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merge origin/main: P5 gate met; keep Q10 answered, do not claim P6

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main's P6 row reads 'Looping is blocked on HANDOFF Q10' while main's OWN
HANDOFF.md line 39 marks Q10 answered -- the row was stale, not a decision, so
the resolution keeps the answered status rather than silently un-resolving it.

P5 takes main's line verbatim: that is the human's gate call and not mine.
P6 explicitly does NOT claim the gate -- the same play-test found the SFX mix
wrong, and 'sound on the P5 gate' means the RIGHT sound.
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# Play-test, 2026-09-02 (second) — **P5 IS MET**, and four findings
## ✅ P5's gate is MET — the human clicked through it
> *"Menu walk and navigation is fine. Video skips too. Extras open. New Game
> shows new game intro video."*
**P5 is done.** Its gate was *"a human clicks through it"*, the retro said it had
been waiting on that and not on code for the whole milestone, and it has now
happened. `PORT-MISSION.md` is updated.
The human also confirmed the NEW GAME gap is understood and acceptable:
*"Deliberate AFAIK, in actual game the difficulty select comes first."* The port
announces the two screens it skips; that stays as it is.
---
## F1 — 🔴 The menu DOES repeat on a held direction. Ours does not.
> *"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."*
**This settles the existence half of H1, and it settles it against us.** One step
per deflection was authored as the conservative choice precisely because nobody
knew. Now somebody has watched the real game: **it repeats.**
⚠️ **The RATE is still not measured, and it must not be guessed.** The human's
description bounds it usefully and does not supply a number: fast enough that a
player need not return the stick to centre, slow enough to read the selection as
it passes. That is a range, not a value.
* **Decoder — measure it.** Hold a direction in Canary and count. Two numbers:
the **initial delay** before the first repeat, and the **repeat interval**
after it. Frames between cursor moves, at a stated present rate — a count, not
a stopwatch reading ([`TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md`](TEMPORAL-VERIFICATION.md)).
Also: does the d-pad differ from the stick? Does the rate accelerate while
held, or stay flat?
* **Port — implement the mechanism, take the number from the Decoder.** Do not
ship a placeholder rate: an invented interval here is indistinguishable from a
measured one a month from now, and this is the exact field where that has
already cost us once.
## F2 — 🔴 The sound effects are too loud. There is no mix at all.
> *"Largely OK. Biggest notice is the volume, many effects are too loud."*
**Measured, and the human is right.** Every clip plays at unity gain, because
**no volume or gain value exists anywhere** — not in `export/`, not in
`authored/`, not in the manifest:
| | mean | max |
|---|---|---|
| **`se/confirm`** | **−17.7 dB** | **−0.0 dB** — at full scale |
| `se/move` | −24.1 | −1.4 |
| `se/back` | −21.0 | −5.7 |
| `bgm/main_menu` | −20.7 | −4.2 |
`confirm` is the loudest thing in the export: **3 dB hotter in mean than the
music** and 6.4 dB above `move`. A game mixes SE against BGM on separate buses;
this port has one bus and no gains.
* **Decoder — is the mix ON THE DISC?** The obvious place is the cue table: a
cue record commonly carries volume alongside the wave index, and
`sub_821C5580` is already known to play cue 1103. If per-cue or per-bus gain is
there, it is **decoded** and nobody has to choose. If it is provably not, say
so with reach and it becomes an authored mix.
* **Port — do not normalise in the exporter to fix this.** Re-levelling the file
destroys the relationship between clips and cannot be undone by a modder.
Gains belong at playback, as data, where a measured value can replace a chosen
one without re-exporting.
## F3 — ❔ Something is missing on the title screen
> *"I also think that there is a sound track or effect missing at the title
> screen."*
The export carries exactly one music track, `bgm/main_menu.ogg`, and the port
plays nothing on the title. Whether the game does is unestablished.
* **Decoder:** which cue, if any, does the **title** play? The menu's is decoded
(cue 1103 = `BGM_103` via `sub_821C5580`); the same route should answer the
title. And is there a one-shot **sting** when the plate appears, or when Ⓐ is
accepted? Either would read as "something missing" to a player.
* ⚠️ A negative here needs a positive control (R4): show the method finding the
menu's cue before concluding the title has none.
## F4 — 🔴 Ⓐ SKIPS FORWARD through the boot. We only implement one of the three.
> *"In the game one can get the plate to immediately show by pressing Ⓐ,
> essentially skip to it. So after the logos one can immediately skip to the main
> menu by pressing Ⓐ three times: 1. skip intro video, 2. show plate, 3. the
> plate itself."*
A measured behaviour of the real game, and a good one — it is how a returning
player gets past the boot.
| press | in the game | in the port |
|---|---|---|
| Ⓐ #1 | skips the intro video | ✅ implemented |
| **Ⓐ #2** | **completes the title build-in and shows the plate immediately** | ❌ **missing** |
| Ⓐ #3 | activates the plate → main menu | ✅ implemented |
* **Port:** Ⓐ during the title build-in should jump the sequence to the plate's
arrival rather than being swallowed. ⚠️ **Careful what "jump" means** — the
plate has a declared arrival at `t=238` and the title a build-in ending at
`t≈118`. Whether the game *snaps* both clocks forward, or only reveals the
plate and leaves the title where it is, is a question, not a detail. Ask if
the capture does not say.
* **Decoder:** what does Ⓐ do to the clocks? This is also a **second, cheap route
to the plate-arrival question** — a press that skips to the plate tells you
where the game thinks the plate belongs.
* 📌 And it bears on `REFUTED.md`: *"any title after the first one refuses
input"* is already narrowed to the attract-returned title. This is a third
input the boot title accepts.
---
## H3 — the plate delay is ACCEPTED
> *"Delay feels the same. Cannot verify it is exact same, but is sufficient."*
Good enough to stop working on, **not** established as correct. Leave the row as
unattributed rather than closing it green; if the duration question is ever
settled by the pipeline work, check it against this rather than re-opening it
from scratch.

