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James Dansereau c214fa7815 D398-D400: PC Options label work + findings.md tail-section recovery
- D398: replace D348 procedural slider glyph with ROM-native IMG_DOT
  texture (texSelect + display_image_at_position, Copy/Erase pattern);
  superseded by D400.
- D399: file-select bottom row shifted 15px left as a block (user
  sign-off); selectpos.f[0] behind a new #ifdef PORT in front.c.
- D400: icon removed on user sign-off; PC Options is now a text-only
  label exactly like Copy/Erase (one textMeasure + one textRender,
  game's packed 0xEBD879FF gold). Fixed two measurement bugs:
  textMeasure(textheight, textwidth) args were passed swapped (label
  35px above the bar, hit band transposed) and the bare label measured
  h=0 vs 14 for newline-terminated Copy/Erase (7px low); height now
  measured with kLabelNL. LABEL_GAP 20->28, LABEL_X 343->351.
  PCDUMP frame 195: tops aligned 279.8 vs 279.3, 31px clearance from
  Erase. By-eye check owed.
- docs: findings.md had been truncated to its section table (686
  lines), losing all ## Dxx tail sections D376-D400. Recovered:
  table D376-D400 rows + body/sections D001-D375 from HEAD;
  D376-D387, D396-D399 sections recovered verbatim from pi session
  transcripts; D398 section recovered from the 2026-09-28 session;
  D388-D395 rebuilt as explicit reconstructed stubs from the
  table/CSV one-liners (original detail unrecoverable); D400 section
  written fresh. findings-index.csv regenerated and verified
  byte-identical to the pre-truncation copy.

Build clean (ntsc-final). Verified: PCDUMP frame 195 (no overlaps,
tops aligned), CSV matches pre-truncation backup.
2026-09-27 21:58:48 -04:00
James Dansereau 2e0643c70f v0.4.0 D375: crouch now emits C-down (the engine's real crouch input), not B
bondview2.c reads crouchDown = insightaimmode && (buttons & (D_JPAD|D_CBUTTONS))
(5318/5579): crouch is C-down WHILE IN AIM MODE, never the B button. M3's
IA_CROUCH -> GE_CONT_B (and the CrouchMode=1 latch) was inert, so crouch
never fired in the GEPD layout. Hold + latch now emit GE_CONT_D (0x0004).
N64-faithful side effect: S (IA_BACK, also C-down) crouches while aiming.
User re-test: aim (RMB/Left Shift) + Left Ctrl; hold or F10 Toggle.
2026-09-27 16:47:55 -04:00
James Dansereau fca07bdd9a v0.4.0 M2 (D373): crosshair on/off + colour; D374: GEPD becomes the default key layout
M2 (the wave's only rule-2 item, sign-off recorded via user direction):
#ifdef PORT hook in gunfire.c gunDrawSight -- Video.CrosshairHide skips
the draw, Video.CrosshairColor tints the RGB (7 named tints, 0 = the
N64 white); non-PORT builds keep the original literals. F10 GRAPHICS
rows + kResetDefaults.

D374 (M3 playtest fix, user decision): GEPD is now the DEFAULT key
layout (Input.Layout 0 = GEPD, 1 = N64-era binds; a mouse FPS layout is
the natural default and the N64 never had a keyboard). The preset is
now the true effective default: only EXPLICIT per-key [Input.Bind]
overrides beat it; persisted values equal to the N64 defaults count as
unset. This fixes the playtest bug where a stale persisted
Fire=Left Ctrl masked the GEPD preset and made Ctrl fire+crouch at the
same time. Boot log reports the applied layout. One-off: pre-D374
Layout=1 (ex-GEPD) inis mean N64 now -- flip to 0 (release note).
2026-09-27 16:43:04 -04:00
James Dansereau b95b54ecc7 v0.4.0 M5: low-end performance preset row (D372)
Video.LowEndMode (default off) in F10 VIDEO: ON writes FpsCap 30 +
MSAA x1 (restart row); OFF restores the compiled defaults (60/2) rather
than per-user pre-preset values. The key records the last selected
preset; the effect flows through the two real knobs.
2026-09-27 16:30:32 -04:00
James Dansereau 40ef53e395 v0.4.0 M3: GEPD key-layout preset + crouch/reload bindings (D371)
Input.Layout (0=FPS default, 1=GEPD) + Input.CrouchMode (hold/toggle) rows
in F10 INPUT (Turok-standard functional section; the planned MODERN bucket
is dropped per D356). The GEPD preset acts as the per-key effective
default under [Input.Bind] overrides; new IA_RELOAD/IA_CROUCH actions emit
GE_CONT_B (unbound by default, N64-original). Toggle crouch latches B with
a menu-boundary latch drop. optionsoverlay rowSetCommit hook re-derives
the binds via inputLayoutApply(). inputRebuildBinds no longer warns on
intentionally-empty defaults. Boot + ini round-trip + F10 page verified;
in-game feel-check owed (D371).
2026-09-27 16:29:18 -04:00
James Dansereau c2c6fbdd68 checkpoint: F10 GE-style refresh + distance defaults retune, D360-D370 series (local WIP; D370 pending user acceptance) — pre-wave baseline for the v0.4.0 modern-options wave 2026-09-27 16:18:20 -04:00
James Dansereau d8971fded0 options UI: settle file terminology on the end-user term 'Profile' (D359)
'Game file' (the manual's term) reads, in modern PC usage, as the
program's own files, not the user's save. 'Profile' is the clearest
end-user term for what these files actually are -- a per-player
bundle of progress + per-file settings -- and '(per profile)'
expresses the tag's scope where '(save)' read as a verb.

