The Decoder censused rest()'s dwell fallback from the file side: 2305 elements
have no plateau, 1697 of those get a visible pose, and in GP_TITLE all four
visible fires are on the splash screens this port ships. Confirmed in my export.
Refinement to their description: they named the [0:a0 15:a255 30:a212 45:a0]
shape, but palogo_gamearts_eff and palogo_seta_eff hold 255 through t=30, so
their fallback lands on the flash PEAK rather than its decay. Same defect, worse
pose.
The port ships the right frame and there is now a number for it. Publisher splash
against the committed oracle capture: timeline (shipped) RMSE 2.17 / 0.01%
differing; --pose=rest 9.05 / 0.75% -- 75x the differing area on a screen I ship.
So the rule added to verify-screen's header after the title_jp mistake
generalises, and is demonstrated against an oracle rather than argued.
What did need fixing: ScreenView logged '(transparent at rest)' for every skipped
element whatever instant it posed, so it said that about palogo_sqex_eff, whose
resting alpha is 212. That is the same rest-versus-posed-instant confusion that
cost a wrong conclusion, pre-printed in the log. It now names the instant.
Controlled both ways: timeline says 'at t=6' and skips the flash, --pose=rest
still says 'at rest' and draws it.
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The previous entry scored verify-screen's title_jp frame against the oracle and
concluded the port had moved away from the game. That frame is posed --pose=rest,
which the port does not ship. Posed as it runs, the disputed block scores +0.9994
against the reference's +0.8727, and the whole surface +0.9652 against +0.9200 --
holding under gamma compensation and on the English control (+0.9946 vs +0.9560).
The port is closer to the game than the reference on both title screens.
Mechanism: ptlogo_back2eff1 is (0,0)(98,0)(100,255)(102,255)(104,0) -- a 4-unit
sparkle whose rest.t is the peak of its own flash. Six of them stagger across the
logo, so --pose=rest fires every sparkle at once. The 25.6% excess light was real
and was in a frame nobody sees.
verify-screen is not at fault: it poses rest deliberately, so that both renderers
read one decoder and the run is a consistency check. I used a consistency-check
frame for a correctness question. Its header now says its frames must never be
scored against a capture.
A second claim in that entry was also wrong -- both screens draw those layers
under pose=rest; I had compared a --menu timeline log against a verify-screen
rest log and read a mode difference as a screen difference.
verify-capture takes a fifth per-row field, a capture crop, because this capture
is a full display frame with the surface at +0+45 while the others are
pre-cropped. With it title_jp reads RMSE 20.91 / 1.04%, beside title's 14.16 /
0.21%. The row prints 'no capture' until their branch merges.
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The Decoder captured the Japanese title at rest (310bf86) without comparing it to
either renderer, keeping my diff independent.
Alignment recovered, not inherited: row/column profile correlation with the
English pair as control gives (0,0) for the control and dy=-45 for the JP frame --
their stated offset, measured. My first look said 'no letterbox, content spans all
720 rows', which was true and irrelevant.
The instrument is fair: on a control strip where both renderers agree they tie
(r 0.9751 vs 0.9756). In the disputed 350x396 block at (405,74) the REFERENCE is
closer -- r +0.8727 against the port's +0.7462 -- and the verdict is stable under
gamma compensation at both measured title gammas. The port puts light on 25.6% of
the block the capture does not have, against the reference's 15.9%.
This is the opposite of what I expected: the burst the Decoder describes 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.
Not settled: which change did it. Both render at rest t=10 so the settle window is
not in play; four commits touched that path and I have not bisected them.
title_jp's DIFFERS is now known to be the port's -- the first baseline row whose
direction has been established against a capture.
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Running the full set after the plate fix, 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
fell -- while the reference renderer cannot pulse at all.
The port is not the thing that is wrong: the pulse is measured and a thing that
pulses does not stop because the screen arrived. ScreenView.loop_phase_units pins
it, negative means free-running and stays the default everywhere, and only the
harness passes --loop-phase=0.
Controlled: pinned, 3 runs identical; free-running, 3 of 4 identical and one
different. That 3-of-4 is why it survived -- it looks deterministic most of the
time, and without the negative control a no-op flag would have been
indistinguishable from a fix.
With the phase pinned press_start reads max 1 / over3 0 OK -- the recorded
baseline exactly. Fifteen of sixteen rows now match.
The sixteenth, title_jp, has genuinely drifted: 155/20498 -> 233/61208,
deterministic, on the Godot side, localized to one 350x396 block at (405,74).
There is no capture of the Japanese title, so I can say the renderers moved apart
but not which moved. Recorded as an ask, not resolved.
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The Decoder measured that after B from the menu the plate is re-drawn (daf8f47).
The port landed on a BARE title: _menu_arrive drops the overlay -- correct, the
plate goes with the screen it was measured on -- but nothing put it back, since
_overlay_spec is cleared the instant the overlay is raised and only the boot
sequence ever set it. Confirmed by running it: ten title elements, no ptbtn00.
_rearm_overlay_for reads the declaration out of authored/flow.json's boot step
for that screen rather than naming press_start, so the plate returns by the same
path and shared clock as on boot, with NO new constant. Controlled both ways:
cancel raises it, entering EXTRAS (no overlay declared) raises nothing.
Script steps now carry an elapsed timestamp, without which the port's own press
latency could not be compared to a measured one. With it: B at 1.01 s, title at
1.37 s = 0.36 s, against their measured <= 0.4 s -- nothing was fitted to that.
The plate's RETURN time does not agree: 4.33 s here against their 7.3 s to pulse,
of which up to 2 s is pulse-detection phase. Not adjusted -- an authored delay in
this same block was already refuted once. Recorded as an ask.
auto_repeat and title/on_cancel upgraded to MEASURED on their run.
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Rows 1 and 2 were still labelled '(P3, blocking)' while P3-P7 have all shipped.
Audited all five against HANDOFF and checked whether the port ACTED on each
answer: splash by entry index (publisher_logo 10/13 exported), focus ring
ptbtneff01 drawn, rotation about pos+pivot, gamma floor in verify-capture's
header. Four struck, one (rotation) still a human decision.
