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Sylpheed RE agent 88b3ce9af5 re: which GP_TITLE build is which screen, measured against the game
Q2. The archive is eight screens shipped twice, English and Japanese --
not the "build 4 title, 5 main menu, 6/8/9 submenus" the handoff claimed.
Build 8 is the JAPANESE main menu; 6 and 9 are the EN and JP EXTRAS, and
EXTRAS is the only submenu GP_TITLE holds. The PRESS (A) BUTTON plate is
its own build (2/3), composited over the title art and faded in a beat
later, not a state of build 4.

Confirmed by booting to the main menu and walking it: title, PRESS (A),
main menu and EXTRAS each match their render element for element. Builds
0/1 and 10/11 -- a DELTASABER / SYLPHEED A.I. plate -- were looked for in
the whole boot filmstrip, every title-side screen and the attract loop,
and appear in none of them; the reach of that negative is written down
rather than filled in with a guess.

Two rig traps went into METHOD: the menus drop d-pad presses shorter than
~0.3 s, and a grab 2.5 s after a transition can catch a screen mid-fade
-- which nearly wrote "the returned title has no plate" into the corpus.
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# Refuted — claims that were tested and died
**Read this before proposing a hypothesis.** Every line below was believed at
some point, measured, and found false. Reviving one costs a whole iteration and
produces nothing.
This file exists because the list had been living in the autonomous agent's
*loop prompt* — the only copy, lost the moment the container was. A refuted
result is a real result; it belongs in the corpus like any other.
**Format:** each entry is the claim as it was believed. Where the true answer is
known it follows after `→`. Grouped by subject so a grep for your noun finds the
neighbourhood, not just the line.
---
## Offsets, structs and the progress singleton
* `position = instance 0x12c` → refuted.
* `+0x29d0` → refuted.
* "an offset intersection can find a struct's consumer" → **only for LARGE or
unusual offsets.** Small ones have no power (`+184`: 301/351/115 hits).
* "a `+1956` store means a progress write" → writes go through the COPY, not
direct stores. 9 direct stores, none of them a progress write.
* "the singleton-global filter can find progress writers" → it fails its own
control.
* "the progress copy destination is an `r1`-relative stack local" → it is a
**frame register**. The `r1` assumption returned 0 for all 21 candidates
*including the known-good* — the filter was killed by its own control.
* "word B's writer also stores the Time/Points record" → it does not.
* "the debriefing records the metric with the clear bit" → 44 calls, exactly two
strings (`DEBRIEFING`, `BASE_INFO`), no `Time`, no `Points`.
* "`0x820AF030` holds live state" → all 384 words constant; it is a
spawned-entity record, not live state.
## Screens, classes and RTTI
* "`GP_TITLE` builds 6/8/9 are three submenus" → **8 is the JAPANESE main
menu**, and 6/9 are the English and Japanese `EXTRAS` submenu. `GP_TITLE`
holds eight screens shipped twice (EN/JP), and exactly one submenu. See
[`ui-title-build-map.md`](ui-title-build-map.md).
* "the `PRESS Ⓐ BUTTON` plate is a state of the title build" → it is **its own
build** (2/3), composited over build 4 and faded in a beat later.
* "the RTTI route can name the anonymous classes" → 1 150 vtables: 1 150
`ANON_`, 0 `rtti_present`, 0 base classes.
* "the sibling vtable methods name the class" → they cannot.
* "`xrefs` can name the callers of a vtable method" → no.
* "the `ind_call` refutation voids existing corpus claims" → damage bounded,
4/4 caller claims verify. But **`xrefs.ind_call` is a CROSS PRODUCT** — always
filter `kind='call'`.
* "`BASE_INFO` marks the 5-slot screen family" → it discriminates
screen-config from table-read, 9/9 vs 10/10.
* "a high key count means a rich screen" → `sub_82297550` / `sub_822A2F00`'s 27
"keys" are coordinate pairs, i.e. a layout table.
