No Canary patch was needed: UpdateLoopStatus already logs loop_start/loop_end, they just need the Apu category (--log_mask=13 --log_level=3). Decoded, from the menu, 8734 records all after BGM_103's contexts appear: ctx0 (wave 3876864) loop_start 3605682 loop_end 25640423 loop_count 255 ctx1 (wave 3930112) loop_start 3539158 loop_end 26216351 loop_count 255 The movie's three ADV streams log NO loop records -- they do not loop. Semantics visible in the trajectory: read_offset runs from 32 upward and 20 % of samples sit below loop_start, so the stream plays from the beginning and loop_start is where it returns AFTER loop_end. No wrap was observed -- the 45 s hold ended with read_offset at 17 M against a loop_end of 25.6 M. Two registered predictions REFUTED. loop_start is not ~0 but 11.6 % in. And a linear bits-to-seconds conversion is invalid: it gives 62.34 s and 63.29 s for two stems that must play sample-synchronously, which is impossible, so the data refutes the assumption on its own. That leaves a conflict I am not resolving: the field implies a cycle of roughly [10 s, 72 s]; my audio tracking reported offsets 0.25..57.18 s. Recorded as contested, with the likely weak link named as mine -- that locator's control used slices cut from the wave itself, exact copies, which is an easier problem than matching a real capture, and a control easier than the measurement does not bound its error. The port is told to change nothing: its trimmed 61.93 s loop is verified in its own output, and the length survives better than the placement. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
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.