Sylpheed/authored/timing.json

{
  "format": "sylpheed.timing/1",
  "keyframe_units_per_second": 60,
  "why": [
    "HANDOFF Q1. The disc says a keyframe is at `t=30`; it does not say what a",
    "`t` is. The unit was MEASURED off the running game, not decoded: a declared",
    "15-unit fade lands on round(255*k/15) for all seven of its samples with k",
    "stepping 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 on seven consecutive submitted frames -- so 2",
    "units per rendered frame -- and the idle title presents at 28.3-28.8 fps,",
    "a 30 Hz game, giving 60 units per second. A second line agrees: the",
    "transition quad is declared black for 12 units, and a capture measured the",
    "pure-black plateau at 0.17-0.23 s, where 12/60 = 0.20 s.",
    "",
    "Expressed as units-per-second rather than seconds-per-unit so the value is",
    "exact rather than a repeating decimal a reader has to recognise.",
    "",
    "DELETE THIS FILE when a field on the disc is found that states the unit.",
    "Nothing here is on the disc.",
    "",
    "🔴 DO NOT 'CORRECT' THIS AGAINST AN EMULATOR FRAME RATE. A draw-stream",
    "measurement on 2026-08-29 found the presented units-per-frame rising 33 % over",
    "a single boot (1.765 early, 2.357 late) and three independent readings of one",
    "container's rate disagreeing with each other. That is the EMULATOR's",
    "presentation pacing drifting, and no single units-per-frame figure describes a",
    "run there.",
    "",
    "60 is a different quantity: the GAME's logical unit rate, measured off the",
    "running game as HANDOFF Q1 (a declared t=30 landing on the linear value at",
    "every one of seven sampled frames). The port renders at its own frame rate and",
    "converts through this constant, so guest pacing cannot reach it. The two",
    "numbers are not comparable and one is not evidence about the other."
  ],
  "kind": "measured",
  "source": "/reborn docs/port/HANDOFF.md Q1, docs/re/ui-keyframe-time-unit.md",
  "ramp": "linear",
  "ramp_why": [
    "Also HANDOFF Q1, and part of the same measurement: the fade lands on the",
    "linear value at every one of the seven sampled frames, so there is no ease."
  ],
  "dwell_seconds": null,
  "dwell_why": [
    "NOT SET -- because the dwell is DECLARED, and the port already plays it.",
    "",
    "This key has now been wrong in two opposite directions, and the second was",
    "mine, so both are recorded.",
    "",
    "It first said 'a screen's dwell is its OWN keyframe group'. Then GP_TITLE",
    "build 4 was measured dwelling ~1100 presented frames against a declared ~120,",
    "and I generalised that into 'the boot is KNOWN TOO FAST on both splashes'.",
    "🔴 THAT WAS AN OVER-CORRECTION and it is withdrawn. Build 4 is the title: its",
    "exit is caused by something outside its timeline, so it holds. A splash's exit",
    "is caused by nothing, so it plays its declared timeline and leaves. The title",
    "is the exception, not the rule, and one screen was never enough to overturn",
    "the other two.",
    "",
    "MEASURED 2026-08-29 by the Decoder over 3 cold boots",
    "(docs/re/structures/boot-splash-dwells-are-declared.md):",
    "",
    "  publisher  declared t=0..255 = 4.250 s   corpus 4.30 / 4.60 / 4.37",
    "  developer  declared t=0..210 = 3.500 s   corpus 3.51 / 3.50 / 3.37",
    "",
    "The developer agrees to 1.1 %, two of its three runs to 0.3 %. The port emits",
    "4.400 s and 3.650 s -- each declared value plus the 9-unit black hold, exactly.",
    "So the pacing was right all along and nothing changes in the code.",
    "",
    "🔴 AND THE UNIT STAYS UNITS, NOT SECONDS. The same two dwells timed in the",
    "Decoder's own container came out 15-20 % LONGER than both the declared values",
    "and the corpus -- same disc, same timeline -- and three independent readings",
    "of that container's rate disagree with each other. A seconds figure records",
    "one emulator's pacing on one run. The units are on the disc. If anything ever",
    "goes in `dwell` it is an extra hold in UNITS, and only for a screen that is",
    "measured to wait beyond its group."
  ],
  "looping_focus_records": {
    "_": [
      "WHICH focus records the port draws, unconditionally and on a loop, OVER the",
      "element's own sprite rather than instead of it.",
      "",
      "RESTORED 2026-08-30 on a MEASUREMENT, having been deleted on 2026-08-29 for",
      "a real defect that was in the RENDERER, not in this table. The old entry made",
      "`_draw` substitute the glow for the plate's own bright sprite, so the plate",
      "was invisible at every instant (max 0 against max 252.5). `ScreenView` now",
      "draws the base and the record over it, and the entry comes back."
