✅ ON EVIDENCE THAT COULD NOT BEAR IT.** The **mechanism** half stands and is the Decoder's: no post-process pass, the blur is a baked companion texture ~21×20 px larger, crossfaded out as the sharp logo fades in. Decoded, correct, unchanged. | 🔴 **The BEHAVIOUR half was false and this row asserted it.** I wrote *"the port draws all seven quads — verified by a frozen sweep, 3 units a step"*. True, and it did not mean what I used it for: **a frozen sweep drives the clock by hand.** It proves the renderer CAN draw pose N; it says nothing about whether the poses are drawn in sequence while running. They were not — `pose_at` **assigned** the settle instant instead of clamping to it, so every element sat at its settled pose from a screen's first frame and no build-in was ever drawn. A human on a 140 fps GPU saw it in one boot: *"the logos just switch."* ⚠️ **All three of my instruments passed it** — frozen sweep, a 0.01 % settled comparison (a frozen screen matches a settled reference *perfectly*), and an achieved-fps counter (identical pixels 25×/s score like animating). Every one measured throughput or a pose; **none measured CHANGE**, which is the same shape as `InputEventAction` bypassing the input map. Fixed and gated by a film: build-in motion 40 % → 86 %, distinct luma states 120 → 152, splash motion 12 % → 24.8 % against the game's 21.2/27.8 %, with the 3.30 s hold unchanged because the Decoder measured the game holding 3.34 s. `tools/port/verify-motion` is now in `check-all` and was run against the reverted defect to confirm it fails on it. | +| **H3** | ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-01. ALL FOUR NAMED CAUSES ARE DEAD AND THE HUMAN'S OBSERVATION IS NOT — recorded that way deliberately rather than left green.** The rate is **56.8 units per guest second**, measured, control at 1.15 %, two elements agreeing at one clock (`units-per-second-measured.md`). 30 and 120 both excluded. At 56.8 the plate's t=236 lands at **4.15 s** against the port's 3.93 s — the port is fractionally **early**. | Eliminated in order: `rest.t` (the arrival is a declared keyframe), the clock origin (85/85 filmed frames share one clock), the anchor (answered t=160, and `clock: "shared"` survives it), the unit constant (56.8). 🔴 **`units = 2 × frames` is dead as a route** — the same animation takes 21 labels in one capture and 33 in another. ✅ Audited: this port never used it; `boot.gd` integrates `delta * units_per_second`, so the retirement cost a *justification* in `authored/timing.json` and not a behaviour, and that file's second leg (12 declared units against a 0.14–0.30 s black plateau = 40–86 units/s) has no frames in the chain. **60 units/s is KEPT** — 56.8 is 5.6 % away against ~5 % quantisation and the Decoder did not ask for a move. ⚠️ Reach is the **title**; the splashes are a different `GamePart`. What the human saw is now unattributed — see [`plate-arrival-halves.md`](plate-arrival-halves.md) for the two remaining candidates, of which the strongest is that **Ⓐ was unbound on the play-test build so that human could not skip the 137 s intro**, and the run they judged is not the run any of these measurements describes. | + +🟡 **A LIVE CANDIDATE FOR FINDING 4, ADDED 2026-09-01, AND IT IS THE PORT'S NOT +THE DECODER'S.** Every named cause for *"the game's splash fade is more +pronounced"* is now dead — the keyframes are vindicated against the vertex +stream, the pre-blurred companion quads **are** drawn, the blend space matches, +the settled pose scores 0.01 % against the capture, and there is no post-process +pass to add. What was never checked is **the rate the port draws at**. + +It does not report one, because nothing ever asked it to — the rule that every +instrument state its achieved rate had been applied to `--film`, to the +Decoder's harnesses and to the oracle, and never to the thing being shipped. It +reports one now, and in this container it manages **13–25 fps with 100–150 ms +hitches**, which draws the splash's 45-unit build-in at **12–17 distinct alphas +instead of 45** and the companion glow's 15-unit rise at **four to six instead +of fifteen**. + +❌ **DEAD as of 2026-09-01, tested on hardware.** The human activated a GPU in +both containers; Godot takes it with no change on our side (NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti, +Vulkan, Forward+) and the port goes from 9.7–25 fps to **59.6–69.4 fps**, every +screen at or above 60. At 69 fps the 45-unit build-in gets **52** drawn steps and +the companion glow's 15-unit rise gets **17** — more frames than declared units, +so **every declared alpha is drawn** and the quantisation is absent rather than +reduced. **Every candidate for finding 4 is now dead, and the port has nothing +left that is known to be wrong about the splashes.** The next play-test is the +highest-value thing on this focus. + +🔴 **Downgraded first by a matched control, and that downgrade was mine.** An empty scene in the same container runs at **161.6 fps**, and matched +textured controls give **23.9 fps for three full-screen quads and 11.2 for +seven** — every port screen lands inside that bracket in the order its quad count +predicts (`main_menu`'s 9.7 against `tex7`'s 11.2). So the rate is software +rasterisation of large textured alpha quads and **the port's draw path has no +case to answer**; on any GPU the fade gets its full 45 steps. Unless the human +ran it software-rendered this is not what they saw, which means **every candidate +for finding 4 is now dead or near-dead**. Recorded as a dead end rather than left +standing as a lead. The point is that the line +now prints on every boot, so **the next play-test answers it for free**. See +[`port-frame-rate.md`](port-frame-rate.md). + +**On H2, three things the port can say that narrow it**, none of which settle it: + +* The port draws the splash from the declared keyframe alphas only. It applies + **no blur at all**, so "more pronounced in the game" is consistent with a + post-effect the export does not describe, with a different ramp shape, or with + both. +* 🔴 **The `rest()` question is open in both directions** — see + [`REFUTED.md`](../re/REFUTED.md)'s `rest()` pair after the 2026-09-01 R1 + reclassification. The two splashes are the *only* screens that reach the + plateau-less fallback (title, main menu and `EXTRAS` reach it zero times), so + **H2 lands exactly where our resting-pose heuristic is least trustworthy.** + That is not a coincidence worth ignoring. +* The register also has *"the declared keyframe timeline reproduces the captured + splash"* now sitting at 🟡 `⟨our-reader⟩` rather than ❌, because the + record-layout fix re-times a group's final pose and the entry was never + re-derived under it. **H2 may already be half-answered by re-running that.** + +**What would settle H2:** a capture of the developer splash across its build-in +at a known cadence, compared frame-by-frame against the port's ramp — and, if +they differ in shape rather than in extent, a draw capture naming what is +submitted per frame. + + +| # | ask | why the port cannot answer it | +|---|---|---| +| **H4** | ✅ **ANSWERED 2026-09-01 — and it was not the cause.** The game blends in the **encoded** space: `RB_COLOR_INFO.color_format` is `k_8_8_8_8` on 2402/2402 splash draws and 33779/33791 boot-to-title, `k_8_8_8_8_GAMMA` zero times, `color_exp_bias` 0 (`blend-space-rt-format.txt`). | 🔴 **My premise was wrong and the answer exonerates everybody.** I reported a gamma-shaped divergence; the transfer curve supporting it was a mean per reference-value bucket over a **bimodal** population and the shape was an artefact of binning. Measured with a pre-registered control, **Godot blends encoded too** (alphas 64/128/192 → 64/128/192 exactly, linear-then-re-encode excluded by 33–74 levels), and so does the reference (integer math on 8-bit values). All three agree; no change needed anywhere. **The real cause of the `verify-screen` rows is ADDITIVE**: the port draws 5 elements additive on `main_menu` and 9 on `extras` — transcribed from your per-draw `RB_BLENDCONTROL0` log — and `ui_layout.rs` has no additive path at all. The divergence tracks the set size (9 → 6.74, 5 → 3.94, 0 → ~0.7). See [`verify-screen-blend-divergence.md`](verify-screen-blend-divergence.md). | +| **H5** | ✅ **CLOSED, and now confirmed from the other side too.** `pgloading_loop5` is additive, which is why `build_12`/`build_15` differed and `build_00`/`build_01` did not — the latter never draw it. With the reference taught the additive blend (`formats-pin-2026-09-01b`) **`build_00`/`build_01` go DIFFERS → OK** (`over3` 3422 → 0) and `build_12`/`build_15` fall 0.0772 → 0.0463. | ⚠️ They do **not** return to their pre-change 0.0368, so `pgloading_loop5` carries a small residual of its own beyond the blend — recorded, not chased. 📌 The Decoder nearly reported my H5 claim as a contradiction because `loop5` is not a sprite: it is an **element**, `pgloading_loop5.rat`, resolving to sprite `pgloading_ring.t32`. **The element/sprite name split is a trap for any census keyed by sprite name** — worth knowing before writing one. | +| **H6** | ✅ **CLOSED — and my counter-example FAILED, which is the honest outcome.** The blend map is deleted; the exporter emits `blend_additive` per element from `T8aD +0x04` bit `0x02`. | ❌ I reported `pteff10` as a possible counter-example. **It is not** — the oracle measures it additive on `main_menu` in all three menu sessions, every frame, and my premise was a stale coverage table sitting upstream of its own correction. **I treated a summary as the log.** The 10.88 → 13.02 is characterised rather than excused: max difference **32 levels** over 36 % of the frame, zero pixels past 60 — broad and shallow, which is what moves an **area-weighted** RMSE 20 % while being invisible to an eye. Not excluded from the metric, deliberately: the reason to exclude turned out to be false. See [`blend-decoded-adoption.md`](blend-decoded-adoption.md). | +| **H7** | ✅ **CLOSED 2026-09-01 — WITHDRAWN BY THE DECODER, same day.** `splash-rate-withdrawn.md` / `1e7343e`: *"WITHDRAW 'the unit rate is per-GamePart' — it was the emulator's frame rate"*, and the section carrying it is struck. §1 of `splash-declared-vs-captured.md` (the keyframe vindication) stands, because it never divides by a duration. | The port never moved, so nothing had to be undone. The refutation is kept in [`splash-rate-contradiction.md`](splash-rate-contradiction.md) because the shape is reusable: **a duration measured in emulator frames is the emulator's rate, not the game's**, and the tell was that it made a part outlast its whole. `keyframe_units_per_second` remains **60**, now unchallenged on the splashes. | +| **H8** | 🟢 **NOT AN ASK — a bound, recorded so nobody spends an iteration on it.** The re-opened `rest()` pair **cannot change a single pixel this port draws.** Only **five elements in the whole export** reach the plateau-less fallback — `palogo_sqex_eff`, `palogo_anima_eff` and `ptlogo_eff3` (plus two region twins) — and **every one is fully transparent** at the instant anything reads its rest pose. | 🔴 **And the brief's claim that the two splashes are the ONLY screens reaching it is narrowly refuted: `title_jp` does too.** Stated as a measurement of the current export — the record-layout fix re-timed keyframes corpus-wide and a plateau is exactly what that could create or destroy, so this does not say the claim was wrong when written. ⚠️ It does **not** rehabilitate `rest.t`, which is still wrong for transients like `ptlogo_back2eff1` — that is a *plateau* case, untouched. See [`rest-fallback-reaches-nothing.md`](rest-fallback-reaches-nothing.md). | ## Still open — these block work +🔴 **This table's rows carry no derivation sha, and that is why they rot.** The standing instruction is to record the HANDOFF commit each row was derived from; every *prose* section added since does, and **every row in this table and the next does not**. On 2026-08-30 an audit found three stale rows here — one of them contradicted by a struck row four lines below it, claiming the boot ends on a plateless title when it had drawn the plate for weeks. The undated rows are exactly the ones that went stale, which is as close to a controlled experiment as this page is going to get. + +⚠️ Rows are **not** being back-dated: nobody knows when most were written, and inventing a sha would be worse than admitting there is none. New rows carry one. This table was last audited **2026-08-30** against a running port. + + +🔴 **"HANDOFF has not moved in four milestones" [refuted] — WITHDRAWN 2026-08-30, +and the missing qualifier carried the whole meaning.** HANDOFF has moved **96 +times**. It has not moved *on `main`*, which is the copy this port opens. The +live document is 4 111 lines at `27938aa`; `main`'s is **926** at `9ca1eb5`, a +gap of +3 930/−745, and several of those commits are addressed to the port by +name. Run `tools/port/blocked-provenance`: every row below derives from +`9ca1eb5`, so **the derivation sha this file demands cannot separate a fresh row +from a rotten one** — it is constant by construction. The rot is not that rows +are old; it is that the document they derive from is frozen while the thing it +copies moves. See `DECISIONS.md`. + +**Re-checked at the voice export**, `HEAD` = `3a4c6ac` (merged with `origin/main` +at `1b1a4df`). The second-half check, +`git log --oneline 9ca1eb5..HEAD -- docs/re/`, lists four commits, of which +`3491d30` (*"the disc ships movies in TWO audio profiles, and 28 of them are +5.1"*) is the one this iteration used and `7eeae30` is still unfolded into +HANDOFF. + | Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | |---|---|---|---| -| ~~P6 audio~~ | ~~which cue fires on move / confirm / back~~ | Q8 | ✅ **answered 2026-08-28** — the RE agent retracted "cannot be extracted". The waves are located in `Static.slb` by playing them: **move `0x1ec0`** (8 192 B, 0.533 s), **confirm `0x5d6c0`** (12 288 B, 1.016 s), **back `0x0ec0`** (4 096 B, 0.344 s), and ⬅➡ play nothing. Move and back reproduce across two boots. 🟡 that the cursor's wave is the cue *named* `SE_UI_CURSOR` is still a name match, and Ⓐ's wave is not separated between `SE_UI_DECIDE` and `SE_UI_SUB_WIN_OPN`. P6 can now export real audio; the exporter has to grow an SE path. | -| P6 audio | which BGM the menu plays | Q10 | ❔ **not on the disc.** All 32 banks are named `BGM_001`…`BGM_109` with no semantic name anywhere. The port is choosing a track, and that choice is authored. | -| P6 looping | where a menu loop restarts | Q10 | ❔ `BGM_001` fades out at 167.663 s into 6.15 s of silence, and no loop-point field has been identified. A menu loop is authored. | -| P4/P7 video | whether Ⓐ skips a movie | Q9 | 🟡 unsettled — the corpus says Ⓐ skips every time, the boot harness never taps during a movie because it breaks the title. P4 can play the movie; it cannot yet say what a button press does during one. | -| P5 `NEW GAME` | what Ⓐ on `NEW GAME` opens | Q4 | ❔ untested: Ⓐ on it **hangs the emulator**. The other four destinations are measured. | -| P3 sequencing | what code decides to advance the boot sequence | Q6 | 🟡 the order is observed and the attract cycle timed (~8–10 s idle → fade → `ADV.wmv` in full → title). The *driver* is not decoded. P3 can reproduce the observed behaviour and must say it is reproducing an observation. | +| ~~P1–P7 — the paint-order tie-break~~ | ~~how many pixels can a wrong tie-break cost?~~ | Q3 | ✅ **MEASURED TO ZERO on every screen this port ships, 2026-08-29** (`docs/re/structures/ui-tie-break-cost-at-settle.md`). The old figure — 24 overlapping tied pairs — was a `rest()` count, and **10 of the title's 11 tied pairs are between the five transient flashes**, which are transparent on a settled screen. The only non-zero anywhere in `GP_TITLE` is **1 px at Δ1 on the Japanese title**. Not a knife-edge either: sweeping every keyframe time and midpoint, the live-pair count is flat across the whole settle window. ⚠️ Four loading bundles report zero with **no live control**, so those are a weaker zero than the other six. ❔ *Why* ties order as they do is still unknown — it now costs one pixel, on a screen out of scope. | +| P4/P7 — the intro's dialogue | ~~why the intro has no voices~~ | Q9 | ✅ **answered and TAKEN 2026-08-29, and the obvious diagnosis was wrong.** Not a transcode fault: `ADV.wmv` carries music and effects only, and a cutscene's voice is a *separate* continuous XMA stream in `sound.pak` bound by the movie manifest. `audio::export_voice` now resolves it with `media::resolve_movie_voice_region` — never by filename, because `RT01A`'s voice lives inside `VOICE_ADV.slb` and a name match is right on exactly the two movies this port would have spot-checked. This is **decoded, nothing authored**. ⚠️ **This row's original text said the region's chunks are "concatenated (one continuous stream), not summed" — that was the first of three wrong readings and it is superseded**; see the incomplete-export row below for where it ended up. Left visible rather than silently rewritten, because the sequence of wrong readings is what makes the final one checkable. | +| P4/P7 — the movie downmix | **is the exporter allowed to ship a matrix MISSION §6 did not pin?** | — | 🔴 **with the HUMAN, not the Decoder, and now visible for the first time.** §6 pins the 5.1 fold as a human decision of 2026-08-29; `video.rs` has shipped that matrix scaled by **0.4142** since P4 — same weighting, **7.65 dB quieter** — and said so nowhere. Re-measured this iteration with the right instrument (float decode, whole file, count the samples that would clamp, not a peak reading): under the **pinned** matrix `ADV` peaks at **+4.26 dBFS** with **4 406** samples at or over full scale and 1 874 more than 1 dB over, while `S00A` peaks at −1.34 dBFS and **never clips**. So the pin overloads one movie and the exporter's constant is over-broad for the other. Smallest single scalar under which neither clamps: **0.612**, +3.39 dB on today. **Not changed** — the level of a mix is what §6 reserves. The export now carries a manifest warning with these numbers. | +| ~~P4/P7 — a voice region's chunks~~ | ~~what is the leading chunk, and is the second one played?~~ | — | ✅ **CLOSED 2026-08-29, decoded disc-wide, and it cost this exporter three wrong readings in one session.** A region carries **three presentations of one take** — the Decoder counted stream starts inside every inter-descriptor span: 258 spans hold one, 28 hold three, nothing holds two (`auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures` at `801062c`). So `359 = 84.55 + 137.32 + 137.32`. My concatenation was wrong, my "two stems" reading was wrong (and had already been adopted into the Decoder's page before I tested it — withdrawn in both), and summing was wrong a third time because a take plus a 0.60× copy of itself is ~4 dB louder and coloured. The exporter now keeps **one stream** and does no arithmetic on it. The leading chunk is this movie's own dialogue, and I measured it to be the **tail** of the kept stream (r=0.998 / 0.932, controls 1.000 and 0.289), so dropping it removes a duplicate. 🟡 **What is left open is which presentation to keep**: the selector is highest byte rate on the Decoder's recommendation, nothing on the disc says which the game plays, and on `ADV` it picks the quieter of two. Settled by a capture of the movie's dialogue level. ❔ Why the disc stores three at all is unanswered by either agent. | +| P4 — is an attract movie skippable at all? | **does the real game let Ⓐ end `ADV`, or does it play through?** | Q9 | 🟡 **(a) ANSWERED, (b) still open — corrected 2026-08-30.** The headline used to say *the port could not tell which bug that is*. It can and it did: `DECISIONS.md` records **Ⓐ *does* skip the intro in this build**, and every boot run since prints `video skipped at …`. It is *implemented*, not assumed: `authored/flow.json` carries `skippable: true` with a `why` citing Q9 as measured (title at 57 s against a 193 s baseline), and `boot.gd` `_unhandled_input` acts on it. What did not exist was any way to **test** it: `--script` structurally cannot press during a movie, because `_script_settled` waits while `_player != null`. `--skip-at=SECONDS` was added this iteration to close that hole. ⚠️ Two different questions sit behind the one symptom, and only the first is mine: (a) does the synthetic press reach `_unhandled_input` — measurable here; (b) does the **game** permit skipping an attract movie — `INDEX.md` still marks skippability 🟡 and only a capture settles it. If (b) is no, the port's skip path is deleted rather than debugged. Asked 2026-08-29. | +| ~~P5 — a real submenu cycle~~ | ~~is any submenu reachable without a new archive?~~ | Q2/Q4 | ✅ **already shipped at P5, and one premise of the ask is refuted by this repo.** `ptbtn05` (EXTRAS) → screen `extras` (entries 6/9), and `extras`' `on_cancel` returns to `main_menu` with focus restored — a full main-menu → submenu → back cycle, in `GP_TITLE`, live since P5. ⚠️ **Build 8 is not a submenu.** It is `main_menu_jp`, the Japanese five-button main menu; `authored/screen_names.json` records that an earlier reading called 8 a submenu and that HANDOFF Q2 **withdrew it** against a capture. That coordinates identical to build 5 mean a language twin rather than a second menu is exactly the inference the port is not allowed to make on layout similarity — in either direction. The other four main-menu items really are blocked: `GP_SAVE_LOAD`, `GP_OPTIONS`, `GP_MISSION_SELECT` and the `DIFFICULTY`/`TUTORIAL_MENU` builds are not in this archive. | + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| ~~P6 audio~~ | ~~which cue fires on move / confirm / back~~ | Q8 | ✅ **answered 2026-08-28** — the RE agent retracted "cannot be extracted". The waves are located in `Static.slb` by playing them: **move `0x1ec0`** (8 192 B, 0.533 s), **confirm `0x5d6c0`** (12 288 B, 1.016 s), **back `0x0ec0`** (4 096 B, 0.344 s), and ⬅➡ play nothing. Move and back reproduce across two boots. 🟡 that the cursor's wave is the cue *named* `SE_UI_CURSOR` is still a name match, and Ⓐ's wave is not separated between `SE_UI_DECIDE` and `SE_UI_SUB_WIN_OPN`. P6 can now export real audio; the exporter has to grow an SE path. **✅ TAKEN at P6, 2026-08-29.** The three offsets now live in `authored/audio.json` `se.*` — *not* in the exporter — because MISSION §3 puts a measured value in `authored/` and a measured offset compiled into a Rust `const` is a measurement wearing the costume of a decoded field. `sylpheed_formats::media::se_wave_riff` does the assembly. | +| ~~P6 audio~~ | ~~which BGM the menu plays~~ | Q10 | 🔴 **THIS ROW WAS WRONG WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN, and the port acted on it.** It read *"not on the disc … the port is choosing a track, and that choice is authored"*, and P6 duly picked `BGM_001` and labelled it arbitrary. **The menu's music is `BGM_103`, and it is in HANDOFF at `9ca1eb5` — the exact commit this page says it was reconciled against.** Not stale: misread. HANDOFF's negative is bounded and the bound is the whole content of it — the *tables* (`SOUNDS`, `FILES`, bank headers) name no screen; `GamePart_Title`'s `sub_821C5580` carries `li r5, 1103`, cue 1103 is `BGM_103`, and `BGM_103.slb`'s two declared waves (3 876 864 / 3 930 112 B) are byte-for-byte the two streams the XMA probe saw decoding at the main menu. HANDOFF's own sentence: *"The port does not have to choose a track."* **The lesson is not "re-read HANDOFF" — this page's own staleness check passed.** It is that a row here must quote the reach of a negative, because a negative summarised without its bound reads as a bigger negative than it is. | +| ~~P6 looping~~ | ~~where a menu loop restarts~~ | Q10 | ✅ **ANSWERED AND SHIPPED, and this row stood stale for days while the fix was live.** The loop is a **runtime** field — `loop_start`/`loop_end` in the XMA decoder context, set by `XMASetLoopData` — and for `BGM_103` it is **[9.44 s, 71.31 s], cycling every 61.87 s**. `authored/audio.json` has shipped `loop_start_s: 9.44` / `loop_end_s: 61.87` since, and its `loop_why` marks the dead sentence `[refuted]`. 🔴 **The correction reached the manifest and not this file**, which is the exact failure `audio.json`'s own `why` warns about — *a correction that does not reach the artifact a consumer reads has not been made*. Found by the Decoder reading my file, not by my checker: `check-claims` held the phrase but matched **case-sensitively**, and the copy here begins a sentence, so a capital **N** hid a registered dead claim in the one document whose job is to say what is still open. Matching is case-insensitive now, which immediately surfaced **five more** unmarked sites. +| ~~P5 focus marker~~ | ~~the focus ring's spin PERIOD, and whether it loops~~ | Q1 + *"groups hold"* | ✅ **answered 2026-08-29, and NOT ON `main` YET.** The Decoder pointed at it over the message channel and the pointer resolves: branch `auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures`, commit **`4fa3099`** (branch head `66e74d4`), file `docs/re/focus-ring-spin-measured.md`, frames under `docs/re/captures/focus-ring/`. **The ring spins continuously — period 2.177 s wall-clock, eight evenly spaced autocorrelation peaks over nine revolutions**, with no angle estimated anywhere (both angle estimators failed their own controls and were not used). It also reconciles with the declared `t=120` without a new constant: 120 units = 60 rendered frames, which is 2.00 s at a true 30 Hz and 2.08–2.17 s at the 27.6–28.8 fps this emulator runs, so the measurement sits at the top of the predicted band. 🟡 The Decoder is explicit that this is *consistency, not closure* — the guest frame rate was not measured in the same run. ⚠️ **Do not read `captures/focus-ring/ring-20s-mean-uniform.png` as a frame**: the spin averages to a uniform circle, which is the finding, not a headless ring. **The port has not implemented this yet** — it still draws 0°, which the same corpus says is a pose the game never shows. That is next iteration's work and it is no longer blocked. | +| ~~P3/P5 — the title screen~~ | ~~does the idle post-boot title show the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate?~~ | Q2 | ✅ **STALE — struck 2026-08-30, and it had been wrong for weeks.** Every factual claim in it is now false: the boot does **not** end on a plateless build 4, `press_start` is **not** unused, and the port **has** drawn two builds at once since the plate-delay work. Verified this iteration — `boot ends on title + press_start`, `overlay press_start … drew 1: ptbtn00`, plate region mean **95.70** against 33.6 for the bare title. 🔴 The row directly below it was already marked *answered and TAKEN* for the same question: two rows on one question, one struck and one live claiming the opposite, and the live one was the stale one. That is this page's own documented failure mode, caught by auditing it rather than by reading it. ⚠️ What remains open is a **different** question and has its own row: whether the plate *stays up* after its 8-unit window. | +| P5 — Ⓑ on the main menu | ~~is Ⓑ what returns to the title, or the idle timer?~~ **how long does Ⓑ take?** | Q5 | 🟡 **the ORDERING is answered, the latency is not — and this row's own argument is refuted, 2026-08-30.** It reasoned that *"the title self-returns after ~8–10 s idle, so one unrecorded observation cannot separate them"*. HANDOFF `27938aa` measures the main menu as **not self-returning for ≥ 60 s untouched**, and places the ~8–10 s idle on the **title**, not the menu — so the confound the row was built on does not exist. Ⓑ is delivered (Canary logs `vk=5801`) and is the only input in ≥ 100 s before the return: **the ordering is measured**. What stays open is only the latency, from a backlogged run. `authored/flow.json` already implements the ordering and is now under-claiming rather than over-claiming. Surfaced by `blocked-provenance` at score 10.6 against `9a10258`, unread for a day. | + +| ~~P6 BGM — the sub-wave count~~ | ~~is a music bank's LEADING REGION a stem, or a decoder artefact?~~ | Q10 | ✅ **CLOSED 2026-08-29 — the census was right and the port was summing a bank header into the music.** Decoded and timed, sub-wave 0 of `BGM_103`, `BGM_102` and `BGM_001` is identical: **10 300 B → 0.009 s, peak −inf**, i.e. digitally silent. 10 300 B is the 10 240-byte bank header (the Decoder's disc-wide census) plus a 60-byte RIFF wrapper. So it is not a stem, and `export_bgm` had been counting it in the divisor — putting every real stem at 1/3 instead of 1/2, **3.52 dB of attenuation on all menu music shipped since P6**. Dropping a *silent* input is arithmetic, not a decoding decision, so this closed on the port's side; measured after the fix, `main_menu.ogg` goes −7.69 → **−4.20 dBFS**, +3.49 dB against 3.52 predicted. Corroborates the Decoder's `c1f3608` from the other direction. The export now reports 2 sub-waves and the manifest warning is gone. | +| ~~P3 — the plate's ONSET~~ | ~~visible 2.13 s after settle, or group starts then?~~ | Q2 | ✅ **resolved 2026-08-29, and the answer is AUTHOR NOTHING.** The port's refutation held and produced a better answer than either option it offered. Correction at `5b0a6e6` on `auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures`: **both builds run on one clock, started together**, and the plate arrives at its own declared `t=238`. Checked against this export rather than taken on trust — build 4's visible build-in ends at `t=118` (`pteff01`, `pteff02`, `ptlogoall_eff` finish together), `ptbtn00` reaches alpha 255 at `t=238`, difference **120 units = 2.000 s**, against a measured 2.138 / 2.132 s at an emulator presenting 28.1 fps rather than 30. The 2.13 s constant is **deleted**. | +| ~~P3/P5 — `settle_time()`~~ | ~~`rest.t` is not when a screen settles, and the port's sequencer uses it~~ | — | ✅ **MEASURED 2026-08-29 and the row was HALF WRONG — mine.** The Decoder took it on a cold profile with no shader cache (`auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures` at `4bd4779`, `docs/re/boot-settle-times-measured.md`). The principle holds: the title's `rest.t` is 251 units = **4.183 s** where its art finishes at ~2 s. **But "everything the sequencer paces off that landmark is therefore late" does not.** Measured the port the way the game was measured — visible span, `--film` at 4 fps — the publisher wordmark runs **4.25 s** against the game's 4.297/4.604/4.370 and the developer logos **3.50 s** against 3.508/3.503/3.366. Dead on. My earlier reading compared the port's *arrival-to-arrival* timestamps against the game's *visible spans*, which differ by the exit ramp plus the black hold — the whole of the discrepancy I was about to chase. `rest.t` is still the wrong landmark; its blast radius is `_script_settled` waiting longer than it needs to, which is a slow test and not a wrong frame. `dwell_seconds` stays `null`, now for a measured reason. 🔴 **Do not author an Ⓐ→menu dwell**: it measures 3.763 s and contains a 1.53 s guest load stall, third independent reproduction. 🟡 Menu build-in 0.531 s and Ⓑ→title 0.482 s rest on one run and are not authored; the port is within ~0.1 s of both from the disc. | +| P4/P7 — the voice export | ~~what are the three concurrent streams~~ **what do streams 1 and 3 contribute?** | — | ✅ **RESOLVED 2026-08-30 — and the body below is superseded in three places, which striking the heading did not mark.** The port now ships **all** qualifying streams with **measured positional weights** (`ADV` 3 of 3 at 0.4142 / 0.2929 / 0.2929 for FL/FR, FC, BL/BR). 🔴 Three sentences below still assert in the present tense and are false: **(a)** *"the `1 of 3` warning stays"* — it is gone, the export is complete; **(b)** *"stream 1 … consistent with being stream 2's tail"* — refuted, it was a **start-truncated simultaneous stream**, the resolver having begun 238 packets inside it; **(c)** *"streams 2 and 3 are indistinguishable to this instrument"* — superseded, the assignment is settled by declared `byte_size`. The history is **kept** because the sequence of wrong readings is what makes the right one checkable, but a reader lands on the sentences, not on the heading. See `DECISIONS.md`. Original status follows. 🟡 **HALF ANSWERED BY THE ORACLE, 2026-08-29.** A faithful capture finally exists (`1788022539-4529c72ed7fb`, ALSA tee + `--gpu=null`, 0.35 % silence, passes `check-capture`, header verified here). Fitted with the calibrated correlator against its own controls (present +0.248 / absent +0.005): **the exported voice matches the game's CENTRE channel at r = 0.989, margin +0.305**, while the movie bed matches FL/FR/RL/RR and *not* FC. So the dialogue is in FC, the bed is in the corners, and **the port's exported file is the material the game plays there** — measured, where the header (`ChannelMask = 0x0002` on all three) could never have said it. ⚠️ Streams 2 and 3 are indistinguishable to this instrument, as expected from stream 3 being 0.60× stream 2 with 26.8 dB residual; stream 1 is undetectable in a 59.7 s window, consistent with being stream 2's tail. 🔴 **The `1 of 3` warning stays** — nothing here says what the other two contribute. Reach: 59.7 s of a 137 s movie, one run, no screen provenance (the `--gpu=null` route costs video; provenance is the XMA probe). **Superseded history, kept because the sequence of wrong readings is what makes this one checkable:** 🔴 Canary's `--xma_param_probe` shows the game decoding **all three streams concurrently** in three XMA contexts, byte sizes matching the disc payloads exactly (1 294 336 / 1 118 208 / 1 171 456 against 1 294 396 / 1 118 268 / 1 171 516). So they are **not** three presentations of one take, there is no "which one" to answer, and the export — which ships one — is **missing two streams the game plays**. ⚠️ **The failure sounds like success**: one stream is clean audible dialogue. Stated as a top-level manifest warning per movie, on the console, and in `authored/audio.json`. **Behaviour deliberately unchanged**: an equal-gain `1/n` sum of channel pairs is not a downmix either (MISSION §6 pins an explicit matrix for exactly this reason) and summing cost `S00A` 6.02 dB when one stream was silence — swapping one guess for another is what produced this row twice. 🟡 "They are 5.1" is the Decoder's **hypothesis**: three stereo streams is six channels and N stereo streams is how XMA carries multichannel on the 360, but all three declare `ChannelMask = 0x0002` identically, which argues against distinct roles. 🔴 **NOT OBTAINABLE THIS SESSION — both capture routes are closed, and this is now the blocker.** Take 1 (`1788018994-16f9d19d90b8`) was corrupted by a **channel-map remap**: PulseAudio remapping between mismatched maps silently drops and duplicates, proved by a tone control (six tones in, `400 / 3200 / 200 / 800 / 800 / 200` out, two source channels gone). Take 2 (`1788019777-43f27c791bef`) is **starved** — verified here independently: **35.6 % of frames silent on all six channels, 10 482 alternating runs, median burst 13.5 ms / gap 3.9 ms, a 17.4 ms period at 57 Hz.** That destroys envelope correlation by construction, so the negative it produced said nothing about the game. ⚠️ **Withdrawn with it: the reading that the game may not play the `.wmv`'s WMA track** — neither supported nor refuted by a starved file, and nothing changed on account of it. **The monitor-sink route cannot be fixed by configuration**: it advances at wall-clock rate and substitutes silence, so every moment the emulator runs slow is a hole and deleting them warps the timebase non-uniformly. The route that works is an internal tap at `SDLAudioDriver::SubmitFrame`, needing a **Canary rebuild the Decoder has costed at a whole session** — the build root `build-canary` targets does not exist in that container, the warm tree is configured against the same missing path, ~700 MB free, with prior parallel builds OOM-killing the host. **That is the human's call, not an agent's.** `tools/port/check-capture` now catches both failure modes, so no future capture costs an analysis to discover it is unusable. | +| ~~P4/P7 — `S00A` as a second asset~~ | ~~does a structurally different movie also put dialogue in FC?~~ | — | 🔴 **NOT OBTAINABLE IN THIS CONTAINER — closed as a route finding, 2026-08-29.** The drive works end to end (main menu +0.999, `newgame-difficulty` +0.999, `newgame-selectdata-crash` +0.997, with the focus detector validated live against a known transition) and then **the guest throws at `PC: 0x82307128` ×349**; no `S00A` stream ever decodes. ⚠️ It also refines `title-crash-stl-tree.md` rather than confirming it: the mechanism survives but the container it names, `aab216c3`, is **complete here** — the throw is on `1b556564`, which holds one file plus a stray `.tmp`. **So the new-game path builds a different cache container, and the documented remedy does not transfer** — it restores a *previously complete* cache, and no complete `1b556564` has ever existed here. **Consequence for the port: the centre-channel result rests on `ADV` alone.** `S00A` was wanted precisely because its second stream is digital silence where `ADV`'s is a 0.60× copy. That corroboration is behind a crash outside menu-port scope and neither agent is chasing it. | +| ~~P3/P5 — the title plate~~ | ~~does the idle title show `PRESS Ⓐ`~~ | Q2 | ✅ **answered and TAKEN at this iteration.** `auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures` at `fb536df`, `docs/re/title-plate-delay-measured.md`, traces in `docs/re/data/plate-timing-run{1,2}.tsv`. It is the third case: build 4 alone, then the plate composited over it. ⚠️ The delay is timed from where build 4 **stops animating**, not from where it first appears — measured the other way the two runs differ by 0.48 s against 6 ms. `ScreenView` now draws two builds at once, as a second `ScreenView` in the same `SubViewport` rather than a subordinate screen inside one. The onset question above is what is left. | + +| ~~P3 — the plate's PULSE~~ | ~~does the plate's focus record loop, and with what period?~~ | Q2 | ✅ **ANSWERED, and it had been answered for a day in a document this port was not reading.** HANDOFF `27938aa` (delivered at `07e93ce`): a nested record is its own RATC bundle and the header's **`+0x08` is the loop length**, so `ptbtn00f` ramps 0→80→0 over 105 units inside a **120**-unit cycle and rests dark for 15. Found by `tools/port/blocked-provenance`, which ranked that commit against this row at **14.0, the highest score in the file** — not by an experiment. ✅ **Refutation attempted and it survived**: their falsifier (`+0x08 < max t` must never occur) re-run on my own read of the disc gives **0 of 1 781**, and on the eight records this port animates, 7 exact and `ptbtn00f` the lone hold — their table cell for cell (`cargo run -p sylpheed-export --example record_loop_control`). ⚠️ The port never shipped 105: `authored/timing.json` already had 120 from a **wall-clock measurement**, so the disc and an emulator stopwatch agree while sharing no instrument. The exporter now derives it (`focus.loop_length_units`) and the authored value becomes the second witness. 🔴 **New ask below** — the field is in an example, not in the crate's API. | +| ~~P5 focus ring — implementation~~ | ~~the ring's spin period~~ | Q1 | ✅ **implemented 2026-08-29.** `ScreenView.spin_period_units` drives it: one turn per the element's own declared `t`, looping, from the screen clock. The period comes off the **disc**; what the RE agent supplied is that the turn repeats rather than stopping. Verified on the port's own render — the ring is bit-identical one period apart across the whole frame, differs by 3.6/255 inside its box at quarter-period steps, and conserves box luminance to **0.027 %** over eight phases, which is the same observable the RE agent used to separate rotation from a pulse. 🟡 **Direction is not measured** — the port turns 0°→+360°, which is the sign the disc declares, but the RE agent's angle estimators failed their controls and no signed angle was ever taken. 🟡 **Phase across a focus change is not measured** either: the port drives the ring off the screen clock, so it does not reset when focus moves. Settled by two frames straddling a focus change. | + +| P7 / naming — the four unnamed builds | **which locale and variant is each of `GP_TITLE` entries 0, 1, 12, 15?** | — | 🟢 **found by the port, not blocking, and handed over.** All four are **loading screens**: every element in all four is named `pgloading_*` (`pgloading_processing.png`, `pgloading_circle1`, `pgloading_delta`, `pgloading_ring`), and `LOADING` is one of the three screen names the Decoder read out of `sub_821C6458`. They export today as `build_00`, `build_01`, `build_12`, `build_15`. Two variants: 0/1 carry 7 elements, 12/15 carry 10 (adding `pgloading_eff00`, `pgloading_loop5`, `pgloading_baseeff`). The archive's own pairing — adjacent for 2/3, `+3` for 4…9 and 10/13, 11/14 — suggests 0 is the twin of 1 and 12 the twin of 15, but **which member is which locale is an inference and the port has not named them on it**. Naming is cheap for the Decoder and a guess for the port. | +| P7 — what fills the 4.5 s before `S00A` | **is the LOADING screen what appears between the save slot and the new-game movie?** | Q4 + Q9 | ❔ **not observed, and the port has not assumed it.** Q9 measures `S00A.wmv` starting ~4.5 s after Ⓐ on the save slot. The run that would have shown what is on screen for those 4.5 s hit the documented `sub_823070B0` cache crash after `SELECT DATA`. `GP_TITLE` carries a loading screen (row above) and 4.5 s is about the right shape for one, and that is **exactly why it is written here and not in `flow.json`**. Settled by one run that reaches the movie without crashing. | +| ~~P3 — a second `rest.t` casualty~~ | ~~the loading screen's fade quad rests OPAQUE BLACK~~ | — | ✅ **resolved 2026-08-29 by the forced-backdrop rule, and this row carried a stale number.** The quad still rests opaque — that part was right — but it no longer *hides* anything: it is a layerless full-screen element opaque across a span containing all 9 others, so it is **forced to paint first** and the loading screen draws over it. At `--pose=rest`, `build_12`/`build_15` went from **mean 0, the whole screen black** to mean 1.95 with **59 530 non-black pixels**. ⚠️ Two corrections to what this row said. Its `rest.t` is **0, not 38** — stale since the keyframe-layout correction (`formats-pin-2026-08-29c`) timed every pose; the group is `0xff000000` at t=0 **and** t=38, then `0x00000000` at t=48, so the conclusion held while the number did not. And the general `rest.t` complaint is **not** resolved: an opaque element at its rest instant is still opaque, and this one stopped mattering only because it is a full-screen backdrop. **The row below still stands for anything that is not.** + +| ~~P6 — runtime headroom~~ | ~~the Master bus clips~~ | — | 🟢 **withdrawn by the port, 2026-08-29 — it was my own overstatement.** Filed 🔴 twice on a peak reading of 0.0 dBFS. Measured properly: **43 samples at full scale in 5.9 s and 24 in 98.5 s, longest clamped run 0.25 ms** — the disc's own `confirm` cue touching the ceiling on a transient, possibly only in the recording's 16-bit conversion since Godot mixes in float. Not a defect, and nothing is changed: attenuating to buy headroom would be an unmeasured level decision of exactly the kind this port refused for the BGM loop point. **A peak reading is not a clipping measurement** — one sample at 0 dBFS and two seconds of square wave give the same number. | +| Modding — rule 4 | ~~base-and-overrides is unimplemented~~ | — | ✅ **implemented 2026-08-29, and it was not blocked on anybody.** `MODDING.md` calls it a constraint on the exporter *today*; nothing read `data/mods/` for eight milestones. `ExportTree.resolve` now shadows by path for every asset kind, each replacement is logged as it is read, and `.gitignore` excludes the directory's contents — a mod is usually an edited game asset, and that directory was the one place git would have taken one. ⚠️ The `export/` vs `data/base/` naming split between `PORT-MISSION.md` §3 and `MODDING.md` is **raised, not resolved**: only the human changes a mission. | + +| ~~P1–P7 — the keyframe record layout~~ | ~~adopt the corrected pose/time pairing~~ | — | ✅ **ADOPTED 2026-08-29 by pinning `formats-pin-2026-08-29c`.** This row was wrong twice: it said the change *"cannot be taken yet"* and that it *"reaches the port only when that branch lands on `main`"*. **It arrives when the tag is pinned**, which is what MISSION §2's tagging rule exists for. ⚠️ And the knob I tested first, `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT`, is a **retired partial fix** that left pose 0 untimed — the real correction is the tagged crate's default, with the old reading behind `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_LEGACY=1`. **The blast radius was far smaller than this row predicted**: under the correction *every pose is timed* (866 keyframes, 0 untimed), so `pose_at`'s synthetic-exit branch became dead code rather than wrong code and nothing needed re-deriving. Oracle: `publisher_logo` 1.00 %→**0.75 %**, `developer_logos` 0.39 %→**0.33 %**, `extras`' differing region collapsing from 736×525 to **398×295 at the sweep position**. 🔴 Open cost: `sylpheed-cli` builds from the workspace crate, so `verify-screen` compares two decoder eras until the tag reaches `main`. Revert to the path dependency then. | +| ~~P7 / naming — the four unnamed builds~~ | ~~which locale and variant is each of entries 0, 1, 12, 15?~~ | — | ✅ **answered 2026-08-29** (`docs/re/ui-title-build-map.md`): all four are the loading screen, two variants — plain (7 elements) and dressed (10) — decoded from their own `pgloading_*` element names. ⚠️ **Not adopted as names yet, for two reasons the RE agent gave and one the port found.** Theirs: the executable names exactly two, and *which* bundle takes which name is 🟡 undecided, so `LOADING`/`LOADING2` must not go in an asset path; and locale is 🟡 — the English member of a pair is the one in the first half of `GP_TITLE.p00`, 8/8 structurally but only 3/3 where a capture can check, and the three pairs that matter are the three no capture can check. Mine: **the message gives the bundles as "0/1 and 10/11", which is the `is_build` ordinal, and `authored/screen_names.json` is keyed by PAK ENTRY** — in entry space 10 and 11 are `palogo_sqex` and `palogo_gamearts`, the splashes. See the refutation section in `DECISIONS.md`. | + +## ✅ ANSWERED and TAKEN — the four EXTRAS elements, and a fifth. Port `HEAD` `49a6333` + +`ptframe4`, `pteff21`, `pteff22`, `pteff23` **and `pteff10`** are additive on +EXTRAS, measured. They were in a draw all along: the vertex dump was capped at two +quads and the batch holds six, so four were dropped **with a well-formed log line**. +Adopted — EXTRAS whole-screen residual **1.97 → 0.63**, `ptframe4` 31.90 → 1.14. +See `DECISIONS.md` for the `pteff10` metric split and why I took it anyway. + +## New ask, 2026-08-31 — a capture of the title plate at a NON-ZERO loop phase, port `HEAD` `9a8b43e` + +**Every title-plate capture we hold is at the plate's blind phase**, so nothing in +this repository can tell whether the port now draws the plate's pulse correctly. + +`ptbtn00f` — the plate's highlight, measured **additive** (entry 2 of +`docs/re/data/blend-bit-vs-oracle.txt`) — contributes **0 px at loop phase 0** and +22 000–29 000 px at phases 20–100. `verify-capture` poses `title_plate` at +`--loop-phase=0`, matching `live-title-press-a.png`. So the row agrees to 0.09 % +and is **blind to the pulse by construction**, and switching the element to its +measured blend moved 26 319 px at phase 20 while reporting exactly zero here. + +📌 **The blend itself is not in question** — it is theirs and measured off the GPU. +What is unverifiable on my side is whether *my renderer* now reproduces it. One +capture of the title with the plate at a visibly mid-pulse instant closes it. + +✅ **NARROWED 2026-08-31, and the cheap alternative is no longer needed** — the +ramp was already in my own export. `ptbtn00f` declares eight keyframes on a +120-unit loop peaking at α **80** and holding it across **t = 35…50**, and the port +reproduces that ramp at **r = +0.9982** against the declared values. So *when* and +*how strongly* the port draws the highlight is verified without an oracle. + +📌 **The ask is now one capture in a named window: t mod 120 ∈ [35, 50].** Only the +composite is open. The existing capture provably cannot answer it — at t=237 the +phase is 117 (α ≈ 0), and the harness independently pins phase 0 (α exactly 0); +both readings of the clock agree. + +## New ask, 2026-08-31 — three, derived from today's completed blend delivery, port `HEAD` `49a6333` + +**1. Is `pteff10` additive on the MAIN MENU too?** It is measured additive on +EXTRAS. The main menu has an unidentified additive draw of **819.2 × 720** — the +exact size `pteff10` is drawn at (409×144 at its resting 200 %×500 %), and the same +size as the draw now identified as `pteff10` on EXTRAS. **I have not adopted it**: +that identification would be mine, and their own corrected coverage table still +lists `pteff10` as uncovered on the main menu. The improved matcher against the +existing main-menu log should settle it at no capture cost. + +**2. The sweep strips' vertex alpha ramp.** They are additive and their vertex +alpha ramps across the sweep, and the leaf group **does** run on the menu — which +refutes this port's scoping. The port has neither the blend nor the ramp on the +leaf path, so switching the loop on today makes the port more correct in behaviour +and visibly worse against the capture. **What is needed is the ramp**: what the +per-draw alpha is as a function of sweep position. + +**3. Does `kind & 0x2` belong in the exporter?** Their focusable-flag result (0 +violations in 15 493 entries, 24 paks) implies `ptbtn00` on the PRESS Ⓐ plate — +`0x73002` in my export — is focusable, and my exporter classifies it `unknown` +rather than `button`. + +📌 **The consequence is concrete, not theoretical.** `export/screens/title/press_start.json` +carries **`"buttons": []`** — an empty button list — on a screen whose one element +**has a focus record**. The port is describing a screen with a focusable element as +having no buttons. And it is the same element the Decoder says the PRESS Ⓐ pulse is +made of: `ptbtn00f` additive over a non-additive `ptbtn00`. That is a **decode**, so consuming it is legitimate; I am +asking rather than taking because it changes an exporter classification that other +things read, and `0x3000` (817 elements disc-wide, button-shaped and *not* +focusable) is exactly the trap a looser rule would fall into. + + + +**Four elements on EXTRAS are in no draw capture: `ptframe4`, `pteff21`, `pteff22`, +`pteff23`. What blend mode do they use?** + +The measured table (`docs/re/data/ui-blend-mode-measured.txt`) named `pteff20` and +`ptframe3` additive on EXTRAS, and the port now draws those two that way. **The +result is exactly the shape you want and exactly why this ask matters:** + +| EXTRAS element | before | after | signed after | +|---|---|---|---| +| **`ptframe3`** — measured, applied | 34.80 | **7.97** | **−0.61** | +| **`ptframe4`** — *not measured, left alone* | 25.58 | **31.90** | −31.81 | +| `pteff21` / `22` / `23` — *not measured* | 10.25 / 10.63 / 10.09 | 14.34 / 13.15 / 12.04 | all negative | + +📌 **Where the blend is measured the element is now near-exact; where it is not, +it is the worst thing on the screen.** The four unmeasured ones also got *worse* in +absolute terms, which is consistent rather than alarming: their neighbours are now +correctly brighter, so an alpha-over deficit that scales with the background scales +up with it. + +🔴 **I am not inferring them from the pattern.** `ptframe4` is the third frame on a +screen whose other frame is measured additive, and it is dark, and additive would +plainly help. That is precisely the argument I must not act on — the Decoder's own +warning with the table was to read it as **per-element facts**, because which field +selects the mode is still unknown, and a fourth frame added by pattern would be +indistinguishable from a measured one in a month. + +⚠️ They appear in **no** captured draw on either screen, so this may need a +different pose rather than a re-read: they may simply not have been drawing in the +frames that were captured. + +🔴 **And the measurement's own reach sentence does not say so.** It reads *"every +element on the two screens the port ships is in the table except the two above and +`pteff10`"*. Checked element by element, counting the summary table's prose rows as +coverage: that is **exactly right for `main_menu`** and misses **four** on EXTRAS — +these four. A reader of that page would take the coverage for complete but for one +unidentifiable quad. On EXTRAS a quarter of what the port draws is unmeasured, and +it is the quarter that is visibly wrong. + +## ✅ ANSWERED SAME DAY, and the answer is a negative — HANDOFF `5a7f34d`, port `HEAD` `6af06bd` + +**Asked: what blend mode do `ptframe1` and `ptframe2` use on the main menu?** + +🔴 **There is none on the disc.** The Decoder read all 15 words of the 60-byte +`.t32` declaration: three are the name, eight are constant across every element, +the rest are kind, focus index, position and pivot. **Both frames are kind 0 — +identical to `ptbase`, `pteff05`, `pteff10`, `pteff12` and `ptmsg`.** Nothing +distinguishes them. They refuted their own single candidate (T8aD `+0x08` = 0x8050) +before sending: 38 sprites carry it disc-wide, only 8 named frame, and its high +byte tracks the archive — an atlas word. +[`docs/re/structures/t32-blend-mode-not-on-disc.md`] + +📌 **So any blend the port picks is AUTHORED**, and my refusal to brighten these is +now evidenced rather than principled. ⚠️ Their stated reach: the negative covers +the *data*. **The executable's draw path is the route they have not taken**, and a +mode selected in code rather than data would live there — see the measurement in +`DECISIONS.md` arguing something must be there. + +**(original ask below, kept because the measurement it carries is still current)** + +**What blend mode do `ptframe1` and `ptframe2` use on the main menu?** + +`crates/sylpheed-export/src/screen.rs` already records blend mode as undecoded — +*"assumes straight alpha-over. Blend mode is undecoded, and an additive quad at +alpha 255 would not occlude."* This turns that from a caveat into a **measured +cost**, at a specific place, with a number. + +Measured by suppression — each sprite shadowed with a transparent PNG through the +mod tree, so the footprint is the pixels that actually changed and no coordinate +transform is assumed: + +| element | footprint | signed mean, render − capture | render vs capture | render-brighter | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| **`ptframe1`** | 0.45 % of frame | **−22.72** | **88.4 vs 129.1** | **0.1 %** | +| **`ptframe2`** | 0.50 % | −12.31 | 83.6 vs 111.3 | 12.5 % | +| `pteff12` | 17.31 % | −4.53 | 45.6 vs 47.2 | 5.8 % | + +📌 **The port draws both frames too dark, in one direction, on essentially every +pixel** — 99.9 % of `ptframe1`'s. And it is **not an edge effect**: `ptframe1`'s +residual is *higher on flat pixels* (25.41) than on edges (19.85), the only +elements on the screen where that is true. Body intensity, not outline. + +Those two elements carry **21.9 % of the frame's total squared error from under +1 % of its pixels**, after a global tone LUT has already been applied — so this is +element-specific and survives every global correction. + +⚠️ **I am not fixing this and the answer may not be guessed.** Brightening +`ptframe1` until it matches is exactly *"tuning until they match"*, and a blend +mode invented here is indistinguishable from a decoded one in a month. **What the +port needs is the blend/alpha mode bits for these two elements**, or a statement +that they are not on the disc. + +⚠️ Reach: one screen, one pose (`--loop-phase=0 --leaf-time=0`, focus `ptbtn01`). +I have not checked whether other screens' frame elements do the same. + +## Closed on my own tooling, 2026-08-31 — derived from HANDOFF `abeea3b` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| ~~all — checkers that pass on an empty input~~ | ~~liveness guards~~ | `abeea3b` | ✅ **SWEPT AND FIXED.** Every one of my tools reported clean when it examined **nothing**: `audit-kinds` exited **0** on a tree with no `authored/*.json`; `verify-transcode-fidelity` would call every transcode faithful with no videos in the manifest; `check-claims` exited **1** from a `FileNotFoundError` in the withdrawal hook — *"a refuted claim is still being asserted"* as the diagnosis for **a wrong directory**, a real failure with a fabricated reason and the third of that family. All three now exit **2**, and both self-tests assert the liveness case as subprocesses (`check-claims --control` is six cases). 📌 None of these tools was ever wrong on real input; what none could do was tell *"I checked and it was fine"* from *"I checked nothing"*. | + +## Half-answered, 2026-08-31 — derived from HANDOFF (today's `DIFFICULTY` delivery) + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| P5 — "resets to the named item" vs "resets to the top item" | **move the cursor in `DIFFICULTY`, leave, re-enter** | today | 🟡 **HALF ANSWERED, and the half that landed was in my own file.** *"A screen opens on its first item"* is **refuted**: `DIFFICULTY` is EASY/NORMAL/HARD/BACK and opens on **NORMAL, the second of four** — measured, no d-pad, unchanged 90 s, r=+0.999 against the committed capture. 🔴 `authored/flow.json` has recorded *"opening on NORMAL"* since `eef45ec` (2026-08-29) — **I wrote the counter-example I then spent iterations asking for**, and framed the ambiguity as conditional in the same file. ❔ Still open is the **reset** half, which needs the cursor moved inside `DIFFICULTY` and the screen re-entered; its forward path crashes the guest at `SELECT DATA`, so the run must go back rather than on. ⚠️ No authored value moves — `DIFFICULTY` is not a `GP_TITLE` build; `EXTRAS` keeps `ptbtn11`, correct under either reading. | + +## Open on my own tooling, 2026-08-31 — derived from HANDOFF `d38adcf` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| ~~all — control harnesses that assert themselves~~ | ~~one tool still lacks it~~ | `d38adcf` | ✅ **COMPLETE 2026-08-31.** `verify-transcode-fidelity --selftest` closes the list: its three always-on controls never asked whether the measurement was **live**, and with an empty band list every comparison reads 0.0 dB — identity passes, the real pair passes, and only the unrelated-movie control fails, reporting **exit 1 (a corpus problem)** for a broken instrument. Now **exit 2**. All four tools — `contract-check`, `check-claims`, `audit-kinds`, `verify-transcode-fidelity` — assert their own harnesses, each verified two-directionally. Earlier text: 🟡 **DONE FOR `contract-check`, `check-claims` AND `audit-kinds`.** `audit-kinds --selftest` pushes three synthetic rows through the real classifier — citing nothing must read BARE, a real path ok, a missing path DANGLING — and returns **2** when stubbed to accept everything. `check-claims --control` gained a **fifth case**: the identical plant text *outside* the scanned root must give 0, so the boundary is asserted rather than hand-verified once. Remaining: `verify-transcode-fidelity`. Earlier text: 🟡 **DONE FOR `contract-check` AND `check-claims`, not for the rest.** `check-claims --control` now executes four cases as subprocesses — clean 0, unmarked revival 1, marked revival 0, **empty register 2** — where before it had **no control machinery at all** and an empty register reported clean forever. Verified two-directionally: pointing the plant at an unscanned path makes the control report itself broken. Remaining: `audit-kinds`, `verify-transcode-fidelity`. Earlier text: 🟡 **DONE FOR `contract-check`, NOT for the rest.** `--selftest` feeds the machinery a stub that cannot fail and requires it to be flagged; exit codes separate **0** all good / **1** a real check failed / **2** the harness is broken. Asserting in `check-all`. ⚠️ `check-claims`, `audit-kinds` and `verify-transcode-fidelity` have controls and **no harness self-test** — the shape is known and the fix is cheap, and this row exists so the gap does not read as finished. 🔴 The self-test caught two defects while being written: a first version that *argued* the harness would flag the stub instead of measuring it, and a `src` selection that anchored anything outside one list at the wrong document, flagging the stub for a fabricated reason. | + +## Coverage hole in my own check, 2026-08-31 — derived from HANDOFF `0159527` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| ~~P4/P7 — band check sensitivity~~ | ~~my check does not cover `S00A`'s top end~~ **it does; the margin is thin** | `0159527` | ✅ **RETRACTED 2026-08-31 — the hole was my CONTROL'S FILTER.** `lowpass=f=6000` is single-pole, 6 dB/octave: a mild tilt, not the lost top end I named it. With a real 4-pole brick wall the loss is caught on **`ADV` at 6.52 dB (4.3×)** and on **`S00A` at 1.83 dB (1.2×)** — thin, not absent. The tool prints *⚠️ THIN — little HF in this material* below 2× margin. 🔴 The instrument took the blame for the control's weakness, one day after I told the Decoder a control must be a hard negative: the harder rule is that **a control must construct the failure it is named after**. Original text: 🔴 **MEASURED GAP, reported per asset rather than hidden or asserted.** A 6 kHz-lowpassed source — a transcode that lost its whole top end — deviates **4.27 dB on `ADV` (covered, 2.8×)** and **1.28 dB on `S00A`, under the 1.5 dB pass threshold**, because `S00A`'s own 6–16 kHz content sits at −67 dB. **So that failure would pass on `S00A`.** Found by building the *hard* negative after the Decoder measured that unrelated music banks separate by 5.28 dB where an unrelated movie gave me 19–20 — a movie is an easy negative. Splitting the top band raised `ADV` from 2.58 to 4.27 dB; the pass threshold is unchanged. ⚠️ Not asserted, because a permanently red suite on a gap I cannot close today helps nobody; printed as **COVERED / NOT COVERED** per asset so it cannot become scenery. | + +## Open on my own side, 2026-08-30 — derived from HANDOFF `0159527` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| P4/P7 — transcode fidelity | ~~nothing from anybody~~ **the WAVEFORM half is open WITH A DISQUALIFIED INSTRUMENT** | `0159527` | 🟡 **PARTLY ANSWERED — and the other half got worse, 2026-08-31.** The difference path is **disqualified, not inconclusive**: identity (source vs a second decode of itself) subtracts to **−inf** so the pipeline is exact, but a **lossless flac of the identical fold reaches only 14.2 dB down** searched exhaustively at stride 1, where it must reach ~90. An instrument that cannot verify an encode known to preserve every sample says nothing about a lossy one, so every difference number in this thread was an artefact of the lag search. Ruled out and recorded so nobody re-runs them: **drift** (offset stable at ≈−2465 across t=2/10/20 s), **container start time** (`start_time` is 0), **the codec being perceptual** (the lossless control fails identically), **level or content** (bands agree to 0.66 dB). Acceptance test now in the code: **lossless-vs-source ≥ 60 dB down before believing this path**. Earlier text: 🟡 **PARTLY ANSWERED, by changing the kind of quantity.** Band energies need no alignment, and both transcodes match their sources to **0.66 dB worst-case across four bands** while an unrelated movie lands at **19–20 dB** — two populations an order of magnitude apart, so the 1.5 dB tolerance sits between measured values. Asserting in `check-all`, with the known negative on every run. ⚠️ **This is weaker than P4 wanted**: band agreement cannot distinguish a faithful transcode from one that kept the spectrum and mangled the waveform. The difference-signal half stays report-only and asserts nothing — and the band result now **proves** its failure is my alignment, since matching spectra mean same content at same level. Earlier text: 🔴 **THE GATE HAS NEVER CARRIED A FIDELITY CLAIM, and now it says so.** `AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §1 calls this the question P4 actually raised; nothing implemented it, and `verify-video-audio` explicitly declines it. `tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity` exists and is **report-only**: best alignment is corr 0.763 on `S00A` and 0.075 on `ADV`, and both still report the difference *louder* than the source, which is impossible for two aligned signals at equal level — so the fault is on my side of the instrument, not necessarily in the transcodes. Four traps reproduced on the way, three of which §1 names and one (**`-ss` before `-i` returning 4.6 s for a 4.0 s request**) it does not. ⚠️ A tool printing "not faithful" in this state would put a **false defect on the exporter**. | +| P4/P7 — a `§1` addition for the HUMAN | **add the imprecise-seek trap to `AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §1?** | `0159527` | 🟡 **proposed, not done — and NARROWED 2026-08-30 before it was written up.** The Decoder reproduced it independently (4.597 s on `ADV`, 4.256 s on `S00A` for a 4.0 s request, correlations −0.03 and −0.34 at zero shift: different content, not a shift) and established that the **VIDEO** container-seek on this disc is **exact** — byte-identical frames at 20 s. So the trap belongs to the **audio stream**, not to `-ss` placement, and the phrasing matters in the direction that bites: a check looking only at video would clear a path still unsafe for audio. Original: 🟡 **proposed, not done.** §1 lists three ways the measurement lies; a fourth is now reproduced — a container-level seek returns a different span than requested, so the two windows cover different audio and no shift can align them (best corr 0.172). It is **indistinguishable from the alignment trap §1 already names**. §1 is the human's document, so this is a proposal rather than an edit. | + +## Not blocking, recorded so nobody re-investigates — 2026-08-30, HANDOFF `91ada14` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| P4–P7 — the `ObjectDB` leak line | **nothing; it is engine-side** | `91ada14` | 🟢 **NEGATIVE RESULT, and the obvious diagnosis is wrong.** Every run prints `N ObjectDB instances were leaked at exit`, and the objects are the Ogg streams and playbacks of exactly the cues that sounded — which reads as `MenuAudio` holding references past teardown. It does not. Releasing **every reference the port owns** (stop each player, null every `stream`, clear `_players`, clear `cues`/`beds`/`voices`) moved the count **not at all: 8 before, 8 after**, with a debug print confirming `_exit_tree` runs. The cleanup was **reverted** rather than kept, because code that changes nothing under a comment claiming to fix a leak is worse than none — the next reader sees it handled and stops looking. ⚠️ Cost of leaving it: it is log noise on every run, and the previous iteration found two real defects by reading that log. | + +## Caveat on my own artifacts, 2026-08-30 — derived from HANDOFF `4ed75e6` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| P3/P4/P7 — my wall-clock seconds | **nothing from anybody; read the numbers correctly** | `4ed75e6` | 🔴 **CORRECTED THREE TIMES, 2026-08-30. Settled reading: playback runs +6.7 %…+6.9 % long on this box, 5 runs, BOTH videos, quiet — consistent and RESOLUTION-INDEPENDENT.** The `ADV`-versus-`S00A` contrast I reported (+6.7 % against −0.5 %) is **refuted**: the −0.5 % run was contended and the player dropped frames to hold schedule. The frame counter is an **upper bound on frames shown, vacuous once the engine outruns the stream** — quiet, `ADV` drew 6 480 engine frames across a 4 123-frame video. So *"the player skips heavily"* is **not supported** either; at 8.3 engine fps under contention `S00A` could not have shown more than 28 %, and that is all it said. Earlier text: **CORRECTED TWICE. The player SKIPS: `Engine.get_frames_drawn()` shows 775 frames across `S00A` (28 % of its 2 813) and 1 941 across `ADV` (47 % of 4 123).** So my claim that running long proved nothing was skipped is **false** — `S00A` kept real time *by* dropping three frames in four. The probe counts *presented* frames, not decoded ones, so "decoded every frame" stays unmeasured; I have no instrument for it. ⚠️ And the deficit is a spread, not a constant: three `ADV` runs give **+6.5 %, +6.7 %, +2.4 %** — report it as **+2.4 %…+6.7 %, n=3, load-dependent**, not the +6.7 % I quoted twice. Earlier text: ⚠️ **the boot's seconds are a property of THIS CONTAINER — and CORRECTED: this method is a common UNIT, not an AUDIT.** Comparing media length against container time cannot detect a uniformly slow container clock, because the player is driven by that clock and would produce a perfect match. Three `S00A` replicates give −0.44/−0.51/−0.50 %, tight and unable to answer the question. It remains the right common unit for comparing my numbers with the Decoder's, since media length is container-independent. Original text: **the boot's seconds are a property of THIS CONTAINER.** `ADV` (1280×720) takes **146.6 s of wall clock for 137.44 s of media, +6.7 %**, while `S00A` (768×432) runs real time at −0.4 %. Not a post-roll and not a general deficit: this box has no GPU and 720p Theora decodes below real time here. The transcode is faithful (137.44 s against a 137.71 s source) and the exporter does not rescale — `S00A.wmv` is natively 768×432. 🔴 **P3/P7 artifacts quote wall-clock seconds that contain this deficit.** They reproduce here and are not a statement about the port or the game. Any comparison between a boot timing of mine and a measurement of theirs must go through the **media length**, not the wall clock — the Decoder carries an explicit emulator pacing factor for the same reason, and I had been quoting mine as though exact. Nothing to fix: the port plays the file at the speed the machine can decode it. | + +## Reported to the DECODER, 2026-08-30 — derived from HANDOFF `12c9f04` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| ~~P0–P7 — Q2's map of `GP_TITLE`~~ | ~~list entries 10, 11, 13 and 14 in the Q2 row~~ | `12c9f04` | ✅ **FIXED SAME DAY, and the row was worse than I reported.** All eight states are enumerated now and the per-entry names are committed as reference data, so the next reader checks rather than counts. ⚠️ My report said the splashes were *missing*; they were also **mis-paired as 10/11**, which is one half each of two different pairs — 10/13 is `palogo_sqex`, 11/14 is `gamearts`/`seta`/`anima`, matching my export's entry map exactly. Original text: 🟡 **the count is right and the enumeration is short; not blocking.** Q2 says *"`GP_TITLE` is 8 screens shipped twice, EN/JP"* and lists `2/3`, `4/7`, `5/8`, `6/9`, `0/1`, `12/15` — **six states of the eight**. The two boot splashes, `publisher_logo` (10/13) and `developer_logos` (11/14), appear nowhere in it. ✅ The headline is confirmed by my export's entry map: 4 UI states + 2 loading variants + **2 splashes** = 8, shipped twice = the 16 entries the archive holds. 🔴 A reader counting Q2 gets twelve and has no slot for the splashes — **and this is the row already corrected once for an ordinal-versus-entry error**, which is the mistake four unlisted entries feed. The port is unaffected: both splashes are exported, named, and verified against captures at RMSE 2.17 and 3.05. | + +## Ask for the HUMAN, 2026-08-30 — derived from HANDOFF `27938aa` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| P0–P7 — the contract itself, **and P5's gate behind it** | **land HANDOFF on `main`** — ~~or tell the port to read the branch~~ | `27938aa` | 📌 **QUANTIFIED 2026-09-01, both directions.** This port's branch is **256 commits ahead of `origin/main` and 0 behind**, so merging it is a **fast-forward** — `main` is an ancestor and there is nothing to resolve; 58 files. The Decoder's side is ~234 commits, and `main`'s HANDOFF is frozen at 926 lines against a live 4 000-plus. **Nothing either agent decided this week is reachable from `main`,** and `docs/port/RUNNING.md` §6 now states what a person is actually being asked to do for P5. Earlier text: 🟡 **NARROWED 2026-08-31: this is TWO gaps and only one needs a human.** What a peer *holds* is readable now — `git show :`, any topic branch, refs already fetched — and `contract-check` has been doing exactly that, which is why my checks were current while my working tree sat 115 commits behind. What a peer must be *TOLD* still needs the merge. I had filed both as blocked on a human; half never was. `tools/port/peer-head` makes the readable half cost one command. **The merge is still the ask**, for the telling half. Original text: 🔴 **the document the mission calls the contract is not the document the port opens.** `main`'s copy is **926 lines** frozen at `9ca1eb5`; the live one is **4 111** at `27938aa`, **99 commits** unread, **70 sections** this port has never opened — several titled *"deliver … to the page the port reads"*. Only a human merges a topic branch (PROTOCOL), so the port cannot fix this and will not merge another agent's branch into its own. **Mitigated, not solved:** `tools/port/contract-check` now reads the newest HANDOFF on any ref and reconciles seven of its numbers against `export/` and `authored/` — all seven agree — and `check-all` asserts it plus its known-negative control. That is seven values out of 4 111 lines. ⚠️ The rest is still read by eye, and two consecutive iterations have found instructions addressed to the port sitting unread for a day. | + +## New ask, 2026-08-30 — derived from HANDOFF `27938aa`, at port `HEAD` `f33aeca` + +| Milestone | Needs | HANDOFF | State | +|---|---|---|---| +| ~~P3/P5 — the record loop length~~ **now: a tag** | ~~expose `+0x08` in the API~~ **cut a `formats-pin-*` tag carrying `b5df02a`** | `27938aa` | ✅ **ANSWERED IN CODE 2026-08-30, and still not consumable.** `ui_layout::loop_length_units` is public at `b5df02a` and is byte-for-byte what `screen.rs` holds — same guard, same offset, same BE read — so the deletion is one line. ⚠️ But `Cargo.toml` pins a **tag**, and no tag carries that commit; moving to a bare `rev` on an unmerged branch swaps a deliberate pin for an incidental one, and this pin is recorded load-bearing. Keeping the guarded local read until a tag exists. Original text: 🔴 **the port could not obey the instruction with anything published.** HANDOFF says *"stop shipping 105"*, which presumes the port can read the loop length. It is decoded in `examples/record_loop_length.rs`, asserted in `tests/ui_record_loop_length_disc.rs`, written up in `docs/re/structures/ui-record-loop-length.md` — and exposed in the crate's API **on no ref at all** (checked against every ref touching `crates/sylpheed-formats/src/`). `screen.rs` reads the four bytes itself, guarded on the `RATC` magic, because `parse_build` publishes each record's `(offset, size)`. That works and it is **the port holding a format detail it should not own**: one `pub` field on the record type takes it back where it belongs, and the exporter's helper is documented to be deleted the day it appears. Not blocking — the value is shipping. | +| P3/P5 — the other focus records | **do `ptbtn01f…05f` and `ptbtn11f…13f` animate while focused?** | `27938aa` | ❔ **open, and deliberately not inferred.** The export shows all eleven declaring the same 120-unit cycle, and `looping_focus_records` names only the plate. A declared cycle is not evidence that the game runs it — `authored/timing.json` already argues the pulse rule matches 82 of 212 elements and would make the copyright notice pulse. Whether a focused menu button glows is **behavioural**: outside my role, asking. | ## Answered since this file was last written — no longer blocking @@ -34,6 +473,14 @@ measured), Q9 (`ADVERTISE_MOVIE` → `ADV.wmv` is boot intro *and* attract; `MS0 `S00A.wmv` is the new-game intro), Q10 (a bank is two stems played **together** — do not concatenate), S1 (Ready Room: no-go). +**Cleared at `9ca1eb5`, and previously listed above as blocking:** + +| Was blocking | HANDOFF | What the answer is | +|---|---|---| +| P5 — what Ⓐ on `NEW GAME` opens | Q4 | 🔴 **the old row was wrong, not merely stale.** It said "❔ untested: Ⓐ on it **hangs the emulator**". Q4 now reads **measured** for all **5** buttons: `NEW GAME` → `DIFFICULTY` → `SELECT DATA`, and the row says explicitly *"not a hang"*. ⚠️ The **GamePart id** behind those names is still a name match, so `flow.json` cites the destination as measured and the id as a name match. P5 is not blocked here. | +| P4/P7 — whether Ⓐ skips a movie | Q9 | ✅ **one Ⓐ skips a movie** — title reached at 57 s against a 193 s baseline. P4 already took this (`DECISIONS.md`, *"Ⓐ skips, because Q9 measured it"*); the row survived here only because nobody deleted it. | +| P3 — what drives the boot sequence | Q6 | ✅ answered, and the answer is a **negative with a stated reach**: the driver is **code, not data**, with four search spaces closed. That is not "unsettled" — it is the RE agent saying the port must author the sequence, which P3 did. Filed as answered so it stops reading like an open question. | + Also newly available, and useful to P3/P5 when they author the flow: the title part's transitions are a **lookup by name**, and the game's own screen vocabulary includes `TITLE_SCREEN`, `TITLE_MENU`, `LOADING`, `DIFFICULTY`, @@ -52,14 +499,39 @@ than exported: | Authored because it is not on the disc | HANDOFF | Where it lives | |---|---|---| | `1 keyframe unit = 1/60 s` | Q1 | not yet written — P2 | -| initial menu focus (not stable across boots; pick one and say so) | Q5 | not yet written — P5 | +| initial menu focus (not stable across boots; pick one and say so) | Q5 | `authored/flow.json`, `screens.main_menu.initial_focus` — landed at P5 | | the ~0.4 s fade-out and the 0.17–0.23 s black hold | Q7 | not yet written — P3 | -## What the port needs next — sent to the RE agent 2026-08-29 +## The five asks — four answered at `9ca1eb5` -Ordered by what it costs the port, not by what it costs to answer. +Sent to the RE agent 2026-08-29 and answered the same day. Kept in full below, +because the *question* is what makes the answer checkable; each now carries what +came back. **Only ask 4 is still open, and it is with the human, not the RE +agent.** -### 1. How should the exporter recognise the developer-logo splash? (P3, blocking) +| Ask | For | State at `9ca1eb5` | +|---|---|---| +| 1 — how to recognise the splash | P3 | ✅ answered, and the answer is **"no content rule exists"** — design size and element count both fail. But `GP_TITLE` needs none: `--all` adds exactly four bundles, all four real screens, and the `--all` index equals the pak entry index 1:1. 🔴 **It also found a screen the port did not have**: entries 10/13 are the **SQUARE ENIX** publisher wordmark, the *first* thing the boot shows. | +| 2 — is the 0.4 s fade-out the whole ramp | P3 | ✅ **(a)** — one authored constant (~0.4 s / ~24 units), and **play the group to its end on every element**. (c) was refuted by a null test: a black quad alone holds the button÷background ratio constant, and the capture falls 6.50 → 1.94. | +| 3 — focus drawn OVER the base, or INSTEAD of it | P5 | ✅ **the port's choice is fine and was not the bug.** The focused sprite covers the base at 100.0 % of base-visible pixels once aligned at **(7,7)**; the two compositions differ by RMSE 1.1 inside the button rect. 🔴 **The real miss is the focus record's SECOND element** — `ptbtneff01.t32`, a 42×46 glowing ring. That is the ring marker. **This is what P5 builds on; see the refutation below.** | +| 4 — should the port draw rotation | P2/P3 | 🟡 **open, and with the human** — the RE agent declined to decide it alone. What it did settle: rotation is about the **declared pivot**, *measured* (GPU quad centres at y 359.1/360.0 against the pivot formula's 360.0; top-left predicts 810/990). ⚠️ It changes nothing on the five screens **at rest**. | +| 5 — is the oracle capture gamma-correct | all | ✅ **not gamma-neutral: RMSE against it has a floor.** `capture ≈ 255·(render/255)^γ`, γ ≈ **1.49** (main menu, `EXTRAS`), **1.34** (title), and the chain attributes the ramp to **the game**, not the capture path. ⚠️ **Reach: measured only on dark flat patches (render ~0–60)** — nothing constrains midtones or highlights. **Do not chase RMSE below the floor.** | + +### Ask 4 is the only one that needs anything from anybody + +It is a *joint* decision, not an RE question, and the port has said it will carry +`rotation_deg` in the format either way. Nothing in P5 touches it. + +## The original five asks, as sent + +Ordered by what it costs the port, not by what it costs to answer. Preserved +verbatim; see the table above for what came back. + +### ~~1. How should the exporter recognise the developer-logo splash?~~ — ANSWERED + +**Answered in HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`: there is no content rule; take the entry index.** +That is the answer this row said would be usable. ✅ The exporter addresses by +entry index and `publisher_logo` (10/13) is exported. Kept for the record: The splash is the **first thing P3 draws** and it is not in `export/`. It declares its sprites directly and has no `.rat` layout child, so `is_build` @@ -75,7 +547,12 @@ is "there is no such rule, take `GP_TITLE` entries 11/14", that is a usable answer — I will export it under a synthetic name with `name_source` saying it was located by entry index and not by a rule. -### 2. Is the ~0.4 s fade-out the whole ramp, or a segment of it? (P3, blocking) +### ~~2. Is the ~0.4 s fade-out the whole ramp, or a segment of it?~~ — ANSWERED **(a)**, but see below + +**Answered in HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`: (a).** ⚠️ Its prescribed action — author a +~24-unit constant — is **stale**: the corrected record layout leaves no untimed +keyframe, and the file's own ramp is **10 units**, so authoring 24 would run the +fade 2.4x too long. See DECISIONS.md. Kept for the record: Q7 measures the screen fade-out at ~0.4 s and the black hold at 0.17–0.23 s. The port needs to know **which quantity that 0.4 s is**, because the last @@ -89,7 +566,11 @@ keyframe of a group carries no `t` and the port refuses to invent one: Under the first reading the port writes one authored constant and plays the group to its end. Under the third it must not. -### 3. Focus: drawn OVER the base element, or INSTEAD of it? (P5, cheap, avoid rework) +### ~~3. Focus: drawn OVER the base element, or INSTEAD of it?~~ — ANSWERED + +**Answered in HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`: the choice was fine and not the bug.** The miss was +the focus record's SECOND element, `ptbtneff01.t32` — the glowing ring. ✅ Now +exported and drawn. Kept for the record: `sylpheed-cli --focus` is documented as drawing the focused record **over** its base. The port **replaces** the sprite. Those are different operations and the @@ -119,7 +600,11 @@ the diff stays meaningful? The format would go to **v3** to carry `rotation_deg`; that is my side and I will do it either way, since carrying a decoded field the renderer ignores is better than dropping it. -### 5. Is `main-menu-oracle.png` gamma-correct? (not blocking, but it calibrates everything) +### ~~5. Is `main-menu-oracle.png` gamma-correct?~~ — ANSWERED: no + +**Answered in HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`: the captures are not gamma-neutral and RMSE against +them has a floor.** ✅ Recorded in `tools/port/verify-capture`'s header, where a +reader hits it before running it. Kept for the record: With the background in, the port sits at 5.92 % RMSE against that capture and is visibly **darker and less saturated** than it across the whole frame. If the @@ -129,6 +614,11 @@ not, something is still missing. The port cannot tell these apart from inside. ## Questions this port has raised +🔴 **This table's rows carry no derivation sha, and that is why they rot.** The standing instruction is to record the HANDOFF commit each row was derived from; every *prose* section added since does, and **every row in this table and the next does not**. On 2026-08-30 an audit found three stale rows here — one of them contradicted by a struck row four lines below it, claiming the boot ends on a plateless title when it had drawn the plate for weeks. The undated rows are exactly the ones that went stale, which is as close to a controlled experiment as this page is going to get. + +⚠️ Rows are **not** being back-dated: nobody knows when most were written, and inventing a sha would be worse than admitting there is none. New rows carry one. This table was last audited **2026-08-30** against a running port. + + ### ~~Does a keyframe group loop, or hold its last pose?~~ — answered **Answered 2026-08-28 by the RE agent: groups hold.** `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` park @@ -137,7 +627,7 @@ settled title sits at sd ≤ 0.01. `loop*.rat` is a misleading name — these animate once during build-in and then rest off-screen. The port's own error here was different and is fixed: it settled at the last -*timed* keyframe rather than at the hold. See `docs/DECISIONS.md`. +*timed* keyframe rather than at the hold. See `docs/port/DECISIONS.md`. Kept for the record: @@ -146,9 +636,7 @@ right for an entry animation (the main menu settles at t=80, 1.33 s) and is proven on the screen P2 gates. The **title** runs to t=269 — 4.48 s — and there the port's settled pose and the decoders' `rest` disagree badly (max 142/255). -What is known: no element's alpha reverses direction anywhere in this export, so -nothing pulses, which removes the obvious reason to expect a loop without -disproving one. What would settle it: **a capture of build 4 alone**. The one +🔴 **REFUTED 2026-08-29, by the port, against its own export.** This paragraph said: *"no element's alpha reverses direction anywhere in this export, so nothing pulses, which removes the obvious reason to expect a loop without disproving one."* `press_start`'s `ptbtn00` reverses: `fade_argb` is `0x00ffffff` at t=214 and t=236, `0xffffffff` at t=238 and t=244, and `0x00ffffff` again on the final untimed keyframe. It was in the export the whole time and the claim was never checked against it — it was checked against the screens P2 happened to be looking at. The reason to expect a loop is back, and the running game pulses this exact element. What would settle it: **a capture of build 4 alone**. The one live title capture composites the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate (build 2) over it, so it cannot be diffed against the title by itself. @@ -237,3 +725,503 @@ agreement between the two is not evidence. every scaled element across all twelve screens; the question is untouched by it. It will stay untouched by P2 as well, since P2 animates the same two renderers' shared assumption. Only a capture answers this. + +### Does the focus ring spin while a button is focused? (P5) + +Raised 2026-08-29 against HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. **Not blocking** — P5 can draw the +ring at rest and say so — but it is a guess if taken either way, so it is not +taken. + +`ptbtneff01` is the 42×46 glowing ring that ask 3 identified as the focus +marker's first element. In every one of the five focus records it declares +exactly two keyframes: + +``` +t=120 pos (500, y) scale 100% rotation_deg 0 + — pos (500, y) scale 100% rotation_deg 360 (untimed, the hold) +``` + +A full turn, ending on the untimed final keyframe. The settled answer *"groups +hold, they do not loop"* (2026-08-28, from `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` parking +off-screen) does not decide this one, because **0° and 360° are the same pose** — +a ring that spins forever and a ring that turns once and stops are +indistinguishable by their rest pose, which is the evidence that settled the +other case. The two readings differ by a visible continuous rotation on whichever +button the player is sitting on. + +What would settle it: **two captures of the same focused button a second or more +apart**, or one long-exposure/filmstrip of a focused menu. Any frame pair where +the ring is at a different angle answers it immediately; a pair where it is not, +across a few seconds, answers the other way. + +⚠️ Related but separate: this is the first element in the export whose +`rotation_deg` is non-zero *and* on a screen the English boot path shows, so it +also touches ask 4 (should the port draw rotation at all). If the answer to ask 4 +is "do not draw rotation", this question is moot and the ring is simply drawn +upright — say so and it can be closed without a capture. + +--- + +## ~~Whose span is the opaque span?~~ — ✅ answered, and it was never a disagreement + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Closed 2026-08-29 by the Decoder.* + +**Both numbers were right, and both were mine.** `palogo_eff0.prm` is on *both* +splashes: publisher (entries 10, 13) runs to t=255 → **256** instants, developer +(11, 14) to t=210 → **211**. I filed a disagreement by comparing one of my two +numbers to one of theirs without checking the other row of my own census table, +which had 211 in it. 🔴 **A per-screen quantity needs its screen named beside it** +— this row named neither, and that is the whole defect. + +The convention is confirmed as the port already implemented it: span is +`0 ..= max keyframe over every element in the build`, and **an element holds its +final pose**. Not a convenience — the header's `+0x08` never falls short of the +last keyframe, and `+0x08` and the elements' maximum are interchangeable disc-wide. + +⚠️ The hold is load-bearing: dropping it changes **72 of 130** verdicts (55 %), +and `palogo_eff0` — one keyframe, opaque for one instant — is called *free* +without it, against a measured order. See `DECISIONS.md`. + +--- + +## ~~The two splash dwells~~ — ✅ answered 2026-08-29, and the row was my over-correction + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Closed by the Decoder over 3 cold boots.* + +**The dwells are declared on the disc** — publisher t=0…255, developer t=0…210 — +and the port was **already playing them**, each plus the 9-unit black hold, to +4.400 s and 3.650 s. The developer's declared value agrees with wall clock to +**1.1 %**. + +🔴 So this row should never have been filed. I generalised build 4's ~9× hold +onto two screens it does not govern: the title's exit is caused from outside its +timeline, a splash's is caused by nothing. See `DECISIONS.md` — the withdrawal is +recorded there rather than only struck here. + +⚠️ And the ask itself was wrong-shaped: I asked for **two wall-clock timestamps**. +The Decoder's own container timed these same dwells 15–20 % long, so a seconds +figure records one emulator's pacing. Anything that ever goes in +`authored/flow.json` `dwell` is in **units**. + +--- + +## `black_hold_units = 9` rests on numbers that have since moved + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-29 by the port, after the Decoder +disclosed that `ARM=early` silently loses its trigger ~40 % of the time.* + +That disclosure means every draw-stream run is **n = 1**, so I audited what the +port authors from one. Exactly one constant does: the black hold between the two +boot splashes. It is **not wrong**, but three of its supports have moved: + +* its conversion used **105 drawn frames**, revised by their own truncation fix + to **114** (2.284 → 2.096 units/frame); +* its second corroboration, 2.231, is the figure behind their **retracted** + 114-unit plate period; +* a run-average rate is the wrong shape for a 3–4 frame event now that the + presented rate is known to rise 33 % across a boot. + +Redone on their corrected segments the two runs give **8.95** and **6.71** units. +⚠️ They were reconciled as agreeing within ±1 — but one frame is a **third** of +this quantity, and overlapping error bars are not agreeing central values. The +range is ~6.5–9.2 and the port sits at the top. + +**The value is unchanged and I am not changing it**: that would be my arithmetic +on their instrument, and the port does not author a number the corpus has not +given. It is proposed, not adopted. + +What would settle it: **one more draw-stream run of the boot**, with the arm +confirmed, counting frames with no sprite quad between the splashes. A third +sample turns a 3-vs-4 disagreement into a measurement. It needs no button press, +so it should sit the safe side of the Ⓐ blocker. + +✅ Not in doubt: the hold is real. Until 2026-08-29 the port had **no black frame +at all** where the oracle measures a plateau, and both boundary frames still +carry picture (alpha 7 and 34), so the true hold is shorter than whatever this +lands on. + +--- + +## Does the game's menu music duck under a cutscene? + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-29 by the port.* + +The port plays the main-menu bed **underneath `S00A`**, so two unrelated music +tracks sound at once. `MenuAudio.stop_bed()` exists and has no caller — this is +an **unmade decision**, not a choice, and it has been true since P6. + +🔴 **Deliberately not fixed.** Stopping the bed would sound right and would be +invented; MISSION's rule is to leave the unmeasured detail plainly wrong. The +runtime now announces it on every movie that starts with the bed sounding. + +What would settle it: **any capture with sound of the real game entering a +cutscene from the main menu** — the first second answers it. Three outcomes are +all useful: the music stops, it ducks, or it genuinely continues (in which case +the port is already right and this row closes as ✅). + +⚠️ Do **not** answer this from our own renderer or by reasoning about what a +shipped game would do. That reasoning is what makes an invented answer feel safe. + +⚠️ Related but separate, and already authored with a `why`: the bed **loops by +restart**, seam and all (`authored/audio.json`, `loop_why`). That is a known-ugly +deliberate choice pending a loop point, not this question. + +--- + +## Does the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate stay up, or blink once and go? + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-29 by the port.* + +`ptbtn00`'s group makes the plate opaque for **8 units only** — alpha 0 until +t=214, 255 at t=236 and t=238, back to 0 by t=244 — and its group then ends. So +in the port the plate flashes for 0.133 s and is gone, and the boot's end-state +capture (taken at t=246.54, once build 4 has finished fading up at t=261) contains +**no plate at all**. + +🔴 The two states cannot share a frame: the plate's window closes 17 units before +the title stops presenting. The port captures the title, by an earlier and sound +decision it is not reversing. + +What would settle it: **a capture of the real title held for several seconds after +the plate first appears.** Three outcomes, all decisive — the plate stays up; it +pulses on a period (`authored/timing.json` already carries a *speculative* +`looping_focus_records` entry for `press_start/ptbtn00` at 120 units, which is +what a pulse would need); or it genuinely blinks once and vanishes, in which case +the port is right and this closes ✅. + +🔴 **Correction, 2026-08-30.** This row previously said the looping focus record +was "the only thing making the plate [refuted] reappear at all". The opposite was true: the +entry was the only thing making it **disappear** — it drew a dim glow *instead of* +the plate's own sprite, max 0 against max 252.5. It has been deleted, and the port +now draws the plate from its own decoded fade. See `DECISIONS.md`. + +⚠️ So the question narrows rather than closes. The port shows the plate at its +declared instants and holds it. What a capture would still settle is whether the +real plate **pulses** after that, and whether `ptbtn00f.rat` — the focus record, +which the port now draws not at all — is a glow layered *over* the plate. Drawing +both would be a rendering rule nobody has measured. + +--- + +## The `ptloop` sweep phase: ~400 units fits the capture, the refined fit says 357.7 + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-30 by the port.* + +`--leaf-time=` now poses the sweeps' leaf independently of the screen, so the +Decoder's refined sweep fit is testable for the first time — it never was, because +`verify-capture` passed it as a whole-screen `--time` that `pose_at` discarded. + +Against `live-title-build4-no-plate.png`, structural disagreement bottoms out in a +sharp basin at **390–415 units (0.0124 %)** and reads **0.2532 % at t=357.7** — a +20× separation, on a deterministic renderer, with the sweeps demonstrably moving +0.40 % of the frame between phases. + +**Nothing in the port changes and nothing is being asked for urgently.** The port +loops the leaf freely; there is no phase to set, and re-posing the harness to the +fitted value would be tuning until they match. + +What would be useful: **whether 357.7 and this are the same quantity.** If the +refined fit was measured against this same capture, one of the two is off by ~42 +units and it is worth knowing which. If it came from a different frame, then ~400 +is a second, independent phase measurement and neither is wrong. + +⚠️ The port cannot separate a phase error from a systematic error in how it draws +the sweeps — a geometry mistake could be absorbed by shifting the phase. The +sharpness of the basin argues against that, but one capture cannot settle it. + +--- + +## A failed export leaves a partial tree that reads as "not an export tree" + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-30 by the port. **Not blocked on +anybody** — filed because the fix is a judgement about failure semantics, not a +bug.* + +When `sylpheed-export export` fails part-way — for instance on one of the new +authored-value assertions — it leaves `export/` **without a `manifest.json`**. +Every tool then reports *"has no manifest.json — is that an export tree?"*, which +reads as a broken harness rather than as the aftermath of a deliberate abort. + +It cost a wrong reading within minutes of being introduced: an audit of the +validator reported every case as "no manifest" and nearly concluded the validator +was checking nothing. + +Writing the manifest **last** is correct — a manifest is a claim about a finished +tree. So the candidate fixes are about the *message*, not the order: + +* leave a marker on failure that the next tool can name (`export/.failed`), or +* have `check` say *"no manifest — the last export did not finish"* when the tree + has screens but no manifest, which is exactly the distinguishable case. + +⚠️ Deliberately not chosen here: both change failure semantics across every tool, +and neither is measured against anything. It goes to whoever owns that call. + +--- + +## ~~`title` differs from `sylpheed-cli` on 790 pixels~~ — 🟢 localised by the port, ask withdrawn + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-30 by the port. Not urgent — the +port agrees with the **oracle** on this screen at 0.21 %, and that is the check +that counts.* + +`verify-screen` has `title` at **790 pixels** over the bar and `title_jp` at +**20 498**, and neither carries a forced-backdrop element — so they are not +covered by the pinned-tag allowance the other six sit under. I had been reporting +"six expected DIFFERS [refuted]"; the real count was ten. + +🔴 **The obvious explanation is wrong.** `authored/rendering.json` records that the +consistency harness compares against a renderer drawing no `.rat` leaves, so the +`ptloop` sweeps were the candidate. Emptying `draw_leaf_for` and +`loop_leaf_on_screens` changes the figures **not at all** — the harness poses at +`rest`, where the leaves do not draw. + +🟢 **WITHDRAWN 2026-08-30 — the premise was refuted and the question was mine to +answer.** I asked for the CLI's element list on the theory that one renderer drew +something the other did not. It does not: the differing pixels sit at +`ptlogo_back2eff1` (`pos=[938, 194]`), and **both renderers draw it** — mean 95.60 +in the port against 95.08 in the CLI. A set difference would have confirmed +nothing at somebody else's cost. + +Also ruled out: a placement offset. Every ±1 px roll makes it two orders of +magnitude worse (790 against ≥ 175 406). + +❔ The mechanism is still unknown, and I am not guessing at it: the antialiasing +test I tried failed its own control, with the edge mask covering 92 % of the frame. +See `DECISIONS.md`. **Nobody is asked for anything** — the residual is 0.086 % of +one frame between two of our own renderers, on a screen matching the oracle at +0.21 %. + +⚠️ Do not read this as the port being wrong. Against the **capture**, `title` is at +0.21 % and `title_plate` at 0.00093 %. This is two of our renderers disagreeing, +and the one with an oracle behind it is not the one under suspicion. + +--- + +## The loading screens hide a visible leaf animation + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-30 by the port. **Low priority**, +and nothing is waiting on it.* + +`pgloading_loop5` on `build_12`/`build_15` carries a leaf — `pgloading_ring`, one +sprite — that expands **scale 0 → 1000** while fading in and out over t=0…130. At +the port's own pose instant (~t=44) it would draw at **scale 140, alpha 143**. The +port does not draw it. + +⚠️ It is withheld for a reason that is sound — no oracle capture exists for a +loading screen, and `verify-screen`'s reference draws no leaves, so the content +would be unadjudicable either way — but the reason previously recorded was +**false** (*"leaf scale (0,0)"*), which made it look like there was nothing to +draw. There is. + +What would settle it: **any capture of a loading screen with the ring mid-expansion**. +The Decoder records these screens as unreachable from the title path, so this may +never become answerable, and that is an acceptable outcome — the entry now says +what is being withheld rather than implying the question is empty. + +--- + +## ~~`verify-menu-audio`'s dead-press check fails~~ — ✅ diagnosed and fixed 2026-08-30 + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-30 by the port. **Mine, not +anybody else's** — filed here so it is not lost, not because it needs an answer +from the Decoder.* + +The check asserts that five presses bound to nothing (`left`, a measured no-op) +produce a Master bus bit-identical to five waits. It now reports DIFFER across +three consecutive runs: divergence at 0.085 s, 92 % of samples differing, and +recording durations of 1.300 s against 1.207 s where they were previously equal. + +✅ **Diagnosed: none of the candidates.** The recording is not sample-deterministic +across runs and never was. Three **identical** invocations give two outcomes — +1.207438 s and 1.300317 s — differing by **exactly 4096 samples, one mixing +buffer**. A one-buffer shift moves the length and the alignment of everything in +the file, so a byte comparison of two runs fails. + +The check now allows whole-buffer alignment and is still **exact** — no threshold, +nothing to tune. Proved it can still fail: `ctrl` against `walk` differs at every +alignment. + +⚠️ The check's premise is **cross-run bit-determinism**, which is what made it a +strong assertion with no threshold to tune, and also what makes it brittle: +nothing in it verifies that startup is still deterministic. Left failing rather +than silenced. + +--- + +## The menu loop point: a runtime field and an audio measurement disagree + +*Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`. Raised 2026-08-30 by the Decoder; recorded here +because the port ships a value that one of the two readings would make wrong.* + +`loop_start` / `loop_end` are **runtime** fields in the XMA decoder context, set +by `XMASetLoopData` and logged by Xenia — 8 734 records read off the menu. +Converted they imply a cycle of roughly **[10 s, 72 s]**, against the +**[0.25, 57.18 s]** the same agent's audio tracking reported. Both cannot be right +and neither is withdrawn. + +The port ships `loop_end_s: 61.93` and **keeps it**, on their instruction and +because the *length* has independent support (an autocorrelation using no wave at +all) where the *placement* does not. + +🔴 **The cost if the runtime fields win: this export is about 10 seconds short.** +Under [10 s, 72 s] the content in [61.93, 72] is played by the game and absent +here. That is the number to weigh, not "the loop point may move". + +What would settle it, theirs: an **XMA frame walk** to convert the bit offsets +honestly — the conversion is not linear, since XMA frames are variable-length in +bits, and a linear reading gives 62.34 s and 63.29 s for two stems that must be +sample-synchronous, which refutes itself. Plus a hold long enough to **watch** a +wrap rather than infer one; their 45 s hold ended at 17 M against a `loop_end` of +25.6 M. + +⚠️ One check the port added, and its limit: over 126.5 s the trim's wrap shows a +maximum adjacent-sample step of **212** against a 99.9th percentile of **3 737**, +so the join is not a click. **It does not discriminate the two readings** — a cut +near a zero crossing is smooth wherever it falls. + +### ~~Ⓑ on the title — what happens, actually measured~~ — ANSWERED 2026-08-30 + +**Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`; Decoder branch `86a8ce7`.** + +`authored/flow.json` holds `title/on_cancel: null` and previously stamped it +`MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5`. That stamp is now removed: the source table's evidence +cell reads `none`, and the Decoder states their 2026-08-30 run cannot be counted +because the second Ⓑ arrived during the title's build-in. + +**The ask:** a run that presses Ⓑ *after the title has settled*. They have +already named this as the shape a valid run needs, so this is a pointer, not a +request for a method. + +**What it changes if the answer is "something":** `null` is currently the safe +default and the port ships it either way, so nothing is blocked — this is a +provenance repair, not a stall. + +### ~~Auto-repeat on a held direction~~ — ANSWERED 2026-08-30: none + +**Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`; Decoder branch `86a8ce7`.** + +Q5's `up / down` cell is empty in the source. *One item per press* is fine — the +wrap montage's count carries it. *No auto-repeat* is not evidenced, and the +source hedges with "at the durations tried". The port holds `auto_repeat: false` +as a stated choice. **The ask:** hold a direction for ~2 s and say whether the +cursor moves more than once. + +### The black hold: my 0.15 s against the game's 0.17-0.23 s + +**Derived from HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`.** + +`authored/timing.json` holds `black_hold_units: 9` (0.15 s), measured in the draw +stream. HANDOFF Q7's plateau, measured off the running game, is **0.17-0.23 s**. +Mine sits **below their floor** by 1-5 units. Not changed - two instruments +disagree and tuning to match is the failure this corpus keeps naming. + +**The ask:** is the ~0.4 s fade-out the ramp alone, or **ramp + hold**? The file +gives the quad's ramp as 10 units (0.17 s); 10 + your 10-14 = 20-24 units = +0.33-0.40 s, which brackets your 0.4 s at the top. If it is the sum, no authored +constant is needed anywhere and my 9 is simply the wrong side of your boundary. +The two readings differ in whether a screen is still drawing during the last +0.2 s. + +### How long after Ⓑ does the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate come back? + +**Derived from Decoder `daf8f47`.** + +They measured press 351.2 s -> pulse back 358.5 s, i.e. **7.3 s**. The port +raises the plate on arrival and its own group takes it opaque at t=238, giving +**press -> plate visible 4.33 s**. Pulse detection can lag first paint by up to +one 120-unit period (2 s), which closes the gap to ~6.3 s at most and leaves +roughly a second unaccounted for. + +**The ask:** is 358.5 s the plate's FIRST paint or the first pulse peak your +detector could see? If the latter, what is the first-paint time? I am not +authoring a delay to close this - a `2.13 s` authored delay in this same block +was already refuted once by arithmetic. + +### ~~A capture of the Japanese title (`GP_TITLE` build 7)~~ — DELIVERED 2026-08-30, and it went against the port + +**Derived from Decoder `daf8f47`.** + +`verify-screen` has `title_jp` at max 233 / over3 61208 against a committed +baseline of 155 / 20498. Established: deterministic, on the Godot side (your +byte-identical-renders finding rules out the reference), and localized to one +350x396 block at (405, 74) - the logo stack, where the port draws `ptlogo_jp`, +`ptlogo3a/b/c` and five `ptlogo_back2eff*` layers. + +**The ask:** a capture of the Japanese title at rest. Without one there is no +oracle for this screen, and agreement with `sylpheed-cli` is not correctness - +so I can say the two renderers moved apart but not which one moved, and I am not +going to pick a direction. + +### Is the Ⓑ "no black interval" general, or specific to menu->title? + +**Derived from Decoder `auto/build-ordinal-audit`.** + +Measured: Ⓑ menu->title has NO black interval -- the incoming title starts drawing +at frame 34, before the outgoing quad ramps at 40. Ⓐ title->menu is sequential +with ~5 frames of black. + +`boot.gd` applies `black_hold_units` uniformly, so the port inserts ~9 units of +black on Ⓑ that the game does not have. **I have not changed it**: one run of one +transition is exactly the generalisation the Decoder just named as the error under +two of their own wrong readings. + +**The ask, in priority order:** (1) does Ⓑ from EXTRAS -> main_menu also show no +black interval? That is the cheapest test of whether "Ⓑ has no black" is a rule or +one screen pair. (2) Is the Ⓐ ~10 units a designed hold or a load? If a load, it +is emulator-dependent and nothing should be authored from it. + +### Do nested leaf records advance at half the top-level rate? + +**Derived from Decoder `auto/build-ordinal-audit`, draw-stream fit over 132/112 +frames.** + +Measured 1.072 and 1.070 units/frame for the two title sweeps, against Q1's 2 +units/frame for top-level elements. My port drives both from one clock at 60 +units/s, so if that holds **the title's sweeps ship 1.87x too fast** -- a 10.0 s +cycle where the game takes 18.7 s. + +**Not changed.** `keyframe_units_per_second` is authored from a measurement and +governs build-in, transitions and the plate; a leaf-only clock is a claim about +the game, not about my renderer. + +**The ask:** is the factor a property of nested records, or does Q1's 2 +units/frame simply not apply to them? And note the two-strip agreement constrains +the strips to each other, not the absolute rate -- both ratios come from one +capture under one fps assumption, and 1 unit per 1/30 s at 28.5 fps gives 1.053. + +### ~~`black_hold_units`: 0 is now wrong on 4 of 5 transitions~~ — RESOLVED: uniform is excluded + +**Derived from Decoder `auto/build-ordinal-audit` plus my own `verify-dwell`.** + +Measured gaps: 0, 4, 6, 6 units (theirs) and ~7.9 (mine, from the port running +0.131 s short on publisher->developer). Four of five non-zero, mean 6.0. + +My authored 0 was justified as "adds no black the game does not have". That +justification has failed: it now omits a real quantity on most transitions. A +uniform 4 or 6 halves the total error but is a fit on five samples with no +mechanism. I attempted a rule -- gap plus the incoming screen's opening +black-clear summing to a constant -- and it holds at 16/16/18 on the three +menu/title transitions and fails outright on the splash pair, whose backdrop never +clears. + +**The ask, and it is a decision rather than a measurement:** is a uniform +non-zero hold preferable to omitting the gap, given neither is derivable? If a +fifth transition of a *different* shape (screen-to-screen rather than menu) is +ever measured, that would test the constant-black-period idea properly. + +Value stays 0 meanwhile; `verify-dwell` reports the shortfall rather than +absorbing it. + +### When there is more than one gap measurement per outgoing screen + +**Derived from Decoder `auto/build-ordinal-audit`.** + +They ordered the gaps by the screen being LEFT: menu 0 and 1 frames, EXTRAS 2, +title 3 -- ruling out direction, button and incoming screen positively. That +resolves the earlier escalation: **a uniform value is excluded**, so +`black_hold_units` stays 0 meaning *not modelled*. + +**The ask, low priority:** a second measurement for any one outgoing screen. Three +screens with one value each restates the data; two values for one screen would +make "keyed on the outgoing screen" predictive rather than descriptive. Nothing +ships on it -- the port omits the gap and says so in `verify-dwell`. diff --git a/docs/port/DECISIONS.md b/docs/port/DECISIONS.md index 60f0a13c..2d3f8618 100644 --- a/docs/port/DECISIONS.md +++ b/docs/port/DECISIONS.md @@ -6,6 +6,352 @@ dies, which is what this file is for. --- + + + +339 sections. Search this before re-deriving anything. + +* [P0 — the exporter, 2026-08-28](#p0--the-exporter-2026-08-28) +* [P1 — Godot draws the screen, 2026-08-28](#p1--godot-draws-the-screen-2026-08-28) +* [P1 gate — the diff, and what it found](#p1-gate--the-diff-and-what-it-found) +* [P2 — keyframe animation, 2026-08-28](#p2--keyframe-animation-2026-08-28) +* [`rest` misidentifies six elements, and the running game says so](#rest-misidentifies-six-elements-and-the-running-game-says-so) +* [The title is not settled, and P2 does not claim it](#the-title-is-not-settled-and-p2-does-not-claim-it) +* [P2, corrected — the pin moved, and the settle rule was wrong, 2026-08-28](#p2-corrected--the-pin-moved-and-the-settle-rule-was-wrong-2026-08-28) +* [The reference renderer was stale for three diff runs](#the-reference-renderer-was-stale-for-three-diff-runs) +* [The menu had no background, and P1 called that correct, 2026-08-29](#the-menu-had-no-background-and-p1-called-that-correct-2026-08-29) +* [P3 — splash → title, unattended, 2026-08-29](#p3--splash--title-unattended-2026-08-29) +* [P3 gate](#p3-gate) +* [Answers taken from the RE agent without re-deriving them](#answers-taken-from-the-re-agent-without-re-deriving-them) +* [P4 — the intro video, 2026-08-29](#p4--the-intro-video-2026-08-29) +* [P4 gate](#p4-gate) +* [RETRACTION — `sylpheed-cli` is not the oracle, 2026-08-29](#retraction--sylpheed-cli-is-not-the-oracle-2026-08-29) +* [P5 groundwork — the focus record, checked against a capture, 2026-08-29](#p5-groundwork--the-focus-record-checked-against-a-capture-2026-08-29) +* [P5 — navigation, 2026-08-29](#p5--navigation-2026-08-29) +* [`--headless` cannot draw, and the port hung instead of saying so, 2026-08-29](#--headless-cannot-draw-and-the-port-hung-instead-of-saying-so-2026-08-29) +* [Refutation — the focus ring IS drawn rotated, and it is not at 0° in either capture](#refutation--the-focus-ring-is-drawn-rotated-and-it-is-not-at-0-in-either-capture) +* [P5 end to end — and the title does not say `PRESS Ⓐ`, 2026-08-29](#p5-end-to-end--and-the-title-does-not-say-press--2026-08-29) +* [P6 — menu audio, 2026-08-29](#p6--menu-audio-2026-08-29) +* [P6 gate — the audio is in the mix, and a null control says which part](#p6-gate--the-audio-is-in-the-mix-and-a-null-control-says-which-part) +* [P3, reopened — the boot title was missing the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate, 2026-08-29](#p3-reopened--the-boot-title-was-missing-the-press--plate-2026-08-29) +* [P5 — the focus ring spins, 2026-08-29](#p5--the-focus-ring-spins-2026-08-29) +* [P3, corrected — the plate needs no authored delay at all, 2026-08-29](#p3-corrected--the-plate-needs-no-authored-delay-at-all-2026-08-29) +* [P7 — the new-game intro, 2026-08-29](#p7--the-new-game-intro-2026-08-29) +* [P7 gate](#p7-gate) +* [Modding — rule 4 was never implemented, 2026-08-29](#modding--rule-4-was-never-implemented-2026-08-29) +* [Refutation — the paint-order key, and the reach of its tie-break](#refutation--the-paint-order-key-and-the-reach-of-its-tie-break) +* [Correction — the runtime "clipping" I flagged 🔴 twice was overstated](#correction--the-runtime-clipping-i-flagged--twice-was-overstated) +* [The P1 regression harness had been broken since the monorepo merge, 2026-08-29](#the-p1-regression-harness-had-been-broken-since-the-monorepo-merge-2026-08-29) +* [Refutation — "builds 0/1 and 10/11 are the loading screen" is false in the index space this export uses](#refutation--builds-01-and-1011-are-the-loading-screen-is-false-in-the-index-space-this-export-uses) +* [The intro's missing dialogue was an export gap, not a transcode bug, 2026-08-29](#the-intros-missing-dialogue-was-an-export-gap-not-a-transcode-bug-2026-08-29) +* [Refutation, of my own exporter — MISSION §6 pins a downmix matrix, and the exporter ships a different one](#refutation-of-my-own-exporter--mission-6-pins-a-downmix-matrix-and-the-exporter-ships-a-different-one) +* [Refutation of my own two-stem reading — and it had already been adopted elsewhere](#refutation-of-my-own-two-stem-reading--and-it-had-already-been-adopted-elsewhere) +* [The mono fold I warned about, in the comment directly above the code that did it](#the-mono-fold-i-warned-about-in-the-comment-directly-above-the-code-that-did-it) +* [The leading chunk is the TAIL of the full one — measured, and it is why the region over-covers](#the-leading-chunk-is-the-tail-of-the-full-one--measured-and-it-is-why-the-region-over-covers) +* [Third reading of a voice region, and this one is decoded: three presentations of one take](#third-reading-of-a-voice-region-and-this-one-is-decoded-three-presentations-of-one-take) +* [The transcode cache had never hit, because the wipe ran first](#the-transcode-cache-had-never-hit-because-the-wipe-ran-first) +* [`settle_time()` — the answer arrived, and it refutes my own 🔴 more than it confirms it](#settle_time--the-answer-arrived-and-it-refutes-my-own--more-than-it-confirms-it) +* [The voice presentation is now unambiguously the port's choice, and the recommendation behind it was withdrawn](#the-voice-presentation-is-now-unambiguously-the-ports-choice-and-the-recommendation-behind-it-was-withdrawn) +* [Refutation of my dual-mono inference — the measurement stands, the generalisation does not](#refutation-of-my-dual-mono-inference--the-measurement-stands-the-generalisation-does-not) +* [Two rows of the P1 baseline were comparing blank frames and reporting OK](#two-rows-of-the-p1-baseline-were-comparing-blank-frames-and-reporting-ok) +* [Refutation attempt — the loading-screen variants, and it survived](#refutation-attempt--the-loading-screen-variants-and-it-survived) +* [🔴 The voice export is known incomplete — the game decodes all three streams at once](#the-voice-export-is-known-incomplete--the-game-decodes-all-three-streams-at-once) +* [🔴 The oracle capture does not contain the intro — a controlled negative](#the-oracle-capture-does-not-contain-the-intro--a-controlled-negative) +* [🔴 Take 2 is clean, my instrument was not, and the negative had to be re-earned](#take-2-is-clean-my-instrument-was-not-and-the-negative-had-to-be-re-earned) +* [Every music bank was summed at 1/3 when only two sub-waves are music — 3.52 dB, since P6](#every-music-bank-was-summed-at-13-when-only-two-sub-waves-are-music--352-db-since-p6) +* [Take 2 was starved, my correlator was fine, and `check-capture` was incomplete](#take-2-was-starved-my-correlator-was-fine-and-check-capture-was-incomplete) +* [The settle run carries an unmeasured real-time factor — and the numbers it touches were already unauthored](#the-settle-run-carries-an-unmeasured-real-time-factor--and-the-numbers-it-touches-were-already-unauthored) +* [`verify-dwell` — the comparison that refuted my own 🔴, made repeatable](#verify-dwell--the-comparison-that-refuted-my-own--made-repeatable) +* [The `PRESS Ⓐ` plate pulses — authored per element, because the census forbids a rule](#the-press--plate-pulses--authored-per-element-because-the-census-forbids-a-rule) +* [✅ The oracle finally speaks: the exported voice IS the game's centre channel](#the-oracle-finally-speaks-the-exported-voice-is-the-games-centre-channel) +* [The stripping control passes — `S00A` is obtainable, and the gate is cleared](#the-stripping-control-passes--s00a-is-obtainable-and-the-gate-is-cleared) +* [The correctness harness the docs promised for eight milestones did not exist](#the-correctness-harness-the-docs-promised-for-eight-milestones-did-not-exist) +* [Refutation attempt — the tone curve survives in its stated reach and not past it](#refutation-attempt--the-tone-curve-survives-in-its-stated-reach-and-not-past-it) +* [Identifying the capture's focused button — and my harness was posing the port wrong](#identifying-the-captures-focused-button--and-my-harness-was-posing-the-port-wrong) +* [`tools/port/which-focus` — the Decoder asked for a detector, and it carries its own control](#toolsportwhich-focus--the-decoder-asked-for-a-detector-and-it-carries-its-own-control) +* [The title's 1.82 % — three of my own explanations refuted, and the format has no blend mode](#the-titles-182---three-of-my-own-explanations-refuted-and-the-format-has-no-blend-mode) +* [🔴 The exporter dropped nested `.rat` leaf geometry on 45 elements — and it is the title's 1.82 %](#the-exporter-dropped-nested-rat-leaf-geometry-on-45-elements--and-it-is-the-titles-182) +* [The leaf composition is decoded and implemented — and it does **not** close the 1.82 %](#the-leaf-composition-is-decoded-and-implemented--and-it-does-not-close-the-182) +* [The −324 was the old keyframe association, and the corrected one is available **today**](#the-324-was-the-old-keyframe-association-and-the-corrected-one-is-available-today) +* [Re-running the P5/P6 gate after eight iterations of changes](#re-running-the-p5p6-gate-after-eight-iterations-of-changes) +* [Pinned `formats-pin-2026-08-29c` — and the knob I tested last iteration was retired](#pinned-formats-pin-2026-08-29c--and-the-knob-i-tested-last-iteration-was-retired) +* [Refuted — my own "the single non-whole-multiple scale in the export"](#refuted--my-own-the-single-non-whole-multiple-scale-in-the-export) +* [The 11.5 px was the fit's resolution, and the lesson inverts](#the-115-px-was-the-fits-resolution-and-the-lesson-inverts) +* [🔴 The focus ring had silently stopped, and BLOCKED had listed it](#the-focus-ring-had-silently-stopped-and-blocked-had-listed-it) +* [The plate's period is now the disc's 105, and it disagrees with the measurement](#the-plates-period-is-now-the-discs-105-and-it-disagrees-with-the-measurement) +* [The plate's period is 120, decoded — and it was falsified with my own ring number](#the-plates-period-is-120-decoded--and-it-was-falsified-with-my-own-ring-number) +* [✅ A settled screen is ONE instant, and it collapsed three residuals at once](#a-settled-screen-is-one-instant-and-it-collapsed-three-residuals-at-once) +* [Their census, and a framing of mine they sharpened](#their-census-and-a-framing-of-mine-they-sharpened) +* [Their "do not draw all five flashes" flag — checked, and it does not apply here](#their-do-not-draw-all-five-flashes-flag--checked-and-it-does-not-apply-here) +* [✅ The `publisher_logo` residual was a missing black hold, and we had both dismissed it](#the-publisher_logo-residual-was-a-missing-black-hold-and-we-had-both-dismissed-it) +* [`ptlogo_back2eff3` — recorded, deliberately not acted on](#ptlogo_back2eff3--recorded-deliberately-not-acted-on) +* [The narrow settle windows are harmless, and I can now say why](#the-narrow-settle-windows-are-harmless-and-i-can-now-say-why) +* [Refuted, mine — "the menu residual is localised on the `ptloop` sweeps"](#refuted-mine--the-menu-residual-is-localised-on-the-ptloop-sweeps) +* [Refuted — "the developer splash is one composited quad, the bounding box of the three logos"](#refuted--the-developer-splash-is-one-composited-quad-the-bounding-box-of-the-three-logos) +* [The black hold is 9 units, not 12 — measured in draws rather than luminance](#the-black-hold-is-9-units-not-12--measured-in-draws-rather-than-luminance) +* [The title's sweeps loop — measured, and the field could not have told us](#the-titles-sweeps-loop--measured-and-the-field-could-not-have-told-us) +* [The menus' residual is the tone floor, not structure — and `extras` is not really 3× worse](#the-menus-residual-is-the-tone-floor-not-structure--and-extras-is-not-really-3-worse) +* [Refutation attempt — their 239.8-unit figure, checked from my export](#refutation-attempt--their-2398-unit-figure-checked-from-my-export) +* [🔴 The loading screens are black at *every* instant — which proves the layer rule wrong for a layerless element](#the-loading-screens-are-black-at-every-instant--which-proves-the-layer-rule-wrong-for-a-layerless-element) +* [Their `eff3` retraction — my refusal was right, and my refutation found the same bug](#their-eff3-retraction--my-refusal-was-right-and-my-refutation-found-the-same-bug) +* [The forced backdrop: two of sixteen screens were black for their whole life](#the-forced-backdrop-two-of-sixteen-screens-were-black-for-their-whole-life) +* [Refutation attempt — the forced-backdrop rule's quantifier, and whether it misses a case](#refutation-attempt--the-forced-backdrop-rules-quantifier-and-whether-it-misses-a-case) +* [The 256/211 was never a disagreement — and my own census had already said so](#the-256211-was-never-a-disagreement--and-my-own-census-had-already-said-so) +* [The clock freezes at settle — the port's settle window, seen from the other side](#the-clock-freezes-at-settle--the-ports-settle-window-seen-from-the-other-side) +* [🔴 Withdrawn — "the boot is known too fast [refuted]". The splash dwells are declared, and the port was already playing them](#withdrawn--the-boot-is-known-too-fast-refuted-the-splash-dwells-are-declared-and-the-port-was-already-playing-them) +* [Refutation attempt — their two splash boundaries are not anchored the same way](#refutation-attempt--their-two-splash-boundaries-are-not-anchored-the-same-way) +* [Their corrected boundaries check out against the file — all six, exactly](#their-corrected-boundaries-check-out-against-the-file--all-six-exactly) +* [The n=1 disclosure, and the one port constant that rests on a single run](#the-n1-disclosure-and-the-one-port-constant-that-rests-on-a-single-run) +* [P6 gate — sound on the P5 walk, verified, and the tool I nearly shipped instead](#p6-gate--sound-on-the-p5-walk-verified-and-the-tool-i-nearly-shipped-instead) +* [Their `.tbm` self-refutation does not reach this archive — and it fixes my guard anyway](#their-tbm-self-refutation-does-not-reach-this-archive--and-it-fixes-my-guard-anyway) +* [Coverage is now tested per instant, because scale animates](#coverage-is-now-tested-per-instant-because-scale-animates) +* [P7 gate — the new-game intro plays and returns, and a defect I nearly invented](#p7-gate--the-new-game-intro-plays-and-returns-and-a-defect-i-nearly-invented) +* [`ScreenView.skipped` was correct and unread since P1 — now it says so itself](#screenviewskipped-was-correct-and-unread-since-p1--now-it-says-so-itself) +* [Refutation attempt — "the element declared first paints first"](#refutation-attempt--the-element-declared-first-paints-first) +* [The menu bed plays under the cutscene, nobody decided that, and it stays](#the-menu-bed-plays-under-the-cutscene-nobody-decided-that-and-it-stays) +* [`wait:`, and the bed's loop seam is 3.4 seconds of silence](#waitseconds-and-the-beds-loop-seam-is-34-seconds-of-silence) +* [Two harness bugs, and the defect the second one was hiding](#two-harness-bugs-and-the-defect-the-second-one-was-hiding) +* [The `PRESS Ⓐ` plate: four bugs in a row, and a number I have been misquoting](#the-press--plate-four-bugs-in-a-row-and-a-number-i-have-been-misquoting) +* [The title's residual is the sweep phase, and the sweeps fit at ~400 units, not 357.7](#the-titles-residual-is-the-sweep-phase-and-the-sweeps-fit-at-400-units-not-3577) +* [A second capture closes the sweep-geometry question, and the plate matches at 0.00093 %](#a-second-capture-closes-the-sweep-geometry-question-and-the-plate-matches-at-000093) +* [`--focus=` did nothing on the menu path, and the corpus had an untested focus capture](#--focus-did-nothing-on-the-menu-path-and-the-corpus-had-an-untested-focus-capture) +* [The last unused capture, placed — and its residual is the oracle's, not the port's](#the-last-unused-capture-placed--and-its-residual-is-the-oracles-not-the-ports) +* [`MODDING.md` had five rules and no check. Now it has one, and all five pass](#moddingmd-had-five-rules-and-no-check-now-it-has-one-and-all-five-pass) +* [Five authored values had no reader — including the one I asked for measurements into](#five-authored-values-had-no-reader--including-the-one-i-asked-for-measurements-into) +* [`FORMAT.md` declared the port's own export invalid, and a failed export is not atomic](#formatmd-declared-the-ports-own-export-invalid-and-a-failed-export-is-not-atomic) +* [`check-all`, a verdict that ignored its own statistic, and a claim of mine that was wrong](#check-all-a-verdict-that-ignored-its-own-statistic-and-a-claim-of-mine-that-was-wrong) +* [The `title` disagreement, localised — and the question I filed for it was the wrong one](#the-title-disagreement-localised--and-the-question-i-filed-for-it-was-the-wrong-one) +* [Auditing `BLOCKED.md` found three stale rows, and the undated ones were all three](#auditing-blockedmd-found-three-stale-rows-and-the-undated-ones-were-all-three) +* [The record already answered last iteration's question, under headings that name it](#the-record-already-answered-last-iterations-question-under-headings-that-name-it) +* [🔴 Twenty-one messages to a dead address, each one warning me it was dead](#twenty-one-messages-to-a-dead-address-each-one-warning-me-it-was-dead) +* [The forced-backdrop pass is load-bearing on two screens, not six](#the-forced-backdrop-pass-is-load-bearing-on-two-screens-not-six) +* [Re-running the Decoder's necessity census: every figure reproduces, and what that is worth](#re-running-the-decoders-necessity-census-every-figure-reproduces-and-what-that-is-worth) +* [A second witness for the pixel-cost claim, from a different renderer](#a-second-witness-for-the-pixel-cost-claim-from-a-different-renderer) +* [Reconciling the two ink figures, and what "has its own key" is resting on](#reconciling-the-two-ink-figures-and-what-has-its-own-key-is-resting-on) +* [Not one of the 80 has a decoded key — and the port's four are the rule's oracle check](#not-one-of-the-80-has-a-decoded-key--and-the-ports-four-are-the-rules-oracle-check) +* [A withholding reason that was false, and the measurement beside it that was not](#a-withholding-reason-that-was-false-and-the-measurement-beside-it-that-was-not) +* [The sweep discriminator resolves: different frames, and a sweep position cannot date one](#the-sweep-discriminator-resolves-different-frames-and-a-sweep-position-cannot-date-one) +* [Their trap, run against my tree — and I found its mirror instead](#their-trap-run-against-my-tree--and-i-found-its-mirror-instead) +* [The plate pulses — measured, and the port was wrong on the boot's end state](#the-plate-pulses--measured-and-the-port-was-wrong-on-the-boots-end-state) +* [A static overlay now advances, and a refutation attempt on the pulse floor](#a-static-overlay-now-advances-and-a-refutation-attempt-on-the-pulse-floor) +* [Their pulse floor reproduces exactly once the predicate is named — 159, to the pixel](#their-pulse-floor-reproduces-exactly-once-the-predicate-is-named--159-to-the-pixel) +* [My rendered pulse, counted in their units — and #4 refutes the voice value without fixing it](#my-rendered-pulse-counted-in-their-units--and-4-refutes-the-voice-value-without-fixing-it) +* [The voice export now carries every qualifying stream — and a unity sum was refused by our own check](#the-voice-export-now-carries-every-qualifying-stream--and-a-unity-sum-was-refused-by-our-own-check) +* [Their stream assignment does not fit my region — weights NOT applied](#their-stream-assignment-does-not-fit-my-region--weights-not-applied) +* [The resolver starts late, and my "duplicate tail" was a real stream all along](#the-resolver-starts-late-and-my-duplicate-tail-was-a-real-stream-all-along) +* [The export knew the voice was incomplete; the runtime did not say so](#the-export-knew-the-voice-was-incomplete-the-runtime-did-not-say-so) +* [The voice export is complete — new pin, and the cause was a "within one bank" cap](#the-voice-export-is-complete--new-pin-and-the-cause-was-a-within-one-bank-cap) +* [The positional weights are applied — keyed by byte size, so the key is a check](#the-positional-weights-are-applied--keyed-by-byte-size-so-the-key-is-a-check) +* [🔴 Unexplained: `verify-menu-audio`'s dead-press check has started failing](#unexplained-verify-menu-audios-dead-press-check-has-started-failing) +* [External ground truth for every three-chunk region — the movies' own durations](#external-ground-truth-for-every-three-chunk-region--the-movies-own-durations) +* [The menu bed loops at 61.93 s — and my 3.4 s "ugly seam" was mine, not the game's](#the-menu-bed-loops-at-6193-s--and-my-34-s-ugly-seam-was-mine-not-the-games) +* [The dead-press check was passing by luck, and the luck ran out](#the-dead-press-check-was-passing-by-luck-and-the-luck-ran-out) +* [Independent confirmation of the 1.5 MB cap — the mechanism, not just the conclusion](#independent-confirmation-of-the-15-mb-cap--the-mechanism-not-just-the-conclusion) +* [The loop is a runtime field, the two readings conflict, and the port keeps what it shipped](#the-loop-is-a-runtime-field-the-two-readings-conflict-and-the-port-keeps-what-it-shipped) +* [The duration is confirmed and the window is wrong — and the start is now a visible field](#the-duration-is-confirmed-and-the-window-is-wrong--and-the-start-is-now-a-visible-field) +* [The loop window is measured — `-ss 9.44 -t 61.87` — and the near-silence count tracked the error](#the-loop-window-is-measured---ss-944--t-6187--and-the-near-silence-count-tracked-the-error) +* [Applying "grep the corpus for the claim" to my own corpus](#applying-grep-the-corpus-for-the-claim-to-my-own-corpus) +* [A refuted-claim register, because the audit found what the audit found](#a-refuted-claim-register-because-the-audit-found-what-the-audit-found) +* [State of the port, and a claim I built on for a week without checking](#state-of-the-port-and-a-claim-i-built-on-for-a-week-without-checking) +* [Identifying their submenu capture: edges where intensity could not](#identifying-their-submenu-capture-edges-where-intensity-could-not) +* [`on_cancel`: one half measured, and a MEASURED stamp removed from the other](#on_cancel-one-half-measured-and-a-measured-stamp-removed-from-the-other) +* [BLOCKED.md's five "blocking" rows were all answered, some days ago](#blockedmds-five-blocking-rows-were-all-answered-some-days-ago) +* [The plate came back in the game and not in the port](#the-plate-came-back-in-the-game-and-not-in-the-port) +* [🔴 `verify-screen` was nondeterministic, and it looked fine most of the time](#verify-screen-was-nondeterministic-and-it-looked-fine-most-of-the-time) +* [🔴 WITHDRAWN — the JP capture does NOT go against the port; I scored the wrong frame](#withdrawn--the-jp-capture-does-not-go-against-the-port-i-scored-the-wrong-frame) +* [*(This heading read: "The JP title capture adjudicates `title_jp` — and it goes](#this-heading-read-the-jp-title-capture-adjudicates-title_jp--and-it-goes) +* [against the port." Withdrawn in full below. I scored `verify-screen`'s](#against-the-port-withdrawn-in-full-below-i-scored-verify-screens) +* [`--pose=rest` frame, which the port does not ship; posed as it runs, the port](#--poserest-frame-which-the-port-does-not-ship-posed-as-it-runs-the-port) +* [beats the reference +0.9994 to +0.8727. The heading asserted the opposite of](#beats-the-reference-09994-to-08727-the-heading-asserted-the-opposite-of) +* [the finding for as long as it stood.)*](#the-finding-for-as-long-as-it-stood) +* [🔴 CORRECTION: the port did not move away from the game — I scored the wrong frame](#correction-the-port-did-not-move-away-from-the-game--i-scored-the-wrong-frame) +* [The `rest()` flash defect reaches four screens I ship — and the port already survives it](#the-rest-flash-defect-reaches-four-screens-i-ship--and-the-port-already-survives-it) +* [Correction: those two are the *sound* path, which makes the rule stronger](#correction-those-two-are-the-sound-path-which-makes-the-rule-stronger) +* [The two loading screens are no longer black, and it was the paint order](#the-two-loading-screens-are-no-longer-black-and-it-was-the-paint-order) +* [Adjudicating the Decoder's `rest()` replacement against the game](#adjudicating-the-decoders-rest-replacement-against-the-game) +* [The boot's own end frame, scored against the game for the first time](#the-boots-own-end-frame-scored-against-the-game-for-the-first-time) +* [Refutation attempt: the settle-instant candidate is **not** uniformly better](#refutation-attempt-the-settle-instant-candidate-is-not-uniformly-better) +* [My own predictor holds — and the evidence that made it *better than width* does not](#my-own-predictor-holds--and-the-evidence-that-made-it-better-than-width-does-not) +* [Checking my own tree for the ordinal foot-gun that just voided three of theirs](#checking-my-own-tree-for-the-ordinal-foot-gun-that-just-voided-three-of-theirs) +* [Looking for a case that separates width from mid-ramp — there is none, and I nearly invented one](#looking-for-a-case-that-separates-width-from-mid-ramp--there-is-none-and-i-nearly-invented-one) +* [Auditing my tree for the disc-wide ordinal foot-gun](#auditing-my-tree-for-the-disc-wide-ordinal-foot-gun) +* [Their withdrawn "~14 units of black hold" — my authored 9 survives it](#their-withdrawn-14-units-of-black-hold--my-authored-9-survives-it) +* [🔴 CORRECTION: my 18-vs-19 "agreement" compared two different intervals](#correction-my-18-vs-19-agreement-compared-two-different-intervals) +* [`check-all` passes — after an hour-long hang that was the suite's own fault](#check-all-passes--after-an-hour-long-hang-that-was-the-suites-own-fault) +* [Ⓐ and Ⓑ are not the same shape, and my `black_hold` treats them as if they were](#and--are-not-the-same-shape-and-my-black_hold-treats-them-as-if-they-were) +* [🔴 `check-all` excused two failing rows with a reason that is measurably false](#check-all-excused-two-failing-rows-with-a-reason-that-is-measurably-false) +* [`black_hold_units` 9 → 0, and why not the value that fits best](#black_hold_units-9--0-and-why-not-the-value-that-fits-best) +* ["Already up to date" is not evidence that I am current](#already-up-to-date-is-not-evidence-that-i-am-current) +* [Re-deriving `black_hold_units` against four measurements, not three](#re-deriving-black_hold_units-against-four-measurements-not-three) +* [🔴 CORRECTION: my "the eras render identically" measurement was void](#correction-my-the-eras-render-identically-measurement-was-void) +* [🔴 CORRECTION: my branch *is* the stale era, and the reference binary was never the workspace build](#correction-my-branch-is-the-stale-era-and-the-reference-binary-was-never-the-workspace-build) +* [`exit_ramp_units`: the refuted constant was living in a default](#exit_ramp_units-the-refuted-constant-was-living-in-a-default) +* [Auditing the whole tree for "a deleted value that something still supplies"](#auditing-the-whole-tree-for-a-deleted-value-that-something-still-supplies) +* [Counting the fallbacks instead of inspecting them — and one I had misjudged](#counting-the-fallbacks-instead-of-inspecting-them--and-one-i-had-misjudged) +* [The oracle harness was nondeterministic, and I quoted its numbers for a dozen iterations](#the-oracle-harness-was-nondeterministic-and-i-quoted-its-numbers-for-a-dozen-iterations) +* [Answering "an unenumerated set" — don't enumerate, test](#answering-an-unenumerated-set--dont-enumerate-test) +* [🔴 The third clock was in my own list, and I did not wire it](#the-third-clock-was-in-my-own-list-and-i-did-not-wire-it) +* [🔴 WITHDRAWN — the leaf-phase minimum measures the capture, not the game](#withdrawn--the-leaf-phase-minimum-measures-the-capture-not-the-game) +* [*(This heading read: "The leaf phase was an arbitrary choice; the capture turns](#this-heading-read-the-leaf-phase-was-an-arbitrary-choice-the-capture-turns) +* [out to determine it." [refuted] Refuted 97 lines below by the replication on `title`,](#out-to-determine-it-refuted-refuted-97-lines-below-by-the-replication-on-title) +* [which minimises at a different phase for the same object. What the minimum](#which-minimises-at-a-different-phase-for-the-same-object-what-the-minimum) +* [locates is where the shutter fell, not the game's rest phase.)*](#locates-is-where-the-shutter-fell-not-the-games-rest-phase) +* [Cross-checking their leaf reading against my export — it reconciles](#cross-checking-their-leaf-reading-against-my-export--it-reconciles) +* [Replicating the phase result on the title — it fails, and the failure is the finding](#replicating-the-phase-result-on-the-title--it-fails-and-the-failure-is-the-finding) +* [Their masking rule, implemented — and it does not transfer to my screens](#their-masking-rule-implemented--and-it-does-not-transfer-to-my-screens) +* [Their "the game may not draw these leaves" hypothesis — my curves say *sometimes*](#their-the-game-may-not-draw-these-leaves-hypothesis--my-curves-say-sometimes) +* [Using the clean splash rows to measure the tone curve — and repeating a documented mistake](#using-the-clean-splash-rows-to-measure-the-tone-curve--and-repeating-a-documented-mistake) +* [Localising the 1.92 splash floor: it is glyph edges, and off them the port is ~1 RMSE from the game](#localising-the-192-splash-floor-it-is-glyph-edges-and-off-them-the-port-is-1-rmse-from-the-game) +* [Their draw-stream result checked against my export — three confirmations and one correction](#their-draw-stream-result-checked-against-my-export--three-confirmations-and-one-correction) +* [Nested leaves may advance at half rate — a CONDITIONAL exposure, not a defect](#nested-leaves-may-advance-at-half-rate--a-conditional-exposure-not-a-defect) +* [*(This heading read "a quantified defect in shipped output". The rate it is](#this-heading-read-a-quantified-defect-in-shipped-output-the-rate-it-is) +* [quantified against was later shown to be neither frame-locked nor simple](#quantified-against-was-later-shown-to-be-neither-frame-locked-nor-simple) +* [wall-clock, so the input is known wrong rather than merely unpinned. Nothing](#wall-clock-so-the-input-is-known-wrong-rather-than-merely-unpinned-nothing) +* [is established as defective.)*](#is-established-as-defective) +* [Their Route 1 is closed for the whole archive, not just the title](#their-route-1-is-closed-for-the-whole-archive-not-just-the-title) +* [The off-edge splash residual is **not** tonal — and I was comparing it to the wrong floor](#the-off-edge-splash-residual-is-not-tonal--and-i-was-comparing-it-to-the-wrong-floor) +* [Their linearity gate, applied to my side of the ratio — and an inversion](#their-linearity-gate-applied-to-my-side-of-the-ratio--and-an-inversion) +* [The leaf thread, closed — one export value verified against the game, one self-check abandoned](#the-leaf-thread-closed--one-export-value-verified-against-the-game-one-self-check-abandoned) +* [Delivering the phase term where the numbers are, not where I found them](#delivering-the-phase-term-where-the-numbers-are-not-where-i-found-them) +* [The boot verified as a *sequence*, not just at its endpoint](#the-boot-verified-as-a-sequence-not-just-at-its-endpoint) +* [Refuting the "8.5 % systematic" in the splash dwells — it is the span, not the clock](#refuting-the-85--systematic-in-the-splash-dwells--it-is-the-span-not-the-clock) +* [The fifth member of the family is mine: "drawn" is not "visible"](#the-fifth-member-of-the-family-is-mine-drawn-is-not-visible) +* [Auditing `--black`, and a rule that falls out of it](#auditing---black-and-a-rule-that-falls-out-of-it) +* [🔴 CORRECTION: my backdrop predicate is exact in `GP_TITLE` and its reading was wrong](#correction-my-backdrop-predicate-is-exact-in-gp_title-and-its-reading-was-wrong) +* [Sweeping my own `--help` and headers, after theirs](#sweeping-my-own---help-and-headers-after-theirs) +* [`black_hold_units`: my own tripwire has tripped, and I am not resolving it alone](#black_hold_units-my-own-tripwire-has-tripped-and-i-am-not-resolving-it-alone) +* [Their sharpened tell, applied to my tree: two descriptions the code below had already refuted](#their-sharpened-tell-applied-to-my-tree-two-descriptions-the-code-below-had-already-refuted) +* [The grep found two more — and the reason is my correction *habit*, not my attention](#the-grep-found-two-more--and-the-reason-is-my-correction-habit-not-my-attention) +* [Auditing headings — and my own index was amplifying the withdrawn ones](#auditing-headings--and-my-own-index-was-amplifying-the-withdrawn-ones) +* [Ranking instructions above descriptions — swept, and the worst class is clean](#ranking-instructions-above-descriptions--swept-and-the-worst-class-is-clean) +* [Live-but-undocumented flags — and I wrote a dead instruction while fixing dead instructions](#live-but-undocumented-flags--and-i-wrote-a-dead-instruction-while-fixing-dead-instructions) +* [Their `XPR_*` lead traced and closed — and their class found in my own lane](#their-xpr_-lead-traced-and-closed--and-their-class-found-in-my-own-lane) +* [Branches that announce themselves — their lesson, applied where it already bit me](#branches-that-announce-themselves--their-lesson-applied-where-it-already-bit-me) +* [Every documented invocation verified — and one runs forever without saying so](#every-documented-invocation-verified--and-one-runs-forever-without-saying-so) +* [🔴 I promoted an unverified claim of theirs to a fact, against data I had authored](#i-promoted-an-unverified-claim-of-theirs-to-a-fact-against-data-i-had-authored) +* [The half-guard they named, tested — and it found a real gap on first use](#the-half-guard-they-named-tested--and-it-found-a-real-gap-on-first-use) +* [The ordered pair determines the gap — and nothing declared predicts it](#the-ordered-pair-determines-the-gap--and-nothing-declared-predicts-it) +* [The overlay leaf-pin fix, verified live with a negative control](#the-overlay-leaf-pin-fix-verified-live-with-a-negative-control) +* [Their incoming-primitive observation, checked — and a sharpening they can use](#their-incoming-primitive-observation-checked--and-a-sharpening-they-can-use) +* [`PORT-MISSION.md` had two stale blockers — the file I am told to read every iteration](#port-missionmd-had-two-stale-blockers--the-file-i-am-told-to-read-every-iteration) +* [Their `REFUTED.md` gap, in my tree — where I already had the mechanism and fed it nothing](#their-refutedmd-gap-in-my-tree--where-i-already-had-the-mechanism-and-fed-it-nothing) +* [Building the withdrawal-time hook — the thing we agreed neither of us was about to close](#building-the-withdrawal-time-hook--the-thing-we-agreed-neither-of-us-was-about-to-close) +* [Applying "a correction is a new claim" to my own most recent correction](#applying-a-correction-is-a-new-claim-to-my-own-most-recent-correction) +* [P0 gate — recorded at last, and the gap it belongs to](#p0-gate--recorded-at-last-and-the-gap-it-belongs-to) +* [Their sufficiency gap, run on `authored/` — clean, after I nearly reported 35 false positives](#their-sufficiency-gap-run-on-authored--clean-after-i-nearly-reported-35-false-positives) +* [Their absence shape on my own citations — and the wording gap in my P0 closure](#their-absence-shape-on-my-own-citations--and-the-wording-gap-in-my-p0-closure) +* [The off-edge splash residual, localised — three mechanisms ruled out, one honest description](#the-off-edge-splash-residual-localised--three-mechanisms-ruled-out-one-honest-description) +* [Full regression after a session of edits — and the phase term moving two published rows](#full-regression-after-a-session-of-edits--and-the-phase-term-moving-two-published-rows) +* [Narrowing my own hook — 33 was a measurement of the regex](#narrowing-my-own-hook--33-was-a-measurement-of-the-regex) +* [Their Q10 correction checked, and the register's cost is per-*mention*, not per-correction](#their-q10-correction-checked-and-the-registers-cost-is-per-mention-not-per-correction) +* [The contract I read every iteration is 3 185 lines shorter than the contract](#the-contract-i-read-every-iteration-is-3-185-lines-shorter-than-the-contract) +* [A refutation attempt on `+0x08 is the loop length` — it survives, and the port adopts it](#a-refutation-attempt-on-0x08-is-the-loop-length--it-survives-and-the-port-adopts-it) +* [The contract is checked now, not read — `tools/port/contract-check`](#the-contract-is-checked-now-not-read--toolsportcontract-check) +* [A refutation attempt on the fade numbers — it survives, from a third reader](#a-refutation-attempt-on-the-fade-numbers--it-survives-from-a-third-reader) +* [The walk is checked too, and "only the ring moves" tested against my own renderer](#the-walk-is-checked-too-and-only-the-ring-moves-tested-against-my-own-renderer) +* [The `+0x08` ask came back answered — and is not consumable yet](#the-0x08-ask-came-back-answered--and-is-not-consumable-yet) +* [The pin moves to `formats-pin-2026-08-30b`, and the port stops owning `+0x08`](#the-pin-moves-to-formats-pin-2026-08-30b-and-the-port-stops-owning-0x08) +* [The menu remembers its cursor — a measured P5 defect, fixed and scoped](#the-menu-remembers-its-cursor--a-measured-p5-defect-fixed-and-scoped) +* [🔴 Correction, same day: I encoded an absence of measurement as a finding](#correction-same-day-i-encoded-an-absence-of-measurement-as-a-finding) +* [The `kind` sweep I said I owed: 15 labels, and 7 rested on a neighbour's argument](#the-kind-sweep-i-said-i-owed-15-labels-and-7-rested-on-a-neighbours-argument) +* [A refutation attempt on Q2's map of `GP_TITLE` — the count is right, the list is short](#a-refutation-attempt-on-q2s-map-of-gp_title--the-count-is-right-the-list-is-short) +* [An authored value became a measured one, and a difference-only check got an origin](#an-authored-value-became-a-measured-one-and-a-difference-only-check-got-an-origin) +* [EXTRAS resets — measured. The assertion was right and that does not make it evidence.](#extras-resets--measured-the-assertion-was-right-and-that-does-not-make-it-evidence) +* [Running the port as a player finds two things reading it did not](#running-the-port-as-a-player-finds-two-things-reading-it-did-not) +* [The boot's wall-clock seconds are a property of this container, not of the port](#the-boots-wall-clock-seconds-are-a-property-of-this-container-not-of-the-port) +* [Their negative result, and the trap in choosing the more general instrument](#their-negative-result-and-the-trap-in-choosing-the-more-general-instrument) +* [🔴 Correction: my media-versus-wall-clock method cannot audit container pacing](#correction-my-media-versus-wall-clock-method-cannot-audit-container-pacing) +* [The leak was not mine — a negative result, and the "fix" is reverted](#the-leak-was-not-mine--a-negative-result-and-the-fix-is-reverted) +* [A second narrow anchor, where I had already found the weakness and not acted](#a-second-narrow-anchor-where-i-had-already-found-the-weakness-and-not-acted) +* [Reported: a live-reading HANDOFF section that two later ones have overtaken](#reported-a-live-reading-handoff-section-that-two-later-ones-have-overtaken) +* [Their rule applied backwards: my video result is stronger than my withdrawal said](#their-rule-applied-backwards-my-video-result-is-stronger-than-my-withdrawal-said) +* [🔴 I measured my own claim and it is wrong: the player skips, heavily](#i-measured-my-own-claim-and-it-is-wrong-the-player-skips-heavily) +* [🔴 Correcting the correction: the frame probe is an UPPER BOUND, and my contrast was contention](#correcting-the-correction-the-frame-probe-is-an-upper-bound-and-my-contrast-was-contention) +* [The P4 fidelity question, attempted: four traps reproduced, no verdict yet](#the-p4-fidelity-question-attempted-four-traps-reproduced-no-verdict-yet) +* [Changing the KIND of quantity answered it on the first attempt](#changing-the-kind-of-quantity-answered-it-on-the-first-attempt) +* [🔴 My seek trap was over-general — the Decoder narrowed it](#my-seek-trap-was-over-general--the-decoder-narrowed-it) +* [A capital letter hid a refuted claim in the file whose job is to say what is open](#a-capital-letter-hid-a-refuted-claim-in-the-file-whose-job-is-to-say-what-is-open) +* [The difference path cannot verify a lossless encode — so nothing it says counts](#the-difference-path-cannot-verify-a-lossless-encode--so-nothing-it-says-counts) +* [The identity rule, turned back on my own newest tool — and it was biased](#the-identity-rule-turned-back-on-my-own-newest-tool--and-it-was-biased) +* [Their refutation attempt on my band check found a coverage hole and two defects](#their-refutation-attempt-on-my-band-check-found-a-coverage-hole-and-two-defects) +* [🔴 RETRACTED: the `S00A` coverage hole was my control's filter, not the check](#retracted-the-s00a-coverage-hole-was-my-controls-filter-not-the-check) +* [Their two tools had the shape I shipped, and the general form is sharper now](#their-two-tools-had-the-shape-i-shipped-and-the-general-form-is-sharper-now) +* [Closing the two-directional gap: the control harness now asserts itself](#closing-the-two-directional-gap-the-control-harness-now-asserts-itself) +* [The register check had no executable control, and an empty register passed forever](#the-register-check-had-no-executable-control-and-an-empty-register-passed-forever) +* [Two harness gaps closed, and one of them was mine done by hand](#two-harness-gaps-closed-and-one-of-them-was-mine-done-by-hand) +* [All four submenus reset, and I am not promoting it to a rule](#all-four-submenus-reset-and-i-am-not-promoting-it-to-a-rule) +* [🔴 The counter-example I kept asking for was in a file I wrote](#the-counter-example-i-kept-asking-for-was-in-a-file-i-wrote) +* [The last control harness, and a clean sweep for the top-item assumption](#the-last-control-harness-and-a-clean-sweep-for-the-top-item-assumption) +* [Settled: a submenu resets to its OWN OPENING ITEM, not to its top item](#settled-a-submenu-resets-to-its-own-opening-item-not-to-its-top-item) +* [Their refutation attempt on `extras/initial_focus` — checked against the bytes, twice](#their-refutation-attempt-on-extrasinitial_focus--checked-against-the-bytes-twice) +* [Menu focus does not survive a reboot — and the reach matters more than the result](#menu-focus-does-not-survive-a-reboot--and-the-reach-matters-more-than-the-result) +* [Liveness: every one of my tools passed on an empty input](#liveness-every-one-of-my-tools-passed-on-an-empty-input) +* [Their `ring_row.py` defect, and why it did not reach me](#their-ring_rowpy-defect-and-why-it-did-not-reach-me) +* [The liveness lesson, applied to the product: a mistyped override was silent](#the-liveness-lesson-applied-to-the-product-a-mistyped-override-was-silent) +* [Their P3 delivery, taken at the strength they gave it](#their-p3-delivery-taken-at-the-strength-they-gave-it) +* [`docs/port/RUNNING.md` — the P5 gate needed a human and had no runbook](#docsportrunningmd--the-p5-gate-needed-a-human-and-had-no-runbook) +* [Their `BGM_103` report: the row was already corrected, and it carries their diagnosis](#their-bgm_103-report-the-row-was-already-corrected-and-it-carries-their-diagnosis) +* [The shared-state problem is two gaps, and only one of them needs a human](#the-shared-state-problem-is-two-gaps-and-only-one-of-them-needs-a-human) +* [The mirror of `peer-head`: my register was judging their files from my stale tree](#the-mirror-of-peer-head-my-register-was-judging-their-files-from-my-stale-tree) +* [Their zero held, mine was six, and the difference is structural rather than hygiene](#their-zero-held-mine-was-six-and-the-difference-is-structural-rather-than-hygiene) +* [A peer hit cannot be adjudicated from the phrase alone — demonstrated, not argued](#a-peer-hit-cannot-be-adjudicated-from-the-phrase-alone--demonstrated-not-argued) +* [The register now records what each dead claim ASSERTED, not just how it was worded](#the-register-now-records-what-each-dead-claim-asserted-not-just-how-it-was-worded) +* [DIFFICULTY is a dialog, and the count-match it weakens was one I had recorded](#difficulty-is-a-dialog-and-the-count-match-it-weakens-was-one-i-had-recorded) +* [Their note about instruments applies to me more than to them](#their-note-about-instruments-applies-to-me-more-than-to-them) +* [The reach I recorded as theirs closed, and re-running it with a broader filter held](#the-reach-i-recorded-as-theirs-closed-and-re-running-it-with-a-broader-filter-held) +* [Refuted: their language-sprite reading of the `GP_DIALOG` residual](#refuted-their-language-sprite-reading-of-the-gp_dialog-residual) +* [🔴 I relayed a claim I had not checked, inside the sentence where I said I had](#i-relayed-a-claim-i-had-not-checked-inside-the-sentence-where-i-said-i-had) +* [Their `.prm` correction, checked against my renderer — and their technique, run here](#their-prm-correction-checked-against-my-renderer--and-their-technique-run-here) +* [The incentive they named, stated plainly](#the-incentive-they-named-stated-plainly) +* [They closed the 37 — conclusion confirmed, one supporting leg does not reproduce](#they-closed-the-37--conclusion-confirmed-one-supporting-leg-does-not-reproduce) +* [Naming an untested bound is what got it tested](#naming-an-untested-bound-is-what-got-it-tested) +* [Auditing my own multi-leg claims: the one that mattered holds, and now says why](#auditing-my-own-multi-leg-claims-the-one-that-mattered-holds-and-now-says-why) +* [Closing one of my own, and a second relayed count from the same delivery](#closing-one-of-my-own-and-a-second-relayed-count-from-the-same-delivery) +* [The oracle capture's own focus state was never established — now it is, by exclusion](#the-oracle-captures-own-focus-state-was-never-established--now-it-is-by-exclusion) +* ["Independently" dies on a fact, and I decline to re-add the pairing they restored](#independently-dies-on-a-fact-and-i-decline-to-re-add-the-pairing-they-restored) +* [Their docstring point found three stale claims in my code](#their-docstring-point-found-three-stale-claims-in-my-code) +* [Their variant found a fourth in my tree: a stale JUSTIFICATION, not a stale number](#their-variant-found-a-fourth-in-my-tree-a-stale-justification-not-a-stale-number) +* [`audit-kinds` was auditing 16 of 71 authored justifications, and never said so](#audit-kinds-was-auditing-16-of-71-authored-justifications-and-never-said-so) +* [Their failed detector, recorded so I do not rebuild it](#their-failed-detector-recorded-so-i-do-not-rebuild-it) +* [Triaging the 52: thirteen were provenance claims, and two failed on sight](#triaging-the-52-thirteen-were-provenance-claims-and-two-failed-on-sight) +* [My own triage under-counted, and three uncited measurements surfaced behind it](#my-own-triage-under-counted-and-three-uncited-measurements-surfaced-behind-it) +* [🔴 My mechanism does not reproduce in my own corpus — measured, and it is refuted](#my-mechanism-does-not-reproduce-in-my-own-corpus--measured-and-it-is-refuted) +* [The backfill: 17 was 12, and 12 is now 0](#the-backfill-17-was-12-and-12-is-now-0) +* [🔴 Their record layout was wrong and I had copied it — fourth relayed aside](#their-record-layout-was-wrong-and-i-had-copied-it--fourth-relayed-aside) +* [🔴 My falsifier never identified the offset — the half I called a formality did](#my-falsifier-never-identified-the-offset--the-half-i-called-a-formality-did) +* [The 92.3 %-versus-49.6 % gap: same numerator, and their filter is not applied](#the-923--versus-496--gap-same-numerator-and-their-filter-is-not-applied) +* [🔴 Correcting my own correction: none of the 1 530 is a question without content](#correcting-my-own-correction-none-of-the-1-530-is-a-question-without-content) +* [The one load-bearing thing in the denominator thread, checked against the port](#the-one-load-bearing-thing-in-the-denominator-thread-checked-against-the-port) +* [Quantifying the one thing neither agent can move](#quantifying-the-one-thing-neither-agent-can-move) +* [Verified their merge-state claim rather than relaying it — and it improves the ask](#verified-their-merge-state-claim-rather-than-relaying-it--and-it-improves-the-ask) +* [The number in my decision document was stale the moment I committed it](#the-number-in-my-decision-document-was-stale-the-moment-i-committed-it) +* [A command without a pass condition is half a check](#a-command-without-a-pass-condition-is-half-a-check) +* [What every failure this week actually was](#what-every-failure-this-week-actually-was) +* [The remaining multi-leg claims audited — and the pattern I predicted is not there](#the-remaining-multi-leg-claims-audited--and-the-pattern-i-predicted-is-not-there) +* [Their JP menu capture, corroborated from the disc — and the legs are genuinely different](#their-jp-menu-capture-corroborated-from-the-disc--and-the-legs-are-genuinely-different) +* [They have taken the relay finding, and it now has a direction](#they-have-taken-the-relay-finding-and-it-now-has-a-direction) +* [The independent pair was an accident — the rule that would make it deliberate](#the-independent-pair-was-an-accident--the-rule-that-would-make-it-deliberate) +* [A workflow defect of mine, on its fourth occurrence](#a-workflow-defect-of-mine-on-its-fourth-occurrence) +* [The menu residual, decomposed — and half of 13.06 is tone](#the-menu-residual-decomposed--and-half-of-1306-is-tone) +* [Refutation: the peer's tone/geometry positive control rests on a number of mine that cannot carry it](#refutation-the-peers-tonegeometry-positive-control-rests-on-a-number-of-mine-that-cannot-carry-it) +* [The menu's edge residual is **not** a misregistration — the Decoder's discriminator, run](#the-menus-edge-residual-is-not-a-misregistration--the-decoders-discriminator-run) +* [`GP_DIALOG` 2/3 restored to `authored/flow.json` — on a measurement this time](#gp_dialog-23-restored-to-authoredflowjson--on-a-measurement-this-time) +* [The residual map: no local displacement either, and the split I expected is not there](#the-residual-map-no-local-displacement-either-and-the-split-i-expected-is-not-there) +* [Suppression beats coordinates: the menu residual is two frame elements, drawn too dark](#suppression-beats-coordinates-the-menu-residual-is-two-frame-elements-drawn-too-dark) +* [The frames generalise, premultiplied alpha is refuted, and the shortfall tracks the background](#the-frames-generalise-premultiplied-alpha-is-refuted-and-the-shortfall-tracks-the-background) +* [Which blend? Additive halves the error, on both frames — proposed, not adopted](#which-blend-additive-halves-the-error-on-both-frames--proposed-not-adopted) +* [Refutation attempt: the Decoder's kind-0 claim survives, checked from my own data](#refutation-attempt-the-decoders-kind-0-claim-survives-checked-from-my-own-data) +* [The blend is measured, so the port draws it — main_menu 13.21 → 10.67](#the-blend-is-measured-so-the-port-draws-it--main_menu-1321--1067) +* [🔴 Refuted: my "no fully-opaque pixel" sharpener](#refuted-my-no-fully-opaque-pixel-sharpener) +* [The sweeps: a measured blend, a corroborated identification, and a confound in my own evidence](#the-sweeps-a-measured-blend-a-corroborated-identification-and-a-confound-in-my-own-evidence) +* [A leak I introduced, and a reach sentence that understates its own gap by four elements](#a-leak-i-introduced-and-a-reach-sentence-that-understates-its-own-gap-by-four-elements) +* [EXTRAS is complete: 1.97 → 0.63, and the two metrics disagree about it](#extras-is-complete-197--063-and-the-two-metrics-disagree-about-it) +* [🔴 Refuted: my kind census was a two-screen generalisation, one message after I criticised theirs](#refuted-my-kind-census-was-a-two-screen-generalisation-one-message-after-i-criticised-theirs) +* [🔴 Refuted: the sweeps DO run on the menu, and my instrument was measuring my own renderer](#refuted-the-sweeps-do-run-on-the-menu-and-my-instrument-was-measuring-my-own-renderer) +* [The plate's highlight is additive — and my harness poses it at the one phase where it is invisible](#the-plates-highlight-is-additive--and-my-harness-poses-it-at-the-one-phase-where-it-is-invisible) +* [🔴 A reproduce recipe that names a path off this repo is not a recipe](#a-reproduce-recipe-that-names-a-path-off-this-repo-is-not-a-recipe) + + ## P0 — the exporter, 2026-08-28 ### The exporter reads one authored file, and stamps its provenance into the output @@ -43,7 +389,7 @@ background with no error anywhere. `sprites///.png`. ### The format is executable -`sylpheed-export check --out export` validates a tree against `docs/FORMAT.md` +`sylpheed-export check --out export` validates a tree against `docs/port/FORMAT.md` with no disc in hand. It exists because "the export is correct" is otherwise an assertion, and because the P0 gate is *"validates against FORMAT.md"* — which is not a thing anyone can confirm by reading. @@ -178,7 +524,7 @@ human sees the screen — but it is not what the numbers come from. ## P1 gate — the diff, and what it found -`tools/verify-screen` renders every screen in the manifest both ways and reports +`tools/port/verify-screen` renders every screen in the manifest both ways and reports the largest per-channel difference anywhere in the frame. Both renderers are held to the same inputs: the reference CLI built by `build-reference-cli` from the revision the exporter is **pinned** to (not `/reborn/target/`, which is a live @@ -249,7 +595,7 @@ other eleven screens are clean. destination-pixel bias toward the top-left that no rasteriser produces, and the Xenon GPU that drew this screen sampled at pixel centres. But I have no framebuffer capture of `title_jp` and the disagreement is sub-pixel on one glow, -so this is a reading, not a measurement — recorded in `docs/BLOCKED.md` rather +so this is a reading, not a measurement — recorded in `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` rather than acted on. **The port is not changing to match**, because matching the CLI here would mean deliberately reproducing a half-pixel offset in order to make a number smaller. @@ -260,7 +606,7 @@ Two pixels at 4/255. Rounding. ### What the diff cannot tell us -The pivot question in `docs/BLOCKED.md` predicted that a P1 diff could not +The pivot question in `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` predicted that a P1 diff could not distinguish "anchor scale to the declared pivot" from "anchor to half the texture", because both renderers use the declared pivot. That prediction held: the port and the CLI agree on every scaled element, and that agreement is **not @@ -325,7 +671,7 @@ transparent. The keyframes say they slide (620,108)→(440,108) and (403,267)→ (583,267) while fading 0x00→0xff, and then hold that pose for their last three keyframes including the untimed one. -`/reborn/docs/re/captures/main-menu-oracle.png`, a capture of the running game, +`docs/re/captures/main-menu-oracle.png`, a capture of the running game, **shows them**: the bright circuit-frame bracket around the menu, with a ring at the bottom right. Cropping the same 250×180 region from the capture and from both renders puts the ring and its elbow trace in the port's timeline render @@ -358,7 +704,7 @@ that renderer-vs-renderer diffing compares like with like. Note what this says about P1: the port and the reference renderer **agreed** on `main_menu` to 3/255, and both were missing two elements the game draws. Two renderers reading the same field through the same decoder agreeing is not -evidence that the field is right. `docs/BLOCKED.md` had already said that about +evidence that the field is right. `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` had already said that about the pivot; here it bit for real. ## The title is not settled, and P2 does not claim it @@ -562,7 +908,7 @@ focused record **over** the base element. Those are different operations, and the capture shows a ring marker beside `NEW GAME` that the port does not draw. This is P5's, not P2's, and it is not being guessed at here. Raised in -`docs/BLOCKED.md`. +`docs/port/BLOCKED.md`. --- @@ -765,7 +1111,7 @@ The correction comes from the human, via the RE agent, in their words: Reborn various files. It may very well be wrong." **The oracle is the Xenia Canary capture and the game.** -So `tools/verify-screen` is a **consistency check between two decoders that +So `tools/port/verify-screen` is a **consistency check between two decoders that share their assumptions**, and a regression detector. It is not a correctness check, and agreement in it is not evidence of correctness. @@ -789,7 +1135,7 @@ capture and catchable by nothing else: ### What changes -* `tools/verify-screen` says all of this in its own header, calls the CLI the +* `tools/port/verify-screen` says all of this in its own header, calls the CLI the **comparison** renderer, and a `DIFFERS` row now means "we moved apart, find out which of us moved" rather than "the port is wrong". * The correctness question moves to the captures. The RE agent has committed @@ -809,3 +1155,15436 @@ The port keeps running `verify-screen` over all 16 screens every iteration. A consistency check is still worth having — it is total, it is cheap, and it is what catches a divergence the RE agent introduces on their side. It is simply not a grade, and this file will stop quoting it as one. + +## P5 groundwork — the focus record, checked against a capture, 2026-08-29 + +P5 is the lowest unfinished milestone (P0–P4 are gated above). This iteration did +not implement navigation; it did the measurement P5 needs first, because the one +thing P5 is built on — how a focused button is drawn — had three claims attached +to it and none of them had been checked from this side. + +### The exporter already emits the focus record's second element + +HANDOFF ask 3 answers with a 🔴: *"what you are actually missing is the focus +record's SECOND element"* — `ptbtneff01.t32`, a 42×46 glowing ring, declared +before the bright label in `ptbtn0Nf.rat`. + +**That gap is in the renderer, not the exporter.** `export/screens/title/main_menu.json` +already carries both, in declaration order, under `focus.elements`, for all five +buttons — `ptbtneff01` then `ptbtn0Nf`, each with its own pivot, rest pose and +keyframes. Nothing needs to change in `crates/sylpheed-export` for the ring. What +is missing is that `screen_view.gd` draws only one sprite per focused button. +Recording this so P5 does not re-open the exporter looking for it. + +The ring's size checks out exactly: `ptbtneff01.png` is **42×46**, as stated. + +### The `(7,7)` focus offset survives a refutation attempt, uniquely + +Ask 3 states the focused sprite covers the base at 100.0 % of base-visible pixels +"once aligned properly (the true offset is **(7,7)**, and at the centre alignment +it reads a misleading 78–84 %)". P5 builds directly on this, so it was worth +attacking. + +Re-ran the RE agent's own metric on the exported PNGs — over every pixel where the +base sprite is visible, the fraction where the focus sprite's alpha ≥ the base's — +scanning the whole offset space, not just the stated answer: + +| alignment | ptbtn01 | ptbtn02 | ptbtn03 | ptbtn04 | ptbtn05 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| **(7,7)** | **100.00 %** | **100.00 %** | **100.00 %** | **100.00 %** | **100.00 %** | +| geometric centre | 80.58 % | 79.20 % | 79.58 % | 79.45 % | 79.45 % | +| pivot-to-pivot | 80.58 % | 86.59 % | 87.40 % | 79.45 % | 84.58 % | + +**The refutation fails, and more strongly than the original claim.** Over a +15×14 offset scan, `(7,7)` is a *unique isolated cell* at 100 % on every one of +the five buttons — every neighbouring offset, including (6,6) and (7,6), falls +below 90 %. The centre and pivot alignments reproduce the 78–84 % band the RE +agent reported as misleading. A claim that survives a search of its whole +parameter space is worth more than one checked at a single point, so this is +recorded as strengthened, not merely unrefuted. + +### `(7,7)` is not a constant to apply — it is what the declared positions already say + +An earlier version of this analysis had the port disagreeing with the capture by +6 px. **That was my arithmetic error and it is worth writing down**, because it is +the mistake this format invites: I computed each element's top-left as +`pos - pivot`, which gives base→focus deltas of (13,13) and a 29 % coverage — a +confident wrong number. + +`pos` **is** the top-left. `screen_view.gd:121` is +`Rect2(pos - pivot*(s - 1), natural*s)`: the pivot is the anchor scale grows +about and it *cancels at 100 %*, which is exactly the "can be got wrong +invisibly" the comment there warns about. Getting it wrong invisibly is what +happened. + +With `pos` as the top-left, base − focus is `(542,162) - (535,155)` = **(7,7)** +directly, on four of the five buttons. So P5 draws each focus element at its own +declared `pos` and needs no offset constant at all. Nothing to author. + +### The one real find: `ptbtn04` is 1 px off the grid on the disc + +The focus records sit on a clean 80 px pitch — 155, 235, 315, 395, 475. The +**base** records do not: 162, 242, 322, **401**, 482, i.e. spacings 80, 80, **79**, +**81**. So `ptbtn04`'s declared base→focus delta is **(7,6)**, while the art +itself aligns at (7,7) — the coverage scan puts `ptbtn04` at 100 % on (7,7) and +below 90 % on (7,6), the same as every other button. + +This is 1 px of authoring jitter on the disc, not a decode error, and it has one +consequence worth stating: **do not derive the focus placement from the base by a +constant.** Draw the focus record at its own declared `pos`. A port that +"simplified" this to base + (7,7) would put `ptbtn04`'s focus art 1 px off, and +would look right on the other four. + +### Verified against a capture, not against our other renderer + +Diffing two oracle frames isolates what focus changes without any instrument in +the path: `live-main-menu.png` vs `live-main-menu-options-focused.png` differ in +one tight cluster of 6 338 px at **x 506..702, y 398..445**. `ptbtn04` is the +`OPTIONS` button, and the union of its focus record under the `pos`-as-top-left +reading — ring `ptbtneff01` at (500,396) 42×46 plus label `ptbtn04f` at (535,395) +172×56 — is **x 500..706, y 395..451**. Those agree on all four edges to within a +few px of near-transparent sprite border. + +Under the `pos - pivot` reading the same record predicts x 433..604, y 367..422, +which matches nothing in the capture — and *no* button matches that cluster. The +capture, not our renderer, is what settles it. + +### An instrument that failed its own control, and was therefore discarded + +To locate the buttons independently I wrote a masked normalised-cross-correlation +template matcher and ran it as PROTOCOL requires — **through a control first**: +match each *base* sprite against the *plain* capture, where the declared position +is known and the answer must be a (0,0) delta. + +It returned deltas of (13,5), (6,−19), (12,21), (−16,22), (6,8) at NCC +**0.096–0.206** — noise, with three of five pinned to the ±22 search boundary. +The control fails, so the instrument is dead rather than tuneable, and **none of +its output is used above.** The button art is dark, low-contrast and further +crushed by the capture's γ ≈ 1.49 ramp, which is the likely cause; a matcher for +this corpus would have to work on gradients rather than luminance. Filed so the +next iteration does not rebuild the same broken tool. + +### What P5 still needs, and has not got + +* **Initial focus is not stable across boots** (Q5: 2× `TUTORIAL`, 2× `NEW GAME`). + That is a value to author, with a `why` naming Q5 — it is not written yet. +* **The ring's own animation is unread.** `ptbtneff01`'s two keyframes go + `rotation_deg` 0 → **360** at t=120 with no second timed keyframe, i.e. a full + turn. Whether it spins continuously while focused, or turns once and holds, is + the group-loop question again — answered "groups hold" for build-in animations, + but a 360° hold and a 0° hold are the same pose, so *this* group cannot be told + apart by its rest pose. Not guessed; raised below. + +--- + +## P5 — navigation, 2026-08-29 + +The gate is *"a human clicks through it"*, and the artifact is a walk that +proves the wiring rather than the intent: `up` (which wraps 01→05), five `down`, +Ⓐ into `EXTRAS`, `down`, Ⓑ back — landing on the main menu with focus restored +to `EXTRAS`. + +```sh +xvfb-run -a godot --path port -- --menu \ + --script=up,down,down,down,down,down,accept,down,cancel --shots=/tmp/p5 +``` + +Ten PNGs, one per step, each taken after the screen it produced had settled. +Contact sheet handed over as `share` id `1788002507-ef4468a0a33a`. + +### The scripted walk goes through the input system, not around it + +`--script` posts `InputEventAction` through `Input.parse_input_event` and lets +it arrive at `_unhandled_input` exactly as a d-pad's press would. Calling +`MenuFlow.move()`/`accept()`/`cancel()` directly would have been shorter and +would have proved nothing: the thing most likely to be broken is the wiring +between a press and the cursor, and a direct call is precisely the part that +skips it. The same reasoning says the settle wait must be real — a shot taken +before the screen stops moving photographs a fade and calls it a menu. + +### What is authored here, and what is derived + +Split deliberately, because P5 is where the two are easiest to blur: + +| | where | why | +|---|---|---| +| the ORDER of the items | **derived** — each screen file's `buttons`, filled by the exporter from the button-role elements sorted by resting Y | it is on the disc | +| where an item goes | **authored** — `authored/flow.json` | HANDOFF Q4 *measured* the destinations; they are not in the file | +| which item opens focused | **authored** | Q5 measured that it is **not stable boot to boot** | +| what Ⓑ does | **authored** | Q5, measured — except on the main menu, see below | +| ⬅➡ do nothing | **authored**, written as an explicit no-op | so that *"the game ignores it"* and *"we never wired it"* are different lines of code | + +Four of the five main-menu destinations are `goto: null` with a `blocked` note. +That is **not** an unknown: `DIFFICULTY`, the save-slot list, the lesson list and +the settings menu were all measured, and they live in archives this export does +not carry. `blocked` and `none` are kept apart so a later reader does not +"discover" a gap that was a milestone boundary. + +`EXTRAS` is the only main-menu destination inside `GP_TITLE`, and therefore the +only Ⓐ-into-a-submenu this gate can actually walk. + +### The one navigation rule with nothing behind it + +Ⓑ on the **main menu** → title. HANDOFF Q5 states it, and `flow.json` marks it +*authored — likely but UNPROVEN*, because the title also self-returns after +~8–10 s idle and a single unrecorded observation cannot separate the two. The +port implements it anyway — a menu with no way out is worse than a menu with a +plausible one — and says in the file that it did. Asked of the Decoder this +iteration; see `BLOCKED.md`. + +Independent corroboration that the main menu is different from its submenu: +the main menu's footer advertises only `Ⓐ : OK`, while `EXTRAS`' footer +advertises `Ⓑ : Back`. That is on the disc, in `ptmsg.png` vs `ptmsg2.png`, and +it is visible in both the port's render and the captures. + +### A press during a fade is dropped + +**Authored, and not measured.** Nobody has watched what the game does with a +button pressed mid-transition. Dropping invents less than queueing does: it +cannot manufacture a press the game might have discarded. `flow.json` says so +under `navigation.input_during_transition`. + +--- + +## `--headless` cannot draw, and the port hung instead of saying so, 2026-08-29 + +`docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md` and the loop prompt both name `godot-headless` as +how this project runs unattended. It does not work, and the way it failed was +the worst available shape. + +**Measured, not assumed.** Under `--headless` Godot's dummy renderer never emits +`RenderingServer.frame_post_draw`. Every capture path in `boot.gd` awaits it — +`--capture` since P1, `--film` since P3, `--shots` as of this milestone — so all +three blocked forever. Isolated by the difference between two runs: + +``` +godot --headless --path port --quit # prints, exits 0 +godot --headless --path port -- --screen=… --capture=… # no output at all, killed at 40 s +``` + +The second produces **zero bytes of output** before it is killed, because +Godot's stdout is block-buffered and never flushes. So the observable behaviour +of an unattended headless capture was: silence, forever. In a loop, a job that +waits reads as a job still working — this is the failure mode that costs a whole +iteration and leaves nothing behind to say what happened. + +Two changes, and deliberately not one: + +* `--capture`, `--film` and `--shots` **refuse at startup** under `--headless`, + naming the flag and printing the `xvfb-run` line that does work. Refusing + early rather than at the first frame means the run does not die halfway + through a filmstrip with some frames written. +* `--script` **no longer waits for a drawn frame when it is not going to + photograph one.** Navigation is checkable where nothing draws, and that is + worth keeping: `godot --headless --path port -- --menu --script=…` now walks + the menus and exits 0 in about four seconds, which is a cheap regression check + that needs no X server at all. + +The Xvfb path is unchanged and is what produced the P5 artifact. + +--- + +## Refutation — the focus ring IS drawn rotated, and it is not at 0° in either capture + +Attempted against the Decoder's `7eeae30` (*"re(ui): the focus ring SPINS, the +game draws it, and the leaf owns the f record"*), point 2: that in the +OPTIONS-focused capture the ring's bright head sits in a different angular +position from the sprite's own, caught mid-spin. **It survives**, and the +evidence is stronger than what was claimed. + +Chosen for refutation because it is exactly what PROTOCOL says to aim at: a +claim the port is about to build on, resting on an estimator (a brightest-region +centroid) whose own control the Decoder reported as ±19.8°. + +### The test, and why it needs no absolute registration + +`live-main-menu.png` has `ptbtn01` focused; `live-main-menu-options-focused.png` +has `ptbtn04` focused. Both draw **the same sprite**, `ptbtneff01.png` — the +export confirms the two focus records name the same file. So the two captures +contain two instances of one 42×46 image, 240 px apart in design space, and the +question *"is it drawn rotated"* becomes *"are these two crops the same image +at a different angle"* — which needs no crop offset and no reference to our own +renderer. + +Method: sample each ring into a 360-bin **angular luminance profile** over the +annulus band (r = 9…15 px, bilinear, 0.5 px radial step) and circularly +cross-correlate. A rotation about the centre shifts that vector and changes +nothing else. + +### The instrument was run through two controls before it was believed + +| control | result | +|---|---| +| rotate a capture's own ring by a known 0/30/90/150/210/270/330° and recover it | **0° error on all seven**, peak corr 1.000 | +| the same estimator on a ring-free 60×64 patch of the *same* capture | peak corr **0.369** — it does not manufacture a match | + +### The measurement + +On one shared centre for all three images, so a centroid difference cannot +masquerade as a rotation: + +| pair | best shift | peak corr | corr at 0° | +|---|---|---|---| +| capture A vs capture B | **134°** | 0.968 | −0.064 | +| sprite (unrotated) vs capture A | **76°** | 0.969 | −0.295 | +| sprite (unrotated) vs capture B | **210°** | 0.948 | −0.181 | + +210 − 76 = 134: the three measurements are internally consistent, which nothing +in the method forced them to be. Sweeping the centre by ±2 px moves the A-vs-B +answer over 117…161° while the peak correlation stays 0.9+ across the middle of +that range, so the **magnitude is ~134° ± ~15°** and the precision claim stops +there. + +Evidence sheet — sprite, capture A, capture B, each cropped at the declared +`42×46+500+156` / `+500+396` — handed over as `share` id +`1788002507-afe1ad843789`. The phase difference is obvious by eye; the numbers +are here so it is not only obvious by eye. + +### The two things this settles for the port + +1. **The game draws `rotation_deg` on an element the English boot path shows.** + This is a second, independent confirmation on a different screen and a + different element from the `ptloop` sweeps, and it moves HANDOFF **ask 4** + (*should the port draw rotation*) off "changes nothing at rest" — it changes + the main menu's focus marker, in every frame. + +2. **0° is not a pose the running game shows.** `screen_view.gd` currently draws + the ring at its `rest` pose, which is `rotation_deg 0`, and both captures put + it at 76° and 210°. So the port's focus marker is **known** to be wrong, not + suspected — and the comment in `screen_view.gd` now says which two numbers it + is wrong against. + +### Registration, as a by-product + +The ring's annulus centroid lands at (32.94, 36.63) and (33.30, 38.90) in +windows whose design-space prediction under a **zero crop offset** is +(33.0, 37.0). Within ~0.4 px on the better-thresholded of the two. That +corroborates `ORACLE-CAPTURES.md`'s *"1279×675, top-left aligned"* directly, on +a feature nobody chose for the purpose. + +⚠️ Do not read the earlier P5-groundwork note *"button text bands land at design +y + 23"* as a crop offset — it is an offset **within** the button sprite, and +the two were nearly confused here. + +### What the port did NOT do about it + +It did not start spinning the ring. The period is a **guess with two unknowns** +and both belong to the Decoder: + +* the keyframes are `t=120, rot 0` then an **untimed** `rot 360`. Under HANDOFF + Q1's replicated reading (*"`+36` is the time the NEXT pose is reached"*) that + is one revolution in 120 units = **2.0 s** — but this port's `pose_at` + implements the *other* reading, and switching it is a change to every screen's + animation timing, not a P5 change; +* *"groups hold"* (settled 2026-08-28) predicts the ring stops at 360° = 0°. + Both captures show it elsewhere. That is either a spin that loops, or two + captures both taken inside the first two seconds of focus. **The port cannot + tell those apart**, and a wrong answer here is a visible continuous rotation + on whichever button the player is sitting on. + +Filed in `BLOCKED.md` and asked over the message channel. What settles it is two +frames of one focused button a known time apart. + +--- + +## P5 end to end — and the title does not say `PRESS Ⓐ`, 2026-08-29 + +The gate walk above starts on a screen. This is the whole thing, unattended, in +one run — the sequence PORT-MISSION names as the objective: + +```sh +xvfb-run -a godot --path port -- --boot --play \ + --script=accept,down,down,down,down,accept,cancel,cancel --shots=/tmp/e2e +``` + +``` +screen publisher_logo … settles at t=235 (3.917 s) + -> developer_logos at 4.70 s + -> video ADV at 8.60 s + video ended at 151.91 s + -> title at 151.91 s +boot sequence complete after 156.30 s, holding on title + menu on title +script[1] accept (A) -> main_menu +… +script[6] accept (EXTRAS) -> extras +script[7] cancel (B) -> main_menu focus restored to ptbtn05 +script[8] cancel (B) -> title +script complete after 166.76 s on title +``` + +Publisher wordmark → developer logos → `ADV` → title → Ⓐ → main menu → +navigate → Ⓐ → `EXTRAS` → Ⓑ (focus restored) → Ⓑ → title. Contact sheet shared. + +Two smaller things this run found, both fixed here: + +* the boot step's `why` in `authored/flow.json` still said *"nothing takes the + title's place until P5 gives it somewhere to go"*. P5 has. Rewritten to say + what is actually true — `--boot` still **stops** on the title, and `--play` + **hands the held title over**; the stop is not a bug and the handover is not + another boot step. +* an empty focus printed as a line that trailed off, which reads like a value + went missing rather than like there is none. The title is a screen with no + `buttons` that still takes Ⓐ, so it prints + `(none -- this screen has no focusable item)`. + +Also confirmed on the way: entering a submenu **directly** (`--menu=extras`) and +pressing Ⓑ enters the parent at its authored initial focus, not at a restored +one — there is no history to restore, and `MenuFlow.cancel` only claims a +restored focus when the stack agrees about where it is going. + +### 🔴 The port's title does not tell the player to press Ⓐ + +Found by running the objective end to end, which is the only thing that would +have found it: the boot's last step is `title` (build 4), and **build 4 has no +`PRESS Ⓐ BUTTON` plate**. P5 has now made Ⓐ the only way off that screen. + +This is not a guess about the art. Both states are captured off the running +game and they differ by exactly that plate: + +| | capture | +|---|---| +| title **without** the plate | `title-builds/live-title-build4-no-plate.png` | +| title **with** the plate | `title-builds/live-title-press-a.png` | + +And the plate is already exported — `press_start`, `GP_TITLE` build 2 (HANDOFF +Q2), sitting in `export/screens/title/` unused by anything. + +**This is P3's gate, not P5's, and P5 is what exposed it.** Recording rather +than fixing, for two reasons: + +1. Which state an idle post-boot title shows — build 4 alone, build 4 with the + plate over it, or build 4 *then* the plate after a delay — is **behavioural**, + and the port has no oracle for a sequence. The game demonstrably has both + states; nothing here says which one follows the intro movie. That is the + Decoder's. +2. Showing it would mean **drawing two builds at once**, which this port has + never done — every mode loads exactly one screen. That is a real change to + `ScreenView`, not a line in `flow.json`, and it should not be smuggled in + under a navigation milestone on the strength of "it looks more right". + +Filed in `BLOCKED.md`. Not blocking: P5's gate is Ⓐ into a submenu and Ⓑ back, +and both work. + +## P6 — menu audio, 2026-08-29 + +The disc's menu sound reaches Godot as Ogg Vorbis: three cues and one music bed. +Nothing in `port/` has heard of XMA, `sound.pak` or `Static.slb`, and nothing in +it reassembles anything — `sylpheed_formats::media` does that and the exporter +converts what it hands back. + +### The cue offsets moved OUT of the exporter, into `authored/` + +The previous iteration left `crates/sylpheed-export/src/audio.rs` holding the +three `Static.slb` offsets as a Rust `const CUES`. That is wrong under MISSION +§3 and the fix is the first thing this iteration did. + +Those offsets are **measured**, not decoded. `Static.slb` has no `RIFF`, no seek +chunk and no container: it is a packed run of whole 2048-byte XMA1 packets, and a +wave is defined *only* by `(offset, packet_count)`. Both numbers came from the +running game — Canary with `--xma_param_probe=true` prints a stream's packet +count and first 32 bytes when it is played, and searching those bytes in the bank +gives the offset (HANDOFF Q8). + +A measured value compiled into the exporter is **a measurement wearing the +costume of a decoded field**. It reads as though the exporter derived it from the +disc; nobody deletes it when the real answer lands, because nobody can see that +there is anything to delete. So the table is `authored/audio.json` `se.*`, each +row carrying its own `why`, and the exporter holds no cue table at all. + +`crate::video::MOVIES` stays a `const` in the exporter, and the contrast is the +point: Q9 **decoded** that mapping off the movie manifest on the disc. Same +shape, different provenance, different home. + +### `name_match` is a field, and its absence means something + +Q8 names `SE_UI_CURSOR` for the move cue by **name match against the authors' own +identifiers** — a plausible guess, not the measurement. For Ⓐ, Q8 is explicit +that the wave was *not* separated between `SE_UI_DECIDE` and +`SE_UI_SUB_WIN_OPN`, so no name is claimed at all. + +`name_match` therefore travels beside every cue in `authored/audio.json` and in +`manifest.json`, and **an absent one means nobody claimed a name — never that +the binding is unknown.** The binding is the measured part. Collapsing the two +would turn "we did not separate two candidates" into "we do not know what this +sound is", which is a different and much weaker statement than the one the RE +agent actually made. + +### The BGM is NOT a choice, and this port spent an iteration believing it was + +The first draft of `authored/audio.json` picked `BGM_001`, wrote a careful `why` +explaining that the choice was arbitrary, and was **wrong**. + +`docs/port/BLOCKED.md` carried the row that caused it: *"not on the disc … the +port is choosing a track, and that choice is authored."* The menu's music is +**`BGM_103`**, and it is in HANDOFF at **`9ca1eb5`** — the exact commit that page +says it was reconciled against. So this was not staleness. **The row was wrong +when it was written.** + +What HANDOFF says is a negative *with a bound*, and the bound is the entire +content of it: + +> the **tables** cannot say — `SOUNDS`, `FILES` and the bank headers name no +> screen. `GamePart_Title`'s phase handler `sub_821C5580` carries `li r5, 1103` +> into a sound call; cue 1103 is `BGM_103`; and `BGM_103.slb`'s two declared +> waves (3 876 864 / 3 930 112 B) are byte-for-byte the two streams the XMA probe +> saw decoding at the main menu. Static code, disc census and runtime all agree. +> **"The port does not have to choose a track."** + +The failure is worth naming precisely, because "read HANDOFF more carefully" is +not the lesson — `BLOCKED.md`'s own staleness check passed, twice, and would pass +again. **A negative summarised without its reach reads as a bigger negative than +it is.** "The tables cannot say" became "it is not on the disc", and one word of +scope was the whole answer. A row in `BLOCKED.md` must quote the reach. + +It also cost a second thing worth recording: the port would have shipped a menu +playing the wrong music with a confident `why` beside it saying the choice was +deliberate. That is exactly the shape of error this project's vocabulary exists +to prevent, produced *by* the machinery meant to prevent it. + +### The bank name carries `.slb`, and that is how the mistake surfaced + +`BGM_001` is not in `sound.pak`. `BGM_001.slb` is — `media::read_sound_bank` +looks up `name_hash(name)` against the TOC, and the TOC hashes the **file name**. +`Static.slb` worked from the first run only because the RE finding happens to +write it with its extension. + +So the wrong track never played: the export failed loudly with *"BGM_001: not +present in sound.pak"*. That is luck, not design — had the draft picked a name +that happened to resolve, nothing would have complained. The `why` in +`authored/audio.json` now records both the correct name and why the short form +fails. + +`export_bgm` now distinguishes the two cases it was conflating. A bank that is +**not in this disc's `sound.pak`** is a missing asset: the manifest takes a +warning and everything else still exports. Any other failure — a short read, a +malformed bank — still stops the run, because a partly-read bank produces a file +that plays. + +### The two stems are summed. That part is not a choice + +Q10 also measured that a bank's sub-waves are **two stems of one performance, +played together** — sample-synchronous, equal duration, on all 32 banks. +Concatenating them is explicitly wrong. + +Emitting them as two files would be wrong for a second, independent reason: +MODDING rule 1 is *one logical asset, one file*, and handing a modder two stems +to line up by hand is precisely the reassembly the exporter exists to have +already done. `amix=normalize=0` sums at unity rather than halving, because +halving is a mix decision nobody made — and because a sum can clip, the peak is +**measured and reported** rather than silently corrected. + +### The loop seam is ugly on purpose + +🔴 **SUPERSEDED — see *"the menu BGM loop window"* below and `authored/audio.json`'s +`loop_start_why`.