HANDOFF ask 2 tells the port to author a ~24-unit fade constant. That is stale:
the corrected record layout leaves no untimed keyframe, and measuring what the
file carries shows the black quad ramping 0->255 over TEN units. Authoring 24 on
top of it would run the fade 2.4x too long. The mechanism ask 2 describes is
confirmed in the file; its number is not.
Offered as a hypothesis, not a finding: in-file ramp 10 + measured hold 10-14 =
20-24 units = 0.33-0.40 s, bracketing the measured 0.4 s at the top -- so the
0.4 s may be ramp + hold, needing no constant at all.
Also surfaces a disagreement in my own tree: black_hold_units 9 (0.15 s) sits
below HANDOFF's measured 0.17-0.23 s plateau. Not changed; recorded as an ask.
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The Decoder measured B on the main menu -> title (86a8ce7): delivery-confirmed,
<= 0.4 s, no loading screen. main_menu/on_cancel moves from 'likely but UNPROVEN'
to MEASURED -- and it is the LATENCY that settles it, not the destination: my own
why had named the confound that the title also auto-returns after ~8-10 s idle,
and 0.4 s is twenty times faster than that.
The other half is a fault in my tree. title/on_cancel_why read 'MEASURED,
HANDOFF Q5'; the source's evidence cell for that clause reads 'none'. HANDOFF Q5
prefixes a six-clause row with one **measured** and my authored tree copied the
word. The value stays null either way, so no pixel moves -- what is removed is a
false provenance.
Auditing the rest of that row rather than only the clause I was handed: the
up/down cell is ALSO empty. It splits -- one-item-per-press is carried indirectly
by the wrap montage's count, no-auto-repeat is not. The port already behaved this
way without stating it (edge-triggered _input), so navigation.auto_repeat is now
explicit and marked a choice.
34 MEASURED stamps audited; six cite a HANDOFF row alone, one of which was wrong.
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The Decoder found that sylpheed-cli screen render silently omits the background
of any .tbm-bearing build, and stated that none of my screens has one. That is a
claim about my tree and it decides whether my regression baseline is sound, so I
tested it: zero .tbm across all 16 builds in my manifest -- wider than the five
they said. Both controls fired (GP_TUTORIAL build 0 -> pubase.tbm; GP_TITLE
build 5 -> none); my first attempt's control printed nothing and I nearly read
that as agreement.
verify-screen now names the omission on any .tbm-bearing row. It cannot fire on
a screen I ship -- which is how a guard goes dead -- so its expression is
controlled directly in both directions. No verdict or bar changes.
Regression unchanged: title max 6 / over3 790, main_menu max 4 / over3 0.
Their identification (reading TUTORIAL off the framebuffer) and my edge
correlation (run before their message, blind to the text) agree on GP_TUTORIAL
build 0 from no shared assumption.
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They reached a submenu and could not identify it: intensity correlation cannot
discriminate when the candidates are near-blank, which is what the .tbm hypothesis
predicts. Their capture is 99.999% non-black -- a full-screen background our
renderer omits -- and an additive background swamps intensity but not edges.
Control first: edge correlation against my own title capture over seven GP_TITLE
builds picks build 4 at +0.2792, 1.4x over second and 7.6x over third.
Result: GP_TUTORIAL build 0 at +0.4962, build 1 at +0.3137, best GP_SAVE_LOAD at
+0.0713. Winning r higher than the control's and margin better; both TUTORIAL
builds 4-7x above every SAVE_LOAD build. Independently plausible -- flow.json has
ptbtn03 = TUTORIAL -> TUTORIAL_MENU, not a GP_TITLE build.
The ARCHIVE is identified with a large margin; WHICH BUILD is not -- 1.58x is the
same order as the control's 1.4x and the two are variants of one screen.
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Every asserting check passes and the oracle rows are at the tone floor:
title_plate 0.00%, both splashes 0.01%, up to title_band 0.35% against its own
oracle-to-oracle gap. The P5 walk runs and ends on the title.
The refutation attempt was of a claim I had already used: that ADV.wmv carries one
audio stream and it is WMA Pro 5.1, which reframed the whole voice question.
ffprobe confirms it exactly -- one stream, wmapro, 6 channels, 5.1.
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 byte sizes did
not fit -- all rest on that reframing, verifiable in one command against a file I
have had throughout. I audited the byte sizes scrupulously because they were the
identifier I could test, and never checked the sentence the identifier served.
A premise so foundational that everything downstream got audited and the premise
did not. The scrutiny went to the parts that moved.
Also records what is still authored rather than measured: four values, each
marked at the value.
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The Decoder's audit of their own corpus found four refuted claims standing --
including one they had corrected to me, agreed with, and written a METHOD entry
about, without landing it for a full iteration. A hand audit finds what is there
on the day it runs; it does not stop the next one.
check-claims is a register: every occurrence of a refuted claim must carry an
explicit [refuted] sentinel within 400 characters. It found four more unmarked
occurrences than my manual pass had, including one in authored/audio.json.
The marker is a sentinel rather than a keyword because the first version's every
failure was a quotation inside a correction whose wording lacked the keyword. The
temptation was to widen the window until they passed -- tuning a threshold until
the answer comes out right, in the tool built to catch that. 21 quotations marked
by hand; proved it fails by removing one.
Also fixes the Decoder's other finding in my corpus: BLOCKED's voice row had a
struck heading with three sentences below still asserting in the present tense.
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Applying the Decoder's rule to my own corpus, on four claims refuted this
fortnight. Two were properly marked. Two were not.
The exported why still told readers the dropped chunk 'IS understood: the TAIL of
the kept stream' -- an interpretation refuted when the resolver turned out to
start 238 packets inside the first stream, so what matched end-flush was a
start-truncated simultaneous stream. It was wrong twice over: S00A's dropped
chunk is the SILENT one, so the sentence described a case that was not present --
the second template-message-true-only-for-one-case defect in this file, which
suggests the first fix taught me nothing general.
