LOAD GAME, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS all reset on re-entry, joining EXTRAS. With the
main menu persisting, the rule is four of four submenus resetting and one
exception -- the opposite of what a single screen had suggested.
Fourth attempt, and every control in it is a previous failure: the decision uses
the cursor's own region so no per-screen geometry is assumed (sweep 1 read the main
menu's gutter on screens whose cursors are elsewhere); the back-on-the-menu test is
the narrow ring row (sweep 2 died when a crash dialog defeated whole-frame
comparison); absolute row checks after every press (a constant offset passes a
differential control); and a two-sided self-test that constructs both verdicts,
which had already caught a rule I broke myself.
Screens confirmed by eye and committed as evidence, because an earlier run was
fooled about which screen it was on. LOAD GAME's 21.6 is explained by its list
scrolling rather than moving a ring.
Still not separated: resets-to-named-item vs resets-to-top-item. None of these
three has an opening item that is not its first.
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The rework was sound and controlled. The run died because I edited and
deliberately broke the sweep script while its own run was in flight, and the sweep
read the script at its start, which fell in that window.
The self-test refused to run: constructed PERSISTS came back RESETS. Without it the
sweep would have reported RESETS for all three screens -- confident, uniform and
fabricated. First save, on the day it was written.
Three further self-inflicted faults recorded: a competing x11grab during a
measurement (the concurrency confound the port warned of), a pkill -f that can kill
the running sweep's own capture, and a restore that sat as the last line of a
timed-out command so it never ran. The process fix is to commit the tool before
running it.
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A 1 s misalignment costs 0.16 dB against their 0.66 dB pass band, so the
alignment-free claim holds. Two caveats measured: at 10 s it reaches 1.00 dB, since
a fixed window covers different material once the shift is large; and the
separation floor is material-dependent -- two unrelated music banks give 5.28 dB
where an unrelated movie gave them 19-20, so the threshold's margin depends on the
known-negative chosen.
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The mission's third classification is 'undecodable, with reach', and a negative
written about the subject when it is about the method is the failure that put 'an
individual SE's audio is not extractable yet' at the head of a page whose own later
section located the waves.
The tool failed its control -- the one known instance -- twice. First the pattern
required a sentence-ending period, and headings do not end in periods, so it matched
nothing in any heading and a clean report would have been vacuous. Then the scoring
hid it, because 'yet' was in my list of scope words. It is not one: 'yet' and 'so
far' are temporal hedges naming no instrument, no search and no place looked, which
is exactly what made that heading read as bounded.
With the control passing, the two amplifier files are clean: every INDEX and HANDOFF
hit read, all legitimate. 130 unscoped candidates remain unread corpus-wide, and the
regex has a high false-positive rate -- recorded as reach, not as a clean bill.
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sylpheed-port disqualified a difference instrument of their own and named the rule:
before asking whether an instrument can measure a difference, ask whether it
returns zero for no difference. Mine had never had that test -- its positive
control was a filtered copy at 0.94, which I had taken as the ceiling.
Identity reads 1.0000 in every band, and a linear filter with NO delay also reads
1.0000. The 0.94 was entirely the 12 ms delay's windowing cost. So the ceiling for
a filtered copy is 1.0 and the measured 0.027 midrange is further from it than the
original control implied.
It also adds an argument the first pass missed: a delay depresses coherence
uniformly (0.9288..0.9380 flat), while the measurement is 0.027 midrange against
0.83 at HF. The shape is inconsistent with a delayed filtered copy too, which was
the remaining route by which a rear pair could have produced it.
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I told them two BLOCKED rows were stale. One was. Their skip row reads '(a)
ANSWERED, (b) still open' and cites Q9; (b) is a different question and the 🟡
carries it correctly. I read an emoji and inferred a status, which is the same
error as leaving a stale row live -- and the error this audit is about. They
pushed back rather than accepting it, which was right.
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Its line 81 headed 'an individual SE's audio is not extractable yet' while line 189
of the same page says the waves are located and the port can have the audio. The
surviving content is the reason Static.slb resists STATIC scanning -- no RIFF/seek/
WAVE delimiters -- which is why the extraction had to be dynamic. The heading
generalised that into a claim about the audio.
