mission-phase-advance.md still carried "🔴 Not settled: where the script bytecode
lives". It was settled, in a sibling file I had never opened:
structures/mission-script-ssb.md, which says in its own opening that this file
"recorded the bytecode as not on the disc under any obvious name. It is on the
disc."
Verified independently before correcting: name_hash resolves Stage\script.tbl (the
manifest, 838 B compressed) and 28 Stage\StageNN.ssb records -- S01-S16, S18-S29 --
all in dat/GP_MAIN_GAME_S.pak, with Stage\Stage17.ssb absent, matching the loader
guard sub_8225EC78 (n == 16 || n > 32).
Recorded WHY the last three iterations' searches could not have worked, since that
is the reusable part: MISSION1..33 and MISSION_*_PRT are manifest FIELD KEYS, not
record names. The records are named Stage\StageNN.ssb and the manifest maps
between them, so probing the record namespace with field-key names cannot hit --
2148 hashes over 41 paks and 26443 records returned zero for that reason alone.
Two side findings survive: the .embsec_ sections hold PPC code, not bytecode; and
the archive lookup keys by tag_hash (0x00FFFFDF) while the pak record index uses
name_hash -- not interchangeable.
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