The title still said 'not yet a number' after the second half resolved it to
56.8. Kept the failed first half in place and in order -- the borrowed T is
the lesson -- but a reader must not stop at the header.
The capture reached the title AFTER the harness stopped classifying, so the
plate's ramp was in the log with tick stamps after all.
ptbtn00: alpha 11->231 over 334.4 guest ms = 657.9 alpha/s. With its
independently attested T=22 that is 56.8 units per guest second, inside the
pre-registered 55-65 band. The final step of every ramp is excluded because
it clamps at 255 and reports more elapsed time than it consumed -- including
it drags the plate to 633.0 alpha/s, a 4% error entirely inside the clamp.
Control passes at 1.15%: ptcopyright gives 650.4 alpha/s, and at one shared
clock that makes its own segment T=22.25. Two elements agreeing on a rate
AND independently landing on a round declared length is stronger than either.
Why my earlier 29.9 was wrong, and it is the failure the page predicted: it
used T=15 borrowed from a row that is about A element with a 15-unit fade,
generalised to splash B's quads, which is not what that row says. At 56.8 the
splash elements' implied T is 23-34, none of them 15. And the step quantum
does not rescue 15: splash steps are multiples of 17 = 255/15, which is what
made 15 look confirmed, but at T=28.5 a step of 17 is simply TWO units of
8.9. A quantum fixes T only if you already know the step is one unit.
60 is NOT refuted -- 5.6% away against ~5% quantisation resolution -- so the
port keeps it. But this DOES eliminate the unit constant as a cause of a late
plate: at 56.8 units/s t=236 lands at 4.15 s against the port's 3.93 s, so
the port is fractionally early.
Reported against the pre-registration, failure first.
HELD, and by a cleaner argument than the regression: the clock is NOT
frame-counted. The same animation takes 21 frame labels in one capture and
33 in another, and splash A's logo steps +136,+34 in one and
+17,+51,+34,+34,+17,+17 in the other. A fixed per-frame increment cannot do
that. Steps are always integer multiples of 17 (255/15 = one unit), so the
clock advances in whole units at a rate set by how long the frame took.
That retires '2 units per submitted frame' as a MECHANISM -- including my own
page from two hours ago. The measurement stands; 2 was that run's frame
pacing. units = 2 x frames computes an emulator artefact. Recorded as a
proposal against the register, not enacted, and noted at the head of the H3
page rather than by editing it.
FAILED: predicted 60 units per guest second, accept 55-65. Measured median
29.9 over six elapsed-ratio estimates (25.2-36.6). Prediction 3 said 30 was
excluded and 30 is what came out.
Why the rate is not a number yet: units/s = (d_alpha/dt) * T/255, and T is
the load-bearing term. d_alpha/dt is measured cleanly six ways. T=15 for
these elements comes from a corpus row whose usual derivation is circular
with the thing just retired -- a step of 34/frame implies T=15 only GIVEN 2
units/frame. T=30 would give ~60. No amount of re-measuring alpha settles it.
Settles with ptbtn00, whose T=22 is attested by two independent readers with
no clock anywhere in the chain. That capture did not reach the title in 531 s
of attract loop against 243 s in the previous run -- the variable attract
loop capture-harness-status.md already documents at up to 604 s. Instrument
built and control-passed; one run is missing.
Instrument: guest timebase, 50 MHz per emulator.cc:225, scalar 1.0 per
clock.cc:37, so no host wall clock enters any number. Control: 123.24 guest
seconds across a capture running ~118 wall seconds.
Told the port to change NOTHING today: ~30 rests on an unverified T, and
retiring 2 x frames does not by itself supply a replacement.
The Port asks whether the blend is evaluated on sRGB-encoded values or
linearised and re-encoded. It is answered by one register field I already
log, and the answer is the same on every draw of two full captures.
RB_COLOR_INFO.color_format is k_8_8_8_8 (0) on 2402/2402 splash draws and
33779/33791 draws of the boot-through-title capture; the other 12 are
k_32_FLOAT and k_16_16_FLOAT and are not colour passes. k_8_8_8_8_GAMMA (1)
appears ZERO times, and color_exp_bias is 0 everywhere so nothing stands in
for a gamma either.
The mechanism is Canary's own source, not our inference: k_8_8_8_8_GAMMA is
the ONLY colour format around which a piecewise-linear gamma<->linear
conversion is applied (spirv_shader_translator.h:510 PWLGammaToLinear /
LinearToPWLGamma, render_target_cache.h:720, dxbc_shader_translator_om.cc).
With k_8_8_8_8 there is none, so the blender operates on the stored values
as they are.
So a renderer that linearises before blending and re-encodes after is doing
a different operation -- and the difference is gamma-shaped and exactly zero
on unblended pixels, which is the divergence signature the port reports.
Also renamed my units-per-second pre-registration off the 'h4' prefix: the
Port's BLOCKED.md numbers this blend-space question H4 and two different H4s
in one corpus is how a citation goes wrong.
H3 pinned 2 units per guest FRAME. The port needs units per SECOND, and that
decomposition is only valid if the clock counts frames. If it integrates
elapsed time then units/second is the invariant and units/frame is an
artefact of whatever rate the host managed.
Evidence it is time-integrated is already in hand and is the caveat H3 had
to quote: across empty label 5376 the plate's alpha moved +82 where three
adjacent labels each moved +23. 82/23 = 3.57, not an integer number of
ticks, and a fixed per-frame increment cannot produce a fractional multiple
of itself.
Instrument: the draw logger now stamps each frame boundary with
Clock::QueryGuestTickCount() and guest_tick_frequency() -- the GUEST's
timebase, 50 MHz per emulator.cc:225, scalar 1.0 per clock.cc:37. No host
wall clock enters the calculation.
Discriminator, within one run: regress alpha step against the label's guest
duration. Flat => frame-counted. Proportional => time-integrated, and the
slope is the answer.