Strings (both UIs: front options + F10 overlay):
- front top row: 'Save file' / 'File N'  ->  'Profile' / 'N'
- section annotation: '(File N)' / '(no file)'  ->  '(Profile N)' / '(none)'
- per-file row tag: '(game file)'  ->  '(per profile)'
- F10 unavailable value: 'Select game file'  ->  'Select a profile'

Display layer only: identifiers and ini keys (Bond.* rows,
watchSettings*, ini) are untouched. D357 plan section 4 is the
terminology record; new D359 finding + index row; manual
'game file' -> 'profile' sync noted as a TODO (port-owned doc,
not in this repo). Build + headless smoke clean.
2026-09-27 15:03:24 -04:00
James Dansereau 44d2b4353a options UI: anchor all file terminology on the manual's 'game file' (English review)
Full-string audit of the settings UI (front options + F10 overlay):
- front top-row label 'Save file' -> 'Game file' (the instruction
  manual's term)
- per-file row tag '(profile)' -> '(game file)', both UIs
- F10 unavailable value 'Select file' -> 'Select game file'
- kept: 'File N' values, the '(File N)' section annotation and the
  '(no file)' unavailable state (short forms; the annotation's host
  word is the section title, which says the file number)
- 'Bond file' now appears only in identifiers/config keys
  (Bond.* rows, watchSettings* names, ini keys), never user-visible
Docs: D357 plan section 4 is now the terminology record (final string
table); D358 finding notes the (profile) -> (game file) supersession.
Build + headless smoke clean.
2026-09-27 15:00:01 -04:00
James Dansereau 8775ca6435 docs: D358 (D356 level-1 overlap fix) finding + index/CSV 2026-09-27 14:55:54 -04:00
James Dansereau 4147b55865 untrack local build-pc-cmd.bat (machine-specific paths); gitignore it 2026-09-27 14:55:44 -04:00
James Dansereau f8f94cdd87 frontoptions: fix level-1 overlap (save-file row painted under the first content row) + off-by-one item mapping; (save) tag -> (profile); D357 values plan
- The front options screen numbers items 0..s_rowN (0 = the top
  save-file row, k = content row k-1), but the level-1 draw loop painted
  content row k at rowY(k) -- the save row's own line -- and mapped
  s_hl (item-numbered) straight into s_rowIdx (content-numbered): the
  'Save file' row overlapped the first content row, highlights/adjusts
  hit the wrong row, the last content row was dead, and s_rowIdx[s_hl]
  could read one past the built rows. Content rows now draw at rowY(k+1)
  and all s_hl -> s_rowIdx uses take s_hl - 1 (A-press, L/R repeat,
  reset-maintain); hit-test/cursor were already item-numbered and are
  untouched.
- Per-file row tag '(save)' -> '(profile)' (maintainer request), both
  UIs (front options + F10 overlay) plus the stale comments.
- docs/dev/D357-SETTINGS-VALUES-PLAN.md (PROPOSAL): row-by-row audit of
  current defaults/ranges/steps/displays vs the PD port (local checkout)
  and the Turok PC list (maintainer notes); proposals: mouse sensitivity
  as a x multiplier, deadzone as a whole-% key (D333 legacy-alias
  pattern), texture filter '3-Point' -> Bilinear, audio step 128 -> 328
  (whole-%), MSAA +16x, FPS-cap preset grid, FOV degrees; kResetDefaults
  lockstep gate + GE_WSPROBE_RESET re-verification.

Build clean (248 targets), headless menu boot smoke clean; visual
check of the front options screen + F10 owed to the maintainer.
2026-09-27 14:55:41 -04:00
James Dansereau fe57d73924 optionsoverlay/watchsettings/frontoptions: D356 settings regroup — functional sections, save-file scoping, per-section reset-to-defaults (Gate E)
- 5 sections (INPUT/GAMEPLAY/GRAPHICS/AUDIO/VIDEO, all below MAX_PROWS):
  DISPLAY+GRAPHICS merged into GRAPHICS; AUDIO carries the watch music/FX
  sliders out of the Bond-file page; VIDEO keeps the pure video rows;
  __HdrMouse/__HdrPad merged into INPUT; __HdrBond/__BondFile retired for
  the front-only top save-file row (frontoptions.c)
- save-file scoping: per-file sections (GAMEPLAY, AUDIO) annotated
  '(File N)'/'(no file)' via the new Row.saveScoped flag +
  watchSettingsActiveFolder(); per-file rows in mixed sections carry a dim
  '(save)' tag; the D353 optionsRowIsBondChooser special-case is
  generalized (both UIs)
- N64-watch rows Bond.Look / Bond.AimControl commented out of the menu
  surface (D181/D216 style: keys + watch paths stay live)
- per-section 'Reset to defaults' replaces the Turok rows (plan Gate E):
  edge-triggered two-step arm->confirm within 3 s, one commit, disarm on
  timeout / navigate-away / close (optionsResetMaintain/Clear);
  rowResetSection walks the section's declared range: watch rows ->
  BLANKSAVEDATA through the D352 commit path (front direct, stage queue),
  ini rows -> kResetDefaults[] (the port's C initializers); __Resolution
  is a documented exclusion (action-backed)
- GE_WSPROBE_RESET probe: front tick-120 prepare/dispatch/verify, stage
  tick-120 dispatch / tick-121 verify; a direct -level_XX boot starts its
  timer from phase 0 (front prepare is front-only)
- docs: findings.md D356 + index + CSV, WATCH-SETTINGS-PLAN status,
  OPTIONS-MENU-PLAN pointer, plan doc status -> LANDED