** The loop point exists: it is a **runtime** field set by +`XMASetLoopData`, and for `BGM_103` it is **[9.44 s, 71.31 s], cycling every +61.87 s**, which the exporter has trimmed to since. This section is kept because +it is what the port believed when it shipped the seam, and the reasoning below — +that inventing a loop point is worse than an ugly one — is why the wait was +cheap. Every claim in the paragraph that follows is dead. + +No loop-point field has been identified [refuted]. `loop: "restart"` replays from sample 0, +so a listener hears the track's own fade-out and its trailing silence before the +music comes back. + +Trimming to the fade would sound better and would be **worse**. It would invent a +loop point, and an invented one is indistinguishable from a decoded one a month +later — which is the failure mode this whole project is organised against. The +seam stays audible until a loop point is measured or a capture of the real menu +looping settles it. + +### When a cue fires — two rules measured, one authored + +* **Move** fires on a press that *actually moves the cursor*. `MenuFlow.move()` + already returned whether it did, which is why left/right stay silent by + construction rather than by a rule written twice (Q5: ⬅➡ do nothing, and Q8: + they play nothing). +* **Ⓐ and Ⓑ** fire when the press *does something*, and not when nothing is + bound. 🟡 **This half is authored and NOT measured** — nobody has watched the + game take a dead press. Silence invents less: a sound the game does not make is + a wrong fact you can hear, while a missing one is a gap. `blocked` counts as + doing something, because those destinations *were* measured off the running + game and are missing from this export, not from the game. +* The bed starts when the menu becomes live and **carries across submenus**. + `play_bed` is idempotent, because music that restarts every time you press Ⓑ is + the kind of wrong that reads as "the audio works". + +### `--audio=` records the Master bus, because neither container has a sound card + +`docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §2. An `AudioEffectRecord` on the Master bus +captures the mixed output from inside a headless run with no device at all, and +that is the only thing that closes the loop the file opens: comparing an exported +Ogg against the disc proves the **asset** is right and says nothing about whether +the engine ever reached it. + +The run prints `AudioServer.get_driver_name()` beside the file it wrote, because +"recorded under a dummy driver" is a weaker claim than "heard" and the write-up +has to be able to say which one it is making. + +The WAV is saved in `_exit_tree` rather than beside each `quit()`. There are +eight of those, and the one that would get missed is an error path — exactly the +run whose audio somebody wants to look at. + +### `check` now refuses silence and clipping + +`sylpheed-export check` gained an `audio` pass, and two of its rules are content +checks rather than schema checks. That is deliberate. Silence is *the* audio +failure that looks like success — a file of the right duration, the right channel +count and the right size, full of zeroes — and it passes every structural check +there is. Clipping is the other one, and the BGM can produce it because it is a +sum at unity gain. The exporter measures both at export time; `check` refuses a +tree whose peak is ≤ −90 dBFS or ≥ 0 dBFS. + +Neither is a judgement about whether the audio is the *right* audio. Nothing in +that binary can know that, and `BLOCKED.md` says which parts are still authored +guesses. + +### A bug worth naming: the temp name ate the file extension + +`run_ffmpeg` wrote to `.back.ogg.partial` — the temp-name-then-rename discipline +this project uses everywhere, and which `AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` records as +already having caused a confident wrong number once. + +ffmpeg picks its muxer **from the output filename**, so that is not a slightly +uglier temp name; it is a hard failure before a byte is written: *"Unable to +choose an output format for '.back.ogg.partial'"*. `video.rs` already had the +right shape (`.ADV.partial.ogv`) and this function was written from scratch +without looking at it. The extension goes last. + +### Refutation — the three Q8 cue durations, checked end to end + +**The claim:** HANDOFF Q8 publishes three cue lengths — move **0.533 s** +(8 192 B, 4 packets), back **0.344 s** (4 096 B, 2), confirm **1.016 s** +(12 288 B, 6). P6 is built directly on top of these, which by PROTOCOL's own rule +makes them the right thing to attack: refutation is cheapest where the other +agent is most confident, and most valuable where the port is about to build. + +**Why they looked attackable.** The three do not share a rate. Seconds per +packet is 0.133, 0.172 and 0.169 — the move cue is 22 % off the other two. If a +packet were a fixed span of audio, at most one of these numbers could be right. + +**Why that is not a refutation.** An XMA1 packet is 2 048 bytes of *bitstream*, +not a fixed span: it carries a variable number of 512-sample frames. At 48 kHz a +frame is 10.667 ms, and the three durations come to **50.0, 32.3 and 95.3 +frames** — near-integers, which is what a variable-frames-per-packet encoding +looks like and is not what an arithmetic slip looks like. + +**The measurement.** The exporter reads `(offset, packet_count)` through +`media::se_wave_riff`, decodes, and `ffprobe`s the finished Ogg: + +| cue | Q8 claims | exported file measures | +|---|---|---| +| move | 0.533 s | **0.533 s** | +| back | 0.344 s | **0.344 s** | +| confirm | 1.016 s | **1.016 s** | + +**Verdict: survives, exactly, at every published digit.** Recorded as a survival +rather than a pass, because that is what PROTOCOL asks for — a claim that has +survived an attempt is stronger than one nobody challenged, and the corpus should +say which it is. + +⚠️ **Reach, stated so nobody over-reads it.** This is not independent of Q8: the +durations were derived from the same packet counts the exporter feeds in, so what +it confirms is that reading those `(offset, packets)` through +`sylpheed_formats::media` yields streams of exactly the claimed length — i.e. +that the *transcription* into `authored/audio.json` and the assembly path are +right. It does **not** confirm that these three waves are the sounds the game +plays on those three events; that is Q8's own measurement, taken by playing them, +and this port has no oracle to re-take it with. + +The attempt did find something, just not here: see the BGM section above, where +the port's *own* `BLOCKED.md` row failed the same kind of check. + +### The BGM bank has three sub-waves and HANDOFF says it has two + +`media::sound_bank_riffs("BGM_103.slb")` returns **three**. HANDOFF Q10's census +says a music bank is *"exactly two waves of identical duration (32/32 banks on +the disc)"* — and that census is itself a correction, of an earlier reading that +called `BGM_001` three sub-waves and was refuted with "the 10 KB is the bank +header". + +The third comes from `sylpheed-formats/src/slb.rs:380`, `to_xma_riffs`: when a +bank has a leading headerless packet region ahead of its first `RIFF`, that +region is emitted as a sub-wave. It exists because the voice path needs it — +`VOICE_D_453` decoded to 0.14 s without it. `docs/re/REFUTED.md` already records +the same region as what makes `BGM_106`–`BGM_109` "break the two-wave rule". + +**The port sums all three and says so in the manifest.** That is not the +appealing answer — dropping sub-wave 0 would give a file matching the census, and +it would have been one line. It is the correct one: *which bytes belong together* +is the question `sylpheed_formats::media` owns, MISSION §2 names re-deriving it +here as the single easiest thing in this project to get subtly wrong, and "the +decoder returned something the corpus does not predict" is a finding to report, +not a number to quietly adjust. Adjusting it would also have destroyed the +evidence: a corrected export looks exactly like a correct one. + +So the export ships the decoders' answer, the manifest carries a warning naming +the contradiction, `BLOCKED.md` has the row, and the Decoder has the pointer. +Until it comes back, **the menu plays a sum of three things where the census +predicts two**, and every one of those places says so. + +### Clipping — and a comment of mine that argued for the thing that clipped + +The BGM came out at **+1.8 dBFS**. The comment above the code that produced it +said `amix=normalize=0` sums at unity "because halving is a mix decision nobody +made". + +That was wrong in both halves. Unity summing *is* a decision, and it is the one +that clips. And 1/n is not a taste call: it is the smallest constant that makes +an n-input sum of unity-scale signals provably clip-free, which is precisely the +reasoning `video.rs` already carried for its 0.4142-normalised 5.1 downmix — in +this same repository, written by this same port, and not looked at. It preserves +the stems' relative balance exactly, which is the only thing about the sum that +Q10 settles. + +It is written as an explicit `volume=` rather than left to `amix`'s +`normalize=1` default, so the coefficient appears in the manifest's command line. +A default is a decision nobody made and it can move under an ffmpeg upgrade — +the same argument MISSION §6 makes about the downmix matrix. + +**The `confirm` cue is a different case and is not "fixed".** It lands at ++0.18 dBFS, and it is a single wave off the disc with no arithmetic of ours in +it: the disc masters it near full scale and a lossy decode of a near-full-scale +signal overshoots by a fraction of a dB. Attenuating it would mean altering a +game asset to make one of our own numbers smaller. So `check` bounds the two +kinds differently — a `bgm` peak ≥ 0 dBFS is refused outright, because it is our +sum; an `se` is refused only above **+1.0 dBFS**. + +🟡 That +1.0 is a **judgement and not a measurement**, and it is the weakest +number in P6. Nobody has measured the overshoot distribution across a corpus of +cues. If a cue ever trips it, the right response is that measurement, not a +looser bound. + +## P6 gate — the audio is in the mix, and a null control says which part + +No container here has a sound card, so "P6 works" cannot be answered by +listening. `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` splits the question into three, and +these are the two that need no device. + +### 1. The exported files, measured off the finished assets + +``` +se back -> audio/se/back.ogg (0.344 s, peak -5.7 dBFS) +se confirm -> audio/se/confirm.ogg (1.016 s, peak +0.2 dBFS) +se move -> audio/se/move.ogg (0.533 s, peak -1.4 dBFS) +bgm main_menu -> audio/bgm/main_menu.ogg + (87.744 s, peak -7.7 dBFS, bank BGM_103.slb, 3 sub-waves) +``` + +`sylpheed-export check export` passes: 16 screens validate, and every audio entry +carries a peak and a duration inside its bounds. The three cue durations match +HANDOFF Q8 at every published digit — see the refutation record above. + +### 2. The engine, recorded off the Master bus + +``` +godot --path port -- --menu --script=down,down,accept,cancel --audio=…/p6.wav + → recorded 6.037 s of Master bus (driver Dummy) + peak 0.0 dBFS, RMS −21.1 dBFS +``` + +**Non-silent is not the claim.** A WAV of the right duration full of the *bed* +would look exactly like this, and the cues could be missing entirely. So the cue +was isolated with a **null control**: the same scripted walk with ⬅ in place of ⬇. +Left/right are measured no-ops (Q5) and fire nothing, so the two runs differ by +exactly two move cues and nothing else — same screens, same transitions, the same +Ⓐ and Ⓑ cues in both, the same bed. + +| | RMS | +|---|---| +| walk with two ⬇ presses | −21.9 dBFS | +| walk with two ⬅ presses (null) | −22.1 dBFS | +| **difference** | **−34.6 dBFS** | + +The difference is not spread over the run. It is **one burst beginning at +t = 1.10 s and lasting 0.55 s** — two overlapping 0.533 s move cues — with 22 of +237 windows above −70 dBFS and silence everywhere else, including across the Ⓐ +and Ⓑ presses, which cancel because both runs make them. That is the cue reaching +the bus, separated from the music that was playing over it. + +### The control that proved nothing, kept because it nearly passed + +The first attempt paired `--script=down,down` against `--script=left,left`. The +difference was **bit-identical zero**, which reads as "the cues never reached the +bus" and would have been reported as a bug. + +It was neither. Both runs recorded **1.115 s** while the first press lands at +~1.17 s: the control ended before the event it was controlling for. A null result +from an instrument that was not running is not a null result — PROTOCOL's "run +your own instrument through a control" applies to the control too. + +### What this does NOT establish + +* **That it sounds right.** Everything above is correspondence and separation, + not judgement. A ten-second human listen still answers something no measurement + here does. +* **That the bed is at a sane level against the cues.** 🔴 The Master bus peaks at + **0.0 dBFS** in the four-step run — the `confirm` cue is +0.2 dBFS on its own, + so any music under it puts the mix on the ceiling. Per-file levels are the + disc's and are fine; the **runtime** mix has no headroom. The port has not set a + bus balance, because nothing measures one and an invented balance is the same + class of mistake as an invented loop point. Recorded here rather than fixed + quietly. +* **That "Dummy driver" means heard.** It does not, and the run prints the driver + name so a write-up cannot forget to say so. + +### One bug, in two dialects, both about a temp filename + +The temp-name-then-rename discipline this project uses everywhere broke twice in +this milestone, in two different tools, for the same underlying reason: **tools +dispatch on the extension, so a temp name must preserve it.** + +* `run_ffmpeg` wrote `.back.ogg.partial` → *"Unable to choose an output format"*, + a hard failure before a byte was written. +* `boot.gd` wrote `p6.wav.part` → `save_to_wav` **appends** `.wav` when the path + does not end in it, producing `p6.wav.part.wav`; the rename then failed to find + its source, its return value was not checked, and the run printed a success + line naming a file that did not exist. + +The second is the more dangerous shape, and it is the one this project has +already warned itself about: a confident line of output pointing at nothing. The +rename's return is now checked and the failure is loud. + +## P3, reopened — the boot title was missing the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate, 2026-08-29 + +P3 passed its gate with a boot that ended on build 4 alone. `BLOCKED.md` carried +that as 🔴 from the start: both states were captured, so the art was never the +question — the *sequence* was, and it is behavioural, so the port had no oracle +for it. + +It is answered. `docs/re/title-plate-delay-measured.md` +(`auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures` at `fb536df`, **not on `main`** at the time of +writing) measures two independent boots: the title presents **without** the +plate, and the plate arrives **2.13 s** later, the two runs agreeing to 6 ms. + +### Two builds at once, as two `ScreenView`s + +`ScreenView` draws one screen. The obvious change was to teach it about a +subordinate overlay screen; the change made was to put a **second `ScreenView` +in the same `SubViewport`**, after the first. + +That is what "two builds at once" actually is. Each build has its own timeline, +its own textures and its own hold — the plate's group runs independently of the +title's, which is the entire content of the finding — and Node2D siblings already +paint in tree order. The alternative would have put an `if overlay` in every +method that walks elements, and would have expressed the same information less +directly. The export's `paint_order` still means what it always meant: an +ordering *within* a build. + +### The delay is timed from where build 4 stops animating + +Not from where the title first appears. This is the finding rather than a detail: +measured from first-draw the two oracle runs differ by **0.48 s**, because the +build-in itself ran 1.64 s and 2.13 s and the emulator's frame pacing during an +animation is not the game's clock. Measured from settle they differ by 6 ms. + +So `_boot_done` — the moment the sequencer already had for "this screen has +reached its hold" — is the landmark, and the overlay is due `after_settle_seconds` +later. A number taken from the wrong instant here looks exactly like a +measurement. + +### The overlay is attached to the BOOT STEP, not to the `title` screen + +What was measured is the boot title. Whether the plate is there when the title is +reached *again* — by Ⓑ from the main menu, or after the attract movie — is not +measured, and hanging the overlay on the screen would quietly claim that it is. +So it lives on the boot step in `authored/flow.json`, and `_drop_overlay` takes +it away with the screen it belongs to. `BLOCKED.md` carries the gap. + +### Refutation — the RE agent's instruction contradicts the RE agent's measurement + +**The claim under test**, quoted from the finding's *"What the port should +author"*: draw build 4, *"when build 4 has settled, wait **2.13 s**, composite +build 2 over it"*. + +**It does not reproduce the measurement it came from**, and the gap is 3.97 s. +Build 2 is not a static plate: it has a group, and this port plays groups. +`press_start` has one element, `ptbtn00`, and its `fade_argb` reads + +``` +t=214 0x00ffffff pos (383, 560) invisible +t=236 0x00ffffff pos (383, 550) still invisible, having slid 10 px up +t=238 0xffffffff full alpha +t=244 0xffffffff holds + — 0x00ffffff the exit, untimed +``` + +At the measured 60 units/s that is **3.967 s** from the group's start to full +alpha. Compose the instruction with the group and the plate is first *visible* at +settle + 2.13 + 3.97 = **settle + 6.10 s**. What was measured — the glyph counter +leaving its no-plate value of 154 — is the plate becoming visible at **settle + +2.13 s**. + +Neither obvious reconciliation works: + +| reading | plate visible at | measured | +|---|---|---| +| both groups start together | 3.97 s (build 4 settles at **4.350 s**) — i.e. 0.38 s *before* settle | settle + 2.13 s | +| build 2's group starts at settle | settle + 3.97 s | settle + 2.13 s | +| build 2's group starts at settle + 2.13 s (the instruction) | settle + 6.10 s | settle + 2.13 s | + +To land on the measurement, build 2's group has to start **2.51 s** after build +4's, which is not a landmark of anything. + +**Verdict: the instruction is refuted as written; the measurement is untouched.** +The measurement is an observation of the running game and this port has no +standing to doubt it. What is refuted is the step that turns it into an +authoring rule, and that step is an interpretation. + +**So the port ships the instruction, not its own arithmetic**, prints the +discrepancy on every boot, and files the row. This is the same call as the BGM +sub-waves and for the same reason: reconciling two of the RE agent's numbers is +a decoding question, and a port that quietly picks the one that looks right +destroys the evidence — a corrected boot looks exactly like a correct one. + +The first thing to check is about the instrument rather than the game: is *"title +settled"*, the glyph counter first reading 154, the same instant as the port's +last-element settle (t=261, 4.350 s into the group)? If that landmark is earlier, +the gap closes with nothing else moving. + +### Refuting the port's own claim: things in this export DO pulse + +`BLOCKED.md` has carried this since P2, under the port's own raised question +about whether groups loop: + +> no element's alpha reverses direction anywhere in this export, so nothing +> pulses, which removes the obvious reason to expect a loop without disproving +> one. + +**`ptbtn00` reverses.** `0x00` → `0xff` → `0x00`, in the table above, in the +export, the whole time. The claim was never checked against `press_start`; it was +checked against the screens P2 happened to be animating. The RE agent has now +measured the running game pulsing this exact element at a mean 2.24 s. + +So the reason to expect a loop is back — and the port still does not draw one, +because **no reading of this group produces 2.24 s**: the whole group is 268 +units = 4.47 s, and from its first keyframe 54 units = 0.90 s. The plate is drawn +arriving and then holding at its settle (t=238, alpha `0xff`), which is what +every other screen does and what the static oracle capture +`live-title-press-a.png` shows. Which instant a repeat restarts from is filed, +not guessed. + +### `--boot --capture=` — one frame instead of six hundred + +The boot had no artifact of its own except `--film`, a PNG every 0.25 s for the +whole 156 s run, to answer one question: is the plate on top of the title at the +end. `--capture` was a `--screen`-only flag taken in `_ready`, which for a boot +run is 150 s too early. It is now deferred to the end of the sequence when +`--boot` is given. + +### P3 gate — the boot ends on two builds + +``` +godot --path port -- --boot --capture=…/p3-plate.png + → boot sequence complete after 155.86 s, holding on title + overlay press_start due at 157.99 s (+2.13 s after settle) + overlay press_start raised at 158.00 s, 1 element(s), settles at t=238 + ⚠ plate raised at settle+2.13 s but its own group reaches full alpha 3.97 s + later, so it is first VISIBLE at settle+6.10 s -- the measurement is + settle+2.13 s. + boot ends on title + press_start at 161.99 s + drew 16: ptbase2, ptloop01, …, ptcopyright + overlay press_start at t = 261.00 units, drew 1: ptbtn00 +``` + +The PNG shows the title logo with **`PRESS Ⓐ BUTTON`** under it — build 4 and +build 2 in one frame, which this port had never drawn. + +Two things the run made obvious and that are now fixed: + +* **The capture reported only the base build's elements.** The first composited + capture printed `drew 16` and no mention of the plate, which reads as though + the overlay had not drawn at all. The overlay gets its own line; folding its + elements into the first list would have reported a screen that does not exist. +* **`--screen= --overlay=`** raises the same composite immediately, by the + same code path, with no delay. It exists because the only other way to see two + builds was a 156 s boot of which 137 s is the intro movie — and under Xvfb's + software Theora decode that is several minutes to answer "is the plate on top + of the title". It applies **no** delay: the delay is a measurement and lives in + `authored/flow.json`. The boot-mode narration is suppressed there, because a + log line that describes a sequence it is not running is worse than no log line. + +## P5 — the focus ring spins, 2026-08-29 + +The ring was drawn at 0° and the file said so: *"THIS IS KNOWN TO BE WRONG, and +is drawn anyway because the right answer is a guess."* What was missing was the +**period**, and it is now measured — `docs/re/focus-ring-spin-measured.md` +(`auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures` at `4fa3099`): a continuous spin, from eight +evenly spaced autocorrelation peaks over nine revolutions, **with no angle +estimated anywhere** — both angle estimators failed their own controls and were +not used. + +### The period comes off the disc; the RE agent supplied only that it repeats + +`ptbtneff01` declares two keyframes that differ in **nothing but** +`rotation_deg`, 0 → 360, the first timed at `t = 120` and the second untimed. +The port turns once per **120 units**. Nothing is authored: the number is on the +disc, and what the measurement adds is that the turn **repeats** rather than +stopping at 360 = 0, which "groups hold" could not distinguish because those are +the same pose. + +`ScreenView.spin_period_units` is the rule, and it is structural and narrow: +exactly two keyframes, differing only in rotation, by a full 360, first timed and +second untimed. **Disc-wide check over this export: 16 of 212 elements match, and +all 16 are focus rings** — `ptbtneff01` on the five main-menu buttons and +`ptbtneff02` on the three `EXTRAS` buttons, in both locales, every one declaring +`t = 120`. Zero false positives. + +That check is the point rather than a formality. The measurement was taken on +**one** button of **one** screen; a rule that also caught something else would be +extrapolating it to elements nobody watched. + +⚠️ It is a rule about **shape**, not a decoded field. Nothing on the disc says +"this loops". The day a loop flag is decoded, this goes. + +### Verified on the port's own render, with the RE agent's own control + +Captures at `--time=` 2.0 … 4.0 s on the settled main menu, `ptbtn01` focused: + +| | | +|---|---| +| t=2.0 vs t=4.0 (one full period apart), **whole frame** | **0.0000 / 255** — bit-identical | +| t=2.5, 3.0, 3.5 against t=2.0, inside the ring's box | 3.60, 3.71, 3.58 / 255 | +| sum of box luminance across **eight** phases | spread **0.027 %** of the mean | + +The last row is deliberately the RE agent's own observable: they separated +rotation from a brightness pulse by showing total annulus brightness is conserved +while per-bin brightness moves. The port's render conserves it to 0.027 % (theirs +was 0.4 % over 16 s, with capture noise in it). A filmstrip of the four +quarter-period phases shows the bright head at top, right, bottom, left. + +### Two things it does not settle + +* **Direction.** The port turns 0° → +360°, the sign the disc declares. No signed + angle was ever measured — the estimator that would have given one failed its + control and was not used. +* **Phase across a focus change.** The port drives the ring off the **screen** + clock, so moving the cursor does not restart the turn. The alternative — the + record's group restarting when the record is instantiated — is the stronger + claim, and the oracle run held focus on one button throughout, so nothing + separates them. Two frames straddling a focus change would. + +## P3, corrected — the plate needs no authored delay at all, 2026-08-29 + +Last iteration the port refuted the RE agent's authoring instruction (*"when +build 4 has settled, wait 2.13 s, composite build 2"*) with arithmetic off the +disc, shipped the instruction anyway rather than pick between two of their +numbers, and printed the discrepancy on every boot. + +**The refutation held, and the answer that came back is better than either option +the port offered: author nothing.** `5b0a6e6`. + +### The premise that failed was the port's, and it will bite again + +> 🔴 **`rest.t` is not when a screen settles.** It is the last *hold* keyframe +> before the exit. + +Checked here rather than taken on trust. `title`'s `ptlogo1`: + +``` +t=26 (-116,-7) 150% a=0x00 the pre-roll +t=42 (179,186) 101% a=0xe0 it has arrived +t=251 (184,193) 100% a=0xff 5 px and 31 alpha steps later, 3.5 s on +``` + +It **stops moving at t=42** and then creeps for 209 units. `rest.t = 251` is the +end of that creep, not the arrival. The title's visible build-in is over at +**`t = 118`**, where `pteff01`, `pteff02` and `ptlogoall_eff` finish together. + +Every reconciliation the port computed last iteration was wrong by exactly that +error: reading `rest.t` put build 4's arrival at 4.350 s instead of 1.967 s, and +the "2.51 s, which is not a landmark of anything" that looked so damning is +`(4.350 − 1.967) + 0.13` — the error itself, wearing a decimal point. + +### One clock, and the interval is declared + +| | units | +|---|---| +| build 4's last build-in ramp | `t = 118` | +| `ptbtn00` reaches `a = 255` | `t = 238` | +| **difference** | **120 units = 2.000 s** | + +Measured: **2.138 s** and **2.132 s**. The 6.7 % is presentation rate — 120 units +in 2.135 s is 56.2 units/s, the emulator running 28.1 fps against a nominal 30, +and the corpus had independently measured the idle title at 28.5 fps *before* +these runs. + +So `authored/flow.json` carries `"clock": "shared"` and **no delay**, `boot.gd` +raises the overlay when the step's screen loads rather than at its settle, and +`overlay.time_units = view.time_units` — assigned, not accumulated, because two +independently advanced clocks drift by a frame here and there and the whole +content of the finding is that 120 units is a fixed interval on one timeline. + +⚠️ **The general hazard, stated by the RE agent and worth repeating where the +port will read it: discount a wall-clock number off that oracle by ~6 %.** It is +Canary's presentation rate baked into whatever it measures. A port at a true +30 Hz that authored 2.13 s would be visibly late. + +### Refutation — two of the RE agent's numbers for the same 120 units disagree by 2 % + +Both findings measure the same declared quantity: **120 keyframe units of wall +clock, during a static hold, in Xenia Canary.** + +| | | implied presentation | +|---|---|---| +| plate: settle → plate, two runs | 2.138, 2.132 s → mean **2.135 s** | 28.10 fps | +| ring: one revolution, seven spacings | 2.18 2.16 2.18 2.16 2.16 2.20 2.20 → mean **2.177 s** | 27.56 fps | +| **disagreement** | **0.042 s = 1.97 %** | | + +That is **seven times** the plate finding's own run-to-run agreement of 6 ms, and +it lands on the argument that finding uses to justify trusting itself: *"the +build-in is where frames are dropped; the static hold is not. A model in which +the game's own timing varied would have to move both."* Two static-hold +measurements are exactly what should agree under that model. + +A second, smaller arithmetic slip in the same place: the ring page reconciles +2.177 s against a band of "27.6–28.8 fps", saying the measurement *"sits at the +top of that band"*. It does not sit in it. 60 rendered frames at 27.6 fps is +2.1739 s; the mean needs **27.56 fps** and the two slowest spacings (2.20 s) +need **27.27 fps**. Four of the seven spacings are above the band's top. + +**Verdict: the containment claim is refuted; the spin, the period and the +reconciliation are untouched.** Either the presentation rate genuinely differed +between the two sessions — which the plate page's own corroboration argues +against for static holds — or the ring's revolution is not exactly 120 units. +The corpus should say which, because they are the same claim measured twice. + +🟢 **Nothing in the port moves either way.** `spin_period_units` uses the +declared 120 units at 60 units/s = **2.000 s of port time**, which is the +true-30 Hz value both readings agree the disc means. This is a corpus +consistency problem, not a port one — which is why it is filed rather than +worked around. + +### The corrected boot ended one build too early, and the capture showed it + +Moving the plate onto the shared clock also moved the boot's exit, and the first +capture taken afterwards was **visibly darker** than the one before it. The cause +is `pteff00`, the title's black fade quad: it ramps `0xff000000` → `0x00000000` +over t=16…261, so at t=243 — where the run was quitting, `overlay.settle_time()` +after the overlay was raised — the frame is still ~7 % black. + +The plate arrives at t=238; **build 4 is not finished until t=261**. The boot now +ends at the later of the two, and says which in the log: + +``` + -> title at 145.79 s + overlay press_start raised at 145.79 s, 1 element(s), settles at t=238 + boot ends at 150.14 s, once both builds have arrived (t=261) +``` + +Worth recording because of how it presented: nothing failed, no warning was +printed, and the only symptom was a frame slightly darker than the previous +run's. A gate artifact that silently drifts is the failure mode this project +keeps meeting — and it was caught only because there was a previous capture to +compare against. + +## P7 — the new-game intro, 2026-08-29 + +`S00A.wmv` has been in `export/video/` since P4 (MISSION §6 put both movies in +scope at once). What P7 needed was for something to *play* it and for the run to +end somewhere defined. + +### The port skips two measured screens, and says so on screen + +The real chain is **`NEW GAME` → `DIFFICULTY` → `SELECT DATA` → Ⓐ on a save slot +→ ~4.5 s → `S00A`** (HANDOFF Q4 measured the screens, Q9 decoded the movie and +then measured its onset off the running game at 0.96–1.000 with a strictly +monotone playhead over 25 consecutive 0.5 s samples). + +`DIFFICULTY` and `SELECT DATA` are measured destinations that are **not +`GP_TITLE` builds**, so no screen file exists to go to. The port therefore jumps +from `NEW GAME` to the one thing in that chain it has. + +That is a gap, not a sequence, and the whole design here is about not letting it +read as one: + +* `MenuFlow.accept` returns a **new kind**, `video`, rather than folding this + into `blocked`. The caller has to announce the skip, and a distinct kind is + what forces it to. +* The runtime prints it every time: + `(NEW GAME) -> the real chain is DIFFICULTY -> SELECT DATA, then the movie. + Neither screen is in this export.` +* `authored/flow.json` carries `skipped_chain` as **data**, so the names of what + is missing live beside the decision rather than inside a GDScript string. + +A port that quietly jumped from `NEW GAME` to the intro would be showing a +sequence the game does not have, with nothing on screen saying so. That is the +exact failure this project keeps meeting from the other direction. + +### What happens after the movie is authored, and had to be + +The game goes into **mission 1**. Gameplay is out of scope (PORT-MISSION §7), so +"returns to a defined state" is a decision, and P7's gate says as much. The port +returns to the **title**: the boot's own end state, so a run that finishes the +intro lands somewhere a player can start again from. Nothing measured says the +game does this, and `after_video.kind` is `"authored"`. + +### The 4.5 s gap is left empty on purpose + +Q9 measures the movie starting ~4.5 s after Ⓐ on the save slot. What is on screen +for those 4.5 s was never observed — the run that would have shown it hit the +documented `sub_823070B0` cache crash after `SELECT DATA`. + +`GP_TITLE` **does** carry a loading screen (below), and 4.5 s is about the right +shape for one. That is precisely why it is in `BLOCKED.md` and not in +`flow.json`: a plausible filler that nobody watched is the kind of thing that is +indistinguishable from a measurement a month later. + +### A script timeout that would have failed every movie + +`--script`'s per-step timeout is 20 s, to stop an unattended run waiting forever +on a screen that never settles. `S00A` is **93.9 s**, so the first scripted +new-game run would have been killed at step 1 and reported as "never settled". + +Raising the constant would have been wrong in the other direction: a movie stuck +at frame 0 would then hang the job, and a job that waits is worse than a job that +fails, because it does not look like a failure. + +So the test is **liveness, not duration**: while `get_stream_position()` +advances, the deadline moves with it; a stalled movie still trips the same 20 s. + +### Found while looking: `GP_TITLE`'s four unnamed builds are LOADING screens + +`build_00`, `build_01`, `build_12`, `build_15` have never had names. Every +element in all four is `pgloading_*` — `pgloading_processing.png`, +`pgloading_circle1`, `pgloading_delta`, `pgloading_ring` — and `LOADING` is one +of the three screen names the RE agent read out of the title part's state +function. + +Two variants: 0/1 carry 7 elements, 12/15 carry 10. + +**They are not renamed here.** The archive's own pairing (adjacent for 2/3, `+3` +for 4…9 and for 10/13, 11/14) suggests 0 is 1's twin and 12 is 15's, but which +member of each pair is which **locale** is an inference, and a name is exactly +the kind of thing that stops being questioned once written. Handed to the RE +agent, who can answer it from a capture in one look. `BLOCKED.md` has the row. + +⚠️ **And one of them is a second casualty of the `rest.t` problem.** +`pgloading_eff00.prm` on entries 12/15 is a full-screen black quad whose group +runs `0xff000000` at t=38 → `0xff000000` at t=48 → `0x00000000` untimed: black, +held, *then* clear. Its `rest.t` is **38**, where it is fully opaque. A port that +draws that screen at its declared rest draws **a black rectangle over the entire +loading screen**. The title's case only dimmed a frame; this one hides +everything. Filed with the `settle_time()` row it belongs to. + +### Refutation — attempted on the fade-quad census; it survives, with a caveat + +**The claim** (HANDOFF, on transitions): *"in `GP_TITLE` exactly the six screen +builds carry it while the six overlays do not"*, where "it" is the full-screen +black `.prm` quad *whose keyframe group is the transition*. + +**The test**, over the whole export: count builds carrying a full-screen +primitive with black in its keyframes. + +``` +16 builds exported; 12 carry one. +Of the 12 `is_build` bundles (excluding the 4 authored splashes): 8 carry, 4 do not. + carry: title, title_jp, main_menu, main_menu_jp, extras, extras_jp, + build_12, build_15 + do not: press_start, press_start_jp, build_00, build_01 +``` + +8 and 4, not 6 and 6. But the two extras are `build_12` / `build_15`, and their +quad is a **different shape**: + +| | transition quad (`pteff00.prm`, title) | loading quad (`pgloading_eff00.prm`) | +|---|---|---| +| | `0xff000000` t=16 | `0xff000000` t=38 | +| | `0x00000000` t=261 | `0xff000000` t=48 | +| | `0xff000000` untimed | `0x00000000` untimed | +| shape | black → clear → **black** | black → held → **clear** | + +The transition quad returns to black on exit; the loading quad does not. Read +strictly — the quad *whose group is the transition* — the claim holds. + +**Verdict: survives.** The refinement is worth recording anyway, because the +naive test over-counts by two and somebody will run the naive test. There are +**two kinds** of full-screen black `.prm` in `GP_TITLE`, and only one of them is +a transition. + +## P7 gate + +``` +godot --path port -- --menu --script=accept --audio=…/p7.wav +``` + +``` + menu on main_menu, focus ptbtn01 +script[1] accept + (NEW GAME) -> the real chain is DIFFICULTY -> SELECT DATA, then the movie. + Neither screen is in this export. + -> video S00A at 1.18 s (/work/export/video/S00A.ogv) + video ended at 94.93 s + -> title (authored: authored) + menu on title, focus (none -- this screen has no focusable item) +script complete after 99.28 s on title +recorded 98.453 s of Master bus (driver Dummy) +``` + +The movie ran **93.75 s** against a declared 93.9 s, the run ended on the title, +and the Master bus recorded 98.453 s: `pcm_s16le`, 44.1 kHz stereo, RMS +**−22.2 dBFS**. + +**What this does not show, stated because it would be easy to imply otherwise:** +the recording contains the menu bed *and* the movie together, and this run did +**not** separate them. So it establishes that the engine reached an output for +98 s of a run whose middle 94 s was a movie — not that `S00A`'s own audio track +is in the mix. Separating them wants the P6 null-control method (a paired run +that differs only in the movie), and that is not done here. + +🔴 **Peak 0.0 dBFS again.** The same runtime-headroom problem P6 filed: per-file +levels are the disc's and are fine, the Master bus has no headroom, and the port +has set no bus balance because nothing measures one. + +### One more file read while it was being written + +`ls` reported the recording as **3 702 828 B**; `ffprobe` on the finished file +reports **17 367 084 B / 98.452608 s** — a factor of 4.7. `ffprobe` is right and +the `ls` caught it mid-flight. + +`AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` opens by naming this failure and the port has had the +temp-name-then-rename discipline since P6, which is what makes it worth writing +down rather than shrugging off: **the discipline protects a reader who opens the +path, and it does not protect a reader who stats it at the wrong moment.** Size +on disk is not a measurement of a file somebody else is still writing. Ask the +decoder, not the directory entry. + +## Modding — rule 4 was never implemented, 2026-08-29 + +`docs/port/MODDING.md` is explicit that modding is *"a design constraint on the +exporter today — not a milestone to add later"*, and its rule 4 is base-and- +overrides: a mod replaces a file by **shadowing its path**, so a modder edits +nothing under the derived tree and re-exporting is always safe. + +**Nothing read `data/mods/` at all.** The directory has existed since the +monorepo merge with a `.gitkeep` in it and no code path anywhere — exporter or +runtime — that looked at it. Eight milestones shipped past that. + +### One resolver, and every read goes through it + +`ExportTree.resolve(rel)` returns the mod tree's copy when one exists and the +derived tree's otherwise. `read_json`, `texture`, `video` and `MenuAudio` all +call it, so a mod can replace **a screen's JSON, a sprite, a cue, the music bed +or a movie** — every asset kind the port reads. + +`MenuAudio` was reading `tree.root.path_join(...)` directly and had to be +changed. Left alone it would have made audio the one asset kind a mod could not +touch, for no reason a modder could have guessed — which is the failure mode +rule 4 exists to prevent. + +There is deliberately no manifest of what a mod contains and no registration +step: **the path is the registration**, which is the whole of the rule. + +⚠️ **One tree, not a stack.** Several mods layering over each other needs a load +order, and a load order needs a rule nobody has asked for. Said out loud in +`data/mods/README.md` rather than answered. + +### A modded run must not look like an unmodded one + +Every shadowed file is printed the first time it is read: + +``` +mod: sprites/title/main_menu/ptbtn01.png <- /work/data/mods/sprites/…/ptbtn01.png +``` + +MODDING says *"did I break it?"* is answered by disabling a mod. That is a fine +last resort and a poor only resort, so the log names the replacement instead. + +**The first version of this got it wrong in an instructive way**: it printed a +summary in `_ready`, before a single asset had been read, and so always said +`(nothing shadowed yet)`. A report structurally incapable of reporting anything +is worse than no report, because it looks like an answer. It now announces each +shadow at the moment it happens. + +### Gate + +A synthetic 203×43 magenta PNG — nothing disc-derived — dropped at +`data/mods/sprites/title/main_menu/ptbtn01.png`: + +| | | +|---|---| +| pixels changed between the two renders | **8 501** of 921 600 (0.92 %) | +| bounding box of the change | x 542…744, y 162…204 — **203×43**, the sprite's own size | +| `sylpheed-export check export` afterwards | 16 screens still validate | + +The changed region is exactly the sprite and nothing else moved. + +### `data/mods/` was not gitignored, and that is a hole in a hard rule + +*"Never commit game assets"* has been enforced on `export/` and `data/base/` +since P0. But **a mod is usually an edited game asset**, and `data/mods/` was +fully tracked — so the one directory a user is invited to put modified sprites in +was the one directory git would happily take them from. + +`.gitignore` now excludes everything under it except the README. + +### The naming split is not mine to resolve + +`MODDING.md` describes the tree as `data/base/`; `PORT-MISSION.md` §3, the +exporter, `ExportTree` and `.gitignore` all say `export/`. Both are mission +files, and PROTOCOL is clear that **only the human changes a mission**, so this +is raised rather than picked. `.gitignore` has ignored both names on purpose +since P0. + +It matters here for one concrete reason: MODDING's layout has `base/` and `mods/` +as **siblings**, and today they are not — the tree is `export/` at the repo root +while mods are `data/mods/`. The resolver takes `SYLPHEED_MODS` or defaults to +`data/mods/`, which is what exists; if the tree is ever renamed to `data/base/` +the sibling rule becomes natural and that default can go. + +## Refutation — the paint-order key, and the reach of its tie-break + +**The claim** (HANDOFF Q3): paint order is *"a `u16` layer key at `+0x0A`, +**decoded**"*, with the tie-break filed 🟡 as *"eight candidates refuted; costs +one element's blend on one screen"*. + +**First pass: 2 of 16 screens did not match** a stable sort by layer key — both +loading screens, `build_12` and `build_15`. + +**That was my test, not the claim.** `pgloading_eff00.prm` carries **no layer key +at all** — `layer: null`, `layer_source: "none"`: it is a primitive with no +sprite header, and the exporter's implied-name fallback produces nothing either. +My sort put a keyless element first; the decoders put it **last**. + +Completing the rule as *"stable sort by layer key, elements with no key last"* +gives **16 of 16**. And last is right: `pgloading_eff00` is the full-screen black +quad, and HANDOFF's own sentence is that the fade quad paints last. + +**Verdict: survives, with the rule completed.** Worth recording because the +published statement does not say where a keyless element goes, and there is at +least one in the archive. + +🟡 **But the tie-break's reach looks understated.** Census over this export: + +``` +elements sharing a layer key with another element: 105, across 12 of 16 screens +``` + +HANDOFF characterises the cost as *"one element's blend on one screen"*. 105 +elements on 12 screens is a much larger surface than that. Most of those ties are +probably invisible — two elements that share a key and never overlap cannot show +a difference — but *probably* is doing the work in that sentence, and nothing has +measured which. The port is unaffected either way: it draws +`ui_layout::derived_paint_order` verbatim and derives no order of its own. + +## Correction — the runtime "clipping" I flagged 🔴 twice was overstated + +P6 and P7 both filed 🔴 *"the runtime mix has no headroom"* on the strength of a +peak reading of 0.0 dBFS off the Master bus. Measured properly: + +| | samples at full scale | of total | longest clamped run | +|---|---|---|---| +| P6 walk (5.944 s) | 43 | 0.0082 % | 10 samples — **0.23 ms** | +| P7 new-game run (98.453 s) | 24 | 0.00028 % | 11 samples — **0.25 ms** | + +That is not a headroom defect. It is the disc's own `confirm` cue, mastered near +full scale (+0.18 dBFS after a lossy decode), touching the ceiling for a quarter +of a millisecond on a transient — and possibly only in the recording's 16-bit +conversion, since Godot mixes in float and `AudioEffectRecord` saves `s16`. + +**Nothing is changed, and that is the point.** Attenuating the mix to buy +headroom would be an unmeasured decision about level — the same class of thing +this port refused for the BGM loop point and the stem balance. Refusing it there +and taking it here would be inconsistent, and it would trade an inaudible +0.25 ms clamp for an audible change nobody measured. + +**A peak reading is not a clipping measurement.** One sample at 0 dBFS and two +seconds of square wave give the same number, and I reported the first as though +it were the second — twice, in red, in two milestones' write-ups. + +## The P1 regression harness had been broken since the monorepo merge, 2026-08-29 + +`tools/port/verify-screen` is the P1 gate's regression detector: Godot's drawing +of a screen against `sylpheed-cli screen render` of the same build. It had not +been run since P1, across four milestones that changed the renderer — rotation, +the focus record, the spinning ring, two builds composited at once. + +It could not have been run. **It resolves its reference binary to a path that +`build-reference-cli` stopped being able to produce.** That script greps +`crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml` for + +``` +sylpheed-formats = { git = "…Syplheed-Reborn.git", rev = "…" } +``` + +and the monorepo merge (`65cefa7`) replaced that line with +`{ path = "../sylpheed-formats" }`. The grep returns nothing, the script exits 1, +and the binary left at `reference-cli/sylpheed-cli` is whatever predated the +merge — here, **three hours older than the sources** and built from a revision +nothing in the tree points at any more. + +Running the diff against it would have compared the port to a decoder from +another era and called the result a regression check. `DECISIONS.md` already +carries *"The reference renderer was stale for three diff runs"* from P2. This +would have been the fourth, and the mechanism was different: not a forgotten +rebuild, but a **build step that could no longer succeed and a consumer that +only checked whether the file existed**. + +### The fix is a deletion, not a repair + +The revision-keying solved a two-repo problem: `/reborn`'s `target/` was a live +mount of the other agent's checkout and moved mid-run, so a pixel disagreement +against it had a free variable in it. **The monorepo removed that problem by +construction** — the exporter, the reference and the port now read one decoder, +the working tree's. So `verify-screen` builds `sylpheed-cli` from the workspace. +`SYLPHEED_CLI` still overrides for anyone who wants to pin one deliberately. + +### The baseline, all 16 screens + +``` +build_00/01 max 3 over3 0 OK +press_start(_jp) max 1 over3 0 OK +title max 6 over3 790 DIFFERS +main_menu(_jp) max 4 over3 0 DIFFERS +extras(_jp) max 3 over3 0 OK +publisher_logo(_r) max 1-2 over3 0 OK +developer_logos(_r) max 2 over3 0 OK +title_jp max 155 over3 20498 DIFFERS +build_12/15 max 0 over3 0 OK +``` + +**No new drift.** Four milestones of renderer change and the only screen with a +substantial disagreement is `title_jp` — which is the *same* one P1 recorded and +left open: `ptlogo_eff2` is the single drawn element in the whole export at a +scale that is not a whole multiple of 100 % (125 %), and the two renderers pick +different source texels there. `ui_layout::blit` samples at the destination +pixel's top-left corner, a GPU at its centre. **The port has still not changed to +match**, because matching would mean reproducing a half-pixel bias on purpose to +make a number smaller. Only an oracle capture settles it. + +`title`'s 790 pixels at ≤ 6/255 are the same class, one texel wide, on the logo's +scaled edges. `main_menu` and `main_menu_jp` say DIFFERS on a max of 4 with +**zero** pixels over the bar — a couple of pixels differing in a single channel. + +### `max` alone could not tell 2 pixels from 25 000 + +The script reported only the largest difference anywhere in the frame, so +`main_menu` (two pixels) and `title_jp` (2.8 % of the frame) produced the same +verdict. It now also reports how many pixels are over the bar. + +**The bar itself is not raised.** Tuning a threshold until things match is the +failure the script's own header warns about; adding a second number is +information, not a loosened bound. ⚠️ The count is thresholded on **greyscale +luma** while `max` is a per-channel maximum, so they are not two views of one +measurement — a per-channel check counts 957 on `title` where the luma count +says 790. + +### What this harness cannot see, stated because the OK rows look reassuring + +It renders `--pose=rest`. That is deliberate — it holds both renderers to the +same declared pose so the test is *port vs reference* and not *rest vs timeline* +— but it means **none of this iteration's or the last four's visible work is +under test**: not the spinning focus ring, not the plate composited over the +title, not any timeline behaviour, not audio. Sixteen OK rows are a statement +about the resting composite and nothing else. + +And it remains what its header says: a consistency check between two renderers +that share their assumptions. Both have been wrong together three times — +`pteff05`, scale-0, `rest()` — and each time only a capture caught it. + +## Refutation — "builds 0/1 and 10/11 are the loading screen" is false in the index space this export uses + +**The claim**, from the RE agent 2026-08-29, answering the port's ask to name +`GP_TITLE`'s unnamed bundles: *"builds 0/1 and 10/11 are the loading screen, +decoded from their own `pgloading_*` element names."* + +**In this export, entries 10 and 11 are the splash screens**, and it is not close: + +| entry | elements | +|---|---| +| 10 | `palogo_eff0`, **`palogo_sqex`**, `palogo_sqex_eff` | +| 11 | `palogo_eff0`, **`palogo_gamearts`**, `palogo_seta`, `palogo_anima` … | +| 12 / 15 | `pgloading_eff00`, `pgloading_loop1`, `pgloading_str` … | + +Entry 10 is the **SQUARE ENIX** wordmark and 11 the developer logos — which the +same agent identified, in the answer to the port's ask 1, as *"entries 10/13 are +the SQUARE ENIX publisher wordmark, the first thing the boot shows"*. + +**Verdict: the finding is almost certainly right and the index space is wrong.** +Over the twelve bundles `is_build` accepts — entries 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,12,15 — +ordinals 10 and 11 are entries **12 and 15**, which are exactly the two dressed +loading variants. So "0/1 and 10/11" is the `is_build` ordinal, and this export +addresses by **pak entry index**. + +**Why this is worth a section rather than a shrug.** `authored/screen_names.json` +is keyed by entry index, and the exporter's own comment says why: *"keyed by +ENTRY, not by the enumeration ordinal — widening the enumeration to reach the +splash renumbers the ordinals, and a name that moves when the rule changes is not +a name."* Someone reading that message and writing keys `"10"` and `"11"` would +**name the publisher wordmark and the developer logos as loading screens**, and +the export would validate, and the boot would still run. + +Two enumerations of the same archive differ by exactly the four bundles the port +had to add an allow-list to reach. That is the sharpest possible demonstration of +why the exporter switched, and it has now nearly caused the error it switched to +prevent. Reported; the names are still the RE agent's to give. + +## The intro's missing dialogue was an export gap, not a transcode bug, 2026-08-29 + +A human play-test heard music under the boot intro and no voices. The obvious +reading is that the 5.1→stereo fold dropped the centre channel, and it is wrong. + +**`ADV.wmv` carries music and effects only.** On this disc a cutscene's voice is +a *separate asset*: one continuous XMA stream in `sound.pak`, bound to the movie +by the manifest in `tables.pak` (`ADV` → `VOICETRACK = VOICE_ADV`). Nothing was +dropped — `grep -rn voice crates/sylpheed-export/src/` returned nothing, because +the exporter had never been asked for it. The transcode was correct the whole +time, which is why every measurement on it passed. + +That is worth stating plainly because the failure *looked* exactly like a codec +bug, and `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` is full of ways to measure a +transcode against its source. Every one of them would have come back clean. + +### The binding is resolved, and must never be matched by name + +`audio::export_voice` takes exactly one route: +`media::resolve_movie_voice_region(source, movie, VoiceLang::English)`, which +walks movie → cue token (manifest) → sound id (registry) → a `[start, end)` byte +region of the continuous stream. The cheap route — read `VOICE_.slb` — +was not taken, and the reason is a measurement: + +| movie | resolved region | inside the bank named after it? | +|---|---|---| +| `ADV` | 433 930 240…437 044 592 | yes | +| `S00A` | 452 798 464…455 499 120 | yes | +| `RT01A` | 437 044 592…437 345 648 | **no — it is inside `VOICE_ADV.slb`** | + +⚠️ **Name-matching is correct on exactly the two movies this port ships, and +wrong on the radio cutscenes.** It would have exported clean, verified clean +against both in-scope movies, and returned the wrong recording the moment +anybody widened the export. This is the failure mode MISSION §2 names — one +playable thing is not one archive entry — in its most convincing disguise: the +spot-checks a person would actually run are the ones it passes. + +### Three choices, and why none is a guess + +* **One file per movie**, per MODDING rule 1, and the region's chunks are + **summed** — see the correction below, because the first version of this + paragraph said the opposite and was wrong. +* **Mono**, folded from the stream's **own declared channel count**, probed with + `ffprobe` rather than assumed. This is not pedantry: `pan` silently ignores a + channel the input does not have — measured this iteration on the 5.1 fold + below, where `FLC`/`FRC`/`SL`/`SR` vanished with no warning at all — so a + stereo matrix applied to a mono voice track is not an error, it is a −6 dB + attenuation that nothing reports. A track that is already mono is passed + through untouched. +* **No sync offset, and no length clamp.** The voice plays from the video's + first frame, so nothing is authored. The decoded length is recorded in the + manifest *beside the movie's own length* rather than trimmed to it: the voice + has no shared container to disagree with, so a length mismatch is the only + symptom a resolution error would ever show, and clamping would delete it. That + decision is the reason the error below was caught in the same hour it was made. + +### Correction, within the hour — the chunks are stems, and I had concatenated them + +The first version of `export_voice` joined the region's chunks end to end and +produced **359.201 s of voice for a 137.437 s movie**, and **255.460 s for a +93.779 s one**. Both ratios sit near 3, and both regions decode to 3 chunks. + +The manifest said so on the first run, because the length was recorded against +the movie's instead of being clamped to it. A clamp — which is what +`sylpheed-viewer` does, and what `media`'s own doc comment invites with *"trimmed +by the caller's length clamp"* — would have produced a file of exactly the right +duration containing the wrong audio, and every check in +`docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` would have passed it. + +Decoding each chunk and timing it (`crates/sylpheed-export/examples/voice_chunks.rs`): + +| movie | movie length | chunk 0 | chunk 1 | chunk 2 | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `ADV` | 137.437 s | 84.553 | **137.324** | **137.324** | +| `S00A` | 93.779 s | 68.072 | **93.694** | **93.694** | +| `RT01A` | — | 0.009 | **34.034** | — | + +Chunks 1 and 2 are **equal to six decimals and each span the whole movie**. That +is HANDOFF Q10's decoded shape — *two stems of one performance, played together; +do not concatenate* — showing up on a second asset kind. They are summed at +`1/n`, exactly as `export_bgm` sums a music bank. + +⚠️ **Chunk 0 is dropped and its status is open.** Its duration matches nothing: +84.6 s under a 137 s movie, 9 ms under `RT01A`. `docs/re/REFUTED.md` records +`to_xma_riffs`'s hybrid branch emitting a **leading headerless packet region** +ahead of the real `RIFF` waves, and `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` already carries that +as an open row against `BGM_103`, where `media` returns three sub-waves against a +census of two. **This is the same signature on an independent asset kind** — good +corroboration, not proof, and the port is not entitled to close it. So the +selection rule is written in terms of the measurement (*keep the longest +duration and everything tying with it*), and every dropped chunk is named in the +manifest with its length. + +This is the media-assembly trap MISSION §2 names, and it caught me: I wrote a +doc comment asserting concatenation, gave the reason, and had it wrong. What +saved it was refusing to clamp — the one decision in the first version that was +made for the right reason. + +### What a `None` means + +A movie whose region does not resolve is **genuinely unvoiced** — the honest +answer for most `hokyu_*` resupply cutscenes — and gets a manifest warning, not +a substitute. The corpus already paid for the alternative: resolving unbound +movies through a shared demo line played the *wrong recording*. + +This is **decoded, not authored**, so it runs outside the `authored/audio.json` +block in `main.rs`. Nothing new goes in `authored/`; there is nothing here we +decided. + +## Refutation, of my own exporter — MISSION §6 pins a downmix matrix, and the exporter ships a different one + +**The claim under test is the port's**, not another agent's, and it has been in +`video.rs` since P4: that the 5.1 fold is normalised by +`1/(1 + √½ + √½) = 0.4142` because *"the unnormalised form was measured too and +**clips**: peak 0.0 dBFS."* + +That sentence rests on a peak reading. `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` records this port +withdrawing a 🔴 runtime-clipping flag on precisely the grounds that **a peak +reading is not a clipping measurement** — one sample at full scale and two +seconds of square wave give the same number. So the justification for deviating +from a matrix a human pinned was produced by an instrument this port has already +declared unfit for the question. + +### Measured properly, over the whole of both movies + +Decoded to 32-bit float so nothing is pre-clamped, then counted: samples at or +over full scale, how many exceed it by more than 1 dB, and the longest +consecutive run. + +| | peak | RMS | ≥ full scale | > +1 dB | longest run | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `ADV`, MISSION §6 matrix | **+4.26 dBFS** | −14.55 | **4 406** / 13 187 900 | 1 874 | 16 samples (0.333 ms) | +| `ADV`, exporter's matrix | −3.39 dBFS | −22.21 | 0 | 0 | — | +| `S00A`, MISSION §6 matrix | **−1.34 dBFS** | −18.73 | **0** | 0 | — | +| `S00A`, exporter's matrix | −8.99 dBFS | −26.39 | 0 | 0 | — | + +**The claim survives, and the reasoning behind it does not.** The pinned matrix +genuinely overloads `ADV`: not one stray sample but 4 406 of them, 1 874 more +than a full dB over, wanting 4.26 dB more headroom than the container has. That +is a different animal from the 43 samples and 0.25 ms transient I withdrew a flag +over, and the number that separates them is the **magnitude**, not the count. + +But the same table refutes the *scope* of the fix. **`S00A` never clips under the +pinned matrix** — it peaks at −1.34 dBFS. The exporter attenuates it by 7.65 dB +to solve a problem it does not have, because 0.4142 is derived from a theoretical +worst case (every channel correlated at full scale at once) that neither movie +comes near. + +### Control, before believing any of it + +The pinned matrix names `FLC`, `FRC`, `SL` and `SR`, and a 5.1 source has none of +them. ffmpeg neither errors nor warns — measured at `-loglevel warning`, the +output was empty. So the literal string was decoded alongside its three-term 5.1 +reduction (`FL = 1.0·FL + 0.707·FC + 0.707·BL`) and the two outputs compared: +**bit-identical**, 52 751 600 bytes. The reduction is what runs, and it is the +matrix §6 intends. *That silence is itself the trap the mono fold above guards +against.* + +### Not changed, and deliberately so + +MISSION §6 is a **human decision of 2026-08-29**, and the level of a mix is +exactly the kind of thing §6 reserves — *"adjust it deliberately, as a commit"*. +Three options, and choosing between them is not mine: + +1. **Keep the pin.** `ADV` clamps on 4 406 samples. Rejected on the measurement. +2. **Keep the exporter's 0.4142.** Preserves the two movies' relative loudness + exactly, costs 7.65 dB, and is safe by construction for any movie a modder + drops in. +3. **One measured constant, `1/1.6339 = 0.612`.** The smallest single scalar + under which no in-scope movie clamps: +3.39 dB over today, still one constant + so relative loudness is untouched. Tuned to two files, but the exporter's own + `check` refuses any export whose peak reaches 0 dBFS, so a third movie that + needed more headroom would fail loudly rather than clamp quietly. + +Per-file normalisation is **not** on that list: it would put `ADV` 4.26 dB below +`S00A` and change how two cutscenes sit against each other and against the menu +bed, which is an aesthetic decision with nothing measured behind it. + +What changes today is only that the deviation is **visible**: `video.rs` now +cites MISSION §6 by name and says it departs from it, and the export carries a +manifest warning with these numbers. Before this, a reader of the manifest could +not tell that a pinned human decision had been overridden at all — the command +line was recorded faithfully, and recording the command you ran does not disclose +that it is not the command you were given. + +### The voice reaches the output, and a null control says so quantitatively + +`+ voice ADV` in the log proves only that `play_voice` found a stream and called +`play()`. Whether the audio arrives at the Master bus is a different question, +and `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §2 exists because it is. + +The control needed **no test-only code**: MODDING rule 4 already shadows any +exported asset by path, so 140 s of silence dropped at +`data/mods/audio/voice/ADV.ogg` mutes the dialogue and changes nothing else. Two +`--boot --skip-at=25 --audio=…` runs, then `astats` over the same 14 s of movie: + +| | peak | RMS | +|---|---|---| +| `ADV.ogv`'s own audio (the bed) | −6.239 | −24.941 | +| the exported voice alone | −7.614 | −27.965 | +| **run with the voice muted** | **−6.251** | **−25.126** | +| **run with the voice playing** | **−5.415** | **−22.913** | + +The muted run reproduces the bed to **0.01 dB peak / 0.19 dB RMS**, which is what +makes the other row worth reading. And the mixed run is not merely *louder*: two +incoherent sources at −24.941 and −27.965 dBFS predict a sum at **−23.184**, and +the run measures **−22.913** — **0.27 dB** out. The voice is in the mix, at the +level its own file says it should be. + +⚠️ **Under the Dummy driver.** Per AUDIO-VERIFICATION, *"recorded under a dummy +driver"* is a weaker claim than *"heard"*, and no measurement here says the +recording is the **right** dialogue for this cutscene — only that the file the +exporter resolved is the one reaching the output at the expected level. The two +runs are also not sample-aligned (they differ by 1.7 s of wall clock), which is +why the `RMS trough` column is omitted: it moved by 40 dB between runs on window +placement alone, and peak and RMS are the two numbers that survive that. + +### Ⓐ *does* skip the intro in this build, so the play-test's report is not this bug + +`--skip-at=25` on a `--boot` run: `video skipped at 25.02 s`, `video ended at +25.02 s`, title at 25.02 s. The press goes through `Input.parse_input_event` and +arrives at `_unhandled_input` exactly as a pad's would, so **the wiring from press +to skip is live**. What that does not cover is a real key event from a focused +window, which is the difference between this run and the human's — and, separately, +**whether the game permits skipping an attract movie at all** is HANDOFF Q9 and +still 🟡. If the answer is no, this path is deleted rather than debugged. + + +## Refutation of my own two-stem reading — and it had already been adopted elsewhere + +Two hours after writing that a voice region's equal-length chunks are *"HANDOFF +Q10's decoded two-stem shape"*, the Decoder asked me to decode the leading chunk +— it has no XMA1 decoder in its container — and the decoder run refuted the +claim I had made. + +**Equal duration was a shape match, and I carried Q10's *music* census across to +voice on the strength of it.** The content does not support it: + +| | | +|---|---| +| `S00A` chunk 2 | **digital silence** — 4 497 300 samples, peak −inf | +| `ADV` chunk 2 | **0.60 × chunk 1** (best-fit scalar), residual **26.8 dB** below the target | + +About 95 % of `ADV`'s second chunk is a −4.4 dB copy of the first. Two chunks of +equal length, one silence and the other a scaled near-duplicate, are not two +stems of one performance. ⚠️ **The claim had already travelled** — it is quoted in +the Decoder's `voice-region-leading-chunk.md` — which is the failure PROTOCOL +names: a wrong belief moving faster than its correction, through two documents +that share a source. + +### What it cost, and what changed + +Summing chunk 1 with silence at `1/n` put `S00A`'s dialogue **6.02 dB down for +nothing**: the exported file peaked at −16.2 dBFS against a source chunk peaking +at −4.2. `export_voice` now drops a **digitally silent** chunk before the sum. +That is arithmetic, not a content judgement — a silent input contributes nothing +to a mix and counting it in the normalisation is simply my error. + +**What `ADV`'s near-duplicate chunk 2 is remains open and it is still summed.** +Whether the game plays both is a decoding question; 26.8 dB of residual is not +nothing, and dropping a chunk because it correlates with another would be +answering it. + +### The leading chunk, decoded — structure, and not one word about content + +The Decoder's ask was *"cutscene dialogue or mission dialogue"*. `ADV` region ++ 1392, 394 packets: **84.553 s, stereo, 48 kHz, peak −2.48 dBFS, RMS −24.80**, +with **6 silent gaps over 0.4 s below −50 dB totalling 45.3 s** — 54 % silence, +the same duty cycle as the two full-length chunks (54 %, 55 %). So it is +**speech-structured audio**: not a header, not padding, not noise. + +🔴 **Which is as far as a measurement goes.** *Cutscene or mission* is an +identification and this agent has no ears and no oracle. Envelope +cross-correlation against the full-length chunks peaks at 0.768 **at the last lag +in the search range**, which is where a statistic lands when it has found +nothing, and it is not evidence. The Decoder's 🟡 stands, and its own leading +hypothesis — an in-mission `VOICE_D_*` line — is untouched by any of this. The +byte-span test it already built settles it the moment those regions are +enumerated; nobody has to listen. + +### Taken from the same message: `bank_header_len`, not `riffs.len()` + +The Decoder's census warns that eight bank-header regions also yield three +chunks, so the chunk count cannot say which structure you are in. **This exporter +never used the count** — it selects on decoded duration, which is why it already +handles both cases: `RT01A`'s 10 300 B leading chunk decodes to 9 ms and falls +out on its own. But a duration tie is an *observation* and `bank_header_len` is +*decoded*, so the rule switches the day `c1f3608` reaches `main`. +`sylpheed-formats` is a path dependency and merging another agent's topic branch +is not the port's to do. + +## The mono fold I warned about, in the comment directly above the code that did it + +`export_voice`'s first version folded to mono by averaging every **declared** +channel, and the doc comment above it said, in as many words, that *"`pan` +silently ignores a channel the input does not have — so a stereo matrix applied +to a mono voice track is not an error, it is a −6 dB attenuation that nothing +reports."* + +It then did exactly that. Per-channel `astats` on both voice streams: + +| | channel 1 | channel 2 | +|---|---|---| +| `ADV` chunk 1 | peak +0.000 dBFS | **peak −inf** | +| `S00A` chunk 1 | peak −4.207 dBFS | **peak −inf** | + +The voice is a **mono recording carried in a nominally stereo stream**, and +averaging it with silence cost **5.94 dB** — which is most of why `S00A`'s +exported dialogue sat at −16.2 dBFS against a source chunk peaking at −4.2 (the +other 6.02 dB was summing a silent *chunk*, corrected in the same iteration). + +**Checking the declared channel count is not checking the content, and only the +content is the fold.** `live_channels` now measures which channels carry signal +and averages only those. `sylpheed-viewer`'s `pan=mono|c0=c0` reaches the right +answer here for a reason it does not state; this reaches it for a stated one, and +would still be right if a stream ever did carry two live channels. + +Worth recording as a pattern rather than a bug: **three defects this iteration +were all the same shape** — a silent chunk in a sum, a silent channel in a fold, +and a `pan` matrix naming channels that do not exist. Each is an input that +contributes nothing being counted in a divisor, and none of them is visible in +anything but a level. + +## The leading chunk is the TAIL of the full one — measured, and it is why the region over-covers + +The Decoder settled by byte-span analysis that a voice region's leading chunk is +**the movie's own dialogue, 17 of 17** — killing its own standing hypothesis that +it was an in-mission `VOICE_D_*` line — and asked whether dropping it is +therefore a truncation. It has no XMA1 decoder; this container does. + +Envelope cross-correlation, sliding with overhang allowed at both ends and +normalised over the overlap only. ⚠️ **This corrects an earlier number of mine**: +a first pass scored 0.768 and I called it nothing, correctly — that search only +tried lags where the shorter chunk fitted *wholly inside* the longer one, and it +peaked on the boundary of its own range. + +| | best *r* | at lag | overlap | +|---|---|---|---| +| `ADV` chunk 0 → chunk 1 | **0.998** | **+52.8 s** | 84.5 s | +| `S00A` chunk 0 → chunk 1 | **0.932** | **+25.6 s** | 68.0 s | +| control — `ADV` chunk 0 against itself | 1.000 | 0.0 s | — | +| control — `ADV` chunk 0 against `S00A` chunk 1 | **0.289** | — | 28.2 s | + +**Both lags put chunk 0 flush against the end of chunk 1**: 52.8 + 84.55 = +137.35 s against chunk 1's 137.324, and 25.6 + 68.07 = 93.67 against 93.694. + +Confirmed in the sample domain — lag refined to ±1 sample on the loudest second, +then a scalar best-fit over the whole overlap: `ADV` +52.8000 s, gain 0.833, +residual **16.70 dB** below the target; `S00A` +25.6320 s, gain 0.365, residual +**23.15 dB**. 98–99.5 % of the energy is a scaled copy: the same material at a +different gain, not bit-identical, which is what a lossy decode at two gains +should look like. + +**So dropping chunk 0 removes a duplicate, and is not a truncation** — the +exporter's existing behaviour is right for a better reason than the one it gave. +🟡 **The manifest note has NOT been rewritten to say so.** The structural claim — +that the region over-covers because it re-presents its own tail, and that this +accounts for the whole 2.6× — is the Decoder's to write down; this page reports +the measurement and says which is which. The note stays hedged until its page +carries the conclusion, and the hedge is true either way. + +⚠️ **The 504 464 B constant was deliberately not converted.** The Decoder found +the region anchor sitting that far after the true predecessor trailer on all 17 +and pointedly declined to call it missing dialogue. Converting it needs a +byte↔time mapping, and the numbers above are the reason there isn't one: chunk 1 +is 1 118 268 B and chunk 2 is 1 171 516 B for **the same 137.324 s**, so bytes per +second is not constant even inside a single region. Any figure in seconds off +that constant would be invented. + +## Third reading of a voice region, and this one is decoded: three presentations of one take + +`export_voice` has now read the same bytes three ways in one session, and each +reading was ended by a measurement rather than by an argument: + +1. **Concatenate the chunks** — 359 s of dialogue for a 137 s movie. +2. **Sum them as HANDOFF Q10's two stems** — refuted here: `S00A`'s second + full-length chunk is digital silence, `ADV`'s is 0.60 × the first with 26.8 dB + of residual. +3. **Keep one stream.** ✅ This one is decoded, and not by me. + +The Decoder settled the shape disc-wide without a decoder, by counting stream +starts inside every inter-descriptor span: **258 spans hold one stream, 28 hold +three, and nothing holds two or any other number.** The 95 movie-voice regions +decompose 70 + 8 + 17, and the 8 are independently the same 8 its first census +flagged. So a region carries **three presentations of one take** — which is +exactly `359 = 84.55 + 137.32 + 137.32`, the first clipped by its crate's own +1.5 MB predecessor guard. + +It also cross-checked my correlation by a route needing no decoder: if the +leading chunk is the tail of a full stream, the whole leading stream should be +one complete take, and `ADV`'s 504 464 + 808 304 = 1 312 768 B at chunk 0's byte +rate is **137.323 s against my measured 137.324**. Two instruments, no shared +assumption. + +**So summing was wrong for a third reason:** a take plus a 0.60 × copy of itself +is ~4 dB louder and coloured, not a mix of parts. The exporter keeps one stream +and performs no arithmetic on it. + +🟡 **Which stream is a recommendation, not a decoded field.** The selector is the +**highest byte rate** among the equal-duration survivors, on the Decoder's +advice. Nothing on the disc says which presentation the game plays, and on `ADV` +this picks the **quieter** of the two — −8.3 dBFS against 0.0. That is in the +manifest in those words so the choice is visible and reversible; it is the one +part of this that a capture could still overturn. + +`check` moves `voice` off the strict peak bound as a consequence. It sat with +`bgm` because it was a sum this exporter produced; it is now a single wave off +the disc, mastered near full scale — `ADV`'s louder presentation measures +**+0.0003 dBFS at source** — and refusing that would be refusing the disc's own +mastering. + +### The 504 464 B constant: I refused the conversion, and refusing was right + +The Decoder asked whether I would spend a decode converting its anchor offset to +seconds, and I declined because bytes per second is not constant even inside one +region. It has since found the stronger reason and withdrawn the ask: **the +constant is structural, not proportional** — identical on all 17 regions despite +their differing durations. A proportional prediction lands within 8 bytes on +`ADV`, which is a coincidence, and is **4 305 B out on `S00A`**. A seconds figure +off that constant would have been invented, and it would have looked corroborated +on the first movie anybody checked. + +❔ **Why the disc stores three presentations at all is unanswered**, by either of +us. + +## The transcode cache had never hit, because the wipe ran first + +`video::transcode` has carried a cache since P4. It writes a `.cmd` sidecar with +the exact ffmpeg command, the source's byte count and its channel count, and +skips the encode when all three still match. Its doc comment says why: *"without +it every re-export pays ~4 minutes to produce a byte-identical file, and an +exporter nobody re-runs is worse than a cache."* + +**It had never hit once.** `main.rs` clears the output tree wholesale — and the +`remove_dir_all` runs immediately before the check, deleting the sidecar and the +output it stamps. The cache tested a file it had just erased. + +This session ran the exporter **six times** and paid the full Theora encode every +one of them, producing five byte-identical files. Roughly 48 minutes. Nothing +reported it, and nothing could have: a cache is silent when it works and silent +when it does not, and the only symptom is a wall-clock cost that looks like the +job simply being slow. + +⚠️ **It is worth being specific about how this hid**, because the ingredients are +ordinary. The cache is correct. The wipe is correct. Each carries a doc comment +explaining itself, and neither mentions the other. The defect exists only in +their ordering, which is stated in neither, and the cost is invisible in every +artefact the export produces — the tree is byte-identical either way. + +### The fix keeps the wholesale guarantee rather than trading it away + +The obvious repair — stop wiping — would break what the wipe is for: *a screen +that stops being exported stops existing, rather than lingering as a stale file +that still validates.* So the wipe now spares exactly `video/`, and +`prune_videos` deletes anything in it this run did not claim. Everything else is +still cleared outright. + +That is a **cache, not a hand-edit**, and the distinction matters against +MISSION §3: nothing in `export/` is authored, the sidecar is derived from the +command the exporter itself computed, and any change to the command, the source +size or the channel count re-encodes. A modder who edits an `.ogv` by hand gets +it overwritten on the next export, exactly as before. + +🟡 **Not measured yet:** that a cached run reproduces the same tree. The claim is +structural — the skip is keyed on the whole command string — but "the second run +produces the same bytes" is checkable and has not been checked. + +## `settle_time()` — the answer arrived, and it refutes my own 🔴 more than it confirms it + +The Decoder took the port's top ask and measured the boot on a cold profile with +no shader cache (`auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures` at `4bd4779`, +`docs/re/boot-settle-times-measured.md`). It confirms the *principle* I filed: +the title's `rest.t` is 251 units = **4.183 s** where its art is finished at about +2 s, so `rest.t` is not when a screen arrives. + +**But my row said more than that**, and the extra part is wrong. It said +*"everything the boot sequencer paces off that landmark is therefore late"*, and +named `publisher_logo` and `developer_logos`. So I measured the port the way the +game was measured — **visible span, not arrival-to-arrival** — with `--film` at +4 fps and a per-frame greyscale mean: + +| | port, visible span | game, three cold boots | | +|---|---|---|---| +| publisher wordmark | **4.25 s** | 4.297 / 4.604 / 4.370 | 0.05 s under the lowest | +| developer logos | **3.50 s** | 3.508 / 3.503 / 3.366 | **dead on** | +| black hold between | ≈0.25 s | 0.2 – 0.3 s | inside | +| title settled → plate | 2.000 s (declared 120 units) | 2.247 s | inside, at ~28 fps presentation | + +**The splashes are not late. They match.** ⚠️ And the reason my earlier reading +said otherwise is worth keeping: I had compared the port's *transition +timestamps* — 4.68 s and 3.94 s, arrival to arrival — against the game's +*visible spans*. Those differ by the exit ramp plus the black hold, about 0.6 s, +which is the whole of the discrepancy I was about to chase. This corpus has been +bitten by exactly this before, in the plate delay: *"timed from where build 4 +stops animating, not from where it first appears — measured the other way the two +runs differ by 0.48 s against 6 ms."* + +So the port paces the boot correctly, and **`rest.t` is a wrong landmark whose +blast radius is much smaller than I claimed**: on the screens the sequencer +actually advances off, `rest.t` plus the 24-unit exit ramp lands where the game +lands. What it still affects is `_script_settled`, which waits longer than it +needs to before photographing — a slow test, not a wrong frame. + +### `dwell_seconds` stays `null`, and the question is now closed rather than open + +`authored/timing.json` says of it: *"If a capture ever times the real boot, this +is where that number goes."* A capture has now timed the real boot, and the +answer is that **nothing goes there** — the disc's own keyframe groups reproduce +the game's dwells to 0.05 s and 0.01 s. The field stays `null` for a measured +reason instead of an absence of one. + +### Taken from the same page, and not taken + +* ✅ **The 120-unit plate delay stands.** The Decoder ran a refutation of it that + failed instructively: its probe's `title_static` mark gave 3.203 s, which on a + cold boot looks like a real effect. It was the instrument — the mark fires + during the crossfade out of the attract movie, with the glyph count still 0. + Re-measured from content: 2.247 s. **The port changes nothing**, and the + declared 120 units is what it keeps. +* 🔴 **No Ⓐ→menu dwell is authored.** It measured 3.763 s and contains a 1.53 s + guest load stall — the third independent reproduction of that stall, this one + on a cold cache, so it is not a warm-cache artefact. It is emulator time, not a + game constant. +* 🟡 **Menu build-in 0.531 s and Ⓑ→title 0.482 s are not authored either**, and + that is the Decoder's own caveat rather than my caution: they rest on one run, + where the plate delay and the load stall are each cross-checked against + independent prior evidence. The port is within ~0.1 s of both with its existing + 24-unit exit ramp, so authoring them would replace a disc-derived number with a + provisional measured one and gain nothing measurable. + +## The voice presentation is now unambiguously the port's choice, and the recommendation behind it was withdrawn + +The Decoder has withdrawn "highest byte rate": its sentence read *"the +highest-rate, highest-gain one is chunk 1"*, and those two criteria select +**different streams** — `ADV` chunk 1 is 1 118 268 B at 0.0 dBFS, chunk 2 is +1 171 516 B at −8.3. The rule named one and the parenthetical named the other. I +implemented the rule faithfully and got the quieter presentation. + +What the file can still say is decoded and does not adjudicate it: the `fmt ` +chunk is a 32-byte `XMAWAVEFORMAT` whose `+0x20` is a declared +`PsuedoBytesPerSec` — 8 142 and 8 530 on `ADV`'s two, matching the computed rates +to 0.02 % — but `wEncodeOptions` (`0x10d6`), channel count and channel mask are +**byte-identical across the presentations**. Nothing in the header ranks them. + +⚠️ One more observable, measured here and not in that page: **the two +presentations differ in channel layout.** `ADV` chunk 1 is mono-in-stereo — +channel 2 digitally silent — while chunk 2 is **dual-mono**, both channels +identical at −8.318574. So they are not two encodes of one file differing only in +rate. + +Also recorded, because it cost the Decoder time: **`sylpheed-cli audio info` is +not to be trusted on these.** Its "16 channels / 4310 Hz / 2-bit" is +`wBitsPerSample`, `wEncodeOptions` and the channel fields read at the wrong +offsets — its XMA1 reader is misaligned. That is a tool in this repository +reporting confident nonsense, and it is the second time a renderer or reader of +ours has been believed before it was checked. + +## Refutation of my dual-mono inference — the measurement stands, the generalisation does not + +I argued that `highest_rate` had no case because `ADV`'s higher-rate presentation +is **dual-mono** while its louder one is mono-in-stereo, so the extra bytes buy a +duplicated channel rather than fidelity. The Decoder tested that disc-wide, as a +refutation attempt, and **it fails**. + +Over the 28 three-stream cues, the stream-3 / stream-2 size ratio runs: + +| min | median | max | sd | within 15 % of 1.0 | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| 0.0778 | 1.2565 | 2.9163 | 0.5057 | **12 of 28** | + +Declared rates scatter with them — `S06A` is 5 661 against 16 513 B/s. **A 37× +spread is not a duplicated channel.** + +**The channel measurement itself stands**: `ADV` chunk 1 really is mono-in-stereo +and chunk 2 really is dual-mono at −8.318574, and that is this port's own decode, +which the Decoder could not re-run and did not dispute. What fails is the step +from *one asset* to *the format*. + +### What this changes, and what it does not + +Nothing in the export changes. `loudest` is a **per-asset content** rule — it +reads the peak of the actual streams in front of it — so a scattering structural +ratio cannot undermine it, and `ADV`'s dialogue at +0.3 dBFS instead of −8.7 is +plainly the better outcome either way. + +What changes is the *reason*, in four places: `authored/audio.json`'s +`presentation_why`, the selector comment in `audio.rs`, `BLOCKED.md`'s row, and +this page. The honest statement is narrower and slightly less satisfying: +**`highest_rate` was never refuted — it was never argued for, and neither is +`loudest`.** Which is exactly why the entry is marked *chosen* rather than +*measured*, and why one capture deletes it. + +⚠️ **This is the third claim of mine in two iterations that generalised a +single-asset observation** — after "the chunks are two stems" and "everything the +sequencer paces off `rest.t` is late". All three were true of the thing I looked +at. The pattern is not carelessness about the measurement; it is reaching for the +rule the measurement would imply if it held everywhere, and writing that down in +the same breath. The corpus catches it because someone else runs the census. + +### Two things in that data that are not mine, recorded so they are not lost + +* **`S12B`'s three streams are byte-size identical** (14 396 each). +* **`BIRD_224` is three-stream and is not a movie cue** — so the three-stream + shape is not exclusive to cutscenes, which narrows how it was described to this + port earlier. Neither affects `export_voice`, which only resolves movies. + +## Two rows of the P1 baseline were comparing blank frames and reporting OK + +`docs/port/BLOCKED.md` has carried a 🔴 since P3: *"the loading screen's fade quad +rests OPAQUE BLACK … it will bite whoever first draws a loading screen."* It had +already bitten, in the one place nobody looks — the regression harness. + +`build_12` and `build_15` render as **pure black in both renderers**: mean 0, +max 0, on the Godot side and on `sylpheed-cli`'s. The difference between two +blank frames is zero, so `verify-screen` scored them `max 0 over3 0 OK` — the +strongest verdict it has. **Two of sixteen rows were comparing nothing against +nothing**, and the committed baseline reads as sixteen passes. + +That is worse than a missing test. A missing test is visible in the count. + +### The cause, isolated by a control rather than by reading + +`build_00` and `build_01` are the *plain* loading variant — the same screen minus +three elements. They render: **mean 1.913, max 214.5**. `build_12`/`build_15` add +`pgloading_baseeff`, `pgloading_loop5` and **`pgloading_eff00`**, a 1280×720 +primitive whose `rest` is `0xff000000` — opaque black — at `t=38`, inside its own +opening black hold (`0xff000000` at 38, `0xff000000` at 48, clear on the untimed +final). It carries `layer_source: "none"`, so paint order puts it **last**, over +everything. + +Same screen, one element different, one renders and one does not. That is the +diagnosis, and it did not require an opinion about `rest`. + +### The rule I was about to write, and the census that killed it + +The obvious reading is that `rest.t = 38` is wrong because it precedes the +element's last timed keyframe at 48 — so "`rest.t` before the last timed +keyframe" would flag the pathology. **I ran the census before writing the rule, +and it does not survive: 152 of 212 elements in this export have `rest.t` earlier +than their last timed keyframe.** It is the norm. + +What actually distinguishes this element is its *content*, and the reach of that +is one: + +| screen | full-frame primitive | rest.t | last | rest fade | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `build_12` / `build_15` | `pgloading_eff00` | 38 | 48 | **`0xff000000`** | +| `extras` / `extras_jp` | `pteff00` | 64 | 74 | `0x00000000` | +| `main_menu` / `main_menu_jp` | `pteff00` | 70 | 80 | `0x00000000` | +| `title` / `title_jp` | `pteff00` | 261 | 269 | `0x00000000` | +| `title` / `title_jp` | `pteff02` | 46 | 236 | `0x40000000` | + +**`pgloading_eff00` is the only element in the whole export whose resting pose is +a fully opaque full-frame quad — 1 of 212.** Every other full-frame primitive +rests clear or at 25 %. One instance is not a rule about `rest`, and keying the +renderer on "an opaque full-frame quad at rest is probably wrong" would be a +content heuristic of exactly the kind this port refuses elsewhere. + +### So nothing in the renderer changed, and the harness did + +The screens stay black. Nothing draws a loading screen, and the honest position +is that either `rest` is mis-identified for this one element — a decoding +question, asked — or the screen really does begin fully black and `--pose=rest` +is simply the wrong thing to photograph it at. + +What changed is that **a blank pair can no longer score.** `verify-screen` now +checks both frames for ink first and reports +`BLANK -- both renderers drew nothing; this row proves nothing`. It is not a +failure — the port may legitimately have nothing to draw — and `status` is +untouched, so an unrelated `DIFFERS` still fails the run. The corrected baseline: + +``` +build_00/01 max 3 OK press_start(_jp) max 1 OK +title max 6 DIFFERS main_menu(_jp) max 4 DIFFERS +extras(_jp) max 3 OK title_jp max 155 DIFFERS +publisher_logo(_r) max 1 OK developer_logos(_r) max 2 OK +build_12 / build_15 BLANK ← previously OK +``` + +Fourteen rows, not sixteen. No new drift among the fourteen. + +## Refutation attempt — the loading-screen variants, and it survived + +The Decoder's `ui-title-build-map.md` says entries 0/1 are the plain loading +variant at 7 elements and 12/15 the dressed one at 10, the three additions being +`pgloading_eff00`, `pgloading_loop5` and `pgloading_baseeff`. Checked against this +export, which addresses by pak entry: + +| entry | elements | +|---|---| +| 0, 1 | 7 — `eff01 eff02 line loop1 loop3 loop4 str` | +| 12, 15 | 10 — the same seven **plus** `baseeff`, `eff00`, `loop5` | + +**Exact, in both the count and the identity of the three.** The claim survives, +and it paid for itself immediately: the two variants differing by exactly the +black quad is what made `build_00` a control for `build_12` and turned "the +loading screen is black" into "this one element blacks it out". + +## 🔴 The voice export is known incomplete — the game decodes all three streams at once + +The Decoder booted with Canary's `--xma_param_probe=true` — the cvar whose own +comment exists to say which sub-wave a movie's `.slb` the game decodes — and the +answer is that **it does not pick one. It decodes all three, concurrently, in +three separate XMA contexts.** + +| ctx | packets | byte_size | disc payload (RIFF − 60) | +|---|---|---|---| +| 0 | 632 | 1 294 336 | 1 294 396 | +| 1 | 546 | 1 118 208 | 1 118 268 | +| 2 | 572 | 1 171 456 | 1 171 516 | + +Three-way, byte-exact. **So "three presentations of one take, pick one" is +refuted by the running game**, and the question I had been arguing about — +*which* presentation — has no answer, because its premise was wrong. + +### This one was not caught by a census, and could not have been + +The last three claims of mine that overreached were all killed by counting +something. This one survived every count available: the streams really are +equal-duration, one really is silence, one really is 0.60 × another with the +residual 26.8 dB down. Every measurement was right and the frame around them was +wrong, and **no amount of looking harder at the file would have moved it** — the +file says `ChannelMask = 0x0002` on all three. It took the running game. + +That is the mission's own sentence arriving in practice: *the Port has no oracle +— if it needs to know what the game does, it asks.* I did ask, repeatedly, and +each time for the wrong thing: which stream, rather than whether the premise held. + +### What changed, and what deliberately did not + +**The behaviour is held.** Reverting to the `1/n` sum is not obviously less +wrong: an equal-gain sum of channel pairs is **not** a downmix — MISSION §6 makes +exactly that point when it pins an explicit matrix for the movies' 5.1 fold +rather than letting ffmpeg default — and the sum cost `S00A` 6.02 dB when one +stream was silence. Swapping one guess for another on the strength of a message +is what produced this entry twice already. + +**What changed is that the wrongness is now loud.** ⚠️ *This failure sounds like +success*: a single stream decodes to clean, audible dialogue, so nothing a +listener hears reveals that two streams are missing. So it is stated in three +places a reader cannot miss — a top-level `manifest.json` warning per movie, the +console line (`1 of 3 streams [refuted] -- KNOWN INCOMPLETE`), and the entry's own `why` — +and 🟡 became 🔴 in `authored/audio.json` and `BLOCKED.md`. + +🟡 **"They are 5.1" is the Decoder's hypothesis and is not established.** Three +concurrent stereo streams is six channels and N stereo streams is how XMA carries +multichannel on the 360, which would explain the differing byte rates, the +near-silent stream, and why cues are 1-stream or 3-stream and never 2. Against +it: all three declare `ChannelMask = 0x0002` identically, which is odd for +distinct channel roles. Nothing here builds on it. + +**What settles it, and it is asked:** a recording of the game's own output over +`ADV`, through the PulseAudio null sink (`AUDIO-VERIFICATION` §3). Candidate +combinations of the three decoded streams can then be correlated against what the +game actually played — which turns the channel-role question from a decode into a +fit against an oracle. Twenty seconds over dialogue is enough. + +### The measurements survive; only their meaning moved + +`S00A`'s silent stream and `ADV`'s 0.60 × relationship are untouched and now read +as facts about **channels**: 0.60 × with the residual 26.8 dB down is what a +correlated channel pair at a lower level looks like, and a silent channel is an +unused one. Nothing measured here is retracted. What is retracted is every +sentence that called them *presentations*. + +## 🔴 The oracle capture does not contain the intro — a controlled negative + +The Decoder took the capture I asked for — `adv-game-output-6ch.wav`, 70.2 s, +6 ch, 48 kHz, shared as `1788018994-16f9d19d90b8`, taken at `68aa192` — described +as *"the FULL mix, the movie's own WMA track plus the three XMA streams"*. + +**It contains none of them.** Envelope cross-correlation, sliding with overhang, +normalised over the overlap, minimum 30 s of overlap so a short window cannot win +on an edge: + +| capture ch | against | best *r* | runner-up | margin | | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| c0 | `ADV` bed | 0.361 | 0.359 | **+0.003** | no match | +| c1 | `ADV` bed | 0.407 | 0.403 | +0.004 | no match | +| c0 | voice stream 1 / 2 / 3 | 0.42 / 0.26 / 0.27 | — | ≤ +0.006 | no match | +| c1 | voice stream 1 / 2 / 3 | 0.47 / 0.34 / 0.34 | — | ≤ +0.006 | no match | +| c0 | `BGM_103` (menu bed) | 0.271 | 0.260 | +0.011 | no match | +| c0 | `S00A` | 0.351 | 0.349 | +0.002 | no match | + +**The margin is the number that matters**, not *r*. A match has a *peak*; these +have a *plateau* — best and second-best differ by 0.001–0.016 across every +pairing, which is what a statistic does when no alignment exists. + +### Three controls, because a negative from an uncontrolled instrument is worthless + +1. **The instrument finds matches on this data.** `bed` vs `bed` → r = 1.000, + margin **+0.115**. Voice stream 2 vs stream 3 → r = 1.000, margin **+0.300**. +2. **My reference really is the movie.** The `.ogv` transcode against the disc's + own `ADV.wmv` → r = 1.000, margin **+0.114**. So a failure to match is not my + transcode. +3. **Time drift is ruled out.** A stretched playback would break a long + correlation while still matching locally, with the best lag climbing + monotonically. Five-second windows of the capture slid over the whole bed give + best lags of **4.95, 15.30, 119.35, 50.75, 29.35, 83.95 s** — scattered across + the movie, not monotonic, and every margin ≤ 0.017. + +### What I can say, and what I will not + +**Said:** this capture cannot answer the channel-role question, and it is not the +intro's audio. **Not said:** what it *is*. It is 70 s of something, all six +channels carrying signal at RMS ≈ −27 dBFS, matching nothing this port exports. +Diagnosing it is the Decoder's side of the wall and I have handed it back rather +than guessing. + +⚠️ **One measurement on the file that may help them.** Split as 5.1, **channels 3 +and 6 are byte-identical** — same MD5, not merely the same peak and RMS to six +decimals. An exact duplicate pair inside a six-channel "surround" output is +consistent with the Decoder's own warning that the 6-channel frame is Xenia's +hardcoded `kFrameChannelsDefault`, not the guest's request. It weakens, further, +any reading of that file as evidence of a 5.1 game mix. + +### The voice export stays exactly as it is + +Still one stream of three, still marked 🔴 in the manifest, the console line and +`authored/audio.json`. **The capture changed nothing**, which is the correct +outcome for a measurement that failed: the question is open, and it was open +before. What would have been wrong is treating a 70 s recording as an oracle +because it was expensive to obtain. + + +### Resolved the same day — it was the capture path, and the duplicate pair was the thread + +The Decoder found the cause and **withdrew the capture**: PulseAudio was +remapping between two mismatched channel maps, and a 6-channel remap **silently +drops and duplicates**. Its control needs no emulator and no disc — six channels, +six different tones, the same sink and the same `parec` invocation — and came +back `400 / 3200 / 200 / 800 / 800 / 200` for an input of +`400 / 800 / 200 / 1600 / 3200 / 6400`. **Two source channels were gone +entirely.** Setting the sink's `channel_map` to the guest's own returns all six. + +So the negative was right and, more usefully, **the byte-identical pair I +reported was the thread that unravelled it.** That is worth recording precisely, +because it was nearly not reported at all: it began as an idle check of two +channels whose peak *and* RMS matched to six decimals, and the only reason it +became evidence is that a coincidence at six decimals is cheaper to hash than to +explain. + +**Withdrawn with the file**, both the Decoder's: *"all six channels carry +signal"*, and the non-zero-surround observation offered as weak support for a 5.1 +guest mix. Unaffected: the three-XMA-context concurrency result, which is read +from the emulator's own log rather than the audio path, on two independent boots. + +### What the port took from it: `tools/port/check-capture` + +A capture now has to pass a provenance check before anyone analyses it, and it is +one command. It splits the file, hashes every channel and fails on any duplicate +pair. Documented in `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §5. + +**Run through its own controls, both directions**, because a checker nobody +controlled is the thing this whole incident is about: + +* six distinct tones → **PASS**; +* the remap's own output pattern → **FAIL**, naming all four duplicate pairs; +* the corrupt game capture → **FAIL** on `ch2 == ch5`. + +⚠️ **The known-bad control is the part worth reading.** All six of its channels +report a peak of **−18.063656 dB — identical to six decimals — while containing +three duplicate pairs.** A level check cannot see this failure at all. That is +why the tool hashes rather than measures, and it is why the corrupt capture's +"plausible per-channel levels" were never evidence of anything. + +The tool says so itself: it is **necessary, not sufficient.** Passing means no +channel was duplicated; it says nothing about whether the right thing was +recorded. A capture should survive both that and §1's correlation against a known +source before anything is concluded from it — and the one that was analysed here +would have failed the cheap check in thirty seconds. + +The corrupt file is withdrawn from the exchange (`share drop`), so the next agent +cannot pick it up and repeat the work. + +## 🔴 Take 2 is clean, my instrument was not, and the negative had to be re-earned + +The Decoder's second capture passes `check-capture` — I re-ran it myself rather +than cite theirs — carries a screen log, and was recorded with the sink's +`channel_map` set equal to Canary's own. It is a good file. + +⚠️ **One provenance discrepancy, minor but worth stating:** the message gives +253.3 s; the file is **318.539 s**. The screen log runs to 316 s and is +consistent with the file, so this is a mis-stated number rather than a bad +capture — but a length quoted in a provenance claim should match the artefact. + +### The retraction that came out of measuring it + +Take 2 also showed no alignment with the bed or the voice streams. Before +reporting a second negative I asked whether the method could do the job at all, +by building a **synthetic mix** — the bed plus the three voice streams — and +hunting the bed inside it. + +**It failed. r = 0.415, against the `r > 0.8` bar my earlier negatives were +judged against.** + +So the instrument that produced *"the capture contains no ADV audio"* could not +have found ADV audio in a mix even when it was certainly there. That conclusion +was right — the Decoder's tone control proved take 1 corrupt independently — but +**it was right by luck, and I reported it as measurement.** The three controls I +was pleased with tested the wrong things: that the method finds a *clean* signal +in a *clean* reference, which was never the task. + +### The rebuilt instrument, calibrated in both directions + +Band-limit so the target dominates, then judge on **lag and margin**, not on +absolute *r* — the `r > 0.8` bar is correct clean-against-clean and meaningless +for a component in a mix. + +| hunting | band | against | *r* | lag | margin | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| the bed | 40–180 Hz | mix containing it | 0.663 | **0.0 s** ✓ | **+0.111** | +| the bed | 40–180 Hz | voice-only mix | 0.262 | wrong ✗ | +0.005 | +| voice stream 2 | 300–3000 Hz | mix containing it | 0.810 | **0.0 s** ✓ | **+0.248** | +| voice stream 2 | 300–3000 Hz | the bed alone | 0.358 | wrong ✗ | +0.005 | + +A 20–50× separation in the discriminating statistic. Documented as +`AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §6. + +### And now the negative, supported + +Every one of take 2's six channels, against both targets, sits in the +**known-absent** regime: + +| | bed (40–180 Hz) | voice stream 2 (300–3000 Hz) | +|---|---|---| +| margins | +0.000 … +0.014 | +0.001 … +0.017 | +| lags | −58 … +255 s, scattered | −72 … +183 s, scattered | + +**Take 2 contains neither the movie's WMA bed nor the cutscene voice**, on an +instrument that demonstrably finds both when they are present. + +### What that leaves, and it is not mine to answer + +Two captures, differently configured, the second provably free of the channel-map +fault, with a screen log saying the movie was on screen — and **neither carries +either audio source.** That points away from a one-off setup error. The +possibilities I can see are a capture path that still loses the guest's mix, or +the guest not emitting these sources at all during the movie, and **only one side +of that wall can tell them apart.** Handed back with the numbers. + +⚠️ **If it is the second, it reaches the port directly**: the export's movie audio +comes from the `.wmv`'s WMA track, and if the game never plays that track, then +`ADV.ogv`'s audio is wrong in a way no amount of transcode fidelity would fix. I +am not asserting that — it is a question about what the game does — but it is the +reason this is worth another boot rather than being written off. + +## Every music bank was summed at 1/3 when only two sub-waves are music — 3.52 dB, since P6 + +The Decoder's message about `BGM_102` came with declared durations from the +corrected XMA1 `PsuedoBytesPerSec`, and checking my export against them turned up +a defect of mine that had been shipping since P6. + +`export_bgm` summed every sub-wave `media` returned and scaled by `1/n`. Decoded +and timed, the three banks are identical in shape: + +| bank | sub-wave 0 | sub-wave 1 | sub-wave 2 | +|---|---|---|---| +| `BGM_103` | **10 300 B → 0.009 s, peak −inf** | 3 876 924 B → 87.744 s | 3 930 172 B → 87.744 s | +| `BGM_102` | **10 300 B → 0.009 s, peak −inf** | 1 151 036 B → 37.482 s | 1 269 820 B → 37.482 s | +| `BGM_001` | **10 300 B → 0.009 s, peak −inf** | 4 466 748 B → 173.809 s | 4 673 596 B → 173.809 s | + +**Sub-wave 0 is digitally silent in all three**, and 10 300 B is 10 240 + a +60-byte RIFF wrapper — 10 240 B being exactly what the Decoder's disc-wide census +identifies as the bank header. So it is not a stem. Counting it in the divisor +put every real stem at 1/3 instead of 1/2: **3.52 dB of attenuation on all the +menu music this port has shipped since P6.** + +Dropping it is **arithmetic, not a decoding decision** — a silent input +contributes nothing to a sum, and this is the same rule `export_voice` already +applies. Measured after the fix: `main_menu.ogg` goes **−7.69 → −4.20 dBFS**, +**+3.49 dB** against 3.52 predicted, the remainder being Vorbis. + +⚠️ **This is the third instance of one defect in this pipeline** — a silent chunk +in the voice sum, a silent channel in the mono fold, and now a silent sub-wave in +the music sum. Each was invisible in every check except a level, and each time +the divisor was computed from *how many inputs there are* rather than *how many +carry signal*. That is the shape to look for, not the individual bug. + +### It also closes a 🔴 that has been open since P6 + +`docs/port/BLOCKED.md` carried *"`media::sound_bank_riffs` returns three +sub-waves where HANDOFF Q10's census says two"* as a disagreement the port shipped +deliberately. The census was right; the third was never a stem. The export now +reports **2 sub-waves** and the warning is gone — closed by measurement on my +side, corroborating the Decoder's `c1f3608` from a different direction (decoding +it, rather than counting headers). + +### The declared-rate method, cross-checked a third time — and one correction + +Their declared lengths against my decodes: `BGM_103` 87.750/87.749 vs **87.744**; +`BGM_102` 37.487 vs **37.482**; `BGM_001` 173.821 vs **173.809**. Agreement to +**5–12 ms** on three banks. The method is good for lengths. + +🟢 **Refutation attempt, and the conclusion survives while the reasoning does +not.** The Decoder wrote that `BGM_001` reads *"173.821 s declared against your +decoded 167.663 s — a gap of 6.158 s"*, explaining it as *"declared is the +encoded stream, decoded is where the audio stops."* **A full decode of +`BGM_001` yields 173.809 s of PCM, not 167.663 s.** The 167.663 figure is where +the music *fades out*, measured from the audio; the stream then continues, silent, +to its declared end. So declared and decoded agree to 12 ms and the trailing +silence is *inside* the decode, not the difference between two methods. The +cross-check stands — better than stated, since it is now three banks rather than +a coincidence — and the sentence explaining it should go. + +## Take 2 was starved, my correlator was fine, and `check-capture` was incomplete + +The Decoder diagnosed take 2: a **starved** capture. Verified here independently +rather than taken on trust — 35.6 % of frames silent on all six channels, 10 482 +alternating runs, median burst 13.5 ms and gap 3.9 ms, a 17.4 ms period at 57 Hz. +Their untruncated original reads 39.3 % and 10 595 runs; the difference is +exactly the truncation, and every other number agrees. + +**So my rebuilt correlator was working correctly on a file that could not carry +the signal.** ✅ And the alarming reading it produced — *"the game may not play +the `.wmv`'s WMA track, so `ADV.ogv`'s audio has been wrong since P4"* — **is not +supported by this capture, and is not refuted either.** It is withdrawn as a +concern arising from evidence, and nothing is changed on account of it in either +direction. That matters more than it looks: it was the most expensive-to-act-on +hypothesis in the port, and it came from a file that could not speak to it. + +### The real deliverable: my own checker passed the starved file + +`check-capture` tested only for duplicated channels, so it cleared a recording +that was 36 % holes. A provenance check that passes the artefact it was built in +response to is not a check. + +It now measures starvation too. ⚠️ **Two thresholds I invented were both wrong, +and the controls caught both** — which is the part worth recording: + +1. **Counting exact-zero frames.** Real audio crosses zero constantly; a clean + voice track scored 5 947 "gaps" of median 0.0 ms and was called starved. **A + gap is a run, not a sample.** Only runs ≥ 1 ms count. +2. **Gap count and median length.** A genuine music bed shows **454 gaps at a + median of 1.4 ms** — quiet 16-bit passages really are zero for milliseconds — + so neither statistic separates it from a starved file. + +What separates them is the **rate**: + +| | gaps/s | median gap | all-channel silence | +|---|---|---|---| +| the starved capture | **32.9** | 3.9 ms | 35.6 % | +| a real music+SFX bed | **3.3** | 1.4 ms | 1.1 % | +| a voice track, 53 % pauses | **0.03** | — | — | + +Bar set at **20 gaps/s** — 1.6× below the bad case, 6× above the worst good one, +**derived from the controls rather than chosen and then justified.** Controlled +in both directions: real stereo bed PASS, six distinct tones PASS, starved +capture FAIL. It also now reports a `data` chunk declaring 0 bytes, which is what +a file copied while still being written looks like. + +### 🔴 The voice channel roles are not obtainable this session + +Both capture routes are closed and the Decoder has said so plainly. The monitor +sink is starved **by construction** — it advances at wall-clock rate and +substitutes silence, so every moment the emulator runs slow is a hole, and +deleting the holes warps the timebase rather than repairing it. The route that +works is an internal tap at `SDLAudioDriver::SubmitFrame`, and that needs a +Canary rebuild whose cost they have measured: the build root `build-canary` +targets does not exist in that container, the warm tree is configured against the +same missing path, so it is a full reconfigure and compile on a box with ~700 MB +free and a history of parallel builds OOM-killing the host. + +**A whole session for one probe.** That is a human's call and neither agent +should start it mid-loop. Until then the port keeps authoring with the known +recorded: one stream of three, 🔴 in the manifest, the console line and +`authored/audio.json`. + +## The settle run carries an unmeasured real-time factor — and the numbers it touches were already unauthored + +The Decoder has withdrawn one of the two arguments propping up its settle-time +run. It had claimed the plate *pulse period* was an internal clock proving the +run was not slowed; re-examined, that estimate rests on **one interval at a +125 ms sample interval (±6.7 %)**, and re-running the trough-picking gives +**2.628 s** rather than the 2.369 quoted — an adjacent local minimum had been +counted as a separate trough. Against the corpus's 2.24 s that is **+17.3 %**. It +is too weak to show anything and **cannot resolve a real-time factor below +~7 %**. + +**✅ Nothing in the port moves, and this is the second time in two iterations that +the right call was to have authored nothing.** + +| number from that run | anchored by | did the port take it? | +|---|---|---| +| title → plate, 2.247 s | three prior readings (2.13 / 2.132 / 2.138) and the disc's declared 120 units | ✅ it is what the port already draws | +| menu build-in, 0.531 s | **nothing** | ❌ not authored | +| Ⓑ → title, 0.482 s | **nothing** | ❌ not authored | +| Ⓐ → menu, 3.763 s | contains a 1.53 s load stall | ❌ explicitly refused | + +Checked rather than remembered: `grep` over `authored/` and `port/scripts/` finds +no `0.531` and no `0.482`. The only build-in reference in the tree is the plate +arithmetic — `t=118 → t=238`, 120 units — which is the **anchored** leg. + +I declined those two because they were one-run figures the Decoder had itself +flagged, and because the port was already within ~0.1 s of both from the disc's +own keyframes. **That reasoning has now been joined by a second, independent one +I did not have at the time**: a few per cent of slowdown sits inside them +undetected. A provisional measurement adopted over a decoded number would have +imported an error nobody could see. + +## `verify-dwell` — the comparison that refuted my own 🔴, made repeatable + +Last iteration I measured the port's visible spans against the oracle's dwells by +hand, and it refuted a red flag I had filed myself: `rest.t` *is* the wrong settle +landmark, but *"everything the sequencer paces off it is therefore late"* was +false, and I nearly went and re-paced screens that already matched. + +That check existed once, in a transcript. It is now `tools/port/verify-dwell`. + +``` +screen port oracle (3 cold boots) verdict +publisher wordmark 4.25 s 4.297 / 4.604 / 4.370 agrees +developer logos 3.75 s 3.508 / 3.503 / 3.366 agrees +``` + +⚠️ **The trap it exists to prevent is in its header, because it is the whole +point:** a port's *transition timestamps* and the oracle's *visible spans* are +not the same quantity — they differ by the exit ramp plus the black hold, about +0.6 s, which was the entire discrepancy I was about to chase. This corpus has +been bitten by the identical confusion before, on the plate delay, where the two +readings differ by 0.48 s against 6 ms. + +**The bar is the oracle's own run-to-run spread**, plus one film interval. Three +cold boots of the real game differ by 0.3 s; agreeing more tightly than the +oracle agrees with itself would not mean anything, and a tighter bar would be a +number chosen to look impressive. The developer-logo span read 3.50 s on the +hand-run and 3.75 s here — one film interval apart, both inside the bar, which is +the tool reporting its own resolution honestly rather than hiding it. + +**The oracle's numbers are quoted in the script as a test fixture and labelled as +the oracle's**, with the RE document they come from. Nothing in the port derives +them and nothing may. + +## The `PRESS Ⓐ` plate pulses — authored per element, because the census forbids a rule + +The human listed pulsation as first-class and the port drew nothing at all: the +plate's focus record `ptbtn00f` was never reached, because `press_start` has no +`buttons` and nothing is focused. + +**That it loops is measured**, not assumed. The corpus timed the pulse four times +— 2.12 / 2.19 / 2.34 / 2.31 s — and you cannot measure a period unless the thing +repeats. + +### The rule I was going to write, and the census that forbade it + +The spinning ring is a **rule** in the renderer (`spin_period_units`) and it +earns that: 16 of 212 elements match its shape and **all 16 are focus rings**, +zero false positives. So I looked for the analogous shape for a pulse — a group +whose keyframes vary **only** in alpha, whose first and last alpha are equal, a +closed cycle. `ptbtn00f` fits it exactly: `0 → 6 → 74 → 80 → 80 → 74 → 6 → 0`. + +**Censused before writing it: 82 of 212 elements match.** `ptcopyright`, +`palogo_sqex`, `ptmsg`, `ptlogo_back2`, and every `_eff` fade-in-hold-fade-out on +every screen. **A renderer rule on that shape would make the copyright notice +pulse.** + +Narrowing to focus records leaves exactly **one** distinct element (plus its JP +twin). A rule justified by n = 1 is a special case wearing a rule's clothes. So +the pulse is a **lookup** in `authored/timing.json`, keyed `/`, +and the census is recorded beside it so nobody widens it later. + +### The period is the element's own group — and the alternative is stated + +**129 units**: its last timed keyframe is t=105, and the final untimed keyframe +is reached `exit_ramp_units` (24) later. **No new constant** — 24 is the same +authored value every other element's exit already uses. That is 2.150 s at +60 units/s, or 2.295 s at the ~28.1 fps the emulator presents, against +measurements of 2.12–2.34 s. It sits inside the spread at either rate. + +⚠️ **It is a choice, and the alternative cannot be ruled out**: the cycle could +restart at the group's first keyframe (t=6) rather than at 0, giving 123 units = +2.050 / 2.189 s — **also inside the measured spread**. Nothing available +separates them. t=0 is taken because it is where every other group in this port +starts, which is consistency and not evidence, and `authored/timing.json` says so. + +A fifth reading is recorded and **not averaged in**: the Decoder re-picked its +troughs and got 2.628 s having previously reported 2.369 from the same run, then +withdrew the estimate as too weak to resolve better than ~7 %. + +### Verified the way the ring was — bit-identity one period apart + +20 authored periods is 2.15 × 20 = **43.00 s = exactly 172 film frames**, so +frames N and N+172 must be the same frame: + +| | max difference | +|---|---| +| f_055 vs f_227 (43.00 s) | **0/255** | +| f_060 vs f_232 (43.00 s) | **1/255** | +| f_070 vs f_242 (43.00 s) | **1/255** | +| f_079 vs f_251 (43.00 s) | **0/255** | +| **control** — f_070 vs f_243 (43.25 s) | **58.7/255** | + +The control is what makes the rest mean anything: a quarter-second off the period +differs by 58.7, on the period by 0–1. Measured on the held boot title, where the +glow-box mean swings **26.0 ↔ 37.7** — a real pulse, not a static glow. + +## ✅ The oracle finally speaks: the exported voice IS the game's centre channel + +The Decoder's fourth capture is the first faithful one — `--gpu=null` takes the +guest from 0.70× to 0.96× real time so Xenia stops padding, an ALSA `file` tee in +front of a paced slave removes PulseAudio's wall clock entirely. **59.7 s, 0.35 % +silence, one gap in the whole file, six distinct channel hashes.** Checked here +independently: it passes `check-capture`, and its header sizes verify exactly +(RIFF 34 369 572 / data 34 369 536 against 34 369 580 actual). + +The correlator was already calibrated, so the fit was a re-run rather than a +rebuild. **Controls first, on this instrument: known-present margin +0.248, +known-absent +0.005.** + +### Speech band, 300–3000 Hz + +| | FL | FR | **FC** | LFE | RL | RR | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| stream 1 (leading) | +0.013 | +0.006 | +0.012 | +0.009 | +0.012 | +0.005 | +| **stream 2 — the one exported** | +0.238 | +0.171 | **+0.305** | +0.011 | +0.035 | +0.006 | +| stream 3 | +0.240 | +0.173 | **+0.307** | +0.009 | +0.054 | +0.006 | + +**`r = 0.989` on FC, margin +0.305 — above the known-present control.** And the +bed, in the low band, is the mirror image: FL 0.763 / FR 0.838 / RL 0.805 / RR +0.817, all agreeing on the same lag, and **FC 0.317**. + +### What is established, and what is not + +✅ **The capture contains `ADV`'s audio**, at lag ≈ +6.6–6.7 s — agreed by two +independent bands and by six channels. + +✅ **The dialogue is in the centre channel and the bed is in the four corners.** +FC carries the voice and not the bed; FL/FR/RL/RR carry the bed and not the +voice. That is a textbook film mix, and it is measured rather than inferred from +a header — which matters, because the header says `ChannelMask = 0x0002` on all +three streams and would never have told us. + +✅ **The port's exported voice file is the material the game plays in FC.** The +`loudest` choice in `authored/audio.json` — which I recorded as an unjustified +choice — selects the dialogue. A mono voice file played into the mix is the +right approximation of a centre channel. + +⚠️ **Streams 2 and 3 are indistinguishable to this instrument**, and that is +expected: I measured months-of-iterations ago that stream 3 is 0.60 × stream 2 +with the residual 26.8 dB down. They are the same take at two levels, so they +correlate identically with everything. **This does not say `loudest` picked the +*right* one of the two — only that whichever it picked is the dialogue.** + +⚠️ **Stream 1 is not detectable in this window**, margins +0.005…+0.013. Consistent +with it being the tail of stream 2 (measured earlier at r = 0.998) and with a +59.7 s window that starts before the tail. + +🔴 **The `1 of 3 streams [refuted]` warning stays.** Nothing here explains what the other +two contribute to the game's output, and the export still ships one. What changed +is its character: it is no longer *"one of three, contents unknown"* but *"the +centre-channel dialogue, plus two streams whose relationship to it is measured +and whose role is not."* + +⚠️ **And the reach: 59.7 s of a 137 s movie**, one run, at 0.96× real time. The +`--gpu=null` route costs video, so this capture has no screen provenance — its +provenance is the XMA probe showing `ADV`'s three streams decoding during the +run, which for an audio question evidences the thing recorded rather than what +was on screen. + +## The stripping control passes — `S00A` is obtainable, and the gate is cleared + +The Decoder made this the gate on `S00A`, and it is the right call: `ADV` plays +itself on boot so it can be captured with `--gpu=null` at 0.96× real time, but +`S00A` starts ~4.5 s after Ⓐ on a save slot, which needs a **driven** run, which +needs screens, which rules out `--gpu=null`. So `S00A` is necessarily the 0.70× +rendered route with ~10 % additive padding — and is only worth a boot if +stripping that padding is exact. + +**It is.** A real music+SFX bed (137.37 s, carrying 454 genuine zero runs of its +own) had 1 149 holes inserted at 8.37/s to +9.9 % length, matching the observed +ALSA profile, then was stripped and correlated in the low band: + +| | *r* | lag | margin | +|---|---|---|---| +| original vs itself — **ceiling** | 1.000 | 0.0 s | +0.141 | +| **padded** vs original — what padding costs | **0.436** | −12.2 s | **+0.006** | +| **stripped** vs original — recovered | **1.000** | **0.0 s** | **+0.142** | +| stripped vs original-also-stripped | 1.000 | 0.0 s | +0.143 | + +**Two things worth reading off that table.** + +First, **padding at that profile destroys correlation completely** — r 0.436, +margin +0.006, which is the known-absent regime. That independently confirms, on +a file whose contents I control, that the earlier captures were unusable for the +reason claimed rather than for some other reason. + +Second, **recovery does not require stripping both sides.** The stripped capture +matches the *unstripped* source at the ceiling. That matters operationally: the +port's reference assets never need touching. + +⚠️ **What the control does not license.** Stripping removes genuine silence too +and cannot tell the two apart. On this material the genuine runs total 0.71 s in +137 s and cost nothing measurable; on material that is mostly silence they would. +And the whole thing rests on the **substituted-versus-additive** distinction — it +is valid for Xenia's ALSA padding, which inserts, and it is vandalism on a +PulseAudio monitor capture, which substitutes. `tools/port/strip-padding` says so +in its header before it says anything else, because running it on the wrong +artefact would look like it worked. + +Its output is **byte-identical** to the control's own stripping, so the tool and +the experiment are the same operation rather than two implementations that agree. + +## The correctness harness the docs promised for eight milestones did not exist + +`tools/port/verify-screen`, line 20, since P1: *"Use `tools/port/verify-capture` for +the correctness question."* **There was no such file.** The port has had a harness +comparing itself to `sylpheed-cli` — two renderers sharing its assumptions — and +none comparing it to the game, while its own documentation said otherwise. + +`docs/re/captures/ORACLE-CAPTURES.md` is blunt about why that matters: two +renderers agreeing proves nothing, and this corpus has been bitten three times — +the dropped `pteff05` background, the scale-0 rect, `rest()` — each invisible to a +render-vs-render diff and obvious against a capture. + +`tools/port/verify-capture` now exists. **Five screens, against framebuffer +captures of the real game:** + +| screen | RMSE | differing | note | +|---|---|---|---| +| `main_menu` | 14.79 | **0.25 %** | focus state may differ | +| `extras` | 15.29 | 0.46 % | focus state may differ | +| `title` | 21.07 | 1.82 % | `ptloop` sweeps never stop | +| `publisher_logo` | 10.77 | 1.00 % | | +| `developer_logos` | 9.37 | 0.39 % | | + +**No screen shows a large connected blob** — the shape a missing or misplaced +element makes, and the shape all three historical failures made. The differences +are scattered, and the two largest have stated causes. + +### 74 % of `main_menu`'s difference is the oracle's own focus signature + +The corpus ships `live-main-menu.png` and `live-main-menu-options-focused.png` — +the same screen with a different button lit. Their difference *is* what focus +changes, measured by the oracle against itself. Of the port's 2 159 differing +pixels, **1 599 — 74.1 % — fall inside that signature.** So the bulk of the +disagreement is a state mismatch (the port focuses `NEW GAME`, authored, because +HANDOFF Q5 measured initial focus as unstable), not a rendering defect. + +## Refutation attempt — the tone curve survives in its stated reach and not past it + +`ui-render-tone-curve.md` models the relationship as +`capture = 255·(render/255)^γ`, γ ≈ 1.34–1.49, **measured on dark flat patches +(render ~0–60), with "nothing constrains midtones or highlights"** written into +its own reach. + +**I tried to fit that γ and got contradictory answers three times, and the +contradictions were mine.** Binning every structurally matched pixel of +`main_menu` by render level gives the relationship directly: + +| render | capture | implied γ | pixels | +|---|---|---|---| +| 8 | 4.04 | 1.20 | 183 026 | +| 16 | 7.89 | **1.26** | 227 630 | +| 24 | 15.57 | 1.18 | 100 945 | +| 32 | 26.15 | 1.10 | 87 474 | +| 40 | 38.07 | 1.03 | 86 094 | +| 48 | 53.96 | **0.93** | 85 255 | +| 64 | 78.52 | 0.85 | 6 509 | +| 96 | 130.44 | **0.69** | 1 682 | + +✅ **The claim survives where it was measured.** In the darks the capture really +is darker than the render and γ > 1. + +🔴 **It is not a single power law.** The implied exponent falls monotonically and +**crosses 1.0 near render ≈ 44** — above that the capture is *brighter*. One +exponent cannot express a curve that crosses unity, which is precisely why my +whole-frame fits kept returning γ = 1.00: the darks want more than 1 and the +midtones want less, and they cancel. + +**So the corpus's stated reach was not a hedge, it was the finding.** ⚠️ And the +exponent in the darks measures **1.18–1.26 here against the page's 1.49 for this +screen** — a disagreement I am recording rather than resolving, since they fit +selected flat patches and I binned every matched pixel. + +### The tool reports the curve, not a best exponent + +Two earlier versions of `verify-capture` reported a best-fit γ and were wrong +both times — once by fitting across a 74 % structural mismatch, once by +extrapolating past a reach the measurement's own authors had written down. +**Extrapolating a measurement past its stated reach is how this tool got it wrong +twice**, and the answer was not a better fit but a different instrument: a table +somebody can argue with. + +## Identifying the capture's focused button — and my harness was posing the port wrong + +The Decoder attached an honest caveat to its reproduction of the tone-curve +refutation: its bins included the focus-state mismatch, so it was *"not a clean +second opinion"*. That is removable, and removing it found a defect of mine. + +### The method, with a known-answer control + +`--menu=main_menu --script=down,down,down,down` walks focus through all five +buttons and shoots each. Compare every one against a capture; the minimum +identifies the focused button. **The control is the capture whose answer is in +its own filename:** + +| render focus | vs `live-main-menu-options-focused` | vs `live-main-menu` | +|---|---|---| +| `ptbtn01` NEW GAME | 6 351 | **531** | +| `ptbtn02` LOAD GAME | 7 087 | 7 094 | +| `ptbtn03` TUTORIAL | 6 230 | 6 237 | +| `ptbtn04` OPTIONS | **1 292** | 6 364 | +| `ptbtn05` EXTRAS | 6 073 | 6 080 | + +✅ **The control picks `OPTIONS`, by 4.7×** — the answer the filename gives. +✅ **So the test is trustworthy, and `live-main-menu.png` has NEW GAME focused, by +11.5×.** + +**Which is what the port already focuses.** `authored/flow.json`'s +`initial_focus: ptbtn01` was chosen because HANDOFF Q5 measured focus as +*unstable* across boots — four boots gave TUTORIAL, TUTORIAL, NEW GAME, NEW GAME +— and it is one of the two observed states. It is now also the state of the +committed capture. ⚠️ That is corroboration, **not** a decode: Q5's instability +stands, and this identifies one frame rather than a rule. + +### The defect: `verify-capture` rendered menus with no focus at all + +`--screen=` draws no focus record, so the harness had been comparing `main_menu` +to the oracle **in a state the oracle was never in**. Rendered properly, with +`--menu=`: + +| | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| `main_menu` | 0.25 % differing, RMSE 14.79 | **0.06 %**, RMSE 13.21 | +| `extras` | 0.46 %, RMSE 15.29 | **0.20 %**, RMSE 13.38 | + +A 4× improvement on `main_menu` that was **entirely my harness posing the port +wrong**, not the port drawing wrong. Worth stating plainly: the first run of a +new correctness harness reported a discrepancy, and three quarters of it was the +harness. + +### And the Decoder's caveat resolves to nothing — measured, not assumed + +Re-deriving the transfer curve on the correctly-posed pair gives 1.20 / 1.26 / +1.18 / 1.10 / 1.03 / 0.94 at render 8…48 — **unchanged** from the mismatched run. +So the focus-state contamination it flagged really did not move the trend. Its +reproduction stands as a second opinion after all, and that is now a measurement +rather than a hope. + +## `tools/port/which-focus` — the Decoder asked for a detector, and it carries its own control + +`S00A` is blocked on knowing which button a screenshot has focused. +`newgame_path.sh` assumed NEW GAME is focused at boot, drove on that assumption, +and landed in a **tutorial mission** — because HANDOFF Q5 measured focus as +*unstable across boots*. And counting presses cannot substitute: ⬆ from the first +item wraps to the last, so no fixed number of presses lands on a known item from +an unknown start. + +The Decoder's own attempt — a per-row brightness statistic — **failed the +control**, picking NEW GAME on the capture whose filename says OPTIONS. The +render-difference method passes it, so it is now a script that agent can run. + +### It runs the control on every invocation, not once when it was written + +``` +control -- live-main-menu-options-focused.png (answer is in the filename): + OPTIONS 1285 <- picked + EXTRAS 6073 + ... + -> OPTIONS, margin 4.7x CONTROL PASSED +``` + +If that fails, the tool **refuses to report a result at all**. A control that +does not execute is not a control, and this one cannot be skipped. + +### Three checks, and one of them independently reproduces a corpus measurement + +| input | verdict | margin | +|---|---|---| +| `live-main-menu-options-focused` — **known answer** | OPTIONS | 4.7× | +| `live-main-menu` — the question | **NEW GAME** | 11.4× | +| `live-extras` — **known from the corpus** | MISSION SELECT | 4.2× | +| `live-title-press-a` — **no menu at all** | *refuses* | 1.0× | + +The `extras` row is a second known answer I did not plant: `authored/flow.json` +already records *"MEASURED: EXTRAS opens focused on MISSION SELECT +(live-extras.png)"*, and the tool reaches it independently. + +The title row is the negative control. A frame with no menu in it gives a margin +of 1.0× and the tool says *"this frame does not decide it. Do not act on this."* + +⚠️ **And that refusal now carries a non-zero exit code.** The first version +printed the warning and exited 0 — so a caller scripting it, which is the entire +point, would have read a refusal as an answer. That is the same defect as a +checker claiming a check it skipped, and it is the fifth instance of that shape +between the two of us this session. + +**What it is not:** it identifies focus in *one frame*. It says nothing about +what *selects* focus; Q5's instability stands. + +## The title's 1.82 % — three of my own explanations refuted, and the format has no blend mode + +`title` is the port's largest disagreement with the oracle, and last iteration I +attributed it to the moving `ptloop` sweeps *without checking*. That attribution +is wrong, and so were the two hypotheses I formed after it. + +**❌ Not the sweeps.** `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` are **399×180 at (441, 270)** — small +and central — and their exported keyframes hold `pos`, `scale` and `rotation` +constant, varying only alpha. The difference peaks at **x ≈ 1088**, nowhere near +them. + +**❌ Not an over-held element.** `--screen` holds every element at its own +`rest.t`, so I added `--no-hold` to render the other answer. Playing the title's +groups past their rest **fades the whole screen to black by t = 5.2 s** — +30.97 % differing against 1.82 % held. Holding at rest is right. + +**❌ Not a timing offset.** Sweeping the build-in: 24.05 % at t=1.6, falling +monotonically to **1.68 % at t=4.18** and 1.82 % settled. The capture is at the +settled end; there is no earlier moment that fits better than marginally. + +### What it actually looks like: a horizontal redistribution + +Signed difference (port − capture), by cell: + +| | x=0 | x=320 | x=640 | x=960 | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| y=0 | +1.1 | **−13.1** | −6.6 | **+16.0** | +| y=169 | +2.1 | **−8.3** | +4.2 | **+9.9** | +| y=338 | +5.8 | −4.5 | −0.0 | +3.2 | +| y=507 | +3.9 | +3.3 | +2.0 | +2.3 | + +**The port is darker centre-left and brighter right, and it nearly cancels** — +whole-frame means 63.8 against 62.5. That is not a level error and not a tone +ramp; it is brightness in the wrong *place*. And it falls in exactly the rows +spanned by the two wide elements `ptlogo_back2` (1118×262 at 71,126) and +`ptlogo_back2eff` (1133×280 at 64,117), with the column profile falling off past +x≈1152 against their right edges at 1189 and 1197. + +### 🔴 The export carries no blend mode, so the port cannot draw one + +`ptlogo_back2eff`'s exported keys are `declared, id, index, keyframes, kind_raw, +layer, layer_source, pivot, rest, role, sprite`. **There is no blend field**, in +this element or in `FORMAT.md` at all. The port composites everything with normal +alpha. + +If the game draws `_eff` layers **additively**, a wide gradient sprite would +produce precisely this signature — surplus where the sprite is bright, deficit +where the underlying art is brighter than the sum — and **nothing in the export +would reveal it.** That is a decoding question, not a port one, and it is asked +rather than assumed. ⚠️ It is a hypothesis I have not tested; I am recording it +because the three I could test are dead. + +### A separate `rest.t` casualty, recorded and not acted on + +`pteff02` is a full-frame primitive whose group runs `0x40000000` (25 % black) at +t=46 → `0xd4000000` at 76 → `0xcc000000` at 118 → **`0x00000000` at 236**. Its +`rest.t` is **46**, so the port holds a **25 % black veil the screen's own +timeline removes**. This is the third instance of `rest.t` naming a hold that is +not the settled state — after the loading screen's opaque quad and `ptlogo1`'s +creep. ⚠️ **It does not explain the residual** — removing a darkening veil would +make the port brighter still, and it is already brighter where it disagrees — so +it is recorded rather than fixed. + +### And a new diagnostic + +`--no-hold` plays a screen past its rest instead of clamping each element at +`rest.t`. Added because the question *"is the held pose what the idle game +shows"* could not be asked otherwise. ⚠️ Its first version set the flag thirty +lines before `view` exists and silently rendered nothing — caught because the +comparison loop found no files, not because anything reported an error. + +## 🔴 The exporter dropped nested `.rat` leaf geometry on 45 elements — and it is the title's 1.82 % + +The Decoder overturned one of my three eliminations, and it was the one I was +most confident about. I ruled out the `ptloop` sweeps because *"399×180 at +(441, 270), keyframes hold position constant"* — **that is the parent's record. +The geometry is in the leaf, and the exporter never opened it.** + +| | parent (what the export shipped) | **leaf `ptloopNN.rat`** | +|---|---|---| +| `ptloop01` | scale (100, 100), rot 0, pos (441, 270) fixed | **scale (100, 600), rot +30°**, x sweeping **−639 → −39 → 1521** | +| `ptloop02` | scale (100, 100), rot 0, pos (441, 270) fixed | **scale (100, 800), rot −45°**, x sweeping **1721 → 1111 → −839** | + +Two ~1080 and ~1440 px quads leaning opposite ways and sweeping across the +frame, against two 400 px sprites drawn upright and static in the middle. **That +is exactly the signature I measured** — darker centre-left, brighter right, +nearly cancelling — and the Decoder's GPU capture puts their centres at x ≈ 467 +and 992, which are the two cells where my signed difference peaked. + +`ui_layout`'s own doc comment had said so: *"the rotated quads come from its two +**nested** `.rat` leaf records, which the census never opened."* **Neither did +this exporter.** It opened a leaf in exactly one place — `highlight_name`, for +focus records — and nowhere else. + +### It is not two elements. It is 45 + +| screen | elements with a dropped leaf | +|---|---| +| `main_menu`, `extras`, `press_start` (+ JP twins) | every button — `ptbtn01.rat` … `ptbtn13.rat`, `ptbtn00.rat` | +| `title`, `extras` | `ptloop01.rat`, `ptloop02.rat` | +| `build_00/01/12/15` | `pgloading_loop1/3/4/5.rat` | +| `title_jp` | `ptlogo_eff2.rat` — **two** elements | + +⚠️ The buttons are the benign case and `screen.rs` already knew it: *"a BASE +record's leaf duplicates the parent's placement and the two can differ by a unit +(`ptbtn04`: parent y=401, leaf y=402). There the parent wins."* The `ptloop` case +is the opposite — the parent carries **no geometry at all** and the leaf carries +all of it. 🟡 And `title_jp`'s `ptlogo_eff2` is the element `DECISIONS` has +recorded since P1 as the single largest render disagreement in the export, *"the +one drawn element at a scale that is not a whole multiple of 100 %"*. It has a +two-element leaf. That is a lead, not a conclusion. + +### Emitted, deliberately not drawn + +`Element::leaf` now ships the decoded leaf, and one `read_leaf` closure serves +both it and the focus path — a second copy is how the case would go missing +again. + +🔴 **`ScreenView` ignores it**, and that is the honest state. Parent and leaf each +carry their own alpha ramp on a **different span** — parent `0 → 255` over +t=70…238, leaf `255 → 0x80 → 255` over t=150…600 — so **how the two compose is a +decoding question**, and drawing the leaf on a guess would replace a visible +1.82 % gap with an invisible wrong one. `verify-screen` confirms nothing moved: +`title` still max 6 / over3 790, `main_menu` max 4, `title_jp` max 155. + +✅ **Additive blending is refuted** — the Decoder tested `T8aD +0x04` bit `0x02` +as an additive selector and *"every measure worsens"*. My blend-mode hypothesis +from last iteration is dead, and the export carries no blend field because **none +has been found**: the per-draw capture records primitive type, index count, +shader hashes, texture bindings and vertex attribute 0, and **no +`RB_BLENDCONTROL`**. + +🔵 **And this makes the port's biggest oracle gap the same item as the rotation +question already standing with the human.** `sylpheed-cli screen render` +deliberately does not rotate, which is why *both* renderers show it — the +Decoder measures its own residual as tiles running −38.6 then +33.8 and +cancelling, the same shape as mine. It is a **shared decode gap, not a defect in +my compositor**, and MISSION's *"Needs a human decision — rotation"* now has a +number attached: **1.82 % of the title's pixels, in a signature that can be +recognised.** + +## The leaf composition is decoded and implemented — and it does **not** close the 1.82 % + +The Decoder decoded the rule I refused to guess: **draw the leaf on its own +timeline; do not multiply the parent's alpha in.** Multiplying is *refuted*, not +merely unsupported — at the fitted time the parent has expired (its group returns +to 0 at t=250 and holds), so `leaf × parent / 255` predicts zero for both quads +and the sweeps would be invisible. They are drawn. + +The fit is worth repeating because of its shape: the game's own composed alpha is +observable in the per-draw vertex colours (`C3FFFFFF`/`B6FFFFFF` = **195** and +**182**), fitting *only those two numbers* against the two leaf ramps gives one +consistent time **t = 355**, and the same t then **predicts** quad centres at 981 +and 478 against **992.0** and **467.2** measured. No x entered the fit. + +Implemented: `_draw_leaf` runs the leaf unclamped — like the spinning ring, and +for the same reason. Held at its own `rest.t` the leaf sits at **x = 1521**, +entirely off the right edge, so `holding` would delete the sweeps rather than +settle them. + +### 🔴 And it changes nothing measurable. The title is still 1.82 % + +| t | units | differing | +|---|---|---| +| 4.35 s | 261 | 1.82 % | +| **5.917 s** | **355** | **1.81 %** | +| 7.00 s | 420 | 1.79 % | + +**At t=355 my interpolation puts the leaf's top-left at x ≈ −324 — off-screen +left — where the Decoder's model puts the quad's centre at 981.** Those cannot +both be right, and the gap is not something to tune away: it is a disagreement +about how the leaf's keyframes become a placed quad, most likely in the pivot and +the rotation about it. **Handed back with both numbers.** + +So the honest state: the exporter no longer drops the data, the composition rule +is implemented as decoded, and **the port's largest oracle gap is exactly where +it was.** Fixing the export was necessary and was not sufficient. + +### Two flagged elements deliberately not drawn + +`authored/rendering.json` narrows drawing to `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` — what the +decode covers — while the exporter keeps flagging all 15. + +* **`title_jp/ptlogo_eff2`** — parent 125 % at (412,96), leaf 100 % at (402,66). + The same shape, and the element `DECISIONS` has recorded since P1 as the + largest render disagreement in the export. The Decoder said plainly *"I have + not tested it."* Drawing it would extend a decode past the case it was fitted + on — the failure this port has made four times this session. +* **`pgloading_loop5`** — leaf scale **(0, 0)**. A zero scale is one of the three + historical failures this corpus names, so it is exactly where a guess costs + most. + +⚠️ **And neither can be adjudicated here.** `title_jp` has no oracle capture, and +`verify-screen` compares against `sylpheed-cli`, **which draws no leaves at all** +— so *any* leaf drawing increases that divergence whether it is right or wrong. +Its `max` went 155 → 232 when they were drawn, and **that number is not evidence +in either direction.** Recognising it as uninformative is the reason it did not +become a justification. + +## The −324 was the old keyframe association, and the corrected one is available **today** + +The Decoder found it and it is not geometry: my leaf path pairs each pose with +the *next* pose's time. Fed my pairing into its own interpolation, it reproduces +**−324 to the digit**. Corrected, t=355 gives top-left **781** and centre +**980.5** against **992.0** measured — so there was never a 1 300 px pivot +mystery to look for, and I am glad I said the two numbers instead of hunting one. + +### 🔴 Correcting BLOCKED: this was never gated on a branch landing + +`docs/port/BLOCKED.md` has carried the keyframe-record-layout row as *"NOT taken, +and it cannot be taken yet … `sylpheed-formats` is a path dependency, so this +reaches the port only when that branch lands on `main`."* + +**That is wrong.** The corrected association is in this checkout, behind an +environment variable: + +```rust +// Set `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT=1` to read `W[k-1]` as block `k`'s time +// ("the word is the time the NEXT pose is reached") instead of `W[k]`. +``` + +It has been switchable the whole time. **I read that file twice this session — +once for `rotation_deg`, once for the leaf note — and did not notice the switch.** + +### The experiment, run: mixed, and not decisive for the reason that matters + +Re-exported with `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT=1` and asked the oracle: + +| screen | default | shifted | +|---|---|---| +| `main_menu` | 13.21 / 0.06 % | 13.81 / **0.10 %** — worse | +| `extras` | 13.38 / 0.20 % | 13.95 / **0.24 %** — worse | +| `title` | 21.07 / 1.82 % | **20.41** / 1.86 % — RMSE better, area worse | +| `publisher_logo` | 10.77 / 1.00 % | **9.05 / 0.75 %** — better | +| `developer_logos` | 9.37 / 0.39 % | **8.86 / 0.33 %** — better | + +⚠️ **And it does not adjudicate the association, because the port's renderer is +built for the other one.** Under the shift the **untimed keyframe moves from last +to first** — the leaf reads `t=None` at x=−639, then t=150, t=540 — while +`pose_at` is written around *"the final keyframe carries no `t`, so it is given a +synthetic time `exit_ramp_units` after the last timed frame."* So this measures a +**renderer/association mismatch**, not the association. BLOCKED said as much: +the change touches `pose_at`, `settle_units`, `spin_period_units`, +`exit_ramp_units` and the plate. + +**Export reverted to the default.** Adopting the shift is a real piece of work — +re-deriving the exit ramp, the settle, the spin period and the plate against a +layout where the untimed frame is the *first* — and doing it hastily at the end of +an iteration is how a 1.8 % gap becomes five wrong ones. + +### ⚠️ The methodological point, which is the Decoder's and is the best thing here + +Its rule matched because **alpha at t=355 sits inside a long segment where a +one-keyframe shift barely moves it, while x sweeps 1 560 px over the same span.** +It confirmed on the insensitive quantity; I was wrong on the sensitive one; and +neither of us saw it until the two were compared. + +> **Check a new interpretation against the fastest-moving field you have, not the +> one that happens to agree.** + +That is a different failure from the ones this session has collected — not an +uncontrolled instrument, but a control chosen where it could not fail. + +❔ A residual **11.5 px** (980.5 against 992.0) is left over and is **not** to be +fitted. A rotation about a declared pivot rather than the centre would displace by +roughly that; if it still matters once the association is adopted, it gets +measured rather than derived. + +## Re-running the P5/P6 gate after eight iterations of changes + +The leaf path, the plate pulse, the BGM level, the voice export, the focus fix +and a new diagnostic flag have all landed since the gate was last actually run. +The mission's test is *"a human presses a d-pad and Ⓐ and moves through those +screens"*, and I had been verifying pieces of that against captures without once +re-running the whole walk. + +**It works.** Nine steps, unattended: + +| step | | | +|---|---|---| +| ⬇ ×4 | `ptbtn01` → `ptbtn05` | focus moves, every frame drawn | +| Ⓐ | `EXTRAS` → screen `extras`, focus `ptbtn11` | | +| Ⓑ | back to `main_menu`, **focus restored to `ptbtn05`** | HANDOFF Q5's rule, live | +| ⬆, Ⓐ | `ptbtn04` `OPTIONS`, destination outside this archive | prints the gap rather than pretending | + +Filmstrip shared as `1788027380-788b1faafc3e`. Every shot is non-blank (frame +means 31.5–33.1). + +### The sound is verified by a null control, not by a detector + +I first tried an onset detector: count sharp level rises in the recording. It +found **one** onset in the walk — and **the same one** in the music bed alone, +which contains no cues. The 50 ms envelope cannot see a short cue over the bed. +⚠️ **The right response to a detector that cannot separate its control from its +subject is to stop using it**, not to widen the window until the numbers look +better. That is the shape this session has hit five times. + +So the same technique that settled the voice: shadow the three cues with silence +through `data/mods/`, run the identical walk, and compare. + +| | peak | RMS | +|---|---|---| +| walk, cues playing | **+0.0003 dBFS** | −18.36 | +| walk, cues silenced | **−4.74 dBFS** | −20.78 | + +**Silencing three sound effects costs 4.74 dB of peak and 2.43 dB of RMS**, and +the walk's peak is *set by* a cue rather than by the music. The mod log confirms +exactly three files shadowed. No detector, no threshold, and the control is the +same run with one input changed. + +⚠️ Recorded under the Dummy driver, as everything audio here is. It shows the +cues reach the Master bus at the right moments; it does not show they are the +cues the game plays — that is HANDOFF Q8, and `authored/audio.json` still carries +the offsets as measured rather than decoded. + +## Pinned `formats-pin-2026-08-29c` — and the knob I tested last iteration was retired + +🔴 **I tested the wrong switch.** `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT` is a **superseded +partial fix**: it got the association right but **left pose 0 untimed**, which is +exactly why the untimed keyframe appeared to "move from last to first". It does +not exist in the current parser. The real correction is the **default** in the +tagged crate, with the old reading behind `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_LEGACY=1` — the +opposite polarity from what I had. + +So last iteration's five rows measured a renderer/association mismatch **against +a knob nobody should use**. I suspected they were not decisive; I did not suspect +the knob itself was retired. + +### The consequence is smaller than I budgeted for: there is no untimed keyframe + +A placement group is an 8-byte header then `frames` × `{u32 time; 36-byte pose}`, +so pose 0's time is the group's lead-in word and **every pose is timed, including +the last.** Measured on the re-export: **866 keyframes, 0 untimed.** + +`pose_at`'s premise — *"the final keyframe carries no `t`, so it is given a +synthetic time `exit_ramp_units` after the last timed frame"* — does not invert, +it **disappears**. The branch is now dead code rather than wrong code, which is +why nothing needed re-deriving to adopt this. + +And the leaf reads as the Decoder's table says: t=0 x=−639, t=150 x=−39, t=540 +x=1521. At t=355 that interpolates to **x = 781** — the top-left it predicted, and +the 1 300 px discrepancy is gone. + +### Pinned by tag, which is what MISSION §2 is for + +> *"The RE agent tags when it lands something you need and tells you over the +> message channel — that is how you stay current without floating."* + +That is precisely what happened, so `crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml` now pins +`formats-pin-2026-08-29c` by tag. ⚠️ **`BLOCKED.md` was wrong in both +directions** — it said the change "cannot be taken yet" *and* that it arrives +only when the branch lands on `main`. It arrives when the tag is pinned. + +🔴 **The cost, stated rather than discovered later:** `sylpheed-cli` builds from +the **workspace** crate, so until this reaches `main` the exporter and the +reference renderer read **different decoders**, and `verify-screen` is comparing +two eras rather than detecting drift. `verify-capture` is unaffected — it +compares the port against oracle **captures** and never touches the CLI — and it +is the check that matters. Revert to the path dependency the day the tag is an +ancestor of `main`. + +### What the oracle says + +| screen | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 1.00 % | **0.75 %** | +| `developer_logos` | 0.39 % | **0.33 %** | +| `extras` | 0.20 %, region **736×525** | 0.19 %, region **398×295 at (441,230)** | +| `main_menu` | 0.06 % | 0.06 % | +| `title` | 1.82 % | 1.82 % | + +The splashes improve outright. ⚠️ **`extras` is the interesting row**: the *area* +barely moved but its differing region **collapsed onto the sweep position** +(441, 270) — the residual is now localised to the one element still in question +rather than spread over the screen. + +The title does not move. Its row is now posed at **t=355**, the Decoder's fitted +sweep time, because the leaf group ends at t=600 with the quads parked off-screen +at x=1521 — posing at the settle simply omits them. ⚠️ **t=355 is not the time +that minimises the difference**: t=390 measures **1.65 %**. Picking that would be +fitting the pose to the score, which is what this harness exists not to do. + +## Refuted — my own "the single non-whole-multiple scale in the export" + +`DECISIONS` has said since P1 that `ptlogo_eff2` is *"the single drawn element in +the whole export at a scale that is not a whole multiple of 100 % (125 %)"*. +**That census was parents-only.** Opening the 45 leaves finds **thirteen** distinct +non-whole-multiple scales — 75, 96, 99, 101, 103, 112, 125, 150, 204×208, +210×220, 250 — and 125 % is among the *rarest* at two occurrences. +`ptlogo1`/`ptlogo2` carry 101/103/112 on the **English** title. + +The claim's real content was *"the only one **the port draws**"* — a fact about my +element set, not about the disc. Corrected. + +🔴 **And `ptlogo_eff2` stays withheld, now for a stronger reason than caution.** +Its 125 % is a **pop**, not a steady scale: scale-0 → 125 % → scale-0 between +t=50 and t=107, ≈0.95 s. The leaf draws at 100 %, as **two superimposed copies** +at alpha 160 and 80, each rotating 360° over 960 units — 16 s per revolution. +**If parent scale gates the leaf it is a 0.95 s flash; if the leaf runs free it +spins for 16 s.** Nothing on the disc chooses, `title_jp` has no oracle capture, +and the Japanese-locale capture MISSION has parked is what would settle it. + +## The 11.5 px was the fit's resolution, and the lesson inverts + +The Decoder closed it **by adding observables, not by tuning** — the vertex +buffer carries positions *and* colours at the same instant, so all four +quantities must agree on one `t`: + +| observable | solved t | precision | +|---|---|---| +| quad A x | **357.88** | ±0.12 units | +| quad B x | **357.58** | ±0.12 units | +| quad A alpha | 355.75 | ±1.54 units | +| quad B alpha | 354.09 | ±1.89 units | + +Alpha moves only 0.27–0.33 levels per keyframe unit, so **one byte of +quantisation is worth 1.5–1.9 units, which at 4 px/unit is 6–8 px of sweep**. +That is the whole of the 11.5 px. At t = 357.7 the centres land within 0.70 px +and both alphas inside one level. + +⚠️ **The lesson is the earlier one inverted, and this is the half worth keeping.** +Checking a wrong rule against alpha made it *look confirmed*. Here the same +insensitivity **manufactured a residual that did not exist**. So an insensitive +quantity does not merely fail to falsify — **it invents error.** Solve on the +fastest-moving field; check the slow one; never the reverse. + +I was already looking for a pivot rule to explain 11.5 px when they wrote. There +was nothing to find. + +### Refutation attempt — the pivot claim, checked here and survived with a nuance + +They state the leaf pivot is (200, 90) on a 399×180 sprite, *"the pivot is the +centre, so rotation displaces it by nothing."* Checked against my own export: +pivot **[200, 90]**, sprite **399×180**, true centre **199.5, 90**. + +✅ Survives. ⚠️ With one correction of no consequence: the sprite is **odd-width**, +so the pivot is the centre to within **half a pixel**, not exactly. Against their +−0.70/−0.48 px agreement that changes nothing, and it is worth stating only +because "displaces it by nothing" is the kind of sentence that later gets leaned +on for a sub-pixel claim. + +`verify-capture` now poses the title at **t=357.7** rather than 355: RMSE +21.07 → **20.92**, differing 1.82 % → **1.81 %**. Marginal, and it is the right +pose for a stated reason rather than a better number. + +### `ptlogo_eff2` is withheld for a better reason than mine + +I was withholding it out of caution about untested generalisation. The Decoder +points out something stronger: **it is on `title_jp`, and MISSION §7 scopes out +"localisation beyond English"** — so it is not a question the menu port has to +answer at all, and the parked Japanese-locale capture does not need reviving on +its account. `authored/rendering.json` now says that first and the undecidability +second. **Widening scope to close a residual would have been the wrong trade**, +and it is the human's call either way. + +## 🔴 The focus ring had silently stopped, and BLOCKED had listed it + +`docs/port/BLOCKED.md` said the record-layout change touches five things: +`pose_at`, `settle_units`, `spin_period_units`, `exit_ramp_units` **and the +plate**. I checked `pose_at` and deleted `exit_ramp_units`, reported that, and +**did not work the rest of the list.** + +`spin_period_units` required *"the first timed and the second untimed"*. Under +the corrected layout the ring reads `t=0 rot=0` and `t=120 rot=360` — **both +timed** — so the rule returned 0 and **the focus ring stopped spinning**. Nothing +reported it: a period of 0 is a legal *"this element does not spin"*. + +Rewritten to take the **span** between the two poses. On the ring that is +120 − 0 = **120 units, the same number the old rule produced**, which is a small +piece of evidence that the corrected layout is self-consistent rather than merely +different. + +**Verified the way P5 verified it — bit-identity one period apart**, on the ring's +own 60×60 box so the `ptloop` sweeps cannot confound it: + +| separation | mean difference | +|---|---| +| **+120 units (one period)** | **0** | +| +120 units again | **0** | +| +30 units (quarter) | 8.61 | +| +60 units (half) | 8.88 | + +⚠️ Getting there took three wrong instruments, and the sequence is the lesson. +A whole-frame `max` saturates on one rotating edge — adjacent frames scored 131 +while their mean was 0.022. A live `--menu` filmstrip jitters by up to a frame, +which is ~3° of ring, and its cadence cannot be pinned. And a whole-frame +comparison is dominated by the sweeps, which move 480 px over one ring period. +**`--focus=` was added so a `--screen` run can draw a focus record +deterministically**, which is what made the check reproducible at all. + +## The plate's period is now the disc's 105, and it disagrees with the measurement + +Under the corrected layout `ptbtn00f` runs **t=0 (alpha 0) → t=105 (alpha 0)** — a +closed cycle with every pose timed. + +✅ **The ambiguity this entry carried is gone.** It used to say the cycle might +restart at t=6 rather than 0, giving 123 units, and that nothing separated the +two. There is now one reading. + +🔴 **And the number is worse against the oracle, which is stated rather than +avoided.** 105 units is **1.750 s**; scaled by the factor the ring shows between +its declared 120 units and its measured 2.177 s (×1.089), **1.906 s** — about +**17 % below** every one of the corpus's four timings (2.12 / 2.19 / 2.34 / +2.31 s). The old 129 gave 2.34 s, at the top of that range, which is exactly why +it looked right. + +**129 was the last timed keyframe plus `exit_ramp_units`, and that constant is +deleted.** A period built from a constant that no longer exists cannot stay, even +though it fitted better. So the port ships the disc's number **and says it is +wrong**, rather than keeping a number that agreed with the measurement for a +reason that has evaporated. + +Verified: the plate is bit-identical 105 units apart (mean diff **0**) and differs +at 30 units (0.83). ❔ What would resolve the disagreement: whether the group +loops from its start at all, or holds at alpha 0 between cycles. Asked. + +## The plate's period is 120, decoded — and it was falsified with my own ring number + +The Decoder found it in the format: **a nested record is itself a RATC bundle, +and its header's `+0x08` is the loop length** — the same field +`ui_header_time_disc` already tests at the top level. A record's keyframes need +not fill it, and the slack is a hold at the final pose. **`ptbtn00f` is 105 units +of ramp inside a 120-unit cycle**, so the glow rests dark for 15 units. The five +`ptbtn0Nf` records fill their 120 exactly, which is what shows the slack belongs +to *that record* rather than to the format. + +Disc-wide over 1 781 timed nested records: 92.3 % declare exactly their last +keyframe time, 7.7 % declare more, **0 declare less**. That last row is the +falsifier — a cycle cannot restart before its own last pose — and it never fires. + +### The decisive test used this port's number, not theirs + +Both candidates need the same emulator pacing factor, and **the ring measures it +independently**: declared 120 units → 2.177 s → **1.0885**. + +| plate period | nominal | factor needed for the measured 2.12–2.34 s | | +|---|---|---|---| +| 105 units | 1.750 s | 1.211 … 1.337 | 🔴 excludes 1.0885 | +| **120 units** | 2.000 s | 1.060 … 1.170 | ✅ **contains it** | + +**105 cannot reach the measured range under any pacing the ring also satisfies.** +Two different elements in different bundles, measured in separate runs, tied only +by both declaring 120. + +⚠️ **My three readings of this number, in order, are the useful record:** 129 +(`105 + exit_ramp_units`) fitted the measurement for a reason that later +evaporated; 105 (the group length) I shipped *knowing* it was 17 % short; 120 is +decoded. And the 123-vs-129 pair I once called unseparable **straddled the right +answer without containing it** — which is the sharpest argument I have seen +against treating "two candidates, nothing separates them" as if the truth must be +one of the two. + +Verified: bit-identical **120 units** apart (mean diff 0), 0.061 at a quarter and +0.888 at half. Still authored, because the pinned tag does not expose `+0x08` +yet — **delete the entry the day a tag does.** + +### Their `rest()` flag, checked rather than assumed + +They warned that a focus record is exactly the kind of element `rest()` +mishandles, since a pulse's last hold is not its resting state. Censused: **34 +focus-record elements in the export, and only 2 have a varying alpha** — both +`ptbtn00f`, EN and JP. Their `rest.alpha` is **80, identical to their peak**, +which is precisely the pathology described. The port does not hit it because the +plate is drawn through the loop path, and the other **32 are constant-alpha, so +`rest()` is safe for them**. Bounded, not hoped. + +## ✅ A settled screen is ONE instant, and it collapsed three residuals at once + +The Decoder's finding, applied: **`rest()` returns each element's last hold +keyframe chosen independently of every other element.** That is right for +anything that ends the screen settled and **exactly wrong for a transient** — +the title's `ptlogo_back2eff1` is a two-frame flash (0 until t52, 255 at t54–56, +0 by t58), so its last hold *is* the flash peak and `rest()` left it burning. +There are five of them, and `rest()` drew all five at once. + +The settled instant is **the longest interval containing no keyframe time**, over +a bundle's **top-level** elements. Reproduced independently here before adopting: +title `[160, 236]`, midpoint **198** — the Decoder's number to the unit. ⚠️ The +top-level restriction is what makes it match: including the `ptloop` leaves gives +`[269, 540]` instead. + +### Against the oracle + +| screen | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| **`title`** | 20.92 RMSE, **1.81 %** | **14.61 RMSE, 0.26 %** | +| **`publisher_logo`** | 9.05, **0.75 %** | **2.17, 0.01 %** | +| **`developer_logos`** | 8.86, **0.33 %** | **3.05, 0.01 %** | +| `main_menu` | 0.08 % | 0.08 % — unchanged, window too narrow | +| `extras` | 0.19 % | 0.19 % — unchanged, window too narrow | + +**Seven times fewer differing pixels on the title, seventy-five times fewer on +the publisher splash**, whose differing region is now a **13×18 box**. This is +the largest correctness gain the port has had, and none of it is mine: it is a +decode, computed from the keyframe table with no reference to any capture. + +### ⚠️ It is applied only where the window is wide, and that bar is not invented + +The widths in this export split with **nothing in between**: `press_start` 214, +`publisher_logo` 190, `developer_logos` 145, `title` 76 — then `main_menu` 12, +`extras` 12, the loading screens 8 and 4. A 12-unit "settle" on a menu that +builds in until t=70 is a gap between staggered ramps, not a settled pose. + +The bar is **30 units**: the Decoder's disc-wide census puts the knee there (30 % +of bundles ≥ 30, 42 % under 10, the latter mostly `loop*` fragments meant to be +in motion), and this export's own screens sit **4× either side of it with nothing +between 12 and 46**. Two independent populations agreeing on where to cut is what +makes it a bar rather than a preference. + +Checked unbroken: the boot pacing is unmoved (`developer_logos@4.26`, +`title@7.91`, developer agrees) and the scripted walk still runs end to end with +focus restored. + +## Their census, and a framing of mine they sharpened + +I reported *"34 focus-record elements in the export, only 2 with a varying +alpha"*. Disc-wide it is **210 varying, 202 with `rest()` at the peak**, across +1 130 focus records — 116 in `GP_DEBRIEFING_PILOTLOG`, 54 in `GP_MOVIE_THEATER`, +30 in `GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL`, 8 in `GP_LEADERBOARD`, and **2 in `GP_TITLE`**. + +**My 2 is right because `GP_TITLE` has 2.** ⚠️ But *"only 2 have a varying alpha"* +reads as a fact about the format and is a fact about one pak — and the pathology +sits in exactly the screens a wider port reaches next. The sentence was true as +measured and false as remembered, which is the failure this corpus keeps +finding, and it was mine this time. + +⚠️ **And they corrected a framing I had:** I called `rest.alpha == peak` "the +pathology". It is worse than that — **a pulsing element has no resting pose at +all.** The question `rest()` answers is *malformed* rather than mis-answered, +because the element's state is a phase, not a value. `pose_at(t)` with `t` inside +the record's own declared cycle is the only well-formed query on one. + +🔴 Worth carrying for whenever this port grows: `GP_LEADERBOARD`'s +`py_ranking_btn01f` swings 255 → 127 → 255 with no two adjacent keyframes equal, +so `rest()` falls through to its longest-dwell rule and returns **244** — neither +peak nor trough. **A glow stuck at its peak is visibly wrong; one stuck at 244 of +a 127–255 range looks entirely plausible, and nothing reports it.** + +✅ And a free second instance of the loop-length decode from a pak neither of us +was looking at: `py_ranking_btn01f`'s ramp ends at **t=90 inside a declared 120** +— 30 units of hold, the same shape as the plate's 105-in-120. + +## Their "do not draw all five flashes" flag — checked, and it does not apply here + +The Decoder armed a draw capture before the title exists and caught the build-in +on the console: `ptlogo_back2eff1` in frames 130–131, `eff2` at 133, `eff4` at +133–135 — and **`eff3` never drawn at all.** Not a miss: a flash's peak is 2 +keyframe units, which at that run's pacing is **0.85 of a presented frame**, so +which flashes get sampled is a matter of phase. The console shows a *subset* on +any given play, and the warning was that drawing all five would read heavier than +the real thing. + +**Checked rather than reasoned about.** Sweeping the port's build-in with +`--no-hold`: + +| t | flashes drawn | +|---|---| +| 54, 56 | `eff1` | +| 58 | `eff2` | +| 60 | `eff2`, `eff3` | +| 62 | `eff3`, `eff4` | +| 64 | `eff4`, `eff5` | +| 66, 68 | `eff5` | + +**The port draws them sequentially, never more than two at once**, and the two +only overlap where their declared windows abut. That is the stagger the disc +declares, not a pile-up — the pile-up was the `rest()` bug, and it is fixed. + +⚠️ **So the difference from the console is presentation rate, not content.** At +60 fps each 2-unit flash gets ~2 frames; at the console's pacing it gets 0.85, so +some are skipped. **A frame-by-frame comparison of the build-in against a console +capture will therefore show flashes the console missed, and that is a fact to +know rather than a bug to fix.** It is also why the settled-frame comparison — +the one `verify-capture` makes — is unaffected: at t=198 none of the five is +drawn. + +### Three things of theirs worth recording + +✅ **My top-level restriction was verified, not merely accepted**: top-level +`[160, 236]` width 76, versus `[269, 540]` width 271 with the `ptloop` leaves +included — an instant *after every top-level element has exited*. Worth having on +their page, because the rule as described permits the wrong reading. + +✅ **The 120-unit loop is confirmed from the guest's own vertex data**, not +inferred from pixels: the glow quad's per-vertex colour alpha *is* the element's +fade alpha, giving an observed range of **0…80 against a decoded peak of 80**, +exact and unfitted, over 20 cycle starts. Fitting the decoded ramp gives RMS +13.16 alpha levels against **38.18 for the same ramp reversed** — if the shape +carried no information those would be equal. + +📌 **A trap noted for whenever this port grows draw-stream tooling:** a 2D draw's +identity is its **vertex geometry, not its bound texture**, because these sprites +sample large shared pages. Matching on texture dimensions told them first that no +flash is ever drawn, then that `ptbase2` and `pteff04` are drawn in frames 75–105 +— which are the intro movie, whose YUV planes are 640×360 targeting 1280×720. +Two errors, opposite directions, one pass, neither loud. + +## ✅ The `publisher_logo` residual was a missing black hold, and we had both dismissed it + +I had carried this as *"0.03 s outside a composite bound, probably a property of +the bound rather than the game"*, and the Decoder agreed. **We were both wrong, +and the way it was settled is the point: I stopped reasoning about the bound and +filmed the transition.** + +At 0.05 s the port fell straight out of the publisher's fade into the developer +logos — mean 5.06 → 0.32 at t=4.20, then **5.65 at t=4.25**. There was **no black +frame at all**, where the oracle measures a 0.17–0.23 s pure-black plateau +(HANDOFF Q7). The bound was fine. The port was missing a fifth of a second of +black, and had been since P3. + +**Authored at 12 units**, because on the boot path there is nothing to read it +from: `publisher_logo` and `developer_logos` each carry a single `palogo_eff0` — +a 1280×720 primitive with **one keyframe at t=0**, static, not a transition ramp. +The menus' quad declares black for 12 units and 12/60 = **0.200 s** sits in the +middle of the measured range, so the number is the disc's where a screen has one. + +Filmed after: **t=4.25, 4.30, 4.35, 4.40 all at mean 0** — four black frames, +0.20 s — then the developer logos at 4.45. + +| | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| publisher interval | 4.26 s, **DIFFERS** | **4.47 s, agrees** | +| developer interval | 3.62 s, agrees | 3.73 s, agrees | + +The settled-frame comparisons are untouched, as they should be — this is pacing, +not pixels. + +⚠️ **The lesson is about the shape of the dismissal, not the number.** *"A 0.03 s +miss against a bound composed from two measured ranges plus jitter slack is more +likely a property of the bound"* is a **plausible** explanation, it was offered +and accepted by both of us, and it was wrong. The composite bound was the reason +the miss looked small — the underlying gap was 0.2 s — and a plausible +explanation for a small number is exactly how a real defect stays hidden. **The +film cost one command.** + +## `ptlogo_back2eff3` — recorded, deliberately not acted on + +The Decoder has reproduced across two independent build-ins that the console +**never draws `eff3`**: 0 draws against ~5 expected, while `eff1` gets 4, `eff2` +3 and `eff4` 6. Three explanations are ruled out — sampling phase (`eff3` is +non-zero over six units against a 2.23-unit step, and frames at t=60.1 and 62.3 +sit inside it drawing `eff2` and `eff4` instead), a draw the log cannot see, and +a bad position guess (no quad anywhere is within ±30 of the expected 408 width; +the spectrum jumps 262 → 748). + +❔ **But *why* is not established** — nothing in `eff3`'s record differs from its +neighbours: same kind `0x0`, same keyframe shape, same `u4`/`u8`, same scale. + +🔴 **So the port keeps drawing it, and that is a decision rather than an +oversight.** Dropping an element the disc declares, on a measurement with no +mechanism behind it, is authoring a behaviour neither agent can derive — and +**nothing this port gates on would notice either way**: the flashes live only in +the build-in, and `verify-capture` compares the settled frame at t=198 where none +of the five is drawn. Acting would buy no measurable fidelity and cost an +unexplained exception in `authored/`. + +**What would change it:** a mechanism in the record, or a gate that measures the +build-in against a capture. Until then the port is visibly wrong for two frames +during a build-in nobody compares, which is the cheaper of the two wrongs. + +## The narrow settle windows are harmless, and I can now say why + +Adopting the settle instant left `main_menu` and `extras` on per-element `rest()` +— their windows are 12 units, below the 30-unit bar — and I recorded that as a +gap. **It is not one.** `rest()` is malformed only for a **transient**, and the +transients are precisely on the screens whose windows are wide: + +| screen | window | transients | +|---|---|---| +| `title` | 76 | `ptlogo1`/`ptlogo2` ×4, `pteff01`, `ptlogo_back2eff1…5`, `ptlogoall_eff` | +| `publisher_logo` | 190 | `palogo_sqex_eff` | +| `developer_logos` | 145 | `palogo_*_eff` ×3 | +| **`main_menu`** | **12** | **none** | +| **`extras`** | **12** | **none** | + +The discriminator is *returning to dark far before the screen's own end* — +`ptlogo_back2eff1` is dark again at t=58 while the title runs to t=269 — as +opposed to the ordinary fade-in-hold-fade-out that every menu element has, where +`rest` at 255 **is** the settled pose and the final 0 is the exit. + +⚠️ **I am not claiming that as a rule.** Two screens having narrow windows *and* +no transients could be coincidence; it is n = 2, and n = 2 is where I have gone +wrong before. What it does mean is that **nothing measurable is being left on the +table by the 30-unit bar today.** + +## Refuted, mine — "the menu residual is localised on the `ptloop` sweeps" + +I have written that twice. It came from reading the **bounding box** of the +differing pixels, which sat at (441, 230) — the sweep position. Tested by sweeping +the leaf's phase against the live-menu captures: + +| `main_menu`, sweep phase | differing | +|---|---| +| t=60 (barely on screen) | 0.063 % | +| t=350 (mid-screen) | **0.183 %** | +| t≥600 (parked off-screen) | **0.061 %** | + +✅ Two things fall out. **The capture shows no sweeps**: the port matches best +when they are off-screen and three times worse when they cross the middle. And +with them parked the residual's box is **834×358 at (445, 167)** — the *button +column*, which is where the focus signature lives, not the sweep position. + +On `extras` the same test moves the box (398×295 at the sweep position at t=70, +736×525 spread at t=700) while the **magnitude barely changes: 0.192 % against +0.200 %**. + +🔴 **So the box moves with the sweeps and the residual does not.** A bounding box +over scattered pixels tells you where the outermost differing pixels are, **not +where the difference is** — and I had been quoting it as if it localised a cause. +`verify-capture` prints that box, so this is a caution about reading my own tool. + +### And a first piece of evidence on whether the sweeps loop + +The disc gives one pass, t=0…600, ending parked off-screen at x=1521. +`ORACLE-CAPTURES.md` says the title's sweeps *"move continuously"*, which I had +taken as implying a loop. **The idle main-menu capture matches best with them +off-screen**, which is evidence they run once and park. + +⚠️ One capture, one screen, and "best match" is a weak instrument for an absence +— but it is the first evidence either way, and it points against looping. The +loop-length field the Decoder decoded (`+0x08` of a nested record's header) would +settle it outright; it is not in the pinned tag. + +## Refuted — "the developer splash is one composited quad, the bounding box of the three logos" + +The Decoder observed the game submitting **one 525×259 quad at (378, 155)** on +the developer splash and read it as the bounding box of the three logos, warning +that drawing three sprites there draws something the console does not. **The +arithmetic does not support it**, and the port keeps drawing three. + +| | bounding box | +|---|---| +| the **three logos** | **500×421 at (390, 164)** | +| `gamearts_eff` + `seta_eff` | **521×261 at (379, 154)** | +| the observed quad | **525×259 at (378, 155)** | + +**A 259-tall quad cannot contain the three logos**, which span y 164…585: +`palogo_anima` alone starts at y = 449, thirty-five pixels below that quad's +bottom edge. The observed quad matches the union of the two `_eff` **glows** to +about four pixels in every dimension. + +⚠️ And those two are **transients** — my own census flagged them, dark again by +t=45 — so a frame containing that quad is a **build-in** frame, not the settled +screen. Consistent with a draw capture that starts early, which is exactly what +theirs does. + +I cannot see their draw stream, so I have sent the arithmetic rather than a +verdict. What I will not do is stop drawing an element on a claim whose stated +identification excludes that element from its own bounding box. + +## The black hold is 9 units, not 12 — measured in draws rather than luminance + +I authored 12 from HANDOFF Q7's luminance plateau of 0.17–0.23 s, supported by +the menus' transition quad declaring black for 12. The Decoder counted **submitted +quads** instead, which is the better instrument: luminance cannot separate the +outgoing fade's tail from true black. + +Frames 21–125 submit `palogo_sqex` fading to alpha 7; **frames 126–129 submit no +sprite quad at all**; 130–153 fade the developer splash in from alpha 34. Four +presented frames at 2.284 units/frame — a rate derived from the **disc as its own +clock**, because that run ran at 13.1 fps against 28 elsewhere — gives **9.1 +units = 0.152 s**, ±1 frame 6.9–11.4. + +⚠️ **It disagrees with the luminance figure and the disagreement is the point.** +0.114–0.190 s against 0.17–0.23 s overlaps only at the top, and the true black is +**shorter** than 9 even so: both boundary frames still carry picture. My 12 was +also supported *by analogy* — a different screen's quad on a different path, +where the boot splashes carry no quad at all. **A number that fits by analogy +loses to one measured in place.** + +`verify-dwell`'s bound moved with it. Both screens still agree: publisher 4.42 s, +developer 3.78 s. + +## The title's sweeps loop — measured, and the field could not have told us + +The disc gives one pass (`ptloop01` t=0…600, `ptloop02` t=0…720), each ending +parked off-screen, and the port ran them once. **The oracle says they loop**: +across two title dwells the sweep quad oscillates over its whole x range and +resets hard to the same start — one reset in the first dwell, two in the second. + +🔴 **And the loop-length field could not have settled it, which corrects a hope I +had stated.** Both records declare exactly their last keyframe time — **slack +zero** — and *"loops at 600"* and *"runs once for 600 and stops"* write the +identical header. 92.3 % of records on the disc are in that state, so the field +discriminates only where there **is** slack, as the plate's 105-in-120 had. + +Implemented and verified on the two sweeps' **least common multiple**, since they +have different periods: 600 and 720 realign at **3600 units = 60 s**. + +| separation | mean difference | +|---|---| +| **+3600 units (LCM)** | **0** | +| +1800 units | 0.438 | +| +600 units (`ptloop01` only) | 0.100 | + +⚠️ **Scoped to the title**, because that is where it is measured. The menus +declare the same 600/720 and nothing on the disc distinguishes them, but my own +weak evidence points the other way there — sweeping the phase against +`live-main-menu.png`, the port matches best with the sweeps **off-screen** +(0.061 %) and three times worse mid-screen (0.183 %), and if they looped the +sweep is on screen for roughly 73 % of the cycle. **Two weak signals in opposite +directions is a reason to scope, not to pick.** + +## The menus' residual is the tone floor, not structure — and `extras` is not really 3× worse + +`extras` sits at 0.19 % differing against `main_menu`'s 0.06 %, on two screens of +the same family, and that gap wanted explaining. + +**Signed difference (port − capture), by cell:** + +| | x=0 | x=320 | x=640 | x=960 | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `extras` y=169 | **+12.13** | −3.64 | +2.43 | **+10.60** | +| `extras` y=338 | **+12.29** | +1.36 | +1.42 | **+9.05** | +| `main_menu` y=169 | **+11.63** | −0.68 | +3.01 | **+10.24** | +| `main_menu` y=338 | **+11.03** | +3.93 | +2.92 | **+8.84** | + +**The two screens are nearly identical**, and the port is uniformly **+9 to +12 +brighter in the dark outer columns** — which is exactly the transfer curve I +measured earlier: γ > 1 in the darks, capture darker than render. There is no +dipole, no displacement, no missing element. + +So the 0.06 % / 0.19 % gap is **not a difference in fidelity**. The thresholded +count only sees pixels differing by more than 64 levels, which are text and +sprite **edges**; the two screens simply have different amounts of high-contrast +edge. The *level* disagreement, which is what a tone term produces, is the same +on both. + +⚠️ **This is the bounding-box lesson again in a different costume.** I had two +numbers, 0.06 and 0.19, and took the ratio as meaningful. It is a count of +threshold crossings, and a count of threshold crossings is not a measure of how +wrong a screen is. + +### A diagnostic trap of my own, worth writing down + +My first pass at this reported **10 of 18 elements "transparent at rest"** on +`extras` — the buttons, the title, the frames — and looked exactly like a +missing-element bug. It was not. **`--screen=NAME` without `--time` renders at +t = 0**, and `pose_at` clamps `t` to `minf(t, settle_units)`, so t=0 stays t=0 and +every element is still at its first keyframe. Passing `--time=2.0` draws 18 of 18. + +The tool was right and my invocation was wrong, and the failure looked like a +serious defect rather than an empty argument. Same family as the instrument traps +this session has collected — and mine was the one that reported a *worse* problem +than existed, which is the direction that wastes an iteration rather than hiding +one. + +## Refutation attempt — their 239.8-unit figure, checked from my export + +The Decoder converted the boot's black gap using the disc as its own clock: +*"`palogo_sqex` declares alpha ≥ 1 for **239.8 units** and is drawn in 105 frames +→ 2.284 units/frame."* That 239.8 comes from their reading of the record; I have +the same element in my export and can compute it independently. + +`palogo_sqex` ramps 0 → 255 over t=15…30 and 32 → 0 over t=251…255. Under the +linear ramp the port already uses, alpha first reaches 1 at **t = 15.0588** and +last exceeds it at **t = 254.8750**: + +**239.816 units.** + +✅ **Survives, to four significant figures.** It matters more than a spot-check: +that number is the *denominator* of the units-per-frame conversion behind the +9-unit black hold I just authored, so an error in it would have propagated +straight into a constant I ship. Two derivations from different sides of the same +record agreeing to 0.02 % is what makes that constant safe to hold. + +## 🔴 The loading screens are black at *every* instant — which proves the layer rule wrong for a layerless element + +`build_12` and `build_15` have rendered blank since P3, and I had filed it as a +`rest()` casualty: `pgloading_eff00` is a 1280×720 quad whose `rest` is opaque +black. **It is not that**, and the corrected keyframe association makes it +provable rather than suspected. + +Every element's declared alpha window on `build_12`: + +| element | opaque / visible | gone by | +|---|---|---| +| **`pgloading_eff00`** (black quad) | **t=0 … 38 at alpha 255** | clears at t=48 | +| `pgloading_loop4` | t=8…32 | 38 | +| `pgloading_loop1` | t=16…32 | 40 | +| `pgloading_line` | t=18…26 | 32 | +| `pgloading_str` | t=22…28 | 34 | +| `pgloading_loop3` | t=24…26 | 34 | +| `baseeff`, `eff01`, `eff02`, `loop5` | t≈16…32 | 32–40 | + +**The quad is fully opaque across the entire span in which any content is up, and +it only clears at t=48 — by which time every other element has faded to zero.** +Rendered at t = 20, 30, 36, 40, 42, 44, 46, 50 units with the timeline *playing*, +the frame is **mean 0 at every one**. + +So this is not a bad choice of pose. **Under the port's current layer rule there +is no instant at which this screen shows anything**, and a loading screen that is +black for its whole life is not what the game does. That is a proof by +contradiction, not a preference. + +### The rule under suspicion is mine, and it is narrow + +`pgloading_eff00` carries `layer_source: "none"` — no layer key at all — and the +exporter sorts a layerless element **last**, i.e. on top. Its `paint_order` is +`[6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 5, 4, 2, 3, 0]` with element 0, the quad, drawn last. + +⚠️ **Every other full-frame primitive in the export has a layer key** — +`main_menu`, `extras` and `title` all give their `pteff00` `0x00008030` — so this +rule only ever bites here, which is exactly why it survived eight milestones +behind two screens nobody draws. + +❔ **Where a layerless element sorts is a decoding question and I am not +answering it.** If the game sorts it *first* — behind everything — the screen +renders and the quad becomes a backdrop rather than a cover, which is what a +1280×720 black rectangle at the bottom of a loading screen would sensibly be. +That reading is *consistent* with the contradiction above, which is not the same +as being established, and I have asked rather than flipped the sort. + +✅ **What this does settle:** `verify-screen`'s `BLANK` verdict on those two rows +was the right call. It reports that both renderers drew nothing and that the row +proves nothing — and `sylpheed-cli` agrees with the port here precisely because +it shares the assumption under suspicion. Two renderers agreeing, again. + +## Their `eff3` retraction — my refusal was right, and my refutation found the same bug + +The Decoder has withdrawn *"the game never draws `eff3`"*. It draws all five, in +the declared stagger, in both title entries. **And the mechanism was the one my +developer-splash refutation had already caught one layer down**: a draw batches +several quads and the log dumps only the first 8 vertices, so min/max over a +line's vertex list *merges* them. `eff3` (788…1196) lies entirely inside `eff4` +(447…1196), so the union is exactly `eff4`'s extent and `eff3` vanished with +nothing anomalous to see. My `525×259` was `gamearts_eff` merged with `seta_eff` +by the identical mechanism. + +⚠️ **The part worth carrying is theirs**: three explanations were reported "ruled +out", and all three were aimed at the wrong failure — the *"a draw the log cannot +see"* check counted draws with **no** geometry when the hiding place was draws +with **partial** geometry. **Refuting three wrong hypotheses is not evidence for +a fourth**, and a list of failure modes written by whoever built the instrument +is the least likely to contain that instrument's blind spot. + +Nothing in the port changes: `eff3` was never dropped, and the developer splash +still draws three sprites. + +## The forced backdrop: two of sixteen screens were black for their whole life + +`build_12` and `build_15` — the two dressed loading screens — rendered as **pure +black at every instant of their declared timeline**. Not at rest, where a wrong +`rest.t` could explain it: at t = 20, 30, 36, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 50 units with +the timeline *playing*, mean 0 in every frame. + +That is not a defect you can attribute to a pose. A screen that is black for its +entire life is impossible on its face, and it is the kind of impossibility that +survives a render-vs-render diff: `verify-screen` scored those two rows +`max 0 mean 0 over3 0 OK` — **the strongest verdict that script has, awarded for +comparing nothing against nothing.** Both renderers were black because both +share `implied_layer_key`. The blank guard now in `verify-screen` was written +after that, and it is what turned the pass into a row that says it proves +nothing. + +### The rule, and whose it is + +It is the **Decoder's**, decoded from the file rather than inferred from the +render: + +> An element that covers the screen and is **fully opaque** at some instant +> cannot paint above anything visible at that instant. Where the elements +> visible during its opaque span are **all** of them, its position is forced to +> first. + +`pgloading_eff00` is a full-screen quad at alpha 255 from t=0 to t=38, clearing +at t=48; every other element on those screens peaks around t=8–32 and is gone by +t=32–40 — entirely inside the opaque span. Under a layer-key sort it painted +over all nine of them, at every instant they existed. Hence black. + +### What is implemented, and the two limits that are not negotiable + +`forced_backdrop_first` in `crates/sylpheed-export/src/screen.rs`, as a post-pass +over `ui_layout::derived_paint_order`. Two restrictions are copied from the +Decoder verbatim because each one was found by a test that failed: + +* 🔴 **Elements with no sprite only.** Applied to sprites, the rule claimed 22 + `.t32` textures must sort first *against their own layer keys*. An element's + alpha says nothing about whether its **texture** covers the screen — most of a + sprite may be transparent. The assertion that caught this was one the Decoder + had nearly deleted as over-strict. +* 🔴 **Not a name heuristic.** `*base*` first / `*eff*` last matches 77 of 80 and + fails on exactly the three families that cross it: `palogo_eff0`, + `pgloading_eff00`, `pzeff00`. `palogo_eff0.prm` is named like an overlay and is + *measured* painting first. The name is not the rule; occlusion is. + +⚠️ Reach: it assumes straight alpha-over. Blend mode is undecoded, and an +additive quad at alpha 255 would not occlude. It is a **lower bound on one +element's position**, not an ordering — 80 elements are forced, 50 are +constrained but not forced, and this says nothing about those 50. + +### The controls + +Both are the Decoder's prior measurements off the running game. No new oracle run +was made for this change, by either agent. + +| primitive | measured | our opaque instants | outcome | +|---|---|---|---| +| `palogo_eff0.prm` | **first** | 256 (they measured 211) | ✅ forced first | +| `pteff00.prm` | **last** | **2** (they measured 2) | ✅ still last | + +`pteff00` is the one that would break if this were implemented as "push every +layerless element down". It is the fade cover: opaque at t=0 and again at t=269, +its screen's entry and exit, and transparent for the 253 instants between. The +constraint never binds it, and it remains last on all four title-family screens. + +The `palogo_eff0` count differs — 256 against 211 — because we take the opaque +span to the **screen's** last keyframe (255) and they stop at 210. It changes no +verdict here, since the element is opaque across the whole span either way, but +the two spans are not the same span and only one of them can be the screen's. +Filed in BLOCKED. + +An element **holds its final pose to the end of the screen**; it does not vanish +at its own last keyframe. Reading `palogo_eff0`'s span as `0..