"Menu walk and navigation is fine. Video skips too. Extras open. New Game
shows new game intro video." -- 2026-09-02
P5 is done. Its gate was "a human clicks through it", the retro said it had been
waiting on that and not on code for the whole milestone, and it has happened.
PORT-MISSION.md updated. The NEW GAME gap is accepted as-is.
Four findings, three of them the Decoder's:
F1 THE MENU REPEATS ON A HELD DIRECTION AND OURS DOES NOT. One step per
deflection was authored as the conservative choice because nobody knew; a
human has now watched the real game and it repeats, "at a medium pace... slow
enough to see which item is selected". That settles the existence half of H1
against us. The RATE is still unmeasured and must not be guessed -- the
description bounds it and supplies no number. Decoder measures initial delay
and repeat interval as frame counts; the port implements the mechanism and
waits for the numbers.
F2 THE SFX ARE TOO LOUD BECAUSE THERE IS NO MIX AT ALL. Measured: confirm
-17.7 dB mean / -0.0 dB peak, 3 dB hotter in mean than the music and 6.4 dB
above move. No volume or gain value exists anywhere in export/ or authored/,
so every clip plays at unity on one bus. Decoder: is per-cue or per-bus gain
on the disc -- the cue table is the obvious place and cue 1103 is already
decoded. Port: gains at PLAYBACK as data, and explicitly NOT normalisation in
the exporter, which destroys the relationship between clips and cannot be
undone by a modder.
F3 SOMETHING IS MISSING ON THE TITLE SCREEN. The export carries one music file
and the port plays nothing on the title. Which cue does the title play, and
is there a sting on the plate or on accept? A negative needs a positive
control: find the menu's cue by the same method first.
F4 (A) SKIPS FORWARD THROUGH THE BOOT AND WE IMPLEMENT TWO OF THREE PRESSES.
In the game: skip video, reveal plate immediately, accept plate. The middle
one is missing here. Whether the game snaps both clocks forward or only
reveals the plate is a question, not a detail -- and it is a cheap second
route to the plate-arrival question, since a press that skips to the plate
says where the game thinks the plate belongs.
H3, the plate delay, is ACCEPTED -- "feels the same... sufficient". Left
unattributed rather than closed green.
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