residue in one place
Every MISSION row is answered, so this iteration checked the deliverable
itself rather than opening new scope: an answer that is not reachable
from HANDOFF.md has not been delivered, and I have been editing that page
by surgical replacement for a dozen iterations.
Four things were wrong or stale:
- the Q5 row still said initial focus was 2x TUTORIAL, 1x NEW GAME while
its own bullet said four boots -- I updated the body last time and not
the row;
- the Q2 bullet still described the other four main-menu destinations as
"likely by name -- an inference, not a measurement", which Q4 has since
MEASURED, and it listed GP_MISSION_SELECT as a main-menu destination
when MISSION SELECT lives under EXTRAS;
- the Q1 bullet claimed that if the game presents at 60 Hz "nothing else
on this page changes". That is now false: Q7's declared fade-in lengths
are keyframe-derived and would halve. The same bullet also missed that
the transition capture is a SECOND independent measurement supporting
1 unit = 1/60 s -- the quad is declared black for 12 units, 0.20 s
under the conversion, and the capture measured the plateau at
0.17-0.23 s. Recorded as corroboration, not proof, because the plateau
spans two screens' fades and cannot separate them;
- bgm-two-stems.md linked ../port/MISSION.md from inside structures/,
which resolves nowhere.
Also named the two videos actually in scope, since "3.3 GB of video, two
files are in scope" is not much use without the filenames.
And added a What Is Still Open section. With every row green the residue
was scattered across eight pages; it is now one table with why each item
is stuck. Two entries share a single unblocker -- an emulator whose audio
path can be observed -- and they are the only ones that would change a
port decision.
not something to concatenate
Q10, and it starts by withdrawing the question's own premise. BGM_001 is
not three sub-waves of 10 KB / 4.47 MB / 4.67 MB: the 10 KB is the bank
header. A bank is exactly TWO waves, and across all 32 BGM banks on the
disc the two always have the SAME duration -- equal to 0.01 s over
lengths from 37 s to 277 s. That alone kills intro+loop and kills two
halves of one piece, both of which require unequal lengths.
Four banks appear to break the rule and do not: BGM_106-109 are the known
leading-region straddle, and the giveaway is that the entry named
BGM_107.slb contains BANK id=1108. The seek packet counts pin each join
exactly, so they realign to the same two-equal-waves shape rather than
being dropped as noise. That trap goes in METHOD.
Then the roles, by decoding both waves to PCM. They are
sample-synchronous: transient-envelope correlation searched over +/-5 s
peaks at lag +0.00 s, and both waves stop at the same millisecond,
167.663 s. Two stems of one performance, meant to sound at once. Wave 1
is quieter, has almost no bass and is far more L/R-decorrelated, which
reads as a surround-rear pair or a second intensity layer -- I cannot
separate those two from the file, and say so: ChannelMask is 0x0002 on
both, and this game's channel metadata is already documented as
meaningless.
Two things the port needs that are NOT on the disc, both marked as
authored: the track is not a seamless loop (BGM_001 fades out and is
followed by 6.15 s of silence, no loop-point field found), and nothing
names which bank the menu plays -- all 32 BGM cues are numeric.