Verified headless: GE_WSPROBE_RESET front (all 5 sections failures=0,
__Resolution untouched, file-2 scope isolation OK) and -level_33 (6
commands queued, all sections verified post-drain, saved music/sfx = 0xFF);
GE_WSPROBE / GE_WSPROBE_FRONT regressions clean; 248/248 build + link.
2026-09-27 14:49:08 -04:00
James Dansereau 95f8f5f8b5 docs: D356 settings-regroup plan with tightened reset/save-file contracts (maintainer sign-off) 2026-09-27 14:03:06 -04:00
James Dansereau 2b4c5ba7dc watchsettings.c: resync in-stage BGM (track 1) on Music commit and level entry (D355) 2026-09-27 13:53:36 -04:00
James Dansereau 61263ad303 watchsettings.c: front-end F10 routing + transparent default Bond-file selection, auto-init fallback, headless probes (D354) 2026-09-27 13:48:03 -04:00
James Dansereau 462675cf47 optionsoverlay.c: Turok-style regroup - DISPLAY/GRAPHICS split, BOND FILE absorbs music/FX, designated rows, overflow log, file-scope title annotation (D353) 2026-09-27 13:32:39 -04:00
James Dansereau 8e9bee6ef0 watchsettings.c: D350-bridge robustness - hold-not-drop at stage transitions, chooser spinlock, queue coalescing, warning logs (D352) 2026-09-27 13:32:18 -04:00
James Dansereau 1303c0ebe1 D350: expose watch-backed Bond settings in PC options and F10
Add a game-thread bridge and field-scoped per-file persistence for PC UI edits, with an explicit file chooser; keep watch-only edits session-only. Fix D351 row initializer offsets for units and auto-hide. Document verification and review follow-ups.
2026-09-27 13:20:21 -04:00
James Dansereau 98a24a07f4 Docs: close D343 (NTSC verified; PAL/JP not capturable locally) 2026-09-27 12:30:14 -04:00
James Dansereau 050c3981d6 D348: mini slider glyph beside the file-select PC Options label
No settings icon exists in the game art (mainfolderimages holds only
copy/del/select-arrow/X/check/dot), so a miniature slider control is drawn
instead: three menu-box tracks with offset knobs in the 14px gap after Erase
(10px wide, 2px margins), INK_DIM tracks, knobs matching the label ink
(white / gold while hot). Tracks the dynamic label x (JP-safe), text position
unchanged; hot region extended to include the glyph. PCDUMP pixel-verified.
2026-09-27 12:24:56 -04:00
James Dansereau 7e07d9e018 D347: F10 overlay controller value-adjust + hold-to-repeat
D-pad left/right and stick-X now adjust the selected row's value (A/X/B/Y
kept); 18/4-frame hold-to-repeat added to value adjust and up/down nav,
matching the options screen's D345(e)/(f) cadence. Port-only; user
controller test verified.
2026-09-27 12:18:36 -04:00
James Dansereau 7ff9ddbe14 D345/D346: options-screen pointer + keyboard nav fixes; settings wording pass
D345 (a-g): re-assert window on menu change; cursorToItem skips snap while
the 1:1 pointer is live; W/S emit stick in menus under NaturalPitch;
F10-style discrete row stepping + arrow left/right value adjust replace raw
drift (first pass shipped broken, fixed); screen-placed cursor parks in the
left gutter off the row text.

D346 (+b): labels/values aligned to Nightdive/Turok + PD-port conventions
(title-case On/Off, Frame rate cap, Anti-aliasing/None, Anisotropic
filtering, units in values not labels, deadzone as %, self-explanatory
auto-FOV toggles); VIEW section merged into VIDEO (MAX_PROWS 12->15,
ROW_DY 20->18). Display-only: config keys and stored values untouched.