Predicted before the run: time-integrated with r>0.9, at 60 units per guest
second, accept 55-65, 120 and 30 excluded. Stated honestly as a CONSISTENCY
prediction -- it is what the previous capture's run average implies -- not a
blind one.
Control: the same regression on ptcopyright's ramp, a different element with
a different declared segment. Two elements must agree under the
time-integrated model and need not otherwise.
Three rows the port is blocked on:
H3 -- 2 units per guest frame, measured on the plate's own ramp against a
pre-registration. Their 5 excluded by >2x, and the reason named: an alpha
step is not a clock rate without the element's declared T, and my own
splash-quad-timeline.txt published alpha against frame with no T column.
That file now warns at its head.
The title settle anchor is t~160, not t=118 -- it is ptcopyright, the last
build-in element and the only glyph one. Said plainly that this is the
reading under which their clock:'shared' collapses, and that a consequence
is not a counter-argument.
Told them NOT to change their 60 units/s yet: units/second is untouched by
this and two of my own captures disagree ~2.9x on frames->seconds.
The pad: sub_82457038 reads every field of XINPUT_GAMEPAD, 14/14 loads
verified against the image, plus a second keystroke-queue path. Flagged as
the superset the game can SEE, not the per-screen set, so it is used to
check a binding table and not to write one.
The Port asked which of two of my measurements to believe, 55 units/s vs
~150, a factor of 2.7 off one game. Measured on the plate's own declared
ramp, against a pre-registration committed first.
PREDICTED 11 frames at 2 units/frame, 4.4 at the Port's inferred 5, +/-1.
MEASURED 10 labels, and three consecutive gap-free steps of EXACTLY 23,
which is 255*2/22 on the nose. 5 units/frame is excluded by >2x.
Why the splash read as 5: an alpha step is not a clock rate. For a linear
segment d(alpha)/frame = 255*(units/frame)/T. Splash B's quads step 34 with
a declared T=15; the plate steps 23 with a declared T=22; ONE clock, two
steps 1.5x apart. And the Port's intervals start at each quad's first
submission, which on splash A is already alpha=85 -- not the element's t
where alpha=0, and biased by a different amount per element because T
differs. My own splash-quad-timeline.txt published alpha against frame with
no T beside it, which is the column that makes the conversion possible; it
now carries the warning.
The other half: the 'title settled' anchor is ptcopyright reaching full
alpha -- the last build-in element and the ONLY glyph one, which is what a
glyph counter settling means. Calibrated on the plate's own ramp it lands at
t~168 (t~176 at a flat 2.0/label). The Port's candidates are 118 and 160, 42
units apart: this is 8-16 units from 160 and 50-58 from 118. It is 160.
Instrument fact that bounds all of it: labels with zero draws exist, ~1 in 5,
and the clock does NOT advance a fixed amount across them -- across label
5376 the plate moved +82 where three adjacent labels each moved +23. So an
empty label is a real advance, not a logger artefact, and spans that cross
one are approximate. The conclusion rests on the gap-free steps.
Also recorded: the sweep leaves never settle. They translate monotonically
through every label examined and are still moving when the plate arrives, so
'settled' can only mean the build-in elements are done.
NOT answered, and it is what the port actually needs: units per SECOND.
units/s = (units/frame) x (guest fps); this pins the first at 2 and says
nothing about the second, and 2x30 vs 2x60 differ by exactly the ~2 s the
human reported. My own title-plate-delay-measured.md's 2.13 s does not
reconcile with this capture's 20 labels for the same two anchors -- a real
~2.9x disagreement, now localised to frames->seconds rather than
units->frames. Settling it needs the guest's own frame counter, which
neither capture read.
The Port asks which of two of my measurements to believe -- 55 units/s from
the plate page, ~150 from their reading of my splash timeline, a factor of
2.7 off one game.
Neither is safe and for the same reason: both convert an ALPHA STEP into a
CLOCK RATE, which needs the element's declared ramp length, because
d(alpha)/frame = 255 * (units/frame) / T. My own splash capture shows that
biting: splash B steps 34/label while splash A's logo steps 68 or 136 across
one label pair. Same boot, 2x or 4x apart. An alpha step is not a clock rate.
So measure on an element whose T is declared: ptbtn00, the plate itself,
t=214 alpha=0 -> t=236 alpha=255, T=22 units.
Predicted, before looking: 11 frames at the corpus's 2 units/frame, 4.4 at
the Port's inferred 5. Accept +/-1. Committed first so it cannot be edited
afterwards.
R1 asks for tools/stale-instrument when an instrument improves. The draw
logger improved this iteration; all eight claims that <harness> killed are
about the SCREENSHOT harness -- polling cadence, x11grab latency, the
title/plate classifier -- and none of them ever used the draw logger, so
none re-open. Written down because 'ran it, nothing changed' and 'did not
run it' are otherwise the same absence.
Play-test finding 4 asked, in order: is there a pass, what is it, where do
its parameters come from, only then what curve. All four, from GPU state.
1. NO post-process pass. Over all 1 048 draws of frames 4..226 (both boot
splashes): rt0=[tile=0 fmt=0 exp=0] on 1048/1048, pitch=1280 msaa=0 on
1048/1048, edram_mode only ever kColorDepth or kCopy, resolve dests only
the two alternating front buffers, and NO texture base anywhere in the
capture equals a resolve destination. The only texture bound in the whole
splash region is the sprite page 0x11A50000. No blur, no bloom, no fade
quad over a resolved image, no tone curve, no resolve-and-resample.
2. What it is: per frame, a full-screen replace triangle (the clear), a
full-screen black quad through the ordinary blend, ONE batched sprite
draw carrying every visible element (indices 4/8/12/24), and the two
presentation resolves.
