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Sylpheed/crates/sylpheed-formats/examples/blend_vs_t8ad_bit.rs
sylph-decoder 4ad4ca3680 retro: the Decoder side, and the integrity check it forced
The human asked both agents for a critical retro; it reached me relayed through
sylpheed-port, and I am treating it as a message rather than as their word while
staying paused on RE iterations.

Worst failure first: I READ the refutation that mattered and routed around it
instead of auditing it. REFUTED.md killed the blend bit with our own renderer as
its instrument, and I quoted the 'a claim resting on our renderer is a claim
about our renderer' rule at the port in the same session while not applying it to
my own register.

Underneath it is the sharper one: I twice accepted render-derived labels for a
disc-side question. My 'no field separates them' negative was tested against a
partition that was wrong in six places, all six of which the oracle later called
additive.

Also recorded: the silent vertex truncation, a coverage claim written rather than
computed and wrong by four, a batching generalisation refuted by the log it was
written from, and navigation whose fix was worse than the bug.

Two additions to the port's list of shared costs: neither of us has ever given a
negative a positive control, so 'absent' and 'my search does not work' are
indistinguishable in every undecodable page I have written; and we keep
attributing a three-way residual to whichever leg we happen to be looking at.

Their eight proposals attacked one by one -- P2 sharpened into a
re-classification rather than bookkeeping, P5 pushed back on ('suppression
localises disagreement; only the oracle labels it'), the rest agreed with
amendments.

And the check the retro forced: my rival sweep covered the T8aD header and not
the 60-byte declaration entry, whose earlier hunt used the corrupted labels. Swept
properly, 16 of the 35 measured elements have no declaration entry at all and 0
declaration bits separate the other 19. The decode is not underdetermined -- run
because it could have gone the other way.

The PROTOCOL delta is presented, not applied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
2026-08-31 11:08:34 +00:00