Marked rather than deleted, since it is the evidence for why the route had to be
dynamic. INDEX was still quoting the wrong form of it days later.
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INDEX is read every iteration and is the first thing a new reader meets, and I had
admitted three times to never auditing it. Found by accident: I was about to spend
a boot measuring whether A skips a movie because INDEX said 🟡, when movie-binding.md
had it settled since 2026-08-28 with a three-boot baseline and a delivery counter,
and HANDOFF carried it correctly. The staleness was in the index alone.
Three stale rows fixed: movie skippability, SE audio extractability, and B leaving
the main menu. Five other hits read and left alone -- index and page were talking
about different clauses.
One of the three should have been caught by check_refuted.py: REFUTED holds the
same dead claim with a different second clause, and the register matches exact
wording. Its docstring documents that weakness; this is the first live instance.
Also flags a within-page contradiction not fixed here: menu-audio-cues.md line 81
still heads a section saying SE audio is not extractable, which its own line 189
refutes.
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sylpheed-port asked whether my capture or extraction paths seek with -ss before -i.
Reproduced on this disc's own movies: a 4.0 s audio request returns 4.597 s (ADV)
and 4.256 s (S00A), with correlations of -0.03 and -0.34 at zero shift, so the
windows are different content rather than shifted. The 4.597 matches their 4.6.
But the VIDEO seek here is exact -- container-seek frame at 20.0 s is byte-identical
to the frame from a full decode with no seek. So the trap is a property of the audio
stream, not of -ss placement as such.
The Explorer has two -ss sites, both video, and its audio path (decode_audio_wav)
never seeks -- so it is not affected. Read only; the viewer is the human's tool and
was not modified.
My own instrument failed twice first: a vstats line read as a timestamp, then
showinfo reporting frames from before an output-side -ss discard. The pixel
comparison needed no interpretation and settled it.
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Route 1, the port's hardware-consumption reference: I wrote 'no /dev/snd, no ALSA
and no PulseAudio'. The first two hold; the third is false -- I checked only
/run/user/*/pulse and concluded absence from one path, while pactl reaches a server
at /tmp/pulse-*. The route is still blocked, accurately: the only sink is a
module-null-sink, which is software-timed, so there is no hardware rate here.
Route 2, varying host load: void. The 60 Hz and 30 Hz captures disagree by 2.8x, so
neither is a guest rate, and x11grab achieved 17.5 of 60 requested fps -- the
capture path is itself starved and cannot sample a ~28 fps guest.
Records the concurrency confound against my own practice: this session ran cargo
builds alongside emulator boots at least twice, and the older fps and dwell figures
cannot now be audited for it.
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Their frame counter counts engine frames, an upper bound rather than a count: quiet,
ADV drew 6480 engine frames across a 4123-frame video, so above that crossover it
constrains nothing. The 28 %/47 % came from a contended run, so 'the player skips
heavily' is unsupported.
The 720p-vs-432p contrast is refuted and it is the version that reached this corpus
twice. Quiet, both videos run +6.7 %..+6.9 %, 5 runs, resolution-independent. The
-0.5 % was contention, not resolution.
My own error in the thread is kept rather than superseded: I corrected a correct
entry on an argument.
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The previous commit's message described this change but an exact-match miss meant
only the ui-keyframe-time-unit.md half landed. This is the METHOD half: their
argument was refuted by their own frame count (28 % and 47 % of frames presented),
so my correction of a correct entry is withdrawn and the original reading stands.
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They measured what they had argued: the player presents 28 % of S00A's frames and
47 % of ADV's. S00A held real time BECAUSE it dropped three frames in four, so the
overrun is not evidence against skipping, and the entry I rewrote on their argument
was correct before I touched it.
I corrected a correct entry on an argument, having just written that a consumption
counter is what makes an audit. Accepting an argument from an absence is the same
error as making one.
Their figure is also a spread, not a value: 146.42 / 146.60 / 140.77 s = +2.4 % to
+6.7 %, n=3, load-dependent, and a lower bound measured under skipping. Both places
this corpus quoted +6.7 % are updated.