'The port's boot is known too fast on both' was still standing unmarked. I wrote
the withdrawal as a new section and left the original untouched, so a reader
arriving there first got the dead answer. Annotated in place.
One false positive: BLOCKED matched inside my own correction, which quotes the
refuted claim to name it. Naming a refuted sentence keeps it greppable, which is
the price of not deleting it, so the audit needs a read of every hit.
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Region [9.44, 71.31] of an 87.744 s wave: first 9.44 s an intro played once, last
16.4 s a fade never played. 61.87 replaces 61.93, 0.1 percent apart; the measured
value has the loop's own endpoints under it.
The port's near-silence count tracked the window's correctness without being
designed to: 36 frames spanning 3.4 s untrimmed, 5 with the right length over the
wrong window, 0 with the measured window. The old window kept part of the quiet
intro; the measured one excludes intro and fade both. Wrap continuity is
unchanged and still not evidence -- the silence count discriminated where the
step count could not.
Also fixes a stale why that reached the manifest for two days: corrections went
into loop_end_why and loop_start_why while loop_why, the field the exporter
concatenates, still said the loop would be audibly wrong at the seam and that no
loop-point field existed. A correction that does not reach the artifact a
consumer reads has not been made.
My first check of that fix reported the stale text still present, because the
replacement quotes the refuted sentences in order to name them.
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They timed the wraps instead of converting them -- a probe stamping read_offset
on arrival, three wraps observed, each from its own loop_end to its own
loop_start, both contexts wrapping at the same instant. Cycle 61.81 s against the
61.93 authored here: 0.2 percent, from a wall clock between decoder events versus
an autocorrelation that never touched the wave.
The window is wrong: loop_start is 11.6 percent into the stream, about ten
seconds, so this export has the right duration over the wrong window -- replaying
the intro every cycle and omitting the tail the game plays.
Not re-cut, on their instruction: the exact start is unmeasured and linearity is
refuted by a 4.4 percent rate variation within one stream. But loop_end_s alone
silently asserted a start of zero, so the entry gains loop_start_s, authored as
0.0 and flagged wrong, with -ss applied before -t so the pair is (start,
duration). Proved before it is needed: loop_start_s=10 yields -ss 10 -t 61.93 and
a 61.930 s output. Restored to 0.0, export byte-unchanged.
My smooth-join check gains a use I could not have anticipated: it explains why a
wrong ten-second window went unheard, because a cut near a zero crossing is
smooth wherever it falls.
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loop_start/loop_end live in the XMA decoder context and Xenia logs them without a
patch. Converted they imply roughly [10 s, 72 s] against the [0.25, 57.18] their
audio tracking gave. Neither withdrawn. Two of their own predictions were refuted
by the data -- loop_start is 11.6% in, not ~0, and a linear bits-to-seconds
conversion gives 62.34 and 63.29 s for two stems that must be sample-synchronous.
The port KEEPS loop_end_s: 61.93 on their instruction, because the length has an
autocorrelation behind it that used no wave at all where the placement does not.
Adds one check neither instrument ran: over 126.5 s the wrap shows a max
adjacent-sample step of 212 and 208 against a 99.9th percentile of 3737, so the
join is not a click. Explicitly NOT support for 61.93 over [10,72] -- a cut near a
zero crossing is smooth wherever it falls.
Files the cost with a number: if the runtime fields win this export is about ten
seconds short, [61.93, 72] being content the game plays and we omit.
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Their census settles the population at 25 three-chunk regions, confirming my
count, and corrects their own claim twice: multichannel-specificity holds (17 of
17 changed are three-chunk), but 'all three-chunk regions were broken' is false --
8 of 25 were already fine.
Measured every three-chunk region's span myself: the 8 unaffected run 71680 ..
1400832 B, the 17 affected run 2023424 .. 6516736 B. The cap separates them
exactly with a 622592 B gap between the sets, so this confirms the MECHANISM --
a byte-size threshold -- not just the list of names.
My first run reported 17 contradictions: every span read 0 B because awk took the
trailing 'B' rather than the number. Uniform, consistent and entirely wrong, and
it would have looked strong because the failure fell along the line under test. A
broken extractor produces a pattern shaped by the question. What saved it was the
8 confirming rows reading 0 B too -- visible only by reading the half that agrees
as carefully as the half that does not.
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Two iterations ago verify-menu-audio's bit-identity assertion began failing and I
filed three suspects in the port. It is none of them. Three IDENTICAL invocations
give two outcomes, 1.207438 s and 1.300317 s, differing by exactly 4096 samples --
one mixing buffer. The recording quantises to whole buffers and a one-buffer shift
moves the length and alignment of everything in it.
The premise -- cross-run bit-determinism -- was never guaranteed. It held while
timing sat away from a buffer boundary, and a larger export moved it onto one. A
test that passes by luck reports the luck running out as a regression in the code,
which is what it did: two iterations of suspects, and the port was never involved.
The fix keeps exact equality and no threshold, allowing the comparison to slide by
whole buffers -- the one degree of freedom the recorder has. Proved it can still
fail: ctrl against walk differs at every alignment.
Distinct from the earlier entries: this check ran and answered the right question,
resting on a property of the environment nothing verified. State what an assertion
assumes about the machine, not only what it checks.
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Measured on 240 s parked on the real menu: no seam at all (zero runs >=0.3 s
below median-18 dB in 232 s), and the loop is at 61.93 s, not the summed wave's
87.744 s length. Two instruments agree -- top correlation lag 61.909 s with
r=-0.009 at 87.750, and slice location showing playback wrap at 61.93 three
times. The final ~25.8 s, the fade-out and trailing silence, is never played.
This port had authored loop: restart, measured the resulting 3.4 s of
near-silence off its own Master bus, and reported it as the price of the missing
loop point -- in BLOCKED and in a message to the Decoder. The measurement was
correct and the attribution was wrong. Second time this fortnight I have measured
something real and assigned it to the wrong side.
