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The P5 gate walk starts on a screen. This runs the whole objective instead, and
it is the only thing that would have found what it found:
xvfb-run -a godot --path port -- --boot --play \
--script=accept,down,down,down,down,accept,cancel,cancel --shots=/tmp/e2e
publisher wordmark -> developer logos -> ADV (151.9 s) -> title -> (A) -> main
menu -> navigate -> (A) -> EXTRAS -> (B) with focus restored to ptbtn05 -> (B)
-> title. 166.76 s, exit 0, nine frames. Shared as 1788003274-e68367e787d5.
THE PORT'S TITLE DOES NOT TELL THE PLAYER TO PRESS (A). The boot's last step is
`title` = GP_TITLE build 4, and build 4 has NO `PRESS (A) BUTTON` plate. P5 has
just made (A) the only way off that screen.
Not a guess about the art -- both states are captured off the running game and
differ by exactly that plate (live-title-build4-no-plate.png vs
live-title-press-a.png), and the plate is ALREADY EXPORTED as `press_start`,
build 2, sitting in export/screens/title/ unused by anything.
RECORDED, NOT FIXED, and the distinction is the point. This is P3's gate that
P5 exposed, and fixing it needs two things the port does not have:
* WHICH state an idle post-boot title shows -- build 4 alone, build 4 with the
plate over it, or build 4 THEN the plate after a delay -- is BEHAVIOURAL.
The game demonstrably has both states and nothing says which follows the
intro. The port has no oracle for a sequence; that is the Decoder's.
* showing it means DRAWING TWO BUILDS AT ONCE, which this port has never done
-- every mode loads exactly one screen. That is a change to ScreenView, not
a line in flow.json, and it is not being smuggled in under a navigation
milestone on the strength of "it looks more right".
Filed in BLOCKED.md. P5's gate is (A) into a submenu and (B) back; both work.
Two smaller things the same run found, both fixed:
* the boot step's `why` still said "nothing takes the title's place until P5
gives it somewhere to go". P5 has. Now says what is true: `--boot` STOPS on
the title (a boot that ends by fading to black looks like a crash) and
`--play` HANDS THE HELD TITLE OVER -- the stop is not a bug and the handover
is not another boot step.
* an empty focus printed as a line that trailed off, reading like a value had
gone missing rather than like there is none. The title is a screen with no
`buttons` that still takes (A), so it now prints
"(none -- this screen has no focusable item)".
Also confirmed: entering a submenu directly (`--menu=extras`) and pressing (B)
enters the parent at its AUTHORED initial focus, not a restored one. There is no
history to restore and MenuFlow.cancel only claims a restored focus when the
stack agrees about where it is going.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CtmUw5N5LJaMW1Njb8Ziey
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.