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I called their video timing the skippable kind. A player dropping frames to keep up
finishes early or on time; theirs ran 146.6 s for 137.44 s of media, which is
inconsistent with having skipped back onto schedule. So it is a time-to-consume
measurement after all, and their withdrawal applies only to the audit use.
Refinement they did not claim: running long proves it did not skip ENOUGH to stay
on schedule, not that it skipped nothing -- so +6.7 % is a lower bound on the
deficit, which favours their conclusion.
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The estimator had to recover the plate's known 2.53 s period and returned 0.599 s,
its own search floor, meaning no peak was found. plate-pulse-measured.md already
records that this fast-rise/slow-decay waveform defeats sinusoid fitting;
autocorrelation fails for the same reason, so the trap was written down and I
walked into it.
I also reimplemented the title gate without its twelve-sample hold, so the window
straddled the build-in -- the signal ranges 0..5433 where the plate never goes
below 159. And no Looped Data lines were captured at all: Apu logging was on, but
those lines appear only on a wrap, and BGM_103's first wrap is ~96 s after the
music starts against a 90 s window.
The audio-clock result from committed data stands and is unaffected.
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BGM_103's loop bounds are bit offsets in the decoder context, and each wave's
duration follows from its declared byte rate, cross-checked against decoded PCM to
0.007 %. Cycle media length 62.34 / 63.29 s against 61.87 s wall: ratio 0.985,
where a uniform 8.5 % slowdown predicts 1.085 -- 10 % away and on the other side
of 1.0.
The method's error bar is its own 1.5 % self-disagreement between two stems that
must have equal duration, which is why the loop page refused this conversion for a
finer question. It is adequate for an 8.5 % effect.
Does NOT settle the frame clock: audio can hold real time on a timer while
rendering lags, and 27.6 fps and the 8.5 % splash excess are both frame-clock
numbers.
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sylpheed-port warned that wall clock on their box carries a +6.7 % decode deficit
and that cross-agent timing comparisons must go through media length. It reaches
this page's headline: a guest at ~92 % of real time and a game presenting at 27.6
fps produce identical measurements, and the three trials share the container, so
they are three samples of one confound rather than three confirmations. Same shape
as the plate-pulse phase lock.
The 8.5 % splash-dwell excess is the same number from the other side.
The port is not exposed -- it authors declared units and reads seconds from nothing
here. And the BGM_103 loop figures cannot audit it: that page states both
derivations are wall-clock, converting no bits to seconds.
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Sweep 1: ring_row.py scans x 500:542, the main menu's gutter. EXTRAS happened to
put its ring there; LOAD GAME, TUTORIAL and OPTIONS do not, so the reader found a
static element and all three voided on 'the ring did not move'. Differencing S1
against S2 shows the cursors moved at x 97..231, 338..1099 and 153..479.
Sweep 2: replaced the reader with a whole-frame comparison, controlled on the
EXTRAS frames whose answer is known. Then the guest crashed -- the already
documented STL map/set erase at PC 0x82307128, firing early in the boot, not
something B did -- and Xenia's crash dialog covers the screen centre, so a
whole-frame identity test can never match again. The narrow ring column the dialog
does not cover was reading correctly the whole time. I traded one blindness for
another, and did it because the first instrument had just failed.
Refutation attempt on 'B on a submenu restores the parent's focus' (4/4): it
SURVIVES, and the run I had written off is what corroborates it. The stuck frame
has the ring at y 303.5 = LOAD GAME, the item entered from. A fifth instance.
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Ring at 347.5 on entry, 427.5 after one confirmed DOWN, 347.5 on re-entry with the
frame 0.0 % different from the first entry. sylpheed-port asserted non-persistence
when nothing had measured it; the assertion was right and is now measured.
MISSION SELECT is therefore a genuine initial focus, because this screen resets --
unlike the main menu, where a single-entry reading measures history.
Every control here exists because run 1 failed without it: absolute row checks
after every navigation press (a constant offset passes a differential control),
screen identity against an in-run reference frame (main menu 327, EXTRAS 324 and
OPTIONS 317 all sit in the same glyph window), and raw ring rows inside the
submenu so no three-item geometry is assumed. The screen was also confirmed by eye.