Godot loops whole files, so the loop region has to BE the file: BgmSpec gains
loop_end_s and the bed is trimmed to 61.930 s. Verified over 131 s on the port's
own bus -- 5 near-silent windows, no run >=0.2 s, against 36 windows and 3.4 s.
Also records their withdrawal of '8 of 10 three-chunk regions': that audit file
was truncated mid-list with no summary line, so the multichannel-specificity
claim is unsupported and my 25 stands.
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The Decoder has no external check on the regions beyond ADV. One reference owes
nothing to their crate: each movie's own duration from its WMV. A start-truncated
stream must decode shorter than its movie -- ADV's was 38% short before the fix.
Dumped every region and decoded every chunk: 25 three-chunk regions, 75 chunks, 0
more than 5% short, largest deviation 1.78%. No region is still truncated, and
the reference is genuinely external.
Flags a population discrepancy: their page says 8 of 10 three-chunk regions start
mid-stream; I find 25 three-chunk regions on this disc. Reported, not resolved.
My first run reported '0 of 13' and there were 25 -- cargo run inside a while
read loop consumes stdin, so every second movie was eaten and the covered set was
positions 1,3,5,7... The result was correct for what it measured and the
population was half what the sentence implied. That is the truncated-log trap
arriving in my own shell loop; I caught it only by comparing against a count from
one command earlier.
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ADV's three chunks map onto the Decoder's contexts exactly, each a declared
byte_size plus the 60-byte RIFF header. authored/audio.json gains
voice.stream_weights keyed by SIZE, and the exporter weights only when every kept
stream matches, falling back to the divisor otherwise.
The key is the check: two weeks ago these same sizes did not fit the region the
resolver returned, which is how the 238-packet late start was found. Applied
positionally the weights would have gone onto the wrong streams silently. S00A
matches nothing and keeps the divisor. ADV mixes at 0.4142/0.2929/0.2929, -2.87.
Unlooked-for confirmation: the filter folds chunks 0 and 2 from two live channels
and chunk 1 from one, found independently by live_channels, matching their claim
that ctx1 is the only stream with a silent channel.
Also files an UNEXPLAINED regression: verify-menu-audio's dead-press check now
reports DIFFER across three runs, diverging at 0.085 s with different durations.
Not diagnosed, not the voice change, and left failing rather than silenced. The
check's premise is cross-run bit-determinism, which is what made it strong and
also what makes it brittle.
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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 3618816 B before end, so it
was rejected and start fell back to anchor, a TOC offset rather than a stream
boundary -- which is why it hit regions over 1.5 MB and never single-stream ones.
ADV region 3114352 -> 3618816 B, streams 2 of 3 -> 3 of 3, complete, dropping
zero chunks. S00A 1 of 3 -> 2 of 3 with the third digitally silent. The runtime
no longer prints an incomplete line for either.
Also fixes the warning crying wolf: S00A still read KNOWN INCOMPLETE over a
93.694 s stream of exact zeroes. Exported gains content_waves and the warning,
console line and manifest field all key on kept < content rather than kept <
present. Second time in two iterations this warning was wrong in the cautious
direction -- over-warning is what makes the next real warning unreadable.
S00A is a second movie in the predicted direction: kept went 1 -> 2 because a
chunk that was a different duration now matches at 93.694 s. Not independent
ground truth, but a different asset and the outcome was predicted first.
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The manifest has carried the gap for weeks and the runtime printed '+ voice ADV'
and nothing else. A reader of manifest.json gets a paragraph; a person LISTENING
gets clean dialogue and no way to learn a stream is absent. NEW GAME already
announces the screens it jumps over; audio had no equivalent.
ManifestAudio gains -- one line naming what is KNOWN missing, absent
meaning nothing is known rather than nothing is wrong -- and MenuAudio carries it
so _play_video can print it. Verified on the boot's ADV and P7's S00A.
The first version of the message was FALSE for one of the two assets: it said
'one is a start-truncated stream', which is ADV's story, where S00A's dropped
chunks are digitally silent. Caught by reading the output for both, which I
nearly skipped because the ADV line was obviously right. Now states the counts
and points at the entry's why.
A message generated once from a template but true only for the case it was
written against is harder to see than a wrong number -- the sentence is
well-formed and confident in both places.
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My refusal to apply their weights found a defect in their decoder:
resolve_movie_voice_region starts 238 packets (487424 B) inside ctx0 for ADV, and
8 of 10 three-chunk regions start mid-stream disc-wide.
That re-reads one of my own measurements without touching it. I had the leading
chunk as 'the TAIL of the kept stream' at r=0.998, lag flush against the end, and
dropped it as a duplicate. If the streams are simultaneous and the region starts
238 packets into ctx0, the surviving fragment is ctx0's later 62%, which aligns
flush against the end -- exactly what I measured. Same number, opposite meaning:
a start-truncated simultaneous stream, not a duplicate. The port drops a real one.
I suspected the instrument first, since they had just shown envelope correlation
saturating at 0.86-0.95 across stream/channel pairs. Tested on the dialogue: r =
1.0000 at zero offset, -0.08..+0.08 elsewhere. It localises sharply; their
saturation is concurrent streams at zero lag, a different regime. So the tool was
sound and the error was entirely in the inference.
Not fixed: including chunk 0 needs their corrected span (they say do not extend
blind -- only ADV's clip is known) or an alignment decision I would be inventing,
since the chunk is missing its head.
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The assignment is settled by byte_size: ctx0 -> FL/FR, ctx1 -> FC, ctx2 -> BL/BR.
Applying it needs their contexts to be my chunks and they are not. Their three
sum to 3584000 B; my whole resolved ADV voice region is 3114352 B, 469648 B
smaller than the contexts that must fit inside it. My region yields three chunks,
one an 84.553 s / 806972 B tail matching none of their sizes, leaving two real
streams at 2307380 B -- and no pair of their contexts matches it (closest 2289664,
out by 17716).
