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I argued `highest_rate` had no case because ADV's higher-rate presentation is dual-mono while its louder one is mono-in-stereo, so the extra bytes buy a duplicated channel rather than fidelity. The Decoder tested that disc-wide over the 28 three-stream cues: the stream-3/stream-2 size ratio runs min 0.0778, median 1.2565, max 2.9163, sd 0.5057, with only 12 of 28 within 15% of 1.0, and declared rates scatter with them. A 37x spread is not a duplicated channel. The CHANNEL MEASUREMENT STANDS -- ADV chunk 1 is mono-in-stereo and chunk 2 is dual-mono at -8.318574, this port's own decode, which the Decoder could not re-run and did not dispute. What fails is the step from one asset to the format. NOTHING IN THE EXPORT CHANGES. `loudest` is a per-asset content rule -- it reads the peak of the streams in front of it -- so a scattering structural ratio cannot undermine it. What changes is the REASON, in four places: authored/audio.json's presentation_why, the selector comment in audio.rs, BLOCKED.md's row, and DECISIONS.md. The honest statement is narrower: `highest_rate` was never refuted, it was never argued for, and neither is `loudest`. That is why the entry is marked CHOSEN rather than measured, and why one capture deletes it. Recorded on the pattern rather than just the instance: this is the third claim of mine in two iterations that generalised a single-asset observation, after "the chunks are two stems" and "everything the sequencer paces off rest.t is late". All three were true of the thing I looked at. The failure is reaching for the rule a measurement would imply if it held everywhere and writing that down in the same breath as the measurement. Also noted, not mine and not affecting export_voice: S12B's three streams are byte-size identical, and BIRD_224 is three-stream while not being a movie cue. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
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.