3. Where the parameters come from: NOT the constant banks -- the splash
pixel shaders read zero float constants, ps_c[n=0] on 1048/1048, taken
off each shader's own float_bitmap. NOT immediates. The fade is the
per-vertex k_8_8_8_8 colour in a vertex buffer the guest rewrites every
frame.
4. The curve falls out of 3 and is the corpus's existing 34/frame law,
reproduced on an independent capture. Not claimed as new.
And the composite is ORDINARY SOURCE-OVER, confirmed from the shader ucode
rather than inferred from the blend register: the register reads
ONE/ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA, which looks premultiplied, and is -- because the
shader premultiplies. The two together are src*A + dst*(1-A). So the 'more
pronounced' fade is neither a blend difference nor a pass.
The likely mechanism instead: the developer splash submits SIX quads, three
logos plus three slightly-larger companions that lead them by 8 frames and
are gone 79 frames early. Two over-blended copies of the same art at
different scale is a halo, on screen only during the entry.
Refutation attempt, recorded: REFUTED.md's re-opened rest() pair states its
settling condition as 'a draw capture of the developer splash naming which
of the three glows is submitted at rest'. This is that capture. All three
companions ARE submitted in all 21 frames -- so no rule that hides one
describes this stream -- but they are NOT interchangeable: Q6 leaves the
plateau on its own -5.6/frame decay while Q4 and Q5 hold 255. The one-byte
sibling difference is drawn.
Trap recorded with the evidence: censusing the whole 600-frame log finds six
640x360 textures sampled ~330 times each, which reads exactly like a
half-resolution blur chain. They are the attract movie's chroma planes and
first appear at frame 234, after both splashes. Restricting the window is
what separates them.
Evidence: docs/re/data/splash-draw-pass-census.txt,
docs/re/data/splash-quad-timeline.txt, docs/re/data/shaders/*.ucode.frag.
Logger: canary sylpheed-re d90d14e02.
Both agents asked for this and neither could do it: the register is the file
they both read to decide what NOT to try, so two agents agreeing is not the
authority for changing it (RETRO-2026-08-31-agreed §7.1).
R1: a refutation whose instrument is one of our renderers is not a refutation,
it is "our renderer disagrees" -- 🟡, not ❌. The motivating case was not
careless work. "Blending those sprites additively worsens every measure against
the capture" killed a real disc field for weeks, and read exactly like a
publishable negative; the renderer behind it had a stale keyframe association,
no leaf geometry and no rotation. Nothing in the entry could have told you.
All 222 entries now end with ⟨instrument⟩, read off each entry's OWN stated
evidence -- never inferred. An entry that states none gets `unrecorded`, which
is 83 of them.
Ten moved ❌ -> 🟡, each naming what would settle it: 8 render-vs-capture,
1 our-reader, 1 harness.
Three things the pass turned up:
* The rest() question is OPEN and had been reading as settled in both
directions -- "rest = last keyframe" was refuted by a sibling argument, and
that refutation refuted by correlating our render against captures. Both legs
are our renderer. Which one you believed depended on which entry you found
first, and it 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 freezes and repeats a stale
frame; the 1 674-sample negative three lines above it, same probe, was left
standing as a reinstated measurement.
* 83 of 222 -- 37 % -- record no instrument at all. Not disputed, not safe:
unauditable, and larger than every other group combined.
tools/stale-instrument is the --stale query the rule needs, because a colour
alone re-opens nothing: the failure was that nothing re-opened a claim when the
instrument that killed it improved. Its own --check found a real bug on the
first run -- sys.exit("text") exits 1, so three faults documented as exit 2
were reporting the same code as an ordinary miss.
R1 is now standing text in PROTOCOL.md, with R5's exception: our tool is the
right instrument for a question about our tool.
Delivered: T8aD +0x04 bit 0x02 selects additive, so the port derives the blend
instead of transcribing my table -- including for screens neither of us has
captured. With why I got it wrong first: the bit was already in REFUTED.md,
killed by a comparison of two renders made while our renderer had a stale
keyframe association, no leaf geometry and no rotation.
Their asks: pteff10 IS additive on the main menu, three sessions, every frame,
and my coverage table listing it uncovered there is corrected. The sweep ramp is
four leaf keyframes on the disc, with the oracle agreeing on sign and magnitude
and a second identification from the sub-128 alpha. And kind & 0x2 is not mine
to grant -- stated what the decode supports (0 violations in 15493 entries, and
it means the declaration marks the element focusable, not that the cursor can
reach it) and left the adoption to them.
ui-blend-mode-measured.md is superseded in its classification and keeps its
measurements, which are what the decode is fitted to.
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Reverses two of my own pages. t32-blend-mode-not-on-disc.md said the mode is not
on the disc; ui-blend-mode-measured.md classified it measured and told the port
that which field selects it was unknown. Both were honest and neither is current.
Bit 0x02 of +0x04 set means the game draws that sprite ADDITIVE
(RB_BLENDCONTROL0 = 0x01010101); clear means premultiplied alpha-over.
Fit: 35 elements over three screens, 16 set/additive and 19 clear/alpha-over,
zero errors, every label read out of the guest command stream rather than off a
render.
Control: of every bit of the first twelve header words, exactly one separates
those 35 without error. Nothing ties with it -- which is precisely what the
+0x08 = 0x8050 candidate failed.
Within-pair: ptbtn00 0x0110 alpha-over against ptbtn00f 0x0112 additive, same
screen, same bundle, adjacent draws, one bit apart. And other f variants are
bit-clear and alpha-over, so it is not 'focused variants are additive'.
Out of sample: a prediction committed at 088df91, before its capture, on a
different archive -- GP_OPTIONS entry 19, 3 additive of 16, falsified if any
other element drew additive. The game drew exactly po_menu_eff01/02/03 additive
and nothing else.
This revives a claim REFUTED.md killed. The refutation said blending those
sprites additively worsens every measure against the capture -- a claim about
our renderer, made while that renderer had a stale keyframe association, no leaf
geometry and no rotation. Recorded as a revival with its evidence;
check_refuted.py passes with 0 unmarked assertions.
