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The decoder had neither, and reported the gap precisely: four scripts in this repo READ /work/xenia-rs/sylpheed.db and nothing produces it, so the whole static PPC route was consumers with the producer missing. Both exist on the host and are now mounted read-only: the 586 MB database (25 481 functions, 851 classes with RTTI, EH tables, imports, 1.8M indirect-dispatch candidates) and the decompressed image. The image is the more useful of the two. It is a FLAT VA DUMP -- file offset = VA - 0x82000000 -- so reading a known address needs no XEX decrypt, no LZX, and no booted emulator. The decoder had independently recovered the same bytes by dumping /dev/shm/xenia_memory_* and validating against the GamePart table, which is good work and a sound method, but it noted itself that needing a running emulator is a bad dependency for something the entire static corpus rests on. It does not need one. Also recorded that an earlier claim the .pe was STALE was tested and refuted, so nobody re-litigates it, and that instructions.raw is an INT rather than hex. Written down as reference material, explicitly NOT a deliverable: they are read-only, they come from outside the repository, and a fresh checkout elsewhere has neither. Reimplementing the producer belongs in sylpheed-formats, and until it exists every static finding rests on an artefact this project cannot rebuild.
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.