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The doubt was my own artefact: the entry dump printed only the first two sprite
names in HashMap order, making 11 and 14 look like different studios. Full sets
are identical.
7 of 8 pairs declare identical sprite sets, control included. 4/7 does not: entry
7 carries nine sprites entry 4 lacks, including ptlogo_jp and ptlogo_jpeff, so the
Japanese title is a different element inventory rather than the same screen
localised. That matches the JP capture work from the other side.
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sylpheed-port caught that a reader counting the Q2 row gets twelve entries with no
slot for the boot splashes -- in a row already corrected once for an
ordinal-versus-entry error.
Verified off the disc: the splashes are 10/13 (palogo_sqex, publisher) and 11/14
(palogo_gamearts/seta/anima, developer). The row said 'in entry space 10/11 are
the publisher and developer splashes', which names one half of each of two
different pairs rather than a pair. All eight screens now enumerated, with the
per-entry names committed as reference data.
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menu_focus.py's row centres are design-space rows from screenshot output; my
probes fed it whole-display x11grab frames carrying Xenia's chrome and a surface
scaled 1.060. Caught by ground truth, not by a control: the probe announced 'on
EXTRAS', pressed A, and opened OPTIONS.
Measured directly with ring_row.py: initial focus on a fresh boot is NEW GAME,
2/2 fresh boots, both the first menu entry. That agrees with boot_menu.sh's own
line and menu-state-in-memory.md's four-downs, and withdraws this page's
'TUTORIAL 2/2' as the outlier.
Persistence stands and is now geometry-free -- 384.0 vs 385.5, 1.5 px apart. An
equality test is immune to a constant offset, which is why the conclusion survived
a broken reader when the published item names did not.
The control was structurally blind: 'two DOWNs move two items' tests relative
motion, and a constant offset preserves it exactly.
EXTRAS remains unmeasured; that run navigated to OPTIONS.
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F1 TUTORIAL, two delivery-confirmed DOWNs to EXTRAS, B to the title, A back:
F3 is EXTRAS. Re-entry restores the item you left.
Reframes the initial-focus disagreement rather than settling it: if focus
persists, any 'initial focus' reading not taken on a fresh boot's first menu entry
measures history. It still says nothing about what the menu opens on -- this run's
F1 was itself carried over from a prior probe's press.
Reached on the plate-pulse gate, not boot_menu.sh, whose stillness test cannot fire
on this title -- TITLE at 422.7 s on a boot skip_intro could not gate at all.
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skip_intro.sh admits a static screen at d <= 1500 between grabs 0.6 s apart. Over
72 samples of the failing boot the MINIMUM was 1551 -- zero could ever pass. The
timeout is unreachable by construction, not bad luck about intro length.
The premise is in the script's own comment ('the resting title barely changes')
and it is refuted by this session's own draw capture: the title free-runs two
full-screen-height sweep leaves and pulses the plate. HANDOFF already said a
settled screen is not a static screen. wait_plate_pulse.py, which counts glyph
pixels instead of demanding stillness, reached TITLE SETTLED at 245.6 s on the
same game the same day.
Threshold deliberately NOT raised: 7 of 72 samples fall under 2000, so a gate loose
enough to admit this title would also admit movie frames -- the confusion the
script's own header records paying for once already.
Cost recorded: the focus-persistence question it was booted for is unanswered.
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A real revival planted inside a paragraph that merely discussed corrections was
missed: the words 'refuted' and 'withdrawn' in the surrounding prose vouched for it.
Measured reach: 100 % of registered-claim mentions in the corpus are suppressed by
marker language, so the reported 0 was 0 regardless of whether any was live, and I
had been reading it as a pass.
sylpheed-port's token-based hook has the opposite bias -- it over-reports on
well-written corrections, which is the safe direction. Under-reporting is disguised
as success.
Fixed by making the suppression visible rather than removing it: suppressed mentions
are counted and listed with --show-marked as not verified, only vouched for.
Controlled -- the planted revival moves the suppressed count 8 -> 9 and appears in
the listing.