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//! Does `T8aD +0x04` bit `0x02` predict the blend the GAME uses?
//!
//! ⚠️ **`REFUTED.md` kills this claim**: *"`T8aD +0x04` bit `0x02` selects an
//! additive blend" → mine, and refuted. Blending those sprites additively
//! worsens every measure against the capture.* That refutation rests entirely on
//! **our renderer** — it is a claim about our renderer, and the corpus's own rule
//! says so. Since it was written, the blend has been measured off the GPU per
//! draw on three screens (`structures/ui-blend-mode-measured.md`), so the claim
//! can now be tested against the oracle instead of against a render.
//!
//! The labels below are **not** from a render. Every one is a
//! `RB_BLENDCONTROL0` value read out of the guest command stream and attributed
//! to an element by quad size:
//! `data/ui-blend-mode-measured.txt`, `data/ui-blend-title-and-replication.txt`,
//! `data/ui-blend-extras-complete.txt`.
//!
//! cargo run -p sylpheed-formats --example blend_vs_t8ad_bit
use sylpheed_formats::{pak::PakArchive, ui_layout};
use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use std::path::PathBuf;
/// (build entry, sprite, measured additive?) — the oracle's verdicts, verbatim.
const MEASURED: &[(usize, &str, bool)] = &[
// --- GP_TITLE entry 4 + 2, the live title -------------------------------
(4, "ptbase2.t32", false),
(4, "ptlogo1.t32", false),
(4, "ptlogo2.t32", false),
(4, "ptlogo_tm.t32", false),
(4, "ptcopyright.t32", false),
(4, "ptlogo_back2.t32", false),
(4, "ptlogo_back2eff.t32", false),
(2, "ptbtn00.t32", false),
(2, "ptbtn00f.t32", true),
// --- entry 5, the main menu ---------------------------------------------
(5, "ptbase.t32", false),
(5, "ptmsg.t32", false),
(5, "ptbtn01f.t32", false),
(5, "ptbtneff01.t32", false),
(5, "pteff10.t32", true),
(5, "pteff12.t32", true),
(5, "ptframe1.t32", true),
(5, "ptframe2.t32", true),
(5, "pteff03.t32", true), // the rotated sweep strips, via ptloop01/02
(5, "pteff03a.t32", true),
// --- entry 6, EXTRAS ------------------------------------------------------
(6, "ptbase.t32", false),
(6, "ptmsg2.t32", false),
(6, "pttitle.t32", false),
(6, "ptbtn11f.t32", false),
(6, "ptbtn12.t32", false),
(6, "ptbtn13.t32", false),
(6, "ptbtneff02.t32", false),
(6, "pteff10.t32", true),
(6, "pteff20.t32", true),
(6, "pteff21.t32", true),
(6, "pteff22.t32", true),
(6, "pteff23.t32", true),
(6, "ptframe3.t32", true),
(6, "ptframe4.t32", true),
(6, "pteff03.t32", true),
(6, "pteff03a.t32", true),
];
fn main() {
if std::env::args().any(|a| a == "decl") { decl_rivals(); return }
let root = PathBuf::from(std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").expect("SYLPHEED_DISC"));
let ar = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/GP_TITLE.pak")).expect("GP_TITLE");
let mut hdr: BTreeMap<(usize, String), u32> = BTreeMap::new();
for e in [2usize, 4, 5, 6] {
let by = ar.read(&ar.entries()[e]).expect("entry");
let b = ui_layout::parse_build(&by).expect("build");
for (n, &(off, size)) in &b.sprites {
let s = &by[off..(off + size).min(by.len())];
if s.len() < 8 || &s[0..4] != b"T8aD" { continue }
hdr.insert((e, n.clone()), u32::from_be_bytes([s[4], s[5], s[6], s[7]]));
}
}
println!("{:<10} {:<22} {:<10} {:>10} {}", "entry", "sprite", "+0x04", "bit 0x02", "measured blend");
let (mut tp, mut tn, mut fp, mut fnn, mut missing) = (0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
for &(e, n, additive) in MEASURED {
let Some(&w) = hdr.get(&(e, n.to_string())) else {
println!("{e:<10} {n:<22} {:<10} {:>10} {}", "MISSING", "-",
if additive { "ADDITIVE" } else { "alpha-over" });
missing += 1;
continue;
};
let bit = w & 0x02 != 0;
match (bit, additive) {
(true, true) => tp += 1,
(false, false) => tn += 1,
(true, false) => fp += 1,
(false, true) => fnn += 1,
}
println!("{e:<10} {n:<22} {:08X} {:>10} {}{}", w, bit,
if additive { "ADDITIVE" } else { "alpha-over" },
if bit == additive { "" } else { " <== DISAGREES" });
}
println!("\nbit set & additive {tp}");
println!("bit clear & alpha-over {tn}");
println!("bit set & alpha-over {fp} <- false positives");
println!("bit clear & additive {fnn} <- false negatives");
println!("sprite not found {missing}");
println!("\n{}", if fp == 0 && fnn == 0 && missing == 0 {
"PERFECT PARTITION on every element whose blend was measured."
} else {
"THE BIT DOES NOT PREDICT THE MEASURED BLEND."
});
// ── THE CONTROL THAT MATTERS ────────────────────────────────────────────
// A perfect partition is worthless if half the header partitions equally
