Item (a): mine the screen population found last iteration. Resolving every one's
key list via the string-xref join over its own body gives 298 distinct keys and a
three-way split: 95 = 9 corpus-known + 48 new with a readable key list + 38 bare,
where "bare" means BASE_INFO and nothing else. The bare 38 are the honest limit
of the instrument - a screen whose only catalogued string is BASE_INFO cannot be
named this way.
The control turned the finding into a law. Only 9 of the 19 loaders the corpus
documents appear among the 95, and which nine is not arbitrary. The nine that
reference BASE_INFO all read a SCREEN's own configuration: debriefing, career,
save, medals, evaluation list, gamma, POINT_RANKING, CLEAR_TIME_RANKING, hangar.
The ten that do not all read a DATA TABLE: unit definitions, weapon datasheet,
AIParams, stage settings, chatter, PlayerParams, ControlTweak, the PG* HUD
roster, material slots, and the leaderboard. 9/9 and 10/10, both off-diagonals
empty. The leaderboard falling on the table side is a check rather than an
exception - its own doc records that all 18 of its names are tables.pak names, so
it is a table reader that happens to paint a screen. That exclusion is what last
commit's "universal screen marker" claim was missing.
48 new screens are named by their most distinctive keys, including the title
screen (sub_821C4EB0: TITLE_SCREEN/TITLE_MENU/LOADING), the ready room
(sub_821D6D28: SCRIPT_ID/SCRIPT_PATH, confirmed independently by its own error
string silph::GamePart_ReadyRoom::Impl::PrepareScript), movie subtitles, the
three menu modes STANDARD/EXTRA/TUTORIAL, the speaker window, loadout and gallery
views, mission select, and an equip screen carrying the game's own typo
EQUIIP_LIMITATION.
One caution worth recording: a high key count is not a rich screen. The two
27-key entries sub_82297550 and sub_822A2F00 resolve to pure coordinate pairs
(1080,163 / 734,502 / 1164,403) - a layout table, not configuration. Read the
values before trusting the rank.
Still open: the 38 bare screens, and whether the EX_ in EX_MENU_DISABLE_SKIP and
EX_LETTERS is the same EXTRA mode word as +184.
All seventeen artefacts byte-identical.
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