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MechaCat02 a23c321831 port: land the play-tested work, and only that

Takes the port branch up to 77320d5e -- the state the human play-tested on
2026-09-02 -- for SOURCE paths only. Not a branch merge: `auto/port-p6-audio`
is 366 commits and 938 files, and most of that must not land.

WHAT COMES IN (76 files, all human-confirmed working):
  * the logo splash animation. 08ed3dd1 found it: `pose_at` ASSIGNED the settle
    instant instead of clamping to it, so the splash never animated at all --
    and the same bug manufactured a passing harness result, because the harness
    photographed t past the settle. Confirmed by play-test: "cannot notice any
    obvious difference from the actual game."
  * gamepad input -- (A)/(B) bound additively (`ui_accept` ships with NO joypad
    binding), stick latched with hysteresis at the game's own 61% digitise
    threshold. This is what made (A), video-skip and Extras work at all.
  * menu navigation and flow, menu audio, the exporter, the authored
    declarations, and 23 verification tools under tools/port/.

WHAT IS DELIBERATELY LEFT ON THE BRANCH:
  * everything after c0ae460a -- the F5/F6 title-timing investigation, whose own
    tip commit calls itself a "hand-off for one-minute human checks". Unchecked
    by definition; it goes through the new review gate like anything else.
  * the OPTIONS menu work of 2026-09-03. Real, probably good, NOT play-tested.
  * the F1 repeat mechanism, which its own commit calls "deliberately inert".

WHAT MUST NOT LAND, AND WHY THE .gitignore CHANGED:
  545 MB of extracted game content was committed on that branch -- 850 sprite,
  audio and transcoded video files under `export-probe/` and `export-probe2/`,
  plus 246 MB of loose .wav and .tsv at the repo root. This repository's own
  rule, in this file, is "never game content".

  The rule was not missing. It was written, and it was tightened on that very
  branch, with a careful comment explaining why BOTH `export/` and `data/base/`
  had to be listed -- while the exporter was writing to a third name that
  nobody had thought to list. Enumerating names is the thing that failed. So
  the ignore rules now describe the SHAPE: any top-level `export*/`, game media
  by extension, and loose capture output at the root. Verified both ways -- it
  catches all four offenders and ignores nothing currently tracked.

Verified: `cargo check --workspace` clean; all nine GDScript files parse in
project context, with a positive control (an injected syntax error is detected,
3 lines) so the clean result means something. `tools/port/check-all` was NOT
run -- it needs the container, the export tree and a display.

2026-09-04 16:17:14 +02:00

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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
                      -- 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 decoded
docs/re/REFUTED.md — what has been tested and died
docs/re/METHOD.md — traps this project has already paid for
docs/game/navigation.md — how the game is navigated
docs/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.