Port-only; no src/game edits. User playtest verified.
2026-09-27 12:12:32 -04:00
James Dansereau 835035916d D343: PC Options joins the file-select bottom bar; Copy/Erase shift left
Rule-2 layout edit (user sign-off 2026-09-27): Copy 247/225 -> 222/200,
Erase 357/335 -> 304/282 under #ifdef PORT; their click boxes follow.
"PC Options" is drawn by the port hook right after Erase's measured text
end (min x 352), so wider localised labels push it right. The top-right
label is gone.
2026-09-27 11:01:58 -04:00
James Dansereau 13473d5ec6 D343: PC options as a GE front-end screen (MENU_PC_OPTIONS)
Replaces the M2 panel. Built like the Cheat Options screen: open dossier
(tabs + blank CLASSIFIED page), black Zurich ink via frontPrintText, GE's
highlight box, PREVIOUS tab as back, the game's crosshair. Page 0 is a
numbered section list; each section lists the F10 overlay's rows with a
value column (ON in the cheat red) and slider bars.

Game code (Rule 2, user sign-off 2026-09-27): MENU_PC_OPTIONS enum value
and five one-line dispatch cases, all #ifdef PORT. The file-select label
now enters the screen via frontChangeMenu. The M2 button hand-off in
input.c is gone; F10/Select don't open the overlay on this screen.
2026-09-27 10:58:27 -04:00
James Dansereau e4cf012410 D343/D344: record user verification on PC 2026-09-27 10:41:25 -04:00
James Dansereau fd82dda717 D343 M2: GE-styled options panel on file select; D344 docs
The file-select Options label opens a panel drawn in the same hook:
sections as tabs, rows from the F10 overlay's table via an exported row
API, the game's crosshair as pointer (input.c passes the stick, hands the
buttons to the panel). Quit to desktop now goes through videoRequestQuit.
Also repairs two escaped-newline typos in the D343 docs.
2026-09-27 10:38:16 -04:00
James Dansereau 461ea871c2 D344: orderly quit so exit never lands inside the GL driver; GE_QUITFRAME
Quit (quit event, window close, Alt+F4, from either SDL pump) used to
exit(0) immediately while the render thread could be mid-frame in the
driver: the likely trigger of the host's 0x119 bugchecks. Now quits are
requested; the render thread glFinish()es, unbinds the context and parks
at a frame boundary, and the host exits after (max 2 s). GE_QUITFRAME=<n>
gives the harness a clean self-quit; golden_gate.sh uses it.
2026-09-27 10:38:16 -04:00
James Dansereau c07af11fae D343: record user playtest (all but a physical controller confirmed) 2026-09-27 10:07:22 -04:00
James Dansereau 413014b8f6 D343: file-select Options label opens the settings overlay; F10 idle-timer fix
One Rule-2 #ifdef PORT draw hook in constructor_menu05_fileselect (user
sign-off 2026-09-27). The label's hit test and open request live in
optionsoverlay.c; the open is applied on the input thread. While the
overlay is open on file select, g_MenuTimer is held at 0 so the screen no
longer drops to the legal screen after 30 s.
2026-09-27 10:01:27 -04:00
James Dansereau bd8ade5c1e D307: note camera reaction timing is tick-based and faithful 2026-09-27 00:31:57 -04:00
James Dansereau 60f12f2bba D245 follow-up: water base-level crop never ran (coloured dashes)
The crop tested loaded_texture.line_size_bytes, which is the whole
LoadBlock (1400 B), so the water still uploaded 32x43 while UVs were
normalised to 32 rows; the mip rows showed as coloured dashes. Test the
tile line size instead. User-verified on Frigate; golden 3/3.
2026-09-27 00:31:24 -04:00
James Dansereau 4ba1454ba8 D342: file-select folders vanished after backing out of a file
The PC wallet model (0x1664C B, 0x17000 reservation) loads at the start of
ptr_logo_and_walletbond_DL, but the file-select scratch DL and the
briefing text still used the N64 offset +0xA000 -- inside the model.
After main menu -> back the model is not reloaded, so the overwritten
folder bodies/photos disappeared. Both now use +0x17000 (same 0x6e000
budget). User-verified; golden gate 3/3. D341 also user-verified.
2026-09-27 00:16:18 -04:00
James Dansereau 5c643e3acb D341: intro gun-barrel blood drip drew static garbage
Two fast3d defects. (1) The 1-cycle blood texture rectangle sampled a
stale tile-1 CI8 declaration: the title leaves G_TL_LOD set and the D236
detail-base rule redirected texunit 0 to tile 1. LOD tile selection is
2-cycle-only on the RDP, so texrects outside 2-cycle now sample their own
tile. (2) The drip image is regenerated in place in the dyn pool (reached
via the KSEG0 mirror); the address-only cache key froze it on its first
image. Dyn-pool textures now key on a content hash. Headless-verified,
golden 3/3. A/B: GE_DYNTEXHASH_OFF.
2026-09-26 19:20:06 -04:00
James Dansereau f242992360 D245: water tiled at the wrong size + s16 sky/water vertices; D242 closed
The IsWater 32x32 CI8 image (drawn through an RGBA16 tile, D229) was
imported with its mip chain as 32x43 and normalised as 16 wide, so the
pattern ran at 2x and wrapped every 43 rows instead of the N64's 32:
fold steps made it jump. Import the base level only and use CI8
geometry in the tri path. Sky/water fans now go through a port-only
G_FLOATVTX_EXT (float clip positions + S/T) instead of s16 Vtx, removing
the tc shift and wScale quantisation jitter. User-verified vs 1964;
golden 3/3; Win + Linux build. A/B: GE_D245_OLDVTX / GE_D245_OLDTEX.
2026-09-26 18:56:52 -04:00
James Dansereau d5f41d6a37 D242: headless death auto-advances without input; KIA screen needs a menu-launch check 2026-09-26 18:22:39 -04:00
James Dansereau d061ca3d12 D303: model converter copied 1/4 of each star muzzle flash's vertices
The op-22 DisplayListPrimaryRecord count is the number of star-flash
arms; dorottex (and PD's modelRenderNodeStarGunfire) read count*4
vertices. d43_emit/d43_convert sized the array as count vertices, so
3/4 of every muzzle star came from neighbouring sidecar bytes and drew
as long spikes (M16 "shooting up"). Size it 16*4*count. Emitter
round-trip checks all pass; M16 renders a clean star headless.