* "`EX_` = the CHALLENGE-mission debriefing" → `EX_` is **EXTRA**, mission-kind
3.
* "the `EX_` selection has not been shown" → it has: `[[obj+4]+184] == 3`.
## Stages, missions and the challenge set
* "the disc's stages are numbered 1..28" → S01S16 story, S17 **cut**, S18S23
tutorials, S24S29 challenge.
* "S24S29 are story missions" → they are the challenge missions.
* "the challenge missions have their own maps" → they reuse
`GP_MAIN_GAME_E.pak`'s stage records.
* "the challenge `REQUIREMENT` values are 16,25,26,27,29" → the chain is
16→24→25→26→27→28.
* "the `Extra0n` family shares one leaderboard metric" → `RECORD_TYPE` is
per-stage: 3 Time / 3 Points.
* "stage = filled SHAB count + 1" → refuted.
* "the first TRIGGER is always the point of no return" → refuted.
* "`EnumUnit_S14.tbl` might be missing" / "S14's 13 are a manifest omission" /
"asteroids are exempt from the manifest" → S14's 13 are **dangling
deployments**. NEEDS-HUMAN: fly S14.
* "`StageMessageSet_S02.tbl` is not in the pak" → it is.
* "`S28_p1` has an asteroid volume with no definition" → refuted.
* "`test_s8p1_asteroid.tbl` is test-only" → refuted.
* "the settings family has 28 or 29 objects" → 24.
## ISL / mission scripting
* "the bytecode is in the `.embsec_` sections" → refuted.
* "only 31 built-ins take a unit" → refuted.
* "`sub_8230C398` is the message pump" → refuted.
* "`bus+8216` is the subscriber registry" → refuted.
* "the ScriptPhase vtable is ≥200 slots" → 113.
## IDXD, paks and naming
* "IDXD record keys are `name_hash`" → record keys are **`tag_hash`**
(case-SENSITIVE); `name_hash` is case-INSENSITIVE and used for pak keys.
* "pak TOC order is stage order" / "TOC order is semantic order" → it is not.
* "the executable holds the asset names" → the image names **no data value at
all**; that route is powerless.
* "the image might name a data VALUE" → powerless.
* "the XPR2 manifest names hash to the DefTables tables" → refuted.
* "the `DefTables` model names are unreachable" → reachable via the `Enumerate`
declaration tables (1 413/1 425, 99.2 %).
* "the `GP_MAIN_GAME_*` unnamed block is undiscovered data" → refuted.
* "each `GP_MAIN_GAME_*` `Enumerate` object declares something" → refuted.
* "`GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL` is missing data tables" → refuted.
* "the `Enumeration` self-index can name objects" → a self-index names
**records, not files**.
* "a per-pak prefix might close the 2D blocker" → no.
* "the `+` paths might name the 2D or `GP_READY_ROOM` keys" → the `+`-dictionary
route is exhausted, 0 of 1 817.
* "the `game:\` paths are unresolved" → refuted.
* "a set-difference over file names can see reuse" → it cannot; **join per
USER**. Per-pak copies are ×6.
## Units, weapons, effects and assets
* "`Generic` (394) is the unit datasheet" → refuted.
* "a loadout's `Arm1` names an item" → it names a **hardpoint slot**
(`Turret_NNN`), 59/59.
* "`EnumUnit` and the unit datasheet share a vocabulary" → they do not.
* "the roster is the `Generic.Model` set" → roster 40, `Generic.Model` 46,
`GameResourceID` 480 — three vocabularies.
* "every unit ID is `UN_<l>###_<FACTION>_<name>`" → the grammar is
`UN_<letter>###_[<subkind>_]<FACTION>_<name>`.
* "`_EXn` is the `Extra0n` index" → three different `EX` vocabularies exist.
* "the only two `_EX5` names on the disc are the AA gun and the DeltaSaber" →
refuted.
* "running the tutorial will instantiate the `_Ttrl` weapons" → refuted.
