# A submenu REACHED and captured -- but not identified. # # 2026-08-30, tools/re-capture/tbm_submenu_v2.py. Third attempt; the two # earlier ones are in tbm-submenu-not-reached.md. All three of that page's # fixes were applied and all three were needed: # [ 288.6s] TITLE (glyph 1520) # [ 289.7s] A delivered (attempt 1) <- confirmed from [RE-INPUT], not the pad # [ 295.4s] MENU (glyph 327) <- detected, not timed # [ 299.3s] A delivered (attempt 1) # [ 303.4s] SUBMENU: 87.1% of pixels differ from the menu, glyph 314 # # THE CAPTURE: 1280x720, mean 52.77, 99.7 % of pixels above 16, coverage # uniform top (0.993) / middle (1.000) / bottom (0.990). A FULL-SCREEN # BACKGROUND. # # OUR RENDERER, on the archives that carry a .tbm decider: # GP_SAVE_LOAD 19 builds 1.9 - 3.0 % inked mean 2.2 - 3.1 # GP_TUTORIAL 3 builds 6.0 - 6.4 % inked mean 5.3 - 6.0 # GP_SYSTEM builds 0,1 78.4 % inked mean 38.7 - 39.4 # # So GP_SAVE_LOAD and GP_TUTORIAL render essentially NOTHING while the game # draws a full screen -- but which screen was captured is NOT established. # # 🔴 WHY IDENTIFICATION FAILED, and it is a method point: # Correlation cannot discriminate when the candidate renders are near-blank. # A near-empty image has almost no structure to correlate with, so every # GP_SAVE_LOAD build scores -0.004..-0.010 against the capture -- a ranking # with no information in it. A matching statistic is useless against a # hypothesis that predicts an empty image, which is exactly the hypothesis # under test here. # # 🔴 AND THE FOCUS COULD NOT BE READ from the menu capture. Against the two # labelled references the whole-frame mean absolute difference is 2.52 # (NEW GAME focused) and 2.48 (OPTIONS focused) -- a 1.6 % separation, far # too weak to call. s00a-drive-blocked-by-focus.md already records a # per-row brightness statistic failing its control; this is a second # statistic failing on the same problem. # # ✅ ONE THING WORTH KEEPING: the game surface sits at y=45 in the 1280x720 # display frame. Cropping m[45:45+675, 0:1279] fits the committed 1279x675 # captures to a mean absolute difference of 2.5. That is the alignment the # earlier cross-geometry floor comparison got wrong.