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3. **What Canary does to it** before a capture records it — present cadence,
resolve, scale, gamma.
Also open and yours: **H1** — does a held direction repeat in the menus, and at
what rate? The 61 % arm threshold you decoded is adopted; one step per deflection
is still authored.
### 🔴 Four asks from the 2026-09-02 menu play-test — [`PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md`](PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md)
P5's gate is **met** (a human walked the menus). These came out of the same
session, and three of the four are yours. They are ahead of the pipeline work
because the port is blocked on two of them.
1. **F1 — MEASURE THE MENU REPEAT RATE.** The human watched the real game: a held
direction **repeats**, *"at a medium pace… slow enough to see which item is
selected"*. That settles the existence half of H1 against our authored
one-step-per-deflection. Two numbers, and the port will not move without
them: the **initial delay** before the first repeat, and the **repeat
interval** after it. Frames between cursor moves at a stated present rate — a
count, not a stopwatch. Also: does the d-pad differ from the stick? Does it
accelerate while held, or stay flat?
2. **F2 — IS THE AUDIO MIX ON THE DISC?** The SFX are too loud and there is **no
gain value anywhere** in the export; `confirm` peaks at −0.0 dBFS and sits
3 dB above the music in mean. A cue record commonly carries a volume beside
its wave index, and you already decoded `sub_821C5580` playing cue 1103. If
per-cue or per-bus gain is there it is **decoded** and nobody has to choose.
If it provably is not, say so with reach.
3. **F3 — WHAT DOES THE TITLE PLAY?** A human says something is missing there.
Which cue, if any, does the title screen play, and is there a **sting** when
the plate appears or when Ⓐ is accepted? ⚠️ A negative needs a positive
control (R4): show the method finding the *menu's* cue before concluding the
title has none.
4. **F4 — WHAT DOES Ⓐ DO TO THE CLOCKS?** In the real game, Ⓐ during the title
build-in **reveals the plate immediately** — so the boot takes three presses:
skip video, reveal plate, accept plate. Does the game snap both clocks
forward, or only reveal the plate? 📌 This is also a **cheap second route to
the plate-arrival question**: a press that skips to the plate tells you where
the game thinks the plate belongs. And it is a third input the boot title
accepts, which narrows `REFUTED.md`'s *"any title after the first refuses
input"* further.
⚠️ Deliver a **series, not a settled value** — see
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report if the feature were entirely absent?** `tools/motion-census` exists for
exactly that question; keep it in `check-all`.
⚠️ **P5's gate is "a human clicks through it" and is NOT claimed.** They signed
off the logos, and separately confirmed Ⓐ, the stick and the submenus work.
Nobody has said the milestone is met — **do not record it as met on their
behalf.** If you believe it is ready, say so and ask.
## ✅ P5's GATE IS MET — the human walked it, 2026-09-02
Still open, none of it blocking: **H1** (does a held direction repeat, and how
fast — one step per deflection stays authored) and **H3** (the plate; every named
cause is dead and the observation is unattributed — ⚠️ worth re-asking, since the
animation fix changed what the whole boot looks like and the original observation
may no longer reproduce). Both are in
[`../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02.md`](../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02.md).
> *"Menu walk and navigation is fine. Video skips too. Extras open. New Game
> shows new game intro video."*
`PORT-MISSION.md` is updated. The NEW GAME gap is accepted as-is — they know the
difficulty select comes first in the real game and that the port announces it.
### 🔴 Four findings from the same session — read [`../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md`](../agents/PLAYTEST-2026-09-02-menus.md)
| | | yours to do |
|---|---|---|
| **F1** | **The menu REPEATS on a held direction. Ours does not.** One step per deflection was authored as the safe choice; the human has now watched the real game and it repeats. | **Implement the mechanism. 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. |
| **F2** | **SFX too loud, and there is no mix at all.** Measured: `confirm` −17.7 dB mean / **−0.0 dB peak**, 3 dB hotter than the music; no gain value exists anywhere in `export/` or `authored/`. | Add gains **at playback, as data** — a bus per kind. ⚠️ **Do NOT normalise in the exporter**: re-levelling destroys the relationship between clips and a modder cannot undo it. The Decoder is checking whether the mix is on the disc. |
| **F3** | **Something is missing on the title screen** — a track or a sting. The export has one music file and the port plays nothing on the title. | Wait for the Decoder; nothing to author yet. |
| **F4** | **Ⓐ skips FORWARD through the boot, and we implement two of three presses.** Ⓐ#1 skips the video ✅, **Ⓐ#2 reveals the plate immediately ❌ missing**, Ⓐ#3 activates it ✅. | Make Ⓐ during the title build-in jump to the plate. ⚠️ Whether the game snaps **both** clocks forward or only reveals the plate is a question — ask rather than choose. |
**H3, the plate delay, is ACCEPTED** — *"feels the same… sufficient"*. Stop
working on it. Leave the row unattributed rather than closing it green.
## Previous sole focus, 2026-09-02 — RESOLVED, kept for the method

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| **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 |
| **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 met |
| **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~~ — **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