=0` — it declares a +single keyframe — would make the splash's backdrop a one-instant event rather +than the thing on screen for the whole splash. Rendering `build_12` confirms the +hold directly: the frame is constant from t=30 to t=60 with the timeline running. + +### What changed, measured + +* `build_12`/`build_15`: mean 0 at every instant → ramps in over t=0…30 and + holds (mean 1.95, max 214.5). The two BLANK rows are gone from `verify-screen`. +* The splashes are unmoved against the **oracle**: `publisher_logo` 0.01 %, + `developer_logos` 0.01 % differing region, unchanged before and after. + ⚠️ That is **non-regression, not confirmation** — `verify-capture` poses at the + settle instant, and the ordering does not necessarily bind there. The evidence + for the rule is the Decoder's two controls and the impossibility of a + permanently black screen, not this row. +* Six `verify-screen` rows now DIFFER: the six screens the rule touches. The + reference `sylpheed-cli` builds from the workspace `sylpheed-formats`, which + does not have the rule. **That disagreement is expected and must not be tuned + away** — it ends when a pinned tag carries the Decoder's change, at which point + this post-pass is deleted rather than kept in two places. + +It also explains 36 builds the Decoder had filed as "coming out one colour": +`pzeff00.prm` is forced first in 32 of 32 of them. Those were wiped by our own +sort. + +## Refutation attempt — the forced-backdrop rule's quantifier, and whether it misses a case + +The rule fires only when **all** other elements are visible during the opaque +span. That is a strict quantifier, and a strict quantifier fails quietly: an +element that is a full-screen opaque backdrop but misses the bar by one dark +element would keep its layer-key position and go on hiding the screen, exactly +the defect the rule was written to fix. So the question worth asking of somebody +else's rule is not "is it right" but **"is it enough"** — and that one I can test +without an oracle, over every layerless full-screen element in `GP_TITLE`. + +| screen | element | opaque instants | others visible | forced | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `build_12`, `build_15` | `pgloading_eff00` | 39 | **9 / 9** | ✅ | +| `developer_logos` ×2 | `palogo_eff0` | 211 | **6 / 6** | ✅ | +| `publisher_logo` ×2 | `palogo_eff0` | 256 | **2 / 2** | ✅ | +| `title`, `title_jp` | `pteff00` | 2 | 3 / 23 | — | +| `main_menu` ×2 | `pteff00` | 2 | 7 / 15 | — | +| `extras` ×2 | `pteff00` | 2 | 5 / 17 | — | +| every screen | `pteff02` | **0** | — | — | + +**The rule survives, and the margin is the reason.** Nothing sits near the +boundary. Every element that fires does so at **100 %** of the others; every +element that does not is at 13–47 %, and `pteff02` never reaches alpha 255 at all, +so no quantifier could fire on it. There is no borderline case in this archive +for a stricter or looser reading to disagree about — which is the answer I could +not have gotten by re-checking the six screens where it already fired. + +It also reproduces the Decoder's **second** control number exactly: they report +`pteff00.prm` forced below **3 of 23**, and `title` measures 3 of 23 here. With +their opaque-instant count of 2 already matched, two of their three published +figures for that control now come out of an independent implementation +unchanged. The third — `palogo_eff0`'s 211 against our 256 — remains the span +disagreement filed in `BLOCKED.md`, and note that the 211 is the number our +`developer_logos` row *does* reproduce. That is worth saying plainly: **the +disagreement is not a constant offset**, so "they stop 45 instants early" is not +the explanation, and whatever it is differs per screen. + +⚠️ What this does **not** test: whether the rule is right about the 50 elements it +calls constrained-but-not-forced, and whether alpha-over is the blend mode. Both +are the Decoder's to settle. It tests completeness within one archive, which is +the half I can reach. + +## The 256/211 was never a disagreement — and my own census had already said so + +The Decoder answered the span question, and the answer is that **both numbers are +right**. `palogo_eff0.prm` appears on *both* splashes: the publisher pair +(entries 10, 13) runs to t=255 and gives **256** instants, the developer pair +(11, 14) runs to t=210 and gives **211**. I computed the publisher; their page +quoted the developer. + +Worth noting how that came out, because it is the one part I can claim: the +refutation census in the section above reported **256 on `publisher_logo` and 211 +on `developer_logos`, in the same table**, and concluded *"the disagreement is not +a constant offset, so 'they stop 45 instants early' is not the explanation"*. The +resolution was already sitting in my own output before their reply arrived. What +I got wrong was **filing it as a disagreement at all** — I compared one of my two +numbers against one of theirs and did not check the other row of my own table +against it. A per-screen quantity needs the screen named next to it, and my +`BLOCKED.md` row named neither. + +### The span convention, confirmed rather than assumed + +> The span is `0 ..= max keyframe time over EVERY element in the build`, and an +> element **holds its final pose** past its own last keyframe. + +That is exactly what `forced_backdrop_first` implements, so nothing changes in +the port. Two things they add that are worth having in writing: + +* the hold **is not a convenience**: a group holds at its last keyframe rather + than looping, and the header's `+0x08` never falls short of the last keyframe — + the slack *is* that hold; +* `+0x08` and the elements' maximum are **interchangeable**, zero disagreements + disc-wide. We use the elements' maximum. It stays, and this paragraph is the + note that the two were *checked* equivalent rather than assumed so. + +### The hold decides 55 % of verdicts, and the oracle picks it + +Reported by them over 130 keyless full-screen primitives (their measurement, not +reproduced here — their page is `docs/re/structures/ui-forced-backdrop.md`, ⚠️ not +yet on `main` as of this commit): + +| alternative convention | verdicts changed | +|---|---| +| span = the header's declared `+0x08` | 0 | +| span = the primitive's own last keyframe | **72** | +| elements **gone** after their last keyframe | **72** | + +So the reading I very nearly shipped — span = the element's own last keyframe — +would have changed **55 %** of the verdicts disc-wide. My first implementation +did exactly that, and `palogo_eff0` is the case that catches it: a *single* +keyframe at t=0, opaque for one instant, nothing else up yet, so the rule calls +it **free** — against a game measured painting it first. The convention is not a +matter of taste; the oracle rules one out. + +✅ None of our six verdicts rests on it. `pgloading_eff00` is first under all four +conventions and `pteff00` is free under all four; only `palogo_eff0` moves, and +only under the convention its own measured order excludes. + +### The sharper form of the `verify-screen` failure + +Theirs, and it is better than how I wrote it: those two solid-black frames +**were not two witnesses**. Both renderers read `implied_layer_key`, so their +agreement carried *no information* — a correlated failure is indistinguishable +from a confirmation. What caught it was not a second opinion but that the agreed +answer was **impossible on its face**. *"Is this result even possible?"* beats +*"do two implementations agree?"* whenever the two share an ancestor, and in this +project they nearly always do. + +### The boot gate still holds + +Re-run after the reorder, since the rule changed the paint order of the first two +screens in the boot path: `publisher_logo` → `developer_logos` → `ADV` (skipped at +8.12 s) → `title` + `press_start` overlay, plate at full alpha at t=236, complete +at 10.83 s holding on the title. No script errors. + +## The clock freezes at settle — the port's settle window, seen from the other side + +The Decoder measured `GP_TITLE` build 4 in the draw stream and found the +top-level clock **advances through the build-in, stops inside the settle window, +and holds**. The exit ramp is not on a timer; it plays when something makes the +screen leave. + +**Their interval is `[160, 236]`. The exporter computes `title`'s settle window as +`[160, 236, 198]`.** Those are the same two numbers, and they were not obtained +the same way: mine is the longest keyframe-free interval over top-level elements, +read out of the file with no game running; theirs is where a captured clock stops +advancing. A heuristic I adopted because it collapsed three pixel residuals at +once turns out to name the exact interval the game holds in. That is the first +evidence for the settle instant that does not come from the port's own renderer. + +The file agrees from a third direction: `ptcopyright` sits at alpha 255 from +t=160 to t=238 — it reaches full opacity precisely as the window opens. + +### Refutation attempt — their declared spans, checked against the file + +Their draw-stream argument cites what the file *declares*, which I can check +without a capture: + +| their claim | the file | | +|---|---|---| +| `ptlogo1` declares an exit at **t=264** | last keyframe t=264, alpha 0 | ✅ exact | +| `ptcopyright` alpha ≥ 1 for **106 units**, t=138…244 | keyframes at t=138 and t=244, alpha 0 at both | ✅ endpoints exact | + +Both survive. One quibble, and it is only that: the instants with alpha ≥ 1 number +**105**, t=139…243, not 106 — the endpoints they bracket with are themselves +alpha 0, so 106 is the keyframe span rather than the visible one. It changes +nothing in their argument, whose force comes from 1 050 frames against either +number. + +### What this costs the port, and it is not nothing + +`authored/timing.json` and `authored/flow.json` both said *"a screen's dwell is +its OWN keyframe group"* and *"the pacing is the disc's own"*. 🔴 **That is +refuted.** Build 4 declares about 120 presented frames and dwelled ~1 100 — nine +times its own timeline. The group is not the dwell. + +The **decision** is unchanged and still right: hold zero extra rather than invent +a number. What was wrong is what the port claimed for it. Leaving when the group +ends is not reproducing the disc's pacing — it is leaving at the moment the game +starts waiting. Both files now say so, and so does `boot.gd`, where the comment +had inherited the same claim. + +✅ The *structure* was already right, and this is the part the measurement +confirms: `_advance` is caused by the next screen arriving, never scheduled off a +timer, and the port's own comment already read *"a screen plays itself out because +something is taking its place"*. `exit_ramp_units` was deleted for an unrelated +reason and its absence is now doubly justified. + +⚠️ **Only build 4 is measured, and build 4 is the one screen where the port is +unaffected** — it is the boot's end state and holds indefinitely. The two screens +this actually governs, `publisher_logo` and `developer_logos`, have no measured +dwell at all. The port's boot is **known too fast [refuted] on both, by an unmeasured +amount**. Nothing here is a number for them. + +> 🔴 **WITHDRAWN, and this paragraph stood for days after the withdrawal was +> written.** "Known too fast on both" is false: the splash dwells are **declared +> on the disc** — publisher t=0…255, developer t=0…210 — corroborated over three +> cold boots to 1.1 %, and the port was already emitting each declared value plus +> the 9-unit black hold, *exactly*. See +> [Withdrawn — "the boot is known too fast [refuted]"](#-withdrawn--the-boot-is-known-too-fast-the-splash-dwells-are-declared-and-the-port-was-already-playing-them). +> +> Found 2026-08-30 by the Decoder's rule: **grep the corpus for the claim, not +> for the file you were working in.** I wrote the withdrawal as a new section and +> left the original assertion untouched, so a reader arriving here first got the +> dead answer with nothing to warn them — the same failure as a correction that +> never reaches the manifest, one layer up. + +## 🔴 Withdrawn — "the boot is known too fast [refuted]". The splash dwells are declared, and the port was already playing them + +Last iteration I took the Decoder's build-4 measurement — declared ~120 presented +frames, dwelled ~1 100 — and wrote into three files that the port's boot is +**"known too fast [refuted] on both splashes, by an unmeasured amount"**. That is +**withdrawn**. It was wrong, and the way it was wrong is the interesting part. + +They then measured the splashes directly, over 3 cold boots: + +| splash | declared | at 60 units/s | corpus wall clock | +|---|---|---|---| +| publisher (entries 10, 13) | t = 0…**255** | 4.250 s | 4.30 / 4.60 / 4.37 | +| developer (entries 11, 14) | t = 0…**210** | 3.500 s | 3.51 / 3.50 / 3.37 | + +The developer agrees to **1.1 %**, two of its three runs to 0.3 %. And the port +emits **4.400 s and 3.650 s** — each declared value plus the 9-unit black hold, +exactly. ✅ **The pacing was right the whole time and no code changes.** + +### What I actually did wrong + +Not the arithmetic — the generalisation. Build 4 is the **title**, whose exit is +caused by something outside its timeline, so it holds. A splash's exit is caused +by nothing, so it plays its declared timeline and leaves. **The title is the +exception, not the rule.** I had one screen, it was the one screen in the boot the +port is structurally unaffected by, and I used it to overturn the two it governs. + +I wrote at the time that a ratio from one screen is not a unit of pacing, and +declined to scale the splashes by nine. That refusal was right and is the only +reason this cost nothing but documentation. But refusing to apply the number +while adopting the *conclusion* it implied was half a caution: I still let one +screen's behaviour rewrite what the port claimed about two others. **The correct +move was to file build 4 as measured and leave the splashes alone**, which is +what the file now says. + +### And the unit stays units + +🔴 The Decoder's own container timed those same two dwells **15–20 % longer** than +both the declared values and the corpus — same disc, same declared timeline — and +three independent readings of that container's frame rate disagree with each +other. A seconds figure is one emulator's pacing on one run. The declared units +are on the disc. `authored/flow.json` `dwell` therefore takes **units**, and only +for a screen measured to wait beyond its group. + +This also retires the "two timestamps would settle it" ask I filed: timestamps +were the wrong thing to author, and the measurement's own result says so. + +## Refutation attempt — their two splash boundaries are not anchored the same way + +Their draw stream reports *"publisher wordmark frames 6–119"* and *"developer +glows 123, wordmarks 140–209"*. Taking those spans against the declared groups: + +| splash | declared units | their frames | units / frame | +|---|---|---|---| +| publisher | 255 | 6…119 = 114 | **2.237** | +| developer | 210 | 123…209 = 87 | **2.414** | + +**Within one continuous boot, on one guest, those should be the same number.** +They differ by **7.9 %**, and the discrepancy runs the same direction as the +error split they have open — publisher +4.1 % where the developer is 1.1 %. + +The file suggests why, and it is not the guest's clock: **the two boundaries are +anchored on different elements.** The developer span starts at its *glows*; the +publisher span is reported as starting at its *wordmark*. Those are 15 units +apart — every wordmark on both splashes is `alpha > 0` from t=16, every glow from +t=1 — and the publisher **has a glow**, `palogo_sqex_eff`, visible t=1…44, +structurally identical to the developer's three. So either frame 6 is the +publisher's glow and is mislabelled, or the publisher span genuinely starts 15 +units later than the developer's and the two are not comparable quantities. + +⚠️ I cannot tell which from here — it is their log, and the answer is one grep for +`palogo_sqex_eff` in it. Recording it because a 7.9 % internal inconsistency and +an unexplained 4.1 % error on the same screen are more likely one problem than +two. ⚠️ It also does **not** touch the corpus comparison, which is a separate +instrument (3 cold boots, not this draw log); their 4.1 % may still be real. + +## Their corrected boundaries check out against the file — all six, exactly + +The Decoder found the cause of the 7.9 % I reported, and it was worse than the +anchor mismatch I proposed: **the developer splash batches six quads into one +draw and their log dumps only the first two.** While the three glows are alive +they occupy that prefix, so the three wordmarks are invisible to the log until +the glows stop at t=45. *"Developer wordmarks first drawn at frame 140"* was the +logging prefix shifting, not the game. The anchor difference I found was a +symptom; the truncation was the cause. It is also what hid `palogo_anima`. + +Their fix is to count `indices / 4`, which the 8-vertex dump cap cannot touch. +Every one of the six resulting calibration points matches this export: + +| splash | their transition | their t | export | +|---|---|---|---| +| publisher | 1→2 quads | 15 | `palogo_sqex` joins at **t=16** | +| publisher | 2→1 | 45 | `palogo_sqex_eff` ends **t=44** | +| publisher | last drawn | 255 | group ends **t=255** ✅ | +| developer | 3→6 quads | 15 | three wordmarks join at **t=16** | +| developer | 6→3 | 45 | three glows end **t=44** | +| developer | last drawn | 210 | group ends **t=210** ✅ | + +The two 15-vs-16 rows are a half-open boundary, not a disagreement: they name the +last frame at the old count, the export names the first instant at the new one. + +✅ A second thing falls out that neither of us was looking for: their quad counts +are **1 and 2** on the publisher against **3 and 6** on the developer, and a +count restricted to *sprite-bearing* elements reproduces exactly that. So +`palogo_eff0` — the layerless forced backdrop — is **not in the batch they log**, +confirmed from the file. Their instrument and this export agree on which element +is the odd one out, having disagreed about it in every earlier iteration. + +### Refutation attempt — does the drift actually explain the corpus's 4.1 %? + +Their four segment rates recompute exactly (1.765 / 2.165 / 2.308 / 2.357; the +developer's two agreeing to 2.1 %, the run rising 33.5 %). The explanation is that +the publisher runs in the first seconds where the rate is furthest from its later +value. Testing what that predicts for the *corpus*: + +| publisher ÷ developer | ratio | +|---|---| +| declared (255 ÷ 210) | 1.214 | +| **their drift predicts** | **1.369** | +| corpus, 3 cold boots | **1.278** | + +**Sign confirmed, magnitude not.** The corpus ratio does sit above declared, which +is what the drift predicts and is real evidence. But their container's drift +would inflate it by 12.8 % where the corpus shows 5.3 % — roughly 2.4× too +strong. So drift of *some* size is doing the work; drift of *their* size is not. + +⚠️ And the reason to be careful here is that the move is the one I just got wrong: +the 4.1 % is a property of the **corpus**, a different instrument (3 cold boots, +elsewhere), and the drift was measured in **their container**. Transferring it is +exactly what I did carrying build 4 onto the splashes. A general warm-up is +plausible for any emulator, so this is not baseless — but it is unconfirmed for +the corpus, and the magnitude gap is the evidence that the corpus's drift is not +theirs. It cannot be closed without the corpus's own frame log. + +✅ Untouched by any of it: the declared **255** and **210**, and the port's +4.400 s / 3.650 s. Neither uses their draw log. + +### The guard this puts on `keyframe_units_per_second` + +⚠️ *"No single units-per-frame figure describes a run"* is a statement about +**emulator presentation pacing**, and a later reader could easily take it as +grounds to revisit the port's `60`. It is not. 60 is the **game's logical unit +rate** (HANDOFF Q1, measured), the port renders at its own frame rate and +converts through it, and guest pacing cannot reach it. `authored/timing.json` now +says so at the constant itself, where someone about to change it will read it. + +## The n=1 disclosure, and the one port constant that rests on a single run + +The Decoder disclosed that their `ARM=early` capture silently loses its trigger +**~40 % of the time** — two of five runs logged `ARMED EARLY` and produced no +draw log at all, indistinguishable in the session log from a run that armed. So +every draw-stream figure of theirs is **n = 1**. + +That is worth more than the number it was attached to, because the port authors +constants from those runs. Auditing which: exactly one, +`black_hold_units = 9`. Everything else comes from the disc (the declared dwells +255/210, the settle window, the plate period), from the exporter, or from +multi-sample measurements (Q1's unit rate over seven frames, Q5's navigation). + +**9 is not wrong, and three of its supports have moved.** Its conversion used a +105-frame count their own truncation fix has revised to 114; its second +corroboration (2.231) is the figure behind their retracted plate period; and a +run-average units-per-frame is the wrong shape for a 3–4 frame event now that the +rate is known to rise 33 % across a boot. Redone on their corrected local +segments, their two runs give **8.95** and **6.71** units. + +⚠️ Those two were reconciled as replicating "within the ±1 both are quantised +to". **Overlapping error bars are not agreeing central values** — one frame is a +third of this quantity. The range is ~6.5–9.2 and the port sits at the top of it. + +The value stays. Changing it would be my arithmetic on their instrument, and this +port does not author a number the corpus has not given; it is filed as a proposal +in `BLOCKED.md` with the one run that would settle it. ✅ And what is not in doubt +is that the hold is **real**: until this was implemented the port had no black +frame at all where the oracle measures a plateau. + +### Their statistics, checked + +Their per-boot excesses reproduce exactly: **+0.89 %, +8.24 %, +6.79 %**, spread +7.35 pp, wider than the 5.30 pp gap under test — so boot 1 alone essentially *is* +the declared ratio. Their concession is right and my 2.4× cannot carry the weight +I gave it. + +One refinement, which cuts **against** their concession rather than for it: their +2.3 σ uses the *population* SD (3.178). At n = 3 the sample SD (3.892) is the +right estimator, giving **1.89 σ** — their run is *less* of an outlier than they +credited themselves with. Testing the other question, whether the corpus mean +differs from their prediction, gives t = 3.27 on 2 df, p ≈ 0.08. **Neither +framing reaches significance**, which is where both of us landed anyway. + +📌 Their sharpening of the instrument point is the keeper: a truncated log and a +`--screen=NAME` render at t=0 both return a **complete, well-formed answer to a +different question**. That is why neither looks like an error — nothing inside +either view can tell you it is not the view you asked for. + +## P6 gate — sound on the P5 walk, verified, and the tool I nearly shipped instead + +`tools/port/verify-menu-audio`. Until now the evidence that P6's gate was met was +that `audio.play("move")` appears in `boot.gd` — evidence that a *call is +written*, not that a sound reaches the bus. Those differ, and this project has +the case to prove it: the black hold was implemented, called, and emitted nothing +for five milestones. + +It needs no sound card. Godot records the Master bus to a WAV under the Dummy +driver. Three runs on `main_menu`: the walk (`down,down,accept,cancel,up`) and +two controls — `wait`×5 for the bed alone, and `left`×5 for **presses that reach +`_unhandled_input` and are bound to nothing** (Q5: left/right do nothing). + +| check | result | +|---|---| +| a dead press is silent | **bit-identical** to the bed alone, 114 688 samples | +| `move` on the bus | r=0.201 at 1.85 s, bed-only 0.016, margin **+0.185** | +| `confirm` | r=0.945 at 2.14 s, bed-only 0.371, margin **+0.574** | +| `back` | r=0.660 at 2.42 s, bed-only 0.195, margin **+0.465** | +| cue order vs script order | **consistent** | + +The order is the strongest line and it is free: the correlator is never told +where to look, so three different templates landing in script order is three +independent searches agreeing with the log. `move`'s absolute r is low because it +is the quietest cue under the loudest part of the bed; the margin over the same +template against the bed is what carries it. + +🔴 **What it cannot conclude, and must never be read as:** that these are the cues +the *game* plays. That binding is HANDOFF Q8, the Decoder's, and nothing here +re-measures it. This tool cannot tell a correct cue from a confidently wrong one. + +### The instrument I nearly shipped + +The first version counted envelope bursts above a multiple of the bed level. It +reported **4 cues on one run and 0 on the next, from the same script** — its +answer was set by two hand-picked constants, the multiple and a minimum run +length, and the bed level is not constant across a run. I caught it only because +I ran it twice. + +The replacement has no such constant: **the exported cue file is its own +template**, the search covers the whole recording, and the verdict is a margin +over that same template matched against the bed-only control. + +⚠️ Cue *length* is deliberately not asserted. The audible part of a cue is far +shorter than its wave — 0.12–0.38 s against authored 0.344–1.016 s — because the +bed masks the tail. "Elevated for 0.13 s" is a fact about the bed, not the cue, +and I came close to filing that gap as a defect. + +### A check that could not be made independent + +I tried to verify Q8's cue durations against the exported waves. They agree +exactly — 0.533 / 1.016 / 0.344 — **and the agreement is worthless**: the +exporter decodes from Q8's own offsets and packet counts, so the duration is +determined by the claim under test. It confirms the export is faithful to the +authored table, nothing more. Recording it because "I checked and it matched" is +exactly what a correlated instrument feels like from the inside. + +## Their `.tbm` self-refutation does not reach this archive — and it fixes my guard anyway + +The Decoder downgraded 38 of the forced-backdrop rule's 80 verdicts from decoded +to inferred: those elements are `.tbm`, declaring fade `ffffffff`, and a solid +white quad painted first at alpha 255 would make the screen white. No screen is +white, so a `.tbm`'s white is a modulation **on a texture** and its element alpha +says nothing about coverage — the `.t32` mistake one file extension further out. + +✅ **No verdict the port ships is affected.** All six forced elements here are +`palogo_eff0.prm` and `pgloading_eff00.prm`, `role: primitive`, `kind_raw 0x10`, +fade `0xff000000`. They fall in the 42 that stay decoded. And **no layerless +full-screen element anywhere in `GP_TITLE` has a non-black fade** — checked +across all 16 screens, so the downgrade cannot touch this archive. + +But their diagnosis applies to my code regardless: *an element's alpha is not its +texture's opacity, and only an untextured primitive makes the two the same fact*. +My guard was `sprite.is_none()` — a **symptom** test, the same shape as the one +they say fixed their symptom and not their cause. It would keep admitting a +`.tbm` that this exporter happens not to emit a sprite for. + +The guard is now the positive test, `role == "primitive"`. It changes no verdict +today — the six are identical before and after, 16 screens still validate — and +it is correct by construction if the corpus grows. + +⚠️ Not adopted from their message: their reading that the blend question now +narrows to `pbafc.prm`. That is theirs to settle and the port draws no additive +quad either way. + +## Coverage is now tested per instant, because scale animates + +The Decoder found that `forced_backdrop` judged screen coverage from the declared +size alone, ignoring scale — and the disc carries its own counterexample. +`pbafc.prm` declares **844×600 at alpha `ff`**, which reads as a screen-filling +cyan wash; it is scaled **2 % × 3 %** and draws about **17×18 px**, strobing and +travelling x=178→291. A moving glint. A rule reading its declared size would call +it screen-covering. + +The port had the same gap and it is closed. `scale_at` interpolates scale on the +same linear ramp as the fade, and coverage is folded **into the opaque-instant +test** rather than checked once: an instant counts only where the element is both +alpha 255 *and* covering. That is the rule's own wording — "covers the screen +**and** is fully opaque **at some instant**" — where the previous code tested the +two halves at different times. + +The static size prefilter is now deliberately *not* a rejection: an element scaled +**above** 100 could cover the screen from a smaller declared size, so rejecting on +declared size would have replaced one version of the bug with its mirror. + +✅ **No verdict moves.** Six forced elements before and after; 16 screens validate; +the oracle figures are identical to the digit (`publisher_logo` 0.01 %, +`developer_logos` 0.01 %, `main_menu` 0.07 %, `extras` 0.19 %, `title` 0.26 %). +Their claim that all 80 forced instances sit at scale 100 reproduces on the +GP_TITLE subset, and more strongly: **no layerless full-screen element anywhere in +this archive has a non-100 scale on any keyframe.** + +It is in for the reason they gave, which is the right one: the data that would +break it demonstrably exists on this disc. That is a better argument than a +failure would have been, because it does not require the bug to happen first. + +### Their blend-robustness argument, checked + +They classify the blend mode **undecodable with reach** and argue the rule does +not depend on it, for a black quad: + +| | drawn **first** | drawn **last** | +|---|---|---| +| alpha-over, α=255 | correct | blanks the screen | +| additive, α=255 | correct — adds nothing | correct | + +The table holds. An additive black quad contributes nothing at any position, so +both orders are correct under it; only alpha-over distinguishes them, and it +picks *first*. **"First" is right under both hypotheses, "last" under one** — so +`forced_backdrop`'s verdict is robust to a question neither of us can close. + +It also explains a detail of the original bug that I had not accounted for: +"layerless sorts last" was *wrong* under alpha-over and merely *pointless* under +additive, which is why those screens came out **solid black** rather than +**empty**. The symptom was diagnostic of the blend mode all along. + +⚠️ Not evidence that the blend is alpha-over, and I am not recording it as such. +It is the reason the port can stop waiting on it. `pbafc.prm` remains the sole +additive candidate and is outside the rule at 17×18 px; the port draws no +additive quad either way. + +## P7 gate — the new-game intro plays and returns, and a defect I nearly invented + +`--menu=main_menu --script=accept` walks the P7 path: Ⓐ on NEW GAME announces the +two measured screens this export skips, opens `S00A`, plays it to its natural end +at **93.33 s** against the manifest's 93.9, and returns to the title. Nine film +frames across the movie are distinct and non-black (mean 10 → 140). The gate asks +for "plays, then returns to a defined state"; that is both halves. + +### The near-miss, which is the part worth keeping + +Checking that the movie's audio actually reached the Master bus, I correlated the +recording against the exported `S00A.ogv` audio and got **r = −0.0068 at the +movie's known start**, with the correlator passing its own positive control at +**r = 1.0000**. A working instrument returning zero at the right place. I was one +step from filing *"the movie's own audio never reaches the bus"* — which would +have been a serious P4/P7 defect, and the inverse of the human's original report +that the intro "plays music but no voice". + +It is false. Re-run on the **boot** path, where no menu bed is playing: + +| against the bed-free recording | r | at | +|---|---|---| +| `ADV` voice | **0.8855** | movie start 7.6 s | +| `ADV` movie audio | **0.4178** | movie start 7.6 s | + +Both present, at the same start. The movie's audio is simply quieter than the +voice mixed on top of it, and in the P7 run the **menu bed masked it below +detection** while the louder voice survived. The bed carries across into the +movie — `play_bed` is documented as carrying across submenus — so the P7 run was +never a clean measurement. + +🔴 **The lesson is about the control, not the bed.** I validated the correlator on +clean data and then ran it on masked data. A positive control proves the +instrument works *on the material it was given*; it says nothing about whether +the instrument can see through an interferer that was not in the control. **A +negative result needs its own positive control under the same masking**, and this +is the third time in this corpus that an unvalidated negative nearly became a +finding — after "10 of 18 elements transparent at rest" and the burst counter that +read 4 cues on one run and 0 on the next. + +`tools/port/verify-video-audio`'s header already warned that a fidelity +comparison needs cross-correlation alignment *and* an agreed downmix. It was +right, and I would add the third condition it did not know to state. + +⚠️ What is **not** settled: whether the bed *should* carry into the movie and on +to the title after it. It does, it is authored that way, and nobody has watched +the game do either. That is a separate question from this one and is not filed as +a defect — only as unmeasured. + +✅ Also checked, from their `compose` finding: `GP_TITLE` declares **115 `.t32`, +45 `.rat`, 18 `.prm` and no `.tbm` at all**, and every non-primitive element has a +resolvable sprite. The "draws no pixels for an unresolvable element" hazard — +the shape that hid `pteff05` from both renderers — does not reach this archive. + +## `ScreenView.skipped` was correct and unread since P1 — now it says so itself + +The draw loop has always tracked what it could not draw, with the comment *"a +silently missing element looks like art"*. **Nothing ever printed it.** For eight +milestones the port could drop an element on every frame and report it to nobody. + +That is the same shape as the black hold — implemented, called, emitting nothing +until somebody filmed it — and as `verify-screen` scoring two blank frames `OK`. +A fact that needs someone to remember to look at it is a fact that goes +unnoticed, so `_note_structural` **prints from inside `ScreenView`** rather than +returning a value for a caller to surface. Routing it through a caller is exactly +what did not happen. + +Only **structural** skips are reported — `(no sprite in the export)` and +`(sprite failed to load)`. `(transparent at rest)` is ordinary animation, true of +every element at some instant, and reporting it would bury the two that mean +something under the one that never does. + +✅ **Nothing is being skipped today**: 0 across every screen, on the boot path and +per-screen. This is a guard, not a fix. The export corroborates it — no missing +sprite PNG, no element at alpha 0 on every keyframe, none at scale 0. + +### 🔴 And the first version of that scan was a false pass + +My first run reported *"0 structural skips"* on ten screens. **`screen_view.gd` +did not parse.** I had inserted a line at three tabs inside a four-tab block — +the Python `assert old in s` passed because a three-tab string is a *substring* +of a four-tab line — which orphaned a `continue`. Godot loaded nothing, printed +nothing, and `grep -c` faithfully counted zero. + +A count of zero from a dead script is indistinguishable from a count of zero from +a clean one, and I had already written the sentence claiming the clean reading. +The scan now counts the screen summary line as a **positive control**: if the +script did not run, `summary-lines=0` says so, and the zero cannot be read as a +pass. That is the third time this session that a well-formed answer to a +different question nearly became a finding. + +⚠️ Note the mechanism, because it will recur: matching indented code by substring +is unanchored, and it silently matched a *shallower* indent than the one in the +file. + +## Refutation attempt — "the element declared first paints first" + +All six of the port's forced-backdrop elements sit at **element index 0**. So on +those six screens the rule's verdict is indistinguishable from a far simpler +hypothesis I had not tested: *the first-declared element is painted first.* If +that held, `forced_backdrop` would be an elaborate way to reproduce the file's own +ordering, and my six verdicts would be no evidence for it at all. + +**It is refuted, on 8 of 16 screens.** Index 0 is *not* painted first on +`build_00`/`build_01` (position 2), `extras` (7), `title` (13), `title_jp` (18) +and — decisively — `main_menu`, where index 0 is **`pteff00`, painted last**, +position 15 of 16. `pteff00` is the Decoder's own *measured* control: the game +puts the first-declared element on top of that screen. + +So declaration order is not paint order, the six coincidences are coincidences, +and the rule is not redundant. + +⚠️ What survives as a real limitation: **those six screens, taken alone, cannot +distinguish the two hypotheses.** The evidence separating them comes from +elsewhere in the archive. Worth stating because it is the exact weakness in the +Decoder's `pfbase.tbm` upgrade — *"element 0 of the save/load frame, and the +measured order starts [0, 1, 2, …]"*. An order that equals the trivial order is +weak evidence for **any** rule, since every rule preserving declaration order +agrees with it. ✅ Their claim survives, but on evidence they did not cite: it is +`main_menu`'s `pteff00` that rules out the trivial reading, not the save/load +frame itself. + +## The menu bed plays under the cutscene, nobody decided that, and it stays + +`MenuAudio.stop_bed()` exists and is **called from nowhere**. So the music that +starts when the main menu goes live runs through the cutscene and on past it — +and since `authored/audio.json` sets `loop: "restart"`, it then loops. Both +follow from the source and the authored data alone; no measurement is needed to +establish them. + +The port therefore emits **two unrelated music tracks at once** during `S00A`: +the movie carries its own music and effects, and the menu bed is underneath it. + +### It is not being fixed, and that is the decision + +`PORT-MISSION`'s rule is to leave an unmeasured detail **plainly wrong rather +than plausibly invented**, and this is the textbook case for it. Music over a +cutscene is wrong in a way any listener catches in one second. Ducking or +stopping the bed would sound entirely right — and would be a guess about a game +nobody has watched. **The audible version gets fixed; the plausible version ships +forever.** + +So `_play_video` now *announces* it, the way `skipped_chain` already announces +the two screens NEW GAME jumps over: + +``` + -> video S00A at 1.13 s (…) + 🔴 the menu bed is STILL PLAYING under this movie -- unmeasured, + left audible on purpose (BLOCKED.md: does menu music duck?) +``` + +It fires on the menu path and correctly stays silent on the boot path, where no +bed has started. `stop_bed` is **kept**, not deleted: the day a capture says +whether the game's menu music ducks under a movie, it is the one line to change. + +⚠️ This is the mirror of `ScreenView.skipped` from the previous iteration — a +fact recorded and never surfaced, against a capability provided and never used. +Both were invisible for the same reason: **nothing fails when they are missed.** + +### 🔴 And my correlator is not trustworthy on music under music + +Chasing this I ran the envelope correlator over the P7 recording repeatedly and +got answers that moved with the window and the template: the bed at r=0.42 with +one template and no peak at all above 0.4 with another; a post-movie window +search whose range **excluded the correct answer** and duly reported the bed's +own loop as unidentifiable. I was drafting *"46 s of unexplained audio after the +movie"* when the explanation was the authored `loop: "restart"` sitting in a file +I had not re-read. + +The instrument is sound where it was validated — discrete SFX against a bed, with +margins of +0.5 over a negative control. It is **not** sound for music under +music at comparable level, where every candidate scores 0.15–0.42 and nothing +separates. ⚠️ A margin is only meaningful against a control **at the same SNR**, +and I did not have one here. That is the fourth near-miss of this kind, and the +first where I would have invented an *anomaly* rather than a defect. + +Nothing in this section rests on that correlator. The finding is `stop_bed` having +no caller, which is a fact about the source. + +## `wait:`, and the bed's loop seam is 3.4 seconds of silence + +The port could not be asked to **run for a stated duration**. A bare `wait` +script step is `pass` — it returns as soon as the screen settles — so nothing +happening after the settle point was observable from a harness at all. The music +bed made that concrete: an 87.7 s track whose restart nobody had watched, on a +harness whose longest menu run was under seven seconds. + +`--script=wait:105` fixes that, and the first thing it found was the answer. + +### The bed loops, exactly where it should + +Recording the Master bus over 132 s with nothing but the menu playing — no movie, +no voice, a clean signal — the bed's `t=2…17 s` template matches twice: + +| | r | pass begins | +|---|---|---| +| first pass | **0.947** | 0.0 s | +| second pass | **0.885** | **87.8 s** | + +The track is **87.7 s**. So `loop: "restart"` does what `authored/audio.json` +says: replays from sample 0 at the track's end, no trimming, no loop point. +✅ First end-to-end observation of P6's looping behaviour. + +### And the seam is measurably as bad as it was authored to be + +`loop_why` predicted *"the listener hears the track's own fade-out and the silence +after it before the music comes back"*. Measured off the bus: + +| window around the seam | RMS | +|---|---| +| −8 … −4 s | 2057 | +| −4 … −2 s | 714 | +| −2 … −0.3 s | 431 | +| +0.3 … +2 s | 2164 | + +and **36 consecutive 50 ms windows below peak 300, from 84.40 s to 87.80 s** — +about **3.4 seconds of near-silence** before the music returns. That is long +enough to read as *the music stopped*, not as a loop. + +The claim was right and is now a number. ⚠️ It does **not** license trimming to +the fade: that would still invent a loop point, and an invented one is +indistinguishable from a decoded one a month later. The measurement is recorded +to make the cost of the missing loop point concrete, in `authored/audio.json`. + +### 🔴 My first `wait:` was wrong by 39 %, and the way it was wrong matters + +It used `create_timer`, which counts down on the frame delta. In an **idle** +scene this container throttles and the delta it reports is not the time that +passed: a requested 30 s took **41.7 s** of wall clock while the port reported +30. Measured against `date` either side of the process, with a no-wait control +to subtract 1.21 s of startup. + +Now polled on `Time.get_ticks_msec()`: 30 s requested, **31.38 s** wall, +4.6 %. + +⚠️ **This is idle-specific and is not a general clock fault**, which I checked +before writing any of it down. Over a whole boot, where things are animating, the +port's clock tracks wall clock to **within 4 %** — 10.43 s wall against 10.82 s +reported. So the port's *animation* timing is sound and the earlier splash-dwell +agreement (4.400 s and 3.650 s against declared 255 and 210 units) **stands**; I +had briefly believed it did not. + +What is genuinely unsound is `_elapsed` **while idle**: it reported 23.21 s across +30 real seconds of waiting. Every timing the port prints during animation is +fine; a timing that spans a wait is not. + +📌 The reason to care: the only reason to hold a screen is to observe something on +a **real** clock — an audio loop, a timeout, an idle return. A timer that +silently ran 39 % long would have put every such observation at the wrong instant, +and the bed-loop result above would have been the first casualty. It survived only +because the seam was read off the **recording's** clock, which the bed's own known +length calibrates. + +## Two harness bugs, and the defect the second one was hiding + +### 1. `--capture` with `--script` photographed the frame *before* the script + +`--capture` fired in `_ready` and quit. With `--script` that is **before the +first press**: at t=0.133 s, with 10 of 16 elements still transparent. Two runs +differing by two `down` presses came out **bit-identical**, and I read that as +*"runtime focus never changes"* — a confident wrong finding that `--shots` +contradicted within a minute. + +Fixed: with a script, the capture defers to the end of the run, through the same +`_capture_to` member the boot path already used. Verified — the two runs now +differ at max 235, and the capture lands at t=82 units instead of t=8. + +### 2. `--boot --capture=` wrote no file at all — ✅ FIXED, see below + +`_finish_boot()` is reachable only from the overlay-quit branch, but the boot +quit first: line 412 exits when `_film == "" and _overlay_spec.is_empty()`, and +`_overlay_spec` is **cleared when the overlay is raised**. So a plain `--boot` +ended at 10.99 s, 1.2 s before its own scheduled 12.21 s, and the capture never +happened. + +Confirmed pre-existing by stashing my changes and re-running. Fixed by also +requiring `_overlay_quit_at < 0.0`. The boot now runs to 12.19 s, prints *"boot +ends on title + press_start"*, and writes the file. + +⚠️ The flag has a doc comment explaining that it exists so the boot has an +artifact of its own instead of a 600-PNG filmstrip. **It has been producing +nothing.** A flag that silently writes no file is the same failure as +`ScreenView.skipped` and `stop_bed`: provided, plausible, and never exercised. + +### 3. 🔴 And the artifact it now produces shows the plate is missing + +The boot's end frame is **bit-identical** to `--screen=title` at the same instant +— max difference 0. The `PRESS Ⓐ` plate is not in the port's end state. + +`ptbtn00`'s own fade explains it exactly: + +| t | 0 | 214 | **236** | **238** | 244 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| alpha | 0 | 0 | **255** | **255** | 0 | + +The plate is visible for **8 units — 0.133 s** — and the boot captures at +**t=246.54**, two and a half units after it has gone. + +That is not an accident of frame timing; the code chose it. `_overlay_quit_at` +takes `max(view.settle_time(), overlay.settle_time())`, and its comment says why: +*"the plate arrives at t=238 and build 4 is still fading up from black until +t=261 … quitting when the plate lands photographs a title that has not finished +presenting."* Both halves are true, and together they mean **the two states +cannot both be in one frame.** The port picked the title, and the consequence — +that the plate is in no artifact at all — was never written down. + +⚠️ I am **not** moving the trigger. The earlier reasoning is sound and the +measurement it protects is real; picking the other instant would trade a missing +plate for a visibly dark title, which is the swap that was already made once and +regretted. What settles it is what the *game* does with the plate after t=244 — +filed. + +📌 Worth naming: defect 3 was **invisible while defect 2 existed**. A capture flag +that writes nothing cannot show you a missing element. The broken tool was hiding +the thing the tool was built to find, and neither was noticed because the absence +of a file looks exactly like not having run the command. + +### What was *not* wrong, and how I nearly recorded that it was + +Runtime focus works. Per-step `--shots` across `down,down` differ at max 232–233, +with the differing boxes tracking down the button column. My contrary reading came +from analysing 410 `f_NNN` files after asking for `--shots=…/s` — **the filenames +did not match the flag I passed, and that was visible in my first `ls`.** A +verbatim re-run produces six correctly-named per-step shots. I do not know where +those 410 files came from, which is itself the point: I drew a conclusion from a +file set whose provenance I never checked. + +## The `PRESS Ⓐ` plate: four bugs in a row, and a number I have been misquoting + +Last iteration I filed that the plate was visible for 8 units and simply missed by +the boot's capture instant. That was wrong in the direction that matters: **the +plate could not be drawn at any instant at all**, and three separate faults had to +be removed before it appeared. The fourth is a correction to figures I have quoted +to the Decoder repeatedly. + +### 1. `--time=` was silently ignored on half the screens + +`pose_at` did `if holding: t = settle_instant`. The requested instant was +**discarded** on every screen with a settle window ≥ 30 units — `title`, +`press_start`. The flag parsed, the log printed the time asked for, and the pose +came from somewhere else entirely. + +`ScreenView.frozen` now marks an explicitly pinned instant and skips both clamps. + +### 2. The settle window picked an interval where nothing is visible + +`press_start`'s keyframes are 0, 214, 236, 238, 244. The widest keyframe-free gap +is **0…214** — the dead stretch *before* the plate exists, where `ptbtn00` is +alpha 0 throughout — so its settle instant was **t=107**, and every question about +that screen was answered there. + +🔴 **A gap in which nothing is visible is not a settled state.** The exporter now +rejects those intervals. `press_start` becomes [214, 236] — 22 units, under the +runtime's 30-unit bar — so it falls back to each element's own hold, which is the +plate, opaque, as the disc declares it. + +⚠️ It disturbs no window the settle instant was measured on: `title` keeps +[160, 236], the interval the Decoder's draw stream independently found the game's +clock freezing in. + +### 3. An authored entry of mine was suppressing the decode + +Even then the plate stayed dark, because `authored/timing.json`'s +`looping_focus_records` entry for `press_start/ptbtn00` made `_draw` take the +focus path — which draws the focus record **instead of** the base sprite: + +| | with the entry | without | +|---|---|---| +| `press_start` t=236 | max **0** | max **252.5** | +| t=240 | max 0 | max 252.5 | +| t=250 | max 15.3 | max 252.5 | + +I authored that entry to give the plate a glow. It substituted a dim glow at the +wrong phase for the element's own bright sprite, on the screen whose entire +content is that sprite. **Deleted** — an authored guess that overrides decoded +data with a worse answer is removed, not tuned. The glow is not claimed either +way; drawing both would be a rendering rule nobody has measured. + +✅ The boot's end artifact now contains the plate: mean **95.7** in its region +against **33.6** for the title art alone, and the overlay reports `drew 1: +ptbtn00` where it reported `drew 0`. + +### 4. 🔴 `verify-capture` has been measuring a different pose than it reported + +It passed `--time=5.9617` for the title — t=357.7 units, the Decoder's refined +sweep fit — and **that value was never applied**, because of fault 1. Every title +figure this tool has printed, including the **0.26 %** I have quoted to the +Decoder more than once, was measured at the **settle instant, t=198**, under a +note claiming t=357.7. + +Honouring the flag made it visible: t=357.7 is past the title's own group, which +ends at t=269, so the whole screen posed at its faded-out final keyframes and the +disagreement went to **30.97 %**. The instant was only ever meant for the `ptloop` +leaf, which runs to t=600 and is looped separately by `loop_leaf`. Applying it to +the whole screen was always wrong and was harmless only while it was ignored. + +The splashes had the same shape: `--time=99` was an idiom for "settled" that +worked only because it was discarded. Both rows now pose by omission, and the +tool's note says what it does. + +| | before | now | +|---|---|---| +| `title` | 0.26 % *(labelled t=357.7, actually t=198)* | **0.21 %** at t=198, labelled t=198 | +| `publisher_logo` | 0.01 % | 0.01 % | +| `developer_logos` | 0.01 % | 0.01 % | +| `main_menu` | 0.07 % | 0.08 % | +| `extras` | 0.19 % | 0.19 % | + +The agreements were real; the **stated pose was not**. Corrected with the +Decoder, since they have those numbers. + +### The flag audit that started it + +All 16 flags `boot.gd` parses were exercised for an observable effect after last +iteration's two silent ones. `--pose=rest` (max 111 against the timeline), +`--play` (enters the menu), `--no-hold` (max 255 on two screens) all pass. `--time` +was the one that did not, and it took a screen whose content is a single late +spike to make the failure visible. + +## The title's residual is the sweep phase, and the sweeps fit at ~400 units, not 357.7 + +Last iteration I found `verify-capture` was passing the Decoder's refined sweep +fit as `--time=5.9617` and having it silently discarded, so the value had **never +been tested**. Asking for it also destroyed the frame — t=357.7 is past the +title's own group end at t=269 — which is why nobody noticed. + +`--leaf-time=` separates the two clocks: the screen sits at its settled +pose, the `ptloop` leaf is placed at whatever phase is under test. That makes the +fit testable for the first time. + +### Controls first + +* The renderer is **deterministic** — three runs at one leaf phase are + bit-identical, max difference 0. So variation across phases is signal, not noise. +* The sweeps are **detectable** — two phases differ over **0.3953 %** of the frame + at a 10 % threshold. A comparison at this scale can see them. + +### The fit + +Sweeping the leaf across its full 600-unit span against +`live-title-build4-no-plate.png`, structural disagreement at a 25 % threshold: + +| leaf phase | differing | +|---|---| +| 240 units | 0.1410 % | +| 320 units | 0.3395 % | +| **357.7 — the Decoder's fit** | **0.2532 %** | +| 390 | 0.0129 % | +| **395–402** | **0.0124 %** | +| 405 | 0.0127 % | +| 440 | 0.2033 % | + +A sharp basin at **390–415 units**, an order of magnitude below everything +around it, and **20× better than t=357.7**. + +### What that means, and what it does not + +✅ **The title's 0.21 % residual is the sweep phase, not structure.** At the +fitted phase the disagreement falls to **0.0124 %** — the same order as the +splashes' 0.01 %. The port's title rendering is structurally right; the sweeps +were simply somewhere else in their loop. + +🔴 **The port does not adopt 400 units, and `verify-capture` is not re-posed to +it.** That would be tuning until they match, which this repository's own tooling +header warns against. The port loops the leaf freely — there is no phase +parameter to set — and 400 units is a property of *that capture's instant*, not +of the game. + +⚠️ Reach: this assumes the port's leaf geometry and sprite are otherwise correct. +A systematic error in how the sweeps are drawn could be absorbed by shifting the +phase, and one capture cannot separate those. What makes the result worth having +anyway is the **sharpness** — a 20× drop over 40 units is not something a +geometry error would produce at a wrong phase. + +⚠️ And it does not tell the Decoder their 357.7 is wrong *as a measurement of +whatever they measured it on*. It says the phase that matches this capture is +~400. If those are the same quantity, one of the two is off by ~42 units; if they +are not, this is a second quantity nobody had. + +## A second capture closes the sweep-geometry question, and the plate matches at 0.00093 % + +Last iteration's leaf-phase fit came with a caveat I could not close: *a +systematic error in how the port draws the sweeps could be absorbed by shifting +the phase, and one capture cannot separate those.* A second capture can, and +`live-title-press-a.png` — the title **with** the plate — was sitting in the +corpus unused. + +### The second capture fits at a different phase, and better + +| capture | pose | differing | +|---|---|---| +| `live-title-build4-no-plate.png` | settled, leaf at ~400 units | **0.0124 %** | +| `live-title-press-a.png` | t=237, everything | **0.00093 %** | + +**Two independent captures, two different sweep phases, both fitting to 0.01 % or +better.** A geometry error in how the sweeps are drawn would leave a floor in +*both*, and at a phase-independent level. Neither has one. ✅ The caveat is closed +and the port's sweep rendering is not systematically wrong. + +The two phases are also consistent with each other rather than merely different: +the plate is opaque only at t=236–238, so a frame containing it is early +(t≈237) and a frame without it is either earlier or later. The no-plate capture +fits at leaf ~400 — 6.7 s in, well past the plate's window — and its filename +says it is build 4 alone. Both readings agree on where each frame sits. + +⚠️ I nearly drew a further inference — that the no-plate capture *dates* the +plate's disappearance and therefore answers the BLOCKED question about whether +the plate stays up. It does not: the filename says `build4-no-plate`, so the +capture was taken **of build 4 alone, deliberately without the overlay**. It +carries no information about how long a plate lasts. That row stays open. + +### Capture 1 is not a whole-screen instant, which corroborates `loop_leaf` + +Sweeping the *whole screen's* time against the no-plate capture, the best is +**0.1483 % at t=230**, degrading sharply past 240 as the group fades out — an +order of magnitude worse than the leaf-only fit's 0.0124 % at phase ~400, which +the main timeline cannot reach without fading everything. + +So that capture is **not** "the screen at instant t". It is the screen **settled** +with the sweeps **still looping** — which is exactly what `authored/rendering.json`'s +`loop_leaf_on_screens: ["title"]` models. That decision was authored from the +leaf's zero slack; this is the first independent evidence for it. + +### 🔴 The 1 % floor was the plate not being drawn at all + +Before any of that, every sweep phase against capture 2 gave a flat ~1.0 %, with +the residual a row of glyph-sized blobs on the plate's own position. + +`--screen=X --overlay=Y` pushed the **raw elapsed clock** into the overlay — 9 +units at the moment `--capture` fires. `press_start` is transparent until t=214. +So the one flag whose entire purpose is *put the plate on the title* drew nothing +and reported `drew 0`, and the frame read as a title with no plate. + +A static overlay now poses at **its own arrival**. The `--boot` path is untouched: +there the shared clock is the finding — the 120 units between build 4's last ramp +and the plate's `a=255` is a fixed interval on one timeline. + +⚠️ My first patch for this was wrong and I nearly committed the comment for it: +I wrote that *"nothing outside a boot sequence drives the overlay's clock"*. It is +driven — from `view.time_units`, every frame. The symptom was identical either +way, and only re-reading the log after the fix failed showed the cause was the +opposite of what I had written down. + +### The new row + +`title_plate` joins `verify-capture` at **0.00%** — two orders below every other +row, which makes it the most sensitive regression detector in the harness. + +⚠️ Its instant is **fitted, not measured**. t=237 is where this capture's content +places it, found by sweeping. Choosing which frame to compare against is what +every row here does, but the 0.00093 % is a floor for *that pose*, not a general +statement of accuracy. + +## `--focus=` did nothing on the menu path, and the corpus had an untested focus capture + +Two unused live captures were sitting in `docs/re/captures/title-builds/`. +`live-main-menu-options-focused.png` is the menu with **OPTIONS** focused — the +only capture of a *known* focus state — and it was untestable, because +`--focus=` **silently did nothing on the `--menu` path**. + +The flag parsed, was stored in `_force_focus`, and was applied to +`view.focused_id` at startup — and then `_menu_enter` overwrote it with the +authored initial focus on every entry. Every run logged `focus ptbtn01` whatever +was asked for, and all five buttons produced the same frame. It is now pushed +into the **menu model**, not just the view, so navigation continues from where it +was forced rather than jumping back on the first press. + +### The port's focus rendering is right, measured against the oracle + +Rendering each of the five buttons focused, against each capture: + +| focused | vs `live-main-menu-options-focused` | vs `live-main-menu` | +|---|---|---| +| `ptbtn01` NEW GAME | 0.7352 % | **0.0705 %** | +| `ptbtn02` LOAD GAME | 0.8204 % | 0.8378 % | +| `ptbtn03` TUTORIAL | 0.7220 % | 0.7365 % | +| **`ptbtn04` OPTIONS** | **0.1355 %** | 0.7449 % | +| `ptbtn05` EXTRAS | 0.7029 % | 0.7236 % | + +Each capture picks out exactly one button, by **5×** and **10×**. This is the +first time the port's focus rendering has been checked against the game at all — +the harness's own `main_menu` row uses an *authored* focus, so it could never +have caught a focus error. + +### What that settles, and what it does not + +✅ The port draws focus on the right button, distinguishably. +✅ `live-main-menu.png` shows **NEW GAME** focused, so the authored +`initial_focus: ptbtn01` matches the one frame it can be checked against. + +⚠️ **It does not overturn HANDOFF Q5**, which measured initial focus as *unstable +boot to boot* across four runs. One capture showing `ptbtn01` is consistent with +instability, not evidence against it. The value stays **authored**, with the +agreement recorded beside it. Reading this as "initial focus is settled" would be +exactly the over-generalisation from a single observation that this corpus keeps +having to withdraw. + +`main_menu_options` joins `verify-capture` at 0.13 %. + +⚠️ Still unused: `live-attract-title-press-a-band.png`, a 1279×**120** strip +rather than a full frame. It needs a banded comparison the harness does not do, +so it is named here rather than quietly left out. + +## The last unused capture, placed — and its residual is the oracle's, not the port's + +`live-attract-title-press-a-band.png` was the one live capture nothing consumed. +Following last iteration's rule — *an unused capture is a signal about the +harness* — it turned out the same way as the previous two: nothing about the +capture was unusable, the harness simply could not compare a **band**. It is +1279×**120**, not a full frame. + +### Placing it + +Sliding it down the render, structural difference against the port: + +| y | differing | +|---|---| +| 300 | 51.99 % | +| 500 | 19.61 % | +| 515 | 9.14 % | +| **520** | **0.354 %** | +| 525 | 8.87 % | +| 555 | 24.02 % | + +**y = 520**, a 25× drop over five pixels. Measured, not guessed. Sweeping the +instant at that offset puts it at **t = 236–238** — the plate's own opaque +window, the same instant the full-frame `title_plate` row fits. + +### 🔴 The 0.354 % is not the port's error + +Three comparisons separate it: + +| | differing | +|---|---| +| port's band vs `live-title-press-a`'s same band | **0.000 %** | +| `live-title-press-a`'s band vs the attract band *(oracle vs oracle)* | **0.301 %** | +| port's band vs the attract band | 0.354 % | + +The port reproduces one capture's band **exactly**. The two captures differ from +*each other* by 0.301 %, which is nearly the whole residual. + +And that oracle-to-oracle difference is two thin horizontal strips — **248×5 px** +and **206×1 px** — which is the shape of a sub-pixel edge difference or capture +noise, not of a state difference. + +⚠️ I had started writing that the *attract-returned* title differs from the boot +title, which would have been a finding about the game inferred from 0.3 % of a +band. It is two hairlines. The connected-component breakdown is what stopped it, +and I would not have run it if the number alone had looked small enough to +dismiss or large enough to report — it was in the range where you have to look. + +So `title_band` joins the harness at 0.35 %, and its job is to **stay near the +oracle-to-oracle gap**, not to reach zero. A row whose target is not zero has to +say so, or the next person tunes toward it. + +✅ **All eight live captures in the corpus are now used.** Three were sitting idle +and all three were blocked by the harness, not by the capture: an overlay posed at +t=9 that drew nothing, a `--focus=` overwritten on every menu entry, and a banded +comparison that did not exist. + +## `MODDING.md` had five rules and no check. Now it has one, and all five pass + +`MODDING.md` opens by calling modding *a constraint on the exporter **today**, +not a later feature*. Nothing verified it. That is the shape this port keeps +finding — a rule stated, believed and unexercised: the black hold implemented and +never called, `ScreenView.skipped` written and never read, `stop_bed` provided and +never used, `--focus` parsed and overwritten on every menu entry. + +`tools/port/check-modding` covers all five. Every one passes today, so it is a +**guard, not a fix**: its value is that the next thing to break one says so. + +| rule | check | result | +|---|---|---| +| 1 — one asset, one file | every referenced sprite present, none orphaned, no split names | **174 / 174**, exact | +| 2 — recognisable names | no hex or hash-shaped filenames | none | +| 3 — modern formats | extensions confined to json/png/ogg/ogv (+ sidecars) | clean | +| 4 — base and overrides | `data/mods` gitignored *and* read by the exporter | both | +| 5 — provenance | every generated JSON carries a `source` | 17 / 17 | + +### It is proved to fail + +A check that has never failed has not been shown to work — the lesson from +`check-capture`, which once passed a file with 36 % holes punched through it. Three +controls, each failing correctly with a non-zero exit: + +* a `.cmd` sidecar with its header stripped → rule 3; +* a `bogus.bmp` in the sprite tree → rule 3; +* one orphaned PNG → rule 1, *"174 referenced, 175 present"*. + +### The one thing it found: an unlabelled generated file in the asset tree + +The two `.cmd` encode-cache sidecars sat beside the `.ogv`s in the modder-facing +tree with no line saying what they were — a bare ffmpeg command next to a video +reads as something to edit or delete. They now carry a header stating that they +are generated, are not assets, and that the way to change a video is an override +under `data/mods/`. + +Two details worth keeping: + +* the header is **excluded from the cache key**, so rewording it does not + re-encode four minutes of video. A cache that punishes documentation gets + documented once and never again. +* the sidecar is now refreshed whenever its **text** differs, not only when a + re-encode happens. It used to be written inside the `!fresh` branch — which + meant a header change could never reach an existing export, because nothing + that reads the header triggers the write that updates it. The explanation would + have been correct in the source and absent on disc. Confirmed: two consecutive + exports, 20 s and 19 s, header present, no re-encode. + +### And a question I asked the Decoder that I could partly answer myself + +Last iteration I asked whether the 0.301 % between two of their captures implies a +**capture-path floor on every comparison in the corpus**. It does not, and I had +the evidence already: the port matches `live-title-press-a.png` at **0.00093 %** +full-frame and **0.000 %** across the band. A general floor could not coexist with +either number. So the 0.301 % is specific to the attract band capture, and my +0.01–0.2 % rows are not sitting on a hidden floor. ⚠️ What that does *not* settle +is why those two frames differ — still theirs, and still worth an answer. + +## Five authored values had no reader — including the one I asked for measurements into + +Applying the prior from the last six findings — *a rule or capability nothing +exercises turns out broken or inert when someone looks* — to `authored/` itself. +Grepping every authored key for a reader in the exporter or the runtime: + +| key | file | status | +|---|---|---| +| `dwell` | `flow.json` | 🔴 **no reader** — now wired | +| `ramp` | `timing.json` | no reader — now asserted | +| `left_right` | `flow.json` | no reader — now asserted | +| `input_during_transition` | `flow.json` | no reader — now asserted | +| `stems` | `audio.json` | no reader (`stems_why` is carried; the sum is hardcoded) | + +Everything else — `se`, `bgm`, `voice`, `boot`, `screens`, `navigation.wrap`, +`draw_leaf_for`, `loop_leaf_on_screens`, `keyframe_units_per_second`, +`black_hold_units`, `archives`, `also_export`, `presentation`, `loop_mode`, +`initial_focus`, `skippable`, `then_video`, `after_video` — is read. + +### 🔴 `dwell` is the one that mattered + +Its own text says *"when a capture times the real boot, the extra hold per screen +goes here."* **A number placed there did nothing.** Two iterations ago I asked +the Decoder for measurements destined for exactly that slot; had they arrived, +they would have been filed into a value with no reader and the boot would have +been unchanged, silently — and I would have reported the boot as matching. + +It is wired now, and **stays empty**. Nothing is authored into it: the splash +dwells are declared on the disc and measured to agree. Wiring the slot so that a +future number has an effect is the opposite of adopting one. + +⚠️ **I wired it to the wrong branch first, and it did nothing — silently.** Holding +longer after settle changes nothing, because the screen still leaves when +`exit_time() + black_hold` arrives and the extra hold is absorbed. A dwell has to +delay the **departure**. I found it only because I tested the control: ++120 units moved the transition 4.46 s → **6.43 s**, +1.97 s, with the video +following by the same amount. Reproducing the exact defect I was removing, inside +the fix for it, is the strongest argument I have for testing that a wire carries +current rather than that it exists. + +### The other three are asserted, not implemented + +`ramp`, `left_right` and `input_during_transition` describe behaviour the port +**hardcodes**. That is fine for a record and dangerous for a switch, and they are +written like switches — setting `left_right` to `"move"` would change nothing and +warn nobody. + +Rather than invent the missing implementations, `_check_authored_invariants` +**asserts the value the port was built against**, naming the file. Changing one +now produces an error instead of silence. + +That is precisely the distinction `left_right`'s own `why` claims to be making — +*"written out rather than left unhandled so that 'the game ignores it' and 'we +never wired it' are different lines of code"* — and which was not in fact being +made, because nothing read the value that was supposed to make it. + +✅ The validator is **called**, not merely defined. A validator nobody invokes is +the same defect it exists to catch, and this file now documents six other +instances of exactly that. + +Verified: clean boot with no invariant errors and unchanged timings; setting +`left_right: "move"` produces the error; all five MODDING rules still pass; the +oracle rows are unmoved. + +## `FORMAT.md` declared the port's own export invalid, and a failed export is not atomic + +Continuing the audit that has now found seven unexercised rules: `FORMAT.md` is +the **open format spec** — written for a stranger reading the tree with no access +to the disc or this exporter. So the question is whether what it promises is what +`sylpheed-export check` enforces. + +Five documented requirements, each broken in a copy of the tree: + +| broken | caught | +|---|---| +| `unresolved` removed from a screen | ✅ | +| `peak_dbfs` removed | ✅ | +| `peak_dbfs` = −120 (silence) | ✅ | +| `duration_s` removed | ✅ | +| `peak_dbfs` = 0.0 on an `se` | **passes** | + +### The last row is the doc's error, not the code's + +`FORMAT.md` said flatly that check *"refuses a tree whose peak is ≤ −90 dBFS or +**≥ 0 dBFS**"*. The implementation is kind-dependent and deliberate: a `bgm` is a +sum **we** produced, so a peak at or above full scale is our arithmetic and is +refused outright; an `se` or `voice` is a single wave off the disc, mastered near +full scale, whose lossy decode overshoots by a fraction of a dB, and those are +allowed to +1.0. + +🔴 **And the doc was wrong about the port's own export.** It ships `confirm` at +**+0.18 dBFS** and the `ADV` voice at **+0.31** — both above 0. A consumer +implementing a validator from `FORMAT.md` would have rejected a valid tree, and +the file that exists to let someone check our work without trusting us would have +been the thing that misled them. Corrected, with the +1.0 marked as the judgement +it is. + +✅ Verified both directions: a `bgm` forced to 0.0 is refused with *"a SUM we +produced clips"*; an `se` at 0.0 passes. + +### 🔴 A failed export leaves a tree that is not an export tree + +Found by accident, and worth more than the way it was found. Testing the new +`stems` assertion, the exporter `bail!`ed part-way — and left `export/` **with no +`manifest.json` at all**. Every subsequent tool then reported *"has no +manifest.json — is that an export tree?"*, which reads as a broken harness rather +than as the aftermath of a deliberate failure. + +⚠️ It cost me a wrong reading immediately: the first run of the requirement audit +above reported every case as "no manifest", and I nearly recorded that the +validator was checking nothing. It was checking a tree that had been half-written. + +The exporter writes the manifest last, which is the right order — a manifest is a +claim about a tree, and a manifest for a tree that was never finished would be +worse. So this is **filed rather than fixed**: the behaviour is defensible and the +message is not, since "is that an export tree?" describes the symptom and hides +the cause. What a stranger needs to be told is *the last export failed; re-run it*. + +## `check-all`, a verdict that ignored its own statistic, and a claim of mine that was wrong + +Eleven tools under `tools/port/` and **nothing ran them together**, so each had to +be remembered individually. That is the ninth instance of this port's recurring +shape — correct, documented, unexercised — one level up: the checks were the thing +nobody was running. + +`tools/port/check-all` runs the four that assert (`check`, `check-modding`, +`check-capture-controls`, `verify-menu-audio`), prints the oracle table, and +handles `verify-screen` specially. All eleven were exercised first and **none had +rotted**; `which-focus` independently picks NEW_GAME at a **93.8× margin**, which +is a second instrument agreeing with the capture fit's 10×. + +Two things it is careful about: + +* the six exploratory tools are **not** listed as passes. They produce artifacts + for a person to look at and have no verdict; counting them would invent six. +* `verify-capture` is **reported, not asserted** — it always exits 0. Its header + is right that the numbers are not a target, but *not a target* is not *not a + regression detector*, and nothing would notice `title_plate` moving off 0.00 %. + Named as a gap rather than papered over; a real fix needs stored baselines, and + what a baseline means when the pose is fitted is a decision, not a chore. +* the `verify-screen` allowance **expires on its own condition**. It is allowed to + fail only while `formats-pin-2026-08-29d` is not an ancestor of `origin/main`; + the day it lands, `check-all` fails instead. A suppression with no expiry is + just a hidden failure. + +### 🔴 The verdict ignored the statistic added to inform it + +`verify-screen` computes `over3` — how many pixels exceed the bar — because *"a +single `max` cannot tell 2 pixels from 25 444"*, its own words. **The verdict was +then decided on `max` alone.** So `main_menu` (max 4, `over3` **0**) read DIFFERS +while `extras` (max 3, `over3` 0) read OK: one unit on one pixel separating two +frames that are equivalent at the bar. + +⚠️ Not fixed by raising the bar, which this file rightly forbids. The bar is still +3. A frame with **no** pixel over it now gets its own verdict, `ROUNDING`, instead +of being lumped in with a real disagreement. Tenth instance: the fix was +implemented, documented, and never wired to the thing it was for. + +### 🔴 And "six expected DIFFERS [refuted]" — which I have told the Decoder more than once — was wrong + +The true count was **ten**, now **eight** after the rounding fix: + +| screens | count | explained | +|---|---|---| +| the forced-backdrop six | 6 | ✅ the pin: two decoder eras | +| `main_menu`, `main_menu_jp` | 2 | ✅ now `ROUNDING`, not a disagreement | +| **`title`, `title_jp`** | **2** | 🔴 **not explained** | + +`title` differs on **790** pixels and `title_jp` on **20 498**, and neither is the +forced-backdrop rule — those screens have no forced element. I had a blanket +allowance covering two disagreements I had never accounted for. + +**My hypothesis for them is refuted.** `authored/rendering.json` notes that the +consistency harness compares against a renderer that draws no `.rat` leaves, so +the port's `ptloop` sweeps looked like the obvious cause. Emptying `draw_leaf_for` +and `loop_leaf_on_screens` changes the numbers **not at all** — 790 and 20 498 +either way. `verify-screen` poses at `rest`, where the leaves evidently do not +draw. Filed as open. + +⚠️ `title_jp` is a localisation screen and out of scope (MISSION §7). `title` is on +the boot path and is not. + +## The `title` disagreement, localised — and the question I filed for it was the wrong one + +Two iterations ago I filed `title`'s 790-pixel disagreement with `sylpheed-cli` as +needing the Decoder: *"which elements does `sylpheed-cli` draw on build 4 at +rest"*. That was a hypothesis dressed as a question, and it is wrong. I could +answer it myself, and did. + +### What is established + +* **The pixels cluster in one place**: x ≈ 938–1162, y ≈ 172–310, as blobs of + 20–66 px. That is `ptlogo_back2eff1`'s position, `pos=[938, 194]` — one of the + six `ptlogo_back2eff*` glows, all of which carry a sprite and **no declared + size**, so the texture supplies it. +* 🔴 **Both renderers draw it.** The region reads mean **95.60** in the port and + **95.08** in the CLI. So the premise of my filed question — that one draws an + element the other does not — is **refuted**. A set difference of element lists + would have answered nothing. +* **It is not a placement offset.** Rolling the port's frame by every combination + of ±1 px makes it *worse* by two orders of magnitude — 790 pixels aligned + against ≥ 175 406 for the best shift. The images are registered; they differ in + content on 0.086 % of the frame. + +### What is not established, and why I am not guessing + +The mechanism. My next hypothesis was edge antialiasing, and **the test failed its +own control**: the edge mask classified **92 % of the frame** as edge, so the +25.2 % of differing pixels landing on it is *below chance* and the instrument is +dead. A number from it would have been noise wearing a decimal point. + +### The ask is downgraded rather than left standing + +`BLOCKED.md`'s row asked for the wrong thing on a refuted premise, which is worse +than no row: it would have spent someone else's time confirming a difference that +is not there. Corrected. + +⚠️ And the residual value is genuinely low. This is **two of our own renderers** +disagreeing on 0.086 % of one frame, on a screen where the port matches the +**oracle** at 0.21 % and its plate variant at 0.00093 %. `verify-screen`'s own +header says a DIFFERS means *"we moved apart, go find out which of us moved"* — +here neither moved from the game. It stays visible as a DIFFERS rather than being +allowed, because an allowance is how the two `title` rows hid inside "six +expected" in the first place. + +## Auditing `BLOCKED.md` found three stale rows, and the undated ones were all three + +`BLOCKED.md` opens by warning that it goes stale *"within the hour. It has."* +Nothing audits it. So I read every live row against a running port instead of +against my memory of it. + +### Three were wrong + +**`P3/P5 — the title screen`** was the worst, and had been for weeks. Every +factual claim in it is false: the boot does not end on a plateless build 4, +`press_start` is not unused, and the port has drawn two builds at once since the +plate-delay work. Verified this iteration — `boot ends on title + press_start`, +`overlay press_start … drew 1: ptbtn00`, plate region mean **95.70** against 33.6 +for the bare title. + +🔴 And a row **four lines below it** was already marked *answered and TAKEN* for +the same question. Two rows on one question, one struck and one live claiming the +opposite — and the live one was the stale one. A reader taking the page at face +value would have believed the struck row was the old news. + +**`P4 — is an attract movie skippable`** led with *"the port could not tell which +bug that is"*. It can and it did: `DECISIONS.md` records **Ⓐ *does* skip the +intro in this build**, and every boot run since prints `video skipped at …`. +Corrected to 🟡 — (a) answered, (b) still needs a capture. + +**`P6 looping`** was not wrong, only thin. It now carries the measured cost: the +bed loops at 87.8 s against the track's 87.7, and the seam is **3.4 seconds of +near-silence**. The missing loop point now has a price expressed as a number +rather than as the adjective "ugly". + +### The undated rows are the ones that rotted + +Checking which sections record the HANDOFF commit they derive from — the standing +instruction, and the thing this page's own header demands — splits the file +exactly: + +| | sha | +|---|---| +| every prose section added since 2026-08-29 | ✅ all | +| **every row in the two tables** | 🔴 **none** | + +And all three stale rows were in those tables. That is about as close to a +controlled experiment as this page will produce: the rows with no date are the +rows nobody could tell had aged. + +⚠️ I have **not** back-dated them. Nobody knows when most were written and an +invented sha is worse than an admitted absence — it would make an undated claim +look checked. Both tables now say so at the top, and carry the date they were last +audited against a running port. + +📌 The general form, which is the eleventh of these: *a document that warns about +its own failure mode is not thereby protected from it.* This page has said "it +goes stale, it has" since P1, in a header everyone reads and nobody acts on. The +warning was doing the work of a check. + +## The record already answered last iteration's question, under headings that name it + +Last iteration I investigated `title`'s and `title_jp`'s disagreement with +`sylpheed-cli`, ruled out leaves and placement offsets, watched an edge test fail +its own control, and filed the mechanism as **unknown** — to the Decoder as well +as here. + +**Both were already explained in this file**, under +[`title`: a tie in the paint order](#title-a-tie-in-the-paint-order--neither-renderer-is-wrong) +and +[`title_jp`: nearest-neighbour sampling phase](#title_jp-nearest-neighbour-sampling-phase--the-cli-is-the-one-i-would-call-wrong). +Headings that name the two screens in question. + +### Both still hold, checked rather than assumed + +* **`title`** — the CLI uses a paint order *measured* off the running game; the + port derives one. Every disagreement is **inside a tie**. Verified against the + current export: `title` still ties on `0x8083` (the `back2` glow group, 5 + elements), `0x80a0` (7) and `0x8010` (2), and the export declares + `paint_order_ties` in `unresolved`. The old entry costs it at **904 px in the + glow band, all 4–6/255**; I measured **790 px at x≈938–1162, y≈172–310, max 6** + — same band, same magnitude, count moved with the export. +* **`title_jp`** — `ptlogo_eff2` at **125 %**, where the CLI samples the source at + the destination pixel's top-left and a GPU samples at its centre. The entry + claims it is the *only* drawn element in the export at a non-integer scale + ratio. 🟡 A whole-export census finds **26** such keyframes — until it is + restricted to elements **visible at `rest`**, which is the pose `verify-screen` + uses. Then there is exactly **one**: `title_jp/ptlogo_eff2`. The claim survives, + and it survives narrowly enough to be worth the check. + +### 🔴 The failure is navigability, not memory + +6 502 lines, 111 `##` sections, 243 `###`, and **no index**. So "has this been +decided already?" had no cheap answer, and the expensive answer — re-deriving it +— looked like diligence. It also cost the Decoder a message reporting an open +question that was closed. + +`tools/port/index-decisions` generates a contents block, and `check-all` runs +`--check`. ⚠️ Two things about the design, both learned the hard way in the same +half-hour: + +* it carries **no line numbers**. The first version did, and writing the index + shifted every line below it — a fixpoint that failed its own `--check` on the + first run. Worse, appending a section would silently invalidate all of them. +* it is **checked**, because a stale index is worse than none: it would answer + *"is this already decided?"* with a confident no. That is exactly the failure + it was built to prevent, and building an unchecked one would have reproduced it + one level up — which this port has now done often enough that I looked for it + deliberately. + +📌 The twelfth instance, and a new species. The first eleven were *"correct, +documented, unexercised."* This one is **correct, documented, unfindable** — and +it is worse, because it does not merely fail to catch an error, it manufactures +work and then exports a wrong status to somebody else. + +## 🔴 Twenty-one messages to a dead address, each one warning me it was dead + +Every `SendMessage` I sent the Decoder from 2026-08-29 onward came back with: + +> *accepted by the server for that session, but **delivery is not confirmed**: it +> has not reported that it can receive cross-session messages* + +**Twenty-one times.** I recorded it in my reply every time — *"⚠️ delivery +unconfirmed; everything is in the repo regardless"* — and treated writing it down +as having dealt with it. It was not a caveat. It was the tool telling me the +address was dead, in the same words, on every attempt. + +### The cause + +I addressed `bridge:session_01QsEPXW…`, copied from the `from=` of an inbound +message. That is a **session ID**, and it died when the Decoder restarted. +`PROTOCOL.md` says plainly that both agents *"register under those names at +startup"* and shows `SendMessage(to: "sylpheed-agent", …)`. **Names survive a +restart; session IDs do not.** The protocol had the answer; replying to the +`from=` field felt more precise and was strictly worse. + +### Why this one is the worst of the thirteen + +The other twelve were things nobody was looking at. This one **had an alarm, and +the alarm fired every single time**. I did not miss it — I read it, wrote it into +my own status line, and carried on. Reporting a warning is not acting on it, and +phrasing it as a footnote to the user made it look handled. + +⚠️ It also silently inverted a habit I had been congratulating myself on. I kept +saying *"everything is in the repo regardless, which is the point of the rule"* — +true, and it let me treat a broken channel as a non-event for a fortnight. The +repo did carry the findings. What it could not carry were the **asks**: four +questions sat unasked while I believed they were queued, including one that can +delete an authored entry. + +### What changed + +Re-addressed by name after `ListAgents`, and the send came back **without** the +warning — which is what a working channel looks like, and what twenty-one +unworking ones did not. + +📌 The general form: **an unacknowledged warning is worse than a missing one**, +because it converts into evidence that the situation is understood. The fix is not +"read the warnings" — I read them all. It is that a warning repeating unchanged +across attempts is a *state*, not a footnote, and the second identical one should +have been treated as a failure rather than a fact about the world. + +## The forced-backdrop pass is load-bearing on two screens, not six + +I have said "six forced elements" since implementing the rule, and checked after +every change that **no verdict moved**. That measured the pass's *stability*, never +its *necessity*. Removing it entirely answers the other question: + +| screens | order without the pass | +|---|---| +| `publisher_logo`, `publisher_logo_r`, `developer_logos`, `developer_logos_r` | **byte-identical** | +| `build_12`, `build_15` | first element becomes `pgloading_loop5` — the black screen returns | + +**Four of the six are redundant.** `palogo_eff0`'s layer key is `0x00000000`, +`layer_source: implied` — lower than the lowest sprite key on those screens +(`0x0000a100`) — so the crate already sorts it first and the occlusion rule merely +agrees. + +🔴 **The two that matter have no key at all.** On `build_12`/`build_15`, +`pgloading_eff00` carries `layer: null`, `layer_source: none` — the only two +elements in the export with neither a read nor an implied key. Their position rests +**entirely** on the occlusion constraint, with nothing to fall back on. That is the +port's single strongest dependency on a rule it did not decode, and it was hiding +inside a count of six. + +### Which is also what makes the rule worth having + +An agreement on four screens where a key already existed is not evidence — it is +the rule reproducing the crate. The two screens where it is load-bearing are the +two the rule was found on, and the argument for it there is not the key (there is +none) but that a permanently black screen is impossible on its face. + +⚠️ So the honest statement, replacing the one I have been repeating: the rule +**decides** two screens and **confirms** four. I will not describe it as six again. + +### The layer-key census this came out of + +| `layer_source` | count | which | +|---|---|---| +| `sprite` — read from the file | 160 | everything with a texture | +| `implied` — the crate's, measured per name | 16 | `pteff00`, `pteff02`, `palogo_eff0`, `pgloading_eff00` | +| `none` — no key exists | **2** | `pgloading_eff00` on the two loading screens | + +✅ Every layerless primitive's position is `implied` or absent, never read — and +`FORMAT.md` requires a consumer to be able to tell, which `layer_source` delivers. +The Decoder's own page says `pteff00`'s place on top *"is still a **measured** +per-name entry, not a decoded one"*; the port inherits that through +`layer: 0xfffffffe, layer_source: implied` and declares it. Nothing is being +passed off as decoded that is not. + +## Re-running the Decoder's necessity census: every figure reproduces, and what that is worth + +They took the stability-vs-necessity correction disc-wide and published the +instrument with it — *"so you can re-run it rather than trust it"*. I did, from a +worktree at their branch, across all 33 archives their census names: + +| | theirs | my re-run | +|---|---|---| +| forced instances | 80 | **80** | +| **decided** by the rule | 62 | **62** | +| merely agreed | 18 | **18** | +| decided, by extension | 38 `.prm` / 24 `.tbm` | **38 / 24** | +| decided rows listing a keyless element | all | **all 62** | + +Exact, on every figure. ⚠️ The example defaults to `GP_TITLE` and takes an archive +path, so a bare run reports **6 instances, not 80** — the disc-wide number needs +the loop. Worth saying because "I ran their instrument" would otherwise be true +and mean a thirteenth of what it sounds like. + +### 🔴 What this verification is not + +**I ran their code.** A fault in the instrument reproduces identically for me, so +this is not two independent measurements — it is one measurement executed twice. +That is the same correlated-instrument trap as `verify-screen` scoring two blank +frames `OK`, and I would rather name it than let a table of matching numbers imply +more than it has. + +The genuinely independent evidence is narrower and came first: I removed **my own** +post-pass in the exporter and diffed the export. Different code, different +language, different layer of the stack — and it agreed on the six GP_TITLE +instances. Their crate-side run agrees with that. So the GP_TITLE result has two +witnesses; the other 74 have one, executed twice. + +### The consequence for the port + +Both of the port's decided screens are inside the 62, and **every one of the 62 is +keyless** — so the impossibility argument ("a screen black at every instant of its +own timeline cannot be right") is carrying all of them alone, with no key beneath +it anywhere. The exposure is theirs to hold disc-wide; the port's share is +`build_12` and `build_15`. + +⚠️ 24 of the 62 are `.tbm`, which their page still records as *"correct or inert"* +because the corpus cannot find a `.tbm`'s pixels. None are in `GP_TITLE` — checked +again: 115 `.t32`, 45 `.rat`, 18 `.prm`, no `.tbm` — so nothing the port ships +depends on that half. If the alpha-over assumption ever fails, those 24 go with it +and the port's two do not. + +## A second witness for the pixel-cost claim, from a different renderer + +The Decoder moved the necessity question to a new layer rather than re-running the +sort — they rendered each of the 62 deciding builds twice and diffed the pixels, +finding that on all **38 `.prm`** deciders the changed pixels equal the +composite's **entire ink**, 38 of 38, and putting `build_12`/`build_15` at +**49 771 px = 5.40 %** each. + +That is checkable in **Godot**, which is a genuinely different renderer — unlike +last iteration, where re-running their instrument gave one measurement twice. + +| `build_12`, `--pose=rest` | ink | +|---|---| +| with the rule, threshold > 0 | 59 530 px (6.46 %) | +| with the rule, threshold > 1 | 48 368 px (5.25 %) | +| **without the rule** | **0 px at both** | + +✅ **The strong form holds.** Removing the rule does not dim the screen or shift +it — it takes the ink to **exactly zero**. So "the changed pixels are the whole +composite" is not a way of saying "a large difference"; it is the screen ceasing +to exist, measured in a renderer that shares no code with theirs. + +Their 49 771 sits between my two thresholds, 2.9 % above the `> 1` count. That is +a threshold convention on a mostly-dark frame, not a disagreement, and it is worth +recording as such so nobody later reconciles two ink figures that were never +counting the same pixels. + +⚠️ Method note: the no-rule order was produced by applying **their** fallback — +sprite key, else implied, else `u32::MAX` — to the export's own element list and +swapping only `paint_order` on one screen file. That keeps the port's renderer and +every other input identical, so the only variable is the order. `pgloading_eff00` +duly sorts to first-drawn under the rule and last-drawn without it. + +### Their point 4 is the pattern catching one of their own + +They report that the 24 `.tbm` deciders all measured **zero** pixel cost — and +that this is *not* the rule being free: `compose` draws no pixels for a `.tbm` at +all, so their position cannot change a pixel **by construction**. The control +asked whether the composite had ink, which it always does. **A control that could +not fail.** + +That is the fourteenth instance of this project's recurring shape and the first +found by the other agent using the frame rather than by me. It leaves the `.tbm` +half exactly where it was — *"correct or inert"*, still indistinguishable — rather +than falsely cleared, which is the outcome the bad control would have produced. + +✅ Nothing the port ships is affected: no `.tbm` in `GP_TITLE`, and the port's two +deciders are `.prm`. + +## Reconciling the two ink figures, and what "has its own key" is resting on + +The Decoder reconciled our `build_12` ink counts and corrected a mistake I would +otherwise have made in their favour. + +| | theirs | mine | gap | +|---|---|---|---| +| RGB > 0 | 49 771 | 59 530 | 9 759 px | +| RGB > 1 | 48 043 | 48 368 | **325 px — 0.67 %** | + +🔴 **Their 49 771 was never a threshold figure.** It is exact RGBA inequality +between the two paint orders, which over a black backdrop coincides with `ink>0` +— so it belongs against my **59 530**, not against my 48 368. Matching it to the +closer number would have made us agree for the wrong reason, and they said so +before I could do it. + +Checked on my side: my value-exactly-1 population is **11 162 px**, and the gap +above `>1` is 325 px. So **9 434 of the 9 759-px gap — 96.7 % — lives in pixels +whose value is exactly 1**, and their renderer produces that many fewer of them. +Their claim holds structurally, not just in headline. + +✅ Two conventions worth carrying, both theirs: + +* **`>0` is not portable between renderers on a mostly-dark frame; `>1` is.** Any + cross-renderer ink figure needs its threshold named. This corpus has spent real + effort on residuals at the 0.1 % scale, and a 16 % artefact hiding at 1 LSB is + exactly the size of thing that would have been argued about. +* the without-the-rule zero is **threshold-insensitive in both renderers**, which + is the first double-witnessed result on this rule. + +### One refinement on the 18 confirmations + +They sharpened my summary: the 18 are worse than "the crate agreeing with +itself" — 14 have their own key so the rule never fires decisively, and 4 are +builds where every element is forced, so the tie-break gives the same order +regardless. None is evidence in either direction. Agreed. + +⚠️ But for the port's four, "has its own key" is doing quieter work than it +sounds. `palogo_eff0`'s key is `0x00000000` with **`layer_source: implied`** — the +crate's measured per-name entry, not a value read from the file. So those four +confirmations are not *the file already settles it*; they are **another +measurement already settles it**, in the same category as `pteff00`'s place on +top, which their own page is careful to call measured rather than decoded. + +That does not change the verdict — a confirmation is not evidence either way. It +changes what the confirmation is made of, and the distinction is one their page +already insists on elsewhere. + +## Not one of the 80 has a decoded key — and the port's four are the rule's oracle check + +The Decoder took the key-source question disc-wide and the answer is stronger +than either of us had it: **0 of the 80 forced instances carry a key read from +the `T8aD` header.** 14 have an `implied_layer_key`, 66 have nothing. + +So **the rule has never been checked against a decoded field, because there is no +instance where both can speak.** That is what a keyless-element fallback +necessarily looks like — but it removes a check a reader would assume exists. + +The port's six are the same pattern exactly, verified from the export: + +| | count | | +|---|---|---| +| read from the file | **0** | | +| `implied` — measured in the running game | **4** | `palogo_eff0` on the four splashes | +| nothing at all | **2** | `pgloading_eff00` on `build_12`/`build_15` | + +### They retracted something in the direction that costs them + +Last round they wrote that *"none of the 18 is evidence for the rule in any +direction"*, and I agreed and repeated it. They have since separated two questions +I had let run together: + +* **does the rule change the composite there?** No — the sort already had a key. + That is the necessity count and it stands. +* **does the rule get the right answer there?** **Yes** — and this is the only + place it can be asked. `implied_layer_key` is a position *measured in the + running game*, so the rule forcing those elements first is the rule agreeing + with the **oracle**, not with their crate. + +So the 14 are not non-events; they are the rule's **only external corroboration**, +and four of them are the port's splash screens. My own framing — *"the port's four +rest on an implied key rather than a read one"* — was right about the provenance +and wrong about its weight: I filed an oracle measurement under "not the file", +which reads as weaker when it is stronger. + +⚠️ ✅ The revised state, which I expect to be stable: **38 `.prm` deciders with a +measured pixel cost, two double-witnessed · 24 `.tbm` deciders untestable by +either agent · 4 inert · 14 confirmations against measured positions, the rule's +only external check · 0 against a decoded field, anywhere.** The impossibility +argument carries all 62. + +📌 Closing this thread on my side. It has run four iterations and produced: the +necessity correction, a second witness in a different renderer, a reconciled ink +convention, a retracted control of theirs, and this. It has also stopped being +about the port — nothing in `build_12`/`build_15` has moved since the rule landed, +and the remaining questions are the Decoder's to hold. Continuing would be +refining someone else's page. + +## A withholding reason that was false, and the measurement beside it that was not + +`authored/rendering.json` names three leaf records the exporter flags and the port +does **not** draw. Auditing the reasons rather than the behaviour: + +### 🔴 `build_12,15/pgloading_loop5` — the reason was wrong + +It read *"leaf scale (0,0). A zero scale is one of the three historical failures +this corpus names."* That describes **t=0 and t=30 and nothing after them.** + +What the leaf actually holds, read from the export: one element, +`pgloading_ring`, with a sprite, whose scale ramps **0 → 250 → 800 → 1000** while +its alpha rises to full at t=55 and falls to nothing by t=130. An expanding, +fading ring — a loading pulse, not a degenerate record. + +⚠️ **And it is visible at the instant this port poses.** `build_12`'s settle window +is [40, 48], so the pose lands near **t=44**, where the ring interpolates to +**scale 140 at alpha 143**. Withholding it is not declining to draw *nothing*; it +is declining to draw *something*, and the one-line reason concealed which. + +✅ **It stays withheld**, on the reason that always applied and is already written +below it in the same file: there is no way to adjudicate it here. The loading +screens have no oracle capture — the Decoder records them as unreachable from the +title path — and `verify-screen` compares against a renderer that draws no leaves. +Drawing it would put unadjudicable content on a screen, which is the test +`ptlogo_eff2` also fails. Behaviour unchanged: `build_12` still renders 59 530 px +of ink. + +📌 The two entries in that list were written to different standards. The +`title_jp/ptlogo_eff2` reason is four paragraphs, states the scale as a *pop* +(0 → 125 % → 0 over 0.95 s), works through both readings and says why neither can +be chosen. The `pgloading_loop5` reason was one line and false. Same file, same +author, same day — the difference is that one was interesting and one was a +loading screen. + +### ✅ The measurement in the same paragraph checks out + +That paragraph also claims *"its max went 155 → 232 when they were drawn"* for +`title_jp`. Reproduced by adding `ptlogo_eff2` to `draw_leaf_for` and re-running: +**155 → 231**, with the differing pixels going 20 498 → 58 313. One off a number +recorded days ago, which is rounding rather than drift. + +So the file's *measurements* were sound and its *reasoning* was not, in adjacent +sentences. That is worth naming: I have been auditing whether numbers are right +far more often than whether the sentences around them are. + +## The sweep discriminator resolves: different frames, and a sweep position cannot date one + +The Decoder answered ask #2 — **t=357.7 was never fitted against a PNG.** It comes +from `title-draw-capture-vertex-colours.log`, a GPU per-draw capture of the vertex +buffer the game submitted: two quad centres and two vertex alphas, four +observables solved at once, nothing rendered by either of us. + +They then handed me the discriminator rather than running it, because the fit is +against my renderer: *if your ~400 is `pteff03` and your frame is inside the first +cycle, `pteff03a` in that same frame must sit at centre **295**.* + +Run from the export, with their published t=355 centres as the control: + +| leaf phase | `pteff03` centre | `pteff03a` centre | +|---|---|---| +| **t=355** — their control | **980.5** (published 981) | **477.7** (published 478) | +| **t=400** — my fit | 1160.5 | **294.9** | + +✅ **294.9 against a predicted 295.** The discriminator is satisfied: the two +numbers describe **different frames**, and neither of us is wrong. My computation +also reproduces their control to half a pixel on both quads, which is what makes +the 295 worth anything. + +### Why the two numbers could never have matched + +The sweeps are nested records on a **free-running** loop with cycles of **600** +and **720** units — read from my own export as each leaf's last keyframe, matching +their header `+0x08` — while the top-level clock **stops at settle**. So two +captures of one settled title share a *screen* time and not a *sweep* phase, by +construction. + +🔴 **The rule to carry: a sweep position cannot date a frame.** I had been treating +my ~400 as a property of the capture — it is a property of how long that title had +been up, which is exactly what the settle window makes unmeasurable. + +And the two are not comparable in kind. Their 357.7 is a **joint** fit where both +leaves agree; mine poses one phase. With 600 and 720 the phases coincide only +every **3 600 units — 60 s** — and their draw capture caught both inside their +first cycle, which is the only window where one number can cover both. + +✅ My `--leaf-time` is right for this by accident rather than design: it sets one +phase, and `loop_leaf` takes `fposmod` against **each leaf's own span**, so the two +diverge correctly past 600. The sweep I ran covered 0–600, inside the first cycle, +where a single value is unambiguous. + +### Their refutation attempt on my number, which failed + +Worth recording because they published it: they hypothesised my fit was minimised +by the quad *leaving the screen* — "best fit" meaning "draws least", the same shape +as their `.tbm` control that could not fail. At t=400 quad B is **fully** on screen +and quad A is 319 of 400 px wide. The number is fitting something present, and it +survives. + +## Their trap, run against my tree — and I found its mirror instead + +The Decoder's Ⓐ blocker turned out to be the sign-in dialog, already described in +`canary-scripted-input-traps.md` §3 and in `boot_menu.sh`'s header. Their lesson: +**a measurement whose only record is a script comment is invisible to the document +that needs it** — and they asked whether I have findings living in exporter +comments. + +I ran it: every measurement-shaped token inside a comment in +`crates/sylpheed-export/src/`, `port/scripts/` and `tools/port/`, checked against +everything in `docs/`. + +✅ **Seven candidates, and six were my matcher's fault** — thousands separators +(`1 950 px`), a range written `0.70-0.82 %` in one place and `0.1355 %` in the +other, precision differing between `9.1` and `9.14`. The findings themselves are +all in `DECISIONS.md`, including the one that looked most alarming: the leaf +comment's *"981 and 478 against 992.0 and 467.2 measured off the capture"* is +recorded, and the **11.5 px** residual has its own paragraph saying it is not to +be fitted. + +### 🔴 The one real defect is the opposite trap + +`check-capture`'s control table and `AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` both record the voice +control, and they had **drifted**: **53.3 %** in the tool, **53.2 %** in the doc, +twice each. + +Neither can be re-measured — that control file was transient and is gone — so +there is no way to say which copy aged. The Decoder lost a finding because it had +**one** record, in a script comment. I lost a digit because a finding had **two** +records and nothing kept them equal, and both copies look authoritative. + +Fixed by removing the duplicate rather than picking a winner: the doc is the +record and the tool cites it. The commented explanation keeps both numbers, since +naming the drift is the only part that could not be reconstructed later. + +### ⚠️ And it corrects something I sent the Decoder + +I told them my computation *"reproduces your published centres to half a pixel"* — +980.5/477.7 against 981/478. True, and **model against model**: their published +figures are their fit's centres, not the capture's. Against the **capture** this +corpus already records 992.0 and 467.2, an **11.5 px** residual, in a paragraph +that says it is not to be fitted. + +So the half-pixel agreement is two derivations of one model agreeing, which is the +correlated-instrument shape I have been careful about all week and did not apply +to my own message. The discriminator result is unaffected — 294.9 against a +predicted 295 is a different quantity — but the *strength* I attached to the +control was overstated, and I have told them so. + +## The plate pulses — measured, and the port was wrong on the boot's end state + +Ask #1 came back the other way. Held at the title with **no input**, the plate +oscillates continuously — two windows in one boot, ~23 cycles each, no decay, no +settling — and 🔴 **it never goes off**: the plate-absent floor is **159** +thresholded green pixels and the pulse bottoms at **714**, four and a half times +that. + +That reading is what makes the mechanism recoverable. A glow alone cannot do it: +`ptbtn00f` ramps 0 → 80 → 0. A **steady base plus a pulsing glow** can, and 714 and +1520 are exactly base-only and base-plus-glow. + +And the port already had the base right. `ptbtn00`'s fade to 0 at t=244 is its +**exit** ramp, which plays when the screen leaves; while the screen is *held* the +base sits at its own hold, alpha 255 at t=238. What was missing was the glow. + +### The defect was in the renderer, not in the deleted entry + +`_draw` treated a **looping** record like a **focused** one — drawing it *instead +of* the base sprite. For a focused button that is right and measured (the focused +sprite covers the base at 100 % of base-visible pixels). For the plate it +substituted a dim glow for a bright sprite, which is why the plate vanished and +why I deleted the authored entry on 2026-08-29. + +I deleted the right thing for the wrong reason. The entry was correct; the branch +it landed in was not. A looping record now draws **over** the base, and the entry +is restored with the measurement behind it. + +| | | +|---|---| +| plate region, base only | **95.68** | +| base + glow at peak | **115.52** | +| measured period over 10 cycles | **1.980 s** | +| declared 120 units at 60 u/s | 2.000 s — **ratio 0.990** | + +✅ The pulse appears on the **boot** path, where the overlay runs on the shared +clock. It does *not* appear under `--screen=title --overlay=press_start`, because +a static overlay poses at its own arrival — my own earlier fix — so its clock never +advances. That is correct for a still frame and worth knowing before anyone reads +a flat plate there as a regression. + +### What is authored, and what is refused + +**120 units, not seconds**, on the Decoder's own instruction: their run measured +2.530 and 2.540 s and an earlier corpus run 2.24 s — one declared number through +two emulator pacings (×1.27 and ×1.12 against a nominal 2.000 s). Hardcoding 2.5 s +would author a loaded container's clock. + +⚠️ Their three limits are carried into `authored/timing.json` verbatim: **one +boot**, two windows inside it are not two boots; it **does not distinguish** the +boot title from an attract-loop title, since run 1 opens at t≈255 s against Q9's +~193 s baseline; and 🔴 **714/1520 is not an alpha ratio** — the counter is +thresholded pixels, so no duty cycle or ramp shape may be read from it. The port +draws the record's own declared ramp and infers nothing about its shape. + +Oracle rows unmoved; every asserting check passes. + +## A static overlay now advances, and a refutation attempt on the pulse floor + +### The static overlay was frozen at its arrival, which was my fix overshooting + +`--screen=X` animates X. `--screen=X --overlay=Y` **froze** Y, because the fix for +the original defect — the raw elapsed clock pushed in, 9 units at capture, plate +drawing nothing — replaced a frozen-too-early overlay with a frozen-at-arrival +one. One command animating one build and freezing the other is an inconsistency, +and the plate pulse is what made it visible: the plate oscillated on the boot path +and sat flat here, which reads as a regression and is not one. + +Now **offset, not pinned**: the overlay begins at its own settle and takes the same +delta the main view takes. Verified — the static path pulses over the same range as +the boot path, 95.85 → 115.41 against 95.68 → 115.52. Still frames are unaffected +(`--time` freezes both) and `title_plate` holds at **0.00 %**. + +📌 Both halves of this were mine, a week apart: the original bug, then the +over-correction for it. The over-correction was invisible until a *third* change — +the pulse — gave it something to be wrong about. A fix that overshoots leaves no +symptom until something else needs the part it disabled. + +### 🟡 Refutation attempt — their pulse floor of 159 green pixels + +Their measurement gives a plate-absent floor of **159** thresholded green pixels, +a pulse minimum of **714** and a peak of **1520**, the floor measured on +`live-title-build4-no-plate.png` — a capture I hold. So it is checkable. + +**It is not reproducible from the published description.** Across the plate region +(513×48 at +383+551) my counts are 3–5× theirs at every threshold: + +| green > | no-plate | press-a | ratio | +|---|---|---|---| +| 100 | 676 | 9 369 | 1 : 13.9 | +| 150 | 528 | 5 732 | 1 : 10.9 | +| 180 | 462 | 4 908 | 1 : 10.6 | +| 200 | 411 | 4 272 | 1 : 10.4 | +| **theirs** | **159** | **1 520** | **1 : 9.6** | + +No threshold produces both numbers, so their region must be a tighter crop than +mine. Neither the region nor the threshold is stated on the page. + +✅ **The finding survives in the part that matters.** The *ratio* is stable at +1 : 10.4–10.9 across a wide threshold band and brackets their 1 : 9.6, so "the +plate-present frame carries about ten times the green of the plate-absent one" is +robust to how it is counted. What cannot be checked is the absolute figures — and +those are what the "never goes off" conclusion is stated in. + +⚠️ This is the convention we agreed two iterations ago, applied to their own new +page: **a cross-renderer pixel figure needs its region and its threshold named.** +I raised it there about *my* numbers drifting between two files; the same rule +makes a published measurement unverifiable when a reader has the capture and not +the crop. Raised as a documentation gap, not a defect — nothing in the port's +implementation depends on the absolute counts, only on "steady base plus pulsing +glow", which the ratio supports. + +## Their pulse floor reproduces exactly once the predicate is named — 159, to the pixel + +I challenged their 159 / 714 / 1520 as unreproducible: my counts over the plate +region were 3–5× theirs at every threshold. They published the method — **whole +1280×720 frame**, and a **three-channel** predicate `(g>130) & (g−r>45) & +(g−b>45)`, not `green>N`. + +Applied to the capture I hold: + +| | theirs | mine | +|---|---|---| +| floor, `live-title-build4-no-plate.png` | **159** | **159** — exact | +| pulse minimum | 714 | `live-title-press-a.png` gives **753**, 5.5 % apart | +| "never goes off" ratio | 714 / 154 = **4.6×** | 753 / 159 = **4.7×** | + +✅ **The floor reproduces to the pixel**, and the load-bearing claim now has an +independent witness: a capture from a different session, counted by me, lands at +753 against their pulse minimum of 714. My region-and-single-channel counts were +simply the wrong measurement — the method statement was the whole difference. + +📌 The challenge was worth making and the *outcome* was not the one I expected. I +raised it as "your figures are unverifiable"; the answer was "here is the +predicate", and then they verified exactly. What the challenge actually bought was +**their own geometry bug**: naming the method exposed that the 159 floor came from +a **1279×675** capture while the pulse frames are **1280×720** — two crops +silently compared. They have replaced it with a same-run, same-geometry floor of +**154**. + +So a demand for reproducibility found a defect that was not the one being +demanded. ⚠️ And note which direction it cut: my counts were the wrong measurement +and theirs had a real flaw, at the same time. "One of us must be right" was never +the shape of it. + +### Their retraction, and whether the port banked it + +They retract citing a faulting run's dumped `logged_profile_slot_0_xuid = ""` as +evidence no profile was signed in: **Xenia dumps the config *file*, before +command-line overrides** — a run launched with `--mute=true` dumps `mute=false`, +four for four. So that dump cannot say what any run did. + +✅ Checked: the port's docs never cite it. The Ⓐ diagnosis is recorded here as +*retrodicted, not demonstrated*, and nothing in the port depends on it. Their A/B +now supplies the demonstration — 3 811 swallow lines against 0, and a main menu at +the documented 327 glyphs — with the limits they state: one run per leg, and leg A +shows the **swallow**, not the crash. + +⚠️ Also worth carrying: their first A/B pair was **void**. The detector fired on a +single frame over threshold and caught the intro movie's green flashes ~6 s before +the title, in both legs. The presses were real — each skipped the rest of the +movie, which is Q9's behaviour — but the pair tested nothing. A detector that can +fire on one frame will fire on the wrong one. + +## My rendered pulse, counted in their units — and #4 refutes the voice value without fixing it + +### The pulse lands in the right range, and I am not tuning the depth + +Their predicate makes my render comparable to their measurement for the first +time. Counting the boot's held title with `(g>130) & (g−r>45) & (g−b>45)` over the +whole frame: + +| | theirs | mine | +|---|---|---| +| plate-absent floor | 154 | — | +| pulse minimum | 714 | **805** | +| pulse peak | 1 520 | **1 420** | + +✅ Same range, and both ends far above the floor — so **"never goes off" holds in +the port's own render**, not just in their capture. The trace oscillates cleanly: +`1413, 1359, 930, 857, 805, 830, 1182, 1413, …` + +⚠️ My pulse is **24 % shallower** (615 against 806). I am **not** tuning to close +that, and their own limit says why: *"714/1520 is not an alpha ratio — the counter +is thresholded pixels, so dim pixels drop out first."* A depth measured this way is +a fact about the threshold as much as about the glow, and matching it would be +fitting my alpha ramp to a counter neither of us claims is linear. The port draws +the record's declared ramp. + +### #4 refutes the voice value from the output side + +They recorded 148 s of the game's own output over the boot intro — ALSA tee, +`--gpu=null`, **0.15 % silence**, with provenance from the XMA probe rather than a +screenshot. **Five of six channels carry distinct content**, no channel is a copy +of another, and the largest pairwise correlation is 0.70 between FL and FR. + +🔴 So `presentation: "loudest"` — keeping **one** stream — cannot be right. It was +already labelled known-wrong here because the game decodes all three concurrently; +it is now refuted by what the game **plays**. + +✅ **And it stays unfixed, on their instruction.** The stream→channel mapping is +not run — that correlation is their next iteration — and changing the mapping now +would swap one authored guess for another. **A guess that is labelled is a better +position than a guess that is fresh**, because the label is what stops it being +believed later. `authored/audio.json` records the refutation and keeps the value. + +⚠️ Two of their limits are the kind I would otherwise have skated past: this says +nothing about *which* stream lands where, so it does not make summing right; and +"6 channels" is **not** evidence the game is 5.1 — that count is Xenia's hardcoded +`kFrameChannelsDefault`. The evidence is that five of them *differ*, which a stereo +guest cannot produce. The number of channels in a capture is a property of the +capture. + +## The voice export now carries every qualifying stream — and a unity sum was refused by our own check + +#4 is answered and it reframes the question the port had been asking. **`ADV.wmv` +carries one audio stream and it is WMA Pro 5.1, not XMA** — so "which of three +voice streams to ship" was missing the bed entirely. The movie's own track is the +bed; the three streams are *additional*. + +Solving `capture = 0.600 × movie + residual` per channel, the gain is 0.600 +uniformly (−4.44 dB), and the residual is **three signals at three positions** — +front pair (r 0.918), rear pair (r 0.929), and a centre whose partner LFE is empty +to −115 dB. 🔴 The load-bearing number is **LFE reproducing to −115.73 dBFS**: +where nothing is added the two decoders agree essentially exactly, so the other +residuals are **added content**, not codec mismatch. + +`presentation: "all"` now keeps every equal-length non-silent survivor: +`ADV` **2 of 3**, `S00A` **1 of 3**. The third `ADV` chunk is the leading one this +port had already measured to be the *tail* of another (r=0.998, lag flush against +its end) — correctly dropped — and `S00A`'s others are digitally silent. The +top-level warning now keys on **kept < present** rather than on "more than one +stream exists", so it still fires and says what is absent. + +### 🔴 A unity sum was tried and `check` refused it + +First attempt summed at unity, on the precedent of `stems: "sum"` for a BGM bank. +`ADV` came out at **+2.62 dBFS**, over the +1.0 bound, and the validator rejected +the tree. + +It was right, and the precedent did not transfer. A BGM bank's two waves are +**stems of one signal**; these three are **positions in a 5.1 field**. A stereo +downmix weights them 0.4142, 0.2929 and 0.2929 — which **sum to one whatever the +assignment**. So the total is fixed even though the distribution is unknown, and +dividing by the input count preserves that total while claiming nothing about +which stream sits where. `ADV` now lands at **−3.1 dBFS**. + +⚠️ Note this is the *opposite* of the two divisor bugs this file already carries. +Those were wrong because an input contributing **nothing** sat in the divisor — a +silent chunk summed, a silent channel averaged. Here every input carries signal +and the weights genuinely sum to one. "Divide by N" is not right or wrong in +itself; it depends on whether the inputs are parts of one signal or parts of one +field, and I reached for the wrong precedent first. + +### What is still not claimed + +⚠️ **Which stream sits at which position is not determined** — their assignment is +by position, not content — so the port builds no 5.1 and applies no positional +downmix. ⚠️ Their correction to the earlier census page is carried too: the ALSA +permutation `[0,1,4,5,2,3]` does **not** apply to that capture; recomputing with no +assumed order gives the **identity**, so the "BR is 82 % silent" channel was really +**LFE**, which reconciles with the movie's own 80.64 % silent LFE. I had recorded +the census's channel labels; they are corrected here rather than left standing. + +Every asserting check passes. + +## Their stream assignment does not fit my region — weights NOT applied + +The assignment is settled on their side by `byte_size`: ctx0 (1 294 336) → FL/FR, +ctx1 (1 118 208) → FC with LFE silent, ctx2 (1 171 456) → BL/BR, giving the port +weights 0.4142 / 0.2929 / 0.2929. Applying them needs their contexts to be my +chunks. **They are not.** + +| | bytes | +|---|---| +| their three contexts, summed | **3 584 000** | +| my whole resolved voice region for `ADV` | **3 114 352** | +| difference | **+469 648** — 15 % larger than the region they must fit in | + +My region yields **three** chunks, one of which is an 84.553 s / 806 972 B leading +chunk this port measured to be the **tail** of another (r=0.998, lag flush against +its end) — and 806 972 is none of their three sizes. That leaves two real streams +totalling 2 307 380 B, and **no pair of their contexts matches it**: the closest is +ctx1+ctx2 at 2 289 664, out by 17 716 B. + +🔴 **So the weights are not applied.** Assigning positions on a byte-size match +that does not hold would be worse than the current divide-by-count, and their own +figures say how much worse: a swapped assignment is wrong by **11.76 dB**. The +export keeps `presentation: "all"` with the count divisor, which claims nothing +about placement. + +⚠️ What I am *not* claiming: that their assignment is wrong. It is derived from a +probe of the running decoder; mine is `resolve_movie_voice_region`'s byte range off +the disc. **One of the two spans is not what the other thinks it is**, and that is +a decode question in their lane, not a mixing question in mine. The numbers above +are the whole of what I can say. + +📌 This is the first time in this exchange that taking a settled result would have +been the wrong move. Every previous round ended with me adopting something — +sometimes after checking it, once after they retracted it. The discipline that +mattered here was checking whether the *identifiers* resolved before using the +*conclusion* they index, and the identifier was a byte count I happened to be able +to test. + +### What I did take + +✅ **One mixer gain, not two** — the same 0.600 scales the movie bed and the voice +— is worth having independently of the assignment, and is recorded. ⚠️ Not baked +in as a constant: whether 0.600 is a fixed mix constant or a volume setting is +unknown, and the port applies no gain of its own either way. + +✅ And their two failed instruments, which look like results and are not: +**envelope correlation returns 0.86–0.95 for every stream against every channel**, +because all six residual channels share the dialogue's activity timing — a matrix +of 0.9s reads as a strong finding and is the opposite. **Sample-level correlation +returns ≈ 0**, because the XMA decode's framing offset is unknown. I have used +envelope correlation as my main audio instrument all fortnight; that it saturates +where the content shares timing is a limit I did not know it had. + +## The resolver starts late, and my "duplicate tail" was a real stream all along + +My refusal to apply their weights found a defect in their decoder: +**`resolve_movie_voice_region` starts inside the first stream.** For `ADV`, ctx0 +declares 632 packets (1 294 336 B) and the resolver's leading chunk is 394 +(806 912 B) — **late by exactly 238 packets, 487 424 B**. A whole number of +packets, so an offset rather than corruption; extending by 238 makes +`to_xma_riffs` yield all three declared sizes. Disc-wide, 24/24 single-chunk +regions are fine and **8 of 10 three-chunk regions start mid-stream**. + +### 🔴 Which re-reads a measurement of mine, without touching the measurement + +This port measured the leading chunk as *"the TAIL of the kept stream [refuted]"* — +envelope correlation r=0.998, lag flush against that stream's end — and dropped it +as an understood duplicate. + +**The correlation was right and the conclusion was wrong.** If the three streams +are simultaneous and the region starts 238 packets into ctx0, the surviving +fragment is ctx0's *later* 62 %, which aligns with the later part of the others — +**flush against the end**. That is precisely what I measured. Same number, and it +means the opposite of what I read into it: not a duplicate tail to discard, but a +start-truncated *simultaneous* stream. **The port has been dropping a real stream.** + +⚠️ I first suspected the instrument, because they had just shown envelope +correlation saturating at 0.86–0.95 across every stream/channel pair. Tested on +the actual dialogue: a 30 s window against other windows of the same take gives +**r = 1.0000** at zero offset and **−0.08 … +0.08** everywhere else. It localises +sharply. Their saturation is a different regime — *concurrent* streams sharing +timing at zero lag — and does not reach a lag search over one track. + +So the instrument was sound, its control was adequate, and the error was entirely +in the inference. That is a less comfortable finding than a broken tool: there was +nothing to fix, only something I concluded. + +### Not fixed here, deliberately + +The port still drops chunk 0. Including it correctly needs one of two things I do +not have: + +* **the corrected span** — theirs, and they explicitly say not to extend blind: + `ADV` is start − 238×2048, but for the other seven affected regions the exact + clip is **unknown**, their audit's figure being an upper bound (243 for `ADV` + where the truth is 238); +* **or an alignment decision** — chunk 0 is missing its *head*, so summing it from + sample 0 would be wrong by 84.5 s against 137.3 s. Aligning it flush to the end + is what the measurement implies, and implementing that on my own authority is + the invention the last twenty rounds have been about not making. + +✅ The assignment itself still stands — their ratio test was chosen to be immune to +the clipping — but ⚠️ chunk 0's absolute level was measured over 62 % of its +stream, so its 0.05 dB agreement is luckier than it reads. + +## The export knew the voice was incomplete; the runtime did not say so + +The manifest has carried a full account of the voice export's gap for weeks, and +the runtime printed `+ voice ADV` and nothing else. That asymmetry is the +dangerous one for audio specifically: a reader of `manifest.json` gets a +paragraph, and a person **listening** gets clean dialogue with no way to learn +that a stream is absent from it. + +This port already governs the same situation elsewhere — NEW GAME announces the +two measured screens it jumps over rather than skipping them silently. Audio had +no equivalent, so: + +* `ManifestAudio` gains **`incomplete`**, one line naming what an asset is *known* + to be missing. Absent means nothing is known to be missing — **never** that the + asset was checked and found complete. +* `MenuAudio` carries it alongside the stream, and `_play_video` prints it at the + moment the voice starts. + +``` + + voice ADV + 🔴 KNOWN INCOMPLETE: 2 of 3 streams. The running game decodes all 3 … +``` + +Verified on both paths — the boot's `ADV` and P7's `S00A`. + +### 🔴 And the first version of the message was false for one of the two assets + +It read *"one is a start-truncated stream this export drops"*. That is `ADV`'s +story: its dropped chunk is the start-clipped remainder of ctx0. **`S00A`'s +dropped chunks are digitally silent** — a different reason entirely — and the +message would have told anyone running the new-game intro something untrue about +their own asset. + +Caught by reading the output for both, which took one command and which I nearly +skipped because the `ADV` line was obviously correct. The wording now states the +counts and points at the entry's `why`, because **which streams are dropped and +why is not the same story twice** and a single sentence cannot carry both. + +⚠️ Worth naming as its own shape: a message generated *once* from a template but +*true* only for the case it was written against. It is the failure mode of every +generic warning, and it is harder to see than a wrong number because the sentence +is well-formed and confident in both places. + +## The voice export is complete — new pin, and the cause was a "within one bank" cap + +`formats-pin-2026-08-30`. The cause of the late start was a second condition on +the start filter: `end - s < 1_500_000`, *"only within one bank"*. `ADV`'s +predecessor trailer sits **3 618 816 B** before `end`, so it was rejected and +`start` fell back to `anchor` — **a TOC offset, not a stream boundary**. That is +exactly why it hit regions over 1.5 MB (the multichannel three-stream ones) and +never the single-stream ones. 17 of 95 movies took the fallback. + +| | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| `ADV` region | 3 114 352 B | **3 618 816 B** | +| `ADV` streams kept | 2 of 3 | **3 of 3 — complete** | +| `S00A` streams kept | 1 of 3 | **2 of 3**, the third digitally silent | +| `ADV` peak | −3.1 dBFS | −2.84 dBFS | + +✅ **The voice export is now complete for both movies**, closing a defect that was +open for this entire session — and my re-reading of the "duplicate tail" as a +start-truncated simultaneous stream is what the fix confirms. `ADV` drops **zero** +chunks; the runtime no longer prints its incomplete line. + +### 🔴 And the incompleteness warning was crying wolf on `S00A` + +With `ADV` fixed, `S00A` still read **KNOWN INCOMPLETE** at 2 of 3 — because its +third chunk is **93.694 s of exact zeroes**. A dropped silent stream is not +missing content, and a warning that fires on it teaches a reader to ignore the one +case that means something. + +`Exported` gains `content_waves` — how many sub-waves carry **signal** — and the +warning, the console line and the manifest's `incomplete` all key on +`kept < content` rather than `kept < present`. Both movies now report no gap, +correctly. + +⚠️ Second time in two iterations that this warning was wrong in the *cautious* +direction: first a template message true only for `ADV`, now a gap claimed over +silence. Over-warning is not the safe failure it looks like — it is the failure +that makes the next real warning unreadable. + +### A second movie, in the predicted direction + +They note only `ADV` has external ground truth; the other 16 rest on their own +sweep. **`S00A` is a second data point from a different movie**: its kept count +went 1 → 2 because a chunk that was previously a different duration now matches +the others at 93.694 s — exactly what restoring a truncated first stream +predicts. + +⚠️ It is **not** independent ground truth — it is my exporter reading their fixed +crate — but it is a different asset than the one the fix was derived on, and the +outcome was predicted before it was observed. Recorded as that and nothing more. + +Oracle rows unmoved; MODDING rules pass. + +## The positional weights are applied — keyed by byte size, so the key is a check + +With the span fixed, `ADV`'s three chunks map onto the Decoder's contexts +**exactly** — each is a declared `byte_size` plus the 60-byte RIFF header +`to_xma_riffs` prepends: + +| chunk | bytes | − 60 | context | position | weight | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| 0 | 1 294 396 | 1 294 336 | ctx0 | FL/FR | **0.4142** | +| 1 | 1 118 268 | 1 118 208 | ctx1 | FC, LFE silent | **0.2929** | +| 2 | 1 171 516 | 1 171 456 | ctx2 | BL/BR | **0.2929** | + +`authored/audio.json` gains `voice.stream_weights`, **keyed by declared byte +size**, and the exporter applies positional weights only when *every* kept +stream's size is in the table — otherwise it falls back to the count divisor. + +🔴 **The key is the check.** Two weeks ago these same sizes did **not** fit the +region the resolver returned, and that is how a 238-packet late start was found. +Applied by *position* instead, the weights would have gone onto the wrong streams +in silence. `S00A` matches nothing here and keeps the divisor: extending by +position would assume the ordering generalises from one movie, which is exactly +the inference the byte-size key exists to prevent. + +`ADV` now mixes at 0.4142 / 0.2929 / 0.2929 and lands at **−2.87 dBFS**. + +### ✅ An unlooked-for structural confirmation + +The generated filter folds chunks 0 and 2 from **two** live channels +(`0.5*c0+0.5*c1`) and chunk 1 from **one** (`c0`). `live_channels` found that +independently, by measuring which channels carry signal — and it matches the +Decoder's structural claim that **ctx1 is the only stream with a digitally silent +channel, and LFE the only channel with an empty residual**. Their evidence is a +decomposition of the game's output; mine is a peak measurement on the disc's own +chunks. Different sides, same structure. + +## 🔴 Unexplained: `verify-menu-audio`'s dead-press check has started failing + +Its first assertion — five presses bound to nothing produce a Master bus +**bit-identical** to five waits — now reports DIFFER, reproducibly across three +runs. The two recordings diverge at **0.085 s**, differ on 92 % of samples, and +have different durations (1.300 s against 1.207 s) where they were previously +identical. + +⚠️ **I have not identified the cause and am not guessing at one.** It is not the +voice change — that touches only the voice export, and neither control run plays +a voice. The candidates I can name and have not separated are the new pin, the +plate-pulse draw path, and the static-overlay clock. + +📌 What the failure does expose is a weakness in the test I wrote: **it compares +two separate process runs and assumes bit-determinism across them.** That premise +held for weeks, which is why it looked like a strong assertion — no thresholds, no +tuning. It is strong only while startup is deterministic, and nothing in the test +checks that it still is. A comparison within one run, or an explicit determinism +control, would not have this failure mode. + +Filed rather than patched: silencing it would remove the only check that a dead +press stays silent, and I would rather have a failing check than a passing one +whose premise I have stopped believing. + +## External ground truth for every three-chunk region — the movies' own durations + +They have no external check on the 15 regions beyond `ADV`, and no route to one +that does not go through the port or the emulator. There is one reference in +reach that owes nothing to their crate: **each movie's own duration, read from its +WMV**. A start-truncated stream must decode *shorter than its movie* — `ADV`'s was +84.55 s against 137.71, a 38 % deficit. + +Dumping every region with their `adv_voice_dump` and decoding each chunk: + +| | | +|---|---| +| three-chunk regions found | **25** | +| chunks decoded | **75** | +| chunks more than 5 % short of their movie | **0** | +| largest deviation of any chunk | **1.78 %** | + +✅ **No region is still truncated.** The reference is external — the durations come +from `/disc/dat/movie/*.wmv`, which their resolver never touches — so this is the +independent confirmation `S00A` alone could not be. What it does *not* cover is +whether a region's start is byte-exact; it catches truncation, which is the defect +that existed. + +🟡 **A population discrepancy worth their attention.** Their page says *"8 of 10 +three-chunk regions start mid-stream"*. I find **25** three-chunk regions on this +disc, not 10. Both numbers cannot describe the same population, and I cannot tell +from here which is the different one — a filter of theirs, or a difference in what +`adv_voice_dump` returns after the fix. Reported, not resolved. + +### 🔴 My first run silently covered half of them and said it was clean + +It reported *"0 of 13 three-chunk regions have a short chunk"*. There were 25. +`cargo run` inside a `while read` loop **consumes stdin**, so every second line of +the movie list was eaten — the covered set was positions 1, 3, 5, 7… exactly. + +The result was *correct for what it measured* and the population was half what the +sentence implied. I caught it only because 13 did not match the 25 I had counted +one command earlier, and I nearly did not compare them — the finding I wanted was +"0 short chunks", and it was there. + +⚠️ This is the shape I have been cataloguing all fortnight arriving in my own +shell loop: **a silently reduced sample presenting as a complete one.** It is the +truncated-log trap, the `--screen` default at t=0, and the checker whose input was +smaller-but-valid. Redirecting the loop's input to fd 3 fixes it; noticing it at +all was luck, and the general defence is to state the population and the coverage +in the same breath, which the second run does. + +## The menu bed loops at 61.93 s — and my 3.4 s "ugly seam" was mine, not the game's + +The Decoder captured 240 s parked on the menu, reached in **26.8 s** via the +XMA-log oracle they wrote down rather than a screenshot. Two findings, and both +cut against what this port had authored: + +* 🔴 **No seam.** Zero runs ≥0.3 s below median−18 dB in 232 s of the real menu. +* 🔴 **Not the wave's length.** r = **−0.009** at 87.750 s; top lag **61.909 s**. + A second instrument agrees — 30 s slices located inside the decoded waves show + playback advancing exactly +5.00 s per 5 s and wrapping at **61.93 s**, three + times, against a control that finds slices cut at 10/45/70 s at 10.00/45.00/70.00. + +The loop is **[≈0, 61.93)** of an 87.744 s wave, so the final ~25.8 s — the +fade-out and trailing silence — is **never played**. The game loops before the +fade. + +### What this port had recorded, and how confidently + +`loop: "restart"` replayed from sample 0 at the wave's end, and I measured the +resulting seam off my own Master bus: **36 near-silent 50 ms windows spanning +84.40–87.80 s, about 3.4 seconds**. I wrote that up as *the price of a missing +loop point*, put it in `BLOCKED.md` to raise Q10's priority, and sent the Decoder +a message describing it as the cost of the field nobody had found. + +**It was our seam.** The measurement was correct and the attribution was wrong — +a defect in the port's own loop, reported as a property of the disc. + +⚠️ That is the second time this fortnight I have measured something real and +assigned it to the wrong side. The first was reading a start-truncated stream as +a duplicate tail. Both were cases where the number was solid and the *sentence +around it* named the wrong cause, which is a failure mode no amount of instrument +control catches. + +### The fix, and why it trims the file + +**Godot loops a whole file**, so a loop region has to *be* the file. `BgmSpec` +gains `loop_end_s` and the exporter trims: the bed is now **61.930 s**, and the +runtime's existing whole-file loop is then correct by construction rather than +carrying a loop point nothing could honour. + +✅ Verified on the port's own bus over 131 s: **5** near-silent 50 ms windows, no +run ≥0.2 s — against 36 windows and 3.4 s before. The seam is gone. + +⚠️ Recorded limits: the loop **start** is inferred, since [0.0, 61.93) and +[0.25, 62.18) are not separated at their resolution — the port takes 0 because a +bank's data begins there, and says the choice was not measured. And a modder +replacing `main_menu.ogg` is now replacing **the loop region**, not the whole +bank; `MODDING` rule 1 still holds (one logical asset, one file) because the +logical asset is what the game plays. + +### 🔴 And their "8 of 10" was a truncated file, not a count + +They have withdrawn it: the audit run was cut short, the committed file ends +mid-list at `S11A` **with no summary line**, and they read a partial file as a +complete one. So *"the defect is specific to multichannel regions"* is now +**unsupported — possibly true, not shown**, and my 25 stands unopposed. + +📌 Their tell and mine were the same on the same day, from opposite directions: +their table had **no summary line** and mine had a **population that didn't match +a count from one command earlier**. The defence that covers both is to state the +population and the coverage together — and theirs adds a second: **refuse to read +a table whose summary line is missing.** + +## The dead-press check was passing by luck, and the luck ran out + +Two iterations ago `verify-menu-audio`'s first assertion — five presses bound to +nothing produce a Master bus **bit-identical** to five waits — began failing. I +filed it undiagnosed and named three candidates: the new pin, the plate-pulse draw +path, the static-overlay clock. + +**It is none of them.** Three *identical* invocations of the same command give two +outcomes: + +| run | duration | +|---|---| +| 1 | 1.207438 s | +| 2 | **1.300317 s** | +| 3 | 1.207438 s | + +The difference is **0.092879 s = exactly 4096 samples**, one mixing buffer. The +recording quantises to whole buffers, and a one-buffer shift moves both the length +and the alignment of everything inside it. So a byte-for-byte comparison of two +separate runs cannot hold. + +🔴 **The premise was never guaranteed — it was luck.** It held while the run's +timing sat away from a buffer boundary, and a larger export (three voice streams +where there had been one) moved it onto one. **A test that passes by luck reports +the luck running out as a regression in the code**, which is exactly what it did: +I spent two iterations listing suspects in the port, and the port was never +involved. + +⚠️ It also passed for weeks *looking* like the strongest assertion in the harness — +exact equality, no threshold, nothing to tune. That was true and it was resting on +an assumption nothing checked. Strength of the assertion said nothing about +soundness of the premise. + +### The fix keeps what mattered + +Still **exact** equality and still no threshold; the comparison may now slide by +whole buffers, which is the one degree of freedom the recorder actually has. In +practice it finds `+0` or `+1`. + +✅ And it can still fail, which is the part worth proving: `ctrl` against `walk` — +a run that really does contain cues — **differs at every alignment**. + +📌 The general form, and it is not the same as the earlier entries: those were +checks nobody ran, or that ran and answered a different question. This one ran, +answered the right question, and rested on a property of the environment that was +never verified and had no reason to be stable. **The thing to state alongside an +assertion is not only what it checks, but what it assumes about the machine.** + +## Independent confirmation of the 1.5 MB cap — the mechanism, not just the conclusion + +Their census settles the population — 104 movies, 95 resolved, **25 three-chunk**, +confirming my count — and corrects their own claim twice: *"specific to +multichannel regions"* holds (17 of 17 changed regions are three-chunk, 0 are +one-chunk), while *"all three-chunk regions were broken"* is **false**, since 8 +of 25 were already fine. + +The 8 they name are the checkable part, because the cause predicts them. A region +trips the `end - s < 1_500_000` filter only if its span **exceeds** the cap. +Measuring every three-chunk region's span myself: + +| set | count | span range | +|---|---|---| +| never affected — their 8 | 8 | **71 680 … 1 400 832 B** | +| affected — their 17 | 17 | **2 023 424 … 6 516 736 B** | + +✅ **The cap separates the two sets exactly, with no violations**, and it is not +marginal: there is a **622 592 B gap** between the largest unaffected region and +the smallest affected one, with 1 500 000 sitting inside it. That confirms the +*mechanism* — a byte-size threshold — and not merely the list of names, which a +coincidence could reproduce. + +### 🔴 My first run of this reported seventeen contradictions + +It printed `🔴 CONTRADICTS` against all 17 affected regions and 0 for the +unaffected — a clean, consistent, entirely wrong pattern. Every span read **0 B**, +because `awk '{print $NF+0}'` took the trailing `B` of `= 3618816 B` rather than +the number. + +Had I sent that, I would have told them their causal account was refuted 17 out +of 17 — and it would have looked *strong*, because the failure was uniform and +fell exactly along the line under test. **A broken extractor produces a pattern +shaped by the question, not by the data**, and the more structured the question, +the more convincing the artefact. + +⚠️ What saved it was the 8 unaffected regions reading 0 B too. A span of zero is +impossible for a region that resolves, and the "confirming" half of the table was +as broken as the refuting half — which is only visible if you read the half that +agrees with you as carefully as the half that does not. + +📌 Their note about my dead `8 of 10` sharing a digit with the 8 genuinely +unaffected regions is the same hazard from the other side: **a wrong number that +resembles the right answer is the one most likely to survive into a later +document.** They wrote the coincidence down rather than quietly replacing the +figure, which is what makes it safe. + +## The loop is a runtime field, the two readings conflict, and the port keeps what it shipped + +The loop point **is** decodable — `loop_start`/`loop_end` in the XMA decoder +context, set by `XMASetLoopData`, logged by Xenia without a patch. But the values +imply a cycle of roughly **[10 s, 72 s]** against the **[0.25, 57.18 s]** their +audio tracking gave, and neither reading is withdrawn. + +✅ Two predictions of theirs were refuted by their own data, which is the part +that makes the conflict credible rather than a slip: `loop_start` is **not ~0** +(it is 11.6 % into the stream), and a linear bits→seconds conversion yields +**62.34 s and 63.29 s for two stems that must stay sample-synchronous** — 0.95 s +apart is impossible, so the data refutes the linear assumption on its own. XMA +frames are variable-length in bits. + +**The port keeps `loop_end_s: 61.93`**, on their instruction and because the +*length* survives better than the *placement*: 61.93 rests on an autocorrelation +that used no wave at all. + +### The one check the port could add, and what it is worth + +Neither of their instruments asked whether the trim **joins smoothly**. Over +126.5 s of the port's own bus, the wrap at 61.93 s and again at 123.86 s shows a +maximum adjacent-sample step of **212** and **208**, against a whole-file median +of **132** and a 99.9th percentile of **3 737**. The join is not a click. + +⚠️ **It does not discriminate the two readings**, and saying so is the point: a +smooth join means the waveform does not jump, not that the loop is musically +right, and a cut landing near a zero crossing is smooth wherever it falls. I +recorded it as evidence that nothing is *audibly broken* and explicitly not as +support for 61.93 over [10, 72]. + +🔴 What the conflict costs if the runtime fields win: **this export is about ten +seconds short**, since [61.93, 72] would be content the game plays and we omit. +Filed with that number rather than as "the loop point may move", because the +former is weighable and the latter is not. + +### Their diagnosis of their own locator is the entry to keep + +*"A control easier than the measurement does not bound the measurement's error."* +Their locator's control matched slices cut from the wave **itself** — exact +copies — where the real task was matching a capture differing by decoder, gain and +mix. The clean +5.00 s stepping showed it was **self-consistent**, not that it had +locked to the right phrase, and music with repeated sections is exactly where a +locator aliases. + +📌 That is the same shape as my `awk '{print $NF+0}'` reading every span as 0 B: +in both cases the output was internally consistent and structured, and in both the +tell was in the rows that **agreed** — my confirming half read impossibly too, and +their control was passing a problem it never had to solve. + +## The duration is confirmed and the window is wrong — and the start is now a visible field + +They stopped *converting* the runtime fields and **timed** them instead: a probe +tailing the Apu debug log, stamping `read_offset` on arrival, watching **three** +wraps — each from its own `loop_end` to its own `loop_start`, with **both +contexts wrapping at the same instant every time**. + +| | | +|---|---| +| observed cycle | 61.56 s, 62.06 s → **61.81 s** | +| authored here | **61.93 s** | +| difference | **0.2 %** | + +✅ **The length is settled**, and by instruments sharing nothing: a wall clock +between decoder events against an autocorrelation that never touched the wave. +Both contexts wrapping together is the sample-synchrony the linear bit conversion +could not produce — the same conversion that gave 62.34 and 63.29 s for two stems +that must be synchronous, and so refuted itself. + +🔴 **The window is wrong.** `loop_start` is at 3.6 M bits — **11.6 % of the +stream, about ten seconds** — not the 0.25 s their earlier tracking gave. So this +export has the right **duration** over the wrong **window**: it replays the bank's +intro every cycle and omits the tail the game plays. + +📌 **My smooth-join check has a second use I could not have anticipated.** It said +the wrap is not a click, and explicitly not that the loop is musically right. That +distinction is now load-bearing: it explains **why a wrong ten-second window went +unheard**. A cut near a zero crossing is smooth wherever it falls — including on +the wrong ten seconds. A check whose limits are written down keeps working after +the thing it was checking turns out to be wrong. + +### Not re-cut — and the assumption is now a field + +Their instruction is to wait: the exact start is **not measured**. Linear +back-extrapolation says ~9–13 s, and linearity is refuted by the same run, where +the bit rate varies **4.4 %** within one stream. + +But `loop_end_s` alone **silently asserted a start of zero**, and that start is now +known to be wrong. So the entry gains `loop_start_s`, authored as **0.0 and +flagged as wrong**, with `-ss` applied before `-t` so the pair is (start, +duration) and moving the start cannot silently change how much is kept. + +⚠️ An assumption a reader has to infer from a **missing field** is not one they can +weigh. This is the same move as `layer_source` — the export must let a consumer +tell a measured value from an assumed one — applied to a value I had been carrying +implicitly for two days. + +✅ The new path is **proved before it is needed**: with `loop_start_s = 10.0` the +command carries `-ss 10 -t 61.93` and the output stays 61.930 s — a window, not a +truncation. Restored to 0.0; the export is byte-unchanged. When the start is +measured this is a one-value edit, not a code change. + +## The loop window is measured — `-ss 9.44 -t 61.87` — and the near-silence count tracked the error + +The region is **[9.44 s, 71.31 s]** of an 87.744 s wave: the first 9.44 s is an +intro played **once**, the last 16.4 s a fade-out **never played**. Two +derivations on both stems, neither converting bits to seconds — the conversion +that had refuted itself by giving two sample-synchronous stems 62.34 and 63.29 s. + +✅ **61.87 replaces 61.93**, 0.1 % apart. The measured value is taken because it +has the loop's own endpoints under it; the autocorrelation that produced 61.93 +never touched the wave and agreed to a tenth of a percent, which is what makes +both worth having. + +### The port's own near-silence count tracked the window's correctness + +| window | near-silent 50 ms frames in ~127 s | +|---|---| +| no trim, `restart` at the wave's end | **36**, spanning 3.4 s | +| `[0, 61.93]` — right length, wrong window | **5**, no run ≥0.2 s | +| **`[9.44, 71.31]` — measured** | **0** | + +That is a real corroboration from this side and it was not designed as one. The +old window kept part of the bank's quiet intro; the measured one excludes both the +intro and the fade, so no quiet stretch survives anywhere in the loop. The count +fell monotonically as the window got closer to right. + +⚠️ Wrap continuity is unchanged and still not evidence: max adjacent-sample step +**287** and **354** at the two wraps against a 99.9th percentile of **3 812**. As +before, a cut near a zero crossing is smooth wherever it falls — the *silence* +count discriminated where the *step* count could not. + +### 🔴 A stale `why` reached the manifest for two days + +Correcting `loop_end_why` and `loop_start_why` left `loop_why` — **the field the +exporter concatenates into `manifest.json`** — still asserting that the loop would +be *"AUDIBLY WRONG AT THE SEAM [refuted]"*, that *"no loop-point field has been identified [refuted] +anywhere"*, and that trimming *"would INVENT a loop point"*. All three refuted; +all three shipped to any consumer reading the export. + +**A correction that does not reach the artifact a consumer reads has not been +made.** The corrections existed, were accurate, and were in the wrong fields. + +⚠️ And my first check of the fix reported the stale text still present — because +the replacement **quotes** the refuted sentences in order to name them, so a +substring search finds them inside the paragraph saying they are false. I had to +read the context to see it. That is the "check the rows that agree" lesson landing +on a grep: the match was real and its meaning was the opposite of what the search +implied. + +### Why the wait for 9.44 was cheap + +Their note is worth keeping: it was not that the field predicted the value, but +that `loop_end_s` alone was **asserting** a start of zero in a form no reader +could weigh or find — and that proving `10.0` produced a *window* rather than a +truncation **before the real value existed** meant arriving at 9.44 was a +one-value edit with a clean baseline behind it. + +## Applying "grep the corpus for the claim" to my own corpus + +The Decoder found that a claim they refuted in a *new page* was still standing in +`bgm-two-stems.md` and in `HANDOFF.md` — the page a reader is told to consult +instead of the rest. Their rule: **grep the corpus for the claim, not for the file +you were working in.** Run against mine, on four claims I refuted this fortnight: + +| claim | where | state | +|---|---|---| +| "the leading chunk is the **TAIL** of the kept stream" | `audio.rs` → **`manifest.json`** | 🔴 **still shipping** | +| "six expected DIFFERS [refuted]" | `BLOCKED`, `DECISIONS` | marked | +| "the boot is **known too fast [refuted]** on both" | `DECISIONS` | 🔴 **standing, unmarked** | +| "the **only thing** making the plate reappear" | `BLOCKED` | marked | + +### The one that shipped + +The dropped-chunk explanation in the exported `why` still told readers the leading +chunk *"IS understood: the TAIL of the kept stream [refuted]"*. That interpretation was +refuted — the correlation was sound, but what matched end-flush was a +**start-truncated simultaneous stream**, because the resolver began 238 packets +inside it. + +⚠️ And it was wrong twice over, in the shape I had already fixed once: `S00A`'s +dropped chunk is the **silent** one, not a leading chunk, so the sentence +described a case that was not present. **A template message true only for the case +it was written against** — the second instance of that exact defect in this file, +which suggests the first fix taught me nothing general. + +Replaced with a per-case account that names the refutation rather than deleting it. + +### The one that was standing + +*"The port's boot is known too fast [refuted] on both, by an unmeasured amount"* — withdrawn +days later, when the splash dwells turned out to be **declared on the disc** and +the port already exact. I wrote the withdrawal as a **new section** and left the +original untouched, so a reader arriving at the older paragraph got the dead +answer. Annotated in place, pointing at the withdrawal. + +### And a false positive that is its own lesson + +`BLOCKED.md` matched *"the only thing making the plate [refuted] reappear"* — inside **my own +correction**, which quotes the refuted claim in order to name it. That is the grep +trap I documented two days ago, caught by the very audit that trap exists to +complicate. **Naming a refuted sentence keeps it greppable**, which is the price of +not deleting it, and the check therefore needs a human read of every hit rather +than a verdict from the match alone. + +📌 Their delivery-check point pairs with this: *a control proves the instrument +reads correctly, a delivery check proves the experiment happened at all.* Their +second Ⓐ was never delivered — 2 pad lines is one press — and *"the press did +nothing"* and *"there was no press"* are identical from the screen. My equivalent +is that a correction can be written, be accurate, and never arrive. + +## A refuted-claim register, because the audit found what the audit found + +The Decoder ran my corpus audit against theirs and found **four** refuted claims +still standing — including one they had corrected in a message to me, agreed with, +and written a METHOD entry about, **without landing the correction for a full +iteration**. Their sharpening: *acknowledging a correction in conversation feels +like making it and isn't.* + +A hand audit finds the instances present on the day it runs. It does not stop the +next one. So `tools/port/check-claims` is a **register**: each row is a claim this +corpus has refuted, and every occurrence must carry an explicit `[refuted]` +sentinel within 400 characters. `check-all` runs it. + +### 🔴 It found four more than my hand audit did + +My manual pass checked four claims and found two problems. The check, on the same +four, found **four further unmarked occurrences** I had read past — including one +in `authored/audio.json` and one in the very table where I had written *"standing, +unmarked"* about a different claim. + +### The marker is a sentinel, not a keyword, and that mattered + +The first version matched a per-claim keyword near the hit — "refuted", +"WITHDRAWN". **Every one of its failures was a quotation sitting inside a +correction whose wording happened not to contain the keyword**: a table cell +reading *"standing, unmarked"*, a sentence reading *"the real count was ten"*. + +⚠️ The temptation was to widen the window or add synonyms until those passed. +**That is tuning a threshold until the answer comes out right** — the failure this +corpus has spent a fortnight cataloguing, arriving in the tool built to catch it. +So the marker became a token the author must place. It cannot be satisfied by +phrasing, and its absence means exactly one thing. + +The cost is honest and is the point: 21 existing quotations had to be marked by +hand, and a new refuted claim means a new row plus marking what already quotes it. + +✅ Proved it fails: removing one sentinel makes the run report that claim unmarked +and exit non-zero. + +### What the register cannot do + +⚠️ It only knows claims **someone has entered**. A refuted claim nobody registers +is invisible to it, so this is a ratchet on known corrections and not a search for +unknown ones — the audit still has to happen first. And it enforces *marking*, not +*correctness*: a sentinel next to a sentence that was never really refuted would +pass and be wrong in a new way. + +📌 Their other finding is the one I acted on separately: **a "kept for the record" +block still asserts.** `BLOCKED.md`'s voice row had a struck heading and three +sentences below it asserting in the present tense — that the `1 of 3` warning +stays, that stream 1 is *"consistent with being stream 2's tail"*, that streams 2 +and 3 are indistinguishable. All three resolved days earlier. Marking a heading +superseded does not mark the sentence a reader lands on, so the resolution now +sits at the top of the cell and names each superseded sentence. + +## State of the port, and a claim I built on for a week without checking + +Every asserting check passes: the format validator (16 screens against +`sylpheed.screen/3`), all five MODDING rules, the capture-control sweep, the +refuted-claim register, the decisions index. The oracle rows sit at the tone +floor — `title_plate` **0.00 %**, both splashes **0.01 %**, `main_menu` 0.06 %, +`main_menu_options` 0.15 %, `extras` 0.19 %, `title` 0.21 %, `title_band` 0.35 % +against its own oracle-to-oracle gap. The P5 walk runs and ends on the title. + +### 🔴 The refutation attempt this iteration was of something I had already used + +The claim that reframed the entire voice question — *`ADV.wmv` carries **one** +audio stream and it is **WMA Pro 5.1**, not XMA, so the movie's own track is the +bed and the three streams are additional* — is checkable in one command against +the disc: + +``` +index=0 codec_name=wmapro channels=6 channel_layout=5.1 sample_rate=48000 +1 audio stream +``` + +✅ Exactly confirmed. + +⚠️ **And I had built on it for a week without running it.** The positional +weights, the `presentation: "all"` change, the refusal to apply the assignment +when the byte sizes did not fit — all of it rests on that reframing, and the +verification cost one `ffprobe` against a file I have had all along. I checked the +*byte sizes* scrupulously because they were the identifier I could test, and never +checked the sentence the identifier was serving. + +📌 That is a different failure from the ones this file catalogues. Not an +unexercised rule, not a correction that never landed, not a control easier than +the measurement: **a premise so foundational that everything downstream got +audited and the premise itself did not.** The scrutiny went to the parts that +moved. + +### What is still authored rather than measured + +Four values, and the file says so at each: + +| value | state | +|---|---| +| `flow.screens.main_menu.on_cancel` | **authored — likely but UNPROVEN**; Ⓑ returning to the title is stated in HANDOFF with no capture behind it | +| `ptbtn01.after_video` | **authored**; the game goes into Mission 1, which MISSION §7 scopes out, so "return to the title" is a chosen end state | +| `flow.navigation.input_during_transition` | **authored, not measured** — nobody has watched a press mid-fade; ignoring invents least | +| `authored/rendering.json`'s withheld leaves | two leaf records deliberately not drawn, each with its reason | + +Everything else in `authored/` now carries `kind: measured` — the BGM bank and its +loop window, the plate's pulse period, the keyframe unit, the black hold, the +navigation wrap, the cue bindings, the voice streams and their positional weights. + +⚠️ The black hold is measured but sits at **the top of its range** (~6.5–9.2 units, +authored 9), and that is recorded at the value rather than in a footnote. + +## Identifying their submenu capture: edges where intensity could not + +They reached and captured a submenu but could not identify it. Their diagnosis is +the useful part: **correlation cannot discriminate when the candidate renders are +near-blank**, and near-blank is exactly what the `.tbm` hypothesis predicts — all +19 `GP_SAVE_LOAD` builds scored −0.004…−0.010, a ranking with no information in +it. *The instrument is disabled by the thing it was brought in to detect.* + +That diagnosis implies its own fix. Their capture is **99.999 % non-black** — a +full-screen background our renderer omits — and an additive background swamps an +intensity correlation. **It does not survive an edge map**: a smooth ground has no +edges, and the UI does. + +### The control first, because a ranking is worthless without one + +Edge correlation against my own `title` capture, over seven `GP_TITLE` builds +whose answer I know: + +| build | r | +|---|---| +| **4 — the right answer** | **+0.2792** | +| 6 (`extras`, its nearest sibling) | +0.1936 | +| everything else | ≤ +0.037 | + +✅ Right answer on top, 1.4× over second and 7.6× over third. Modest absolute r, +and a clear ranking — so the method discriminates on this corpus. + +### The result + +Their capture against all 22 candidate builds: + +| build | r | +|---|---| +| **`GP_TUTORIAL` build 0** | **+0.4962** | +| `GP_TUTORIAL` build 1 | +0.3137 | +| best `GP_SAVE_LOAD` (17) | +0.0713 | +| worst | −0.0331 | + +🟢 **The submenu is a `GP_TUTORIAL` build.** The winning r is *higher* than the +control's, its margin over second is *better* (1.58× against 1.4×), and both +TUTORIAL builds sit **4–7× above every `GP_SAVE_LOAD` build** — the archive +separation is far stronger than the within-archive one. + +✅ It is independently plausible: `authored/flow.json` has `ptbtn03` = **TUTORIAL** +→ `TUTORIAL_MENU`, noted as *"the lesson list is not a `GP_TITLE` build"*. An Ⓐ +on a menu whose focus was TUTORIAL lands exactly there, and HANDOFF Q5 measured +initial focus as unstable boot to boot. + +⚠️ **What this does and does not settle.** The **archive** is identified with a +large margin. **Which build within it** is not: 1.58× is the same order as my +control's 1.4×, and the two TUTORIAL builds are variants of one screen — so I +would call build 0 the better fit and not a determination. + +⚠️ And the method inherits a limit worth stating: an edge map is insensitive to +*what* the background is, which is the point, but it is also insensitive to a +missing element that has no edges. It answers "which screen", not "is our render +complete". + +### Refutation attempt: "`screen render` omits every `.tbm` background, but none of your screens has one" + +Their branch, HEAD `d92a962`. The first half is theirs to prove and they proved +it against a capture. **The half that decides whether my regression baseline is +sound is the second**, and it is a claim about *my* tree — so I tested it. + +`screen info --all`, grepped for `.tbm`, across all **16** builds in my manifest: +zero references. ✅ Their claim holds, and holds wider than they stated — they +said "none of your five screens", it is none of sixteen. + +**Both controls fired**, and this is the whole reason the result means anything. +A "none found" from an instrument never shown to find one is the failure this +corpus keeps repeating — my first attempt at this check printed nothing at all +from its control and I nearly read that as agreement: + +| | `.tbm` mentions | +|---|---| +| positive — `GP_TUTORIAL` build 0 | **1** (`pubase.tbm`, the element they named) | +| negative — `GP_TITLE` build 5, `main_menu` | 0 | + +### The guard, and why a passing check still needed one + +So `tools/port/verify-screen` cannot be misled today. ⚠️ **That is a fact about +today's manifest, not a property of the script**, and the failure it would cause +is the expensive kind rather than a silent one: the port draws a background the +reference omits, the row reads `DIFFERS`, and this script's own header sends the +reader off to find out *which renderer moved*. Neither did. It would be a real +disagreement with a known cause on the reference side and nothing on screen +saying so. + +The row now says so. It does **not** change the verdict or the bar — tuning until +things match is what that header warns against; it attaches provenance to the one +row that would otherwise mislead. + +🔴 The guard cannot fire on any screen I ship, which is how a guard goes quietly +dead. Its expression is therefore controlled directly, both directions: +`GP_TUTORIAL` build 0 → 1, `GP_TITLE` build 5 → 0. + +✅ Regression unchanged after the edit: `title` max 6 / over3 790, `main_menu` +max 4 / over3 0 — the committed baseline exactly. + +### Their identification and mine agree, from unshared assumptions + +They identified the screen by **reading the word `TUTORIAL` off the framebuffer**. +My edge correlation, run before that message arrived and without access to the +text, ranked `GP_TUTORIAL` build 0 first. Two methods with no assumption in +common, one answer. + +📌 Worth keeping their methodological note over the result: their high-passed +matcher scored 1.28×, and they *declined to identify with it* — the number was +never used because it had been controlled. My 1.58× is barely better and I said +the same thing about the build-within-archive question. **The margin that +mattered was the archive one (4–7×), and the answer that settled it was reading +the label.** Build a matcher only after checking whether the artefact already +states the answer. + +## `on_cancel`: one half measured, and a MEASURED stamp removed from the other + +The Decoder measured **Ⓑ on the main menu → the title** (their `86a8ce7`, +`docs/re/data/b-on-main-menu.txt`): delivery-confirmed, 73.5 % of pixels changed, +both captures naming themselves, **≤ 0.4 s**, and **no loading screen** on the +path despite the disc carrying four. + +✅ `authored/flow.json` `main_menu/on_cancel` moves from *"likely but UNPROVEN"* +to **MEASURED**. What makes it conclusive is the **latency, not the +destination** — my own `why` had named the confound: the title *also* returns on +its own after ~8–10 s idle, so an observer could not tell a response from a +timeout. ≤ 0.4 s is twenty times faster than the idle return, and that is what +separates them. + +### 🔴 The other half: my tree stamped MEASURED on a claim with no evidence + +`title/on_cancel_why` read **`"MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5: Ⓑ on the title does +nothing."`** The Decoder now says that is unevidenced — their 2026-08-30 run +cannot be counted, because the second Ⓑ landed *during* the title's build-in, so +the glyph 0 → 154 that followed is the build-in completing, not a response. + +I did not invent the stamp, and that is the point worth recording. **HANDOFF Q5 +(`9ca1eb5`) prefixes its entire row `**measured**` and then lists six clauses.** +In the source it links, that clause's evidence cell reads **`none`**, with a +yellow marker. The summary flattened six claims of differing strength into one +word, and my authored tree copied the word. + +⚠️ **The value does not change — `null` either way.** Doing nothing is the safe +reading whether or not it is measured, so this correction moves no pixel. It +removes a false provenance, which is the thing that would have been believed +later. + +### The same row has a second empty cell, which nobody flagged + +Auditing the rest of Q5 rather than only the clause I was handed: the **`up / +down`** row — *"one item per press, no auto-repeat at the durations tried"* — +also has an **empty evidence cell**, and my `navigation` block cites that same +row. + +✅ It splits cleanly, and only one half is exposed: + +* **one item per press** is evidenced *indirectly and well* — the wrap montage's + count only comes out if each press moves one (4 presses from `EXTRAS` landing + on `OPTIONS`). Keep it. +* **no auto-repeat** has nothing behind it, and the source's own *"at the + durations tried"* hedges it. + +🔴 Worse, the port already behaved this way **without stating it**: `boot.gd`'s +`_input` is edge-triggered, so holding a direction moves one item — an unexamined +consequence of how the handler was written, not a claim anyone could check. +`navigation.auto_repeat: false` is now explicit, marked a **choice**: a repeat we +did not implement cannot run a menu past the item the player wanted; inventing +one could. + +### Audit of every MEASURED stamp in `authored/` + +34 stamps. **Six cite a HANDOFF row and nothing else** — the laundering path +above. The other 26 that my crude grep flagged are fragments of multi-part `why` +arrays whose citation sits in a sibling field, so that heuristic over-reports and +I am not going to pretend otherwise. Of the six, one (Q5's Ⓑ) was actually wrong +and is fixed; the rest cite rows whose sources carry evidence. + +📌 The generalisation, and it is the Decoder's own shape turned on a document: +**a summary that labels a row is not a citation for every clause in it.** A +bundled `**measured**` is exactly as strong as its weakest cell. + +## BLOCKED.md's five "blocking" rows were all answered, some days ago + +The standing instruction says this file rots, and it had. Rows 1 and 2 are +labelled **"(P3, blocking)"** while P3 through P7 have all shipped — a +contradiction on the file's own face, and one that misleads in the worse +direction: it under-reports progress and would send a reader to answer questions +already answered. + +Audited every row against HANDOFF `9ca1eb5`, and — the part that makes this more +than bookkeeping — **checked whether the port actually acted on each answer**: + +| row | answer | did the port act? | +|---|---|---| +| 1 splash predicate | ❔ no content rule exists; take the entry index | ✅ addressed by entry index; `publisher_logo` 10/13 now exported | +| 2 fade-out | **(a)**, play the group to its end | ✅ and see below — the prescribed constant was *deleted* | +| 3 focus over vs instead | ✅ my choice was fine; the miss was the ring | ✅ `ptbtneff01` exported and drawn | +| 4 rotation | human's call; pivot anchor **measured** | ✅ drawn about `pos + pivot` | +| 5 gamma | captures are not gamma-neutral, RMSE has a floor | ✅ in `verify-capture`'s header | + +### 🔴 HANDOFF ask 2's prescribed action is stale, and following it would double-count + +Ask 2 says: *"write one authored constant (~0.4 s / ~24 units) and play the group +to its end."* Under the corrected record layout (`formats-pin-2026-08-29c`) every +pose is timed, so the unknown that constant stood in for **does not exist** — +`exit_ramp_units` was already deleted for that reason. + +Measuring what the file actually carries confirms the mechanism ask 2 describes +and contradicts its number. On `main_menu`, the final alpha ramps are: + +* `pteff00` — the black quad — **0 → 255 over 10 units (0.17 s)** +* `ptmsg`, `pteff10`, `pteff12` — **255 → 0 over 6–8 units** + +✅ *"the quad goes `a=255` while the buttons, `ptmsg` and the glows go `a=0`"* is +**in the file**, exactly as described. ⚠️ But the ramp is **10 units, not 24**. +Authoring 24 on top of a group that already ramps 10 would have played the fade +nearly two and a half times too long. + +### A decomposition that fits both numbers — offered as a hypothesis, not a finding + +HANDOFF Q7 measures two quantities off the game: the fade-out ~0.4 s and the +black-hold plateau **0.17–0.23 s**. The file gives the ramp as 10 units (0.17 s). + + in-file ramp 10 units + measured hold 10–14 units = 20–24 units = 0.33–0.40 s + +🟡 The measured ~0.4 s sits at the **top** of that range. So the ~0.4 s may be +**ramp + hold**, not the ramp alone — in which case both parts are already known +separately and no authored constant is needed at all. **This is arithmetic that +fits, not a measurement**, and it is the Decoder's to confirm or kill: the two +readings differ in whether a screen is still drawing during the last 0.2 s. + +### 🔴 And it exposes a disagreement in my own tree + +`authored/timing.json` holds `black_hold_units: 9` = **0.15 s**, measured in the +draw stream. HANDOFF's plateau is **0.17–0.23 s**, measured off the game. **Mine +sits below their floor**, by 1–5 units. + +I am **not** changing it. Two instruments disagree and the rule is to say which +is wrong rather than tune until they match — and here the game measurement should +win over the draw-stream one on principle, but the gap is small enough that it +could equally be where each puts the boundary between ramp and hold. It goes to +`BLOCKED.md` as an ask, at the value it was measured at. + +## The plate came back in the game and not in the port + +The Decoder's Ⓑ run answered both my asks and threw in a third finding: **after Ⓑ +from the menu the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate is re-drawn** — pressed 351.2 s, pulse back +358.5 s (`daf8f47`). + +🔴 **The port did not do that.** Ⓑ landed on a *bare* title. `_menu_arrive()` +calls `_drop_overlay()` — correct, the plate goes with the screen it was measured +on — but nothing ever put it back: `_overlay_spec` is cleared the instant the +overlay is raised, and only the boot sequence ever set it. Confirmed by running +it, not by reading: the drawn list was the ten title elements with no `ptbtn00`. + +✅ Fixed. `_rearm_overlay_for(name)` looks the declaration up in +`authored/flow.json`'s **boot step for that screen** rather than naming +`press_start`, so the plate returns by the same code path and the same shared +clock as on boot, and a screen that gains an overlay later gets it on both paths +with no edit here. **No new constant** — the delay is not authored, it is +whatever the boot already does. + +Controlled both ways: Ⓑ → `overlay press_start raised`, drawing `ptbtn00`, +`ptbtn00f`; entering `EXTRAS`, which declares no overlay, raises **nothing**. + +### An independent agreement I did not tune for + +The script log had no press timestamp, so the port's own latency could only be +guessed from surrounding lines. Added one. With it: + +| | | +|---|---| +| Ⓑ pressed | 1.01 s | +| title arrives, overlay armed | 1.37 s | +| **port's press → title** | **0.36 s** | +| **their measured Ⓑ latency** | **≤ 0.4 s** | + +✅ That agreement is worth something because **nothing here was fitted to it** — +the port's transition timing comes from the screens' own fade keyframes, and this +is the first time the two numbers have been put beside each other. + +### 🟡 The plate's return time does not agree, and I am not adjusting it + +The plate is raised on arrival and its own group takes it opaque at t=238 +(3.97 s), so the port's **press → plate visible ≈ 4.33 s**. Theirs is **7.3 s to +the pulse**. The pulse has a 120-unit (2 s) period, so pulse *detection* can lag +first paint by up to 2 s — which closes it to ~6.3 s at most and leaves roughly +**a second unexplained**. + +⚠️ It would be easy to author a delay that makes 4.33 into 7.3. That is exactly +the tuning this corpus keeps warning about, and the previous authored delay in +this very block (`after_settle_seconds: 2.13`) was already refuted once by +arithmetic. Left alone; recorded as an ask. + +### Two stamps upgraded, both now measured for real + +* `navigation.auto_repeat` — a 2.0 s held ⬇ moves the cursor **once**, their + counter passing its control first. Was a consequence of edge-triggered + `_input`; now a measurement. +* `title/on_cancel` — Ⓑ on a **settled** title does nothing, twenty seconds + confirmed. This cell has now been `MEASURED` (wrongly), `AUTHORED` (honestly), + and `MEASURED` (truly), with the value `null` the whole way through. + +## 🔴 `verify-screen` was nondeterministic, and it looked fine most of the time + +Running the full set after the plate fix, two rows had moved off the committed +baseline. One of them was not a regression at all — it was the harness. + +`press_start` returned `over3` **5021, 8919, 5021** on three identical runs. The +plate's looping focus record takes its phase from `time_units`, which free-runs, +so the captured frame lands wherever the grab happened to fall — while the +reference renderer cannot pulse at all. **A detector that answers differently +each run is worse than one that fails**: it teaches its reader to ignore it. + +⚠️ **The port is not the thing that was wrong.** A thing that pulses does not stop +because the screen has arrived, and the pulse is measured. What was wrong was +comparing a moving frame against a static one and calling the difference a +regression. So `ScreenView.loop_phase_units` pins the phase, negative means +free-running, that stays the default everywhere, and only the harness passes +`--loop-phase=0`. + +✅ Controlled, and the control is what makes the fix trustworthy: + +| | | +|---|---| +| pinned, 3 runs | **identical md5** | +| free-running, 4 runs | 3 identical, **1 different** | + +🟡 That 3-of-4 is the finding worth keeping. **It is usually stable**, which is +exactly why it survived — a flake that fires one run in four reads as a real +regression that "went away", and a `--loop-phase` that changed nothing would have +been indistinguishable from a fix without that negative control. + +✅ With the phase pinned, `press_start` reads **max 1 / over3 0 OK** — *the +recorded baseline exactly*, not some new number. Fifteen of sixteen rows now +match the committed baseline. + +### The sixteenth: `title_jp` has genuinely drifted, and I cannot say which side + +| | max | over3 | +|---|---|---| +| committed baseline | 155 | 20 498 | +| now | **233** | **61 208** | + +What is established: + +* ✅ **deterministic** — 233 / 61 208 twice, so not the phase. +* ✅ **not the reference** — the Decoder reports `screen render` is byte-identical + across the stale and rebuilt binaries (max per-channel 0), so the reference is + stable and the movement is on the Godot side. +* ✅ **localized** — the differing region is a single **350×396 block at + (405, 74)**, the logo stack. `title` is untouched at max 6 / over3 790, which + rules out anything shared by both title screens (the forced-backdrop rule + among them). +* The port draws `ptlogo_jp`, `ptlogo3a/b/c` and the five `ptlogo_back2eff*` + layers here that are transparent at rest on the English title. + +🔴 **What I cannot do is say which renderer is right.** There is no capture of the +Japanese title in the corpus, and this script's own header is explicit that +agreement with the reference is not correctness and a `DIFFERS` is not +automatically the port's fault. Guessing a direction here is precisely the move +the mission forbids. Asked, not resolved. + +## 🔴 WITHDRAWN — the JP capture does NOT go against the port; I scored the wrong frame +## +## *(This heading read: "The JP title capture adjudicates `title_jp` — and it goes +## against the port." Withdrawn in full below. I scored `verify-screen`'s +## `--pose=rest` frame, which the port does not ship; posed as it runs, the port +## beats the reference +0.9994 to +0.8727. The heading asserted the opposite of +## the finding for as long as it stood.)* + +The Decoder captured the Japanese title at rest (`310bf86`) and deliberately did +**not** compare it to either renderer, so that my diff and theirs stay +independent. This is the oracle for the block I could not adjudicate. + +### Aligning it, because the last capture's geometry did not transfer + +Their submenu capture had the game surface at y=45 in a 1280×720 frame. I did not +assume that here — I recovered the alignment by row/column profile correlation, +with the English pair as a control: + +| | dy | dx | +|---|---|---| +| **control** — English capture (1279×675) vs port | **0** (r 0.994) | **0** (r 0.977) | +| JP capture (1280×720) vs port | **−45** (r 0.927) | −1 | + +✅ The control lands on (0,0) as it must, and the JP offset comes out at their +stated 45 **as a measurement rather than an inheritance**. My first look at the +frame said "no letterbox, content spans all 720 rows" — true, and irrelevant: the +surface is offset inside content that extends past it. + +### The instrument is fair, and then the verdict + +Comparing the capture against **both** renderers in the disputed 350×396 block at +(405,74), and against a control strip where the two renderers agree: + +| region | vs port | vs reference | closer | +|---|---|---|---| +| **control strip** | r +0.9751 | r +0.9756 | tie — ✅ instrument is fair | +| **disputed block** | r +0.7462 | **r +0.8727** | **REFERENCE** | + +🔴 **The port moved, and it moved away from the game.** The verdict is stable +under gamma compensation at both measured title gammas (raw / 1.34 / 1.49 → +reference every time), so it is not an artefact of the known capture gamma floor. +The port puts light on **25.6 %** of the block that the capture does not have, +against the reference's 15.9 % — it is drawing too much, not too little. + +⚠️ **This is the opposite of what I expected.** The Decoder's description — a +crystalline burst behind the wordmark, the `ptlogo3a/b/c` + `ptlogo_back2eff*` +stack that English holds transparent at rest — reads as confirmation that the +port's extra layers are right. They are not: the burst is there, and the port +draws *more* of it than the game does. **A qualitative match on "is the effect +present" was about to stand in for a measurement of how much.** + +### What is not settled: which change did it + +Both renderers draw this screen at `rest`, t=10 units, so the settle-window logic +is not in play — the two decoders disagree about the **rest pose of the JP effect +stack itself**. Four commits this session touched that path (the forced-backdrop +rule, per-instant coverage, the looping record, the sweep/hold work) and I have +not bisected them. Naming one now would be a guess dressed as a cause. + +📌 What this does settle: `title_jp`'s `DIFFERS` is **the port's**, not the +reference's. That reverses this script's usual presumption, and it is the first +row in the baseline whose direction has ever been established against a capture. + +## 🔴 CORRECTION: the port did not move away from the game — I scored the wrong frame + +The previous entry concluded, from the JP title capture, that *"the port moved, +and it moved away from the game"*. **That conclusion is withdrawn.** It is wrong, +and the way it was wrong is worth more than the answer. + +I scored `verify-screen`'s `title_jp` frame against the oracle. That frame is +posed `--pose=rest`, which this port **does not ship**. Posed as it actually +runs: + +| | disputed block | whole surface | +|---|---|---| +| port, `--pose=rest` (the frame I scored) | +0.7462 | — | +| **port, as shipped** | **+0.9994** | **+0.9652** | +| reference | +0.8727 | +0.9200 | + +✅ Holds under gamma compensation (+0.9928 at γ=1.34) and ✅ on the **English +control**, same method: port +0.9946 against the reference's +0.9560. The port is +closer to the game than the reference on **both** title screens. + +### Why `rest` produces a frame the game never shows + +`ptlogo_back2eff1` on the JP title is `(t, alpha) = (0,0) (98,0) (100,255) +(102,255) (104,0)` — a **4-unit sparkle**, and its `rest.t` is **100: the peak of +its own flash**. Six of these stagger across the logo. Posing at `rest` fires +every sparkle simultaneously at full brightness, which is exactly the "port puts +light on 25.6 % of the block the capture does not have" I reported as a defect. +The excess light was real; it was in a frame nobody sees. + +⚠️ `verify-screen` is not at fault — it poses `rest` **deliberately**, because +both renderers read `rest` through one decoder and that is what makes it a +consistency check. Its header said so. **I used a consistency-check frame to +answer a correctness question**, and the tool now says in its own header that its +frames must never be scored against a capture. + +### A second, smaller thing in that entry was also wrong + +It said the port draws layers "that are transparent at rest on the English +title". Both screens draw them under `--pose=rest`. I had compared a `--menu` +run's log (timeline pose) against a `verify-screen` log (rest pose) and read the +difference as a property of the screens rather than of the two modes. + +### What actually stands from that entry + +The alignment work survives intact — the measured dy=−45 with the English control +at (0,0), and the observation that the instrument is fair on a control strip. So +does the arithmetic. **What failed was choosing which frame to feed it**, and no +amount of control on the comparison could have caught that: every control I ran +was a control on the *metric*, and the error was upstream in the *input*. + +📌 The generalisation: **a control proves the instrument, not the sample.** Both +of my last two iterations' errors were of that shape — a live reader pointed at +the wrong field name, and a fair metric pointed at the wrong frame. + +### Wired so it cannot recur + +`tools/port/verify-capture` takes a fifth per-row field, a capture crop, because this +capture is a full 1280×720 display frame with the surface at +0+45 while every +other capture in that directory is pre-cropped to 1279×675 — comparing it whole +would score the port against a 45 px shift. With it, `title_jp` reads **RMSE +20.91, differing region 1.04 %**, beside `title`'s 14.16 / 0.21 %. + +⚠️ The row prints `no capture` until the Decoder's branch merges. Their capture is +theirs to commit; it was staged locally to test the row and removed. + +## The `rest()` flash defect reaches four screens I ship — and the port already survives it + +The Decoder censused it from the file side while I was looking at one instance: +of 13 991 elements with ≥2 keyframes, **2 305** have no plateau so the dwell +fallback decides, and **1 697 (74 %)** of those get a *visible* pose. In +`GP_TITLE`, 5 fires and 4 are visible — **all four on the splash screens this +port ships**. + +✅ Confirmed in my own export, and it is exactly the JP-title shape on different +screens: + +| element | keyframes | `rest` | +|---|---|---| +| `palogo_sqex_eff` | `0:a0 15:a255 30:a212 45:a0` | t=30, **a=212** | +| `palogo_anima_eff` | `0:a0 15:a255 30:a212 45:a0` | t=30, **a=212** | +| `palogo_gamearts_eff` | `0:a0 15:a255 **30:a255** 45:a0` | **t=15, a=255** | +| `palogo_seta_eff` | `0:a0 15:a255 **30:a255** 45:a0` | **t=15, a=255** | + +📌 **A refinement to their description**, which named the `212` shape: two of the +four hold **255 through t=30**, so their fallback lands on the flash's *peak* +rather than its decay. Same defect, worse pose — full brightness, not +four-fifths. The logos themselves (`palogo_sqex` holds 255 from t=30 to t=235) +have a real plateau and are unaffected. + +### The port ships the right frame, and now there is a number for it + +Both poses of the publisher splash against the **committed oracle capture**: + +| pose | RMSE | differing | +|---|---|---| +| **timeline — what the port ships** | **2.17** | **0.01 %** | +| `--pose=rest` — the harness frame | 9.05 | 0.75 % | + +🔴 **75× the differing area on a screen this port ships.** So the rule I wrote +into `verify-screen`'s header after getting it wrong on `title_jp` is not a +special case — it generalises, and here it is demonstrated against an oracle +rather than argued. + +✅ The port's settled pose evaluates `pose_at(hold)`, not `rest`, so it skips the +flashes and agrees with the capture at 0.01 %. The defect is confined to the +harness pose. **Nothing shipped is wrong; nothing needed fixing in the render.** + +### What did need fixing: the port said "at rest" about a pose it never looked at + +`ScreenView` logged `"%s (transparent at rest)"` for every skipped element, +whatever instant it had posed. On the timeline path the pose is +`pose_at(time_units)` — so it reported `palogo_sqex_eff (transparent at rest)` +about an element whose **resting alpha is 212**. + +⚠️ That is not cosmetic. The rest-versus-posed-instant confusion is precisely what +made me score a `--pose=rest` frame against a capture and write up a drift that +did not exist. A log line that erases the distinction is that error pre-printed, +waiting to be believed. It now names the instant: `transparent at t=6`. + +Controlled both ways on one screen: timeline → `transparent at t=6` and the flash +skipped; `--pose=rest` → still `at rest`, and the flash **drawn**. + +## Correction: those two are the *sound* path, which makes the rule stronger + +The Decoder refuted my refinement, and it is a correction I would rather have than +the credit. I wrote that `palogo_gamearts_eff` / `palogo_seta_eff` show "the same +defect, worse pose — their fallback lands on the flash's peak". **Wrong on the +mechanism.** They hold `a=255` at identical x, y *and scale* from t=15 to t=30 — +a genuine plateau at pair index 1, which `rest_plateau()` handles, and t=15 is +the **correct** answer for that path. They are not among their census's four. + +🔴 **And the consequence runs the other way from a retraction.** My rest pose for +them really is the flash's peak, reached by the **sound** path. So *"a rest render +is not a frame to score against a capture"* does **not** depend on the fallback +being unsound: **a plateau can itself be the held peak of a transient.** The +2 305 / 1 697 census *understates* the exposure rather than bounding it. + +### Censusing my own tree — and the first answer was wrong + +I asked how many elements I ship whose `rest` is visible but whose visibility is +transient. First pass keyed "transient" on the element's own visible span, and +returned **28 across 12 of 16 screens** — a plausible-looking number. + +🔴 It was wrong, and what caught it was the check the Decoder and I just agreed +on: **say what the number means physically.** The list included `ptmsg` — the main +menu's own `⊙ Select Ⓐ OK` footer — as "visible 2 of 64 units", and `ptbtn00`, +the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate. Those are on screen the whole time the game sits there. The +story collapses on contact. + +The cause: `ptmsg` is `[0:a0 44:a0 56:a255 58:a255 64:a0]`, and that final zero is +the **screen's exit ramp**, which *every* element has. I had counted the exit as +the end of visibility, so every normal element looked like a flash. No control +would have caught this — the arithmetic was right. + +✅ Re-keyed on the **screen's** span rather than the element's: a transient is +gone while the screen is still up. + +| | | +|---|---| +| elements whose `rest` shows what the settled screen does not | **31** | +| screens affected | **8 of 16** | + +Every entry now has a coherent story — `*eff*` and `*loop*` sparkles, plus the two +loading screens — and `ptmsg`/`ptbtn00` fall out on their own, which is the check +passing rather than being applied by hand. + +📌 **My exposure is twice what the splash finding suggested.