Two other readings of the same bit stay refuted and are explicitly not revived:
'the name contains eff' and 'premultiplied storage'. Those were the bit's
meaning; this is its effect.
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The port asked for the sweep strips' vertex alpha as a function of position. It
is not a runtime curve to sample: ptloop01/ptloop02's nested leaves declare four
keyframes each, with x, alpha, rotation, scale and time.
pteff03 loop 600u x -639 -> 1521, alpha 255 -> 128 -> 255, rot +30, sy 600 %
pteff03a loop 720u x 1721 -> -839, alpha 0 -> 128 -> 255, rot -45, sy 800 %
Checked against three sessions of GPU draws: both signs right every time, and
magnitudes within ~15 % of the declared slopes.
The independent bit worth having: across sessions the measured alpha spans
45..242, and only pteff03a declares alpha below 128 -- pteff03's ramp never
leaves [128,255]. The strip measured at 45 is the 1303-tall one, which the AABB
geometry says is pteff03a for a completely different reason. Two identifications
agreeing.
Stated as limits rather than buried: this cannot separate the two declared
slopes, which are 25 % apart against a quantisation of 6.4 px and one alpha
level over 3-4 frames; and absolute phase is unchecked because the AABB-left to
element-x mapping under rotation and pivot is not established.
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REFUTED.md kills this claim: 'T8aD +0x04 bit 0x02 selects an additive blend ->
mine, and refuted. Blending those sprites additively worsens every measure
against the capture.' That refutation rests entirely on our renderer, which the
corpus's own rule calls a hypothesis under test. The blend is now measured off
the GPU, so the claim can be tested against the oracle.
35 elements over three screens, every label an RB_BLENDCONTROL0 value read from
the command stream: 16 bit-set and additive, 19 bit-clear and alpha-over, zero
false positives, zero false negatives.
The control that makes it a decode rather than a coincidence: of every bit of
the first 12 header words, EXACTLY ONE separates those 35 elements without
error. Nothing ties with it. A perfect partition on a small sample is worthless
if half the header partitions equally well, which is the mistake +0x08 = 0x8050
was.
And the pair no confound survives: ptbtn00 = 0x0110, ptbtn00f = 0x0112 -- the
PRESS (A) plate and its own highlight, same screen, differing in exactly this
bit, drawn alpha-over and additive respectively.
Committed alongside is a PREDICTION for GP_OPTIONS, written before the capture
that tests it: a different archive, a different element set, and a MIXED
prediction -- po_menu_eff01/02/03 additive, 592 elements alpha-over. Falsified
if those three draw alpha-over or anything else draws additive. The developer
splash was considered first and rejected as a test: both its elements predict
alpha-over, so it can fail but cannot discriminate.
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The UI draw capture printed 8 vertices = two quads per draw, so a batched draw
dropped the rest silently. Four EXTRAS elements therefore appeared in no draw on
any screen, which reads as 'the game does not draw these' -- and the port spent
an iteration measuring them as the worst on the screen and asking about them.
When an instrument says an element never appears, check its limits before
believing the game.
And 'press down until the cursor stops moving' is not a stop condition on a
menu that WRAPS: it was unreachable, the loop only exited by exhausting its
budget, and it landed on EXTRAS because a dropped press cancelled one lap. An
earlier version of the same loop pressed (A) on NEW GAME after two identical
readings caused by a dropped press.
What held throughout is the part worth keeping: verify the state you measured,
never the actions you took.
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The four elements the port measured as the worst on EXTRAS, and which appeared
in no draw, were in a draw all along: the 24-index additive batch holds six
quads and Canary printed the first two. Cap raised to 64, screen re-captured,
all six named. Same draw as ptframe3, whose state was already measured -- the
one-way implication doing real work.
pteff10 is identified too, and it needed the resting SCALE: it ships as 409x144
and is drawn at 200 % x 500 % = 816x720. The matcher's 'try 1x and 2x' rule
could not name it at any scale and reported a near miss against something else,
which is a failure wearing the clothes of an answer. Candidates are now the
declaration's pivot*2 scaled by the resting keyframe as well as the texture at
1x and 2x, and the tolerance is the log's own NDC print quantisation rather than
a chosen number.
Flagged rather than buried: pteff10 measuring additive is in tension with the
port measuring it nearly exact under alpha-over. Both can be true for a dim
semi-transparent glow over a dark background, and it is the one row a rendering
check does not corroborate.
Also stated: the three full-screen alpha-over draws are NOT individually
identified -- four elements declare 1280x720 -- so the label on those rows is a
candidate, not an identification.
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sylpheed-port checked the coverage claim element by element and it was wrong.
The page said everything on the two screens was covered but for pteff10; on
EXTRAS, ptframe4, pteff21, pteff22 and pteff23 were also in neither the per-draw
log nor a prose row -- and they are exactly the four the port measures as the
worst elements on that screen.
The result rows were never wrong. The claim about what they covered was, and it
is the kind that reads as reassurance.
Also flagged, and fair: 'every button' is a class generalisation in the page
whose own instruction is to read it as per-element facts. It came from one
element on the main menu. Now stated as such.
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Two more emulator runs close two of the three reach limits on the blend page.
THE TITLE (entries 4 + 2 composited). Everything alpha-over except the two
rotated sweep strips and -- the finding -- ptbtn00f, the PRESS (A) plate's
focused variant, which is ADDITIVE while its own base ptbtn00 is not. That is
what the documented plate pulse is made of, and a port drawing both alpha-over
cannot reach the pulse's peak by any pacing.
And ptlogo_back2 / ptlogo_back2eff are ALPHA-OVER. They are frame-shaped, large,
dark and 94 %/87 % transparent -- every surface property the menu's ptframe* have
-- so 'frame-shaped and mostly transparent implies additive' is refuted on the
one screen that could test it.