So the weights are NOT applied: assigning positions on a byte-size match that does
not hold is worse than divide-by-count, and their own figures put a swapped
assignment at 11.76 dB wrong.
Not claiming their assignment is wrong -- theirs is a probe of the running
decoder, mine is resolve_movie_voice_region's byte range off the disc, and one of
the two spans is not what the other thinks it is. That is a decode question.
Takes the parts that stand alone: one mixer gain of 0.600 for bed and voice (not
baked in), and their two failed instruments -- envelope correlation saturating at
0.86-0.95 for every pair because the channels share dialogue timing, which is the
instrument I have leaned on all fortnight.
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#4 answered: 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. Solving
capture = 0.600 x movie + residual gives three residual signals at three
positions, with LFE reproducing to -115.73 dBFS -- where nothing is added the
decoders agree exactly, so the rest is added content.
presentation: all keeps every equal-length non-silent survivor -- ADV 2 of 3,
S00A 1 of 3 -- and the warning now keys on kept < present rather than on more
than one existing.
A unity sum was tried first and check refused it at +2.62 dBFS. The BGM stems
precedent did not transfer: those are stems of one signal, these are positions in
a field whose downmix weights sum to one whatever the assignment. Dividing by the
count preserves the total and claims nothing about placement; ADV lands at -3.1.
That is the OPPOSITE of the two divisor bugs already in this file, where a silent
input sat in the divisor. Divide-by-N is not right or wrong in itself.
Also carries their census correction: the ALSA permutation does not apply, the
map is the identity, and the '82% silent' channel was LFE.
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With their predicate the port's render is comparable to their capture for the
first time: pulse minimum 805 against their 714, peak 1420 against 1520, both far
above the 154 floor. So 'never goes off' holds in the port's own render.
My pulse is 24% shallower and I am NOT tuning it -- their own limit says the
counter is thresholded pixels, so a depth measured this way is a fact about the
threshold as much as the glow. The port draws the declared ramp.
#4: 148 s of the game's output, five of six channels distinct, no channel a copy,
largest pairwise correlation 0.70 between FL and FR. So presentation: loudest --
keeping one stream -- is refuted by what the game PLAYS, not merely suspected.
Stays unfixed on their instruction: the stream-to-channel mapping is not run, and
swapping one authored guess for another is worse than a guess that is labelled.
Also records that '6 channels' is Xenia's hardcoded default, not evidence of 5.1.
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I challenged 159/714/1520 as unreproducible; my region counts were 3-5x theirs.
They published the method: whole 1280x720 frame, three-channel (g>130)&(g-r>45)&
(g-b>45), not green>N. Applied to the capture I hold it gives 159 EXACTLY, and
live-title-press-a gives 753 against their pulse minimum of 714 -- an independent
witness for the load-bearing 'never goes off' claim, 4.7x against their 4.6x.
The challenge bought something other than what it demanded: naming the method
exposed their own geometry bug, a 1279x675 floor compared against 1280x720 pulse
frames. Replaced with a same-run 154. 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.
Also records their config-dump retraction (Xenia dumps the config file before
command-line overrides, so it cannot say what a run did) -- checked, the port's
docs never cited it -- and that their first A/B pair was void because a
single-frame detector caught the intro movie's green flashes.
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--screen=X animates X but froze an overlaid Y -- my earlier fix overshooting,
replacing a frozen-too-early overlay with a frozen-at-arrival one. The plate
pulse made it visible: oscillating on the boot path, flat here. Now offset, not
pinned: the overlay starts at its settle and takes the main view's delta. Static
path now pulses 95.85 -> 115.41 against the boot's 95.68 -> 115.52; still frames
unaffected and title_plate holds at 0.00%.
Both halves were mine a week apart, and the over-correction was invisible until a
third change gave it something to be wrong about.
Refutation attempt on their pulse floor: 159/714/1520 is NOT reproducible from
the published description. My counts on the same capture are 3-5x theirs at every
threshold, so their region must be a tighter crop; neither region nor threshold
is stated. The RATIO survives robustly -- 1:10.4-10.9 across a wide band,
bracketing their 1:9.6 -- so 'steady base plus pulsing glow' stands, which is all
the port's implementation rests on.
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Ask #1 measured: held at the title with no input the plate oscillates ~23 cycles
per window with no decay and NEVER goes off -- floor 159 thresholded pixels,
pulse bottoming at 714. A glow alone cannot do that (0 -> 80 -> 0); a steady base
plus a pulsing glow can, and 714/1520 are base-only and base-plus-glow.
The port already had the base right: ptbtn00's fade to 0 at t=244 is its EXIT
ramp, and while held the base sits at alpha 255. The glow was missing.
The defect was in the renderer, not the entry I deleted on 2026-08-29. _draw
treated a looping record like a focused one -- drawn INSTEAD of the base, which
is right for a focused button and wrong here. I deleted the right thing for the
wrong reason. A looping record now draws OVER the base and the entry is restored.
Rendered: 95.68 base only, 115.52 at peak, period 1.980 s against a declared 120
units = 2.000 s, ratio 0.990. Visible on the boot path; not under --screen
--overlay, where a static overlay poses at its arrival by design.
Authored in UNITS on their instruction, with their three limits verbatim: one
boot, does not distinguish boot from attract title, and 714/1520 is not an alpha
ratio so no duty cycle is inferred.
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The Decoder lost a finding whose only record was a script comment and asked
whether I have the same. Audited every measurement-shaped token in comments
across the exporter, the GDScript and the tools against everything in docs/.
Seven candidates, six were my matcher (thousands separators, ranges written
differently, precision). The findings are all in DECISIONS, including the leaf
comment's capture-measured centres and the 11.5 px residual.
The one real defect is the opposite: check-capture's control table and
AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md had DRIFTED -- 53.3% against 53.2%, twice each, for one
control whose file is gone so neither can be re-measured. They lost a finding to
having one record; I lost a digit to having two with nothing keeping them equal.
Fixed by citing rather than restating.