// well: then the sample is too small to single out a field, and picking
// `+0x04` bit 0x02 out of the tie is the same mistake as picking `+0x08`
// 0x8050 was. So: how many OTHER bits of the first 12 header words separate
// the same 35 elements without error?
let mut rivals: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
let mut words: BTreeMap<(usize, String), Vec<u32>> = BTreeMap::new();
for e in [2usize, 4, 5, 6] {
let by = ar.read(&ar.entries()[e]).expect("entry");
let b = ui_layout::parse_build(&by).expect("build");
for (n, &(off, size)) in &b.sprites {
let s = &by[off..(off + size).min(by.len())];
if s.len() < 48 || &s[0..4] != b"T8aD" { continue }
words.insert((e, n.clone()), (0..12)
.map(|k| u32::from_be_bytes([s[k*4], s[k*4+1], s[k*4+2], s[k*4+3]]))
.collect());
}
}
for w in 0..12 {
for bit in 0..32 {
let mut ok = true;
let mut set_seen = false;
let mut clear_seen = false;
for &(e, n, additive) in MEASURED {
let Some(v) = words.get(&(e, n.to_string())) else { ok = false; break };
let on = (v[w] >> bit) & 1 == 1;
if on { set_seen = true } else { clear_seen = true }
if on != additive { ok = false; break }
}
// A constant bit trivially "agrees" with nothing; require both sides.
if ok && set_seen && clear_seen {
rivals.push(format!("+0x{:02X} bit {bit} (0x{:X})", w * 4, 1u32 << bit));
}
}
}
println!("\nRIVAL FIELDS — other bits of the first 12 header words that separate");
println!("the same 35 elements with zero errors: {}", rivals.len());
for r in &rivals { println!(" {r}"); }
if rivals.len() == 1 {
println!(" -> the sample singles out ONE field. Nothing else in the header does it.");
} else {
println!(" -> the sample does NOT single out a field; {} candidates tie.", rivals.len());
}
}
// ── An integrity check the published decode did NOT do ──────────────────────
// The rival sweep above covers the 48-byte T8aD header. It does NOT cover the
// 60-byte DECLARATION entry, and the earlier declaration hunt was run with
// labels taken from the port's RENDER -- which put pteff10, pteff12, pteff20 and
// pteff21..23 on the alpha-over side, where the oracle says all six are
// additive. So the declaration has never been swept with correct labels, and if
// one of its words also partitions the 35 without error, "the field is the T8aD
// bit" is underdetermined.
//
// Run as: cargo run -p sylpheed-formats --example blend_vs_t8ad_bit -- decl
#[allow(dead_code)]
fn decl_rivals() {
use std::collections::BTreeMap;
let root = PathBuf::from(std::env::var("SYLPHEED_DISC").expect("SYLPHEED_DISC"));
let ar = PakArchive::open(root.join("dat/GP_TITLE.pak")).expect("GP_TITLE");
const AT: usize = 0x20;
const STRIDE: usize = 60;
let mut decl: BTreeMap<(usize, String), Vec<u32>> = BTreeMap::new();
for e in [2usize, 4, 5, 6] {
let Ok(by) = ar.read(&ar.entries()[e]) else { continue };
if by.len() < 0x18 { continue }
let count = u32::from_be_bytes([by[0x14], by[0x15], by[0x16], by[0x17]]) as usize;
for i in 0..count {
let at = AT + i * STRIDE;
if at + STRIDE > by.len() { break }
let end = by[at..at + 12].iter().position(|&c| c == 0).unwrap_or(12);
let name = String::from_utf8_lossy(&by[at..at + end]).to_string();
decl.insert((e, name), (0..15)
.map(|k| u32::from_be_bytes([by[at+k*4], by[at+k*4+1], by[at+k*4+2], by[at+k*4+3]]))
.collect());
}
}
let mut missing: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
for &(e, n, _) in MEASURED {
if !decl.contains_key(&(e, n.to_string())) {
missing.push(format!("entry {e} {n}"));
}
}
println!("\n=== DECLARATION-ENTRY RIVAL SWEEP ===");
println!("measured elements with NO declaration entry of their own: {} of {}",
missing.len(), MEASURED.len());
for m in &missing { println!(" {m}"); }
if !missing.is_empty() {
println!(" -> no declaration field can select the blend for these, because they");
println!(" have no declaration entry. The header is the only per-sprite home.");
}
let labelled: Vec<&(usize, &str, bool)> = MEASURED.iter()
.filter(|(e, n, _)| decl.contains_key(&(*e, n.to_string()))).collect();
let mut rivals = 0;
for w in 0..15 {
for bit in 0..32 {
let (mut ok, mut s, mut c) = (true, false, false);
for &&(e, n, additive) in &labelled {
let on = (decl[&(e, n.to_string())][w] >> bit) & 1 == 1;
if on { s = true } else { c = true }
if on != additive { ok = false; break }
}
if ok && s && c {
println!(" RIVAL: declaration +0x{:02X} bit {bit}", w * 4);
rivals += 1;
}
}
}
println!("declaration bits that separate the {} labellable elements: {rivals}",
labelled.len());
}