THE MENU replicates draw for draw in two further sessions; the one-session
caveat is retired.
THE VERTEX CAP was 8 = two quads, so a batched draw reported its first two
elements and dropped the rest. Raised to 64. This is why ptframe4, pteff21,
pteff22 and pteff23 looked like elements the game never draws: EXTRAS' 24-index
additive draw holds six quads and the log printed two.
THE SWEEPS are on screen on the main menu in every captured frame, stepping
~0.03 NDC per frame in opposite directions with their vertex alpha ramping, at
different phases in two sessions. The leaf group runs on the menu. What that
does not say is how much they contribute.
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I wrote that yesterday in HANDOFF, the finding page and INDEX. It is false: in
one main-menu frame, draws 5, 6 and 7 are three separate additive draws --
consecutive, identical blend state, not merged.
Only the one-way implication holds: elements inside one draw share a blend
state; sharing a state does not put elements in one draw. The wrong version
would have licensed the port inferring a mode for an element nobody observed,
which is the one thing that page must not do. The ptframe4 conclusion is
unaffected -- it is in the same DRAW as ptframe3, not merely the same mode.
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The declaration entry's kind word (+0x28) and its focus/nav index (+0x2C) are the
same fact twice: kind & 0x2 is set iff the focus index is >= 0. Checked over 24
UI paks and every parseable build in each -- 1062 focusable elements, 14431 not,
zero exceptions. The test is two-sided, so it would fail if any focusable element
lacked the bit or any non-focusable element carried it.
Consequence: kind == 0x3002 is not the test for a button. It catches 778 of 1062
and misses 284 (26.7 %) at 0x2, 0x2002, 0x3003, 0x73002, 0x73003 -- including
ptbtn00.rat on GP_TITLE's PRESS (A) plate, which is 0x73002. And 0x3000, 817
elements, looks like a button and is not focusable.
This is also the refutation attempt on sylpheed-port's kind census. Their claim
-- every decoration 0x0, every button 0x3002 -- is exactly right on the two
screens they checked, reproduced here independently, and fails one build over on
the title they have not run yet.
The other kind bits are reported as observed structure and explicitly not
claimed.
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0x8050 dies disc-wide (38 sprites, high byte tracks the archive) and again on
EXTRAS, where pteff21/22/23 share it with the frames.
The port's 'neither frame has a fully-opaque pixel' is true and is not the
discriminator: pteff10 has max alpha 130, no opaque pixel, and they measure it as
nearly exact. Their direction survives -- the draw path did answer -- so what is
refuted is the reason, not the conclusion.
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Two traps this run paid for.
ring_row.py's ROW0/SPACING are x11grab constants. On a /sylph-home/re/shots/shot-0001.png grab of the
same live main menu the rows read 180.5/419.5/502.0 -- ROW0 is 45 px out, 0.57
of a step. The module refused rather than naming the wrong item, which is the
good failure, and is_main_menu() therefore returned False ON A REAL MAIN MENU. A
run gated on it would conclude 'not the menu' while sitting on the menu. Not
recalibrated: three rows from one session are not a calibration and other tools
share the constants; the module now says so where the numbers are.
menu_draw_capture.sh's 420 s title deadline fired, and the emulator left running
was at the settled title minutes later, took one A, and reached the menu first
try. A timeout is a measurement of the timeout. Leaving the emulator up after a
failed script rescued this run for one minute against a twenty-minute reboot.
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HANDOFF gets the measured table, the two controls, the three caveats that travel
with it (src=ONE is not evidence of premultiplied textures; the frames share a
draw call so ptframe4 comes free; read it as per-element facts because the
selecting field is still unknown), and the correction to the port's own
sharpener -- 'neither frame has a fully-opaque pixel' is true and is not the
discriminator, because pteff10 has none either and renders accurately.
t32-blend-mode-not-on-disc.md keeps its negative and its reach and loses its
conclusion. INDEX gets the row.
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Closes the one route t32-blend-mode-not-on-disc.md left open: the executable's
draw path. Canary's UI draw capture now logs RB_BLENDCONTROL0 per draw, and the
game was driven to the main menu and to EXTRAS with F10 at each.
The title-side UI uses two blend states and ONE pixel shader:
0x07010701 src=ONE dst=1-SRC_ALPHA alpha-over (premultiplied)
ptbase, pteff05, the fade quad, ptmsg, ptmsg2, pttitle, buttons
0x01010101 src=ONE dst=ONE ADDITIVE
ptframe1, ptframe2, ptframe3, pteff20, both rotated sweep strips
Two controls, both run before the result was read:
* the NDC->pixel conversion that identifies a draw by its quad size reproduces
1134 and 1303 px for the two rotated sweep strips -- numbers measured by a
different tool in a different session -- on BOTH screens. The tool prints
PASS/FAIL and disclaims its own output on FAIL.
* pixel shader 0xE59B2B3DA4AA9008 is used with BOTH states, 12 draws additive
and 18 alpha-over. ptframe1 and ptbase run the same shader; only the blend
register differs. So this is a blend result, not a shader result.
This confirms the port's independent measurement -- it solved the composite per
pixel from two backgrounds and found additive halves alpha-over's error on both
frames -- by a route with nothing in common with it.
So the blend is no longer authored: 'any blend you choose is authored' was true
of the disc and is not true of the game. What is still unknown is which field
selects it; elements sharing a mode are batched into one draw call, so the
selection happens before the draw.
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The port measures four elements as rendering too dark against the capture --
ptframe1/2 on the main menu, ptframe3/4 on EXTRAS -- with the shortfall
correlating +0.77/+0.80 with the BACKGROUND and only +0.24 with the element's
own contribution. That is the signature of a blend that scales what is already
there. It asked whether the disc selects one.
