sylph-decoder 07f0231ff8 re: the menu loop WATCHED -- three wraps, 61.81 s, and my placement is refuted
Settles the conflict by timing the loop instead of converting it. A tailing probe
stamps read_offset with the wall clock as each log line arrives, so the period
needs no bits-to-time step -- the step already shown to be invalid.

Three wraps, each exactly loop_end -> loop_start, and BOTH CONTEXTS WRAP AT THE
SAME INSTANT all three times. That is the property two stems of one performance
must have and the one the linear conversion could not deliver (62.34 vs 63.29 s
would drift a second per cycle).

Cycle 61.56 and 62.06 s, mean 61.81, against the audio autocorrelation's 61.93 --
0.2 % apart from instruments sharing nothing.

Linearity refuted a second time and internally: the fitted rate over 10..60 s is
341 394 bits/s while the cycle covers 22 034 741 bits in 61.81 s = 356 491
bits/s, 4.4 % apart inside one stream.

My own audio locator's PLACEMENT is refuted. loop_start at 3.6 M bits is 11.6 %
of the stream by any reading, ~10.1 s at the cycle's own mean rate, against the
0.25 s that page reported -- for the reason already suspected, that its control
matched slices cut from the wave itself and never tested the aliasing the real
problem has. The length was right and the span was wrong.

Still not measured: loop_start in seconds. Offsets below it play exactly once and
this trace stamped that whole stretch at t=0.002, swallowing the log backlog in
one read, because it started after the music. The fix is to start the trace
before tapping into the menu -- one line, not done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
2026-08-30 10:03:52 +00:00

Sylpheed

A clean-room reverse engineering and port project for Project Sylpheed: Arc of Deception (Xbox 360, 2007).

Three things live here, in one repository so that a change spanning them lands as one commit:

The decoders crates/sylpheed-formats — the disc's formats, read and verified disc-wide
The port port/ — a Godot 4 project, plus crates/sylpheed-export which converts a disc into the open asset tree it reads
The corpus docs/re/ — what has been reverse engineered, with its evidence, its retractions and its dead ends

You need your own copy of the game. No game content is in this repository and none ever will be. The exporter reads the disc you supply.

The oracle is the real game

sylpheed-cli and the Explorer are tools for verifying our decoding. They are hypotheses under test and they have been wrong. When something must be checked against the truth, the truth is the game running in Xenia Canary, captured — not any renderer of ours.

This is stated first because getting it backwards is the most expensive mistake this project has made.

Layout

crates/
  sylpheed-formats/   the decoders. Disc-wide verified; the corpus is its spec
  sylpheed-cli/       headless tools -- render a screen, dump a table, probe audio
  sylpheed-viewer/    the Explorer: a human's window onto the disc. STATIC data only
  sylpheed-export/    disc -> the open, moddable asset tree
port/                 the Godot 4 project. Reads open formats ONLY
authored/             decisions that are NOT on the disc, each with its reason
data/
  base/               generated by the exporter. Gitignored, never hand-edited
  mods/               drop-in overrides. Yours
docs/
  re/                 the corpus: findings, refutations, method traps
  game/               how the game is navigated -- menus, modals, flight
  port/               the port's mission, its handoff contract, modding rules
  agents/             how the agent team works together
tools/                capture harnesses, probes, the share tool
exchange/             transient inter-agent files. NOT in git
docker/               the agent containers

Where to start

Xenia Canary is a separate repository: it is a fork tracking upstream, and it carries our instrumentation.

Conventions

Confidence is per claim, never per document: CONFIRMED · 🟡 PROBABLE · HYPOTHESIS · REFUTED. A withdrawn result is kept with its reasoning rather than deleted — that is why the numbers here can be trusted.

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