Also TEMP GE_STARTWEAPON (bondview_r.c) for weapon repros. Re-run
tools_pc/d43_emit.py to regenerate data/pcmodels-*.
2026-09-26 18:15:17 -04:00
James Dansereau 00b0006971 D307: security cameras read the mount pad as their look-at pad
CCTVRecord's own s32 `pad` (the look-at pad) shadows the inherited
ObjectRecord `pad` (mount pad) under IDO. The PC struct renamed it
`lookpad` to satisfy GCC, which silently re-pointed setupCctv's reads at
the mount pad, so every camera's look vector was its lens offset and the
lens faced the wall. Read `lookpad` on PC (#ifdef PORT, A1 class);
matches PD's setupCreateCctv (lookatpadnum). User-verified vs 1964,
golden gate 3/3. Porting-notes gains the duplicate-member rename trap.
2026-09-26 18:00:40 -04:00
James Dansereau 40b6994504 Findings: 1964 comparisons — D174/D308 faithful; D307/D303/D245 confirmed port bugs; D242 N64 reference 2026-09-26 17:46:57 -04:00
James Dansereau 116a9db798 Findings: close D183 D298 D202 D315; D220 merged into D303; D242/D303 to 1964 list 2026-09-26 17:39:29 -04:00
James Dansereau 035d54dd66 Findings bookkeeping: user status calls + stale-row cleanup (M-201)
User-confirmed fixed/closed: D289 D285 D160 D156 D152 D235; approved
closes D286 D296 D85, D323 parked as an enhancement; D218 shipped as
DrawDistance. Shipped QoL rows D180-D216 and D333-D338 marked fixed;
D318/D320/D321 fixed via D329; D236 sub-passes D265-D280 closed.
D186/D339/D202/D207/D174/D308 annotated with user direction.
2026-09-26 17:36:48 -04:00
James Dansereau 506cd7ed11 D207/D241: shot-sound handle probe; live captures refute drop/starvation
TEMP GE_D207S (gunfire.c, #ifdef PORT, read-only) logs every player
shot-sound decision (H1/H2/SKIP). Four user captures incl. a 7-weapon
stress test at 60 fps: 0 SKIP, 0 voice drops, audio production at rate.
The one captured drop-out ran under GE_AUDIOTRACE, whose audio-path file
I/O is a likely cause. Still open as intermittent.
2026-09-26 17:26:06 -04:00
James Dansereau b8e34c7fac D287: user-confirmed fixed (idle-unfocused click-in, mouse checks) 2026-09-26 16:55:58 -04:00
James Dansereau 8f838316c0 Q7: declare atoi/lround for port TUs; D207: ZHOLD/ZREL harness, findings
optionsoverlay.c called atoi and lround through implicit int declarations
(GE's stub stdlib.h/math.h shadow the CRT, D324 class); atoi joins the
other K&R decls in port/shim/stdlib.h, lround gets a local prototype.
Windows + Linux builds clean of both warnings.

GE_INPUTSCRIPT gains ZHOLD/ZREL (sustained fire) for automatic-weapon
audio repros. D207/D241: headless burst-fire at 60 vs 30 fps with the
alarm forced logged zero voice drops at both caps; owed a real-play
capture. Golden gate 3/3.
2026-09-26 16:53:54 -04:00
James Dansereau 0097469810 D291/D306: close Dam intro truck glitch as faithful; add repro probes
D291 (user-captured) is D306: Dam intro camera 5, truck over the walkway
camera; reproduces at FovScale 100. All PC-specific leads refuted with
evidence: FOV, depth precision/DrawDistance, depth state (every truck
triangle is opaque z-tested), near-plane handling, wheel transforms. The
image is a depth-correct view of the authored model from under the truck.
GE_ZF's earlier "real fighting" was a +-255 z quantisation artefact.

