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sylpheed-port asked which of my figures predate the keyframe record-layout fix,
noting the sharper form of the hazard: a fix that changes WHICH ROWS EXIST is
harder to sweep for than one that changes values, because the recomputation looks
like a correction rather than a different question.
Located the fix (5744f37, 2026-08-29 14:01) and enumerated docs quoting
keyframe-derived numbers that have not been touched since. One real hit:
structures/ui-group-start-time.md, a page about group START TIMES, written -- in
its own words -- "under the shifted time reading" and referring to the glows'
"untimed first keyframe".
Durations survive. The glow is visible ~0..45 (45 units) and the logo ~15..210
(195 units), exactly what its table already used; the "~0" it hedged with is now
a real timed 0.
The argument did not. It read "every glow declares the same times 15, 30, 45 ...
both families start at 15". Post-fix both start at 0, with times 0,15,30,45 and
0,15,30,190,194,206,210. Corrected in place with the original sentence quoted so
the change is visible.
The conclusion is unchanged and slightly stronger: on one clock the glow is
visible over 0..45 and the logo over 15..210, an overlap of 30 of the glow's 45
units, where the capture shows no overlap at all (glows frames 94-115, logos
116-211). A shared clock origin was contradicted before and is contradicted by a
wider margin now, because both groups demonstrably begin at the same declared
instant.
Of the three figures the port reports having quoted from me, the splash dwell
spans were already corrected today and the black-gap and cold-boot intervals are
capture-derived, so the fix does not reach them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
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
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.