Also corrects a message: I told them my computation reproduces their published
centres to half a pixel. True, and MODEL against MODEL -- against the capture
this corpus already records 992.0/467.2, an 11.5 px residual. The half-pixel
agreement is two derivations of one model, the correlated-instrument shape I have
been careful about all week and did not apply to my own message.
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Ask #2 answered: t=357.7 was never fitted against a PNG. It is a GPU per-draw
vertex capture, four observables at once.
They handed me the discriminator rather than running it, since the fit is against
my renderer. At my t=400, pteff03a computes to 294.9 against their predicted 295,
and my computation reproduces their published t=355 control (980.5/477.7 against
981/478). So the two numbers describe different frames and neither is wrong.
Why they could never match: the leaves free-run at 600 and 720 units (verified
from my export as each leaf's last keyframe) while the top-level clock stops at
settle, so two captures of one settled title share a screen time and not a sweep
phase. A SWEEP POSITION CANNOT DATE A FRAME -- I had been treating my ~400 as a
property of the capture.
Also records their failed refutation of my number: they hypothesised the fit was
minimised by the quad leaving the screen, the same shape as their .tbm control
that could not fail. At t=400 quad B is fully on screen. It survives.
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authored/rendering.json justified not drawing build_12,15/pgloading_loop5 with
'leaf scale (0,0)'. That describes t=0 and t=30 and nothing after. The leaf holds
pgloading_ring, scale ramping 0 -> 250 -> 800 -> 1000 with alpha full at t=55 --
an expanding fading ring, visible at scale 140 alpha 143 at the port's own pose
instant near t=44. Withholding it declines to draw SOMETHING.
Still withheld, on the reason already in the file: no oracle capture for a
loading screen and verify-screen's reference draws no leaves, so the content is
unadjudicable. Behaviour unchanged at 59530 px.
The two entries in that list were written to different standards -- ptlogo_eff2
gets four paragraphs working through both readings, pgloading_loop5 got one false
line. The difference is that one was interesting and one was a loading screen.
Also verifies the measurement in the same paragraph: 'max went 155 -> 232 when
drawn' reproduces at 231, differing pixels 20498 -> 58313. The file's numbers
were sound and its reasoning was not, in adjacent sentences.
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Disc-wide: 0 read from the T8aD header, 14 implied, 66 nothing. So the rule has
never been checked against a decoded field because no instance lets both speak.
The port's six are the same pattern: 0 read, 4 implied, 2 nothing.
Records their retraction, which runs against their own interest: 'none of the 18
is evidence' conflated two questions. The rule does not CHANGE the composite on
those 14, but it does get the RIGHT ANSWER there, and implied_layer_key is a
position measured in the running game -- so those are the rule agreeing with the
oracle, its only external corroboration. Four of the 14 are the port's splashes.
My own framing was right about provenance and wrong about weight: I filed an
oracle measurement under 'not the file', which reads weaker when it is stronger.
Closing the thread on my side -- four iterations, and it has stopped being about
the port.
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Their 49771 is exact RGBA inequality, not a threshold, so it belongs against my
59530 rather than my 48368 -- they corrected that before I could match the
convenient pair. At >1 we agree to 325 px (0.67%).
Checked here: my value-exactly-1 population is 11162 px and the gap above >1 is
325, so 9434 of the 9759-px gap (96.7%) is value-1 pixels. Their claim holds
structurally.
Carries two conventions: >0 is not portable between renderers on a mostly-dark
frame and >1 is, so a cross-renderer ink figure must name its threshold; and the
without-the-rule zero is threshold-insensitive in both renderers.
One refinement on their 18 confirmations: for the port's four, 'has its own key'
means palogo_eff0's IMPLIED key -- the crate's measured per-name entry, not file
data. So those are 'another measurement already settles it', not 'the file
settles it' -- the distinction their own page insists on for pteff00.
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The Decoder rendered the 62 deciding builds twice and found changed pixels equal
the composite's entire ink on all 38 .prm deciders, with build_12/15 at 49771 px.
Checked in Godot, which shares no code with their compose: with the rule 59530 px
(>0) / 48368 (>1), WITHOUT it exactly 0 at both thresholds.
So the strong form holds -- removing the rule does not dim the screen, it takes
the ink to zero -- and this is a real second witness, unlike last iteration's
re-run of their own instrument. Their 49771 sits 2.9% above my >1 count: a
threshold convention on a mostly-dark frame, recorded so nobody later reconciles
two figures that were never counting the same pixels.
Method: applied THEIR fallback (sprite key, else implied, else u32::MAX) to the
export's element list and swapped only paint_order on one screen, so the renderer
and every other input are identical and the order is the only variable.
Also records their point 4 -- the 24 .tbm deciders measured zero because compose
draws no .tbm pixels at all, a control that could not fail. Fourteenth instance of
the shape, and the first caught by the other agent using the frame.
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They published the instrument so it could be re-run rather than trusted. Ran it
from a worktree at their branch across all 33 archives: 80 forced, 62 decided, 18
agreed, 38 .prm / 24 .tbm, all 62 keyless. Every figure exact.
Names the limit: I ran THEIR code, so a fault in the instrument reproduces for me
too -- one measurement executed twice, not two measurements. The independent
evidence is my own export-side removal of the post-pass, which is different code
in a different language and agreed on the six GP_TITLE instances. So GP_TITLE has
two witnesses and the other 74 have one.
Also notes the example defaults to GP_TITLE and reports 6 unless given an archive
path, so 'I ran their instrument' would otherwise mean a thirteenth of what it
sounds like.
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I have said 'six forced elements' since implementing it and verified after every
change that no verdict moved -- which measured stability, not necessity. Removing
the pass entirely: the four splashes are BYTE-IDENTICAL, because palogo_eff0's
implied key 0x00000000 is lower than the lowest sprite key and the crate already
sorts it first. Only build_12/15 change, and they go black again.
Those two are the port's strongest dependency on an undecoded rule:
pgloading_eff00 there has layer: null, layer_source: none -- the only 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, and that was hiding
inside a count of six.
