sylph-decoder 1f9609c37f re: the keyframe block s +4 and +8 are angles used almost always as a 180 flip
Narrows a standing unexplained pair without claiming to decode it, and states
precisely why it cannot be closed in this container.

Census over every UI pak on the disc -- 2859 builds, 90347 keyframes, parents and
nested leaves. +4 has 12 distinct values and +8 has 11, against 157 for the
decoded rotation at +12. Per sprite-instance across 14241 of them, with +12 as a
control because it is known to hold a real angle: +4 takes more than two distinct
values on 7 instances, +8 on 99, and +12 on 396. So +4 is in practice a two-state
field whose state is 180 -- and for a screen-plane sprite a 180 degree rotation
about an in-plane axis is a mirror.

But they are not booleans. GP_TITLE entry 7 s ptlogo3a runs +4 = -72, -18, -4, -1
against +12 = -14, -4, -1, 0: the two decay to zero together with +4 roughly four
to five times +12 at each keyframe. That is a coupled two-axis settle and the
strongest support the disc offers for the three-axis reading. So the readings
reconcile -- the field is an angle whose overwhelmingly common use is the 180
degree special case.

The reach is the important half. All six non-zero +4/+8 keyframes in GP_TITLE are
in entry 7, the Japanese title, which has no oracle capture and which MISSION
scopes out as localisation beyond English. The five English screens that do have
captures carry +4 = +8 = 0 on every keyframe, so they never exercise the fields.
The paks that use them heavily, GP_READY_ROOM at 4686 and GP_DIALOG at 1058, are
also out of scope and GP_READY_ROOM is a recorded no-go. So this is untestable
against every oracle the project holds rather than merely unfinished.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QsEPXWVaEpyfudtR6re1Pd
2026-08-29 18:30:29 +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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