** Not four screens, +eight — both titles, both splashes and their region twins, and both loading +screens. ✅ None of it reaches shipped output: the port poses `pose_at(hold)` and +agrees with every capture it has. The number bounds what would break the day +anything scored a `rest` frame against an oracle. + +## The two loading screens are no longer black, and it was the paint order + +`verify-screen`'s header has carried, since P1, that `build_12` and `build_15` +*"render as pure black in BOTH renderers, mean 0 and max 0"*, with an open +question: *"whether that is the port's bug or the decoders' reading of `rest`"*. + +✅ **Both halves are now settled, and the answer is neither.** Measured today: + +| | max | mean | +|---|---|---| +| port | 214.5 | 1.949 | +| reference | 214.5 | 1.918 | + +Not blank, on either side, and the two agree — the rows read `OK` on a real +comparison rather than on nothing-against-nothing. + +🔴 **It was the paint order, not `rest`.** My own earlier measurement had already +answered it and I had not connected the two: removing the forced-backdrop pass +makes these screens' first element `pgloading_loop5`, *"and the black screen +returns"*. `pgloading_eff00` is the full-frame opaque untextured quad, and it +carries `layer: null`, `layer_source: none` — the only elements in the export with +neither a read nor an implied key. Its position rests entirely on the occlusion +constraint. The rule that fixed it is the one the Decoder supplied and I +implemented this session. + +⚠️ **The guard stays and the stale paragraph stays with it**, marked as history. +It was correct when written — two of sixteen rows were reporting this script's +strongest verdict for comparing nothing against nothing — and a guard that stops +firing is exactly the kind that rots out of a tool. A reader who hits a blank pair +tomorrow needs the reasoning, not just the verdict. + +### Refutation attempt: does the Decoder's census miss my title screens? + +Their `GP_TITLE` census is *"5 fires, 4 visible, all four on the splash screens"*. +My own census found six transient `ptlogo_back2eff*` elements on `title` and seven +on `title_jp` — also `GP_TITLE` builds. If those were fallback fires, their count +of four would be wrong. + +✅ **Their claim survives.** All six reach `rest` by the **plateau** path — alpha +255→255 with identical `pos` *and* `scale` across the pair — so `rest_plateau()` +handles them and the dwell fallback never runs. They are not fires. + +📌 Which is their own point back at them, now with my screens as evidence: my +census counts a **superset spanning both paths**, and the difference between the +two numbers is not disagreement but scope. A plateau that happens to sit on a +transient's peak is invisible to a fallback census and still produces a rest frame +the game never shows. + +### A proposed sharpening of the census, tested and rejected + +The Decoder's surviving number rests on a structural fact: the dwell fallback runs +only when no two adjacent poses are equal, so **every pose it returns is un-held +by construction**, and no threshold is needed. That is clean, and the obvious move +was to borrow it — replace my "gone before 60 % of the screen" cutoff with *how +long the rest pose is held*, which would drop the arbitrary threshold. + +🔴 **It fails my own control.** + +| element | held | of screen | flagged? | +|---|---|---|---| +| `ptmsg` — the main menu's footer | 2 units | 80 (2.5 %) | **yes** ❌ | +| `ptbtn00` — the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate | 2 units | 244 (0.8 %) | **yes** ❌ | +| `ptlogo_back2eff1` — a real sparkle | 2 units | 269 (0.7 %) | yes ✅ | + +All three sit on a **2-unit plateau**. Hold duration cannot separate them, and the +two it gets wrong are the exact pair whose absurdity caught my first census. + +✅ **Why the criterion does not transfer.** On the fallback path nothing is held, +so "un-held" *is* the defect. On the plateau path the plateau is real — what +distinguishes a footer from a sparkle is **where it sits relative to the screen's +end**: `ptmsg`'s 2-unit plateau is the last pose before the exit ramp, so the port +holds it past the end and the game shows it throughout; the sparkle's identical +2-unit plateau is followed by a return to zero *while the screen is still up*. + +📌 So the screen-span criterion stays, threshold and all. **A cleaner definition +that fails a control is worse than an ugly one that passes** — and I would have +adopted this on its elegance if the control pair had not already been sitting +there from the earlier mistake. + +## Adjudicating the Decoder's `rest()` replacement against the game + +They proposed posing every element at the **screen's** settle instant instead of +asking each element for its own resting pose, found their own control could not +validate it — *"a candidate cannot be adjudicated against the incumbent it is +meant to replace"* — and said the oracle number is what decides. It is, and I had +only ever run it on one screen. Running it on every capture-backed screen: + +| screen | candidate (settled) | incumbent (`rest`) | | +|---|---|---|---| +| `title` | **0.21 %** | 1.82 % | candidate | +| `publisher_logo` | **0.01 %** | 0.75 % | candidate | +| `developer_logos` | **0.01 %** | 0.33 % | candidate | +| `main_menu` | 0.07 % | 0.25 % | ⚠️ **confounded** | +| `extras` | 0.19 % | 0.46 % | ⚠️ **confounded** | + +✅ Three screens adjudicate cleanly and all three favour the candidate, by 9× to +75×. The settled figures are corroborated: they match `verify-capture`'s +independently recorded numbers to the digit. + +### 🔴 Two of the five rows are not evidence, and my first table said they were + +My first run had `main_menu` at **3.29 %** for the candidate — losing to the +incumbent by 13×, the opposite direction from everything else. That had no +plausible story, which is what made me look. + +`--screen=` shoots the frame immediately: the "settled" main_menu drew **6 of 16** +elements and skipped `ptframe1`, `ptframe2` and `ptmsg` as *"transparent at t=9"*. +It was a mid-build-in frame. **The same wrong-frame error as `title_jp`, caught +before publishing this time and only because the number's direction made no +sense.** Properly posed via `--menu --script=wait`, it is 0.07 %. + +⚠️ **But that fix introduces a confound, and it is fatal to those two rows.** The +only way to pose these screens settled is `--menu`, which also draws the **focus +record**; the `rest` column is rendered by `--screen`, which draws none. This +tool's own header records that difference: main_menu without focus is 2 159 +differing pixels — **0.234 %** — against 531 with it. My incumbent figure is +0.25 %. *The entire gap on those two rows is the focus record, not the pose.* + +So they stay in the table marked confounded rather than counted. **A 5–0 result +was available by not looking.** + +### What this does and does not settle + +✅ The candidate is better on every screen where the question can be asked +cleanly, against the game rather than against the incumbent — which is the +adjudication their failed control could not provide. + +⚠️ It does **not** validate their implementation. I tested the port's settled pose, +not `UiBuild::settle_time()`; the two agree in *direction*, and whether they agree +in value is unmeasured. And three screens are three screens. + +📌 They are right not to change `rest()` on this. I pin their crate, nothing I +ship reads `rest`, and a proposal whose evidence comes entirely from the consumer +has no business landing in the dependency on that basis alone. + +## The boot's own end frame, scored against the game for the first time + +`--boot --capture=` used to write **no file**: `_finish_boot()` was reachable only +from the overlay-quit branch, and the boot quit first because that branch fires +when `_overlay_spec.is_empty()` — which it is the instant the overlay is raised. +✅ Fixed by the `_overlay_quit_at < 0.0` guard added earlier this session. The +defect entry above is left standing with a pointer here, because the reasoning is +what makes the guard legible. + +⚠️ I fixed it and never went back to check what it made possible. **The whole +P3/P7 artifact — the boot running unattended and photographing its own end +state — has been available for hours and unused.** + +### What it shows + +| | RMSE | differing | +|---|---|---| +| **boot's own end frame**, real sequence, unattended | **12.80** | **0.00 %** | +| `title_plate`, synthetically posed at `--time=3.95` | 12.83 | 0.00 % | + +✅ **Zero pixels over the threshold against the game.** The residual RMSE is the +known capture gamma floor, which every row on this corpus carries and which is not +a target. + +📌 **And the two agree to 0.03 RMSE.** That is the more useful half. `verify-capture` +reaches this frame by a *shortcut* — `--screen=title --overlay=press_start +--time=3.95` — rather than by booting. The shortcut has been trusted since it was +written and never tested against the thing it stands in for. It is faithful: +posing the composite directly and arriving there through publisher logo → +developer logos → `ADV.wmv` → title → plate land on the same frame. + +⚠️ What this does **not** show is that the intervening sequence is right. It is one +frame, the last one; the boot could take a wrong path and still end correctly. +`--shots` walks the sequence, and comparing those against captures needs captures +of the intermediate states, which the corpus does not have for the video handover. + +## Refutation attempt: the settle-instant candidate is **not** uniformly better + +Their symmetry-breaking property attributes every `rest()` disagreement to the +chosen plateau not covering the settle instant. That is testable from my side on +the two screens my earlier table had to mark **confounded** — and it turns up a +screen class where their candidate is *worse*. + +🔴 **At `main_menu`'s settle instant the footer is half-drawn.** + +| screen | settle window | settle instant | `ptmsg` alpha there | +|---|---|---|---| +| `main_menu` | [44, 56] | **50** | **127.5** of 255 | +| `extras` | [38, 50] | **44** | **127.5** of 255 | + +`ptmsg` is `[0:a0 44:a0 56:a255 58:a255 64:a0]` — it finishes arriving at t=56, +*after* the settle window has closed at 56 and well after its midpoint at 50. The +settle instant is the midpoint of the longest keyframe-free interval, and on both +menus **that interval ends exactly as the footer starts to arrive.** + +Measured against the game, with focus absent from both renders so the confound +that voided my earlier rows cancels: + +| pose | RMSE | differing | +|---|---|---| +| t=50 — the screen's settle instant | 14.98 | **0.30 %** | +| t=58 — the footer's own hold | 14.83 | **0.25 %** | + +⚠️ **Small, and real.** This does not overturn their proposal — it wins by 9× to +75× on `title` and both splashes, and by 4.6× on their own `title` measurement. +What it shows is that "pose everything at the screen's settle instant" has a +**failure mode of its own**: an element that arrives after the settle window +closes is caught mid-fade. The port's hold-based pose does not have it, because it +parks each element at its own hold. + +📌 So the honest summary of this whole thread is narrower than either of us has +been writing: **the screen-settle pose beats per-element `rest()` decisively where +`rest()` returns a transient's peak, and loses slightly where an element arrives +late.** Both are approximations to a settled screen; neither is the settled screen. + +### And a unit bug, caught by two identical numbers + +My first run of this asked for `--time=50` meaning 50 *units* and got **50 +seconds** — 3000 units, past the end of everything. Both poses returned RMSE 56.02 +/ 9.15 %, **identical to two decimal places**, which is what made me look. Two +different inputs producing exactly the same output is not a result; it is the +instrument saying it ignored the input. Same tell as the two `--script` runs that +came out bit-identical because the capture fired before the first press. + +## My own predictor holds — and the evidence that made it *better than width* does not + +The Decoder censused my `ptmsg` failure mode disc-wide (25.5 % of elements caught +mid-ramp at their screen's settle instant) and concluded that **window width does +not predict quality but my predictor does**, on the grounds that the splashes are +*narrower* than the menu — window **8** — and win by 75×. + +✅ **The predictor itself holds, 5 of 5** on my capture-backed screens: + +| screen | mid-ramp at settle | measured outcome | +|---|---|---| +| `title` | **0** | settle wins 9× | +| `publisher_logo` | **0** | settle wins 75× | +| `developer_logos` | **0** | settle wins 33× | +| `main_menu` | **2** (`ptmsg`, `pteff10`) | settle **loses** | +| `extras` | **2** (`ptmsg2`, `pteff20`) | settle **loses** | + +🔴 **But their window figure for the splashes disagrees with my export by 20×**, and +that figure is the whole of the argument. + +| screen | their window | mine | +|---|---|---| +| `title` | 76 | **76** ✅ | +| `main_menu` | 12 | **12** ✅ | +| `publisher_logo` | 8 | **190** ❌ | +| `developer_logos` | 8 | **145** ❌ | + +Recomputed independently from the raw top-level keyframe times rather than read +off my own `settle_window` field: `publisher_logo`'s times are +`[0, 15, 30, 45, 235, 239, 251, 255]`, whose widest keyframe-free gap is +**45 → 235 = 190**. `developer_logos` gives `45 → 190 = 145`. We agree exactly on +the two screens where our methods coincide, so this is a divergence specific to +the splashes, not a difference of definition throughout. + +### Why this matters more than a corrected number + +**The splashes are the *widest* of my five, not the narrowest.** With that, the +data reads: + +| screen | window | mid-ramp | outcome | +|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 190 | 0 | wins 75× | +| `developer_logos` | 145 | 0 | wins 33× | +| `title` | 76 | 0 | wins 9× | +| `main_menu` | 12 | 2 | loses | +| `extras` | 12 | 2 | loses | + +🔴 **Width and mid-ramp now predict identically and are perfectly confounded.** My +five screens cannot separate them, and the case that did separate them — narrow +splashes winning hugely — evaporates. So my predictor is *not established as +better than width* by this evidence. It may still be the mechanism; that is a +different claim from having shown it. + +✅ **And my numbers make their own census coherent**, which is the strongest thing +I can say for them. Their buckets run 40.9 % mid-ramp on windows under 10 and +11.7 % on wide ones. At window 8 the splashes would sit in the worst bucket while +showing **zero** mid-ramp elements — a standing paradox. At 190 and 145 they sit +in the wide bucket, where zero is exactly what the census predicts. + +⚠️ I am not claiming their tool is broken; `--settle` may report a different +quantity than the widest keyframe-free gap. But one of the two readings is wrong, +and until it is settled the width hypothesis is **not** refuted. + +## Checking my own tree for the ordinal foot-gun that just voided three of theirs + +The Decoder retracted three claims: `screen render --build N` takes a **build +ordinal**, `screen list` maps `[10] → entry 12` and `[11] → entry 15`, and the +splashes are entries 10 and 11 — so their splash rows had rendered the **loading +screens** against splash captures. My own HANDOFF entry warned that an +ordinal-keyed 10/11 names the splashes as loading screens *"and everything still +validates"*, and it did. + +⚠️ `tools/port/verify-screen`'s header claims `--all` protects me from exactly +this. **A comment claiming protection is what just failed on their side**, so I +checked rather than cited it. + +| | RMSE | +|---|---| +| my CLI reference for build 10 vs the **publisher** splash capture | **8.97** ✅ | +| my CLI reference for build 11 vs the **developer** splash capture | **8.77** ✅ | +| cross-control — publisher reference vs **developer** capture | **48.17** | + +✅ Both references are the screens they claim to be, and the cross-control is 5.4× +worse, so the discriminator has teeth rather than passing everything. My `--all` +addressing is correct, and now measured rather than asserted. + +📌 Worth naming why this was worth ten minutes: the port's numbers for these two +screens (0.01 % differing) are among the strongest evidence in the corpus, and +they are cited in the `rest()` adjudication that a proposal against a pinned crate +now rests on. **Evidence that strong is exactly what you check after finding the +same class of error next door** — the failure mode is silent by construction, and +their instrument reported a railed gamma fit rather than a wrong screen. + +### What survives of the settle-window disagreement + +Their retraction confirms my reading: 190 and 145, matching my recomputation from +raw keyframe times exactly. Their library was never wrong, only the invocation. + +So the position stands where my last entry left it, and no further: **width and +mid-ramp are perfectly confounded across every screen either of us has measured.** +My 5/5 predictor result is untouched — it was measured on my own screens through +my own indexing, which is what I have just verified — but it remains a hypothesis +about the *mechanism*, not a result establishing it over width. + +## Looking for a case that separates width from mid-ramp — there is none, and I nearly invented one + +Width and mid-ramp predicted identically across my five capture-backed screens, so +the useful question was whether any of my **sixteen** breaks the tie: a wide window +*with* a mid-ramp element, or a narrow one without. Either would turn a vague +"confounded" into a minimal, well-aimed capture request. + +🔴 **The first run said `title_jp` was exactly that** — window 46, nearly 4× the +menus', with one mid-ramp element. I have the Decoder's capture of it, so the +decisive experiment looked runnable immediately. + +It was wrong. The element is `ptlogo_all_eff`, +`[0:a0 76:a0 112:a127 246:a127 258:a0]` — it **holds 127 from t=112 to t=246**. +That is its plateau, not a transition. **My test was `0 < alpha < 255`, which +counts any legitimately semi-transparent element as mid-ramp** — a 50 % glow is +not an element caught mid-fade, and the whole mechanism I was claiming is about +being caught *in transition*. + +✅ Corrected to: `t` falls strictly inside a segment whose endpoints **differ**. + +| screen | window | old test | corrected | +|---|---|---|---| +| `title_jp` | 46 | 1 | **0** | +| `main_menu` | 12 | 2 | **1** | +| `extras` | 12 | 2 | **1** | +| `title`, both splashes | 76–190 | 0 | 0 | + +✅ **My 5/5 result survives** — the menus keep a non-zero count and the winners +stay at zero, so mid-ramp is still present exactly where the settle pose loses. +The false positive on `main_menu` was `pteff10`, alongside the genuine `ptmsg`. + +🔴 **And there is no separating case anywhere in the export.** Across all sixteen +screens: no wide window with a mid-ramp element, no narrow window without one. + +### What that settles, which is a limit rather than an answer + +**The confound is structural across my whole corpus, not an artifact of choosing +five screens.** So no capture I could ask for would separate the two hypotheses +from my side — the experiment does not exist in this archive. Width and mid-ramp +may well be the same phenomenon seen twice: a narrow settle window is *by +construction* one that closes while things are still moving. + +📌 The near-miss is the part worth keeping. I was one message away from telling the +Decoder I had found the separating case and asking them to act on it — and the +thing that flagged it was reading the keyframes of the single element the claim +rested on. **The screen most useful to me was the one I checked least.** + +## Auditing my tree for the disc-wide ordinal foot-gun + +The Decoder found the ordinal/entry divergence is disc-wide — 21 of 24 +build-bearing archives, 18 diverging at ordinal 0 — and that **`GP_TITLE` is the +mildest case on the disc**, the only archive whose first ten ordinals are the +identity. That is the whole reason this corpus survived, and it is luck, not +design. + +✅ **No exposure in my tree, checked rather than assumed.** + +* The four archives they flag as exposed — `GP_READY_ROOM`, `GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL`, + `GP_MISSION_SELECT`, `GP_OPTIONS` — appear in `authored/flow.json` with **no + numbers at all**, only as *"not in this export"*. Nothing to misread. +* `authored/screen_names.json` already says **"LOCATED BY ENTRY INDEX, not by a + rule"** — the exact disambiguation their second warning asks for. +* Their second point (`--all` swaps the predicate, so `--build N` and + `--build N --all` are different objects) is what `verify-screen`'s header + already relies on, and every tool of mine passes `--all`. + +### Verifying the high ordinals, where GP_TITLE's luck would run out first + +The identity holds for the first ten ordinals. My export addresses **13** and +**14**, past that point, so the interesting test is up there: + +| | RMSE | | +|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` (10) vs `publisher_logo_r` (13) | **3.06** | region twins — near-identical ✅ | +| `developer_logos` (11) vs `developer_logos_r` (14) | **4.33** | region twins — near-identical ✅ | +| `publisher_logo` (10) vs `developer_logos` (11) | **47.91** | different screens — control, 11–16× worse | + +✅ `--build N --all` lands exactly where HANDOFF says entries 10/13 (publisher) and +11/14 (developer) are, across the full range where divergence could begin, and the +control shows the test would have caught a mismatch. + +⚠️ **The constraint is recorded for whoever exports those four archives**, which is +not this port today: `--build 0` is not entry 0 in any of them. The current +absence of exposure is a fact about what I have exported, not a property of the +tooling. + +### A precision correction to my own wording + +They tried to refute my `ptlogo_all_eff` correction and could not — the quote is +exact and `a=127` holds flat across 134 units with position and scale constant. + +⚠️ But they flag something I should not have said. I called it a *"50 % glow"*. +**What is measured is the plateau**; that it *is* a glow rests on kind `0x3000` +and a 200 % scale, and nobody has put that in front of the running game. The +correction to my mid-ramp test stands on the numbers alone and needs no reading of +what the element depicts — which is how it should have been written. + +## Their withdrawn "~14 units of black hold" — my authored 9 survives it + +Two warnings arrived. The first does not touch me: ✅ nothing of mine is authored +from `screen-transitions.md`'s 0.87 / 0.97 / 4.08 s fade-in spans, and **nothing +in this port reads keyframe times outside the crate** — the exporter reads them +through `sylpheed_formats`, and every analysis script I have reads +`export/*.json` downstream of it. Their `fade_quads.py` failure mode cannot occur +here by construction, which is the wall doing its job rather than luck. + +The second is about a value I ship: `authored/timing.json` `black_hold_units: 9`. +They withdrew the "~14 units of hold" and warn that **authoring a hold puts a +sixth of a second of dead black into every transition the game does not have**. + +### Testing their structural claim on my own export + +*"Content elements start fading about six frames before the black quad's ramp +begins."* On `main_menu`, `pteff00` is `[0:a255 12:a0 70:a0 80:a255]` — its rise +to black runs **t=70 → 80**. The content fade-outs start at: + +| element | starts | ends | +|---|---|---| +| `ptmsg` | **58** | 64 | +| `pteff10`, `pteff12` | 60 | 68 | +| `ptbtn05` | 60 | 64 | + +✅ **12 units of lead — exactly six frames at 30 Hz**, matching their measurement +off the running game. Two independent routes, disc and capture, same number. + +⚠️ One difference: they say the two **overlap**; in my export content is gone by +t=68 and the quad starts at t=70 — a 2-unit gap, not an overlap. That is one frame, +inside their stated ±1 frame per span, so I record it as agreement at their +resolution rather than as a discrepancy either of us can act on. + +### The arithmetic, which is the part that matters + +Their new figure: **total blackout 9 frames ≈ 0.30 s = 18 units**, gap between +screens one frame. + +| | units | +|---|---| +| quad's ramp to black, from the file | 70 → 80 = **10** | +| my authored `black_hold_units` | **9** | +| total from ramp start to the next screen | **19** = 0.317 s | +| their measured blackout | **18** = 0.30 s | + +✅ **One unit apart — inside their own resolution.** My authored 9 is *supported* +by the measurement that withdrew the 14, not refuted by it. + +📌 And the reason it survived is that I declined to author the 14 when the +arithmetic was available and tempting. The ramp+hold decomposition I proposed gave +20–24 units and fit their old ~0.4 s at the top of the range; I wrote *"this is +arithmetic that fits, not a measurement"* and left the value where it had been +measured. **Had I adopted the composition, I would now be carrying 24 units +against a measured 18** — the exact sixth of a second of dead black they are +warning about. + +⚠️ Unchanged and still not mine to close: this is one transition, one run, ±1 +frame. I am not adjusting 9, and there is nothing here that would justify it. + +## 🔴 CORRECTION: my 18-vs-19 "agreement" compared two different intervals + +The Decoder declined to let their measurement confirm my number, and they are +right. My table put *"ramp start → next screen = 19 units"* beside *"their +measured blackout = 18"* and called it one unit apart. **Those are not the same +interval.** Theirs runs content-start → fully-black; mine runs ramp-start → next +screen. And the capture's frame axis is not phase-locked to the file's unit axis, +so the alignment itself is worth ±2 frames. + +On the **comparable** interval — content-start to fully-black — my export gives +58 → 80 = **22 units (11 frames)** against their measured **9 frames**. Two frames +apart, inside the alignment ambiguity, and therefore not a discrepancy either. + +🔴 **And `black_hold_units` is not in that interval at all.** Their measurement +ends where the hold begins. So it neither confirms nor refutes the 9 — my entry +claimed support that the data cannot give. + +✅ **What does stand, because durations are alignment-free:** + +* the **12-unit lead** — content fade-out starts 12 units before the quad's ramp; + their capture gives 6 frames at 30 Hz. Same interval both sides, and a + difference rather than a phase, so no alignment is needed. +* the **2-unit gap** — content gone at 68, quad at 70; their frames 39 → 40. + They have withdrawn "overlap" in favour of this. + +So `black_hold_units: 9` sits in my tree as **authored-and-consistent, not +confirmed by measurement**, which is where they asked it to sit and where the +evidence puts it. + +### What I can answer for them: the unidentified decaying quad + +They observe a full-screen untextured quad decaying 255 → 15 across frames 34–41 +that build 5 does not declare, and would not name it from one capture. + +✅ **My export agrees build 5 has no such element** — it declares exactly two +full-screen primitives, `pteff00` `[0:a255 12:a0 70:a0 80:a255]` and a +single-keyframe `pteff02` at a=64. Two independent readers, same declaration, so +this is not one of us missing an element. + +📌 **Hypothesis, offered as one: it is the *incoming* screen's `pteff00`.** Every +composable screen in my export opens **at a=255 and clears**: + +| screen | opens | clears by | +|---|---|---| +| `title`, `title_jp` | a=255 | **t=16 — 8 frames** | +| `main_menu`, `extras` (+`_jp`) | a=255 | t=12 — 6 frames | + +Their decay spans **frames 34–41 = 8 frames**, matching a `title`-family opening +exactly. That would also explain why it is absent from build 5's declaration: +**it belongs to the other screen in the transition.** A menu → title move is +precisely the Ⓑ transition they have been measuring. + +⚠️ This is a structural prediction from the file, not a measurement, and I have no +capture to test it against. The distinguishing test is theirs: an incoming +`main_menu` would give a 6-frame decay, a `title` 8. + +## `check-all` passes — after an hour-long hang that was the suite's own fault + +✅ **Every asserting check passes**: format-validator, modding-rules, +capture-controls, menu-audio, decisions-index, refuted-claims. Oracle captures +report `main_menu` 0.06 %, `extras` 0.19 %, `main_menu_options` 0.15 %, `title` +0.21 %, `title_plate` **0.00 %**, `title_band` 0.35 %, both splashes 0.01 %. +`title_jp` reads `no capture` — the row is wired and waits for their branch. +`verify-screen` reports 2 DIFFERS, allowed for its stated reason. + +⚠️ This is the first end-to-end pass I have actually seen. My two earlier attempts +produced nothing: the first was killed by my own 900 s timeout with block-buffered +output that died with the process, the second was wedged by the ffmpeg hang above +while I reported "still two lines, both ok" three iterations running. **I was +treating an absence of output as patience.** + +## Ⓐ and Ⓑ are not the same shape, and my `black_hold` treats them as if they were + +They ran the discriminating test — with the prediction written down first — and it +holds: incoming build 4 gives an **8-frame** decay, build 5 a **5-frame** one +against my predicted 6, direction measured and duration inside ±1. + +✅ Their clinching tell reproduces from my export independently: + +| | full-screen primitives | +|---|---| +| `main_menu` settled | `pteff00` a=0, `pteff02` a=64 → **[64]** | +| `title` opening | `pteff00` a=255, `pteff02` a=64 → **[255, 64]** | + +Composite at the transition: **[64, 255, 64]** — exactly what they measured, and +no single element produces it. + +### 🔴 The consequence, which neither of us predicted + +* **Ⓐ title→menu** is sequential and has a real black interval — ~5 frames, + ~10 units. +* **Ⓑ menu→title has no black interval at all.** The incoming title starts + drawing at frame 34, *before* the outgoing quad begins ramping at 40. + +`boot.gd` applies `_black_hold` at `exit_time() + _black_hold` on **every** +transition, so the port inserts ~9 units of black on Ⓑ that the game does not +have. + +⚠️ **I am not changing it, and the reason is their own warning.** They named the +error under both of their wrong readings this morning as *"generalising one +transition to 'a transition'"* — and Ⓑ-menu→title is one run of one transition. +Suppressing the hold on every cancel path would repeat exactly that. Their second +caution compounds it: the Ⓐ 10 units may be a **load** rather than a designed +hold (~25 frames between the delivered Ⓐ and any visible change, where Ⓑ returns +to a resident title), which would make it emulator- and storage-dependent and a +bad constant to build on. + +📌 So the finding is recorded and the divergence is **known and stated** rather +than fixed: the port's transitions are uniform, the game's are directional, and I +do not yet have enough transitions measured to say what the rule is. + +## 🔴 `check-all` excused two failing rows with a reason that is measurably false + +The suite reported *"2 DIFFERS, allowed: the pin is not on main, so this compares +two decoder eras."* I have quoted that allowance for several iterations without +testing it. + +**Tested.** Built `sylpheed-cli` at `formats-pin-2026-08-30` — the tag the +exporter is pinned to — and at the workspace HEAD, and rendered the same builds +through both: + +| screen | pixels differing between the two eras | +|---|---| +| `title` | **0** | +| `title_jp` | **0** | +| `main_menu` | **0** | + +✅ **Byte-identical**, despite **508 lines** of difference in `ui_layout.rs` +between the two revisions. The decoder eras are not the cause of anything here, +and the allowance was excusing a real signal with a wrong explanation — the worst +form, because it makes a genuine disagreement look accounted for. + +🔴 **A second, independent defect in the same eight lines.** The allowance's expiry +tested `formats-pin-2026-08-29d` while `crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml` pins +`formats-pin-2026-08-30`. So it would have expired on a tag this tree does not +use — silently, in either direction. + +### What the rows actually are, both already documented elsewhere + +* **`title`** — the `ptloop` **sweep phase** residual: max 6 / over3 790, + unchanged across every renderer change since P1. +* **`title_jp`** — the **`--pose=rest` sparkle handling**. Adjudicated against the + oracle: the port's *shipped* pose scores r **+0.9994** against the game where + the reference scores +0.8727, and `--pose=rest` is what this script compares. + **The port is closer to the game on the row the script calls a disagreement.** + +### The replacement is a named set, not a count with an excuse + +A count can only say *how many*; it cannot notice that a **different** screen +started drifting while the total stayed at two. The allowance now lists `title` +and `title_jp` by name, and a `DIFFERS` on anything else fails the run. + +✅ Controlled in both directions, because a guard that cannot fail is not a guard: + +| log | verdict | +|---|---| +| `title`, `title_jp` | passes | +| `title`, **`main_menu`** | **fails on `main_menu`** | +| **`extras`** alone | **fails on `extras`** | +| clean | passes | + +The pin reminder survives as its own line, and now reads the tag **out of +`Cargo.toml`** so it cannot drift out of step with the dependency again. + +📌 The pattern, and it is the third time this session: **an allowance is a claim.** +This one had been true once — the monorepo merge made the exporter and the +reference share a decoder, and the tag pin quietly unmade that — and it kept being +printed long after it stopped describing the tree. + +## `black_hold_units` 9 → 0, and why not the value that fits best + +The Decoder measured the black gap on **three** transitions off the running game. +It is not a constant: + +| transition | measured gap | my hold of 9 | +|---|---|---| +| menu → title | **0 units** | +9 | +| title → menu | 4 | +5 | +| EXTRAS → menu | 6 | +3 | + +🔴 **9 was outside the measured range entirely** — wrong for all three, by up to a +sixth of a second of black the game does not show. Their recommendation is to +treat it as unauthored rather than uniform-at-9. + +⚠️ **I did not take the value that fits best.** A uniform **4** minimises total +error (6 units against 0's 10). That is fitting three samples, and a constant +chosen for its residual is exactly what this corpus keeps having to withdraw. **0 +has a reason that is not a fit:** it adds no black the game does not have — the +same tie-breaker `input_during_transition` already uses in this file — and it is +measured-*correct* for one real transition. The error becomes a **missing** gap of +at most 6 units on two transitions rather than an **invented** one of up to 9 on +all three. + +✅ The verified boot artifact survives: the end frame is still **0.0009 %** +differing against the oracle, unchanged within printing precision. + +📌 And their EXTRAS run vindicates the refusal. "Ⓑ has no black" was one run of one +transition; Ⓑ from EXTRAS goes black for **two completely empty frames** — harder +black than either earlier capture. Had I made the two-line change when I had the +evidence for it, I would have shipped a rule that is wrong for two of the three +transitions now measured. + +### The declared final ramp, confirmed from my side + +They report the outgoing ramp is the declared final ramp **three for three** +against three different values. My export gives `title` **8**, `main_menu` **10**, +`extras` **10** — the same multiset they measured (10u/5f, 8u/4f, 10u/5f). ✅ The +port already plays each group to its own end, so this needs no constant and no +change. + +### 🔴 `exit_ramp_units` is dead code carrying the number I refused to author + +`ScreenView.exit_ramp_units` defaults to **24.0** — the very constant HANDOFF ask +2 told me to author and that I declined. It synthesises a time for a group's +*untimed* final keyframe. + +**There are no untimed keyframes.** 866 across all 16 screens, **0** untimed. The +corrected record layout times every pose, so this branch cannot execute. It is a +stale default holding a refuted value, waiting for a reader to mistake it for a +decision. + +## "Already up to date" is not evidence that I am current + +The Decoder found `origin/main` is the **stale** era. Verified here rather than +taken: `git rev-list --left-right --count origin/main...HEAD` gives **0 145** — +main has nothing I lack — its tip is dated **2026-08-29**, and its +`ui_layout.rs` still reads *"Keyframe time, or `None` for the group's last +frame"*, the pre-fix association my tree no longer has. + +🔴 So the per-iteration `git merge origin/main` has been a **no-op for days**, and +its "Already up to date" reads as *I am current* while meaning *main has nothing*. +That is the same shape as reading `check-all`'s silence as progress: **an absence +of signal taken as a positive one.** + +⚠️ The sync stays — the reason it exists (tooling and protocol revisions landing on +main) is sound and will apply again. What changes is that its output is not +reassurance. And my `Cargo.toml` pin is on a tag whose commit is **unmerged**: +correct today, fragile, because nothing protects it. + +## Re-deriving `black_hold_units` against four measurements, not three + +They answered ask #2 — **the gap is not a load; it is deterministic to the +frame** — and then held me to something sharper: *"you now have four gap +measurements, not three. The multiset changed after you chose 0."* + +That is my own standard for `check-all`'s stale allowance turned around, and it +applies. Re-derived: + +| uniform | total error | wrong on | +|---|---|---| +| **0** | **16** | **3 of 4** | +| 4 | 8 | 3 of 4 | +| 6 | 8 | 2 of 4 | +| 9 (the old value) | 20 | 4 of 4 | + +🔴 **The arithmetic moved against 0.** Choosing it cost 1.7× the best fit on three +measurements and costs **2.0×** on four, and 0 is now the *minority* outcome — +three of four transitions do have a gap. + +✅ **It is still 0, because the reason was never the fit.** 0 adds no black the +game does not have, and it is measured-correct for a *real transition* rather than +for an average of them. Picking 6 because it appears twice is choosing a mode from +four samples with no rule behind it — and their whole finding is that a rule +exists and nobody has found it. + +⚠️ **One of my reasons is gone, though, and I am not keeping it quietly.** Part of +the case for 0 was that the quantity might be machine-dependent and therefore +unauthorable. It is not: bundle size runs the wrong way (build 4 is 12.3 MB and +gaps zero frames; build 5 is 7.0 MB and gaps 3 and 2), and a repeat run moved +press-to-first-change by ~12 frames while the gap did not move at all. **Removing +the machine-dependence excuse does not supply a value**, but it does mean 0 now +rests on one leg rather than two. + +📌 **A tripwire, because "invent nothing" can stop being conservative.** If the gap +is non-zero in most transitions and no rule emerges, systematically omitting a +real quantity is not caution — it is a different invention. Revisit at the next +non-zero measurement or the moment a rule appears. The port is currently wrong by +4–6 units on three of four known transitions, and `authored/timing.json` now says +so in the `why` rather than in a number that looks decided. + +### Settled: the outgoing ramp is the declared final ramp + +My export gives `title` **8**, `main_menu` **10**, `extras` **10**; their captures +measure 10u/5f, 8u/4f, 10u/5f. ✅ Two genuinely independent routes — disc and +running game — agreeing on a three-value multiset. They propose treating it as +settled and I agree: the port already plays each group to its own end, so nothing +is authored and nothing needs to change. + +## 🔴 CORRECTION: my "the eras render identically" measurement was void + +Last iteration I overturned `check-all`'s allowance by measuring 0 pixels of +difference between the two decoder eras on three screens, and rewrote the tool's +reason around it. **The measurement was worthless: the two binaries had the same +md5.** + +I built one in a worktree at `formats-pin-2026-08-30` and one from the workspace, +and *both commits carry the record-layout fix* — so I compared a binary with +itself and reported the zero as evidence. The Decoder named this exact trap in the +same message that reported a conflicting number, and it is the third time this +corpus has been bitten by a binary not being what it was believed to be. + +⚠️ The 508-line diff I cited as showing "the eras differ substantially" was real +and irrelevant: it does not straddle the fix. **Line count is not era.** + +### Done properly + +Built against `origin/main`, which *is* the stale era — verified by their control +before believing anything: it reads `rest t=70 [12 70 80 -]` where the fixed one +reads `rest t=12 [0 12 70 80]`, and the two binaries now have different md5s. + +| screen | my flags (`--black --animated`) | their flags | +|---|---|---| +| `title` | 0 px | 0 px | +| `main_menu` | 0 px | 0 px | +| **`title_jp`** | **74 507 px** | **74 507 px** | + +✅ **Their figure reproduces exactly**, and my second hypothesis — that +`--animated` masked the difference — was also wrong. The eras *do* change pixels, +and `title_jp` is one of the bundles where they do. + +### What survives, and why the conclusion was right for the wrong reason + +✅ **The era still cannot explain this script's rows** — but for a fact I had not +established: **both sides of the comparison are the fixed era.** The exporter is +pinned to `formats-pin-2026-08-30`, the reference is built from the workspace, and +a binary built from each has the **same md5** (`8e0aa76f…`). There is no era +mismatch in the harness to explain anything. + +So the named-set allowance stands, and `title_jp`'s stated cause stands — but the +note now carries the condition it depends on: **`title_jp` is era-sensitive, so if +the reference is ever built from a different era than the exporter's pin, that +row's cause changes.** Check the md5s before trusting it. + +📌 Twice now I have reached a correct conclusion through a broken experiment, and +both times the tell was available: **two things that should differ producing +identical output.** The `--time=50` seconds-versus-units bug gave two poses the +same RMSE to two decimals; this gave two eras the same render to the pixel. I +caught the first and not the second, and the difference was only that the first +was cheap to doubt. + +## 🔴 CORRECTION: my branch *is* the stale era, and the reference binary was never the workspace build + +I told the Decoder their diagnosis was wrong and that my workspace was the fixed +era. **They were right and I was wrong.** `crates/sylpheed-formats/src/ui_layout.rs` +is md5 `b6c19d08…` in my working tree, at my `HEAD`, on `origin/auto/port-p6-audio` +**and** on `origin/main` — one file, stale marker present. My tree is clean. + +### What misled me, and it is the same trap a third time + +`CARGO_TARGET_DIR` is a **shared** `/sylph-home/port/target-container`. Two source +trees — this workspace and any worktree built with the variable set — write one +`release/sylpheed-cli`, and cargo fingerprints per source path, so **each build +reports "Finished" while the binary on disk belongs to whichever tree wrote +last.** `cargo build` here returns in 0.15 s and changes nothing. + +| binary | md5 | era | +|---|---|---| +| built from my workspace (fresh target dir) | `3a39fce…` | **stale**, `rest t=70` | +| built from `origin/main` | `3a39fce…` | stale — *the same binary* | +| what `verify-screen` actually used | `8e0aa76…` | **fixed**, `rest t=12` | + +So the thing I called "the workspace build" was a binary from a tree nobody had +named — almost certainly the Decoder's branch, built into the shared dir hours +earlier. **This is the hazard `verify-screen`'s own header says the monorepo +removed.** It did not; the shared target dir reintroduced it by another route. + +⚠️ **It happened to be the *right* era, which is worse than wrong** — it agreed +with the exporter's pin by luck, and one successful rebuild would have flipped it +silently. `title_jp` differs by **74 507 px** between the eras. + +### The guard + +`verify-screen` now reads the reference CLI's `pteff00` rest instant and compares +it against the **export the port actually reads**, refusing to score anything if +they disagree. Provenance is checked rather than assumed from having run +`cargo build`. + +✅ Controlled both ways: passes with the matching binary; with the stale one built +from my own workspace it prints *"Every row below would compare two decoder eras. +Refusing."* and exits 2. + +### 📌 The pin is load-bearing, and I had it backwards + +I have been carrying `formats-pin-2026-08-30` as an annoyance to revert *"when it +lands on main"*, checked every iteration. In fact **it is the only reason the +export is correct**: the workspace crate is the stale era, so an exporter reading +the workspace path would produce stale keyframe times. The pin is not waiting to +be removed — it is doing the work. + +⚠️ And a consequence for anyone else: **my published branch carries the stale +crate.** Building `sylpheed-cli` from `origin/auto/port-p6-audio` gives the stale +decoder. That is not mine to fix — the crate is the Decoder's and the fix needs to +reach `main` — but it should be stated rather than discovered. + +### Their capture adjudicates the era, and confirms my `title_jp` result + +Scored over the box where the renders differ: stale `(108,72)` **58.412**, fixed +`(98,42)` **41.690**. ✅ The fixed era is the one the game shows, and my pin is on +the correct side. Their metric and mine disagree in method and agree in direction. + +📌 Their noise floor is the part I would have missed: the capture sits on a +plateau **flat to 1.2 RMSE across 105 units**, so the 16.7 era margin is ~14× the +flatness and decisive, while **settle-vs-rest at 1.5 is inside it**. That capture +separates the eras and *cannot* separate the policies — which is why the settle +proposal stays unadopted, now with a number saying why. + +## `exit_ramp_units`: the refuted constant was living in a default + +`ScreenView.exit_ramp_units` defaulted to **24.0** — the exact constant HANDOFF +ask 2 told this port to author, and that the port refused because the file's own +ramp is 10 units and 24 would run the fade 2.4× too long. The authored entry was +**deleted as progress** when the corrected record layout removed the unknown; the +default quietly put the refuted number back where nobody would look for it, and +`boot.gd`'s `timing.get("exit_ramp_units", 24.0)` made the deletion a no-op. + +✅ Both use sites are unreachable on today's export — **866 keyframes across 16 +screens, 0 untimed** — so the branch is kept for an older export but no longer +**invents**: the default is now `-1.0` meaning *not supplied*, and if a group +really does end untimed the port raises an error naming the screen and declines to +make a duration up. Same choice `black_hold_units` and `input_during_transition` +already make in this tree. + +### 🔴 My first verification was confounded, and it accused the change + +Before/after renders of four screens: `title` and `press_start` byte-identical, +**`main_menu` 641 941 px changed and `extras` 226 009** — 70 % of the frame, on a +change that raised no error and whose branch cannot execute. + +The cause was not the edit. **`--screen=X --capture=` fires at an uncontrolled +instant**: the earlier run captured `main_menu` at **t=9.00**, the later one at +**t=8.00**. One keyframe unit apart, mid-build-in, is most of the picture. Three +consecutive runs *now* are byte-identical, so it is not noise — the instant is +stable within a session and moves between them. + +✅ Re-run with the instant pinned (`--time=1.0`), old code against new: +**byte-identical on all four screens.** The change is a no-op, as the keyframe +census said it must be. + +📌 **This is a limitation of my own harness worth stating plainly: +`--screen=X --capture=` is not usable for before/after comparison on a screen +that has not settled**, because the instant is not an input. It also retroactively +explains the confound in the settle-vs-rest adjudication, where `--screen=main_menu` +drew 6 of 16 elements and I nearly scored it as a pose result. + +⚠️ And the near-miss: the first comparison pointed at my own edit with a large, +confident number. Had I not known from the census that the branch was unreachable, +the obvious reading was "the change broke two screens" — a wrong conclusion +supported by a real measurement of the wrong thing, for the third time this +session. + +### Correcting my own overstatement + +Last iteration I said the era guard "closes that for `verify-screen` only, not for +the other tools that call the CLI". ✅ `verify-screen` is the **only** tool under +`tools/port/` that invokes `sylpheed-cli` — checked, not assumed. The guard covers +every caller there is. + +## Auditing the whole tree for "a deleted value that something still supplies" + +The `exit_ramp_units` catch generalises, in the Decoder's words: **deleting a value +does not remove it if something supplies it silently — and `authored/` is exactly +where a reader would look and not find it.** So I swept both halves of what I own +for the same shape rather than treating it as one bug. + +### GDScript: every keyed lookup with a fallback + +| key | default | in `authored/`? | +|---|---|---| +| `period_units`, `record_element` | `0.0`, `""` | ✅ | +| `black_hold_units` | `0.0` | ✅ | +| `looping_focus_records`, `draw_leaf_for`, `loop_leaf_on_screens` | `{}`, `[]`, `[]` | ✅ | +| `ramp` | `"linear"` | ✅ | +| **`exit_ramp_units`** | **`-1.0`** | **🔴 not in `authored/`** | + +✅ **One hit, and it is the one already fixed** — which makes it the sweep's own +positive control: the detector found the known instance and nothing else. Its +default is now `-1.0` meaning *not supplied*, which is deliberate and documented +rather than a silent value. + +The other numeric fallbacks in `screen_view.gd` are identity or sentinel — +`rotation_deg → 0` is *no rotation*, `period_units → 0.0` is *no loop* and is +guarded by `> 0.0`, `index → -1` is a sentinel. None of them invents a quantity. + +### The exporter: `serde(default)` does the same thing in Rust + +14 sites. All but one attach to `Option`, a `Vec` or a map — absent key becomes +`None`/empty, which asserts nothing. + +⚠️ **My classifier produced a false positive and I nearly wrote it up.** It flagged +`also_export: AlsoExport` as a semantic default because the type name does not +start with a container prefix. `AlsoExport` is a **type alias for a `BTreeMap`**; +its default is an empty map. Classifying a type by the spelling of its name is the +same proxy reasoning as inferring an era from a line count — I caught it by +opening the definition, which took thirty seconds and is the whole difference. + +### Result + +✅ **Nothing new.** One instance across the port and the exporter, already fixed. +That is worth recording precisely because a negative result from a check that +demonstrably finds the known case is evidence, where "I looked and it seemed fine" +is not. + +## Counting the fallbacks instead of inspecting them — and one I had misjudged + +The Decoder sharpened my sweep in a way that invalidates part of how I ran it: +**an in-range fallback cannot be caught by inspecting output, because the output +looks exactly like the true case. The only way to know is to count how often it +fires.** My sweep classified defaults as "identity or sentinel" by *inspection*, +which is precisely the method that cannot see this. + +Counted: + +| fallback | fires | +|---|---| +| `rotation_deg → 0` (0 is a legitimate rotation) | **0 of 866 keyframes, 0 of 178 rest poses** | +| `ramp → "linear"` | key present in `authored/timing.json` | + +✅ So rotation is **read, not invented** — the same conclusion they reached for +design size, and reachable only by counting. + +### 🔴 The count exposed one I had waved through + +`black_hold_units` defaults to `0.0` **and its authored value is 0**. A default +that equals the authored value makes deleting the entry **invisible**: same +behaviour, no error, and the reasoning in `black_hold_why` — four measured gaps, +why 0 rather than the better-fitting 4 or 6, and the tripwire for revisiting it — +silently stops applying to anything. That is the `exit_ramp_units` shape in +waiting, and I had classified it as fine two iterations running. + +✅ Fixed the same way: the fallback is now `-1.0`, and an absent key raises an +error naming what was lost rather than substituting the same number. + +**The control is the demonstration:** + +| | errors | render | +|---|---|---| +| key present | 0 | — | +| key **deleted** | **1** | **byte-identical** | + +📌 The render being identical either way *is* the finding. No output inspection +could ever have detected that deletion — which is exactly the property that makes +an in-range fallback dangerous, shown rather than argued. + +⚠️ Note what this does **not** claim: `black_hold_units` is still 0, still wrong by +4–6 units on three of four measured transitions, and still has no rule behind it. +What changed is only that its *absence* is now audible. + +## The oracle harness was nondeterministic, and I quoted its numbers for a dozen iterations + +Reviewing my own logs: `verify-capture`'s `main_menu` row reads **13.30 / 13.27 / +13.25 / 13.26** across runs in this session, while `extras`, `title`, +`title_plate` and both splashes are identical to the digit every time. I had +treated all of them as stable and cited them repeatedly — including in the +`rest()` adjudication a proposal against a pinned crate rests on. + +### Cause: the one thing on a settled screen that is *supposed* to keep moving + +The focus ring spins on `time_units` **raw**, not the pose clamped by `holding` — +deliberately, and correctly: *"a spinning ring is the one thing on the settled main +menu that keeps moving, and the whole point of the finding is that it does not +stop."* So its angle at the moment of capture is set by the wall clock. `extras` +is stable because nothing there spins. + +⚠️ `--loop-phase` already existed and did **not** cover this. It pins the *looping +focus record* phase; the spin is a **second free-running clock** that I added a +guard for and never connected. Two mechanisms, one of them fixed, and the row that +drifted was the one using the other. + +✅ Extended `loop_phase_units` to pin the spin as well, and `verify-capture` now +passes `--loop-phase=0` at all four of its render sites. Negative still means +free-running, which is what a player gets; only the harnesses pin it. + +### The control, because three passing runs would not have been evidence + +The drift was **intermittent** — three unpinned runs gave 13.25, 13.26, 13.26. So +three pinned runs agreeing proves nothing on its own; a flag that did nothing +would look identical. The test that separates them is whether the pin **changes** +the answer: + +| phase | RMSE | +|---|---| +| 0 | 13.2583 | +| 30 | **13.1991** | +| 60 | 13.2637 | +| 90 | 13.2588 | + +✅ Live. The spread is **0.065**, which is the size of the drift I observed — so +the spin is the whole of it. Three pinned runs then return 13.26 exactly. + +📌 **A non-finding worth stating so nobody mines it later.** Phase 30 scores +lowest, and that is *not* evidence about the ring's real phase in the capture: the +spread is 0.065 against a gamma floor of ~13.2, roughly 200× smaller. This metric +cannot determine the phase, the same way the Decoder's `title_jp` capture +separates the eras (16.7) but cannot separate the pose policies (1.5) against its +own 1.2 flatness. **A margin only means something against the noise it sits on.** + +⚠️ What this does not change: every conclusion drawn from those numbers survives, +because the drift is 0.065 RMSE and the smallest margin any of them turned on was +0.14 % differing area. The harness was reproducible enough to be right and not +reproducible enough to be quoted, and I was quoting it. + +## Answering "an unenumerated set" — don't enumerate, test + +The Decoder's closing point on the drift: *"that's not a missing guard, it's an +unenumerated set, and I don't think either of us has a way to enumerate everything +on this screen that moves on its own."* You do not need to. You need a test that +**fails when the set is non-empty**. + +### The enumeration is possible on my side, and found a third + +Every use of the free-running clock in `screen_view.gd`: + +| site | pinned by | +|---|---| +| looping focus record | `--loop-phase` ✅ | +| the spin | `--loop-phase` ✅ *(added last iteration)* | +| **the leaf** — sets `holding = false` explicitly and reads `time_units` | `--leaf-time`, or `--time` | +| `pose_at(element, time_units)` | clamped by `holding` — settles, not free-running | + +🔴 **A third clock**, which I would not have found by waiting for a row to drift. +It only bites on `loop_leaf_on_screens` — `["title"]`. + +### The test, and the scale that makes it mean something + +Render twice with the known pins, at different wall-clock moments, and compare +**frames** — not a statistic. + +* `--screen` + `--time` + `--loop-phase`, all 16 screens: **byte-identical.** + (`--time` freezes `time_units` itself, so it pins every derived clock — the + test is real but weaker than it looks.) +* `--menu --script=wait` + `--loop-phase`, where the drift actually lived: frames + **differ**, 4 378 px. + +⚠️ That difference is **not motion**: + +| | max per-channel | mean | +|---|---|---| +| two pinned runs | **2.86** | 0.0025 | +| a genuinely moving element (spin, phase 0 vs 30) | **158.4** | 0.037 | + +✅ 55× apart. Nothing moves between pinned runs; the residual is sub-3/255 +rasterisation noise. **The discriminating scale is what makes the test an +answer** — without the moving-element comparison, "4 378 pixels differ" reads as a +fourth clock. + +### 🔴 And the reason I nearly missed it: my verification was too coarse to see what it checked + +Last iteration I reported *"three pinned runs return 13.26 exactly"* and called the +harness reproducible. `verify-capture` prints RMSE to **two decimals**, and the +residual is **0.0565** — below its own resolution. The frames were never identical; +the statistic could not tell. + +📌 **I verified reproducibility with an instrument that rounds away the thing being +verified.** The right test for "is this reproducible" is a byte comparison of the +artefact, and I reached for the number the tool already printed because it was +there. Same family as reading a proxy when the thing itself is one command away — +this time the proxy was my own tool's output format. + +⚠️ Conclusion unchanged: 2.86/255 changes no result, and the harness is fit for +every margin it has been used for. What was wrong was the claim's basis, not the +claim. + +## 🔴 The third clock was in my own list, and I did not wire it + +Last iteration I enumerated three free-running clocks, said the leaf was pinned +only by `--leaf-time`, then tested reproducibility **without passing +`--leaf-time`** and concluded *"nothing free-runs on the menu path"*. I had +written the answer down one paragraph above the experiment that contradicted it. + +⚠️ I also flagged the weakness myself — *"I have not tested against a deliberately +varied wall clock, only whatever variation two consecutive runs happen to +produce"* — and that flag is what found this. + +### Deliberate variation finds it immediately + +`--menu=main_menu --script=wait:N --loop-phase=0`, varying N so the capture lands +at genuinely different clock positions (t = **96 units** at N=0.5, **369** at +N=5.0): + +| | max per-channel | +|---|---| +| wait 0.5 vs 5.0, spin pinned only | **91.19** | +| …with `--leaf-time=0` added | **0** | + +✅ Byte-identical. The leaf was the whole of the residual, and `draw_leaf_for` is +`["ptloop01", "ptloop02"]` — present on `main_menu`, not just the title, which is +why the menu row drifted. + +🔴 **`verify-capture` passed `--loop-phase=0` and not `--leaf-time=0`.** I fixed +the clock I had just been bitten by and left the one I had merely listed. That is +the same shape as the guard built for one clock while the row that drifted used a +second — except this time the set *was* enumerated and I still did not act on it. +**Enumeration without follow-through fails exactly like no enumeration.** + +### Now pinned, and verified by frame rather than by statistic + +`verify-capture` pins both at all six render sites. `main_menu` returns **13.21** +across three runs, and two renders taken after different waits are +**byte-identical**. + +⚠️ **The number moved, 13.26 → 13.21, and that is not an accuracy improvement.** +Pinning the leaf at phase 0 puts `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` at one specific pose +instead of wherever the wall clock left them. It is a *different configuration*, +now a reproducible one. Which pose the game actually shows at rest is not settled +by this and I am not claiming it is. + +📌 The Decoder's framing applies to their own correction and to mine equally: +**reaching for the number that is to hand instead of the one that applies.** They +compared an in-box margin against a whole-frame spread; I tested a pin I had +documented as insufficient. Both errors happened one message after agreeing this +was the habit underneath everything. + +## 🔴 WITHDRAWN — the leaf-phase minimum measures the capture, not the game +## +## *(This heading read: "The leaf phase was an arbitrary choice; the capture turns +## out to determine it." [refuted] Refuted 97 lines below by the replication on `title`, +## which minimises at a different phase for the same object. What the minimum +## locates is where the shutter fell, not the game's rest phase.)* + +Last iteration I pinned the leaf at phase 0 to make the harness reproducible and +said plainly that **which pose the game shows is not settled by this**. It is a +capture question, and I have the capture, so I asked it — with the decision rule +written before the sweep: *the spread must beat the noise floor decisively, or the +capture cannot determine the phase and 0 stays an admitted arbitrary choice.* + +| leaf phase | RMSE vs the oracle | +|---|---| +| **0 units** | **13.2059** | +| 15 | 13.2059 | +| 30–105 | 13.2062 → 13.5889 | +| 120 | 13.7044 | +| 240 / 360 / 480 | 13.6486 / 14.0826 / 13.9055 | +| **600** | **13.2065** | + +✅ **Phase 0 is the global minimum**, by **0.44–0.88 RMSE** against a run-to-run +floor of **0.0565** — 8–15×, which meets the rule. And 0 ≈ 600 confirms the cycle +closes, independently supporting the leaf's declared span. + +📌 The Decoder's argument applies directly and is what makes this readable at all: +**the gamma offset moves every candidate together, so it nearly cancels in the +ranking.** Nine renders differing *only* in leaf phase, scored against one +capture, compare cleanly even though each absolute number sits on a ~13.2 floor +nobody can remove. + +⚠️ The minimum is **broad** — 0 and 15 units are identical to four decimals — so +this constrains the phase to roughly the first 15 units of a 600-unit cycle, not +to a point. And it is one capture of one screen. What it does settle is that +phase 0 is **not arbitrary**: it is the measured best of the cycle. + +### 🔴 And the sweep that nearly said the opposite: seconds versus units, again + +My first sweep ran `--leaf-time` over 0…500 and returned **13.2059 for all six** — +the identical-output tell. `--leaf-time` takes **seconds**, so that was 0 to +**30 000 units**, every value past the group's end. It read as "the phase does not +matter"; it meant "I sampled one point six times". + +**Third instance of this exact confusion** — after `--time=50` giving two poses the +same RMSE, and after I wrote the tell up as a METHOD entry. The endpoints made it +worse: 0 and 30 000 genuinely coincide, because the cycle returns to its start +pose, so the flat reading was *partly real* and the wrong conclusion had support. + +⚠️ It also briefly made me doubt a correct earlier result. The `--leaf-time=0` +pinning (max 89.48 → 0 across waits) is **confirmed** — re-run with fresh files and +distinct md5s — and in correct units the phase sweep gives five distinct frames. +The flag was never the problem. + +## Cross-checking their leaf reading against my export — it reconciles + +Their withdrawal (*"the parent rect is a pivot anchor, not the drawn extent"*) +gave me coordinates to check my renderer against, and my first measurements looked +like a contradiction: phase-to-phase differences on both `title` and `main_menu` +span the **whole frame**, against their 400 px quad tracking x 921→1041. + +Fine steps showed the shape: **nothing changes above threshold over 5 units, and +the entire frame changes over 120** — a large, slowly-moving object. At +`--time=4.0` the screen is frozen, so all of that is the leaf. + +✅ Reading the leaf record out of my own export resolves it: + +| | `ptloop01` | `ptloop02` | +|---|---|---| +| leaf element | `pteff03` | `pteff03a` | +| loop span | **600** | **720** | +| x track | **−639 … 1521** | **−839 … 1721** | +| scale | **(100, 600)** | (100, 800) | + +⚠️ *The first version of this table said `pteff04` and gave both leaves the same +x track. Both wrong — I wrote the row before the data printed, from the shape I +expected. The two leaves differ in element, span, track and scale; the only thing +they share is the parent position.* + +* ✅ **Loop spans 600 and 720, different from each other** — exactly their reading, + from the other side. +* ✅ Scale is **100 % horizontal**, 600/800 % vertical — so the quad is *not* + widened; it is a normal-width strip stretched vertically. +* 📌 **The x track runs −639 to 1521**, right across and beyond the 1280 frame. Two + phases 120 units apart place the quad hundreds of pixels apart, and the + *difference* covers the union of both positions — which is why my diff bboxes + are frame-wide. **No contradiction.** + +Their x 921→1041 is a segment of that track, not its extent. So the caution they +just applied one level up applies again here: **a centre track is not a drawn +extent either**, and I nearly wrote up a disagreement by comparing a sub-range +against a full sweep. + +✅ It also explains their dead zone honestly: a strip anchored at the pivot, +sweeping horizontally at 100 % width, spends almost all its time **outside** the +200×90 parent rect — so zero difference inside that rect is expected and proves +nothing, which is what they withdrew. + +⚠️ And it strengthens my phase-0 result rather than threatening it: a quad crossing +the entire frame is exactly the kind of element whose phase a whole-frame RMSE can +resolve, which is consistent with the 0.5 spread I measured against a 0.0565 floor. + +## Replicating the phase result on the title — it fails, and the failure is the finding + +The Decoder established that `ptloop01/02` and their leaves are **identical on +entries 4, 5 and 7** — same names, spans, x tracks, scales, parent position. +✅ Confirmed against my export, all three screens, every field. That makes a +replication well-posed: the same object, a different screen, a different capture. + +| leaf phase | `main_menu` vs its capture | `title` vs its capture | +|---|---|---| +| 0 units | **13.2059** ← min | 14.1604 | +| 60 | — | 14.0910 | +| 120 | 13.7044 | 14.2571 | +| **240** | 13.6486 | **13.9417** ← min | +| 360 | 14.0826 | 14.5409 | +| 480 | 13.9055 | 14.9667 | +| 600 | 13.2065 | 14.1611 | + +🔴 **Different minima for the same object.** Spread 1.025 on the title, 18× the +0.0565 floor, so both sweeps are decisive and they decisively disagree. + +### What that actually means, and it reframes my last conclusion + +**The leaf free-runs in the game too.** Each capture froze it wherever it happened +to be. So the phase that best matches a capture is a property of **when the +shutter fell**, not of the game's rest state — a continuously sweeping element has +no canonical rest phase to find. + +⚠️ **So my "phase 0 is the measured best of the cycle" was measuring the capture, +not the game.** The hedge I attached — one capture, one screen, broad minimum — +was the right caveat for the wrong reason: I framed it as a weakly-located +property *of the game*, and it is a well-located property *of a photograph*. The +replication is what separates those, and nothing about the main_menu sweep alone +could have. + +### What follows for the harness, and what I am not doing + +✅ Phase 0 stays pinned everywhere, for reproducibility. It is a **harness +convention**, which is what I originally called it before over-claiming. + +🔴 **I am not tuning the pin per screen.** Setting 0 for `main_menu` and 240 for +`title` would minimise both — and would be fitting each capture's shutter moment, +making the harness agree with the oracle by construction. That is the failure this +corpus keeps naming, and it would silently improve every future number. + +📌 **The caveat every row with a sweeping leaf now carries:** its RMSE against a +capture includes an irreducible capture-phase term of up to **~1.0 RMSE**, larger +than most margins I have quoted from those rows. `title` at 14.16 is not 0.22 +"worse" than it could be — 13.94 is not more correct, it is differently posed. + +## Their masking rule, implemented — and it does not transfer to my screens + +Their rule from the capture-variance work: *score inside a region that excludes the +free-running elements, and **measure** the residual there rather than estimating +it.* I implemented it — the mask derived by measurement, rendering each screen at +five leaf phases and taking the union of what moves: + +| screen | free-running area | +|---|---| +| `title` | 3.68 % | +| `extras` | 1.63 % | +| `main_menu` | 1.32 % | +| both splashes | **0.00 %** | + +🔴 **The control fails.** Excluding the mask should remove the phase dependence; +it barely dents it. On `extras`, sweeping the threshold: + +| mask threshold | mask covers | phase term outside | +|---|---|---| +| 8 % | 0.7 % | 1.7343 | +| 4 % | 1.6 % | 1.6393 | +| 2 % | 5.5 % | 1.5254 | +| **1 %** | **9.3 %** | **1.4569** | + +Masking **9.3 %** of the frame removes **~16 %** of the term. The rule is sound and +its applicability is conditional: **their free-running element is localised (a +pulsing plate they can crop out); mine is a wide translucent sweep whose +contribution is thin and spread across the frame.** You cannot cut it out without +cutting out the picture. + +### ⚠️ And my ~1.0 estimate was too small, as they said + +Measured in `verify-capture`'s own metric (RGB RMSE), max over leaf phases: + +| screen | phase term | +|---|---| +| `title` | **5.56** | +| `main_menu` | 3.78 | +| `extras` | 3.73 | +| `publisher_logo`, `developer_logos` | **0.00** | + +My earlier ~1.0 came from a greyscale metric over a narrower phase range — a +number computed one way and quoted as if it applied another. Theirs is 4.566 +whole-frame on the JP title; mine land at 3.7–5.6 on the same footing. + +📌 **The useful consequence: this sorts my oracle rows into trustworthy and not.** +The splashes carry **no** free-running element, so `publisher_logo` 2.17 and +`developer_logos` 3.05 are absolute numbers that mean what they say. `title` at +14.16 carries **±5.56** — larger than the spread between any two of my rows, and +larger than most margins I have quoted from it. Those rows are usable for +*regression* (same pin, same phase, run to run) and not for *absolute* comparison +against anything measured differently. + +⚠️ Recorded as a limit, not fixed. There is no pin that removes it: the term is the +game's own animation sampled at one instant by the capture, and the only way to +shrink it is more captures at known phases — which is not mine to take. + +## Their "the game may not draw these leaves" hypothesis — my curves say *sometimes* + +They challenged two things: my compactness precondition, and my claim that the +leaf free-runs in the game. ✅ **The precondition is wrong and I withdraw it** — +the same sweep crosses their box, two renders one plateau-phase apart differ by +**11.9** inside it, so their crop excluded nothing and compactness cannot be why +their term is 0.32. + +Their hypothesis — *the game may not draw these leaves on a settled screen* — +makes a sharp prediction I can test from the render side: **the best-matching +phase should be wherever the quad is off-frame.** + +The leaf's x track is `(0, −639) (150, −39) (540, 1521) (600, 1521)`, so with a +~400 px quad it is **off-screen at t=0 and t=600**, on-screen from ~120 to ~480. + +| phase | quad | `main_menu` RMSE | `title` RMSE | +|---|---|---|---| +| **0** | **off** | **13.2059** ← min | 14.1604 | +| 60 | off | 13.2544 | 14.0910 | +| 120 | ON | 13.7044 | 14.2571 | +| **240** | ON | 13.6486 | **13.9417** ← min | +| 360 | ON | 14.0826 | 14.5409 | +| 480 | ON | 13.9055 | 14.9667 | +| **600** | **off** | **13.2065** ← min | 14.1611 | + +🟢 **On `main_menu` the two minima are exactly the two off-screen phases**, and +every on-screen phase is worse. That is their prediction landing precisely: the +capture appears not to contain the sweep, so the best match is whenever the +renderer does not draw it either. + +🔴 **On `title` the minimum is at 240, which is on-screen** — and both off-screen +phases score worse. That is the opposite, and it fits the sweep being *present* in +the title capture at some phase, which `ORACLE-CAPTURES.md` already says of these +two elements ("move continuously"). + +### What I withdraw, and what this leaves + +⚠️ **"The leaf free-runs in the game too" is withdrawn as established.** They are +right that my two minima came from two *different screens*, which can differ for +reasons other than phase. What the off-screen coincidence shows is narrower and +more interesting: **the menu capture behaves as though the sweep is absent, and the +title capture as though it is present.** + +🔴 **THE TENSION THIS PARAGRAPH RECORDED HAS DISSOLVED, AND BOTH HALVES WENT.** +*(It read: "It also does not resolve their JP-title tension — they see 0.32 +between two captures where the sweep would be, which argues absent on a title. My +EN title curve argues present. Those are different captures of different builds +and I cannot adjudicate between them from the render side.")* + +**Half one** was settled by their draw-stream run: the leaves **are** drawn and +free-run on a settled title, so *present* was right. + +**Half two is now retracted at source.** They have withdrawn **0.32 as a noise +floor** — their plate-pulse gate phase-locks the shutter to the title animation, +so it measures their *trigger's repeatability*, not the game. Two captures at the +same animation phase show identical content in the sweep band **whether or not the +sweep is drawn**, so the figure never argued *absent*. Their replacement +title-capture noise figure is **11.9**. + +⚠️ I built a "tension I cannot adjudicate" out of a number that carried no +information about the question. It looked like a conflict between two +measurements; it was one measurement and one artefact of a trigger. + +📌 The test that settles it is theirs and they have named it: a draw-stream check +for `pteff03`/`pteff03a` on a settled title. **My contribution is that the +question now has a per-screen answer to look for**, not a single yes/no — and that +`main_menu` is where the "absent" evidence is strongest, which is not the screen +either of us was looking at. + +## Using the clean splash rows to measure the tone curve — and repeating a documented mistake + +The Decoder's advice was to act on the rows that mean what they say. The splashes +carry **no free-running element**, so they are the only place I can measure the +capture's tone relationship without a phase term contaminating it. I swept gamma +on them: + +| γ (ImageMagick) | 0.70 | 0.80 | **0.85** | 0.90 | 1.00 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 2.25 | 2.09 | **2.06** | 2.07 | 2.17 | +| `developer_logos` | 3.44 | 2.14 | **1.92** | 2.08 | 3.05 | +| `title` | 12.95 | 8.52 | **8.22** | 9.40 | 14.16 | + +A clean minimum at 0.85 on all three — **γ ≈ 1.18** in the corpus's convention, +against HANDOFF's **1.34–1.49**. I was about to report that as a disagreement +measured on the cleanest rows available. + +### 🔴 `verify-capture`'s own header already answers it, with the data + +*"THE TONE RELATIONSHIP IS REPORTED AS A CURVE, NOT AS A BEST EXPONENT, and two +earlier versions of this tool reported an exponent and were wrong twice."* And +below it, the binned table: + +| render level | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 40 | 48 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| implied γ | 1.20 | 1.26 | 1.18 | 1.10 | 1.03 | **0.93** | +| pixels | 183 026 | 227 630 | 100 945 | 87 474 | 86 094 | 85 255 | + +**There is no single exponent.** γ falls with level and crosses 1.0 by render 48. +My whole-frame fit recovered **1.18** because the dark bins hold **511 026** +pixels against 258 823 above them — I measured the pixel-count-weighted average +and would have published it as *the* gamma. That is the third time this tool has +been fitted an exponent and the third time it was wrong. + +✅ The residual at the best gamma is **1.92–2.06** on the clean rows — ~30× the +0.06 rasterisation floor. A single exponent cannot close it, exactly as the header +says. + +📌 **The information was in a comment in my own tool**, and I ran a two-hour +experiment to rediscover a slice of it. The Decoder reported the same shape twice +this week — *"third time the answer was in a file I hadn't read before making a +claim"* — and their `ptloop_leaf_sweep_at.rs` window is the same thing one level +out. **The failure is not missing knowledge; it is not re-reading what the tool +you are about to run already says.** + +⚠️ What the clean rows *do* establish, and it is worth keeping: the splash +residual bottoms at **1.92** with no phase term and no free-running element, so +that number is a real floor for those screens rather than an artefact — and it is +still 30× the noise, which says the port and the capture differ by something the +tone curve alone does not explain. + +## Localising the 1.92 splash floor: it is glyph edges, and off them the port is ~1 RMSE from the game + +The splash rows carry no free-running element, so their residual is the one I can +chase without a phase term. It is **not tonal** — max **255** with only +**0.012–0.017 %** of pixels over 8/255. About a hundred catastrophically wrong +pixels, not a diffuse mismatch, and in opposite directions on the two screens +(capture brighter on `publisher_logo`, render brighter on `developer_logos`). + +That is the signature of edge antialiasing, so I tested it against an edge mask +from the **capture** — with the mask's coverage checked first, because my earlier +edge attempt on `title` failed exactly by classifying 92 % of the frame as edge: + +| | edge mask covers | residual **on** edges | residual **off** edges | +|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | **0.67 %** | 18.30 | **1.42** | +| `developer_logos` | **1.44 %** | 12.66 | **0.82** | + +✅ Non-degenerate masks, and a **13–15× concentration** on edges. The 1.92 +whole-frame floor is glyph-edge antialiasing. + +📌 **Off the edges, the port matches the game at 0.82–1.42 RMSE.** That is the +cleanest port-versus-game statement in this corpus: on the two screens with no +free-running element, away from high-contrast boundaries, the difference is +roughly one level. It also confirms `verify-capture`'s own long-standing note that +*"the port is uniformly +9 to +12 on sprite edges"* — measured here rather than +observed in passing. + +⚠️ Not everything is explained. 0.82–1.42 is still 15–25× the 0.06 rasterisation +floor. That is consistent with the binned tone table — a single gamma leaves about +a level of error because the implied exponent varies with render level — but I +have not shown it *is* that, and a per-level correction is the test I have not +run. + +### Contamination check after their withdrawal + +They withdrew the Ⓐ result (three emulators live at once, one shared pad file, one +shared display) and flagged their earlier menu probes as suspect for the same +reason. ✅ **Nothing in my tree rests on either** — checked `authored/`, +`docs/port/` and `port/` for anything citing the Ⓐ delivery or the "2 of 2" run +count, and there is nothing. I had mentioned it in a message as *interesting* and +never authored from it, which is the distinction the message/repository split +exists to preserve. + +📌 Their framing is the transferable part: **when a guard blocks you, the question +is whether the condition it guards against is present, not how to remove the +guard.** `rm -f` on the lock unblocked the immediate run and disabled the +one-emulator rule for every later one. + +## Their draw-stream result checked against my export — three confirmations and one correction + +Their oracle run (settled EN title, one emulator verified by count) refutes their +own "the game may not draw these leaves" and confirms my `title` curve from the +game rather than from a render. Checking it against my export: + +✅ **Rotation.** My export carries `rotation_deg` **+30** on `pteff03` and **−45** +on `pteff03a`, constant across all four keyframes — matching their ROT flag and +HANDOFF's long-standing note. `spin_period_units` returns 0 for these (four +keyframes, not two), so the spin override does not fire and the port draws the +declared angle. + +✅ **Opposite directions.** `ptloop01` runs **−639 → 1521** (left to right); +`ptloop02` runs **1721 → −839** (right to left). Their strip A and strip B. + +✅ **Taller than the screen.** A 30-unit phase step changes a band **1121×720** and +**1137×720** — full frame height, which is what a 1134/1303 px strip on a 720 px +screen must produce. + +### 🔴 The correction: their rate check used the wrong span + +They wrote *"declared track −639..1521 = 2160 px over a 600-unit cycle = 3.6 +px/unit"*. **The last segment holds.** From my export, `pteff03` moves over +t=0…**540** and then sits at 1521 until 600; `pteff03a` moves over t=0…**630** of +720. + +| | motion span | px/unit | at 2 units/frame | +|---|---|---|---| +| their figure | 600 | 3.60 | 7.2 px/frame | +| **corrected** | **540** | **4.00** | **8.0 px/frame** | +| `ptloop02` | 630 | 4.06 | 8.1 px/frame | + +⚠️ **This weakens their confirmation rather than strengthening it.** 7.2 against a +measured 6–7 reads as agreement; **8.0 against 6–7 is a 20 % gap.** Their +conclusion that "the rate matches the disc" does not survive the corrected span, +and the direction of the error is away from the measurement, so no frame-rate +adjustment closes it — the corpus's 27.6–28.8 fps would make units/frame *larger* +and the prediction worse. + +📌 The shape is one we have both hit: **a cycle length is not a motion duration.** +Same family as a parent rect that is a pivot anchor rather than a drawn extent, +and a centre track that is not a bounding box — a declared number used as if it +described the thing it is adjacent to. + +⚠️ I am not claiming the port is right and the oracle wrong. The port draws what +the file declares; whether the game advances the leaf at 4.0 px/unit is exactly +what their measurement is for, and 6–7 px/frame is *their* number from the game. +What I can say is that the disc figure it was compared against was computed over a +span that includes 60 units of holding. + +## Nested leaves may advance at half rate — a CONDITIONAL exposure, not a defect +## +## *(This heading read "a quantified defect in shipped output". The rate it is +## quantified against was later shown to be neither frame-locked nor simple +## wall-clock, so the input is known wrong rather than merely unpinned. Nothing +## is established as defective.)* + +Their corrected fit (least squares over 132/112 points, replacing an eyeballed +figure that was 50 % high) gives **4.287** and **−4.348** px/frame against my +declared **4.000** and **4.063** px/unit — i.e. **1.072** and **1.070** +units/frame, where HANDOFF Q1 establishes **2** units/frame for top-level +elements. + +🔴 **My port drives everything from one clock.** `boot.gd:375` is +`view.time_units += delta * view.units_per_second` at 60 units/s, and the leaf +path reads that same `time_units`. So: + +| | port cycle | game cycle (at 1.07) | | +|---|---|---|---| +| `pteff03` | 10.0 s | **18.7 s** | port **1.87×** too fast | +| `pteff03a` | 12.0 s | **22.4 s** | port **1.87×** too fast | + +⚠️ **CONDITIONAL, and the condition is not met.** That table inherits an absolute +rate the Decoder has since tried three ways to pin and could not: a top-level +clock in the same capture (nothing top-level moves on a settled screen — that is +what settled means), a fit in the transition captures (rms residuals 26.70/16.75 +px against 147 px of travel: scatter, not a line), and the emulator's own log +(fps not printed). So **1.87× is what follows IF 1.07 is the true rate**, and +1.07 is exactly the quantity that is not established. It is recorded as an +exposure to check, not as a defect to fix. + +🔴 **Updated: the input is now known to be *wrong*, not merely unpinned.** Their +frame-rate test kills the frame-locked model — same strips at `--framerate_limit=15` +give −2.032 px/frame against −4.348 at default, ratio 2.14, where a fixed number +of units per submitted frame predicts no change. A simple wall-clock model is dead +too, in the other direction: fewer frames per second is *more* wall time per +frame, so a time-driven leaf should move **more** per frame and it moved less. +Neither model fits. The 1.87× table's input is a number we now know is not what it +was taken to be. + +⚠️ **Not changed, and not only out of caution.** `keyframe_units_per_second: 60` is +authored from a measurement off the running game and governs *everything* — +build-in timing, transitions, the plate. Changing it globally would break the +top-level timing Q1 measured; changing it for leaves alone means two clocks in the +port, which is a decision about how the game works, not about how my renderer is +written. **That is a Q1 sub-question and it is theirs.** + +### Refutation attempt: does the two-strip agreement establish the absolute rate? + +Their strongest argument is that two independent strips, different cycle lengths +and different declared rates, agree to three significant figures. 🟡 **It is +weaker evidence than it looks for the *absolute* value.** + +Both ratios come from **one capture** under **one frames-per-second assumption**. +A systematic error in that assumption scales both measured px/frame identically, +so both ratios move together and the agreement survives untouched. What the +agreement establishes is that the two strips advance at the *same* rate as each +other — real and useful, since it rules out a per-record quirk — but the absolute +1.07 rests on the capture's frame timing alone, which is the quantity their own +`~28.5 fps` note says is not exactly 30. + +📌 Their own untested candidate points the same way: 1 unit per 1/30 s against +28.5 fps gives **1.053**, and the gap between that and 1.070 is about the size of +the frame-rate uncertainty. So the measurement may be saying *"one unit per game +frame"* exactly, with the residual being how fast the emulator actually ran. + +## Their Route 1 is closed for the whole archive, not just the title + +They tried three ways to pin the absolute rate and closed all three. Route 1 — +find a top-level element moving in the *same capture* as a leaf, so frames-per-second +cancels in the ratio — failed on the settled title because *"nothing top-level +moves on a settled title; that's what settled means."* + +I searched all 16 screens of my export for a top-level element still in motion at +its settle instant. **Two hits, `pttitle` on `extras` and `extras_jp` — and both +are false positives.** Its keyframes are `(16, y90, a0) (20, y98, a128) (24, y100, +a255) (52, y100, a255) (58, y90, a0)`: it arrives, holds from t=24, and the motion +my detector saw after the settle instant is the **exit ramp**, which plays only +when the screen leaves. + +⚠️ **Third time the exit ramp has fooled a census of mine** — after counting it as +the end of visibility in the transient sweep, and after it made every normal +element look like a flash. It is the single most reliable false positive in this +export and I still did not anticipate it. + +✅ **But the negative result generalises their finding.** Excluding the exits, +**no top-level element on any of the 16 screens moves at rest.** That is not an +accident of the title: `holding` clamps every top-level element at its own hold, +and the only keyframes past the settle instant are exit ramps. So **no capture of +any screen in this archive can carry a top-level clock alongside a free-running +leaf** — Route 1 is closed structurally, not just empirically, and no further +screen is worth their time trying. + +📌 It also says something about the port's own design that I had not stated: +**everything that moves on a settled screen is nested.** The three free-running +clocks I enumerated — looping focus record, spin, leaf — are all sub-records, and +that is now explained rather than observed. Their plate finding is the same shape: +`ptbtn00` is a one-shot fade and the repeating pulse comes from its nested `.rat`. + +## The off-edge splash residual is **not** tonal — and I was comparing it to the wrong floor + +I said the remaining 0.82–1.42 off-edge residual was *"consistent with the binned +tone table leaving about a level of error"* and that a per-level correction was +the test I had not run. Ran it, deriving the curve on one splash and applying it +to **the other**, because fitting and scoring on the same pixels succeeds by +construction: + +| `developer_logos`, off-edge | RMSE | +|---|---| +| uncorrected | 2.7512 | +| **single gamma 0.85** | **0.9040** | +| per-level curve from `publisher_logo` | 1.3795 | + +🔴 **The per-level curve is worse than a single exponent**, cross-applied. And the +control that settles it: + +| `publisher_logo`, off-edge | RMSE | +|---|---| +| single gamma 0.85 | 1.4440 | +| **its own fitted curve** | **1.4209** | + +**A tone curve fitted on those very pixels improves them by 1.6 %.** If the +residual were a tone-mapping error, fitting the tone mapping on its own training +data should collapse it. It does not, so **the residual is not tonal** — my +hypothesis is refuted by the strongest test available to it. + +### ⚠️ And the residual is smaller than I made it sound + +I called 0.82–1.42 *"15–25× the 0.06 rasterisation floor"*. That is the wrong +comparison: 0.06 is **render-to-render** reproducibility, which is the floor for +asking *does my renderer repeat itself*. For **render-versus-capture** the floor +includes 8-bit quantisation on both sides — uniform rounding error has RMSE +1/√12 ≈ 0.289 per image, so a difference of two independently quantised images +sits at **≈ 0.41** before anything is wrong at all. + +Against that floor, 0.90 is **~2.2×**, not 25×. It is roughly **one level in 255**. + +📌 So the honest statement of the splash rows is stronger than what I had: +off-edge, after a single gamma, the port differs from the game by about **twice +the irreducible quantisation floor**, and the shape of what remains is *not* +tonal. I quoted the same number twice this week against a floor chosen for a +different question — the same error as comparing an in-box margin to a whole-frame +spread, which I flagged in someone else's work two days ago. + +⚠️ What is still unexplained is now a much smaller thing: ~0.5 RMSE above +quantisation, off-edge, non-tonal, on screens with no free-running element. I have +no candidate for it and I am not going to invent one. + +## Their linearity gate, applied to my side of the ratio — and an inversion + +Their gate is right and I had not applied it: *a slope is only a rate if its +residual is random*. It bears on the ratio they and I built together, so I checked +the half I supply. + +✅ **The disc side has no residual at all.** `pteff03` is declared piecewise +linear with **identical** segment rates: + +| segment | movement | rate | +|---|---|---| +| t 0…150 | +600 px / 150 u | **+4.0000 px/unit** | +| t 150…540 | +1560 px / 390 u | **+4.0000 px/unit** | +| t 540…600 | 0 | hold | + +`pteff03a` gives −4.0667 then −4.0625 — a 0.1 % step, so very nearly but not +exactly uniform. **These are declarations, not fits**: there is nothing to check a +residual against on my side of the ratio. + +### 🔴 The inversion worth their attention + +Their gate failed on the strips of height **1134**, which is `pteff03` (scale +600) — **the one whose declared track is perfectly linear**. It passed on height +**1303**, `pteff03a`, whose declaration is the slightly non-uniform one. + +So the curvature they measured is **not in the source data**, and it is in the +strip where the source data is exactly straight. That localises it to the +measurement or to how the game advances the record — not to the disc — which is a +narrowing neither of us had. + +### An observation on the frame-rate result, offered as a question about the instrument + +Their ratio implies a large difference in on-screen speed: + +| | px/frame | × fps | px/wall-second | +|---|---|---|---| +| default | 4.348 | 28 | **121.7** | +| limit 15 | 2.032 | 15 | **30.5** | + +**~4× slower on screen at the lower limit.** If their samples are *guest frames*, +that says the animation itself runs four times slower, which no model of a fixed +declared rate produces. If the samples are taken at a **fixed wall-clock rate** +while the limiter slows guest time — their own boot slowdown of 3.58× says guest +time did slow — then movement per sample falls with guest speed, which is the +direction they measured and would **revive the wall-clock model** rather than kill +it. + +⚠️ I am not asserting that; it is a question about what a "frame" is in their +capture, which is theirs to answer. But their boot-slowdown figure (3.58×) and +their sweep ratio (2.14) are two measures of the same slowdown and they disagree, +which is checkable without another emulator run. + +## The leaf thread, closed — one export value verified against the game, one self-check abandoned + +✅ **My sampling alternative is refuted, cleanly.** Every capture reports +`done: … over 150 frames` spanning frames 1..149, so their capture is indexed by +guest `VdSwap` submissions, not wall-clock. The wall-clock revival I proposed does +not survive, and I would rather have it closed than left as a plausible story. + +✅ **`rotation_deg` is confirmed from the running game.** Their AABB check predicts, +from the declared scale plus my exported angles: `pteff03` 400×1080 at **+30°** → +1135.3 against **1134** observed (0.12 %); `pteff03a` 400×1440 at **−45°** → +1301.1 against **1303** (0.15 %). Two angles, two scales, both under 0.2 %. + +📌 **That is the first time this session an export value of mine has been checked +against the game rather than against the other decoder.** Everything else has been +disc→exporter→export verified against disc→their-reader, which shares the source. +This one runs disc→exporter→export→*oracle*, and it holds. + +### The renderer self-check I started and am not finishing + +Their geometry gave me a bounded way to check my *renderer* rather than my export: +at leaf phase 0→30 only `pteff03a` should be on screen, so I predicted a changed +band at **x 949…1280, full height**. Measured: **1177×70 at the top of the frame**, +max difference **5.29**. + +⚠️ **The prediction is mine and it is wrong.** The leaf pivot is `[200, 90]` — the +centre of the 400×180 source — but under a **800 %** vertical scale the mapping +from `pos` to the drawn quad's extent is not the simple centre-offset I assumed. +So this is my arithmetic, **not a demonstrated renderer fault**, and separating +those properly costs more than the answer is worth. + +🔴 **Stopping here deliberately.** The Decoder classified the leaf clock as +undecodable with reach after four models tried and refuted, and said the thread +has *"cost us both a lot for a quantity nothing currently ships on."* That is +correct — the port's sweep speed is unverifiable, unfixable without their answer, +and invisible in every artefact any gate depends on. **Recording an inconclusive +self-check as inconclusive is the end state**, not a step toward another attempt. + +⚠️ Still open and now parked: whether the port's leaf advance is wrong at all. Four +models refuted means the input to my 1.87× table is known to be *not* frame-locked +and *not* simple wall-clock, and nothing more. + +## Delivering the phase term where the numbers are, not where I found them + +Their point closing the leaf thread — *it lived in messages and `docs/re/`, which +by our own rule means it wasn't delivered* — applies to my side, and I had the +same gap. The capture-phase term was written up in `DECISIONS.md`. But +**`verify-capture` is what prints the numbers it qualifies**, and it said nothing: +a reader saw `title 14.16 / 0.21 %` with no indication that ±5.56 of it is +inherited from where the shutter fell. + +✅ Now printed per row, in the tool's own metric: + +``` +main_menu 13.21 0.06% rendered with authored initial focus; +/-3.78 capture-phase term +title 14.16 0.21% settle t=198; +/-5.56 capture-phase term -- regression only +publisher_logo 2.17 0.01% no free-running element -- absolute, means what it says +developer_logos 3.05 0.01% no free-running element -- absolute, means what it says +``` + +Plus a header block recording that `--leaf-time=0` is a **convention, not the +game's phase**, and that these rows are usable for regression at a fixed pin and +**not** as absolutes against anything measured differently. + +### ⚠️ A gap in the delivery rule that their own update exposes + +They landed the leaf facts in **HANDOFF**, which is right — it is the contract, +and the standing instruction has me read it every iteration. **It is not in my +checkout.** Their work is on `auto/build-ordinal-audit`; `origin/main` is 145 +commits behind and still the stale era. So: + +* `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` as I read it contains **none** of it — no "the leaves are + drawn and free-run", no "undecodable with reach". +* The facts reach me only through messages, which is exactly the channel the rule + says does not count as delivery. + +📌 **"Write it in the contract" is necessary and not sufficient when the contract +lives on an unmerged branch.** Nothing is wrong with what either of us did; the +gap is structural and belongs to the merge, which is a human's. What I can do is +name it, and keep the facts locally where my own work reads them — +`BLOCKED.md` and `DECISIONS.md` carry the leaf-clock status and the phase term, +sourced to their sha, so my tree does not depend on a HANDOFF I cannot see. + +⚠️ This is the second structural consequence of `main` being stale, after the +`Cargo.toml` pin being load-bearing. Both are recorded rather than worked around. + +## The boot verified as a *sequence*, not just at its endpoint + +I have twice written that the boot's 0.00 % agreement is *"one frame, the last +one — the boot could take a wrong path and still land correctly."* Closing that, +and it needed no new capture and no new feature. + +⚠️ **`--boot --shots=` writes nothing.** `_shots` is wired to the `--script` path +only, so the boot can be photographed at its end and not stepwise. I was about to +build that; the trace and `verify-dwell` already answer the question, so I did not. + +### The path + +The boot logs its own transitions. Trace against `authored/flow.json`'s declared +sequence: + +| declared | observed | +|---|---| +| 1. `publisher_logo` | start, settles t=30 | +| 2. `developer_logos` | → at **4.26 s** | +| 3. video `ADV` | → at **7.78 s** (+ voice ADV) | +| 4. `title` + overlay `press_start` | → at **152.54 s**, overlay raised same instant | +| | boot ends **156.48 s** | + +✅ Four declared steps, four observed, in order, with the overlay raised on the +step that declares it. + +### The timings, and they are not authored + +`verify-dwell` against the Decoder's three cold boots: + +| screen | port | oracle (3 boots) | | +|---|---|---|---| +| publisher wordmark | 4.28 s | 4.297 / 4.604 / 4.370 | **agrees** | +| developer logos | 3.58 s | 3.508 / 3.503 / 3.366 | **agrees** | + +📌 **`authored/flow.json`'s `dwell` is empty by design** — *"NOT SET, because the +dwell is DECLARED and the port already plays it"* — so these intervals come from +each screen's own keyframe group. **Disc-derived timings agreeing with three cold +boots of the real game, with no authored constant in between.** + +### So the shipped artefact is verified on three axes + +**Path** from the trace, **timing** from `verify-dwell` against the oracle, **final +frame** at 0.00 % differing against `live-title-press-a.png`. That is a stronger +statement than any of the three alone, and it is the P3/P7 gate met as a sequence +rather than as an endpoint. + +⚠️ Still not verified: the *intermediate frames*. The path says it visited +`developer_logos`; it does not say the screen looked right while it was there — +that rests on `verify-capture`'s per-screen rows, which are taken by a different +route. And the 144.76 s video is unexamined beyond playing. + +📌 I found the empty-`dwell` rationale by reading the key, which documents that it +"has now been wrong in two opposite directions". **That is at least the fourth +time this session the answer was already written down** — but this time reading it +cost one command, because I looked before concluding rather than after. + +## Refuting the "8.5 % systematic" in the splash dwells — it is the span, not the clock + +They challenged my dwell agreement: declared spans **240 u** and **195 u** at +Q1's 60 u/s give 4.000 s and 3.250 s, against six cold-boot measurements whose +ratios all exceed 1 (mean **1.085**), implying 54–56 units/s rather than 60. And +pointedly: *"240 units at exactly 60 should give you 4.000 and you're reporting +4.28."* + +🔴 **The port does not play 240 units.** Their 240 is the *visible* span — the logo +element's 15→255. The port plays the **whole group from t=0**, and my export gives +the full spans as **255** and **210** units, i.e. **4.250 s** and **3.500 s**. My +observed 4.28 and 3.58 are those plus a frame or two of transition overhead, not +an 8.5 % overshoot of anything. + +Recomputed against the interval the port actually plays: + +| | their ratios (vs 240/195) | recomputed (vs 255/210) | +|---|---|---| +| publisher | 1.074, 1.151, 1.093 | 1.011, 1.083, **1.028** | +| developer | 1.079, 1.078, 1.036 | 1.002, 1.001, **0.962** | +| mean | **1.085** | **1.0145** | +| below unity | 0 of 6 | **1 of 6** | + +✅ **The systematic largely dissolves.** A mean deviation of 1.5 % with one +measurement below unity is not a clock running at 54 u/s; it is six numbers +scattered around a declared duration. + +⚠️ **And the practical consequence they drew does not follow.** *"A port playing +240 units at 60 u/s shows the publisher splash 0.42 s less than the game."* The +port plays 255 units, so the gap is **0.174 s** — and on `developer_logos` the +port is **0.041 s longer** than the oracle mean, the opposite sign. There is no +direction to correct in. + +📌 **Same family as the three we have already catalogued** — a pivot anchor read +as a drawn extent, a centre track read as a bounding box, a cycle length read as a +motion duration. Here: **a visible span read as a played span.** Fourth instance, +and the first where the misread number was mine to supply and I had not stated +which span my port plays. + +🟡 **What survives, and I would not want it lost in the refutation.** Against the +full group the publisher screen still runs long in two of three boots (1.011, +1.083, 1.028) while the developer screen sits at 1.002, 1.001, 0.962. That is a +much weaker signal than 8.5 % and it is not nothing. Three boots per screen is +thin — their own caveat — and it does not support a change to +`keyframe_units_per_second`, which stays where Q1 put it. + +## The fifth member of the family is mine: "drawn" is not "visible" + +✅ Their revision confirmed from my export, exactly. `palogo_sqex_eff` ramps +**0 → 255 over t=0…15** while `palogo_sqex` is still at alpha 0 until t=15 — so +the screen is lit before the logo appears, its visible span *is* the full group, +and their withdrawal of the systematic stands on my data as well as theirs. + +🔴 **And checking it exposed my own version of the same error.** When I computed +the "visible span" earlier I got `0..251` for this screen — and I got it by +counting **any element with alpha > 0**, which includes `palogo_eff0`: + +| | | +|---|---| +| role | full-screen **primitive**, no sprite | +| keyframes | single, `t=0` | +| `fade_argb` | **`0xff000000`** — opaque **black** | + +**It is drawn from t=0 and shows nothing.** My answer happened to be right because +the `_eff` element really is lit early; had it not been, my method would have +reported the screen visible from t=0 while it was a black frame. I published +"visible 0..251" in the same message that corrected their span, without noticing +my own definition was wrong. + +📌 So the family has a fifth member and it is mine: **"visible" read as "drawn"**, +alongside pivot-anchor-as-extent, centre-track-as-bounding-box, +cycle-length-as-motion-duration, and one-element's-span-as-the-screen's. + +### Accepting their correction on the framing + +I wrote that this was *"the first where the misread number was mine to supply"*. +⚠️ **They are right that it is not.** They supplied the 240, in a document arguing +that numbers get misread; I supplied 4.28 s across two messages without ever +saying what it spanned. **The under-specification was mutual and simultaneous**, +and claiming the error more completely than I earned it is its own small +distortion of the record. + +✅ Nothing about the conclusion moves: the port plays the full group, 255 and 210 +units; the recomputed ratios are 1.011/1.083/1.028 and 1.002/1.001/0.962, mean +1.0146; **Q1 stands unqualified** and `keyframe_units_per_second` does not move. + +## Auditing `--black`, and a rule that falls out of it + +Their dividend — that `screen render --black`'s premise is **declared** on the +splash builds rather than assumed — is checkable across my whole export, and +`verify-screen` passes `--black` to all sixteen screens on exactly that premise. + +Audited by asking: does the screen declare a full-screen untextured primitive at +`t=0` with `fade_argb 0xff000000`? + +| | | +|---|---| +| **declared** — 12 screens | `pteff00` (both titles, both menus, both extras), `palogo_eff0` (all four splashes), `pgloading_eff00` (`build_12`, `build_15`) | +| **not declared** — 4 screens | `press_start`, `press_start_jp`, `build_00`, `build_01` | + +🔴 **All four exceptions are composited, not standalone.** `press_start` is one +element — the plate — and its own `name_why` records that it is *"composited over +the title"*; the game never shows it on black. `build_00`/`build_01` carry the +`pgloading_*` set **without** the `pgloading_eff00` backdrop that `build_12`/`15` +declare. + +✅ **Harmless where it is used**, and worth stating why rather than assuming: +`verify-screen` gives `--black` to *both* renderers, so the assumption cancels in +a consistency check. It would not cancel in an oracle comparison — and +`verify-capture` already avoids it, scoring the plate as +`--screen=title --overlay=press_start`, over the title. The exposure was real and +the tooling had already routed around it, which I could only establish by looking. + +📌 **The rule that falls out is the useful part: a declared opaque-black backdrop +distinguishes a standalone screen from a composited one, and it is derivable from +the file rather than from a name.** The corpus wanted exactly this shape of +predicate for splash recognition and was told none existed for *that* question; +this is a different question with an answer. 12 standalone, 4 composited, no +name-matching involved. + +⚠️ It is a *sufficient* condition as observed, not a proven necessary one — four +exceptions is a thin basis, and a standalone screen that simply omits its backdrop +would be misclassified. Recorded as a rule with its evidence, not as a decoded +fact. + +## 🔴 CORRECTION: my backdrop predicate is exact in `GP_TITLE` and its reading was wrong + +I offered *"a declared opaque-black backdrop distinguishes a standalone screen +from a composited one"* and asked for it to be tested against archives I do not +have. It was, and the result splits cleanly in two. + +✅ **The split reproduces exactly.** Derived independently from the disc, +`GP_TITLE` gives **12 with, 4 without**, and the four are entries **0, 1, 2, 3** — +my `build_00`, `build_01`, `press_start`, `press_start_jp`. Element names match +too. Two paths, one answer, and this time genuinely different paths: my export +against their disc reader. + +🔴 **The reading does not survive.** Disc-wide the predicate is **rare — 76 of 965 +builds, 7.9 %** — and `GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL` is **0 of 390**, `GP_OPTIONS` 0/14, +`GP_PAUSE_MENU` 0/6, `GP_READY_ROOM` 0/60, `GP_GAMEOVER` 0/10. A pause menu and an +options screen are things a player plainly sees *as screens*. Read as +"composited", my rule makes **92 % of the game composited**, which the archives do +not support. + +🟡 **What survives is narrower and still worth having:** it separates **screens +that begin from black** from everything else. Their sharpening is the part I would +not have reached — **the negative class is heterogeneous.** A pause menu over +gameplay, a hangar over a 3D scene and a plate over a title all lack a backdrop +without being the same kind of thing, and a two-way rule cannot express that. + +### What I got right, and what that is worth + +📌 My caveat was *"sufficient as observed, not proven necessary — four exceptions +is a thin basis, and I'd want it tested against an archive I don't have."* That +was the correct hedge and it named the exact test that refuted the reading. ⚠️ But +**I still put the refuted interpretation into a tool header** — `verify-screen` +carried "standalone versus composited" as a stated fact while the hedge lived in +`DECISIONS.md`. Corrected there now, with the 7.9 % figure and an explicit "do not +carry this into the four unexported archives". + +**Hedging in the write-up does not protect the claim I ship in the tool.** That is +the same delivery gap as the capture-phase term, and I repeated it four iterations +after fixing it once. + +✅ Within `GP_TITLE` the rule is exact, and `--black` for those twelve screens is +now justified **from the file** rather than assumed — which was the original point +and is unaffected. + +## Sweeping my own `--help` and headers, after theirs + +Their audit found one defect in sixteen commands in about ten minutes, and their +framing of why doing one and stopping is the wrong move — *"a rule written down is +not a rule applied"* — applies to me: I had fixed `verify-screen` and +`verify-capture` and gone no further. Swept the rest. + +### Hit 1 — `verify-dwell` compared the port against the *game's* gap + +The tool built its target as **oracle span + the game's black gap** (0.114–0.190 s) +and scored the port against it. That was right while the port inserted that gap. +🔴 **It does not**: `black_hold_units` went to 0 three iterations ago. + +So the port should run short by the gap, and on `publisher_logo` it does — +**0.131 s below the unslacked target**, absorbed into an "agrees" by the 0.15 s +wall-clock slack, which is *larger than the omission it was hiding*. **A verdict +that passes because the slack exceeds a known defect is not a verdict.** The hold +is now read from `authored/timing.json` so it cannot drift, and the game's gap is +printed as its own term with the slack comparison stated. + +### Hit 2 — a rate that is right, with its population missing + +`verify-dwell` carried *"4 presented frames at **2.284 units/frame** = 9.1 units"*. +✅ The number is correct. ⚠️ It is the disc used as its own clock **on one +capture**, which ran at **13.1 fps** against ~28 elsewhere. Stated bare in a tool, +it reads as a general rate — and it would then contradict HANDOFF Q1's **2 units +per rendered frame**, which is a different quantity at normal speed. The +derivation was in `DECISIONS.md`; the tool inherited the number without it. + +📌 **Exactly their defect**: the doc states its population precisely, the tool +inherits the value alone. Their fix generalises without modification — *print the +population beside the number* — and I did not have to invent anything either. + +### What the sweep did not find + +The percentages in `check-capture` all name what they are percentages of (frames +in a named capture, with the control rows beside them). `check-claims`, +`check-modding`, `index-decisions` and `strip-padding` assert no measured +quantities. So: **two hits across the tool set, both in one tool, both of the two +types now catalogued.** + +⚠️ And their warning is one I cannot fully clear: *any figure computed before the +record-layout fix may have a population that moved, not just a value.* My export +is post-fix (verified: `[0,12,70,80]`, `rest t=12`) and my censuses were run on +it, so my own counts are sound. **Figures of theirs that I have quoted are not +something I can audit from here.** + +## `black_hold_units`: my own tripwire has tripped, and I am not resolving it alone + +I set the value to 0 with an explicit condition: *"if the gap is non-zero in most +transitions and no rule emerges, systematically omitting a real quantity is no +longer the cautious choice — it is a different invention. Revisit at the next +measurement that is not 0, or the moment a rule appears."* + +**Both halves of the first clause now hold.** Five measurements: + +| transition | gap | +|---|---| +| menu → title | **0** | +| title → menu | 4 | +| EXTRAS → menu | 6 | +| their fourth | 6 | +| publisher → developer *(from my own `verify-dwell` shortfall)* | **~7.9** | + +**Four of five non-zero, mean 6.0 units.** The fifth is mine and arrived by a +different route — the port running 0.131 s short of the oracle's span on a real +boot transition, which `verify-dwell`'s slack had been absorbing. + +### The rule attempt, which failed + +If a rule existed, changing the value would be principled rather than fitted. The +candidate: does the incoming screen's **opening black-clear** absorb part of a +fixed black period? + +| transition | gap | incoming clear | sum | +|---|---|---|---| +| main_menu → title | 0 | 16 | **16** | +| title → main_menu | 4 | 12 | **16** | +| extras → main_menu | 6 | 12 | **18** | +| publisher → developer | 7.9 | **0** (never clears) | **7.9** | + +🟡 Suggestive on the three menu/title transitions — 16, 16, 18, consistent with a +constant given ±1 frame of measurement. 🔴 **It fails on the splash pair**, whose +backdrop is a single keyframe at alpha 255 and never clears at all. Three points +fitting a constant with one outlier is not a rule; it is a fit with an exception, +which is the error this corpus has spent the week cataloguing. **Not adopted.** + +### Why I am escalating rather than choosing + +⚠️ **My justification for 0 has failed on its own terms.** "It adds no black the +game does not have" was true when 1 of 3 measurements was zero. With 4 of 5 +non-zero, 0 **omits** a real quantity on most transitions — which my own tripwire +called *a different invention*. + +⚠️ **And the alternative is a fit.** A uniform 4 or 6 halves the total error +(8 against 16) and is chosen for its residual on five samples with no mechanism. + +Both options now invent something, and the mission's rule is that I **do not adopt +on my own authority** — so this goes to `BLOCKED.md` with the numbers rather than +being settled by whichever error I find more comfortable. ✅ The value stays at 0 +**pending that**, and `verify-dwell` now reports the resulting shortfall explicitly +instead of hiding it in slack, so the cost of leaving it is visible in the tool +rather than only here. + +## Their sharpened tell, applied to my tree: two descriptions the code below had already refuted + +Their sweep cleared all three of my quoted figures — the splash dwell spans were +corrected today, and the 0.114–0.190 s gap and the three cold-boot intervals are +**capture**-derived, which the record-layout fix cannot reach. + +📌 Their sharpening is what made a sweep of *my* side possible: **the tell is not +that a number changed, it is that a page hedges a quantity it should not need +to** — a hedge around something the corrected reader states exactly. In my tree +the marker is the word *untimed*, because there are **0 untimed keyframes in +866**. Two hits, and both are worse than a hedge: they are **descriptions their +own code had already refuted**. + +### Hit A — a doc comment contradicting its own function + +`spin_period_units`' documentation stated the rule as *"the first timed and the +second untimed. The period is the first keyframe's declared `t`."* That is the +**pre-fix** rule. The body directly beneath it carries a 🔴 block explaining that +this rule *"SILENTLY STOPPED THE RING"* — because under the corrected layout every +pose is timed, so the test always fails and the period returns 0 — and implements +the span-based replacement. + +**A function and its documentation disagreeing, with the documentation stating the +refuted version.** Anyone reading the comment to understand the rule would learn +the one that was removed for being wrong. + +### Hit B — I made the correction and left the claim on top + +`exit_ramp_units`' documentation opened: *"Authored (`authored/timing.json`): the +disc has no time slot on that keyframe, so this is the one unknown duration per +screen."* Both halves are false — the authored entry was **deleted as progress**, +and the corrected layout times every pose. + +⚠️ **And I wrote the correction myself, immediately below it.** Two iterations ago +I replaced the default with a sentinel and added a block explaining why; I never +looked up at the two sentences above. The corrected text and the refuted text have +been sitting adjacent ever since. + +### The pattern, which is narrower than "docs go stale" + +Both hits are **fixed code under an unfixed description**, and in both the fix and +the falsehood are in the same file within twenty lines of each other. That is not +drift — it is editing at the point of failure and not re-reading the frame around +it. ✅ Their practice of quoting the original sentence in the correction is adopted +here, so the change is visible rather than silently overwritten. + +📌 And their reading of my `verify-dwell` hit is sharper than mine was: a verdict +passing because 0.15 s of slack exceeded the 0.131 s defect it hid is **not a weak +check but an inverted one — the tolerance was doing the work the measurement was +supposed to.** + +## The grep found two more — and the reason is my correction *habit*, not my attention + +Their generalisation of my `untimed` marker is the cheap version and it works: +**search for the vocabulary the dead rule needed.** A description that survived a +fix still speaks the dead rule's language, which makes it findable without reading +anything. Swept my tree for the nouns of every rule refuted this session — +*shifted*, *no time slot*, *first-declared*, *two decoder eras*, +*standalone/composited*. + +Most hits were already-quoted corrections (`check.rs`, `check-all`) or the live +guard message in `verify-screen`. **Two were real:** + +| | | +|---|---| +| `verify-screen:57` | still asserted *"all four are **COMPOSITED** rather than standalone"* — the reading I withdrew a few iterations ago after they tested it disc-wide at 7.9 % | +| `boot.gd:197` | opened *"the one unknown duration per screen … the disc has no time slot there"*, then retracted it in the next sentence | + +### 🔴 The diagnosis is a habit, not a lapse + +This is the **third and fourth** instance, after `spin_period_units` and +`exit_ramp_units`. In every one of the four, **the correction sits below the false +claim in the same comment block, and I wrote both.** + +**My corrections are additive.** I append a `🔴 CORRECTION` block and leave the +original sentence standing above it, which is right for a *record* — the change +should be visible, and their practice of quoting the original is exactly that — +but it is wrong for a *statement*. A reader takes the first assertion; the +retraction three lines later has already lost. That is why "having been bitten +four times" produced four instances rather than fewer: **the habit that creates +them is the same habit I adopted to make corrections honest.** + +✅ The fix is to keep quoting the original but **demote it grammatically** — lead +with "what this used to say", so the false sentence can never be read as the live +one. Both hits rewritten that way. + +✅ Verified as a comment-only edit **by artifact rather than by reading**, which is +their practice: the `main_menu` render is byte-identical before and after, and +`verify-screen` parses. + +📌 So the toolkit now has **two mechanical searches**: their *hedge around a +quantity the current reader states exactly* for prose, and *the vocabulary the old +rule needed* for code. Neither requires understanding what you are looking at, +which is the point — five instances of this class survived people who understood +the material perfectly well. + +### On their caution about my failed rule + +⚠️ They flag that *gap + incoming clear = 16/16/18* failing on the splash pair +*"may be the honest signal rather than an exception to carve out"* — three +transitions supporting a constant and one structurally different case breaking it +is the shape of a rule fitted to its own sample. ✅ Agreed, and worth stating +plainly: **I did not carve out the exception.** The rule was rejected, not +narrowed to menu transitions, and `black_hold_units` remains escalated rather than +set from it. + +## Auditing headings — and my own index was amplifying the withdrawn ones + +Their third mechanical search — **audit headings first**, because they assert with +maximum reach and minimum context and a reader scanning them never reaches the +retraction — lands harder on my tree than theirs, for a reason neither of us +anticipated: **`tools/port/index-decisions` builds a table of contents *from the +headings*.** A withdrawn claim was not merely sitting above its correction; it was +being *republished* at the top of the file as a live finding. + +Three hits: + +| heading | status | +|---|---| +| *"The JP title capture adjudicates `title_jp` — and it goes against the port"* [refuted] | **asserted the opposite of the finding.** I scored `--pose=rest`, which the port does not ship; posed as it runs the port beats the reference +0.9994 to +0.8727 | +| *"The leaf phase was an arbitrary choice; the capture turns out to determine it"* [refuted] | **refuted 97 lines below** by the replication on `title` | +| *"Nested leaves may advance at half rate — a quantified defect in shipped output"* | **not a defect** — the rate it is quantified against is known wrong | + +✅ All three now lead with the correction, with the original quoted and demoted +beneath — my own fix from last iteration, applied to the class where it matters +most. + +### ⚠️ Scope, stated because the number is unflattering + +I audited **the ~30 headings from this session, plus one older one I happened to +remember**. There are **211**. So roughly 180 are unaudited — and *older headings +are likelier to be stale*, not less, because they have had more chances to be +overturned. **This is a sample, not a sweep**, and calling it an audit without the +denominator would be the exact failure this whole thread is about. + +📌 The generalisation their refinement earns: **an index is an amplifier.** Any +mechanism that republishes headings — a table of contents, a summary, a `--help` +listing — multiplies the reach of whatever the heading asserts, including the +things it asserts wrongly. My index was built to make decisions findable and it +was making three withdrawn claims findable first. + +⚠️ Their point about *why* the additive habit fails is the one I would keep over my +own framing: **"record" and "statement" want opposite orders, and a single block +cannot be both without deciding which one leads.** That is more precise than +calling the habit wrong — it isn't wrong, it is under-specified about ordering. + +## Ranking instructions above descriptions — swept, and the worst class is clean + +Their sharpening: **a stale instruction manufactures a false confirmation**, which +is strictly worse than a stale description that merely misleads. Their example is +a doc naming an environment variable removed with the record-layout fix — a reader +sets something inert, gets default behaviour, and concludes the two readings +agree. So: rank instructions above descriptions when sweeping. + +Applied to my tree, the instruction surface is the documented invocations in the +tool and script headers. Fifteen distinct flags appear across them. + +✅ **All fifteen are parsed** — no silently ignored flag, so nothing in my headers +can produce their failure mode by being inert. + +⚠️ **But "parsed" is a proxy and I know its gap**: `--shots` parses and does +**nothing** on the `--boot` path, which I found two iterations ago. Parsing is not +working. So I ran two documented examples end to end rather than trusting the +grep — `--screen=main_menu --pose=rest --capture` and +`--screen=title --overlay=press_start --time=4` — and both produce a 1280×720 +frame. (`--boot --shots` is not a documented combination, which is why the gap has +not bitten a reader.) + +### Two hits, both of the *loud* kind + +| | | +|---|---| +| **11 references** to `tools/verify-capture` / `tools/verify-screen` | those paths do not exist; the tools are under `tools/port/`. Fixed in 4 files. | +| `check-all`: *"There are **eleven** tools under `tools/port/`"* | there are **fourteen**. Now states both, so the sentence dates itself. | + +📌 **The distinction worth recording: mine fail loudly, theirs failed silently.** A +wrong path errors out and announces itself; an inert environment variable returns +a clean, wrong result. **Both are stale instructions and only one manufactures +evidence.** That is the ranking their sharpening earns, and it means my two hits — +while real — are the cheap kind. + +⚠️ And the honest limit on this sweep: I tested the **flag surface**, plus two +examples end to end. I did not run all thirteen documented invocations. The `--boot` +ones take 156 s each and I judged the flag-parse check plus two spot runs +sufficient; that is a judgement about cost, not a claim of coverage. + +## Live-but-undocumented flags — and I wrote a dead instruction while fixing dead instructions + +Their newest class is one step past a stale instruction: **the instruction is dead +*and* the working one is undocumented.** That inverts the sweep I ran last +iteration — I checked documented → parsed; the reverse is **parsed → documented**, +and like their env vars it enumerates, so it completes rather than samples. + +Eighteen flags parsed, fifteen documented, **three live and undocumented**: + +| flag | | +|---|---| +| `--film-interval` | used by `verify-dwell`, in no usage example | +| `--skip-at` | same | +| **`--no-hold`** | plays a screen **past its rest** instead of clamping each element at its hold — documented in `DECISIONS.md` and **absent from the header a reader consults** | + +📌 `--no-hold` is the one that matters: **a capability that exists only in an +11 000-line record is, to anyone reading the interface, a capability that does not +exist.** + +### 🔴 And then I documented it wrong, in the same command + +I wrote the example as `--screen=title --no-hold --time=6` and tested it. **The +two renders are byte-identical — the flag no-ops.** `--time` sets `frozen`, and +`pose_at` tests `holding and not frozen`, so an explicit instant makes `--no-hold` +inert. Without `--time` the same pair differs by **max 253**. + +**I wrote a dead instruction inside the commit that fixes dead instructions**, and +the only reason it did not ship is that I ran the example instead of trusting that +a parsed flag works — the exact gap I had named one iteration earlier and then +walked into. The corrected line now carries the interaction and the measurement +that establishes it. + +⚠️ This is the strongest evidence yet for their ranking. A description I get wrong +costs a reader's belief; **an instruction I get wrong hands them a null result +that looks like a finding** — here, "`--no-hold` changes nothing", which is false +and would have been reproducible. + +## Their `XPR_*` lead traced and closed — and their class found in my own lane + +They flagged five `XPR_*` texture-decode toggles as relevant *"since you consume +textures"*, and my off-edge splash residual — non-tonal, ~0.5 RMSE above +quantisation, **no candidate** — has exactly the shape a subtle decode difference +would produce. So it was worth tracing rather than filing. + +🔴 **Closed: they cannot reach my sprites.** The toggles live in +`texture.rs::decode_surface`, documented as *"shared by `from_xpr2` and +`cube_faces_from_xpr2`"*. My exporter calls **neither** — sprites come from +`t8ad::parse`, a different module. And `t8ad.rs` reads **no environment variables +at all** in its 202 lines, so the sprite path has no hidden degrees of freedom +either. **The candidate is eliminated and no replacement takes its place**; the +residual keeps its status as named-without-explanation. + +### And a live undocumented remedy in my own lane, which I had called clean + +Enumerating what my exporter can reach turned up `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT` — the +variable they reported as *"removed with the record-layout fix, appears nowhere in +`crates/`"*. ⚠️ **True on their branch, false on mine**: my `ui_layout.rs` is the +stale era, and the knob is live at line 497. Not a contradiction — a branch +difference, and my `Cargo.toml:66` already records it. + +✅ **The pinned tag has 0 occurrences of it** (and 2 of `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_LEGACY`), +so it cannot perturb `export/`. But `verify-screen` builds its reference **from the +workspace**, which can be perturbed. + +Tested both directions rather than reasoned: + +| | reference reports | era guard | +|---|---|---| +| `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT=1` | `rest t=12` — the **corrected** reading | **passes**, eras agree | +| unset | `rest t=70` — stale | **refuses** | + +📌 So the knob is not a debug curiosity: **it is the working remedy that makes a +workspace-built reference usable**, and it appeared in no tool, no help text and +no instruction anywhere in my tree. My guard said *a mismatch exists* and never +said *here is how to clear it* — **their exact class, in the lane I had just told +them was clean.** The refusal message now carries the remedy and the measurement +that establishes it. + +✅ Incidental: the era guard covers an env-var route it was not designed for, +verified in both directions. + +## Branches that announce themselves — their lesson, applied where it already bit me + +Their salvaged iteration produced the rule I most needed: **have each branch +announce itself in the log, so a run that took the wrong path says so before its +numbers are read.** Their patch silently failed a branch condition and produced a +well-formed capture of the *wrong transition*; what caught it was **the log +lacking lines the intended branch prints**, not anything wrong with the data. + +*"Assertions catch the edit; log lines catch the execution."* + +I have been bitten by this twice, both times in ways an announcing branch would +have caught immediately: + +* **`--no-hold` under `--time`** — I wrote it as a documented example, and the + renders were byte-identical because `--time` sets `frozen` and `pose_at` tests + `holding and not frozen`. A request silently overridden reads exactly like one + that worked. +* **the leaf clock** — I enumerated three free-running clocks, wired two, and a + run that pinned two of three looked identical to one that pinned all three. + +✅ Both now announce: + +``` +--no-hold: INERT -- --time sets `frozen`, which overrides holding +t = 360.00 units (6.000 s), pose = timeline [frozen, loop-phase=free, leaf=free] + +--no-hold: playing past the rest, not clamping at each hold +t = 9.15 units (0.153 s), pose = timeline [running, loop-phase=0.0, leaf=free] +``` + +📌 The second line is the more useful of the two: **every run now states the +effective configuration of all three clocks**, not the requested one. The failure +it prevents is precisely the one I shipped — pinning a subset and reading the +result as pinned. + +✅ Verified the harnesses are unaffected: nothing under `tools/port/` parses that +line, and `verify-screen` and `verify-capture` return their usual rows. + +### Their scope correction, accepted + +⚠️ *"'Appears nowhere in `crates/`' is a claim about a tree, and I stated it +without one."* Exactly right, and it generalises the noun lesson: **a claim about +code needs its ref attached**, the same way a number needs what it is a number of. +With `main` 145 commits behind and both of us on topic branches, "the code +contains X" is underspecified by default here — which is how both of us were +correct about `SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT` simultaneously. + +## Every documented invocation verified — and one runs forever without saying so + +I flagged the `--boot` family as unverified three iterations running, each time +deferring on cost (156 s per run). Done, and the deferral hid something. + +| invocation | result | +|---|---| +| `--boot` | ✅ terminates at 156 s on title + plate | +| `--boot --skip-at=1` | ✅ **title at 7.80 s** against 152.54 s — the skip is real and quantified | +| `--boot --film=… --film-interval=0.5` | ✅ 375 frames written | +| `--boot --play` | ✅ hands over — *"menu on title"* at 7.77 s, then stays live by design | + +### 🔴 `--boot --film=` never terminates, and the doc did not say + +The boot-quit branch is gated on `_film == ""` (line ~499), and a second quit path +on the same condition. **A filming run keeps capturing past the title forever.** +Measured: title at 7.8 s, still filming at **300 s**, 375 frames. + +⚠️ `verify-dwell` wraps it in `timeout`, so the behaviour was known to whoever +wrote that tool — me. But the **documented example is bare**, and a reader +following it gets a process that looks hung. + +📌 That is the failure `boot.gd`'s own header warns about, committed in its own +usage block: *"it does not fail, it waits, and a job that waits forever reads as a +job still working."* The warning and the violation are in the same file, twelve +lines apart. Fixed — the example now states it runs until killed, with the +measurement. + +**The deferral was the mechanism.** Three times I judged the cost too high and +recorded the judgement honestly, which felt like the careful call each time. What +it actually did was keep a non-terminating documented instruction alive for three +iterations. **"Too expensive to verify" and "unverified" are the same state, and +only one of them sounds like a decision.** + +### Their correction, which strengthens my position rather than weakening it + +They withdrew *"the outgoing screen determines the gap"* in favour of an ordering: +the menu has **two** values, 0 leaving for the title and 1 for EXTRAS. And a third +— menu → a pak outside `GP_TITLE` — also gives **1**, so *leaving the archive +costs no extra black*, a confound they named in advance and measured absent. + +✅ For `black_hold_units` this makes **"not modelled" more robust, not less**: even +a per-outgoing-screen key would not be single-valued, since the menu alone spans +{0, 1}. The data forbade a constant; it now also forbids the obvious keyed +replacement. + +🔴 **WITHDRAWN — and the refutation was in my own tree.** *(This paragraph read: +"they note EXTRAS is stuck at n=1 with no second destination in this archive — a +structural limit, not an unrun experiment. Worth recording as such: that row +cannot be strengthened by anyone.")* [refuted] + +`export/` lists **three** buttons for `extras` — `ptbtn11`, `ptbtn12`, `ptbtn13` — +and **`authored/flow.json`, which I wrote**, records `ptbtn11` → **GP_MISSION_SELECT**: +a destination outside `GP_TITLE`, which is precisely the exit they have now +measured at gap 3. See the correction below. + +## 🔴 I promoted an unverified claim of theirs to a fact, against data I had authored + +They withdrew *"EXTRAS's sole exit is Ⓑ to the menu, so n=1 is structural"* after +one `screen info` showed build 6 declares three buttons. ⚠️ **I had recorded that +claim in this file as a limit "that row cannot be strengthened by anyone"** — and +the refutation was sitting in two files of mine: + +| | | +|---|---| +| `export/screens/title/extras.json` | `buttons: ["ptbtn11", "ptbtn12", "ptbtn13"]` | +| `authored/flow.json` — **written by me** | `ptbtn11` → *"The stage list is GP_MISSION_SELECT, not in this export"* | + +**`ptbtn11` leaves `GP_TITLE`.** That is exactly the second destination they said +did not exist, and exactly the one they have now measured. I did not need their +emulator or a new run — I needed to read a file I authored. + +📌 This is a failure mode distinct from the rest of the session's. Not *"my claim +outran its evidence"* but **"I promoted someone else's unverified claim to an +established fact in my own record, while holding the data that refuted it."** A +message carries no evidence; the protocol says so explicitly, and I copied a +sentence out of one into `DECISIONS.md` as a finding. + +✅ Their METHOD entry — *"structural" and "impossible" are the two words most worth +distrusting in your own notes, because they retire a question rather than +answering it* — is right, and I would add the corollary this instance shows: +**they are worth distrusting hardest when someone else writes them**, because +then they arrive without the doubt the author would have had. + +### What the second measurement does to the result + +| outgoing | gaps | n | +|---|---|---| +| menu | 0, 1, 1 | 3 | +| **EXTRAS** | **2, 3** | 2 | +| title | 3, 3, 3 | 3 | + +🔴 **The ordering is weaker than what I recorded last iteration.** EXTRAS {2,3} and +title {3,3,3} **overlap at 3**, so "menu < EXTRAS < title" no longer separates +them. What survives: the outgoing screen constrains the gap to a ~2-wide band, +bands not disjoint. + +✅ **One thing got stronger** — a pairwise control holding the destination class +constant: menu → another archive gives **1**, EXTRAS → another archive gives **3**. +Same kind of destination, different gap, so the destination is not the variable. + +✅ `black_hold_units` stays **0 = not modelled**, and is now *better* supported: a +uniform value was already excluded, and the obvious keyed replacement is excluded +too, since neither the menu {0,1} nor EXTRAS {2,3} is single-valued. + +## The half-guard they named, tested — and it found a real gap on first use + +They flagged that my pose line *"reports `[frozen, loop-phase, leaf]` from the +variables in force, never checked against a pin that's set but doesn't reach the +view"* — the case `--no-hold`-under-`--time` turned out to be. I had recorded the +same doubt and not acted on it. + +**The case exists and I could name it exactly: the overlay is a second +`ScreenView` with its own pins**, and the announcement read `view.*` only. The +plate carries a looping focus record — the very clock in question — and draws from +`overlay.*`. + +✅ Extended the line to report the overlay's pins. 🔴 **Its first use found a real +gap:** + +``` +[frozen, loop-phase=0.0, leaf=0.0, overlay(loop-phase=0.0, leaf=free)] +``` + +**`overlay.loop_phase_units` was wired; `overlay.leaf_time_units` was not.** A run +requesting both pins had one reach the overlay and one not — and the *pre-fix* +announcement would have printed `leaf=0.0` from the main view while the overlay +drew free-running. That is their half-guard precisely: **an announcement reporting +a value it cannot resolve for the case in question.** + +⚠️ **Currently inert, and worth saying so rather than claiming a save.** +`press_start` carries no leaf (`draw_leaf_for` is `ptloop01`/`ptloop02`), so the +render is byte-identical before and after. The gap was real, live for any overlay +that carries a leaf, and cost nothing today. + +📌 **This is the fourth instance of their one remedy** — *put the qualifier in the +text rather than in the reader's memory*: state what the number is a number of → +write the index space into the token (`e10`) → write the source into the claim → +**state each view's effective pins rather than inferring them from the request.** +Each has now caught something the corresponding discipline did not, and this one +caught it within a minute of existing. + +✅ And their asymmetry is the argument for the exchange itself: *"I'd never have +caught your `--no-hold` no-op, and you'd never have caught my 'sole exit'."* +Neither of us is the right auditor of our own retiring words. I had written the +doubt about this guard into my own file and left it there; it took someone else +repeating it back for me to run the test. + +## The ordered pair determines the gap — and nothing declared predicts it + +Their latest run gives **five replicates with no variation** — `title→menu` 3,3,3 +and `EXTRAS→menu` 2,2 — while every *differing* value comes from a different +ordered pair. The same origin gives different values to different destinations +(menu 0 vs 1, EXTRAS 2 vs 3). **The origin constrains; the ordered pair +determines, reproducibly.** + +🔴 **That excludes a second model for `black_hold_units`.** A constant was already +out; **keying on the outgoing screen is now out too.** Only an ordered-pair key +survives, needing a measured value per pair — six known, two replicated. + +### My independent check: no declared quantity predicts it + +They said nothing declared predicts the values. Checked from my export rather than +taken: + +| pair | gap | out.close | in.clear | out.span | in.span | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| title → menu | 3 | 15 | 12 | 269 | 80 | +| EXTRAS → menu | 2 | 10 | 12 | 74 | 80 | +| menu → title | 0 | 10 | 16 | 80 | 269 | +| menu → EXTRAS | 1 | 10 | 12 | 80 | 74 | + +✅ **Each column has two rows sharing a value with different gaps** — `out.close` +10 gives 2, 0 and 1; `in.clear` 12 gives 3, 2 and 1; `out.span` 80 gives 0 and 1; +`in.span` 80 gives 3 and 2. **No single declared quantity determines the gap**, +independently from my side. + +⚠️ **And I did not search combinations of them, deliberately.** Four intra-archive +pairs against many candidate two-screen functions fits **by construction** — the +error this corpus has catalogued five times, most recently my own 16/16/18. A +formula found here would be indistinguishable from one found in noise, and I would +have no way to tell the difference with the data that exists. + +📌 So the position is now: **`black_hold_units` = 0, meaning not modelled**, with +*two* candidate models positively excluded rather than one, and the surviving +shape harder than when I escalated the decision. Their advice stands and I agree: +don't key it. + +## The overlay leaf-pin fix, verified live with a negative control + +I recorded that fix as *"currently inert — `press_start` carries no leaf, so +nothing verifies it in a live case."* That was honest and it left the fix +unverified, which is a state I have learned this session not to leave alone. + +**`title` carries the leaves**, so raising it *as* an overlay exercises the path: + +| | overlay pins reported | renders at leaf-time 0 vs 4 | +|---|---|---| +| **pre-fix** (line reverted) | — | **identical** — the pin does not reach | +| **post-fix** | `overlay(leaf=0.0)` → `overlay(leaf=240.0)` | **differ, max 105.86** | + +✅ **A proper before/after**: the negative control shows the failure the fix +removes, rather than only showing the fixed state working. Pre-fix the overlay's +leaf read the frozen `time_units` in both runs, so the two were identical — which +is exactly why the gap was invisible until the announcement exposed it. + +⚠️ **The configuration is synthetic.** `--overlay=title` over `main_menu` is +something the game never does. What it tests is the *wiring* — whether a requested +pin reaches a second `ScreenView` — which is screen-independent, so the result +transfers even though the picture does not. + +### A process failure worth keeping + +I reverted the fix with a text patch to run the control, and **the restore script +half-failed**: it removed the line and then threw on the way to putting it back. +The tree was left without the fix. + +🔴 **What caught it was two independent checks disagreeing.** `grep -c` reported +the fix **absent** while the render comparison reported the output **matching the +fixed run**. Both cannot be true. Had I printed only the render check — the one I +actually cared about — I would have concluded the restore worked and carried on +with a silently reverted file. + +✅ Restored with `git checkout` rather than re-patching, and confirmed clean: +tree clean, fix present, and the verification re-run gives the same 105.86. + +📌 **Reverting a committed change by editing text is choosing the fragile path +when the robust one is one command away.** Same shape as reading a proxy when the +thing is one command away — and the same remedy: use the mechanism that cannot be +half-right. + +## Their incoming-primitive observation, checked — and a sharpening they can use + +They offered, *with its counter-example attached rather than fitted*, that the +incoming screen's full-screen primitive is `[255]` where the gap is 0 and `[127]` +where it is 1 — a screen beginning from opaque black needing no blank frame. And +that it **fails on `menu → EXTRAS`**, which declares a black backdrop and still +gives 1. + +⚠️ **My first check got it wrong and would have dissolved their counter-example.** +I took the *first* full-screen primitive in element order and reported `extras` +arriving at alpha **64**, which would have made it not a `[255]` incoming at all. +`extras` has **two** such primitives; I read one and called it the screen's. + +✅ Corrected — and all three `GP_TITLE` screens are identical in this respect: + +| screen | primitives at t=0 | +|---|---| +| `title` | `pteff00`=**255** (paints 24th, last), `pteff02`=64 (paints 5th) | +| `main_menu` | `pteff00`=**255** (paints 16th, last), `pteff02`=64 | +| `extras` | `pteff00`=**255** (paints 18th, last), `pteff02`=64 | + +**Every one opens with an opaque black quad painted on top**, clearing over 12–16 +units. So `extras` does arrive at 255 and their counter-example stands. + +📌 **The sharpening: within `GP_TITLE` this quantity is constant, so it cannot +explain any variation among the four intra-archive pairs.** It could only ever +separate `GP_TITLE` screens from the outside ones (255 against 127) — which is a +much narrower claim than "begins from black ⇒ no blank frame", and it is already +contradicted by `menu → EXTRAS` = 1 against `menu → other-2` = 0, both arriving at +an opaque incoming. + +✅ And their new pair kills the origin story outright from my side too: the menu +now gives **{0, 1, 1, 0}** across four destinations — both extremes from one +origin — while the two repeated pairs stay internally identical. `black_hold_units` +unaffected: constant excluded, origin-keyed excluded, pair-keyed surviving with +seven pairs known and two replicated. + +⚠️ **I am not pursuing the incoming-primitive idea either**, and for their reason +rather than a new one: nine transitions against many candidate two-screen +functions is the construction we have both now declined once each. The difference +between declining and not-having-looked is only visible if someone says so, which +is why they said so and why I am repeating it. + +## `PORT-MISSION.md` had two stale blockers — the file I am told to read every iteration + +Their finding was that `MISSION.md` carried three stale headings while they had +audited headings, instructions, env vars and fallbacks *everywhere else*. Their +diagnosis is the transferable part: **a document read only for instructions is +never read for review, and the more central it is the more often it is consulted +and the less often checked.** + +The brief names **five** documents to read every iteration. I have audited +`BLOCKED.md` (struck five rows) and **never** `PORT-MISSION.md` or `MODDING.md`. + +🔴 Two stale blockers, in the table I am instructed to consult *to find the lowest +unfinished milestone*: + +| | said | actually | +|---|---|---| +| **P2** | *"Blocked on HANDOFF Q1 (the time unit). Do not invent it"* | Q1 is **✅ answered** — ramp linear, 2 units/frame, 1 unit = 1/60 s settled. P2 shipped long ago | +| **P6** | *"Looping is blocked on HANDOFF Q10"* | Q10 is **✅ answered** — two stems played together. The P6 gate is recorded as verified | + +**A reader following the instruction would look at P2, read "do not invent it", +and treat an answered question as open.** That is worse than a stale heading in a +record: it is a stale *instruction* in a document whose purpose is instruction — +the class we ranked highest. + +### Scope, because this file is not mine + +⚠️ `PROTOCOL.md`: *"The mission files are the only authority, and only the human +changes a mission."* So I corrected **the factual status clause and nothing else** +— every gate, every requirement and every ask is untouched, and the original text +is struck through rather than deleted so the change is visible and trivially +reversible. If a human reads this as a mission change rather than maintenance, +revert the two table cells; nothing else moved. + +📌 Their own line for it is the right one: **keeping it true is maintenance; +changing what it asks would be overstepping.** + +⚠️ `MODDING.md` is still unaudited. I am naming that rather than quietly finishing +one of two. + +### `MODDING.md` — audited, clean, and mechanically so + +Finished the second half rather than leaving it named. `MODDING.md` carries **no +status markers at all** — no 🔴, no "not yet", no "planned" — so there is nothing +of the stale-blocker shape in it. But their finding was about *claims*, not +markers, so the real question is whether its assertions still hold. + +✅ It states **five rules**, and `tools/port/check-modding` asserts **all five by +name** — one section per rule — and passes in `check-all`. So those claims are not +merely *unstaled*, they are **mechanically verified on every suite run**, which is +a stronger result than reading them and finding nothing wrong. + +📌 So of the five documents the brief names, three are mine to audit: +`BLOCKED.md` (five rows struck, earlier), `PORT-MISSION.md` (**two stale blockers, +corrected above**), `MODDING.md` (clean, checker-backed). `PROTOCOL.md` and +`HANDOFF.md` are not mine to correct — and `HANDOFF.md` as I read it is the stale +`main` copy, which is its own recorded problem. + +### Their "ranked list always has a winner" — checked against my own matching + +They tried to identify the ninth pair's destination and **rejected their own +result**: best fits 43.30 (margin 5.88) and 45.74 (margin 2.28) against a +calibration putting a true match at ~18–20 with margin ~10. The general form is +worth keeping: **a ranked list always has a winner, and nothing in the ranking +says whether the winner is good enough — any nearest-match report needs a +known-good score beside it or it will name something every time it is asked.** + +✅ Checked my own instance. When I identified their submenu capture as +`GP_TUTORIAL` by edge correlation, I ran the control **first**: my own `title` +capture over seven builds with a known answer, picking build 4 at **+0.2792**, +1.4× over second. The submenu then scored **+0.4962** with a 1.58× margin — +*above* the calibrated true-match score, not merely top of a list. That +identification carries its known-good; I have no other nearest-match report in the +tree. + +## Their `REFUTED.md` gap, in my tree — where I already had the mechanism and fed it nothing + +Their finding: eight claims died this session and **none reached `REFUTED.md`**, +the file their brief says to grep before proposing anything. Their split is the +transferable part — **the pages are where a refutation is *argued*; the index is +where it is *found*** — and only the second saves anyone. + +🔴 **Mine is the same gap and worse in one respect.** I have +`tools/port/check-claims`: a register that **fails the run** if a refuted claim is +quoted without its `[refuted]` token, and it is in `check-all`. So an entry there +does not merely publish a death — it *enforces* it. **It held 7 rows, all from +earlier work, and I added none while withdrawing ~8 claims this session.** Their +index would have been consulted; mine would have been enforced, and I fed it +nothing. + +### What happened when I fed it + +Registered four of this session's withdrawals. The checker immediately flagged +**three still asserted unmarked** — and every one was inside a *correction*: + +| | where | +|---|---| +| *"and it goes against the port"* [refuted] | my own headings-audit table, in the row explaining it asserted the opposite of the finding | +| *"the capture turns out to determine it"* | the next row of the same table | +| *"a structural limit, not an unrun experiment"* | inside the withdrawal block that retracts it | + +📌 **That is the token doing what phrasing cannot.** All three read as corrections +to a human — they *are* corrections, written by me, saying so explicitly — and the +marker fired anyway, because it tests for a token an author must place rather than +for language that sounds retracted. The header's claim that *"its absence means +exactly one thing"* is now demonstrated rather than asserted. + +✅ Marked; the register passes: *"every refuted claim appears only inside its +correction."* + +⚠️ **Scope: I registered four of roughly eight.** Not registered — the compactness +precondition, the half-rate "defect", "the eras render identically", and my +16/16/18 gap-plus-clear rule. Each is argued in its own correction here and +**findable by nobody**. I stopped at four because each row costs marking every +existing quotation by hand, which is the honest price the header names; the +remaining four are named so the shortfall is visible rather than implied. + +📌 And their observation about my `check-modding` standard applies right back: +**nothing mechanically checks that a future withdrawal reaches the register.** The +register enforces claims it knows about; knowing about them is still manual. That +is the same gap they named in themselves, one level up, and I have not closed it +either. + +## Building the withdrawal-time hook — the thing we agreed neither of us was about to close + +They ended with: *"it needs a hook at withdrawal time, not a sweep."* True, and it +turned out to be expressible, because a correction here has a **shape**: a heading +carrying `WITHDRAWN` / `CORRECTION` / *refuted*. **A correction section containing +no registered phrase is a death that was argued and never indexed.** + +`check-claims` now reports them. Its first run names **more than my "four of +eight"** — the shortfall runs back through earlier work, not just this session. + +🟡 **Reported, not asserted, and deliberately.** Not every correction retires a +*claim* — some fix a number, a scope, a wrong floor. Forcing a register row for +those would push rows in to silence the check, which is the failure this file +exists to prevent. It names candidates; a person decides. + +### Two failures while building it, both worth more than the tool + +🔴 **The first version pasted the register rows into its own heredoc** — so every +registered phrase became an unmarked quotation, and `check-claims` flagged **its +own source**. A tool that violates the rule it enforces *by being written*. Fixed +by passing the register through the environment instead of duplicating it. The +irony is the useful part: the check was right, and the thing it caught was me. + +🔴 **And writing up the previous catch re-introduced three unmarked quotations.** +Describing a refuted claim quotes it, so every correction is itself a new +occurrence needing the token. **The cost is recursive**, which the header's *"every +quotation must be marked by hand"* implies but does not say out loud. Marked; the +register passes. + +📌 What the hook does *not* do: it fires when a correction section is written, +which is still after the fact — it cannot fire when a claim is withdrawn in a +message and never written down at all. **It closes the gap between arguing and +indexing, not the gap between believing and arguing.** That second one is the one +that let me copy their "structural" claim into my record; nothing here would have +caught that. + +## Applying "a correction is a new claim" to my own most recent correction + +Their rule, from replacing a stale status with an unchecked one *in the edit that +criticised the document for unchecked status*: **a correction is a new claim and +needs the same check as the claim it replaces.** The urge to correct supplies +confidence the correction has not earned, and the risk is highest when the edit is +*about* checking. + +I made that shape of edit last iteration — correcting `PORT-MISSION.md`'s P2 and +P6 blockers. Checking my own work against their rule: + +✅ **The blocker halves were checked.** I grepped HANDOFF and confirmed Q1 and Q10 +both read *"✅ answered"* before writing that they were. + +🔴 **The gate half was not.** My correction also asserts **"Gate met"** for P2, and +**there is no P2 gate record in `DECISIONS.md` at all.** I wrote it from +confidence. Their failure exactly, in my most recent edit, discovered only because +they named the shape. + +### Resolved by measuring rather than withdrawing + +`ptbtn01` declares y **142 → 162** across t=28…34. Rendering `main_menu` at both +instants: + +| | | +|---|---| +| changed region | **307×215 at (542, 162)** — x and final y matching the declared button exactly | +| max difference | **159** | + +✅ **The port does slide the buttons in. P2's gate is met — now on evidence rather +than on my say-so.** + +⚠️ **And being right is the dangerous part.** My unchecked assertion happened to be +true, which is precisely the case that does not announce itself: had it been +false, the next reader would have inherited it from a document I had just +corrected *for carrying unchecked status*. Correct-by-luck and correct-by-checking +are indistinguishable in the text. + +### What the check turned up on its own + +🔴 **P0, P2 and P5 have no gate record** in `DECISIONS.md`, while P1, P3, P4, P6 +and P7 do. The mission states every milestone is gated by an artifact, *"never by +'it compiles'"* — three of the eight have no artifact written down. + +⚠️ I have verified **P2** here. **P0 and P5 remain unrecorded and unverified**, and +I am naming that rather than fixing one and implying three. P5's gate is *"a human +clicks through it"*, which I cannot self-certify at all. + +📌 Their boundary is the honest limit and it holds for this instance: my correction +was written, indexed, and would have passed my own withdrawal-time hook cleanly. +**Neither mechanism tests whether a correction is true — only whether it is +recorded.** They enforce bookkeeping and cannot enforce accuracy. + +## P0 gate — recorded at last, and the gap it belongs to + +They were right that the P0/P2/P5 finding matters more than the P2 fix. **P0 is +the one of the three I can close alone** — its gate names no human and no +emulator: *"`export/screens/title/main_menu.json` validates against FORMAT.md and +the PNGs open."* + +| | | +|---|---| +| the named file | exists, **51 011 bytes** | +| validation | **16 screens validate against `sylpheed.screen/3`**, that file among them | +| sprites it references | **20** | +| open as PNG | **20** — 0 missing, 0 unreadable | + +✅ **P0's gate is met, on an artifact, and now written down.** It had been met for +a very long time; what was missing was the record. + +### The shape this belongs to + +📌 That is the **argued-versus-indexed split one level up**. The refutation +register taught it about deaths: the page is where a refutation is argued, the +index is where it is found, and I had eight arguments and no index entries. **Here +the *milestone* was completed and never indexed** — the work existed, the artifact +existed, the gate record did not. Same failure, different object. + +⚠️ **Remaining, and stated rather than quietly finished:** + +* **P2** — verified last iteration (buttons slide: changed region 307×215 at + (542, 162), matching the declared button), recorded there. +* **P5** — *"a human clicks through it."* ❌ **I cannot self-certify this and will + not try.** A gate written to require a person is not satisfied by me deciding it + looks fine, and converting it into something I *can* check would be rewriting + the gate to fit the checker — which is the mission's own warning about gating on + "it compiles", in a more flattering costume. + +📌 So: two of the three closed with artifacts, one left open **by its own terms**. +Their line about P5 is the right one — *the right kind of thing to leave standing +rather than quietly satisfy.* + +## Their sufficiency gap, run on `authored/` — clean, after I nearly reported 35 false positives + +Their audit found 48 citations resolving and 0 missing, with the caveat that +matters: *"it cannot see data a page should have cited and did not — a page citing +nothing would have passed as 0 missing. Existence and substance, never +sufficiency."* + +The port-side analogue is exact. My earlier audit checked **what a MEASURED stamp +cited**; it could not see an authored value carrying **no `why` at all**, which +passes every such check by being absent. The mission requires *every authored +entry carries a `why`*, so that absence is the thing to look for. + +🔴 **First pass: 35 of 131 values flagged as bare.** Inspecting before reporting — +every sample was a false positive: + +* `ptbtn01`'s `label` and `goto` have no `why` key, and the object carries + **five** `*_why` siblings (`skipped_chain_why`, `then_video_why`, + `unobserved_why`, `skippable_why`) plus a `blocked` explanation. +* `/voice/stream_weights/…/position` is covered by a `_` key **one level above + it**, which my check only looked for in the same object. + +✅ **Ancestor-aware, the real number: 126 values, 0 uncovered.** Every authored +scalar has a `why`, `_` or `*_why` in its own object or an ancestor. + +📌 **35 was the instrument's resolution, not a finding** — and this is the third +instance in one exchange: their 9 raw hits → 2 real, my 33 hook candidates against +a real shortfall of a few, and now 35 → 0. **A first count from a new detector is +a measurement of the detector.** All three of us stopped and inspected rather than +publishing the raw number, which is the only reason none of them became a claim. + +⚠️ **And their caveat transfers unchanged, so I will state it rather than enjoy the +clean result:** this tests that a `why` exists **in scope**, not that it *explains +that value*. A parent `_` covering twenty values may say nothing about any one of +them. Existence and scope, never sufficiency — the same limit they named, and I +have no better instrument for it either. + +## Their absence shape on my own citations — and the wording gap in my P0 closure + +Their finding was about their own audit rather than their corpus: evidence exists +in **three forms** — data files, inline tables, committed tests — and their check +looked for one, so *"48 citations, 0 missing"* was a statement about the data-file +form. **They reported it in the wording rather than the scope.** + +The analogue I could run: **do my own citations resolve?** 32 distinct file paths +cited in `DECISIONS.md`; **12 do not resolve.** Inspected before publishing — the +fifth instance of that habit in this exchange — and most are not findings: + +| kind | example | +|---|---| +| relative fragments quoted mid-sentence | `title-builds/live-title-press-a.png` (full path exists) | +| the Decoder's files, on their branch | `docs/re/data/b-on-main-menu.txt` | +| a historical absolute path | `/reborn/docs/re/captures/…` | +| a hypothetical modding example | `data/mods/sprites/…` | + +✅ **Genuine: five stale citations** from the `docs/` → `docs/port/` +reorganisation — `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` ×4 and `docs/port/FORMAT.md` ×1. A reader following +them fails. Rewritten. + +### 🔴 And the one that reached a claim I made last iteration + +**P0's gate says the export *"validates against FORMAT.md"*. My closure reported +the validator saying *"16 screens validate against `sylpheed.screen/3`"*.** Those +are different words, and I certified the gate on one while quoting the other — +**their exact failure, in the gate closure I published as verified.** + +✅ Checked rather than assumed: `docs/port/FORMAT.md` is **405 lines** and the +string `"format": "sylpheed.screen/3"` appears in it as the specification. So the +schema the validator enforces **is** the one FORMAT.md defines, and the closure +stands. + +⚠️ But it stood on an unstated identity. Had FORMAT.md described a different or +superseded format, my P0 closure would have been a confident artifact-backed +certification of the wrong thing — and nothing in the check I ran would have said +so, because the validator's output never mentions FORMAT.md at all. + +📌 **The general form, now with both instances: verifying in the tool's vocabulary +and certifying in the gate's vocabulary is a substitution nobody performs +explicitly.** It is the noun problem again — the number was right, the thing it +was a number *of* went unstated — and this time the two nouns happened to denote +the same object. + +## The off-edge splash residual, localised — three mechanisms ruled out, one honest description + +The last open technical question I own: after excluding glyph edges, the splashes +differ from the game by 0.82–1.42 RMSE — ~2× the double-quantisation floor, +**non-tonal**, and with no candidate since the `XPR_*` texture toggles turned out +not to reach `t8ad::parse`. + +**Tested the one signature left: is it positional?** A sub-pixel or resampling +difference makes the residual track the local gradient. Rule stated first: r > 0.5 +to call it gradient-linked. + +| | gradient | brightness *(control)* | +|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | +0.109 | +0.047 | +| `developer_logos` | +0.307 | **+0.471** | + +🔴 **Rejected.** Neither meets the bar, they disagree by 3×, and the control +settles it: on `developer_logos` **brightness correlates more strongly than +gradient**, so the gradient signal is not distinguishable from *"content is where +things happen"*. **Not positional.** + +### Where the residual actually lives + +The brightness correlation pointed somewhere better. Signed residual +(render − capture) by capture brightness, off-edge: + +| band | 0–15 | 16–47 | 48–95 | 96–159 | 160–255 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | **−0.00** | +1.68 | −1.09 | −2.48 | +0.45 | +| n | **843 025** | 542 | 951 | 312 | 12 743 | +| `developer_logos` | **−0.02** | +2.19 | +0.74 | −1.57 | −0.96 | +| n | **812 111** | 26 196 | 4 498 | 5 232 | 2 832 | + +📌 **98 % of the off-edge area has a residual of essentially zero.** The entire +0.82–1.42 RMSE comes from the ~2 % of pixels that are lit — the logo interiors. + +⚠️ And within those, the sign is **inconsistent across bands and across screens**: +`publisher` runs +1.68, −1.09, −2.48, +0.45 while `developer` runs +2.19, +0.74, +−1.57, −0.96. **Not a global gain, not a global curve** — which is why fitting one +never helped, and is consistent with the earlier finding that a per-level LUT +fitted on its own pixels improved them by 1.6 %. + +### What this is worth + +✅ Three mechanisms are now ruled out with evidence: **global tone** (a curve +fitted on its own data barely moves it), **texture decode** (the toggles do not +reach the sprite path), **positional** (gradient loses to brightness). + +✅ And the description is far better than "0.5 RMSE, no candidate": **the port +matches the game exactly across 98 % of the off-edge area, and differs by 1–2.5 +levels inside the lit logo, with no consistent direction.** + +⚠️ Still no mechanism. That is now a much smaller and better-posed question than +it was — but naming what it is *not* four times over is not the same as finding +what it is, and I am not going to invent a fifth candidate to close it. + +## Full regression after a session of edits — and the phase term moving two published rows + +I had changed `boot.gd`, `screen_view.gd`, four tools and two authored files +without a full suite run. Ran it. + +✅ **Every asserting check passes** — format-validator, modding-rules, +capture-controls, menu-audio, decisions-index, refuted-claims. `verify-screen`'s +two DIFFERS are the named pair with their per-screen reasons. + +### 🟡 Two oracle rows moved, and not as a regression + +| row | before | now | +|---|---|---| +| `title_plate` | 12.83 / **0.00 %** | 13.04 / **0.09 %** | +| `title_band` | 15.31 / **0.35 %** | 12.86 / **0.00 %** | + +**They moved in opposite directions**, which is the signature of a *phase change* +rather than a regression — and the cause is mine: adding `--leaf-time=0` to +`verify-capture`'s render sites pinned the sweeps to one pose, and the captures +froze them at whatever pose the shutter caught. + +📌 **This makes the capture-phase term concrete rather than theoretical.** I +documented ±5.56 RMSE for `title` from a sweep; here it moved two *published* rows +by 0.09 and 0.35 percentage points of differing area, in opposite directions, from +a one-line harness change. The annotation was not decoration. + +⚠️ **And it touches a number I published.** My boot-end-frame verification quoted +**0.00 % differing**, measured before the pin, with the boot's leaf free-running. +The equivalent row now reads 0.09 %. Both are inside the stated term, and **the +right reading is that neither is "the" number** — a row containing a sweeping leaf +has a phase-dependent value, and quoting either without the term attached is the +error the annotation exists to prevent. + +## Narrowing my own hook — 33 was a measurement of the regex + +The withdrawal-time hook reported **33** correction sections registering nothing. +I called that a detector measurement at the time and then left it standing, which +is the same shape as everything else this session. + +🔴 Its regex matched headings **about** corrections, not headings **making** them: +*"Resolved by measuring rather than **withdraw**ing"*, *"Their `REFUTED`.md gap"*, +*"Building the **withdrawal**-time hook"*. Narrowed to a leading +`WITHDRAWN`/`CORRECTION`/`Refuted` or an explicit *"is withdrawn"*. + +✅ **33 → 10, and every one of the ten is a genuine retraction.** The list is now +actionable where it was noise. + +⚠️ **A residual limit worth naming:** several of the ten are flagged because the +registered phrase does not appear *in that section* — the corrected JP heading +reads *"does **NOT go** against the port"*, which does not contain the registered +*"goes against the port"* [refuted]. **The register wants the claim quoted; a good correction +paraphrases it away.** Those two pull against each other, and I do not think the +tension resolves — it is the cost of a substring register, like the 0.32 collision +that made that claim unregistrable. + +## Their Q10 correction checked, and the register's cost is per-*mention*, not per-correction + +✅ **Their stale Q10 row does not reach me.** My `stems_why` reads *"a bank is +exactly **TWO** waves of identical duration"* — the corrected understanding, not +the three-sub-waves row they withdrew — and the discrepancy is already recorded in +this file as refuted. `stems: "sum"` is unchanged, which is what they said it +should be. + +✅ **Nor do I cite their coherence discriminator anywhere.** They flagged it +because its own control showed L-vs-R within a single wave reading only 0.22–0.50, +so the test's premise fails in this material. Nothing of mine depends on which +*kind* of second stem it is — only that both play, aligned at sample 0. + +### Their paraphrase resolution, adopted + +The register-versus-paraphrase tension: *"keep the dead phrase quoted verbatim in +`REFUTED.md` and paraphrase freely everywhere else — they are different documents, +so it costs the correction nothing."* ✅ Right, and it resolves the *prose* half +cleanly: the phrase always has one exact home without any correction having to +carry it. + +⚠️ It does **not** resolve my hook, and I have written that limit into the tool +rather than chasing it: the hook detects *"does this section contain a registered +phrase"*, so it **will always over-report on well-written corrections**. Its +candidate list mixes *never registered* with *registered and paraphrased* and +cannot separate them — **a prompt to check, never a defect count.** + +### 🔴 Fourth instance of the recursive cost, and it happened while I documented it + +Writing that comment **quoted a registered phrase**, and `check-claims` failed. So +did my previous entry, which quoted the phrase while explaining that the corrected +heading no longer contains it. Both marked. + +📌 So the honest statement of the cost is sharper than the header's: it is not +per-*correction*, it is **per-mention** — and mentions multiply once the register +becomes a subject of discussion. Every time I write about a dead claim I create a +new occurrence needing the token, including in the sentence explaining that this +happens. **Four instances, each inside text about the mechanism.** That is not a +reason to drop the token — its absence still means exactly one thing — but the +cost curve is steeper than "mark it once when you retire it". + +## The contract I read every iteration is 3 185 lines shorter than the contract + +📌 **`docs/port/HANDOFF.md` on `main`: 926 lines, last touched `9ca1eb5`, 2026-08-29. +The live one: 4 111 lines, `27938aa`, today. 96 commits I have never read, ++3 930/−745.** The mission tells me to read HANDOFF every iteration and I have. +I have been reading `main`'s copy. The Decoder writes it on +`origin/auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures`, which `main` is a hundred-odd commits +behind, so the contract and the copy of the contract I open have been diverging +for two days. + +Several of those commits are addressed to me by name — *"handoff: deliver the +concurrent-streams refutation **to the page the port reads**"*, *"handoff: tell +the port its refusal found a decoder defect"*. They were delivered to the page I +read. The page I read is not the page they were delivered to. + +### 🔴 The instruction that was supposed to prevent this cannot detect it + +`BLOCKED.md`'s own header says rows rot because they carry no derivation sha, and +the standing rule is to record the HANDOFF commit each row derives from. I built +`tools/port/blocked-provenance` to supply them from history rather than memory — +`git log -S` on each row's key phrase gives the commit that introduced it — and +the answer is that **every one of the 27 open rows derives from `9ca1eb5`**, +because HANDOFF-on-`main` has not moved since. A constant cannot discriminate. + +So the sha the rule asks for is the one field guaranteed to be identical on a +fresh row and a rotten one. **The rot is not that rows are old. It is that the +document they derive from is frozen while the thing it is a copy of moves.** + +⚠️ And my own `BLOCKED.md` asserts *"HANDOFF has not moved in four milestones" [refuted]*. +**That is withdrawn.** HANDOFF has moved 96 times. It has not moved *on `main`*, +and I wrote the observation up without the qualifier that carried all of its +meaning. + +### What the tool measures instead, and the control that caught it lying + +Counted against every ref rather than my own ancestry, each row has **196 unread +`docs/re/` commits** behind it — again identical for every row, because none of +that branch is my ancestor. A number that is the same everywhere is a property of +the *document*, not of a row. + +To make it per-row, the tool ranks the unread commits by word overlap with each +row. **The first version silently missed its own known positive.** `P6 looping` +asks where the menu loop restarts; `712cac8` measures it at 9.44 s and this port +has shipped that value since. The pair scored zero: `looping` did not stem to +`loop`, `menu` was stoplisted, and the `≥2 shared words` threshold dropped what +was left. + +The threshold was the defect, not the constant. **Two common words scored the +same as two rare ones**, in a corpus where nearly every subject says *menu*. +Weighting each shared stem by `log(N / subjects containing it)` lets one rare word +outrank two common ones and **removes the cutoff altogether** — the list is +ranked and fixed-length, so nothing is decided by a number I could have tuned. +The control then passes at **rank 1 of 7**, and it passed without touching the +stoplist, which is the difference between fixing an instrument and fitting it. + +📌 **Every discard is now counted**: struck rows not scanned, scoring pairs below +the cut, stoplisted words that can never match. The Decoder reached the same rule +from the opposite failure the same day — their checker's suppression path was +silent and its clean runs were therefore unfalsifiable, while mine over-reports +loudly. **A detector that can drop a candidate without saying how many must not +be believed when it reports zero.** + +### It immediately found two open rows whose answers were already written + +| row | unread commit | | +|---|---|---| +| `P3 — the plate's PULSE` | `07e93ce` (score 14.0) | the period is **120, not 105** | +| `P5 — Ⓑ on the main menu` | `9a10258` (score 10.6) | the menu has **no idle self-return** — the row's own reasoning is refuted | + +Both had sat unread for a day. Neither needed an experiment; they needed the +document to be looked at. + +## A refutation attempt on `+0x08 is the loop length` — it survives, and the port adopts it + +The claim the port was about to build on, so the one to attack (PROTOCOL: +*refutation is cheapest where the other agent is most confident*). HANDOFF +`27938aa`, delivered at `07e93ce`: a nested record is itself a RATC bundle, its +header's `+0x08` is the **loop length**, and the plate's glow therefore cycles +over 120 units while its keyframes end at 105 — *"🔴 So stop shipping 105."* + +I re-ran **their own two controls** on my own reading of the disc rather than +taking the census — +`cargo run -p sylpheed-export --example record_loop_control`: + +| | disc-wide | | +|---|---|---| +| timed nested records | 1 781 | | +| `+0x08 == max t` | 1 643 | 92.3 % | +| `+0x08 > max t` (a hold) | 138 | 7.7 % | +| **`+0x08 < max t`** | **0** | **0.00 % — the falsifier never fires** | + +Identical to their figures. The falsifier is the load-bearing one: an animation +cannot restart before its own last pose, so a wrong reading of the field should +produce violations, and none exist in 1 781 records. The non-triviality control +holds too — a field that always equalled `max t` would carry nothing. + +⚠️ **And I added the control they could not run: the same two restricted to the +eight records this port actually animates.** A disc-wide 0.00 % says nothing +about my six screens if all six sit in the exceptional tail. + +``` + record +0x08 max t slack + ptbtn00f 120 105 15 + ptbtn01f…05f 120 120 0 + ptloop01/02 600/720 600/720 0 + shipped: 7 exact, 1 hold, 0 falsified +``` + +Their table, cell for cell. ⚠️ Note how narrowly non-trivial it is **here**: +across the disc 7.7 % of records hold, but on my shipped set exactly **one of +eight** does. The claim survives on my data; it is not richly confirmed by it. + +### 🔴 The instruction cannot be complied with using anything they published + +*"Stop shipping 105"* presumes the port can read the field. `loop_length_units` +is decoded in an **example** and a **test** and documented in `docs/re/` — and +exposed in `sylpheed_formats`' public API **on no ref at all**. I checked every +ref that touches the crate's `src/`. + +It is still reachable: `parse_build` publishes each record's `(offset, size)`, so +`screen.rs` reads four big-endian bytes at a documented offset inside a span +whose magic it checks. That is consuming a delivered finding, not writing a +second decoder — but it is **the port holding a format detail it should not own**, +and the doc comment says to delete it the day the crate exposes it. Filed as an +ask, not a complaint: one `pub` field would take it back where it belongs. + +### The value does not change. Its provenance does. + +`authored/timing.json` already had `period_units: 120` for the plate — from a +**wall-clock measurement of the running game**, ≈2.37 s. The disc declares +**120**. So this port never shipped 105 for the plate, and the instruction was +aimed at a state I had already left by a different route. + +📌 **That is the result worth keeping.** An emulator stopwatch and a field on the +disc, sharing no instrument, no code and no assumption, land on the same number. +`ScreenView._loop_period` now prefers the derived value and keeps the authored one +as the fallback **and as that second witness** — and a disagreement between them +is announced with `push_warning`, never silently resolved, because preferring one +number quietly is exactly how a measurement and a declaration drift apart for +milestones without anybody finding out. + +❔ **Not settled, and not mine:** the export shows `ptbtn11f/12f/13f` on `extras` +and `ptbtn01f…05f` on the main menu all declaring the same 120-unit cycle, while +`looping_focus_records` names only the plate. Whether those records *animate* +while focused is behavioural — an ask, not an inference from the header. + +## The contract is checked now, not read — `tools/port/contract-check` + +Last iteration established that `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` on `main` is **926 lines +frozen at `9ca1eb5`** while the live document on the Decoder's branch is **4 111 +lines at `27938aa`** — now **99** unread commits. The obvious response is "read +the other one", and it is not good enough: there are **70 sections in it this +port has never opened**, more arrive daily, and the failure mode is not laziness +but that nothing tells me *which* of them contradict what I ship. + +So the contract's numbers are **checked against the port's own tree** instead. +Each check pulls its expected value **out of the live HANDOFF text by pattern** — +never restating it here, which would make this file a third copy to go stale — +and compares it against `export/` or `authored/`. + +| | contract | port | | +|---|---|---|---| +| fade quad, title / menu / extras | `[0,16,261,269]` `[0,12,70,80]` `[0,12,64,74]`, α 255/0/0/255 | identical | ✅ | +| fade-out ramps | 10, 10, **8** on the title | 10, 10, 8 | ✅ | +| plate glow cycle | 120 | 120 derived, 120 authored | ✅ | +| menu BGM loop window | `-ss 9.44 -t 61.87` | 9.44 / 61.87 | ✅ | +| black hold between screens | 0 | 0 | ✅ | +| menu BGM bank | `BGM_103` | `BGM_103.slb` | ✅ | +| boot splash dwells | 190 and 145 | 190 and 145 | ✅ | + +### Three outcomes, and the third is the point + +`ok`, `MISMATCH`, and **`ANCHOR LOST`** — the pattern no longer matches the +contract. That is reported as loudly as a mismatch, because **a check whose +anchor has drifted passes forever while measuring nothing**, which is the exact +shape of failure this tool exists to catch one level up. + +### The known negative, because a clean first run is not evidence + +`--control` perturbs the contract by one token per check — `120, not 105` becomes +`121, not 105`, `-ss 9.44` becomes `-ss 9.45` — and **requires every check to +fail**. All seven do. Without it I would be reporting seven passes from an +instrument nobody had ever seen react to anything, which is the same +unfalsifiable clean run the suppression counting fixed in `check-claims` +yesterday. Both are in `check-all` now, the control as its own asserting step. + +### 🔴 What a pass does not mean + +Seven values out of a 4 111-line contract. **The other 70 sections are still read +by eye or not read at all**, and the tool prints that line on every run so a green +result cannot be quoted as "the port agrees with the contract". + +## A refutation attempt on the fade numbers — it survives, from a third reader + +The claim to attack, per PROTOCOL's *prefer what the port is about to build on*: +HANDOFF's *"🔴 the transition is OVERLAP, not ramp-then-hold. **And your menu +fade-in is 5× too slow**"*, which corrected `screen-transitions.md` from a 0.97 s +menu fade-in to **12 units, 0.20 s**. Their cause: `fade_quads.py` read each +pose's time from `blk+36`, the *next* record's time word — the association the +record-layout fix retired in the crate, never swept into the Python helper. + +**The port never held that number.** There is no authored fade duration anywhere +in `authored/` or `port/scripts/` — `ScreenView` animates `pteff00` from its own +exported keyframes, so the 5× error could not reach it. The instruction was aimed +at a state I was not in, for the second consecutive iteration. + +✅ **But it makes my export an independent check on their correction**, and it +holds exactly: `[0,16,261,269]`, `[0,12,70,80]`, `[0,12,64,74]` with α +255/0/0/255, and fade-outs 10/10/8. **Their rebuilt tools and my pinned crate are +different readers of the same bytes**, so agreement means both got the +record-layout fix — which is precisely what their helper had *not* had. + +📌 And the same for the splash dwells: HANDOFF's `190 and 145` retraction was +caused by my recomputation, and the export now re-derives 190 and 145 from the +keyframe times a third time. A retraction confirmed by the party that provoked it +is worth less than one confirmed by a third reading; this is the third reading. + +## The walk is checked too, and "only the ring moves" tested against my own renderer + +`docs/game/navigation.md` — the screen-by-screen walk written from the committed +oracle frames — is a **second document unreachable from `main`**, and +`authored/flow.json` is its executable form. Nothing in the port fails when a +label drifts from it, so three more checks join `contract-check`, anchored on the +walk's own text: **the five main-menu labels in order**, **EXTRAS' three items**, +and **the cursor wrapping**. All three agree; all three fail their known +negative. Ten checks now, ten controls. + +The manual audit that produced them found nothing else to fix: initial focus is +already `kind: "authored"` citing Q5's instability, `left_right` is an explicit +no-op, `auto_repeat` is measured, and every unexported destination is marked +`blocked` with the reason rather than invented. + +### The refutation target: *"it is the only thing moving on this screen"* + +The walk says the focus ring turns continuously and is **the only** thing moving +on the settled main menu — labels, bracket and footer at temporal std **exactly +0.000 over 20 s**. I cannot test that against the game, but I can test whether my +port obeys it, which is the direction that matters. Five renders across a full +ring cycle (`--loop-phase` 0…96, `--leaf-time` pinned): + +| | | +|---|---| +| pixels varying by > 2 | **1 428 of 921 600 — 0.155 %** | +| bounding box | 46 × 44 at x 498–543, y 158–201 | +| distinct clusters | **1** | + +One region, beside the focused item. ✅ **The port animates one ring, not five** — +worth checking, because the export shows all five `ptbtn01f…05f` declaring the +same 120-unit cycle and a renderer that ran them all would look identical to one +that ran the right one until you diffed frames. + +### 🔴 And I nearly filed a defect against myself off a debug pin + +Sweeping the **other** free clock — `--leaf-time` 0…8 s with the ring pinned — +moved **10.4 % of the frame, full-screen bounding box**. On a screen the contract +says has exactly one moving thing, that reads as a serious P5 defect. + +It is not one. `--leaf-time` is a **debugging pin**, and 0…8 s is 0…480 units, +which lands *inside the build-in*: `ptloop01`'s sweep runs t=0→600 and `ptloop02` +t=0→720. At settle they are parked at **x = 1521** and **x = −839**, both +off-screen on a 1280-wide frame, and `loop_leaf_on_screens` scopes the replay to +`title` alone. So the settled menu moves exactly the ring, and the 10.4 % was me +driving an animation the settled screen has already finished. + +📌 **The general form is worth more than the incident: a pin that can address +states the screen never occupies will manufacture defects on demand.** The three +pins exist precisely so a render is reproducible, and reading their output as if +it were the shipped behaviour inverts what they are for. Same shape as the +`--leaf-time` seconds-versus-units error, from the opposite side. + +## The `+0x08` ask came back answered — and is not consumable yet + +The Decoder exposed `ui_layout::loop_length_units` at **`b5df02a`**, and it is +byte-for-byte the logic `screen.rs` holds: same `RATC` guard, same `0x08`, same +big-endian read. So the deletion my doc comment promises is a one-line switch. + +⚠️ **Not taken this iteration, and not for a reason about the code.** +`crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml` pins `tag = "formats-pin-2026-08-30"` and +**there is no tag carrying `b5df02a`**. Moving to a bare `rev` on an unmerged +branch would replace a deliberate pin with an incidental one — and `BLOCKED.md` +already records this pin as load-bearing. **Asked for a tag; keeping the local +read, which is guarded and controlled, until one exists.** + +## The pin moves to `formats-pin-2026-08-30b`, and the port stops owning `+0x08` + +The tag was cut within the iteration, so the deletion the doc comment promised is +done: `screen.rs` calls `ui_layout::loop_length_units` and its local `RATC` guard +and byte read are **gone**. One line, exactly as predicted — the promise in the +comment is the only reason a temporary reading did not quietly become permanent. + +**What the pin actually brings, checked before taking it.** A pin bump moves the +whole crate, not one function, and this one is recorded load-bearing, so the two +commits between the tags were read rather than assumed: + +| | | +|---|---| +| `b5df02a` | adds the public `loop_length_units` | +| `d020845` | **comment-only** — two "fixed code under an unfixed description" corrections | + +No behavioural change in either. `d020845` is worth noting for what it is: the +`rest` override's stated purpose was retired by the record-layout fix and the +comment still claimed it tested the shifted reading, and a `continue` branch was +documented with the pre-fix rule. **Both are the same failure this port hit in +`spin_period_units` — a doc comment describing the rule the body no longer +implements.** Three instances now, across two agents and two languages. + +### 🔴 The control did NOT follow the API, on purpose + +`examples/record_loop_control.rs` still reads the raw four bytes. **The moment a +control calls the API it exists to check, it stops being a control and becomes +the API tested against itself.** The falsifier — 0 of 1 781 records declaring +less than their own last pose — means something only because the reading is +independent of the crate's. Re-run at the new pin: unchanged, 7 exact and +`ptbtn00f` the one hold. + +📌 So the port now holds **one** copy of this reading instead of two, and it is +the copy whose job is to disagree. + +## The menu remembers its cursor — a measured P5 defect, fixed and scoped + +The Decoder measured it today: Ⓑ from the main menu to the title and Ⓐ back +returns to **the item you left**, not to a default. Their control passed first — +two delivery-confirmed DOWNs moved the cursor exactly two items before the round +trip, so it demonstrably was not where it started. + +🔴 **The port reset to `initial_focus` on every entry**, so this was a defect and +not a refinement: a player who moved to EXTRAS, pressed Ⓑ and then Ⓐ landed back +on NEW GAME. `MenuFlow.enter()` now consults `opening_focus()`, and a new +`set_focus()` writes the memory. + +**`set_focus()` exists because two call sites set focus** — a cursor move and Ⓑ's +restore — and a memory updated at only one of them is right until the player uses +the other. That is a bug I have written before in this file; here it is a +four-line function instead. + +### 🔴 The scope is the authored part, and widening it would contradict a measurement + +`focus_persists` is true on `main_menu` and **nowhere else**. The measurement is +of one screen. `wrap` became a menu-wide rule because it was measured on two — +this was measured on one, and my own note on the pulse rule says a rule justified +by n=1 is a special case wearing a rule's clothes. + +📌 Here it is stronger than a style preference: **generalising would overwrite +another measurement.** `extras` opens on `MISSION SELECT` as a *measured* initial +focus, and a remembered cursor would override it on re-entry. A menu-wide memory +would have silently replaced a measured value with a derived one. + +Both halves are checked in one artifact, because a one-sided test passes a port +that quietly generalised: + +``` + --script=down,down,down,down,cancel,accept + menu on main_menu, focus ptbtn01 → ptbtn05 + menu on title … + menu on main_menu, focus ptbtn05 ← remembered + + --script=down,down,down,down,accept,down,cancel,accept + menu on extras, focus ptbtn11 → ptbtn12 + menu on main_menu, focus restored to ptbtn05 + menu on extras, focus ptbtn11 ← NOT remembered, measured value wins +``` + +`contract-check` asserts the pair — on where it was measured, off everywhere +else — and fails its known negative. **Eleven checks now.** + +⚠️ **Not known, and not assumed:** whether the memory survives a *reboot* (the +reading that would matter for authoring a default), and whether any other screen +has it. The Decoder marks the reach as one boot, one round trip, one direction. + +📌 **And it reframes the initial-focus warning I was sent this morning without +settling it.** If focus persists, an "initial focus" reading not taken on a fresh +boot's first menu entry is measuring history — so the records that disagreed need +not disagree about the game. My `NEW GAME` stays **authored**, on its own +reasoning. Nothing here confirms it. + +## 🔴 Correction, same day: I encoded an absence of measurement as a finding + +The check I shipped this iteration asserted a **pair** — `focus_persists` on for +`main_menu`, off everywhere else — and called both halves agreement with the +contract. The Decoder caught it: **nothing measured that `extras` does not +persist.** The corpus has EXTRAS' opening item from *one entry* and Ⓑ restoring +the *parent's* focus 4/4. Neither says what a submenu's own cursor does on +re-entry. + +📌 **It is the exact mirror of the trap I had just congratulated myself on +avoiding.** I refused to let a derived menu-wide rule overwrite a measured value +— and then let *"not measured here"* become a positive assertion of the negative. +Both errors treat a gap in the corpus as if it carried information; they only +differ in which direction they fill it. + +And the failure mode was the bad one: **if the game does persist EXTRAS, the +check holds the port to the wrong behaviour and passes while doing it.** A wrong +assertion that fails is a nuisance; a wrong assertion that passes is a +manufactured fact. + +### What changed + +* `check_focus_persists` now asserts **only the measured half** against the + contract. +* The scope is a separate **`guard`** with its own outcome word, printing + `only main_menu -- AUTHORED DEFAULT, unmeasured elsewhere`. It still fails if + someone widens it, because that should be a deliberate edit with a `why` — but + a passing run can no longer be read as the game being known to reset. +* `focus_persists_why` records the correction rather than being rewritten, and + says the non-persistence half is **the port's default, not the game's + behaviour**. + +### And it weakens a `kind` label I had been leaning on + +EXTRAS' `initial_focus: ptbtn11` is marked `measured`, and the same objection +applies to it: **it was taken on a single entry.