Census: 160 layer keys read from sprites, 16 implied (every layerless primitive),
2 absent. FORMAT.md requires a consumer to tell which, and layer_source does.
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Every SendMessage since 2026-08-29 returned 'delivery is not confirmed'. I
recorded it in my reply every time and treated writing it down as dealing with
it. Twenty-one identical warnings.
Cause: I addressed the bridge session ID copied from an inbound message's from=
field. Session IDs die on restart; PROTOCOL.md says both agents register under
NAMES and shows SendMessage(to: 'sylpheed-agent'). The protocol had it.
Worst of the thirteen instances because this one had an alarm and the alarm fired
every time. The repo carried the findings, which is what let me treat a broken
channel as a non-event -- but it could not carry the ASKS, and four sat unasked
while I believed them queued.
Re-sent consolidated and re-ranked around their A-fault diagnosis; the send came
back without the warning.
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Last iteration I filed title and title_jp's disagreement with sylpheed-cli as
mechanism-unknown, to the Decoder as well as here. Both were already explained in
this file, under headings that name the two screens.
Checked rather than assumed. title: still ties on 0x8083, 0x80a0 and 0x8010, and
the export declares paint_order_ties unresolved; the old entry's 904 px in the
glow band matches my 790 px at the same place, same 4-6/255 magnitude. title_jp:
the 'only non-integer scale' claim finds 26 keyframes export-wide, but exactly
ONE element visible at rest -- ptlogo_eff2 at 125% -- which is the pose
verify-screen uses. It survives narrowly.
The failure is navigability: 6502 lines, 111 sections, no index, so 'has this
been decided?' had no cheap answer and re-deriving it looked like diligence.
index-decisions generates the contents; check-all runs --check. No line numbers
(the first version was a fixpoint that failed its own check, and appends would
invalidate them all), and checked, because a stale index answers 'already
decided?' with a confident no.
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The page warns it goes stale 'within the hour. It has.' Nothing audits it.
P3/P5 - the title screen was wrong in every factual claim: the boot does not end
on a plateless build 4, press_start is not unused, and the port has drawn two
builds at once for weeks. A row four lines below was already marked answered and
TAKEN for the same question -- two rows, one struck, and the LIVE one was stale.
P4 - skippable led with 'the port could not tell which bug that is'. It did:
DECISIONS records that (A) does skip in this build and every boot prints it.
P6 looping now carries the measured seam: 3.4 s of near-silence at 87.8 s.
The split is clean: every prose section added since 2026-08-29 records the
HANDOFF sha it derives from, every row in the two tables records none -- and all
three stale rows were in those tables. Not back-dated: an invented sha would make
an undated claim look checked. Both tables now say so and carry an audit date.
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Two iterations ago I filed title's 790-pixel gap with sylpheed-cli as needing the
Decoder's element list. That was a hypothesis dressed as a question and it is
refuted: the pixels sit at ptlogo_back2eff1 (pos 938,194) and BOTH renderers draw
it -- mean 95.60 against 95.08. A set difference would have confirmed nothing at
someone else's cost.
Also ruled out: a placement offset. Every +/-1 px roll is two orders of magnitude
worse (790 against >=175406).
The mechanism stays unknown and I am not guessing. My antialiasing test failed
its own control -- the edge mask covered 92% of the frame, so the 25.2% of
differing pixels on it is below chance.
Ask withdrawn rather than left standing: a row on a refuted premise is worse than
no row. The residual is 0.086% of one frame between two of our own renderers, on
a screen matching the oracle at 0.21%.
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Eleven tools and nothing ran them together -- the ninth instance of correct,
documented and unexercised, one level up. check-all runs the four that assert,
reports the oracle table, and gives verify-screen an allowance that EXPIRES when
the pin lands rather than standing forever. All eleven exercised first; none had
rotted.
verify-screen computed over3 because 'a single max cannot tell 2 pixels from
25 444' and then decided the verdict on max alone: main_menu (max 4, over3 0)
read DIFFERS while extras (max 3, over3 0) read OK. The bar is unchanged; a frame
with no pixel over it now gets its own ROUNDING verdict.
And corrects a claim I have given the Decoder more than once. The real count was
ten, now eight: six forced-backdrop, two rounding, and TWO UNEXPLAINED -- title
at 790 px and title_jp at 20498, neither carrying a forced element. My leaf
hypothesis is refuted: emptying draw_leaf_for changes the numbers not at all.
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AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md calls its six-file sweep 'the tool's real specification'
and nothing ran it -- in a tool whose own history is two invented thresholds
caught only by controls. The same document states the principle it was breaking:
a control that does not execute is not a control.
tools/port/check-capture-controls rebuilds five of the six and asserts their
verdicts. The starved capture is gone and is reported MISSING rather than
omitted, and deliberately not synthesised from its published statistics -- a
control fitted to the answer it must give is not a control.
Two things the sweep had to learn to be honest about. check-capture emits TWO
verdicts and the doc's table compresses them; the voice control is PASS on
channels and UNJUDGED on starvation by design, so the sweep asserts the pair. And
a starved file short-circuits before the channel check, recorded as n/a rather
than FAIL -- the check did not run and the check failed are different facts.
My first 'real music bed' control was -ac 6 from a stereo source and FAILED
correctly: an upmix leaves channels silent and byte-identical, which is what the
provenance check exists to catch. The control was wrong, not the tool. Rebuilt
from six non-overlapping spans of real audio. A second attempt used aloop=-1 and
hung ffmpeg indefinitely.
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Audits the open format spec against the validator by breaking each documented
requirement. Four of five caught. The fifth is the doc's error: FORMAT.md said
check refuses any peak >= 0 dBFS, where the implementation is kind-dependent --
a bgm is a sum we produced and is refused at full scale, an se/voice is a disc
wave whose lossy decode overshoots and is allowed to +1.0.
The doc was wrong about our own export: confirm ships at +0.18 and the ADV voice
at +0.31. A consumer implementing a validator from FORMAT.md would have rejected
a valid tree -- the file that exists so someone can check our work without
trusting us. Corrected, with the +1.0 marked as a judgement.