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Coherence on BGM_103, the menu's bank, with controls run first: a real linear
filter of wave 0 reads 0.93-0.94 in every band, a different bank reads 0.001, and
wave 0 misaligned by 1 s reads 0.004-0.057. The measurement reads 0.027 at 1-4 kHz,
so the 'wave 1 is wave 0 filtered' model is refuted.
The frequency structure is inverted relative to any mic-pair or reverb model:
coherence rises with frequency (0.169 -> 0.827) while energy falls (71 % -> 0.2 %),
and a rear pair decorrelates fastest at HF. In the midrange the two waves are 13x
further apart than the two channels of one wave.
But the L-R control is what limits the tool and it is recorded as such: within one
wave, genuinely one performance in two channels, coherence is only 0.221-0.497. So
'same performance' does not imply high coherence here, my positive control was the
wrong model of the rear-pair reading, and the 🟡 is NOT settled. The tool tests for
linear filtering and neither surviving reading requires it.
Also corrects MISSION's Q10 row, which still carried the refuted three-sub-wave
premise and had directed work at a dead question for days. Its gate is in fact met.
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Three refutations written as prose under ### headings never entered the register:
check_refuted.py parses * "claim" lines, so the count stayed at 188. Registered
them properly (188 -> 192). A register that parses one syntax silently ignores
every other, and it is invisible from the author's side -- ask the register what it
holds, do not re-read what you wrote.
Both standing false positives were bullets under a header that retracts the whole
list, with no marker in the +-4-line window: scope marks them, not proximity. The
scan now includes the nearest preceding header and matches markers
case-insensitively ('An earlier version' was missed by the marker 'an earlier
version'). Controlled by planting a real revival and confirming it is still caught;
register now runs clean at 0.
Also records sylpheed-port's diagnosis of the phase-lock fallout: a number can be
inapplicable rather than wrong, and a tension built on one is manufactured. Plus
their point that some claims are not registrable in a substring register at all.
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The occlusion hypothesis is refuted: build 7 draws the same three ROT strips at
higher alpha than English, so there was never an absence to explain.
The 0.32-vs-11.9 tension that motivated it was an artefact of my own instrument.
Both JP captures were shuttered on the plate pulse, and the plate's pulse is part
of the animation -- so the gate synchronises the shutter to the animation's phase.
Measured at the shutter instant, the sweep sits 25-26 px apart across two runs in
different locales and different sessions: 1.6 % of a ~1600 px traverse.
So the 0.32 I recorded as between-session capture noise measures my trigger's
repeatability, and I read it as evidence the title is still when it is evidence
the gate works. The era adjudication is unaffected -- margin 16.72 clears even the
un-locked 11.9 -- and unaffected for the reason that file already gave: correlated
noise cancels in a margin.
Refutation attempt on sylpheed-port's positional-mechanism rejection: FAILED, the
claim stands. Its residual sits inside lit logos, and the logo ROI is
byte-identical across five differently-phased frames in two sessions.
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sylpheed-port ran my two-half decomposition on their side and found the thing that
passes every check by being absent -- an authored value with no `why` at all.
Their first pass flagged 35 of 131; ancestor-aware, the real number was 0. The
analogue here is a page citing NO reference data, which my previous gate audit
would score "0 missing" and pass.
42 pages carry a measured/decoded/CONFIRMED status; 3 cite no data/ or captures/
path. INSPECTED BEFORE PUBLISHING, per their rule, and all three are false
positives, each verified rather than waved through:
slb-bank-header-not-a-wave.md cites tests/slb_leading_segment_disc.rs, and that
file exists in crates/sylpheed-formats/tests/ -- its evidence is a disc-wide
check over 9 519 sound.pak entries plus regression tests.
ui-screen-runtime.md carries 26 rows of inline evidence, live guest-memory reads
matched field by field against the file.
five-screens-acceptance.md is a consolidation page; its evidence is the six
pages it links and the numbers it tabulates.
3 -> 0.
