sylph-decoder 382112d63a re: 125 percent is not the only odd scale, and ptlogo_eff2 is a pop not a steady state
Refutes a DECISIONS claim and decodes the element the port withheld on my say-so.

The claim that title_jp s ptlogo_eff2 at 125 percent is the single drawn element
in the whole export at a scale that is not a whole multiple of 100 percent rested
on a census of PARENTS only. Opening the 45 leaves as well finds thirteen
distinct non-whole-multiple scales -- 75, 96, 99, 101, 103, 112, 125, 150, 204x208,
210x220, 250, and the 75x100 / 96x100 / 99x100 pairs -- with 125 among the rarest
at two occurrences. ptlogo1 and ptlogo2 carry 101/103/112 on the ENGLISH title
too, so it is not a Japanese-build peculiarity. The claim s real content was "the
only one the port draws", which is about the export s element set rather than the
disc.

And ptlogo_eff2 is decoded. The 125 percent lasts 57 units, about 0.95 s -- a
scale-0 to 125 to scale-0 flash between t=50 and t=107, a transient rather than a
steady state, which is why it looked anomalous in a census of resting poses. The
leaf draws at 100 percent as two superimposed copies of the same sprite at alpha
160 and 80, each rotating a full 360 degrees over 960 units: a slow double-layered
spin, 16 s per revolution.

This is exactly the case the ptloop rule could not separate. There the parent had
expired so leaf-wins and parent-ignored were indistinguishable; here the parent
carries real geometry including a scale that reaches zero twice. If parent scale
gates the leaf the spin is a 0.95 s flash; if the leaf runs on its own timeline it
spins for 16 s. Nothing on the disc chooses between them, and title_jp has no
oracle capture, so it is undecodable in this container -- the port is right to
withhold it, and the Japanese-locale capture MISSION has parked would settle it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QsEPXWVaEpyfudtR6re1Pd
2026-08-29 18:16:20 +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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