Claude (auto-RE)
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Drove the retail game headless (Canary + lavapipe, vgamepad) to the Ready Room Arsenal and read the Gallery-Mode DATA SHEET for every weapon the 5%-progress save reveals. Two UI->field mappings are CONFIRMED against weapons whose values ARE on disc: Ammo Capacity == LoadingCount (9/9 exact matches) Max. Lock Ons == TriggerShotCount (FALCON 9AM 12 == wep_02; BUZZARD 22 == wep_04) That makes the panel an oracle for fields the disc leaves defaulted, and it is shown for undeveloped weapons too, so no points need spending. Recovered TriggerShotCount for wep_05 and wep_60 (both 4, on-disc absent), and bracketed the defaulted Power / MaximumRange via the Range/Damage letter classes. Ruled out first: the defaults are not in hidden/DefTables.pak (no WEAPON-schema objects there) nor in the localized GP_MAIN_GAME_* duplicates. Also adds the two analysis examples that produce the shopping list of defaulted fields, the screenshot harness used to drive the menus, and the evidence PNGs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Runtime-capture harness (sylph-re container)
Screenshot-driven scripts for reading the running retail game's menus under Xenia
Canary + lavapipe, headless. They assume the container helpers screenshot,
vgamepad, pad are on $PATH and HOME=/sylph-home/re.
| Script | What it does |
|---|---|
skip_intro.sh |
Boot → main menu, unattended. Taps A only while the intro movie is actually playing (frame-to-frame RMSE), then once at the PRESS Ⓐ BUTTON title. Static logo screens are left alone, so a stray tap can never land on NEW GAME. |
wait_title.sh |
Older variant: wait for the title (green Ⓐ glyph at px 625,618) and tap A. Superseded by skip_intro.sh. |
step.sh |
One Arsenal navigation step (down/up/next/prev/none) + a compact capture: weapon list stacked over the DATA SHEET. |
sweep.sh |
Walk a whole weapon-type list, capturing only rows that show a DATA SHEET — locked rows (a "Conditions to Develop" panel) are detected by the brightness of the Range Class label box and skipped. |
type.sh |
Change weapon-type tab N times (RB) and report the header strip. |
hp.sh / cyc.sh |
Hangar hard-point carousel: cyc.sh steps it (d-pad down, not left/right) and captures the Name + DATA SHEET. |
Input timing under lavapipe: the game polls input at its own low frame rate, so a 60 ms d-pad tap is dropped roughly half the time. 200 ms is reliable; 300 ms starts to auto-repeat (two rows per press).
Findings produced with these: docs/re/weapon-datasheet-runtime.md.