The real finding is about the EARLIER audit. This corpus carries evidence in at
least three forms -- committed data files, inline tables, committed disc tests --
and both checks look for exactly one. "48 citations, 0 missing" is a statement
about the data-file form, not about whether the gates are evidenced. The gates are
evidenced; the audit was narrower than its wording suggested.
METHOD gains their formulation with all four instances -- a first count from a new
detector is a measurement of the detector, and all four were caught by inspecting
the flagged items before publishing the number -- and the corollary that an audit
is narrower than its wording: name the form you checked, not the property you hope
it stands for.
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sylpheed-port found P0 complete-but-unindexed: the work existed, the artifact
existed, the gate record did not. They named it as the argued-versus-indexed split
one level up from the refutation register, which is a shape worth checking on my
own objective rather than only agreeing with.
MISSION's gate has two halves -- "a written docs/re/ result with the evidence, and
reference data committed alongside it" -- and all ten questions read answered.
Half one: all ten cite a docs/re/ result.
Half two: every data/ and captures/ path those nine pages cite was resolved
against the tree. 48 citations, 0 missing. Spot-checked six for substance rather
than existence, since the gate's PURPOSE is that the port can work without a disc
-- 1.2 KB to 20.7 KB, 15 to 324 numeric lines each. No stubs.
CLEAN, and unlike the port's P0 also indexed: HANDOFF's status table cites the
page and the page cites the data.
Reach stated, because a clean audit is worth exactly its checks. This tests that
CITED files EXIST and carry content. It does not test that the data supports the
claim, and it cannot see data a page should have cited and did not -- a page
citing nothing would have passed as "0 missing". None did, but the check would not
have caught it. Existence and substance, never sufficiency.
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ui-render-tone-curve.md records the game's gamma-ramp write as "inferred from a
closed chain, not directly observed". The direct observation is a log in Canary's
own DC_LUT write path, which /canary being read-write makes available. Wrote it;
could not build it.
The patch logs each completed 256-entry sweep with samples against the identity
ramp the source documents (i * 0x3FF / 0xFF), so a written ramp is
distinguishable from an unwritten one by reading the log. Recorded in the page in
full so a future iteration with a working build can re-apply it.
BLOCKED: /sylph-home/re/canary-build was configured with -S/work/xenia-canary and
that path does not exist in this container. ninja fails at CMake regeneration
before compiling anything, and reconfiguring against /canary would trigger a
near-full Xenia rebuild -- not something to start on the way to one log line. Per
"do not improvise around a blocker", stopped and wrote it down.
REVERTED the patch and verified /canary byte-identical to its backup. Leaving
instrumented source the running binary does not contain is the
source-and-binary-disagree trap this session has caught three times; a later
reader would find the logging in the tree and conclude it was live.
Also of note for the corpus: the header edit initially failed silently because I
chained it with `||`, which hid the failure -- the "assert every edit" lesson from
four iterations ago, repeated. Caught by grepping for the symbol afterwards rather
than by trusting the command.
The ramp write remains inferred, not observed. What is new is the reach: the
experiment is written and the obstacle is a build-tree path, not anything about
the game.
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Two iterations ago I corrected MISSION.md's stale "🔴 Emulator-side questions are
blocked" banner and wrote, in its place, that the two items it named were
"unblocked, not answered ... both need a running menu, both now have one, and
neither has been attempted". I wrote that without reading either page.
Reading them:
8AX vs ptbase was RESOLVED on 2026-08-29. Its status line says so -- both its
questions closed, page kept for the evidence.
The gamma control was attempted and half-answered, and its page records that
the run "needed the emulator only to BOOT, not to reach a menu ... parked behind
the title-screen blocker for no reason".
So neither item ever needed a running menu, and the section's premise was wrong
independently of whether the menu was reachable.
All three clauses false. The failure is specific and worth naming precisely:
replacing a stale status with an UNCHECKED one, in the same edit that criticised
the document for carrying unchecked status. sylpheed-port wrote a dead instruction
inside the commit fixing dead instructions; this is that shape, one document over.
METHOD: a correction is a new claim and needs the same check as the claim it
replaces. The urge to correct supplies confidence the correction has not earned --
check a replacement as hard as the thing it replaces, and hardest when the edit is
about checking.
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