Three examples, one negative, wider than the one I gave last iteration:
* frame_alpha_census -- every T8aD sprite on builds 5 and 6 by alpha. It
REFUTES the port's own sharpener: 'neither frame has a single fully-opaque
pixel, against ptbase's 99.1 %' is true, and pteff10 (max alpha 130, 100 %
partial, no opaque pixel) is measured by the port as NEARLY EXACT. So being
wholly semi-transparent is not what makes the frames special.
* frame_vs_accurate_words -- all 12 T8aD header words for both screens, plus a
per-BIT sweep of +0x04 and +0x08. NO word and NO bit puts the four frames on
one side and pteff10 on the other. It also kills my own remaining candidate a
second time: +0x08 = 0x8050 is shared with pteff21/22/23 on EXTRAS.
* frame_keyframe_unknowns -- the keyframe record's fade, tint, rotation and its
two unexplained signed words. unknown_4 and unknown_8 are ZERO on every
keyframe of both screens, so they carry nothing here; no frame takes a value
of any field that another element does not.
Reach: the 60-byte declaration entry, the T8aD header word-wise and bit-wise,
and the keyframe record. Four elements, two screens. Not the executable's draw
path, which is the next commit.
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Answers the port's ask about ptframe1/ptframe2, whose residual is uniquely higher on
flat pixels than edges and signed one direction -- a body-intensity difference.
Prior work covers .prm primitives and a refuted T8aD +0x04 bit; neither covers a
.t32 element. All 15 words of the 60-byte declaration entry are read: 3 are the
name, 8 constant, the rest kind, focus index, position and pivot. The frames are
kind 0, identical to every other plain sprite.
One candidate found and refuted by myself: T8aD +0x08 is the only word where both
frames agree uniquely on that screen, at 0x8050 -- but 38 sprites carry it
disc-wide, only 8 named frame, and the high byte tracks the archive. It is an
atlas/format word, not a mode.
Also records a false positive of my own test: +0x00 and +0x08 first read as
'separating the frames' because those words are the name string.
So any blend the port picks is authored. Reach: not looked at the executable's draw
path, where a mode selected in code rather than data would live.
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sylpheed-port mapped the menu's edge residual at 64 px tiles and handed over
coordinates without names, which is the division I proposed: the map is theirs, the
element inventory is mine.
Under the hot band at x 384..704, y 64..256 sit ptframe1.t32, ptbtn01.rat (the NEW
GAME button) and pteff12.t32, an effect element -- all three hot under BOTH
coordinate readings, so the answer does not depend on whether their tiles are in
design or capture space. ptbtn02 is hot in design space only.
So the hot region is not one element but three of different kinds overlapping, which
is consistent with their null: they looked for two families of tile and found one
continuous population, so the region has no character of its own.
This names what is there, not what is wrong -- their map already excludes local
displacement in these tiles. Also records their control limit: a +2 px displacement
reads back +0.839 because the slope saturates, so any slope they report is a floor
on the displacement and never a ceiling.
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sylpheed-port ran the signed-edge discriminator I proposed but could not execute --
it needs their render beside the capture. Recorded as their measurement, with their
tool and commit.
Controls against deliberately damaged copies of their own render: a known +1 px
shift reads back as +0.938 px, a known blur as r -0.896 on the laplacian, neither
leaking into the other's channel. The menu against the capture gives -0.010 px
horizontal, -0.009 px vertical, laplacian r +0.103 -- and the weak blur term is the
opposite sign to the blur control.
So global misregistration and blur are both excluded, and of the three candidates I
named the misplaced soft element is the only one left.
Reach is the whole reach: a whole-frame fit excludes a global translation, not a
local one, since one misplaced element is a small share of 38752 edge pixels. The
next test is local and needs the residual map, which is theirs.
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sylpheed-port found that my control's premise misreads their figure. The 0.06 %
counts pixels surviving -threshold 25%, differing by more than ~64 levels -- a
gross-displacement detector, blind to sub-pixel offsets and antialiasing, which are
exactly what a per-level LUT also cannot close. It says no gross displacement, not
geometry is right, and I read one as the other.
Their direct measurement, attributed and not reproduced here: after the LUT the
menu's residual is 6.94 on edge pixels against 2.20 on flat, with a known negative
leaving 0.00. So the menu carries spatial error and is not a geometry-free control.
The 32/68 result does not rest on it -- 'whatever a fitted per-level LUT cannot
close is not a per-level effect' is the method's own basis and is self-standing.
What the control shows is narrower than claimed.
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The ja capture of DIFFICULTY is taken. EN and JP differ in 1.82 % of pixels, in four
bands and nowhere else: the heading (DIFFICULTY -> 難易度選択), a 2 px ring shift, the
BACK label (-> 戻る) and the footer. EASY/NORMAL/HARD do not appear in the differing
set -- the Japanese release leaves the three difficulty names in Latin script.
So 2/3 are a language pair, and the disc agrees quantitatively: 2.77 % of bytes
differ against 1.82 % of pixels on screen. This closes the item left open when I
withdrew 'an EN/JP pair' as a bare assertion, and it is now measured rather than
inferred from the disc's convention.
The JP screen also opens on NORMAL like the English one, and the sweep reproduced
the reset finding in Japanese.
Reach: one JP boot, one screen. It does not generalise -- GP_TITLE 4/7 is already
known to differ by more than text.
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sylpheed-port checked the JP layout from their export: the disc declares identical
button rows for EN and JP on main_menu and extras. Recorded separately rather than
merged with mine, because they are different quantities -- their rows are declared
rest positions, my 225.5 is a runtime ring row on a surface offset ~65 px from
design space. Either could have disagreed, which is what makes them independent
legs, after a week of finding legs that were not.
Neither is evidence for GP_DIALOG 2/3; both are about GP_TITLE.
Also records the mid-run substitution: I diagnosed a detector failure from a log
line showing glyph 11654 when the capture was one read away and showed the detector
working. A log line is a summary someone wrote, and reading it as the observation is
the same substitution as trusting a harness note.
