Having found that the cue-less cutscene pages bind their audio through the movie
path, I tested the same explanation on the twelve script lines with no cue and
no bank. It fails: matching their caption text against every line in the
cutscene message table gives 0 of 14 hits, so nothing carries their audio by
another route.
They are ordinary story dialogue ('Katana, wait for me in hell'), which makes a
deliberate subtitle-only design unlikely -- but that is a judgement, not a
measurement, and why they are unvoiced is still open. Also noted: D_609 and
D_610 are equally unvoiced and simply are not among the twelve, because the
twelve counts script-called names and nothing calls them.
My sound-cue write-up said the table 'does not explain' the VOICE_D_452
rejection and implied it was still open. It is not: voice-bank-leading-region.md
settled it earlier -- the bank holds one generic line reused across four stages,
so the binding is correct and the expectation was wrong. The narrower true
statement, which is what the cue table actually adds, is that the reuse is a
movie-slot -> bank relation and not a cue-level one.
dat/tables.pak holds a 5798-entry SOUNDS record (cue name -> sound id) and a
5135-entry FILES record (.slb bank paths). Cue names are the join key, so a
script message id now resolves all the way to the bank that voices it:
MSG_VOICE_D_257 -> VOICE_D_257 -> 6945 -> jpn\etc\VOICE_D_257.slb.
The prefix rule is MSG_ -> VOICE_, not strip-MSG_. My first rule was the
latter; it left 88 names unresolved and I was about to write those families up
as text-only announcements, until VOICE_TCAF_592.slb turned up in FILES and
refuted it. Corrected rule resolves 1326 of 1338, and SOUNDS and FILES agree on
exactly the same 12 absentees.
Separately, MSG_DEMO_* is driven by its own IDXD tables in the language packs,
which carry speaker, portrait, on-screen seconds and audio cue per page. Field
count is 9*PageCount+2 for all 7 distinct PageCounts; 1252/1252 caption-key
slots match <ID>_<page>_<line>; the 78 multi-page records equal the 78 counted
independently from the caption side; 138 ids close exactly against the caption
table both ways.
Does not settle the known VOICE_D_452 wrong-recording case -- every cue id is
distinct, so bank sharing is not happening at this layer.