* "the disc has exactly three `EnumWeapon` tables" → four.
* "the `wep_NN` package gaps are unshipped weapons" / "`wep_85` is the tip of a
family" → `wep_85` is the **only** declared-but-unshipped asset (59/0/1/26).
* "nothing is deployed without being declared" → refuted.
* "effects are one namespace" → refuted.
* "the 58 undeclared effect names are missing assets" → refuted.
* "all five orphan effects are unshipped" → refuted.
* "`eff_f0002` ships in `Base.xpr`" → refuted.
* "`Base.xpr` holds more bound effects than `ptc_pack`" → refuted.
* "the 34 unlocated are a scatter" → refuted.
* "the 9 unlocated might be under another prefix" → refuted.
* "`ptc_pack` has 532 names" → 727.
* "the `_e`/`_f` law is effect-FIELD-specific" → it is the **faction law**,
564/564.
* "a disc-wide `.xpr` byte search can show an effect is ABSENT" → it cannot.
* "`rot_n001` is on the disc" → refuted.
* "`rou_f004`'s mesh is in `Stage_S28.xpr`" → it is in `DeltaSaber_A.xpr`.
* "`parent` + `_all` + `_child` is the composite-model convention" → refuted.
`_hangar` **is** real (59 of 166, 59/59 with a bare twin); `_all`/`_child` is
not.
* "`Motion_guard_start` has no damage variants" → refuted.
* "`CoverArea` bits 2 and 3 are mutually exclusive" → refuted.
* "the 27 unresolved `NamePlate` values are missing objects" → refuted.
## LOD, background and misc tables
* "`EnumLODSet_*` is a per-stage family" → `EnumLODSet_test.tbl` serves 17
stages; 17+5+1 = 23.
* "there are 8 orphan LOD tables" → 6.
* "the orphans are stale copies of `_test`" → refuted.
* "S25 is absent from the `DefTables` LOD families" → refuted.
* "`BackGroundID` has no referent anywhere" → it is an **identity**.
* "`BackGroundPackage == BG_<id>.xpr`" → refuted.
* "`<X>ID` + `<X>Package` is a convention" → refuted.
* "`Placement_*` / `RouteTest_*` are unattached" → refuted.
* "the `AsteroidDefinition` join does not reproduce by hash" → it does.
* "the 8-value frame is a new finding" → it was already in the corpus.
## Loaders, config and tuning
* "the config reader is XML" → INI.
* "`sub_822F9498` is the unit-definition loader" → it is `PlayerParams`'s.
* "`sub_822AE628` reads the main-game `Tweak`" → refuted.
* "`sub_8230D1F8` is a rank table" → it is the stage-settings loader.
* "`sub_82286BC8`'s key list is new" → refuted.
* "`sub_825F2CF0` / `sub_825F2F88` read a post-processing table" → refuted.
* "`Booster` is a new schema" / "`Booster` is the player craft's flight
envelope" → refuted; nothing selects `Booster`.
* "the `AnalogRevice`/`Tweak` block is unreachable" → reachable
(`sub_821A6CF0`, base `0x820A1630`).
* "a 0-xref string block has no reader" → refuted.
* "the AI table was NEEDS-HUMAN" → refuted.
* "the `PG*` HUD names are undocumented" → they are documented.
* "a base-solver row identifies a FUNCTION" → it does not.
* "a 64K-boundary base is low confidence" → **inverted**; it is high
confidence.
* "the 0x820B0000 cluster is a false positive" → refuted.
* "a pointer to a function in the image implies a registry" → refuted.
`.pdata` is not a registry.
* "the 13 player-facing chatter tables are the WINGMAN tables" → refuted.
* "the 8 undeclared chatter tables are tutorial chatter" → refuted.
* "other datasheets ship a schema too" → refuted.
## Encoding and text
* "every IDXD string value is ASCII" → 6 non-ASCII values of 99 328.
* "`文字列` is a dev placeholder" → they are Shift-JIS **type words**.