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Sylpheed RE agent
01580d294e tools: two dead flags that made every emulator boot script fail silently
Trying to read a third paint order off the running game turned up two bugs in
the capture harness, both of which fail in ways that look like the game
misbehaving rather than the script being wrong.

1. `--audio` is not a cvar in this tree, and eight boot scripts passed it.
   Xenia calls ShowSimpleMessageBox from ParseLaunchArguments, BEFORE logging is
   initialised, so the symptom is a 10x10 window, no log, no guest memory and a
   dialog that blocks on XIfEvent forever - i.e. a hang deep in the emulator.
   run-canary`s own header documents this exact trap; the scripts predate it.
   Removed from all eight.

2. `vgamepad` no longer exists - the uinput pad was replaced by the --hid=file
   driver and pad.py - but skip_intro.sh still called it. The script runs
   without `set -e`, so the call failed silently and the title branch pressed
   nothing while still exiting 0. A caller was told "TITLE -> A" with the game
   sitting on the title screen. It now presses through pad.py and exits 6 if
   that fails.

The first bug is fixed and verified: the boot now reaches the title screen with
PRESS (A) BUTTON. The second is fixed but does NOT unblock the title - see the
next commit.
2026-08-19 07:48:16 +00:00
22d2518847 re: don't let zombie emulators fool the liveness check
Container PID 1 is `sleep infinity` and never reaps, so every emulator this
script kills stays as a <defunct> entry that `pgrep -x` still matches -- after
a few captures the script always believed one was running. Same trap as the
Xvfb check. Ask ps for the process state and skip anything in Z.
2026-07-29 18:24:18 +00:00
1ee2d5e406 re: widen unit coverage to all six tutorials, and prove the fields are run-invariant
Captures the five remaining tutorials (grab_tutorial.sh, one cold boot each)
and re-solves over seven snapshots from seven separate emulator runs. Coverage
18 -> 21 units, confirmed fields 22 -> 27 (Size_Y, MassScore, MinimumVelocity,
AV_PitchPlus_Min, AV_PitchMinus_Min join the zero-contradiction set).

The multi-run union exposed something the single-run check could not: the same
unit's object is NOT byte-identical between runs. unit_runtime.py --crosscheck
pins down why -- exactly 15 words differ, 13 of them holding guest heap
pointers, and none of them is a solved or interpolated field offset. So every
value reported is run-invariant, which is a stronger statement than the
within-run identity check that came before it.

The two non-pointer stragglers are a real caveat, now documented rather than
smoothed over: +0x2c8 reads 8000.0 for UN_f001_TCAF_DeltaSaber_T_Ttrl in two
tutorials and 10000.0 in a third, with a 0/1 flag at +0x2d0. A couple of words
in the object are set per stage, so it is mostly but not entirely the parsed
table. Unidentified, marked NEEDS-HUMAN.

Coverage honesty: all six tutorials together add only 3 units the missions do
not already have -- they reuse one training box, one drone and the player
craft. Further coverage needs story progress, not more tutorials.

Two navigation facts encoded in grab_tutorial.sh, both learned by breaking
them: the main menu is not input-ready for ~10 s after the title tap and early
d-pad presses are dropped (which sends the A to NEW GAME); and NEW GAME is not
a shortcut to Stage 01 -- it gates on DIFFICULTY then plays the prologue. A
NEW GAME excursion to the READY ROOM leaves game01/savedata byte-identical,
verified by diff against a backup.
2026-07-29 18:22:47 +00:00