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CONSOLIDATION.md Phase 4. `tools/port/check-citations` has checked
`docs/port/*.md` since it was written; `docs/re/` never had one, and
`docs/re/captures/` is the largest thing in the repository -- the one place a
file can be added, never cited, and never noticed.
captures committed : 212
cited by a page or a tool : 212
cited but NOT committed : 0
🔴 THE PREMISE I STARTED FROM WAS WRONG FOUR TIMES, AND EACH CORRECTION IS IN
THE TOOL RATHER THAN JUST IN MY HEAD:
* "10 dangling citations" -- the real number was ONE. Eight were DIRECTORY
references, which resolve and are simply absent from `git ls-tree`; one was
a path at the end of a sentence with the full stop pulled into the match.
A checker that cries wolf nine times in ten teaches you to ignore it.
* The one real dangler, `live-submenu-unidentified.png`, was COMMITTED and
then deleted on 2026-08-30 while the page kept citing it and kept making
the claim it backs. Restored from cab62796 rather than dropping the link:
deleting evidence while keeping the conclusion is the thing this corpus
exists to prevent.
* Two "orphans" are opened BY FILENAME from `screen_match.py`, which builds
the directory separately. A path-only scan called them unreferenced and
deleting them would have broken the tool. The check now counts any
basename named anywhere.
* Pruning then EMPTIED two directories that pages cite as directories, and
the check went red on the very citations that made them evidence. It
caught its own damage. A file inside a cited directory is cited.
The selftest covers all of it, including the failure that actually happened:
an earlier version passed five green ticks while the scan silently returned
NOTHING, because `git grep -E` is POSIX ERE and cannot compile `(?:`. A
selftest that cannot see the failure that occurred is decoration.
46 orphaned captures dropped, 30.7 MB from the checkout. ⚠️ That reclaims no
repository space -- the blobs stay in history -- and it is not meant to. It
means every capture here is now evidence some page or tool actually uses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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-cliand 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
-- and RUNNING.md, which is how you actually start it
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
docs/re/INDEX.md— what is decodeddocs/re/REFUTED.md— what has been tested and dieddocs/re/METHOD.md— traps this project has already paid fordocs/game/navigation.md— how the game is navigateddocs/port/MODDING.md— why the asset tree looks the way it does
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.