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sylph-decoder d4a08ad194 re: a nested record's +0x08 is its loop length -- the plate's period is 120, not 105
Answers the question the port agent asked: does the `PRESS A` plate's pulse
group loop from its start, or hold at alpha 0 between cycles? It holds.

A nested record is itself a RATC bundle with its own header, and that header's
`+0x08` is the loop length -- the same field ui_header_time_disc already tests
as an animation length at the top level. Its keyframes need not fill it, and
the slack is a hold at the final pose. `ptbtn00f` is 105 units of ramp inside
a 120-unit cycle, so the glow rests dark for 15 units between pulses. The five
main-menu focus records fill their 120 exactly, which is what shows the slack
belongs to this record rather than to the format.

Disc-wide over 1 781 timed nested records: 92.3% declare exactly their last
keyframe time, 7.7% declare more, and 0 declare less. That last row is the
falsifier -- a cycle cannot restart before its own last pose -- and it never
fires; the 7.7% is what keeps the reading from being an unfalsifiable
relabelling of the keyframes.

Falsification against the running game, using a pacing factor measured
INDEPENDENTLY on the main menu's focus ring (declared 120 units, measured
2.177 s, factor 1.0885): to reach the corpus's four measurements of the plate
pulse (2.12/2.19/2.34/2.31 s), a 105-unit period needs a factor of 1.211-1.337,
which EXCLUDES the ring's; a 120-unit period needs 1.060-1.170, which CONTAINS
it. Predicted 2.177 s against a measured 2.12-2.34. The two elements are in
different bundles and were measured in separate runs; the only thing tying
them together is that both declare 120.

So the port should stop shipping 105. Its 123-vs-129 ambiguity straddled the
right answer without containing it, and 129 only fitted because it was
105 + the exit_ramp_units constant it has since correctly deleted.

Reach is stated: this says where a cycle ends, not which records cycle, and
the TOP-level +0x08 is a different field left untouched -- every GP_TITLE
entry declares 300 while its elements end at 244-269.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QsEPXWVaEpyfudtR6re1Pd
2026-08-29 19:40:23 +00:00

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nested records with timed keyframes : 1781
+08 == max keyframe time (exact) : 1643 (92.3%)
+08 > max keyframe time (a hold) : 138 (7.7%)
+08 < max keyframe time 🔴 : 0 (0.00%) <- the falsifier
slack (+08 - max t) distribution, most common first:
slack 0 : 1643
slack 40 : 32
slack 10 : 20
slack 4 : 13
slack 54 : 12
slack 30 : 8
slack 1 : 6
slack 6 : 6
slack 9 : 6
slack 36 : 6
slack 405 : 6
slack 16 : 5
slack 58 : 5
slack 80 : 5