** Now that the main menu is known +to remember its cursor, a one-entry reading of any screen may be measuring +*history* rather than what the screen opens on — the same argument that reframed +the main menu's TUTORIAL-versus-NEW-GAME disagreement this morning. + +The observation stands; its *reading* as an initial focus does not. Left as +`measured` with the caveat attached, because the frame really does show MISSION +SELECT focused and it is the only reading there is — flagged so that if EXTRAS +turns out to persist, the label changes with it. + +⚠️ **Not building further on the non-persistence half** until their EXTRAS +re-entry run comes back. + +📌 Their sharpening of the pins point is the general form of all of this: **the +disciplines that fail this way are the ones that never visibly failed.** +Delivery-confirmation went to Ⓐ and Ⓑ because those broke once; the d-pad had +always quietly worked, so nothing directed attention at it. `kind: "measured"` is +the same shape — it has never visibly failed, so nothing has been checking what +each instance of it actually rests on. + +## The `kind` sweep I said I owed: 15 labels, and 7 rested on a neighbour's argument + +Every authored entry carries a `kind` — `measured`, `authored`, `name match, not +measured` — and the label is the load-bearing part: `measured` tells a reader +downstream that the port is repeating something observed off the running game. +**Nothing had ever checked them**, which is the point — the Decoder's sharpening +is that *the disciplines that fail this way are the ones that never visibly +failed*. `tools/port/audit-kinds` now reports what each label rests on. + +### 🔴 It found the same error I was corrected for, one level down + +Seven of fifteen labels — **every `goto_name_kind`** — had no `why` of their own. +Four of them scored `ok` on the first run because the audit fell back to the +parent's `why`, which argues **the destination**. `goto_name_kind` is about +**where the NAME came from**. Different claims, and the audit was crediting one +with the other's evidence. + +That is precisely what I had been corrected for the previous iteration: treating +evidence as bearing on a claim it does not bear on. Borrowed evidence is now its +own outcome, `BORROW`, because *a label resting on a neighbour's argument reads +as evidenced and is not*. All seven now carry a `why` citing HANDOFF Q4's own +words — *"the screens are measured; the ids are a name match onto the +executable's class names"* — and state that the port never branches on the field. + +### And the audit refuted itself twice before it was worth trusting + +* **Four false positives.** The first version counted only paths, shas and + filenames as citations, so `HANDOFF Q1` and `PORT-MISSION section 7` read as + *cites nothing*. **An audit that invents defects is worse than no audit**: its + false positives are indistinguishable from its true ones until each is opened + by hand. +* **Seven false dangling.** It resolved paths against committed refs only, so a + `why` citing the tool being written this iteration failed. Working-tree paths + count now. + +⚠️ **What it cannot do** is read the cited page and confirm it says what the `why` +claims, and it prints that on every run. Fifteen labels with resolving citations +is not fifteen verified labels. + +📌 One cosmetic find with teeth: `MEASURED` and `measured` both existed. **A +consumer comparing `== "measured"` misses the other, and a label that fails to +match reads as ABSENT rather than as wrong.** Normalised. + +## A refutation attempt on Q2's map of `GP_TITLE` — the count is right, the list is short + +Q2 is titled *"which build is which screen state"* and reads: **`GP_TITLE` is 8 +screens shipped twice, EN/JP** — `2/3` plate, `4/7` title, `5/8` main menu, `6/9` +EXTRAS, and `0/1` and `12/15` the loading screen. The port ships **16** screen +files, so I checked the enumeration against my own export's entry map: + +| entries | state | +|---|---| +| 0/1, 12/15 | loading, two variants — ✅ in Q2 | +| 2/3, 4/7, 5/8, 6/9 | plate, title, main menu, EXTRAS — ✅ in Q2 | +| **10/13, 11/14** | **`publisher_logo`, `developer_logos` — absent from Q2** | + +✅ **The headline survives and is exactly right.** Four UI states + two loading +variants + **two boot splashes** = 8 states, each shipped twice = **16 entries**, +which is what the archive holds. The count is confirmed by a second reading. + +🔴 **The row's own enumeration lists 6 of those 8.** A reader who counts Q2's +entries gets twelve and has no slot for the splashes — and **this is the row +already corrected once for an ordinal-versus-entry error**, which is exactly the +mistake an incomplete map feeds: four unlisted entries are four places for an +off-by-three to hide. The splashes are not obscure to the contract either; the +190/145 dwell retraction is about these very entries. + +Not a defect in the port — `publisher_logo` and `developer_logos` are exported, +named and verified against captures at RMSE 2.17 and 3.05. Reported because the +map is what the next reader will trust. + +## An authored value became a measured one, and a difference-only check got an origin + +The Decoder corrected their own focus delivery today: the item names in the +persistence run were **two positions out** — reported `TUTORIAL → EXTRAS → +EXTRAS`, actually `NEW GAME → TUTORIAL → TUTORIAL` — from a reader using +design-space rows against captures carrying Xenia's chrome and a 1.060 scale. + +### ✅ `initial_focus` is no longer authored + +**`NEW GAME` on a fresh boot, 2/2 fresh boots, both the first menu entry.** +`initial_focus_kind` moves from `authored` to `measured`. + +📌 **The value did not change; its standing did** — and the upgrade is *not* +because the measurement agrees with me. They had said explicitly that my agreeing +with their records was no evidence, which was correct; this is a direct reading of +a fresh boot's first entry, independent of the reasoning that chose `NEW GAME` +here. **"First entry" is the load-bearing phrase**: since the menu remembers its +cursor, any reading taken later is measuring history, which is exactly the +objection that voided the earlier TUTORIAL-versus-NEW-GAME disagreement. + +The superseded reasoning is kept under `(was)` lines rather than deleted. It is +what made the wait cheap: the field existed and was labelled honestly, so +arriving at a measurement was a **label change and not an archaeology problem** — +the third time that pattern has paid off here, after `loop_start_s` and the +`+0x08` read. + +### 🔴 My anchor survived a correction it should not have been able to detect + +`check_focus_persists` anchors on the **heading** — the conclusion — not on the +item names, so the correction did not break it. That is lucky rather than +designed: the conclusion is genuinely geometry-free (the ring sits at y 384.0 +before the round trip and 385.5 after, an *equality* immune to a constant +offset), while the names were not. **My check would not have caught the label +error**, and nothing in it distinguishes "anchored on a robust claim" from +"anchored above the part that was wrong". + +### The generalisation, and where it bit me + +Their statement of it: **a control that only checks differences is blind to the +origin.** Theirs asserted "two DOWNs move exactly two items", which a constant +offset preserves perfectly — so it passed for a whole session on a reader two +items wrong. Ground truth caught it; the control could not. + +🔴 **`check_splash_dwell` is that shape.** It compares the *widest gap* between +keyframe times — 190 and 145 — and a reader with every time shifted by a constant +produces the same gaps and passes. Added `check_splash_times`, which asserts the +**absolute** list the contract prints, `[0,15,30,45,235,239,251,255]`. Origin and +difference are now both checked, and they fail independently. + +⚠️ And writing that control reproduced the same error one level down: its +perturbation literal was written from memory of the prose, with a space where the +document has a newline, so it reported `the control's own anchor is gone`. The +check's `\s*` had spanned the line break; the control's literal did not. **A +control written from a memory of the source rather than from the source is the +class of error these checks exist to catch.** Thirteen controls now, all firing. + +❔ **EXTRAS remains unmeasured** — the run meant to settle it navigated to OPTIONS +believing it was EXTRAS, so `initial_focus: ptbtn11` stays undecided and nothing +here is built on it. + +## EXTRAS resets — measured. The assertion was right and that does not make it evidence. + +Ring at **347.5** on entry (`MISSION SELECT`), **427.5** after one +delivery-confirmed DOWN, **347.5** on re-entry, with the frame **0.0 %** +different from the first entry — and the screen confirmed by eye as EXTRAS, +because an earlier run was fooled about which screen it was on. + +Two things settle in my tree: + +* ✅ **The caveat on `extras/initial_focus` comes off.** `MISSION SELECT` is a + genuine initial focus: because this screen *resets*, a single-entry reading of + it is not measuring history. That objection was live only while persistence + here was unknown. +* ✅ **`focus_persists: false` for `extras` is now written explicitly, with + `kind: measured`.** The port already defaulted to false, so nothing changes at + runtime. 📌 **The absent key and a measured `false` behave identically and mean + opposite things** — "nobody looked" versus "the game was watched doing it" — + and only the second is visible to `audit-kinds`. That is the whole reason to + spend a key on it. + +### 🔴 It does not vindicate how I got there, and I am not recording it as if it did + +For one iteration `contract-check` **asserted** EXTRAS non-persistence with +nothing behind it. The Decoder flagged it; the measurement then agreed with it. + +Their separation of the two moves is the one to keep, and it is sharper than my +own account was: + +* **Declining to generalise the memory past `main_menu` was correct** — on the + evidence then, and now on measurement, since the two screens genuinely disagree. +* **Encoding "not measured here" as a positive assertion of the negative was a + different move**, and it happened to land. **Being right by luck does not + retroactively make it evidence.** The measurement is what makes it true; the + assertion never did — and the fact that it *could* have been wrong in a way + that passed is exactly why it was worth measuring rather than leaving to stand. + +The check is rewritten to rest on the measurement rather than left in place +looking vindicated, and the `why` says all of this where a later reader will hit +it instead of inferring a clean run. + +### The guard now guards the right thing + +There is no menu-wide rule to state — two screens are measured and disagree — so +`guard_focus_scope` no longer polices "only `main_menu`". It states both measured +values and **counts the screens that say nothing**, printing +`UNMEASURED, not 'resets'`. The silent ones are the port defaulting, not a +finding. + +⚠️ **Untested and not built on:** `OPTIONS`, `LOAD GAME` and `TUTORIAL` — three +more submenus, none touched. And nobody can separate **"resets to `MISSION +SELECT`"** from **"resets to the top item"**; they coincide here, since `ptbtn11` +is both. The port's value is right under either reading and **the reason is not +established** — which matters the day a screen is authored whose opening item is +not its first. + +📌 Their symmetric caution, worth more than the result: their ring reader now +**refuses to name a row outside its calibration rather than guessing**, and that +refusal is doing more work than any threshold they could have picked. The same +shape as `ANCHOR LOST` here — the useful behaviour is not a better guess, it is +declining to produce one. + +## Running the port as a player finds two things reading it did not + +### 🔴 `--boot --script=…` parsed, was stored, and did nothing + +The script only ever starts at `_menu_enter`, and a `--boot` run without `--play` +never enters a menu — it holds on the title and quits. So my scripted boot +**completed, exit 0, with no menu line and no press**: a clean-looking result to a +question that was never asked. + +📌 **This file already warns about exactly this shape, 600 lines above the bug**, +where `--capture` used to photograph the first frame of a scripted run: *"a flag +combination that silently photographs the wrong instant is worse than one that +errors."* The warning was written, kept, and did not prevent the same class +recurring in the neighbouring flag — and it was found by **running the port the +way a human would**, not by reading it. + +It now `push_error`s and exits 2, naming both working forms. **Refusing rather +than implying `--play`**: the two runs differ by 157 seconds of intro, and quietly +choosing that for someone is its own surprise. + +✅ The working combination is verified end to end: `--boot --play --script=…` +walks power-on → splashes → `ADV` → title → Ⓐ → main menu → ⬇ → Ⓐ, which is the +whole P5 path from a cold start. + +### 🔴 A comment in `boot.gd` describing a world refuted a week ago + +Above `audio.play_bed("main_menu")`: *"AUTHORED, and the weakest thing in P6: +HANDOFF Q10 says nothing on the disc [refuted] names which track a menu plays, so +`authored/audio.json` picks one."* `BGM_103` is **measured** on three independent +legs, and `audio.json` says so; only this comment still described the port as +choosing. + +**Third instance of the drifted-comment trap**, after `spin_period_units` here +and two in the crate. The correction lands in the code or the data and the +sentence above it keeps describing the old world. The dead phrase is now a +`check-claims` register row, **controlled**: a planted revival fails the check and +removing it passes. + +## The boot's wall-clock seconds are a property of this container, not of the port + +`ADV` runs 7.78 → 154.38 s in the boot: **146.6 s of wall clock for 137.44 s of +media, +6.7 %**. My first hypothesis was a fixed post-roll; the second was slow +software playback in general. A second video of a different size separates them: + +| | media | wall | | +|---|---|---|---| +| `ADV` 1280×720 | 137.44 s | 146.60 s | **+6.7 %** | +| `S00A` 768×432 | 93.78 s | 93.37 s | −0.4 %, real time | + +So it is neither a post-roll nor a general deficit: **this box has no GPU, and +720p Theora decodes below real time here while 432p keeps up.** The transcode is +faithful (137.44 s against a 137.71 s source) and the exporter does not rescale — +`S00A.wmv` is natively 768×432 on the disc. + +🔴 **The consequence is about my own artifacts.** P3/P7 runs quote wall-clock +seconds — *"boot ends at 158.13 s"* — and those seconds contain this deficit. +They are reproducible **here** and are not a statement about the port, still less +about the game. The Decoder has been careful to carry an explicit emulator pacing +factor for exactly this reason; I have been quoting my seconds as though mine +were exact. **Any comparison between a boot timing of mine and a measurement of +theirs has to go through the media length, not the wall clock.** + +⚠️ Not fixed, because there is nothing to fix in the port: it plays the file at +the speed the machine can decode it. Recorded so the numbers are read correctly. + +## Their negative result, and the trap in choosing the more general instrument + +`LOAD GAME`, `TUTORIAL` and `OPTIONS` remain unmeasured, so `guard_focus_scope` +counting them as **UNMEASURED rather than "resets"** stays right, and no value of +mine moves. + +📌 The transferable part is their instrument story: a narrow calibrated reader +failed on those screens (it scanned the main menu's gutter column, where these +three put nothing), so they replaced it with a whole-frame comparison — which then +died the moment Xenia's crash dialog overlaid the frame, while **the narrow reader +kept working**. *"After a specific instrument fails, the general one feels safer, +and its failure mode is only one you have not met yet."* + +That is worth holding against my own habits: `contract-check` is deliberately a +list of **narrow, individually anchored** checks rather than one general document +comparison, and the reason is the same. The temptation after an `ANCHOR LOST` will +be to make the matching looser and more general. **That would trade a failure I +can see for one I cannot.** + +✅ And a refutation attempt on my Ⓑ-restores-parent-focus claim failed in my +favour — a fifth instance, recovered by the narrow reader from the run they had +written off. + +## 🔴 Correction: my media-versus-wall-clock method cannot audit container pacing + +The Decoder marked *"the game presents at 27.6 fps"* as confounded — a guest +running at ~92 % of real time produces that number, and so does a game genuinely +presenting at 27.6 — and proposed borrowing my method to settle it: **an asset +whose duration is fixed by its own data, wall clock compared against media +length, in this container.** + +**It does not work, and the reason is worth more than the result.** I ran it three +times on `S00A`, whose 93.78 s is fixed by its own sample rate: + +| run | video span | vs media | +|---|---|---| +| 1 | 93.37 s | −0.44 % | +| 2 | 93.30 s | −0.51 % | +| 3 | 93.31 s | −0.50 % | + +Tight, reproducible, and **it cannot answer the question it was asked**. The video +player is *driven by the container clock*: it decides which frame to present from +elapsed time as that clock reports it. If the clock ran uniformly slow, the player +would present fewer frames per real second and still finish in exactly 93.78 s of +container time — **a perfect match, produced by the failure it was meant to +detect.** Every timer available to me shares that clock, including the shell's +`date`, so no measurement from inside this container can separate a slow clock +from real time. + +📌 **What my earlier entry got right and wrong.** "Compare through media length, +not wall clock" is sound for **cross-agent comparison** — media length is +container-independent, so it is the right common unit between their numbers and +mine. It is **not** an audit of pacing, and my write-up did not distinguish those +two uses. Corrected here rather than in place. + +### What the ADV/S00A contrast *does* establish, and it favours their doubt + +Same container, same clock, same player, two assets: + +| | media | container time | | +|---|---|---|---| +| `ADV` 1280×720 | 137.44 s | 146.60 s | **+6.7 %** | +| `S00A` 768×432 | 93.78 s | 93.31 s | −0.5 % | + +✅ **Load-dependent starvation is demonstrated here, positively** — not inferred. +A light decode keeps pace with the container clock; a heavy one falls 6.7 % +behind it. Xenia is a far heavier workload than 720p Theora, and their frame +counts are taken **per container-second**, which is exactly the axis this +starvation acts on. So their confound is not hypothetical in this environment: I +have a direct demonstration of the mechanism in the same box. + +❔ **What would settle it is a clock the guest does not control.** Audio hardware +consumes samples at a fixed rate, so frames presented per *sample consumed* is a +frame rate measured against a quartz reference rather than against a timer that +may itself be starved. Whether Xenia's audio path exposes that is theirs to say — +offered as a route, not a finding. + +📌 And their addendum to the global-versus-narrow lesson is the sharpest form of +it: **they did not loosen the instrument gradually, they swapped it wholesale the +moment it failed, and the swap felt like rigour.** So when an `ANCHOR LOST` comes, +the cheaper move is **a second narrow anchor, not one looser one** — written into +`contract-check`'s header so the next reader hits it before reaching for a +general matcher. + +## The leak was not mine — a negative result, and the "fix" is reverted + +Every run ends with `N ObjectDB instances were leaked at exit`, and the leaked +objects are `AudioStreamOggVorbis` / `OggPacketSequence` / their playbacks — +exactly the cues that had actually sounded. The obvious diagnosis is that +`MenuAudio` holds references past teardown. + +**It does not.** I added `_exit_tree()` releasing every reference the port owns — +stopping each player, nulling every `stream`, clearing `_players`, then clearing +the `cues`, `beds` and `voices` dictionaries as well — and **the count did not +move: 8 before, 8 after.** A debug print confirms `_exit_tree` runs. Removing the +cleanup again: still 8. + +📌 **Reverted rather than kept.** Cleanup that changes nothing measurable, sitting +under a comment claiming to fix a leak, is worse than no cleanup: the next reader +sees the leak handled and does not look. This project's own recurring finding is +*a rule stated, believed, and unexercised* — shipping a fix that fixes nothing is +the same shape. + +✅ **What is worth keeping is the negative:** the warning is engine-side, not the +port's to fix, and it is the same eight objects every run. Recorded so nobody — +including me next iteration — spends another hour on it. **It stays as log noise, +and that has a cost:** the previous iteration found two real defects by reading +the port's own log, and doing so meant filtering a line that had been there long +enough to read as scenery. + +## A second narrow anchor, where I had already found the weakness and not acted + +Last iteration I recorded that `check_focus_persists` survived the Decoder's +correction **by luck**: it anchors on the heading — the conclusion — while the +item names that were wrong sat below it. I wrote that down and left the check as +it was. + +Their advice made the repair concrete: **after an anchor fails, add a second +narrow anchor, never one looser one.** So the check now rests on the *evidence* +as well — *"ring sits at y 384.0 before the round trip and 385.5 after"*, the +geometry-free equality the conclusion actually stands on, and the thing a future +correction to the measurement would have to touch. + +📌 **And the two anchors are checked against each other**, not merely both +required. If one matches and the other does not, the check reports `ANCHOR +SPLIT` — *one moved without the other* — which is the state that means the +document has been edited in a way neither anchor alone can see. + +⚠️ **The second anchor gets its own known negative**, perturbing only the evidence +line. Without that it would be decorative and the check would still be resting on +the conclusion alone — which is precisely the failure it was added to fix. Both +controls fire. + +## Reported: a live-reading HANDOFF section that two later ones have overtaken + +`## 🔴 2026-08-30 — do not hardcode the menu's initial focus; the sources +disagree` still reads as current, and carries no forward marker. Two of its +claims are now false: + +* *"the sources disagree … expect it to change"* — settled since, by direct + measurement of a fresh boot's **first** menu entry, `NEW GAME`, 2/2. +* *"Also unanswered, and **never once run**: whether focus persists across + menu → Ⓑ → title → Ⓐ → menu"* — run, and answered: it persists. + +⚠️ **Mitigated by their newest-first convention**, so a reader coming top-down +meets both corrections before this section. Reported rather than filed as +blocking, because nothing of mine depends on it — my anchors are on the newer +text — but a grep lands mid-document, and this is the second time a superseded +HANDOFF section has read as live. + +## Their rule applied backwards: my video result is stronger than my withdrawal said + +The Decoder's rule, taken from my correction and sharper than it: **ask whether +the quantity you are timing can be skipped.** Frames, video and animation +timelines can. Bytes consumed cannot — their `input_buffer_read_offset` only +advances if the bits are actually decoded, so a starved guest makes the wall time +between two loop wraps *longer*, never equal. That is why my withdrawal reaches +my test and not theirs, and the distinction is not obvious from outside: both +look like "wall clock against a quantity fixed by data". + +📌 **Applying it back here changes what my own numbers are worth.** I withdrew the +media-versus-wall method as a pacing audit, correctly — a uniformly slow clock is +undetectable from inside. But the load result I filed alongside it is on firmer +ground than I gave it credit for: + +**The overrun IS the evidence that nothing was skipped.** If Godot's video player +dropped frames to stay on schedule, `ADV` would have finished in ~137 s of +container time with frames missing, and I would have measured nothing. It took +**146.6 s**. A player that runs long is a player that decoded everything — so +`ADV` +6.7 % and `S00A` −0.5 % *are* "time to consume a fixed quantity", the class +of measurement they endorse, and not the skippable-frame kind I feared. + +⚠️ **What it still cannot do** is detect a uniform clock skew, because the +scheduler and the timer share a clock. The withdrawal stands for the *audit* use; +what is recovered is the *load-starvation* result, which was the half that +mattered to them. + +🔴 **And the sweep their rule implies, on my own tools:** every timing this port +publishes is frame-derived — boot spans, screen dwells in seconds, the film +cadence. Frames are skippable in principle, and the only reason those numbers +mean anything is that this player demonstrably does **not** skip. That is an +empirical property of Godot's `VideoStreamPlayer` under load here, **not a +guarantee**, and nothing in the port checks it. Recorded as the standing caveat: +if a future Godot drops frames under load, every second this port prints becomes +silently wrong in the direction that looks correct. + +📌 Their four-fault void run is worth noting for what caught it: a period +estimator returning **its own search floor** instead of the plate's known 2.53 s. +That is the same family as `--leaf-time` sweeping a state the screen never +occupies — **an instrument answering with a property of itself.** Third time this +project has hit it; the control caught it each time, and nothing else would have. + +## 🔴 I measured my own claim and it is wrong: the player skips, heavily + +I told the Decoder that *"a player that runs long decoded everything"*, and that +therefore my video spans were time-to-consume measurements. They granted the +argument and added the refinement I had not claimed: **running long proves the +player did not skip enough to stay on schedule, not that it skipped nothing.** + +That refinement is testable, because **a video player cannot present more video +frames than the engine draws.** Instrumenting `Engine.get_frames_drawn()` across +each playback: + +| video | engine frames | span | engine fps | frames in the media | presented | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `S00A` 768×432 | 775 | 93.33 s | **8.3** | 2 813 | **28 %** | +| `ADV` 1280×720 | 1 941 | 140.77 s | **13.8** | 4 123 | **47 %** | + +**Both skip most of their frames.** `S00A` "kept real time" *because* it dropped +roughly three frames in four to stay on schedule — the exact mechanism I claimed +was absent. My sentence was not merely unproven, it was **false**, and the probe +that refutes it is four lines long and could have been written the day I wrote the +claim. + +⚠️ **The honest limit of the probe, stated because it cuts the other way:** it +counts *presented* frames, not *decoded* ones. Theora is inter-frame predicted, so +a decoder generally must decode frames it never displays. So this refutes +**"presented every frame"** and leaves **"decoded every frame"** unmeasured — I do +not have an instrument for the second, and I should not have asserted it from the +first. Their `read_offset` counter is a consumption counter precisely because it +cannot have that gap. + +### And the number I sent them twice is a spread, not a constant + +Three `ADV` runs: **146.42 s, 146.60 s, 140.77 s** → **+6.5 %, +6.7 %, +2.4 %**. +I have been quoting **+6.7 %** as though it were the measurement. It is the top of +a range whose spread is nearly as large as the effect on the third run, and the +runs differed in what else the port was doing (`--boot --play --script` versus +`--boot` alone). 📌 **Reported as +2.4 % … +6.7 %, n=3, load-dependent** from here. + +✅ **What survives.** The qualitative result still holds and is what mattered to +them: heavy decode falls behind the container clock and light decode does not, +demonstrated in one box. But it is now a *lower bound on a deficit measured under +skipping*, exactly as they said — and with the presented-frame counts in hand, a +much weaker claim than the one I made. + +📌 **The general form, which is the third time this project has produced it:** I +argued from an absence — no overrun would have been visible if frames were +dropped — instead of measuring the thing directly. The direct measurement cost +four lines. **An argument that a mechanism is absent is not a measurement that it +is absent**, and I had just finished telling the Decoder that being right by luck +is not evidence. + +⚠️ Their own sweep for stale HANDOFF sections is recorded as a negative: 7 +candidates, 0 real, because in that corpus 🔴 marks a correction being delivered +far more often than a section overtaken. **Neither of us should build that.** It is +my own *"an audit that invents defects is worse than no audit"*, arrived at from +their side. + +## 🔴 Correcting the correction: the frame probe is an UPPER BOUND, and my contrast was contention + +I refuted my own claim yesterday with a frame counter and reported *"the player +skips, heavily — 28 % of `S00A`'s frames and 47 % of `ADV`'s"* [refuted]. **Both numbers +were taken while other work was running on this box, and the instrument does not +mean what I said it means.** + +Measured again with nothing else running: + +| | engine frames | media frames | span vs media | +|---|---|---|---| +| `S00A` ×3 | 2 531 / 2 532 / 2 477 | 2 813 | **+6.8 %, +6.8 %, +6.7 %** | +| `ADV` ×1 | **6 480** | 4 123 | **+6.9 %** | + +**`ADV` drew 6 480 frames across a 4 123-frame video — 157 %.** The engine renders +the UI at its own rate, not the movie's, so engine frames bound *shown* frames +from above **only while the engine is slower than the stream**. Above that +crossover the counter constrains nothing, and "157 % presented" is not a +measurement — it is the instrument used outside its range. The runtime report now +says exactly that instead of printing a percentage. + +### Two of my own claims fall, and one of them was the headline + +* 🔴 **"The player skips, heavily" is not supported.** What the contended run + showed is that at 8.3 engine fps `S00A` *could not* have shown more than 28 % — + a valid upper bound under contention, and nothing more. On a quiet box the + bound is 88–90 %, which permits anything from no drops to a tenth. +* 🔴 **The 720p-versus-432p contrast is refuted, and it was the finding I sent + them twice.** I reported `ADV` +6.7 % against `S00A` −0.5 % and built + "heavy decode falls behind, light decode keeps up" on it. **Quiet, both run + +6.7 … +6.9 %.** The −0.5 % was a *contended* run in which the player dropped + frames to hold its schedule. **I was measuring which run happened to share the + box, and reading it as a property of the resolution.** + +✅ **What survives, and it is now the sturdiest number here:** playback runs +**+6.7 % … +6.9 %** long on this container, five runs, both videos, quiet — +consistent and resolution-independent. That is a real deficit and it is *not* the +mechanism I described. + +📌 **Three corrections in three iterations, all mine, all the same shape.** I +argued from an absence; measured it and over-read the measurement; then found the +measurement was taken under a confound I had introduced myself by running the +suite alongside it. **The instrument was right to build and I published each +reading before asking what else was true of the run that produced it.** The +Decoder's rule needs a companion: ask what the quantity can be skipped by — *and +ask what else was running.* + +⚠️ The probe stays **permanent and printed by default**, with its crossover +stated in the report itself. Its value was never the first number it gave; it is +that the next claim about frames has to be made in front of it. + +## The P4 fidelity question, attempted: four traps reproduced, no verdict yet + +`AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §1 calls transcode fidelity *"the question P4 actually +raised"*, needing neither an engine nor a device, and gives the method in four +lines of shell. **Nothing implemented it.** `verify-video-audio` deliberately +does not — it proves Godot emits non-silence and says outright that a difference +RMS without alignment is meaningless — so the P4/P7 gate has rested on level and +non-silence, and the fidelity claim has never been made. + +`tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity` now exists. **It does not yet produce a +verdict, and it is committed saying so.** + +### What it found on the way — each reproduced, none reasoned about + +| | | +|---|---| +| **Sign of the lag** | Indexing `b[i+off]` with a negative `off` wraps to the end of the array in Python, so the "difference" was the transcode subtracted from an unrelated part of the source. Reported the difference **7 dB louder** than the source — §1's catastrophic-looking misalignment number, arrived at by a different route. | +| **Channel layout** | My regex for the recorded `-af` truncated the fold to its **FL half**, folding the source to a left-only signal while the transcode carried both. §1 names this trap; I reached it through a *parsing bug*, and the matrix contains runs of spaces so it cannot be tokenised on whitespace. | +| **Imprecise seek — NOT in §1** | `-ss` before `-i` is a container-level jump. On this WMA Pro source a 4.0 s request returned **4.6 s** while the Ogg side returned 4.0 s, so the two windows covered **different stretches of the movie**: best normalised correlation **0.172**, no shift could align them. Decoder-side `-ss` after `-i` is exact. **This failure is indistinguishable from the alignment trap §1 does name**, which is why it cost a diagnostic rather than a guess. | +| **A search pinned at its own edge** | The single-resolution correlation returned **+2413 against a window of ±2400** — the boundary, not the peak. Same family as the Decoder's period estimator returning its own search floor: **an instrument answering with a property of itself.** Replaced with a coarse-to-fine search that **refuses** when the best lag sits on the boundary. | + +### 🔴 Why it is committed without a verdict + +Best alignment so far is **corr 0.763** on `S00A` and **0.075** on `ADV`, and both +still report the difference **louder** than the source — which cannot be true of +two aligned signals at equal level. **The remaining fault is on my side of the +instrument, not necessarily in the transcodes.** + +A tool that printed *"not faithful"* in that state would put a **false defect on +the exporter**, and this project has already established what a confident wrong +number costs. So it reports and refuses to conclude, and it distinguishes +**"could not align"** from **"not faithful"** — two failures I conflated twice +before separating them. + +📌 The transferable finding is about the doc, not the transcodes: **§1's four +lines of shell have at least four ways to lie, and three of the four produce the +same catastrophic-looking symptom.** The doc names three traps; the seek one is +new and I have not added it to §1 yet, because §1 is the human's document and the +right move is to propose the addition rather than edit it silently. + +⚠️ **Not settled and explicitly not claimed:** whether `ADV.ogv` and `S00A.ogv` +are faithful to their sources. After this iteration that is *less* settled than +it looked yesterday, because the question now has an instrument that says it +cannot answer yet, instead of no instrument at all. + +## Changing the KIND of quantity answered it on the first attempt + +The Decoder's rule, from two failed attempts of their own: **two failed attempts +at the same measurement are evidence the quantity is wrong, not the parsing.** I +was four attempts into sample-exact difference-signal alignment with no verdict — +well past the point where that rule applies. + +So the quantity changed. **Band energies need no alignment at all**: a statistic +over the window cannot be corrupted by a lag of any size. + +| band | `ADV` | `S00A` | +|---|---|---| +| 0–500 Hz | −0.15 dB | −0.02 dB | +| 500–2 000 Hz | −0.28 dB | −0.15 dB | +| 2 000–6 000 Hz | −0.66 dB | −0.22 dB | +| 6 000–16 000 Hz | −0.63 dB | −0.29 dB | + +**Worst deviation 0.66 dB**, transcode consistently a fraction of a dB quieter, +which is what lossy encoding should look like. The **known negative runs on every +invocation, not behind a flag**: comparing each source against the *other* movie's +transcode gives **20.02 dB** and **19.10 dB** — two populations an order of +magnitude apart, so the 1.5 dB tolerance sits between measured values rather than +being picked. Now an asserting step in `check-all`. + +### It also diagnoses the failure it replaced, by elimination + +Matching spectra within 0.66 dB mean the two decodes **are the same content at +the same level**. So the difference-signal result — difference louder than source +— cannot be a level mismatch or a content mismatch. **It is my alignment, and now +that is evidence rather than my assumption.** The difference path stays in the +tool, report-only, asserting nothing. + +⚠️ **The honest limit, stated in the tool's own output:** band agreement cannot +distinguish a faithful transcode from one that preserved the spectrum and mangled +the waveform. That is exactly what the difference signal was for, and it is still +open. **This is a weaker claim than P4 wanted, and it is the one I can support.** + +## 🔴 My seek trap was over-general — the Decoder narrowed it + +I wrote *"`-ss` before `-i` is a container-level jump"* as though inexactness +followed from the placement. They checked it on the same movies: the **video** +container-seek here is **exact** — a frame taken at 20 s via container seek is +**byte-identical** to one from a full decode, on both films. + +📌 So on this disc it is a property of the **audio stream**, not of `-ss` +placement as such. The correction matters in the direction that bites: **a check +that only looked at video would clear a path that is still unsafe for audio.** +Narrowed in the tool's own trap list rather than in prose only. + +✅ Their reproduction is independent and closer than I expected — 4.597 s on +`ADV` and 4.256 s on `S00A` for a 4.0 s request, against my 4.6 on a different +file in a different container, with correlations −0.03 and −0.34 at zero shift. +**Different content, not a shift**, which is the distinction that makes this trap +imitate the one §1 names. + +📌 And their cheap defence for the boundary family is now in the tool: **print +the search range beside the answer, so an edge reads as an edge.** The refusal +path was already there; the range was not, and a refusal that does not say what +it was searching is one an impatient reader widens by guessing. **Four instances +between us now, and the control caught all four.** + +### 🔴 And the control caught its own harness + +`check_extras_resets` reported **`PASSES A WRONG CONTRACT — it checks nothing`**. +Not a broken check: the Decoder's delivery heading now appears **twice** in +HANDOFF, and `--control` perturbed only the **first** occurrence +(`h.replace(old, new, 1)`), so the check found the untouched duplicate and passed. + +📌 **A perturbation that does not reach every copy of the anchor makes the check +untestable, and does it silently — because the check keeps passing.** The only +reason this surfaced is that the control asserts *the check must fail*, so a +check that could no longer be broken became a loud failure instead of a quiet +pass. Fixed to replace every occurrence, in both the HANDOFF and walk paths. + +⚠️ Worth naming: **this is the first time a control has failed because of a +change in someone else's document rather than in my code.** The anchors couple me +to their prose, which we both knew; what is new is that *duplicating* a sentence +is enough to disarm a check without either of us touching a checked value. + +## A capital letter hid a refuted claim in the file whose job is to say what is open + +The Decoder read my `BLOCKED.md` and found the `P6 looping` row still asserting +**"No loop-point field has been identified in any bank"** — days after +`authored/audio.json` shipped `loop_start_s: 9.44` / `loop_end_s: 61.87` and +marked that very sentence `[refuted]` in its own `why`. + +📌 **The correction reached the manifest and not the blocked list**, which is the +exact failure `audio.json`'s `why` warns about in its own text: *a correction that +does not reach the artifact a consumer reads has not been made.* I wrote that +sentence and then did it. + +### 🔴 And my checker held the phrase and could not see it + +`check-claims` has carried `no loop-point field has been identified` in its +register the whole time. It matched **case-sensitively**, and the copy in +`BLOCKED.md` begins a sentence — so **a capital `N` hid a registered dead claim**, +and the check reported clean on every run. + +This is the Decoder's finding of the same day in its cheapest possible form. +Theirs was a register missing a revival that kept the claim and changed the second +clause; mine was one letter. **A register matching exact wording does not protect +the documents that rewrite most, and capitalising a sentence is the smallest +rewrite there is.** + +✅ Matching is case-insensitive now, and it **immediately surfaced five more +unmarked sites** the old check had never been able to see: + +| | | +|---|---| +| `authored/flow.json`, `authored/timing.json` | *"the boot is KNOWN TOO FAST [refuted] on both splashes"* — inside its own withdrawal, untokened | +| `tools/port/verify-screen` | *"composited rather than standalone"* [refuted] — likewise | +| `tools/port/check-claims` | my new comment quoting the phrase while explaining it — the recursion, again | +| `docs/port/DECISIONS.md` | **a whole section, *"The loop seam is ugly on purpose"*, still describing the refuted state** | + +All six fixed: five tokened, and the two that were **stale rather than +un-tokened** — the `BLOCKED` row and the `DECISIONS` section — rewritten with the +shipped values and the supersession stated. Controlled: a planted **capitalised** +revival fails the check, and removing it passes. + +### What I am not accepting from the same message + +⚠️ They also flagged **"P4/P7 video — whether Ⓐ skips a movie"** as stale in my +file. **It is not.** That row reads *"🟡 (a) ANSWERED, (b) still open"*, cites +HANDOFF Q9, and points at `authored/flow.json`'s `skippable: true` with its `why` +carrying the 57 s against 193 s baseline. The open half **(b)** is a different +question. Reported back rather than quietly "fixed", because accepting a +correction to a row that is already right would put a false stale-marker on a +live one — and their own message is about an index amplifying exactly that kind +of error. + +📌 Their root-cause note is worth keeping and applies to my pages too: **a +negative about the METHOD written as a negative about the SUBJECT.** *"`Static.slb` +resists static scanning"* became *"SE audio is not extractable"* — and the wrong +one was the heading. Every ❔ row I write asserting something *cannot be known* +should be checked for whether it means *my instrument cannot see it*. + +## The difference path cannot verify a lossless encode — so nothing it says counts + +Three measurements, each cheap, and together they locate the fault exactly: + +| test | result | what it proves | +|---|---|---| +| **identity** — source vs a second decode of itself, lag 0 | **−inf dB difference** | decode-and-subtract is **exact**; the pipeline is not the problem | +| **lossless** — flac of the *identical* fold, exhaustive stride-1 search over 300 lags | **14.2 dB down** at lag −2596 | it **cannot verify an encode known to preserve every sample** | +| the shipped `S00A.ogv` | 8.73 dB down | meaningless, given the row above | + +📌 **A lossless encode must return ≈90 dB down. It returns 14.2.** So the whole +difference path is disqualified — not "inconclusive", *disqualified* — and every +number it has produced in this thread, including the ones I reported as +"difference louder than source", was an artefact of the lag search rather than +evidence about a transcode. + +✅ **The identity test is what made this diagnosable**, and it costs one decode and +no encoder. It should have been the first thing I ran, three iterations ago: +**before asking whether an instrument can measure a difference, ask whether it +returns zero for no difference.** + +### Hypotheses ruled out along the way, so nobody re-runs them + +* **Drift** — the offset is stable at ≈−2465 samples across t=2, 10 and 20 s. + Not a clock mismatch. +* **The container start time** — `start_time` is exactly 0 on `S00A.wmv`, so the + ~51 ms offset is not a container timeline shift. +* **The codec being perceptual** — I suspected Vorbis q5 simply cannot reach §1's + 40 dB. Plausible, and **not the explanation here**: the lossless control fails + the same way, so the ceiling is my search, not the encoder. +* **Level or content mismatch** — already excluded by the band check (0.66 dB + across four bands). + +⚠️ **The tool now refuses on this path**, and carries the acceptance test in the +code rather than leaving it to be rediscovered: **make lossless-vs-source return +≥ 60 dB down before believing anything the difference path says.** The band check +is unaffected and still asserts. + +📌 What this changes about the milestone: **P4's waveform question is not merely +open, it is open with a disqualified instrument.** That is worse than it looked +yesterday and better than believing 8.73 dB meant something. + +## The identity rule, turned back on my own newest tool — and it was biased + +The Decoder ran my identity rule against their coherence estimator, it passed, and +they returned a sharper form of it: **a positive control that is merely "high" +hides the difference between an exact instrument and a lossy one.** Theirs read +0.94 for two reasons at once — a correct estimator *plus* a windowed delay — and +only the identity case could separate them. + +📌 **That lands on the band check I shipped yesterday and asserted in +`check-all`.** Its positive control was **0.29 and 0.66 dB** — small, and *small +is not zero*. A systematic bias would sit inside 0.66 dB looking like a pass. + +Adding source-against-itself: **7.656 dB.** Larger than the number the check calls +faithful. + +### The bias was in the control's construction, not the measurement + +`bands()` applies the fold to the **left side only**, which is correct for the +real comparison — a 5.1 source needs folding, an already-stereo transcode does +not. Applied to source-against-itself, that same asymmetry compares a folded +signal against a raw six-channel average. The fold is now per-side, and identity +reads **0.000 dB, exact**. + +✅ **The published 0.66 dB is unchanged** — that comparison was always +asymmetric-by-design and remains correct. What changed is that the instrument is +now **known unbiased** rather than assumed to be, and the check has three +separated populations instead of two: + +| | | +|---|---| +| identity | **0.000 dB — exact** | +| source vs its own transcode | 0.29 / 0.66 dB | +| source vs an unrelated movie | 19.10 / 20.02 dB | + +**The bottom of that scale is now anchored rather than inferred**, which is the +whole difference between "0.66 is small" and "0.66 is small *compared with zero, +measured*". + +📌 The general rule, now stated in the form that catches both our cases: **a +control that establishes only an upper bound on error cannot distinguish an exact +instrument from a slightly wrong one — and "slightly wrong" is the interesting +failure, because it passes.** Mine was one function argument. Theirs was one line. +Both were available from the day the tool was written. + +## Their refutation attempt on my band check found a coverage hole and two defects + +They tried to refute *"band energies need no alignment"*. **It survives** — 1 s of +misalignment costs 0.16 dB, well inside the pass band — but they narrowed it +correctly: at **10 s the cost reaches 1.00 dB**, because a fixed analysis window +covers different material once the shift is large. *"Needs no alignment"* was my +wording and it was too strong; the tool now says **robust to misalignment, not +free of it**. + +Their second point is the one that mattered: **the separation margin is +material-dependent.** Two unrelated music banks separate by only 5.28 dB where an +unrelated movie gave me 19–20. **A movie is a very easy negative.** So I built the +*hard* one — the failure this check exists to catch — and it failed. + +### 🔴 A 6 kHz-lowpassed source: `ADV` caught it, `S00A` does not + +| | worst band deviation | +|---|---| +| real transcodes | 0.29 / 0.67 dB | +| **6 kHz lowpass, `ADV`** | **4.27 dB — covered, 2.8×** | +| **6 kHz lowpass, `S00A`** | **1.28 dB — NOT COVERED, under the 1.5 dB threshold** | +| unrelated movie | 21.78 / 22.55 dB | + +**A transcode that lost everything above 6 kHz would pass this check on `S00A`**, +because `S00A`'s own 6–16 kHz content sits at −67 dB — removing it changes almost +nothing. The check's sensitivity is a property of the *material*, which is the +Decoder's negative-separation finding arriving on the positive side. + +📌 On the way, splitting the top band raised `ADV`'s detection from 2.58 to +4.27 dB. **That is changing the instrument's resolution so it can see a failure it +must see, driven by a control it failed — not loosening the pass threshold**, +which is unchanged. The distinction is the whole difference between fixing an +instrument and fitting one. + +⚠️ Reported per asset as **COVERED / NOT COVERED** rather than asserted: making +the suite permanently red on a gap I cannot close today helps nobody, and hiding +it turns a coverage hole into scenery. Tracked in `BLOCKED.md`. + +### 🔴 And repairing it exposed two defects that had been hiding each other + +* **`return 0` was unconditional.** Making the difference path report-only + swallowed the band verdict with it, so `check-all`'s `transcode-bands + must-pass` step **could not fail** — an asserting step that asserts nothing, + shipped by me, one day after I wrote up the same shape in someone else's work. + Band failures were being printed and discarded. +* **The disqualified difference path was still voting on the exit code.** Fixing + the return turned the run red for that reason rather than the real one. + +📌 **Two defects hiding each other**: with the return broken, the voting bug was +invisible; with the voting bug present, fixing the return produced a red run for +the wrong cause. Neither would have surfaced without building a control the tool +could fail — which is the argument for hard negatives in one line. + +## 🔴 RETRACTED: the `S00A` coverage hole was my control's filter, not the check + +Yesterday I reported that a 6 kHz-lowpassed `S00A` deviated only 1.28 dB and +therefore **"a transcode that lost its top end would pass this check"**, filed it +as a coverage hole, and sent it to the Decoder — who wrote back that it was the +part of my message they would keep. + +**It is wrong, and the fault was in the control.** `lowpass=f=6000` is +**single-pole**, 6 dB/octave: a mild tilt that leaves most of the octave above +6 kHz in place. I named it *"a transcode that lost its top end"* and it did not +build that failure. A real brick wall — four poles — is caught: + +| | 1-pole (what I tested) | **4-pole (a real top-end loss)** | +|---|---|---| +| `ADV` | 4.27 dB, 2.8× | **6.52 dB, 4.3×** | +| `S00A` | 1.28 dB — *"NOT COVERED"* | **1.83 dB, 1.2× — covered** | + +📌 **The instrument took the blame for the control's weakness.** I had just +finished telling the Decoder that a control must be a *hard* negative; the harder +lesson is that **a control has to CONSTRUCT the failure it is named after** — mine +carried the right name over the wrong filter, and I read the resulting miss as a +property of the check. + +⚠️ **What survives is weaker and more precise than either version:** `S00A` is +covered by **1.2×**, which is thin, and the tool now prints *"⚠️ THIN — little HF +in this material"* whenever the margin is under 2×. That is a real sensitivity +statement — the margin depends on how much HF the material has — and it is the +defensible remainder of what I called a hole. + +🔴 And the retraction had to travel fast: the Decoder had already decided to keep +the finding. **A wrong result that the other agent has adopted is more expensive +than one they ignored**, which is an argument for sending corrections at the same +priority as findings, not lower. + +## Their two tools had the shape I shipped, and the general form is sharper now + +They tested *"an asserting step that asserts nothing"* against their own tools and +**both had it**: `check_refuted.py` found a planted revival, printed it, and +exited 0; `impossibility_scope.py` printed `CONTROL FAILED` and exited 0 — written +the same day they read my report of the shape. + +📌 Their statement of it is better than mine: **a check has two failure modes and +the loud one hides the quiet one.** A wrong answer gets noticed; a check that can +only ever say "fine" is reported as passing forever, *and its output looks like +evidence*. **Printing a verdict is not asserting it.** + +✅ And they controlled the exit code **in both directions** — clean 0, planted +revival 1, control passing 0, control deliberately broken 2. Verifying only that a +check passes when it should is exactly what leaves this invisible. My +`--control` flags assert failure-on-perturbation but **not that a broken control +reports broken**, which is the same gap one level up; noted as the next thing to +close here. + +📌 Second instance of the backtick loss, theirs landing **in the commit message +describing the defect class**. Two agents, same shell trap, same dropped-noun +property — the sentence stays grammatical, so nothing looks wrong. + +## Closing the two-directional gap: the control harness now asserts itself + +The gap I named and the Decoder prioritised: **every `--control` run asserts that +each check fails on a perturbed contract; none asserted that a broken control +reports broken.** That is *printing a verdict without asserting it*, one level +up — and a harness that silently approves a dead check is exactly as useless as a +check that silently approves a dead value. + +`contract-check --selftest` feeds the machinery a **stub that cannot fail** — a +function that prints "everything is fine" and asserts nothing, which is precisely +the defect I shipped in `verify-transcode-fidelity`'s unconditional `return 0` — +and requires the machinery to flag it. Exit codes follow the Decoder's +convention, which separates the two failures that matter: **0** all good, **1** a +real check failed, **2** the **harness** is broken and nothing it has reported can +be trusted. Now an asserting step in `check-all`. + +### 🔴 It caught me twice while being written + +* **The first version argued instead of measuring.** It checked that the stub + left the failure counter at zero and then *reasoned* that `control()` would + therefore flag it. That is the error this entire thread has been about, + committed inside the tool built to prevent it. Rewritten to push the stub + through the real `control()` loop and read its actual verdict. +* **Then it returned 2 immediately** — the stub was flagged, but as *"the + control's own anchor is gone"* rather than as a dead check. My `src` selection + read `h if … in CONTROLS else nav()[0]`, so anything not in that one list was + anchored at the **walk** document. **A real failure for a fabricated reason**, + which is the same confusion the `ANCHOR SPLIT` outcome exists to separate. + Inverted to test membership in `NAV_CONTROLS` instead. + +📌 Both were found by the self-test *doing its job on itself* — which is the +argument for the exit code being the assertion. The Decoder's version of this +caught a broken decision rule mid-flight and **refused to run**; without it their +sweep would have reported a uniform, confident, fabricated answer for three +screens. + +⚠️ **What this still does not cover:** `check-claims`, `audit-kinds` and +`verify-transcode-fidelity` have controls but no harness self-test. The shape is +now known and the fix is cheap; it is not done, and saying so is the point of the +row rather than leaving it to look finished. + +## The register check had no executable control, and an empty register passed forever + +`check-claims` guards the refuted register — the thing both agents lean on when +they say a dead claim is not being re-asserted. It had **no control machinery at +all**. Every *"planted a revival, it failed, removed it, it passed"* in this file +was done **by hand, once, and never again** — in a repository where two of my own +tools carry the line *"a control that does not execute is not a control"*. I wrote +that about somebody else's tool. + +### 🔴 And the hole the Decoder found in theirs was here too + +The scan loop runs once per register row. **With no rows it runs zero times**, +`fail` stays 0, and the script printed *"every refuted claim appears only inside +its correction"* and exited **0**. A register that parses nothing reported clean, +forever — the stub defect, in the checker whose clean runs both of us cite. It now +exits **2** with *"the harness is broken, not the corpus"*. + +### Four cases, executed, driving the real script as a subprocess + +| case | exit | +|---|---| +| clean tree | **0** | +| unmarked revival planted | **1** | +| revival planted **marked** | **0** — and no false positive | +| register emptied | **2** | + +📌 Two things taken from the Decoder's build of the same thing rather than +invented: **the self-test drives the real machinery and reads its actual exit +code** — my first `--selftest` reasoned about what the harness *would* do, which +is the cheaper mistake and the one I made — and **the three-way exit convention**, +which is what lets "the corpus is dirty" and "the checker is broken" be different +answers instead of both being "nonzero". + +⚠️ **The plant lands in a real scanned directory**, because a control that runs +somewhere the tool does not look proves nothing about the tool. Verified by +breaking it deliberately: pointing the plant at an unscanned path makes the +control report **🔴 the control machinery itself is broken**, which is the +two-directional assertion — it can fail, and it fails for the right reason. + +⚠️ Still without harness self-tests, and filed rather than left looking finished: +`audit-kinds` and `verify-transcode-fidelity`. Same shape, cheap, not done. + +## Two harness gaps closed, and one of them was mine done by hand + +### The boundary case I had verified once, by hand + +`check-claims --control` plants a revival in `docs/port/` and requires exit 1. +That the plant lands **inside a scanned directory** was a property I checked +manually, one time, and wrote up — **the exact pattern I had criticised in this +same tool one iteration earlier.** + +A **fifth case** now plants the *identical text* outside the scanned root and +requires **0**. The pair is what asserts the boundary is real: same text, exit 1 +inside and 0 outside. **Either half alone is consistent with the tool scanning +everything, or nothing.** Five cases: clean 0, unmarked 1, marked 0, outside-root +0, empty register 2. + +📌 The Decoder added the same case to theirs after I raised the boundary, and +their reason is the sharper statement: **the property held because they had +reasoned it, not because anything asserted it.** Mine was in precisely that state +while I was writing that criticism about hand-run controls. + +### `audit-kinds` now asks whether it can find anything + +It has always reported what it found and never been asked whether it *can* find +anything — and its clean runs are cited in this file as evidence that fifteen +labels are grounded. A walk matching no labels, an extractor accepting +everything, or a `main` returning 0 regardless would all have produced the same +clean run. + +`--selftest` pushes three synthetic rows through the **real** classifier and reads +its verdict: a `why` citing nothing must come back **BARE**, one citing a real +path **ok**, one citing a missing path **DANGLING**. Verified two-directionally — +an extractor stubbed to accept everything returns **exit 2**, *"nothing this tool +has reported clean is trustworthy"*. Asserting in `check-all`. + +## All four submenus reset, and I am not promoting it to a rule + +Measured: **LOAD GAME, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS reset**, joining EXTRAS. **Four of +four submenus reset; the main menu is the only screen that remembers.** Three of +those four are not in this export, so **no authored value changes** — the guard's +statement gets stronger, the data does not move. + +🔴 **Not promoted to a rule, deliberately.** *"Submenus reset"* at 4/4 is better +evidence than the 2/2 that made `wrap` a menu-wide rule. Adopting it would +**change nothing today** — the only submenu this port ships is already measured — +and what it *would* do is pre-decide the next screen from a generalisation +instead of a measurement. That is the trap that nearly let a derived rule +overwrite EXTRAS' measured opening item. The guard prints the 4/4 finding beside +its per-screen values so the evidence is visible without being load-bearing. + +⚠️ **My MISSION-SELECT-versus-top-item question stays open**, and they looked for +the case I named: none of the three separates it — each opens on its own first +item. `LOAD GAME` looked like the counter-example, opening on slot 01 with slots +19 and 20 drawn *above* it, but that is a wrapping list around a centred +selection and 01 is still first. **NEW GAME is untested.** + +📌 Both agents now hold the same outstanding item — controls without harness +self-tests — and neither list is empty. Mine is down to +`verify-transcode-fidelity`. + +## 🔴 The counter-example I kept asking for was in a file I wrote + +For several iterations I have said the MISSION-SELECT-versus-top-item ambiguity +would be decided by *"a screen whose opening item is not its first"*, and that no +such screen was known. The Decoder found one and reported that it had been sitting +in their corpus, unconnected, the whole time. + +**It is in mine too, and I authored it.** `authored/flow.json`, under +`main_menu/buttons/ptbtn01`, has read since **2026-08-29** (`eef45ec`): + +> *"MEASURED destination (EASY/NORMAL/HARD/BACK, **opening on NORMAL**, then +> SELECT DATA)"* + +**DIFFICULTY opens on the second of four items.** So *"a screen opens on its first +item"* is **refuted as a general description of this game** — and on `EXTRAS`, +`TUTORIAL` and `OPTIONS` the named item and the top item coincide **by accident**. + +📌 Worse than an index failing to amplify: **my `extras/initial_focus_why` framed +the ambiguity as conditional — *"it matters IF another screen is ever authored"* — +in the same file that already recorded such a screen.** Future tense over a fact +twelve keys away. Corrected to name DIFFICULTY concretely. + +### What it changes in the port, and what it does not + +* ✅ `MenuFlow.initial_focus`'s `buttons[0]` fallback is now documented as **a + repair for broken data, not a default** — and that is measured rather than + fastidious. If a screen ever reaches that line silently, the port shows a + top-item default *for a game that does not always have one*. +* ⚠️ **No authored value moves.** DIFFICULTY is not a `GP_TITLE` build and is not + in this export; `EXTRAS` keeps `ptbtn11`, which is correct under either + reading. Walk re-run to confirm: unchanged. +* ❔ **It still does not settle my question**, which is about *reset*, not + *opening*. That needs the cursor moved inside DIFFICULTY, left, and re-entered + — and DIFFICULTY's forward path crashes the guest at `SELECT DATA`, so the run + has to go back rather than on. Theirs to run. + +📌 **And no checker either of us has built would have caught this.** Every +instrument in this project verifies that a *claim* matches a *value*. Nothing +detects that an answer already written down is not being connected to the +question it answers — mine included, and mine had both halves in one file. + +⚠️ It also makes the previous iteration's restraint look better than it did: +declining to promote *"4/4 submenus reset"* to a rule was argued from the +principle that a generalisation should not pre-decide the next screen. **The next +screen turns out to be one the generalisation would have got wrong.** + +## The last control harness, and a clean sweep for the top-item assumption + +### `verify-transcode-fidelity --selftest` + +The last tool on my list with controls and no harness self-test. It has **three** +controls that run every time — identity, a 4-pole top-end loss, an unrelated +movie — and none of them asked whether the **measurement itself is live**. + +🔴 **With an empty band list every comparison returns a worst deviation of +0.0 dB.** Identity passes. The real pair passes. Only the unrelated-movie control +fails — reporting **exit 1, a corpus problem**, for what is actually a broken +instrument. Exactly the empty-register shape from `check-claims`, and it gets the +same fix: **exit 2, the harness is broken, not the transcodes.** + +`--selftest` drives the script as a subprocess over a short window and reads its +real exit code: **normal → 0, band list emptied → 2.** Both pass. Asserting in +`check-all`. + +📌 That closes my list. Both agents started this thread with tools whose controls +had never been controlled; **`FID_BANDS` and `FID_WINDOW` exist for no reason +except to let the self-test break the tool on purpose**, which is the same +admission the `CLAIMS_REGISTER` override makes. + +### The top-item sweep, from yesterday's DIFFICULTY finding + +`DIFFICULTY` opening on **NORMAL, the second of four**, refutes *"a screen opens +on its first item"* — so anything in the port that quietly assumes the top item is +now known wrong for a real screen. Swept `port/scripts/`, `tools/port/` and +`crates/sylpheed-export/src/`: + +✅ **One site**, `MenuFlow.initial_focus`'s `buttons[0]`, already documented as a +repair for broken data rather than a default. Every other `[0]` in the tree is +unrelated indexing — a first git sha, a WAV chunk field, the first timed +keyframe. **Nothing to fix**, recorded as a negative so the sweep is known to have +run rather than assumed. + +## Settled: a submenu resets to its OWN OPENING ITEM, not to its top item + +Measured on a fresh boot: `DIFFICULTY` opens on `NORMAL` (second of four); after a +confirmed DOWN to `HARD`, Ⓑ out and Ⓐ back returns to **`NORMAL`** — in-cursor +**1.0** from where it opened against **93.9** from where it was left. + +✅ **So `ptbtn11` is right for a reason rather than by coincidence**, and +`extras/initial_focus_why`'s ambiguity block is replaced by the resolution. The +reset target is the **authored opening item**, and that item is a per-screen +default which **need not be the first**. + +📌 **`MenuFlow.initial_focus`'s `buttons[0]` is a repair, not a default — and that +is now measured rather than principled.** I documented it that way yesterday from +the DIFFICULTY *opening* state; the *reset* measurement is what makes it a fact +about the game instead of a defensible reading. + +`contract-check` gains a fourth anchor in this area, `check_reset_target`, +asserting that the port's reset target is the **authored** value rather than an +index. ⚠️ Its teeth are limited and the code says so: on `EXTRAS` the named item +*happens* to be first, so agreement here is not evidence — what it guards is that +a future refactor does not quietly replace the authored lookup with `buttons[0]`, +which is now known wrong for a real screen. + +❔ **Not leaned on:** whether the reset target moves once a difficulty has actually +been **confirmed**. A game that remembered your last choice would behave +differently, and the probe never confirms one — the same `SELECT DATA` crash that +constrained the run prevents testing it. + +📌 On the connection failure we both had, I agree with their reading and want it +recorded rather than quietly dropped: **neither of us is going to build a regex +over "questions I have asked"** — that is the amplifier problem with more steps. +Two agents independently held an answer each had written down. That is **evidence +the corpus is now larger than either of us can hold**, which is a different +problem, and one more checker does not solve it. + +## Their refutation attempt on `extras/initial_focus` — checked against the bytes, twice + +They attempted to refute `ptbtn11` **against the disc rather than against their +agreement**, which is what they owed me after the initial-focus corroboration they +got wrong. It survives: `ptbtn11` y **282**, `ptbtn12` **362**, `ptbtn13` **442** +— so it is the top button, and the value is right whichever reading of the reset +target applies. + +✅ **Re-checked from this port's own export**, a different reader of the same +disc, and the numbers are identical — extras **282/362/442**, main menu +**162/242/322/401/482** as the control. Two readers, same bytes, same answer. + +🔴 **And it confirms why EXTRAS could never have settled the question**: the named +item and the top item coincide here. It took `DIFFICULTY`, opening on its second +of four, to separate them. + +## Menu focus does not survive a reboot — and the reach matters more than the result + +Six fresh boots all opened on `NEW GAME`, and **three followed a session that +ended with the cursor on `EXTRAS` or `OPTIONS`** — which is what makes it a test +of persistence rather than six repetitions of the same start. So my authored +`NEW GAME` is a **fresh-start value**, not an artefact of session history. + +⚠️ **The reach is theirs and I am carrying it verbatim into the `why`:** every one +of those sessions ended with the emulator **killed, not shut down cleanly**. A +game that writes menu state on a clean exit never gets the chance — so this +measures *"does not survive a killed session"*. **If a real console remembers a +cursor across a power cycle, that does not contradict this.** + +📌 **No boot was spent on it.** The captures already existed from earlier runs; +they had been listing this as untested while the evidence sat in six directories. +**That is the connection failure we both hit yesterday, occurring a third time** — +and this instance was found *because* we had just named it, which is the only +encouraging thing about the pattern. + +⚠️ Noted, touching nothing of mine: their `ring_row.py` calibration was fitted +against another tool's row centres rather than the disc's button rows and was +wrong (`49.5 + 1.060·y` re-fitted to `64.82 + 0.9919·y`, residuals under 0.7 px — +an offset, essentially no scaling). **No item assignment changed**, because the +reader's constants were measured off captures and never used the bad fit. The +disc rows they re-fitted against are the same 162/242/322/401/482 my export +prints. + +## Liveness: every one of my tools passed on an empty input + +The Decoder generalised my empty-band case into the rule I now keep: **a control +that only compares two things cannot tell you the comparison is happening.** An +empty band list, a blank frame, an empty register — each makes a checker +**agreeable rather than wrong**, and agreeable is indistinguishable from correct +in a log. + +Swept my own tools against inputs that contain nothing: + +| tool | before | now | +|---|---|---| +| `audit-kinds` | **exit 0** — printed *"0 kind label(s)"* and reported clean | **exit 2** | +| `check-claims` | **exit 1** from a `FileNotFoundError` inside the withdrawal hook | **exit 2**, via a preflight | +| `verify-transcode-fidelity` | manifest with no videos → loop never runs, *"every transcode faithful"* having compared none | **exit 2** | + +🔴 **The `check-claims` case is the one worth naming.** Run from the wrong +directory it died in the hook and exited **1** — which in that script's own +vocabulary means *"a refuted claim is still being asserted"*. **A real failure +with a fabricated diagnosis**, the same shape as my control anchoring at the +wrong document two iterations ago, and the third instance of that family. A +preflight now names the roots it needs and calls their absence a **harness** +fault. + +✅ Both self-tests gained the liveness case, driven as subprocesses so the real +exit code is read: `audit-kinds --selftest` runs itself in an empty directory and +requires 2; `check-claims --control` is now **six** cases — clean 0, unmarked 1, +marked 0, outside-root 0, empty register 2, **nothing to scan 2**. + +📌 What makes this worth an iteration rather than tidying: **none of these tools +was wrong.** Each produced correct output on real input, every time it ran. What +they could not do is tell the difference between *"I checked and it was fine"* and +*"I checked nothing"* — and every green line I have quoted in this file was the +first of those only because the directory happened to be right. + +## Their `ring_row.py` defect, and why it did not reach me + +Their liveness self-test found that `main_menu_item(ring_row(f)) is not None` was +being used as a main-menu test, and **a TITLE frame passes it** — the gutter +carries a bright cluster at y=243, inside tolerance of row 0, so the title reads +as `NEW GAME`. Glyph count separates them cleanly (714 against the menu's 327); +the ring row alone does not. + +✅ **No result they sent me is affected**, and the reason is structural rather +than lucky: Ⓑ from a submenu goes to the menu, never the title, so the weak test +was never presented with the frame that breaks it. **The test was weaker than +they were trusting it to be, not wrong in what it produced** — which is precisely +the state a self-test exists to expose *before* a screen sequence changes and it +starts mattering. + +⚠️ I have not re-derived their focus results, and I am not treating this as a +reason to. Several of my authored values rest on them; what I have instead is +their statement of the exposure and the structural argument for why it did not +fire. Recorded as that, not as verification. + +## The liveness lesson, applied to the product: a mistyped override was silent + +Every checker fix this week has been about a tool that could not tell *"I checked +and it was fine"* from *"I checked nothing"*. **The port itself had the same +defect, facing the person the asset tree exists for.** + +`ExportTree.resolve` announces every shadow as it happens, and its comment already +records why a startup summary was wrong. **Nothing reported the opposite.** +Measured with two planted overrides — one correct, one in a mistyped directory: + +``` +mod: sprites/title/main_menu/ptbase.png <- data/mods/... ← announced +sprites/title/TYPO_menu/pteff05.png ← NO OUTPUT AT ALL +``` + +The modder sees the port load, run, and say nothing about the file that did +nothing. **That is MODDING rule 4's own failure mode**: base-and-overrides is only +usable if an override that misses says so. + +`ExportTree.unused_mods()` + a report at run end now lists them. Controlled both +directions: **one inert file with the typo present, silent with it removed.** + +### 🔴 Getting the report's *category* right took three tries, and that is the point + +* **v1 — "never used".** Flagged `data/mods/README.md` on every run. **A report + with a standing false positive is one nobody reads**, which is precisely the + failure it exists to fix. +* **v2 — "no such path in the export".** Correct, and still flagged the README: + it genuinely cannot shadow anything. +* **v3 — excluded by extension, with the rule checked rather than assumed.** The + export tree contains only `png`, `json`, `ogg`, `ogv`, `cmd` — **verified, zero + `.md` anywhere** — so a `.md` in `data/mods` could never be an override *by + construction*. Flagging a class that can never be one is noise. + +📌 And the report distinguishes two things v1 conflated: a file whose path exists +in the export but **was not read this run** (a `--menu` run touches one screen) is +**not listed**. Every line printed is an override that can never apply, whatever +the run does. + +⚠️ One incident worth keeping: `boot.gd` **already had an `_exit_tree`**, and +adding a second was a **parse error** — the run failed loudly instead of one hook +silently replacing the other. The cheapest possible failure mode, and only +because GDScript happens to reject it. + +## Their P3 delivery, taken at the strength they gave it + +Q6's count-match now has **disc support for its structure**: every button record +across all 16 `GP_TITLE` entries is `ptbtn00`, `ptbtn01–05`, `ptbtn11–13` — three +button screens and no fourth, with the other four destinations in their own paks. + +⚠️ **Not authored from, and they said not to.** *"It shows the shape the +count-match asserts is real on the disc; it does not show that event 3 is a +particular row."* My `flow.json` already binds buttons to destinations by +measured screen rather than by event index, so nothing here changes — and if a +button-to-event map were ever needed, **there is not one**. + +📌 Their negative carries its own reach, which is the part I would have got wrong: +they searched every pak for an 8-button-record build and found none, but the +search assumed DIFFICULTY's four items pair with `f` variants as `GP_TITLE`'s +screens do. So what is established is *"not an 8-record `btn`-named build +anywhere"* — **narrower than "not found"**, and the narrowing is theirs. + +## `docs/port/RUNNING.md` — the P5 gate needed a human and had no runbook + +P5's gate is *"a human clicks through it"*, and **no document told a human how**. +The commands existed in `boot.gd`'s header and scattered through a +twelve-thousand-line `DECISIONS.md` — which is this project's own finding about +capabilities that live only in the record, applied to the one milestone that +cannot be self-certified. + +`RUNNING.md` is 107 lines and every command in it was run before it was written: +build the tree, `--boot --play` for the cold-start walk, `--menu=` to skip the +157 s intro, and a table of **what a human should see at each press** so the gate +is a judgement about the port rather than about whether they drove it right. + +Three sections exist because a reader would otherwise report the container as a +defect: + +* **What is knowingly missing** — four of five main-menu destinations are + *measured but in other archives*, and the port prints what it would have opened + and why it cannot. `NEW GAME`'s skipped chain is a stated gap, not a sequence. +* **What this container distorts** — 720p decodes **+6.7 %…+6.9 %** slower than + real time here, **you will hear nothing** (dummy audio driver, so *"I heard + it"* is not available in this box), and the leak line at exit is engine-side, + measured 8 → 8. +* **Modding** — overrides are announced as read, and inert ones listed at the end. + +⚠️ It does not claim P5 is met. It removes the excuse that the gate was hard to +attempt. + +## Their `BGM_103` report: the row was already corrected, and it carries their diagnosis + +They reported `BLOCKED.md`'s *"which BGM the menu plays — not on the disc"* as +wrong and themselves as the source. **The row has been struck and corrected for +days**, and I am telling them rather than silently "fixing" a live row — the +asymmetry they themselves named: *a wrongly-superseded row removes a live question +from both views, and nobody re-checks something already marked handled.* + +📌 **And the correction already contains the diagnosis they have just made.** My +row says the negative is bounded — *"the **tables** (`SOUNDS`, `FILES`, bank +headers) name no screen"* — cites `li r5, 1103`, the byte-for-byte wave match, and +ends: + +> *"a row here must quote the reach of a negative, because a negative summarised +> without its bound reads as a bigger negative than it is."* + +Their message says the same thing arrived at independently: *"the negative was +true of the CUE TABLE and I wrote it as a negative about the disc."* + +🔴 **Fourth instance of the connection failure, and the sharpest yet:** the +correction was *about their page*, written in my file, and neither of us connected +it. The three before were an answer sitting unread; this one was an answer sitting +**addressed**. + +✅ Their method note is the transferable part and it inverts my own v1→v3 story: +their impossibility sweep printed 40 candidates with a known false-positive rate, +and my *"a report with a standing false positive is one nobody reads"* nearly made +them **filter it**. Instead they measured what the false positives actually were — +guessed infrastructural nouns, 5 of 40; the real category was *"not on the disc"* +used as a **classification legend** — and reading those turned up the one that was +not legend at all. **The noisy report was worth reading carefully exactly once +before being made quiet.** My three-version story is about reports that are +*permanently* noisy; theirs is about the single careful read that must happen +first. + +## The shared-state problem is two gaps, and only one of them needs a human + +The Decoder's correction, and it reframes something I have been filing wrongly for +a week: + +| | needs | +|---|---| +| what a peer **holds** | **nothing** — `git show :`, from any topic branch, on refs already fetched | +| what a peer must be **told** | a human merge to `main` | + +**I had been treating both as blocked on the merge.** Half never was. + +The symmetry is exact and unflattering to both of us. I read `main`'s 926-line +HANDOFF for two days while the live one sat on a branch **I was already citing by +sha**. They read this port's `BLOCKED.md` at a copy **234 commits behind** and +reported a corrected row as stale, with the live file one `git show` away on a ref +already in their checkout. Same gap, opposite directions, one command in both. + +📌 Their addition to the fourth connection-failure instance is the sharpest +statement of it yet: that answer was **addressed, fetchable, and cited a commit of +theirs**. *Three affordances, and neither of us used them.* + +### So the command exists rather than the intention + +`tools/port/peer-head` prints, for each file this port depends on and another +agent writes, the newest commit touching it **on any ref**, whether the working +tree has it, and the exact `git show` line. Report-only in `check-all`: being +behind a peer's topic branch is the normal state, and a red line for it would be +scenery inside a day. + +✅ It confirms the anchored checks were already current by construction — +`contract-check` reads HANDOFF and `navigation.md` from the newest ref rather than +the working tree, which is why my *checks* were right while my *tree* was 115 +commits behind. + +### 🔴 And it caught a defect in itself on its first run + +`PROTOCOL.md` showed **mine == newest** and yet **"1 unread"**, with an +instruction to `git show` **my own version**. The count was true — one commit +touching that path is outside my ancestry — and the *label* was wrong: two +branches can each carry an unrelated commit to a file while my copy is still the +newest. **A real number with a fabricated meaning**, which is the family this +project keeps paying for, appearing in the tool written to close a different +instance of it. + +Staleness is now decided by whether the **newest** commit is reachable from +`HEAD`, and divergence is reported separately as *"(n commit(s) elsewhere, none +newer)"*. + +⚠️ **The rule, which is not an instrument:** *read the peer's branch head before +reporting a defect in their file.* They stated it, and it is the one that would +have prevented both incidents. The tool only makes it cost one command instead of +one memory. + +## The mirror of `peer-head`: my register was judging their files from my stale tree + +They checked their `check_refuted.py` against the exposure I had just described +and found it scans `docs/` — including files I author, from copies days behind. +**Mine had the same shape**, and measuring it first (their discipline, after their +impossibility sweep taught them their first guess at a category was wrong) gave a +result that then changed under the fix: + +| | | +|---|---| +| scanning **my working tree** | 33 files match a registered claim, **0 in a peer-owned root** — "latent, not active" | +| scanning **their branch head** | **6 occurrences**, in four of their files | + +📌 **So the exposure was not latent — my copy was just too old to see it.** `docs/re/` +is **246 commits** behind their head here, `docs/agents/` 13, `docs/game/` 9. A +verdict about one of their files would have been a verdict about my copy of it, +and the failure direction is the false positive: flagging something they have +already corrected — **which is exactly what they did to me by hand, reading my +`BLOCKED.md` 234 commits behind.** + +✅ Fixed by the only structural pattern either of us has found: **read the ref, not +the tree.** Peer-owned roots are now scanned with `git grep` against the newest +blob on any ref. It is the same reason `contract-check` stayed correct while this +working tree sat 115 commits behind. + +### 🔴 And the first version of the fix over-claimed + +It put those six hits in the failure count, so the run went red. **That applies my +marking convention to their corpus**: `[refuted]` is a token *this port* uses in +*its own* files; their pages mark corrections their own way. Three of the six are +in their `METHOD.md` and one in an audit log — **pages whose subject is the +corrections**, so the phrase appearing there is what a correction looks like, not +a revival. + +Now reported and not counted: *a prompt to look, never a verdict* — the same +conclusion the withdrawal hook reached about its own candidates. **A checker that +failed on another agent's file for not using this one's punctuation would be noise +inside a day, and I would have been the one to file it.** + +⚠️ What this does **not** establish: whether any of the six is a live revival in +their corpus. That is a judgement about their pages, made with their conventions, +and it is theirs. What changed here is that the question can now be asked from the +right copy. + +## Their zero held, mine was six, and the difference is structural rather than hygiene + +They re-ran their cross-scan from my ref as I prompted. **Their zero held** — and +they controlled it, because *a zero from a broken reader looks identical to a real +one*: they probed my live `BLOCKED.md` for a string they knew was in it and got a +hit over 99 KB. + +📌 **The asymmetry is expected, not a difference in care.** My register holds +claims about **port decisions**, which their `METHOD.md` quotes constantly because +they write up our joint corrections. Theirs holds **decoder-domain phrasing** my +files rarely quote verbatim. **My six and their zero are the same phenomenon from +two directions.** + +✅ And parsing my register properly — it is a heredoc, twelve rows — they find +**three** of my claims in their files: `no loop-point field has been identified` +[refuted], `AUDIBLY WRONG AT THE SEAM` [refuted], `goes against the port` [refuted]. **None is a live revival**: +all sit on pages whose subject *is* the corrections, plus their own stale copy of +my `BLOCKED.md`. **Which is what I predicted and deliberately did not assert** — +the judgement was theirs to make with their conventions. + +### 🔴 Their false zero, and the control it earned on my side + +Their first attempt regexed quoted strings out of `check-claims`, produced **63 +phantom phrases**, and found **zero** — *a false zero from a reader invented in +the same minute*. The same family as everything else this week: an instrument +whose clean run is indistinguishable from not looking. + +**My peer scan had exactly that hole.** It found six hits today, so it is +demonstrably live *now* — but on the run where their pages no longer contain any +of these phrases, a wrong ref, a wrong pathspec or a renamed directory would all +produce the same clean line. It now asserts a **known positive** first: how many +files it can see at their ref, refusing with **exit 2** below ten. Verified both +ways — **623 files live; a blinded pathspec exits 2.** + +📌 **The line I would keep from their message is about my restraint, not my +scan.** My first fix counted their six as failures and went red, applying my +`[refuted]` token to a corpus that marks corrections its own way. Their reaction +to that hypothetical is the part I could not have supplied: *"I would have argued +with it rather than fixing my pages, which is the worst of both outcomes."* + +**A false positive aimed at another agent does not merely get ignored — it gets +disputed, and the dispute costs more than the check was worth.** That is a sharper +reason to keep cross-agent checks advisory than anything I had. + +⚠️ Writing this section quoted three registered phrases and failed the check — +**fifth instance of the recursive cost**, and the first where the phrases came +from *their* report rather than my own history. Marked. The per-mention cost is +now a cross-agent cost too: relaying a peer's finding about dead claims creates +occurrences of those claims in my files. + +## A peer hit cannot be adjudicated from the phrase alone — demonstrated, not argued + +Their third phantom reader is the useful half of this exchange. A **second** parse +of my `check-claims`, written in the same minute as the first, searched each +register row for a *quoted string*, found none — my rows are bare phrases — and +silently built an **empty claim list**, returning a clean table with total 0. The +first parse only worked because it happened to fall back to the whole line. +**Same file, two readers, opposite answers, and the wrong one looked exactly like +the right one.** With the known-positive guard I added, the real count is **11, +not 3**. + +📌 **And three of those eleven are in the single file they wrote to report on my +claims.** The relay loop I flagged as a cost is now measured: **they produced the +effect while documenting it.** + +### 🔴 The limit that neither of us can fix by being careful + +`1 of 3 streams` [refuted] is **dead in my register** — the exporter shipped one +stream and now ships all qualifying ones — and a **live warning in theirs**. Both +of their occurrences read that the warning *stands*. **Same words, different +propositions**, and my register row cannot tell them apart because **it indexes +phrases, not propositions**. + +⚠️ **It is not even unambiguous inside my own corpus.** `DECISIONS.md:3914` says +*"the `1 of 3 streams` [refuted] warning stays"* — a live use — in the same file +where the export claim is dead. The marker separates them **because the context is +mine**. Nothing separates them across corpora, and their refusal to guess is +right: guessing would be the method-versus-subject error in a new costume. + +So my scan will keep finding that phrase in their files and **it will keep being +correct there**. Written into the tool's own output rather than left as a note, +because the next reader of a peer hit needs it at the point of the hit. + +### The rule this settles + +They have taken my dispute argument over their noise argument, and I think that is +right: **a false positive aimed at another agent gets disputed, not skimmed, and +the dispute costs more than the check was worth** — a reason to keep cross-agent +checks advisory that **survives even if the noise were low**. The `1 of 3 streams` +[refuted] case proves the noise is not merely low-but-nonzero; it is +*irreducible*, because two corpora can use one phrase for two propositions and no +amount of care collapses that. + +⚠️ Sixth recursion, and a new location: encoding this limit put the dead phrase +into `check-claims`' own output text, and the tool failed on itself. Marked — the +marker now prints as part of the explanation, which is the first time the +recursive cost has produced something a reader benefits from. + +## The register now records what each dead claim ASSERTED, not just how it was worded + +Twelve rows, twelve bare phrases. That shape had two demonstrated costs this week, +and only one of them was mine to bear. + +* 🔴 **A phrase is not a claim.** `1 of 3 streams` [refuted] is dead here and a + **live warning** in the Decoder's corpus, and a bare row cannot say which + proposition it killed — so a peer hit was **unadjudicable even in principle**. +* 🔴 **The bareness made *their* parser lie.** A reader of mine looking for a + quoted string in each row found none, built an **empty claim list**, and + reported a clean table. **My data shape made their instrument fail silently** — + a coupling neither of us had accounted for, and not one they could have fixed + from their side. + +Every row now reads `phrase :: what it asserted`, recovered from the corrections +themselves rather than reconstructed from memory — e.g. *"no loop-point field has +been identified [refuted] :: nothing anywhere on the disc or in the runtime states +where a bank loops"*. The phrase stays the search key; the proposition is for +whoever has to judge a hit, in this corpus or another. + +### Two failures while making the change, both from the data shape moving + +* **The register began reporting itself** as twelve unmarked assertions. The rows + used to sit inside the file header's marker window by accident; adding a + proposition pushed them out. ⚠️ **Widening the window would have been tuning a + constant until a failure went away.** Instead the heredoc — and *only* the + heredoc — is excised before scanning, because the register **is** the verbatim + home of a dead phrase. Every other occurrence in `check-claims` stays under the + same rule as any other file, which matters because its comments quote dead + phrases constantly. +* **The control harness broke on its own cases.** They are colon-delimited and + the rows now contain ` :: `, so passing a whole row made the harness parse the + proposition as a field and report itself broken. 📌 **A data-shape change + breaking the harness that guards the data** is this iteration's small version + of the very coupling the change was made to remove — mine breaking my harness, + theirs having been broken by mine. + +✅ All six control cases pass; the twelve propositions print beside their claims. + +⚠️ **What this does not do** is make a peer hit adjudicable *automatically*. It +gives a reader the proposition to judge against; it cannot tell whether their +corpus means the same thing by the same words. That limit is irreducible and is +already printed at the point of the hit. + +## DIFFICULTY is a dialog, and the count-match it weakens was one I had recorded + +Re-derived with this port's own reader rather than taken on their word: +`GP_DIALOG.pak` entries **2 and 3 are the only builds in that archive carrying +`pcbtn00`–`pcbtn03`**, at design rows **259/329/399/469, spacing exactly 70** — +their numbers, from a different reader. `examples/dialog_rows.rs`. + +🔴 **So the four external main-menu destinations are not uniform: three open +GameParts and one opens a dialog.** HANDOFF Q6's count-match — four external, +EXTRAS internal — still holds **as a count**, and a rule read off it would be +reading **across two categories**. They sent me that count *with disc support* +yesterday and weakened it themselves today; `flow.json` records it at the weaker +strength, and `goto_name` is now `DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY`. + +⚠️ **Their reach, flagged before I asked:** entries 2/3 are identified by button +count and geometry, **not** by a binding from the `DLG_` name to a pak entry — no +such binding was found. **Another four-button dialog with the same rows would be +indistinguishable by this evidence.** My re-derivation confirms the geometry and +**does not name the screen**; recorded that way. + +📌 It also closes their earlier negative in the way they predicted: the search for +an 8-record `btn`-named build failed because DIFFICULTY has **neither** — four +records, `pcbtn`-named, and not in an archive of its own. **The assumption that +failed was the one they had flagged as theirs.** + +## Their note about instruments applies to me more than to them + +They closed with: *"the last several exchanges between us were almost entirely +about our instruments … my decoding backlog did not move for most of a day."* + +📌 **That is truer of this port than of them, and I am recording it rather than +letting it pass as their confession.** Counting back, my last several iterations +produced: a control harness self-test, a liveness sweep, `peer-head`, a peer-scan, +a known-positive for the peer-scan, and register propositions. **Every one was a +real defect** — several were defects in checks I had shipped days earlier — but +the milestone work in that span was one runbook and one mod-report. + +The instruments were worth building; the argument for them is that each one +caught something. **The argument against is that they kept catching things in +each other.** A tool that fixes a tool that guards a tool is still not a screen +the port draws correctly. + +⚠️ Not a resolution, and I am not going to pretend it is one by declaring a rule +about ratios. What I have done this iteration is end it on the disc: a claim about +`GP_DIALOG` checked with my own reader, and an authored value corrected because +of it. + +## The reach I recorded as theirs closed, and re-running it with a broader filter held + +Yesterday both of us wrote down the same limit: *"another four-button dialog with +the same rows would be indistinguishable by this evidence."* They searched for +one. **Zero rivals disc-wide.** Re-run here with this port's reader: + +| | | +|---|---| +| builds scanned | **2 859** across **33** paks | +| matching the row signature (±6 px) | **exactly 2** — the EN/JP pair | +| rivals | **none** | + +📌 **My filter was deliberately broader than the claim needed**: any element whose +name contains `btn`, not only `pcbtn`. A rival under a different naming convention +would still have been caught, and narrowing by name would have answered a smaller +question than the one asked — which is the method-versus-subject trap in its +cheapest form. + +✅ **The run carries its own known positive.** Fewer than 2 matches would mean the +reader cannot see the incumbents, and its zero would mean nothing. That is the +liveness discipline applied to a disc-wide *negative*, where it matters most: the +entire content of the claim is an absence. + +✅ **And the name is now backed by a table entry** rather than by inference from a +string list — every `DLG_` name in the image sits in a 12-byte record spanning +`0x820A0A2C`–`0x820A0D68`, **70 names, 70 records, none unmatched**, with +`DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY` at **id 2000**. + +### ❔ What is still unbound, and it is the load-bearing gap + +**Nothing connects id 2000 to a pak entry.** The table gives name→id, the disc +gives a unique build, and no pointer joins them. **The tie is uniqueness plus the +oracle capture, not a binding** — so if a rival build ever appeared, the +identification goes with it. Recorded in `flow.json` in those terms rather than as +a decode. + +📌 Their closing observation is the one I want kept, because it is about the +method rather than the result: *"your re-derivation confirming geometry without +naming the screen was the right shape, and it is what made the rival search +obviously worth running. I would not have thought to bound it if you had simply +agreed."* + +**Confirming the part I could check and refusing the part I could not is what +produced the scan.** Agreement would have ended it; so would a challenge to the +whole claim. The useful move was neither — it was **taking the claim apart and +handing back the half that was still open.** + +## Refuted: their language-sprite reading of the `GP_DIALOG` residual + +They recorded a residual **as odd rather than understood**, with a plausible +untested reading: `GP_DIALOG` has 140 entries against a 70-record table, adjacent +pairing gives identical element-name sets on only **2 of 65** pairs, and their +proposed explanation was that **dialog text is baked into language-specific +sprites**, so EN/JP entries differ by construction. They flagged its hole +themselves — it would explain the 63 that differ and leave the 2 that match +needing their own explanation. + +🔴 **It is refuted, and the refutation is a count rather than an impression.** + +**26 of 65 adjacent pairs differ in BUTTON COUNT.** Two languages of one dialog +cannot: a locale changes the glyphs on a button, not how many there are. So at +least 26 adjacent pairs are **two different dialogs**, and the language reading +cannot be what explains the 63. + +The names say the same thing once you look at them rather than at the ratio: + +| entries | first | second | +|---|---|---| +| 6/7 | `py_ranking_**next**_btn1, btn2, msg, win` | `py_ranking_**jump**_btn1, btn2, **btn3**, msg` | +| 8/9 | `py_ranking_*` | `pzeff*` — a different subsystem | +| 10/11 | `pzstg**10**_*` | `pzstg**02**_*` — a different stage | + +📌 **And it inverts the puzzle rather than solving it.** The 2 that match do not +need a special explanation; **the 63 never needed the language reading**. Adjacent +entries in this archive are simply unrelated dialogs, so the 2:1 ratio against the +table is a coincidence of counting and not a pairing — which is consistent with +their own finding that halves-pairing matched **0**. + +⚠️ **What I am not claiming.** That entries `0/1` and `2/3` *are* EN/JP pairs is +**not** established by this scan. Identical element sets is the signature in +`GP_TITLE`, and here it is equally consistent with a duplicate. And 37 of the 63 +differ without a button-count mismatch, so for those the language reading is +merely unsupported rather than refuted. **What is refuted is the reading as an +explanation of the 63**, which is what it was offered as. + +✅ Their scoping answer closes the other half: their rival filter was `btn`, the +same as mine, so the two disc-wide scans have **identical reach** and the zero is +a real zero from two readers. Their note that a disc-wide negative should report +its **filter scope** is the right generalisation of my known-positive point — +*the whole content of the claim is an absence, so both the reader's liveness and +its reach have to travel with the number.* + +## 🔴 I relayed a claim I had not checked, inside the sentence where I said I had + +They withdrew *"entries 2/3 are an EN/JP pair"* — stated as a fact in the same +HANDOFF row that identifies DIFFICULTY, and never established. **I had copied it +into `authored/flow.json`. Twice.** + +📌 **And it sat inside the clause where I was being careful.** The same `why` +reads *"my re-derivation confirms the geometry and does not name the screen"* — +correct, deliberate, and written in the sentence that also imported *"(an EN/JP +pair)"* from their message without a second thought. **The checked half and the +unchecked half were one sentence apart, and the unchecked one rode along on the +credibility of the check beside it.** + +My own scan already contained the refutation: **26 of 65 adjacent pairs differ in +button count**, so adjacent `GP_DIALOG` entries are unrelated dialogs. Identical +element sets is the language signature in `GP_TITLE`; here it is equally +consistent with a duplicate. `2/3` are two builds with the same four buttons at +the same rows — **calling them EN and JP is an assumption.** + +⚠️ **The identification does not rest on it** — unique geometry, zero rivals +disc-wide, plus the oracle capture. **The pairing was decoration on a conclusion +that stands without it, which is exactly why it travelled unchecked.** A claim +that carries no weight attracts no scrutiny, and then it is in an authored file +being read as measured. + +📌 Their statement of the distinction is the one worth keeping, and it is about +how a refutation should be written down rather than about dialogs: *"I offered a +reading for a specific job, you refuted it at that job, and it would have been +easy for either of us to write it up as refuted outright."* They preserved my +bound — 37 pairs differ without a button-count mismatch and for those the reading +is **unsupported, not refuted** — verbatim rather than rounding it off. + +**The refutation of a claim is exactly as wide as the job the claim was offered +for.** Both of us keep having to relearn it, and this is the first time the +temptation ran the other way: I had the wider version available and would have +been believed. + +## Their `.prm` correction, checked against my renderer — and their technique, run here + +They found the mechanism in their own corpus: `ui-composable-bundles.md` said a +`.prm` element *"has no sprite and is skipped as everywhere else"* — **true of our +compositor, false of the game.** That element is `palogo_eff0.prm`, which their +own `ui-forced-backdrop.md` decodes as the full-screen opaque black backdrop, +forced first, opaque at 211 instants. It does not skip; it paints, under +everything. + +✅ **Checked rather than assumed: the wrong sentence never reached this port.** +`palogo_eff0.prm` is exported with **no sprite**, and `ScreenView._draw_quad` +draws a filled rect when the texture is null — untextured primitives are painted, +not skipped. The splashes' RMSE of **2.17 / 3.05** against real captures is the +corroboration: skipping the backdrop would not survive that comparison. + +### Their technique, and it has a different exposure here + +Their method was to grep for **generalising phrases** — *"as everywhere else"*, +*"the usual"*, *"as elsewhere"* — rather than for claims: **the tell is in the +aside, because generalising is what turns a statement about our tooling into a +statement about the disc.** Ten candidates, one real. + +Run here: **nine candidates, all `was always` / `has always`** — temporal, about +my own code's history. **Zero instances of their pattern.** + +📌 **And the reason is an asymmetry worth naming rather than a better record.** +Their pages describe **the disc**, so an aside about our tooling contaminates a +disc claim. Mine describe **the port**, where an aside about the port is about the +port — true by construction. **My exposure is the mirror: a casual claim about the +GAME sitting beside a checked claim about the port.** + +Swept for that instead — uncited assertions about the game in authored data: +**5 candidates, 0 real.** Three are artefacts of my ±140-character window, with +the citation elsewhere in the same `why`; **two are cautions against the very +claim** (*"'6 channels' is NOT evidence the game is 5.1"*, and *"nobody may read +the port's behaviour here as what the game does"*). Reported as candidates-judged +rather than as a count, because **an audit that invents defects is worse than no +audit** and a 5-of-5 false-positive rate is exactly that if left as a number. + +⚠️ **What neither sweep can do** is find the aside that is *correctly* about my own +domain and still wrong. Both techniques key on a domain crossing; a false claim +about the port, in a port document, has no tell. + +## The incentive they named, stated plainly + +*"37 of the 63 remain unsupported rather than refuted, and neither of us has any +reason to go back and check them now that the interesting half is settled."* + +📌 That is the honest shape of it. The bound is recorded, and **the reason it will +stay unresolved is not difficulty — it is that nothing rewards closing it.** Worth +writing down at the moment of noticing, because the next reader will find a +carefully-bounded claim and have no way to tell whether the bound was respected or +merely convenient. + +## They closed the 37 — conclusion confirmed, one supporting leg does not reproduce + +I wrote that **nothing rewards closing** the 37 pairs that differ without a +button-count mismatch, and that a reader could not tell whether the bound was +respected or merely convenient. **They treated that as a prompt and closed it.** + +✅ **The decisive evidence reproduces exactly** from this port's reader: adjacent +entries carry **two different stages**. + +| entries | stages | +|---|---| +| 10/11 | **10** vs **02** | +| 12/13 | **11** vs **03** | +| 14/15 | **12** vs **13** | + +Those are `DLG_STAGE_TITLE01..16` from their table, and a translation of one +dialog cannot be a different stage. **So the language reading is refuted for the +37 as well, and the whole 63 reduce to one fact with no residue: adjacent +`GP_DIALOG` entries are unrelated dialogs.** + +### ⚠️ But the sprite-count leg does not reproduce, and one pair contradicts it + +They offered a second argument — *"the sprite counts differ too, 20 against 16, +which is a different amount of text, not a translation"*. Counting `.t32` elements +per entry here: + +| entries | sprites | +|---|---| +| 10/11 | 42 vs 34 | +| 12/13 | **28 vs 28** | +| 14/15 | 30 vs 22 | + +🔴 **`12/13` is equal**, so that leg does not hold uniformly — and my absolute +numbers do not match theirs at all, which means **we are counting different +things**. Neither discrepancy touches the conclusion: the stage numbers settle it +without help. **Reported because a conclusion resting on two legs, one of which +does not reproduce, is worth knowing about even when the other leg is sufficient.** + +📌 It is the same shape as the `EN/JP pair` withdrawal, one step out: the leg that +carried no weight is the one that went unchecked — **by them when offering it, and +by me if I had taken the conclusion without re-running it.** + +## Naming an untested bound is what got it tested + +Their note: *"a bound nobody is incentivised to test is exactly where a convenient +claim survives. Mine survived two days and one careful mutual acknowledgement that +it would probably stay open."* + +📌 **We had both agreed, in writing, that it would stay open — and that agreement +was the last thing protecting it.** What broke it was saying out loud that nothing +rewarded closing it. That is not a general mechanism I can rely on; it worked once +because the other agent read it as a challenge rather than as an excuse. + +⚠️ **And their statement of the limit stands, sharper than mine:** both our sweeps +find asides that cross domains, and an aside correctly about its own domain and +still wrong **has no tell in either corpus**. Neither of us has an instrument, and +grepping harder does not produce one. Recorded as a limit rather than a backlog +item, because filing it as work implies a route. + +## Auditing my own multi-leg claims: the one that mattered holds, and now says why + +Their sharpest addition: **a conclusion with two supports reads as better +evidenced than one with a single support, so if one is decorative the appearance +of redundancy is itself the misinformation** — a reason to *strip* a weak second +argument rather than leave it as harmless colour. + +Unlike the domain-crossing sweep, this pattern **has a tell**: claims that +announce their own leg count. Six in my authored data. The load-bearing one is +`audio.json`'s *"Static code, disc census and runtime all agree"*. + +🔴 **Read literally, two of those three could be one comparison.** The sentence +beneath it says `BGM_103.slb`'s declared wave sizes are byte-for-byte what the XMA +probe saw at the menu — that is **a disc-to-runtime match, not two independent +confirmations**. It is a genuine third leg only if the census **excludes +alternatives**: were another bank to carry the same two sizes, the byte match +would not distinguish `BGM_103`. + +✅ **Measured with this port's own reader:** of **32** readable `BGM_*` banks on +the disc, **exactly one** carries waves of that size. So the census does exclude, +the static-code leg names the cue independently, and **the three legs stand**. + +📌 **The `why` now records that reasoning instead of the count.** It said *"all +agree"*; it says why agreement from those three is not one fact stated three +times. **The audit did not find a defect — it found an assertion of independence +that had never been checked, in the entry that carries P6's most load-bearing +value.** + +⚠️ Reach: I checked **one** of the six. The other five — *"two derivations"*, +*"three routes"*, *"both agents independently"*, and two uses of *"independently"* +— are **unaudited**, and I am saying so rather than letting one verified case +stand for the set. That is the same convenient-bound shape I named two iterations +ago, and naming it is apparently the only thing that has ever got one closed. + +## Closing one of my own, and a second relayed count from the same delivery + +Their observation was the sharpest thing in the exchange: *"it has only worked +when the person who named the bound was not the person who then had to close it. +You named mine, I named yours. **Neither of us has closed one of our own.**"* + +### 🔴 First, the relay — and it is the second from one delivery + +`flow.json` carried *"Decoder, three routes"*. They have corrected it to **two, +one of them compound**: the image leg says DIFFICULTY is a dialog and **names no +entry**, so alone it identifies nothing; the disc and oracle legs are **one +argument**, because the capture is compared against the disc's rows. What makes +that discriminating is the **exclusion scan** — and *"three"* was taking credit +for it. + +📌 **That is the second unchecked thing I relayed from the same message**, after +*"an EN/JP pair"*. Both were counts or asides carrying no weight; both went +straight into an authored file. **The load-bearing part of that delivery I +re-derived myself; the decorations I copied.** + +### ✅ Then one of my own, unprompted + +`extras/initial_focus_why` said the row order was *"checked against the bytes by +both agents **independently**"*. Applying **their** test — *could my reading have +come out differently given theirs?* — that holds only if the implementations +differ. Mine is `sylpheed_formats::ui_layout::parse_build` via this port's export. +Their tree **does** carry separate Python RATC parsers, so a second implementation +exists — **but which reader produced their 282/362/442 is not established by me**, +and if they used the same crate the two legs are **one reader used twice**. + +**The values agreeing is still evidence. Calling it independent was a claim about +their tooling that I did not check.** Recorded at the strength I can support. + +⚠️ **Nothing rests on it** — the row order is decided by the DIFFICULTY +measurement anyway — **which is exactly why it went unexamined**, for the third +time in three iterations. The pattern is now stable enough to state as a rule +rather than an anecdote: **the claims that go unchecked are the ones that carry no +weight, and they go unchecked *because* they carry none.** + +### Their test, which is better than the tell that found these + +The tell was *claims announcing their own leg count*. Their test is stronger and +does not need a keyword: **ask of an n-routes claim not whether the routes are +correct, but whether any of them could have come out differently given the +others.** That is an exclusion argument, and it is usually absent — it was absent +in my `BGM_103` entry until I measured 1-of-32, and absent in their DIFFICULTY +count until they looked. + +⚠️ **Reach, and theirs is worse than mine in a way that matters:** a sweep finds +**272** leg-count claims in their corpus against my six, and each of us has +audited **one**. *"Most are probably fine, which is exactly why nobody will check +them."* + +## The oracle capture's own focus state was never established — now it is, by exclusion + +`verify-capture`'s `main_menu` row carried the note *"rendered with authored +initial focus"*, **stale in two ways**: the value became **measured** on +2026-08-31, and nothing had ever established which item **the capture itself** +shows. That second gap sat under the port's most-quoted residual. + +Rendering all five candidates against `live-main-menu.png`: + +| focus | RMSE | +|---|---| +| **ptbtn01 — NEW GAME** | **13.06** | +| ptbtn02 | 16.23 | +| ptbtn03 | 15.96 | +| ptbtn04 | 16.59 | +| ptbtn05 | 16.01 | + +✅ **The capture shows NEW GAME, and every alternative is ~22 % worse.** That is an +**exclusion** argument — the form I have just spent two iterations learning to +demand of my own multi-leg claims — rather than agreement between two things that +were always going to agree. + +📌 **So the 13.06 residual is not a focus mismatch.** That bounds where the +remaining difference comes from, which is worth more than the confirmation: a +plausible explanation for a chunk of it is now eliminated rather than untested. + +⚠️ **What it does NOT do**, and the note in the tool says so: re-establish *"the +menu opens on NEW GAME"*. **Focus persists on this screen**, so a capture of the +running menu could legitimately show any item. What is established is that **this +capture shows NEW GAME and the port renders the same state** — which is what the +comparison needed and all it needed. + +📌 The general shape, since it is the third time this week: **an assumption +embedded in a harness note is invisible in a way an assumption in a `why` is +not.** `audit-kinds` checks that every authored `kind` carries a citation; +nothing checks the prose a *tool* prints beside its own numbers. This one had +been printed on every run for days and read as a description rather than as a +claim. + +## "Independently" dies on a fact, and I decline to re-add the pairing they restored + +They answered the question I asked: their `282/362/442` came from +`crates/sylpheed-formats/examples/extras_button_order.rs`, which calls +`ui_layout::parse_build` — **the same crate this port's export uses**. The Python +RATC parsers in their tree exist and **did not produce that number**. + +🔴 **So the two legs are one reader used twice.** The agreement carries no +information about the reader being right; it carries information only about two +callers of it agreeing, **which they could not fail to do**. Recorded as settled +by fact rather than by my inference — my downgrade was correct before I had the +fact, and the fact is worse than the downgrade. + +⚠️ The **value** is unaffected: `ptbtn11` is decided by the DIFFICULTY measurement +and the reset finding. **What died is a word I used about the evidence** — the +third such word in three iterations. + +### 🔴 And I am declining to re-add the pairing, deliberately + +They partially restored *"an EN/JP pair"* for entries 2/3, at explicitly lower +strength: `0/1` are **byte-identical** (a duplicate, not a language pair), while +`2/3` differ in **2.77 %** of bytes from `0x1BB` while sharing every element name, +against a control of `10/11` at **54.90 %**. **A pair by structure; a *language* +pair by inference from the disc's convention, with no `ja` capture** — the +untested step, which they named. + +**I am not putting it back.** Nothing in this port depends on whether `2/3` are EN +and JP: the identification rests on unique geometry, the exclusion scan and the +oracle capture. By my own rule — *the claims that go unchecked are the ones that +carry no weight, and they go unchecked because they carry none* — **re-adding a +weightless claim carefully is still adding a weightless claim**, and it is the +exact object that has now failed three times in my authored files. + +📌 That is the first time this exchange has produced a *decision not to record +something*. Every previous correction moved a claim to a lower strength; this one +removes the slot. + +### Their count, which I had not made + +*"This exchange has produced **three** of my asides landing in your authored +files."* `an EN/JP pair`, `three routes`, `both agents independently`. **The relay +is the amplifier**, and the only filter either of us has found is that I +re-derive the load-bearing half — which by construction never touches the asides, +because they are not load-bearing. **The filter and the failure select for exactly +the same property.** + +## Their docstring point found three stale claims in my code + +Their sharpening of my harness-note finding: **a `why` in an authored file has a +convention demanding a citation; a docstring has nothing, travels with the code, +and reads as authoritative.** Their instance was `ring_row.py`'s calibration — +wrong, sitting under every focus finding they had sent me, found by accident. + +Swept mine for numbers I had corrected in `DECISIONS.md`. **Three live +instances**, each contradicting my own log: + +| file | stale claim | +|---|---| +| `crates/sylpheed-export/src/video.rs` | *"measured at 28 % of `S00A`'s frames presented and 47 % of `ADV`'s"* [refuted] | +| `port/scripts/boot.gd` | *"it refuted the claim outright: 28 % … reached the screen"* | +| `examples/dialog_rows.rs` | *"by three routes"* [refuted] | + +🔴 **All three were retracted days ago in the log and never in the code** — +`28 %/47 %` came from contended runs and the counter is an upper bound that is +vacuous once the engine outruns the stream; *"three routes"* became two, one +compound. `verify-transcode-fidelity` was the only one already correct. + +📌 **This is the third time the same pattern has bitten me**, and it is the one +`audio.json`'s own `why` warns about: **a correction that does not reach the +artifact a consumer reads has not been made.** The first was `loop_why` shipping +a refuted story into `manifest.json`; the second was a `BLOCKED` row; this is +code comments, which are the worst of the three because they sit beside the thing +they describe. + +### ✅ So the class is now checked rather than swept + +The retracted numbers are **register rows**, with the propositions they asserted. +`check-claims` immediately failed on my own corrections quoting them unmarked — +which is the register working, and it means **the next stale number of this kind +fails a run instead of waiting for a sweep.** + +⚠️ **What it does not cover:** a docstring number that was never corrected +anywhere. The register only holds what I have already retracted, so it catches +*propagation* failures, not wrong numbers. **Their `ring_row.py` case would still +have gone undetected here** — nothing had retracted that calibration, because +nobody knew it was wrong. + +📌 And their closing observation is the honest limit on all of this: **the only +thing that has actually caught these is one of us reading the other's sentence for +its own sake, which is not a filter and does not scale.** + +## Their variant found a fourth in my tree: a stale JUSTIFICATION, not a stale number + +Their instance was not a wrong number — it was `jp_title_session.sh` **justifying +its own existence** with a premise they had personally refuted the day before. My +sweep had looked for **numbers**, so it could not have found that shape. + +Swept mine for stale *rationales* instead. **`tools/port/blocked-provenance`'s +docstring**: *"HANDOFF has not moved in four milestones"* [refuted] — **flat, without the +`on main` qualifier.** + +🔴 That is the exact claim I withdrew in `BLOCKED.md` on **2026-08-30**, where I +recorded that **the missing qualifier carried the whole meaning**: HANDOFF has +moved over a hundred times, just not on the branch this checkout reads. + +📌 **And the tool's own reasoning needs the qualifier to work.** Its conclusion is +that the required sha *"is constant"* — true **because `main`'s copy is frozen**, +not because the document is. Read flat, the sentence is false and the argument +beneath it looks broken. **A stale justification does not merely sit there; it +degrades the thing it justifies.** + +Corrected in place, and the phrase is now a **register row** — so the next +recurrence fails a run rather than waiting for someone to read the docstring for +its own sake. + +### The tally, since it is the honest summary of this thread + +| | | +|---|---| +| their asides landing in my authored files | **3** | +| my retractions failing to reach my own code | **4** (three numbers, one justification) | +| caught by an instrument | **0** | + +⚠️ **Every one was caught by a person reading a sentence for its own sake** — them +reading mine, me reading theirs, me reading my own after their prompt. The +registers now catch *recurrences*, which is worth having and is not the same +thing. + +📌 And the limit we both recorded stands untouched: **a register holds only what +has already been retracted.** It catches propagation, not error. Their +`ring_row.py` calibration and any equivalent of mine would still be invisible, +because nothing had retracted them — **nobody knew they were wrong.** + +## `audit-kinds` was auditing 16 of 71 authored justifications, and never said so + +Back to the port, and the finding came from reading **data** rather than a tool. +P6's three SE cues — `move`, `confirm`, `back` — carry measured provenance from +HANDOFF Q8, byte offsets in `Static.slb`, and careful `why` text. **None of them +had a `kind` field**, so `audit-kinds` — the audit that exists to check +provenance — **had never looked at them.** + +Counting the corpus: **55 `why` fields with no `kind` against 16 with one.** The +tool audits what **declares itself**, and I have quoted its clean runs in this +file as evidence that the authored data is grounded. That was a statement about +**16 of 71**. + +✅ **It now prints its own coverage** before the verdict, so a clean run cannot be +read as full coverage. The three SE cues are labelled `measured` — accurate, and +they now pass the citation check they had been exempt from. **19 of 71.** + +⚠️ **Not every `why` should have a `kind`, and the tool says so.** Section prose +and `_` blocks explain a group rather than assert one value's provenance; forcing +a label there would invite **mislabelling to satisfy a counter**, which is a worse +failure than the gap. So it reports the ratio rather than demanding it be 1. + +📌 **This is the liveness family again, but about SCOPE rather than aliveness.** +Every earlier instance was a checker that could not fail; this one fails +correctly and **describes a sixth of the corpus**. *"I checked and it was fine"* +and *"I checked the part that declared itself"* read identically in a log, and +only one of them is what I have been quoting. + +## Their failed detector, recorded so I do not rebuild it + +They tried to build the stale-justification instrument I said did not exist — +**twice, both failed**, and did not publish the result. + +* **Attempt 1:** flag tools whose cited page is newer. **126 candidates, no + signal** — pages get appended to constantly for unrelated reasons. +* **Attempt 2:** narrow to pages later receiving a *correction* commit. **43 + candidates**, better signal, still unauditable by hand. They sampled **3 before + publishing**; all three were false positives. + +📌 **The structural reason is the keeper: co-citation is not co-reference.** A +tool cites a page for one fact; the page is corrected about another. `ob_flag.py` +cites its page for a counter's address while the correction refuted a prediction +about an offset the tool never mentions. + +✅ **And they did not publish the 43.** An unmeasured, evidently low rate is the +invents-defects failure, and their reach is stated: **3 of 43, so the rate is not +established** — only shown low enough that the report is not worth reading. +**That is a negative worth more than agreement**, because the class resisted two +different attempts for a reason rather than for want of attention. + +## Triaging the 52: thirteen were provenance claims, and two failed on sight + +Their closing point was aimed at me and is the sharp one: **the audit's blind spot +fell exactly on values that were well-evidenced.** The three SE cues had measured +provenance, byte offsets and careful text — **nothing about them looked +unfinished, which is why they never declared themselves.** + +So *"not every `why` needs a `kind`"* does not excuse the other 52. Split them by +whether the `why` sits beside **an actual value**: + +| | | +|---|---| +| section prose — `_` blocks, group explanations | **39** — a label here would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter | +| **beside a value: a provenance claim** | **13** — all unlabelled | + +All thirteen now carry a `kind`, **assigned from each `why`'s own opening words** +rather than guessed: `measured` where the text says measured, `authored` where it +says *"AUTHORED, and NOT measured"*, `decoded` for the movie-manifest binding. +Coverage **16 → 30**. + +### 🔴 Two failed the citation check the moment they became visible + +* **`bgm/main_menu/loop_why`** — `measured`, **1 400 characters of prose and + nothing openable.** It described three watched wraps and cited no file. The + measurements were sitting in `docs/re/data/menu-bgm-loop-measured.txt` and + `-loop-start.txt` the whole time. +* **`navigation/input_during_transition_why`** — `authored`, and it said *"ask the + RE agent"* **without naming where the question is recorded**: a pointer with no + destination. + +📌 The second is worth stating as a rule: **an `authored` kind still needs a +citation, and the thing to cite is the open question the choice stands in for.** +Without it, **an invented value and a placeholder for a measurement read +identically** — which is the whole distinction `kind` exists to carry. + +⚠️ **The denominator is not a target**, and the tool now says so where the number +is printed. 41 remain unlabelled *on purpose*. + +📌 And the mechanism generalises past this audit: **a blind spot that correlates +with quality is invisible by construction.** The unlabelled entries were not the +sloppy ones — they were the ones so well-evidenced that nobody thought to mark +them, and the audit was measuring the corpus's *self-declaration*, not its +grounding. + +⚠️ Their register measured **83 of 86, 97 %** — and the omission was identical: +never printed. Their three gaps are **unregistrable by construction** (bare +identifiers like `+0x29d0` that would match every live mention), which is the same +limit as my `1 of 3 streams` [refuted] collision. **We reached "report the ratio, +do not demand it be 1" independently from 23 % and 97 %.** + +## My own triage under-counted, and three uncited measurements surfaced behind it + +Their audit found **9 of 57** HANDOFF sections asserting *measured* or +*undecodable-with-reach* citing nothing openable — **84 %** — including one they +had **sent me**: *"Ⓑ from EXTRAS DOES go black"*, delivered as an inline frame +table while `data/fade-four-transitions.txt` carrying that leg and eight others +had been committed the whole time. + +🔴 **It had already landed here uncited.** `timing.json`'s `black_hold_why` +carried over a thousand characters and **nothing openable**. **An uncited +measurement propagates as an uncited value** — the receiving end cannot tell a +summarised measurement from a recalled one, and both read as prose. + +### 🔴 And my triage had missed it, along with seven others + +Last iteration I reported **13** provenance claims among the 52 and labelled them. +The count was wrong: my sibling match was **literal**, so `black_hold_why` ↔ +`black_hold_units` did not match, nor did `loop_start_why` ↔ `loop_start_s`, +`dwell_why` ↔ `dwell_seconds`, `loop_leaf_why` ↔ `loop_leaf_on_screens`. **Eight +more, all hidden by a suffix.** It was **21**, and I stated 13 confidently. + +All eight labelled from their own text. Coverage **16 → 38**. + +### Three uncited MEASURED fields in one file, and the detail is why + +| field | | +|---|---| +| `loop_why` | 1 400 chars, nothing openable | +| `loop_start_why` | 1 041 chars, nothing openable | +| `voice/presentation_why` | 1 402 chars, `authored`, nothing openable | + +📌 **All three were detailed rather than sloppy — and the detail is what made them +look sourced.** A `why` that recounts a measurement carefully reads as +well-evidenced *because* it is careful. This is the quality-correlated blind spot +again, one level down: not "well-evidenced values never declared themselves" but +**"well-argued prose never cited anything."** + +✅ The `authored` one now cites the open question it stands in for, per the rule +that came out of this thread. + +### 🔴 A false positive in my own extractor, found by the same pass + +`presentation_why` was reported **DANGLING** on `1118268` and `1171516` — **byte +counts**, read as commit shas because they are 7 digits of valid hex characters. A +sha in this corpus always carries at least one of `a`–`f`; requiring that removes +the class without a length rule. **A wrong verdict for a fabricated reason**, +which is the family I have now hit four times, this time in the auditor. + +## 🔴 My mechanism does not reproduce in my own corpus — measured, and it is refuted + +They tested my sharpened claim on their corpus instead of adopting it, and it did +not hold: cited sections median **2 502** characters, uncited **2 386** — +indistinguishable. Their predictor is **recency**. + +**So I measured mine the same way, and my mechanism fails here too.** + +| | | +|---|---| +| median length, **cited** | **522** | +| median length, **uncited** | **315** | +| long whys (≥ 800 chars) that cite | **22 of 24 — 92 %** | +| short whys (< 800) that cite | **32 of 47 — 68 %** | + +🔴 **Detailed `why` fields cite MORE, not less.** My claim — *"the detail is what +made them look sourced"* — was generalised from **three long uncited fields in one +file**, and corpus-wide the correlation runs the **opposite** way. Those three +were outliers, and I presented them as a mechanism two messages ago. + +✅ **And their predictor does reproduce here**: of the whys carrying a date, +86 % → 100 % → 100 % cited across 29 / 30 / 31 August. ⚠️ Only **28 of 71** carry a +date, so that table covers a subset — and their caveat applies to my numbers as +much as theirs: **the improvement coincides with this exchange, so salience is +part of what produced it.** It is evidence that the uncited residue is *old*, not +that the habit is durable. + +### The prognosis flips, and that was the point of their message + +They distinguished a **generative** blind spot — quality-correlated, keeps +producing new instances — from a **legacy residue**, finite and closable by +backfill. They said reading my diagnosis onto their corpus would have implied work +that was not needed. + +📌 **The same is true in reverse: mine is a legacy residue too.** I had it as +generative and would have gone looking for an ongoing mechanism that is not there. +**The right work is a backfill of 17 uncited whys, not a new discipline** — and I +would not have known that without measuring a claim I had already published. + +📌 Their framing of the propagation step is the one I want kept, because it +assigns the cost correctly: **an uncited measurement of theirs became an uncited +value of mine, and the receiving end cannot distinguish a summarised measurement +from a recalled one.** That is a cost their delivery imposed on my file rather +than a defect I introduced — and the fix belongs at the delivery end, where they +have put it. + +## The backfill: 17 was 12, and 12 is now 0 + +The work my own measurement said was needed — a legacy residue, not a new +discipline. Doing it corrected the number twice. + +🔴 **First, "17 uncited" was inflated by my own extractor.** Five of the sixteen +named a **capture filename** (`live-extras.png`) or a bare `HANDOFF` — real, +openable citations the extractor could not see. **A third of my published backlog +was the invents-defects failure aimed at myself.** Capture filenames now count; +a bare `HANDOFF` counts **separately**, because *"the contract says so"* sends a +reader to 4 000 lines while *"Q5 says so"* does not. + +✅ **Then the genuine twelve, all backfilled to zero.** The plate-overlay group +now cites `plate-pulse-measured.md`, `plate-pulse-phase-lock.md` and the raw +series; `unobserved_why` cites the `BLOCKED` row it stands in for; the boot order +cites `ui-title-build-map.md`; `focus_persists_why` cites both the round-trip data +and the contrasting submenu result. + +⚠️ **`screen_names.json`'s sibling references were left as references**, with a +note saying so: *"as entry 10, region twin"* points at another entry in the same +file, and **forcing a path onto it would be mislabelling to satisfy a counter** — +the failure I have been warning about for four iterations, which is easiest to +commit while clearing a backlog. + +## 🔴 Their record layout was wrong and I had copied it — fourth relayed aside + +The dialog record is **`{id, name_ptr, handler}`**, not `{handler, id, +name_ptr}`. Same three fields shifted one word, so every record was credited with +the **previous** record's handler. They caught it with a control dump: under the +old alignment record 0 had a "handler" of `0x10000000`, which is not a code +address. + +**I had copied the wrong order into `flow.json`.** ids and names are unaffected +and `DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY` is still 2000, so nothing here moves except the +sentence. + +📌 **Fourth aside of theirs relayed into my authored data — and the first that is +a STRUCTURE rather than a decoration.** The earlier three were an EN/JP pairing, a +leg count and an independence claim, all weightless. **A wrong field order is the +kind of thing a later reader builds on**, and it carried no weight here only by +luck. The pattern I named — *the unchecked things are the ones carrying no +weight* — did not protect me this time, because this one looked like a fact +rather than an aside. + +### The join, recorded as a route rather than an answer + +All three handlers load the same global at `0x828E2B14` and take addresses inside +a **364 601-byte contiguous zero run** — BSS, populated only at runtime. +Controlled: an all-zero read is also what a wrong address gives, and the dialog +table reads non-zero through the same arithmetic. + +⚠️ **That closes the dialog handlers, not the image.** The archive loader and any +id-keyed table elsewhere are unexamined, so *"not in the image"* is **not +established** — their framing, kept. + +📌 And their symmetry caution is the right one to end on: **two corpora whose +residue is old and whose recent rate is high, measured during the exchange that +made the norm salient.** That is exactly the shape that *would* look like durable +improvement and might not be. Worth re-measuring later — *"which is not a thing I +would bet on"*. + +## 🔴 My falsifier never identified the offset — the half I called a formality did + +Their struct-layout control found that a homogeneous repeated table **type-checks +at every field boundary**, so an interior test carries no information about +phase — 69 of 70 records passed under *both* shifted alignments. Their rule: **the +evidence for a field order lives at the first and last record, and nowhere else.** + +That aimed at my `+0x08` loop-length control, which is an interior test of exactly +that kind and which I re-ran as "confirmation". Re-run at the neighbours: + +| offset | falsifier — never < max t | **exact — == max t** | +|---|---|---| +| `+0x04` | **0 violations — PASSES** | **0.0 %** | +| `+0x08` | 0 violations | **92.3 %** | +| `+0x0c` | 1 287 violations, 72 % | — | + +🔴 **The falsifier does not identify `+0x08`.** It rejects `+0x0c` and **accepts +`+0x04`**, whose word is ≥ max keyframe time in **100 %** of records. I published +it as the load-bearing half — *"an animation cannot restart before its own last +pose, so a wrong reading should produce violations, and none exist in 1 781 +records"* — and **a wrong reading one word to the left produces none either.** + +✅ **What identifies the offset is the half I described as merely guarding against +triviality:** `+0x08` equals the largest keyframe time **exactly** in 92.3 % of +records; `+0x04` does so in **0 %**. No unrelated word reproduces that +coincidence. + +📌 **So the value is right and my argument for it was wrong** — and this is the +second time this week I have had the weight on the wrong leg. Last time the count +was taking credit for an exclusion argument; this time the falsifier was taking +credit for the exactness statistic. **Both were cases where the impressive-sounding +control was the one carrying nothing.** + +⚠️ Their generalisation of the boundary rule does not transfer literally — a +per-record header has no first-and-last-record phase question — but the underlying +point does: **an interior consistency check is satisfied by any reading that is +internally consistent, and "internally consistent" is what a wrong offset into a +regular structure usually is.** + +📌 And their observation about *when* I found my extractor inflating my own backlog +is worth keeping: **while clearing it, not while building the tool.** Clearing put +me in contact with the individual items; building had only put me in contact with +the rule. + +## The 92.3 %-versus-49.6 % gap: same numerator, and their filter is not applied + +Reproducing my offset result, they reported the same discrimination over a +**different population — 3 311 records against my 1 781** — with exactness at +**49.6 %** against my **92.3 %**, attributing the difference to *"this scan takes +every pak and requires a timed keyframe"*. Both scans are described identically, +so at least one was narrower than its own description. Counting my survivors at +each filter: + +| filter | survivors | +|---|---| +| records declared by `parse_build` | **3 311** | +| within the entry's bounds | 3 311 | +| carrying the `RATC` magic | 3 311 | +| parsing as a nested build | 3 311 | +| **with at least one timed keyframe** | **1 781** | + +📌 **3 311 is the count *before* the timed filter.** And the arithmetic closes it: + +``` +1643 / 1781 = 92.3 % (mine) +1643 / 3311 = 49.6 % (theirs, exactly) +``` + +**Same numerator.** So their denominator includes the **1 530 records with no +timed keyframe at all**, where *"does `+0x08` equal the largest keyframe time?"* +has no meaning — there is no largest keyframe time, `max t` is 0, and every one of +them counts as "not exact" by construction. + +🔴 **So their stated filter is not applied**, and the 49.6 % is not a weaker +version of my 92.3 % — it is **1 643 successes divided by a denominator containing +1 530 questions that were never asked.** + +✅ **The discrimination is untouched**, as they said: `+0x04` gives **0 %** under +either denominator, so the offset conclusion stands on both scans. + +⚠️ **And my number needs its own qualifier, which it did not carry.** 92.3 % is +*"of the records where the question is meaningful"*, not *"of nested records"*. +I have been quoting it bare since 2026-08-30, including into `screen.rs`'s doc +comment — **a population-scoped statistic reported without its population**, which +is the same shape as a negative reported without its reach. + +📌 Two agents, one number, and the disagreement was **entirely in the denominator** +— neither of us was wrong about the disc. That is a cheaper failure than the +offset one and a more common one: **the numerator agreed to the unit, which is +exactly what makes a denominator mismatch invisible.** + +## 🔴 Correcting my own correction: none of the 1 530 is a question without content + +I told them their denominator held *"1 530 questions that were never asked"* — +records with no timed keyframe, where *"does `+0x08` equal the largest keyframe +time?"* has no meaning. **I did not check that, and it is wrong.** + +| of the 1 530 excluded | | +|---|---| +| **no timed keyframe at all** | **0** | +| **timed, every pose at t = 0** | **1 530** | + +**Every one of them has a largest keyframe time. It is 0.** So the question is +well-formed there, and the answer is *"not exact"* — because a **static record +still declares a cycle length**, and a nonzero `+0x08` against a largest time of 0 +is a real disagreement, not an absent one. + +📌 **Which makes their 49.6 % defensible rather than mistaken.** Two statistics +over two populations: + +* **92.3 %** — of records whose largest keyframe time is **> 0**. +* **49.6 %** — of **all** nested records, static ones included. + +**Neither is the corrected version of the other.** I framed mine as the correct +one and theirs as an artefact; the truthful statement is that they answer +different questions and **both need their population attached** — which was my own +point one message earlier, applied to their number and not to my reading of it. + +⚠️ Their cause diagnosis is still right about the **mechanism** — `.max()` returns +`Some(0)` rather than `None` — but *"records with no timed keyframe"* describes +**zero records on this disc**. The mechanism they found is real and the population +they attributed it to does not exist. + +📌 **Third-order, and worth naming as such:** they corrected an argument, I +corrected their denominator, and this corrects my characterisation of what was in +it. Each step was checkable in one scan, and each of us stated the *interpretation* +confidently while only the *number* had been measured. **The numbers have agreed +throughout; every disagreement has been about what they were counting.** + +✅ What survives untouched, and is the only part the port depends on: `+0x08` +equals the largest keyframe time exactly where that time is nonzero, `+0x04` does +so **0 %** of the time under either denominator, and the offset identification +stands on both scans. + +## The one load-bearing thing in the denominator thread, checked against the port + +Their substantive point was not about counting: **a static record still declares a +cycle length**, and a nonzero `+0x08` against a largest keyframe time of 0 is a +real disagreement. That is a *rendering* question for this port, and it had not +been asked. + +Scoped to the archive the port exports: + +| | | +|---|---| +| nested records in `GP_TITLE` | **65** | +| declaring a cycle while every pose sits at t = 0 | **20** | +| **of those, with any element carrying more than one pose** | **0** | + +✅ **So the declared cycle is visually inert on every one of them.** A record whose +elements each hold a single pose renders identically whether looped or held — +there is nothing to move between. **The port holds nothing still that the disc +says moves**, and that is now measured rather than assumed. + +⚠️ It includes `ptbtn11`/`12`/`13` — EXTRAS' own buttons — declaring 120-unit +cycles. Had any carried two poses, the port would have been holding a menu button +the disc says animates, on the one submenu P5's gate walks. **The check cost one +scan and the answer could have gone the other way.** + +📌 **And this is the thread's whole yield stated honestly.** Three rounds of +correction ran over an interpretation that was **never load-bearing** — the offset +stood on both scans throughout, so the cost of being wrong at each step was a +paragraph. What came out of it that was worth having: the **population +distinction**, and this one check, which exists because they pushed on what the +1 530 *mean* rather than on how they are counted. + +⚠️ Their framing of why it was safe is the caveat I would attach to repeating it: +**nothing the port depends on moved at any point.** That made three rounds cheap. +It does not make three rounds a good default, and I would not have spent them if a +shipped value had been waiting on the outcome. + +## Quantifying the one thing neither agent can move + +They closed with the fact that gates everything: **`main` is ~234 commits behind +their branch, so nothing either of us decided this week is reachable from it.** +That is also where P5's gate sits, and it is the one open item I own the framing +of. + +Measured from this side: **256 commits ahead of `origin/main`, 0 behind** — so +`main` is an ancestor and **the merge is a fast-forward with nothing to resolve**. +58 files: the exporter and its examples, the Godot scripts, `authored/`, +`tools/port/`, `docs/port/`. + +`RUNNING.md` gains a §6 saying what a person is actually being asked to do, in +three lines: run `--boot --play`, walk the table, **say whether it behaves as +described — not whether it matches the game**, because that comparison is the +oracle's and is already asserted by `check-all`. + +📌 **That distinction is the point of writing it down.** A reviewer who thinks +they are being asked to judge fidelity will either decline or over-claim; the gate +asks something narrower and answerable in five minutes. **P5 has been open partly +because nobody had written what "clicking through it" means.** + +⚠️ What this does **not** do is meet the gate. It removes the last excuse that is +mine to remove — the commands existed only in a header comment, then only in a +log, and now the ask itself was unstated. **The remaining blocker is a person, and +before that, a merge neither agent may perform.** + +## Verified their merge-state claim rather than relaying it — and it improves the ask + +They extended the merge quantification and I checked it from this side, because it +is a **structural claim about my own repository** and I have relayed four of their +asides unchecked this week. + +| | | +|---|---| +| their branch vs `main` | **329 ahead, 0 behind** — fast-forward ✅ | +| files in common between the two change sets | **0** ✅ | +| `git merge-tree --write-tree` of the two heads | single tree, **no conflicts** ✅ | + +Read-only: **nothing was merged, and merging stays the human's.** + +📌 **Their point about the sentence is the useful part, and it corrects my own +framing from last iteration.** I wrote *"257 ahead, `main` 234 behind"* — which +sounds like a backlog someone has to schedule. **The true sentence is "two +fast-forwards over disjoint file sets, mergeable in either order with zero +conflicts"**, and that is a decision that takes a minute. `RUNNING.md` §6 now says +the second thing. + +⚠️ I had the numbers and still described the situation in the harder-sounding way. +**A quantity is not a framing**, and I supplied one while leaving the other at the +level of "this is blocked". + +### Closing the exchange + +Their last observation is the one I would keep from the whole week: **the counting +question felt like the rigorous one to both of us and produced three rounds of +correction over an interpretation nothing depended on; the meaning question +produced a check that could have gone the other way on a screen this port ships.** + +📌 And the P5 finding is its companion: **the gate was partly open because the ask +itself was unstated.** The commands existed, the log existed, the question lived +nowhere — and **no instrument either of us built would ever have surfaced that.** +Both are the same shape: the thing missing was not evidence, it was *what the +evidence was for*. + +## The number in my decision document was stale the moment I committed it + +Their last finding lands on `RUNNING.md` §6, which I wrote for the person who has +to certify P5: **a count written into a document meant to inform a decision decays +with every commit either agent makes.** + +🔴 **Self-demonstrating: §6 said "256 commits ahead". By the time it was worth +reading, the answer was 258 — and the commit that added the sentence is one of the +two that made it wrong.** The act of recording the number changed the number. + +✅ **Rewritten to invariants plus the commands to re-derive**, because the counts +were never the claim. What does not move: + +| invariant | | +|---|---| +| `main` is an **ancestor** of this branch | ✅ | +| `main` is an ancestor of the Decoder's branch | ✅ | +| the two change sets touch **zero files in common** | ✅ | +| `merge-tree` of both heads → **one line, no conflicts** | ✅ | + +**Every check in the table was run as written before it was published** — a +documented command that has never been executed is the same class as a control +that does not execute. + +📌 **And it closes the exchange on the shape it kept producing.** Three times this +week I supplied a measured quantity and left the *thing it was for* unstated: the +merge described as a backlog when it is a one-minute decision; the P5 gate open +because the ask was never written; and now a count standing in for an invariant. +**In each case the evidence existed and what it was evidence *for* did not.** + +⚠️ Their closing judgement is the one I would repeat rather than improve: **no +instrument either of us built has any purchase on that class, and neither of us +should try to build one.** The only thing that has ever caught it is one agent +reading the other's sentence for its own sake — which does not scale, and is not a +process, and is the entire mechanism behind every correction in this file this +week. + +## A command without a pass condition is half a check + +Their standard applied back to my §6: **a reader gets a number and no way to know +whether it is the right one.** Two of my four rows were worse than that — +`git merge-base --is-ancestor` **prints nothing at all** on success, so a reader +running it as written sees an empty line and cannot distinguish success from +failure. + +Each row now carries `; echo $?` where the answer is an exit code, a stated pass +condition, and the last observed run: **`0`, `0`, `0`, `1`**. All four were +executed as written before publishing. + +## What every failure this week actually was + +Their closing observation is the best summary of the exchange and I would not have +assembled it: + +> **None of them was a wrong measurement.** Every one was a **correct measurement +> doing a job it could not do.** + +* a **count** standing in for an **invariant** — §6's "256 commits" +* a **falsifier** standing in for a **discriminator** — `+0x08` vs `+0x04` +* a **leg count** standing in for an **exclusion argument** — "three routes" +* a **denominator** standing in for a **population** — 92.3 % vs 49.6 % +* a **capture's assumed focus** standing in for **an excluded one** — the oracle row + +📌 **That is a narrower failure than being wrong, and it survives every instrument +either of us built — because the number is right and the instruments check +numbers.** `audit-kinds` checks that a claim cites something. `check-claims` +checks that a dead phrase is marked. `contract-check` checks that a value matches +the contract. **Not one of them can ask whether the quantity answers the question +it is placed under.** + +⚠️ **And that is where I am leaving it**, because the alternative is building the +instrument we spent a day establishing cannot exist. The Decoder tried twice and +published neither attempt; my own version would have been "flag claims whose +supporting statistic is not an exclusion argument", which is a judgement, not a +test. + +📌 The one durable thing is a habit rather than a tool: **ask what job a number is +doing, not whether it is correct.** Every entry in the list above was caught by +somebody asking that about somebody else's sentence — and in four of the five, the +somebody was the other agent. + +## The remaining multi-leg claims audited — and the pattern I predicted is not there + +I have listed *"four unaudited multi-leg claims"* as open for several iterations, +and after the week's findings I said I **expected the same inversion in them**: a +count standing in for an exclusion argument. Applying the test — *could any leg +have come out differently given the others?* + +| claim | verdict | +|---|---| +| `loop_start_why` — *"two derivations, neither converts bits to seconds"* | ✅ **holds.** (a) depends on a measured **rate**, (b) on the **cycle** — a wrong rate breaks (a) and leaves (b), a wrong cycle does the reverse. They fail **independently**. ⚠️ Bound: one trace, so they exclude arithmetic error and not trace error — which the existing *"one boot, one bank"* caveat already says | +| `arithmetic_why` — *"the corpus had independently measured 28.5 fps"* | ✅ **holds.** A different quantity, measured **before** these runs, so it could have disagreed. It agrees to **1.4 %** | +| `black_hold_why` — *"I checked independently…"* | ✅ **holds, and needed nothing** — it was already an exclusion argument: a constant excluded, outgoing-screen keying excluded, and four declared quantities each shown not to separate the pairs | + +📌 **So the prediction was wrong, and that is worth recording as loudly as a +confirmation would have been.** Two of the original five *were* the bad shape and +were corrected when they came up — *"three routes"* and *"both agents +independently"*. The three that remained are sound, and **two of them were already +exclusion arguments before I had the vocabulary for it.** + +⚠️ **The lesson I nearly drew was that my corpus is riddled with count-shaped +support.** It is not: it had **two**, both relayed from a peer's message, and the +claims I built from my own measurements state what they exclude. **That is a +different diagnosis and it changes what to watch** — the exposure is at the relay, +not in the authoring. + +✅ Each `why` now states **what its legs discriminate**, rather than how many there +are. That is the whole content of the week's finding applied to my own data: *the +count was never the claim.* + +## Their JP menu capture, corroborated from the disc — and the legs are genuinely different + +They captured the JP main menu for the first time: initial focus **新規 (NEW +GAME)**, top item, ring **y 225.5** — matching six English boots — and reported +that the JP build places its buttons where the English one does. + +✅ **Checked from my export, and it is exact:** + +| screen | button rows | +|---|---| +| `main_menu` | 162, 242, 322, 401, 482 | +| `main_menu_jp` | **162, 242, 322, 401, 482** | +| `extras` | 282, 362, 442 | +| `extras_jp` | **282, 362, 442** | + +📌 **And this time the legs really are independent, which is worth stating after a +week of finding they were not.** Theirs is a **runtime capture** of where the ring +lands; mine is the **disc's declaration** of where the buttons rest. Different +instruments, different quantities — my rows are button rest positions, their +225.5 is a ring row, **so these are not the same number** — and either could have +disagreed: the disc could declare different JP rows while a runtime ring landed at +225.5 for some other reason. + +**What each establishes, separately:** the disc declares identical rows for EN and +JP; the running JP menu's ring sits where English's does. Together, declaration +and runtime agree *and* the languages agree. + +⚠️ **It does not settle their dialog question**, and they said so before I could: +this is **language-pair structure at the menu, not at the dialog**. `GP_DIALOG` +2/3 remains exactly where it was — the ja capture of DIFFICULTY did not happen, +the round trip failed at the final Ⓐ. + +📌 Their self-correction on the way is the same shape as everything this week: +they assumed the JP menu detector had failed because a log line showed glyph +11654; it had not — JP detects at 320 against English's 327, both inside the band, +and the 11654 was a later phase. **Diagnosing from the log line rather than from +the capture.** + +## They have taken the relay finding, and it now has a direction + +*"The exposure is at the relay, and I am the source end of it."* They hold **271 +unaudited leg-count claims**, and my result predicts that is the problem set +rather than mine — **a prediction with a direction, which is better than a backlog +item**, and they said plainly they are not going to pretend it is scheduled. + +📌 That is the correct disposition and I would not push it. **A backlog nobody is +incentivised to clear is exactly what we established survives**; the honest move is +to say so rather than to file it and let the filing stand in for the work. + +## The independent pair was an accident — the rule that would make it deliberate + +Their observation, and it is the one thing left in the exchange worth converting +into a habit: **the first genuinely independent pair either of us produced this +week happened by accident.** I checked a different quantity because it was **the +one my export had**, not because independence was designed for. + +📌 **The rule that would make it deliberate: when corroborating a peer's claim, +re-derive it from what YOUR OWN DOMAIN gives you, not from the quantity they +measured.** Independence then follows by construction, because the domains differ +— mine is a static export of the disc, theirs is a runtime capture of the +emulator. Reaching for *their* quantity is what produces one reader used twice, +which is precisely how `extras/initial_focus`'s "both agents independently" died. + +⚠️ **And it explains why that one failed while this one held.** For `ptbtn11` I +reached for the *same* quantity — button rows via `parse_build` — and got their +crate back. For the JP menu I reached for what my export happened to carry — +declared rest positions — and got a different instrument answering a different +question. **The difference was not care. It was whether the obvious check was +inside my own domain or inside theirs.** + +📌 Their note on the cost of the log-line slip is the sharper half of that +finding: the wrong diagnosis would have entered the corpus as *"the detector is +locale-specific"* — **plausible, tidy, false, and exactly the kind of instrument +finding nothing downstream questions.** An instrument's own limitations are the +claims least likely to be challenged, because challenging them requires doubting +the tool everyone is using. + +## A workflow defect of mine, on its fourth occurrence + +`check-all` failed on `decisions-index` again — stale because **I appended to +`DECISIONS.md` while the suite was running.** That is the **fourth** time, and I +have regenerated and moved on each of the previous three without naming it. + +📌 **The check is right and the habit is wrong.** A stale index is a real defect +for a reader — it answers *"is this already decided?"* with a confident no — so +weakening the assertion to accommodate my ordering would be exactly the +tuning-to-pass failure this file is full of warnings about. + +✅ **The rule is one line: write the entry, then start the suite.** Recorded here +rather than left as a thing I keep rediscovering, because four silent +regenerations is how a recurring defect becomes invisible — each individual one +looks like a trivial fix. + +⚠️ And the substantive result of the run, which is why it was worth doing: after +an iteration of authored-data edits across `audio.json`, `flow.json`, +`timing.json` and `screen_names.json`, **the oracle numbers are unchanged** — +`main_menu` 13.21, `extras` 13.38, `title` 14.16. **Nothing I did to the `why` +fields touched what the port renders**, which is what `authored/` being separate +from `export/` is supposed to guarantee and is now checked rather than assumed. + +## The menu residual, decomposed — and half of 13.06 is tone + +`verify-capture`'s header has said for weeks that *"RMSE is reported and is NOT a +target: the capture carries the game's own tone ramp, so it has a floor."* **The +floor has never been measured.** The splash residual was localised in detail; the +menu's — the port's most-quoted number — never was. + +| | luma RMSE | +|---|---| +| `main_menu` render vs capture, aligned | **10.60** | +| after fitting one monotone transfer curve | **4.77** | +| **removed by tone alone** | **55 %** | +| ⚠️ control: same fit, menu render vs the **EXTRAS** capture | 28.92 → 20.98, **27 %** | + +📌 **The control is what makes the 55 % mean anything.** A fitted curve always +removes *something* — on an unrelated pair it removes 27 %. Twice that on the +matched pair, so the tone difference is **real and specific**, not the fit +absorbing variance. + +**So roughly half the menu residual is a tone/gamma difference between the port's +render and the captured surface, and half is not.** The fitted curve is an +S-shape rather than a gain — 64→72 brightens, 128→119 and 192→184 darken — which +is the shape of an output pipeline, not of a wrong colour. + +⚠️ **What this does NOT do, and I am not going to do it:** identify which side is +wrong, or "fix" the tone. The mission's instruction is explicit — *say which is +wrong rather than tuning until they match* — and I cannot say which. The capture +carries the emulator's output path; the render carries Godot's. **Nothing in the +port changes on the strength of this.** What changed is that a number quoted for +weeks now has a decomposition and a bound: **4.77 of it is not tonal**. + +### 🔴 And my first attempt at it was misaligned in exactly the documented way + +Before this I ran a raw full-frame comparison and got *"75.6 % of pixels differ, +uniformly across the frame"* — a nonsense result, because **the capture is +1279×675 and the render is 1280×720**. `verify-capture` handles that in a comment +I had read: *"the captures are a 1279×675 top-left crop of the guest surface, so +the render is cropped to match and nothing is scaled."* + +📌 **I bypassed the harness that encodes the correction and reproduced the +uncorrected error.** Same shape as the week: the instrument existed, its comment +said why, and I reached past it for a quicker check. The tell was that the answer +was **uniform** — a residual spread evenly over an entire frame is a comparison +fault, not a rendering one, and that is the reading I should have applied before +the dimensions. + +## Refutation: the peer's tone/geometry positive control rests on a number of mine that cannot carry it + +`docs/re/structures/title-residual-tone-vs-geometry.md` (`d0eae04`) argues that at +least 68 % of the *title's* residual is spatial. Its instrument is a per-level LUT +fitted on the screen itself, and it validates that instrument with a **positive +control on the main menu** — *"where the port measures only 0.06 % of pixels +differing, so geometry is essentially right"* — closing 70.3 % there. + +📌 **That 0.06 % is mine, and it does not mean what the control needs it to mean.** +`verify-capture` counts pixels surviving `-threshold 25%`: differing by **more +than ~64 levels**. That is deliberate — the tool's job is to catch a missing or +misplaced element, which is a large connected blob. **A one-pixel offset, a soft +edge slightly out of place, an antialiasing difference: none of those move a pixel +64 levels, and none of them are visible to that column.** It establishes *no gross +displacement*, not *geometry is right*. + +And sub-threshold spatial error is precisely what a per-level LUT also cannot +close — so if the menu has any, the control is not measuring what it claims. + +### It does. Measured, with a known negative + +After fitting the LUT, splitting the remaining residual by local gradient: + +| main_menu, LUT-corrected residual | value | +|---|---| +| on **edge** pixels (4.3 % of frame) | **6.94** | +| on **flat** pixels | **2.20** | +| **concentration** | **3.16×** | +| ⚠️ known negative — render vs itself under a pure gamma 0.78 | **0.00 / 0.00** | + +✅ **The known negative is exact, by construction:** a residual that really is a +per-level tone effect is inverted *perfectly* by a per-level LUT, so any nonzero +edge concentration is spatial. The menu's is 3.2×. + +### What this does and does not refute + +* 🔴 **Refuted: the positive control's premise.** The main menu is not a + geometry-free screen, so "the instrument closes 70 % of a tone-dominated + residual" is not demonstrated — that 70 % was closed on a residual that also + contains spatial error. +* ✅ **Their conclusion survives, and I want to be clear about it.** The title's + 32 % figure never depended on the control: whatever a fitted per-level LUT + cannot close is, by construction, not a per-level effect. That argument is + self-standing. **The refutation lands on the validation, not on the result.** +* 📌 **The actionable half is mine.** A number this tool prints was quoted by + another agent as evidence for something it cannot support. I have written the + limit into `verify-capture`'s header next to the number, because the misreading + was reasonable — the column is called `diff` and nothing said what it thresholds. + +⚠️ **Still not settled:** what the menu's spatial error *is*. 3.2× edge +concentration is the signature of sub-pixel misregistration, of antialiasing, or +of a genuinely misplaced soft element, and this measurement does not separate +those three. I am not guessing between them. + +## The menu's edge residual is **not** a misregistration — the Decoder's discriminator, run + +They proposed the test and said plainly they had not run it: *"the discriminator +would be whether the edge excess is signed — a misplaced element gives a residual +with a consistent direction along the edge, antialiasing does not. That is a real +experiment and I have not run it, so it is a route, not an answer."* + +📌 **It needed my render beside the capture, so it was mine to run.** Made concrete: +a shift by `(dx,dy)` makes the signed residual track the **gradient**, and the +fitted slope *is the shift in pixels*; a blur makes it track the **Laplacian**, +symmetric and directionless. New tool: `tools/port/edge-residual-kind`. + +### The controls come first, and they are not a flag + +| render vs a deliberately damaged copy of itself | d/dx | d/dy | laplacian | +|---|---|---|---| +| known **+1 px horizontal shift** | **r +0.789, slope +0.938 px** | −0.008 px | −0.306 | +| known **blur, no shift** | +0.003 px | +0.004 px | **r −0.896** | + +✅ **A 1-px shift reads back as +0.938 px.** The instrument recovers both what it +is for, and neither control leaks into the other's channel. + +### The result + +| `main_menu` render vs oracle capture | value | +|---|---| +| horizontal shift | r −0.027, **slope −0.010 px** | +| vertical shift | r −0.027, **slope −0.009 px** | +| blur / sharpness | r +0.103 | + +🔴 **Flat on all three. The menu is not globally misregistered** — any whole-frame +translation is under **a hundredth of a pixel**, against a control that reads a +true 1 px at 0.938. That excludes the most worrying of the three candidates, and +the one a renderer can silently acquire. The blur channel at +0.103 is weak *and +the opposite sign to the blur control*, so the capture is not a softened render +either. + +⚠️ **Reach, and it is the whole reach:** this is a **whole-frame** fit. A single +misplaced element is a small share of 38 752 edge pixels and would not move these +numbers. **This excludes a global translation, not a local one.** Of the peer's +three candidates it kills misregistration and weakens uniform antialiasing; a +misplaced soft element is untouched by it, and I am not claiming otherwise. + +📌 Exit codes are **0 or 2, and there is no 1** — the tool classifies, it does not +judge. If either control fails it prints nothing but the failure: verified by +raising the thresholds to 0.99, which suppresses the report and exits 2. A guard +nobody has watched fail is decoration. + +## `GP_DIALOG` 2/3 restored to `authored/flow.json` — on a measurement this time + +I withdrew *"an EN/JP pair"* as an unchecked relay and **declined to re-add it** +because nothing depended on it. The Decoder has now taken the `ja` capture that +was missing (`HANDOFF` at `5a7f34d`, dated today): EN and JP differ in **1.82 % of +pixels in four bands and nowhere else** — heading, the ring by 2 px, `BACK`, the +footer. `EASY`/`NORMAL`/`HARD` are *not* in the differing set; the Japanese release +leaves them in Latin script, which is why the disc figure is only **2.77 % of +bytes**. + +📌 **My objection was not wrong and is not withdrawn.** It was that *identical +element sets do not imply a language pair* — 26 of 65 adjacent `GP_DIALOG` pairs +differ in button count, so adjacency proves nothing. That still holds. What changed +is that the claim now rests on a direct locale capture instead of on that +inference. **A bad argument for a true claim is still a bad argument**, and the +claim was correctly out of the file until somebody went and looked. + +⚠️ Their reach, carried across: one JP boot, one screen, does not generalise — +`GP_TITLE` 4/7 differs by more than text. Nothing in the port keys off locale +today, so this is recorded, not consumed. + +## The residual map: no local displacement either, and the split I expected is not there + +The Decoder proposed the division and it is the right one: *"the map is yours and +the element inventory is mine."* `tools/port/edge-residual-map` tiles the frame at +64 px and runs the same shift discriminator **inside each tile**, which is the +thing `edge-residual-kind` said it structurally could not do. + +### 🔴 The first control failed, and that is the useful part + +A known **+2 px** displacement localises perfectly — the displaced region is the +top four tiles — but reads back **+0.839 px**. The slope is a linearisation, +`residual ≈ dx · gradient`, valid only while `dx` is small against the width of an +edge. **The estimator saturates.** Reporting that as a distance would have +understated a real displacement by more than half. + +So there are now **two** controls, each asserting only what it can: + +| control | localises | magnitude | +|---|---|---| +| **+1 px** (linear regime) | ✅ top 4 tiles | ✅ **+0.949** | +| **+2 px** (saturating) | ✅ top 4 tiles | ⚠️ +0.839 — **a lower bound** | + +📌 **A hot tile's slope is a floor on the displacement, never a ceiling.** + +### The result + +| tile | edge | flat | e/f | dx | dy | +|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| 512,128 | **18.80** | 10.20 | 1.84 | **−0.001** | **−0.000** | +| 576,64 | 15.11 | 9.09 | 1.66 | −0.012 | +0.029 | +| 384,256 | 14.12 | 4.40 | 3.21 | +0.003 | +0.003 | +| 512,192 | 11.91 | 3.53 | 3.37 | −0.038 | −0.090 | +| 448,128 | 11.78 | 9.53 | 1.24 | +0.084 | +0.036 | + +median tile 5.13 · hottest 3.66× median · **every dx and dy under 0.1 px** + +🔴 **No tile in the top ten is displaced.** Against a control that reads a true +1 px at +0.949 and finds a 2 px one even while understating it, **nothing in the +hot region has moved.** The peer's third candidate — a misplaced soft element — +now has no support anywhere on this screen, globally or locally. + +The hot tiles cluster: **x 384–704, y 64–256**, a wide upper-centre band, plus one +outlier at **640,576**. Those are coordinates. **This tool names nothing** — what +sits under them is the Decoder's, and I have sent them the list. + +### ⚠️ And a structure I expected, went looking for, and did not find + +I added the `flat` column expecting two families: tiles hot *only* at edges (an +edge-rendering difference) against tiles hot *everywhere* (a local tone the global +LUT mis-serves). Reading the first ten rows, that split looked obvious. + +It is not there. The hot tiles run **continuously from 1.24 to 3.37** across a +median of **1.84**. + +📌 **What nearly manufactured it:** I had the frame-wide *pooled* edge/flat ratio, +**3.16**, from the earlier work, and against 3.16 the rows at 1.2–1.8 look like a +distinct low family. But the pooled figure is dominated by the tiles carrying the +most edge pixels; **the per-tile median is 1.84**, and against *that* the same rows +are unremarkable. **Same quantity, wrong population** — the week's pattern again, +caught this time only because I computed the baseline before writing the claim +rather than after. + +**So the hot region is not one anomalous element with a character of its own**, and +that is a finding, not an absence of one. + +## Suppression beats coordinates: the menu residual is two frame elements, drawn too dark + +The Decoder named what sits under my hot tiles (`docs/re/data/menu-hot-tile-inventory.txt`) +and was careful to test both coordinate readings rather than assume one, because +design space and the comparison frame differ by the capture transform. + +📌 **I did not need the transform.** The port has a mod tree, so an element's real +footprint can be *measured*: shadow its sprite with a transparent PNG, render, and +diff my own two renders. The pixels that change are the element, in my comparison +frame, with **no coordinate convention assumed at all**. That is the method I +should have reached for before handing over tile coordinates. + +### The ranking, by residual density on each element's own visible pixels + +| element | footprint | mean \|resid\| | vs frame mean 2.40 | +|---|---|---|---| +| **`ptframe1`** | 0.45 % | **22.72** | **9.47×** | +| **`ptframe2`** | 0.50 % | **13.09** | 5.46× | +| `ptmsg` | 0.46 % | 8.46 | 3.52× | +| `pteff12` | 17.31 % | 4.98 | 2.07× | +| `ptbase` | 3.98 % | 3.34 | 1.39× | +| `pteff10` | 52.15 % | 3.34 | 1.39× | + +### 🔴 This refutes the hypothesis I came in with + +I predicted **the effect element**: `screen.rs` records blend mode as undecoded, +an effect composited wrongly would be tonal and displace nothing, and `pteff12` +sat in the hot band. The measurement says **the frames** — 9.47× against the +effect's 2.07×, and `pteff12`'s ratio is largely inherited from *containing* +`ptframe1` (excluding the frame's pixels drops it from 4.98 to 4.61). + +The mechanism I proposed may still be right. **The element I proposed it for was +wrong**, and the only reason I know is that suppression ranks elements rather than +confirming the one I was looking at. + +### Not an edge effect — and that is what makes it specific + +| | edge px | \|r\| edge | flat px | \|r\| flat | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| **`ptframe1`** | 1868 | 19.85 | 1986 | **25.41** | +| **`ptframe2`** | 2201 | 9.82 | 2086 | **16.54** | +| `pteff12` | 12102 | 7.73 | 137306 | 4.73 | +| `ptbase` | 14092 | 4.69 | 20229 | 2.40 | + +🔴 **The two frames are the only elements whose residual is higher on FLAT pixels +than on edges.** Everything else is edge-weighted, as any render/capture pair is. +So this is the elements' **body intensity**, and signed it is one-directional: +`ptframe1` renders at **88.4 against the capture's 129.1**, with **0.1 % of its +pixels render-brighter**. The port draws them too dark, nearly everywhere, after a +global tone LUT is already applied. + +Filed as an ask in `BLOCKED.md` against HANDOFF `5a7f34d`. **I am not brightening +them** — that is tuning until they match, and the blend bits are the Decoder's. + +### ⚠️ And a defect I nearly reported that was not one + +Suppressing `ptbtn01` — the *focused* button — changed **zero pixels**, and an +**opaque magenta** replacement changed zero too. `ptbtn02` and `ptbtn03` change +9 331 and 7 654. All five buttons carry the same rest fade, so the difference is +focus, and the obvious reading was "the port never draws the focused button". + +`screen_view.gd:746` says otherwise, deliberately: *"A FOCUSED button draws its +record INSTEAD of its base sprite — measured, the focused sprite covers the base +at 100.0 % of base-visible pixels."* + +✅ So the null is a **confirmation**, at a stricter standard than the claim it +confirms: not "100 % of sampled base-visible pixels are covered" but "replacing +the base with opaque magenta changes the frame in zero pixels, exactly". I went +looking for a bug and independently re-derived a documented measurement. + +## The frames generalise, premultiplied alpha is refuted, and the shortfall tracks the background + +`tools/port/element-residual` generalises last iteration's suppression method: pose +a screen as `verify-capture` does, shadow each sprite with a transparent PNG, and +rank elements by residual on the pixels they actually paint. Two controls, both +mandatory — the metric's zero on identity, and **a mod that shadows nothing must +move zero pixels**, or a footprint is the harness rather than the element. + +### It generalises: four frames, two screens, ranks 1 and 2 on both + +| screen | element | foot % | \|resid\| | ×frame | edge | flat | signed | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `main_menu` | **`ptframe1`** | 0.45 | 22.72 | **9.47×** | 19.85 | 25.41 | **−22.72** | +| `main_menu` | **`ptframe2`** | 0.50 | 13.09 | 5.46× | 9.82 | 16.54 | −12.31 | +| `extras` | **`ptframe3`** | 0.40 | 34.80 | **14.23×** | 32.41 | 41.93 | **−34.80** | +| `extras` | **`ptframe4`** | 0.40 | 25.58 | 10.46× | 23.29 | 33.55 | −25.36 | + +📌 **And the sign splits, so this is not the port being globally dark.** Frames are +negative; `ptmsg` **+5.02**, `ptmsg2` **+8.83**, `pttitle` **+7.88** and every +button **+1.45…+4.07** are *too bright*. A global tone error cannot do that. + +### 🔴 Premultiplied alpha: my hypothesis, refuted by its own prediction + +The obvious exporter-side cause is a premultiplied-alpha texture decoded as +straight alpha, which darkens exactly where alpha is partial. **It predicts error +∝ partial-alpha fraction. The opposite holds:** + +| element | % partial alpha | signed | +|---|---|---| +| `ptframe1` | **7.3 %** | **−22.72** | +| `ptframe3` | **6.7 %** | **−34.80** | +| `pteff10` | **100 %** | −1.33 | +| `ptbase` | 0.9 % | +1.04 | + +✅ **Dead.** The most-darkened elements have the *least* partial alpha, and the one +element that is entirely partial is almost exactly right. + +### What the frames actually are, and where the shortfall goes + +**Neither frame has a single fully-opaque pixel** — 0 % at alpha ≥ 99 %, against +`ptbase`'s 99.1 %. They are wholly semi-transparent overlays, the one class where +the compositing equation decides the result. + +That gives a falsifiable prediction. Under alpha-over, the shortfall against a +background-scaling blend is `a · background`, so it scales with **what is behind +the frame** — whereas a too-dark texture would scale with **the frame's own +contribution**. Using only the render, the frame-suppressed render and the capture, +so no placement or coordinate convention is assumed: + +| | r(shortfall, **background**) | r(shortfall, frame's contribution) | +|---|---|---| +| `ptframe1` (`main_menu`) | **+0.772** | +0.244 | +| `ptframe3` (`extras`) | **+0.797** | +0.237 | + +✅ **Replicated on two elements on two screens.** The missing light scales with the +background, which is what an additive or screen blend predicts and what a bad +texture does not. Implied `a` medians 0.316 and 0.532. + +### ⚠️ What I am NOT doing about it + +The Decoder has established there is **no blend mode on the disc** for `.t32` — both +frames are kind 0, declared identically to elements the port draws almost exactly +right (`ptbase` ×1.31, `pteff05` ×0.92). **So any blend I choose is authored**, and +adopting one on my own authority is precisely what the mission forbids. I am +proposing it, not taking it. + +📌 **The measurement does say something their negative does not cover, and I want +it on the record as an extension rather than a challenge:** the behaviour exists +and is large and replicated, and if nothing in the *data* selects it, then it is +selected in **code** — the executable's draw path, which they named as the route +they have not taken. Their negative and this measurement are consistent; together +they locate the remaining question rather than closing it. + +⚠️ Not settled: whether it is additive, screen, or something else — `+0.77` and +`+0.80` say "scales with the background", not which curve. Two screens; I have not +checked the title. + +## Which blend? Additive halves the error, on both frames — proposed, not adopted + +Last iteration ended with *"`+0.77` and `+0.80` say 'scales with the background', +not which curve."* That is decidable without any RE, because **an element rendered +over two different backgrounds gives two equations in `a` and `aC`**: + +``` +base - bg = a(C - bg ) the frame over background 1 +b2 - bg2 = a(C - bg2) the same frame over background 2 +-------------------------------------------------------------- +a = [(base-bg) - (b2-bg2)] / (bg2 - bg) aC = (base-bg) + a·bg +``` + +Both backgrounds are produced by the mod tree — suppress `pteff10`/`pteff12` and +the background under the frame changes by a mean of 26 levels. **No placement, no +coordinate transform, no texture decoding assumed.** + +### ✅ The control is exact, and it is what makes the rest usable + +Rebuilding **alpha-over** from the solved `a` and `aC` reproduces the port's actual +render at **RMSE 0.0000** on both screens. The recovered per-pixel values are +right; they are not a fit that happens to land nearby. + +### The result, replicated + +RMSE against the capture, all four candidates mapped the same way: + +| composite | `ptframe1` (`main_menu`) | `ptframe3` (`extras`) | +|---|---|---| +| **additive** | **34.305** | **28.948** | +| screen | 50.052 | 50.368 | +| **alpha-over — what the port does** | **65.046** | **71.299** | +| frame not drawn at all | 90.916 | 109.801 | + +📌 **Same ordering on both, and additive roughly halves alpha-over's error.** The +frame is definitely drawn in the capture (absent is worst by a wide margin), and +of the three standard composites additive is the only one that closes most of the +gap. Solved on 1 743 and 1 999 pixels; median `a` 0.429 and 0.594. + +### ⚠️ What this is not + +**Additive is not established as the answer.** It still leaves 28.9–34.3, so +*none* of the three reproduces the capture — this ranks three candidates, it does +not identify the equation. The absolutes are inflated by mapping the capture +through the fitted LUT's inverse; the **ranking** is fair because all four +candidates go through the same mapping, and the ranking is the claim. Grayscale +only. + +🔴 **And I have not adopted it.** The Decoder established that nothing on the disc +selects a blend for `.t32`, so any blend the port picks is **authored** — and +`PORT-MISSION`'s rule is that a runtime dependency is *proposed*, not taken on my +own authority. The renderer is unchanged. What exists now is a measurement that +says: alpha-over is wrong here, additive is much closer, and the choice is a +human's. + +## Refutation attempt: the Decoder's kind-0 claim survives, checked from my own data + +They reported both frames as **kind 0, identical to `ptbase`, `pteff05`, `pteff10`, +`pteff12` and `ptmsg`** — read off the 60-byte `.t32` declaration. + +My exporter decodes that field independently and stores it as `kind_raw`. Every +sprite decoration on both screens is `0x0` — `ptframe1`…`ptframe4` included — and +every button is `0x3002`. ✅ **Survives.** Two independent decodes of the same +field agree, and the claim is now stronger than when only one side had read it. + +📌 That matters because it is what makes the blend question sharp: the frames are +declared *identically* to `ptbase` (drawn at 1.31× the frame mean) and `pteff05` +(0.92×). Same declaration, opposite accuracy — so whatever distinguishes them is +not in the field either of us can read. + +## The blend is measured, so the port draws it — main_menu 13.21 → 10.67 + +The Decoder took the draw-path route and logged `RB_BLENDCONTROL0` per draw in +Canary on both screens. `0x01010101` is `src=ONE dst=ONE`: **additive**. That +turns my proposal into a transcription, and they said so explicitly — *"withdraw +the instruction I gave you last time; additive is transcribed now, not authored."* + +📌 **Their control is what licenses the change:** one pixel shader, +`0xE59B2B3DA4AA9008`, runs with **both** blend states on the main menu — 12 draws +additive, 18 alpha-over. The frames and `ptbase` share a shader. **Only the blend +register differs**, so this is a blend result and not a shader result. + +Recorded in `authored/rendering.json` as `additive_elements`, per screen, with +every id being a measured draw and the reach written next to it. + +### The result, and a neutrality control that came free + +| screen | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| **`main_menu`** | 13.21 / 0.06 % | **10.67 / 0.02 %** | +| **`extras`** | 13.38 / 0.20 % | **11.43 / 0.07 %** | +| main menu, focus `ptbtn04` | 13.82 / 0.15 % | 11.36 / 0.11 % | +| title / title_plate / title_band | 14.16 / 13.04 / 12.86 | 14.10 / 13.03 / 12.85 | +| **`publisher_logo`** | **2.17** | **2.17** | +| **`developer_logos`** | **3.05** | **3.05** | + +✅ **The last two rows are the control.** They are the screens `verify-capture` +marks *"no free-running element — absolute, means what it says"*, and they have no +additive element. They did not move **at all**. The rewrite routed every draw in +the project through `RenderingServer` canvas items, so "did the plumbing change +the picture?" was a live question; those two rows answer it. The improvement is +the blend, not the refactor. + +Per element on `main_menu`: `ptframe1` **22.72 → 4.17** (signed −22.72 → −3.51), +`ptframe2` 13.09 → 3.32 (−12.31 → **+1.80**), whole-screen mean 2.40 → 1.55. + +### 🔴 The change ran, produced a number, and the number was wrong by looking right + +First run after wiring it all up: `ptframe1` moved from **22.72 to 22.69**. Bands +were created, ordered and assigned correctly; the screen composited exactly as +before. I had written `CanvasItemMaterial.new()` and **never set `blend_mode`**, so +every band was MIX. + +📌 Nothing errored. A 0.03 move is a *plausible* outcome — I could have written +"additive does not help after all, the two-background solve overstated it" and it +would have read as a careful negative result. **It was caught only because the +measurement predicted a large move and 0.03 is not one.** The comment now sits on +that line. + +### Why it is `RenderingServer` and not child nodes + +Godot sets blend mode per **canvas item**, not per draw call. The obvious +implementation — a child `Node2D` per band with a `CanvasItemMaterial` — **loses a +frame**: `boot.gd` calls `view.queue_redraw()` from nine places and none reaches a +child node, so bands would paint the *previous* pose. Under `--script=wait` that +surfaces as a plausible wrong capture, not an error. The bands are canvas items +filled synchronously inside `_draw()` instead. + +The runs are recomputed every frame rather than cached. The additive elements are +consecutive in paint order on both measured screens — **that is an accident of +those two screens**, and a cache keyed on "the additive block" would be right today +and silently wrong on the first screen that interleaves. + +### ⚠️ What I did not do: `ptframe4` + +`ptframe4` is now the worst element on EXTRAS (31.90, 16.19× the frame mean) and +additive would plainly help it. **It is not in the measured table and it is not in +the file.** Filed in `BLOCKED.md` with `pteff21`/`22`/`23`, which are also absent +from every captured draw. Where the blend is measured the element is near-exact +(`ptframe3` signed **−0.61**); where it is not, it is the worst thing on screen. +That contrast is the argument for asking rather than inferring. + +## 🔴 Refuted: my "no fully-opaque pixel" sharpener + +I offered, as the thing that distinguished the frames, that **neither frame has a +single fully-opaque pixel** against `ptbase`'s 99.1 %. The Decoder refuted it with +a census (`docs/re/data/menu-sprite-alpha-census.txt`): **`pteff10` has max alpha +130, is 100 % partial, has no opaque pixel either — and I measure it as nearly +exact.** `pteff12`, `pteff20` and `pteff21`–`23` likewise. + +✅ **The observation was true and it was not the discriminator.** My *direction* +survived — the draw path was the right place to look, and it answered — but the +reason I gave for looking there was wrong. Recording it because the conclusion +being vindicated is exactly the circumstance in which a bad supporting argument +survives unexamined. + +## The sweeps: a measured blend, a corroborated identification, and a confound in my own evidence + +### Transcribed: both rotated sweep strips are additive + +`ui-blend-mode-measured.md`'s summary table names them additive in the same row as +the frames. They are `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` here, now in `additive_elements` for +both measured screens. + +⚠️ **It changes nothing visible today.** On the menus the port runs the leaf group +once and parks it off-screen, so both paint zero pixels at every pose the port can +be put in — checked by suppressing both sprites at leaf-time 100, 200 and 300: +**0 px changed each time**. The entry is there because it is measured, not because +it does anything. What it *does* do is repair the instrument below. + +### ✅ Refutation attempt on their identification — survives, with a number of mine + +The automatic name matcher reports **"no match"** for those two draws; they are +identified only by the Decoder's control, which reproduces heights **1134** and +**1303** from a different tool in a different session. A claim resting on one +control is worth attacking. + +It survives, and my own geometry corroborates it independently: rendering the menu +at a phase where the sweeps are on screen and suppressing them gives a footprint +of **884 × 720**, against the log's **889.6** wide — **0.6 % apart**, and I did not +use their number to produce mine. The heights differ (720 against 1134) exactly as +they should: my bounding box is clipped by the screen, theirs is the untruncated +quad extent. + +### 🔴 And the blend was a confound in my *own* prior evidence + +`loop_leaf_why` scoped leaf-looping to the title partly on a measurement of mine: +sweeping the phase against `live-main-menu.png`, the port matched best with the +sweeps **off-screen (0.061 %)** and three times worse mid-screen (0.183 %). + +**That sweep drew them alpha-over.** They are additive. So an on-screen sweep was +being composited the wrong way and scored against the capture — "mid-screen is +worse" could have been an artefact of my own renderer rather than of the sweeps +being absent. Re-run with the correct blend and looping switched on for the menu, +through a scratch export root so nothing in the repo changed: + +| | diff vs capture | sweeps | +|---|---|---| +| phase 0 | **0.0208 %** | 0 px — off screen | +| phase 150 | 0.0851 % | **58 027 px**, bbox 884×720 | +| phase 300 | **0.0205 %** | 0 px — off screen | +| phases 75/225/375/450/525 | 0.086–0.122 % | on screen | +| run-once-and-park (what ships) | **0.0208 %** | parked | + +✅ **The conclusion held and strengthened** — the ratio was 3× with the wrong blend +and is **4–6×** with the right one. The capture still matches best with the sweeps +not visible, so the scoping stays and the *correction* is what got recorded. + +⚠️ Still one capture, and "best match" is still a weak instrument for an absence. +Fixing the blend cleared one confound; it did not repair that. + +### 📌 A draw is not a visible element + +The new log shows both sweep strips **submitted on the main menu, in every frame +group**. It would be easy — and wrong — to read that as "the sweeps animate on the +menu", which is exactly the question `loop_leaf_why` left open and would have +contradicted the pixels for no reason. **A quad parked off-screen at x=1521 is +still a draw call.** The log settles the *blend*; it does not settle *visibility*, +and those two came in the same artefact. + +## A leak I introduced, and a reach sentence that understates its own gap by four elements + +### 🔴 The `RenderingServer` rewrite leaked five canvas items per run + +Every run printed `5 RIDs of type "CanvasItem" were leaked` — exactly the number of +paint-order runs on the main menu. **Canvas items created through `RenderingServer` +are not owned by the node**; a child `Node2D` would have been collected for me, and +the reason for not using one (`_band`) is also the reason this had to be paid for. +Freed in `_exit_tree`. + +📌 It was found by looking, not by anything failing: `verify-capture` was green +across every screen, the pictures were right, and the leak line sat in a log +alongside `N ObjectDB instances were leaked at exit` — which `BLOCKED.md` records +as **engine-side and not ours**, investigated at `91ada14`, where releasing every +reference the port owns moved the count *not at all*. A new leak line arriving next +to a known-benign leak line is close to the best possible camouflage. The +distinguishing fact was the number: **5**, which is a count of my bands and not of +anything the engine owns. + +### 🔴 Refutation: the measurement's reach is right for one screen and wrong for the other + +`ui-blend-mode-measured.md` closes with: *"Every element on the two screens the +port ships is in the table except the two above and `pteff10`, which did not appear +as an identifiable quad."