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The run was launched to settle whether GP_DIALOG 2/3 are specifically EN and JP. It
did not reach DIFFICULTY: the reach probe's round trip failed at the final A, the
game sat off-menu at glyph 11654, and the sweep then timed out without pressing NEW
GAME.
Not a detector problem, which is what I assumed while watching. The JP menu detects
perfectly at glyph 320 against English's 327, both inside the 250..420 band; the
11654 is a later phase.
What it did establish: the locale took, and this is the first JP main-menu capture
in the corpus. JP initial focus is 新規 -- NEW GAME, top item, ring y 225.5, the same
item and row as six English boots. And the ring rows match English exactly, so the
JP build places its buttons where the English one does. That is language-pair
structure at the MENU, which is not the dialog pair the question is about.
Locale restored and verified at language = 1 by the trap, on a failing exit.
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sylpheed-port turned my point -- that a static record still declares a cycle, so a
nonzero +0x08 against a largest time of 0 is a real disagreement -- into a check on
the screens they ship. Re-derived from my reader and it reproduces exactly: 65
nested records in GP_TITLE, 20 declaring a cycle with every pose at t == 0, and 0 of
those with any element carrying more than one pose.
A record whose elements each hold a single pose renders identically looped or held,
so holding them still is correct and now measured.
It includes ptbtn11/12/13, EXTRAS' buttons in both language entries, each declaring
120 units with one pose per element. Had any carried two poses, a menu button the
disc says animates would have been held still on the one submenu the port's P5 gate
walks.
Reach: GP_TITLE only; 1530 static records exist disc-wide against the 20 here.
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sylpheed-port corrected their own reconciliation and I reproduced it: 0 nested
records on this disc lack a timed keyframe. All 1530 are static -- timed, every pose
at t == 0 -- so the question is well-formed there and 'not exact' is a real answer,
not an absent one. A static record still declares a cycle length.
So the two percentages are two populations and neither corrects the other: 92.3 % of
animated records, 49.6 % of all nested records including static ones, same numerator
1643. Both need their population attached.
Two wrong explanations preceded this, both mine to carry: that my scan filtered
untimed records, which .max() returning Some(0) prevents, and then their 'questions
never asked' framing which I adopted.
The page is rewritten to the settled state rather than stacked. Nothing the port
depends on moved at any point.
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sylpheed-port reconciled the population gap exactly and I reproduced it: filtering
max_t > 0 gives 1781 records and 92.3 %, their figures precisely. Same numerator,
1643, both ways.
My stated explanation was wrong. I said the scan requires a timed keyframe; it does
not, because .max() returns Some(0) rather than None for records whose keyframes are
all at time 0, so 1530 records where the question has no content stayed in my
denominator and counted as failures by construction.
The conclusion is untouched -- +0x04 is 0 % under either denominator.
Records their diagnosis of why it stayed invisible: the numerator agreed to the
unit, so a shared 1643 read as agreement and neither of us looked there. And both
halves needed a qualifier neither carried -- 92.3 % is of the records where the
question is meaningful, not of nested records.
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sylpheed-port aimed my own boundary finding at my loop-length control. Reproduced
from my reader over every pak: +0x04 has 0 violations too, so the falsifier rejects
+0x0c and accepts +0x04 and never discriminated. What identifies +0x08 is the
exactness statistic the page presents as secondary -- exact match in half the
records against 0 % for +0x04.
Population differs from theirs, 3311 records against 1781, because this scan takes
every pak and requires a timed keyframe, so the percentage moves but the
discrimination does not.
Second time this week with the weight on the wrong leg: a count taking credit for an
exclusion argument, now a falsifier taking credit for an exactness statistic, and
both times the real discriminator sat beside it described as a formality.
Their general form is sharper than my boundary rule: an interior consistency check
is satisfied by any internally consistent reading, and that is what a wrong offset
into a regular structure usually is.
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Two things, both from reading the image.
The record layout is {id, name_ptr, handler}, not {handler, id, name_ptr} as first
published -- the same three fields shifted by one word, so every record was credited
with the previous record's handler. Caught by a control dump: under the old
alignment record 0 had a 'handler' of 0x10000000, not a code address. ids and names
are unaffected and DLG_SELECT_DIFFICULTY is still id 2000; only the attribution
moved. Corrected histogram over 70 records: 0x821D0808 x43, 0x821D05D8 x24,
0x821CFD80 x3.
And the id-to-pak-entry join is not reachable this way. All three handlers load the
same global at 0x828E2B14 and two take addresses at 0x828E45E0/4640/467C, and every
one of those sits inside a 364 601-byte contiguous zero run -- BSS, populated only
at runtime. Controlled: the dialog table itself reads non-zero through the same
arithmetic, so the addressing is right and the data is genuinely absent.
Reach stated: this closes one route, not the question. 'Not in the image' is not
established -- 'not reachable from the dialog handlers' is.
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Their sharpened form is that well-argued prose never cited anything, the detail
being what made it look sourced. In this corpus cited sections have a median of 2502
characters and uncited 2386 -- indistinguishable, so care does not predict citation.
The predictor is recency: 79 % cited on 2026-08-29, 96 % on 08-30, 100 % on 08-31.
Caveat recorded: the improvement coincides with this exchange, so the norm becoming
salient is part of what produced it, and it is not evidence of a durable habit.
The distinction matters because the prognoses differ. Theirs is generative -- a
quality-correlated blind spot keeps producing instances. Mine is a legacy residue,
finite and closable by a backfill. Reading their diagnosis onto my corpus would have
implied work that is not needed and missed work that is.
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sylpheed-port found an authored value whose why said 'ask the RE agent' without
naming where the question is recorded, and their rule transfers: without a citation,
an invented value and a placeholder for a measurement read identically.