TEMP tools: GE_INTROCAM=<n> pins the level intro's first camera
(bondview_r.c, #ifdef PORT, PRNG draw still consumed); GE_D306C depth-state
census in gfx_pc.cpp. Golden gate 3/3.
2026-09-26 15:54:46 -04:00
James Dansereau f1207e915b D252: re-sync compiled explosion DLs on every stage load; D314 confirmed
gimgSyncCompiledGlobalDLs (D68 shim) only copied texLoad's resolved
texture pointers into the compiled globalDL shadows while a slot still
held the 0xABCD IMAGESEG marker, i.e. only for the first stage (title).
Every later stage kept pointers into the title's freed texture pool, so
explosion smoke/fire/debris rendered as rainbow garbage once the stage
overwrote that memory (Facility: past the lockers). Learn the slots once,
re-sync them every stage. User-verified; golden gate 3/3.

Also: TEMP GE_D252POOL texpool/sync probe; GE_D157 F12 burst and caps
(uncapped colour match made live play 4-6 fps). D314 F10 flicker
user-confirmed fixed. Findings M-201, porting-notes C2.
2026-09-26 11:43:30 -04:00
James Dansereau aedc98e247 D252/D314/D291: explosion-debris investigation, overlay wheel race fix, Dam truck notes
- D252 (M-200): the 'rainbow confetti' is the explosion debris
  (explosionInitFlyingParticles). Statically clean for colour; 4 headless
  repros including the user's grenade-launcher trigger are all clean. Still OPEN.
- d320repro (TEMP): new explode= and cheat= actions for headless explosion
  captures; documented in GE-ENV-PROBES.
- D314: optionsOverlayScroll (host thread) rebuilt s_visIdx/s_visN and wrote
  s_sel while the scheduler thread draws the overlay. Wheel notches are now
  queued atomically and applied in HandleInput (D287 pattern). Emit and
  HandleInput share the scheduler thread. Headless file/mission select is
  pixel-stable; likely fixed together with D287, needs a user check.
- D291: truck AI mapped (ai_9 / 0x040a, path 7); headless walk did not reach it.
2026-09-25 23:20:38 -04:00
James Dansereau d07ed0f2d0 D287: apply SDL mouse-mode/cursor changes on the window thread only
input.c called SDL_SetRelativeMouseMode / SDL_ShowCursor from the scheduler
thread (every controller poll) and from the host thread's focus/click
handling at the same time. SDL's mouse API is not thread-safe; on Windows
relative mode starts/stops the raw-input thread, and clicking back into the
window after being unfocused is exactly when both threads flip it - the D287
freeze trigger. Callers now record the wanted state; inputApplyMouseRequests()
applies it on the host thread from videoPumpEvents(). Queue-deadlock leads
ruled out statically. Win+Linux build clean, golden 3/3; freeze re-test owed.
2026-09-25 22:37:46 -04:00
James Dansereau 2ed84ed38b Q7 audit fixes: missing returns in front.c menus, getenv prototype, dram.c shift UB
- front.c: constructor_menu07_missionsel / constructor_menu0D_missioncomplete
  fall off the end while the caller uses the Gfx* result; return DL under
  AVOID_UB (porting-notes D6). Old/new objects disassemble identically at -O2,
  so no behaviour change on this compiler; clang/arm64 no longer rely on luck.
- libultra/audio/event.c: include <stdlib.h> under PORT so getenv() is not an
  implicit int-returning declaration (D324 class).
- dram.c: DRAM_SIZE >> 32 on a 32-bit unsigned long (Win64) was UB.
Golden gate 3/3.
2026-09-25 22:30:48 -04:00
James Dansereau edddf87429 D322: prefer DirectSound over SDL2's WASAPI backend on Windows
Four simultaneous drain monitors on the same USB interface: WASAPI (512 and
2048 samples) fell to 81-88% drain for ~30-50 s every ~317 s and lost 1.4% of
playback, while DirectSound stayed at exact real time. Each WASAPI shortfall
overflowed the audio queue and dropped blocks (the periodic garbled bursts).
audioInit() now hints directsound,wasapi; SDL_AUDIODRIVER still overrides.
Golden gate 3/3; 60 s GE_D204 run clean after load.
2026-09-25 22:25:13 -04:00
James Dansereau 2a20a93318 D322: periodic 'garbled' bursts are the host audio device, not the port
A no-game SDL drain monitor (new tools_pc/sdl_drain_monitor.c, opens SDL
exactly like port/src/audio.c) shows the maintainer's Focusrite USB interface
draining at 88-95% for ~15 s every ~312 s, matching the in-game overflow
bursts' period. Level loads, combat, the SDL pull pattern and a
pacemaker-vs-vsync beat were ruled out. Remaining D322 items: the 8-voice SFX
cap (D207/D241) and #87's progressive decay. porting-notes: measure the host
device before chasing periodic audio glitches.
2026-09-25 19:15:22 -04:00
James Dansereau 82548a0fe9 findings: 2026-09-25 release playtest close-outs + D322 capture
D311 FIXED (root cause D336; 0 anomaly lines incl. Caverns combat), D288
CLOSED, D294 and D330 user-confirmed, D235 still unreproduced. D322: pools
healthy (leak hypothesis refuted); SFX soft-cap saturation in firefights
(D207/D241) plus a new periodic SDL output-queue overflow every ~314 s that
starts at the title screen, so it should reproduce headless.
2026-09-25 18:40:26 -04:00
James Dansereau 7baf490020 tools_pc: golden_gate.sh — one-command per-patch golden gate
Pins data/ge007.ini to a defaults-only 640x480 window (restored on any exit),
captures Bunker 1 at 640-1120:240 and runs framediff.py against the golden
baseline. --level/--dump give a capture-only smoke run (exit 0 = frames
captured and no crash). Full framediff output goes to scratch/.
2026-09-25 16:46:03 -04:00
James Dansereau 251fcc4194 docs: fold drop-in ROM Part B backlog (issue #85) into release-dropin-rom-plan 2026-09-25 10:47:59 -04:00
James Dansereau 684dee9127 D231: park mute-on-focus-loss/screenshot QoL (deprioritized; branch retired from GitHub) 2026-09-25 10:45:11 -04:00
James Dansereau 709959c66a docs: cut-content research round 2 — decomp-only discoveries + full music alignment
New findings not covered by TCRF's articles (full detail in local
backlog/cut-content/RESEARCH.md):