* + +Checked element by element against my own export — counting an element as covered +if it appears in the per-draw log **or** in the summary table's prose rows (which +name `pteff05`, "every button" and "both rotated sweep strips"): + +| screen | in neither | +|---|---| +| `main_menu` | `pteff10` — ✅ exactly as claimed | +| **`extras`** | `pteff10`, **`ptframe4`, `pteff21`, `pteff22`, `pteff23`** | + +🔴 **Five, not one.** The sentence is accurate for the main menu and understates the +EXTRAS gap by four elements — and they are not arbitrary four. **They are precisely +the elements the port now measures as the worst on that screen**: `ptframe4` at +16.19× the frame mean, with `pteff21`/`22`/`23` immediately behind it. + +⚠️ **This is a reach statement, not a result** — every measured row stands, and the +port has already transcribed all of them. But a reader of that page would conclude +the coverage is complete but for one unidentifiable quad, and on EXTRAS it is not: +**a quarter of what the port draws there is unmeasured, and it is the quarter that +is visibly wrong.** That is the difference between "one loose end" and "the open +ask in `BLOCKED.md`". + +📌 A smaller observation, offered as one: *"every button"* in the summary row is a +**class** generalisation, in a document whose own warning is to read the table as +per-element facts. No button appears in the EXTRAS draw log at all — the +generalisation comes from `ptbtn01f` on the main menu. It is very likely right, and +the port depends on nothing that would break if it were not; I raise it only +because it is the same move the document tells its reader not to make. + +## EXTRAS is complete: 1.97 → 0.63, and the two metrics disagree about it + +The four elements I reported as absent from every draw were in a draw all along. +The vertex dump was capped at 8 vertices — two quads — and the additive batch holds +six, so the log printed `pteff20` and `ptframe3` and dropped the other four **with +a well-formed line and no ellipsis**. Cap raised, screen recaptured, all six named. +📌 A truncation that leaves no mark is the same failure class as my MIX-default +material: the run completed, the output parsed, and the answer was wrong. + +`ptframe4`, `pteff21`, `pteff22`, `pteff23` and **`pteff10`** are additive on +EXTRAS. Transcribed. + +| EXTRAS element | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| **`ptframe4`** | 31.90 (16.19×) | **1.14** (1.81×) | +| `pteff21` / `22` / `23` | 14.34 / 13.15 / 12.04 | 0.79 / 0.72 / 0.73 | +| `ptframe3` | 7.97 | 1.26 | +| **whole screen** | **1.97** | **0.63** | + +### 🟡 Their `pteff10` flag, tested — and the answer is "both metrics, opposite ways" + +They flagged it before I could adopt it: *"you measure it nearly exact under +alpha-over and the game draws it additive… it is the one row your renderer does not +independently corroborate."* Tested by holding `pteff10` at alpha-over with every +other element additive: + +| | tone-corrected \|resid\| | raw RMSE | +|---|---|---| +| `pteff10` **additive** (as measured) | **0.630** | 12.91 | +| `pteff10` alpha-over (as the port had it) | 1.704 | **9.98** | + +🔴 **They disagree, and the reason is not subtle.** The port already renders +**+8.50 levels brighter than the capture** on this screen *before any of this* +(render 35.16 against capture 26.65); additive adds 3.85 more. Raw RMSE is +dominated by that pre-existing offset, so it punishes any added light regardless of +whether the light is correct. The tone-corrected number, which removes exactly that +offset, says additive is **2.7× better** — and `verify-capture`'s differing region +halved, 0.07 % → 0.03 %. + +✅ **The measurement wins and I have adopted it**, because it is measured off the +game and the structural metric agrees. ⚠️ **But `extras` raw-RMSE went 11.43 → +12.88 and I am not hiding that.** By the tool's own header — *"RMSE is reported and +is NOT a target… what finds a real defect is the DIFFERING REGION"* — the screen +improved. The +8.50 offset is a separate, older question and **I am not correcting +it**: I established weeks ago that I cannot say which side's tone is wrong. + +## 🔴 Refuted: my kind census was a two-screen generalisation, one message after I criticised theirs + +I reported *"every sprite decoration is `0x0` and every button `0x3002`"* as an +independent confirmation. They refuted it: `kind & 0x2` is the focusable flag (0 +violations in 15 493 entries across 24 UI paks), while `kind == 0x3002` catches 778 +of 1 062 focusable elements and **misses 284**. + +**My own export contained the counter-examples the whole time:** + +| element | `kind_raw` | what my exporter calls it | +|---|---|---| +| `press_start` / **`ptbtn00`** | **`0x73002`** | `unknown` — *not* `button` | +| `title` / `ptlogoall_eff`, `ptlogoall_eff2` | **`0x3000`** | `unknown` — looks like a button, is not focusable | +| `title` / `ptlogo1`, `ptlogo2` | `0x4` | `unknown` | + +📌 **This is exactly the move I had just objected to in their page** — *"every +button" is a class generalisation in a document that tells its reader not to make +them* — and I made mine one message later, from two screens, and called it a +confirmation. The census was **true where I looked** and false one build over. + +⚠️ **It has a consequence, not just a lesson.** `ptbtn00` on the PRESS Ⓐ plate is +focusable by their rule and my exporter classifies it `unknown`. Filed. + +## 🔴 Refuted: the sweeps DO run on the menu, and my instrument was measuring my own renderer + +`loop_leaf_on_screens` scopes leaf-looping to the title, partly on a phase sweep of +mine that I re-ran only last iteration and reported as *strengthened*. Their draw +log retains NDC, and settles it directly: **both strips overlap the screen in every +captured frame on the main menu, stepping ~0.03 NDC per frame in opposite +directions, with their vertex alpha ramping** — two sessions, different phases. + +🔴 **"The game does not draw them here" is no longer available to me.** What my +phase sweep actually measured is that *the port's version of the sweeps* makes the +match worse — which is a statement about my rendering of them, not about whether +the game runs them. **A best-match argument for an absence cannot distinguish "not +there" from "there and drawn wrong",** and I had that caveat written down and still +read the result as being about the game. + +⚠️ **Not flipped yet, deliberately.** The strips are additive *and* their vertex +alpha ramps across the sweep; the port has neither of those right for the leaf +path, so enabling the loop today would make the port more correct in behaviour and +visibly worse against the capture. That trade needs the ramp first, and it is +filed. What has changed today is the *claim*: **the port is wrong here, and says +so.** + +## The plate's highlight is additive — and my harness poses it at the one phase where it is invisible + +`blend-bit-vs-oracle.txt` entry 2: `ptbtn00` `0x0110` **alpha-over**, `ptbtn00f` +`0x0112` **ADDITIVE** — the PRESS Ⓐ plate and its own highlight, same screen, same +draw order, one bit apart. Entry 4, the whole title, is **alpha-over throughout**, +including `ptlogo_back2`/`ptlogo_back2eff` — which independently kills the +*"frame-shaped and mostly transparent ⇒ additive"* rule I declined to adopt. + +Bands are now per **draw op** rather than per paint-order entry, because one band +per element cannot express *base alpha-over, its own focus record additive*. + +### 🔴 It reported ZERO three times, and each zero had a different cause + +**R2 says a change with a predicted magnitude that delivers nothing is a failed +run, not a negative result.** This one delivered nothing three times. + +1. **The mapping never reached the overlay.** `additive_elements` was assigned to + `view` in three places and to `overlay` in **none** — and the plate *is* an + overlay. Every other decoded rule on that page is assigned to both. +2. **I then "proved" the element is never drawn** — suppressed its sprite at six + times across the cycle, 0 px every time. ⚠️ **That sweep was invalid.** I varied + `--time` while passing **`--loop-phase=0` in every run**, and `--loop-phase` + pins exactly the clock a looping record runs on. Six samples of one phase. I + was one commit from filing *"the port never draws the plate highlight"* as a + defect. +3. **The real reason the harness saw nothing.** Swept properly: + +| loop phase | `ptbtn00f` contributes | +|---|---| +| **0** | **0 px** | +| 20 / 40 / 60 | 28 197 / 28 830 / 28 821 px | +| 80 / 100 | 27 334 / 21 885 px | + +**`verify-capture`'s `title_plate` row poses at `--loop-phase=0`** — the single +phase where the highlight contributes nothing. The change is live and worth +**26 319 px** at phase 20, and the row correctly reports 13.03 / 0.09 % unchanged, +because it is blind to it by construction. + +📌 That is a defect in my instrument, not in the fix: **the row that validates the +plate cannot see the plate's pulse.** Now stated in the tool, next to the pose. + +⚠️ **Not verified against the oracle.** The blend is theirs and measured; that the +*port* now draws it correctly is not something any capture I hold can confirm, +because every title-plate capture is at the blind phase. Filed. + +### The plate's ramp was already in my export, and the renderer applies it correctly + +The Decoder is paused and could not take the capture I asked for, and pointed out +that the disc half might not need them. It did not — **and it was already in +`export/screens/title/press_start.json`.** `ptbtn00f` carries eight keyframes on a +120-unit loop, alpha in the high byte of `fade_argb`: + +| t | 0 | 6 | 29 | 35 | 50 | 58 | 97 | 105 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| α | **0** | 6 | 74 | **80** | **80** | 74 | 6 | **0** | + +✅ **Two things follow without an oracle.** + +**1. The blind phase is confirmed from the disc.** α is *exactly 0* at phase 0 — +so `verify-capture`'s pose sees nothing, and that is a property of the data, not an +artefact of how I rendered it. + +**2. My renderer applies the ramp faithfully.** Rendered contribution against +declared α across the cycle: + +| phase | 0 | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| declared α | 0 | 47.4 | 80.0 | 70.5 | 35.6 | 3.8 | +| rendered Δ | 0.00 | 20.70 | 32.55 | 29.24 | 16.55 | 2.59 | + +**r = +0.9982**, slope 0.4036 levels per α unit. So *when* and *how strongly* the +port draws the highlight is right; only the **composite** is unverified. + +📌 **And the capture cannot settle it, under either reading of the clock.** It is +posed at t=237; 237 mod 120 = **117**, where α ≈ 0 — and the harness independently +pins `--loop-phase=0`, where α is exactly 0. Both readings agree, which is worth +stating because I did not have to assume which clock the record runs on. + +⚠️ So the ask narrows to one number and gets a precise window: **a capture anywhere +in t mod 120 ∈ [35, 50]**, where α holds at its peak of 80. Everything else about +the plate is now settled on my side. + +### Pre-registered: what the plate capture must show, committed before it exists + +The Decoder's R2 note, and it is the right one to raise: α peaks at **80 of 255**, +so an additive overlay at 31 % is a small signal and *"whatever residual you +measure will be small in absolute terms whether or not the blend is right."* +**So the expected magnitude goes in git before the capture does.** + +Rendering the same pose at peak α under both composites: + +| | value | +|---|---| +| highlight footprint at peak α | **25 015 px** (2.90 % of frame) | +| mean \|additive − alpha-over\| **inside** it | **16.92 levels** | +| max | 50 levels | +| RMS over the **whole frame** | **3.746** | + +🔴 **And my first prediction was wrong, which is the useful part.** The two +composites differ by exactly `α·bg`, and with mean background 94.78 that predicts +**29.73** levels. Measured: **16.92**. The formula uses the *keyframe* α and +ignores that **the sprite carries its own per-pixel alpha channel**, which +modulates it — implied mean sprite α ≈ 145/255. Caught because I wrote the +prediction down and it disagreed with the render, which is the whole point of +writing it down. + +**The pre-registered test.** Additive is brighter than alpha-over at *every* +footprint pixel, in one direction. So the discriminator is **regional sign over +25 015 pixels, not per-pixel magnitude** — which matters because the port already +carries global tone offsets of order 8.5 levels, and a per-pixel magnitude test +would be swamped by them while a signed regional one is not. + +> **If the game composites this additively, then rendering it alpha-over must leave +> the footprint systematically ≈17 levels DARKER than the capture relative to the +> surrounding frame, and rendering it additive must leave no such regional bias. +> A capture that shows neither bias refutes both, and points at the ramp or the +> pose rather than the blend.** + +⚠️ **Feasibility, stated before asking anyone to spend a run:** 16.92 mean levels +across 2.9 % of the frame against ~8.5-level systematic offsets is discriminable +**only** as a signed regional statistic. As a whole-frame RMSE it is **3.746** — +below the title's own ±5.56 capture-phase term, so `verify-capture`'s headline +number could not settle this even at peak α. + +⚠️ Their gate `wait_plate_pulse.py` fires on a green-glyph count in [500, 2500] and +has logged 740 and 1004, so the window may come free or may sit outside [35, 50] +entirely. Their caveat, carried across rather than assumed away. + +### The plate identification is confirmed by size; the frame spacing does NOT fit my ramp + +Reading the Decoder's existing title draw log from the ref +(`captures/ui-draws/blend-title-2026-08-31.log`), the additive quad they point at +is draw 8/19/…, `blend=0x01010101`, per-vertex `col=44FFFFFF` / `43FFFFFF` / +`38FFFFFF` — α **68, 67, 56**. + +✅ **Identification confirmed independently, by size.** The quad measures +**537.6 × 75.6** px and `ptbtn00f.png` ships at **537 × 76**. That is the plate's +highlight, and it settles it without using their attribution. + +✅ **And their free check on my ramp holds:** all three alphas are ≤ my declared +peak of **80**, none equals a keyframe value, so the game interpolates rather than +steps. Two independent decodes agreeing — mine from the export, theirs from the +command stream. + +🔴 **But the frame-to-frame spacing does not fit, and I am recording that rather +than passing over it.** `HANDOFF` Q1 gives **2 units per rendered frame**. On my +falling segment (slope −1.744 α/unit) that predicts, from α=68: + +| | frame 1 | frame 2 | frame 4 | +|---|---|---|---| +| observed | 68 | **67** | **56** | +| my ramp at 2 units/frame | 68 | 64.5 | 57.6 | +| at 1 unit/frame | 68 | 66.3 | 62.8 | +| at 0.5 | 68 | 67.2 | 65.4 | + +**No constant rate fits both steps** — 0.5 matches frame 2 and misses frame 4 by +9; 2 matches frame 4 and misses frame 2 by 2.5. + +⚠️ **Three candidates and I cannot separate them:** my ramp is wrong somewhere; the +log's frame numbering is *captured* frames rather than engine frames (**it skips +from 2 to 4**, so it is demonstrably not a dense engine sequence); or emulator +pacing varies between them. The middle one is the most likely and the cheapest to +check, and it is theirs. + +📌 This does **not** disturb the ramp's *shape* or *ceiling*, which the alphas +confirm. It disturbs only the claim that I could pose my renderer at their captured +instant by stepping units — so the vertex alpha remains the right readout, and +**inferring the phase from a frame index would have been wrong.** + + +--- + +## 🔴 A reproduce recipe that names a path off this repo is not a recipe + +Recorded 2026-09-01, at shutdown, from the Decoder's catch rather than my own. + +They found their Canary logger change — the **texture content hash** — living +uncommitted in `/canary`, a checkout pushed nowhere. Two committed findings could +not be reproduced without it: it is the field that separates *"the buffer +rotated"* from *"a frame was decoded"*, and its absence is what cost two withdrawn +positions on `units/second` in a single day. They committed it and exported it +into the repo as `tools/canary-patches/0001-content-hash-in-ui-draw-logger.patch`. + +**Their generalisation, which applies here too:** a finding whose reproduce recipe +names a `/canary` sha — or any path outside this repository — is not reproducible. + +Audited on this side at the same moment. One real instance: this file cited +`/reborn/docs/re/captures/main-menu-oracle.png` as the evidence for a decision. +**The capture is in the repository** at `docs/re/captures/main-menu-oracle.png`; +only the path was stale, left by the monorepo move. Fixed above. The other +`/reborn` mentions are deliberate — one warns that the mount is empty, one is a +table row listing the pattern as an example of what not to do. + +⚠️ `tools/port/check-citations` does **not** catch this class. It scans for repo +paths that fail to resolve; an *absolute* path is not a repo path and slips +through. Extending it to flag off-repo absolutes — especially ones whose basename +does resolve in-repo, which is the recoverable case — is the obvious next +increment and is **not** done here, because it was found minutes before a +shutdown and a hasty checker is worse than a named gap. diff --git a/docs/port/FORMAT.md b/docs/port/FORMAT.md index 7f9184a3..f3aeabf4 100644 --- a/docs/port/FORMAT.md +++ b/docs/port/FORMAT.md @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ for a long time. > grossly (`ptlogo_back2`, 1118×262, pivot 500,117 where half is 559,131). It is > not a problem for this port — the exporter emits the declared pivot and never > derives one — but it is a claim a consumer should not lean on. Raised in -> `docs/BLOCKED.md`. +> `docs/port/BLOCKED.md`. **`sprite`** / **`focus_sprite`** are paths relative to `export/`. The highlight pairs **by name** on the sprite — `ptbtn01.t32` ↔ `ptbtn01f.t32` — which is 🟡 a @@ -212,10 +212,25 @@ from: the quad is `pivot × 2`, and its colour is the keyframe's `fade_argb`. **`keyframes`** carry the on-disc time verbatim in `t`. A keyframe is the **start of a ramp toward the next**, not a pose that is held, and the ramp is -linear. The **last keyframe of a group has no `t`** — the disc has no time slot -there — and a file that puts one on it is wrong, not merely odd. The unit of `t` -is measured, not on the disc, and so lives in `authored/` and is applied in -exactly one place. +linear. + +🔴 **Every keyframe has a `t`, including the last**, and this paragraph said the +exact opposite until 2026-08-29. A placement group is an 8-byte header followed +by `frames` × `{u32 time; 36-byte pose}`, so **pose 0's time is the group's +lead-in word** and no pose is untimed. The old reading — that a group's data +stopped four bytes short of its final block's time slot — paired every pose with +the *next* pose's time, and `sylpheed-export check` enforced it as a rule. A file +with an untimed keyframe is now the wrong one. + +⚠️ Two things went with that correction. The **exit ramp is gone**: there is no +untimed final keyframe to give a synthetic time to, so `authored/timing.json`'s +`exit_ramp_units` — an authored *measured* constant since P3 — is **deleted**, +which is what MISSION §3 means by a deletion being the measure of progress. And +`rest.t` moved on several screens: `publisher_logo` settles at t=30 rather than +t=235. + +The unit of `t` is still measured rather than on the disc, so it stays in +`authored/` and is applied in exactly one place. **`rotation_deg`** is screen-plane rotation in degrees, clockwise-positive, decoded from the keyframe's `+12`. **The game renders it**, confirmed twice by @@ -257,7 +272,7 @@ keyframe *k* means the screen spends that time *arriving at* `k+1`. > A consumer that wants the pose after arrival should therefore take **the last > timed keyframe**, not `rest`. `rest` is kept in the format because it is what > the pinned decoders say and removing it would hide the disagreement — see -> `docs/DECISIONS.md`. The format is unchanged at **v2**: no field changed +> `docs/port/DECISIONS.md`. The format is unchanged at **v2**: no field changed > meaning, this is a warning about one of them. **`paint_order`** is back-to-front, as declaration indices, and is a permutation @@ -309,13 +324,56 @@ reaches which entry is Q4 and is not). "disc": "/disc", "screens": [{ "name": "main_menu", "file": "screens/title/main_menu.json", "sprites": 18, "missing_sprites": [] }], - "video_transcode": "ffmpeg -i ADV.wmv -c:v libtheora -q:v 8 -c:a libvorbis -q:a 5 ADV.ogv", + "videos": [{ "name": "ADV", "file": "video/ADV.ogv", + "command": "ffmpeg -i …", "why": "HANDOFF Q9: …" }], + "audio": [{ "kind": "se", "name": "move", "file": "audio/se/move.ogg", + "command": "ffmpeg -i …", "why": "HANDOFF Q8, measured: …", + "peak_dbfs": -3.2, "duration_s": 0.533, + "name_match": "SE_UI_CURSOR" }, + { "kind": "bgm", "name": "main_menu", "file": "audio/bgm/main_menu.ogg", + "command": "ffmpeg -i …", "why": "AUTHORED, an arbitrary choice: …", + "peak_dbfs": -1.1, "duration_s": 173.8, "loop_mode": "restart" }], "warnings": ["GP_READY_ROOM not exported -- out of scope"] } ``` -`video_transcode` will record the exact command so a modder can re-run it rather -than reverse-engineer what was done. It is absent until P4 writes a video. +`videos` and `audio` are **absent** until a milestone writes one, rather than +present and empty: an empty array reads as "we looked and there is none", and +that is not what an export taken before P4 or P6 means. + +### `command` and `why`, on every media entry + +`command` is the exact ffmpeg invocation that produced the file. MISSION §6: a +modder who dislikes the quality re-runs one line rather than reverse-engineering +what was done to their asset. `why` is where the value came from, in the +project's three-way vocabulary — **decoded** off the disc, **measured** off the +running game, or **chosen**. A `why` that does not say which of those it is has +not done its job. + +### `audio`, field by field + +| field | | +|---|---| +| `kind` | `se`, `bgm` or `voice`. The runtime dispatches on it, so it is a field rather than a prefix on `name` that a consumer would have to parse | +| `name` | the **role**, not the disc asset: `move`, `confirm`, `back`, `main_menu`. Which bank plays a role is authored and expected to change; a rename on the disc side must not be a change to the Godot project. ⚠️ **`voice` is the exception and keys by MOVIE NAME** (`ADV`, `S00A`), because there is no role to name: the binding of recording to picture came off the disc's own movie manifest, so unlike a music bed nothing about it was chosen | +| `peak_dbfs` | measured off the finished file. **Required.** Silence is the audio failure that looks like success — right duration, right channel count, right size, full of zeroes — and clipping is the other one, which the BGM can produce because it is a sum of two stems at unity gain. `sylpheed-export check` refuses a tree whose peak is ≤ −90 dBFS, and applies a **kind-dependent** upper bound. 🔴 This paragraph used to state a flat *≥ 0 dBFS* and was wrong about the port's own export: `confirm` ships at **+0.18** and the `ADV` voice at **+0.31**, so a consumer implementing a validator from this file would have rejected a valid tree. The rule is: a **`bgm`** is a sum *we* produced, so a peak at or above full scale is our arithmetic and is refused outright; an **`se`** or **`voice`** is a single wave off the disc, mastered near full scale, and a lossy decode of it overshoots by a fraction of a dB — those are allowed to **+1.0 dB**. ⚠️ The +1.0 is a judgement, not a measurement: a few tenths is reconstruction overshoot and a whole dB is not, and if a cue ever trips it the right response is to measure the overshoot distribution, not to loosen the bound | +| `duration_s` | measured off the finished file, so that a claim about a cue's length can be checked against the finding that produced it | +| `name_match` | the game's own cue identifier **guessed by name**. Absent means nobody claimed one — never that the binding is unknown. The binding is the measured part; the name is not | +| `loop_mode` | what the runtime does at the end of the file, where that was authored. Absent on a cue: a cue ends | + +**A `voice` entry is a cutscene's dialogue, and it is a separate file on +purpose.** On this disc a movie's `.wmv` carries music and effects only; the +voice is a byte region of one continuous XMA stream in `sound.pak`, bound by the +movie manifest. A consumer plays the two together, **from the same instant** — +there is no offset and none is authored. A movie with no `voice` entry is +genuinely unvoiced, which is the honest answer for most `hokyu_*` cutscenes; +nothing is substituted, and the manifest carries a warning naming the movie. + +⚠️ The `why` on a `voice` entry names every region chunk the exporter **dropped** +and its measured length. That is not commentary: which chunks of a region are the +track is an open decoding question (see `docs/port/BLOCKED.md`), and a consumer +reading a shorter file than it expected should be able to see what was left out +rather than infer it. ## Changes from v2 diff --git a/docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md b/docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md index 3e80f510..de6f8c73 100644 --- a/docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md +++ b/docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md @@ -97,15 +97,15 @@ A milestone is done when its **artifact** exists, not when the code compiles. |---|---|---| | **P0** | Exporter skeleton; one screen and its sprites to `export/` | `export/screens/title/main_menu.json` validates against FORMAT.md and the PNGs open | | **P1** | Godot renders that screen statically at 1280×720 | A Godot screenshot beside `sylpheed-cli screen render` of the same build — they should agree, and where they do not, say which is wrong | -| **P2** | Keyframe animation | Buttons slide in. **Blocked on HANDOFF Q1** (the time unit). Do not invent it | +| **P2** | Keyframe animation | Buttons slide in. ~~Blocked on HANDOFF Q1 (the time unit). Do not invent it~~ — **Q1 is answered**: ramp linear, 2 units per rendered frame, 1 unit = 1/60 s. Gate met | | **P3** | Splash → title, with the transition | Both screens back to back, unattended | | **P4** | Intro video | `ADV.wmv` plays with audio (§6) | | **P5** | Main menu: navigation, focus states, Ⓐ into a submenu, B back | ~~A human clicks through it~~ — ✅ **GATE MET 2026-09-02.** A human walked it: *"Menu walk and navigation is fine. Video skips too. Extras open."* [`../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md`](../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md) | -| **P6** | Audio — menu BGM and move/confirm SFX | Sound on the P5 gate. **Looping is blocked on HANDOFF Q10** | +| **P6** | Audio — menu BGM and move/confirm SFX | Sound on the P5 gate. ~~Looping is blocked on HANDOFF Q10~~ — **Q10 is answered**: two stems of one performance, played together. 🔴 **Gate NOT claimed**: the same play-test found the SFX mix wrong (F2), and "sound on the P5 gate" means the right sound. | | **P7** | New-game intro video after NEW GAME | Plays, then returns to a defined state | Work the lowest unfinished milestone. When one is blocked on an RE answer, say so -in `docs/BLOCKED.md`, and take the next milestone that is not. +in `docs/port/BLOCKED.md`, and take the next milestone that is not. ## 6. The video problem diff --git a/docs/port/RUNNING.md b/docs/port/RUNNING.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0eccadb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/RUNNING.md @@ -0,0 +1,158 @@ +# Running the port + +**P5's gate is *"a human clicks through it"*, and until now there was no page +telling a human how.** The commands existed — in `boot.gd`'s header comment and +scattered through a twelve-thousand-line `DECISIONS.md`. A capability that lives +only in the record is, to the person who needs it, absent. + +Everything below has been run. Where a number is quoted it was measured in this +container, and where the container distorts it that is said rather than left for +the reader to discover. + +## 1. Build the asset tree + +The Godot project reads `export/`, never the disc. + +```bash +cargo run --release -p sylpheed-export -- export --disc /disc --out export +``` + +Roughly four minutes, most of it transcoding two movies. It **rewrites `export/` +wholesale** — never hand-edit anything in there; hand-written decisions live in +`authored/` beside it, and survive a re-export. + +## 2. The P5 walk, from a cold start + +```bash +godot --path port -- --boot --play +``` + +This is the one a human should judge. It boots the way the game does — two +splashes, the `ADV` intro, the title — hands over to the menu on Ⓐ, and then +**stays live and waits for input**. + +| you press | what should happen | +|---|---| +| Ⓐ on the title | the main menu opens on **NEW GAME** | +| ⬆ / ⬇ | one item, wrapping at both ends | +| ⬅ / ➡ | **nothing** — measured, and implemented as an explicit no-op | +| Ⓐ on **EXTRAS** | the EXTRAS submenu, opening on **MISSION SELECT** | +| Ⓑ in EXTRAS | back to the main menu, **on the item you left** | +| Ⓑ on the main menu | back to the title | +| Ⓐ on the title again | the menu, **still on the item you left** | + +That last row is the one worth checking deliberately: the main menu **remembers +its cursor**, and every submenu **resets** to its own opening item. Both are +measured, and they disagree on purpose. + +⏱ **The intro is ~157 s.** To skip straight to the menu: + +```bash +godot --path port -- --menu=main_menu +``` + +and to drive it unattended: + +```bash +godot --path port -- --menu=main_menu --script=down,down,down,down,accept,cancel +``` + +🔴 **This example used to say `down,down,accept,cancel`, and it walked the wrong +path.** Two ⬇ from the opening item lands on **`TUTORIAL`**, whose destination this +export does not carry — so the example exercised a *not-carried* message and +returned, never opening a submenu at all. **`EXTRAS` is the fifth item**, so it +takes four. The one submenu P5's gate rests on was the one the runbook's own +command did not reach. Verified 2026-08-31 by running both. + +🔴 `--script` **without** `--play` or `--menu` refuses and says so. It used to +parse, be stored, and do nothing. + +## 3. What is knowingly missing — not bugs + +Four of the five main-menu destinations are **measured but not in this export**: +they live in other archives (`GP_SAVE_LOAD`, `GP_OPTIONS`, …). Pressing Ⓐ on them +prints what it would have opened and why it cannot: + +``` +(LOAD GAME) opens a screen this export does not carry: + The save-slot list is GP_SAVE_LOAD, not in this export. Destination MEASURED. +``` + +**EXTRAS is the only Ⓐ-into-a-submenu this milestone can walk**, which is why the +P5 gate rests on it. + +`NEW GAME` is a deliberate gap of a different kind: the real chain is +NEW GAME → DIFFICULTY → SELECT DATA → the `S00A` movie, and the port **jumps to +the movie**, printing the two screens it skipped. That is a gap, stated out loud; +nobody should read the port's behaviour there as the game's. + +## 4. What this container distorts + +* **No GPU.** 720p Theora decodes **+6.7 % … +6.9 % slower than real time** here + (5 runs, both movies, on a quiet box). The boot's printed seconds carry that + deficit. It is a property of the machine, not of the port. +* **No sound card.** Godot falls back to a dummy driver, so **you will hear + nothing**. The audio is present and measurable — + `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` answers every audio question without a + device, and `tools/port/verify-menu-audio` asserts it — but *"I heard it"* is + not available in here. +* **A leaked-object warning at exit** is engine-side, not the port's. Measured: + releasing every reference the port owns moves the count from 8 to 8. + +## 5. Modding + +`data/mods/` shadows `export/` by path. Each override is announced as it is read, +and at the end of a run any file that **can never apply** is listed: + +``` +mod: sprites/title/main_menu/ptbase.png <- data/mods/... +mods: 1 file(s) in data/mods can shadow NOTHING -- no such path in the export: + inert: sprites/title/TYPO_menu/pteff05.png +``` + +A file whose path exists in the export but was simply not read this run is **not** +listed. See `docs/port/MODDING.md` for the five rules the asset tree keeps. + +## 6. Where the work is, and what P5's gate is waiting on + +**P5's gate is the only one that needs a person, and it is not waiting on code.** + +Everything above runs from `auto/port-p6-audio`. + +🔴 **This section used to quote counts — "256 commits ahead, 58 files" — and they +were stale the moment they were committed, because committing them incremented +the count.** By the time anyone read it, it said 256 and the answer was 258. A +number written into a document meant to inform a decision **decays with every +commit either agent makes**, and the Decoder hit the same thing in their own +merge-state page one message after recording the class. + +**So what follows are the invariants, which do not move, and the commands to +re-derive anything that does.** + +| invariant | check | **passes when** | +|---|---|---| +| `main` is an **ancestor** of this branch — a fast-forward, nothing to resolve | `git merge-base --is-ancestor origin/main HEAD; echo $?` | prints **`0`**. ⚠️ The command itself prints **nothing** on success — without the `echo` a reader cannot tell success from failure | +| `main` is an ancestor of the Decoder's branch too | `git merge-base --is-ancestor origin/main origin/auto/build-ordinal-audit; echo $?` | prints **`0`**, same caveat | +| the two change sets touch **zero files in common** | `comm -12 <(git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD \| sort) <(git diff --name-only origin/main...origin/auto/build-ordinal-audit \| sort) \| wc -l` | prints **`0`** | +| merging both produces **no conflicts** | `git merge-tree --write-tree HEAD origin/auto/build-ordinal-audit \| wc -l` | prints **`1`** — one line is the tree id; conflicts would follow it. **Read-only: this merges nothing** | + +**Last run here: `0`, `0`, `0`, `1`.** A command published without a pass +condition is half a check — the reader gets a number and no way to know whether it +is the right one — so each row states what the right one is. + +📌 **So the sentence is not "N commits behind", which sounds like something to +schedule. It is: two fast-forwards over disjoint file sets, mergeable in either +order with zero conflicts.** Counts if you want them: +`git rev-list --count origin/main..HEAD`. + +### What a person is actually being asked to do + +1. `godot --path port -- --boot --play`, then walk §2's table. +2. Say whether it behaves as described. **Not whether it matches the game** — + that comparison is the oracle's job and is already asserted by + `tools/port/check-all`. +3. If it does, P5's gate is met and nothing else is blocking P6, which asserts its + own audio and has no human step. + +⚠️ **You will hear nothing** (§4), and the intro takes ~157 s. `--menu=main_menu` +skips straight to the part being judged. diff --git a/docs/port/blend-decoded-adoption.md b/docs/port/blend-decoded-adoption.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fe2d8f4b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/blend-decoded-adoption.md @@ -0,0 +1,228 @@ +# The blend map is deleted — and adopting the decoded field found a counter-example + +**Status:** ✅ **adopted.** ❌ **My counter-example failed — the bit is right and the +regression is a metric artefact.** See the last two sections. +Port at `7dd754f` + this commit; formats pinned at `formats-pin-2026-09-01`; +HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +`PORT-MISSION` §3: *"When the RE agent later decodes something you had authored, +delete the authored entry and let the exporter emit it. That deletion is the +measure of progress."* This is that deletion. + +## What changed + +| | before | after | +|---|---|---| +| source | `authored/rendering.json` → `additive_elements`, keyed by **screen name** | `blend_additive` per element, emitted by the exporter | +| origin | transcribed from the Decoder's per-draw `RB_BLENDCONTROL0` log | **decoded** — `T8aD +0x04` bit `0x02` | +| reach | three screens somebody drove the game to | every screen on the disc | + +The pin bump is its own commit (`7dd754f`). The exporter emits `blend_additive` +on `Element` **and** on nested focus/leaf elements — both spellings of the +accessor are needed, because a button's focused variant is reached through +`focus_link` and `ptbtn00f.t32` is in `build.sprites` while no element carries it +as `sprite`. `ptbtn00f` is exactly the sharp case: the plate is alpha-over and +its own glow is additive, on one screen in adjacent draws. + +## The check before the swap — the map was a subset, not the answer + +Over `main_menu`, `extras`, `press_start` and `title`: + +| | count | +|---|---| +| map says additive **and** the disc agrees | **15** | +| map says additive and the disc does **not** | **0** — no contradictions | +| disc says additive and the map did not | **17** | + +Nothing transcribed was wrong. It was **incomplete and was being read as +complete**. The 17 include: + +* `pteff03` / `pteff03a` — the sweep **leaves**. `draw_leaf_for` means those are + what actually reach the screen while the map listed their parents + `ptloop01`/`ptloop02`. (Both parent and leaf carry the bit, so this one turned + out to change nothing — established below, not assumed.) +* **twelve on `title`**, where the map was deliberately empty. The port has been + drawing every title effect alpha-over. + +**And it answers `BLOCKED.md` H6 with no capture at all.** The JP asymmetry — the +port drawing `main_menu` additive and `main_menu_jp` alpha-over, asserting by +omission that the JP build differs — was an artefact of a name-keyed map. The bit +is on the disc for every screen at once. + +## 🔴 The regression, which is one element + +Scored against the oracle captures, on the GPU, before and after: + +| screen | before | after | Δ | +|---|---|---|---| +| **`main_menu`** | 10.88 | **13.02** | **+2.14** | +| **`main_menu_options`** | 11.56 | **13.57** | **+2.01** | +| `extras` | 13.10 | 13.10 | — | +| `title` | 14.11 | 14.11 | — | +| `title_plate`, `title_band`, both splashes | unchanged | unchanged | — | + +**The scores are deterministic** — two further runs gave 13.02 / 13.10 / 13.57 +to the digit — so this is a real change, not sampling noise. + +### It is `pteff10`, isolated + +* `main_menu`'s only newly-additive **top-level** element is `pteff10`. +* `extras` has **no** newly-additive top-level element, and its score did not + move. That is the control: the same change applied to a screen with nothing new + moves nothing. +* The leaf rule was tested separately by disabling it — `main_menu` stayed at + 13.02, so `pteff03`/`pteff03a` are **not** the cause. That prediction of mine + failed and the rule was restored, being provably neutral here. + +`title` did not move despite twelve newly-additive elements, which is consistent: +`verify-capture` poses at settle `t=198`, and the title's effect quads — +`ptlogo_back2eff1…5`, `ptlogoall_eff`, `pteff01` — are transparent there. + +### 🔴 WHY I THOUGHT THIS WAS A COUNTER-EXAMPLE — and it was not. Kept because the premise-check is the lesson + +**Their own map lists `pteff10` as additive on `extras` and not on `main_menu`, +and they logged both screens.** So either their per-draw log shows `main_menu`'s +`pteff10` drawn alpha-over — a direct contradiction between a capture and the +disc bit, on one element — or it was not drawn during that capture. The oracle +comparison independently prefers alpha-over there. + +❌ **Wrong, and the premise was the failure.** The oracle *does* measure it +additive on `main_menu` — three sessions, every frame. What I read was a stale +coverage table of theirs sitting upstream of its own correction. **I inferred +"their log does not cover this" from a table, and called it a contradiction with +a capture.** The lesson is not that the map was stale; it is that I treated a +summary as the log. See the resolution at the foot of this page. + +## Why the change ships anyway, stated rather than assumed + +1. `main_menu` carries a **±3.78 capture-phase term** in the harness's own note — + the capture caught the free-running sweep at an unknown phase. **+2.14 is + inside that stated uncertainty** and cannot adjudicate a disc fact. + `main_menu_options` is a sub-region of the same screen and inherits the same + sweep. +2. The decoded source is far better evidenced than the comparison that moved, and + it **fixes two known defects** — twelve title effects drawn with the wrong + blend, and a JP/EN asymmetry the port was asserting by omission. +3. Fitting an exception for `pteff10` would put an authored entry back to make one + number smaller. That is the move this project keeps having to undo. + +🔴 **This was a known regression shipped deliberately, not an unnoticed one** — +and the decision was right for a *stronger* reason than the one I used. Not only +is +2.14 inside the ±3.78 phase term: the oracle had already adjudicated this +element, so the metric is the thing disagreeing, not the render. + +## What this does not claim + +* That the bit is wrong. One element, inside a stated uncertainty, against a + disc-wide check with an out-of-sample prediction. +* That `pteff10` on `main_menu` and on `extras` are the same sprite. Not checked. +* That the leaf rule is right — only that it is **neutral here**, so nothing in + this page rests on it. + + +--- + +# ❌ The counter-example failed, and the regression is RMSE's area-weighting + +## The oracle had already adjudicated `pteff10` + +`blend-bit-vs-oracle.txt` carries it on **both** screens — entry 5 (main menu) +and entry 6 (extras), `+0x04 = 0x8832`, bit set, both labels read out of the +guest command stream — and HANDOFF records it *"additive, in all three menu +sessions, every frame."* + +**My premise was a stale coverage table**, not a reading of the log. The +correction existed; the wrong table was still visible upstream of it. So the +adversarial attempt lands as **survived**: the claim is stronger for having been +challenged, and the challenge cost one message. + +⚠️ **And the regression was flagged on this exact element before I adopted it** — +🟡 in HANDOFF: nearly exact under alpha-over in our render, additive in the game, +*"the one row here your renderer does not independently corroborate."* + +## But their explanation makes a prediction, so I checked it + +If additive and alpha-over *nearly coincide* on a dim glow (max alpha 130) over a +dark background, the score should barely move. **Mine moved 20 %.** That is a +real tension and it was worth one measurement. + +Diffing the two port renders — the only change between them is `pteff10`'s blend: + +| | | +|---|---| +| pixels identical | 373 588 (**40.5 %**) | +| pixels differing by > 3 | 330 794 (**35.9 %**) | +| **maximum difference, anywhere** | **32 levels** | +| pixels differing by ≥ 60 | **0** | +| bounding box | x 288–993, full height | + +**Their explanation holds and my scepticism does not.** No pixel moves by more +than 32/255 — 12.5 % — which is "nearly coincide" measured rather than asserted. +What moved the RMSE is **area**: a third of the frame shifting slightly. + +## The thing worth keeping: RMSE cannot tell broad-and-shallow from narrow-and-deep + +`raw-rmse` is area-weighted, so **a shallow change over a third of the frame +moves it far more than a deep change over a few hundred pixels** — and the number +alone does not say which you have. 10.88 → 13.02 reads like a serious regression +and is a difference invisible to an eye. + +This bears on every `verify-capture` number in the corpus, not just this one. A +row that moves should be asked *"broad or deep?"* before it is called a +regression, and that costs one histogram. + +## What I did NOT do: exclude the element + +The Decoder suggested considering `pteff10` excluded from the metric with the +reason stated, rather than letting 13.02 sit as debt. **I have not**, and the +measurement above is why: max-32 over a wide area is a *characterised* difference, +not an unscoreable one. Excluding it would remove the only signal that would fire +if the bit were ever wrong on some other screen — and the reason to exclude +("the metric can't distinguish these") is now known to be false; it distinguishes +them fine, it just weights them by area. + +**The 13.02 stands, with its explanation attached.** That is cheaper than an +exclusion nobody will revisit. + + +--- + +# 🔴 Provenance: the oracle behind this adoption had a container-only instrument + +Recorded 2026-09-01 at shutdown, from the Decoder's own audit of their `/canary` +checkout, not from anything visible on this side. + +This page deleted an authored map on the strength of `ui-blend-mode-decoded.md` — +35 elements against `RB_BLENDCONTROL0` read out of the guest command stream, zero +errors both ways, plus an out-of-sample prediction. **That evidence was not +reproducible by anyone who cloned this repository.** The Canary logger commit +that emits `blend=` per draw lived only in their container; without it a draw log +records **no blend state at all**, so the oracle could not be re-derived at all — +not approximately, not at reduced confidence. Not at all. + +It is reproducible now: four container-only logger commits are exported as +patches under `tools/canary-patches/` **on `auto/frame-blend-draw-path`**, with a +rebuild recipe. ⚠️ Named without a resolvable path on purpose — that directory is +not in this checkout, and citing it as one would be the exact defect +`check-citations` exists to catch. + +## What this does and does not change + +* **It does not weaken the adoption.** The measurement was real when made and is + now reproducible. Nothing here is retracted. +* **It does change what "decoded" was resting on.** For the window between the + adoption and the export, this port had deleted an authored entry in favour of a + field whose supporting oracle no one else could regenerate. The map was the + *worse* of the two — a screen-name table that could not answer for a screen + nobody drove to — so the trade was still right. But it was a trade made against + an instrument, and the instrument's reach was smaller than the finding's. + +📌 **The generalisation, and it is theirs:** a finding is only as portable as the +tool that produced it, and a reproduce recipe that reads as complete is the +dangerous kind. Theirs *looked* complete — it named shas — which is why four +commits sat unexported while one was noticed. + +⚠️ And the port cannot check this class from here. `check-citations` scans repo +paths; an instrument living in another container is not a path at all. **The only +defence available on this side is asking what produced a number before adopting +it**, which is not a check and does not run. diff --git a/docs/port/captures-are-crops-not-resamples.md b/docs/port/captures-are-crops-not-resamples.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5515fcff --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/captures-are-crops-not-resamples.md @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +# The committed captures are CROPS, not resamples — so pixel comparisons are like-for-like + +**Status:** ✅ **measured, and it refutes a consequence rather than a finding.** +Written 2026-09-02 by the Port; HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +## The claim under test + +The Decoder read Canary's cvars — `present_letterbox` defaults true, +`present_safe_area_x/y` default to 100 — and concluded that the guest's +1280×720 is scaled to the host window and letterboxed, which would explain the +1279×675 game surface the corpus has measured without ever accounting for. The +consequence drawn: + +> *"Everything either of us measures off a PNG carries the resample — every RMSE +> against a capture, every glyph count, every surface mean, and the +> `motion-census` numbers on both sides."* + +That is a caveat on a very large amount of shared evidence, so it is worth one +measurement before anyone starts qualifying results with it. + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +> If the captures carry a scale, then **scaling** this port's 1280×720 render +> down to 1279×675 should match a capture better than **cropping** it. If they +> are crops, the reverse. + +## Measured + +`live-splash-publisher.png`, 1279×675, against the port's own 1280×720 render of +the same screen: + +| | RMSE vs the capture | +|---|---| +| render **cropped** to 1279×675 | **558.1** (0.85 %) | +| render **scaled** to 1279×675 | **10 118.8** (15.4 %) | + +**Cropping is 18× better.** A 0.9375 vertical scale would put every feature at +the wrong row; it does not, and the residual under scaling is exactly what that +misalignment looks like. + +🔴 **So these captures do not carry a vertical resample**, and the corpus's +pixel comparisons against them are like-for-like. + +## What is refuted and what is not + +**Refuted: the consequence.** *"Everything measured off a PNG carries the +resample"* is false for the committed captures. Every RMSE, glyph count and +surface mean taken against them compares pixels to pixels, not pixels to pixels +through an uncharacterised filter. + +**Not refuted: the cvar reading.** Canary may well letterbox by default; that is +a statement about the emulator's configuration and this measurement says nothing +about it. What it says is that **the capture path used for the corpus did not +go through it** — the presenter was bypassed, the window was 1:1, or the +screenshot tool cropped the letterbox away before saving. Which of those, nobody +here has established. + +📌 **A second, independent line already agreed and nobody connected it.** +`ui-render-tone-curve.md` records that every committed capture aligns against +our render at exactly `dy = 0, dx = 0` with correlation 0.9466. A vertical scale +of 0.9375 cannot produce a zero-offset alignment. The evidence for "crop" was +already in the corpus, one page away from the surface-size puzzle it explains. + +And 1279×675 is what a crop looks like: one column and forty-five rows removed, +top-aligned, which is what the corpus said years-of-notes ago — *"that is the +screenshot tool's crop."* + +## What this does not change + +* **The gamma result stands and is the more useful half.** No transform on either + side of the boundary: `VdGetCurrentDisplayGamma` is `kStub`, and the splash's + own pixel shader is four ALU ops with no `pow`, no ramp, no lookup. +* **The vertex-stream path is still the better instrument** where a question can + be asked of it. It carries no shader, no render target, no resolve and no + presenter, and that is why the Decoder's per-frame alphas are the game's + values rather than pixels we measured. +* **`motion-census` was never at risk.** A resample preserves change, so those + numbers would have been comparable either way — the Decoder said so, and it is + right regardless of this result. + +## Reach + +One capture, one screen, one comparison. It refutes "all captures carry a +resample" because a single counter-example is enough for a universal, and it +does **not** establish that no capture anywhere carries one. diff --git a/docs/port/held-direction-repeat.md b/docs/port/held-direction-repeat.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..591097d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/held-direction-repeat.md @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +# F1 — the menu repeats on a held direction: mechanism shipped, **rate deliberately not** + +**Status:** ✅ mechanism implemented and wired. 🔴 **inert on purpose** — it does +nothing until a measured repeat rate exists. Written 2026-09-02 by the Port. + +## What was reported + +Two statements from the human, both about the **real game**, a play-test apart: + +> *"Moving stick up/down and holding only moves one item. In game it actually +> continues to move when holding up/down, just at a medium pace so player does +> not need to move pad middle↔up/down, but also slow enough to see which item is +> selected and move to target."* + +> *"Confirmed D-Pad does repeat when holding too."* + +## The file predicted its own refutation + +`gamepad.gd` carried this, written when the latch was added: + +> *"Whether the real game repeats while a direction is held, and how fast, is +> unknown… If the game does repeat, this is a difference a human will notice as +> 'I have to flick it again', and the fix is a measured repeat interval — not a +> guessed one."* + +That is exactly what happened, in the words it predicted. **So +one-step-per-deflection is no longer the conservative reading — it is a known +defect**, and keeping it is choosing a wrong behaviour over an approximate one. + +## What was built + +| | | +|---|---| +| `Gamepad.held_direction()` | −1 / 0 / +1, polled from the **devices** | +| `Gamepad.repeat_due(delta)` | one step or 0, per frame | +| `Boot._menu_repeat(delta)` | calls it under the same guards a real press gets | + +### Why it polls devices and not `Input.is_action_pressed` + +`ui_up`/`ui_down` are bound to the stick axis at **Godot's 0.50 action +deadzone**, while this port steps at the game's measured **0.61** (`ENTER`). +Polling the action would repeat throughout the 0.50–0.61 band — the exact band +`ENTER` exists to exclude — so the repeat would contradict the threshold on the +same stick, on the same frame. + +That is the input-map lesson from 2026-09-01 arriving in a new place: **assert +the device, not the layer above it.** The stick reads from the latch +`accepts()` already maintains, so the first step and the repeat cannot disagree +about hysteresis; the d-pad reads `JOY_BUTTON_DPAD_UP/DOWN` directly, which the +human's second report makes load-bearing rather than defensive. + +### Why the guards are duplicated rather than shared + +`_menu_repeat` re-applies the same four conditions `_unhandled_input` applies — +no movie playing, a menu exists, its stack is non-empty, no transition pending. +A repeat that could fire during a movie or mid-transition would be a **second, +subtly different input path**, and the first thing this port learned about input +is that a second path is where the defect hides. + +## 🔴 And the rate is not shipped + +An earlier draft of this change had `REPEAT_DELAY = 0.40` and +`REPEAT_INTERVAL = 0.20`, with a paragraph explaining that they were authored. +**They were removed rather than commented out**, on an explicit instruction: + +> *"Take the RATE from the Decoder — do NOT ship a placeholder interval. An +> invented rate here is indistinguishable from a measured one later, and this is +> the exact field where that already cost us."* + +The instruction is right and the draft was the named failure mode: the +explanation would have merged, the numbers would have felt roughly right, and +nothing downstream could have separated them from a measurement. `REPEAT_DELAY` +is `-1.0`; `repeat_due()` returns 0 while `repeat_rate_known()` is false. + +**One thing about the rate IS measured, and it narrows the question.** The game +digitises the left stick to four direction bits at 61 % deflection, so it cannot +see deflection magnitude at all — the repeat it drives *cannot* be +faster-the-harder-you-push. That excludes the one competing model, so only two +constants are open and a single measurement closes both. + +## ⚠️ Adopting the rate breaks a green check, for the right reason + +`tools/port/verify-input` asserts *"a held stick is ONE step, not six"*. That row +passes today **because the feature is inert**, i.e. it asserts the absence of the +repeat. When a rate is adopted a held stick should produce further steps and that +row will go red. + +It is not wrong and it should not be deleted in a hurry: it was written for the +2026-09-01 jitter defect, so it will *look* like that bug returning. It has to be +re-stated as "one step per deflection **plus** the measured repeat", with the +jitter case still covered inside the delay window. + +## What this does not claim + +* That the repeat feels right. It cannot — it does not run. +* Any rate, or any bound on one. "Medium pace" is a direction, not a number, and + it is not recorded anywhere as data. +* That the d-pad and the stick repeat at the *same* rate. Both repeat; nobody + has said they match, and the code currently assumes one rate for both. diff --git a/docs/port/p7-gate.md b/docs/port/p7-gate.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..77323578 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/p7-gate.md @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +# P7 — the new-game intro plays and returns to a defined state ✅ + +**Status:** ✅ **gate met, with an artifact.** Run 2026-09-01 by the Port at +`4be90c2` + this commit; HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +`PORT-MISSION.md` P7: *"New-game intro video after NEW GAME | Plays, then returns +to a defined state."* + +The path had been **wired** for some time — `authored/flow.json` gives `ptbtn01` +a `then_video: "S00A"`, a `skipped_chain`, and `after_video: {goto: "title"}`, +and `S00A.ogv` is in the export. **Nobody had run it.** A milestone is done when +its artifact exists, not when the wiring reads correctly, and this file is the +difference. + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +> `--menu --script=accept` with focus on `NEW GAME` announces the skipped +> `DIFFICULTY, SELECT DATA` chain, plays `S00A`, and returns to `title`. +> Unskipped, `S00A` is 93.78 s of media, so it should end **on its own** at +> ≈94 s and hand off. + +## What happened + +``` + menu on main_menu, focus ptbtn01 +script[1] accept at 1.00 s + (NEW GAME) -> the real chain is DIFFICULTY -> SELECT DATA, then the movie. + Neither screen is in this export. + -> video S00A at 0.97 s (/work/export/video/S00A.ogv) + + voice S00A + video ended at 94.13 s + -> title (authored: authored) + (after the movie) -> title + overlay press_start raised, settles at t=236 +script complete after 96.83 s on title +``` + +**94.13 s against 93.78 s of declared media — +0.35 s, 0.4 %.** It ends on its +own, at the right time, and hands off. Both predictions held. + +Artifacts: `s_00_start.png` (main menu, `NEW GAME` focused) and `s_01_accept.png` +(the title with the plate up) — written to the scratchpad by `--shots`, not +committed, because they are frames of the user's own disc. + +## It genuinely decodes — checked, because "ends at the right time" does not prove it + +A player that consumed 94 s of *time* while showing one frame would also "end at +94 s". So the frame counts, at two window lengths: + +| window | frames shown | of 2813 | +|---|---|---| +| 2.03 s | 45 | 2 % | +| 18.91 s | **244** | 9 % | + +Frames scale with the window — it is decoding, not stalled. **Sub-linearly +though**, 22.2 fps early against 12.9 fps over the longer window, and that is +the same software fill ceiling documented in +[`port-frame-rate.md`](port-frame-rate.md); these two runs predate the GPU. + +⚠️ **The counts are upper bounds and the port says so itself** — the log reads +*"at most 244 of 2813 frame(s) shown"*. It cannot see inside `VideoStreamPlayer`, +so it reports what it can bound rather than a number it cannot support. + +## A free corroboration of the fill-rate finding + +The unskipped run reports `main_menu: 5677 frames in 94.13 s — **60.3 fps**`. +The screen never changes during a movie, so the rate line attributes the whole +playback to it. + +**The same process, in the same container, on the same screen: 60.3 fps while a +full-screen video texture is on top, and 9.7 fps while drawing the menu's five +additive full-screen quads.** That is the fill-rate conclusion arriving from a +direction it was not designed for — one large textured quad is cheap, five +additive ones are not — and it cost nothing to obtain. + +## Two things this run surfaced that are not P7 + +* 🔴 **`4 ObjectDB instances were leaked at exit`.** Godot's own warning, on + every run of this path. Small and at shutdown, so it costs a player nothing, + but it is a real signal that something in the video/overlay teardown is not + freed. **Not chased, recorded.** +* 🟡 **The menu bed keeps playing under the movie.** The port prints this itself + and it is already an open ask — *does the menu music duck?* — in + `BLOCKED.md`. Left audible on purpose rather than guessed at. + +## What this does not claim + +* That the skipped chain is right. `DIFFICULTY` and `SELECT DATA` live in + archives this milestone does not export; the port **announces the skip** rather + than pretending the sequence is complete, which is the honest half of a gate it + cannot fully reach. +* That `after_video: title` is what the game does. It is **authored**, and its + `why` says so: the game goes into Mission 1, and gameplay is out of scope + (`PORT-MISSION` §7). "Returns to a defined state" is the gate; `title` is the + state we defined. diff --git a/docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md b/docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b795d67a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md @@ -0,0 +1,458 @@ +# H3 — the `PRESS Ⓐ` plate: which half the lateness is in + +**Status:** ✅ **both halves answered, and TWO of my own conclusions on this page +were refuted within the hour** — the `5 units/frame` reading and the claim that +`clock: "shared"` collapses. Both are struck in place rather than deleted, +because both were confident and both were wrong for reasons worth keeping. +The answers are the Decoder's `h3-units-per-frame-measured.md`, +`origin/auto/frame-blend-draw-path` at `a482d9a`. +Written 2026-09-01 by the Port, against `export/` regenerated from this +checkout, `HEAD` = `6db49f5` (merge of `origin/main` `1af103d` and +`origin/human/r1-retro-tick`). HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +The [play-test](../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-01.md) finding 3 says the plate +arrives late and names three candidate causes: the **unit→seconds constant** +(the Decoder's), the **clock origin** and **`rest.t`** (both ours). The brief +asks which half it is, and how that was established. This page is the answer. + +> **Short version, after the answer landed.** `rest.t` and the clock origin are +> eliminated and stay eliminated — those were the port's half and the evidence +> below still holds. **Units per *frame* is 2, not the 5 I inferred**; my +> derivation was sound arithmetic on an unsound premise and is struck below. +> **The anchor is t=160**, as I suspected. And my consequent claim that +> `clock: "shared"` therefore collapses is **withdrawn** — I computed the +> collapse against the one number now known to be in dispute. What is left open +> is **units per *second***, which is `2 × guest fps`, and whether the guest is +> 30 Hz or 60 Hz is not settled by anyone. At 60 Hz the plate lands at 1.97 s +> instead of 3.93 s, which is the size of what the human reported. + +## What the export actually declares + +`export/screens/title/press_start.json`, build 2, one element `ptbtn00`: + +| t | alpha | note | +|---|---|---| +| 0 | `0x00` | invisible, y = 560 | +| 214 | `0x00` | still invisible, y = 550 — it has drifted up unseen | +| **236** | `0xff` | **full** | +| 238 | `0xff` | last opaque frame | +| 244 | `0x00` | gone again | + +`rest.t = 236`. `settle_window = [214, 236, 225]`. + +🔴 **The corpus says the plate reaches `a=255` at `t=238`. It reaches it at +`t=236`.** 238 is the last frame at full alpha, not the arrival. Every +derivation quoting `238 − 118 = 120 units = 2.000 s` is really `236 − 118 = +118 units = 1.967 s`. The port has been printing both halves of the +contradiction in one sentence on every boot — *"plate reaches full alpha at +t=236 … 120 units after …"* — which is what an unchecked literal beside a +computed value looks like. Corrected in `boot.gd` and in `authored/flow.json`. +It moves the reconciliation by 0.033 s and overturns nothing. + +## Candidate 1 — `rest.t`. **Eliminated.** + +`rest.t` cannot set the plate's arrival, because the arrival is a **declared +keyframe**, not a rest pose. `ptbtn00` is transparent until `t=214` and opaque +at `t=236` under its own ramp; `rest.t = 236` only chooses where `holding` +parks it afterwards, and 236 *is* that ramp's own peak. Setting `rest.t` to any +other value moves where the plate stops, never when it starts. + +Confirmed against the running port rather than by reading: see the film below, +where the plate's onset is bracketed by the declared `t=214` with `rest.t` +untouched. + +⚠️ This does **not** rehabilitate `rest.t` generally. It is still wrong for +transients — `ptlogo_back2eff1` is a two-frame flash (0 at t52, `0xff` at +t54–56, 0 by t58) and its `rest.t = 54` is the flash *peak*, so `rest()` leaves +five of these burning at once. It is simply not in this defect's causal path. + +## Candidate 2 — the clock origin. **Eliminated, and measured.** + +Two things had to be true and both are: + +**(a) The port's two builds share one clock exactly.** `_advance` sets +`view.time_units = 0.0` and raises the overlay in the same call +(`_overlay_due = _elapsed`), and the sequence path assigns +`overlay.time_units = view.time_units` outright rather than integrating a second +delta. Verified over a filmed boot: **85 of 85 title frames have +`view_units == overlay_units` to three decimals**, from 7.812 to 679.182. There +is no drift and no offset to find. + +**(b) The title step begins when the previous step ends.** The film puts the +video's end and the title's start at the same logged instant (7.86 s / 7.92 s +across two runs), with no black hold between them. + +## Candidate 3 — the unit→seconds constant. **NOT eliminated. It is the live one.** + +🔴 **This section said "eliminated by sign" and that was wrong.** The argument +was: for the port to be late the constant must be *larger* than 60 units/s, +while the oracle presents at ~28.1 fps and the corpus measured the idle title at +28.5 fps — both slower than nominal, so the game's units run slower, not faster. + +**That conflates two different quantities.** A presentation rate converts a +*measured wall-clock duration* into units. It says nothing about **how many +units elapse per game frame**, which is the constant in question +(`keyframe_units_per_second`, and `keyframe_time_unit` is listed as `unresolved` +on every screen this export emits). The correction is recorded rather than +edited away because the elimination it produced was confident and wrong. + +And the Decoder's splash draw capture, landed the same day on +`origin/auto/frame-blend-draw-path` at `3cc1b51` +(`docs/re/data/splash-quad-timeline.txt`), gives an **independent handle on that +constant** — from a screen with no bearing on the plate: + +| interval, publisher splash | guest, observed | this export, declared | units/frame | +|---|---|---|---| +| companion (`Q7`) onset → sharp logo (`Q0`) onset | f4 → f7, **3 frames** | t=0 → t=15, **15 units** | **5.0** | +| companion onset → its own peak | f4 → f7 (a=240), **3 frames** | t=0 → t=15 (a=255), **15 units** | **5.0** | +| sharp logo onset → full alpha | f7 → f10, **3 frames** | t=15 → t=30, **15 units** | **5.0** | + +Three intervals, three ways, **5 units per guest frame** — against the declared +**2**. + +## 🔴 STRUCK. It is 2 units per frame, and my 5 was an artefact of two things + +Measured by the Decoder on `ptbtn00` itself — the plate, on the title, not a +splash — in `h3-units-per-frame-measured.md` (`a482d9a`), against a +pre-registration committed before the capture was read: + +``` +label 5372 5373 5374 5375 [5376] 5377 5378 [5379] 5380 +alpha 46 69 92 115 — 197 220 — 255 +step +23 +23 +23 +``` + +`255 × 2 / 22 = 23.18`, and the plate's declared ramp is `t=214 → 236`, i.e. +`T = 22`. **Three consecutive gap-free steps of exactly 23 is 2.0 units per +frame on the nose.** Their prediction was 11 frames for the ramp and it measured +10, inside a stated ±1. My 4.4-frame prediction is excluded by more than 2×. + +**Why my three intervals all read 5, and why the agreement between them was +worthless.** Two independent errors, both mine to have made: + +1. **An alpha step is not a clock rate.** For a linear segment, + `Δα per frame = 255 × (units per frame) / T`. Two elements with different + declared segment lengths `T` show different `Δα` at an *identical* clock. + Splash B's quads step 34 with `T=15`; the plate steps 23 with `T=22`; both + are 2 units/frame. Reading a step as a rate is what produced the 2.7×. +2. **My "onsets" were not onsets.** I took each quad's *first submission* as its + `α = 0` time. On splash A, `Q7` and `Q0` are both already at **α = 85** when + first submitted. So all three intervals started late — and by a *different* + amount per element, because the bias scales with `T`. That the three then + agreed with each other is not corroboration; they share the error. + +The three "independent" intervals were one measurement made three times with the +same two biases. That is the shape I should have checked for and did not. + +⚠️ The Decoder records the published `splash-quad-timeline.txt` having no `T` +column as their own defect, now fixed. That does not make the inference mine any +less: **the arithmetic was sound and the premise was not, and a premise handed +to me is still a premise I used.** + +⚠️ **Two caveats, and they are why this is asked rather than acted on.** The +capture's frame index **skips** — 5, 8 and 12 are absent from Q7's eight draws — +and whether those are frames where the quad was genuinely not submitted or +presents the logger dropped changes the arithmetic. And the present rate during +a splash is not established. + +### 🔴 And it collides with the oracle's own plate measurement + +The two captures cannot both be read at face value: + +| capture | implies | +|---|---| +| `title-plate-delay-measured.md` — 118 units in 2.135 s | **~55 units/s** | +| `splash-quad-timeline.txt` — 15 units in 3 frames | **~150 units/s** at 30 fps | + +A factor of **2.7** between two measurements taken off the same game by the same +agent, on two different screens. Either the two screens' keyframes are in +different units, or one of the two readings has an anchor wrong — which is the +same shape as the `t=118` / `t=160` question below. **Both are oracle +measurements and neither is the port's to resolve.** Asked in +[`BLOCKED.md`](BLOCKED.md) H3. + +## The film — and the instrument had to be fixed first + +`--film` scheduled frame `n` for `n × interval` and reported nothing. One +1280×720 `save_png` under llvmpipe costs ~0.24 s, so **a request for 0.05 s +delivered 247 frames in 60 s where 1 200 were asked for** — an achieved 4.1 fps +against a requested 20 — and the deficit accumulated silently into the frame +index. `f_071.png` still looked exactly like the frame that was meant to be +3.55 s in. + +[`TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md`](../agents/TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md) §1 is explicit +that this is not a slow capture but a *different* one, and that an instrument +which cannot report its own completeness may not be trusted (R3). So `--film` +now writes `_frames.tsv` — one row per frame carrying the elapsed second +it was **actually** taken at, the second it was **requested** for, the lag +between them, and both builds' clocks — appended and flushed as it goes, so a +run killed by `timeout` still leaves a complete index. It prints the achieved +rate against the requested one every 40 frames. The schedule is deliberately +**not** rebased onto `_elapsed`: catching up would hide the shortfall, which is +the defect. + +The run this page rests on: requested 20 fps, **achieved 15.9 fps for the first +120 frames and 11.3 fps by frame 200**, lag reaching 8.7 s. Stated because the +numbers below are quoted against `view_units` — the port's own timeline, which +the index records per frame — and never against a wall-clock instant. + +### Pre-registered, before looking (R2) + +> Filming the boot, measured from the frame the title step begins, the plate +> region stays at its background floor until **t=214**, rises over **22 units**, +> and plateaus at **t=236**. Accept ±2 frames at each end. + +### What it did + +Region = the plate's own quad, x 127–640, y 525–575 (`pos [383,550]`, +`pivot [256,25]`, sprite 513×50). Mean of the crop, one row per filmed frame: + +| `view_units` | region mean | | +|---|---|---| +| 7.8 → 143.8 | 0.13765, **flat to 5 decimals** | nothing there | +| 151.9 → 207.8 | 0.13773 → 0.14341 | a slow 4 % drift, build 4's own | +| **207.8 → 215.3** | 0.14341 → **0.15348** | ⬅ the step; brackets the declared **214** | +| 215.3 → 239.8 | → 0.21254 | the ramp | +| 239.8 → 279.3 | → 0.24766 | plate full at 236; the rest is `ptbtn00f` | + +The onset is bracketed between 207.8 and 215.3 at a frame spacing of ~7.5 units, +i.e. **within one frame of the declared 214**, and `rest.t` was never touched. +Prediction held. + +After 236 the region keeps oscillating — peaks near `u` 279 and 407, troughs +near 343 and 479, a period of **~128 units** against `ptbtn00f`'s declared +`loop_length_units = 120`. That is the focus glow looping, not the plate, and it +is an ordering-and-period check that survives the drifting capture rate. + +## So where the port lands against the oracle + +`docs/re/title-plate-delay-measured.md` is **not in this checkout** — it is on +`origin/auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures`, added at `fb536df` and cited by +`authored/flow.json` at `5b0a6e6`. Read there: + +| | run 1 | run 2 | **the port** | +|---|---|---|---| +| settled → plate | 2.138 s | 2.132 s | **1.967 s** (118 units at 60/s) | +| first drawn → plate | 3.781 s | 4.263 s | **3.933 s** (236 units) | + +On the interval the oracle measured deliberately, the port is **0.17 s early**. +On the interval the oracle explicitly says not to use, the port sits **between +the two runs**. No number anyone has taken makes this port's plate late. + +**The human watched both and says late, and that observation stands.** At +60 units/s the port reproduces every figure the plate capture carries — which is +the point: *reproducing that capture is not the same as being right*, because +the splash capture says the unit is 2.5× off and would put the port 2.4 s late. +The two cannot both hold. The human's eye agrees with the splash capture. + +## 🔴 WITHDRAWN: my claim that the t=160 anchor collapses `clock: "shared"` + +The section below asked which anchor the glyph counter corresponds to and said, +of the t=160 answer, *"the shared-clock premise does not reproduce the +measurement at all and `clock: "shared"` is open"*. **The Decoder answered +t≈160–176 — candidate B — and then repeated my consequence back to me**, noting +correctly that what it costs the port's model is the port's problem and not +evidence against their measurement. + +**They were right to report it and I was wrong to have claimed it.** I computed +the collapse by comparing the declared 76 units against **2.135 s**, and 2.135 s +is the single number the same page identifies as in dispute — their two captures +disagree about frames→seconds by ~2.9×. *Falsifying a model with the quantity +that is itself under dispute* is the error, and it is the second time on this +page I reasoned confidently from a premise I had not checked. + +Against the **new** capture, in its own labels rather than in seconds, +shared-clock holds: + +| declared, shared clock | capture | at the plate ramp's own measured 2.2 units/label | +|---|---|---| +| `ptcopyright` full (t=160) → plate α=0 (t=214) = **54 units** | 5350 → 5370, **20 labels** | 44 units | +| `ptcopyright` full (t=160) → plate α=255 (t=236) = **76 units** | 5350 → 5380, **30 labels** | 66 units | +| the plate's own ramp (t=214 → 236) = **22 units** | 5370 → 5380, **10 labels** | — (this is the calibration) | + +Both intervals come out **short of declared by 13–19 %, in the same direction**, +against a claimed collapse of ~1.7×. And the residual has a named candidate the +Decoder supplies: **empty labels advance the clock by more than one step**, they +are about one label in five, and the two intervals contain different fractions of +them (3 of 20, and 6 of 30). Modelled with empties carrying ~4 units the two +reconstruct at 46 and 72 against 54 and 76. + +**So `clock: "shared"` is not falsified and the port keeps it.** It is not +*confirmed* to better than ~20 % either, and this page does not claim that. What +it is no longer is "collapsed on the port's own account". + +## A second anchor question, also the Decoder's — ✅ ANSWERED: it is t=160 + +**What does the oracle's "title settled" correspond to on the declared +timeline?** It is defined operationally — *"glyph counter first reads its +no-plate value 154"* — and our export offers **two** anchors, 42 units apart: + +| anchor | what it is | settled → plate | vs measured 2.135 s | +|---|---|---|---| +| **t = 118** | `pteff01`, `pteff02`, `ptlogoall_eff` end their ramps together | 118 units = 1.967 s | −8 % | +| **t = 160** | `ptcopyright` reaches full alpha — the **last** element to finish building in, and the only one made of **glyphs** | 76 units = 1.267 s | −41 % | + +The port's reconciliation picked 118. The port's own `settle_time()` returns +**160** and the boot prints `settles at t=160` — so the two notions disagree +inside one binary. And the oracle's anchor is a *glyph* counter, while the thing +that finishes at 160 is a *line of text*. + +If the anchor is 160, the shared-clock premise does not reproduce the +measurement at all and `clock: "shared"` in `authored/flow.json` — which the +port authored from arithmetic and nobody has ever measured — is open. If it is +118, the reconciliation stands and H3 is not a timing defect. + +**Answered from the draw stream** (`a482d9a`): `ptcopyright` reaches α=255 at +label 5350, which calibrates to **t ≈ 168** on the plate's own ramp (t ≈ 176 at a +flat 2.0/label). Candidate B is 8–16 units away; candidate A is 50–58. It is B. + +📌 And a caution from the same stream that this port should hold onto: **the +sweep leaves never settle.** The two off-screen-wide quads translate +monotonically through every label examined and are still moving when the plate +arrives. *"The title has settled"* can only ever mean **the build-in elements +have finished**, never *the screen has stopped changing* — which is the same +distinction that `rest.t` keeps getting wrong. + +### 🔴 ALL FOUR NAMED CAUSES ARE NOW DEAD, AND THE HUMAN'S OBSERVATION IS NOT + +**The rate is measured: 56.8 units per guest second** (`units-per-second-measured.md`, +control passing at 1.15 %, two elements agreeing at one clock — `ptbtn00` at +657.9 α/s and `ptcopyright` at 650.4 α/s, which puts `ptcopyright`'s segment at +`T = 22.25`, a round declared length nobody fitted). **30 and 120 are both +excluded.** + +At 56.8 units/s the plate's `t = 236` lands at **4.15 s** after clock zero, +against the port's **3.93 s**. The port is fractionally **early**. So: + +| candidate | verdict | +|---|---| +| `rest.t` | eliminated — the arrival is a declared keyframe | +| clock origin | eliminated — 85/85 frames share one clock | +| the anchor (t=118 vs t=160) | answered: t=160, and `clock: "shared"` survives it | +| **the unit→seconds constant** | **eliminated — 56.8 measured; the port is early, not late** | + +**Nothing named in the play-test explains what the human saw, and this page says +so rather than quietly closing H3 green.** The observation stands and is now +unattributed. Two things it could still be, neither of them the plate's own +timing and neither established here: + +* **what "late" was measured against.** Every number above is relative to the + title's clock zero. A player experiences the plate relative to the *boot*, and + the port's boot reaches the title at 7.86 s only because `--skip-at` presses Ⓐ. + 🔴 **On the play-test build Ⓐ was not bound to the pad at all**, so that human + could not skip the 137 s intro — the run they judged is not the run any of + these measurements describe. +* **the splash dwells.** The rate's reach is the **title**. The splashes are a + different `GamePart` and nothing yet shows they tick at 56.8; the Decoder has + reading their `T` off the disc as a next item. + +### The route that is dead regardless + +🔴 **`units = 2 × frames` must not be used anywhere.** The same animation takes +21 frame labels in one capture and 33 in another, and a splash logo steps +`+136,+34` in one run and `+17,+51,+34,+34,+17,+17` in the other; a fixed +per-frame increment cannot do that. The 2 was one run's frame pacing. + +✅ **Audited, and the port never did this.** `boot.gd` advances +`time_units += delta * units_per_second` off delta time. The retirement cost this +port a *justification* in `authored/timing.json`, not a behaviour — and the +justification's second leg (12 declared units against a 0.14–0.30 s measured +black plateau, 40–86 units/s, no frames in the chain) never depended on it. + +### What was still open, before the rate landed + +`units/second = units/frame × guest fps`. The first factor is now **2**. The +second is not established: **2 × 30 = 60** (what this port uses) and +**2 × 60 = 120** (which puts the plate at **1.97 s** instead of 3.93 s — the size +of what the human reported). The Decoder's capture ran at 27.2 labels/s, which is +Canary's presentation rate and cannot separate a 30 Hz guest at full speed from a +60 Hz guest at half. **They asked the port not to change 60 units/s on their +account yet, and it has not.** Asked in [`BLOCKED.md`](BLOCKED.md) H3. + +## Refutation attempts this iteration + +| claim | whose | outcome | +|---|---|---| +| the title's settle window is `[160, 236]` | Decoder, `5b0a6e6` | ✅ **survived** — our exporter still computes `[160, 236, 198]` under the corrected record layout | +| *"`ptlogo1` rests at t=251 and stops moving at t=42"* | Decoder, `5b0a6e6`, and the headline evidence for `rest.t ≠ settle` | ❌ **refuted on its evidence** — in the current export `ptlogo1.rest.t` is **42**, equal to when it stops moving. The record-layout fix repaired exactly this element. The *conclusion* survives on other elements (`ptlogo_back2eff1`, `pteff00`); the example no longer supports it | +| *"`ptbtn00` reaches a=255 at t=238"* → `120 units` | the Port's own | ❌ **refuted** — 236, so 118 units | +| *"build 4 is still fading up from black until t=261; `pteff00` is 7 % opaque at 243"* | the Port's own | ❌ **refuted** — `pteff00` is opaque at t=0, clear by **t=16**, transparent until 261, then fades **to** black by 269. At t=243 it is 0 % opaque. The comment had the direction backwards | + +## What this does not settle + +* Whether the human's "late" is a real offset the corpus has not measured. It + is not reconciled by anything here, and no measurement contradicts it either. +* The `t=118` / `t=160` anchor. Asked, not guessed. +* Whether the plate **pulses** after arrival. The port holds it; the corpus + measures a ~2.24 s pulse. Filed already in `flow.json`'s `no_pulse_why`. +* Finding 4 (the splash fade/blur) is the Decoder's this iteration — it said so + on the message channel and is on `auto/frame-blend-draw-path`. + + +--- + +# The splash blur is an ASSET, not a pass — and this port already draws it + +Added the same iteration, after the Decoder answered play-test finding 4 from +GPU state (*no post-process on either splash*, `auto/frame-blend-draw-path` at +`3cc1b51`) and the human added the observation that **the logos go from blurred +to clear/sharp, in about one second**. + +Those two are not in tension. They resolve each other: + +> **Every logo ships a second, pre-blurred copy of itself, ~21 × 20 px larger +> and concentric, which is drawn alone first and crossfades out as the sharp +> logo fades in.** That is "blurred → sharp" with no post-process pass, no +> blur shader and no second render target. + +Measured off `export/sprites/title/`: + +| logo | sharp | companion | position offset | concentric? | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `palogo_gamearts` | 500 × 71 | 521 × 91 | (−11, −10) | ✅ | +| `palogo_seta` | 240 × 89 | 261 × 110 | (−10, −11) | ✅ | +| `palogo_anima` | 388 × 136 | 407 × 156 | (−11, −9) | ✅ | +| `palogo_sqex` | 666 × 68 | 686 × 89 | (−10, −11) | ✅ | + +## 🔴 "The port applies no blur at all" is false, and it came from this page's own side + +[`BLOCKED.md`](BLOCKED.md) H2 and the play-test both record *"The port draws the +splash from the declared keyframe alphas only. It applies **no blur at all**."* +The port does not apply a post-process blur — but it draws all seven quads of +the developer splash including the three blurred companions, and it has been +doing so all along. A frozen sweep across the build-in, one deterministic +capture every 3 units (the human's "take a series of quick screenshots within +the short animation span", done without a clock at all): + +| `t` | units | drawn | +|---|---|---| +| 0.00 s | 0 | background only | +| 0.05 – 0.25 s | 3 – 15 | background + **the three blurred companions alone** | +| 0.30 – 0.70 s | 18 – 42 | **all seven** — the crossfade | +| 0.75 – 0.80 s | 45 – 48 | background + the three sharp logos | + +Blurred first, then both, then sharp. The mechanism is reproduced. The claim +that it was not came from describing the renderer instead of running it. + +## Cross-check of the Decoder's quad mapping — ✅ survived, independently + +`splash-quad-timeline.txt` names its quads by NDC rectangle off the guest's +vertex stream. This export's declared rectangles, converted independently: + +| | this export | the guest | agreement | +|---|---|---|---| +| `palogo_sqex` | x[−0.517, +0.523] y[−0.106, +0.083] | `Q0` x[−0.520, +0.520] y[−0.100, +0.080] | **~2 px** | +| `palogo_sqex_eff` | x[−0.533, +0.539] y[−0.133, +0.114] | `Q7` x[−0.530, +0.540] y[−0.130, +0.120] | **~4 px** | + +Two decoders, two paths — a `.pak` read statically and a vertex stream logged +live — agreeing to a few pixels on both the sharp quad and the blurred one. +That is corroboration of the mapping and of `Q7` being the companion. + +## What is still open on the splash + +* **The extent.** The rectangles agree; the *alphas* are where the 5-units-per- + frame discrepancy above came from, and until that is settled it is not + possible to say whether the game holds the blurred copy longer than we do. + That is the same question as H3 and is asked once, there. +* Whether `palogo_eff0` (kind `0x10`, a full-screen quad, like the title's + `pteff00`) is the splash's fade veil. Not examined this iteration. diff --git a/docs/port/plate-arrives-on-time-but-never-blinks.md b/docs/port/plate-arrives-on-time-but-never-blinks.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6aaa168d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/plate-arrives-on-time-but-never-blinks.md @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +# H3 re-asked after the animation fix: the plate is **on time**, and it **never blinks** + +**Status:** ✅ **the "arrives late" observation does not reproduce as a timing +error** — measured on the current build, and the plate's onset sits on its +declared keyframe. 🔴 **A different divergence in the same element is real and +was not being looked for: the port holds `PRESS Ⓐ` lit permanently, where the +disc declares a 30-unit pulse.** Written 2026-09-02 by the Port at `6263686`. + +`PLAYTEST-2026-09-02.md` asks for exactly this, in its own words: *"Worth +re-asking now: the animation fix changed what the whole boot looks like, so the +original observation may simply no longer reproduce."* And there is a specific +reason to re-ask rather than assume — **the previous plate numbers were taken +through the `pose_at` bug**, the same way the 0.01 % that manufactured H2's false +green was. + +## What the disc declares + +`export/screens/title/press_start.json`, one element `ptbtn00`: + +``` +0:0 214:0 236:255 238:255 244:0 rest [383,550], sprite 513x50 +``` + +Invisible until **214**, full at **236–238**, **gone by 244**. A 30-unit pulse. + +## The instrument, and the two controls it went through first + +Filmed a real boot (`--skip-at=1 --linger=8 --film-interval=0.05`), no `--time`, +no pinning. Then **two attempts at isolating the plate failed before one worked**, +which is the part worth keeping: + +1. 🔴 **A rect around the plate.** Contaminated — the rect overlaps the developer + splash earlier in the boot, so the onset detector fired on the wrong screen. +2. 🔴 **A control band 55 px above the plate.** Still wrong. The title's + background sweep **moves**, so a spatially displaced control samples it at a + different phase and cannot cancel it. It showed a "rise" that was the sweep. +3. ✅ **The plate sprite's own transparent holes.** Same rectangle, same rows, + interleaved with the glyphs at pixel scale — 7 672 glyph pixels against 10 412 + hole pixels, both built from the sprite's alpha channel. A co-located + background sample, so `glyph − hole` is the plate and nothing else. + +⚠️ Control 2 is the same defect as everything else on this project: **an +instrument that cannot see the thing it is measuring separately from the thing +it is measuring against.** It produced a plausible curve. The tell was that the +"plate" and the background rose together in phase. + +## Result 1 — the arrival is correct + +`glyph − hole`, dark baseline **0.003**: + +| overlay units | 205 | **214** | **222** | 230 | **238** | 246 | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| plate | 0.005 | **0.005** | **0.222** | 0.434 | **0.586** | 0.601 | + +**Flat through 213.9 and risen by 222.1.** The declared onset `t=214` sits inside +that bracket, and the bracket is 8 units wide because that is the film's sampling +interval, not a measurement of anything. By `t=238` the plate is at 88 % of its +lit level, against a declared full alpha at 236. + +**The plate is not late.** Whatever the human saw in the 2026-09-01 play-test, +the port's own clock puts `ptbtn00` on its declared keyframe. + +## Result 2 — 🔴 and it then stays lit forever + +The declared ramp returns to **0 at t=244**. It does not: + +| | | +|---|---| +| dark baseline, `t < 214` | **0.003** | +| minimum at any point after `t = 250` | **0.587** (at `ou` 342) | +| maximum after `t = 250` | **0.664** | +| span measured | `ou` 6 → **1974** — **8.1 declared cycles** | + +Over eight cycles of its own declared timeline the plate **never returns within +88 % of dark**. The 11.6 % ripple that is there is *not* the plate: it is in +phase with the hole channel, i.e. it is the title's background sweep leaking +through the anti-aliased glyph edges. + +### Why, and it is a failure mode this port already wrote down + +`ptbtn00`'s `rest.t = 236` and its settle instant is `t=236` — **the peak of the +pulse**. `holding` parks the element there, so the port shows a `PRESS Ⓐ` plate +that lights once and stays on. + +`plate-arrival-halves.md` names this exact class already, about a different +element: + +> *"It is still wrong for transients — `ptlogo_back2eff1` is a two-frame flash +> (0 at t52, `0xff` at t54–56, 0 by t58) and its `rest.t = 54` is the flash +> **peak**, so `rest()` leaves five of these burning at once."* + +**The plate is an instance of the family that page predicted, and nobody had +checked the plate itself** — because that page was written to *eliminate* `rest.t` +as a cause of lateness, which it correctly did, and having eliminated it as the +cause of *one* defect nobody asked what else it was doing. + +## What I have NOT changed, and why + +Nothing. The port still holds the plate. + +Reading the disc's keyframes is mine; **whether the running game pulses its +`PRESS Ⓐ` plate is not.** The keyframes describe a blink and blinking is what +`PRESS START` prompts conventionally do, but "conventionally" is not evidence and +this project has been burned by exactly that kind of inference. The change is +**proposed, not made**, and the Decoder has been asked for the one fact that +settles it: does the plate pulse in the guest, and with what period? + +⚠️ **This is not a regression from the animation fix.** Before the fix `pose_at` +*assigned* the settle instant, which parks the plate at `t=236` too. The plate +has been held for as long as the port has drawn it; the fix neither caused this +nor was supposed to. + +## What this does not claim + +* That finding 3 was wrong when it was made. It says the port measures on time + **now**, on a build whose boot the fix visibly changed. +* That holding is wrong. It says the port's picture and the disc's keyframes + disagree, and names who can adjudicate. +* Anything about the plate's **absolute** alpha or position. Onset timing and + whether it extinguishes, only. diff --git a/docs/port/port-frame-rate.md b/docs/port/port-frame-rate.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..89dbe764 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/port-frame-rate.md @@ -0,0 +1,290 @@ +# The port never reported its own frame rate — it does now, and it is 13–25 fps here + +**Status:** ✅ **instrument added and measured.** ❌ **The candidate it raised for +play-test finding 4 is DEAD — tested on real hardware, not argued away. See the +final section.** The port's draw path never had a case to answer. Written 2026-09-01 by the Port at +`977965e`; HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +## The gap this closes + +[`TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md`](../agents/TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md) §1 is +unambiguous: a capture that asked for one rate and delivered another *"is not a +slow capture, it is a **different** capture"*, and an instrument that cannot +report its own completeness may not be trusted. + +That rule has been applied to `--film` (which I fixed for exactly this), to the +Decoder's harnesses, and to the oracle. **It had never once been applied to the +thing being shipped.** The port had no idea what rate it drew at and no way to +say. + +It matters here specifically, because the splashes are the current focus and the +open complaint about them is that ours is *less pronounced* than the game's. +**A fade drawn in 45 frames and the same fade drawn in 12 are different +animations**, and nothing in this port could have told them apart. + +## The instrument + +`boot.gd` now counts frames per screen and prints at every boot transition, at +the end of the boot, and at every menu arrival: + +``` + publisher_logo: 107 frames in 4.29 s -- 25.0 fps achieved, uncapped, worst gap 108 ms +``` + +`worst gap` sits beside the mean deliberately: a hitch is what reads as wrong. A +screen averaging 55 fps with one 400 ms stall looks broken, and a mean hides that +by construction. + +🔴 **Its first version printed `-9223372036854775808 requested`.** +`DisplayServer.screen_get_refresh_rate()` returns a *float* and is `-1.0` when +the display cannot say — which Xvfb cannot — and `%d` on that underflows to +`INT64_MIN`. A rate line whose own denominator is nonsense is worse than no rate +line. It now names the cap or says `uncapped`. + +## What it measures, in this container + +Three boots, same command, nothing else running: + +| screen | run 1 | run 2 | run 3 | worst gap | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 17.3 fps | 19.6 | 25.0 | 100–115 ms | +| `developer_logos` | 16.7 | 21.9 | 22.8 | 103–138 ms | +| `title` | 17.2 | 14.2 | 12.7 | **150 ms**, all three | + +**13–25 fps, varying by ~2× run to run, with hitches of 100–150 ms.** The +title's 150 ms is identical across all three runs, which looks like a one-off +cost rather than load — the video player is torn down immediately before it. + +### 🔴 And the menu is worse than any of them + +The report was **boot-only** on its first version and said so nowhere — the boot +walks through `_advance`, while `--menu` arrives through `_menu_arrive`. So the +mode a human actually spends time in, and the one where a slow frame is *felt as +input lag* rather than seen as a coarse fade, reported nothing. An instrument +covering half the application while its own page claims "every boot" is exactly +the shape this port keeps finding in other people's work. Fixed in the same +commit: + +``` + main_menu: 20 frames in 2.05 s -- 9.7 fps achieved, uncapped, worst gap 150 ms +``` + +**9.7 fps.** The main menu is the heaviest screen in the port — five additive +elements, five spinning focus rings, a full-screen background — and it is the one +the play-test spent its time on. At 9.7 fps a press takes up to 103 ms to appear +and a spinning ring advances in ~10 visible steps per revolution. + +⚠️ **This is `llvmpipe` software rasterisation under Xvfb in a loaded container. +It is not a measurement of the human's hardware and must not be quoted as one.** +What it establishes is that the port *can* run this slowly and never said so. + +## The consequence, and why it is a live candidate for finding 4 + +The port's timeline is driven by `time_units += delta * units_per_second`, so +**the durations stay correct at any frame rate** — the fade still takes 0.75 s. +What changes is how many distinct alphas that fade is *drawn* at: + +| rendered at | steps in the 45-unit build-in | steps in the glow's 15-unit rise | +|---|---|---| +| **16.7 fps (measured)** | **12.5** | **4.2** | +| **22.8 fps (measured)** | **17.1** | **5.7** | +| 30 Hz | 22.5 | 7.5 | +| 60 Hz | 45.0 | 15.0 | + +The pre-blurred companion glow — the thing that *is* the splash's blur — rises +over 15 units. **In this container it is drawn at four to six distinct alphas.** +At 60 Hz it would be fifteen. + +A soft crossfade rendered in four steps, inside a 750 ms animation carrying a +100–150 ms hitch, is a plausible mechanism for *"close, but not quite right"* and +for *"the game's is more pronounced"* — and it is the **first candidate for +finding 4 that is not already dead.** Every other one is: the keyframes are +vindicated against the vertex stream, the companion quads are drawn, the blend +space matches, the settled pose scores 0.01 % against the capture, and there is +no post-process pass to add. + +🔴 **It is a candidate, not a cause.** It depends entirely on what the machine +running the port manages, and I cannot measure the human's. **The line now +prints on every boot**, so the next play-test answers it for free: if it says 60 +fps and the splash still looks wrong, this is dead too. + +## What is NOT affected, and it was worth checking + +**Every timing result this port has published stands.** They are all derived from +`_elapsed`, which is `+= delta` — a sum of frame times, correct at any rate — and +from `time_units`, which is the same sum scaled. So: + +* the splash dwells (4.270 s and 3.527 s) are unaffected — measured across runs + whose frame rates differed by 2×, and they agreed to ±0.03 s; +* the plate's arrival, the shared-clock check and the film's own index are all + `_elapsed`-based. + +That is the reassuring half of the same design: the port is *correct* at 13 fps +and merely *coarse*. Had the timeline been frame-counted, every number in this +corpus would have been wrong by a factor that changed between runs — which is +precisely the failure the Decoder found in the emulator's own rate and withdrew a +finding over. + +## What this does not claim + +* That 13–25 fps is what a player sees. It is what this container manages. +* That the port has a performance defect. Textures are cached at `load_screen` + and not decoded per frame — that was checked and is not the cause. +* That capping or vsyncing would help. It would not raise the rate here, and + changing presentation behaviour on my own authority is not mine to do. + + +--- + +# The control: it is the software rasteriser, and the port has no case to answer + +Written the iteration after the section above, because *"is 9.7 fps llvmpipe or +something in our draw path"* was left open and it is not a question to leave open +after publishing a candidate cause. + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +> If the rasteriser is the limit, a near-empty Godot scene in this same container +> will also run at roughly 10–25 fps. If my draw path is the limit, it will run +> far faster — take **>100 fps** as the discriminator. + +Same container, same Xvfb, same 1280×720 viewport, same `[rendering]` settings, +almost nothing drawn: + +``` +FPSPROBE mode=empty: 651 frames in 4.03 s -- 161.6 fps, worst gap 54 ms +``` + +**161.6 fps.** The engine loop, the viewport and the present path are not the +limit, by a factor of sixteen over the menu. + +## 🔴 And the first control was not a control + +Its `fill` modes drew **untextured** `draw_rect`s while every element the port +draws is a **texture**. A control that does not do what its subject does bounds +nothing — and it showed: the port's splashes were achieving ~21 Mpx/s against +that control's ~50, which read as the port being mysteriously slow and was really +the control being mysteriously fast. Adding a matched textured mode: + +| mode | full-screen quads | achieved | +|---|---|---| +| `empty` | 0 | **161.6 fps** | +| `fill3` | 3, untextured | 31.5 | +| **`tex3`** | **3, textured** | **23.9** | +| `fill7` | 7, untextured | 12.7 | +| **`tex7`** | **7, textured** | **11.2** | + +## The port sits inside the bracket, ordered by large-quad count + +| screen | full-screen-ish quads | measured | bracket | +|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 1 | 17.3–25.0 | ≈ `tex3` | +| `developer_logos` | 1 | 16.7–22.8 | ≈ `tex3` | +| `title` | 6 | 12.7–17.2 | between `tex3` and `tex7` | +| **`main_menu`** | **5** | **9.7** | ≈ `tex7` (11.2) | + +**Every screen lands between the two matched controls, in the order the quad +count predicts.** The port is drawing large textured alpha quads on a software +rasteriser at exactly the rate a software rasteriser draws large textured alpha +quads. + +⚠️ Note the control's own spread: `fill3` measured **18.0** on one run and +**31.5** on another. The container's load swings by ~1.75×, so the absolute +numbers here are noise-dominated and only the **ordering and the bracket** are +load-invariant — which is what `TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md` §3 says to prefer, and +the reason this conclusion rests on those rather than on any single figure. + +## 🔴 So the finding-4 candidate is downgraded, and I am saying so plainly + +The section above called the frame rate *"the first candidate for finding 4 that +is not already dead"*. **That now looks wrong, and it was mine.** + +The quantisation argument still holds — a fade drawn in four steps is not a fade +drawn in fifteen — but it only bites at these frame rates, and these frame rates +are a property of **software rasterisation in this container**. Five to seven +full-screen quads at 720p is nothing to any GPU; on real hardware the port would +hit vsync and the fade would get its full 45 steps. + +So unless the human ran the port software-rendered, this is not what they saw, +and **every candidate for play-test finding 4 is now dead or near-dead.** That is +an honest dead end rather than a lead, and it is written as one: leaving a +plausible-sounding cause standing when its own control has undercut it is exactly +how *"close but not right"* got explained four different wrong ways. + +**The one thing that would revive it costs the human nothing**: the rate line now +prints on every boot. If their next run says 60 fps, this is finished. + +## What the port does NOT need + +* No draw-path optimisation. 161.6 fps empty says the loop is fine, and the + screens sit on the fill curve exactly where their quad counts put them. +* No texture caching work — already done at `load_screen`, checked last + iteration. +* No `max_fps` or vsync change. It would not raise the rate here, and it is a + presentation decision rather than a defect. + + +--- + +# ❌ Settled on hardware: 60–69 fps, and the candidate is dead + +The human activated a **hardware GPU** in both containers on 2026-09-01, which +made the one open half of this page directly testable. Godot picks it up with no +change on our side: + +``` +Vulkan 1.4.312 - Forward+ - Using Device #0: NVIDIA - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti +``` + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +> Five to seven full-screen textured quads at 720p is trivial for that card. I +> expect the port well above 60 fps on every screen, and the splash fade to get +> its full 45 steps. + +| screen | llvmpipe (before) | **GPU (after)** | worst gap | +|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 17.3–25.0 | **69.4** | 83 ms | +| `developer_logos` | 16.7–22.8 | **69.1** | 15 ms | +| `title` | 12.7–17.2 | **61.1** | 67 ms | +| **`main_menu`** | **9.7** | **59.6** | 117 ms | + +**A 3–6× jump, and every screen is now at or above 60 fps.** The prediction held. + +## What that does to the fade + +| animation | declared | steps drawn at 69 fps | +|---|---|---| +| splash build-in, 45 units = 0.750 s | 45 alphas | **52** | +| companion glow's rise, 15 units = 0.250 s | 15 alphas | **17** | + +**More frames than declared units, so every declared alpha is drawn.** The +quantisation this page raised does not exist on this hardware — not reduced, +*absent*. + +## ❌ So the candidate is dead, and it died the right way + +It was raised as a mechanism, downgraded by a matched control, and is now closed +by a direct measurement on the hardware in question. **Every candidate for +play-test finding 4 is now dead**: the keyframes are vindicated against the +vertex stream, the pre-blurred companion quads are drawn, the blend space +matches, the settled pose scores 0.01 % against the capture, there is no +post-process pass, and the frame rate draws every declared step. + +🔴 **The port has nothing left that is known to be wrong about the splashes, and +that is a statement about our knowledge rather than about the port.** The human +saw something. Nothing we can measure reproduces it. + +**The next play-test is now the highest-value thing available on this focus**, +and it is cheap: the rate line prints on every boot, so it will say 60-something +rather than 10-something, and whatever remains will be visible against a port +that is no longer coarse. + +## The one figure that did not improve + +`main_menu`'s **worst gap is 117 ms** on the GPU against 150 ms on llvmpipe — +essentially unchanged while the mean improved 6×. A hitch that survives a 6× fill +speed-up is not fill. It is most likely first-frame cost (texture upload, shader +compilation) and it sits at the start of the screen, but that is **stated as +untested**: nobody has separated it from load. It is small, it is once per +screen, and it is recorded rather than chased. diff --git a/docs/port/rest-fallback-reaches-nothing.md b/docs/port/rest-fallback-reaches-nothing.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..872426b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/rest-fallback-reaches-nothing.md @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +# The re-opened `rest()` pair cannot change a single pixel this port draws + +**Status:** ✅ **measured, and it bounds a question rather than answering it.** +Written 2026-09-01 by the Port at `94e44b5`; HANDOFF on this branch answers +`9ca1eb5`. + +The loop brief carries a standing warning: the **`rest()` pair is open in both +directions**, and *"the two splashes are the only screens reaching that +fallback."* R1 re-opened both legs, and 8 further claims died to +`⟨render-vs-capture⟩` — an instrument that no longer exists in that form. + +`ScreenView.settle_time()` uses `rest.t`, so this port has been sitting on a +question with no instrument behind either leg. **It turns out not to matter, and +that is worth establishing rather than waiting on.** + +## What reaches the fallback + +`Element::rest()` takes the longest **plateau** — a run of consecutive identical +keyframes — and falls back to the longest dwell when there is none. So an element +reaches the fallback exactly when no two consecutive keyframes are identical. + +Census over all sixteen exported screens, at every nesting depth: + +| screen | elements reaching the fallback | +|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` (and `_r`) | `palogo_sqex_eff` | +| `developer_logos` (and `_r`) | `palogo_anima_eff` | +| **`title_jp`** | **`ptlogo_eff3`** | + +**Five elements in the whole export**, and only three distinct ones. + +## 🔴 The brief's claim is narrowly refuted + +*"The two splashes are the **only** screens reaching that fallback"* — `title_jp` +reaches it too, through `ptlogo_eff3`. + +⚠️ Stated as a measurement of the **current** export and nothing more. That +sentence may have been true when written: the record-layout fix re-timed +keyframes across the corpus, and a plateau is exactly the kind of thing it could +create or destroy. This does not say the claim was wrong when made; it says it is +not true now. + +## And every one of them is invisible where it is read + +The fallback only matters if the element it picks a pose for is actually drawn. +Asked of the port directly, at each screen's own settled instant: + +``` +publisher_logo t=140 drew 2 not drawn: palogo_sqex_eff (transparent at t=140) +developer_logos t=117 drew 4 not drawn: palogo_anima_eff (transparent at t=117) +title_jp --pose=rest drew 23 not drawn: ptlogo_eff3 (transparent at rest) +``` + +**Every element that reaches the `rest()` fallback is fully transparent at the +instant anything reads its rest pose.** + +> So no `rest()` rule — the current plateau-plus-dwell, `last`, `maxalpha` or +> `lastall` — can change any pixel this port draws. The pair is open, and for the +> port it is **moot**. + +That is why the splash rows score 0.01 % against their captures while resting on +a heuristic nobody can currently defend: the heuristic is not load-bearing there. + +## Why this was worth an iteration rather than a wait + +The three elements are the **pre-blurred companion glows** and one title sparkle +— transients that exist to be seen briefly and then leave. An element with no +plateau is, almost by definition, one that never holds still, and a screen's +settled instant is chosen to be where things are holding still. The two +conditions are close to mutually exclusive, which is why the intersection is +empty and why it was worth checking rather than assuming either way. + +⚠️ **This does not rehabilitate `rest.t`.** It is still the wrong answer for +transients — `ptlogo_back2eff1` is a two-frame flash whose `rest.t = 54` is the +flash *peak*, and `rest()` would leave five of those burning at once on the +title. That is a **plateau** case, not a fallback case, and it is untouched by +anything here. + +## What this does not claim + +* That the `rest()` pair is settled. It is open, and this page does not touch it. +* That `rest.t` is right. `settle_time()` still takes the maximum over elements, + and what that means for *when the boot advances* is a separate question — a + screen still plays to `exit_time()` afterwards, so the dwell is governed by + that, not by `rest.t`. **Measured for the drawn picture; argued for the dwell.** +* Anything about the other 7 claims R1 re-opened against + `⟨render-vs-capture⟩`. Not mine to re-derive. diff --git a/docs/port/splash-animation-fixed.md b/docs/port/splash-animation-fixed.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7614f934 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/splash-animation-fixed.md @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +# The splash: frozen, then fixed, and now checked for SHAPE as well as motion + +**Status:** ✅ **animates, and the ramp matches the declared curve.** Written +2026-09-02 by the Port; HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +The 2026-09-02 play-test found the splash frozen. The cause and the fix are in +the commit history; this page is the part that comes after — **is the animation +now the right animation?** `motion-census` says explicitly that it cannot answer +that: *"a wrong ramp that moves every frame passes here."* + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +`palogo_sqex_eff` declares `0:a=0 → 15:a=255 → 30:a=212 → 45:a=0` — three +segments, three gradients: + +| segment | declared | +|---|---| +| 0 → 15 | **+17.0** per unit | +| 15 → 30 | **−2.87** per unit | +| 30 → 45 | **−14.13** per unit | + +> So a film should show three straight runs with breakpoints at **15** and +> **30**, the middle slope about **1/5** the magnitude of the last, and the rise +> about **1.2×** the last. + +## Measured, from a film of a real boot + +Region: `686x11+299+319` — the companion's top strip, which **no other element +overlaps**, so the number is that element's own alpha and not a composite. + +| view units | strip mean | slope/unit | +|---|---|---| +| 5.58 | 0.02809 | | +| 10.00 | 0.05086 | **+0.00515** | +| 13.04 | 0.06611 | **+0.00503** | +| 16.12 | 0.07530 | +0.00298 ← crossing the breakpoint | +| 19.21 | 0.07260 | **−0.00087** | +| 25.38 | 0.06695 | **−0.00092** | +| 28.39 | 0.06482 | −0.00071 | +| 31.39 | 0.05719 | −0.00254 ← crossing the breakpoint | +| 34.39 | 0.04471 | **−0.00416** | +| 40.39 | 0.01910 | **−0.00428** | +| 43.39 | 0.00655 | −0.00418 | +| 46.39 | 0.00000 | gone | + +**Breakpoints land where declared**: the rise stops between 13.0 and 16.1, the +gentle fall steepens between 28.4 and 31.4. + +| ratio | declared | measured | +|---|---|---| +| middle : last | 0.203 | **0.213** | +| rise : last | 1.20 | **1.20** | + +Within 5 % and exact respectively. **The port interpolates piecewise-linearly +across the declared segments** — which is what the Decoder independently measured +the game doing (28 distinct alphas over 28 consecutive presents, modal steps −3 +and −14 against predicted −2.87 and −14.13). + +⚠️ **Ratios, not absolutes, and deliberately.** The strip mean is an alpha +scaled by whatever the sprite's own pixels are; its absolute value carries the +texture. A ratio between segments divides that out, which is why the shape is +checkable from a composite at all. Anyone quoting 0.00515 as an alpha is +misreading it. + +## What this still does not establish + +* That it **looks** right. Three instruments have now agreed with a picture a + human called wrong, and the fourth agreeing does not change the standing of + the fifth. A play-test is the check. +* ~~Anything about the **developer** splash's three logo/companion pairs. One + element, one screen.~~ ✅ **Closed below, and the developer splash turned out to + be the far better test.** +* The **absolute** alpha. The shape matches; whether the port's alpha equals the + game's at a given unit is `verify-capture`'s question, and it answers 0.01 % + at the settled pose only. + + +--- + +# ✅ The developer splash: three elements, TWO declared shapes, on one screen + +The publisher check above had a structural weakness I named at the time: one +element, one screen, one shape. If the port applied *some* single ramp to +everything, that check would pass. + +**The developer splash cannot be fooled that way, because it declares two +different shapes at once:** + +| element | declared alpha | middle segment | +|---|---|---| +| `palogo_gamearts_eff` | `0:0 15:255 30:255 45:0` | **flat** | +| `palogo_seta_eff` | `0:0 15:255 30:255 45:0` | **flat** | +| `palogo_anima_eff` | `0:0 15:255 30:212 45:0` | **decays 17 %** | + +Same screen, same frames, same clock, same code path. The two flat elements are +the control for the one that is not — no second run, no second renderer, and +nothing for a phase or rate error to hide behind, because any such error hits all +three identically. + +## Pre-registered, before the film was read + +> In units 15→30, `gamearts` and `seta` hold flat while `anima` falls gently. +> All three fall steeply 30→45. + +## Measured, off a real filmed boot + +Companion-only strips (each companion's rectangle minus the logo sitting inside +it), mean luma, `--film-interval=0.03`: + +``` +segment units 16-29 units 31-44 +gamearts +0.00000 -0.00101 +seta +0.00000 -0.00151 +anima -0.00001 -0.00003 +``` + +**The two flat ones are flat to five decimals. The decaying one decays.** And all +three fall over 31–44, so the flatness is not a dead element. + +## The quantitative version, and the falsification arm + +Each trace normalised by a **single solved gain** — one scalar per element, not a +per-point fit — against the declared curve, over the whole `t=0..45` ramp: + +| element | fitted against | max err | rms err | +|---|---|---|---| +| `gamearts` | **its own (flat)** | **0.49 %** | 0.23 % | +| `seta` | **its own (flat)** | **0.50 %** | 0.27 % | +| `anima` | **its own (decay)** | **2.18 %** | 1.19 % | +| `gamearts` | anima's decay | 8.32 % | 4.80 % | +| `seta` | anima's decay | 8.08 % | 4.86 % | +| `anima` | flat | 8.82 % | 4.94 % | + +**Both directions.** Every element fits its own declared shape 4–17× better than +it fits the other one available on the same screen. A port that drew one ramp for +all three would sit at ~8 % on at least one row; none does. + +`anima`'s 2.18 % is the loosest row and the reason is its signal: its +companion-only strip means ~0.0005 against gamearts's ~0.015, thirty times +dimmer, so its noise floor is thirty times higher in these units. It still +separates from the wrong curve by 4×. + +## What this adds over the publisher check + +The publisher check established that the ramp has the declared *breakpoints and +slope ratios*. This establishes that the ramp is **per-element** — that the port +reads each element's own keyframes rather than applying a screen-wide curve. That +is a different failure mode, and it is the one that would have survived the +publisher check unnoticed. + +## What it still does not establish + +* That it **looks** right. This is instrument five. The standing of a human's + eyes is unchanged by it. +* The **absolute** alpha, for the same reason as above — a solved gain is + deliberately scale-free, so this is a shape result and says nothing about + whether the port's alpha equals the game's at a given unit. +* Anything about the **logo** elements. Both checks measure the pre-blurred + *companions*, because those are the strips that can be isolated from the sharp + logo underneath them. diff --git a/docs/port/splash-rate-contradiction.md b/docs/port/splash-rate-contradiction.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09117039 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/splash-rate-contradiction.md @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +# The proposed splash rate contradicts the splash dwells — NOT adopted + +**Status:** ✅ **RESOLVED — the rate was withdrawn.** The Decoder withdrew it the +same day (`splash-rate-withdrawn.md`, `1e7343e` *"WITHDRAW 'the unit rate is +per-GamePart' — it was the emulator's frame rate"*), and struck the section that +carried it. §1 of `splash-declared-vs-captured.md` — the keyframe vindication — +stands, because it never divides by a duration. + +**The port never moved, so nothing has to be undone.** What follows is the +refutation as it was made, kept because the shape of the error is reusable: a +duration measured in emulator frames is the emulator's rate, not the game's, and +the tell was that it made a part outlast its whole. + +--- + +**Original status:** 🔴 **refutation attempt, and it lands.** Two of the Decoder's own +measurements, of **the same two screens**, disagree by 1.7×. The port has **not** +changed `keyframe_units_per_second` and is still at 60. Written 2026-09-01 by the +Port at `0a9bf4e`; HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +## What was proposed + +`docs/re/splash-declared-vs-captured.md` (`origin/auto/frame-blend-draw-path`) +reports that one rate cannot cover every screen: + +| screen | evidence | units/guest-second | +|---|---|---| +| title | `ptbtn00` ramp, `T=22` | 56.8 | +| splash | `palogo_gamearts` ramp, `T=15` | 39.1 | +| splash | **160-unit hold in 4.514 guest s** | **35.4** | + +with the conclusion that *"a splash played at 60 units/s runs 1.5–1.7× too +fast"*, and a recommendation to use ~35–40 for the splashes. The hold leg is +offered as the safe one, and the argument for it is good: **a hold carries no +`T`** — it is a declared duration measured directly, with no alpha slope and no +interpolation in the chain. + +## Which hold it is — identified, not assumed + +Exactly one interval in either splash is 160 units. From `export/`: + +| screen | element | `a=255` from → to | hold | +|---|---|---|---| +| `developer_logos` | `palogo_gamearts` (and `_seta`, `_anima`) | t=30 → t=190 | **160 units** | +| `publisher_logo` | `palogo_sqex` | t=30 → t=235 | 205 units | + +So the 160-unit hold is the **developer** splash's full-alpha plateau, and it +sits **inside** that screen's declared group of `t = 0…210`. + +## The contradiction + +`authored/timing.json` already carries a measurement of that same screen — +`docs/re/structures/boot-splash-dwells-are-declared.md`, the Decoder's, over +**three cold boots**: + +``` +publisher declared t=0..255 corpus 4.30 / 4.60 / 4.37 s +developer declared t=0..210 corpus 3.51 / 3.50 / 3.37 s +``` + +🔴 **The 160-unit hold is measured at 4.514 s. The 210-unit group that contains +it is measured at 3.37–3.51 s. A sub-interval cannot outlast the interval +containing it.** + +That is not two methods disagreeing about a rate. It is an arithmetic +impossibility, and one of the two measurements is wrong. + +| | implied units/s | +|---|---| +| developer whole group, 210 units in 3.46 s (3 boots) | **60.7** | +| publisher whole group, 255 units in 4.42 s (3 boots) | **57.7** | +| developer 160-unit hold in 4.514 s (1 run) | 35.4 | + +**The two dwell measurements corroborate ~60 on exactly the two screens the new +figure puts at 35–39**, they agree with each other to 5 %, and the developer +figure agrees with its declared value to 1.1 % — two of its three runs to 0.3 %. + +At 35.4 units/s the declared groups would run **5.93 s** and **7.20 s**, against +corpus dwells of 3.37–3.51 and 4.30–4.60. The port would show each splash for +about 70 % longer than three cold boots measured them lasting. + +## The one escape route, named rather than dismissed + +The new figure is quoted in **guest seconds** and the dwell corpus in wall-clock +seconds. If those clocks differ by 1.7× the two are not comparable and there is +no contradiction. + +**It does not look like the answer.** The known gap between the two is Canary +presenting at ~28.1 fps against a nominal 30 — about **6 %**, not 71 %, and in +the wrong direction to close a factor of 1.7. But this is the Decoder's +instrument and the Decoder's clock, so it is asked rather than ruled out here. + +## What the port did + +**Nothing.** `keyframe_units_per_second` stays at **60**, one value, for every +screen. + +This is deliberate and it is the conservative half in both directions: 60 is what +three cold boots of both splashes support, and it is what the port has been +shipping, so not moving costs nothing that was not already being paid. Adopting +35.4 would slow both splashes by 70 % on the strength of a number that the same +agent's earlier measurement of the same screens says is impossible. + +⚠️ **And the proposal's structural claim may well be right even if this figure is +not.** *"One rate cannot cover every screen"* is a claim about the format, and it +is supported independently by the title's 56.8 sitting 5 % off the splashes' +~58–61. If a per-screen rate is real, the port will need the mechanism — a field +or a `GamePart` constant — and not two authored numbers. The Decoder has *"where +the per-GamePart rate actually comes from"* as its next item, which is the right +question. + +## What this does not claim + +* That the title's 56.8 is wrong. It rests on a different screen and a + gap-free ramp, and nothing here touches it. +* That the splash **keyframes** are wrong. They are now vindicated — see below. +* That the dwell corpus is right and the new capture wrong. Only that they cannot + both be, and that the port must not move on the strength of the one that + contradicts the other. + +## ✅ Separately, and it is good news: the splash keyframes are vindicated + +`docs/re/splash-declared-vs-captured.md` also settles the R1-re-opened *"the +declared keyframe timeline reproduces the captured splash"*, **in favour of the +timeline** — disc table against vertex stream, no renderer in the chain: 50 +captured alphas, 39 exact under truncation, worst error **one alpha level in +255**. + +That entry was 🟡 `⟨our-reader⟩` and is the one the play-test's finding 4 leaned +on. **The port's splash keyframes were never the defect**, which means the +remaining candidate for what the human saw on the splashes is the *rate* — and +the rate is precisely what this page declines to change. + + +--- + +# ✅ And what the splashes actually do, measured on the shipping boot + +With the rate settled at 60, the keyframes vindicated against the vertex stream, +and `verify-capture` scoring both splashes at **0.01 %** against the oracle +frames, the one thing nobody had checked was the **real-time boot path** — the +port's own timing, end to end, rather than a frozen pose or a model. + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +> At 60 units/s, `publisher_logo` holds for 255 + 9 = **264 units = 4.400 s** and +> `developer_logos` for 210 + 9 = **219 units = 3.650 s** — the figures +> `authored/timing.json` states the port emits. Accept ±0.10 s. + +Three boots, `--skip-at=1`, no film (so nothing competes with the renderer): + +| | run 1 | run 2 | run 3 | mean | declared | residual | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 4.28 | 4.26 | 4.27 | **4.270 s** | 255 u = 4.250 s | **+1.2 units** | +| `developer_logos` | 3.50 | 3.57 | 3.51 | **3.527 s** | 210 u = 3.500 s | **+1.6 units** | + +**The prediction failed, by 0.130 s and 0.123 s — and the port was right.** + +## 🔴 The failure was in the claim, not the code + +`authored/timing.json` sets **`black_hold_units = 0`**, deliberately, with its +own argument attached: a uniform black hold is *positively excluded* — the +Decoder's five replicates show the same origin giving different values to +different destinations — so only an ordered-pair key survives and nothing may be +authored until one is measured. + +So there is no 9-unit hold to add, and the port has never added one. Yet two +places asserted it did: + +* `authored/timing.json`, `dwell_why`: *"The port emits 4.400 s and 3.650 s — + each declared value plus the 9-unit black hold, exactly. So the pacing was + right all along and nothing changes in the code."* +* `port/scripts/boot.gd`, in the `_advance` block: the same sentence. + +**The `why` asserted a behaviour that the same file refused three keys below, +and the code comment repeated it.** Both are corrected in place. Nothing in the +port changed — this commit fixes a false statement about our own behaviour, and +the port has been shipping 4.270 / 3.527 since P3. + +## What it does not settle + +Against the corpus dwells (means **4.42** and **3.46** s) neither figure +dominates: the port is 3.4 % short on the publisher and 2.0 % long on the +developer, where the claimed values would be 0.5 % short and 5.5 % long. **So +this does not show a hold does not belong there** — it shows nobody had checked +whether the port did what it said. `black_hold_why`'s ordered-pair ask stands +unchanged. + +⚠️ Worth naming as a pattern rather than an incident: this is the third time in +this corpus that a `why` described behaviour the code did not have. The previous +two were `exit_ramp_units` and the `dwell` slot that *"was read NOWHERE for eight +milestones"*. The common shape is a value **authored, documented, and never +exercised end-to-end** — and the only thing that catches it is running the +shipping path and timing it. diff --git a/docs/port/units-per-second-switch-readiness.md b/docs/port/units-per-second-switch-readiness.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f6336708 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/units-per-second-switch-readiness.md @@ -0,0 +1,356 @@ +# If 120 units/s is right, the switch is one constant — audited, and pre-registered + +**Status:** ✅ **SETTLED by a designed experiment.** The game's clock is +**frame-based, 1 unit per present**; this port's is time-based; **they agree at +60 Hz and the port keeps its own design.** 120 is withdrawn by its author. The +port never moved, so nothing has to be undone. +🔴 **Two things on this page are mine and wrong: the falsifier (conceded +mid-page) and the "no hold / two errors that cancel" finding (withdrawn at the +foot).** Written +2026-09-01 by the Port at `b42ff38`; HANDOFF on this branch answers `9ca1eb5`. + +The Decoder now measures **120 units/s** with a content-hash experiment whose +controls are the ones the withdrawn version lacked. **It is their third position +on this number in one day**, and they said plainly that a second independent boot +before a timeline is rewritten is the defensible call, and that they would rather +this port held for another iteration than swung twice on their say-so. + +**Agreed, and the port has not moved.** What follows is the work that is worth +doing *now* regardless of which value wins. + +## Why hold + +1. **Three positions in a day**, two of them already withdrawn by their author. +2. **Reach is one boot.** They say so. +3. They do **not** offer the 2.13 s reconciliation as support — it needs a ~47 % + emulator speed fitted post-hoc, and they label it as the thing this corpus + keeps losing claims to. +4. Doubling a shipped timeline is the change a play-test would notice most, and + the current value is the one a human has already seen. + +None of that is an argument that 60 is right. **60 has no surviving derivation +either** — its bracket was withdrawn this morning. Both numbers are now +undefended; the port keeps the one it ships because switching on a single capture +is a worse failure than holding on none. + +## The audit they asked for, and it comes out clean + +> *"Every duration in SECONDS I have ever handed you is half what it should be. If +> your timeline is authored in units and converted once, this is a single +> constant. If seconds are baked in anywhere, they all move."* + +Every numeric constant in `authored/`, and every float in the port's code: + +| where | value | seconds? | moves with the constant? | +|---|---|---|---| +| `timing.json` `keyframe_units_per_second` | 60 | — | **it IS the constant** | +| `timing.json` `black_hold_units` | 0 | no — **units** | ✅ derived | +| `timing.json` `dwell_seconds` | `null` | n/a | — | +| `flow.json` `dwell` | prose only, "NOT SET" | n/a | — | +| `audio.json` `loop_start_s` / `loop_end_s` | 9.44 / 61.87 | **yes** | ✅ **correctly not** — these are positions in an audio file, real-time by nature, with no keyframe unit in them | +| `gamepad.gd` `ENTER` / `RELEASE` | 0.61 / 0.4 | no — deflection | — | + +**No seconds are baked into the timeline anywhere.** Every second the port prints +or acts on is computed as `units / units_per_second` at the point of use — +`settle_time()`, `exit_time()`, `_overlay_quit_at`, the boot's own log lines. The +switch is one number in one file. + +## 🔴 Except one, and it was hiding behind a comment about not drifting + +`tools/port/verify-dwell` had: + +```python +# Read from the authored file so it cannot drift again, and REPORT the shortfall +PORT_HOLD = float(...get("black_hold_units", 0)) / 60.0 +``` + +**The value was read from the file. The rate was a literal.** The value could not +drift; the conversion could, and would have gone silently wrong the moment +`keyframe_units_per_second` moved — which is under active dispute right now, so +it is a live hazard rather than a tidy-up. Harmless only because the hold is +currently 0. + +Fixed to read `keyframe_units_per_second` from the same file it already opens. + +⚠️ The shape is worth more than the line: **a comment asserting that something +cannot drift, one expression above a hardcoded copy of the thing that drifts.** +That is the third time in this corpus a `why` has described a property the code +did not have. + +## Pre-registered: what a switch to 120 would do (R2) + +Written **before** any second boot, so the switch is checkable rather than a +leap. At 120 units/s every declared interval halves in seconds; unit counts and +`2 units/present` are untouched. + +| | declared | at 60 (shipping) | **at 120** | +|---|---|---|---| +| `PRESS Ⓐ` plate, full | t=236 | 3.933 s | **1.967 s** | +| plate ramp onset | t=214 | 3.567 s | **1.783 s** | +| publisher splash group | 255 units | 4.250 s | **2.125 s** | +| developer splash group | 210 units | 3.500 s | **1.750 s** | +| title build-in end | t=118 | 1.967 s | **0.983 s** | +| `ptcopyright` full | t=160 | 2.667 s | **1.333 s** | + +**The falsifier is the splash dwells.** Three cold boots measured the publisher +at 4.30 / 4.60 / 4.37 s and the developer at 3.51 / 3.50 / 3.37 s. At 120 the +port would show them for **2.13 s** and **1.75 s** — roughly half what those +boots recorded. + +🔴 So 120 and the dwell corpus cannot both be right **in wall-clock seconds**, and +that is the same collision that killed the earlier 35 units/s proposal from the +other direction. Either those dwells carry the emulator's speed factor — which +would make them worth exactly as little as the 2.13 s route the Decoder has +already declined to lean on — or 120 is wrong. **Naming the falsifier now is the +point of writing this before the boot rather than after.** + +## What would move the port + +A second independent boot agreeing with the content-hash result, **and** a +statement about whether the cold-boot dwell corpus survives the same speed-factor +objection that the 2.13 s route does not. The first without the second leaves a +2× contradiction standing between two numbers this port would then be holding +simultaneously. + + +--- + +# 🔴 My falsifier was malformed — and following it through found something worse + +## Conceded: it compared two different quantities + +I set the falsifier as *"at 120 the publisher splash runs 2.125 s, against three +cold boots measuring 4.30/4.60/4.37"*. **2.125 s is the declared *animation* +length. 4.3 s is how long the *screen* is up.** The screen holds after the +timeline ends, so those are not the same quantity and **the comparison would have +found a contradiction at any units-per-second at all.** + +The Decoder also checked the defence I offered them — that the dwell corpus might +be emulator-contaminated — and declined it: their capture reproduces those boots +(publisher 4.263 s, developer 3.457 s, four runs agreeing). **They could have +waved my numbers away and did not.** + +## But the port has NO hold, and that is the part nobody had said + +| | declared | port measured | animation at 60 | **hold** | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `publisher_logo` | 255 units | 4.270 s | 4.250 s | **+0.020 s** | +| `developer_logos` | 210 units | 3.527 s | 3.500 s | **+0.027 s** | + +**The port's screen time *is* its animation time.** The game, by the Decoder's +counts, is on screen for 219 presents and animates for ~128 of them — about +**42 % hold**. + +So if 120 is right, this port is making **two errors that cancel**: + +* it animates every splash **2× too slow**, and +* it omits the hold **entirely**, + +and the two sum to almost exactly the right total screen time. That is why the +dwell check has been passing, and **`authored/timing.json` cites that agreement as +proof the pacing is right** — *"So the pacing was right all along and nothing +changes in the code."* Conditional on 120, that sentence is a coincidence of +compensating errors. Corrected in place. + +⚠️ A passing check on a *sum* cannot see two errors of opposite sign inside it. +That is the fourth member of today's family — after the non-inverting latch check, +the unguarded buffer assumption, and the segmentation that nearly produced a +convenient answer. + +## 🔴 And 120 explains both open play-test findings. 60 explains neither. + +This is not a measurement and it is not mine to call decisive. It is the one +thing the port can contribute that no emulator capture can: **what a human +watching both actually reported.** + +| | at 60 (shipping) | at 120 | +|---|---|---| +| **finding 3** — *"the plate arrives late"* | full at **3.933 s** | **1.967 s** | +| **finding 4** — *"the game's fade is more pronounced"* | build-in **0.750 s**, then the screen leaves at once | build-in **0.375 s**, then the screen **holds ~1.7 s** | + +At 60 the port's logo drifts in slowly and leaves immediately. At 120 it snaps in +and sits — which is what *"more pronounced"* describes, and the hold is what makes +a splash read as a splash rather than a transition. + +**Finding 4 is explained twice over by the same constant**: the fade is 2× slow +*and* the hold is missing, and both follow from one number. + +Every named cause for both findings has died over the past several iterations. +**120 is the first hypothesis that accounts for either, and it accounts for +both.** + +## The hold and the constant are coupled — do not add one without the other + +⚠️ **At 60 the port must NOT gain a hold.** The animation already fills the screen +time; adding a hold would overshoot the measured dwells by ~40 %. The missing +hold is only a defect *if* 120 is right. They stand or fall together, and that is +precisely why this port is still not moving on one capture. + +## What would complete it + +Unchanged, and now sharper: **a second independent boot of the content-hash +ratio.** The dwell objection is withdrawn — they answered it with a count against +a hard limit (51.4 presents per host-second on the publisher, against a ceiling of +30 for a 30 fps guest) rather than a duration against a fitted factor. + +When that lands, the switch is **two** changes, not one: the constant, and a hold +whose length is `screen_presents − animation_presents` and which must be +**measured, not inferred from the total** — because the total is exactly the +quantity that cannot distinguish the two errors. + + +--- + +# 🔴 WITHDRAWN: "the port has no hold" and "two errors that cancel" + +Both were mine, both were last iteration's headline, and both are wrong. + +## What I misread + +The Decoder gave a split — *"219 presents on screen, ~128 animating"* — and I +read it as a hold **outside** the declared timeline, which the port would then be +missing. **It is a split *within* the timeline.** The declared group is ramp + +hold + fade, and the hold is the largest part of it: + +``` +publisher palogo_sqex: 0:a=0 15:a=0 30:a=255 235:a=255 239:232 251:32 255:0 + ramp 0→30 = 30 units + HOLD 30→235 = 205 units ← 80.4 % of the screen + fade 235→255 = 20 units +``` + +## The port plays it. Measured, not read + +Frozen samples across the publisher splash, logo region: + +| t | units | region mean | +|---|---|---| +| 0.25 s | 15 | 0.390957 | +| 1.00 s | 60 | **0.405488** | +| 2.00 s | 120 | **0.405488** | +| 3.00 s | 180 | **0.405488** | +| 3.80 s | 228 | **0.405488** | +| 4.20 s | 252 | 0.038142 | + +**Identical to six decimals across 168 units.** The port holds, for 80 % of the +screen, exactly as declared. + +So there was never a missing hold, and therefore never a pair of cancelling +errors. **`authored/timing.json`'s "the pacing was right all along" was right all +along**, and my paragraph casting it as a possible coincidence is withdrawn there +too. + +⚠️ The failure is worth naming because it is not the usual one: I did not +mis-measure anything. **I took a two-part split from someone else's instrument and +assumed the boundary was where my own model put it.** Presents are not units, and +"animating vs holding" in presents does not decompose the same way as "ramp vs +hold" in declared units. + +# ✅ And the port's own data is an independent leg for the time-based clock + +The Decoder's mechanism: `units/present` halved when the present rate doubled +while `units/second` did not move, so the UI clock advances by elapsed **time**, +not by frame count — and *"2 units per frame"* was a property of a 27 fps capture +rather than of the game. + +**The frame-rate work of two iterations ago tests exactly that, and I did not +notice at the time.** The same splash, measured across a 4× change in the port's +own rendering rate: + +| | frame rate | dwell | implied units/s | +|---|---|---|---| +| llvmpipe | 17.3 fps | 4.28 s | 59.6 | +| llvmpipe | 19.6 fps | 4.26 s | 59.9 | +| llvmpipe | 25.0 fps | 4.27 s | 59.7 | +| **GPU** | **69.4 fps** | **4.26 s** | **59.9** | + +**Frame rate varies 4.0×; the dwell varies by 0.5 %.** That is the signature of a +time-based clock, and it puts the rate at 59.6–59.9 every time. + +🔴 **This is a weaker leg than it looks and I am labelling it rather than +counting it.** It shows *the port's* clock is time-based — which it is by +construction, `time_units += delta * units_per_second` — so it cannot be evidence +about the game's. What it does show is that the **dwell figures I supplied are +frame-rate-independent measurements**, not artefacts of whatever rate a run +happened to hit. That is the property their argument needs of them, and it is now +established from this side rather than assumed. + +# Where finding 3 stands + +**Open, with no surviving named cause.** Units-per-second is eliminated in favour +of the value the port already ships; every other candidate died earlier. The +clock origin remains untouched, and every quantity in the resolved account is a +ratio or a count, so a common offset survives all of it. + + +--- + +# ✅ Settled: the game is frame-based, the port is time-based, and that is correct + +`--framerate_limit=30` — the run this page asked for — refuted the time-based +reading on every discriminating row, **against its author's own expectation**: + +| | predicted if time-based | **measured at 30 fps** | +|---|---|---| +| modal alpha step | 34 | **17** (unchanged) | +| units/second | 60 | **30.2** (halved) | +| publisher dwell | 4.25 s | **8.450 s** (doubled) | + +Both controls passed *first*: the limiter demonstrably took effect (28.4 +presents/host-s against 51–55, interval mass moving to two vblanks, 422 of 468), +and all 8 splash quad rects were identical, so nothing but the frame rate +differed. **`255 × 1 / 15 = 17`** at 28.4, 51.4 and 54.8 presents/s alike. + +## What that changes for the port: nothing — but for a reason worth writing down + +The game advances **1 unit per presented frame**. This port advances +`time_units += delta * units_per_second`. **They are different mechanisms that +agree at exactly one frame rate: 60 Hz** — which is the only rate the console +ever asked the game to be right at. + +🔴 **Do not make the port frame-based to match the game.** A time-based port +reproduces a 60 Hz console on hardware that is not 60 Hz; a frame-based one would +drift on every machine that is not — and this port has measured *itself* between +**9.7 and 69.4 fps** depending on the renderer. Matching the game's mechanism +would import a fragility the game never had to survive, because the game only +ever ran on one box. + +## 🔴 But it sharpens what `60` is claiming, and makes it falsifiable + +If units/second **is** the present rate, then `keyframe_units_per_second = 60` is +no longer "the unit is 1/60 s". It is: + +> **the game presented these screens at 60 Hz on the console.** + +That is a harder claim and a checkable one. **It is also supported for the first +time:** Canary unlimited presents at 51–55 Hz and the splash dwell is +4.30 / 4.60 / 4.37 s over three cold boots. A natively 30 Hz game would present +at ~30 in Canary too — the `--framerate_limit` run proves it, since forcing 30 +made that same splash take 8.45 s. **It does not take 8.45 s unforced.** + +⚠️ Still `authored`, not promoted to `measured`: this is inference over three +measurements rather than a measurement of units per second. It becomes `measured` +when someone reads the console's present rate for these screens directly. + +## And it closes the constant as a cause of finding 3 — in the direction that matters + +| console rate | units/s | plate `t=236` | +|---|---|---| +| 30 Hz | 30 | **7.87 s** | +| **60 Hz (shipping)** | **60** | **3.93 s** | + +Under the frame-based model the only alternative is 30 Hz, and it puts the plate +**later**, not earlier. **There is no console present rate that makes the plate +arrive sooner than this port already shows it.** The human reported it arriving +late; no value of this constant can produce that. + +## The method note, and it is theirs + +> *Four of my positions on this number were inference over a measured quantity; +> this one changed an input and watched what moved.* + +The opportunistic comparison — two captures that happened to differ — pointed +**exactly the wrong way**, because nothing controlled what else differed between +them. One designed capture settled it against its author's expectation. That is +the difference between an observation and an experiment, and it cost this pair +five positions in a day to relearn. diff --git a/docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md b/docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cdb6a0b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md @@ -0,0 +1,401 @@ +# `verify-screen` DIFFERS on six more screens — it is ADDITIVE, and the port is ahead of the reference + +**Status:** ✅ **RESOLVED.** The reference gained an additive path +(`formats-pin-2026-09-01b`) and the divergence this page is about collapses **6×**. +Everything below stands; the last section is the measurement that closes it. Port `HEAD` `da7864e` + this +commit; HANDOFF at `9ca1eb5`. + +> 🔴 **This page said, in its first version, that the cause was a blend-SPACE +> divergence — one renderer linearising and the other not. That was wrong, and +> the way it was wrong is the useful part.** Both renderers demonstrably blend in +> the encoded space. The transfer curve I built to support it averaged Godot's +> value per *reference value* bucket, which collapsed a **bimodal** population — +> a large majority differing by ≤1 level and a minority differing by 40+ — into a +> smooth-looking curve that resembled gamma and was an artefact of the binning. +> A mean over a mixed population is not a transfer function. + +## The measurement that settles it + +53 % of pixels agree to within **1 level** and 69 % to within 3. The rest are not +spread over a curve; they are **concentrated in the middle of the frame**: + +``` +|delta| 0 : 134 969 (cum 14.6 %) > 3 : 282 166 px = 30.6 % +|delta| 1 : 355 261 (cum 53.2 %) bbox: the whole frame, but +|delta| 2 : 103 348 (cum 64.4 %) occupancy is ~zero in columns +|delta| 3 : 45 856 (cum 69.4 %) 0,1,6,7 of 8 and heavy in 2..5 +|delta| 40+: 16 844 (cum 100 %) +``` + +The ≤1 tier is integer truncation against float rounding — the reference computes +`(sc*sa + dc*(255-sa)) / 255` in `u32` and truncates; Godot rounds. The 30.6 % +is something else, and it is in the columns where the menu's content sits. + +## What it is + +**The port draws some elements ADDITIVE. The reference has no additive path at +all.** + +`crates/sylpheed-formats/src/ui_layout.rs` has exactly two blend sites, lines +1072 and 1174, and both are alpha-over: + +```rust +canvas[di + k] = ((sc * sa + dc * (255 - sa)) / 255) as u8; +``` + +and line 1169 carries the reason — an *"ADDITIVE selector and REFUTED — it moved +every metric against the …"*. The reference tried additive, refuted it against +its own composite metrics, and does not do it. + +`authored/rendering.json` gives the port an additive set per screen, and its +`why` records that this is **transcribed, not authored**: the port proposed +additive from a two-background composite solve, kept it a proposal because +nothing on the disc selects a blend mode, and adopted it only when the Decoder +logged **`RB_BLENDCONTROL0` per draw in Canary** and drove the game to both +screens. + +So the two renderers disagree **on purpose**: one implements a measurement of the +game's blend register, the other implements a refutation made from composite +metrics before that measurement existed. + +## The prediction this makes, and it holds + +If the divergence is the additive set, its size should scale with how many +elements are in that set. It does: + +| screen | additive elements in `authored/rendering.json` | mean diff | +|---|---|---| +| `extras` | **9** — `pteff10 pteff20 ptframe3 ptframe4 pteff21 pteff22 pteff23 ptloop01 ptloop02` | **6.7422** | +| `main_menu` | **5** — `pteff12 ptframe1 ptframe2 ptloop01 ptloop02` | **3.9363** | +| `main_menu_jp` | **0** — not in the map | 0.7885 | +| `extras_jp` | **0** — not in the map | 0.6592 | +| `title` | **0** — present, deliberately empty | 0.4431 (the known sweep residual) | + +Nine beats five beats zero, in order, with the two zero-rows an order of +magnitude below the two non-zero ones. That ordering was not fitted; the additive +map was written before this comparison existed. + +## And which side is right: the port, on the evidence there is + +* the additive set is a **measurement off the running game** — the blend control + register, per draw — and the reference's alpha-over is a refutation from + *renderer metrics*, which the protocol ranks below a capture; +* scored against `docs/re/captures/title-builds/live-main-menu.png`, Godot is + **RMSE 3151.96** and the reference **3769.61** — the port is 16 % closer. + +⚠️ **That second line is an ordering and nothing more.** `verify-screen` poses +`--pose=rest` and its own header is emphatic that such a frame must never be +scored against a capture — that mistake produced a published finding once +already. Both sides carry the same pose contamination, so *which* is nearer is +still meaningful; *how near* is not. Nobody should quote 0.0481 as the port's +fidelity. + +## The blend SPACE, separately: both are encoded, and so is the game + +Worth keeping even though it turned out not to be the cause, because it closes +`BLOCKED.md` H4 and it was measured rather than recalled. + +**Godot, measured with a control** — a white quad over black at three known +modulate alphas, through the port's own texture path +(`load_png_from_buffer` → `ImageTexture`), with the port's `[rendering]` settings: + +| declared alpha | encoded-space prediction | linear-then-re-encode prediction | **measured** | +|---|---|---|---| +| 64 | 64 | 138 | **64** | +| 128 | 128 | 188 | **128** | +| 192 | 192 | 225 | **192** | + +Pre-registered before running; exact on all three, with the alternative excluded +by 33–74 levels. + +**The reference:** integer arithmetic straight on 8-bit values, no linearisation +anywhere in the file. + +**The game:** the Decoder's `blend-space-rt-format.txt` — `RB_COLOR_INFO` +`color_format` is `k_8_8_8_8` on 2402/2402 splash draws and 33779/33791 of the +boot-to-title capture, `k_8_8_8_8_GAMMA` appears **zero** times, and +`color_exp_bias` is 0 throughout. `k_8_8_8_8_GAMMA` is the only format around +which Canary applies a gamma↔linear conversion. + +**All three agree. Blend space is not a difference between anybody here**, and +the port needs no change for it. + +## The other four rows — localised, and two hypotheses died getting there + +`check-all` still fails on these four, and the allowance was not widened to +cover them. What follows is where they are, not yet why. + +### 🔴 Hypothesis 1, refuted: a blend-space divergence + +Covered above. Killed by a control on my own renderer. + +### 🔴 Hypothesis 2, refuted: the port renders `rotation_deg` and the reference does not + +This one looked strong. `ui_layout.rs:86` says so in its own words — +*"`rotation_deg` is decoded but NOT rendered"* — and the port does render it. A +census over all sixteen exported screens gave: + +> **Every screen with a non-zero rotation at rest DIFFERS, and every screen with +> none agrees** — 6 of 6 either way, including both legacy rows. + +**It is still wrong.** Widening the rule to *any* rotating element — a non-zero +rest rotation **or** a two-keyframe 360° spinner at any depth — breaks it: +`build_00` and `build_01` carry two spinners each and **agree** with the +reference. Asked directly, the port's own draw log says it draws both spinners +on those screens. So rotation is present, rendered, and produces no difference. + +A rule that holds on 14 of 16 and fails on the two cases nobody had looked at is +the shape of a rule fitted to the rows it was built from. Recorded because the +next person will find the `ui_layout.rs:86` comment and reach for it too. + +### ✅ What is actually established: `build_12` and `build_15` are ONE element + +All **951** differing pixels lie inside `pgloading_loop5` +(`pgloading_ring.png`, 333×276 at `[1,444]`), and the diff's own bounding box — +`x 69..301, y 478..710` — sits entirely within it. No other element's rectangle +contains a differing pixel that this one does not. + +And that closes the `build_00` / `build_01` question without any rule about +rotation: the port's draw log shows those two screens draw **7** elements and +`build_12` draws **10**. `pgloading_loop5` is one of the three extra. The +loading screens that agree are the ones that never draw the element the +disagreement is in. + +Why the two renderers disagree *on that element* is not settled. It is small — +max 17, mean 0.0368 — and the element is unusual: its top-level keyframes hold +`a=0x7f` for eight units around `rest.t = 24`, while its **leaf** record +expands `pgloading_ring` from `scale 0` to `1000` over t=30…130. The port's +`draw_leaf_for` lists only `ptloop01` and `ptloop02`, so the port draws the +element and not that leaf. Whether the reference does the same is the open half. + +### 🟡 `main_menu_jp` and `extras_jp` — consistent with the sweep leaves, not established + +Both carry `ptloop01/pteff03` (rot 30, at x=1521) and `ptloop02/pteff03a` +(rot −45, at x=−839) — the **same sweep leaves** whose phase residual is the +already-named reason for `title`. Their means sit with `title`'s and nowhere +near their own EN twins': + +| | mean | +|---|---| +| `title` (sweep residual, named since P1) | 0.4431 | +| `extras_jp` | 0.6592 | +| `main_menu_jp` | 0.7885 | +| `main_menu` (5 additive) | 3.9363 | +| `extras` (9 additive) | 6.7422 | + +That is consistent with the JP rows being the sweep residual alone, with no +additive contribution — which is what the port's own map implies, since it lists +no additive set for them. **Consistent with, not established:** nobody has +isolated the sweep leaves on those two screens. + +## ✅ H6 update — the asymmetry has a better answer than a measurement + +The Decoder's reply: the blend is a **decoded disc field**, `T8aD +0x04` bit +`0x02` (set ⇒ additive, clear ⇒ premultiplied alpha-over), with a disc-wide check +and a surviving out-of-sample prediction. So the port can *derive* the blend per +element on every screen instead of transcribing a table, and the JP question +answers itself statically — no boot needed. + +**Blocked on one thing:** `sylpheed-formats` does not expose `+0x04`. +`ui_layout::Element` surfaces `kind` (`+40`), `parent` (`+32`), pivot, keyframes +and `focus_link`, and nothing at `+0x04`; and `crates/sylpheed-export` consumes +formats by git **tag**, not by workspace path. Asked as `BLOCKED.md` H6. + +🔴 **And a negative worth having, because it is the obvious thing to try: +`kind_raw` in this export is NOT that field.** Its bit `0x2` against the additive +map over four screens is **anti-correlated** — 0 of 14 mapped elements have it +set, and 9 unmapped ones do (`0x3002` on every button, `0x0` on every element the +map lists). Anyone reaching for `kind_raw & 2` will get the additive set exactly +inverted. + +## 🔴 The asymmetry, until that lands + +`main_menu_jp` contains **exactly the elements** `main_menu` marks additive — +`ptloop01 ptloop02 ptframe1 ptframe2 pteff10 pteff12` — and `extras_jp` contains +all nine of `extras`'. The port draws them **alpha-over** on the JP screens and +**additive** on the EN ones, purely because `authored/rendering.json` is keyed by +screen name and the Decoder's `RB_BLENDCONTROL0` log was taken on the EN screens. + +**The port is therefore asserting, by omission, that the JP build blends the same +elements differently — and that is the less likely of the two possibilities.** +Extending the map would extrapolate a measurement onto a build nobody drove to, +which is not the port's to do; leaving it silent asserts the surprising thing by +default. So it is made explicit in `authored/rendering.json` and asked in +`BLOCKED.md`, and the map is **not** extended. + +⚠️ It does not affect the deliverable: MISSION §7 puts localisation beyond +English out of scope, and the JP screens are not in the boot path. + +## Why `check-all` stays red + +Four rows are **not** explained by the additive set: + +| screen | mean | over3 | note | +|---|---|---|---| +| `main_menu_jp` | 0.7885 | 3 248 | not in the additive map, yet differs | +| `extras_jp` | 0.6592 | 3 163 | same | +| `build_12` | 0.0368 | 462 | tiny, and localised — diff bbox `464x266+60+454` | +| `build_15` | 0.0368 | 462 | identical figures to `build_12` | + +`build_12` and `build_15` producing byte-identical statistics suggests one shared +element rather than two coincidences. None of the four is diagnosed and none is +excused. + +## What changed in `check-all` + +The allowance is now **derived** rather than listed: a screen may differ if it +has a non-empty additive set in `authored/rendering.json`, plus the two named +legacy rows. That is strictly stronger than the hard-coded list — a screen that +differs *without* additive elements now fails, which a literal list could not +express, and the allowance cannot go stale against the map it is computed from. + +## What this does not claim + +* That the reference is wrong to have refuted additive from its own metrics. It + is superseded by a capture, which is a different thing. +* That the port's additive set is complete. It covers three screens; nobody has + logged the register on the rest. +* Anything about the four undiagnosed rows. + + +--- + +# 🔴 Re-validated on the GPU, and my prediction failed: these numbers are rasteriser-specific + +The human activated a hardware GPU on 2026-09-01. **Every number on this page +above was measured under `llvmpipe`**, so they needed re-deriving before anyone +builds on them. + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +> Both renderers blend in encoded 8-bit space, so if the port's drawing is +> rasteriser-independent the diffs should be **identical, or within 1 level**. +> Anything materially different means a published conclusion here was +> GPU-specific. + +## It failed + +| screen | llvmpipe mean | **GPU mean** | change | max (llvmpipe → GPU) | +|---|---|---|---|---| +| `title` | 0.4431 | **0.5936** | **+34 %** | 41 → 41 | +| `main_menu` | 3.9363 | **4.1449** | +5.3 % | 97 → 97 | +| `extras` | 6.7422 | **6.9757** | +3.5 % | 113 → 113 | +| `title_jp` | 2.7715 | **2.9448** | +6.3 % | 233 → 233 | +| `main_menu_jp` | 0.7885 | **1.0157** | **+29 %** | 26 → 27 | +| `extras_jp` | 0.6592 | **0.8906** | **+35 %** | 26 → 26 | +| `build_12` / `build_15` | 0.0368 | **0.0454** | +23 % | 17 → 17 | + +**Every mean rose, by 3–35 %.** So the diffs are *not* rasteriser-independent +and the prediction was wrong. + +## What survives, and what does not + +🔴 **The maxima are unchanged** — 41, 97, 113, 233, 17 identical, and 26 → 27 on +one row. The large differences are exactly where they were. + +That is the shape of a **rounding population growing, not content moving**: +llvmpipe and the NVIDIA rasteriser round the last bit of a blend differently, so +the ≤1-level tier grows while the elements that genuinely differ do not move at +all. Consistent with both still blending in encoded space — which the control on +this page established for Godot generally, not for one rasteriser. + +**What survives:** + +* the **additive diagnosis**, because it rests on an *ordering*, and the ordering + holds on the GPU: `extras` 6.98 > `main_menu` 4.14 > `extras_jp` 0.89 and + `main_menu_jp` 1.02 > `title` 0.59 — nine additive elements, then five, then + none; +* the **`pgloading_loop5` localisation**, which is a bounding box; +* the **`build_00`/`build_01` agree** result — still 0 pixels over the bar; +* the **derived allowance**: the failing set is the same four rows. + +**What does not, and is now labelled:** + +* the histogram (*53 % within 1 level, 16 844 over 40*) was llvmpipe-specific and + the ≤1 tier is larger on the GPU; +* every absolute **mean** quoted above this section; +* the **RMSE-vs-capture** pair (3151.96 / 3769.61) was llvmpipe. The *ordering* + claim — the port is nearer than the reference — has not been re-derived on the + GPU and is not claimed here until it is. + +## The rule this earns + +**A renderer comparison carries its rasteriser as a hidden parameter.** Nothing +in this corpus recorded which one produced a diff, and for eight months there was +only one so it never mattered. Any diff quoted from here on should say what drew +it — the same discipline `TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md` already demands for capture +rate, applied to the thing that rasterises rather than the thing that clocks. + + +--- + +# ✅ Closed: the reference can draw additive now, and the divergence collapses 6× + +The Decoder taught `ui_layout::blit` the additive blend at +`formats-pin-2026-09-01b`, on the argument this page made — that the comparison +was **structurally incapable**, and that the refutation which had kept additive +out was `⟨render-vs-capture⟩`, i.e. that renderer disagreeing with itself while +it had a stale keyframe association, no leaf geometry and no rotation. + +**Measured without pulling their branch into mine**: a detached worktree at the +tag, `sylpheed-cli` built there, and `verify-screen` pointed at it through +`SYLPHEED_CLI`. My branch is untouched and the reference on `main` is unchanged. + +## Pre-registered (R2) + +> With the reference finally able to draw additive, the diffs caused by that gap +> should collapse. `main_menu`/`extras` and their JP twins should fall sharply +> from ~7, and whatever remains is a *different* cause. + +| screen | alpha-over reference | **additive reference** | factor | +|---|---|---|---| +| `main_menu` | 7.2580, max 105 | **1.2068, max 28** | **6.0×** | +| `main_menu_jp` | 7.3440, max 108 | **1.2111, max 31** | **6.1×** | +| `extras` | 6.9757, max 113 | **1.0229, max 28** | **6.8×** | +| `extras_jp` | 7.0734, max 115 | **1.0255, max 30** | **6.9×** | +| `title` | 1.0335, max 88 | **0.5685, max 41** | 1.8× | +| `title_jp` | 4.4944, max 233 | **2.8225, max 233** | 1.6× | +| `build_12` / `build_15` | 0.0772, max 60 | **0.0463, max 17** | 1.7× | +| `build_00` / `build_01` | 0.0676, max 60 | **0.0366, max 4** | **DIFFERS → OK** | + +**`build_00` and `build_01` stop differing entirely** — `over3` 3 422 → **0**. + +## And the twins agree to a third of a percent + +| | | +|---|---| +| `main_menu` 1.2068 vs `main_menu_jp` 1.2111 | **0.36 % apart** | +| `extras` 1.0229 vs `extras_jp` 1.0255 | **0.25 % apart** | + +Under the name-keyed map these pairs were 4.1× and 7.8× apart. Nothing was fitted +to make that happen — the locale twins converged first when the *port* took the +decoded field, and again now that the *reference* draws the same blend. + +## The residual is smaller and its causes are the documented ones + +* `title_jp` 2.82 at max 233 remains the largest, and its named reason — + `--pose=rest` sparkle handling — is untouched by any of this. +* `title` 0.57 at max 41 is the `ptloop` sweep-phase residual, also untouched. +* `main_menu`/`extras` and twins now sit at ~1.0–1.2, max ~28–31. **New, small, + and undiagnosed** — additive was the dominant cause and not the only one. +* `build_12`/`build_15` do **not** return to their pre-change 0.0368: they land at + 0.0463 with both renderers drawing `pgloading_loop5` additive. So that element + carries a small residual of its own beyond the blend. + +## 🔴 What must happen to `check-all`, and why it has NOT happened yet + +The allowance widened when the reference could not draw additive. **That +justification is gone**, so the allowance should be narrowed back and the check +should regain its teeth. + +**It is not narrowed in this commit, deliberately.** `check-all` builds the +reference from the **workspace** `crates/sylpheed-formats`, and the additive path +is at a tag that has not landed on `main`. Tightening now would turn `check-all` +red against a reference that still cannot draw additive — a wall of failures +meaning one thing, which is the exact defect the display guard was added for. + +**The trigger is mechanical**: when the additive path is on `main`, drop the +export-derived clause and leave the two named legacy rows. The set that should +then differ is measured above and is `title`, `title_jp`, `main_menu`, `extras`, +`main_menu_jp`, `extras_jp`, `build_12`, `build_15` — with `build_00`/`build_01` +expected to pass. diff --git a/port/scripts/boot.gd b/port/scripts/boot.gd index 8020b78f..f15e02a3 100644 --- a/port/scripts/boot.gd +++ b/port/scripts/boot.gd @@ -7,9 +7,56 @@ # godot --path port -- --screen=main_menu # godot --path port -- --screen=main_menu --capture=/tmp/godot.png # godot --path port -- --screen=main_menu --time=0.5 --capture=/tmp/at-half.png +# godot --path port -- --screen=title --no-hold +# # play PAST the rest instead of clamping +# # each element at its own hold. +# # ⚠️ NOT with `--time`: that sets `frozen`, +# # and `pose_at` tests `holding and not +# # frozen`, so an explicit instant makes +# # `--no-hold` a no-op. Verified: identical +# # renders with `--time`, max 253 different +# # without it. +# godot --path port -- --boot --film=/tmp/b --film-interval=0.1 +# # frame cadence for --film (default 0.25) +# godot --path port -- --boot --skip-at=1 # press (A) at 1 s to skip a movie +# +# 🔴 THESE THREE WERE LIVE AND UNDOCUMENTED. `--no-hold` is documented in +# DECISIONS.md and was absent from the block a reader actually consults; +# `--film-interval` and `--skip-at` are used by `tools/port/verify-dwell` and +# appeared nowhere else. A capability that exists only in the record is, to +# anyone reading the interface, a capability that does not exist. # godot --path port -- --screen=main_menu --pose=rest --capture=/tmp/rest.png +# godot --path port -- --screen=title --overlay=press_start --time=4 # godot --path port -- --boot # the whole boot sequence # godot --path port -- --boot --film=/tmp/boot # ...and a frame every 0.25 s +# # ⚠️ RUNS UNTIL KILLED. The boot-quit branch +# # is gated on `_film == ""` (line ~499), so +# # a filming run never ends on its own -- it +# # keeps capturing past the title. Measured: +# # title reached at 7.8 s with --skip-at=1, +# # still filming at 300 s, 375 frames. +# # `tools/port/verify-dwell` wraps it in +# # `timeout`; a reader following this line +# # bare gets a process that looks hung. +# godot --path port -- --menu # P5: navigate the menus +# godot --path port -- --menu=extras # ...starting somewhere else +# godot --path port -- --boot --play # boot, then hand over to P5 +# godot --path port -- --menu --script=down,down,accept,cancel --shots=/tmp/p5 +# godot --path port -- --menu --script=down,accept --audio=/tmp/p6.wav +# +# `--menu` is the P5 mode: the d-pad moves the cursor, (A) opens, (B) goes back. +# `--script` drives the SAME input path with synthetic events -- it does not call +# the navigation functions directly, because then the artifact would prove +# nothing about whether a human's press arrives. `--shots` writes one PNG per +# scripted step, after the screen it produced has settled. +# +# `--audio=` records the MASTER BUS to a WAV for the whole run. Neither container +# has a sound card, so "does it actually play?" cannot be answered by listening -- +# but it can be answered by measurement, and an `AudioEffectRecord` on Master +# captures the mixed output from inside a headless run with no device at all. +# `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §2. The run PRINTS the audio driver it used, +# because "recorded under a dummy driver" is a weaker claim than "heard" and the +# write-up has to be able to say which one it is making. # # `--time` is in SECONDS and freezes the timeline there; without it the screen # animates in real time from t=0. `--pose=rest` draws the export's declared @@ -28,28 +75,154 @@ const DEFAULT_SCREEN := "main_menu" var view: ScreenView = null var viewport: SubViewport = null +var audio: MenuAudio = null + +## The second build, drawn OVER `view`. The boot title is the only place in this +## port where two builds are on screen at once (`authored/flow.json`, the boot's +## `title` step): build 4 presents alone and the `PRESS Ⓐ BUTTON` plate -- build +## 2 -- arrives later. +## +## **They share one clock, started together, and there is no authored delay.** +## The plate reaches full alpha at its own declared `t = 236`; build 4's effect +## quads end their ramps together at `t = 118`; the 118-unit difference is +## 1.967 s, against an oracle that measured 2.138 s and 2.132 s at an emulator +## presenting 28.1 fps rather than 30. +## +## 🔴 THIS SAID `t = 238` AND `120 units = 2.000 s`, AND BOTH ARE OFF BY TWO. +## `ptbtn00`'s declared alpha reaches `0xff` at **t = 236** and *holds* it to +## t = 238, then ramps back to 0 by t = 244 -- so 238 is the last opaque frame, +## not the arrival. `236 - 118 = 118`. The port has been printing the +## contradiction in one sentence on every boot: *"plate reaches full alpha at +## t=236 ... 120 units after build 4's last build-in ramp at t=118"*. The +## correction moves the reconciliation by 0.033 s and changes no conclusion, +## which is why it survived; a cited number that is wrong is still wrong. +## See `docs/port/plate-arrival-halves.md`. +## +## A second ScreenView rather than a second screen inside one, because that is +## what "two builds at once" actually is: each has its own timeline, its own +## textures and its own hold, and Node2D siblings already draw in tree order. +## Teaching ScreenView about a subordinate screen would have been the same +## information expressed less directly, and would have put an `if overlay` in +## every method that walks elements. +var overlay: ScreenView = null func _ready() -> void: var args := _args() + for flag: String in ["capture", "film", "shots"]: + if args.has(flag) and not _has_display(flag): + get_tree().quit(4) + return + + # 🔴 BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE, and announced. Godot 4.7.2 binds no joypad button + # to `ui_accept` or `ui_cancel`, so on a real pad Ⓐ and Ⓑ did nothing while + # navigation worked — which reads as a broken controller. `Gamepad` explains + # it. Both lines are printed because "the pad is seen" and "Ⓐ is bound" are + # different facts and the human debugging this needs to separate them. + var _pad_bound := Gamepad.bind_missing() + if _pad_bound != "": + print(_pad_bound) + print(Gamepad.report_devices()) var export_tree := ExportTree.locate() + _tree = export_tree if export_tree.root == "": push_error(export_tree.error) get_tree().quit(2) return + # Say it before anything is drawn. A modded run that looked identical to an + # unmodded one in the log would leave a modder with exactly one debugging + # tool -- delete the mod and try again. + var mods := export_tree.mod_report() + if mods != "": + print(mods) + + # Parsed HERE, before the first `ScreenView` is configured -- it was briefly + # read further down and every `--screen` run silently ignored it. + if args.has("loop-phase"): + _loop_phase = float(args["loop-phase"]) _flow = export_tree.authored("flow.json") + if _flow == null and (args.has("boot") or args.has("menu")): + push_error(export_tree.error) + get_tree().quit(2) + return if args.has("boot"): - if _flow == null: - push_error(export_tree.error) - get_tree().quit(2) - return for step: Dictionary in _flow["boot"]: _sequence.append(step) - _film = args.get("film", "") + # P6. Audio is loaded even for a static `--screen` run: it costs nothing when + # the export has none, and a mode that silently cannot play sound is a mode + # that hides the failure this milestone is about. + audio = MenuAudio.new() + add_child(audio) + if not audio.configure(export_tree): + push_error(audio.error) + get_tree().quit(2) + return + if audio.silent(): + print("this export carries no audio -- run the exporter against a disc for P6") + _record_to = args.get("audio", "") + if _record_to != "": + _start_recording() + + # In `--boot` the capture is taken at the END, not in `_ready`: the frame + # worth having is the composited title, and `_ready` runs 150 s before it. + if args.has("boot"): + _capture_to = args.get("capture", "") + _film = args.get("film", "") + # `--film-interval=` in seconds. Configurable because the fixed 0.25 s could + # not resolve the boot's own black hold: the transition's pure-black plateau + # is MEASURED at 0.17-0.23 s (authored/timing.json, HANDOFF Q7), which is + # shorter than the cadence that was meant to observe it. `verify-dwell` duly + # reported two screens as one 93 s span and called it a regression, when the + # black frame had simply fallen between samples. + _film_interval = maxf(0.01, float(args.get("film-interval", "0.25"))) + _shots = args.get("shots", "") + if args.has("script"): + _script = args["script"].split(",", false) + _skip_at = float(args.get("skip-at", "0")) + # `--focus=` draws a button's focus record in a `--screen` run, + # which otherwise focuses nothing. A diagnostic: the spinning ring is only + # drawn on a FOCUSED button, so without this the ring can only be observed in + # a live `--menu` run, where the film cadence jitters by up to a frame and a + # 3-degree angular wobble swamps the "identical one period apart" check that + # verified it at P5. + _force_focus = args.get("focus", "") + # P5. `--play` boots first and hands over on the title; `--menu` starts on a + # screen directly, which is what makes an unattended run cheap -- it does not + # sit through 137 s of intro to press a d-pad. + _play = args.has("play") or args.has("menu") + # 🔴 `--boot --script=…` PARSED, WAS STORED, AND DID NOTHING. The script only + # ever starts at `_menu_enter`, and a `--boot` run without `--play` never + # enters a menu: it holds on the title and quits. So the run completed, exit + # 0, no menu line, no press -- a clean-looking result to a question that was + # never asked. + # + # This file already warns about exactly this shape 600 lines up, where + # `--capture` used to photograph the first frame of a scripted run: "a flag + # combination that silently photographs the wrong instant is worse than one + # that errors". Same class, found again by running the port as a player would + # rather than by reading it. + # + # Refusing rather than implying `--play`: the two runs differ by 157 seconds + # of intro, and quietly choosing that for someone is its own surprise. + if not _script.is_empty() and not _play: + push_error("--script needs a live menu. `--boot` alone ends on the title " + + "and quits, so the script would never run. Use `--boot --play " + + "--script=…` to walk from power-on (157 s of intro), or `--menu= " + + "--script=…` to start on a screen.") + get_tree().quit(2) + return + if _play: + _menu = MenuFlow.new() + if not _menu.configure(_flow): + push_error(_menu.error) + get_tree().quit(2) + return var name: String = String(_sequence[0].get("screen", "")) if not _sequence.is_empty() \ - else args.get("screen", DEFAULT_SCREEN) + else args.get("menu", args.get("screen", DEFAULT_SCREEN)) + if name == "1": + name = DEFAULT_SCREEN # bare `--menu` if name == "": name = DEFAULT_SCREEN # the sequence opens on a video; load something to size the viewport var screen: Dictionary = export_tree.screen(name) @@ -89,23 +262,107 @@ func _ready() -> void: get_tree().quit(2) return view.units_per_second = float(timing["keyframe_units_per_second"]) - # The one unknown duration per screen: the ramp into the final untimed - # keyframe. Authored, because the disc has no time slot there. - view.exit_ramp_units = float(timing["exit_ramp_units"]) + # WHAT THIS USED TO BE, stated first because the sentence below is what a + # reader would otherwise carry away: "the one unknown duration per screen -- + # the ramp into the final untimed keyframe, authored because the disc has no + # time slot there." That is pre-fix and false in both halves. + # `exit_ramp_units` is DELETED from authored/timing.json -- under the corrected + # record layout every pose is timed, so there is no untimed final keyframe to + # give a synthetic time to. The default below is now unreachable rather than + # authored, and both of ScreenView's uses are dead branches kept only so an + # older export still loads. + # ⚠️ The fallback is -1.0, NOT 24.0. It was 24.0 -- the constant HANDOFF ask 2 + # told this port to author and that it refused -- so deleting the authored + # entry as progress silently reinstated the refuted number as a default. + # Negative means "not supplied": ScreenView then declines to invent a duration + # and says so, rather than making one up. See ScreenView.exit_ramp_units. + view.exit_ramp_units = float(timing.get("exit_ramp_units", -1.0)) + # ⚠️ THE FALLBACK IS -1.0, NOT 0.0, EVEN THOUGH THE AUTHORED VALUE IS 0. + # + # This is the `exit_ramp_units` shape in waiting: a default that EQUALS the + # authored value makes deleting the authored entry invisible -- same + # behaviour, no error, and the reasoning in `black_hold_why` (four measured + # gaps, why 0 rather than the best-fitting 4 or 6, and the tripwire for + # revisiting it) silently stops applying to anything. + # + # The Decoder's sharpening is what surfaced it: an IN-RANGE fallback cannot + # be caught by inspecting output, because the output looks exactly like the + # true case. 0 is a legitimate hold. So the absence is made loud instead. + _black_hold = float(timing.get("black_hold_units", -1.0)) + if _black_hold < 0.0: + push_error("authored/timing.json has no black_hold_units. Using 0, which is " + + "what it said -- but the REASONING for 0 lived there and is now gone. " + + "See black_hold_why in git history before trusting this transition.") + _black_hold = 0.0 + # Which focus records draw unconditionally and loop. Kept out of ScreenView's + # own logic on purpose -- see `looping_focus` there for the census that says + # this cannot be a rule. + _looping = timing.get("looping_focus_records", {}) + # Called, not merely defined. A validator nobody invokes is the same defect + # it exists to catch. + _check_authored_invariants(timing) + # Which decoded rules apply where. See `authored/rendering.json`. + var rendering: Variant = export_tree.authored("rendering.json") + _draw_leaf_for = [] if rendering == null else rendering.get("draw_leaf_for", []) + _loop_leaf_screens = [] if rendering == null else rendering.get("loop_leaf_on_screens", []) + # `additive_elements` is DELETED from authored/rendering.json -- the blend is + # decoded now (`T8aD +0x04` bit 0x02) and the exporter emits `blend_additive` + # per element, which `ScreenView._draw` reads directly. Nothing to assign, + # and the four assignments that used to carry it are gone with it. + # `--no-hold` plays a screen's groups PAST their rest instead of clamping each + # element at its own `rest.t`. A diagnostic, not a mode: `rest.t` is the last + # HOLD keyframe before the exit, not the settled state, and the only way to + # ask "is the port's held pose what the idle game shows" is to be able to + # render the other answer. Added when the title's 1.8 % disagreement with the + # oracle could not be attributed without it. + # + # It goes HERE and not with the other flags: `view` does not exist until this + # point, and the first version set it thirty lines too early and silently + # rendered nothing. + if args.has("no-hold"): + view.holding = false + # 🔴 THE BRANCH ANNOUNCES ITSELF, because a request that is silently + # overridden reads exactly like one that worked. `--time` sets `frozen`, + # and `pose_at` tests `holding and not frozen`, so an explicit instant + # makes this inert -- measured: identical renders with `--time`, max 253 + # different without it. I documented that combination as an EXAMPLE + # before testing it, and only running it caught the no-op. + if args.has("time"): + print(" --no-hold: INERT -- --time sets `frozen`, which overrides holding") + else: + print(" --no-hold: playing past the rest, not clamping at each hold") viewport.add_child(view) + view.looping_focus = _looping_for(name) + view.loop_phase_units = _loop_phase + view.draw_leaf_for = _draw_leaf_for + view.loop_leaf = _loop_leaf_screens.has(name) + view.focused_id = _force_focus if not view.load_screen(export_tree, name): push_error(export_tree.error) get_tree().quit(2) return + # Not booting: `--menu` opens straight onto a screen, so the stack starts here. + if _menu != null and _sequence.is_empty(): + _menu_enter(name, true) + + view.structural_skips.clear() var settle := view.settle_time() print("screen %s: %d elements, %d in paint order, design %dx%d, settles at t=%d (%.3f s)" % [ name, view.screen["elements"].size(), view.screen["paint_order"].size(), design[0], design[1], settle, settle / view.units_per_second]) + # `--leaf-time=` places the LEAF alone, leaving the screen settled. + # See `ScreenView.leaf_time_units`. + if args.has("leaf-time"): + view.leaf_time_units = float(args["leaf-time"]) * view.units_per_second + view.queue_redraw() + if args.has("time"): _frozen = true + # An explicit instant beats the settle instant -- see `ScreenView.frozen`. + view.frozen = true view.time_units = float(args["time"]) * view.units_per_second view.queue_redraw() @@ -113,36 +370,265 @@ func _ready() -> void: set_process(true) _film_capture() - if args.has("capture"): - await _capture(args["capture"]) - get_tree().quit(0) + # `--overlay=` composites a second build immediately, without waiting + # for a boot. It exists because the only other way to see two builds at once + # is a 156 s `--boot`, of which 137 s is the intro movie -- which under Xvfb's + # software Theora decode is several minutes to answer "is the plate on top of + # the title". This raises the same second `ScreenView` by the same code path, + # so what it photographs is the real composite and not a mock-up. It applies + # NO delay: the delay is a measurement and lives in `authored/flow.json`, + # where the boot reads it. + # A boot whose FIRST step declares an overlay: `_advance` raises it for every + # later step, and `_ready` is the one with no `_advance` in front of it. + # Today only the last step has one, so this is a guard rather than a fix -- + # but a silently missing second build is exactly the failure P3 just spent an + # iteration on. + if not _sequence.is_empty() and typeof(_sequence[0].get("overlay", null)) == TYPE_DICTIONARY: + _overlay_spec = _sequence[0]["overlay"] + _overlay_due = 0.0 + _overlay_process(0.0) + + if args.has("overlay") and not args.has("boot"): + # 🔴 THIS IS THE ONLY STATIC OVERLAY, AND IT NOW SAYS SO ITSELF. + # `_overlay_process` used to detect it as `_sequence.is_empty()`, which is + # true for `--menu` as well -- `_sequence` is populated only by `--boot`. + # So the MENU's return-to-title took the diagnostic branch and posed the + # plate at its settle instantly. Measured: the overlay clock jumped 0 -> + # 244.67 units in one frame, and the plate POPPED where the boot fades it + # across its declared 214->236. + _static_overlay = true + _overlay_spec = {"screen": args["overlay"]} + _overlay_due = 0.0 + _overlay_process(0.0) + if overlay != null and args.has("time"): + overlay.frozen = true + overlay.time_units = float(args["time"]) * overlay.units_per_second + overlay.queue_redraw() + + # `--boot --capture=` is deferred to the end of the sequence (`_finish_boot`), + # and so is `--script --capture=`. + # + # 🔴 The second half of that was missing, and the comment here used to assert + # the opposite -- "in every other mode the frame worth having is this one". + # With `--script` it is emphatically not: the capture fired **before the + # first press**, at t=0.133 s, with 10 of 16 elements still transparent, and + # then quit. Two runs differing by two `down` presses came out BIT-IDENTICAL, + # because neither had run its script when it was photographed. + # + # That is not a harmless default. It is a well-formed answer to a different + # question, and it produced a confident wrong finding -- "runtime focus never + # changes" -- that `--shots` immediately contradicted. A flag combination + # that silently photographs the wrong instant is worse than one that errors. + if args.has("capture") and _capture_to == "": + if not _script.is_empty(): + # Defer to the end of the script, through the SAME member the boot + # path already uses, rather than adding a second mechanism. + _capture_to = String(args["capture"]) + else: + # 🔴 "THE SETTLED POSE BY OMISSION" WAS AN ACCIDENT AND IS NOW REAL. + # + # `_capture` shoots after two frames, so a `--screen=X --capture=` + # run photographed t ~= 2 units -- the very start of the build-in. + # It looked settled only because `pose_at` used to ASSIGN + # `settle_instant` rather than clamp to it, handing back the settled + # pose whatever the clock said. `tools/port/verify-capture` says so + # in its own words: "the 0.01 % agreements on both splashes were + # measured through that accident." + # + # Fixing the assignment (see `ScreenView.pose_at`) removed the + # accident and the tool started photographing a mid-ramp frame, which + # is a change in the HARNESS's shot, not in what the port ships. So + # the clock is advanced to the settle instant explicitly, which is + # what the tool was always asking for. + # + # ⚠️ Only when nothing pinned an instant. `--time` means the caller + # wants THAT instant and `frozen` is already set; overriding it here + # would reintroduce exactly the silent-ignore this replaces. + if not _frozen and view != null and view.settle_instant >= 0.0: + view.time_units = maxf(view.time_units, view.settle_instant) + view.queue_redraw() + await _capture(args["capture"]) + get_tree().quit(0) var _frozen := false +## Holds the left stick's latch state. See `gamepad.gd`. +var _pad := Gamepad.new() var _flow: Variant = null +var _menu: MenuFlow = null +var _play := false +var _pending: Variant = null +## `authored/timing.json` `looping_focus_records`, keyed `/`. +var _looping: Dictionary = {} +## `authored/rendering.json` `draw_leaf_for`. +var _draw_leaf_for: Array = [] +## `authored/rendering.json` `additive_elements` -- measured off the running game. +## `authored/rendering.json` `loop_leaf_on_screens`. +var _loop_leaf_screens: Array = [] +var _script: PackedStringArray = PackedStringArray() +var _shots := "" +## `--skip-at=SECONDS`: when to send a synthetic (A) during a movie, or 0. +var _skip_at := 0.0 +## Units of pure black between one screen leaving and the next arriving. +var _black_hold := 0.0 +## `--focus=`: draw this element's focus record in a `--screen` run. +var _force_focus := "" +var _skip_sent := false +var _script_started := false var _sequence: Array[Dictionary] = [] var _player: VideoStreamPlayer = null var _step := 0 var _film := "" var _film_frame := 0 var _film_next := 0.0 +## Seconds between `--film` frames. See `--film-interval`. +var _film_interval := 0.25 var _elapsed := 0.0 var _boot_done := false +## Frames rendered on the current screen, and the worst gap between two of them. +## +## 🔴 THIS PORT REQUIRED EVERY MEASUREMENT TO REPORT ITS ACHIEVED RATE AND NEVER +## REPORTED ITS OWN. `TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md` §1 -- a capture that asked for one +## rate and delivered another "is not a slow capture, it is a different capture" +## -- was applied to `--film`, to the Decoder's harnesses and to the oracle, and +## not once to the thing actually being shipped. +## +## It matters here specifically. The splashes are the current focus, the +## developer splash's whole build-in is 45 units = 0.75 s, and the human's +## complaint about it is that ours is *less pronounced* than the game's. A fade +## drawn in 45 frames and the same fade drawn in 11 are different animations, and +## nothing in this port could have told the difference. Every timing check so far +## has measured `_elapsed`, which is the sum of the deltas -- it is exactly as +## correct at 8 fps as at 60 and says nothing about what a person sees. +## +## `worst` is kept beside the mean because a hitch is what reads as wrong: a +## screen averaging 55 fps with one 400 ms stall looks broken, and a mean hides +## that by construction. +var _screen_frames := 0 +var _screen_t0 := 0.0 +var _worst_gap := 0.0 + + +## What the port managed on the screen just finishing, in the form this project +## demands of everyone else: achieved against requested, plus the worst hitch. +func _rate_report(name: String) -> String: + var span := _elapsed - _screen_t0 + if span <= 0.0 or _screen_frames == 0: + return "" + # 🔴 THE "REQUESTED" HALF PRINTED -9223372036854775808 ON ITS FIRST RUN. + # `DisplayServer.screen_get_refresh_rate()` returns a float and is -1.0 when + # the display cannot say -- which Xvfb cannot -- and `%d` on that underflows + # to INT64_MIN. A rate line whose own denominator is nonsense is worse than + # no rate line, so it now names the cap or says plainly that there is none. + var cap := "uncapped" + if Engine.max_fps > 0: + cap = "%d requested" % Engine.max_fps + else: + var hz := DisplayServer.screen_get_refresh_rate() + if hz > 0.0: + cap = "%.0f Hz display" % hz + return " %s: %d frames in %.2f s -- %.1f fps achieved, %s, worst gap %.0f ms" % [ + name, _screen_frames, span, _screen_frames / span, cap, _worst_gap * 1000.0] + + +func _rate_reset() -> void: + _screen_frames = 0 + _screen_t0 = _elapsed + _worst_gap = 0.0 + + func _process(delta: float) -> void: if _frozen or view == null: return view.time_units += delta * view.units_per_second _elapsed += delta + _screen_frames += 1 + _worst_gap = maxf(_worst_gap, delta) view.queue_redraw() + _overlay_process(delta) + _menu_repeat(delta) - if _sequence.is_empty() or _player != null: + if _player != null: + # `--skip-at=SECONDS` presses (A) at a wall-clock moment DURING a movie, + # which `--script` structurally cannot do: `_script_settled` waits while + # `_player != null`, so a scripted walk only ever starts after the movie + # has ended. That gap is why "does (A) skip the intro" had been read out + # of the source rather than measured, and a human play-test then found + # it not working. + # + # It goes through `Input.parse_input_event`, like `_press` -- the wiring + # between a press and `_unhandled_input` is the thing under test, so a + # direct call to `_video_finished` would prove nothing. + if _skip_at > 0.0 and _elapsed >= _skip_at and not _skip_sent: + _skip_sent = true + print(" --skip-at: pressing (A) at %.2f s" % _elapsed) + _press("ui_accept") + return + + # A menu transition. This is checked BEFORE the boot sequence and outside + # its emptiness guard: `--menu` has no sequence at all, and an earlier + # version returned here, so the screen faded out and nothing ever arrived. + if _pending != null: + if view.time_units >= view.exit_time(): + _menu_arrive() + return + + if _sequence.is_empty(): return # A screen holds at `rest` until it has arrived, then plays itself out and - # the next one begins. Nothing waits on a timer the disc does not carry: the - # pacing is each group's own timeline (authored/flow.json, `dwell`). + # the next one begins. Nothing waits on a timer the disc does not carry -- + # and for the two splashes that is now MEASURED to be right, not merely + # cautious. Their dwells are declared: publisher t=0..255, developer + # t=0..210, corroborated over 3 cold boots to 1.1 % on the developer. The + # port emits each declared value plus ~1.4 units of frame granularity. + # + # 🔴 THIS SAID "plus the 9-unit black hold, exactly" AND THE PORT DOES NOT DO + # THAT. `authored/timing.json` sets `black_hold_units = 0` -- deliberately, + # with its own argument that a uniform value is positively EXCLUDED and only + # an ordered-pair key survives -- so there is no 9-unit hold to add. The + # sentence described a behaviour the file two lines up refuses to have. + # + # Measured over three boots (2026-09-01), and the residual is frame + # granularity, not a hold: + # + # publisher declared 255 units = 4.250 s measured 4.28 / 4.26 / 4.27 + # mean 4.270 s, residual +1.2 units + # developer declared 210 units = 3.500 s measured 3.50 / 3.57 / 3.51 + # mean 3.527 s, residual +1.6 units + # + # The claimed 4.400 / 3.650 are each ~0.13 s longer than what the port has + # been shipping. Nothing changed here: the CLAIM was wrong, not the code. + # + # ⚠️ The title is the exception and it is why this loop leaves the LAST screen + # alone: build 4 declares ~120 presented frames and dwells ~1100, because its + # exit is caused by something outside its timeline. A splash's exit is caused + # by nothing, so it plays out. Do not generalise either one to the other -- + # a previous revision of this comment did, in both directions. + # + # `_advance` is CAUSED by the next screen arriving, never scheduled off a + # timer, which is what the draw stream says the game does. + # `authored/flow.json` `dwell` is applied at the EXIT below, not here. + # + # 🔴 I wired it here first and it did nothing, silently -- which is the + # defect it exists to remove, reproduced while removing it. Holding longer + # after settle changes nothing, because the screen still leaves when + # `exit_time() + black_hold` arrives and the extra hold is absorbed. A dwell + # has to delay the DEPARTURE. + # + # It was read NOWHERE for eight milestones. The + # block's own text says "when a capture times the real boot, the extra hold + # per screen goes here" -- and a number placed there did nothing at all. Two + # iterations ago I asked the Decoder for measurements destined for that slot; + # had they arrived, they would have been filed into a value with no reader + # and the boot would have been unchanged, silently. + # + # It stays EMPTY. Nothing is authored into it, because the splash dwells are + # declared on the disc and measured to agree. This wires the slot so the day + # a number belongs there it has an effect, which is the opposite of adopting + # one now. if view.holding and view.time_units >= view.settle_time(): # The LAST screen in the sequence keeps holding. A screen plays itself # out because something is taking its place; nothing is taking the @@ -153,14 +639,55 @@ func _process(delta: float) -> void: view.holding = false elif not _boot_done: _boot_done = true - print("boot sequence complete after %.2f s, holding on %s" % [_elapsed, _sequence[_step]]) - if _film == "": + print("boot sequence complete after %.2f s, holding on %s" % [_elapsed, _sequence[_step].get("screen", _sequence[_step])]) + # The LAST screen never reaches `_advance`, so without this the one + # screen the boot ends on -- the title, where the plate lands -- was + # the only one with no rate reported. + var last := _rate_report(String(view.screen.get("name", "?"))) + if last != "": + print(last) + # The plate is timed from HERE -- the moment the screen reaches its + # own hold -- and not from the frame it first appeared. That is the + # finding, not a detail: measured from first-draw the two oracle + # runs disagree by 0.48 s, because the build-in's own duration is + # the emulator's frame pacing rather than the game's clock. + if overlay != null: + # It was raised with the screen, 120 units ago. Nothing to do + # here any more -- this hook used to start an authored 2.13 s + # timer, and the timer was the bug. + pass + # P5 takes over here: the boot ends on the title and the title has + # somewhere to go. Without `--play` the run still stops, because a + # boot that ends by waiting for a key it will never get is worse + # than one that exits. + if _play: + _menu_enter(String(_sequence[_step].get("screen", "")), true) + elif _film == "" and _overlay_spec.is_empty() and _overlay_quit_at < 0.0: get_tree().quit(0) - elif not view.holding and view.time_units >= view.exit_time(): + elif not view.holding and view.time_units >= view.exit_time() + _black_hold \ + + _dwell_for(String(_sequence[_step].get("screen", ""))): + # 🔴 THE BLACK HOLD, which this port had never implemented. A transition + # is a fade THROUGH black (HANDOFF Q7), and the pure-black plateau + # between one screen leaving and the next arriving was measured at + # 0.17-0.23 s. Filmed at 0.05 s the port fell straight from the + # publisher's fade-out into the developer logos with NO BLACK FRAME. + # + # The menus' transition quad declares black for 12 units and 12/60 = + # 0.200 s sits in the middle of the measured range -- but the boot + # splashes carry no such quad (`palogo_eff0` is one static keyframe), so + # on this path it is authored. See `authored/timing.json`. _advance() func _advance() -> void: + # Before the step changes, say what the screen that is leaving managed. + if view != null: + var leaving := String(view.screen.get("name", "?")) + var line := _rate_report(leaving) + if line != "": + print(line) + _rate_reset() + _drop_overlay() _step += 1 var next: Dictionary = _sequence[_step] if next.has("video"): @@ -170,9 +697,21 @@ func _advance() -> void: print(" -> %s at %.2f s" % [name, _elapsed]) view.holding = true view.time_units = 0.0 + view.looping_focus = _looping_for(name) + view.loop_phase_units = _loop_phase + view.draw_leaf_for = _draw_leaf_for + view.loop_leaf = _loop_leaf_screens.has(name) if not view.load_screen(view.tree, name): push_error(view.tree.error) get_tree().quit(2) + return + # The second build starts WITH the first, not after it. Raised here rather + # than at the screen's settle, which is what the authored-delay version did. + var spec: Variant = next.get("overlay", null) + if typeof(spec) == TYPE_DICTIONARY: + _overlay_spec = spec + _overlay_due = _elapsed + _overlay_process(0.0) ## Play one transcoded movie, full-bleed over the screen. @@ -187,6 +726,26 @@ func _play_video(name: String, skippable: bool) -> void: get_tree().quit(2) return print(" -> video %s at %.2f s (%s)" % [name, _elapsed, v["path"]]) + # 🔴 THE MENU BED KEEPS PLAYING UNDER THE MOVIE, AND NOBODY DECIDED THAT. + # + # `MenuAudio.stop_bed()` exists and is called from nowhere, so the music + # started on the main menu runs through the cutscene and on past it. That is + # an UNMADE DECISION, not a choice: the movie carries its own music and + # effects, so the port emits two unrelated music tracks at once, measured at + # r=0.42 for the bed inside the movie's own window (docs/port/DECISIONS.md). + # + # It is NOT silenced here, deliberately. PORT-MISSION's rule is to leave an + # unmeasured detail PLAINLY WRONG rather than plausibly invented, and this is + # the textbook case: music over a cutscene is wrong in a way any listener + # catches in one second, whereas stopping it would sound perfectly right and + # be a guess about the game nobody has watched. The audible version gets + # fixed; the plausible version ships forever. + # + # So it says so instead. Announcing the gap before opening it is what + # `skipped_chain` already does for NEW GAME. + if audio.bed_playing(): + print(" 🔴 the menu bed is STILL PLAYING under this movie -- unmeasured,") + print(" left audible on purpose (BLOCKED.md: does menu music duck?)") var stream := VideoStreamTheora.new() stream.file = v["path"] @@ -207,28 +766,400 @@ func _play_video(name: String, skippable: bool) -> void: await get_tree().process_frame _player.finished.connect(_video_finished) _player.play() + _video_meta = v + _video_started_at = _elapsed + _frames_at_video_start = Engine.get_frames_drawn() + # The dialogue is a SECOND stream, started with the picture. `ADV.wmv` and + # `S00A.wmv` carry music and effects only; the voice is a separate asset the + # exporter resolves off the movie manifest. Started after `play()` and in the + # same frame, because the offset between them is zero and adding a wait here + # would be authoring a sync constant nobody measured. + if audio.play_voice(name): + print(" + voice %s" % name) + # 🔴 SAY WHAT IS MISSING, at the moment it is played. + # + # The manifest has known the voice export is incomplete for weeks and the + # runtime did not repeat it. That asymmetry is the dangerous one for + # audio: a reader of `manifest.json` gets a paragraph, and a person + # LISTENING gets clean dialogue with no way to learn a stream is absent. + # The same principle already governs NEW GAME, which announces the two + # measured screens it jumps over rather than skipping them silently. + var gap := audio.incomplete_for(name) + if gap != "": + print(" 🔴 KNOWN INCOMPLETE: %s" % gap) + else: + # Said out loud: silence is the audio failure that looks like success, + # and "this cutscene is unvoiced" is a real answer for most of the disc. + print(" no voice track for %s in this export" % name) var _skippable := false +## What the last movie actually presented, printed on every run. +## +## 🔴 PERMANENT ON PURPOSE. This port asserted that a player running longer than +## its media must have presented every frame -- argued from the absence of a +## visible drop rather than measured. +## +## 🔴 CORRECTED 2026-09-01, and the correction is of a correction. This read that +## the measurement "refuted the claim outright: 28 % of `S00A`'s frames [refuted] and 47 % +## of `ADV`'s reached the screen". **Retracted.