Also closes the last unread authored value: audio.json's was carried as
stems_why only, so serde ignored the value. Now deserialised and asserted in the
exporter (only sum is implemented); the assertion is proved to fire.
Files, not fixes: a failed export leaves a tree with no manifest, and every tool
then says 'is that an export tree?' -- which nearly made me conclude the
validator was checking nothing.
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Applying the prior from six prior findings to authored/ itself: five keys had no
reader. dwell, ramp, left_right, input_during_transition, stems.
dwell is the one that mattered. Its own text says a measured hold goes there and
a number placed there did nothing -- and two iterations ago I asked the Decoder
for measurements destined for that slot. Wired now, and it stays EMPTY: the
splash dwells are declared on the disc and measured to agree.
I wired it to the wrong branch first and it did nothing, silently -- holding
longer after settle is absorbed because the screen still leaves at exit_time +
black_hold. A dwell must delay the departure. Caught only by testing the control:
+120 units moves the transition 4.46 -> 6.43 s.
ramp, left_right and input_during_transition describe hardcoded behaviour and are
written like switches. Rather than invent the missing implementations, they are
now asserted against the value the port was built for, naming the file -- which
is the distinction left_right's own why claims to make and was not making. The
validator is called, not merely defined.
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MODDING.md calls modding a constraint on the exporter TODAY and nothing verified
it -- the same shape as the black hold, skipped[], stop_bed and --focus. All five
rules pass, so check-modding is a guard rather than a fix, and it is proved able
to fail: a stripped .cmd header, a bogus.bmp, and one orphaned PNG each exit 1.
It found one thing: the .cmd encode-cache sidecars sat in the modder-facing tree
with nothing saying what they were. They now carry a header. The header is
excluded from the cache key so rewording it does not re-encode four minutes of
video, and the sidecar is refreshed whenever its text differs rather than only on
re-encode -- otherwise a header change could never reach an existing export.
Also partly answers my own question to the Decoder: there is no general
capture-path floor, because the port matches live-title-press-a at 0.00093%
full-frame and 0.000% across the band. The 0.301% is specific to that pair.
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live-attract-title-press-a-band.png is 1279x120 and the harness could not compare
a band. Placed by sliding: y=520, a 25x drop over five pixels, and it fits at
t=236-238, the plate's own window.
Its 0.354% is not the port's error. The port reproduces the same band of
live-title-press-a EXACTLY (0.000%), and the two captures differ from each other
by 0.301% -- two thin strips, 248x5 and 206x1, the shape of a sub-pixel edge
difference. The row's job is to stay near the oracle-to-oracle gap, not reach
zero, and it says so.
I had begun writing that the attract-returned title differs from the boot title.
It is two hairlines. The connected-component breakdown stopped it.
All eight live captures are now used. The three that were idle were each blocked
by the harness, not the capture.
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live-main-menu-options-focused.png -- the only capture of a known focus state --
was untestable because --focus= parsed, was stored, and was overwritten by the
authored initial focus on every _menu_enter. Every run logged focus ptbtn01
whatever was asked for. Now pushed into the menu model so navigation continues
from where it was forced.
With it working, each capture picks out exactly one button: ptbtn04 at 0.1355%
against 0.70-0.82% for the others on the OPTIONS capture, and ptbtn01 at 0.0705%
against 0.72-0.84% on the plain one. 5x and 10x discrimination. First time the
port's focus rendering has been checked against the game at all -- the existing
main_menu row uses an authored focus and could never have caught a focus error.
Records in flow.json that live-main-menu.png shows NEW GAME focused, so the
authored initial_focus matches the one frame it can be checked against -- and
that this does NOT overturn Q5's measured instability. It stays authored.
Adds main_menu_options to verify-capture at 0.13%.
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live-title-press-a.png was unused in the corpus. Posed at t=237 -- inside the
plate's 8-unit window -- the port matches it at 0.00093%, against 0.0124% for
the no-plate capture at leaf phase ~400. Two captures, two different phases,
both under 0.013%: a systematic sweep-geometry error would leave a floor in
both, so last iteration's caveat is closed.
Sweeping the whole screen's instant against capture 1 gives at best 0.148% at
t=230 -- 10x worse than the leaf-only fit. So that capture is the screen SETTLED
with the sweeps still looping, which is the first independent evidence for the
authored loop_leaf decision.
Fixes the cause of a flat 1% floor: --screen=X --overlay=Y pushed the raw
elapsed clock into the overlay (9 units at capture), so press_start drew nothing
-- the flag whose purpose is 'put the plate on the title'. A static overlay now
poses at its own arrival; the --boot shared clock is untouched.
Adds title_plate to verify-capture at 0.00%, the most sensitive row in it. Its
instant is FITTED and labelled as such.
Also records that I nearly committed a wrong cause for the overlay bug: I wrote
that nothing drives the overlay's clock outside a sequence. It is driven, every
frame, from view.time_units.
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The Decoder's refined sweep fit had never been testable: verify-capture passed
it as a whole-screen --time that pose_at discarded, and asking for it honestly
poses past the title's group end. --leaf-time separates the leaf's clock from
the screen's.
Controls: the renderer is deterministic (3 runs bit-identical) and the sweeps
move 0.40% of the frame between phases, so the comparison can see them.
Sweeping the full 600-unit span gives a sharp basin at 390-415 units (0.0124%)
against 0.2532% at t=357.7 -- 20x. So the title's 0.21% residual is the sweep
phase, not structure: at the fitted phase it matches the capture as well as the
splashes do.
NOT adopted: the port loops the leaf freely and re-posing the harness to the
fitted value would be tuning until they match. Filed instead, with the question
of whether 357.7 and this are even the same quantity.
Also verified last iteration's settle-window change was surgical: only
press_start and its twin moved, 14 screens unchanged including title's
Decoder-confirmed [160,236]. Settle-window ties exist on 4 screens but all sit
under the 30-unit bar, so the arbitrary tie-break never reaches the runtime.
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