- The shipped game's M16 pickup text still reads 'an AR33 assault rifle'
  (LpropobjE PROPOBJ_STR_2A, propobj.c:10471); unused 'US AR33' strings and
  PROP_CHRM16 comments survive too.
- Klobb rename scar verified: GUN_STR_6B is the only out-of-alphabetical-order
  weapon name in LgunE.c, exactly as TCRF's prerelease page describes.
- cartrifle + wristdart: full pickup/prop resources, no ITEM_ enum, no weapon
  stats — cut weapons missing from TCRF's unused-items list (wrist dart = the
  AMMO_DARTS hardware; decomp comments it '(BETA)').
- All four Bonds mapped: CUFF_/BOND_ Connery/Dalton/Moore enums + the
  actor-switch code in bondview2.c with every branch flattened to Brosnan;
  no former-actor models exist in the ROM (80 C*Z chr models enumerated).
- Cuba (LlenE.c) is the only orphan level with recoverable text: cut Natalya
  dialogue, title card, alternate credits cast.
- Orphan-level geometry confirmed present in ROM (obseg.h segment decls);
  what's missing is mission setup, not geometry.
- Music enum vs Notes-page GS index aligned slot-for-slot through 0x2C with
  four local mismatches past it (49/52/54/59) pending in-game audition.
2026-09-25 10:44:44 -04:00
James Dansereau 019ec2f233 D226: cap HUD scale at 150% (user playtest: works, little benefit above 150) 2026-09-24 11:40:43 -04:00
James Dansereau 062f605520 plan: reconcile v0.4.0 rows (D226, D237, D238, D294, D311) + session additions (D336-D339, #105 note) 2026-09-24 11:29:21 -04:00
James Dansereau cd651000ca D226: findings write-up (implemented, verified) 2026-09-24 11:29:03 -04:00
James Dansereau 3072035417 D226: HUD scale option (Game.HudScale 75-200%) — fast3d G_HUDSCALE_EXT rect scaling about per-element anchors
Ammo (per-hand corner), bottom messages/title card (bottom-left) and top
dialogue (text origin) scale with crisp glyphs; dialogue and bottom
messages are width-capped because their line breaks are authored. 100%
emits nothing (golden 3/3). Captures verified at 150/200%; Win + Linux.
2026-09-24 11:28:29 -04:00
James Dansereau 0de97b9c67 D311: likely root-caused by D336 (head-bob alias read); headless Caverns clean at 2x pool; close after a live combat session 2026-09-24 11:13:42 -04:00
James Dansereau 36de85e789 D339 (#92): GE_PERFSTAT perf probe + measured CPU budget (CPU likely not the low-end bottleneck; GPU suspect)
Env-gated per-frame timing: render phases, tris/batches, game-thread busy,
GL_TIME_ELAPSED GPU timer. Measured ~2.1 ms/frame total CPU on the heaviest
levels here; the GPU timer is only meaningful when GPU-bound. Target-hardware
numbers needed before a low-end preset. Golden 3/3; Win + Linux builds.
2026-09-24 11:11:47 -04:00
James Dansereau 02c361c909 D337/D338: user feel check ('Seems good'); legacy AimStyle migration exercised live 2026-09-24 10:57:15 -04:00
James Dansereau 827ab54288 D338: Aim range option — PC (default, full-screen GEPD feel) or N64 (original 65% stick limits, camera turn from ~49%)
Scales the mouse accumulator's screen mapping and edge-scroll threshold; aim
entry adopts through the game's screen mapping so it never jumps. Measured:
PC 98%/72%, N64 65%/49%. Golden 3/3; Win + Linux builds.
2026-09-24 10:52:42 -04:00
James Dansereau 2d2f56b050 docs: GE_AIMLOG + scripted mouse/aim tokens in the probe catalogue (D337) 2026-09-24 10:40:26 -04:00
James Dansereau 1a33cc09b5 D337: fold aim modes (N64 via PD integration default, Centred (PC) opt-in); Q/L + Toggle aim routing; per-device mouse integration; scripted-mouse aim harness
- Input.AimMode 0=N64 (D332 PD-integration, default) / 1=Centred (PC); legacy
  AimStyle/PdMouseAim migrated; hidden Input.AimLegacyGepd fallback.
- Mouse aim routing follows RMB/Aim, Q/L (the game's second aim button), and
  insightaimmode (Toggle aim, pad): removes the accidental Q 'FPS aim'.
- The PD game hook only feeds the mouse while the mouse is the active aim
  device, so pad/keyboard stick aim is not swallowed.
- Harness: GE_INPUTSCRIPT MDX/MDY/RHOLD/LHOLD/RREL + GE_AIMLOG; measured old
  vs new: same screen range and edge-scroll, jitter equal headlessly.
Golden 3/3; Win + Linux builds.
2026-09-24 10:40:16 -04:00
James Dansereau d3b4b9cd0a D336: user-confirmed (Facility>Frigate, Runway>Frigate; 0 D156 in a 14-level session) 2026-09-24 10:12:03 -04:00
James Dansereau 91564f79b6 docs: porting-notes on dead placeholders after inlining a split struct (D336); probe catalogue 2026-09-24 09:58:09 -04:00
James Dansereau f73599f449 TEMP diagnostics: GE_D235_NEXT (load a different stage after abort) and D85TEX per-stage texture-pool size/range line 2026-09-24 09:57:55 -04:00
James Dansereau c5f0d1b741 D335a follow-up: reset the scissor after the pillarboxed front end so the squeezed scissor can't carry into the first stage frames 2026-09-24 09:57:55 -04:00
James Dansereau 38354e1c7e D336: fix Frigate 'everything breaks but the gun' — head-bob anim read uninitialised alias fields (A1, D100 follow-up)
bheadAdjustAnimation read player->field_5C0 / animFlipFlag, which on N64
are raw-offset aliases of the inline player.model (model.animframe1 /
model.gunhand). Since D100 made model a real inline struct on PC they were
separate, never-written fields: Bond's head-bob start frame came from
uninitialised player-struct bytes (2e32 etc.), poisoning his model anim
(D156) and wrecking the scene. The D294 2x room pool only moved the player
struct onto dirtier memory. Read/write the real model fields.

