re: the transition between screens is a fade through black, and most of

its timing is on the disc

Q7. Every title-side screen carries a full-screen black .prm quad that
paints last, and its keyframe group IS the transition: black at T0, clear
by T1, clear until T2, then back to black on exit. Read with the corpus's
start-of-a-ramp rule and Q1's time unit that gives 0.87s for EXTRAS,
0.97s for the main menu, 4.08s for the title -- from the file, not from a
stopwatch.

The disc-wide check is per-pak all-or-nothing rather than the 41% the
headline count suggests, and GP_TITLE's 6 of 12 is the useful row: the
six builds carrying a fade quad are exactly the six SCREENS, and the six
without are exactly the six overlays. GP_DIALOG is 0 of 133. That is
independent corroboration of the overlay finding from two iterations ago.

One piece is NOT on the disc and says so: the fade-OUT length. The fourth
keyframe has no time slot, because a group's last block stops four bytes
short. Measured instead, at 30fps, ~0.4s and the same both directions.

And a warning I earned: the luminance rise after a transition is NOT the
quad's ramp. The incoming screen's own elements animate in after the quad
has cleared -- 1.47s observed against a declared 0.97s. Time the fade
from where the frame is pure black.

Rig: screenshot samples at 0.5 Hz and cannot see a 0.4s fade at all,
which is why an earlier burst called this an instant cut. ffmpeg x11grab
at 30fps instead; both go in METHOD.

docs/re/REFUTED.md

@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ neighbourhood, not just the line.
 
 ## Screens, classes and RTTI
 
+* "the transition between menu screens is a cut" → it is a **fade through
+  black**; a 0.5 Hz screenshot burst simply samples too slowly to see it.
+  [`screen-transitions.md`](screen-transitions.md)
+* "the main menu's initial focus is fixed" → three boots of one script gave
+  `TUTORIAL`, `TUTORIAL`, `NEW GAME`.
 * "the title menus drop d-pad presses shorter than ~0.3 s" → **refuted by my
   own data.** The menu **wraps at both ends**; every press registered, and the
   "missing" step was the wrap. See [`menu-navigation-semantics.md`](menu-navigation-semantics.md).