Claude (auto-RE)
a3f14710a4
Fresh flight, row pinning CONFIDENT (margin 0.413), one sweep and nothing before
it. axis_probe now REFUSES to measure on a WEAK pin (ALLOW_WEAK_PIN=1 overrides)
since it is a precondition, not a warning: roll is immune to the up/right
labelling but pitch and yaw are not.
Clock x1.26. Binned by speed, both in game units, against the linear
interpolation of AV_PitchPlus_Min 150 (at MinimumVelocity 100) to _Max 70 (at
MaximumVelocity 1200):
speed ~435 measured 100.8 predicted 125.6
speed ~572 113.8 115.7
speed ~709 126.3 105.7
speed ~846 83.1 95.7
speed ~983 72.7 85.8
Supported: the magnitudes (73-126 measured vs 86-126 predicted) and a falling
high-speed end. NOT supported: the interpolation law. Scatter is +-25%, the two
fastest bins hold 1 and 2 windows (the first moments before the speed bled), and
the slowest bin misses in the wrong direction.
The flaw is structural, not statistical: a sweep DRIVEN by the speed bleeding
cannot dwell at either extreme, which is exactly where the law is most testable.
What would settle it: hold a settled throttle and pitch for ~1 SECOND, so speed
barely moves inside the burst and each burst gives one honest (speed, rate) point;
repeat at LT / neutral / RT for three clean points at known speeds. Recorded as
the next design rather than attempted as a fifth variation of the same sweep.
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Older variant: wait for the title (green Ⓐ glyph at px 625,618) and tap A. Superseded by skip_intro.sh.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.
Guest-memory tools (no screenshots)
| Script | What it does |
|---|---|
gmem.py |
Read the live guest address space out of /dev/shm/xenia_memory_* (Xenia's backing file), addressed by guest VA. find / read / words. |
weapon_runtime.py |
Solve the Weapon/Shell struct layouts against the disc records and read the fields the disc defaults. |
unit_discover.py |
Find which runtime class carries a set of ID strings, assuming no vtable: tallies the word at pointer_site - k across distinct IDs. |
unit_runtime.py |
Same solver for the unit\UN_*.tbl definition objects (vtable 0x820af844). Unions several snapshots — unit definitions are per-stage. |
schema_order.py |
Merge a sub-record's field-declaration order across all tables (topological sort); the layout check that pins fields no table ever values. |
order_check.py |
Test offset = base + 4*index for one table's sub-record against solver output. |
grab_tutorial.sh |
Cold-boot Canary, walk to the Nth TUTORIAL entry, wait for the stage load, snapshot guest RAM. One emulator per capture — backing out of a loaded mission wedges it. |
Snapshot first — cp --sparse=always /dev/shm/xenia_memory_* snap.bin (~2 s) — and
point $GMEM_FILE at the copy; the running emulator pegs every core under lavapipe.