    ],
    "press_start/ptbtn00": {
      "record_element": "ptbtn00f",
      "period_units": 120,
      "kind": "measured",
      "source": "docs/re/structures/plate-pulse-measured.md, RE agent 2026-08-30",
      "why": [
        "MEASURED off the running game, held at the title with NO INPUT: the plate",
        "oscillates continuously -- two windows in one boot of 58 s and 57 s, about",
        "23 cycles each, with no decay and no settling.",
        "",
        "🔴 IT NEVER GOES OFF. The plate-absent floor is 159 thresholded green",
        "pixels -- the title art's own, measured on live-title-build4-no-plate.png --",
        "and the pulse bottoms at 714, four and a half times that. So `ptbtn00`",
        "going transparent at t=244 is not the end of the plate; that is its EXIT",
        "ramp, which plays when the screen leaves. While the screen is held the base",
        "sits at its own hold (alpha 255 at t=238) and `ptbtn00f`'s cycle runs over",
        "it. Base-only and base-plus-glow are what the 714 and the 1520 are.",
        "",
        "⚠️ 120 UNITS, NOT SECONDS, and that is the RE agent's own instruction. Their",
        "run measured 2.530 and 2.540 s; an earlier corpus run measured 2.24 s. Same",
        "declared number, different emulator pacing -- x1.27 and x1.12 against a",
        "nominal 2.000 s, which IS 120 units at 60 units/s. Hardcoding 2.5 s would",
        "author one loaded container's clock."
      ],
      "limits": [
        "ONE BOOT. Two windows inside it are not two boots.",
        "It does NOT distinguish the boot title from an attract-loop title: run 1",
        "opens at t~255 s against Q9's ~193 s no-input baseline, so it may already",
        "be the attract title. Both are 'the title, held, no input' -- which is what",
        "was asked -- but it is not proof about the first appearance.",
        "🔴 714/1520 IS NOT AN ALPHA RATIO. The counter is thresholded pixels, so dim",
        "pixels drop out first. No duty cycle and no ramp shape may be read off it;",
        "the port draws the record's own declared alpha ramp and infers nothing."
      ]
    }
  },
  "exit_ramp_deleted_why": [
    "DELETED 2026-08-29, and the deletion is the point.",
    "",
    "`exit_ramp_seconds` (~0.4 s) and `exit_ramp_units` (24) were AUTHORED because",
    "the disc had no time slot on a group's final keyframe, so the ramp into it was",
    "the one unknown duration per screen. Under the corrected record layout",
    "(formats-pin-2026-08-29c onward) there IS no untimed keyframe -- a group is an",
    "8-byte header then frames x {u32 time; 36-byte pose}, so every pose is timed",
    "including the last. The unknown the constant stood in for does not exist.",
    "",
    "MISSION section 3: 'When the RE agent later decodes something you had",
    "authored, delete the authored entry and let the exporter emit it. That",
    "deletion is the measure of progress.'",
    "",
    "VERIFIED DEAD BEFORE DELETING, not assumed: setting it to 9999 (166 seconds)",
    "changed the boot's transitions by 0.04 s -- wall-clock jitter, not a 166 s",
    "ramp. Both of its uses in ScreenView were gated on `not last_frame.has('t')`,",
    "which no longer fires on any of the export's 866 keyframes.",
    "",
    "The measurement it recorded is not lost: HANDOFF Q7's ~0.4 s fade-out and the",
    "0.17-0.23 s black hold are still measured facts, and the hold is still used --",
    "`tools/port/verify-dwell` compares a transition INTERVAL against the oracle's",
    "visible SPAN plus that hold. What is deleted is the port's need to invent a",
    "duration the disc now states."
  ],
  "black_hold_units": 0,
  "black_hold_why": [
    "0, AND THAT IS NOT 'RIGHT' -- IT IS THE VALUE THAT INVENTS NOTHING.",
    "",
    "This was 9 units, measured in the draw stream. The Decoder has now measured",
    "the black gap on THREE transitions off the running game and it is not a",
    "constant: menu->title 0 units, title->menu 4, EXTRAS->menu 6. Not a",
    "per-button property, not a per-direction property. Their recommendation is to",
    "treat this as unauthored rather than uniform-at-9.",
    "",
    "9 was outside the measured range entirely -- wrong for all three, by +9, +5",
    "and +3, i.e. up to a sixth of a second of black the game does not show.",
    "",
    "WHY 0 AND NOT 4. A uniform 4 minimises total error across the three samples",
    "(6 units against 0's 10). That is FITTING THREE SAMPLES, and a fit chosen for",
    "its residual is the thing this corpus keeps having to withdraw. 0 has a",
    "reason that is not a fit: it adds no black the game does not have, which is",
    "the same tie-breaker `input_during_transition` already uses in this file --",
    "the choice that invents the least. It is also measured-CORRECT for one real",
    "transition, which no other uniform value beats on principle.",
    "",
    "The error is now a MISSING gap of at most 6 units on two transitions rather",
    "than an INVENTED one of up to 9 on all three. Delete this entry the day the",
    "rule is known; the Decoder cannot state it yet and neither can I."
  ]
}