Measured the analogue. Of 57 HANDOFF sections asserting measured, undecodable,
authored or ❔, nine cite nothing openable. Two are legend sections. One is a real
measurement -- 'B from EXTRAS DOES go black' -- delivered as an inline frame table
with no file cited, while data/fade-four-transitions.txt carried that leg and eight
others the whole time. Citation added.
Records their mechanism as the transferable part: a blind spot that correlates with
quality is invisible by construction. Their unlabelled entries were the
well-evidenced ones, because both audits measure self-declaration rather than
grounding.
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sylpheed-port has found four retractions that never reached their source and I found
one. A register cannot catch the general class, since it holds only claims already
retracted. Tried to build something that does not need the retraction.
Attempt one, flagging tools whose cited page is newer, gave 126 candidates and no
signal -- pages are appended to constantly. Attempt two, narrowing to pages that
later received a commit whose subject marks a correction, gave 43. Sampled three
and all three are false positives: each tool cites its page for one fact while the
correction concerns another.
The proxy fails structurally -- co-citation is not co-reference -- so it is not
published. Reach: 3 of 43 sampled, rate not established, only shown low enough that
the report is not worth reading.
What found all five real instances was a person reading a sentence for its own sake.
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sylpheed-port found a harness note asserting an unestablished fact under a
load-bearing number. Swept my printed output: 38 lines assert a screen or game fact
and the assertive ones are computed in the same run, so no instance there -- though
the sweep is keyword-based and the criterion is a judgement.
The class is real on the larger surface, and I have a known instance: ring_row.py
documented its calibration as 49.5 + 1.060*design_y, wrong because it was fitted
against menu_focus.py's approximate rows rather than the disc's. It sat in the file
underpinning every focus finding and was found by accident.
Tool docstrings carry calibrations, thresholds and claims about the game, nothing
verifies any of it, and unlike a why in an authored file there is no convention
demanding a citation.
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The two adjacent pairs with identical element sets split. 0/1 are the same 59 810
bytes stored twice -- a duplicate, not a language pair. 2/3, the DIFFICULTY build,
differ in size and in 2.77 % of bytes from offset 0x1BB while sharing every element
name, which is what a language pair looks like.
Control: entries 10/11, known to be two different dialogs, differ in 54.90 % of the
common prefix, so the comparator separates unrelated dialogs.
Supported, not proven, with the untested step named: I have not captured DIFFICULTY
in ja. That the two are ENGLISH and JAPANESE rests on the disc's convention, not on
a capture of this screen. This partially restores a claim I withdrew, at lower
strength than the original phrasing.
Also records a refutation attempt on the port's BGM_103 exclusion: it survives and
is tighter than they stated -- of 32 census rows, exactly one bank carries EITHER
wave size, not merely both.
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sylpheed-port found the tell for decorative legs -- claims announcing their own leg
count -- and their audio.json case had two of three legs turn out to be one
disc-to-runtime comparison. Ran it here and my DIFFICULTY delivery has the same
shape.
The image leg says DIFFICULTY is a dialog and names no entry. The disc and oracle
legs are one compound argument, since the capture is compared against the disc's
rows. What makes that discriminating is the exclusion scan -- zero rival builds
disc-wide -- which is exactly what the word 'three' was taking credit for.
Corrected in place to state the reasoning rather than the count. The conclusion is
unchanged; the evidence is two arguments, not three.
Reach: 1 of 272 leg-count claims audited. One verified case is not a verified set.
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sylpheed-port re-ran my closing of the 37 and one of its two legs fails. I wrote
that sprite counts differ between adjacent stage-title dialogs; 12/13 is equal,
thirteen each, and it is visible in my own printed output which I generalised from
the 10/11 example beside it. Our absolute numbers also disagreed because we counted
different things and I did not say which I meant.
The conclusion is untouched -- the stage numbers settle it alone. The shape is the
point: the leg carrying no weight is the one that went unchecked, which is the
EN/JP pair failure one step out, committed while writing up that very failure.
Also records that a conclusion with two supports reads as better evidenced than one
with a single support, so a decorative support makes the appearance of redundancy
itself misleading.
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Both agents left the language reading standing for the 37 pairs that differ without
a button-count mismatch, and both observed that nothing rewarded closing it. Two
scans closed it, against my own reading.
All 39 equal-button-count pairs share button names and rows exactly, which does not
settle it -- two dialogs sharing a button template look identical by that test. What
differs does settle it: pzstg10 against pzstg02, pzstg11 against pzstg03, pzstg12
against pzstg13. These are the DLG_STAGE_TITLE01..16 dialogs and an adjacent pair
carries two different stages, with different sprite counts, which is a different
amount of text rather than a translation of the same text.
So the whole 63 is explained by one fact -- adjacent entries are unrelated dialogs
-- with no residue. The 2 identical pairs remain unexplained but are no longer
anomalous against a hypothesis, because the hypothesis is gone.
Recorded about process rather than the disc: a bound nobody is incentivised to test
is exactly where a convenient claim survives, and the next reader cannot tell
whether a bound was respected or merely never revisited.
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sylpheed-port named the mechanism after copying an unchecked aside of mine into an
authored file twice, inside the same why that carefully said their re-derivation
does not name the screen. Scrutiny goes where the weight is, so a claim carrying no
weight attracts none, and then it reads as measured.
Swept this corpus for the shape and found one in the port's own domain.
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: the element is
palogo_eff0.prm, which ui-forced-backdrop.md decodes as the full-screen opaque
black backdrop, forced first, measured off the running game. The page's
load-bearing draw order was pinned by a disc test and checked; the aside was not.
The generalising phrase is the tell -- 'as everywhere else' is what turns a
statement about our tooling into one about the disc.
Also records that a refutation is exactly as wide as the job a claim was offered
for: 37 of the 63 pairs differ without a button-count mismatch, where my reading is
unsupported rather than refuted, and they wrote the bound when the wider version
was available.
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