Last iteration I proposed that the two sweeps share one indices=8 draw
because ptloop01 links to ptloop02, and said testing it needed a
loading-screen capture I lack. Wrong twice: a linked pair was already in
every capture, ptbtn00 -> ptbtn00f.
Measured: ptbtn00f is drawn ALONE in 899 (f6b) and 1441 (f6) draws and
batched in ZERO, while the sweeps pair up in 1092 and 1744. Linkage does not
batch. The constraint is blend state -- ptbtn00f is additive and its linked
partner alpha-over, which cannot share a draw. The sweeps batch because both
are additive on one page.
Page+blend is necessary but not sufficient: 8154/alpha-over appears as two
separate draws in a single frame, 2108 such draws in f6b. This removes a
wrong cause rather than supplying a batching rule.
Extends read_draws.py to preserve draw grouping (draw index and quad count
per draw); check_labels.py still passes unchanged as a regression control.
Refutation attempt on the port's 0x3002/0x3003 menu-item reading: survives.
958 of 970 stems contain "btn"; the 12 exceptions are psselect_slot and
psselect_slot_blank, which are menu rows.
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Last iteration I asserted F5 was unaffected by the truncating-reader bug
because it compared like with like. Asserting that is the move that produced
the bug, so this measures it. The new reader sees 9.7 quads/frame vs ~7.5.
Scalar that needs no element identification: quads mid-ramp (0<a<250) per
frame goes 6,4,4,4,2,1,4,3 -> 0 at f436, while the control never reaches 0
anywhere in 48 frames of build-in. One frame with nothing part-way through a
ramp is the cut.
Bonus the old reader could not show: both sweeps enter at f436-438 at their
declared opening alphas -- pteff03 at 255, pteff03a at 1,2,3,4,6,11,17 from
its declared 0.
Refutation attempt on the port's "clock jumps to 236.0": tried and failed.
My bound is [100,238), which contains 236 -- consistent, not independent
confirmation.
Adds tools/re-capture/read_draws.py so the truncating regex is not re-rolled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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