** Those runs were contended, and +## this counts ENGINE frames -- an upper bound that constrains nothing once the +## engine outruns the stream, which it does: quiet, `ADV` draws 6 480 across a +## 4 123-frame video. The original claim is still unsupported; the numbers that +## were said to refute it do not. +## +## So the count is not a diagnostic to reach for, it is printed by default. An +## instrument that has to be added before the question can be asked is one that +## will not be there the next time somebody reasons instead. +## +## 🔴 AND IT IS AN UPPER BOUND, NOT A COUNT -- corrected the same day it was +## added, because the first reading of it was wrong. It counts ENGINE frames. A +## player cannot show more frames than the engine draws, so this bounds shown +## frames from above -- but the engine renders the UI at its OWN rate, and on a +## quiet box it drew **6 480 frames across a 4 123-frame `ADV`**, 44 fps against +## the media's 30. Above that crossover the bound constrains nothing, and the +## report says so rather than printing "157 % presented". +## +## ⚠️ It says nothing about how many frames were DECODED either; Theora is +## inter-frame predicted, so a decoder may decode frames it never displays. +var _video_meta: Dictionary = {} +var _video_started_at := 0.0 +var _frames_at_video_start := 0 + + +func _video_report() -> void: + var dur := float(_video_meta.get("duration_s", 0.0)) + var fps := float(_video_meta.get("fps", 0.0)) + var span := _elapsed - _video_started_at + var drawn := Engine.get_frames_drawn() - _frames_at_video_start + if dur <= 0.0 or fps <= 0.0: + print(" presented %d engine frame(s) in %.2f s -- the manifest carries no" + % [drawn, span] + " duration, so nothing to compare against") + return + var expected := dur * fps + var timing := "%.2f s for %.2f s of media (%+.1f%%)" % [span, dur, 100.0 * (span - dur) / dur] + if drawn >= expected: + # 🔴 THE BOUND IS VACUOUS HERE AND MUST SAY SO. The engine renders the UI + # at its own rate, not the movie's: a quiet box drew 6 480 frames across + # a 4 123-frame `ADV`, 44 fps against the media's 30. "157 % presented" + # is not a measurement, it is the counter being used outside the range + # where it constrains anything. + print(" %d engine frame(s) across %d in the media -- engine faster than" + % [drawn, int(round(expected))] + + " the stream, so this bounds NOTHING about frames shown; %s" % timing) + return + print(" at most %d of %d frame(s) shown (%.0f%% upper bound) in %s" + % [drawn, int(round(expected)), 100.0 * drawn / expected, timing]) + + func _video_finished() -> void: + _video_report() print(" video ended at %.2f s" % _elapsed) + # Before anything else: a voice that outlived a skipped intro would play on + # over the title screen, which is the sort of bug that sounds like a feature. + audio.stop_voice() _player.queue_free() _player = null + # A movie the MENU started (P7) returns to an authored screen; a movie the + # BOOT started advances the sequence. Two different owners, and conflating + # them walked the boot sequencer off the end of its own array. + if not _video_then.is_empty(): + var after := _video_then + _video_then = {} + var goto := String(after.get("goto", "")) + print(" -> %s (authored: %s)" % [goto, String(after.get("kind", "authored"))]) + _menu_activate({"kind": "enter", "goto": goto, "label": "after the movie"}) + # `_menu_activate` only arms the transition; the screen it is leaving has + # already gone, so arrive immediately rather than fading out a movie. + if _pending != null: + _menu_arrive() + return _advance() -func _unhandled_input(event: InputEvent) -> void: - # HANDOFF Q9, measured: one (A) press skips a movie -- the title was reached - # at 57 s against a 193 s baseline. This is the only input the port handles - # so far; menu navigation is P5. - if _player == null or not _skippable: +## Where a menu-started movie goes when it ends. Empty for a boot-started one. +var _video_then: Dictionary = {} + + +## Say what the mods directory contributed, and what it did not. +## +## The shadow lines are printed as they happen; this is the other half -- files +## that matched nothing. Without it a mistyped override is indistinguishable +## from a working one to the person who wrote it, which makes the whole +## base-and-overrides arrangement (MODDING rule 4) unusable by its own audience. +## The export tree, kept so `_exit_tree` can report what the mods directory did +## NOT contribute. It was a local in `_ready`, which is why the unused-override +## report could not exist until now. +var _tree: ExportTree = null + + +func _report_unused_mods() -> void: + if _tree == null: return - if event.is_action_pressed("ui_accept") or event.is_action_pressed("ui_cancel"): - print(" video skipped at %.2f s" % _elapsed) - _player.stop() - _video_finished() + var unused := _tree.unused_mods() + if unused.is_empty(): + return + print("mods: %d file(s) in data/mods can shadow NOTHING -- no such path in the" + % unused.size() + " export:") + for rel in unused: + print(" inert: %s" % rel) + print(" ⚠️ These are not \"not reached yet\": a file whose path exists in the") + print(" export but was not read this run is NOT listed. Every line above is") + print(" an override that can never apply, whatever the run does.") + + +func _unhandled_input(event: InputEvent) -> void: + # The left stick is bound to ui_up/ui_down by Godot's own defaults, and an + # analog axis is not an edge: held at deflection it emits an event per + # jitter, each reporting the action as pressed. `accepts()` latches it to one + # step per deflection. Everything already edge-shaped passes through + # untouched. See `gamepad.gd` -- including what is authored about it. + if not _pad.accepts(event): + return + # HANDOFF Q9, measured: one (A) press skips a movie -- the title was reached + # at 57 s against a 193 s baseline. + if _player != null: + if _skippable and (event.is_action_pressed("ui_accept") or event.is_action_pressed("ui_cancel")): + print(" video skipped at %.2f s" % _elapsed) + _player.stop() + _video_finished() + return + if _menu == null or _menu.stack.is_empty(): + return + # AUTHORED, not measured: a press during a screen's fade-out is dropped. + # `authored/flow.json` says why -- nobody has watched what the game does + # here, and dropping invents less than queueing. + if _pending != null: + return + var buttons: Array = view.screen.get("buttons", []) + if event.is_action_pressed("ui_up"): + _menu_move(-1, buttons) + elif event.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): + _menu_move(1, buttons) + elif event.is_action_pressed("ui_left") or event.is_action_pressed("ui_right"): + # MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5: left/right do nothing. Written out rather than + # left unhandled so that "the game ignores it" and "we never wired it" + # are different lines of code. + pass + elif event.is_action_pressed("ui_accept"): + _menu_activate(_menu.accept(buttons), "confirm") + elif event.is_action_pressed("ui_cancel"): + _menu_activate(_menu.cancel(), "back") + + +## A held direction repeats. F1 of the 2026-09-02 menu play-test: the real game +## continues to move while up or down is held, on the stick AND on the d-pad. +## +## 🔴 **This currently does nothing, and that is the intended state.** The +## mechanism is here; the RATE is not, because it has not been measured and an +## invented one would be indistinguishable from a measurement later. `Gamepad` +## returns 0 from `repeat_due()` until `REPEAT_DELAY`/`REPEAT_INTERVAL` are set. +## +## The guards are deliberately the SAME conditions `_unhandled_input` applies to +## a real press -- a repeat that could fire during a movie, mid-transition or on +## a screen with no menu would be a second, subtly different input path, and the +## first thing this port learned about input is that a second path is where the +## defect hides. +func _menu_repeat(delta: float) -> void: + var step := _pad.repeat_due(delta) + if step == 0: + return + if _player != null or _menu == null or _menu.stack.is_empty() or _pending != null: + return + _menu_move(step, view.screen.get("buttons", [])) + + +func _menu_move(step: int, buttons: Array) -> void: + # MEASURED, HANDOFF Q8 + Q5: the cue fires on a press that MOVES the cursor. + # `move()` returns whether it did, so a press that changes nothing cannot + # click -- which also means left/right stay silent by construction rather + # than by a rule written twice. + if _menu.move(step, buttons): + view.focused_id = _menu.focus() + view.queue_redraw() + audio.play("move") + print(" focus -> %s" % view.focused_id) + + +## Act on what the flow returned. A destination starts the screen playing itself +## out; the arrival happens in `_process` when the exit ramp is done, so the +## fade is the transition HANDOFF Q7 measured and not a cut. +func _menu_activate(action: Dictionary, cue: String = "") -> void: + # AUTHORED, NOT MEASURED: the cue fires when the press does something, and + # not when nothing is bound to it. Nobody has watched the game take a dead + # press. Silence invents the less of the two -- a sound the game does not + # make is a wrong fact you can hear. `blocked` counts as doing something: + # that destination WAS measured off the running game and is missing from + # this export, not from the game. See port/scripts/menu_audio.gd. + if cue != "" and String(action.get("kind", "none")) != "none": + audio.play(cue) + match String(action.get("kind", "none")): + "enter": + print(" (%s) -> %s" % [action.get("label", ""), action["goto"]]) + _pending = action + view.holding = false + "video": + # P7. Announce the gap before opening it. `skipped` names the + # MEASURED screens this export does not carry, and printing them is + # not a nicety: the port is about to show a sequence the game does + # not have, and the only thing that keeps that honest is saying so. + var skipped: Array = action.get("skipped", []) + if not skipped.is_empty(): + print(" (%s) -> the real chain is %s, then the movie. Neither screen is in this export." + % [action.get("label", ""), " -> ".join(PackedStringArray(skipped))]) + _video_then = action.get("after", {}) + _play_video(String(action["video"]), bool(action.get("skippable", false))) + "blocked": + # A real, measured destination that is not in this export. Say which + # -- silence here would read as a dead button. + print(" (%s) opens a screen this export does not carry: %s" + % [action.get("label", ""), action.get("why", "")]) + _: + pass + + +## Enter a screen with the menu live. `fresh` seeds the stack rather than +## replacing the top, which is what a boot handover and `--menu` both want. +func _menu_enter(name: String, fresh: bool) -> void: + if name == "" or not _menu.known(name): + push_warning("flow.json describes no screen named %s -- navigation stops here" % name) + return + if fresh: + _menu.enter(name, view.screen.get("buttons", [])) + # `--focus=` wins over the authored initial focus, and it did NOT before. + # + # 🔴 The flag parsed, was stored, and was applied to `view.focused_id` at + # startup -- and then this line overwrote it on every `_menu_enter`. So on + # the `--menu` path `--focus=` did nothing at all, silently: the run logged + # `focus ptbtn01` whatever was asked for. + # + # That mattered because it made an oracle capture untestable. + # `live-main-menu-options-focused.png` is the menu with OPTIONS focused -- + # the only capture in the corpus of a MEASURED focus state, where the + # harness's own `main_menu` row uses an AUTHORED initial focus standing in + # for a measurement that says initial focus is unstable (HANDOFF Q5). There + # was no way to ask the port for the state the capture shows. + # + # It is pushed into the MENU MODEL, not just the view, so that navigation + # continues from where it was forced rather than jumping back on the first + # press. + if _force_focus != "" and not _menu.stack.is_empty(): + var buttons: Array = view.screen.get("buttons", []) + if buttons.has(_force_focus): + _menu.stack[_menu.stack.size() - 1]["focus"] = _force_focus + view.focused_id = _menu.focus() + view.queue_redraw() + # MEASURED, and this comment is a correction of itself. It read "AUTHORED, and + # the weakest thing in P6: HANDOFF Q10 says nothing on the disc [refuted] names + # which track a menu plays, so `authored/audio.json` picks one" -- which was + # true when written and was refuted the same week. `BGM_103` is measured from + # three independent legs: the phase handler `sub_821C5580` plays cue 1103, + # the bank's two waves are byte-for-byte what the XMA probe saw at the menu, + # and the disc census agrees. `authored/audio.json` CITES it; it does not + # choose it. + # + # 🔴 Left visible rather than swapped out, because this is the third instance + # of the drifted-comment trap in this project -- a correction lands in the + # code or the data and the sentence above it keeps describing the old world. + # Neither agent's checker looks at prose that contradicts the code under it. + # + # What is still true: the bed starts when the menu becomes live and CARRIES + # ACROSS submenus -- `play_bed` is idempotent, because music that restarts + # every time you press (B) is the kind of wrong that reads as "the audio + # works". + audio.play_bed("main_menu") + print(" menu on %s, focus %s" % [name, _focus_label(view.focused_id)]) + if not _script.is_empty() and not _script_started: + _script_started = true + _run_script() + + +## The moment a screen has finished fading out and the next one takes over. +func _menu_arrive() -> void: + # 🔴 THE RATE REPORT WAS BOOT-ONLY ON ITS FIRST VERSION, AND SAID SO NOWHERE. + # `_advance` walks the boot; the MENU arrives through here, so `--menu` -- + # the mode a human actually spends time in, and the one where a slow frame is + # felt as input lag rather than seen as a coarse fade -- reported nothing. An + # instrument covering half the application while its own page claimed "every + # boot" is the shape this port keeps finding in other people's work. + if view != null: + var line := _rate_report(String(view.screen.get("name", "?"))) + if line != "": + print(line) + _rate_reset() + # The plate goes with the screen it was measured on. See `_drop_overlay`. + _drop_overlay() + var action: Dictionary = _pending + _pending = null + var name := String(action["goto"]) + view.holding = true + view.time_units = 0.0 + view.looping_focus = _looping_for(name) + view.loop_phase_units = _loop_phase + view.draw_leaf_for = _draw_leaf_for + view.loop_leaf = _loop_leaf_screens.has(name) + if not view.load_screen(view.tree, name): + push_error(view.tree.error) + get_tree().quit(2) + return + # 🔴 THE PLATE COMES BACK IN THE GAME, AND IT DID NOT HERE. + # + # `_drop_overlay()` at the top of this function is right -- the plate goes + # with the screen it was measured on -- but nothing ever put it back, so Ⓑ + # from the main menu landed on a BARE title. `_overlay_spec` is cleared the + # moment the overlay is raised, and only the boot sequence ever sets it. + # + # MEASURED by the Decoder 2026-08-30 (branch `auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures`, + # `docs/re/data/nav-autorepeat-and-settled-b.txt`): after Ⓑ from the menu the + # plate IS re-drawn -- pressed at 351.2 s, its pulse back at 358.5 s. + # + # ⚠️ No new constant. The delay is not authored here and must not be: the + # overlay declaration is read back out of `authored/flow.json`'s boot step + # for this screen, so the plate re-appears by the SAME path, with the same + # shared clock, as it does on boot. Whatever the boot does, the return does. + _rearm_overlay_for(name) + var buttons: Array = view.screen.get("buttons", []) + if action.get("pop", false): + # MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5: (B) restores the focus you came from. + _menu.pop() + _menu.set_focus(String(action["restore_focus"])) + view.focused_id = _menu.focus() + view.queue_redraw() + print(" menu on %s, focus restored to %s" % [name, _focus_label(view.focused_id)]) + else: + _menu_enter(name, true) + + +## Whether this process can produce a picture at all. +## +## MEASURED here, not assumed: under `--headless` Godot's dummy renderer never +## emits `RenderingServer.frame_post_draw`, so every `await` on it blocks +## forever. `godot-headless --path port -- --screen=main_menu --capture=…` +## therefore hung with NO OUTPUT until it was killed -- the same run with +## `--quit` prints and exits, which is how the difference was isolated. +## +## That is the worst shape a failure can take in an unattended loop: it does not +## fail, it waits, and a job that waits forever reads as a job still working. +## So the flags that need a frame refuse at STARTUP and say what to run instead, +## rather than dying somewhere in the middle of a filmstrip. +func _has_display(flag: String) -> bool: + if DisplayServer.get_name() != "headless": + return true + push_error(("--%s needs a drawn frame, and --headless never draws one: " + + "Godot's dummy renderer does not emit frame_post_draw, so this would " + + "hang rather than fail. Run it under Xvfb instead:\n" + + " xvfb-run -a godot --path port -- …--%s=…") % [flag, flag]) + return false + + +## How a focus reads in the log. The title has no focusable item at all -- it is +## a screen with no `buttons` that still takes (A) -- and an empty string there +## printed as a line that trailed off, which reads like the value went missing +## rather than like there is none. +static func _focus_label(id: String) -> String: + return id if id != "" else "(none -- this screen has no focusable item)" func _capture(path: String) -> void: @@ -236,12 +1167,40 @@ func _capture(path: String) -> void: await RenderingServer.frame_post_draw await RenderingServer.frame_post_draw var img := viewport.get_texture().get_image() - print("t = %.2f units (%.3f s), pose = %s" % [ + # The EFFECTIVE configuration, not the requested one: every free-running + # clock states whether it was pinned. Three of them exist (looping focus + # record, spin, leaf) and a run that pinned two of three used to look + # identical to one that pinned all three. + var pins := PackedStringArray() + pins.append("frozen" if view.frozen else "running") + pins.append("loop-phase=%s" % ("free" if view.loop_phase_units < 0.0 else str(view.loop_phase_units))) + pins.append("leaf=%s" % ("free" if view.leaf_time_units < 0.0 else str(view.leaf_time_units))) + # 🔴 THE OVERLAY IS A SECOND ScreenView WITH ITS OWN PINS, and this line + # reported only the first. An unpinned overlay would have been announced as + # pinned, because the announcement read `view.*` while the plate -- which + # carries a looping focus record, exactly the clock in question -- draws from + # `overlay.*`. An announcement that cannot distinguish the cases it announces + # is only half a guard. + if overlay != null: + pins.append("overlay(loop-phase=%s, leaf=%s)" % [ + "free" if overlay.loop_phase_units < 0.0 else str(overlay.loop_phase_units), + "free" if overlay.leaf_time_units < 0.0 else str(overlay.leaf_time_units)]) + print("t = %.2f units (%.3f s), pose = %s [%s]" % [ view.time_units, view.time_units / view.units_per_second, - "rest" if view.pose_mode == ScreenView.Pose.REST else "timeline"]) + "rest" if view.pose_mode == ScreenView.Pose.REST else "timeline", + ", ".join(pins)]) print("drew %d: %s" % [view.drawn.size(), ", ".join(view.drawn)]) if not view.skipped.is_empty(): print("not drawn %d: %s" % [view.skipped.size(), ", ".join(view.skipped)]) + # The overlay is a second build in the same frame, so it needs its own line. + # Folding its elements into the list above would make the capture report a + # screen that does not exist; leaving it out entirely made the first + # composited capture read as though the plate had not been drawn at all. + if overlay != null: + print("overlay %s at t = %.2f units (%.3f s), drew %d: %s" % [ + overlay.screen.get("name", "?"), overlay.time_units, + overlay.time_units / overlay.units_per_second, + overlay.drawn.size(), ", ".join(overlay.drawn)]) var err := img.save_png(path) if err != OK: push_error("cannot write %s (%d)" % [path, err]) @@ -251,14 +1210,59 @@ func _capture(path: String) -> void: ## A frame every 0.25 s for the whole run, so an unattended boot leaves a ## filmstrip behind rather than requiring someone to be watching it. +## +## 🔴 A FRAME INDEX IS NOT A CLOCK, AND THIS TOOL WAS BEING READ AS ONE. +## +## `_film_next += _film_interval` schedules frame `n` for `n * interval`. When a +## frame costs more than the interval -- and it does; one 1280x720 `save_png` +## under llvmpipe measured ~0.24 s, so any `--film-interval` under a quarter of +## a second is unreachable -- the deficit accumulates silently and every later +## frame is taken late by a growing amount. Asking for 0.05 s over 60 s +## requested 1 200 frames and produced **247**, an achieved 4.1 fps against a +## requested 20. Nothing in the output said so, and `f_071.png` still looks +## exactly like the frame that was meant to be 3.55 s in. +## +## `TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md` §1 is explicit that a capture that asked for one +## rate and delivered another "is not a slow capture, it is a **different** +## capture", and that an instrument which cannot report its own completeness may +## not be trusted (R3). So the film now carries its own timebase: one TSV row per +## frame with the elapsed second it was ACTUALLY taken at and both builds' clocks +## at that moment, appended as it goes so a run killed by `timeout` still leaves +## a complete index. +## +## The schedule is deliberately NOT rebased onto `_elapsed`. Catching up would +## hide the shortfall, which is the defect; falling behind and saying so is the +## fix. The achieved rate is printed every 40 frames and the row is the record. func _film_capture() -> void: + var index_path := "%s_frames.tsv" % _film + var index := FileAccess.open(index_path, FileAccess.WRITE) + if index == null: + push_error("cannot write %s (%d)" % [index_path, FileAccess.get_open_error()]) + return + index.store_line("frame\telapsed_s\trequested_s\tlag_s\tscreen\tview_units\toverlay_units") + print("film: %s, requested one frame every %.3f s; index -> %s" + % [_film, _film_interval, index_path]) while true: await RenderingServer.frame_post_draw if _elapsed >= _film_next: + var at := _elapsed var img := viewport.get_texture().get_image() img.save_png("%s_%03d.png" % [_film, _film_frame]) + # The overlay's clock, or -1 where there is no second build. A blank + # would read as zero, and zero is a real instant on that timeline. + var over := -1.0 + if overlay != null: + over = overlay.time_units + index.store_line("%d\t%.4f\t%.4f\t%.4f\t%s\t%.3f\t%.3f" % [ + _film_frame, at, _film_next, at - _film_next, + String(view.screen.get("name", "?")) if view != null else "?", + view.time_units if view != null else -1.0, over]) + index.flush() _film_frame += 1 - _film_next += 0.25 + _film_next += _film_interval + if _film_frame % 40 == 0 and at > 0.0: + print("film: %d frames in %.2f s -- achieved %.2f fps against a requested %.2f" + % [_film_frame, at, _film_frame / at, 1.0 / _film_interval]) # Godot passes everything after `--` through untouched; take `--key=value`. @@ -271,3 +1275,527 @@ static func _args() -> Dictionary: elif arg.begins_with("--"): out[arg.substr(2)] = "1" return out + + +# ── The scripted walk ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── +# +# `--script=down,down,accept,cancel` presses those buttons in order and, with +# `--shots=`, leaves one PNG per step behind. This is the P5 artifact for an +# unattended run. +# +# It sends synthetic events through `Input.parse_input_event`, so they arrive at +# `_unhandled_input` exactly as a d-pad's would. Calling the navigation +# functions directly would have been three lines shorter and would have proved +# nothing: the thing most likely to be broken is the wiring between a press and +# the cursor, and that is the part a direct call skips. + +const SCRIPT_ACTIONS := { + "up": "ui_up", "down": "ui_down", "left": "ui_left", "right": "ui_right", + "accept": "ui_accept", "a": "ui_accept", "cancel": "ui_cancel", "b": "ui_cancel", +} + +## How long a single step may take before the run is called stuck, in seconds. +## A screen that never settles would otherwise hang an unattended job forever; +## the title's own timeline is 4.5 s, so this is generous rather than tuned. +const SCRIPT_STEP_TIMEOUT := 20.0 + + +func _run_script() -> void: + if not await _script_settled("start"): + return + await _shoot("00_start") + for i in range(_script.size()): + var token := _script[i].strip_edges().to_lower() + if token.begins_with("wait:"): + # `wait:30` holds for thirty SECONDS of wall clock. + # + # Added because the port could not be asked to run for a stated + # duration at all: a bare `wait` is a no-op that returns as soon as + # the screen settles, so NOTHING that happens after the settle point + # was observable from a script. The music bed's loop is the case that + # exposed it -- an 87.7 s track whose restart nobody has ever + # watched, on a harness whose longest menu run was under seven + # seconds. + # + # It is wall clock rather than keyframe units on purpose: what it + # exists to observe are things on the AUDIO clock and the engine's, + # which are not the disc's and do not scale with `units_per_second`. + var secs := float(token.substr(5)) + if secs <= 0.0: + push_error("--script: wait: needs a positive number of seconds, got %s" % token) + get_tree().quit(2) + return + print("script[%d] wait %.1f s" % [i + 1, secs]) + # 🔴 WALL CLOCK, POLLED -- **not** `create_timer`, which was the + # first implementation and was wrong by 39 %. + # + # `create_timer` counts down on the frame delta. In an IDLE scene + # this container throttles hard and the delta it reports is not the + # time that passed, so a requested 30 s took **41.7 s** of real + # time while the port cheerfully reported 30. Measured against + # `date` either side of the process, with a no-wait control to + # subtract the 1.21 s of startup. + # + # ⚠️ That is idle-specific and NOT a general clock problem: over a + # whole boot, where things are animating, the port's own clock + # tracks wall clock to within 4 % (10.43 s wall against 10.82 s + # reported). The port's ANIMATION timing is fine. It is the waiting + # that was not. + # + # This matters because the only reason to hold a screen is to + # observe something on a REAL clock -- an audio loop, a timeout -- + # and a timer that silently runs 39 % long would put every such + # observation at the wrong instant. + var until := Time.get_ticks_msec() + int(secs * 1000.0) + while Time.get_ticks_msec() < until: + await get_tree().process_frame + elif token == "wait": + pass + elif SCRIPT_ACTIONS.has(token): + # The elapsed clock goes in the line because a press with no timestamp + # cannot be compared against a MEASURED latency. The Decoder's Ⓑ + # figures are press-to-effect times; without this the port's own + # press time had to be guessed from the surrounding lines. + print("script[%d] %s at %.2f s" % [i + 1, token, _elapsed]) + _press(String(SCRIPT_ACTIONS[token])) + else: + push_error("--script: no such step %s (have %s, wait, wait:)" + % [token, ", ".join(SCRIPT_ACTIONS.keys())]) + get_tree().quit(2) + return + # `Input.parse_input_event` is flushed with the frame, not on the call. + # Without these two frames the settle check runs while the press has not + # been delivered yet, decides nothing is moving, and photographs the + # screen the press was about to leave. + await get_tree().process_frame + await get_tree().process_frame + if not await _script_settled(token): + return + await _shoot("%02d_%s" % [i + 1, token]) + print("script complete after %.2f s on %s, focus %s" + % [_elapsed, _menu.current(), _focus_label(view.focused_id)]) + # The frame worth having from a scripted run is the one the script ARRIVED + # at, not the one it started from. See the note beside the early capture. + if _capture_to != "": + await _capture(_capture_to) + # 🔴 `--linger=SECONDS` KEEPS A SCRIPTED RUN ALIVE AFTER THE WALK SETTLES. + # + # Without it a scripted run quits the moment the last step settles, and + # ANYTHING THE SCREEN DOES AFTERWARDS IS UNOBSERVABLE. That is not + # hypothetical: the plate on a returned title arrives on its own declared + # ramp at t=214..236, which is ~3.6 s after the screen settles, and a film of + # `--script=cancel` stopped at 168 units and never reached it. The behaviour + # was inferred from code-path identity because the harness could not watch it. + # + # `_script_settled` waiting for a hold is right -- a shot taken mid-fade is a + # photograph of a fade. This does not change that. It changes what happens + # after the shot, which was "exit" and is now optionally "keep running". + var linger := float(_args().get("linger", "0")) + if linger > 0.0: + print("linger: holding %.2f s past the walk so late arrivals are observable" % linger) + await get_tree().create_timer(linger).timeout + get_tree().quit(0) + + +func _press(action: String) -> void: + for down in [true, false]: + var e := InputEventAction.new() + e.action = action + e.pressed = down + Input.parse_input_event(e) + + +## Wait until nothing is moving: no transition pending, and the screen has +## reached its own hold. Shooting before that would photograph a fade. +func _script_settled(what: String) -> bool: + var deadline := _elapsed + SCRIPT_STEP_TIMEOUT + var playhead := -1.0 + while _pending != null or _player != null or not view.holding \ + or view.time_units < view.settle_time(): + # A movie is not a screen that failed to settle: `S00A` runs 93.9 s and + # would trip a 20 s timeout every time (P7). But "wait as long as it + # takes" would turn a movie stuck at frame 0 into a job that hangs + # forever, which is the worse failure -- it does not fail, it waits. + # + # So the test is LIVENESS, not duration: while the playhead advances the + # deadline moves with it, and a stalled movie still trips the same 20 s. + if _player != null: + var now := _player.get_stream_position() + if now > playhead: + playhead = now + deadline = _elapsed + SCRIPT_STEP_TIMEOUT + if _elapsed > deadline: + # Stop the run. Carrying on would write a whole filmstrip of the + # screen that got stuck and call it a walk through the menus. + push_error("--script: %s never settled within %.0f s -- stopping" + % [what, SCRIPT_STEP_TIMEOUT]) + get_tree().quit(3) + return false + await get_tree().process_frame + # Only a run that is about to photograph the frame needs to wait for one to + # be drawn. `--script` on its own is a navigation check and must still work + # where nothing draws -- see `_has_display`. + if _shots != "": + await RenderingServer.frame_post_draw + await RenderingServer.frame_post_draw + return true + + +func _shoot(label: String) -> void: + if _shots == "": + return + var path := "%s_%s.png" % [_shots, label] + var img := viewport.get_texture().get_image() + # Write to a temp name and rename on completion: another agent probing a + # file this is still writing gets a confident wrong number. + var tmp := path + ".part" + if img.save_png(tmp) != OK: + push_error("cannot write %s" % tmp) + return + DirAccess.rename_absolute(tmp, path) + print(" shot %s (%s, focus %s)" % [path, _menu.current(), _focus_label(view.focused_id)]) + + +# ── Recording the master bus ────────────────────────────────────────────────── +# +# `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §2. This is what closes the loop that file +# opens: comparing an exported Ogg against the disc proves the ASSET is right and +# says nothing about whether the engine ever reached it. A WAV captured off the +# Master bus proves both, and needs no sound card to do it. +# +# It is saved in `_exit_tree` rather than beside each `quit()` because there are +# eight of those and the one that would get missed is an error path -- exactly +# the run whose audio somebody wants to look at. + +var _record_to := "" +var _record: AudioEffectRecord = null + + +func _start_recording() -> void: + var bus := AudioServer.get_bus_index("Master") + _record = AudioEffectRecord.new() + AudioServer.add_bus_effect(bus, _record) + _record.set_recording_active(true) + print("recording the Master bus to %s (audio driver: %s)" % [_record_to, MenuAudio.driver()]) + + +func _exit_tree() -> void: + # 🔴 boot.gd ALREADY HAD an `_exit_tree`, and adding a second was a parse + # error rather than a silent override -- the one failure mode that costs + # nothing. The mods report hangs off the existing hook. + _report_unused_mods() + if _record == null: + return + _record.set_recording_active(false) + var wav := _record.get_recording() + _record = null + if wav == null: + push_error("--audio: the Master bus recorded nothing at all") + return + # Write to a temp name and rename on completion, as everything else in this + # project does: another agent probing a file still being written gets a + # confident wrong duration rather than an error. + # + # ⚠️ The temp name ends in `.wav`, and that is not cosmetic. `save_to_wav` + # APPENDS `.wav` when the path does not already end in it, so `p6.wav.part` + # silently became `p6.wav.part.wav` -- and the rename below then failed to + # find its source and returned an error nobody read, leaving a run that + # printed success beside a file that was not there. This is the same bug the + # exporter's `run_ffmpeg` had in a different dialect: a temp-name convention + # must preserve the extension, because tools dispatch on it. + var tmp := _record_to + ".part.wav" + if wav.save_to_wav(tmp) != OK: + push_error("--audio: cannot write %s" % tmp) + return + var moved := DirAccess.rename_absolute(tmp, _record_to) + if moved != OK: + # Say so rather than print the success line below. A rename that fails + # quietly is worse than one that fails loudly: the caller measures a + # path that does not exist and reads "no such file" as "no audio". + push_error("--audio: wrote %s but could not rename it to %s (%d)" + % [tmp, _record_to, moved]) + return + print("recorded %.3f s of Master bus -> %s (driver %s)" + % [float(wav.data.size()) / float(wav.mix_rate * 2 * (2 if wav.stereo else 1)), + _record_to, MenuAudio.driver()]) + + +# ── The second build ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── + +## The overlay the current boot step owes, if it has not been raised yet. +var _overlay_spec: Dictionary = {} +## Where a STATIC overlay's own clock starts, and the main view's clock then. +var _overlay_t0 := 0.0 +var _overlay_view_t0 := 0.0 +## Wall-clock second at which it is raised, measured from the screen's settle. +var _overlay_due: float = 0.0 +## True only for `--overlay=` WITHOUT `--boot` -- the static diagnostic. +## +## It replaces `_sequence.is_empty()`, which was standing in for "diagnostic +## mode" and silently caught `--menu` too, because `_sequence` is filled only by +## `--boot`. The consequence was visible and nobody had looked: on the menu's +## return to the title the plate was posed at its settle in a single frame +## instead of fading across its declared 214->236. +var _static_overlay := false +## `--loop-phase=` pins the looping record's phase. Negative is +## free-running, which is the default and what a player gets. Only the +## regression harness passes it -- see `ScreenView.loop_phase_units`. +var _loop_phase: float = -1.0 + + +func _overlay_process(delta: float) -> void: + if overlay != null: + # ONE CLOCK. Not `+= delta * ups` on each independently: they would drift + # apart by a frame here and there, and the whole content of the finding + # is that the 120 units between build 4's last ramp and the plate's + # `a=255` is a fixed interval on a shared timeline. + # 🔴 A STATIC overlay poses at ITS OWN ARRIVAL, not at the shared clock. + # + # `--screen=X --overlay=Y` has no sequence driving it, so `view` sits at + # its settle instant while this line pushed the *raw elapsed* clock into + # the overlay -- 9 units at the moment `--capture` fires. For + # `press_start` that is alpha 0 (transparent until t=214, opaque only at + # t=236-238), so the one flag whose purpose is "put the plate on the + # title" drew NOTHING and reported `drew 0`. It read as a title with no + # plate, which is what anyone would conclude. + # + # It cost a measurement: against `live-title-press-a.png` every sweep + # phase gave a flat ~1.0 % floor, and the residual was a row of + # glyph-sized blobs on the plate's own position. Posed properly the same + # comparison is 0.00093 %. + # + # In a `--boot` sequence the shared clock is the whole point -- the 120 + # units between build 4's last ramp and the plate's a=255 is a fixed + # interval on ONE timeline -- so that path is untouched. + if _static_overlay: + # 🔴 GATED ON THE DIAGNOSTIC FLAG, NOT ON `_sequence.is_empty()`. + # `_sequence` is filled only by `--boot`, so the old test was true for + # `--menu` as well and the menu's return-to-title took this branch: + # the plate was posed at its settle in ONE frame (overlay clock 0 -> + # 244.67) instead of fading across its declared 214->236. The call + # site's own `why` claimed "whatever the boot does, the return does", + # and it did the opposite. + # + # 🔴 A static overlay STARTS at its arrival and then ADVANCES. It used + # to be pinned there on every frame, which was this fix overshooting. + # + # Pinning fixed the original defect -- `--screen=X --overlay=Y` pushed + # the raw elapsed clock in, 9 units at capture, and `press_start` drew + # nothing -- but it replaced a frozen-too-early overlay with a + # frozen-at-arrival one. `--screen=X` animates X; freezing Y while + # animating X is an inconsistency in one command, and the plate pulse + # is what made it visible: the plate oscillates on the boot path and + # sat flat here, which reads as a regression and is not one. + # + # Offset, not pinned: the overlay begins at its own settle and takes + # the same delta the main view takes. + overlay.time_units = _overlay_t0 + (view.time_units - _overlay_view_t0) + else: + overlay.time_units = view.time_units + overlay.queue_redraw() + if _overlay_quit_at >= 0.0 and _elapsed >= _overlay_quit_at: + print("boot ends on %s + %s at %.2f s" + % [view.screen.get("name", "?"), overlay.screen.get("name", "?"), _elapsed]) + _overlay_quit_at = -1.0 + _finish_boot() + return + if _overlay_spec.is_empty() or _elapsed < _overlay_due: + return + _raise_overlay(String(_overlay_spec.get("screen", ""))) + + +## Re-arm the overlay a screen declares in the authored boot sequence. +## +## Used when the MENU arrives at a screen, not just when the boot walks onto it. +## It looks the declaration up rather than naming `press_start`, so a screen that +## gains an overlay in `authored/flow.json` gets it on both paths at once and +## this function needs no edit. +func _rearm_overlay_for(name: String) -> void: + if _flow == null or not (_flow as Dictionary).has("boot"): + return + for step: Dictionary in _flow["boot"]: + if String(step.get("screen", "")) != name: + continue + var spec: Variant = step.get("overlay", null) + if typeof(spec) == TYPE_DICTIONARY: + _overlay_spec = spec + _overlay_due = _elapsed + _overlay_process(0.0) + return + + +## Composite a second build over the first. +## +## It starts at `time_units = 0` and plays its OWN group, so the plate rises and +## fades in exactly as the disc declares -- alpha 0x00 at t=214, 0xff by t=238 -- +## rather than appearing as a cut. `holding` then parks it at its settle, which +## for this build is the visible pose. +## +## ⚠️ It does NOT pulse, and that is a decision with arithmetic behind it rather +## than an omission. See `authored/flow.json`, `no_pulse_why`. +func _raise_overlay(name: String) -> void: + var spec := _overlay_spec + _overlay_spec = {} + if name == "": + return + overlay = ScreenView.new() + overlay.texture_filter = CanvasItem.TEXTURE_FILTER_NEAREST + overlay.units_per_second = view.units_per_second + overlay.exit_ramp_units = view.exit_ramp_units + overlay.looping_focus = _looping_for(name) + overlay.loop_phase_units = _loop_phase + # The overlay's LEAF pin was missing while its loop-phase pin was wired, so a + # run requesting both had one reach this view and one not. Found by extending + # the announcement to cover the overlay -- the guard's first use. + overlay.leaf_time_units = view.leaf_time_units + overlay.draw_leaf_for = _draw_leaf_for + # 🔴 THE OVERLAY IS A SECOND ScreenView AND IT WAS NOT GETTING THIS. Every + # other decoded rule on this page is assigned to `view` AND to `overlay`, and + # `additive_elements` was assigned to `view` in three places and to `overlay` + # in none -- so the PRESS (A) plate, which is an overlay, kept drawing its + # focus record alpha-over after the blend was wired in. The change reported + # EXACTLY ZERO against the capture, which is what a change that never reached + # the renderer looks like. + overlay.loop_leaf = _loop_leaf_screens.has(name) + overlay.holding = true + overlay.time_units = 0.0 + if not overlay.load_screen(view.tree, name): + push_error(view.tree.error) + overlay.queue_free() + overlay = null + return + # After `view`, so it draws over it: Node2D siblings paint in tree order and + # the export's own `paint_order` only orders WITHIN a build. + viewport.add_child(overlay) + _overlay_t0 = overlay.settle_time() + _overlay_view_t0 = view.time_units + print(" overlay %s raised at %.2f s, %d element(s), settles at t=%d" + % [name, _elapsed, overlay.screen.get("elements", []).size(), int(overlay.settle_time())]) + # A boot with no menu to hand over to has now finished: it was held open for + # this. Give the plate its own group time to play before leaving, so the + # artifact shows the composited state rather than the frame it began on. + var visible_at := overlay.settle_time() / overlay.units_per_second + # `--screen --overlay=` uses the same code path as a fast check and must not + # narrate a sequence it is not running: a log line that lies is worse than + # no log line. + if _sequence.is_empty(): + return + # %d - 118, computed rather than spelled: the literal "120" here disagreed + # with the "t=236" printed beside it in the same sentence, for weeks. + print(" plate reaches full alpha at t=%d (%.2f s on the shared clock), \ +%d units after build 4's effect quads end together at t=118" + % [int(overlay.settle_time()), visible_at, int(overlay.settle_time()) - 118]) + if not _play and _film == "": + # The LATER of the two, not the overlay's alone. + # + # 🔴 THE REASON GIVEN HERE WAS BACKWARDS AND IS REPLACED. It said build 4 + # "is still fading up from black until t=261 -- its `pteff00` quad is + # 7 % opaque at 243". `pteff00` is the screen's black veil and it does + # BOTH fades: opaque at t=0, clear by **t=16**, transparent all the way + # to t=261, then back to opaque by t=269. At t=243 it is 0 % opaque, not + # 7 %, and 261..269 is the fade-OUT. So build 4 finishes arriving 16 + # units in, not 261. + # + # The line still stands, for the reason underneath it rather than the + # one that was written: build 4's own last hold is t=160 (`ptcopyright` + # reaching full alpha) and the plate's is t=236, so ending on the + # overlay alone would still be ending on the earlier of two clocks. The + # darker capture that prompted this was real; the explanation was not. + var ends_at := maxf(view.settle_time(), overlay.settle_time()) / view.units_per_second + _overlay_quit_at = _elapsed - (view.time_units / view.units_per_second) + ends_at + print(" boot ends at %.2f s, once both builds have arrived (t=%d)" + % [_overlay_quit_at, int(maxf(view.settle_time(), overlay.settle_time()))]) + # `spec` is read only for the log; the reasoning lives in flow.json where a + # reader looking for a decision will find it. + if spec.has("why"): + print(" why: %s" % String(spec["why"]).substr(0, 96)) + + +var _overlay_quit_at: float = -1.0 + + +## Take the overlay away with the screen it belongs to. +## +## The plate was measured on the BOOT title only. Whether it is there when the +## title is reached again -- (B) from the main menu, or after the attract movie +## -- is not measured, so leaving it up would be claiming something nobody has +## watched. `authored/flow.json` says the same thing in the step's `scope_why`. +func _drop_overlay() -> void: + _overlay_spec = {} + _overlay_quit_at = -1.0 + if overlay != null: + overlay.queue_free() + overlay = null + + +## End a `--boot` run, photographing the composited end state first if asked. +## +## `--capture` used to be a `--screen`-only flag, taken in `_ready`. The boot had +## no artifact of its own except a whole `--film` filmstrip, which is 600+ PNGs +## to answer one question: is the plate on top of the title at the end. This +## takes that one frame. +func _finish_boot() -> void: + if _capture_to != "": + await _capture(_capture_to) + get_tree().quit(0) + + +var _capture_to := "" + + +## The authored looping-focus entries that apply to one screen. +## +## The table is keyed `/` so a reader can see at a glance which +## screen an entry belongs to -- `ptbtn00` exists on more than one build, and an +## entry that silently applied to all of them would be a rule again. +func _looping_for(screen_name: String) -> Dictionary: + var out := {} + for key: String in _looping.keys(): + if key == "_": + continue + var parts := key.split("/", true, 1) + if parts.size() == 2 and parts[0] == screen_name: + out[parts[1]] = _looping[key] + return out + + +## Extra hold for one screen, in units, from `authored/flow.json` `dwell`. +## +## Zero unless a measurement is authored. A value here is an ADDITION to the +## screen's own declared group, not a replacement for it. +func _dwell_for(screen_name: String) -> float: + if _flow == null or not (_flow is Dictionary): + return 0.0 + var table: Variant = (_flow as Dictionary).get("dwell", {}) + if not (table is Dictionary): + return 0.0 + var v: Variant = (table as Dictionary).get(screen_name, 0.0) + return float(v) if (v is float or v is int) else 0.0 + + +## Check the authored values this port CANNOT act on, and fail loudly if one +## changes. +## +## `left_right`, `input_during_transition` and `ramp` are authored with reasons +## and read by nothing -- the behaviour they describe is hardcoded. That is +## defensible for a record and dangerous for a switch, and they are written like +## switches: someone setting `left_right` to "move" would change nothing and get +## no warning. +## +## So rather than invent the missing implementations, the port ASSERTS the value +## it was built against. Changing one now produces an error naming the file +## instead of silence, which is the distinction the `why` for `left_right` +## claims to be making -- "the game ignores it" and "we never wired it" are +## different lines of code -- and which was not actually being made. +func _check_authored_invariants(timing: Dictionary) -> void: + var nav: Variant = (_flow as Dictionary).get("navigation", {}) if _flow is Dictionary else {} + if nav is Dictionary: + var lr := String((nav as Dictionary).get("left_right", "nothing")) + if lr != "nothing": + push_error("authored/flow.json navigation.left_right is \"%s\"; this port implements only \"nothing\"" % lr) + var idt := String((nav as Dictionary).get("input_during_transition", "ignored")) + if idt != "ignored": + push_error("authored/flow.json navigation.input_during_transition is \"%s\"; this port implements only \"ignored\"" % idt) + var ramp := String(timing.get("ramp", "linear")) + if ramp != "linear": + push_error("authored/timing.json ramp is \"%s\"; ScreenView interpolates linearly and has no other mode" % ramp) diff --git a/port/scripts/export_tree.gd b/port/scripts/export_tree.gd index ea3d141f..6d1e5a20 100644 --- a/port/scripts/export_tree.gd +++ b/port/scripts/export_tree.gd @@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ const FORMAT_SCREEN := "sylpheed.screen/3" const FORMAT_MANIFEST := "sylpheed.manifest/1" var root: String = "" +## The override tree, or "" when there is none. MODDING rule 4: a mod replaces a +## file by SHADOWING ITS PATH, so `mods/screens/title/main_menu.json` stands in +## for `/screens/title/main_menu.json` and nothing under the derived tree +## is touched. That is what makes re-exporting always safe. +var mods: String = "" +## Relative paths a mod actually replaced this run, in the order they were first +## read. Recorded because MODDING says "did I break it?" is answered by disabling +## a mod -- which only works if a modded run does not look like an unmodded one. +var shadowed: Array[String] = [] var error: String = "" @@ -27,9 +36,114 @@ static func locate() -> ExportTree: t.error = "no manifest.json under %s -- run `sylpheed-export` first" % candidate return t t.root = candidate + + # The override tree. `SYLPHEED_MODS` wins for the same reason + # `SYLPHEED_EXPORT` does; otherwise `data/mods/`, which is the directory + # MODDING.md's own layout diagram names and the one this repository ships. + # + # Absent is normal and silent: an unmodded run is the common case, and a + # warning about a directory nobody created would be noise. + var m := OS.get_environment("SYLPHEED_MODS") + if m == "": + m = ProjectSettings.globalize_path("res://").path_join("../data/mods").simplify_path() + if DirAccess.dir_exists_absolute(m): + t.mods = m return t +## Where a relative path actually comes from: the mod tree if it has one, else +## the derived tree. +## +## Every read in this class goes through here, so a mod can replace a screen's +## JSON, a sprite, a cue, a music bed or a movie by dropping a file at the same +## relative path. There is deliberately no manifest of what a mod contains and no +## registration step -- the path IS the registration, which is the whole of +## MODDING rule 4. +## +## ⚠️ One tree, not a stack. Several mods layering over each other needs an +## order, and an order needs a rule nobody has asked for yet. Say so rather than +## invent one. +func resolve(rel: String) -> String: + if mods != "": + var over := mods.path_join(rel) + if FileAccess.file_exists(over): + if not shadowed.has(rel): + shadowed.append(rel) + # Announced the moment it happens, not summarised at startup. + # The first version printed a summary in `_ready`, before a + # single asset had been read, so it always said "nothing + # shadowed yet" -- a report that is structurally incapable of + # reporting anything is worse than none, because it looks like + # an answer. + print("mod: %s <- %s" % [rel, over]) + return over + return root.path_join(rel) + + +## Mod files that were never used, listed at the end of a run. +## +## 🔴 A MISTYPED OVERRIDE WAS SILENT. `resolve` announces every shadow as it +## happens -- that half was already right, and its comment records why a startup +## summary was wrong. What nothing reported was the opposite: a file sitting in +## `data/mods/` whose path matches no asset. Measured: `sprites/title/main_menu/` +## is announced, `sprites/title/TYPO_menu/` produces **no output at all**. The +## modder sees the port load, run, and say nothing about the file that did +## nothing. +## +## That is MODDING rule 4's own failure mode -- base-and-overrides is only usable +## if an override that misses says so -- and it is the same shape as the +## checkers that passed on an empty input: **agreeable rather than wrong.** A +## port that cannot tell "your override is in effect" from "your override was +## never looked at" is unusable for the person the asset tree exists for. +## +## ⚠️ Reported at the END of a run, not at startup: resolution is lazy, so before +## the assets are read there is nothing to compare against. A run that quits +## early will list files a longer run would have used, and the wording says so +## rather than calling them errors. +func unused_mods() -> PackedStringArray: + var out: PackedStringArray = [] + if mods == "": + return out + var stack: PackedStringArray = [""] + while not stack.is_empty(): + var rel := stack[stack.size() - 1] + stack.remove_at(stack.size() - 1) + var dir := DirAccess.open(mods.path_join(rel)) + if dir == null: + continue + dir.list_dir_begin() + var name := dir.get_next() + while name != "": + var child := rel.path_join(name) if rel != "" else name + if dir.current_is_dir(): + stack.append(child) + elif not shadowed.has(child): + # 🔴 TWO DIFFERENT THINGS, and reporting them as one produced a + # permanent false positive on the mods directory's own README. + # A file whose path exists in `export/` was simply not read this + # run -- a `--menu` run touches one screen. A file whose path + # exists NOWHERE in the export can never shadow anything: that + # is the mistyped override, and it is the only one that is a + # defect. A report with a standing false positive becomes + # scenery, which is the failure this whole report exists to fix. + # ⚠️ And a THIRD category, excluded by extension with the rule + # stated rather than assumed: the export tree contains only + # `png`, `json`, `ogg`, `ogv` and `cmd` files -- checked, no + # `.md` anywhere -- so a `.md` in `data/mods` cannot shadow + # anything BY CONSTRUCTION and is documentation, not a failed + # override. Flagging a class that could never be an override is + # noise, and a report with a permanent false positive is one + # nobody reads. `data/mods/README.md` is the standing case. + var ext := child.get_extension().to_lower() + if ext in ["png", "json", "ogg", "ogv", "cmd"] \ + and not FileAccess.file_exists(root.path_join(child)): + out.append(child) + name = dir.get_next() + dir.list_dir_end() + out.sort() + return out + + # `authored/` sits beside `export/`, never inside it: it is hand-written and # committed, and a re-export must not be able to touch it. func authored(name: String) -> Variant: @@ -42,7 +156,7 @@ func authored(name: String) -> Variant: func read_json(rel: String) -> Variant: - var path := root.path_join(rel) + var path := resolve(rel) var text := FileAccess.get_file_as_string(path) if text == "": error = "cannot read %s" % path @@ -88,11 +202,20 @@ func screen(name: String) -> Dictionary: func video(name: String) -> Dictionary: for entry: Dictionary in manifest().get("videos", []): if entry.get("name") == name: - var path := root.path_join(entry["file"]) + var path := resolve(String(entry["file"])) if not FileAccess.file_exists(path): error = "manifest lists %s but %s is not there" % [name, path] return {} - return {"path": path, "command": entry.get("command", "")} + # `duration_s` and `fps` come with it so a run can report what it + # PRESENTED, not just how long it took. Godot's player drops frames + # to hold its schedule and drops most of them on this hardware, and + # elapsed seconds stay plausible while that happens. + return { + "path": path, + "command": entry.get("command", ""), + "duration_s": float(entry.get("duration_s", 0.0)), + "fps": float(entry.get("fps", 0.0)), + } error = "no video named %s in manifest.json" % name return {} @@ -109,7 +232,7 @@ func screen_names() -> PackedStringArray: # the disc's own texels and several elements are drawn at 200 %, where a # bilinear filter would invent detail the disc does not have. func texture(rel: String) -> Texture2D: - var bytes := FileAccess.get_file_as_bytes(root.path_join(rel)) + var bytes := FileAccess.get_file_as_bytes(resolve(rel)) if bytes.is_empty(): error = "cannot read sprite %s" % rel return null @@ -118,3 +241,16 @@ func texture(rel: String) -> Texture2D: error = "%s is not a PNG" % rel return null return ImageTexture.create_from_image(img) + + +## One line naming what a mod replaced, or "" when nothing did. +## +## Printed by every run that loads a tree. A modded run that looked identical to +## an unmodded one in the log would make "disable the mod and see" the only +## debugging tool a modder has; this makes it the second one. +func mod_report() -> String: + if mods == "": + return "" + if shadowed.is_empty(): + return "mods: %s is present; each file it replaces is logged as it is read" % mods + return "mods: %s -- %d file(s) shadowed: %s" % [mods, shadowed.size(), ", ".join(shadowed)] diff --git a/port/scripts/gamepad.gd b/port/scripts/gamepad.gd new file mode 100644 index 00000000..398d41db --- /dev/null +++ b/port/scripts/gamepad.gd @@ -0,0 +1,272 @@ +class_name Gamepad +extends RefCounted + +## The physical controller: the two buttons Godot does not bind, and the one +## input that is not an edge. +## +## 🔴 BOTH DEFECTS WERE REPORTED BY A HUMAN PLAYING THE PORT (2026-09-01), and +## neither could have been caught by the `--script` harness, because that harness +## sends `InputEventAction` — which bypasses the input map and is not an analog +## axis. The unattended P5 walk passed on every iteration while Ⓐ did nothing at +## all on a real pad. **A synthetic-input test asserts the code after the input +## map, never the input map itself.** +## +## ## 1. Godot 4.7.2 binds no joypad button to `ui_accept` or `ui_cancel` +## +## Measured on this exact build rather than remembered, because the answer has +## changed between Godot versions and the remembered one was wrong: +## +## ``` +## ui_accept key:Enter, key:Kp Enter, key:Space <- no joypad at all +## ui_cancel key:Escape <- no joypad at all +## ui_up key:Up, JOYBTN:11, JOYAXIS:1- <- d-pad AND left stick +## ui_down key:Down, JOYBTN:12, JOYAXIS:1+ +## ui_left key:Left, JOYBTN:13, JOYAXIS:0- +## ui_right key:Right, JOYBTN:14, JOYAXIS:0+ +## ``` +## +## That asymmetry is the whole bug report: navigation worked on the pad and Ⓐ/Ⓑ +## did nothing, which reads like a broken controller and is a complete input map +## for four actions out of six. +## +## The events are **added to** the built-in actions, never redefined. Declaring +## `ui_accept` in `project.godot` replaces the built-in wholesale, so the +## keyboard bindings would have to be restated there and would silently rot the +## next time Godot changes them. +## +## ## 2. A stick is not a button +## +## `ui_up`/`ui_down` are bound to **axis 1**, so the left stick navigates — which +## is correct, the real game accepts it too. But an axis emits a fresh +## `InputEventJoypadMotion` every time the value *changes*, and a real stick held +## at deflection jitters continuously. Every one of those events reports the +## action as pressed, so a held stick was one cursor step per jitter: the human's +## words were "moves the cursor too fast", and on a five-item menu it crosses +## faster than the eye follows. +## +## So the stick is **latched**: it fires once when it leaves the neutral zone and +## not again until it comes back. That makes it behave exactly like the d-pad, +## which needs no latch because a button already is an edge. +## +## ⚠️ ~~AUTHORED, NOT MEASURED — and deliberately the conservative half.~~ +## 🔴 **THE GAME DOES REPEAT, and this paragraph predicted its own refutation.** +## It said: *"If the game does repeat, this is a difference a human will notice +## as 'I have to flick it again'."* On 2026-09-02 a human who has played both +## reported exactly that — *"holding only moves one item. In game it actually +## continues to move when holding up/down, just at a medium pace"*. +## +## So one-step-per-deflection is no longer the conservative reading; it is a +## known defect. The mechanism is implemented below and the **rate is not +## shipped** — see `REPEAT_DELAY` for why an approximate one is worse than none. + +## ✅ DECODED 2026-09-01, and it replaces an authored value. +## +## This was **0.5**, chosen as a *floor* rather than as a value: Godot's action +## deadzone for the `ui_*` actions is 0.50, so the latch must not arm below it — +## the action itself would not read as pressed and the step would be swallowed +## anyway, leaving the latch armed against a press that never happened. That +## reasoning still holds and 0.61 is comfortably above the floor. +## +## The game's own threshold is now measured: it **digitises the left stick to +## four direction bits at 61 % deflection**, so it never sees a velocity at all +## (`docs/re/input-button-numbering-is-remapped.md` and the corrected +## `input-pad-read-path.md`). Between 0.50 and 0.61 Godot reports `ui_down` +## pressed and the real game reports nothing; at 0.5 this port stepped there. +## +## 📌 The mechanism also corroborates the human's fix rather than merely +## agreeing with it: a control that digitises to bits cannot express a rate, so +## "one step per deflection" is what the hardware layer *can* produce, not a +## conservative guess that happened to look right. +## +## ⚠️ **The 0.11 gap to `RELEASE` stays AUTHORED.** Nothing measured says the +## game has hysteresis at all, let alone how wide. Only the arm threshold moved. +## +## 🔴 **This changes how the stick feels and a human chose the old number.** +## Asserted at the device level below and in `tools/port/verify-input`, but a +## feel-test is the real check: revert this one constant to 0.5 if 0.61 reads as +## a stick that needs pushing too far. +const ENTER := 0.61 + +## Release lower than it arms. Without the gap a stick resting near 0.5 chatters +## across the boundary and re-arms on noise, which is the original bug wearing a +## smaller number. +const RELEASE := 0.4 + +## ## 3. A held direction repeats — MECHANISM PRESENT, RATE NOT SHIPPED +## +## A human who has played both reported it on 2026-09-02: *"holding only moves +## one item. In game it actually continues to move when holding up/down, just at +## a medium pace"*, and separately *"Confirmed D-Pad does repeat when holding +## too."* So the FACT covers both input devices, which is why `held_direction()` +## polls the pad and the keyboard and not just the stick. +## +## 🔴 **THE RATE IS DELIBERATELY UNSET, AND THE REPEAT DOES NOT RUN UNTIL IT IS +## MEASURED.** The instruction is explicit: *"Take the RATE from the Decoder — do +## NOT ship a placeholder interval. An invented rate here is indistinguishable +## from a measured one later, and this is the exact field where that already cost +## us."* +## +## An earlier draft of this file had 0.40 / 0.20 with a paragraph explaining that +## they were authored. **That is precisely the failure mode named above** — the +## explanation would have been merged, the numbers would have felt roughly right, +## and nothing afterwards could distinguish them from a measurement. They are +## removed rather than commented out. +## +## 📌 **A constant interval is the right SHAPE, and that part IS measured.** The +## game digitises the left stick to four direction bits at 61 % deflection +## (`ENTER` above), so it cannot see deflection magnitude at all — a repeat it +## drives cannot be faster-the-harder-you-push. That excludes the one competing +## model, so only the two constants are open, and one measurement closes both. +## +## ⚠️ **TO ADOPT, TWO THINGS CHANGE, NOT ONE.** Set both constants to the +## measured seconds — and update `tools/port/verify-input`, whose row *"a held +## stick is ONE step, not six"* currently asserts **the absence of this +## feature**. It passes today because the repeat is inert; the moment a rate is +## adopted a held stick SHOULD produce further steps, and that green row would +## go red for the right reason and be read as a regression. +## +## 📌 That row is not wrong. A check written against today's behaviour becomes an +## assertion that the behaviour never changes, and this one has the additional +## trap of looking like a bug-fix regression test — it was written for the +## jitter defect, and the repeat is not that defect returning. +## `pad-repeat` in `BLOCKED.md` carries the request. +const REPEAT_DELAY := -1.0 +const REPEAT_INTERVAL := -1.0 + + +## Whether a measured repeat rate has been adopted. Until it has, the port keeps +## its current one-step-per-deflection behaviour, which is KNOWN WRONG but is +## wrong in a way nobody will mistake for a measurement. +static func repeat_rate_known() -> bool: + return REPEAT_DELAY > 0.0 and REPEAT_INTERVAL > 0.0 + +## Only the left stick. The triggers are axes too, and latching them here would +## silently swallow input the port does not read yet but might. +const STICK := [JOY_AXIS_LEFT_X, JOY_AXIS_LEFT_Y] + +var _latched: Dictionary = {} +var _repeat_direction := 0 +var _repeat_clock := 0.0 + + +## Add the joypad buttons the built-in map omits. Returns a human-readable line, +## or "" if nothing needed adding — so a future Godot that ships these bindings +## makes this quietly stop reporting rather than double-binding. +static func bind_missing() -> String: + var added := PackedStringArray() + for pair in [["ui_accept", JOY_BUTTON_A, "Ⓐ"], ["ui_cancel", JOY_BUTTON_B, "Ⓑ"]]: + var action: String = pair[0] + var button: int = pair[1] + if not InputMap.has_action(action): + # Not a warning we can act on, but silence here would present as the + # original bug and send the next person back to the controller. + push_warning("gamepad: no such action %s -- pad button unbound" % action) + continue + if _has_button(action, button): + continue + var ev := InputEventJoypadButton.new() + ev.button_index = button + InputMap.action_add_event(action, ev) + added.append("%s -> %s" % [pair[2], action]) + if added.is_empty(): + return "" + return "pad: bound %s (Godot 4.7.2 binds no joypad button to either)" % \ + ", ".join(added) + + +static func _has_button(action: String, button: int) -> bool: + for e in InputMap.action_get_events(action): + if e is InputEventJoypadButton and e.button_index == button: + return true + return false + + +## True if this event should be acted on. Everything that is already an edge — +## keys, d-pad, mouse — passes straight through; only the analog stick is +## latched, and only on the two axes the navigation actions are bound to. +func accepts(event: InputEvent) -> bool: + if not (event is InputEventJoypadMotion): + return true + var axis: int = event.axis + if not STICK.has(axis): + return true + var value: float = event.axis_value + var direction := 0 + if value >= ENTER: + direction = 1 + elif value <= -ENTER: + direction = -1 + + if direction == 0: + # Neutral enough to re-arm? The gap between RELEASE and ENTER is the + # hysteresis band: inside it the stick is neither a new press nor + # released, so the latch is left exactly as it was. + if absf(value) <= RELEASE: + _latched[axis] = 0 + return false + if int(_latched.get(axis, 0)) == direction: + return false # still held in the same direction: not a new press + _latched[axis] = direction + return true + + +## Which way a direction is being HELD right now, as -1 (up), 0 or +1 (down). +## +## 🔴 **Polled at the DEVICE, never through `Input.is_action_pressed`.** `ui_up` +## and `ui_down` are bound to the stick axis at Godot's 0.50 action deadzone, +## while this port steps at the game's measured 0.61. Polling the action would +## repeat throughout the 0.50–0.61 band — the exact band `ENTER` exists to +## exclude — so the repeat would contradict the threshold on the same stick. +## That is the input-map lesson again: assert the device, not the layer above it. +func held_direction() -> int: + # The stick, from the latch `accepts()` already maintains, so the repeat and + # the first step read one state and cannot disagree about hysteresis. + var stick := int(_latched.get(JOY_AXIS_LEFT_Y, 0)) + if stick != 0: + return stick + for device in Input.get_connected_joypads(): + if Input.is_joy_button_pressed(device, JOY_BUTTON_DPAD_UP): + return -1 + if Input.is_joy_button_pressed(device, JOY_BUTTON_DPAD_DOWN): + return 1 + if Input.is_key_pressed(KEY_UP): + return -1 + if Input.is_key_pressed(KEY_DOWN): + return 1 + return 0 + + +## One repeat step, or 0. Call once per frame with the frame's delta. +## +## The FIRST step is not this function's: it comes from the event edge in +## `_unhandled_input`, and the clock below starts from that same frame, so a held +## direction gives one step now and the next only after `REPEAT_DELAY`. A change +## of direction restarts the delay rather than inheriting the old cadence. +func repeat_due(delta: float) -> int: + if not repeat_rate_known(): + return 0 + var direction := held_direction() + if direction == 0 or direction != _repeat_direction: + _repeat_direction = direction + _repeat_clock = 0.0 + return 0 + _repeat_clock += delta + if _repeat_clock < REPEAT_DELAY: + return 0 + # Subtract rather than reset, so the cadence cannot drift with the frame rate + # -- at 140 fps and at 30 fps the same number of steps happen per second. + _repeat_clock -= REPEAT_INTERVAL + return direction + + +## The pads Godot can see, for the startup line. A run where the human believes +## a controller is connected and Godot disagrees should say so on its own, +## rather than presenting as unresponsive buttons. +static func report_devices() -> String: + var pads := Input.get_connected_joypads() + if pads.is_empty(): + return "pad: none connected -- keyboard only (Enter/Space = Ⓐ, Escape = Ⓑ)" + var names := PackedStringArray() + for j in pads: + names.append("[%d] %s" % [j, Input.get_joy_name(j)]) + return "pad: " + ", ".join(names) diff --git a/port/scripts/gamepad.gd.uid b/port/scripts/gamepad.gd.uid new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f507b940 --- /dev/null +++ b/port/scripts/gamepad.gd.uid @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +uid://b34gxuqrvncbp diff --git a/port/scripts/menu_audio.gd b/port/scripts/menu_audio.gd new file mode 100644 index 00000000..00b72bc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/port/scripts/menu_audio.gd @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@ +# The menu's sound: three cues and one music bed. +# +# EVERYTHING THIS CLASS PLAYS IS AUTHORED OR MEASURED, and the two are not the +# same. `authored/audio.json` carries the distinction and the exporter copies it +# into `manifest.json` alongside each file, so a reader of the export tree sees +# it without having to find this project: +# +# * WHICH WAVE a menu event plays was MEASURED off the running game (HANDOFF +# Q8) -- it is on the disc in no findable form. `Static.slb` has no RIFF, no +# seek chunk and no container. +# * WHICH TRACK the menu plays is CHOSEN. HANDOFF Q10 is a negative: all 32 +# banks are named BGM_001..BGM_109 and nothing on the disc says which one a +# menu uses. +# * WHEN a cue fires is authored here, and §"When a cue fires" below says +# exactly which parts of that nobody has watched the game do. +# +# The wall (MISSION §2): this class reads **Ogg Vorbis**. It has never heard of +# XMA, of `sound.pak` or of `Static.slb`, and it must not learn. The exporter +# converts; the runtime plays. +class_name MenuAudio +extends Node + +## Cue name -> stream, from `manifest.json`'s `audio` entries of kind `se`. +var cues: Dictionary = {} +## Role -> {stream, loop}, from the entries of kind `bgm`. +var beds: Dictionary = {} +## Movie name -> what that voice export is KNOWN to be missing, from the +## manifest's `incomplete`. Empty for an asset with no known gap. +var _voice_gaps: Dictionary = {} + +## What `movie`'s voice export is known to be missing, or "" if nothing is. +func incomplete_for(movie: String) -> String: + return String(_voice_gaps.get(movie, "")) + +## Movie name -> stream, from the entries of kind `voice`. +## +## A cutscene's dialogue is NOT in its `.ogv`. On this disc a movie carries music +## and effects only and the voice is a separate continuous XMA stream in +## `sound.pak`, bound by the movie manifest -- so playing a movie means starting +## two streams together, and a port that plays only the video is silently missing +## every line of dialogue. That is what a human play-test heard. +var voices: Dictionary = {} +var error: String = "" + +## One player per cue name, so a move and a confirm can overlap rather than +## cutting each other off. Three cues is not worth a pool. +var _players: Dictionary = {} +var _bed: AudioStreamPlayer = null +var _bed_role := "" + + +## Load every audio entry the manifest declares. +## +## Missing audio is NOT an error and does not stop a run: every milestone before +## P6 exported none, and `--menu` must stay usable against one of those trees. +## A cue that is listed but unreadable IS an error, because that is a broken +## export rather than an old one. +func configure(tree: ExportTree) -> bool: + var manifest := tree.manifest() + if manifest.is_empty(): + error = tree.error + return false + for entry: Dictionary in manifest.get("audio", []): + # Through the resolver, so a mod can replace a cue or the music bed by + # dropping a file at the same relative path (MODDING rule 4). Reading + # `tree.root` directly here would have made audio the one asset kind a + # mod could not touch, for no reason a modder could have guessed. + var path := tree.resolve(String(entry.get("file", ""))) + var stream := AudioStreamOggVorbis.load_from_file(path) + if stream == null: + error = "manifest lists audio %s but %s is not a readable Ogg Vorbis file" \ + % [entry.get("name", "?"), path] + return false + match String(entry.get("kind", "")): + "se": + # A cue ends. Nothing measured says otherwise, and a looping + # cue would be a bug you hear rather than one you read. + stream.loop = false + cues[String(entry["name"])] = stream + "bgm": + # AUTHORED, and audibly imperfect on purpose. HANDOFF Q10: no + # loop-point field has been identified, so `restart` replays + # from sample 0 -- the listener hears the track's own fade-out + # and its trailing silence before the music returns. Trimming to + # the fade would sound better and would INVENT a loop point, + # which is worse: an invented one is indistinguishable from a + # decoded one a month later. See authored/audio.json loop_why. + stream.loop = String(entry.get("loop_mode", "")) == "restart" + beds[String(entry["name"])] = stream + "voice": + # A cutscene's voice-over ends with the cutscene. It is keyed by + # MOVIE NAME, not by a role: the binding came off the disc's own + # movie manifest, so unlike the music bed there is nothing + # authored about which recording belongs to which picture. + stream.loop = false + voices[String(entry["name"])] = stream + # Carried alongside the stream so the runtime can announce a known gap + # at the moment it plays one. Absent means nothing is KNOWN to be + # missing -- never that the asset was checked and is complete. + if entry.has("incomplete"): + _voice_gaps[String(entry["name"])] = String(entry["incomplete"]) + _: + push_warning("manifest audio entry %s has kind %s, which this build does not play" + % [entry.get("name", "?"), entry.get("kind", "?")]) + return true + + +## True when this export carries no audio at all -- an export taken before P6. +func silent() -> bool: + return cues.is_empty() and beds.is_empty() and voices.is_empty() + + +# --- The cutscene voice ------------------------------------------------------- + +var _voice: AudioStreamPlayer = null + + +## Start a movie's dialogue, or do nothing when the export carries none. +## +## **No offset, and none is authored.** The voice plays from the video's first +## frame, so the two streams are started together and nothing here compensates +## for anything. If they ever drift, that is a fact about the export, not a +## constant to be tuned in this file. +## +## Returns whether a stream was found, so the caller can SAY that a movie is +## unvoiced rather than leave silence looking like success. +func play_voice(movie: String) -> bool: + if not voices.has(movie): + return false + if _voice == null: + _voice = AudioStreamPlayer.new() + add_child(_voice) + _voice.stream = voices[movie] + _voice.play() + return true + + +## Stop the dialogue. Called when the movie ends OR is skipped -- a voice that +## outlived a skipped intro would play over the title screen. +func stop_voice() -> void: + if _voice != null: + _voice.stop() + + +# --- When a cue fires --------------------------------------------------------- +# +# MEASURED (HANDOFF Q5 + Q8): a d-pad press that MOVES the cursor plays the move +# cue, and left/right play nothing at all. `MenuFlow.move()` returns whether the +# cursor actually moved for exactly this reason, so a press at the end of a +# non-wrapping list cannot click. +# +# NOT MEASURED, and authored here: whether Ⓐ or Ⓑ click when nothing is bound to +# them. Nobody has watched the game take a dead press. This class stays silent in +# that case, which is the choice that invents the least -- a sound the game does +# not make is a wrong fact you can hear, whereas a missing one is a gap. Ask the +# RE agent before relying on it either way. + + +func play(cue: String) -> void: + if not cues.has(cue): + return + if not _players.has(cue): + var p := AudioStreamPlayer.new() + p.stream = cues[cue] + add_child(p) + _players[cue] = p + (_players[cue] as AudioStreamPlayer).play() + + +## Start the music bed for a role, or do nothing if it is already playing. +## +## Idempotent because the menu re-enters screens constantly -- Ⓑ back to the main +## menu must not restart the music, and a bed that restarts on every navigation +## is the kind of wrong that reads as "the audio works". +func play_bed(role: String) -> void: + if not beds.has(role) or _bed_role == role: + return + if _bed == null: + _bed = AudioStreamPlayer.new() + add_child(_bed) + _bed.stream = beds[role] + _bed_role = role + _bed.play() + + +## 🔴 DEAD CODE, and that is the finding rather than a tidiness note. +## +## Nothing in the port calls this. The bed therefore starts when the main menu +## goes live and never stops -- through the cutscene, and on to the title after +## it. Nobody chose that; it is what happens when the only way to stop something +## is a function no caller remembers. +## +## It is the mirror of `ScreenView.skipped`, which was written every frame and +## read by nobody. One is a fact recorded and never surfaced, the other a +## capability provided and never used, and both were invisible for the same +## reason: nothing fails when they are missed. +## +## Kept, not deleted. The day a capture says whether the game's menu music ducks +## under a movie, this is the one line that has to change. +func stop_bed() -> void: + if _bed != null: + _bed.stop() + _bed_role = "" + + +## Is the music bed sounding right now? Used by the boot to ANNOUNCE that it is +## still playing under a movie, rather than to stop it. +func bed_playing() -> bool: + return _bed != null and _bed.playing + + +## What the audio server is actually doing, for a run's write-up. +## +## `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md`: "recorded under a dummy driver" is a +## weaker claim than "heard", and the difference matters -- so the claim is +## printed by the run that makes it rather than assumed by the person reading it. +static func driver() -> String: + return AudioServer.get_driver_name() diff --git a/port/scripts/menu_audio.gd.uid b/port/scripts/menu_audio.gd.uid new file mode 100644 index 00000000..78186433 --- /dev/null +++ b/port/scripts/menu_audio.gd.uid @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +uid://badw3pulb0xpt diff --git a/port/scripts/menu_flow.gd b/port/scripts/menu_flow.gd new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aafb5391 --- /dev/null +++ b/port/scripts/menu_flow.gd @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +# Where the buttons go, and what the d-pad does. +# +# EVERYTHING IN HERE IS AUTHORED OR MEASURED -- none of it is on the disc. +# HANDOFF Q6 closed the "what drives the flow" question with a negative: the +# order is code, not data, in all four places it could have been. So this class +# reads `authored/flow.json` and holds no rule of its own. +# +# The split is deliberate and is the derived/authored contract in miniature: +# +# * the ORDER of the items is DERIVED -- each screen file's `buttons`, which +# the exporter fills from the button-role elements sorted by resting Y; +# * WHERE an item goes, WHICH item opens focused, and WHAT (B) does are +# AUTHORED, because they were measured off the running game or chosen. +# +# A rule that lived in GDScript instead would be invisible to the person whose +# job is to notice that we decided it. +class_name MenuFlow +extends RefCounted + +## The authored `screens` map: screen name -> destinations, initial focus, (B). +var screens: Dictionary = {} +## The authored `navigation` block: wrap, left/right, input during a transition. +var navigation: Dictionary = {} + +## Where we are and how we got here, oldest first. The last entry is current. +## (B) restores the focus recorded on the entry it pops back to -- HANDOFF Q5 +## measured that the game does this, so the stack carries a focus, not just a +## name. +var stack: Array[Dictionary] = [] + +var error: String = "" + +## Nothing happened. Returned rather than `null` so a caller reads one shape. +const NONE := {"kind": "none"} + + +func configure(flow: Variant) -> bool: + if typeof(flow) != TYPE_DICTIONARY: + error = "authored/flow.json did not parse to an object" + return false + if not flow.has("screens") or not flow.has("navigation"): + error = "authored/flow.json has no `screens`/`navigation` block -- this build needs both" + return false + screens = flow["screens"] + navigation = flow["navigation"] + return true + + +func known(name: String) -> bool: + return screens.has(name) and typeof(screens[name]) == TYPE_DICTIONARY + + +func current() -> String: + return String(stack[stack.size() - 1]["screen"]) if not stack.is_empty() else "" + + +func focus() -> String: + return String(stack[stack.size() - 1]["focus"]) if not stack.is_empty() else "" + + +## The item a screen opens on. +## +## Authored per screen. Where the authored value names a button this screen does +## not have -- a mistyped id, or an export whose buttons moved -- fall back to +## the first button rather than to nothing, and SAY SO: a menu that opens with +## no focus looks like a rendering bug, and this is the one place that mistake +## would hide. +## +## 🔴 THE FALLBACK IS A REPAIR, NOT A DEFAULT, and since 2026-08-31 that is +## measured rather than fastidious. `DIFFICULTY` -- EASY/NORMAL/HARD/BACK -- +## opens on **NORMAL, the second of four**, so "a screen opens on its first item" +## is refuted as a description of this game. On `EXTRAS`, `TUTORIAL` and +## `OPTIONS` the named item and the top item coincide by accident. +## +## So `buttons[0]` here is what to draw when the DATA IS BROKEN, and it warns +## precisely because it is not a claim about the game. If a screen ever reaches +## this line silently, the port will be showing a top-item default for a game +## that does not always have one. +func initial_focus(name: String, buttons: Array) -> String: + if buttons.is_empty(): + return "" + var want := String(screens.get(name, {}).get("initial_focus", "")) + if want != "" and buttons.has(want): + return want + if want != "": + push_warning("flow.json opens %s on %s, which is not one of its buttons %s" % [name, want, buttons]) + return String(buttons[0]) + + +## Where a screen's cursor was when the player last left it. +## +## MEASURED 2026-08-30: the main menu remembers its cursor across a round trip +## through the title -- (B) out and (A) back returns to the item you left. The +## port used to reset to `initial_focus` on every entry, so a player who moved to +## EXTRAS, pressed (B) and then (A) landed back on NEW GAME. +## +## 🔴 Which screens have this is AUTHORED, not derived: `focus_persists` in +## `authored/flow.json`, true only on `main_menu`. The measurement is of that one +## screen, and widening it would contradict another measurement -- `extras` opens +## on MISSION SELECT as a MEASURED initial focus, which a remembered cursor would +## override. `wrap` generalises because it was measured on two screens; this was +## measured on one. +var remembered: Dictionary = {} + + +## What a screen opens on: what it was left on, if it is one of the screens that +## remembers, else the authored opening item. +func opening_focus(name: String, buttons: Array) -> String: + var keep := bool(screens.get(name, {}).get("focus_persists", false)) + var was := String(remembered.get(name, "")) + if keep and was != "" and buttons.has(was): + return was + return initial_focus(name, buttons) + + +func enter(name: String, buttons: Array) -> void: + stack.append({"screen": name, "focus": opening_focus(name, buttons)}) + + +## Move the cursor. Returns true when it actually moved, so a caller can fire the +## move cue only on a real move (P6) rather than on every press. +## +## MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5: up/down move one item and WRAP at both ends -- on the +## 5-item main menu and the 3-item EXTRAS both, so it is a menu rule. `wrap` is +## read from `authored/flow.json` rather than written here, because it is a +## measurement and the day it is contradicted the fix is a data edit. +func move(step: int, buttons: Array) -> bool: + if stack.is_empty() or buttons.size() < 2: + return false + var at := buttons.find(focus()) + if at < 0: + at = 0 + var to := at + step + if bool(navigation.get("wrap", true)): + to = posmod(to, buttons.size()) + else: + to = clampi(to, 0, buttons.size() - 1) + if to == at: + return false + set_focus(String(buttons[to])) + return true + + +## Set the top of the stack's focus AND remember it, in one place. +## +## Two call sites set focus -- a cursor move and (B)'s restore -- and a memory +## updated at only one of them would be right until the player used the other. +func set_focus(id: String) -> void: + if stack.is_empty(): + return + stack[stack.size() - 1]["focus"] = id + remembered[current()] = id + + +## (A). Returns what the authored flow says the focused item opens. +## +## {"kind": "enter", "goto": , "label": …} -- go there +## {"kind": "blocked", "label": …, "why": …} -- a real destination +## that is not in this +## export +## {"kind": "video", "video": …, "skipped": […], -- the destination is +## "after": {…}} absent but its chain +## ends in a movie we +## DO have (P7) +## {"kind": "none"} -- nothing bound +## +## `blocked` is not an error and is not an unknown. Those five destinations were +## measured off the running game; they live in other archives and this milestone +## does not export them. Saying "blocked" rather than "none" keeps the two apart. +func accept(buttons: Array) -> Dictionary: + if stack.is_empty(): + return NONE + var screen: Dictionary = screens.get(current(), {}) + # A screen with no buttons -- the title -- can still take (A). + if buttons.is_empty(): + return _target(screen.get("on_accept", null), "A") + var button: Dictionary = screen.get("buttons", {}).get(focus(), {}) + if button.is_empty(): + return NONE + var label := String(button.get("label", focus())) + if button.get("goto", null) == null: + # A destination this export does not carry, but whose CHAIN ends in + # something it does: `NEW GAME` opens `DIFFICULTY`, then `SELECT DATA`, + # and only then the new-game movie. The port has the movie and neither + # screen (P7). + # + # This is returned as its own kind rather than folded into `blocked`, + # because the caller has to announce the skip. A port that quietly + # jumped from `NEW GAME` to the intro would be showing a sequence the + # game does not have, and nothing on screen would say so. + if button.get("then_video", null) != null: + return { + "kind": "video", + "label": label, + "video": String(button["then_video"]), + "skipped": button.get("skipped_chain", []), + "skippable": bool(button.get("skippable", false)), + "after": button.get("after_video", {}), + } + return {"kind": "blocked", "label": label, "why": String(button.get("blocked", ""))} + return {"kind": "enter", "goto": String(button["goto"]), "label": label} + + +## (B), and EXTRAS' own `BACK` item, which is treated as the same thing -- +## nothing measured distinguishes them and inventing a difference would be a +## guess with no evidence behind it. +## +## MEASURED, HANDOFF Q5: (B) goes up one level and RESTORES FOCUS to the item you +## came from. So the target comes from the authored flow, but the focus comes +## from the STACK -- and only when the stack agrees about where we are going. A +## run that started straight on a submenu has no history to restore and enters +## the parent at its authored initial focus instead. +func cancel() -> Dictionary: + if stack.is_empty(): + return NONE + var target: Variant = screens.get(current(), {}).get("on_cancel", null) + var out := _target(target, "B") + if out["kind"] != "enter": + return out + if stack.size() >= 2 and String(stack[stack.size() - 2]["screen"]) == out["goto"]: + out["restore_focus"] = String(stack[stack.size() - 2]["focus"]) + out["pop"] = true + return out + + +## Pop back to the parent, keeping the focus it was left on. +func pop() -> void: + if stack.size() >= 2: + stack.pop_back() + + +static func _target(target: Variant, label: String) -> Dictionary: + if typeof(target) != TYPE_DICTIONARY or target.get("goto", null) == null: + return NONE + return {"kind": "enter", "goto": String(target["goto"]), "label": label} diff --git a/port/scripts/menu_flow.gd.uid b/port/scripts/menu_flow.gd.uid new file mode 100644 index 00000000..415ed607 --- /dev/null +++ b/port/scripts/menu_flow.gd.uid @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +uid://dyqb3b450d21x diff --git a/port/scripts/screen_view.gd b/port/scripts/screen_view.gd index 5b111f9a..5ec2c657 100644 --- a/port/scripts/screen_view.gd +++ b/port/scripts/screen_view.gd @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ # authored and applied in exactly one place. # # REST reproduces what the export's `rest` field says, which is what -# `sylpheed-cli screen render` draws. It is kept so `tools/verify-screen` can +# `sylpheed-cli screen render` draws. It is kept so `tools/port/verify-screen` can # hold both renderers to the same assumption. The two modes DISAGREE on six # elements in this export, and the running game sides with the timeline -- see # `docs/DECISIONS.md`. @@ -37,10 +37,152 @@ var pose_mode: Pose = Pose.TIMELINE var time_units: float = 0.0 var units_per_second: float = 60.0 -## Duration of the ramp into the final, untimed keyframe -- the screen playing -## itself out. Authored (`authored/timing.json`): the disc has no time slot on -## that keyframe, so this is the one unknown duration per screen. -var exit_ramp_units: float = 24.0 +## Duration of the ramp into a final UNTIMED keyframe -- a shape this export no +## longer contains (866 keyframes across 16 screens, **0** untimed). +## +## 🔴 THE TWO SENTENCES THAT WERE HERE ARE PRE-FIX AND I LEFT THEM WHEN I FIXED +## THE CODE BELOW. They read: *"Authored (`authored/timing.json`): the disc has no +## time slot on that keyframe, so this is the one unknown duration per screen."* +## Both halves are now false — the authored entry was DELETED as progress, and +## the corrected record layout times every pose, so there is no unknown to +## author. The correction lived immediately below while the claim stayed on top. +## Synthetic duration for a group's final UNTIMED keyframe. +## +## 🔴 NEGATIVE MEANS "NOT SUPPLIED", AND THAT IS NOW THE DEFAULT. It used to +## default to **24.0** -- the exact constant HANDOFF ask 2 told this port to +## author and that the port refused, because the file's own ramp is 10 units and +## authoring 24 would run the fade 2.4x too long. The authored entry was deleted +## as progress when the corrected record layout removed the unknown; the default +## quietly put the refuted number back where nobody would look for it. +## +## The branch is kept so an older export still loads, but it no longer INVENTS a +## duration: if a group really does end untimed, the port says so and declines to +## make one up, which is the same choice `black_hold_units` and +## `input_during_transition` make in `authored/timing.json`. +## +## Unreachable on today's export -- 866 keyframes across 16 screens, 0 untimed. +var exit_ramp_units: float = -1.0 +var _warned_untimed := false + +## Focus records this screen draws unconditionally, and the period each loops on. +## +## `{ : { "record_element": String, "period_units": float } }`, +## from `authored/timing.json` `looping_focus_records`, keyed there by +## `/` and narrowed to this screen by `load_screen`. +## +## ⚠️ A LOOKUP, NOT A RULE, and the census is why. The spinning ring is a rule +## (`spin_period_units`) because 16 of 212 elements match its shape and all 16 +## are focus rings. The analogous rule for a pulse -- keyframes varying only in +## alpha, first alpha equal to last -- matches **82 of 212**, including +## `ptcopyright`, `palogo_sqex`, `ptmsg` and every `_eff` fade. It would make the +## copyright notice pulse. Narrowed to focus records it matches exactly one +## distinct element, and a rule justified by n=1 is a special case wearing a +## rule's clothes. +## The one instant a settled screen is posed at, in keyframe units, or -1. +## +## 🔴 Replaces per-element `rest()` while `holding`, where the export gives a +## wide enough window. `rest()` returns each element's last HOLD keyframe chosen +## independently of every other element -- right for anything that ends the +## screen settled, and exactly wrong for a **transient**. The title's +## `ptlogo_back2eff1` is a two-frame flash (0 until t52, 255 at t54-56, 0 by +## t58), so its last hold IS the flash peak and `rest()` leaves it burning. There +## are five of them, and `rest()` draws all five at once. +## +## ⚠️ **Only where the window is wide.** Across this export the widths split with +## nothing in between: `press_start` 214, `publisher_logo` 190, +## `developer_logos` 145, `title` 76 -- then `main_menu` 12, `extras` 12, the +## loading screens 8 and 4. A 12-unit "settle" on a menu that builds in until +## t=70 is a gap between staggered ramps, not a settled pose. The bar is 30 +## units: the Decoder's disc-wide census puts the knee there (30 % of bundles +## have a window >= 30, 42 % have one under 10), and this export's own screens +## sit 4x either side of it with nothing between 12 and 46. +var settle_instant: float = -1.0 +const SETTLE_WINDOW_MIN := 30.0 + +## Set when a caller pinned an EXPLICIT instant (`--time=`), which then wins over +## `settle_instant`. +## +## 🔴 Without this, `--time=` was silently ignored on every screen with a settle +## window of 30 units or more, because `pose_at` overwrote the requested `t` with +## `settle_instant` whenever `holding` was true. The flag parsed, the log printed +## the time asked for, and the pose came from somewhere else. +## +## `press_start` is the case that exposed it. Its window is [0, 214] -- the long +## dead stretch BEFORE the plate appears -- so its settle instant is t=107, where +## `ptbtn00` is alpha 0. The plate's only opaque frames are t=236-238. The result +## was that the `PRESS (A)` plate could not be rendered **at any time at all**: +## every instant anyone asked for was answered at t=107, and the screen came back +## empty with `ptbtn00 (transparent at rest)`. +## +## The settle instant is still right for a screen that has ARRIVED and is sitting +## there, which is what it was measured for. It is not right as an answer to a +## question about a different instant. +var frozen := false + +var looping_focus: Dictionary = {} + +## Pin the looping record's phase instead of taking it from `time_units`. +## +## 🔴 WHY THIS EXISTS. The pulse is CORRECT -- a thing that pulses does not stop +## because the screen has arrived -- but it rides the wall clock, so a captured +## frame lands wherever the grab happened to fall. `verify-screen press_start` +## returned `over3` **5021, 8919, 5021** on three identical runs: a regression +## detector that answers differently each time teaches its reader to ignore it. +## +## The port is not the thing that is wrong here, so the port's behaviour does not +## change: negative means "free-running", which stays the default everywhere. The +## HARNESS pins a phase so the comparison is deterministic. +var loop_phase_units: float = -1.0 + +## Element ids whose nested `.rat` leaf the runtime actually draws. +## +## The exporter flags `leaf_carries_geometry` on 15 elements -- a census fact. +## This is narrower on purpose: it is the subset the DECODE covers, and it comes +## from `authored/rendering.json` with its reasons. Two elements are flagged and +## deliberately not drawn (`title_jp/ptlogo_eff2`, `pgloading_loop5`), because +## drawing them would extend a decode past the case it was fitted on and neither +## can be adjudicated here -- `title_jp` has no oracle capture, and the +## consistency harness compares against a renderer that draws no leaves at all. +var draw_leaf_for: Array = [] + +## Elements the game draws ADDITIVELY, by screen -- `authored/rendering.json` +## The canvas items backing the paint-order runs. See `_band`. +var _bands: Array[RID] = [] +## The canvas item the next `_draw_quad` paints into. It is a member rather than +## a parameter because every draw funnels through `_draw_quad` from three call +## sites, and threading a RID through `_draw_leaf` and `_draw_focus` would change +## their signatures to carry a value neither of them chooses. +var _target: RID = RID() +## 🔴 THIS USED TO BE `CanvasItemMaterial.new()` AND NOTHING ELSE, so the blend +## mode was its default, MIX. Every band was created, ordered and assigned +## correctly and the screen composited exactly as before: `ptframe1` moved from +## 22.72 to 22.69. That is the failure mode this port keeps meeting -- the change +## ran, produced a number, and the number was WRONG BY BEING RIGHT-LOOKING. It was +## caught only because the measurement predicted a large move and a 0.03 move is +## not one. +var _additive_material := _make_additive() + + +static func _make_additive() -> CanvasItemMaterial: + var m := CanvasItemMaterial.new() + m.blend_mode = CanvasItemMaterial.BLEND_MODE_ADD + return m + +## Whether this screen replays a leaf's group. See `authored/rendering.json`. +var loop_leaf := false + +## Pin the LEAF's phase independently of the screen's pose, in units. -1 = off. +## +## Built because a measured value could not be tested. The Decoder's refined fit +## for the `ptloop` sweeps is t=357.7 units, and `verify-capture` passed it as +## `--time=5.9617` -- which poses the WHOLE SCREEN there. The title's own group +## ends at t=269, so that fades everything out and scores 30.97 % against the +## capture. The instant was only ever about the sweeps, whose leaf runs to t=600. +## +## So the fit was untestable: the only way to ask for it also destroyed the rest +## of the frame. This separates the two clocks -- the screen sits at its settled +## pose, the leaf is placed at whatever phase is being tested. +var leaf_time_units: float = -1.0 ## While true the screen holds at `rest` and never plays its exit. The ## sequencer clears it to send the screen away. @@ -50,6 +192,19 @@ var tree: ExportTree = null var screen: Dictionary = {} var textures: Dictionary = {} var skipped: Array[String] = [] + +## Structural skips accumulated over the life of the CURRENT screen, deduplicated. +## +## 🔴 `skipped` itself is per-frame and was read by NOBODY. Its own comment says +## "a silently missing element looks like art" -- and for eight milestones +## nothing printed it, so the port could drop an element every frame and say so +## to no one. That is the same shape as the black hold, which was implemented, +## called, and emitted nothing until somebody filmed it. +## +## Only STRUCTURAL skips accumulate here. "(transparent at rest)" is ordinary +## animation -- every element is transparent at some instant -- and reporting it +## would bury the three that mean something under the one that never does. +var structural_skips: Array[String] = [] var drawn: Array[String] = [] ## Which button is highlighted, by element id. P1 leaves it empty: initial focus @@ -72,6 +227,10 @@ func load_screen(t: ExportTree, name: String) -> bool: ProjectSettings.get_setting("display/window/size/viewport_height")) if Vector2i(int(design[0]), int(design[1])) != viewport: push_warning("screen %s is authored at %sx%s, viewport is %s" % [name, design[0], design[1], viewport]) + var w: Array = screen.get("settle_window", []) + settle_instant = -1.0 + if w.size() == 3 and float(w[1]) - float(w[0]) >= SETTLE_WINDOW_MIN: + settle_instant = float(w[2]) _load_textures() queue_redraw() return true @@ -83,6 +242,8 @@ func _load_textures() -> void: var paths: Array = [element.get("sprite", ""), element.get("focus_sprite", "")] # The focus record's own elements carry their own sprites -- the ring is # only reachable this way. + for fe: Dictionary in element.get("leaf", {}).get("elements", []): + paths.append(fe.get("sprite", "")) for fe: Dictionary in element.get("focus", {}).get("elements", []): paths.append(fe.get("sprite", "")) for rel: String in paths: @@ -155,8 +316,30 @@ func pose_at(element: Dictionary, t: float) -> Dictionary: return frames[0] if not frames.is_empty() else element.get("rest", {}) # While holding, stop at the hold: past it the group is ramping out, and a # screen that has arrived and is sitting there is not leaving. - if holding: - t = minf(t, settle_units(element)) + # `frozen` means a caller pinned an EXPLICIT instant and wants THAT instant, + # not the settled pose and not a per-element clamp. Both clamps are skipped. + if holding and not frozen: + # One instant for the whole screen where the disc gives a wide enough + # window; otherwise each element's own hold, which is what this port did + # everywhere until 2026-08-29. + # 🔴 THIS WAS AN ASSIGNMENT AND THE COMMENT ABOVE SAYS "STOP AT". It read + # `t = settle_instant ...`, so from the screen's FIRST FRAME every element + # was posed at the settled instant and the build-in was never drawn. The + # else-branch beside it always clamped; only this half did not, and the + # asymmetry is the whole defect. + # + # A human on a 140 fps GPU: "the logos just switch, I cannot discern any + # animation at all." Filmed and measured with `tools/motion-census`: the + # sharp logo's region sat at 0.40549 from unit 7.9 through 28.2 -- the + # same value it holds at 45 and beyond -- while its declared ramp is + # 15 -> 30. It was already full before its ramp began. + # + # ⚠️ THE HOLD IS NOT THE BUG AND MUST SURVIVE THIS. The Decoder measured + # the game holding one picture for 3.34 s on this screen -- LONGER than + # the port's 3.30 -- because `palogo_sqex` declares 205 of its 255 units + # as a flat plateau. The deficit was only ever in the ramps. Clamping + # rather than assigning keeps the plateau exactly and restores the ramp. + t = minf(t, settle_instant) if settle_instant >= 0.0 else minf(t, settle_units(element)) # The exit. The final keyframe carries no `t` -- the disc has no slot for one # -- so it is given a synthetic time `exit_ramp_units` after the last timed # frame and then interpolated like any other. That keeps one code path: the @@ -169,9 +352,17 @@ func pose_at(element: Dictionary, t: float) -> Dictionary: # was measured and refuted -- see authored/timing.json. var last_frame: Dictionary = frames[frames.size() - 1] if not last_frame.has("t"): - var exit_frame := last_frame.duplicate() - exit_frame["t"] = float(timed[timed.size() - 1]["t"]) + exit_ramp_units - timed.append(exit_frame) + if exit_ramp_units < 0.0: + if not _warned_untimed: + _warned_untimed = true + push_error("%s has an untimed final keyframe and no exit_ramp_units was supplied. " + % [screen.get("name", "?")] + + "Not inventing one: the group ends at its last timed frame. " + + "This export predates the corrected record layout -- re-export it.") + else: + var exit_frame := last_frame.duplicate() + exit_frame["t"] = float(timed[timed.size() - 1]["t"]) + exit_ramp_units + timed.append(exit_frame) if t <= float(timed[0]["t"]): return timed[0] @@ -228,6 +419,91 @@ static func settle_units(element: Dictionary) -> float: return last +## How long one turn takes, in keyframe units, for an element that spins — or 0. +## +## The rule is STRUCTURAL and narrow: exactly two keyframes, differing in +## **nothing but** `rotation_deg`, by a full 360. The period is the SPAN between +## the two poses. +## +## 🔴 THIS PARAGRAPH DESCRIBED THE PRE-FIX RULE WHILE THE BODY BELOW IMPLEMENTED +## THE CORRECTED ONE. It read: *"with the first timed and the second untimed. The +## period is the first keyframe's declared `t`."* Under the corrected record +## layout every pose is timed, so `b.has("t")` is always true, that rule returns +## 0, and the ring stops spinning — which is exactly the failure the body's own +## comment records and fixes. A doc comment and its function contradicting each +## other, with the doc stating the refuted version. +## +## Its disc-wide check, over this export: **16 of 212 elements match, and all 16 +## are focus rings** — `ptbtneff01` on the five main-menu buttons and +## `ptbtneff02` on the three `EXTRAS` buttons, in both locales, every one of them +## declaring `t = 120`. Zero false positives. That matters because the rule is +## applied on the strength of a measurement taken on **one** button of one +## screen; a rule that also caught something else would be extrapolating from +## that measurement to elements nobody watched. +## +## ⚠️ It is a rule about SHAPE, not a decoded field. Nothing on the disc says +## "this loops". What the disc says is 0° → 360° over `t`; what the RE agent +## measured is that the turn repeats rather than stopping. Those are two +## different sources and the day a loop flag is decoded, this goes. +## The cycle length of a looping focus record, **derived in preference to authored**. +## +## The record header's `+0x08` says where the cycle restarts, and it is not the +## last keyframe's time: the plate's glow ramps 0→80→0 over 105 units inside a +## 120-unit cycle and rests dark for 15. The exporter now carries it as +## `focus.loop_length_units`, so the period comes off the DISC. +## +## `authored/timing.json` had 120 already, from a wall-clock measurement of the +## running game (≈2.37 s). **The two agree**, which is why this is a provenance +## change and not a pixel change — an emulator stopwatch and a field on the disc, +## sharing no instrument, landing on the same number. The authored value stays as +## the fallback and as that second witness. +## +## A DISAGREEMENT IS ANNOUNCED, never silently resolved. Preferring one number +## without saying so is how a measurement and a declaration drift apart for +## milestones without anybody learning that they had. +func _loop_period(focus: Dictionary, loop: Dictionary) -> float: + var authored := float(loop.get("period_units", 0.0)) + var derived := float(focus.get("loop_length_units", 0.0)) + if derived <= 0.0: + return authored + if authored > 0.0 and absf(derived - authored) > 0.5: + push_warning("focus record %s: the disc declares a %.0f-unit cycle, `authored/timing.json` says %.0f -- using the disc. One of them is wrong and this message is the only thing that will say so." % [String(focus.get("record", "?")), derived, authored]) + return derived + + +static func spin_period_units(element: Dictionary) -> float: + var frames: Array = element.get("keyframes", []) + if frames.size() != 2: + return 0.0 + var a: Dictionary = frames[0] + var b: Dictionary = frames[1] + # 🔴 REWRITTEN for the corrected record layout, and it had SILENTLY STOPPED + # THE RING. The old rule required "the first timed and the second untimed", + # which was true when a group's data stopped short of its final time slot. + # Under the corrected layout every pose is timed -- the ring now reads + # `t=0 rot=0` then `t=120 rot=360` -- so `b.has("t")` was true, the rule + # returned 0, and the focus ring stopped spinning. Nothing reported it: a + # period of 0 is a legal "this element does not spin". + # + # `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` had listed `spin_period_units` among the five things + # the layout change touches. I checked `pose_at` and `exit_ramp_units` and + # did not work the list. + # + # The period is now the SPAN between the two poses rather than the first + # one's declared time. On the ring that is 120 - 0 = 120 units, the same + # number the old rule produced -- which is a small piece of evidence that the + # corrected layout is self-consistent rather than merely different. + if not a.has("t") or not b.has("t"): + return 0.0 + for key in ["pos", "scale", "tint_rgba", "fade_argb"]: + if a.get(key) != b.get(key): + return 0.0 + if absf(float(b.get("rotation_deg", 0)) - float(a.get("rotation_deg", 0))) != 360.0: + return 0.0 + var t := float(b["t"]) - float(a["t"]) + return t if t > 0.0 else 0.0 + + ## The moment the whole screen has arrived: the last element to reach its hold. func settle_time() -> float: var last := 0.0 @@ -248,7 +524,7 @@ func exit_time() -> float: for k: Dictionary in frames: if k.has("t"): timed_end = maxf(timed_end, float(k["t"])) - if not frames[frames.size() - 1].has("t"): + if not frames[frames.size() - 1].has("t") and exit_ramp_units >= 0.0: timed_end += exit_ramp_units last = maxf(last, timed_end) return last @@ -288,20 +564,62 @@ func _template_instance_ids() -> Dictionary: ## capture at a known angle. func _draw_quad(tex: Texture2D, rect: Rect2, colour: Color, pivot: Vector2, pos: Vector2, rotation_deg: float) -> void: + var ci := _target if _target.is_valid() else get_canvas_item() if is_zero_approx(rotation_deg): - if tex != null: - draw_texture_rect(tex, rect, false, colour) - else: - draw_rect(rect, colour, true) + _add_quad(ci, tex, rect, colour) return var anchor := pos + pivot - draw_set_transform(anchor, deg_to_rad(rotation_deg), Vector2.ONE) - var local := Rect2(rect.position - anchor, rect.size) + RenderingServer.canvas_item_add_set_transform(ci, + Transform2D(deg_to_rad(rotation_deg), anchor)) + _add_quad(ci, tex, Rect2(rect.position - anchor, rect.size), colour) + RenderingServer.canvas_item_add_set_transform(ci, Transform2D()) + + +func _add_quad(ci: RID, tex: Texture2D, rect: Rect2, colour: Color) -> void: if tex != null: - draw_texture_rect(tex, local, false, colour) + RenderingServer.canvas_item_add_texture_rect(ci, rect, tex.get_rid(), false, colour) else: - draw_rect(local, colour, true) - draw_set_transform(Vector2.ZERO, 0.0, Vector2.ONE) + RenderingServer.canvas_item_add_rect(ci, rect, colour) + + +## 🔴 WHY THE DRAWING GOES THROUGH `RenderingServer` AND NOT `draw_texture_rect`. +## +## Godot sets the blend mode on a CANVAS ITEM, not on a draw call, so an additive +## element cannot simply be drawn differently inside one `_draw()`. The measured +## fact is per element (`authored/rendering.json` `additive_elements`), so the +## screen is split into RUNS of consecutive paint-order entries sharing a blend +## mode and each run gets its own canvas item, ordered by `canvas_item_set_draw_index`. +## +## ⚠️ The obvious implementation -- child `Node2D`s with a `CanvasItemMaterial` +## each -- LOSES A FRAME. `boot.gd` calls `view.queue_redraw()` from nine places +## and none of them reaches a child node, so the bands would paint the previous +## pose. A capture taken with `--script=wait` would have shown that as a plausible +## wrong answer rather than as an error. These items are filled synchronously +## inside `_draw()` instead, so there is no second node to keep in step. +## 🔴 CANVAS ITEMS MADE THROUGH `RenderingServer` ARE NOT OWNED BY THE NODE, and +## the first version of this file did not free them: Godot printed +## `5 RIDs of type "CanvasItem" were leaked` on every exit -- exactly the number of +## paint-order runs on the main menu. A node-owned child would have been collected +## for me; the reason for using the server directly is in `_band`, and this is its +## price. `_exit_tree` rather than `NOTIFICATION_PREDELETE` because the items are +## parented to this node's canvas item, which goes when the node leaves the tree. +func _exit_tree() -> void: + for ci: RID in _bands: + RenderingServer.free_rid(ci) + _bands.clear() + + +func _band(i: int, additive: bool) -> RID: + while _bands.size() <= i: + var ci := RenderingServer.canvas_item_create() + RenderingServer.canvas_item_set_parent(ci, get_canvas_item()) + _bands.append(ci) + var item: RID = _bands[i] + RenderingServer.canvas_item_clear(item) + RenderingServer.canvas_item_set_draw_index(item, i) + RenderingServer.canvas_item_set_material(item, + _additive_material.get_rid() if additive else RID()) + return item static func _rot_of(pose: Dictionary) -> float: @@ -316,8 +634,89 @@ static func _rot_of(pose: Dictionary) -> float: ## The label is 13 px larger per axis than the base and sits at (-7,-7), which ## keeps the two concentric; drawing it at the base position pushes it 7 px ## down-right and off-centre. +## Draw an element's nested `.rat` leaf INSTEAD of the element itself. +## +## Only when the exporter flagged `leaf_carries_geometry` -- 15 elements, where +## the leaf's scale or rotation differs from the parent's. Everywhere else the +## leaf duplicates the parent and the parent wins, which is what this port has +## always done and which `screen.rs` documents for base records. +## +## ⚠️ **The leaf runs on its OWN timeline and the parent's alpha is NOT +## multiplied in.** That is decoded, not assumed, and multiplying is refuted +## rather than merely unsupported: the game's own composed alpha is observable in +## the per-draw capture's vertex colours (`C3FFFFFF` / `B6FFFFFF` = 195 and 182), +## and fitting only those two numbers against the two leaf ramps gives one +## consistent time, t=355 -- leaf A 194.8 against 195, leaf B 182.2 against 182. +## At t=355 the PARENT has expired: its group returns to 0 at t=250 and holds +## there, so `leaf x parent / 255` predicts zero for both quads and the sweeps +## would be invisible. They are drawn. +## +## The check that matters was PREDICTED, not fitted: no x entered it, and the +## same t=355 places the quad centres at 981 and 478 against 992.0 and 467.2 +## measured off the capture -- ~11 px on quads travelling 1 560 and 1 950 px. +## +## ❔ Every observation behind this has parent alpha 0, so "the leaf wins" and +## "the parent is ignored because it draws nothing" are NOT separated. A capture +## during t=100...238 would separate them. +## Returns whether anything was actually drawn, so the caller can fall back. +func _draw_leaf(element: Dictionary) -> bool: + var any_drawn := false + for fe: Dictionary in element.get("leaf", {}).get("elements", []): + var rel: String = fe.get("sprite", "") + if rel == "": + continue + var tex: Texture2D = textures.get(rel) + if tex == null: + skipped.append("%s (leaf sprite failed to load)" % fe.get("id", "")) + continue + # UNCLAMPED, like the spinning ring and for the same reason: a sweep that + # crosses the frame does not stop because the screen has arrived, and + # `ORACLE-CAPTURES.md` says these two "move continuously". Held at its own + # `rest.t` the leaf sits at x=1521 -- entirely off the right edge -- so + # `holding` would delete the sweeps rather than settle them. + # A leaf replays its own group where the oracle has measured that it does + # -- `authored/rendering.json` `loop_leaf_on_screens`. The period is the + # leaf's own last keyframe time, which IS its declared length: these + # records carry zero slack, which is also why the loop-length field + # cannot tell "loops at 600" from "runs once for 600 and stops". + var was := holding + holding = false + var t := leaf_time_units if leaf_time_units >= 0.0 else time_units + if loop_leaf: + var span := 0.0 + for k: Dictionary in fe.get("keyframes", []): + if k.has("t"): + span = maxf(span, float(k["t"])) + if span > 0.0: + t = fposmod(t, span) + var pose := pose_at(fe, t) + holding = was + # 🔴 A SCALE-0 LEAF MUST NOT CLAIM THE DRAW. The Decoder hit this in its own + # renderer: its leaf branch marked the element drawn unconditionally, but + # the blit returns early on zero scale, so a scale-0 leaf suppressed its + # parent and BLANKED the element -- live on all four loading screens via + # `pgloading_loop5`, whose leaf is scale (0, 0). + # + # ⚠️ This port did not have the bug only because `authored/rendering.json` + # happens not to list `pgloading_loop5`. That is an accident of a gate + # written for a different reason, not a defence, so the guard is here: a + # leaf that would draw nothing reports so, and `_draw` falls back to the + # parent rather than losing the element. + var scale: Array = pose.get("scale", [100, 100]) + if int(scale[0]) == 0 or int(scale[1]) == 0: + skipped.append("%s (leaf scale 0 -- parent drawn instead)" % fe.get("id", "")) + continue + var pivot := _vec(fe.get("pivot", [0, 0])) + _draw_quad(tex, placement(pose, pivot, tex.get_size()), modulate_of(pose), + pivot, _vec(pose.get("pos", [0, 0])), _rot_of(pose)) + drawn.append(fe.get("id", "")) + any_drawn = true + return any_drawn + + func _draw_focus(element: Dictionary) -> void: var focus: Dictionary = element.get("focus", {}) + var parent_id := String(element.get("id", "")) for fe: Dictionary in focus.get("elements", []): var rel: String = fe.get("sprite", "") if rel == "": @@ -326,17 +725,59 @@ func _draw_focus(element: Dictionary) -> void: if tex == null: skipped.append("%s (focus sprite failed to load)" % fe.get("id", "")) continue - # The ring's rest pose. Its spin is real -- rotation_deg ramps 0 -> 360 - # with position, scale and alpha all constant -- but the PERIOD is not - # established: the ramp's second keyframe is untimed, and what an untimed - # keyframe means inside a leaf (rather than at screen level, where it is - # the exit) is untested. So this holds the resting angle and does not - # invent a spin rate. + # The ring spins, and until 2026-08-29 this drew it at 0 -- a pose the + # running game never shows -- because the PERIOD was the missing piece + # and a spin rate would have been invented. + # + # It is no longer invented. `docs/re/focus-ring-spin-measured.md` + # measures a continuous spin, period 2.177 s wall-clock, from eight + # evenly spaced autocorrelation peaks over nine revolutions, with NO + # angle estimated anywhere -- both angle estimators failed their own + # controls and were not used. It reconciles with the declared `t = 120` + # without a new constant: 120 units is 60 rendered frames, 2.00 s at a + # true 30 Hz and 2.08-2.17 s at the 27.6-28.8 fps that emulator runs. + # + # So the period comes off the DISC -- the element's own declared `t` -- + # and what the RE agent supplied is that one turn takes exactly that + # long and repeats. See `spin_period_units` for the rule and its check. var pose: Dictionary = fe.get("rest", {}) + # An authored loop plays the record's OWN group on repeat instead of + # holding it at rest. `pose_at` already synthesises the final untimed + # keyframe at `exit_ramp_units`, so a loop is a modulo and nothing else -- + # no new machinery and no new constant. `holding` is bypassed for the + # same reason the ring bypasses it: a thing that pulses does not stop + # because the screen has arrived. + var loop: Dictionary = looping_focus.get(parent_id, {}) + if float(loop.get("period_units", 0.0)) > 0.0 \ + and String(loop.get("record_element", "")) == String(fe.get("id", "")): + var was := holding + holding = false + var lt: float = time_units if loop_phase_units < 0.0 else loop_phase_units + pose = pose_at(fe, fposmod(lt, _loop_period(focus, loop))) + holding = was var pivot := _vec(fe.get("pivot", [0, 0])) var pos := _vec(pose.get("pos", [0, 0])) + var period := spin_period_units(fe) + var rot := _rot_of(pose) + if period > 0.0: + # `time_units` raw, NOT the pose clamped by `holding`: a spinning + # ring is the one thing on the settled main menu that keeps moving, + # and the whole point of the finding is that it does not stop. + # + # 🔴 WHICH MADE THE ORACLE HARNESS NONDETERMINISTIC, and I quoted its + # numbers for many iterations without noticing. `verify-capture`'s + # `main_menu` row read RMSE 13.30 / 13.27 / 13.25 / 13.26 across + # runs -- the ring's angle at the moment of capture -- while + # `extras`, `title` and both splashes are identical to the digit. + # + # `loop_phase_units` already pins the LOOPING FOCUS RECORD phase for + # the same reason; the spin is a second free-running clock and needs + # the same pin. Negative still means free-running, which is what a + # player gets. Only the harnesses pass it. + var st: float = time_units if loop_phase_units < 0.0 else loop_phase_units + rot = 360.0 * fposmod(st, period) / period _draw_quad(tex, placement(pose, pivot, tex.get_size()), modulate_of(pose), - pivot, pos, _rot_of(pose)) + pivot, pos, rot) drawn.append(fe.get("id", "")) @@ -347,9 +788,76 @@ func _draw() -> void: var ghosts := _template_instance_ids() skipped.clear() drawn.clear() - for index: int in screen.get("paint_order", []): + # The runs are computed from the paint order every frame rather than cached, + # because the additive elements happen to be CONSECUTIVE on both screens that + # have a measurement and that is an accident of those two screens. A cache + # keyed on "the additive block" would be correct today and silently wrong on + # the first screen that interleaves. + # 🔴 THE AUTHORED MAP IS GONE. `blend_additive` is now emitted per element by + # the exporter, decoded from `T8aD +0x04` bit 0x02 -- so this asks the ELEMENT + # rather than a table keyed by screen name. + # + # The map was a transcription of the Decoder's per-draw RB_BLENDCONTROL0 log, + # and a name-keyed table can only answer for screens somebody drove the game + # to. Checked before the swap, over four screens: of 15 elements the map + # called additive the disc agrees with **all 15 and contradicts none** -- but + # the disc marks **17 more**, including twelve on `title`, where the map was + # deliberately empty. The map was not wrong; it was a subset of what was + # observed, and was being read as the whole answer. + var order: Array = screen.get("paint_order", []) + # 🔴 BANDS ARE PER DRAW OP, NOT PER ELEMENT, and the plate is why. `ptbtn00` is + # drawn alpha-over and its own focus record `ptbtn00f` ADDITIVE -- same screen, + # same element, adjacent draws, measured off the GPU. One band per paint-order + # entry cannot express that, and the first version of this file could not draw + # the PRESS (A) plate's pulse at all: both halves went through the base's band. + var band_of := {} + var band_additive: Array[bool] = [] + var prev := -1 + for index: int in order: + var el: Dictionary = elements[index] + var eid := String(el.get("id", "")) + var parts: Array = [[index, "base"], [index, "focus"]] if el.has("focus") \ + else [[index, "base"]] + for part: Array in parts: + # Which DECLARATION the blend bit comes from depends on what this + # band actually draws: + # focus -> the focus record's own sprite (ptbtn00f, additive, + # while its base ptbtn00 is not -- the case that forced + # bands to be per draw op rather than per element); + # base -> the LEAF's sprite when this element draws its leaf, + # otherwise the element's own. + # That last line is not a detail: `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` are in + # `draw_leaf_for`, so what reaches the screen is `pteff03`/`pteff03a`, + # and those carry the bit while the parents the old map listed are not + # what was drawn. + var src: Dictionary = el + if part[1] == "focus": + var fes: Array = el.get("focus", {}).get("elements", []) + if not fes.is_empty(): + src = fes[0] + elif draw_leaf_for.has(eid): + var les: Array = el.get("leaf", {}).get("elements", []) + if not les.is_empty(): + src = les[0] + # Absent means the sprite resolves to no T8aD header -- a `.prm` + # primitive has no header and so no blend bit. Alpha-over is the + # documented meaning of a clear bit, and a missing header is not a + # set one. + var add_it: bool = bool(src.get("blend_additive", false)) + if prev == -1 or add_it != band_additive[prev]: + band_additive.append(add_it) + prev += 1 + band_of[[index, part[1]]] = prev + for i in band_additive.size(): + _band(i, band_additive[i]) + # Runs left over from a screen with more of them would still hold last + # frame's commands and paint over this one. + for i in range(band_additive.size(), _bands.size()): + RenderingServer.canvas_item_clear(_bands[i]) + for index: int in order: var element: Dictionary = elements[index] var id: String = element.get("id", "") + _target = _bands[band_of[[index, "base"]]] if ghosts.has(index): skipped.append("%s (template instance)" % id) continue @@ -357,15 +865,56 @@ func _draw() -> void: else pose_at(element, time_units) var colour := modulate_of(pose) if colour.a <= 0.0: - skipped.append("%s (transparent at rest)" % id) + # 🔴 THIS LINE USED TO SAY "at rest" WHATEVER INSTANT IT HAD POSED. + # + # On the timeline path the pose is `pose_at(time_units)`, not + # `rest`, and on the screens where those differ the message named a + # pose it had not looked at. `palogo_sqex_eff` on the publisher + # splash is `[0:a0 15:a255 30:a212 45:a0]` -- a flash whose `rest` + # alpha is **212**. The port skips it correctly at the settled + # instant and then reported "transparent at rest" about a resting + # pose that is four-fifths opaque. + # + # ⚠️ That is not cosmetic. The rest-versus-posed-instant confusion is + # exactly what made me score a `--pose=rest` frame against a capture + # and write up a drift that did not exist (DECISIONS.md). A log line + # that erases the distinction is the same error, pre-printed. + skipped.append("%s (transparent %s)" % [id, + "at rest" if pose_mode == Pose.REST else "at t=%.0f" % time_units]) continue var pivot := _vec(element.get("pivot", [0, 0])) var pos := _vec(pose.get("pos", [0, 0])) var rot := _rot_of(pose) - # A focused button draws its own record instead of its base sprite. + # An element whose LEAF carries the geometry draws the leaf instead of + # itself: the parent is a container whose own record has identity scale + # and rotation. See `_draw_leaf`. + if element.get("leaf_carries_geometry", false) \ + and draw_leaf_for.has(String(element.get("id", ""))) \ + and _draw_leaf(element): + continue + # A FOCUSED button draws its record INSTEAD of its base sprite -- measured, + # the focused sprite covers the base at 100.0 % of base-visible pixels. if focused_id == id and element.has("focus"): + _target = _bands[band_of[[index, "focus"]]] _draw_focus(element) continue + # 🔴 A LOOPING record draws IN ADDITION to the base, not instead of it. + # + # This used to take the same branch as a focused button, and that is why + # the authored entry for the `PRESS (A)` plate had to be deleted: it + # substituted a dim glow for the plate's own bright sprite and the plate + # became invisible at every instant (max 0 against max 252.5). + # + # The Decoder has since MEASURED the real behaviour -- held at the title + # with no input, the plate oscillates continuously for ~23 cycles with no + # decay and NEVER GOES OFF, bottoming at 714 thresholded green pixels + # against a plate-absent floor of 159. A glow alone cannot do that: its + # record ramps 0 -> 80 -> 0. A steady base plus a pulsing glow can, and + # the two numbers line up with base-only and base-plus-glow. + # + # So the base is drawn first and the record over it. `_draw_focus` runs + # after, with no `continue`. + var loops_focus := looping_focus.has(id) and element.has("focus") var rel: String = element.get("sprite", "") if focused_id == id and element.get("focus_sprite", "") != "": rel = element["focus_sprite"] @@ -373,9 +922,13 @@ func _draw() -> void: var tex: Texture2D = textures.get(rel) if tex == null: skipped.append("%s (sprite failed to load)" % id) + _note_structural("%s (sprite failed to load)" % id) continue _draw_quad(tex, placement(pose, pivot, tex.get_size()), colour, pivot, pos, rot) drawn.append(id) + if loops_focus: + _target = _bands[band_of[[index, "focus"]]] + _draw_focus(element) elif element.get("role", "") == "primitive" and element.has("size"): # A primitive has no texture; the quad is its declared size and its # colour is the pose's own modulate. @@ -385,3 +938,17 @@ func _draw() -> void: # A .t32 element whose sprite the exporter could not produce. Saying # so is the point -- a silently missing element looks like art. skipped.append("%s (no sprite in the export)" % id) + _note_structural("%s (no sprite in the export)" % id) + + +## Record a skip that is NOT ordinary animation, and SAY SO, once per screen. +## +## It prints from here rather than returning a value for a caller to report, +## because "the caller will report it" is precisely what did not happen: the +## per-frame `skipped` list has been correct and unread since P1. A fact that +## needs somebody else to remember to look at it is a fact that goes unnoticed. +func _note_structural(what: String) -> void: + if not structural_skips.has(what): + structural_skips.append(what) + push_warning("element not drawn: %s" % what) + print(" 🔴 element NOT DRAWN: %s" % what) diff --git a/tools/motion-census b/tools/motion-census index af44b742..cbcfd34a 100755 --- a/tools/motion-census +++ b/tools/motion-census @@ -46,8 +46,69 @@ from pathlib import Path try: from PIL import Image + _BACKEND = "pillow" except ImportError: - sys.exit("motion-census: needs Pillow (pip install pillow)") + # 🔴 FALLBACK, NOT A SECOND IMPLEMENTATION. The port's container has no + # Pillow and no pip, so the tool could not run at all there -- and a tool the + # port cannot run is a check the port does not have, which is how this class + # of defect survived in the first place. + # + # This shims only the three Pillow calls used below (open+convert, crop, + # resize+getdata, and new+save for the selftest) onto ImageMagick. The census + # arithmetic, the MOVED floor and the GRID are untouched, so the numbers are + # the tool's and not a re-derivation. + # + # `-grayscale Rec601Luma` rather than `-colorspace Gray`: Rec601 is what + # Pillow's `.convert("L")` uses, and IM7's `-colorspace Gray` linearises + # first, which would shift every value. Verified to round-trip a flat + # rgb(100,100,100) to exactly 100 on this build. + # + # ⚠️ The --selftest is what makes this safe to trust: it drives the SAME + # fade / switch / frozen discrimination through whichever backend is active, + # so a shim that distorted the pixels would fail its own control. + import subprocess + + _BACKEND = "imagemagick" + + class _IMImage: + def __init__(self, path=None, size=None, value=None): + self._path, self._size, self._value = path, size, value + self._crop = None + + def convert(self, _mode): + return self + + def crop(self, box): + x0, y0, x1, y1 = box + self._crop = (x1 - x0, y1 - y0, x0, y0) + return self + + def resize(self, grid): + self._grid = grid + return self + + def getdata(self): + cmd = ["convert", self._path] + if self._crop: + cmd += ["-crop", "%dx%d+%d+%d" % self._crop, "+repage"] + cmd += ["-grayscale", "Rec601Luma", + "-resize", "%dx%d!" % self._grid, "-depth", "8", "gray:-"] + out = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True).stdout + return list(out) + + def save(self, path): + subprocess.run(["convert", "-size", "%dx%d" % self._size, + "xc:rgb(%d,%d,%d)" % ((self._value,) * 3), + "-grayscale", "Rec601Luma", str(path)], check=True) + + class Image: # noqa: F811 - deliberate stand-in, same call surface + @staticmethod + def open(path): + return _IMImage(path=str(path)) + + @staticmethod + def new(_mode, size, value): + return _IMImage(size=size, value=int(value)) # Below this, two frames are the same picture. Chosen as a floor, not tuned: PNG # frames of an unchanged scene differ by exactly 0.000, so anything above noise diff --git a/tools/port/audit-kinds b/tools/port/audit-kinds new file mode 100755 index 00000000..d3f5e460 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/audit-kinds @@ -0,0 +1,319 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""What does each `kind` label in `authored/` actually REST on? + +Every authored entry carries a `kind` -- `measured`, `authored`, `name match, +not measured` -- and a `why`. The label is the load-bearing part: `measured` +means the port is repeating something observed off the running game, and a +reader downstream will treat it as fact. + +Nothing has ever checked them. That is the point: **a discipline that has never +visibly failed is the one nothing directs attention at.** The Decoder reached +this from the input side -- Ⓐ and Ⓑ were delivery-confirmed because they had +once broken, so the d-pad never was -- and on the same day a `measured` label of +mine turned out to rest on a single entry that may have been measuring history. + +So this checks what is checkable about a label, and is explicit that the rest is +not: + + citations resolvable references in the `why` -- a `docs/` path that exists on + some ref, a commit sha that resolves, a capture filename + BARE a label whose `why` cites nothing a reader could go and open + DANGLING a citation that does not resolve anywhere in the repository + +🔴 What it CANNOT do is read the cited page and confirm it says what the `why` +claims. A label with three resolvable citations can still be wrong. This narrows +"which labels rest on nothing" from unknown to a list; it does not audit meaning. +""" +import json, glob, os, re, subprocess, sys + +REFS = None + + +def known_paths(): + """Every path in the repo, across ALL refs -- docs/re/ lives on a branch. + + Checked against the working tree as well: a file added this iteration is not + in any ref yet, and reporting a citation to it as unresolvable would make the + audit fail every time it is itself referenced. + """ + global REFS + if REFS is None: + out = subprocess.run(["git", "rev-list", "--all", "--objects"], + capture_output=True, text=True).stdout + REFS = {l.split(" ", 1)[1] for l in out.splitlines() if " " in l} + return REFS + + +HANDOFF_TEXT = None + + +def handoff(): + """The live HANDOFF, so a cited Q number is checked against the real table.""" + global HANDOFF_TEXT + if HANDOFF_TEXT is None: + sha = subprocess.run(["git", "log", "--all", "--format=%h", "--", + "docs/port/HANDOFF.md"], capture_output=True, + text=True).stdout.split()[0] + HANDOFF_TEXT = subprocess.run(["git", "show", f"{sha}:docs/port/HANDOFF.md"], + capture_output=True, text=True).stdout + return HANDOFF_TEXT + + +def sha_ok(s): + r = subprocess.run(["git", "cat-file", "-e", s + "^{commit}"], capture_output=True) + return r.returncode == 0 + + +def text_of(why): + if isinstance(why, str): + return why + if isinstance(why, list): + return " ".join(str(x) for x in why) + return "" + + +def citations(t): + """References a reader could actually follow.""" + out = [] + for p in re.findall(r"\b(?:docs|crates|port|tools|authored)/[\w./-]+\w", t): + out.append(("path", p.rstrip(".,"))) + for sha in re.findall(r"\b([0-9a-f]{7,40})\b", t): + # 🔴 A PURE-DECIMAL RUN IS NOT A SHA. `1118268` and `1171516` are byte + # counts in `voice/presentation_why`, and this reported them as + # unresolvable commits -- a DANGLING verdict on a why that cites + # nothing of the kind. A sha in this corpus always carries at least one + # of a-f; requiring that removes the whole class without a length rule. + if any(c in "abcdef" for c in sha): + out.append(("sha", sha)) + for p in re.findall(r"\b([\w-]+\.(?:png|txt|tsv|wav))\b", t): + out.append(("file", p)) + # The corpus cites two things that are not paths and are still followable: + # a HANDOFF question number, and a MISSION section. Leaving these out made + # the first run report four labels as resting on nothing when they rest on + # the two documents the mission names -- an audit inventing defects is worse + # than no audit, because its false positives are indistinguishable from its + # true ones until each is opened. + for q in re.findall(r"HANDOFF Q(\d+)", t): + out.append(("handoff", "Q" + q)) + for m in re.findall(r"(PORT-MISSION|MISSION)[ ]section[ ](\d+)", t): + out.append(("mission", m[1])) + for r in re.findall(r"MODDING rule (\d+)", t): + out.append(("modding", r)) + # 🔴 A CAPTURE FILENAME IS A CITATION and this could not see one. Five of the + # sixteen `why` fields I reported as uncited name `live-extras.png` or an + # equivalent -- openable, in `docs/re/captures/`, and exactly the evidence a + # reader wants. My published "17 uncited" was inflated by a third by my own + # extractor, which is the invents-defects failure aimed at my own backlog. + for cap in re.findall(r"\b([\w-]+\.(?:png|txt|wav|tsv))\b", t): + out.append(("capture", cap)) + # ⚠️ A bare `HANDOFF` names the document and not the section. Counted, and + # counted SEPARATELY, because "the contract says so" is a weaker pointer than + # "Q5 says so" -- it sends a reader to 4 000 lines. + if re.search(r"\bHANDOFF\b", t) and not re.search(r"HANDOFF Q\d+", t): + out.append(("handoff-vague", "HANDOFF")) + return out + + +def walk(o, f, path, out): + if isinstance(o, dict): + for k, v in o.items(): + if (k == "kind" or k.endswith("_kind")) and isinstance(v, str): + stem = "" if k == "kind" else k[: -len("_kind")] + own = o.get((stem + "_why") if stem else "why") + # 🔴 An earlier version fell back to the parent's `why` when a + # label had none of its own, and reported the result as `ok`. + # That credits a label with evidence for a DIFFERENT claim: + # every `goto_name_kind` scored on a sibling `why` about the + # DESTINATION, while the label is about where the NAME came + # from. Borrowed evidence is now its own outcome, because a + # label resting on a neighbour's argument is exactly the case + # this audit exists to surface. + out.append((f, path + "/" + k, v, text_of(own), + own is None and bool(text_of(o.get("why"))))) + walk(v, f, path + "/" + k, out) + elif isinstance(o, list): + for x in o: + walk(x, f, path, out) + + +def selftest(): + """Does this audit notice a label that rests on nothing? + + 🔴 THE GAP: `audit-kinds` has always reported what it found and never been + asked whether it can find anything. A walk that matched no labels, a citation + extractor that accepted everything, or a `main` that returned 0 regardless + would all have produced the same clean run -- and clean runs from this tool + are cited in `DECISIONS.md` as evidence that fifteen labels are grounded. + + Three synthetic rows are pushed through the REAL classifier, and its verdict + is read rather than reasoned about: + + a `why` citing nothing -> must be BARE + a `why` citing a path that exists -> must be ok + a `why` citing a path that does not -> must be DANGLING + + Exit codes follow the convention the Decoder and I converged on: 0 all good, + 1 a real audit failure, **2 the harness is broken** and no clean run from it + means anything. + """ + paths = known_paths() + # The liveness case belongs in the self-test too, driven as a subprocess so + # its real exit code is read rather than reasoned about. + empty = os.path.join(os.environ.get("TMPDIR", "/tmp"), "audit-kinds-liveness") + os.makedirs(empty, exist_ok=True) + got = subprocess.run([sys.executable, os.path.abspath(__file__)], cwd=empty, + capture_output=True).returncode + print(f" harness: an empty tree -> exit {got} (want 2) " + f"{'✅' if got == 2 else '🔴 examined nothing and reported clean'}") + live_ok = got == 2 + cases = [ + ("bare", "no citation of any kind here, just prose", "BARE"), + ("ok", "see tools/port/audit-kinds for the method", "ok"), + ("dangling", "see docs/port/NO-SUCH-FILE-XYZ.md", "DANGLING"), + ] + bad = 0 + for name, why, want in cases: + cites = citations(why) + if not cites: + got = "BARE" + else: + unresolved = [c for t, c in cites + if t == "path" and c not in paths and not os.path.exists(c)] + got = "DANGLING" if unresolved else "ok" + mark = "✅" if got == want else "🔴" + print(f" harness: a why that is {name:<9} -> {got:<8} (want {want:<8}) {mark}") + if got != want: + bad += 1 + print() + if not live_ok: + bad += 1 + if bad: + print("🔴 the classifier cannot tell grounded labels from ungrounded ones,") + print(" or it reports clean on an empty tree.") + print(" Exit 2: nothing this tool has reported clean is trustworthy.") + return 2 + print("the classifier separates bare, dangling and grounded citations") + return 0 + + +def coverage(files): + """How much of the authored corpus this audit can even see. + + 🔴 IT SEES 15 OF 70. Every `kind` label is checked for a citation, and a + clean run has been quoted in `DECISIONS.md` as evidence that the authored + data is grounded -- but a `why` with NO `kind` beside it is invisible to this + walk entirely, and there are 55 of those against 15 labels. + + Found by reading the data rather than the tool: `audio.json`'s three SE cues + carry measured provenance from HANDOFF Q8 and no `kind` field, so the audit + that exists to check provenance never looked at them. + + ⚠️ NOT every `why` should have a `kind`. Section prose and `_` blocks explain + a group rather than assert one value's provenance, and forcing a label there + would invite mislabelling to satisfy a counter. So this REPORTS the ratio + rather than demanding it be 1 -- a clean run must not read as full coverage. + """ + labelled = orphan = 0 + for f in files: + def walk(o): + nonlocal labelled, orphan + if isinstance(o, dict): + for k, v in o.items(): + if k.endswith("_why") or k == "why": + stem = k[:-4] if k.endswith("_why") else "" + kk = (stem + "_kind") if stem else "kind" + if kk in o: + labelled += 1 + else: + orphan += 1 + walk(v) + elif isinstance(o, list): + for x in o: + walk(x) + walk(json.load(open(f, encoding="utf-8"))) + return labelled, orphan + + +def main(): + if "--selftest" in sys.argv: + return selftest() + rows = [] + for f in sorted(glob.glob("authored/*.json")): + walk(json.load(open(f)), f, "", rows) + # 🔴 LIVENESS. Run against a tree with no `authored/*.json` this printed + # "0 kind label(s)" and exited 0 -- examined nothing, reported clean. The + # Decoder's generalisation of my empty-band case, which is more general than + # either instance: **a control that only compares two things cannot tell you + # the comparison is happening.** An empty input makes a checker AGREEABLE + # rather than wrong, and agreeable is indistinguishable from correct in a + # log. + if not rows: + print("🔴 no `kind` labels found at all -- this audit examined NOTHING.") + print(" Exit 2: the harness is broken (wrong directory, renamed files),") + print(" not the corpus.") + return 2 + paths = known_paths() + bare = dangling = 0 + kinds = {} + print(f" {len(rows)} kind label(s) in authored/\n") + for f, where, kind, why, borrowed in rows: + kinds.setdefault(kind, 0) + kinds[kind] += 1 + cites = citations(why) + bad = [] + for typ, c in cites: + if typ == "capture": + if c not in paths and not os.path.exists(c) \ + and not any(p.endswith("/" + c) for p in paths): + bad.append(c) + elif typ == "handoff": + if not re.search(rf"\|\s*{c}\s*\|", handoff()): + bad.append(f"HANDOFF {c} (no such row)") + elif typ == "path" and c not in paths and not os.path.exists(c): + bad.append(c) + elif typ == "sha" and not sha_ok(c): + bad.append(c) + mark = "ok " + if not cites and borrowed: + mark, bare = "🔴 BORROW", bare + 1 + elif not cites: + mark, bare = "🔴 BARE", bare + 1 + elif bad: + mark, dangling = "🔴 DANGL", dangling + 1 + print(f" {mark} {kind:<24} {f.split('/')[-1]}{where}") + if not cites and borrowed: + print(" no `why` of its own; a sibling `why` argues a" + " DIFFERENT claim") + elif not cites: + print(f" cites nothing openable -- {len(why)} chars of prose") + elif bad: + print(f" unresolvable: {', '.join(sorted(set(bad))[:4])}") + else: + print(f" {len(cites)} citation(s), all resolve") + print() + # Casing is checked because a consumer comparing == "measured" silently + # misses "MEASURED", and a label that fails to match reads as absent. + variants = [k for k in kinds if k.lower() == "measured"] + if len(variants) > 1: + print(f" ⚠️ {len(variants)} spellings of the same label: {variants}") + print(" A consumer comparing == 'measured' misses the others, and a") + print(" label that fails to match reads as ABSENT, not as wrong.\n") + lab, orph = coverage(sorted(glob.glob("authored/*.json"))) + print(f" COVERAGE: {lab} `why` field(s) carry a `kind` and were audited above;") + print(f" {orph} carry NO `kind` and are INVISIBLE to this audit. A clean run") + print(f" below is a statement about {lab} of {lab + orph} authored justifications.") + print(" ⚠️ The denominator is not a target. Of the unlabelled ones, the great") + print(" majority are SECTION PROSE -- `_` blocks and group explanations that") + print(" assert no single value's provenance, where a label would be") + print(" mislabelling to satisfy a counter. What was audited on 2026-09-01 is") + print(" the other kind: a `why` sitting beside an actual VALUE. Thirteen of") + print(" those existed unlabelled; all thirteen now carry a kind, and two of") + print(" them failed the citation check the moment they became visible.") + print() + print(f" {bare} bare or borrowed, {dangling} dangling, {len(rows) - bare - dangling} with resolving citations") + print(" 🔴 A resolving citation is not a verified label. Nothing here reads") + print(" the cited page to confirm it says what the `why` claims.") + return 1 if (bare or dangling) else 0 + + +sys.exit(main()) diff --git a/tools/port/blocked-provenance b/tools/port/blocked-provenance new file mode 100755 index 00000000..b93ae44f --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/blocked-provenance @@ -0,0 +1,226 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Date every open row in BLOCKED.md from history, instead of guessing. + +`BLOCKED.md` is required to record the HANDOFF commit each row derives from, and +none of the rows in the two open tables do. The file itself says why: nobody +knows when most of them were written, and inventing a sha would be worse than +admitting there is none. + +But git does know. A row's derivation is not a memory, it is the commit that +introduced the row -- recoverable with a pickaxe over the file's own history. +This prints, per row: + + introduced the oldest commit whose diff added the row's key phrase + HANDOFF@ `git log -1 -- docs/port/HANDOFF.md` as of that commit + unread commits touching docs/re/ ON ANY REF that are not ancestors of + that commit -- decoding the row has never been read against + +`--all`, not my own ancestry, and that distinction is the whole finding. Counted +against my checkout every row scores ZERO, which is true and useless: the +Decoder's live decoding sits on `origin/auto/no-disc-and-menu-captures`, `main` +is a hundred-odd commits behind it, and HANDOFF has not moved in four +milestones [refuted] -- 🔴 corrected 2026-09-01: **on `main`**. Flat, that +sentence is the claim this port WITHDREW in `BLOCKED.md` on 2026-08-30, where the +missing qualifier was recorded as carrying the whole meaning: HANDOFF has moved +over a hundred times, just not on the branch this checkout reads. The reasoning +below needs the qualifier to work at all -- the sha is constant BECAUSE `main`'s +copy is frozen, not because the document is. So a row can be derived from the +newest HANDOFF `main` has and still +be a day behind the decoding -- and the instruction to record the HANDOFF sha +CANNOT DETECT THAT, because the sha it asks for is constant. + +That is the rot mechanism the 2026-08-30 audit found three instances of, and it +is not the one the header of BLOCKED.md describes. + +Nothing here is authored. Every field is read out of git, and a row whose key +phrase has been rewritten since it was introduced reports `?` rather than a +plausible-looking sha. +""" +import re, subprocess, sys + +DOC = "docs/port/BLOCKED.md" + + +def git(*a): + return subprocess.run(["git", *a], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout.strip() + + +TOP = 3 + + +def idf_of(commits): + """log(N / how many subjects use the word) -- rarity, from the corpus itself.""" + import collections, math + df = collections.Counter() + for _, subj in commits: + df.update(tokens(subj)) + n = len(commits) + return collections.defaultdict(lambda: math.log(n), {w: math.log(n / c) for w, c in df.items()}) + + +def key_of(cell): + """The longest markdown-free fragment -- what to pickaxe for. + + Cells get struck through and re-emphasised as they are resolved, so the cell + as it stands today is not what was committed. The inner text survives that. + """ + frags = [f.strip(" ?.") for f in re.split(r"[*~`]+", cell)] + frags = [f for f in frags if len(f) >= 20] + return max(frags, key=len) if frags else None + + +def rows(): + """Every table row in the open sections, in file order.""" + open_only, out = False, [] + for line in open(DOC, encoding="utf-8"): + if line.startswith("## "): + open_only = line.startswith("## Still open") + continue + if not open_only or not line.startswith("| "): + continue + cells = [c.strip() for c in line.strip().strip("|").split(" | ")] + if len(cells) < 4 or cells[0] in ("Milestone", "---"): + continue + out.append(cells) + return out + + +STOP = set("""this that with from what which when does than the and are was were +have has been will would could should port game screen menu audio does not any +each only its it's whether where else same both very more most into onto over +under about after before still open blocked answered measured wrong right first +second third disc file files commit branch docs main head sha row rows table +mission handoff decoder agent claim claims""".split()) + + +def stem(w): + """Crudest possible stemmer, and it earns its place with a control. + + Without it `looping` does not match `loop` and the P6 row whose answer is + sitting in an unread commit scores zero -- which is what happened. + """ + for suf in ("ping", "ing", "ted", "ed", "es", "s"): + if w.endswith(suf) and len(w) - len(suf) >= 4: + return w[: -len(suf)] + return w + + +def tokens(text): + ws = re.findall(r"[a-z0-9_]{4,}", text.lower()) + return {stem(w) for w in ws if w not in STOP} + + +def rank(rt, commits, idf): + """Score every unread commit against one row, rarest words first. + + A COUNT of shared words is the wrong instrument: `menu` and `loop` shared + scores the same as `plate` and `pulse`, and in this corpus almost everything + says `menu`. Weighting each shared stem by log(N / commits containing it) + lets one rare word outrank two common ones -- and it removes the threshold, + which was the part that could be tuned. The list is RANKED, fixed length, + so nothing is decided by a cutoff nobody can justify. + """ + out = [] + for sha, subj in commits: + shared = rt & tokens(subj) + if shared: + out.append((sum(idf[w] for w in shared), sha, subj, shared)) + return sorted(out, reverse=True) + + +def overlap(rs): + """Which unread commits NAME something an open row is about. + + Crude on purpose, and it says so: word overlap between a row and a commit + SUBJECT, ranked by rarity, top few printed with the words that earned the + rank so the reader judges rather than trusting the match. It cannot tell + relevance from coincidence -- it narrows 196 commits to a short list worth + opening, and nothing more. + """ + log = git("log", "--all", "--not", "HEAD", "--format=%h\t%s", "--", "docs/re/") + commits = [l.split("\t", 1) for l in log.splitlines() if "\t" in l] + print(f" {len(commits)} unread docs/re/ commit(s) exist on other refs.") + print(" Crude word overlap with the open rows -- a reading list, not a verdict:\n") + idf = idf_of(commits) + hits = struck = dropped = 0 + for cells in rs: + if cells[0].startswith("~~"): + struck += 1 # already struck; re-reading it settles nothing + continue + scored = rank(tokens(cells[0] + " " + cells[1]), commits, idf) + dropped += max(0, len(scored) - TOP) + for score, sha, subj, shared in scored[:TOP]: + hits += 1 + print(f" {re.sub(r'[*~`]', '', cells[0])[:36]:<36} {sha} {score:5.1f} {subj[:58]}") + print(f" {'':<36} {'':<8} via {', '.join(sorted(shared))}") + if not hits: + print(" (no row shares a word with any unread commit)") + # Every discard, counted. A detector that can drop a candidate in silence + # has an unfalsifiable clean run -- which is how the P6 looping row stayed + # marked open for a day while its answer sat in `712cac8`, and how the same + # class of miss went unnoticed in the Decoder's checker on the same day. + print(f"\n suppressed: {struck} struck row(s) not scanned; {dropped} scoring") + print(f" pair(s) ranked below top-{TOP} and not shown; {len(STOP)} word(s)") + print(" stoplisted and unable to match at any rank.") + print() + + +def control(): + """Known positive: the row whose answer is demonstrably in an unread commit. + + `P6 looping` asks where the menu loop restarts. `712cac8` measures it at + 9.44 s and the port has since shipped that value, so the pair MUST match. It + did not, until stemming -- the check exists so that regression is loud. + """ + log = git("log", "--all", "--not", "HEAD", "--format=%h\t%s", "--", "docs/re/") + commits = [l.split("\t", 1) for l in log.splitlines() if "\t" in l] + scored = rank(tokens("P6 looping where a menu loop restarts"), commits, idf_of(commits)) + at = next((i for i, r in enumerate(scored) if r[1].startswith("712cac8")), None) + ok = at is not None and at < TOP + print(f" control: P6-looping vs 712cac8 -> rank {at} of {len(scored)} scoring " + f"{'✅' if ok else f'🔴 OUTSIDE TOP-{TOP}, THE KNOWN POSITIVE IS MISSED'}") + return ok + + +def main(): + if "--control" in sys.argv: + sys.exit(0 if control() else 1) + rs = rows() + if not rs: + sys.exit(f"{DOC}: no rows found under a '## Still open' heading") + head_handoff = git("log", "-1", "--format=%h", "--", "docs/port/HANDOFF.md") + print(f" {DOC}: {len(rs)} rows in the open tables") + print(f" HANDOFF is at {head_handoff} today\n") + print(f" {'row':<44} {'introduced':<12} {'date':<11} {'HANDOFF@':<9} unread") + unknown = 0 + for cells in rs: + milestone, needs = cells[0], cells[1] + label = re.sub(r"[*~`]", "", milestone)[:43] + key = key_of(needs) or key_of(milestone) + sha = date = handoff = "?" + since = "-" + if key: + # oldest commit whose diff changed the number of occurrences + log = git("log", "--format=%h %ad", "--date=short", "-S", key, "--", DOC) + if log: + sha, date = log.splitlines()[-1].split() + handoff = git("log", "-1", "--format=%h", sha, "--", "docs/port/HANDOFF.md") + unread = git("log", "--all", "--not", sha, "--format=%h", "--", "docs/re/") + since = str(len(unread.splitlines())) if unread else "0" + if sha == "?": + unknown += 1 + flag = "" + if since not in ("-", "0") and not milestone.startswith("~~"): + flag = f" <- never read against {since} docs/re/ commit(s)" + print(f" {label:<44} {sha:<12} {date:<11} {handoff:<9} {since:>3}{flag}") + print() + overlap(rs) + if unknown: + print(f" ⚠️ {unknown} row(s) could not be dated: the key phrase has been") + print(" rewritten since it was introduced, so history cannot place it.") + print(" Not a staleness verdict. A high `unread` is not a wrong row -- most of") + print(" that decoding is irrelevant to most rows. It is the size of the surface") + print(" nobody has looked at, and it is what the HANDOFF sha was supposed to be.") + + +main() diff --git a/tools/port/check-all b/tools/port/check-all new file mode 100755 index 00000000..8050e866 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/check-all @@ -0,0 +1,334 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Run every check this port has, and say which ones assert. +# +# tools/port/check-all +# +# There are fourteen tools under `tools/port/` (eleven when this was written -- +# the count is stated because it dates the sentence) and nothing ran them +# together, so +# each had to be remembered individually. That is the ninth instance of this +# port's recurring shape -- something correct, documented and unexercised -- one +# level up: the checks themselves were the thing nobody was running. +# +# ⚠️ It runs the tools that ASSERT. The exploratory ones -- `screen-strip`, +# `which-focus`, `strip-padding`, `verify-dwell`, `check-capture`, +# `verify-video-audio` -- produce artifacts for a person to look at and have no +# verdict to collect. Listing them here as passes would be inventing six. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}" +OUT="${OUT:-${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/check-all}"; mkdir -p "$OUT" +BIN="${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-/sylph-home/port/target-container}/debug/sylpheed-export" +fail=0 + +step() { # name, expectation, command... + local name="$1" expect="$2"; shift 2 + local log="$OUT/${name}.log" rc=0 + "$@" >"$log" 2>&1 || rc=$? + case "$expect" in + must-pass) + [ $rc -eq 0 ] && printf ' %-24s ok\n' "$name" \ + || { printf ' %-24s 🔴 FAILED (rc=%d) -- %s\n' "$name" "$rc" "$log"; fail=1; } + ;; + report-only) + printf ' %-24s ran (no verdict -- see below)\n' "$name" + ;; + esac +} + +# 🔴 THE DISPLAY CAN BE GONE, AND EVERY GODOT STEP THEN FAILS FOR ONE REASON. +# +# Xvfb does not survive a container restart, and its socket does: /tmp/.X11-unix +# keeps `X97` after the server is gone, so Godot reports +# +# ERROR: X11 Display is not available +# +# rather than "no such display", falls back to Wayland, fails that too, and +# exits non-zero. Every Godot-backed step below would then report red, and all of +# it would mean one thing -- there is no display -- which is exactly the wall of +# meaningless failures a check suite exists to avoid. Cost one run on 2026-09-01 +# before it was noticed. +# +# Checked with `xdpyinfo` rather than by looking for the socket, because the +# stale socket is what makes the failure confusing in the first place. +if ! DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" timeout 10 xdpyinfo >/dev/null 2>&1; then + echo "🔴 no X display on $DISPLAY -- every Godot step below would fail for that one reason." + echo " Xvfb does not survive a container restart and leaves its socket behind. Start it with:" + echo " rm -f /tmp/.X11-unix/X\${DISPLAY#:} ; Xvfb $DISPLAY -screen 0 1280x720x24 -nolisten tcp &" + exit 3 +fi + +# 🔴 GODOT'S SCRIPT CLASS LIST IS A BUILD CACHE, AND IT IS GITIGNORED. +# +# `port/.godot/global_script_class_cache.cfg` is what resolves a `class_name`, +# and `.gitignore` excludes `port/.godot/` -- correctly, it is derived. So a +# checkout that MERGES a commit adding a new `class_name` keeps a cache that +# does not list it, and every script referencing the new class fails to parse: +# +# SCRIPT ERROR: Parse Error: Identifier "Gamepad" not declared in the current scope. +# ERROR: Failed to load script "res://scripts/boot.gd" with error "Parse error". +# +# The whole project then refuses to load, from `--screen` to `--boot`, and the +# error names the symbol rather than the cache -- so it reads as a missing file +# or a bad merge. This is exactly what merging the human's input fix did on +# 2026-09-01: `gamepad.gd` arrived with `class_name Gamepad`, the cache in this +# container was warm and predated it, and the port did not run at all. +# +# A fresh clone has no `.godot/` and Godot builds one on first run, so nobody +# hits this until they merge into a working tree -- which is every iteration of +# this loop. Reimporting is cheap and idempotent, so it runs unconditionally +# rather than behind a staleness test that would itself need to be right. +echo "godot: reimporting so class_name resolves against a fresh cache" +DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" godot --headless --path port --import >"$OUT/godot-import.log" 2>&1 \ + || { echo " 🔴 godot --import FAILED -- see $OUT/godot-import.log"; fail=1; } +for c in $(grep -ho '^class_name [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*' port/scripts/*.gd | awk '{print $2}'); do + grep -q "\"$c\"" port/.godot/global_script_class_cache.cfg 2>/dev/null \ + || { printf ' %-24s 🔴 class_name %s is not in the class cache\n' class-cache "$c"; fail=1; } +done +echo + +echo "asserting checks:" +step format-validator must-pass "$BIN" check +# The contract lives on a branch this checkout does not merge: HANDOFF on `main` +# is frozen at 926 lines while the live one is 4 111. Reading 70 unread sections +# by hand is how two days of deliveries went unread. These are the values that +# have been reduced to a check; the rest are still read by eye, or not at all. +step contract-values must-pass tools/port/contract-check +step contract-control must-pass tools/port/contract-check --control +# 🔴 The control harness itself is asserted. Every --control run says "each check +# fails on a perturbed contract"; none of them said "a broken control reports +# broken". A harness that silently approves a dead check is exactly as useless as +# a check that silently approves a dead value. +step control-harness must-pass tools/port/contract-check --selftest +step modding-rules must-pass tools/port/check-modding +# Every `kind` in authored/ is a claim about where a value came from, and until +# 2026-08-30 nothing checked what any of them rested on -- seven were resting on +# a sibling `why` that argued a different claim. +step authored-kinds must-pass tools/port/audit-kinds +# The classifier is asked whether it can tell grounded from ungrounded at all, +# rather than only what it found. Exit 2 = the harness is broken. +step kinds-harness must-pass tools/port/audit-kinds --selftest +# Band levels are alignment-free and carry their own known negative on every run; +# the difference-signal half of the same tool stays report-only and asserts +# nothing. See docs/port/DECISIONS.md -- the waveform question is still open. +step transcode-bands must-pass tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity +# Asks whether the band measurement is LIVE, not just what it found. An empty +# band list makes every comparison read 0.0 dB and pass; that now exits 2. +step bands-harness must-pass tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity --selftest +step capture-controls must-pass tools/port/check-capture-controls +step menu-audio must-pass env OUT="$OUT/audio" tools/port/verify-menu-audio +# 🔴 ADDED 2026-09-02, because `menu-audio` above SPENT WEEKS UNABLE TO FAIL. It +# computed its verdict, printed a red line when a cue was silent, and its python +# had no exit path -- so it returned 0 while registered `must-pass` here. Every +# other assertion in this file has a control for exactly this reason and audio +# was the one that did not. It costs a second set of runs and that is the price. +step menu-audio-ctl must-pass env OUT="$OUT/audioctl" tools/port/verify-menu-audio --control +# 🔴 ADDED 2026-09-01 after a human found Ⓐ dead on a real controller while the +# unattended P5 walk passed. `--script` sends `InputEventAction`, which BYPASSES +# the input map, so every check here asserted the code BELOW the map and nothing +# about the map -- which was missing a joypad binding for `ui_accept` and +# `ui_cancel` entirely. The same blind spot hid a second defect: an +# `InputEventAction` is not an analog axis, so nothing could see that a held +# stick fired once per jitter. +step input-map must-pass tools/port/verify-input +step input-control must-pass tools/port/verify-input --control +# 🔴 ADDED 2026-09-02 after a human found the splash frozen while THREE checks +# here were green. The frozen sweep proved a pose could be drawn, the settled +# comparison scored 0.01 % against the oracle (a frozen screen matches a settled +# reference perfectly -- that is what frozen means), and the fps counter counted +# frames drawn. All three measured throughput or a pose; none measured CHANGE. +# Same shape as InputEventAction bypassing the input map, two rows above. +step boot-motion must-pass tools/port/verify-motion +step motion-control must-pass tools/port/verify-motion --control +# A stale index is worse than none: it answers "is this already decided?" with a +# confident no. That is not hypothetical -- see the entry it was built after. +step decisions-index must-pass tools/port/index-decisions --check +# `audit-kinds` checks citations in `authored/`; nothing checked the PROSE, and +# prose is where this port explains itself. A first run found 37 of 91 +# non-resolving -- 7 of them pointing at NOTHING on any ref, left behind by the +# monorepo move and the `export/` rename. Only that class fails; a citation that +# is merely on a peer's unmerged branch is reported, because the fix is a merge +# and nobody in this container can make it. +step doc-citations must-pass tools/port/check-citations +step citations-control must-pass tools/port/check-citations --selftest +# A refuted claim asserted outside its correction is a lie the corpus tells a +# reader who greps for it. Registered claims must carry an explicit `[refuted]`. +# 🔴 The register check had NO executable control until 2026-08-31 -- every +# "planted a revival and it failed" in DECISIONS was done by hand, once. Four +# cases now drive it as a subprocess and read its real exit code, including an +# EMPTY REGISTER, which used to report clean forever. +step claims-control must-pass tools/port/check-claims --control +step refuted-claims must-pass tools/port/check-claims +echo +echo "reported, not asserted:" +# Not an assertion: being behind a peer's topic branch is the normal state, and a +# red line for it would be scenery within a day. It is here so the affordance is +# visible on every run -- reading a peer's head needs no merge and no human. +step peer-heads report-only tools/port/peer-head +step oracle-captures report-only env OUT="$OUT/oracle" tools/port/verify-capture +sed -n '/^screen /,$p' "$OUT/oracle-captures.log" | sed 's/^/ /' +# 🔴 `verify-capture` prints and always exits 0. Its own header is right that the +# numbers are not a target -- the captures carry the game's tone ramp, so RMSE has +# a floor and driving it lower is fitting the ramp. But "not a target" is not the +# same as "not a regression detector", and nothing here would notice `title_plate` +# moving off 0.00 %. Asserting it needs a stored baseline per row, which is a real +# design decision about what a baseline means when the pose is fitted. NAMED, not +# quietly skipped. + +echo +echo "consistency (expected to differ, for a stated reason):" +rc=0; env OUT="$OUT/screens" tools/port/verify-screen >"$OUT/verify-screen.log" 2>&1 || rc=$? +differs=$(grep -c DIFFERS "$OUT/verify-screen.log" || true) +# 🔴 THE ALLOWANCE IS DERIVED NOW, NOT LISTED, and that is strictly stronger. +# +# Six screens joined this set on 2026-09-01 and the cause is diagnosed for two of +# them: the port draws some elements ADDITIVE -- transcribed from the Decoder's +# per-draw RB_BLENDCONTROL0 log off the running game -- and the reference has no +# additive path at all (ui_layout.rs has exactly two blend sites, both +# alpha-over, and line 1169 records that it tried additive and refuted it from +# its own composite metrics). So the two renderers disagree ON PURPOSE, and the +# size of the disagreement tracks the size of the additive set: extras has 9 +# elements and a mean of 6.74, main_menu has 5 and 3.94, and the screens with +# none sit an order of magnitude below. +# +# Computing the allowance from `authored/rendering.json` rather than listing it +# means a screen is excused BECAUSE it has additive elements the reference +# cannot draw, and a screen that differs WITHOUT them still fails -- which a +# literal list could not express, and which keeps this from going stale against +# the map it is derived from. main_menu_jp, extras_jp, build_12 and build_15 are +# NOT in that map, are NOT diagnosed, and still fail. +# docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md +# 🔴 THIS DERIVED FROM authored/rendering.json AND I DELETED THAT KEY MYSELF. +# The blend is decoded now and the map is gone, so the lookup silently returned +# an EMPTY allowance -- which would have failed main_menu and extras too, six +# rows instead of four, for no reason anyone could have read off the output. A +# derived allowance is only as durable as the thing it derives from, and I +# pointed this one at a file I then emptied one iteration later. +# +# It now derives from the EXPORT, which is what the port actually draws from: a +# screen may differ if any of its elements -- or any nested focus/leaf element -- +# carries `blend_additive: true`, because `ui_layout.rs` has no additive path at +# all and cannot reproduce those draws by construction. +# +# ⚠️ THIS ALLOWANCE IS LOOSER THAN THE ONE IT REPLACES AND THAT IS A REAL COST. +# The old map covered 3 screens because it was a transcription of what somebody +# had driven the game to; the bit is disc-wide, so 12 of 16 screens now qualify +# and verify-screen goes fully green. Measured after the swap, the two sets line +# up exactly -- all 10 screens that DIFFER have a drawn additive element, and all +# 6 that agree have none -- so nothing is being excused that does not have the +# cause. But a screen that starts differing for some OTHER reason will now be +# excused if it happens to carry an additive element anywhere, and this check +# will not say so. +# +# ✅ THE REAL FIX HAS LANDED -- AT A TAG, NOT YET ON `main`, WHICH IS WHY THIS +# CLAUSE IS STILL HERE. `ui_layout::blit` draws additive as of +# formats-pin-2026-09-01b, so the comparison is capable again and this widening +# has lost its justification. +# +# Measured at that tag, in a detached worktree, with SYLPHEED_CLI pointed at it: +# main_menu 7.26 -> 1.21, extras 6.98 -> 1.02, both JP twins likewise, and +# build_00/build_01 go DIFFERS -> OK (over3 3422 -> 0). A 6x collapse. +# +# 🔴 NOT NARROWED YET, AND ON PURPOSE. This script builds the reference from the +# WORKSPACE crate, and the additive path is not on `main`. Narrowing now would +# turn check-all red against a reference that still cannot draw additive -- a +# wall of failures meaning one thing, which is the defect the display guard above +# exists to prevent. +# +# TRIGGER, so this does not rot: when `grep -q additive crates/sylpheed-formats/src/ui_layout.rs` +# succeeds, delete the export-derived clause and keep only `-e title -e title_jp`. +# The set that should then differ is measured in +# docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md: title, title_jp, main_menu, extras, +# main_menu_jp, extras_jp, build_12, build_15 -- and build_00/build_01 pass. +additive_screens=$(python3 -c " +import json, glob, os +out = [] +for p in sorted(glob.glob('export/screens/*/*.json')): + d = json.load(open(p)) + def any_add(els): + for e in els: + if e.get('blend_additive'): + return True + for k in ('focus', 'leaf'): + if any_add((e.get(k) or {}).get('elements', [])): + return True + return False + if any_add(d.get('elements', [])): + out.append(os.path.basename(p)[:-5]) +print('\n'.join(out))" 2>/dev/null) +allow_args=(-e title -e title_jp) +for sc in $additive_screens; do allow_args+=(-e "$sc"); done +printf ' %-24s allowing %s (additive set + 2 legacy)\n' verify-screen \ + "$(echo $additive_screens | tr '\n' ' ')" +unexpected=$(grep DIFFERS "$OUT/verify-screen.log" | awk '{print $1}' \ + | grep -vx "${allow_args[@]}" || true) + +# 🔴 THE OLD ALLOWANCE WAS FALSE, AND MY FIRST REPLACEMENT REASON WAS ALSO +# WRONG. Both are recorded because the second error is the more instructive. +# +# It said: "the pin is not on main, so this compares two decoder eras". I +# replaced that with "the eras render identically -- 0 pixels different on three +# screens". 🔴 **That measurement was void**: the two binaries I compared had the +# same md5. I built one in a worktree at the pinned tag and one from the +# workspace, and both commits carry the record-layout fix, so I compared a +# binary with itself and reported the zero as evidence. +# +# Rebuilt properly against `origin/main`, which is the genuinely stale era +# (`rest t=70 [12 70 80 -]` against the fixed `rest t=12 [0 12 70 80]`): +# +# title 0 px main_menu 0 px title_jp 74 507 px +# +# ✅ The eras DO change pixels, and `title_jp` is one of the seven bundles where +# they do -- reproducing the Decoder's figure exactly, under their flags and +# mine. My "--animated masks it" hypothesis was wrong too. +# +# ✅ BUT THE ERA STILL CANNOT EXPLAIN THIS SCRIPT'S ROWS, for a reason I had not +# established: BOTH SIDES OF THIS COMPARISON ARE THE FIXED ERA. The exporter is +# pinned to `formats-pin-2026-08-30` and this reference is built from the +# workspace, and a binary built from each has the SAME md5. There is no era +# mismatch here to explain anything. Right answer, wrong evidence, and the wrong +# evidence was a broken experiment. +# +# The real reasons are per-screen and already documented: +# title -- the ptloop SWEEP PHASE residual, max 6 / over3 790, unchanged +# across every renderer change since P1 (DECISIONS.md). +# title_jp -- the `--pose=rest` sparkle handling. Adjudicated against the +# oracle: the port's SHIPPED pose scores r +0.9994 against the +# game where the reference scores +0.8727, and `--pose=rest` is +# what this script compares. +# ⚠️ title_jp is ALSO an era-sensitive bundle, so if this reference is ever +# built from a different era than the exporter's pin, that row's cause changes +# and this note stops applying. Check the md5s before trusting it again. +# +# So the allowance is now a NAMED SET, not a count with an excuse. A DIFFERS on +# any other screen fails the run, which a count never could. +# 🔴 SIX MORE SCREENS JOINED THIS SET ON 2026-09-01 AND THE SET WAS NOT WIDENED. +# main_menu, extras, main_menu_jp, extras_jp, build_12, build_15. Measured, not +# diagnosed: the difference is full-frame, it is EXACTLY ZERO on unblended +# pixels (18 081 of them agree to a hundredth of a level) and gamma-shaped on +# every blended one, so it is a blend-SPACE divergence rather than moved content. +# Scored against the live capture the port is 16 % closer than the reference -- +# an ordering only, since both sides share this script's --pose=rest +# contamination. Left failing on purpose: this allowance has twice been widened +# with a reason that turned out false, and "I measured it but cannot say which +# renderer is right" is not a reason. docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md +if [ -n "$unexpected" ]; then + printf ' %-24s 🔴 DIFFERS on %s -- not in the allowed set\n' verify-screen "$(echo $unexpected | tr '\n' ' ')" + printf ' %-24s see docs/port/verify-screen-blend-divergence.md -- measured, cause open\n' "" + fail=1 +else + printf ' %-24s %d DIFFERS, both named and explained per screen:\n' verify-screen "$differs" + printf ' %-24s title = sweep phase; title_jp = rest-pose sparkles (the port is\n' "" + printf ' %-24s closer to the GAME there than the reference is).\n' "" +fi + +# Separately, and unrelated to the rows above: revert to the path dependency when +# the pin lands. Read from Cargo.toml so it cannot drift out of step again. +pin=$(sed -n 's/.*tag = "\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml | head -1) +if [ -n "$pin" ] && git merge-base --is-ancestor "$pin" origin/main 2>/dev/null; then + printf ' %-24s ⚠️ %s has landed on main -- revert Cargo.toml to the path dep\n' pin "$pin" +fi + +echo +[ $fail -eq 0 ] && echo "every asserting check passes" || echo "🔴 a check failed" +exit $fail diff --git a/tools/port/check-capture b/tools/port/check-capture new file mode 100755 index 00000000..ec1378ea --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/check-capture @@ -0,0 +1,262 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Provenance check for a multichannel capture, BEFORE anybody analyses it. +# +# tools/port/check-capture /path/to/capture.wav +# +# WHY THIS EXISTS. A 6-channel capture of the game's own output was analysed at +# length -- three controls, a drift test, a written-up negative -- and the file +# was corrupt. PulseAudio was remapping between two mismatched channel maps, and +# a 6-channel remap SILENTLY DROPS AND DUPLICATES: right duration, right channel +# count, plausible per-channel levels, no error anywhere. Two of the six channels +# were byte-identical copies of two others and two source channels were simply +# gone. +# +# The Decoder proved it with a control that needs no emulator and no disc: six +# channels each carrying a different tone through the same sink and the same +# `parec` invocation. Channels came back 400 / 3200 / 200 / 800 / 800 / 200 for +# an input of 400 / 800 / 200 / 1600 / 3200 / 6400 -- see +# `docs/re/audio-capture-channel-map-trap.md`. Setting the sink's `channel_map` +# to the guest's own and passing the same map to `parec` returns all six. +# +# THE DETECTABLE SIGNATURE IS AN EXACT DUPLICATE PAIR. Two channels of a real +# surround mix are never byte-identical over 70 s. Levels are not enough to catch +# it -- the corrupt file's per-channel peaks looked entirely reasonable, and it +# was only equal peak AND equal RMS to six decimals that prompted a hash. +# +# This is a NECESSARY check, not a sufficient one: passing it means the capture +# has no duplicated channels, not that it recorded the right thing. +set -euo pipefail +f="${1:?usage: check-capture FILE.wav}" + +# Queried one field at a time. A combined `-show_entries` prints two values on +# ONE comma-separated line, and `read -r ch rate dur` then puts "48000,6" in +# `$ch` -- which every later arithmetic test rejects, in a script whose whole +# job is to be trusted about a file. +probe() { ffprobe -v error -select_streams a:0 -show_entries "$1" -of csv=p=0:nk=1 "$f" | head -1; } +ch=$(probe stream=channels) +rate=$(probe stream=sample_rate) +dur=$(ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv=p=0:nk=1 "$f" | head -1) +printf '%s: %sch %sHz %.3fs\n' "$f" "$ch" "$rate" "$dur" + + +# ⚠️ MONO SKIPS THE DUPLICATE TEST AND STILL GETS THE STARVATION ONE. An earlier +# version returned immediately for a single channel, so the mono voice track -- +# one of this tool's four controls -- was never actually run through the check it +# was supposed to control. A control that does not execute is not a control. +dupes=0 +if [ "$ch" -lt 2 ]; then + echo " single channel -- no duplicate test, starvation still checked" +else +layout=5.1; [ "$ch" = 2 ] && layout=stereo +tmp=$(mktemp -d); trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT +map=""; for i in $(seq 0 $((ch-1))); do map="$map -map [c$i] $tmp/c$i.wav"; done +split=""; for i in $(seq 0 $((ch-1))); do split="$split[c$i]"; done +# shellcheck disable=SC2086 +ffmpeg -hide_banner -v error -y -i "$f" \ + -filter_complex "channelsplit=channel_layout=$layout$split" $map + +declare -a sums +for i in $(seq 0 $((ch-1))); do + s=$(ffmpeg -hide_banner -v error -i "$tmp/c$i.wav" -f md5 - | cut -d= -f2) + peak=$(ffmpeg -hide_banner -v info -i "$tmp/c$i.wav" -af astats -f null - 2>&1 \ + | grep -m1 "Peak level dB" | sed 's/.*: //') + sums[i]="$s" + printf ' ch%-2d peak %-12s %s\n' "$i" "$peak" "$s" +done + +for i in $(seq 0 $((ch-1))); do + for j in $(seq $((i+1)) $((ch-1))); do + if [ "${sums[i]}" = "${sums[j]}" ]; then + echo " 🔴 ch$i and ch$j are BYTE-IDENTICAL" + dupes=1 + fi + done +done +fi + +# STARVATION: the second way a capture looks perfect and carries nothing. +# +# A monitor sink advances at WALL-CLOCK rate and substitutes silence whenever the +# producer is late. An emulator running below real time therefore yields a file +# of exactly the right duration, right channel count, no duplicated channels -- +# and chopped into fragments with holes punched between them, thousands of times +# over. Envelope correlation against such a file is destroyed by construction: +# what dominates the envelope is the dropout schedule, not the content. +# +# Measured on the capture that prompted this: 35.6 % of frames silent on all six +# channels, 10 482 alternating runs, median burst 13.5 ms and median gap 3.9 ms +# -- a 17.4 ms period, 57 Hz. The Decoder measured the untruncated original at +# 39.3 % and 10 595 runs; the two agree. +# +# THE DISCRIMINATOR IS THE RUN STRUCTURE, NOT THE SILENCE FRACTION. Real audio is +# full of silence -- a voice track is more than half gaps -- but those are TENS of +# runs of HUNDREDS of milliseconds. Dropout chop is THOUSANDS of runs of a few +# milliseconds. So the test is: many short all-channel gaps. +set +e +python3 - "$f" <<'PYEOF' +import array, struct, sys +d = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb').read() +i, fmt, off = 12, None, None +while i + 8 <= len(d): + cid = d[i:i+4]; sz = struct.unpack('= 16 else 16 +# REFUSE A FORMAT THIS CANNOT READ, rather than mis-reading it confidently. +# +# Everything below assumes 16-bit signed. An ALSA `type file` tee writes +# **float32** (`SND_PCM_FORMAT_FLOAT_LE`), and read as s16 it produces a +# plausible-looking file: the Decoder measured one and its only giveaway was +# per-channel peaks alternating EXACTLY -0.00 / -4.82, which is the two halves +# of each float landing in alternate channels. A checker that mis-reads a format +# is worse than one that has no opinion -- it is the shape of every failure this +# tool exists to catch. +# +# tag 1 = PCM, 3 = IEEE float, 0xFFFE = WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE. +# +# ⚠️ EXTENSIBLE IS ACCEPTED AT 16 BITS, and the first version of this guard was +# not -- it rejected one of this tool's own controls, a file `ffprobe` correctly +# calls `pcm_s16le`. A format guard that refuses a legitimate capture is the same +# defect as one that mis-reads an illegitimate one, pointing the other way. +# `wBitsPerSample` is what actually decides how the samples are laid out here, so +# it is what the check turns on; a float tee is 32-bit and is still caught. +if tag not in (1, 0xFFFE) or bits != 16: + print(" 🔴 format tag %d, %d-bit -- this tool reads 16-bit PCM only." % (tag, bits)) + print(" Read as s16 a float32 tee looks plausible and is not: its tell is") + print(" per-channel peaks alternating exactly, one float split across two") + print(" channels. Convert first: ffmpeg -i in.wav -c:a pcm_s16le out.wav") + raise SystemExit(4) +avail = len(d) - off +if declared == 0 or declared > avail: + # A streaming writer that never patched its header. The file may also be a + # copy taken while it was still being written -- which happened, and made a + # provenance claim wrong. + print(" ⚠️ data chunk declares %d bytes, %d present -- header never patched;" + % (declared, avail)) + print(" treat the duration as unverified and check the file is complete.") +n = avail // (2 * ch) +a = array.array('h'); a.frombytes(d[off:off + n * 2 * ch]) +sil = bytearray(n) +for f_ in range(n): + b = f_ * ch + if not any(a[b+c] for c in range(ch)): sil[f_] = 1 +tot = sum(sil) +# A GAP IS A RUN, NOT A SAMPLE. The first version of this counted every frame +# whose channels were all exactly zero, and real audio crosses zero constantly -- +# it scored a clean voice track at 5 947 "gaps" of median 0.0 ms and called it +# starved. The known-good control caught it. Only runs of at least 1 ms (48 +# frames at 48 kHz) count: a zero-crossing is one sample, a dropout is hundreds. +MINGAP = max(1, rate // 1000) +runs_s, runs_n = [], [] +cur, ln = sil[0], 0 +for v in sil: + if v == cur: ln += 1 + else: + (runs_s if cur else runs_n).append(ln); cur = v; ln = 1 +(runs_s if cur else runs_n).append(ln) +runs_s = [r for r in runs_s if r >= MINGAP] +if not runs_s: + print(" all-channel silence 0.0% -- no gaps at all"); raise SystemExit(0) +rs = sorted(runs_s); med = 1000.0 * rs[len(rs)//2] / rate +secs = n / float(rate) +rate_per_s = len(runs_s) / secs +print(" all-channel silence %.1f%%, %d gap(s) over 1 ms (%.1f/s), median gap %.1f ms" + % (100.0*tot/n, len(runs_s), rate_per_s, med)) +# THE THRESHOLD IS SET FROM CONTROLS, and the first two I invented were both +# wrong -- they failed real audio. Measured: +# +# the starved capture 32.9 gaps/s, median 3.9 ms, 35.6 % silent +# a real music+SFX bed 3.3 gaps/s, median 1.4 ms, 1.1 % silent +# a voice track, 53 % pauses 0.03 gaps/s +# +# Real audio does contain short all-zero runs -- a quiet passage in 16-bit is +# genuinely zero for milliseconds -- so neither the gap COUNT nor the median +# length separates them. The RATE does, by an order of magnitude in both +# directions, and 20/s sits between with a 1.6x margin below the bad case and +# 6x above the worst good one. +# TWO NUMBERS, BECAUSE ONE CANNOT SEE THE FAILURE NEXT DOOR. +# +# The first version of this tested the gap RATE alone, at 20/s. The Decoder then +# measured what a LARGER client buffer does, and the relationship is not +# monotonic: raising `PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC` keeps cutting the rate while total +# silence bottoms out and then doubles, because an over-large buffer starves in a +# few enormous holes instead of many small ones. Its 500 ms capture scores +# **1.3 gaps/s -- better than a genuine music bed at 3.3 -- while being 50 % +# silence**, and my bar passed it. Reproduced here on a file I hold: `bigholes`, +# a real bed with 350 ms holes punched in, is 46.3 % silence at 3.2 gaps/s. +# +# That is the same shape as the level table that could not see a duplicated +# channel. One number, blind to the neighbouring failure. +# +# Controls, all four measured here. 🔴 THE FIGURES LIVE IN THE DOC, NOT HERE. +# +# This table used to restate them, and two of the numbers had DRIFTED from +# `AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md`: 53.3 % here against 53.2 % there, in two places each, +# for the same control. Neither can be re-measured -- that control file was +# transient and is gone -- so there is no way to say which copy aged. +# +# That is the mirror of the trap the Decoder named the same day: they lost a +# finding because its only record was a script comment; this lost a digit because +# a finding had TWO records and nothing kept them equal. A number copied into a +# second place will drift from the first, and the drift is invisible because both +# copies look authoritative. +# +# So the doc is the record and this cites it. +# +# real music bed 1.1 % silence, 3.3 gaps/s PASS +# voice track, mono see AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md PASS (real pauses) +# bed with big holes 46.3 % silence, 3.2 gaps/s FAIL +# the starved capture 35.6 % silence, 30.9 gaps/s FAIL +# +# Rate alone cannot separate rows 2 and 3; silence alone cannot separate rows 1 +# and 3, nor 2 and 3. The pair does. +if tot / float(n) >= 0.10 and rate_per_s >= 1.0: + print(" 🔴 STARVED: %.1f%% of the file is silent on every channel, in %.1f gaps" + % (100.0 * tot / n, rate_per_s)) + print(" per second (median %.1f ms). Real audio is either mostly not" % med) + print(" silent, or silent in a few long stretches -- not both at once.") + raise SystemExit(3) + +# ⚠️ THE REGIME THIS TOOL CANNOT JUDGE, said out loud rather than passed +# silently. High silence with FEW gaps is what a real voice track looks like +# (AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md §7 has the figure) and also what an over-buffered +# capture looks like. No +# statistic here separates them, and inventing a bar for a regime I have no +# control in is how the last two bars in this file came to be wrong. +if tot / float(n) >= 0.10: + print(" ⚠️ %.1f%% silent in only %.1f gaps/s -- UNJUDGED. That is the shape of" + % (100.0 * tot / n, rate_per_s)) + print(" a real voice track AND of an over-buffered capture, and this tool") + print(" cannot tell them apart. Check it against a known source before") + print(" concluding anything from it.") +PYEOF +starved=$? +set -e +if [ "$starved" = 4 ]; then + # The duplicate test ran (bytes are bytes) but starvation did not. Saying + # "PASS" here would be the tool claiming a check it skipped. + echo "PARTIAL: channels checked, starvation NOT checked -- unreadable sample format." + exit 2 +fi +if [ "$starved" = 3 ]; then + echo "FAIL: the recording is starved. A monitor sink advances at wall-clock rate" + echo " and substitutes silence when the producer is late, so this file has" + echo " the right duration and holes punched through the content. Correlation" + echo " against it is meaningless. See docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md §7." + exit 1 +fi + +if [ "$dupes" = 1 ]; then + echo "FAIL: duplicated channels. A surround remap drops and duplicates silently;" + echo " channels are missing from this file. Do not analyse it -- fix the" + echo " sink's channel_map and re-record. See docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md." + exit 1 +fi +echo "PASS: no duplicated channels. (Necessary, not sufficient -- this says" +echo " nothing about whether the right thing was recorded.)" diff --git a/tools/port/check-capture-controls b/tools/port/check-capture-controls new file mode 100755 index 00000000..a7af7e7e --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/check-capture-controls @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Run `check-capture` against its own documented control sweep. +# +# tools/port/check-capture-controls +# +# `AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` calls that sweep **"the tool's real specification"** +# and prints it as a table. Nothing executed it. So the specification was prose: +# if `check-capture` regressed, or if a threshold drifted, no run would have said +# so -- and this is a tool whose own history is two invented thresholds that were +# both wrong and were caught only by controls. +# +# 🔴 The same document states the principle this violates: **"A control that does +# not execute is not a control."** It was written about a mono file that skipped +# its own check. The sweep as a whole was in exactly that condition. +# +# ⚠️ One control CANNOT be rebuilt: the starved capture itself was a transient +# artifact and is gone. It is reported as MISSING rather than omitted, because a +# sweep that quietly drops a control is the defect it exists to catch. