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Gate: `godot --path port -- --boot --film=/tmp/boot` runs publisher_logo -> developer_logos (4.65 s) -> title (8.57 s), holding on the title after 13.05 s, each screen fading in, holding, and fading through black into the next. verify-screen now covers all 16 screens and passes `--all` to the reference renderer: the exporter addresses by pak entry index, which is the numbering `--all` uses, and without it `--build 10` would land on entry 12. The four new splash bundles come in at max 1-2/255. The three known differences are unchanged. Also recorded, taken from the RE agent rather than re-derived: * Focus stays "replace" -- over-vs-instead is unobservable (the focused sprite covers the base at 100 % of base-visible pixels; the two compositions differ by RMSE 1.1, under the gamma floor). The port guessed right for the wrong reason. The real gap is that ptbtn0Nf.rat declares TWO sprites -- a glowing ring, then the label -- where ptbtn0N.rat declares one. P5's, and the ring's placement is not decoded, so it will be authored from the capture and marked as such. * RMSE against captures has a FLOOR: capture ~ 255*(render/255)^g, g ~ 1.49 menu and EXTRAS, 1.34 title, and it is a ramp the GAME installed, not a capture-path artefact to subtract. Narrow reach (fitted on mostly-dark patches), so the port will not extrapolate it and will not apply it to rendered output. It is a comparison constant, not a rendering one. * Rotation is escalated to a human and the port has NOT acted. The RE half is answered -- about the declared pivot, measured -- and it has zero effect on the five screens at rest.
Sylpheed Godot
A clean-room Godot 4 port of Project Sylpheed: Arc of Deception, starting with the menu shell: developer splash → intro video → title → main menu → submenus.
You need your own copy of the game. Nothing in this repository is game content. An offline exporter reads the disc you supply and writes an open, moddable asset tree; the Godot project reads only that tree and never touches a disc format.
your disc ──▶ crates/sylpheed-export ──▶ export/ ──▶ port/ (Godot 4)
(Rust; decoders come from JSON + PNG reads ONLY
sylpheed-formats) + OGG + OGV open formats
Why the wall
Two reasons, and the second is the interesting one:
- Godot cannot read IPFB archives, RATC bundles, T8aD textures, XMA banks or WMV video, and it should not learn to.
- Modding is a goal of this port. If the runtime reads the original formats, modding means reverse engineering. If it reads JSON and PNG, modding means opening a file.
Where the knowledge comes from
The decoders live in sylpheed-formats, pinned by revision — a
separate project, where the reverse engineering happens. Its
docs/port/HANDOFF.md is the contract: what has been decoded, what was measured
off the running game, and what is known to be undecodable. Read it before
assuming a value is on the disc.
Layout
crates/sylpheed-export/ |
disc → open formats. Regenerates export/ wholesale |
port/ |
the Godot 4 project |
authored/ |
decisions that are not on the disc, each with its reason |
export/ |
generated, gitignored, never hand-edited |
tools/ |
verification harnesses that hold the port to the reference renderer |
docs/ |
the mission, the format spec, the agent's loop prompt |
Verifying
sylpheed-cli screen render -- built from the same sylpheed-formats revision
the exporter is pinned to -- is the reference renderer. tools/verify-screen
draws every exported screen both ways and reports the largest per-channel
difference in the frame:
tools/verify-screen # every screen in the manifest
tools/verify-screen main_menu # one of them
Where the two disagree, one of them is wrong; docs/DECISIONS.md says which and
why, rather than tuning the port until the number goes down.
Status
P1. The exporter writes GP_TITLE's twelve screen builds and their sprites,
and the Godot project draws any of them statically at 1280x720 from that tree
alone. main_menu matches the reference renderer to within 3/255 on every
channel of every pixel. Next: P2, keyframe animation.