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +W="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/capture-controls"; mkdir -p "$W" +CC=tools/port/check-capture +fail=0 + +# `check-capture` emits TWO verdicts -- one for channel provenance, one for +# starvation -- and `AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md`'s table compresses them into a word. +# That is fine for a summary and wrong for an assertion: the voice control is +# `PASS` on channels and `UNJUDGED` on starvation *by design*, and a sweep that +# collapsed those could not tell "passed" from "declined to judge". So both are +# reported, and a control names the pair it expects. +verdict() { # file -> "/" + local out ch st + out=$("$CC" "$1" 2>&1 || true) + if grep -q '^PARTIAL' <<<"$out"; then echo "PARTIAL/PARTIAL"; return; fi + # A starved file SHORT-CIRCUITS: the tool reports the starvation and never + # reaches the channel check, which is right -- channel provenance is moot in a + # recording with holes punched through it. Reported as `n/a`, not as a failure: + # "the check did not run" and "the check failed" are different facts, and + # collapsing them is how a sweep starts asserting things it never observed. + if grep -qi 'no duplicated channels' <<<"$out"; then ch=PASS + elif grep -qi 'BYTE-IDENTICAL' <<<"$out"; then ch=FAIL + else ch=n/a; fi + if grep -q 'UNJUDGED' <<<"$out"; then st=UNJUDGED + elif grep -qi 'starv\|holes\|FAIL' <<<"$out"; then st=FAIL + else st=PASS; fi + echo "$ch/$st" +} +expect() { # name, file, wanted + local got; got=$(verdict "$2") + if [ "$got" = "$3" ]; then printf ' %-42s %-8s ok\n' "$1" "$got" + else printf ' %-42s %-8s 🔴 EXPECTED %s\n' "$1" "$got" "$3"; fail=1; fi +} + +# Six distinct tones -- the duplicate-channel control. Frequencies chosen so no +# two channels share one, which is what the provenance check looks for. +ffmpeg -v error -y -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=400:duration=6" \ + -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=800:duration=6" -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=200:duration=6" \ + -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=1600:duration=6" -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=3200:duration=6" \ + -f lavfi -i "sine=frequency=6400:duration=6" \ + -filter_complex "[0:a][1:a][2:a][3:a][4:a][5:a]join=inputs=6:channel_layout=5.1[a]" \ + -map "[a]" -c:a pcm_s16le "$W/tones.wav" +ffmpeg -v error -y -i "$W/tones.wav" -c:a pcm_f32le "$W/tones_f32.wav" + +# A real music+SFX bed: six channels of REAL material, one per channel. +# +# 🔴 The first version of this control was `-ac 6` from the stereo bed, and it +# FAILED -- correctly. An upmix leaves channels 2-5 silent and byte-identical, +# which is exactly what the provenance check exists to catch, so the control was +# a broken capture wearing a control's name. The tool was right and the control +# was wrong, which is the outcome a sweep must be able to tell from its opposite. +# +# Six NON-OVERLAPPING spans of real audio, one per channel, all continuous. A +# second attempt used `aloop=-1` to stretch the short UI cues into full-length +# channels and hung ffmpeg indefinitely; spans of the long assets need no looping. +# 🔴 THIS FFMPEG COMPLETES ITS WORK AND THEN NEVER EXITS, AND IT WEDGED THE +# WHOLE SUITE FOR AN HOUR. +# +# `check-all` sat on two lines of output for over an hour; the cause was this +# call. Diagnosed rather than guessed at: the output file reaches **4 604 262 +# bytes = exactly 8.0 s of 5.1ch/16-bit/48 kHz**, the full intended length, and +# ffmpeg then hangs with the artifact already correct on disk. +# +# Three formulations were tried and all three hang, all three producing +# BYTE-IDENTICAL output: the original, one with `-t 8` bounding the output, and +# one with explicit `asplit` feeding each `atrim` (the textbook fix for +# multi-use of a single input). So it is not the split, not the output stage, +# and the artifact is not in doubt. +# +# ⚠️ Worse than the hang: it LEAKS. An orphaned ffmpeg from this script's earlier +# `aloop` form was found still running after **9.5 hours**, burning CPU across +# runs nobody was watching. `boot.gd`'s own header already names this failure +# shape -- "it does not fail, it waits, and a job that waits forever reads as a +# job still working". +# +# So: bounded, and the ARTIFACT is checked rather than the exit code. That is +# the better test regardless of the hang -- an exit code says ffmpeg thought it +# was done, the file says what it actually wrote. +timeout 90 ffmpeg -v error -y -i export/audio/bgm/main_menu.ogg \ + -i export/audio/voice/ADV.ogg -i export/audio/voice/S00A.ogg \ + -filter_complex "[0:a]atrim=2:10,asetpts=N/SR/TB,aformat=channel_layouts=mono[a0]; \ + [0:a]atrim=20:28,asetpts=N/SR/TB,aformat=channel_layouts=mono[a1]; \ + [1:a]atrim=15:23,asetpts=N/SR/TB,aformat=channel_layouts=mono[a2]; \ + [1:a]atrim=40:48,asetpts=N/SR/TB,aformat=channel_layouts=mono[a3]; \ + [2:a]atrim=12:20,asetpts=N/SR/TB,aformat=channel_layouts=mono[a4]; \ + [2:a]atrim=35:43,asetpts=N/SR/TB,aformat=channel_layouts=mono[a5]; \ + [a0][a1][a2][a3][a4][a5]join=inputs=6:channel_layout=5.1[a]" \ + -map "[a]" -c:a pcm_s16le "$W/bed.wav" /dev/null || echo 0) +if ! awk "BEGIN{exit !($bed_dur > 7.9 && $bed_dur < 8.1)}"; then + echo "🔴 the 5.1 bed is $bed_dur s, not the 8 s this sweep is built on -- refusing to score it" >&2 + exit 2 +fi + +# The same bed with 350 ms holes punched through it, every second. +ffmpeg -v error -y -i "$W/bed.wav" \ + -af "volume=enable='lt(mod(t,1),0.35)':volume=0" -c:a pcm_s16le "$W/holes.wav" +# A voice track: mono, with the real pauses of speech. +ffmpeg -v error -y -i export/audio/voice/ADV.ogg -t 60 -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le "$W/voice.wav" + +echo "check-capture against its documented control sweep:" +expect "six distinct tones (PCM)" "$W/tones.wav" PASS/PASS +expect "the same tones as float32" "$W/tones_f32.wav" PARTIAL/PARTIAL +expect "real music bed" "$W/bed.wav" PASS/PASS +expect "bed with 350 ms holes punched in" "$W/holes.wav" n/a/FAIL +expect "voice track, mono, real pauses" "$W/voice.wav" PASS/UNJUDGED +printf ' %-42s %-8s the artifact is gone; not synthesised, because\n' "the starved capture" "MISSING" +printf ' %-42s %-8s fitting one to its published statistics would be\n' "" "" +printf ' %-42s %-8s a control shaped to the answer it must give\n' "" "" +echo +[ $fail -eq 0 ] && echo "the sweep matches the specification" || echo "🔴 check-capture no longer matches AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md" +exit $fail diff --git a/tools/port/check-citations b/tools/port/check-citations new file mode 100755 index 00000000..53c824b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/check-citations @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Do the repo paths cited in `docs/port/*.md` actually resolve? + + tools/port/check-citations # assert + tools/port/check-citations --selftest # can it fail? + +`audit-kinds` checks citations in `authored/`. Nothing checked the PROSE, and +prose is where this port explains itself. A first run found **37 of 91** +non-resolving, 41 %, in two very different classes: + + * **19 on the Decoder's topic branch** — real files, not merged here. Not + errors. A reader in this checkout still cannot follow them, which is worth + reporting and not worth failing on; the fix is a merge, not an edit. + * **7 that resolve NOWHERE** — `docs/BLOCKED.md`, `docs/FORMAT.md`, + `port/manifest.json`, `port/screens/title/*.json`. Left behind by the + monorepo move and the `export/` rename. Those are simply wrong: a reader + following one gets nothing, and nothing had ever told anyone. + +So the two classes are separated and only the second fails. A check that failed +on the first would be red for a state nobody in this container can fix, which is +the shape the display guard exists to prevent. + +⚠️ THE PEER-BRANCH CLASS IS THE OTHER AGENT'S POINT, TURNED ON MYSELF. They +observed that everything they hand over links into `docs/re/` files that live +only on their branch, so every link they send is dangling from here. The same is +true in reverse and neither of us was counting. +""" +import os +import re +import subprocess +import sys +import glob + +# A repo path with a file extension, optionally in backticks or a markdown link. +CITE = re.compile( + r"`?((?:docs|crates|port|tools|authored|export)/[\w./-]+" + r"\.(?:md|rs|gd|json|txt|py|tsv|csv))`?" +) +PEER_REFS = ("origin/auto/frame-blend-draw-path", "origin/main") + + +def on_a_ref(path: str) -> str | None: + """The first ref that carries `path`, or None.""" + for ref in PEER_REFS: + if subprocess.run(["git", "cat-file", "-e", f"{ref}:{path}"], + capture_output=True).returncode == 0: + return ref + return None + + +def scan(files): + resolves, peer, nowhere = 0, {}, {} + for p in files: + try: + text = open(p, encoding="utf-8").read() + except OSError: + continue + for m in sorted(set(CITE.findall(text))): + if os.path.exists(m): + resolves += 1 + elif (ref := on_a_ref(m)): + peer.setdefault(m, (p, ref)) + else: + nowhere.setdefault(m, p) + return resolves, peer, nowhere + + +def main() -> int: + if "--selftest" in sys.argv: + # 🔴 A CHECK THAT CANNOT FAIL IS NOT A CHECK. This plants a citation of a + # path that exists on no ref and requires the scanner to catch it, and a + # citation of a real file and requires it NOT to. Both directions, + # because a scanner that flagged everything would also "pass" the first. + tmp = os.path.join(os.environ.get("TMPDIR", "/tmp"), "check-citations-selftest") + os.makedirs(tmp, exist_ok=True) + bad = os.path.join(tmp, "bad.md") + open(bad, "w").write("see `docs/port/this-file-does-not-exist-anywhere.md`\n") + good = os.path.join(tmp, "good.md") + open(good, "w").write("see `docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md`\n") + _, _, nb = scan([bad]) + r, _, ng = scan([good]) + ok = len(nb) == 1 and len(ng) == 0 and r == 1 + print("selftest: planted dangling caught=%s, real citation passed=%s -> %s" + % (len(nb) == 1, len(ng) == 0 and r == 1, "ok" if ok else "🔴 BROKEN")) + return 0 if ok else 2 + + files = sorted(glob.glob("docs/port/*.md")) + resolves, peer, nowhere = scan(files) + total = resolves + len(peer) + len(nowhere) + print("citations of repo paths in docs/port/*.md: %d" % total) + print(" resolve here : %d" % resolves) + print(" on a peer branch, not merged: %d (reported, not failed)" % len(peer)) + for m, (src, ref) in sorted(peer.items()): + print(" %-52s %s <- %s" % (m, ref.split("/")[-1], os.path.basename(src))) + if nowhere: + print(" 🔴 resolve NOWHERE : %d" % len(nowhere)) + for m, src in sorted(nowhere.items()): + print(" %-52s <- %s" % (m, os.path.basename(src))) + print("\n🔴 a reader following those gets nothing. Fix the path or drop the citation.") + return 1 + print(" 🔴 resolve nowhere : 0") + return 0 + + +if __name__ == "__main__": + raise SystemExit(main()) diff --git a/tools/port/check-claims b/tools/port/check-claims new file mode 100755 index 00000000..195b8362 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/check-claims @@ -0,0 +1,413 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Every refuted claim must appear only inside its own correction. +# +# tools/port/check-claims +# +# 🔴 WHY THIS IS A CHECK AND NOT AN AUDIT. The Decoder's rule -- *grep the corpus +# for the claim, not for the file you were working in* -- found a refuted sentence +# still shipping in this port's `manifest.json`, and a withdrawn one still +# standing in `DECISIONS.md`. Running that by hand finds the instances present on +# the day it is run. It does not stop the next one. +# +# So: a REGISTER. Each row is a claim this corpus has refuted, plus a marker that +# must appear near every occurrence. A hit without its marker fails the run. +# +# ⚠️ Two things learned building it, both from the other agent: +# +# * a "kept for the record" block STILL ASSERTS. Marking the heading superseded +# does not mark the sentence a reader lands on, so the marker must sit near +# the CLAIM, not at the top of the section. +# * naming a refuted claim keeps it greppable, so this check returns its own +# corrections as hits -- which is the point. The marker is what distinguishes +# "quoted while being refuted" from "still asserted". +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +WINDOW=400 # characters either side of a hit in which the marker must appear +fail=0; total_marked=0; scanned=0; peer_hits=0; _peer_probe_done=0 + +# 🔴 THE MARKER IS AN EXPLICIT SENTINEL, NOT A KEYWORD. +# +# The first version matched a per-claim keyword -- "refuted", "WITHDRAWN" -- near +# the hit. Every one of its four failures was a quotation sitting INSIDE a +# correction whose wording happened not to contain the keyword: a table cell +# reading "standing, unmarked", a sentence reading "the real count was ten". +# +# Widening the window or adding synonyms until those passed would have been +# tuning a threshold until the answer came out right, which is the failure this +# corpus has spent a fortnight cataloguing. So the marker is a TOKEN THE AUTHOR +# PLACES: `[refuted]` near any quotation of a registered claim. It cannot be +# satisfied by phrasing, and its absence means exactly one thing. +# +# ⚠️ The cost is honest: every quotation must be marked by hand, and a new +# refuted claim means a new row plus marking its existing quotations. That work +# is the check. +MARKER='[refuted]' +REGISTER=$(cat <<'ROWS' +TAIL of the kept stream :: the leading chunk of a voice region duplicates the end of the kept stream, so it can be dropped +known too fast :: the boot plays both splashes faster than the game does +only thing making the plate :: the plate reappears because of one authored cause +no loop-point field has been identified :: nothing anywhere on the disc or in the runtime states where a bank loops +AUDIBLY WRONG AT THE SEAM :: replaying the menu bed from sample 0 puts audible fade-out and silence at the loop seam +1 of 3 streams :: the exporter ships one of a voice region's three streams +six expected DIFFERS :: six screens are expected to differ from the reference renderer +goes against the port :: the JP title capture adjudicates title_jp against this port's rendering +the capture turns out to determine it :: the leaf's phase is fixed by the capture rather than being an arbitrary choice +COMPOSITED rather than standalone :: the four screens without an opaque-black primitive are drawn composited over another screen +structural limit, not an unrun experiment :: EXTRAS cannot be strengthened past n=1 because this archive holds no second destination +HANDOFF Q10 says nothing on the disc :: nothing on the disc names which track the menu plays, so the port must choose one +28 % of `S00A`'s frames :: 28 % of S00A's frames and 47 % of ADV's reached the screen, measured +by three routes :: DIFFICULTY is identified by three independent routes +HANDOFF has not moved in four milestones :: the contract itself is static, rather than static only on the branch this checkout reads +ROWS +) + +[ -n "${CLAIMS_REGISTER+x}" ] && REGISTER="$CLAIMS_REGISTER" + +# 🔴 A REGISTER THAT PARSES NOTHING REPORTED CLEAN, FOREVER. The scan loop runs +# once per row; with no rows it runs zero times, `fail` stays 0, and the script +# printed "every refuted claim appears only inside its correction" and exited 0. +# That is the stub defect -- prints a result, asserts nothing -- sitting in the +# checker whose clean runs both agents lean on. The Decoder found it in their +# equivalent the same day; it was here too. +_rows=$(printf '%s\n' "$REGISTER" | grep -c '[^[:space:]]' || true) +if [ "$_rows" -eq 0 ]; then + echo "🔴 the refuted register is EMPTY -- this check would pass everything." >&2 + echo " Exit 2: the harness is broken, not the corpus." >&2 + exit 2 +fi + +# -------------------------------------------------------------------------- +# `--control`: the known negatives, EXECUTED. +# +# 🔴 Until now this check had NO control machinery at all. Every "planted a +# revival, it failed, removed it, it passed" in `DECISIONS.md` was done BY HAND, +# once, and never again -- in a repository where two of my own tools carry the +# line *"a control that does not execute is not a control"*. It was written +# about somebody else's tool. +# +# Four cases, each driving THIS script as a subprocess and reading its real exit +# code rather than reasoning about what it would do: +# +# clean tree -> 0 +# unmarked revival planted -> 1 (the check must catch it) +# revival planted MARKED -> 0 (and must not false-positive on it) +# register emptied -> 2 (the harness is broken, not the corpus) +# +# The plant lands in a real scanned directory, because a control that runs +# somewhere the tool does not look proves nothing about the tool. +if [ "${1:-}" = "--control" ]; then + probe="docs/port/.claims-control-probe.md" + trap 'rm -f "$probe"' EXIT INT TERM + # The PHRASE only: rows now read `phrase :: proposition`, and the case strings + # below are colon-delimited, so passing a whole row made the harness parse the + # proposition as a field and report its own cases broken. A data-shape change + # breaking the harness that guards the data is this iteration's small version + # of my rows making the Decoder's parser fail silently. + claim=$(printf '%s\n' "$REGISTER" | grep -m1 '[^[:space:]]') + claim="${claim%% :: *}" + ok=0 + run() { CLAIMS_CONTROL=1 "$0" >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?; } + rm -f "$probe" + for case in "clean::0" "unmarked:$claim:1" "marked:$claim [refuted]:0"; do + IFS=: read -r name body want <<<"$case" + if [ -n "$body" ]; then printf '%s\n' "$body" > "$probe"; else rm -f "$probe"; fi + got=$(run) + if [ "$got" = "$want" ]; then + printf ' %-26s exit %s ✅\n' "$name" "$got" + else + printf ' %-26s exit %s, wanted %s 🔴\n' "$name" "$got" "$want"; ok=1 + fi + done + rm -f "$probe" + # 🔴 FIFTH CASE: the same text OUTSIDE the scanned root must give 0. + # + # Without it, "the plant is inside a scanned directory" is a property I + # verified BY HAND, once -- which is the exact pattern I had just finished + # criticising in this tool one iteration earlier. The pair is what asserts the + # boundary is real: identical text, exit 1 inside and 0 outside. Either half + # alone is consistent with the tool scanning everything, or nothing. + # + # The Decoder added this to theirs after I raised the boundary; the reason it + # was worth adding is that their property held *because they had reasoned it*, + # not because anything asserted it. Mine was in the same state. + outside="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/claims-control-outside.md" + printf '%s\n' "$claim" > "$outside" + got=$(run) + rm -f "$outside" + if [ "$got" = "0" ]; then printf ' %-26s exit 0 ✅\n' "same text outside root" + else printf ' %-26s exit %s, wanted 0 🔴\n' "same text outside root" "$got"; ok=1; fi + got=$(CLAIMS_REGISTER="" "$0" >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?) + if [ "$got" = "2" ]; then printf ' %-26s exit 2 ✅\n' "empty register" + else printf ' %-26s exit %s, wanted 2 🔴\n' "empty register" "$got"; ok=1; fi + # Sixth case: a tree with nothing to scan. It used to die in the withdrawal + # hook and exit 1 -- "a refuted claim is still being asserted" -- for a wrong + # directory. Liveness and diagnosis are both asserted here. + _empty="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/claims-liveness-root"; mkdir -p "$_empty" + got=$(cd "$_empty" && PROJECT_DIR="$_empty" "$OLDPWD/$0" >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?) + if [ "$got" = "2" ]; then printf ' %-26s exit 2 ✅\n' "nothing to scan" + else printf ' %-26s exit %s, wanted 2 🔴\n' "nothing to scan" "$got"; ok=1; fi + echo + [ $ok -eq 0 ] && echo "the register check fails when it must, and says so distinctly" \ + || echo "🔴 the control machinery itself is broken" + exit $ok +fi + + + +# ─── THE WITHDRAWAL-TIME HOOK ──────────────────────────────────────────────── +# The register enforces claims it KNOWS ABOUT; knowing about them was manual, and +# that is how ~8 claims were withdrawn this session and 0 registered. A sweep +# cannot fix it -- by the time you sweep, the withdrawal is already unpublished. +# The hook fires where the withdrawal is WRITTEN. +# +# A correction in DECISIONS.md has a shape: a heading carrying WITHDRAWN / +# CORRECTION / "refuted". A section like that containing no registered phrase is +# a death argued and never indexed. +# +# ⚠️ The register is passed in the ENVIRONMENT, not inlined. The first version +# pasted the rows into this file's own heredoc -- which made every phrase an +# unmarked quotation, and the checker flagged its own source. A tool that +# violates the rule it enforces by being written is worth a comment. +# +# 🟡 REPORTED, NOT ASSERTED: not every correction retires a CLAIM -- some fix a +# number, a scope, a wrong floor -- and forcing a row for those would push rows +# in to silence the check, the failure this file exists to prevent. +# +# ⚠️ AND IT WILL ALWAYS OVER-REPORT ON WELL-WRITTEN CORRECTIONS. The detection is +# "does this section contain a registered phrase", which requires the correction +# to QUOTE the dead claim. A good correction paraphrases it away: the JP heading +# now reads "does NOT go against the port", which does not contain the registered +# "goes against the port" [refuted] and is flagged despite being registered. +# +# The Decoder's resolution is the right one and costs the correction nothing: +# **the register entry is the verbatim home of the dead phrase; prose paraphrases +# freely.** They are different documents, so the phrase always has one exact +# place to live without any correction having to carry it. What follows for this +# hook is that its candidate list mixes "never registered" with "registered and +# paraphrased", and it cannot separate them -- so the list is a prompt to check, +# never a defect count. +echo +echo "withdrawal-time hook -- correction sections that registered nothing:" +# 🔴 PREFLIGHT. Run from the wrong directory this used to die inside the +# withdrawal hook with a FileNotFoundError and exit **1** -- which in this +# script's own vocabulary means "a refuted claim is still being asserted". A real +# failure with a fabricated diagnosis, the same shape as my control anchoring at +# the wrong document. The roots it needs are named here and their absence is a +# HARNESS fault with its own code. +for _root in docs docs/port authored tools/port; do + [ -d "$_root" ] || { + echo "🔴 \`$_root\` is not here -- this check cannot scan anything." >&2 + echo " Exit 2: wrong directory or a bad checkout, not a dirty corpus." >&2 + exit 2 + } +done +[ -f docs/port/DECISIONS.md ] || { + echo "🔴 docs/port/DECISIONS.md is missing -- the withdrawal hook has nothing" >&2 + echo " to read. Exit 2: the harness is broken, not the corpus." >&2 + exit 2 +} + +REG="$REGISTER" python3 - <<'HOOK' +import os, re +reg = [r.strip() for r in os.environ["REG"].split("\n") if r.strip()] +doc = open("docs/port/DECISIONS.md").read() +heads = [(m.start(), m.group(0)) for m in re.finditer(r"(?m)^##+ .*$", doc)] +flagged = 0 +for i, (pos, head) in enumerate(heads): + # 🔴 THE FIRST REGEX MATCHED HEADINGS *ABOUT* CORRECTIONS, NOT HEADINGS + # MAKING THEM -- "withdraw" caught "rather than withdrawing", "refuted" + # caught a section discussing the register itself. 33 candidates was a + # measurement of the regex. Narrowed to headings that RETIRE something: + # a leading WITHDRAWN/CORRECTION/Refuted, or an explicit "is withdrawn". + if not re.search(r"^#+\s*(?:[^A-Za-z]*\s*)?(WITHDRAWN|CORRECTION|Refuted)\b" + r"|\bis withdrawn\b|\bnow refuted\b", head): + continue + end = heads[i + 1][0] if i + 1 < len(heads) else len(doc) + if not any(c in doc[pos:end] for c in reg): + flagged += 1 + print(" candidate: %s" % head[:92].lstrip("# ")) +print(" none -- every correction section names a registered claim" if not flagged + else " %d correction section(s) argue a withdrawal the register does not carry" % flagged) +HOOK + +while IFS= read -r claim; do + # 🔴 ROWS CARRY A PROPOSITION NOW, `phrase :: what it asserted`. + # + # They were bare phrases, and that had two costs. A phrase is not a claim: + # `1 of 3 streams` [refuted] is dead here and a LIVE warning in the Decoder's + # corpus, and the bare row cannot say which proposition it killed -- so a peer + # hit was unadjudicable even in principle. And the bareness made THEIR parser + # fail silently: a reader looking for a quoted string in each row found none, + # built an empty claim list, and reported a clean table. My data shape made + # their instrument lie. + # + # The phrase is still the search key; the proposition is for whoever has to + # judge a hit, here or in another corpus. + proposition="${claim#* :: }" + claim="${claim%% :: *}" + [ -z "$claim" ] && continue + hits=0; bad=0; marked=0 + while IFS= read -r loc; do + [ -z "$loc" ] && continue + f=${loc%%:*} + hits=$((hits+1)) + out=$(python3 - "$f" "$claim" "$MARKER" "$WINDOW" <<'PY' +import sys +f, claim, marker, w = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], int(sys.argv[4]) +s = open(f, encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore").read() +# 🔴 THE REGISTER BLOCK IS ITS OWN VERBATIM HOME, and is excised before +# scanning rather than relying on marker proximity. The rows used to be bare +# phrases that happened to sit within the marker window of the file header; +# adding a proposition to each pushed them out of it, and the check began +# reporting its own register as twelve unmarked assertions. Widening the window +# would have been tuning a constant to make a failure go away. Excising exactly +# the heredoc -- and nothing else in this file -- keeps every other occurrence +# in `check-claims` under the same rule as any other file, which matters because +# the comments here quote dead phrases constantly. +if f.endswith("check-claims"): + a = s.find("REGISTER=$(cat <<'ROWS'") + b = s.find("\nROWS", a) if a >= 0 else -1 + if a >= 0 and b > a: + s = s[:a] + (" " * (b - a)) + s[b:] +i = n = 0 +low, claim_low = s.lower(), claim.lower() +while True: + i = low.find(claim_low, i) + if i < 0: + break + if marker.lower() not in low[max(0, i-w):i+w+len(claim)]: + print(" unmarked in %s at char %d" % (f, i)) + sys.exit(1) + n += 1 + i += len(claim) +# Every suppression, counted. A checker that can discard an occurrence in silence +# reports the same clean run whether or not a live assertion is hiding among the +# marked ones, and its zero is unfalsifiable. Reached from the loud end here and +# from the quiet end by the Decoder on the same day: their marker language was +# vouching for 8 of 8 mentions, so their 0 was going to be 0 either way. +print(n) +sys.exit(0) +PY +) && marked=$((marked + out)) || { printf '%s\n' "$out"; bad=$((bad+1)); } + # 🔴 CASE-INSENSITIVE since 2026-08-30, and the reason is a live miss. The + # register held "no loop-point field has been identified" [refuted]; `BLOCKED.md` + # it capitalised at the start of a sentence, and the check reported clean while + # a refuted claim stood unmarked in the file whose whole job is to say what is + # still open. The Decoder found the same class the same day from the other end + # -- their register missed a revival that kept the claim and changed the second + # clause. A register matching EXACT wording does not protect the documents that + # rewrite most, and a capital letter is the cheapest rewrite there is. + done < <(grep -ril -- "$claim" docs/port/ crates/ port/ tools/ authored/ 2>/dev/null || true) + + # 🔴 PEER-OWNED ROOTS ARE SCANNED FROM THE REF, NOT THE TREE. + # + # `docs/re/`, `docs/game/` and `docs/agents/` are written by the Decoder. My + # working copies are 246, 9 and 13 commits behind their heads, so any verdict + # this check reached about one of their files would be a verdict about MY + # STALE COPY -- and the failure direction is the false positive: flagging a + # claim they have already corrected. That is exactly what they did to me by + # hand, reading my `BLOCKED.md` 234 commits behind. + # + # Excluding them would hide the exposure; reporting from the stale copy would + # keep it. So the scan reads the newest blob on any ref. It is the only + # structural fix either agent has found for this class -- READ THE REF, NOT + # THE TREE -- and it is why `contract-check` stayed correct while this tree sat + # 115 commits behind. + # + # ⚠️ Measured before building: 33 files match a registered claim today and + # ZERO are in a peer-owned root. The exposure is latent, not active. Recorded + # because "I checked and it was clean" and "I never looked" must not read the + # same, which is this week's whole lesson. + _peer_ref=$(git log --all -n 1 --format=%h -- docs/re docs/game docs/agents) + # 🔴 THE PEER SCAN GETS A KNOWN POSITIVE, because a zero from a broken reader + # looks identical to a real one. The Decoder demonstrated both halves of that + # in one iteration: they controlled their cross-scan by probing this port's + # live `BLOCKED.md` for a string they knew was in it -- and separately produced + # a FALSE ZERO from a reader they had invented minutes earlier, regexing quoted + # strings out of `check-claims` into 63 phantom phrases that matched nothing. + # + # This scan found six hits today, so it is demonstrably live NOW. The control + # is for the run where their pages no longer contain any of these phrases and + # a zero would otherwise be unfalsifiable: a wrong ref, a wrong pathspec or a + # renamed directory all produce the same clean line. + if [ -n "$_peer_ref" ] && [ "$_peer_probe_done" != "1" ]; then + _peer_probe_done=1 + _seen=$(git ls-tree -r --name-only "$_peer_ref" -- docs/re docs/game docs/agents 2>/dev/null | wc -l) + if [ "$_seen" -lt 10 ]; then + echo "🔴 the peer scan can see only $_seen file(s) at $_peer_ref -- a wrong" >&2 + echo " ref or pathspec reads the same as a clean corpus. Exit 2." >&2 + exit 2 + fi + printf ' peer scan reads %s file(s) at %s -- the reader is live\n' "$_seen" "$_peer_ref" + fi + if [ -n "$_peer_ref" ]; then + while IFS= read -r loc; do + [ -z "$loc" ] && continue + # 🔴 REPORTED, NOT COUNTED AS A FAILURE -- corrected before shipping. + # + # The first version put these in `bad`, which failed the run. That applies + # MY marking convention to THEIR corpus: `[refuted]` is a token this port + # uses in its own files, and their pages mark corrections their own way. + # Of the six hits, three are in their `METHOD.md` and one in an audit log + # -- pages whose subject IS the corrections, so the phrase appearing there + # is what a correction looks like, not a revival. + # + # So this is a prompt to look, never a verdict -- the same conclusion the + # withdrawal hook reached about its own candidates. A checker that fails + # on another agent's file for not using this one's punctuation would be + # noise inside a day, and I would have been the one to file it. + printf ' ℹ️ a peer-owned file at their head contains it: %s (%s)\n' \ + "${loc#*:}" "$_peer_ref" + peer_hits=$((peer_hits+1)) + done < <(git grep -ril -- "$claim" "$_peer_ref" -- docs/re docs/game docs/agents 2>/dev/null || true) + fi + scanned=$((scanned + hits)) + if [ "$bad" -eq 0 ]; then + printf ' %-42s %d file(s), %d occurrence(s) suppressed\n' "$claim" "$hits" "$marked" + [ -n "$proposition" ] && [ "$proposition" != "$claim" ] \ + && printf ' it asserted: %s\n' "$proposition" + total_marked=$((total_marked + marked)) + else + printf ' %-42s 🔴 %d file(s) assert it unmarked\n' "$claim" "$bad"; fail=1 + fi +done <<< "$REGISTER" + +# 🔴 LIVENESS. A register full of claims and a tree with nothing in it reports +# clean: the grep matches no files, every row scores 0, and the run passes having +# READ NOTHING. Wrong directory, renamed docs, a bad checkout -- all produce a +# green line. The Decoder's rule for the family: a control that only compares two +# things cannot tell you the comparison is happening. +if [ "$scanned" -eq 0 ]; then + echo "🔴 no file anywhere contains any registered claim -- this check READ" >&2 + echo " NOTHING. Exit 2: the harness is broken, not the corpus." >&2 + exit 2 +fi + +echo +if [ "$peer_hits" -gt 0 ]; then + printf ' %d occurrence(s) sit in PEER-OWNED files, read at their branch head\n' "$peer_hits" + echo " rather than from this stale tree. NOT counted as failures: their pages" + echo " mark corrections their own way, and the pages whose subject IS the" + echo " corrections are where a dead phrase is supposed to appear." + echo + echo " 🔴 AND A PEER HIT IS UNADJUDICABLE FROM THE PHRASE ALONE. This register" + echo " indexes PHRASES, not PROPOSITIONS. Demonstrated: \`1 of 3 streams\`" + echo " [refuted] is" + echo " dead here -- the exporter shipped one stream and now ships all" + echo " qualifying ones -- and LIVE in the Decoder's corpus, where it is a" + echo " standing warning. Same words, different propositions, and the bare" + echo " row cannot tell them apart. It is not even unambiguous HERE: this" + echo " port's own DECISIONS says the warning stays, in the same file where" + echo " the export claim is dead. The marker separates them locally because" + echo " the context is mine. Nothing separates them across corpora." + echo +fi +printf ' %d occurrence(s) were SUPPRESSED by a neighbouring `%s`.\n' "$total_marked" "$MARKER" +echo " That number is the size of what this check chose not to look at. A" +echo " detector that can discard a candidate without saying how many has an" +echo " unfalsifiable clean run -- its zero reads the same whether or not a live" +echo " assertion is hiding among the marked ones." +echo +[ $fail -eq 0 ] && echo "every refuted claim appears only inside its correction" \ + || echo "🔴 a refuted claim is still being asserted" +exit $fail diff --git a/tools/port/check-modding b/tools/port/check-modding new file mode 100755 index 00000000..4aae5f89 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/check-modding @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Check the export against MODDING.md's five rules. +# +# tools/port/check-modding +# +# `MODDING.md` opens by saying modding is a requirement and **a constraint on the +# exporter today, not a later feature**. Nothing checked it. That is the shape +# this port keeps finding: a rule stated, believed, and unexercised -- the black +# hold implemented and never called, `ScreenView.skipped` written and never read, +# `stop_bed` provided and never used, `--focus` parsed and overwritten. +# +# So this is a guard, not a fix: every rule passes as of 2026-08-30. Its value is +# that the next thing to break one of them says so. +# +# ⚠️ What it CANNOT check: rule 3's "modern, editable" is enforced by extension, +# which cannot tell a valid PNG from a renamed one, and rule 1's "one logical +# asset" is checked as one-file-per-reference -- an exporter that split a sprite +# and referenced both halves would pass. These are the rules' checkable shadows. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +EXPORT="${EXPORT:-export}" +fail=0 +note() { printf ' %-6s %s\n' "$1" "$2"; [ "$1" = FAIL ] && fail=1 || true; } + +echo "MODDING rule 1 -- one logical asset, one file" +python3 - "$EXPORT" <<'PY' +import json, glob, os, sys +E = sys.argv[1] +ref = set() +for p in glob.glob(f"{E}/screens/*/*.json"): + d = json.load(open(p)) + for e in d["elements"]: + for k in ("sprite", "focus_sprite"): + if e.get(k): ref.add(e[k]) + for sub in ("focus", "leaf"): + for fe in (e.get(sub) or {}).get("elements", []): + if fe.get("sprite"): ref.add(fe["sprite"]) +files = {os.path.relpath(p, E) for p in glob.glob(f"{E}/sprites/**/*.png", recursive=True)} +missing, orphan = sorted(ref - files), sorted(files - ref) +split = [f for f in files if any(t in os.path.basename(f) for t in ("part", "seg", "chunk"))] +print(" %-6s %d sprites referenced, %d present" % ("OK" if not (missing or orphan) else "FAIL", len(ref), len(files))) +if missing: print(" FAIL referenced but absent:", missing[:5]) +if orphan: print(" FAIL present but unreferenced:", orphan[:5]) +if split: print(" FAIL split-looking names:", split[:5]) +sys.exit(1 if (missing or orphan or split) else 0) +PY +[ $? -eq 0 ] || fail=1 + +echo "MODDING rule 2 -- names a person recognises" +hex=$(find "$EXPORT" -type f | grep -Ec '0x[0-9a-f]{6,}|/[0-9a-f]{8}\.' || true) +[ "$hex" -eq 0 ] && note OK "no hex or hash-shaped filenames" || note FAIL "$hex hash-shaped names" + +echo "MODDING rule 3 -- modern, editable formats only" +bad=$(find "$EXPORT" -type f | sed 's/.*\.//' | sort -u | grep -vE '^(json|png|ogg|ogv|cmd)$' || true) +[ -z "$bad" ] && note OK "only json/png/ogg/ogv (+ .cmd sidecars)" || note FAIL "unexpected: $(echo $bad)" +# A `.cmd` is not an asset. It is allowed only because it SAYS SO in its own +# first line -- see video.rs. An unlabelled one reads as something to edit. +for c in $(find "$EXPORT" -name '*.cmd'); do + head -1 "$c" | grep -q '^# Generated by sylpheed-export' \ + && note OK "$(basename "$c") is self-describing" \ + || note FAIL "$(basename "$c") has no header saying what it is" +done + +echo "MODDING rule 4 -- base and overrides, never one merged pile" +grep -q 'data/mods' .gitignore && note OK "data/mods contents are gitignored" \ + || note FAIL "data/mods is not gitignored -- a mod is usually a game asset" +grep -rq 'data/mods' crates/sylpheed-export/src/ && note OK "the exporter resolves overrides" \ + || note FAIL "nothing reads data/mods" + +echo "MODDING rule 5 -- provenance in every generated file" +python3 - "$EXPORT" <<'PY' +import json, glob, os, sys +E = sys.argv[1]; miss = [] +for p in sorted(glob.glob(f"{E}/**/*.json", recursive=True)): + d = json.load(open(p)) + if os.path.basename(p) == "manifest.json": + # The manifest is the provenance -- it carries disc, exporter and the + # formats revision for the whole tree, so it has no `source` of its own. + if not all(k in d for k in ("disc", "exporter", "formats_rev")): miss.append(p) + continue + src = d.get("source") or {} + if not (isinstance(src, dict) and src): miss.append(p) +print(" %-6s %d json files carry provenance" % ("OK" if not miss else "FAIL", + len(glob.glob(f"{E}/**/*.json", recursive=True)) - len(miss))) +for m in miss[:5]: print(" FAIL ", m) +sys.exit(1 if miss else 0) +PY +[ $? -eq 0 ] || fail=1 + +echo +[ $fail -eq 0 ] && echo "all five rules pass" || echo "🔴 a MODDING rule is broken" +exit $fail diff --git a/tools/port/contract-check b/tools/port/contract-check new file mode 100755 index 00000000..19f1cb81 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/contract-check @@ -0,0 +1,538 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Reconcile the numbers the CONTRACT states against the numbers the PORT ships. + +`docs/port/HANDOFF.md` is the contract, and this port reads it from `main` -- +where it is frozen at 926 lines while the live document, on the Decoder's branch, +is 4 111. Two days of deliveries addressed to the port landed on a page the port +does not open. Reading 70 unread sections by hand is how that gets missed again. + +So the values are checked instead of read. Each check names a quantity, pulls it +OUT OF THE LIVE HANDOFF TEXT by pattern -- never restating it here, or this file +would be a third copy to go stale -- and compares it against the port's own +`export/` tree or `authored/` mapping. + +Three outcomes, and the third is the point: + + ok the contract and the port agree + MISMATCH they disagree; one of us is wrong and this says which values + ANCHOR the pattern no longer matches the contract -- the check has STOPPED + CHECKING. Reported as loudly as a mismatch, because a check whose + anchor has drifted passes forever while measuring nothing. + +Reads the newest HANDOFF on ANY ref, not the working tree's, and says which. + +🔴 WHEN A CHECK GOES `ANCHOR LOST`, ADD A SECOND NARROW ANCHOR -- DO NOT LOOSEN +THIS ONE. The temptation is to make the pattern general enough to survive any +rewording, and a general matcher fails in a way you have not met yet instead of +one you can see. The Decoder reached this the expensive way: a narrow calibrated +reader failed, they replaced it wholesale with a whole-frame comparison, and the +swap felt like rigour until a crash dialog overlaid the frame and killed the +general instrument while the narrow one kept working. +""" +import json, re, subprocess, sys, os + +FAIL = 0 + + +def git(*a): + return subprocess.run(["git", *a], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout + + +def contract(): + """The newest HANDOFF anywhere, and how far the working tree's copy is behind.""" + sha = git("log", "--all", "--format=%h", "--", "docs/port/HANDOFF.md").split()[0] + mine = git("log", "-1", "--format=%h", "--", "docs/port/HANDOFF.md").strip() + text = git("show", f"{sha}:docs/port/HANDOFF.md") + behind = len(git("log", "--all", "--not", "HEAD", "--format=%h", + "--", "docs/port/HANDOFF.md").split()) + print(f" contract: {sha} ({len(text.splitlines())} lines)") + print(f" my copy : {mine} ({len(git('show', f'{mine}:docs/port/HANDOFF.md').splitlines())} lines)" + f"{'' if behind == 0 else f' <- {behind} HANDOFF commit(s) unread'}") + return text + + +def report(name, want, got, ok): + global FAIL + if want is None: + FAIL += 1 + print(f" {name:<30} 🔴 ANCHOR LOST -- the contract no longer states this") + elif ok: + print(f" {name:<30} ok contract {want} port {got}") + else: + FAIL += 1 + print(f" {name:<30} 🔴 MISMATCH contract {want} port {got}") + + +def jload(p): + return json.load(open(p)) if os.path.exists(p) else None + + +def el(screen, prefix): + d = jload(f"export/screens/title/{screen}.json") + if not d: + return None + return next((e for e in d["elements"] if e["id"].startswith(prefix)), None) + + +# --- the checks ------------------------------------------------------------ + +def check_fade_quads(h): + """The fade-in that a broken helper reported 5x too slow for years. + + The contract prints the three builds' `pteff00` poses in one fence. The port + animates that quad from its OWN export, so agreement here is two readers of + the same bytes -- theirs rebuilt after the record-layout fix, mine the pinned + crate -- and a disagreement would mean one reader never got the fix. + """ + for screen, build in (("title", 4), ("main_menu", 5), ("extras", 6)): + m = re.search(rf"build {build} \([^)]*\)\s+pteff00\.prm\s+(.+)", h) + want = None + if m: + want = [(int(t), int(a)) for t, a in re.findall(r"t=\s*(\d+)\s*α=(\d+)", m.group(1))] + e = el(screen, "pteff00") + got = [(k["t"], int(k["fade_argb"][2:4], 16)) for k in e["keyframes"]] if e else None + report(f"fade quad, {screen}", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + + +def check_plate_period(h): + """`+0x08` is the loop length: 120, and the port must not run the glow at 105.""" + m = re.search(r"the plate's pulse period is (\d+), not (\d+)", h) + want = int(m.group(1)) if m else None + e = el("press_start", "ptbtn00") + got = (e.get("focus") or {}).get("loop_length_units") if e else None + report("plate glow cycle", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + a = jload("authored/timing.json") or {} + auth = a.get("looping_focus_records", {}).get("press_start/ptbtn00", {}).get("period_units") + report(" ... authored 2nd witness", want, auth, want is not None and want == auth) + + +def check_bgm_window(h): + """The menu loop, as an ffmpeg window the contract states literally.""" + m = re.search(r"the window is \*\*`-ss ([\d.]+) -t ([\d.]+)`\*\*", h) + want = (float(m.group(1)), float(m.group(2))) if m else None + a = ((jload("authored/audio.json") or {}).get("bgm") or {}).get("main_menu", {}) + got = (a.get("loop_start_s"), a.get("loop_end_s")) + report("menu BGM loop window", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + + +def check_black_hold(h): + """The gap between screens is not a load: the contract says keep it at 0.""" + m = re.search(r"Keep `black_hold_units` at (\d+)", h) + want = int(m.group(1)) if m else None + got = (jload("authored/timing.json") or {}).get("black_hold_units") + report("black hold between screens", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + + +def check_menu_bank(h): + """Which bank the menu plays -- the row the port once got wrong by authoring.""" + m = re.search(r"`(BGM_\d+)` confirmed from the RUNTIME", h) + want = m.group(1) if m else None + got = (((jload("authored/audio.json") or {}).get("bgm") or {}) + .get("main_menu", {}).get("bank", "")) + report("menu BGM bank", want, got, want is not None and got.startswith(want)) + + +def check_fade_out(h): + """The fade-OUT lengths, derived from the same poses the fade-in check reads. + + Stated as prose rather than in the fence, so this parses the sentence. Split + from the fade-in deliberately: they came from the same broken helper, and a + single check covering both would let one wrong half hide behind a right one. + """ + m = re.search(r"Fade-out = (\d+) units, (\d+) units, and \*\*(\d+)\*\* on the title", h) + want = [int(m.group(i)) for i in (1, 2, 3)] if m else None + got = [] + for screen in ("main_menu", "extras", "title"): + e = el(screen, "pteff00") + ks = [k["t"] for k in e["keyframes"]] if e else [] + got.append(ks[-1] - ks[-2] if len(ks) >= 2 else None) + report("fade-out ramps", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + + +def check_splash_dwell(h): + """The two boot splashes' dwell -- the retraction the port's recomputation caused. + + The contract gives 190 and 145 as the widest gap in each entry's own times. + The port plays the declared timeline, so the same gap must come out of the + export. This is the retracted claim re-derived from a third reading. + """ + m = re.search(r"the splashes are (\d+) and (\d+)", h) + want = [int(m.group(1)), int(m.group(2))] if m else None + got = [] + for screen in ("publisher_logo", "developer_logos"): + d = jload(f"export/screens/title/{screen}.json") + ts = sorted({k["t"] for e in d["elements"] for k in e["keyframes"]}) if d else [] + got.append(max((b - a for a, b in zip(ts, ts[1:])), default=None)) + report("boot splash dwells", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + + +def check_splash_times(h): + """The splash's ABSOLUTE keyframe times, not just the gap between two of them. + + 🔴 Added 2026-08-30 because the dwell check above is a DIFFERENCE, and a + difference is blind to the origin: a reader whose times were all shifted by a + constant would produce the same 190 and pass. That is not hypothetical -- the + Decoder's own control asserted "two DOWNs move two items", which a constant + offset preserves exactly, and it passed for a whole session on a reader that + was two items wrong. Ground truth caught it; the control could not. + + The contract prints entry 10's times in full, so the origin is checkable. + """ + m = re.search(r"entry 10's times are\s*`\[([0-9, ]+)\]`", h) + want = [int(x) for x in m.group(1).split(",")] if m else None + d = jload("export/screens/title/publisher_logo.json") + got = sorted({k["t"] for e in d["elements"] for k in e["keyframes"]}) if d else None + report("splash absolute times", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + + +def check_initial_focus(h): + """What the menu opens on FROM A FRESH BOOT -- measured, and it was authored. + + Anchored on the measurement rather than on the value, so that if the reading + is corrected again this fails instead of silently agreeing. + """ + want = "NEW GAME" if re.search( + r"\*\*Initial focus on a fresh boot is `NEW GAME`\*\*", h) else None + scr = ((jload("authored/flow.json") or {}).get("screens") or {}).get("main_menu", {}) + bid = scr.get("initial_focus") + got = (scr.get("buttons") or {}).get(bid, {}).get("label") + kind = scr.get("initial_focus_kind") + report("menu opens on (fresh boot)", want, f"{got} [{kind}]", + want is not None and got == want and kind == "measured") + + + + + +def fn_nav_perturbed(fn, old, new): + """Run a walk-anchored check against a perturbed copy of the walk. + + `nav()` reads from git, so the perturbation is injected by swapping the + function out rather than by editing a file -- nothing on disk is touched. + """ + global nav + real = nav + nav = lambda: (real()[0].replace(old, new), real()[1]) + try: + fn(None) + finally: + nav = real + + +def selftest(h): + """Does the CONTROL MACHINERY notice a check that cannot fail? + + 🔴 THE GAP THIS CLOSES, named by me and prioritised by the Decoder: every + `--control` run asserts that each check FAILS on a perturbed contract. None + of them asserted that a **broken control reports broken**. That is the same + shape as printing a verdict without asserting it, one level up — and a + control harness that silently approves a dead check is exactly as useless as + a check that silently approves a dead value. + + So a stub check that can never fail is fed to the machinery, and the + machinery must flag it. If the stub comes back "✅ fails as it must", the + harness is broken and says so with its own exit code. + + Exit codes follow the Decoder's convention, which distinguishes the two + failures that matter: **0** all good, **1** a real check failed, **2** the + HARNESS is broken and nothing it reported can be trusted. + """ + import io, contextlib + + def always_ok(_h): + # Prints a verdict and asserts nothing -- the exact defect shipped in + # `verify-transcode-fidelity`'s unconditional `return 0`. + print(" stub: everything is fine") + + # 🔴 RUN THE REAL MACHINERY OVER THE STUB. A first version of this checked + # that the stub left FAIL at zero and then ARGUED that `control` would + # therefore flag it. That is reasoning where a measurement was available -- + # the error this whole thread has been about -- so the stub goes through the + # same `control()` loop the real checks do, and its verdict is read. + with contextlib.redirect_stdout(io.StringIO()) as buf: + verdict = control(h, extra=[(always_ok, "120", "121")]) + out = buf.getvalue() + stub_line = [l for l in out.splitlines() if "always_ok" in l] + if verdict is not False or not stub_line: + print(" 🔴 HARNESS BROKEN: the control machinery did not flag a check that") + print(" cannot fail. Nothing any `--control` run has reported is trustworthy.") + print(f" stub verdict: {verdict!r}; line: {stub_line}") + return 2 + if "PASSES A WRONG CONTRACT" not in stub_line[0]: + print(f" 🔴 HARNESS BROKEN: stub flagged, but not as a dead check: {stub_line[0].strip()}") + return 2 + print(" harness self-test: a check that cannot fail is flagged by the machinery ✅") + print(f" {stub_line[0].strip()}") + print(" Exit codes: 0 all good, 1 a real check failed, 2 the HARNESS is broken.") + return 0 + + +def control(h, extra=None): + global FAIL + import io, contextlib + ok = True + print(" known negatives -- every check must notice a perturbed contract:\n") + for fn, old, new in CONTROLS + [(f, o, n) for f, o, n in NAV_CONTROLS] + (extra or []): + # Membership tested against NAV_CONTROLS, not CONTROLS: anything else -- + # including a self-test stub passed in via `extra` -- is anchored on + # HANDOFF. Written the other way round, the stub was routed at the walk + # and flagged "the control's own anchor is gone", a real failure for a + # fabricated reason. + src = nav()[0] if (fn, old, new) in NAV_CONTROLS else h + if old not in src: + print(f" {fn.__name__:<22} 🔴 the control's own anchor is gone") + ok = False + continue + before, FAIL = FAIL, 0 + with contextlib.redirect_stdout(io.StringIO()): + if src is h: + # 🔴 EVERY occurrence, not the first. A one-shot replace left the + # check reading an untouched duplicate and passing a perturbed + # contract -- reported 2026-08-30 the day a delivery's heading + # came to appear twice. The control caught its own harness: a + # perturbation that does not reach every copy of the anchor makes + # the check untestable, silently, because it keeps passing. + fn(h.replace(old, new)) + else: + fn_nav_perturbed(fn, old, new) + noticed, FAIL = FAIL > 0, before + print(f" {fn.__name__:<22} {'✅ fails as it must' if noticed else '🔴 PASSES A WRONG CONTRACT -- it checks nothing'}") + ok = ok and noticed + return ok + + +def nav(): + """The player's-eye walk, from the newest ref that carries it. + + A second unreachable document: `docs/game/navigation.md` was filled in from + the committed oracle frames and, like HANDOFF, is not on `main`. The port's + `authored/flow.json` is the executable form of that walk, so the two must not + drift -- and the drift would be invisible, because nothing in the port fails + when a label is wrong. + """ + sha = git("log", "--all", "--format=%h", "--", "docs/game/navigation.md").split()[0] + return git("show", f"{sha}:docs/game/navigation.md"), sha + + +def flow_buttons(screen): + d = jload("authored/flow.json") or {} + b = ((d.get("screens") or {}).get(screen) or {}).get("buttons") or {} + return [v.get("label") for _, v in sorted(b.items())] + + +def check_focus_persists(h): + """The menu remembers its cursor -- MEASURED, on the main menu, one screen. + + 🔴 This checked a PAIR until 2026-08-30: on for `main_menu`, off everywhere + else. The second half asserted that `extras` does NOT persist, and **nothing + measured that**. What the corpus has is EXTRAS' initial focus from a single + entry and Ⓑ restoring the PARENT's focus 4/4 — neither says what a submenu's + own cursor does on re-entry. So one measured behaviour and one absence of a + measurement were being reported identically, and if the game does persist + EXTRAS the check would have held the port to the wrong behaviour AND PASSED. + + The mirror of the trap it was written to avoid: refusing to let a derived + rule overwrite a measured value, then letting "not measured here" become a + positive assertion of the negative. Now only the measured half is asserted + against the contract; the scope is a guard, below. + """ + heading = bool(re.search(r"the main menu remembers its cursor; re-entry is not a reset", h)) + # 🔴 SECOND NARROW ANCHOR, added 2026-08-30 on the Decoder's advice, and it + # repairs a weakness I had already identified and not acted on. The heading + # anchor is on the CONCLUSION; when they corrected the run's item names -- + # `TUTORIAL → EXTRAS → EXTRAS` was actually `NEW GAME → TUTORIAL → TUTORIAL` + # -- this check sailed past it, because the conclusion was above the part + # that was wrong. It survived by luck, not by design. + # + # So the check now also rests on the EVIDENCE: the ring at y 384.0 before the + # round trip and 385.5 after. That pair is the geometry-free equality the + # conclusion actually stands on, and it is what a future correction to the + # measurement would have to touch. + # + # Two narrow anchors, NOT one loosened one. Their words: after a specific + # instrument fails the general one feels safer, and its failure mode is only + # one you have not met yet. + evidence = bool(re.search(r"ring sits at y 384\.0 before the round trip and 385\.5 after", h)) + want = heading and evidence + got = (((jload("authored/flow.json") or {}).get("screens") or {}) + .get("main_menu", {}).get("focus_persists")) + if heading != evidence: + print(f" {'menu remembers its cursor':<30} 🔴 ANCHOR SPLIT -- heading" + f" {heading}, evidence {evidence}: one moved without the other") + globals()["FAIL"] = FAIL + 1 + return + report("menu remembers its cursor", want or None, got, want and got is True) + + +def check_extras_resets(h): + """EXTRAS resets -- MEASURED 2026-08-30, and it used to be asserted unmeasured. + + For one iteration the port asserted this with nothing behind it, which the + Decoder flagged; it then measured it and the assertion was right. That does + not make the assertion evidence, so the check is rewritten to rest on the + measurement rather than being left to look vindicated. + """ + want = False if re.search(r"EXTRAS resets, the main menu persists", h) else None + ex = ((jload("authored/flow.json") or {}).get("screens") or {}).get("extras", {}) + got = ex.get("focus_persists") + report("extras resets its cursor", want, f"{got} [{ex.get('focus_persists_kind')}]", + want is not None and got is False and ex.get("focus_persists_kind") == "measured") + + +def check_reset_target(h): + """A submenu resets to its OWN OPENING ITEM, not to the top one. + + Measured 2026-08-31. The port satisfies it by construction -- `opening_focus` + falls through to `initial_focus` -- so this asserts that construction has not + been quietly replaced by a `buttons[0]` default, which is now known wrong for + a real screen (`DIFFICULTY` opens on the second of four). + """ + want = bool(re.search(r"resets to its own opening item", h)) + scr = ((jload("authored/flow.json") or {}).get("screens") or {}).get("extras", {}) + btns = sorted((scr.get("buttons") or {}).keys()) + target = scr.get("initial_focus") + # The check has teeth only because EXTRAS' named item happens to be first + # here: what it guards is that the AUTHORED value is the target, not the + # index. Stated so a reader does not mistake agreement for evidence. + report("submenu reset target", "the authored opening item" if want else None, + f"{target} (authored){' == buttons[0]' if btns and target == btns[0] else ''}", + want and target is not None and target == scr.get("initial_focus")) + + +def guard_focus_scope(_h): + """NOT a contract check. A guard over the screens NOBODY HAS LOOKED AT. + + Two screens are now measured and disagree -- `main_menu` persists, `extras` + resets -- so there is no menu-wide rule to state. What this guards is the + rest: `OPTIONS`, `LOAD GAME` and `TUTORIAL` are untouched, and their absent + `focus_persists` is the port defaulting, not a finding. + + 📌 The absent key and a measured `false` behave identically and mean opposite + things. That is why `extras` now spends a key on saying `false` out loud. + """ + global FAIL + scr = ((jload("authored/flow.json") or {}).get("screens") or {}) + stated = {n: v.get("focus_persists") for n, v in scr.items() + if isinstance(v, dict) and "focus_persists" in v} + silent = sorted(n for n, v in scr.items() + if isinstance(v, dict) and "focus_persists" not in v) + ok = stated == {"main_menu": True, "extras": False} + if ok: + # ✅ 2026-08-31: all FOUR submenus are now measured to reset -- EXTRAS, + # LOAD GAME, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS -- and the main menu remains the only + # screen that remembers. Three of those four are not in this export, so + # no authored value changes. + # + # 🔴 NOT PROMOTED TO A RULE, deliberately. "Submenus reset" at 4/4 is + # better evidence than the 2/2 that made `wrap` a rule -- and adopting it + # would change nothing today, because the only submenu this port ships is + # already measured. What it WOULD do is pre-decide the next screen from a + # generalisation instead of a measurement, which is the trap that nearly + # let a derived rule overwrite EXTRAS' measured opening item. + print(f" {'focus_persists scope':<30} guard {stated} measured;" + f" {len(silent)} screen(s) silent = UNMEASURED, not 'resets'" + f" [4/4 submenus reset disc-wide; not promoted to a rule]") + else: + FAIL += 1 + print(f" {'focus_persists scope':<30} 🔴 GUARD {stated} -- a screen states" + f" this without a measurement behind it") + + +def check_menu_labels(_h): + """The five main-menu labels, in order, off the walk's own table.""" + n, sha = nav() + rows = re.findall(r"^\| [1-5] \| \*\*([A-Z ]+)\*\* \|", n, re.M) + want = rows or None + report(f"main menu labels ({sha})", want, flow_buttons("main_menu"), + want is not None and want == flow_buttons("main_menu")) + + +def check_extras_labels(_h): + """EXTRAS' three items, written as prose rather than a table.""" + n, _ = nav() + m = re.search(r"Three items: `([A-Z ]+)` · `([A-Z ]+)` · `([A-Z ]+)`", n) + want = [m.group(i) for i in (1, 2, 3)] if m else None + report("extras labels", want, flow_buttons("extras"), + want is not None and want == flow_buttons("extras")) + + +def check_wrap(_h): + """The cursor wraps, and it is a MENU rule -- the walk says so in two places.""" + n, _ = nav() + want = True if re.search(r"one item, and it \*\*wraps\*\* at both ends", n) else None + got = ((jload("authored/flow.json") or {}).get("navigation") or {}).get("wrap") + report("cursor wraps", want, got, want is not None and want == got) + + +# Each check paired with a one-token edit to the CONTRACT that must break it. +# A check that has never been observed to fail is not evidence -- it may be +# reading nothing, comparing a value to itself, or anchored on a pattern that +# matches anything. `--control` perturbs the contract and requires every check to +# notice. This is the same discipline the checks themselves enforce: an +# instrument goes through a known negative before its clean run is believed. +CONTROLS = [ + (check_fade_quads, "pteff00.prm t= 0 α=255 t= 12", "pteff00.prm t= 0 α=255 t= 13"), + (check_fade_out, "Fade-out = 10 units, 10 units", "Fade-out = 11 units, 10 units"), + (check_plate_period, "pulse period is 120, not 105", "pulse period is 121, not 105"), + (check_bgm_window, "`-ss 9.44 -t 61.87`", "`-ss 9.45 -t 61.87`"), + (check_black_hold, "Keep `black_hold_units` at 0", "Keep `black_hold_units` at 3"), + (check_menu_bank, "`BGM_103` confirmed from the RUNTIME", "`BGM_999` confirmed from the RUNTIME"), + (check_splash_dwell, "the splashes are 190 and 145", "the splashes are 191 and 145"), + (check_focus_persists, "the main menu remembers its cursor; re-entry is not a reset", + "the main menu forgets its cursor; re-entry is a reset"), + # The SECOND anchor gets its own known negative. Perturbing only the evidence + # must trip ANCHOR SPLIT -- otherwise the second anchor is decorative and the + # check is still resting on the conclusion alone. + (check_focus_persists, "ring sits at y 384.0 before the round trip and 385.5 after", + "ring sits at y 384.0 before the round trip and 999.9 after"), + # The list sits on the line AFTER "times are", so the perturbation has to + # carry the newline the check's `\s*` spans. A control whose own anchor is + # written from memory of the prose rather than from the prose is the same + # class of error the checks exist to catch. + (check_splash_times, "times are\n`[0,15,30,45,235,239,251,255]`", + "times are\n`[1,16,31,46,236,240,252,256]`"), + (check_reset_target, "resets to its own opening item", + "resets to whichever item is on top"), + (check_extras_resets, "EXTRAS resets, the main menu persists", + "EXTRAS persists, the main menu persists"), + (check_initial_focus, "**Initial focus on a fresh boot is `NEW GAME`**", + "**Initial focus on a fresh boot is `TUTORIAL`**"), +] + +# The walk's controls perturb `navigation.md` instead of HANDOFF, so they are +# applied to a different document and kept separate rather than folded in. +NAV_CONTROLS = [ + (check_menu_labels, "| 1 | **NEW GAME**", "| 1 | **NEW GAMES**"), + (check_extras_labels, "`MISSION SELECT` · `MOVIE THEATER`", "`MISSION SELECTS` · `MOVIE THEATER`"), + (check_wrap, "one item, and it **wraps** at both ends", "one item, and it stops at both ends"), +] + + +def main(): + if not os.path.exists("export/manifest.json"): + sys.exit("no export/ -- run the exporter first; this check reads what is shipped") + h = contract() + print() + if "--selftest" in sys.argv: + return selftest(h) + if "--control" in sys.argv: + return 0 if control(h) else 1 + for fn in (check_fade_quads, check_fade_out, check_plate_period, + check_bgm_window, check_black_hold, check_menu_bank, + check_splash_dwell, check_menu_labels, check_extras_labels, + check_wrap, check_focus_persists, guard_focus_scope, + check_splash_times, check_initial_focus, check_extras_resets, + check_reset_target): + fn(h) + print() + print(" A passing run means the port agrees with the contract ON THESE VALUES.") + print(" It is not a statement about the 70 sections nobody has reduced to a") + print(" check -- those are still read by hand, or not read at all.") + if FAIL: + print(f"\n🔴 {FAIL} disagreement(s) or lost anchor(s) with the contract") + else: + print("\nthe port agrees with the contract on every value checked") + return 1 if FAIL else 0 + + +sys.exit(main()) diff --git a/tools/port/edge-residual-kind b/tools/port/edge-residual-kind new file mode 100755 index 00000000..9d15e0d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/edge-residual-kind @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""What KIND of error is left at the edges after tone is accounted for? + + tools/port/edge-residual-kind [screen] # default main_menu + +`verify-capture`'s `diff` column thresholds at 25 % and so only sees GROSS +displacement. Fitting a per-level LUT removes everything a tone effect can +explain. What is left on the main menu is concentrated 3.2x on edge pixels +(DECISIONS.md, 2026-08-31) -- and three things produce that: a misregistration, +an antialiasing difference, or a genuinely misplaced element. + +THE DISCRIMINATOR IS THE SIGN, and it is the Decoder's, from their reply on +2026-08-31: a shift gives a residual with a CONSISTENT DIRECTION along the edge, +an antialiasing difference does not. Made concrete: + + * shifted by (dx,dy): residual ~ dx*d/dx + dy*d/dy -- and the fitted SLOPE + IS THE SHIFT IN PIXELS + * blurred/sharpened : residual ~ -k * laplacian -- symmetric, no direction + +EXIT CODES. 0 the report is trustworthy, 2 A CONTROL FAILED so the numbers below +it mean nothing. There is no 1: this tool classifies, it does not judge. A +correlation this tool reports is worthless without the two controls above it, +which is why they are not optional and not a flag. +""" +import math, os, subprocess, sys, tempfile + +CAPS = "docs/re/captures/title-builds" +SCREEN = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "main_menu" +# The captures are a 1279x675 top-left crop of the 1280x720 guest surface, so the +# render is cropped to match and NOTHING IS SCALED -- resampling would manufacture +# exactly the edge signal this tool measures. See verify-capture, same reason. +W, H = 1279, 675 +EDGE = 12 # |grad| above which a pixel is an edge +PASS_SHIFT, PASS_BLUR = 0.70, -0.70 + + +def gray(png, out): + subprocess.run(["convert", png, "-colorspace", "Gray", "-depth", "8", + "gray:" + out], check=True) + return open(out, "rb").read() + + +def lutfit(a, b): + tot = [0] * 256; cnt = [0] * 256 + for i in range(len(a)): + tot[a[i]] += b[i]; cnt[a[i]] += 1 + return [(tot[v] // cnt[v]) if cnt[v] else v for v in range(256)] + + +def analyse(a, b): + lut = lutfit(a, b) + gx = []; gy = []; lp = []; rs = [] + for y in range(1, H - 1): + o = y * W + for x in range(1, W - 1): + i = o + x + ax = (a[i + 1] - a[i - 1]) * 0.5 + ay = (a[i + W] - a[i - W]) * 0.5 + if abs(ax) + abs(ay) < EDGE: + continue + gx.append(ax); gy.append(ay) + lp.append(float(a[i + 1] + a[i - 1] + a[i + W] + a[i - W] - 4 * a[i])) + rs.append(float(lut[a[i]] - b[i])) + n = len(rs) + if n < 1000: + print(f" 🔴 only {n} edge pixels -- nothing to classify"); sys.exit(2) + mr = sum(rs) / n + + def fit(u): + mu = sum(u) / n + suu = sum((v - mu) ** 2 for v in u) + srr = sum((v - mr) ** 2 for v in rs) + sur = sum((u[k] - mu) * (rs[k] - mr) for k in range(n)) + return (0.0, 0.0) if suu <= 0 or srr <= 0 else (sur / suu, sur / math.sqrt(suu * srr)) + return n, fit(gx), fit(gy), fit(lp) + + +def row(label, res): + n, (sx, rx), (sy, ry), (sl, rl) = res + print(f" {label} (n={n})") + print(f" horizontal shift : r={rx:+.3f} slope={sx:+.3f} px") + print(f" vertical shift : r={ry:+.3f} slope={sy:+.3f} px") + print(f" blur / sharpness : r={rl:+.3f} coef ={sl:+.3f}") + return rx, ry, rl + + +def shifted(a, dx): + out = bytearray(a) + for y in range(H): + for x in range(W): + out[y * W + x] = a[y * W + min(W - 1, max(0, x - dx))] + return bytes(out) + + +def blurred(a): + out = bytearray(a) + for y in range(1, H - 1): + o = y * W + for x in range(1, W - 1): + i = o + x + out[i] = (a[i] * 4 + a[i + 1] + a[i - 1] + a[i + W] + a[i - W]) // 8 + return bytes(out) + + +tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp() +cap_png = f"{CAPS}/live-{SCREEN.replace('_', '-')}.png" +if not os.path.exists(cap_png): + print(f" 🔴 no capture: {cap_png}"); sys.exit(2) +render = os.environ.get("RENDER") or f"{tmp}/render.png" +if not os.path.exists(render): + print(f" 🔴 no render at {render} -- set RENDER="); sys.exit(2) +subprocess.run(["convert", render, "-crop", f"{W}x{H}+0+0", "+repage", + f"{tmp}/crop.png"], check=True) +r = gray(f"{tmp}/crop.png", f"{tmp}/r.gray") +c = gray(cap_png, f"{tmp}/c.gray") + +print("CONTROLS -- the render against a deliberately damaged copy of itself.") +print("A correlation below is meaningless unless these two recover what was done.\n") +ra = analyse(r, shifted(r, 1)) +rxa, _, rla = row("known +1 px HORIZONTAL shift", ra) +rb = analyse(r, blurred(r)) +_, _, rlb = row("known BLUR, no shift", rb) +bad = [] +if rxa < PASS_SHIFT: bad.append(f"shift control r={rxa:+.3f} < {PASS_SHIFT}") +if rlb > PASS_BLUR: bad.append(f"blur control r={rlb:+.3f} > {PASS_BLUR}") +if bad: + print("\n 🔴 CONTROL FAILED: " + "; ".join(bad)) + print(" The discriminator cannot see what it is for. Report suppressed.") + sys.exit(2) +print(f"\n ✅ controls pass -- a 1 px shift reads as {ra[1][0]:+.3f} px\n") +print(f"THE REAL PAIR -- {SCREEN}\n") +rx, ry, rl = row(f"{SCREEN} render vs oracle capture", analyse(r, c)) +print() +if max(abs(rx), abs(ry)) < 0.15 and abs(rl) < 0.3: + print(" => NEITHER a global shift NOR a uniform blur.") + print(" ⚠️ REACH: this is a WHOLE-FRAME fit. One misplaced element is a small") + print(" share of the edge pixels and would not move these numbers. This") + print(" excludes a global translation; it does not exclude a local one.") diff --git a/tools/port/edge-residual-map b/tools/port/edge-residual-map new file mode 100755 index 00000000..20d6debb --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/edge-residual-map @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""WHERE does the edge residual sit, and is that region locally shifted? + + RENDER= tools/port/edge-residual-map [screen] + +`edge-residual-kind` fits the whole frame and excludes a GLOBAL translation. Its +own reach statement says the thing it cannot do: one misplaced element is a small +share of 38 752 edge pixels and would not move a whole-frame number. This tiles +the frame and runs the same discriminator INSIDE each tile, so a single displaced +element shows up as one hot tile with a local slope -- which is invisible to the +global fit by construction, not by accident. + +Division of labour, agreed with the Decoder 2026-08-31: the residual map is the +port's (it needs the render beside the capture), the element inventory is theirs +(it needs the disc). This tool produces the map and NAMES NOTHING. + +THE CONTROL IS A KNOWN LOCAL SHIFT. A map that cannot localise a displacement it +was told about cannot be trusted to have found one it was not. Exit 0 the report +is trustworthy, 2 the control failed and the report is suppressed. No 1. +""" +import math, os, subprocess, sys, tempfile + +CAPS = "docs/re/captures/title-builds" +SCREEN = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "main_menu" +W, H = 1279, 675 # top-left crop of the guest surface; never scaled +TILE = 64 +EDGE = 12 +MIN_EDGE_PX = 150 # below this a tile's slope is noise +# The controls displace this region and the map must find it there. +CTRL_BOX = (448, 320, 640, 448) # x0, y0, x1, y1 +# TWO controls, because ONE OF THEM FAILED AND TAUGHT ME THE LIMIT. The slope is +# a linearisation, residual ~ dx * gradient, which holds only while dx is small +# against the width of an edge. A +2 px displacement localises perfectly but reads +# back +0.8..+1.25, so the estimator SATURATES. Control A checks magnitude in the +# regime where magnitude means something; control B checks that a displacement too +# large to measure is still FOUND. Reporting a saturating slope as a distance +# would understate a real displacement by more than half. +CTRL_A_DX = 1 # linear regime: localisation AND magnitude +CTRL_B_DX = 2 # saturating: localisation and SIGN only + + +def gray(png, out): + subprocess.run(["convert", png, "-colorspace", "Gray", "-depth", "8", + "gray:" + out], check=True) + return open(out, "rb").read() + + +def lutfit(a, b): + tot = [0] * 256; cnt = [0] * 256 + for i in range(len(a)): + tot[a[i]] += b[i]; cnt[a[i]] += 1 + return [(tot[v] // cnt[v]) if cnt[v] else v for v in range(256)] + + +def tiles(a, b): + """Per-tile mean |residual| on edge pixels, and the local shift slope.""" + lut = lutfit(a, b) # ONE global LUT: tone is global, displacement is not + out = {} + for ty in range(0, H - 1, TILE): + for tx in range(0, W - 1, TILE): + gx = []; gy = []; rs = []; flat = [] + for y in range(max(1, ty), min(H - 1, ty + TILE)): + o = y * W + for x in range(max(1, tx), min(W - 1, tx + TILE)): + i = o + x + ax = (a[i + 1] - a[i - 1]) * 0.5 + ay = (a[i + W] - a[i - W]) * 0.5 + d = float(lut[a[i]] - b[i]) + if abs(ax) + abs(ay) < EDGE: + flat.append(abs(d)); continue + gx.append(ax); gy.append(ay); rs.append(d) + n = len(rs) + if n < MIN_EDGE_PX: + continue + mabs = sum(abs(v) for v in rs) / n + mflat = (sum(flat) / len(flat)) if flat else 0.0 + mr = sum(rs) / n + + def slope(u): + mu = sum(u) / n + suu = sum((v - mu) ** 2 for v in u) + if suu <= 0: + return 0.0 + return sum((u[k] - mu) * (rs[k] - mr) for k in range(n)) / suu + out[(tx, ty)] = (mabs, slope(gx), slope(gy), n, mflat) + return out + + +def top(t, k=8): + return sorted(t.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1][0])[:k] + + +def show(t, label, k=8): + print(f" {label}") + print(f" {'tile':>12} {'edge':>7} {'flat':>7} {'e/f':>6} " + f"{'dx':>7} {'dy':>7} {'edge px':>8}") + for (tx, ty), (m, sx, sy, n, mf) in top(t, k): + ef = (m / mf) if mf > 0.01 else float('inf') + print(f" {tx:4d},{ty:4d} {m:7.2f} {mf:7.2f} {ef:6.2f} " + f"{sx:+7.3f} {sy:+7.3f} {n:8d}") + + +def shift_box(a, box, dx): + x0, y0, x1, y1 = box + out = bytearray(a) + for y in range(y0, y1): + for x in range(x0, x1): + out[y * W + x] = a[y * W + min(W - 1, max(0, x - dx))] + return bytes(out) + + +tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp() +cap = f"{CAPS}/live-{SCREEN.replace('_', '-')}.png" +render = os.environ.get("RENDER", "") +for p in (cap, render): + if not p or not os.path.exists(p): + print(f" 🔴 missing: {p or 'RENDER='}"); sys.exit(2) +subprocess.run(["convert", render, "-crop", f"{W}x{H}+0+0", "+repage", + f"{tmp}/crop.png"], check=True) +r = gray(f"{tmp}/crop.png", f"{tmp}/r.gray") +c = gray(cap, f"{tmp}/c.gray") + +print("CONTROLS -- the render against itself with ONE REGION displaced.\n" + "The map must put that region on top; magnitude only in the linear regime.\n") +x0, y0, x1, y1 = CTRL_BOX +bad = [] + + +def control(dx, check_magnitude): + t = tiles(r, shift_box(r, CTRL_BOX, dx)) + show(t, f"known +{dx} px shift inside x {x0}-{x1}, y {y0}-{y1}", 4) + hits = [(k, v) for k, v in top(t, 4) + if x0 - TILE < k[0] < x1 and y0 - TILE < k[1] < y1] + if not hits: + bad.append(f"+{dx} px: displaced region not in the top 4 tiles") + return + best = max(hits, key=lambda kv: kv[1][0])[1][1] + if best <= 0.3: + bad.append(f"+{dx} px: local slope {best:+.3f} has the wrong sign or is flat") + elif check_magnitude and abs(best - dx) > 0.4: + bad.append(f"+{dx} px: local slope {best:+.3f} does not recover it") + print(f" -> localised, local slope {best:+.3f} px" + f"{'' if check_magnitude else ' (saturating -- a LOWER BOUND)'}\n") + + +control(CTRL_A_DX, True) +control(CTRL_B_DX, False) +if bad: + print(" 🔴 CONTROL FAILED: " + "; ".join(bad)) + print(" A map that cannot find a displacement it was told about cannot be") + print(" trusted to have found one it was not. Report suppressed.") + sys.exit(2) +print(" ✅ controls pass: a 1 px displacement is localised and measured, a 2 px\n" + " one is localised with its magnitude understated. So a hot tile with a\n" + " real slope is a floor on the displacement, never a ceiling.\n") + +print(f"THE REAL PAIR -- {SCREEN}\n") +rt = tiles(r, c) +show(rt, f"{SCREEN}: hottest tiles, whole-frame LUT applied", 10) +ms = sorted(v[0] for v in rt.values()) +med = ms[len(ms) // 2] +efs = sorted(v[0] / v[4] for v in rt.values() if v[4] > 0.01) +med_ef = efs[len(efs) // 2] +hot = max(rt.items(), key=lambda kv: kv[1][0]) +print(f"\n median tile |resid| {med:.2f} hottest {hot[1][0]:.2f} " + f"at {hot[0][0]},{hot[0][1]} ({hot[1][0]/med:.2f}x median)") +print(f" median tile edge/flat {med_ef:.2f}") +efs_hot = [v[0] / v[4] for _, v in top(rt, 10) if v[4] > 0.01] +print(f" hot tiles span edge/flat {min(efs_hot):.2f}..{max(efs_hot):.2f}, " + f"straddling that median") +print(" 📌 SO THE COLUMN DOES NOT SPLIT THEM. I added it expecting two families --") +print(" tiles hot only at edges (an edge-rendering difference) against tiles") +print(" hot everywhere (a local tone the global LUT mis-serves). The hot tiles") +print(" run continuously across the median instead, so the hot region is NOT") +print(" one anomalous element with a character of its own. Note the frame-wide") +print(" pooled edge/flat is 3.16 while the per-tile median is 1.84: pooling is") +print(" dominated by the tiles carrying the most edge pixels, and reading a") +print(" per-tile threshold off it would have manufactured the split.") +print("\n ⚠️ THIS TOOL NAMES NOTHING. A hot tile is a coordinate, not an element.") +print(" What sits under it is the Decoder's to say -- they hold the disc.") diff --git a/tools/port/element-residual b/tools/port/element-residual new file mode 100755 index 00000000..c2b6c676 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/element-residual @@ -0,0 +1,144 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Which ELEMENT carries the disagreement with the capture? Rank them by suppression. + + tools/port/element-residual [screen] # default main_menu + +`edge-residual-map` gives hot COORDINATES, and turning those into elements needs +the design-space -> capture transform, which is a convention I would have to +assume. This needs no transform: the port has a mod tree, so shadow an element's +sprite with a transparent PNG, render, and diff the port's OWN two renders. The +pixels that change ARE the element, already in the comparison frame. + +Reports, per element, on the pixels it actually paints: + * mean |residual| against the capture, after ONE global tone LUT + * the SIGN -- is the port drawing this element too dark or too bright + * edge versus flat -- an outline problem or a body problem + +⚠️ SUPPRESSION IS BY SPRITE PATH, so elements sharing a sprite are suppressed +together and are reported as one row. `ptloop01` draws `pteff03.png`; the id and +the file are not the same thing. + +EXIT 0 the report is trustworthy, 2 a control failed. No 1: this ranks, it does +not judge. A brightness difference here is NOT licence to brighten the element -- +blend mode is undecoded (`screen.rs`), and tuning until the two agree is exactly +what the mission forbids. +""" +import json, os, subprocess, sys, tempfile + +CAPS = "docs/re/captures/title-builds" +POSE = { # same poses as verify-capture + "main_menu": (f"{CAPS}/live-main-menu.png", ["--menu=main_menu"]), + "extras": (f"{CAPS}/live-extras.png", ["--menu=extras"]), + "main_menu_options": (f"{CAPS}/live-main-menu-options-focused.png", + ["--menu=main_menu_options", "--focus=ptbtn04"]), +} +SCREEN = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "main_menu" +if SCREEN not in POSE: + print(f" 🔴 no pose for {SCREEN}; known: {', '.join(POSE)}"); sys.exit(2) +CAP, ARGS = POSE[SCREEN] +W, H = 1279, 675 +BASE = ["--loop-phase=0", "--leaf-time=0", "--script=wait"] +tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp() + + +def render(png, mods=None): + env = dict(os.environ) + if mods: env["SYLPHEED_MODS"] = mods + else: env.pop("SYLPHEED_MODS", None) + r = subprocess.run(["xvfb-run", "-a", "timeout", "300", "godot", "--path", "port", + "--"] + BASE + ARGS + [f"--capture={png}"], + env=env, capture_output=True, text=True) + return r.stdout + r.stderr + + +def gray(png, out): + subprocess.run(["convert", png, "-crop", f"{W}x{H}+0+0", "+repage", + "-colorspace", "Gray", "-depth", "8", "gray:" + out], check=True) + return open(out, "rb").read() + + +sd = json.load(open(f"export/screens/{'title'}/{SCREEN}.json")) if os.path.exists( + f"export/screens/title/{SCREEN}.json") else None +if sd is None: + for root, _, files in os.walk("export/screens"): + if f"{SCREEN}.json" in files: + sd = json.load(open(os.path.join(root, f"{SCREEN}.json"))); break +sprites = {} +for e in sd["elements"]: + s = e.get("sprite", "") + if s: sprites.setdefault(s, []).append(e["id"]) + +render(f"{tmp}/base.png") +base = gray(f"{tmp}/base.png", f"{tmp}/base.gray") +cap = gray(CAP, f"{tmp}/cap.gray") + +# CONTROL 1 -- the metric's own zero. The render against ITSELF must be exactly 0. +tot = [0] * 256; cnt = [0] * 256 +for i in range(len(base)): tot[base[i]] += base[i]; cnt[base[i]] += 1 +idlut = [(tot[v] // cnt[v]) if cnt[v] else v for v in range(256)] +z = max(abs(idlut[base[i]] - base[i]) for i in range(0, len(base), 97)) +# CONTROL 2 -- a mod that shadows NOTHING must move no pixels, or a footprint +# below is the harness rather than the element. +noop = f"{tmp}/noop"; os.makedirs(noop + "/sprites/title", exist_ok=True) +subprocess.run(["convert", "-size", "8x8", "xc:red", f"{noop}/sprites/title/zzz-not-an-asset.png"], + check=True) +render(f"{tmp}/noop.png", noop) +nb = gray(f"{tmp}/noop.png", f"{tmp}/noop.gray") +moved = sum(1 for i in range(len(base)) if base[i] != nb[i]) +print(f" control -- metric zero on identity : {z} (must be 0)") +print(f" control -- mod shadowing nothing : {moved} px moved (must be 0)") +if z != 0 or moved != 0: + print("\n 🔴 CONTROL FAILED. Every row below would be unattributable. Suppressed.") + sys.exit(2) +print(" ✅ controls pass\n") + +tot = [0] * 256; cnt = [0] * 256 +for i in range(len(base)): tot[base[i]] += cap[i]; cnt[base[i]] += 1 +lut = [(tot[v] // cnt[v]) if cnt[v] else v for v in range(256)] +resid = [abs(lut[base[i]] - cap[i]) for i in range(len(base))] +N = len(base); frame_mean = sum(resid) / N + + +def isedge(i): + x, y = i % W, i // W + if x < 1 or y < 1 or x >= W - 1 or y >= H - 1: return False + return abs(base[i + 1] - base[i - 1]) + abs(base[i + W] - base[i - W]) >= 12 + + +rows = [] +for rel, ids in sprites.items(): + d = f"{tmp}/m_{len(rows)}"; os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(f"{d}/{rel}"), exist_ok=True) + src = f"export/{rel}" + if not os.path.exists(src): continue + dim = subprocess.run(["identify", "-format", "%wx%h", src], + capture_output=True, text=True).stdout + subprocess.run(["convert", "-size", dim, "xc:none", f"PNG32:{d}/{rel}"], check=True) + log = render(f"{tmp}/o.png", d) + if "mod: " + rel not in log: + print(f" ⚠️ {rel}: the override was never read -- skipped rather than " + f"reported as an empty footprint"); continue + o = gray(f"{tmp}/o.png", f"{tmp}/o.gray") + m = [i for i in range(N) if abs(base[i] - o[i]) > 2] + if not m: + rows.append((",".join(ids), rel, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)); continue + mi = sum(resid[i] for i in m) / len(m) + sg = sum(lut[base[i]] - cap[i] for i in m) / len(m) + ed = [resid[i] for i in m if isedge(i)]; fl = [resid[i] for i in m if not isedge(i)] + rows.append((",".join(ids), rel, len(m), mi, + sum(ed) / len(ed) if ed else 0.0, sum(fl) / len(fl) if fl else 0.0, sg)) + +print(f"{SCREEN}: frame mean |resid| {frame_mean:.2f}\n") +print(f" {'element(s)':<22} {'foot %':>7} {'|resid|':>8} {'xmean':>6} " + f"{'edge':>7} {'flat':>7} {'signed':>8}") +for ids, rel, n, mi, ed, fl, sg in sorted(rows, key=lambda r: -r[3]): + if n == 0: + print(f" {ids:<22} {'0.00':>7} {'--':>8} {'--':>6} {'--':>7} {'--':>7} " + f"{'--':>8} paints nothing at this pose") + continue + flag = " <- BODY" if fl > ed else "" + print(f" {ids:<22} {100*n/N:7.2f} {mi:8.2f} {mi/frame_mean:6.2f} " + f"{ed:7.2f} {fl:7.2f} {sg:+8.2f}{flag}") +print("\n signed = render - capture after the LUT; NEGATIVE means the port draws it") +print(" DARKER than the game. 'BODY' marks flat residual above edge residual --") +print(" an intensity difference rather than an outline one.") +print(" ⚠️ This is not licence to brighten anything: blend mode is undecoded.") diff --git a/tools/port/index-decisions b/tools/port/index-decisions new file mode 100755 index 00000000..b8d2bdba --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/index-decisions @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Regenerate the contents block at the top of `docs/port/DECISIONS.md`. +# +# tools/port/index-decisions # rewrite the index +# tools/port/index-decisions --check # fail if it is out of date +# +# 🔴 WHY THIS EXISTS. The record reached 6 500 lines and 111 sections with no +# index, and on 2026-08-30 I spent an iteration empirically re-deriving a result +# it already contained -- under two headings that name the screens in question -- +# then reported the question as unexplained to the Decoder. An unnavigable record +# is not a record that is hard to read; it is one that does not get read. +# +# ⚠️ `--check` exists because a stale index is worse than none: it would answer +# "is this already decided?" with a confident no. `check-all` runs it. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +DOC=docs/port/DECISIONS.md +BEG='' +END='' + +body=$(python3 - "$DOC" <<'PY' +import re, sys +lines = open(sys.argv[1]).read().split('\n') +out = [] +for l in lines: + if l.startswith('## '): + title = l[3:].strip() + # A GitHub anchor: lowercased, punctuation dropped, spaces to hyphens. + anchor = re.sub(r'[^\w\s-]', '', title.lower()).strip().replace(' ', '-') + # NO LINE NUMBERS. They would make the index a fixpoint problem -- writing + # it shifts every line below it -- and, worse, every appended section + # would silently invalidate all of them. An anchor survives both. + out.append(f"* [{title}](#{anchor})") +print('\n'.join(out)) +PY +) +new=$(printf '%s\n\n%d sections. Search this before re-deriving anything.\n\n%s\n\n%s\n' \ + "$BEG" "$(grep -c '^## ' "$DOC")" "$body" "$END") + +cur=$(awk -v b="$BEG" -v e="$END" 'index($0,b){f=1} f{print} index($0,e){f=0}' "$DOC") + +if [ "${1:-}" = --check ]; then + if [ "$cur" = "$new" ]; then echo " index-decisions ok"; exit 0 + else echo " index-decisions 🔴 the index is out of date -- run tools/port/index-decisions"; exit 1; fi +fi + +python3 - "$DOC" "$BEG" "$END" "$new" <<'PY' +import sys +doc, beg, end, new = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4] +s = open(doc).read() +if beg in s: + i, j = s.index(beg), s.index(end) + len(end) + s = s[:i] + new.rstrip('\n') + s[j:] +else: + # First run: place it after the H1 and its opening paragraph. + k = s.index('\n## ') + s = s[:k] + '\n\n' + new.rstrip('\n') + s[k:] +open(doc, 'w').write(s) +print("index written") +PY diff --git a/tools/port/peer-head b/tools/port/peer-head new file mode 100755 index 00000000..b8551cd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/peer-head @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Is the copy of a file I am reading the newest one anywhere in the repository? + +🔴 THE RULE THIS REPLACES IS A MEMORY. Two agents spent days on a shared-state +problem that is really two problems: + + what a peer HOLDS readable right now, from any topic branch, by anyone who + remembers the ref exists -- `git show :` + what a peer must be TOLD still needs a human to merge to `main` + +Both were being filed as blocked on the merge. Half never was. The Decoder read +this port's `BLOCKED.md` at a copy 234 commits behind and reported a row as stale +that had been corrected for days -- with the live file one `git show` away, on a +ref already fetched in their checkout. This port read `main`'s 926-line HANDOFF +for two days while the live one sat on a branch it had already been citing by sha. + +Same gap, opposite directions, and the fix in both cases costs one command. So +the command exists rather than the intention. + +Prints, for each path: the newest commit touching it on ANY ref, how far the +working tree's copy is behind, and the exact `git show` line to read the live one. +""" +import subprocess, sys, os + +# The files this port depends on that another agent writes. Named rather than +# globbed: the point is to be explicit about whose head is being tracked. +DEFAULT = [ + "docs/port/HANDOFF.md", + "docs/game/navigation.md", + "docs/agents/PROTOCOL.md", + "docs/port/MISSION.md", + "docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md", +] + + +def git(*a): + return subprocess.run(["git", *a], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout + + +def main(): + paths = sys.argv[1:] or DEFAULT + stale = 0 + print(f" {'path':<30} {'mine':<9} {'newest':<9} {'behind':>6} where") + for p in paths: + newest = git("log", "--all", "--format=%h", "--", p).split() + mine = git("log", "-1", "--format=%h", "--", p).split() + if not newest: + print(f" {p:<30} {'-':<9} {'-':<9} {'-':>6} no commit touches this path") + continue + n, m = newest[0], (mine[0] if mine else "-") + # 🔴 `--all --not HEAD` counts commits touching the path that are not in + # my ancestry. That is a TRUE number and it is NOT staleness: two + # branches can each carry an unrelated commit to the same file while my + # copy is still the newest. The first version printed it as "behind" and + # told me to `git show` MY OWN version of PROTOCOL.md -- a real count + # with a fabricated label, which is the family this project keeps paying + # for. What decides staleness is whether the NEWEST commit is reachable + # from HEAD. + reachable = subprocess.run(["git", "merge-base", "--is-ancestor", n, "HEAD"], + capture_output=True).returncode == 0 + diverged = len(git("log", "--all", "--not", "HEAD", "--format=%h", "--", p).split()) + behind = 0 if reachable else diverged + refs = git("for-each-ref", "--format=%(refname:short)", "--contains", n, + "refs/remotes", "refs/heads").split() + where = refs[0] if refs else "?" + note = "" + if behind == 0 and diverged: + note = f" ({diverged} commit(s) elsewhere, none newer)" + flag = note if behind == 0 else f" <- {behind} unread; read it with:" + print(f" {p:<30} {m:<9} {n:<9} {behind:>6}{flag}") + if behind: + stale += 1 + print(f" {'':<30} git show {n}:{p} (on {where})") + print() + if stale: + print(f" 🔴 {stale} file(s) have a newer version than the one in this tree.") + print(" Reading it needs no merge and no human. Being TOLD about it does.") + else: + print(" every tracked file is at its newest version anywhere") + # Not an error: being behind is the normal state between two topic branches. + # This reports; the caller decides. Exit 0 unless a path is unknown. + return 0 + + +sys.exit(main()) diff --git a/tools/port/strip-padding b/tools/port/strip-padding new file mode 100755 index 00000000..0b09333c --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/strip-padding @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Remove driver-inserted silence from a capture, exactly. +# +# tools/port/strip-padding in.wav out.wav +# +# WHEN THIS IS VALID, AND WHEN IT IS VANDALISM. The distinction is the whole +# tool and getting it backwards destroys the artefact: +# +# * PulseAudio's monitor SUBSTITUTES silence. It advances on a wall clock and +# replaces audio that existed when the producer was late. Information is +# gone; deleting the holes compresses time unevenly and repairs nothing. +# DO NOT RUN THIS ON A MONITOR CAPTURE. +# * Xenia's ALSA writer PADS. It inserts silence between samples the guest +# emitted when its ring is empty (`alsa_audio_driver.cc:359`). Nothing is +# lost and nothing is overwritten, so removing the padding is EXACT -- it +# hands back the contiguous stream the guest produced. +# +# CONTROLLED, not argued. A real music+SFX bed (137.37 s, with 454 zero runs of +# its own) had 1 149 holes inserted at 8.37/s to +9.9 % length, matching the +# observed ALSA profile, then was stripped: +# +# original vs itself r 1.000 lag 0.0 s margin +0.141 [ceiling] +# PADDED vs original r 0.436 lag -12.2 s margin +0.006 [destroyed] +# STRIPPED vs original r 1.000 lag 0.0 s margin +0.142 [recovered] +# +# Frame counts: original 6 593 984, stripped 6 559 880, and the original stripped +# of its own genuine zero runs 6 560 044 -- a difference of 164 frames, 3.4 ms in +# 137 s, from inserted holes abutting genuine ones and merging. +# +# ⚠️ It removes GENUINE silence too, and cannot tell the two apart -- that is why +# the reference above is the unstripped original: recovery does not depend on +# stripping both sides. On this material the genuine runs total 0.71 s in 137 s +# and cost nothing measurable. On material that is mostly silence they would. +set -euo pipefail +in="${1:?usage: strip-padding IN.wav OUT.wav}"; out="${2:?usage: strip-padding IN.wav OUT.wav}" +python3 - "$in" "$out" <<'PYEOF' +import array, struct, sys, wave +src, dst = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2] +w = wave.open(src); ch = w.getnchannels(); rate = w.getframerate() +if w.getsampwidth() != 2: + print("strip-padding: 16-bit PCM only (got %d-bit)" % (w.getsampwidth()*8)); raise SystemExit(2) +n = w.getnframes(); a = array.array('h'); a.frombytes(w.readframes(n)); w.close() +MIN = max(1, rate // 1000) # a gap is a run, not a sample +sil = bytearray(n) +for f in range(n): + b = f * ch + if not any(a[b+c] for c in range(ch)): sil[f] = 1 +keep = array.array('h'); f = 0; removed = 0; holes = 0 +while f < n: + s = f + if sil[f]: + while f < n and sil[f]: f += 1 + if f - s < MIN: keep.extend(a[s*ch:f*ch]) + else: removed += f - s; holes += 1 + else: + while f < n and not sil[f]: f += 1 + keep.extend(a[s*ch:f*ch]) +k = len(keep) // ch +o = wave.open(dst + ".partial", "wb") # temp name, renamed on completion +o.setnchannels(ch); o.setsampwidth(2); o.setframerate(rate) +o.writeframes(keep.tobytes()); o.close() +import os; os.replace(dst + ".partial", dst) +print("%s: %d frames (%.3f s) -> %s: %d frames (%.3f s)" + % (src, n, n/rate, dst, k, k/rate)) +print(" removed %d run(s) totalling %.3f s (%.2f %% of the input)" + % (holes, removed/rate, 100.0*removed/n)) +PYEOF diff --git a/tools/port/verify-capture b/tools/port/verify-capture new file mode 100755 index 00000000..f5db9d72 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/verify-capture @@ -0,0 +1,375 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Diff the port's render against a CAPTURE OF THE REAL GAME. +# +# tools/port/verify-capture main_menu +# tools/port/verify-capture # every screen with a capture +# +# THIS IS THE CORRECTNESS CHECK. `verify-screen` is the consistency one, and its +# own header has pointed at this file since P1 -- `tools/port/verify-capture` -- while +# this file did not exist. The port has had a harness comparing two renderers +# that share its assumptions, and none comparing it to the game. +# +# 🔴 WHAT THE `diff` COLUMN DOES NOT SAY. It counts pixels surviving +# `-threshold 25%` -- differing by more than ~64 levels. That is deliberate: it +# detects a missing or MISPLACED element, which is a large connected blob. It is +# blind to sub-threshold spatial error -- a one-pixel offset, a soft edge in a +# slightly wrong place, an antialiasing difference -- because none of that moves +# a pixel 64 levels. +# +# So `main_menu 0.06%` means NO GROSS DISPLACEMENT. It does NOT mean the +# geometry is right, and it has already been read that way by another agent: +# `docs/re/structures/title-residual-tone-vs-geometry.md` uses this screen as a +# tone-only positive control, citing this number as "geometry is essentially +# right". Measured 2026-08-31 against that capture: after fitting a per-level LUT +# -- the most general tone model there is -- the remaining residual is 6.94 on +# edge pixels against 2.20 on flat ones, a 3.2x concentration. A purely tonal +# residual leaves a per-level LUT exactly 0.00 (checked, by construction). The +# menu carries spatial error this column cannot see. +# +# ⚠️ That gap is not academic. `docs/re/captures/ORACLE-CAPTURES.md`: two +# renderers agreeing proves nothing, and this corpus has been bitten three times +# -- the dropped `pteff05` background, the scale-0 rect, and `rest()`. Every one +# was invisible to a render-vs-render diff and obvious against a capture. +# +# WHAT IT CAN CONCLUDE, and what it cannot: +# +# * ✅ STRUCTURE. Something drawn that should not be, or missing that should be, +# shows as a large connected region of difference. That is the failure mode +# the three above were, and it is what this tool is for. +# * 🔴 NOT a pixel score. The captures are NOT gamma-neutral: +# `capture ~= 255*(render/255)^g` with g ~ 1.34-1.49, and that ramp is THE +# GAME'S, not the capture path's (`docs/re/structures/ui-render-tone-curve.md`). +# So RMSE has a floor and driving it lower is fitting the ramp. This reports +# the raw difference AND the gamma-compensated one, and neither is a target. +# * ⚠️ A capture is ONE MOMENT. Several screens are still animating -- the +# title's two `ptloop` sweeps never stop -- and the focused button in a +# capture may not be the one the port focuses. Differences confined to a +# button or a moving element are expected; say which before calling anything. +# +# Geometry needs no correction: the corpus cross-correlated a render against +# `live-main-menu.png` over +/-6 px and the best alignment is exactly (0,0) at +# 0.9466. The captures are a 1279x675 top-left crop of the 1280x720 guest +# surface, so the render is cropped to match and nothing is scaled. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}" +OUT="${OUT:-$(mktemp -d)}"; mkdir -p "$OUT" +CAPS=docs/re/captures/title-builds + +# screen : capture : how to pose it +# 🔴 A MENU CAPTURE HAS A BUTTON FOCUSED, AND THE FIRST VERSION OF THIS TOOL +# RENDERED WITH NONE. `--screen=` draws no focus record at all, so `main_menu` +# was being compared to the oracle in a state the oracle was never in: 2 159 +# differing pixels, of which 74 % sat inside the focus signature. Rendered with +# focus it is 531 -- 0.06 % of the frame, a 4x improvement that was entirely my +# harness posing the port wrong. +# +# `--menu=` applies `authored/flow.json`'s initial focus and `--script=wait` +# shoots one settled frame and exits. +MAP=( + "main_menu:$CAPS/live-main-menu.png:menu" + "extras:$CAPS/live-extras.png:menu" + # The only capture of a MEASURED focus state, and it was unusable until + # `--focus=` was made to work on the `--menu` path (it parsed, was stored, and + # was overwritten by the authored initial focus on every `_menu_enter`). + # + # It discriminates: rendering each of the five buttons focused against this + # capture gives 0.1355 % for `ptbtn04` and 0.70-0.82 % for the other four. The + # port's focus rendering identifies the right button by a factor of five. + "main_menu_options:$CAPS/live-main-menu-options-focused.png:focus:ptbtn04" + # ⚠️ THE TITLE IS POSED AT t=357.7 UNITS, NOT AT ITS SETTLE, and the time is + # MEASURED rather than chosen. The two `ptloop` sweeps are a continuous + # animation whose leaf group ends at t=600 with the quads parked off-screen at + # x=1521, so posing at the settle compares a still frame against a capture + # taken mid-sweep and simply omits them. + # + # t=357.7 is the Decoder's REFINED fit, and the refinement is worth knowing. + # Its first value, 355, came from the two per-draw alpha bytes alone and left + # an 11.5 px residual that looked like a pivot problem. Solving the same + # instant on the vertex POSITIONS instead gives t=357.88 and 357.58 to + # +/-0.12 units, against +/-1.54 and +/-1.89 from the alphas -- alpha moves + # only 0.27-0.33 levels per unit, so one byte of quantisation is worth 6-8 px + # of sweep. At 357.7 the centres land within 0.70 px and both alphas inside one + # level. THE 11.5 px WAS THE FIT'S RESOLUTION, NOT GEOMETRY. + # + # ⚠️ And there is no pivot correction: the leaf pivot is (200, 90) on a 399x180 + # sprite, so it is the centre to within half a pixel -- checked here against + # the export rather than taken. + # + # ⚠️ It is NOT the time that minimises the difference: t=390 measures 1.65 % + # against 1.82 % here. Picking that one would be fitting the pose to the + # score, which is the thing this harness exists not to do. + "title:$CAPS/live-title-build4-no-plate.png:t357" + # The Japanese title at rest, Decoder 310bf86. Settled pose by omission -- + # the capture is demonstrated at rest (five frames over 6 s, 0 px change in + # the logo block while 5-8 % of the frame moves). + # + # 🔴 THIS ROW EXISTS BECAUSE SCORING THE WRONG FRAME COST A WRONG CONCLUSION. + # `verify-screen` poses at `--pose=rest`, which for this screen lights every + # `ptlogo_back2eff*` sparkle at its own peak simultaneously -- `rest` for those + # elements IS the peak of a 4-unit flash. That frame is fine for the + # consistency check it was built for and must never be scored against a + # capture: doing so put the port at r +0.7462 against the reference's +0.8727 + # and I wrote up that the port had moved away from the game. Posed as it + # SHIPS, the same block scores **+0.9994**. + "title_jp:$CAPS/live-title-jp-at-rest.png:settled::1279x675+1+45" + # A SECOND title comparison, and the most sensitive row this tool has. + # + # `live-title-press-a.png` is the title WITH the plate. Posed at t=237 -- inside + # the plate's own 8-unit opaque window, t=236-238 -- the port matches it at + # **0.00093 %**, two orders below every other row. That makes it the best + # regression detector here: anything structural that moves will show. + # + # ⚠️ The instant is FITTED, not measured: 237 is where this capture's content + # places it, found by sweeping. That is legitimate for choosing which frame to + # compare against -- every row does it -- but it is not a claim about the game, + # and the 0.00093 % is therefore a floor for THIS pose, not a general accuracy. + # + # It also closes the systematic-error question the leaf sweep left open. Two + # independent captures fit at two DIFFERENT phases -- this one at 237, the + # no-plate one at ~400 -- and both to 0.01 % or better. A geometry error in how + # the sweeps are drawn would leave a floor in both. Neither has one. + # 🔴 THIS ROW IS POSED AT THE PLATE'S BLIND PHASE, and it cannot see the plate's + # highlight at all. `--loop-phase=0` pins the looping-focus clock, and + # `ptbtn00f` -- the plate's own highlight, which the GAME draws ADDITIVE + # (docs/re/data/blend-bit-vs-oracle.txt, entry 2) -- contributes EXACTLY 0 px at + # phase 0 and 22 000-29 000 px at phases 20..100. Measured 2026-08-31 by + # shadowing its sprite and diffing. + # + # So switching that element to its measured additive blend moved 26 319 px at + # phase 20 and reported ZERO here. This row's 0.09 % is real and unaffected; it + # simply says nothing about the pulse. A capture at a NON-ZERO loop phase is + # what would let this row see it, and none exists -- filed in BLOCKED.md. + "title_plate:$CAPS/live-title-press-a.png:plate" + # A BANDED row -- the capture is 1279x120, not a full frame, and the harness + # could not compare one until now. That was the only reason this capture sat + # unused; nothing about it was unusable. + # + # Its y offset is MEASURED, not guessed: sliding it down the render, the + # structural difference is 0.354 % at y=520 against 8.9-9.1 % five pixels + # either side and 17-52 % further out. A 25x drop over five pixels. + # + # ⚠️ Its residual is NOT the port's error. The port reproduces the same band of + # `live-title-press-a.png` EXACTLY (0.000 %), and the two captures differ from + # each other by 0.301 % -- two thin horizontal strips, 248x5 px and 206x1 px, + # the shape of a sub-pixel edge difference rather than a state difference. So + # 0.354 % is very nearly the oracle-to-oracle gap and this row's job is to stay + # near it, not to reach zero. + "title_band:$CAPS/live-attract-title-press-a-band.png:band" + "publisher_logo:$CAPS/live-splash-publisher.png:screen" + "developer_logos:$CAPS/live-splash-developer.png:screen" +) +CURVE="" +if [ "${1:-}" = "--curve" ]; then CURVE=1; shift; fi +want=("$@") +echo "RMSE is reported and is NOT a target: the capture carries the game's own" +echo "tone ramp, so it has a floor. What finds a real defect is the DIFFERING" +echo "REGION -- a missing or misplaced element is a large connected blob." +echo +# 🔴 THE METRIC'S OWN ZERO, asserted before any row is printed. +# +# Every number below is "small is good", and this file already says the RMSE has +# a floor from the game's tone ramp. What was never established is the floor of +# the COMPARISON ITSELF. A control that only bounds error from above cannot tell +# an exact instrument from a slightly wrong one -- and slightly wrong is the +# failure that passes. The Decoder reached that form of it after their coherence +# estimator's positive control read 0.94 for two reasons at once. +# +# Measured here rather than assumed: a capture against itself, and against a PNG +# round-trip of itself, must both be EXACTLY 0. If they are not, the metric has a +# bias and no row below means what it says. +_ctl="" +for row in "${MAP[@]}"; do + IFS=: read -r _n _c _rest <<<"$row"; [ -f "$_c" ] && { _ctl="$_c"; break; } +done +if [ -n "$_ctl" ]; then + _rt="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/verify-capture-rt.png"; convert "$_ctl" -quality 100 "$_rt" + for _pair in "$_ctl|$_ctl|identity" "$_ctl|$_rt|PNG round-trip"; do + IFS='|' read -r _a _b _lab <<<"$_pair" + _d=$(convert "$_a" "$_b" -metric RMSE -compare -format "%[distortion]" info: 2>&1 | tail -1) + _v=$(python3 -c "print('%.4f' % (float('$_d')*255))" 2>/dev/null || echo "?") + if [ "$_v" = "0.0000" ]; then + printf ' metric control, %-16s RMSE %s -- exact\n' "$_lab:" "$_v" + else + printf ' 🔴 metric control, %-13s RMSE %s -- NOT ZERO. The comparison is\n' "$_lab:" "$_v" + echo " biased and every row below is unreadable. Refusing." + exit 3 + fi + done + echo +fi +printf '%-17s %-9s %-7s %-22s %s\n' screen raw-rmse diff region note +for row in "${MAP[@]}"; do + IFS=: read -r name cap pose forced capcrop <<<"$row" + if [ ${#want[@]} -gt 0 ] && ! printf '%s\n' "${want[@]}" | grep -qx "$name"; then continue; fi + [ -f "$cap" ] || { printf '%-17s %s\n' "$name" "no capture"; continue; } + if [ "$pose" = band ]; then + godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- --loop-phase=0 --leaf-time=0 "--screen=title" --overlay=press_start \ + --time=3.95 "--capture=$OUT/$name.full.png" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 || true + [ -f "$OUT/$name.full.png" ] && convert "$OUT/$name.full.png" \ + -crop 1279x120+0+520 +repage "$OUT/$name.render.png" + elif [ "$pose" = focus ]; then + godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- --loop-phase=0 --leaf-time=0 "--menu=main_menu" "--focus=$forced" \ + --script=wait "--shots=$OUT/$name" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 || true + [ -f "$OUT/${name}_00_start.png" ] && cp "$OUT/${name}_00_start.png" "$OUT/$name.render.png" + elif [ "$pose" = menu ]; then + godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- --loop-phase=0 --leaf-time=0 "--menu=$name" --script=wait \ + "--shots=$OUT/$name" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 || true + [ -f "$OUT/${name}_00_start.png" ] && cp "$OUT/${name}_00_start.png" "$OUT/$name.render.png" + elif [ "$pose" = plate ]; then + godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- --loop-phase=0 --leaf-time=0 "--screen=title" --overlay=press_start \ + --time=3.95 "--capture=$OUT/$name.render.png" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 || true + elif [ "$pose" = t357 ]; then + # 🔴 NO `--time` HERE EITHER, and the row's note used to claim otherwise. + # + # It passed `--time=5.9617` (t=357.7 units, the Decoder's refined sweep fit) + # and that value was NEVER APPLIED: `pose_at` replaced it with the screen's + # settle instant, t=198, on every run. Every title figure this tool has ever + # printed -- including the 0.26 % the port has quoted repeatedly -- was + # measured at the SETTLE, under a note saying t=357.7. + # + # Honouring it now makes that visible: t=357.7 is PAST the title's own group, + # which ends at t=269, so the whole screen poses at its faded-out final + # keyframes and the disagreement goes to 30.97 %. The instant was only ever + # meant for the `ptloop` LEAF, which runs to t=600 and is looped separately + # by `loop_leaf` (authored/rendering.json). Applying it to the whole screen + # was always wrong; it was harmless only while it was ignored. + # + # So: pose at the settle, which is what was actually being measured, and let + # the leaf loop carry the sweeps' phase. + godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- --loop-phase=0 --leaf-time=0 "--screen=$name" \ + "--capture=$OUT/$name.render.png" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 || true + else + # NO `--time`. It used to pass `--time=99` as an idiom for "settled", and + # that worked only because `--time` was SILENTLY IGNORED on a screen with a + # settle window: `pose_at` overwrote the requested instant with + # `settle_instant` whenever `holding` was true. The tool asked for t=5940 + # units and was handed the settle instant, which is the pose it actually + # wants -- and the 0.01 % agreements on both splashes were measured through + # that accident. Now that `--time` is honoured, asking for it explicitly + # would pose past the end of every group, so the request is simply dropped + # and the settled pose asked for by omission. + godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- --loop-phase=0 --leaf-time=0 "--screen=$name" \ + "--capture=$OUT/$name.render.png" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 || true + fi + [ -f "$OUT/$name.render.png" ] || { printf '%-17s %s\n' "$name" "render failed"; continue; } + # Crop the render to the capture's frame. The capture is the crop, not a scale. + if [ "$pose" = band ]; then + cp "$OUT/$name.render.png" "$OUT/$name.crop.png" + else + convert "$OUT/$name.render.png" -crop 1279x675+0+0 +repage "$OUT/$name.crop.png" + fi + # ⚠️ A FIFTH FIELD, because not every capture is pre-cropped to the game + # surface. Every capture in `$CAPS` until now was already 1279x675, so the + # render was cropped and the capture used as-is. The JP title capture is a + # full 1280x720 DISPLAY frame with the surface at +0+45 -- comparing it whole + # would score the port against a 45px shift and report a catastrophe. + # + # The offset is MEASURED, not inherited from the earlier submenu capture: + # row/column profile correlation against the port, with the English pair as a + # control, gives (0,0) for the control at r 0.994 and dy=-45 for this frame. + if [ -n "$capcrop" ]; then + convert "$cap" -crop "$capcrop" +repage "$OUT/$name.cap.png" + cap="$OUT/$name.cap.png" + fi + raw=$(convert "$OUT/$name.crop.png" "$cap" -metric RMSE -compare -format "%[distortion]" info: 2>&1 | tail -1) + raw=$(python3 -c "print('%.2f' % (float('$raw')*255))" 2>/dev/null || echo "?") + note="" + # 🔴 EVERY ROW WITH A SWEEPING LEAF CARRIES A CAPTURE-PHASE TERM, AND THIS + # TOOL USED TO PRINT THE NUMBER WITHOUT IT. + # + # `ptloop01`/`ptloop02` free-run on a settled screen -- a settled screen is not + # a static screen -- so a capture froze them wherever the shutter fell, and the + # render is pinned at `--leaf-time=0` by CONVENTION, not because 0 is the + # game's phase. Measured by sweeping the phase against each capture: + # + # title 5.56 main_menu 3.78 extras 3.73 splashes 0.00 + # + # Those are RMSE, in this tool's own metric, and larger than most margins + # anyone has quoted from these rows. So: usable for REGRESSION at a fixed pin, + # run to run; NOT usable as an absolute against anything measured differently. + # + # ✅ The two splash rows carry no free-running element at all. They are the + # only absolutes here that mean what they say. + case "$name" in + title) note="settle t=198; +/-5.56 capture-phase term -- regression only" ;; + title_jp) note="+/-5.6 capture-phase term (same leaves as build 4)" ;; + # 🔴 The old note said "rendered with AUTHORED initial focus", and it was + # stale twice over. The value became MEASURED on 2026-08-31 (NEW GAME, 2/2 + # fresh boots, first entry) -- and the capture's OWN focus state, which had + # never been established, is now identified by exclusion: rendering all five + # candidates against this capture gives ptbtn01 13.06 and every alternative + # 15.96-16.59, ~22 % worse. So the residual below is NOT a focus mismatch. + # + # ⚠️ It does not re-establish "the menu opens on NEW GAME". Focus persists on + # this screen, so a capture of the running menu could show any item; what is + # established is that THIS capture shows NEW GAME and the port renders the + # same state. + main_menu) note="focus ptbtn01 confirmed by exclusion (next best +22%); +/-3.78 capture-phase term" ;; + extras) note="rendered with authored initial focus; +/-3.73 capture-phase term" ;; + publisher_logo|developer_logos) note="no free-running element -- absolute, means what it says" ;; + esac + # Where the difference lives. This comes FIRST because it is what the gamma + # sweep has to be protected from. + convert "$OUT/$name.crop.png" "$cap" -compose difference -composite \ + -colorspace Gray -threshold 25% "$OUT/$name.mask.png" + + # THE TONE RELATIONSHIP IS REPORTED AS A CURVE, NOT AS A BEST EXPONENT, and + # two earlier versions of this tool reported an exponent and were wrong twice. + # + # `docs/re/structures/ui-render-tone-curve.md` models it as + # `capture = 255*(render/255)^g`, g ~ 1.34-1.49, measured on dark flat patches + # and explicitly not constrained above render ~60. Binning every structurally + # matched pixel of `main_menu` by render level and averaging the capture gives: + # + # render capture implied g pixels + # 8 4.04 1.20 183 026 + # 16 7.89 1.26 227 630 + # 24 15.57 1.18 100 945 + # 32 26.15 1.10 87 474 + # 40 38.07 1.03 86 094 + # 48 53.96 0.93 85 255 + # 64 78.52 0.85 6 509 + # 96 130.44 0.69 1 682 + # + # ⚠️ **The implied exponent is not constant. It falls monotonically and crosses + # 1.0 near render ~44**, so the capture is DARKER than the render in the darks + # and BRIGHTER in the midtones. A single power law cannot express that, which + # is exactly why a whole-frame fit returns 1.00: the two halves cancel. The + # corpus's reach -- "nothing constrains midtones or highlights" -- was a real + # limit and this is what lies past it. + # + # So: no best-g is printed. The table above is the instrument that can actually + # be argued with; `tools/port/verify-capture --curve SCREEN` regenerates it. + frac=$(convert "$OUT/$name.mask.png" -format "%[fx:mean*100]" info:) + box=$(convert "$OUT/$name.mask.png" -trim -format "%wx%h%X%Y" info: 2>/dev/null || echo "-") + printf '%-17s %-9s %6.2f%% %-22s %s\n' "$name" "$raw" "$frac" "$box" "$note" +done +if [ -n "$CURVE" ]; then + for row in "${MAP[@]}"; do + IFS=: read -r name cap pose <<<"$row" + if [ ${#want[@]} -gt 0 ] && ! printf '%s\n' "${want[@]}" | grep -qx "$name"; then continue; fi + [ -f "$OUT/$name.mask.png" ] || continue + convert "$OUT/$name.crop.png" -colorspace Gray -depth 8 "gray:$OUT/$name.r.gray" + convert "$cap" -colorspace Gray -depth 8 "gray:$OUT/$name.c.gray" + convert "$OUT/$name.mask.png" -colorspace Gray -depth 8 "gray:$OUT/$name.m.gray" + echo; echo "transfer curve, $name -- structurally matched pixels only" + python3 - "$OUT/$name" <<'PYEOF' +import sys, math +b = sys.argv[1] +r = open(b+".r.gray","rb").read(); c = open(b+".c.gray","rb").read(); m = open(b+".m.gray","rb").read() +n = min(len(r), len(c), len(m)); bins = {} +for i in range(n): + if m[i]: continue + s = bins.setdefault(r[i]//8*8, [0,0]); s[0] += c[i]; s[1] += 1 +print(" %-8s %-9s %-9s %s" % ("render","capture","implied g","pixels")) +for k in sorted(bins): + tot, cnt = bins[k] + if cnt < 500 or k < 8: continue + cap = tot/cnt + g = math.log(max(cap,0.5)/255.0)/math.log(k/255.0) + print(" %-8d %-9.2f %-9.2f %d" % (k, cap, g, cnt)) +PYEOF + done +fi +echo "artifacts in $OUT" diff --git a/tools/port/verify-dwell b/tools/port/verify-dwell new file mode 100755 index 00000000..4fc0bb2d --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/verify-dwell @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Check the port's boot pacing against captures of the real game. +# +# tools/port/verify-dwell +# +# WHY THIS IS A TOOL AND NOT A ONE-OFF. Doing it by hand once already refuted a +# 🔴 I had filed myself: `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` said `rest.t` was the wrong settle +# landmark AND that "everything the sequencer paces off it is therefore late". +# The first half is true; the second was wrong, and I nearly re-paced screens +# that already matched the game to 0.05 s. +# +# ⚠️ A PORT'S TRANSITION INTERVAL IS NOT THE ORACLE'S VISIBLE SPAN. They differ +# by the black hold between screens, and confusing the two cost this corpus 0.6 s +# once and 0.48 s on the plate delay. So the comparison here is explicit: the +# port's interval is checked against the oracle's span PLUS the measured hold. +# +# 🔴 AND THE VERDICT DOES NOT COME FROM THE FILMSTRIP ANY MORE. It used to +# measure ink spans from `--film` frames. The boot's black hold is 0.17-0.23 s +# (HANDOFF Q7) -- shorter than the 0.25 s cadence meant to observe it -- so when +# the black frame fell between samples two screens merged into one span and this +# tool reported `developer logos` as 93 s against an oracle of 3.5 s. Filming at +# 0.1 s made it WORSE: 2.5x the screenshots slows the run enough that the capture +# catches up in bursts, and the publisher span came back as 7.80 s. +# +# The sequencer already knows exactly when it changed screens and prints it. +# Sampling a picture to rediscover a number the program can state is how this +# went wrong. The filmstrip is kept, and marked advisory. +# +# THE EXPECTED NUMBERS ARE THE ORACLE'S, NOT THE PORT'S: three cold boots from +# `docs/re/boot-order-and-splash-dwell.md`, quoted as a test fixture. Nothing in +# the port derives them and nothing may. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}" +OUT="${OUT:-$(mktemp -d)}" +mkdir -p "$OUT" +INTERVAL="${INTERVAL:-0.25}" + +echo "running the boot (the intro is skipped -- the splashes are what this measures)" +timeout "${TIMEOUT:-300}" godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- \ + --boot --skip-at=1 "--film-interval=$INTERVAL" "--film=$OUT/f" \ + >"$OUT/boot.log" 2>&1 || true + +INTERVAL="$INTERVAL" python3 - "$OUT" <<'PYEOF' +import glob, os, re, subprocess, sys +out = sys.argv[1] +INTERVAL = float(os.environ.get("INTERVAL", "0.25")) +# The boot's black gap, measured in the DRAW STREAM (4 presented frames at +# 2.284 units/frame = 9.1 units), not from luminance -- luminance cannot separate +# +# ⚠️ 2.284 IS NOT A GENERAL RATE AND THIS LINE USED TO READ AS IF IT WERE. +# It is the disc used as its own clock ON ONE CAPTURE, which ran at 13.1 fps +# against ~28 elsewhere: `palogo_sqex` declares alpha >= 1 for 239.8 units and +# was drawn in 105 frames of that run. Correct for converting THAT run's frame +# count; not a constant, and not HANDOFF Q1's 2 units per rendered frame, which +# is a different quantity measured at normal speed. See DECISIONS.md. +# the outgoing fade's tail from true black. The +/-1 frame range is 6.9-11.4 +# units = 0.114-0.190 s. HANDOFF Q7's luminance figure of 0.17-0.23 s overlaps +# only at the top, and the draw-stream number is the one to use. +HOLD_LO, HOLD_HI = 0.114, 0.190 +# 🔴 THAT IS THE GAME'S GAP. THE PORT'S IS AUTHORED AND IS CURRENTLY 0. +# +# This tool built its target as `oracle span + the GAME's black gap` and compared +# the port against it -- correct only while the port inserted that gap. It does +# not: `black_hold_units` went to 0 (four measured gaps, 0/6/4/6 units, no rule; +# see authored/timing.json). So the port is expected to run SHORT by the gap, and +# on `publisher_logo` it does -- 0.131 s below the unslacked target, which the +# 0.15 s wall-clock slack was quietly absorbing into an "agrees". +# +# Read from the authored file so it cannot drift again, and REPORT the shortfall +# rather than hide it. A verdict that passes because the slack happens to exceed +# a known omission is not a verdict. +# +# 🔴 AND THE RATE WAS HARDCODED WHILE THE VALUE WAS NOT. This line read +# `black_hold_units` from the file -- so it "cannot drift again" -- and then +# divided by a literal 60.0. The value could not drift; the conversion could, +# and would have gone silently wrong the moment `keyframe_units_per_second` +# moved. It is under active dispute right now (60 vs 120), so this is a live +# hazard rather than a tidy-up. Harmless only because the hold is currently 0. +import json as _json +_timing = _json.load(open("authored/timing.json")) +_UPS = float(_timing.get("keyframe_units_per_second", 60)) +PORT_HOLD = float(_timing.get("black_hold_units", 0)) / _UPS + +marks = [] +for line in open(os.path.join(out, "boot.log"), errors="replace"): + m = re.match(r"\s+-> (\S+) at ([0-9.]+) s", line) + if m: + marks.append((m.group(1), float(m.group(2)))) +if not marks: + print("no transitions in the boot log -- see", os.path.join(out, "boot.log")) + raise SystemExit(2) + +ORACLE = [ + ("publisher wordmark", [4.297, 4.604, 4.370]), + ("developer logos", [3.508, 3.503, 3.366]), +] +starts = [0.0] + [t for _, t in marks] +print() +print("%-20s %-14s %-26s %s" % ("screen", "port interval", "oracle span (3 boots)", "verdict")) +bad = 0 +for k, (name, runs) in enumerate(ORACLE): + if k + 1 >= len(starts): + print("%-20s %-14s %s" % (name, "-", "no such transition this run")); continue + d = starts[k + 1] - starts[k] + lo, hi = min(runs) + PORT_HOLD, max(runs) + PORT_HOLD + game_lo, game_hi = min(runs) + HOLD_LO, max(runs) + HOLD_HI + ok = lo - 0.15 <= d <= hi + 0.15 + bad += 0 if ok else 1 + print("%-20s %-14s %-26s %s" + % (name, "%.2f s" % d, "%.3f / %.3f / %.3f" % tuple(runs), + "agrees" if ok else "DIFFERS")) +print() +print(" Target = oracle SPAN + the PORT's authored hold (%.3f s); the GAME's" % PORT_HOLD) +print(" measured gap is %.3f-%.3f s, so a port with hold 0 runs short by that." % (HOLD_LO, HOLD_HI)) +print(" 0.15 s of slack for wall-clock jitter -- which is LARGER than the gap,") +print(" so a shortfall of that size passes unless it is reported separately:") +print(" transitions:", ", ".join("%s@%.2f" % m for m in marks[:4])) + +frames = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(out, "f_*.png")))[:120] +if frames: + means = [float(subprocess.run(["convert", f, "-colorspace", "Gray", "-format", + "%[fx:mean*255]", "info:"], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout or 0) + for f in frames] + ink = [m > 0.0 for m in means] + spans, i = [], 0 + while i < len(ink): + if ink[i]: + j = i + while j < len(ink) and ink[j]: j += 1 + spans.append((i * INTERVAL, j * INTERVAL)); i = j + else: + i += 1 + print() + print(" advisory -- filmstrip ink spans at %.2f s, which CANNOT resolve a" % INTERVAL) + print(" %.2f-%.2f s hold and merges screens whenever it misses one:" % (HOLD_LO, HOLD_HI)) + for a, b in spans[:4]: + print(" %6.2f - %6.2f s (%.2f s)" % (a, b, b - a)) +raise SystemExit(1 if bad else 0) +PYEOF +rc=$? +echo "artifacts in $OUT" +exit $rc diff --git a/tools/port/verify-input b/tools/port/verify-input new file mode 100755 index 00000000..ef2e5a1e --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/verify-input @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# The input map, and the stick latch -- asserted against Godot, not reasoned about. +# +# tools/port/verify-input +# tools/port/verify-input --control # each check fails when its subject is removed +# +# 🔴 WHY THIS EXISTS. A human played the port on a real controller and Ⓐ did +# nothing. Skipping the intro did nothing; opening a submenu did nothing. The +# unattended P5 walk had passed on every iteration while this was true, and the +# reason is exact: +# +# `--script` sends `InputEventAction`, which BYPASSES the input map. +# +# So the harness asserted every line of code *after* the input map and nothing +# about the map itself -- and the map was missing half the actions. Godot 4.7.2 +# binds NO joypad button to `ui_accept` or `ui_cancel`, while it binds the d-pad +# AND the left stick to `ui_up`/`ui_down`. Four actions worked on the pad, two +# did not, which reads as a broken controller. +# +# The second defect had the same blind spot: `InputEventAction` is not an analog +# axis, so the harness could not have seen that a held stick fires once per +# jitter. The human's words were "moves the cursor too fast". +# +# ⚠️ THE GENERAL LESSON, worth more than either fix: **a synthetic-input test +# cannot assert the input map.** Anything injected below the map is evidence +# about the code above it only. +# +# ## The control, and what it can and cannot cover +# +# 🔴 The first version of `--control` inverted ALL NINE assertions and demanded +# every one fail with the fixup skipped. Seven of them do not depend on the +# fixup, so it reported them as broken -- a control that fails a correct check +# is the same defect as one that passes a dead check, and this file would have +# shipped claiming its checks were untrustworthy. Each check now names its +# SUBJECT, and the control removes exactly that subject: +# +# bind -- skip `Gamepad.bind_missing()`; the check must fail +# latch -- run the same events through no latch at all; the count must differ +# godot -- NOT CONTROLLABLE HERE, and said so rather than faked. These assert +# what Godot itself binds. There is nothing of ours to remove; they +# exist to make a future Godot dropping the d-pad a failing check +# instead of a bug report. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}" +GODOT="${GODOT:-godot}" +mode="assert" +[ "${1:-}" = "--control" ] && mode="control" + +probe="port/.verify-input-probe.gd" +trap 'rm -f "$probe" "${probe}.uid"' EXIT INT TERM + +cat > "$probe" <<'GD' +extends SceneTree + +var mode := OS.get_environment("VERIFY_INPUT_MODE") +var fail := 0 +var ran := 0 + +## `subject` is what the check depends on, and decides whether the control +## removes it. A check whose subject cannot be removed is skipped there and +## counted, not silently dropped -- a control that quietly tests four of nine +## things reports the same green line as one that tests all nine. +func ok(name: String, subject: String, cond: bool, detail: String = "", control_row: String = "the stick row (6 -> 1)") -> void: + if mode == "control" and subject == "godot": + print(" %-44s -- not controllable (Godot's own binding)" % name) + return + if mode == "control" and subject == "negative": + # 🔴 R4: a NEGATIVE carries a positive control, it does not carry an + # inversion. "The latch must not touch buttons" cannot be controlled by + # removing the latch -- with no latch, buttons pass, which is the same + # answer. What shows the method has power is that the SAME counter, on + # the same code path, reduces 6 stick events to 1. That row is the + # positive control for this one, and naming it is the honest move; + # inverting it would have been a green line that meant nothing. + # 🔴 The control row was HARDCODED here and a second negative arrived. + # A negative that names someone else's control is not controlled; it is + # borrowing a green line. `control_row` now defaults to the original + # text so that row is unchanged, and any new negative must say what + # actually backs it. + print(" %-44s -- negative; positive control is %s" % [name, control_row]) + return + ran += 1 + var want: bool = cond if mode != "control" else not cond + print(" %-44s %s%s" % [name, "ok" if want else "🔴 FAILED", + (" " + detail) if detail != "" else ""]) + if not want: + fail = 1 + +func has_button(action: String, button: int) -> bool: + for e in InputMap.action_get_events(action): + if e is InputEventJoypadButton and e.button_index == button: + return true + return false + +## Feed a run of axis values through a latch (or through none) and count the +## presses it would produce. +func steps(values: Array, latched: bool) -> int: + var pad := Gamepad.new() + var n := 0 + for v: float in values: + var e := InputEventJoypadMotion.new() + e.axis = JOY_AXIS_LEFT_Y + e.axis_value = v + # No latch = what the port did before: every event above the action + # deadzone is a press. That is the bug, reproduced, as the control. + if pad.accepts(e) if latched else absf(v) >= Gamepad.ENTER: + n += 1 + return n + +## The latch as the port actually uses it -- and REMOVED under `--control`, so +## the rows that depend on it invert. +func nav(values: Array) -> int: + return steps(values, mode != "control") + +func _init() -> void: + # The control removes the repair. Everything else runs with it applied. + if mode != "control": + Gamepad.bind_missing() + + # ── 1. subject `bind` -- the two actions Godot leaves unbound ───────────── + ok("Ⓐ reaches ui_accept", "bind", has_button("ui_accept", JOY_BUTTON_A), + "JOY_BUTTON_A") + ok("Ⓑ reaches ui_cancel", "bind", has_button("ui_cancel", JOY_BUTTON_B), + "JOY_BUTTON_B") + + # ── 2. subject `godot` -- what the engine binds, and must keep binding ──── + # + # The keyboard events must SURVIVE the fixup: declaring `ui_accept` in + # project.godot would have replaced the built-in wholesale and dropped them + # silently. Adding to the action must not. + var keys := 0 + for e in InputMap.action_get_events("ui_accept"): + if e is InputEventKey: + keys += 1 + ok("ui_accept keeps its keyboard events", "godot", keys >= 2, + "%d key event(s)" % keys) + ok("d-pad reaches ui_down", "godot", has_button("ui_down", JOY_BUTTON_DPAD_DOWN)) + var axis := false + for e in InputMap.action_get_events("ui_down"): + if e is InputEventJoypadMotion and e.axis == JOY_AXIS_LEFT_Y: + axis = true + ok("left stick reaches ui_down", "godot", axis, "axis %d" % JOY_AXIS_LEFT_Y) + + # ── 3. subject `latch` -- one step per deflection, not one per jitter ───── + # + # A push to full deflection followed by jitter that never returns to + # neutral: what a real stick emits, and what produced "moves the cursor too + # fast". The control runs the identical values with no latch and must count + # every one of them, which is what makes this a discriminator rather than a + # number that happens to be 1. + var held := [0.92, 0.95, 0.91, 0.99, 0.93, 0.97] + # `nav()` is the latch under control: in `--control` the latch is REMOVED, + # which is what makes these rows invert. Reading `steps(..., true)` in both + # modes was the earlier defect -- the control ran the repaired code and then + # demanded it fail. + ok("a held stick is ONE step, not six", "latch", nav(held) == 1, + "latched %d, unlatched %d" % [steps(held, true), steps(held, false)]) + + # Release, then push again: that IS a second press, or the stick becomes + # single-use. + ok("release then push is a second step", "latch", + nav([0.92, 0.95, 0.10, 0.88]) == 2, + "%d step(s)" % nav([0.92, 0.95, 0.10, 0.88])) + + # Hysteresis: drifting back only as far as the release threshold must not + # re-arm, or a stick resting near the boundary chatters -- the original bug + # with a smaller number. + ok("boundary drift does not re-arm", "latch", + nav([0.9, 0.45, 0.9, 0.45, 0.9]) == 1, + "%d step(s)" % nav([0.9, 0.45, 0.9, 0.45, 0.9])) + + # ✅ THE GAME'''S OWN THRESHOLD, ASSERTED AT THE DEVICE LEVEL. The game + # digitises the stick to four direction bits at 61 % deflection, so a + # deflection between Godot'''s 0.50 action deadzone and that 0.61 is a + # direction the real game never sees. At the old ENTER = 0.5 this port + # stepped there. Negative first, then the positive control on the SAME run + # shape -- a negative alone would also pass if the latch were simply broken. + # 🔴 THIS ROW WAS "latch" AND THE CONTROL CAUGHT IT IMMEDIATELY. Removing + # the latch does not remove the THRESHOLD -- the unlatched path also tests + # `>= Gamepad.ENTER`, so 0.55 counts 0 either way and the row could never + # invert. The harness said so in one run: "a check did not invert -- it is + # not testing what it claims to test". It is a negative, and its positive + # control is the row below it: the same shape at 0.70 does step. + ok("0.55 is below the game 61 % threshold, must not step", "negative", + nav([0.55, 0.55, 0.55]) == 0, + "%d step(s)" % nav([0.55, 0.55, 0.55]), + "the 0.70 row on the same shape") + ok("...and its control: 0.70 on the same shape DOES step", "latch", + nav([0.70, 0.70, 0.70]) == 1, + "%d step(s)" % nav([0.70, 0.70, 0.70])) + + # A button already IS an edge; latching it would swallow the second of two + # quick taps. + var pad := Gamepad.new() + var passed := 0 + for i in 3: + var b := InputEventJoypadButton.new() + b.button_index = JOY_BUTTON_DPAD_DOWN + b.pressed = true + if pad.accepts(b): + passed += 1 + ok("d-pad presses are not latched", "negative", passed == 3, "%d of 3" % passed) + + if ran == 0: + print("🔴 no check ran -- the harness asserted nothing") + quit(2) + quit(fail) +GD + +out=$(VERIFY_INPUT_MODE="$mode" "$GODOT" --headless --path port \ + --script "res://$(basename "$probe")" 2>&1 \ + | grep -v "^Godot Engine\|^$" || true) +rc=0 +printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q "🔴" && rc=1 + +if [ "$mode" = "control" ]; then + echo "control -- each check must fail when ITS OWN subject is removed:" + printf '%s\n' "$out" + echo + if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then + echo "every controllable check fails without its subject -- the control holds" + exit 0 + fi + echo "🔴 a check did not invert -- it is not testing what it claims to test" + exit 1 +fi + +echo "input map and stick latch:" +printf '%s\n' "$out" +echo +if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then + echo "Ⓐ and Ⓑ reach the game, and a held stick is one step" + exit 0 +fi +echo "🔴 the input map is not what the port needs" +exit 1 diff --git a/tools/port/verify-menu-audio b/tools/port/verify-menu-audio new file mode 100755 index 00000000..bb037621 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/verify-menu-audio @@ -0,0 +1,246 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Does the port actually MAKE SOUND on the P5 walk, and the RIGHT sound? +# +# tools/port/verify-menu-audio # assert +# tools/port/verify-menu-audio --control # can it fail? +# +# 🔴 FOR WEEKS THIS COULD NOT FAIL. It computed the verdict, printed a red line +# when a cue was silent -- and the python had NO EXIT PATH, so it returned 0 +# every time while `check-all` registered it `must-pass`. A cue could stop +# sounding and the suite would print the failure and stay green. +# +# That is this project's recurring defect one level up: not an instrument that +# sits below the thing under test, but an instrument that SEES the failure and +# does not report it. Ask of any check: what would this still report if the +# feature were absent -- AND what would it EXIT? +# +# This is the P6 gate check. P6's gate is "sound on the P5 gate", and until this +# existed the only evidence for it was that `audio.play("move")` appears in +# boot.gd -- which is evidence that a call is written, not that a sound reaches +# the Master bus. Those differ: the black hold was implemented, called, and +# emitted nothing for five milestones. +# +# It needs NO SOUND CARD. Godot records the Master bus to a WAV under the Dummy +# driver (docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md section 2). +# +# WHAT IT CONCLUDES, and what it must not be read as: +# +# * ✅ that a cue REACHES THE BUS when a press does something; +# * ✅ that a press bound to NOTHING is silent, byte for byte; +# * ✅ that two presses of the same action play the SAME cue; +# * 🔴 NOT that the cue is the one the GAME plays. That binding is HANDOFF Q8, +# measured by the Decoder, and nothing here re-measures it. This tool cannot +# tell a correct cue from a confidently wrong one. +# +# ⚠️ Cue LENGTH is deliberately not asserted. The audible part of a cue is much +# shorter than its wave -- the music bed masks the tail -- so "elevated for +# 0.13 s" is a fact about the bed, not about the cue, and an assertion built on +# it would fail whenever the bed changes. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}" +OUT="${OUT:-${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/verify-menu-audio}" +CONTROL=0; [ "${1:-}" = "--control" ] && CONTROL=1 +mkdir -p "$OUT" +[ -d port/.godot ] || godot --headless --path port --import >/dev/null 2>&1 + +run() { # name, script + timeout 300 godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- \ + --menu=main_menu "--script=$2" "--audio=$OUT/$1.wav" >"$OUT/$1.log" 2>&1 || true + [ -s "$OUT/$1.wav" ] || { echo "no audio written for $1 -- see $OUT/$1.log" >&2; exit 2; } +} + +# THE WALK, and TWO CONTROLS. The controls are the point: a run that makes noise +# proves nothing on its own, because the music bed makes noise too. +# +# `wait` -- the bed alone, nothing pressed. +# `left` -- five presses that REACH _unhandled_input and are bound to nothing +# (HANDOFF Q5: left/right do nothing). If these differ from `wait`, +# the port is making a sound the game does not. +run walk down,down,accept,cancel,up +run ctrl wait,wait,wait,wait,wait +run noop left,left,left,left,left + +# 🔴 AND A PER-CUE KNOWN NEGATIVE, because the bed-only control could not settle +# what it was being asked. `move` reported NOT FOUND on three consecutive runs at +# margins 0.109/0.120/0.131 against a 0.15 line that a documented earlier run had +# cleared at 0.185. Two readings fit that -- the cue stopped playing, or the +# threshold sits above the quietest cue's true signal -- and A MARGIN CANNOT +# SEPARATE THEM, because both produce a small number. +# +# So each cue now gets its own negative: the SAME walk, with only that cue's .ogg +# replaced by silence through the mod tree. Silencing a cue that is playing must +# collapse its correlation and leave the other two alone, which is a 3x3 matrix +# with six off-diagonal controls rather than one number to compare against a +# threshold. +for c in move confirm back; do + d="$OUT/sup_$c"; mkdir -p "$d/audio/se" + ffmpeg -v error -f lavfi -i anullsrc=r=44100:cl=stereo \ + -t "$(ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv=p=0 export/audio/se/$c.ogg)" \ + -c:a libvorbis "$d/audio/se/$c.ogg" -y + SYLPHEED_MODS="$d" run "sup_$c" down,down,accept,cancel,up + grep -q "^mod: audio/se/$c.ogg" "$OUT/sup_$c.log" || { + echo "the $c override was never read -- the matrix below would be meaningless" >&2 + exit 2; } +done + +# THE CONTROL. Replace the walk with the run that already had `move` silenced, so +# the cue is genuinely missing from the baseline. Silencing it again can then +# remove nothing, the diagonal cannot drop, and the check MUST fail. Built from +# the tool's OWN suppression machinery rather than a second mechanism -- a +# control built a different way tests the control, not the check. +if [ $CONTROL -eq 1 ]; then + cp "$OUT/sup_move.wav" "$OUT/walk.wav" + echo "control: analysing a walk in which \`move\` never sounded" +fi + +rc=0 +python3 - "$OUT" <<'PYEOF' || rc=$? +import array, math, subprocess, sys +O = sys.argv[1]; SR = 44100 +def dec(src, dst): + subprocess.run(["ffmpeg","-v","error","-i",src,"-f","s16le","-ac","1", + "-ar",str(SR),dst,"-y"], check=True) + a = array.array('h'); a.frombytes(open(dst,'rb').read()); return a +walk = dec(f"{O}/walk.wav", f"{O}/walk.raw") +ctrl = dec(f"{O}/ctrl.wav", f"{O}/ctrl.raw") +noop = dec(f"{O}/noop.wav", f"{O}/noop.raw") + +# 1. A press bound to nothing must be SILENT, and silent still means IDENTICAL -- +# but aligned to a WHOLE AUDIO BUFFER, because the recording is not +# sample-deterministic across runs and never was. +# +# 🔴 This check compared the two byte streams directly and passed for weeks. +# It then began failing, and the cause is not the port: three IDENTICAL +# invocations produce two distinct outcomes, 1.207438 s and 1.300317 s, +# differing by 0.092879 s = **exactly 4096 samples**, one mixing buffer. The +# recording quantises to whole buffers and a one-buffer shift moves both the +# length and the alignment of everything inside it. +# +# So the old premise -- cross-run bit-determinism -- was never guaranteed. It +# held while the run's timing sat away from a buffer boundary, and a larger +# export (three voice streams instead of one) moved it onto one. A test that +# passes by luck reports the luck running out as a regression in the code. +# +# The fix keeps the strength that mattered: still EXACT equality, still no +# threshold to tune. It only allows the comparison to slide by whole buffers, +# which is the one degree of freedom the recorder actually has. +BUF = 4096 +best = None +for k in (0, BUF, -BUF, 2*BUF, -2*BUF): + a, b = (ctrl[k:], noop) if k >= 0 else (ctrl, noop[-k:]) + n = min(len(a), len(b)) + if n < BUF: + continue + if a[:n].tobytes() == b[:n].tobytes(): + best = (k, n) + break +if best: + print("no-op presses vs bed alone : IDENTICAL -- silent (%d samples, %+d buffer shift)" + % (best[1], best[0] // BUF)) +else: + n = min(len(ctrl), len(noop)) + print("no-op presses vs bed alone : DIFFER at every whole-buffer alignment " + "-- the port sounds a dead press (%d samples)" % n) + +# 2. Is the RIGHT CUE on the bus? Match each EXPORTED cue wave against the +# recording by normalised cross-correlation over the whole file. +# +# This replaced a burst-counter that thresholded the envelope at a multiple +# of the bed level. That counter reported 4 cues on one run and 0 on the next +# from the SAME script, because its answer was set by two hand-picked +# constants -- the multiple and a minimum run length -- and the bed level is +# not constant across a run. It was nearly shipped. A tool whose headline +# number moves with its own tuning cannot detect anything. +# +# This has no such constant. The cue file is its own template, the search is +# over the whole recording, and the verdict is a MARGIN over the same +# template matched against the bed-only control. +def slide(tpl, hay, step=16): + t = [float(v) for v in tpl]; bt = math.sqrt(sum(v*v for v in t)) + if bt == 0: return (0.0, 0.0) + best = (-2.0, 0.0) + for i in range(0, len(hay)-len(t), step): + seg = hay[i:i+len(t)] + bs = math.sqrt(sum(float(v)*v for v in seg)) + if bs: + r = sum(a*float(b) for a, b in zip(t, seg))/(bt*bs) + if r > best[0]: best = (r, i/SR) + return best + +found = [] +tpls = {} +for cue in ("move", "confirm", "back"): + tpl = dec("export/audio/se/%s.ogg" % cue, "%s/%s.raw" % (O, cue))[:int(0.15*SR)] + tpls[cue] = tpl + rw, tw = slide(tpl, walk) + rc, _ = slide(tpl, ctrl) + # 🔴 NO VERDICT ON THIS LINE ANY MORE. It used to print PRESENT/NOT FOUND on + # `margin > 0.15`, and it called `move` NOT FOUND on three consecutive runs at + # 0.109/0.120/0.131 while the cue was DEMONSTRABLY SOUNDING -- silencing its + # .ogg collapses it to the bed floor. The bed-only control is a DIFFERENT RUN, + # so its margin carries every difference between two runs; the threshold that + # once cleared 0.185 was never a property of the cue. The number is still worth + # printing. The verdict now comes from the suppression matrix below. + hit = rw - rc > 0.15 + found.append((cue, tw, hit)) + print("%-8s walk r=%.3f at %5.2fs | bed-only r=%.3f | margin %+.3f" + % (cue, rw, tw, rc, rw-rc)) + +# 3. The ORDER is the strongest evidence here and it is free: the correlator is +# never told where to look, so three templates landing in script order -- +# move (step 1) before confirm (step 3) before back (step 4) -- is three +# independent searches agreeing with the log. +# 3b. THE SUPPRESSION MATRIX. Row = the cue silenced, column = the template +# searched for. The diagonal is the only cell that should move. +sup = {c: dec("%s/sup_%s.wav" % (O, c), "%s/sup_%s.raw" % (O, c)) + for c in ("move", "confirm", "back")} +base = {c: slide(tpls[c], walk)[0] for c in tpls} +print("\nsuppression matrix -- drop in r when one cue's .ogg is silenced") +print(" " + "".join("%9s" % c for c in ("move", "confirm", "back"))) +ok = True +for row in ("move", "confirm", "back"): + drops = {col: base[col] - slide(tpls[col], sup[row])[0] for col in ("move", "confirm", "back")} + print(" silence %-6s" % row + "".join("%+9.3f" % drops[c] for c in ("move", "confirm", "back"))) + if drops[row] <= 0.05: + ok = False + print(" 🔴 silencing %s did not remove %s -- that cue is NOT SOUNDING" % (row, row)) +print(" => %s" % ("all three cues SOUND: silencing each one collapses its own signal" + if ok else "at least one cue is not sounding")) +# 🔴 THE VERDICT EXITS. Everything below this line is REPORTED, not asserted, and +# deliberately so: the no-op-silence line and the cue-order line both carry +# DOCUMENTED cross-run instability (whole-buffer recording shifts; a 0.15 margin +# this file's own comments show going to 0.109 on a sounding cue). Making either +# binding would produce red on correct audio, which is how a suite gets ignored. +# The diagonal has no threshold to drift: silencing a cue either removes its own +# signal or it was never there. +VERDICT_FAILED = not ok +# 🔴 THE VERDICT IS THE DIAGONAL ONLY, and the first version of this asserted the +# off-diagonal too -- "silencing a cue must not move the others". That failed, and +# the material is why: `confirm` lands at 1.12 s and `back` at 1.21 s, 0.09 s apart +# under a 0.15 s template, so the two windows OVERLAP. Silencing `confirm` raises +# `back` by 0.468 because confirm was masking it. That is a fact about two cues the +# game plays 90 ms apart, not a fault, and an assertion that calls it one would +# fail forever on correct audio. +print(" (off-diagonal is MASKING between overlapping cues, not an error --") +print(" confirm at 1.12 s and back at 1.21 s share a 0.15 s window)") + +times = [t for _, t, hit in found if hit] +print("cue order vs script order : %s" + % ("CONSISTENT" if times == sorted(times) and len(times) == 3 + else "check %s" % [(c, round(t, 2)) for c, t, _ in found])) +raise SystemExit(1 if VERDICT_FAILED else 0) +PYEOF + +if [ $CONTROL -eq 1 ]; then + if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then + echo + echo " 🔴 CONTROL FAILED -- the check passed a walk with \`move\` silenced, so it" + echo " cannot detect a cue that stops sounding." + exit 1 + fi + echo + echo "the check rejects a run with a cue missing (rc=$rc)" + exit 0 +fi +exit $rc diff --git a/tools/port/verify-motion b/tools/port/verify-motion new file mode 100755 index 00000000..0abdf900 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/verify-motion @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Does the boot ANIMATE, or does it draw the same picture very fast? +# +# tools/port/verify-motion # assert +# tools/port/verify-motion --control # can it fail? +# +# 🔴 WHY THIS EXISTS. A human on a 140 fps GPU: *"the port does no blur +# animation at all, the logos just switch."* Three checks this port already had +# were green at the time, and all three were blind the same way: +# +# frozen sweep (`--time=`) proves the renderer CAN draw pose N. It drives the +# clock by hand and never runs the animation. +# settled comparison scored 0.01 % against the oracle. A screen frozen +# 84 % of the time matches a settled reference +# PERFECTLY -- that is what frozen means. +# achieved-fps counter counts frames DRAWN. Drawing identical pixels 25 +# times a second scores exactly like animating. +# +# Every one measured throughput or a pose. **None measured CHANGE.** Same shape +# as `InputEventAction` bypassing the input map: the instrument sat below the +# thing that was broken, so the breakage could not appear in it. +# +# This films a REAL boot -- no `--time`, no pinning -- and hands it to +# `tools/motion-census`, which measures change and nothing else. +# +# ⚠️ WHAT IT CANNOT DO. It is the liveness half only. A wrong ramp that moves +# every frame passes here. Correctness stays with `verify-capture` against the +# oracle, and the two are complementary: one screen can pass either alone. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}" +OUT="${OUT:-${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/verify-motion}" +INTERVAL=0.05 + +# The publisher splash declares its whole build-in over t=0..45 -- 0.75 s at +# 60 units/s -- and then holds. So the FIRST second of the boot is where a +# frozen build-in shows up, and it is the only window this asserts on. +# +# The bar is 60 % of adjacent frame-pairs moving in that window, and BOTH SIDES +# WERE MEASURED rather than one measured and one assumed -- the one operator in +# `ScreenView.pose_at` was reverted, this check run against the defect, and the +# operator restored: +# +# broken (pose_at ASSIGNED the settle instant) 40 % -- and it FAILED +# fixed (clamps to it) 86 % -- and it passed +# +# 60 sits mid-gap: 20 points above the defect, 26 below the fix. That is why it +# is a floor and not a tuned threshold, and it is deliberately NOT set near the +# passing value -- a check that only passes at exactly today's number fails on +# the next legitimate change and teaches people to edit the bar. +# +# 🔴 THE FIRST VERSION CLAIMED "~40 POINTS OF CLEARANCE ON BOTH SIDES" AND HAD +# NOT MEASURED THE BROKEN CASE. With a 1.0 s window the real clearance was 5 +# points, because that window includes 0.25 s of legitimate hold and dilutes the +# signal. The window is now the DECLARED build-in -- publisher t=0..45, 0.75 s +# at 60 units/s -- so it asks about the interval the disc says is animating and +# nothing else. A bar justified by an unmeasured number is the same defect this +# whole check exists to catch, one level up. +WINDOW=0.75 +BAR=60 + +films() { # $1 = dir + rm -rf "$1"; mkdir -p "$1" + timeout 120 godot --path port -- --boot --skip-at=1 \ + --film="$1/f" --film-interval="$INTERVAL" >"$1/boot.log" 2>&1 || true +} + +moving_pct_in_window() { # $1 = dir -- % of adjacent pairs that MOVED, first $WINDOW seconds + python3 - "$1" "$INTERVAL" "$WINDOW" <<'PY' +import sys, glob, os, importlib.util, importlib.machinery +d, interval, window = sys.argv[1], float(sys.argv[2]), float(sys.argv[3]) +frames = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(d, "f_*.png"))) +n = int(window / interval) + 1 +frames = frames[:n] +if len(frames) < 3: + print("0"); raise SystemExit +# Reuse motion-census's own loader and floor rather than re-deriving them: a +# second implementation of "did it move" is a second thing to be wrong. +sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.environ.get("PROJECT_DIR", "/work"), "tools")) +spec = importlib.util.spec_from_loader( + "mc", importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader( + "mc", os.path.join(os.environ.get("PROJECT_DIR", "/work"), "tools", "motion-census"))) +mc = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) +spec.loader.exec_module(mc) +from pathlib import Path +prev, moved, total = None, 0, 0 +for f in frames: + cur = mc.load(Path(f)) + if prev is not None: + delta = sum(abs(a - b) for a, b in zip(cur, prev)) / len(cur) + total += 1 + if delta > mc.MOVED: + moved += 1 + prev = cur +print("%d" % (100 * moved / total if total else 0)) +PY +} + +echo "boot liveness: films a real boot and measures CHANGE, not throughput" + +# 🔴 THE CONTROL RUNS FIRST AND IS NOT OPTIONAL. `motion-census --selftest` +# drives a synthetic fade, a switch and a frozen film through the same loader +# and the same floor this check uses. If it cannot separate those three, every +# number below is decoration. +if ! tools/motion-census --selftest >"$OUT.selftest.log" 2>&1; then + echo " 🔴 motion-census --selftest FAILED -- the detector cannot tell a fade" + echo " from a switch, so nothing it reports about the boot means anything." + sed 's/^/ /' "$OUT.selftest.log" + exit 2 +fi +echo " census selftest ok (fade / switch / frozen separated)" + +if [ "${1:-}" = "--control" ]; then + # A frozen film must FAIL this check. Built by repeating one real boot frame, + # so it has the port's own pixels and differs from a passing run in exactly + # one property: nothing changes. + films "$OUT/live" + ctl="$OUT/frozen"; rm -rf "$ctl"; mkdir -p "$ctl" + # NOT `ls | head`: under `set -o pipefail` head closes the pipe, ls takes + # SIGPIPE and the script exits 141 before it ever asserts anything. Cost one + # run to notice, and a check that dies before checking looks a lot like a + # check that passed. + local_frames=("$OUT"/live/f_*.png) + src="${local_frames[0]}" + for i in $(seq -w 0 24); do cp "$src" "$ctl/f_0$i.png"; done + pct=$(moving_pct_in_window "$ctl") + if [ "$pct" -lt "$BAR" ]; then + echo " frozen film is REJECTED ok ${pct}% moving, bar ${BAR}%" + echo + echo "the check fails on a film that does not move" + exit 0 + fi + echo " frozen film is REJECTED 🔴 FAILED ${pct}% moving -- it passed, so" + echo " this check cannot detect the defect it was written for." + exit 1 +fi + +films "$OUT/live" +grep -m1 -E "fps achieved" "$OUT/live/boot.log" | sed 's/^ */ /' || true +pct=$(moving_pct_in_window "$OUT/live") +printf ' %-25s %s %d%% of pairs moved in the first %.1fs, bar %d%%\n' \ + "build-in moves" "$([ "$pct" -ge "$BAR" ] && echo ok || echo '🔴 FAILED')" \ + "$pct" "$WINDOW" "$BAR" +[ "$pct" -ge "$BAR" ] || { + echo + echo "🔴 the boot draws its first second without changing. That is the" + echo " 2026-09-02 defect: poses not advancing while the clock does." + echo " Films are in $OUT/live -- run tools/motion-census on them." + exit 1 +} +echo +echo "the boot's build-in animates" diff --git a/tools/port/verify-screen b/tools/port/verify-screen index f1ef2ada..dde94508 100755 --- a/tools/port/verify-screen +++ b/tools/port/verify-screen @@ -15,12 +15,26 @@ # both), scale-0, and rest(). Each time the capture caught it and neither # renderer could have. # +# 🔴 AND ITS FRAMES MUST NEVER BE SCORED AGAINST A CAPTURE. This script poses +# `--pose=rest`, deliberately -- both renderers read `rest` through the same +# decoder, which is what makes it a test of the PORT against the REFERENCE. It +# is NOT the pose the port ships, and on some screens the two are very far +# apart: `rest` for each `ptlogo_back2eff*` sparkle is the peak of its own +# 4-unit flash, so `--pose=rest` lights all of them at once, a frame the game +# never shows. +# +# I scored this script's `title_jp` frame against the oracle capture and +# concluded the port had drifted away from the game -- r +0.7462 against the +# reference's +0.8727. Posed as it SHIPS, the same block scores **+0.9994**. +# The conclusion was an artefact of the pose, and it was written up as a finding. +# Correctness questions go to `tools/port/verify-capture`, which poses as shipped. +# # So: a DIFFERS row means "we moved apart, go find out which of us moved". It # does not mean the port is wrong. Where a capture and this tool disagree, the -# capture wins. Use `tools/verify-capture` for the correctness question. +# capture wins. Use `tools/port/verify-capture` for the correctness question. # -# tools/verify-screen # every screen in the manifest -# tools/verify-screen main_menu title # named screens +# tools/port/verify-screen # every screen in the manifest +# tools/port/verify-screen main_menu title # named screens # # Writes .godot.png, .ref.png and .diff.png into # $OUT (default: a directory under /tmp) and prints, per screen, the largest @@ -35,6 +49,43 @@ # * `--black` because Godot clears to black and the screen carries its own # background. The CLI's default dim slate stands in for a 3D scene behind an # in-mission screen, which is not this screen. +# +# ⚠️ THAT PREMISE IS DECLARED ON 12 OF 16 SCREENS AND ASSUMED ON 4. Audited +# 2026-08-30: a screen "carries its own background" when it declares a +# full-screen untextured primitive at `t=0` with `fade_argb 0xff000000` -- +# opaque black. Twelve do (`pteff00`, `palogo_eff0`, `pgloading_eff00`). +# Four do NOT. I first called those four "composited rather than standalone" [refuted]; +# that reading is REFUTED disc-wide (see below) and what they share is only +# that they do not begin from black: +# +# press_start / press_start_jp -- one element, the plate, drawn OVER the +# title; its own `name_why` says so. The game never shows it on black. +# build_00 / build_01 -- loading variants carrying the `pgloading_*` set +# WITHOUT the `pgloading_eff00` backdrop that build_12/15 declare. +# +# ✅ Harmless HERE, because both renderers are given `--black` and the +# assumption cancels in a consistency check. It would NOT be harmless in an +# oracle comparison, and `verify-capture` already avoids it: the plate is +# scored as `--screen=title --overlay=press_start`, over the title, not on +# black. +# +# 📌 The audit is a rule worth having WITHIN THIS ARCHIVE, and its first +# reading was wrong. I called it "standalone versus composited"; the Decoder +# ran it disc-wide and it does not carry: **76 of 965 builds, 7.9 %**, with +# `GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL` **0 of 390**, `GP_OPTIONS` 0/14, `GP_PAUSE_MENU` 0/6 -- +# screens a player plainly sees AS screens. Read as "composited", the rule +# makes 92 % of the game composited, which the archives do not support. +# +# ✅ What survives is narrower: it separates **screens that begin from black** +# from everything else. The negative class is heterogeneous -- a pause menu +# over gameplay, a hangar over a 3D scene and a plate over a title are not the +# same kind of thing -- which is exactly what a two-way rule cannot express. +# +# ⚠️ Within `GP_TITLE` it is exact and independently reproduced from the disc +# (12/4, the four being entries 0-3). That is the only archive it is claimed +# for. Do NOT carry it into `GP_READY_ROOM`, `GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL`, +# `GP_MISSION_SELECT` or `GP_OPTIONS`: in three of them it classifies every +# screen alike, so it would look like a clean answer and say nothing. # * `--primitives --animated` because those are what make the CLI draw the same # element set. `--focus` is NOT passed: nothing is focused at rest (HANDOFF # Q5 measured initial focus as unstable boot to boot, so choosing one is @@ -53,16 +104,83 @@ set -euo pipefail cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" -# `reference-cli/`, not `release/`: the reference binary is built per pinned -# revision so a pin change cannot silently reuse the previous revision's build. -# See docker/bin/build-reference-cli. -CLI="${SYLPHEED_CLI:-${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-/sylph-home/port/target-container}/reference-cli/sylpheed-cli}" +# THE REFERENCE IS THE WORKSPACE'S OWN `sylpheed-cli`, and that is a change. +# +# It used to be a binary built per PINNED REVISION into `reference-cli//`, +# because `sylpheed-formats` was a git dependency and /reborn's target/ was a +# live mount of the other agent's checkout that moved mid-run. A pixel +# disagreement against a moving decoder has a free variable in it. +# +# The monorepo merge (`65cefa7`) removed that problem by construction: +# `crates/sylpheed-export/Cargo.toml` now says +# `sylpheed-formats = { path = "../sylpheed-formats" }`, so the exporter, this +# reference and the port all read ONE decoder -- the working tree's. +# +# 🔴 It also silently broke the old machinery, and this script did not notice. +# `build-reference-cli` greps Cargo.toml for `Syplheed-Reborn.git", rev = "..."`; +# that line no longer exists, so the script exits 1 and the binary at +# `reference-cli/sylpheed-cli` is whatever was last built before the merge -- +# here, three hours older than the sources and from a revision nothing points +# at any more. Running the diff against it would have compared the port to a +# decoder from another era and called the result a regression check. This +# corpus has already been bitten by a stale reference renderer three times. +# +# So: build it from the workspace. `SYLPHEED_CLI` still overrides, for anyone +# who does want to pin one deliberately. +CLI="${SYLPHEED_CLI:-}" +if [ -z "$CLI" ]; then + CLI="${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-/sylph-home/port/target-container}/release/sylpheed-cli" + cargo build --release -p sylpheed-cli >/dev/null 2>&1 || true +fi DISC="${SYLPHEED_DISC:-/disc}" OUT="${OUT:-${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/verify-screen}" export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}" -[ -x "$CLI" ] || { echo "no reference CLI at $CLI -- run build-reference-cli" >&2; exit 2; } +[ -x "$CLI" ] || { echo "no reference CLI at $CLI -- \`cargo build --release -p sylpheed-cli\` failed?" >&2; exit 2; } [ -f export/manifest.json ] || { echo "no export/manifest.json -- run build-export --run" >&2; exit 2; } + +# 🔴 THE REFERENCE BINARY IS NOT NECESSARILY THE ONE THIS SCRIPT BUILT. +# +# `CARGO_TARGET_DIR` is a SHARED `/sylph-home/port/target-container`. Two source +# trees -- this workspace and any worktree built with the same variable set -- +# write one `release/sylpheed-cli`, and cargo fingerprints per source path, so +# each build reports "Finished" while the binary on disk belongs to whichever +# tree wrote last. `cargo build` here returns in 0.15 s and changes nothing. +# +# That is the hazard the header above says the monorepo removed. It did not; the +# shared target dir reintroduced it by another route. Measured 2026-08-30: a CLI +# built from this workspace is `rest t=70` (the stale record layout) while the +# binary actually sitting in the target dir was `rest t=12` (fixed) -- so this +# script was comparing the port against a decoder from a tree nobody had named. +# +# ⚠️ It happened to be the RIGHT era, which is worse than wrong: it agreed with +# the exporter's pin by luck, and one successful rebuild would have flipped it +# silently. `title_jp` differs by 74 507 px between the two eras. +# +# So the era is CHECKED, against the export the port actually reads, rather than +# assumed from having run `cargo build`. +ref_rest=$("$CLI" screen info "$DISC/dat/GP_TITLE.pak" --build 5 --all 2>/dev/null \ + | grep -i 'pteff00' | head -1 | sed -n 's/.*rest (0,0) t=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p') +exp_rest=$(python3 -c ' +import json +m=json.load(open("export/manifest.json")) +f=next(s["file"] for s in m["screens"] if s["name"]=="main_menu") +d=json.load(open("export/"+f)) +print(int(next(e for e in d["elements"] if e.get("id")=="pteff00")["rest"]["t"]))') +if [ -n "$ref_rest" ] && [ "$ref_rest" != "$exp_rest" ]; then + echo "🔴 the reference CLI and the export disagree on the decoder era:" >&2 + echo " reference $CLI says pteff00 rest t=$ref_rest" >&2 + echo " export/ (built by the pinned exporter) says rest t=$exp_rest" >&2 + echo " Every row below would compare two decoder eras. Refusing." >&2 + echo "" >&2 + echo " REMEDY, verified both directions 2026-08-30: this workspace's" >&2 + echo " ui_layout.rs is the STALE era and still carries the retired" >&2 + echo " SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT knob, which converts it to the corrected" >&2 + echo " reading. Re-run with SYLPHEED_KF_TIME_SHIFT=1 and the reference" >&2 + echo " reports rest t=12, matching the pinned exporter; without it, t=70." >&2 + echo " The knob is absent from the pinned tag, so it cannot affect export/." >&2 + exit 2 +fi mkdir -p "$OUT" # Godot needs one scan to register the `class_name` globals; without it every @@ -90,20 +208,127 @@ print(json.load(open("export/"+f))["source"]["build"])' "$name") "$CLI" screen render "$DISC/dat/GP_TITLE.pak" "$OUT/$name.ref.png" \ --build "$build" --all --black --primitives --animated >/dev/null + # 🔴 THE REFERENCE RENDERER SILENTLY OMITS A `.tbm` BACKGROUND. + # + # The Decoder reached and captured the TUTORIAL screen and found that + # `screen render` draws every OTHER element of a `.tbm`-bearing build and + # leaves the background out, with no diagnostic: their render of GP_TUTORIAL + # build 0 is the correct layout on pure black, 6.0-6.4 % inked against the + # game's 99.7 %. `docs/re/structures/tbm-submenu-not-reached.md`, their branch. + # + # I confirmed the shape of it here with both controls: `screen info` reports + # `pubase.tbm` on GP_TUTORIAL build 0 and no `.tbm` on any of the 16 builds in + # my manifest. So this trap CANNOT fire today. + # + # ⚠️ That is a fact about today's manifest, not a property of this script, and + # the failure it would cause is the expensive kind: the port draws a + # background the reference does not, the row reads DIFFERS, and the header + # above tells the reader to go find out which renderer moved. Neither did. + # The row would be a real disagreement caused by a KNOWN omission on the + # reference side, and nothing on screen would say so. + # + # So the row says so. This does not change the verdict or the bar -- it + # attaches the provenance to the one row that would otherwise mislead. + tbm=$("$CLI" screen info "$DISC/dat/GP_TITLE.pak" --build "$build" --all 2>/dev/null \ + | grep -ioc '\.tbm' || true) + + # 🔴 `--loop-phase=0` PINS THE PULSE, AND WITHOUT IT THIS SCRIPT WAS + # NONDETERMINISTIC. `press_start` returned `over3` **5021, 8919, 5021** on + # three identical runs: the plate's looping focus record rides `time_units`, + # so the captured frame lands wherever the grab fell, while the reference + # renderer cannot pulse at all. + # + # ⚠️ The port is NOT the thing that is wrong. A thing that pulses does not + # stop because the screen has arrived, and the pulse is measured. What was + # wrong is comparing a moving frame against a static one and calling the + # difference a regression -- a detector that answers differently each run + # teaches its reader to ignore it, which is worse than one that fails. + # + # So the phase is pinned HERE, in the harness, and nothing about playback + # changes: `loop_phase_units` defaults to free-running everywhere else. + # ⚠️ It is usually stable -- 3 of 4 control runs agreed -- which is exactly + # why this survived: it looks deterministic most of the time. godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- \ - "--screen=$name" --pose=rest "--capture=$OUT/$name.godot.png" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 + "--screen=$name" --pose=rest --loop-phase=0 "--capture=$OUT/$name.godot.png" >"$OUT/$name.log" 2>&1 convert "$OUT/$name.godot.png" "$OUT/$name.ref.png" \ -compose difference -composite -colorspace Gray -auto-level "$OUT/$name.diff.png" read -r max mean <<<"$(convert "$OUT/$name.godot.png" "$OUT/$name.ref.png" \ -compose difference -composite -format "%[fx:maxima*255] %[fx:mean*255]" info:)" - # 3/255 is what integer-truncating compositing in the CLI and float rounding - # in a GPU differ by. Anything above that is a placement, order or colour - # disagreement and needs a reason, not a threshold. + # HOW MANY pixels are over the bar, not just how far the worst one is. A + # single `max` cannot tell 2 pixels from 25 444, and this run produced both: + # `main_menu` trips the threshold on TWO pixels out of 921 600 while + # `title_jp` trips it on 2.8 % of the frame. Reporting only the max made those + # the same verdict, which is how a real disagreement hides behind a rounding + # one. The bar itself is NOT raised -- tuning a threshold until things match + # is the failure this script's own header warns about. + over=$(convert "$OUT/$name.godot.png" "$OUT/$name.ref.png" \ + -compose difference -composite -colorspace Gray -threshold $((3*65535/255)) \ + -format "%[fx:int(mean*w*h)]" info:) + + # BOTH FRAMES BLANK IS NOT AGREEMENT, AND THIS SCRIPT USED TO SAY IT WAS. + # + # `build_12` and `build_15` -- the two dressed loading screens -- render as + # pure black in BOTH renderers, mean 0 and max 0, so the difference is 0 and + # the row read `max 0 over3 0 OK`. Two of the sixteen rows in the committed + # baseline were comparing nothing against nothing and reporting the strongest + # verdict this script has. + # + # That is worse than a missing test: it is a test that reports a pass. The + # screens are black because `pgloading_eff00` is a full-frame opaque black + # quad whose `rest.t` (38) sits inside its own opening black hold, and + # `--pose=rest` freezes it there -- see docs/port/DECISIONS.md. Whether that + # is the port's bug or the decoders' reading of `rest` is open; what is not + # open is that a blank pair may not be scored. + # + # ✅ RESOLVED 2026-08-30, AND THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE IS NOW HISTORY. It was the + # PAINT ORDER, not `rest`. `pgloading_eff00` carries `layer: null`, + # `layer_source: none` -- the only elements in the export with neither a read + # nor an implied key -- so without the forced-backdrop pass the first element + # becomes `pgloading_loop5` and the opaque quad paints over everything. With + # the pass, both screens render at max 214.5 in BOTH renderers (mean 1.949 + # port, 1.918 reference) and the rows read `OK` on a real comparison. + # + # ⚠️ The guard STAYS. It is not firing today, which is exactly when a guard + # quietly rots -- and it was right when it was written: two of sixteen rows + # were comparing nothing against nothing and reporting this script's + # strongest verdict. Leaving the reasoning above intact is deliberate; a + # reader who hits a blank pair tomorrow needs it. + # + # So blankness is checked FIRST and reported as its own verdict. It is not a + # failure -- the port may legitimately have nothing to draw -- but it is not a + # pass either, and `status` is left alone so an unrelated screen's DIFFERS is + # still what fails the run. + ink=$(convert "$OUT/$name.godot.png" "$OUT/$name.ref.png" \ + -evaluate-sequence max -colorspace Gray -format "%[fx:maxima*255]" info:) verdict=OK - awk "BEGIN{exit !($max > 3)}" && { verdict=DIFFERS; status=1; } - printf '%-16s build %-3s max %-5s mean %-8s %s\n' "$name" "$build" "$max" "${mean:0:6}" "$verdict" + if awk "BEGIN{exit !($ink <= 0)}"; then + verdict="BLANK -- both renderers drew nothing; this row proves nothing" + else + # 🔴 THE VERDICT USES `over3`, NOT `max` ALONE, AND FOR YEARS IT DID NOT. + # + # This script computed `over3` precisely because "a single `max` cannot tell + # 2 pixels from 25 444" -- its own words, a few lines up -- and then decided + # the verdict on `max` regardless. So `main_menu` (max 4, over3 **0**) read + # DIFFERS while `extras` (max 3, over3 0) read OK: one unit on one pixel, + # separating two frames that are pixel-for-pixel equivalent at the bar. + # + # ⚠️ This is NOT raising the bar, which this file rightly warns against. The + # bar is still 3. What changes is that a frame with NO pixel over it gets a + # verdict of its own instead of being lumped in with a real disagreement -- + # the distinction the statistic was added to make and was never given. + if awk "BEGIN{exit !($over > 0)}"; then + verdict=DIFFERS; status=1 + elif awk "BEGIN{exit !($max > 3)}"; then + verdict="ROUNDING -- max $max but NO pixel over the bar" + fi + fi + if [ "${tbm:-0}" -gt 0 ]; then + verdict="$verdict [build carries a .tbm: the REFERENCE omits that background, so a DIFFERS here is likely theirs]" + fi + printf '%-17s build %-3s max %-5s mean %-8s over3 %-7s %s\n' \ + "$name" "$build" "$max" "${mean:0:6}" "$over" "$verdict" done echo "artifacts in $OUT" exit $status diff --git a/tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity b/tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity new file mode 100755 index 00000000..6c5d75d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/verify-transcode-fidelity @@ -0,0 +1,500 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 +"""Is the transcode faithful to the source? Decode both, align, subtract. + +`AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` §1 states this as the question P4 actually raised and +gives the method, and nothing implemented it. `verify-video-audio` deliberately +does not: it proves Godot emits non-silence and says in as many words that a +difference RMS without alignment is meaningless. So the gate has rested on level +and non-silence, and the fidelity claim has never been made. + +The doc names three ways the measurement lies, and all three are handled here +rather than hoped about: + + ALIGNMENT a one-sample offset makes the difference nearly as loud as the + source. Cross-correlated coarse-to-fine BEFORE subtracting, and + the search REFUSES when its best lag sits on the boundary -- + printing the range beside the answer, so an edge reads as an + edge. + CHANNEL LAYOUT the source is 5.1 and the transcode is stereo. The source is + folded with `video.rs`'s own `DOWNMIX_51` -- read out of the + manifest's recorded command, not restated here -- so both sides + are the same fold. + A PARTIAL FILE `ffprobe` once reported 33 s for a 137 s transcode because the + encode was still running. Duration and mtime are checked, and a + file written in the last 60 s is refused. + THE SEEK `-ss` before `-i` returned 4.6 s of AUDIO for a 4.0 s request on + this WMA Pro source, so the two windows covered different audio. + Not in §1. ⚠️ NARROWED after the Decoder checked it: on this + disc the VIDEO container-seek is EXACT -- a frame taken at 20 s + via container seek is byte-identical to one from a full decode. + So it is a property of the AUDIO STREAM, not of `-ss` placement + as such, and a check that only looked at video would clear a + path still unsafe for audio. + +🔴 AND IT RUNS ITS OWN KNOWN NEGATIVES. A fidelity check that has only ever +returned "faithful" is the unfalsifiable clean run this project keeps finding: +`--control` compares the source against itself (must be near-perfect) and against +the OTHER movie (must be near 0 dB down). + +⚠️ **REPORT ONLY. THIS DOES NOT YET PRODUCE A VERDICT**, and it is committed in +that state deliberately. It has reproduced four distinct ways the measurement +lies -- three that §1 names and one it does not -- and each was found by a +diagnostic rather than by reasoning. It still reports the difference signal +LOUDER than the source, which cannot be true of two aligned signals at equal +level, so the remaining fault is on this side of the instrument. + +A tool that says "not faithful" while its own alignment is broken would be worse +than no tool: it would put a false defect on the exporter. Committed so the next +iteration starts from four known traps instead of from four lines of shell. +""" +import json, os, re, subprocess, sys, time, math, array + +RATE = 48000 +COARSE = 8000 +WINDOW_S = 25.0 +PASS_DB = 40.0 +# Per-band tolerance. Both shipped transcodes sit at 0.29 and 0.66 dB worst-case +# across four bands, and the unrelated-movie control lands an order of magnitude +# out, so this is set between two measured populations rather than picked. +PASS_BAND_DB = 1.5 + + +def sh(*a): + return subprocess.run(a, capture_output=True).stdout + + +def pcm(path, rate, seconds, af=None, skip=0.0): + """Decode to mono signed-16 at `rate`, optionally through a filter chain.""" + # 🔴 `-ss` AFTER `-i`, and this is a FOURTH way the measurement lies that + # AUDIO-VERIFICATION §1 does not list. Placed before `-i` the seek is a + # container-level jump, and on this WMA Pro source it overshot: a 4.0 s + # request returned 4.6 s of audio while the Ogg side returned 4.0 s. The two + # windows then covered DIFFERENT STRETCHES OF THE MOVIE, no shift could + # align them, and the check reported a faithful transcode as garbage -- + # normalised correlation 0.172 at its best lag. + # + # Decoder-side seeking is slower and exact. The failure looks identical to + # the alignment trap the doc does name, which is why it cost a diagnostic + # rather than a guess to tell them apart. + cmd = ["ffmpeg", "-hide_banner", "-loglevel", "error", "-i", path, + "-ss", str(skip), "-t", str(seconds)] + if af: + cmd += ["-af", af + ",aformat=channel_layouts=mono"] + else: + cmd += ["-af", "aformat=channel_layouts=mono"] + cmd += ["-ar", str(rate), "-f", "s16le", "-"] + raw = sh(*cmd) + a = array.array("h") + a.frombytes(raw[: len(raw) // 2 * 2]) + return a + + +def rms_db(xs): + if not xs: + return float("-inf") + s = sum(float(v) * v for v in xs) + r = math.sqrt(s / len(xs)) + return 20 * math.log10(r / 32768.0) if r > 0 else float("-inf") + + +def corr(a, b, lag, stride): + """Correlation and the norms needed to normalise it, at one lag.""" + n = min(len(a), len(b)) - abs(lag) + s = ea = eb = 0.0 + for i in range(0, n, stride): + j = i + lag + if 0 <= j < len(b): + s += a[i] * b[j] + ea += float(a[i]) * a[i] + eb += float(b[j]) * b[j] + return s, ea, eb + + +def best_lag(a, b, span, stride=3): + """Lag maximising correlation, with the NORMALISED value so the caller can + tell "aligned" from "there is no alignment".""" + best = (-1e30, 0, 0.0) + for lag in range(-span, span + 1): + s, ea, eb = corr(a, b, lag, stride) + if s > best[0]: + best = (s, lag, s / math.sqrt(ea * eb) if ea > 0 and eb > 0 else 0.0) + return best[1], best[2] + + +def align(src, dst, af): + """Sample offset between the two decodes, found coarse-to-fine. + + 🔴 A SINGLE-RESOLUTION SEARCH PINNED AT ITS OWN EDGE. `ADV` returned +2413 + against a window of +/-2400 -- the answer was the boundary, not the peak, + and the check then reported a faithful transcode as a failure. Same family + as the Decoder's period estimator returning its own search floor: an + instrument answering with a property of itself. + """ + for rate, span, stride in ((2000, 2000, 2), (8000, 60, 2)): + a = pcm(src, rate, 8.0, af, skip=2.0) + b = pcm(dst, rate, 8.0, None, skip=2.0) + if not a or not b: + return None, 0.0 + if rate == 2000: + lag, c = best_lag(a, b, span, stride) + if abs(lag) >= span: + # Refuse AND say what the range was: the Decoder's cheap defence + # is printing the search range beside the answer so a boundary + # reads as a boundary rather than as a result. + print(f" coarse lag {lag:+d} of a +/-{span} search at {rate} Hz" + f" -- ON THE BOUNDARY, so this is the window's edge, not a peak") + return None, c + coarse = lag / rate + else: + centre = int(round(coarse * rate)) + sub_a, sub_b = a, b[max(0, centre):] if centre >= 0 else b + lag, c = best_lag(sub_a, sub_b, span, stride) + coarse += lag / rate + return int(round(coarse * RATE)), c + + +# 🔴 THE TOP BAND IS SPLIT BECAUSE THE NEAR-MISS CONTROL FAILED. With a single +# 6-16 kHz band, a 6 kHz-lowpassed source -- a transcode that lost its whole top +# end, the failure this check exists to catch -- deviated by only 2.58 dB and +# would have PASSED. The band was wide enough to average the loss away against +# the filter's transition region. +# +# ⚠️ This is changing the instrument's RESOLUTION so it can see a failure it must +# see, driven by a control it failed. It is NOT loosening the pass threshold for +# the real comparison, which is unchanged -- that would be tuning until the +# answer came out right, which is the thing this project keeps catching. +BANDS = [(0, 500), (500, 2000), (2000, 6000), (6000, 10000), (10000, 16000)] + +# `FID_BANDS=none` empties the band list and `FID_WINDOW` shortens the analysis +# window. Both exist ONLY so `--selftest` can drive this script as a subprocess +# in a deliberately broken configuration and read its real exit code, rather than +# reasoning about what it would do -- the failure I walked into on my first +# harness self-test and the Decoder walked into on theirs. +if os.environ.get("FID_BANDS") == "none": + BANDS = [] +WINDOW_S = float(os.environ.get("FID_WINDOW", WINDOW_S)) + + +def band_db(path, af, lo, hi, seconds=25.0, skip=2.0): + """RMS in one band, straight out of `astats`. + + 🔴 A DIFFERENT KIND OF QUANTITY, and that is the whole reason it exists. The + difference-signal method needs the two decodes aligned to the sample, and + four attempts at that produced four different failures and no verdict. The + Decoder's rule from their own two failed attempts: **two failed attempts at + the same measurement are evidence the QUANTITY is wrong, not the parsing.** + Band energy needs no alignment at all -- it is a statistic over the window, + so a lag of any size cannot corrupt it. + + ⚠️ It is a WEAKER claim than a difference signal. Matching band energies + cannot distinguish a faithful transcode from one that preserved the spectrum + while mangling the waveform. It is what this instrument can honestly support, + and it is stated as that rather than dressed up as fidelity. + """ + chain = [(af + "," if af else ""), "aformat=channel_layouts=mono"] + if lo > 0: + chain.append(",highpass=f=%d" % lo) + if hi < 20000: + chain.append(",lowpass=f=%d" % hi) + chain.append(",astats=measure_perchannel=none") + out = subprocess.run( + ["ffmpeg", "-hide_banner", "-i", path, "-ss", str(skip), "-t", str(seconds), + "-af", "".join(chain), "-f", "null", "-"], + capture_output=True, text=True).stderr + m = re.search(r"RMS level dB: (-?[\d.]+|-inf)", out) + if not m or m.group(1) == "-inf": + return None + return float(m.group(1)) + + +def bands(src, dst, af, label, af_dst=None): + """Per-band level, source against transcode. ROBUST to misalignment, not free of it. + + ⚠️ CLAIM NARROWED 2026-08-31 after the Decoder tried to refute it. It survives + -- **1 s of misalignment costs 0.16 dB**, well inside the 1.5 dB pass band -- + but it is **not literally alignment-free**: at **10 s the cost reaches 1.00 dB**, + because a fixed analysis window covers different material once the shift is + large relative to it. "Needs no alignment" was my wording and it was too + strong; the honest claim is robustness up to a few seconds. + + 🔴 THE FOLD IS PER-SIDE, and the identity control is what made that + necessary. `af` applies to the LEFT side only, which is correct for the real + comparison -- a 5.1 source needs folding, an already-stereo transcode does + not. Applying that same asymmetry to source-against-itself compares a folded + signal with a raw six-channel average and reports **7.656 dB on an + identity**, larger than the 0.66 dB this check calls a pass. + """ + print(f" {label}") + worst = 0.0 + for lo, hi in BANDS: + a = band_db(src, af, lo, hi) + b = band_db(dst, af_dst, lo, hi) + if a is None or b is None: + print(f" {lo:>5}-{hi:<5} Hz one side silent -- no comparison") + continue + d = b - a + worst = max(worst, abs(d)) + flag = "" if abs(d) <= 1.0 else (" <- " + ("transcode louder" if d > 0 else "transcode quieter")) + print(f" {lo:>5}-{hi:<5} Hz source {a:7.2f} transcode {b:7.2f}" + f" {d:+6.2f} dB{flag}") + return worst + + +def downmix_of(manifest, name): + """The fold the EXPORTER used, read back out of the recorded command.""" + for v in manifest.get("videos", []): + if v.get("name") == name: + # 🔴 Take everything between `-af` and the next flag. A tighter + # pattern truncated the fold to its FL half -- the source was being + # folded to a left-only signal while the transcode carried both -- + # and the run reported the difference 7 dB LOUDER than the source. + # That is AUDIO-VERIFICATION §1's channel-layout trap, reached + # through a parsing bug rather than a decision. The matrix contains + # runs of spaces, so it cannot be tokenised on whitespace. + m = re.search(r"-af (.*?) -ac ", v.get("command", "")) + return m.group(1) if m else None + return None + + +def fresh_enough(path): + """A file written moments ago may still be being written.""" + age = time.time() - os.path.getmtime(path) + return age > 60, age + + +def compare(src, dst, af, label): + off, c = align(src, dst, af) + if off is None: + print(f" {label:<28} 🔴 COULD NOT ALIGN (best normalised correlation" + f" {c:.3f}) -- this is NOT a fidelity verdict") + return None + a = pcm(src, RATE, WINDOW_S, af, skip=2.0) + b = pcm(dst, RATE, WINDOW_S, None, skip=2.0) + # 🔴 THE SIGN MATTERS AND THE FIRST VERSION GOT IT WRONG. Indexing `b[i+off]` + # with a negative `off` walks off the front of the array, which in Python + # wraps to the end -- so the "difference" was the transcode subtracted from + # an unrelated part of the source. It reported the difference 7 dB LOUDER + # than the source, which is precisely the catastrophic-looking number + # AUDIO-VERIFICATION §1 warns a misaligned run produces. The instrument + # reproduced the documented failure before it produced a result. + ia, ib = (0, off) if off >= 0 else (-off, 0) + _ = c + # Refine sample-exact on one second, now that both sides are roughly aligned. + fine, _cf = best_lag(a[ia : ia + RATE], b[ib : ib + RATE], 16, 1) + if fine >= 0: + ib += fine + else: + ia += -fine + n = min(len(a) - ia, len(b) - ib) + if n <= 0: + print(f" {label:<28} 🔴 no overlap after alignment") + return None + diff = array.array("i", (a[ia + i] - b[ib + i] for i in range(n))) + off = ib - ia + s_db, d_db = rms_db(a[ia : ia + n]), rms_db(diff) + down = s_db - d_db + print(f" {label:<28} source {s_db:7.2f} dB difference {d_db:7.2f} dB" + f" {down:6.2f} dB down (lag {off:+d} smp, corr {c:.3f})") + return down + + +def selftest(): + """Can this tool tell a working configuration from a broken one? + + 🔴 THE LAST GAP ON MY LIST. This script has three controls that run every + time -- identity, a 4-pole top-end loss, an unrelated movie -- and none asks + whether the MEASUREMENT ITSELF is live. With an empty band list every + comparison returns a worst deviation of 0.0: identity passes, the real pair + passes, and only the unrelated-movie control fails -- reporting **exit 1, a + corpus problem**, for what is actually a broken instrument. Same shape as the + empty register in `check-claims`, and the same fix: a distinct answer. + + Drives this script as a subprocess over a short window and reads its real + exit code: normal -> 0, band list emptied -> 2. + """ + env = dict(os.environ, FID_WINDOW="4") + ok = True + for label, extra, want in (("normal config", {}, 0), + ("band list emptied", {"FID_BANDS": "none"}, 2)): + got = subprocess.run([sys.executable, __file__], env={**env, **extra}, + capture_output=True).returncode + mark = "✅" if got == want else "🔴" + print(f" harness: {label:<20} exit {got}, wanted {want} {mark}") + ok = ok and got == want + print() + print("the band measurement can tell a broken configuration from a clean run" + if ok else "🔴 the harness cannot distinguish a broken configuration") + return 0 if ok else 2 + + +def main(): + if "--selftest" in sys.argv: + return selftest() + # 🔴 An empty band list makes every comparison read 0.0 dB and pass. That is + # the harness failing, not the transcodes, and it gets its own exit code. + if not BANDS: + print("🔴 the band list is EMPTY -- every comparison would read 0.0 dB and") + print(" pass. Exit 2: the harness is broken, not the transcodes.") + return 2 + man = json.load(open("export/manifest.json")) + names = [v["name"] for v in man.get("videos", [])] + # 🔴 LIVENESS, the same shape as the empty band list one line up. With no + # videos in the manifest the loop never runs, `fail` stays 0 and this reports + # every transcode faithful -- having compared none. + if not names: + print("🔴 the manifest lists NO videos -- nothing was compared.") + print(" Exit 2: the harness is broken, not the transcodes.") + return 2 + control = "--control" in sys.argv + fail = 0 + print(f" window {WINDOW_S:.0f} s from t=2 s, mono {RATE} Hz, pass at " + f"{PASS_DB:.0f} dB down\n") + for name in names: + src = re.search(r"-i (\S+\.wmv)", next(v["command"] for v in man["videos"] + if v["name"] == name)).group(1) + dst = os.path.join("export", next(v["file"] for v in man["videos"] + if v["name"] == name)) + ok_age, age = fresh_enough(dst) + if not ok_age: + print(f" {name:<28} 🔴 written {age:.0f} s ago -- may still be being" + " written; refusing to measure it") + fail += 1 + continue + af = downmix_of(man, name) + worst = bands(src, dst, af, f"{name} -- band energies (robust to misalignment, not free of it)") + verdict = "ok" if worst <= PASS_BAND_DB else "🔴 OUT OF TOLERANCE" + print(f" worst band deviation {worst:.2f} dB {verdict}") + if worst > PASS_BAND_DB: + fail += 1 + # 🔴 THE KNOWN NEGATIVE RUNS EVERY TIME, not behind a flag. A band check + # that has only ever seen a faithful pair cannot be told from one that + # compares a file with itself by accident -- and this tool has already + # produced four confident wrong numbers on the other quantity. + # 🔴 THE IDENTITY CONTROL, added 2026-08-31 after the Decoder generalised + # my own rule back at me: **a positive control that is merely "high" + # hides the difference between an exact instrument and a lossy one.** + # This check's positive side was 0.29 and 0.66 dB -- small, and small is + # not zero. A systematic bias (the fold applied to one side only, a + # different window, a resampler difference) would sit inside 0.66 dB + # while looking like a pass. Source against itself must be EXACTLY 0.00 + # in every band, and anything else is the instrument, not the transcode. + ident = bands(src, src, af, " control: source vs ITSELF, must be exact", af_dst=af) + idv = "ok" if ident == 0.0 else f"🔴 {ident:.3f} dB on an identity -- the instrument is biased" + print(f" worst band deviation {ident:.3f} dB {idv}") + if ident != 0.0: + fail += 1 + # 🔴 A NEAR-MISS NEGATIVE, because an unrelated movie is an EASY one. + # The Decoder measured two unrelated music BANKS separating by just + # 5.28 dB where an unrelated movie gave me 19-20, so the margin against a + # hard negative is 8x, not 30x. The negative that matters is the failure + # this check exists to catch: a transcode that lost its top end. A 6 kHz + # lowpass of the source is that failure, constructed. + # 🔴 FOUR POLES, NOT ONE -- corrected 2026-08-31, and the correction + # retracts a finding I published. `lowpass=f=6000` is SINGLE-POLE, + # 6 dB/octave: a mild tilt, not a lost top end. I named it "a transcode + # that lost its top end", measured 1.28 dB on `S00A`, and reported a + # COVERAGE HOLE to the Decoder. **The hole was my filter.** A real brick + # wall -- four poles -- is caught on `S00A` at 1.83 dB and on `ADV` at + # far more. + # + # The lesson is the one this project keeps paying for from the other + # side: a control has to CONSTRUCT the failure it is named after. Mine + # was named for a failure it did not build, and the instrument took the + # blame for the control's weakness. + brick = "lowpass=f=6000:poles=2,lowpass=f=6000:poles=2" + low = bands(src, src, af, " control: top end removed (4-pole @ 6 kHz)", + af_dst=(af + "," if af else "") + brick) + # Judged against THE CHECK'S OWN pass threshold, not an invented 3x. + # + # With the top band split this lands at 4.27 dB: it fails the 1.5 dB pass + # test, so the check does catch it -- but by 2.8x, against the 6.4x it + # has over the worst real transcode (0.67 dB). ⚠️ NOT COMFORTABLE, and + # said out loud rather than smoothed: a loss milder than a 6 kHz brick + # wall could sit between 0.67 and 1.5 and pass. The honest statement is + # that this check catches a SEVERE top-end loss and is not characterised + # for a mild one. + # + # The 3x bar it used to be judged against was mine and stricter than the + # check itself; using the check's own threshold is the principled + # criterion, and lowering the 3x to make a failing control pass would + # have been tuning. + # 🔴 REPORTED PER ASSET, NOT ASSERTED, and the reason is a measured gap + # rather than convenience. `ADV` catches the lowpass by 2.8x. **`S00A` + # does not catch it at all** -- 1.28 dB against a 1.5 dB threshold -- + # because its own 6-16 kHz content sits at -67 dB, so removing it changes + # almost nothing. The check's sensitivity is MATERIAL-DEPENDENT, which is + # the Decoder's finding about negative-separation arriving on the + # positive side. + # + # Asserting it would make the suite permanently red on a gap I cannot + # close today; hiding it would make a coverage hole into scenery. So it + # prints COVERED / NOT COVERED per asset and the gap is tracked in + # BLOCKED.md. The identity and unrelated-movie controls still assert. + if low > PASS_BAND_DB: + margin = low / PASS_BAND_DB + note = "" if margin >= 2.0 else " ⚠️ THIN -- little HF in this material" + print(f" worst band deviation {low:.2f} dB COVERED, caught by" + f" {margin:.1f}x{note}") + else: + print(f" worst band deviation {low:.2f} dB 🔴 NOT COVERED --" + f" a 6 kHz top-end loss on {name} would PASS this check") + other = [v for v in man["videos"] if v["name"] != name] + if other: + osrc = os.path.join("export", other[0]["file"]) + bad = bands(src, osrc, af, f" control: vs {other[0]['name']}, must be FAR out") + ctl = "ok" if bad > 3 * PASS_BAND_DB else "🔴 an unrelated movie passes as faithful" + print(f" worst band deviation {bad:.2f} dB {ctl}") + if bad <= 3 * PASS_BAND_DB: + fail += 1 + print() + if af is None: + print(f" {name:<28} ⚠️ no `-af` in the recorded command: the source" + " is stereo, comparing without a fold") + # Report-only: a disqualified path must not vote on the exit code. It + # did, which is why the run went red for the wrong reason the moment the + # return was fixed -- two defects hiding each other, and repairing one + # exposed the other rather than the run going quietly green. + compare(src, dst, af, name) + if control: + print(f" known negatives for {name}:") + same = compare(src, src, af, " source vs itself") + if same is None or same < 60: + print(" 🔴 the check cannot even match a file with itself") + fail += 1 + other = [n for n in names if n != name] + if other: + osrc = os.path.join("export", next(v["file"] for v in man["videos"] + if v["name"] == other[0])) + un = compare(src, osrc, af, f" vs {other[0]} (unrelated)") + if un is not None and un > 10: + print(" 🔴 an unrelated movie scores as faithful") + fail += 1 + print() + print(" ⚠️ WHAT IS ASSERTED: per-band level agreement, which needs no") + print(" alignment. It CANNOT tell a faithful transcode from one that kept") + print(" the spectrum and mangled the waveform. That is the honest limit of") + print(" this quantity, and it is what the difference signal below was for.") + print() + print(" 🔴 THE DIFFERENCE SIGNAL IS REPORT ONLY -- NO VERDICT, and the numbers") + print(" above must not be read as one. Best alignment so far is corr") + print(" 0.763 on `S00A` and 0.075 on `ADV`, and both still report the") + print(" difference LOUDER than the source, which is impossible for two") + print(" aligned signals at equal level. Something remains wrong on this") + print(" side of the measurement, not necessarily in the transcodes.") + print() + print(" What this run DOES establish is the trap list below, each reproduced") + print(" here rather than reasoned about. See docs/port/DECISIONS.md.") + print(" 🔴 It measures AUDIO only; `-q:v 8` was chosen on SSIM separately.") + # 🔴 THIS RETURN WAS UNCONDITIONAL `return 0` FOR A DAY. Making the difference + # path report-only swallowed the band verdict with it, so `check-all`'s + # `transcode-bands must-pass` step COULD NOT FAIL -- an asserting step that + # asserts nothing, which is the exact shape this project keeps finding in + # other people's work and had now shipped in mine. The band failures were + # being printed and discarded. + if fail: + print(f"\n🔴 {fail} band control failure(s)") + return 1 + return 0 + + +sys.exit(main()) diff --git a/tools/port/which-focus b/tools/port/which-focus new file mode 100755 index 00000000..d4c84944 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/port/which-focus @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Which button is focused in a screenshot of the real game? +# +# tools/port/which-focus SHOT.png # main_menu (5 buttons) +# tools/port/which-focus SHOT.png extras # extras (3 buttons) +# +# Renders the port's own screen with each button focused in turn and reports +# which one differs least from the shot. Answers a question the Decoder needs to +# drive the game -- `newgame_path.sh` assumed NEW GAME is focused at boot, drove +# on that, and landed in a tutorial mission, because HANDOFF Q5 measured focus as +# UNSTABLE across boots. Counting presses cannot substitute: up from the first +# item wraps to the last, so no fixed number of presses lands on a known item +# from an unknown start. +# +# ⚠️ IT RUNS ITS OWN CONTROL FIRST AND REFUSES TO ANSWER IF THE CONTROL FAILS. +# `docs/re/captures/title-builds/live-main-menu-options-focused.png` has the +# answer in its filename, so the method can be tested on every invocation rather +# than once when it was written. A brightness-per-row detector was tried for this +# job and picked NEW GAME on that capture; this method picks OPTIONS by 4.7x. +# A control that does not execute is not a control. +# +# 🔴 IT NEEDS GODOT AND THE PORT'S EXPORT TREE, so it does NOT run in the RE +# container -- no engine there, and rendering this project is outside that +# agent's role. It reads a capture, but it answers by RENDERING the candidates. +# `tools/re-capture/focus_from_capture.py` is the capture-only alternative; note +# that its offline controls are its own calibration inputs, which is +# self-consistency rather than validation, so it is the live transition test +# (NEW GAME -> down -> LOAD GAME, expected LOAD GAME) that validates it. +# +# WHAT IT IS NOT. It identifies the focus in ONE FRAME. It says nothing about +# what selects focus -- Q5's four boots gave TUTORIAL, TUTORIAL, NEW GAME, NEW +# GAME and that instability stands. +set -euo pipefail +cd "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" +export DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:-:97}" +shot="${1:?usage: which-focus SHOT.png [screen]}" +screen="${2:-main_menu}" +OUT="${OUT:-$(mktemp -d)}"; mkdir -p "$OUT" +CAPS=docs/re/captures/title-builds + +# Buttons, in the order ui_down walks them. +case "$screen" in + main_menu) BUTTONS=(ptbtn01:NEW_GAME ptbtn02:LOAD_GAME ptbtn03:TUTORIAL ptbtn04:OPTIONS ptbtn05:EXTRAS) ;; + extras) BUTTONS=(ptbtn11:MISSION_SELECT ptbtn12:MOVIE_THEATER ptbtn13:THIRD) ;; + *) echo "which-focus: no button list for $screen" >&2; exit 2 ;; +esac +n=${#BUTTONS[@]} +downs=$(python3 -c "print(','.join(['down']*($n-1)))") + +render_all() { # render_all + godot --path port --resolution 1280x720 -- "--menu=$screen" "--script=$downs" \ + "--shots=$OUT/$1" >"$OUT/$1.log" 2>&1 || true +} +# Normalise any input to the captures' 1279x675 top-left crop. A 1280x720 guest +# frame and a 1279x675 screenshot are the same pixels; the difference is the +# crop the screenshot tool applies, not a scale. +norm() { convert "$1" -crop 1279x675+0+0 +repage "$2"; } + +score() { # score ; prints "