Found with gdb hardware watchpoints (field never written). Headless repro
Runway -> Frigate -> turn now clean, D156 0; golden 3/3; Win + Linux.
2026-09-24 09:57:55 -04:00
James Dansereau b74d2738fd backlog: D335b F10 overlay pillarbox (polish) 2026-09-23 15:40:54 -04:00
James Dansereau 8e07bced9d D334/D335: 16:9 smoke sweep over 16 more levels — all render, no crashes, no slabs 2026-09-23 15:40:09 -04:00
James Dansereau 89a9875542 README: drop the fixed gun-barrel widescreen note (D335a) 2026-09-23 15:29:57 -04:00
James Dansereau 9232ea180f D335: wrap end credits; fix D335a gun-barrel bar leak (full-canvas scissor under the pillarbox)
Verified at 16:9: -level_54 ending subtitles/cast roll keep their shape;
gun-barrel backdrop now clips at the 4:3 edge. Emitted only for windows
wider than 4:3. Win + Linux builds clean.
2026-09-23 15:29:48 -04:00
James Dansereau 66b33f7f45 D226: design refinement — HUD scale needs a fast3d span transform (boxes + text + icons), not per-glyph scaling 2026-09-23 15:00:38 -04:00
James Dansereau 91bd0f84b7 D237: F10 overlay category headers (DISPLAY/VIEW/MOUSE/CONTROLLER/GAME) + SkipIntro, Show FPS, pad invert/deadzone/trigger rows
New non-selectable ROW_HEADER kind: navigation, wheel and clicks step over
headers. Wheel scroll already existed. Port-only; Win + Linux builds clean;
overlay capture verified.
2026-09-23 14:59:37 -04:00
James Dansereau 7a541da877 plan: widescreen done (D334/D335) 2026-09-23 14:57:07 -04:00
James Dansereau ae1b39ff25 README: native widescreen replaces the stretched-4:3 known issue and roadmap entry (D334/D335) 2026-09-23 14:56:50 -04:00
James Dansereau f62bceaf88 D335: native widescreen, HUD + front end (Option B Phase 3)
HUD elements now keep 4:3 proportions via fast3d's EXT aspect modes (the PD
pattern): watch, gauge bars, messages/title card, upper text and countdown
CENTER; ammo RIGHT (right hand) / LEFT (left hand). The front end is
pillarboxed (whole menu_jump_constructor_handler CENTER) and the menu
pointer is mapped into the pillarbox. port/include/hudaspect.h emits only
when native widescreen is on and the window is wider than 4:3, so 4:3 and
native-off stay byte-identical. Rule-2 approved.

Verified with 16:9/21:9 captures (HUD, watch, title card, legal, file
select, gun barrel); golden 3/3; Win + Linux builds. Gun-barrel circle
leaks into the bars while sliding in -> GRAPHICS-BACKLOG D335a.
2026-09-23 14:56:29 -04:00
James Dansereau d5d9a36a6f D334: native widescreen, world side (Option B Phase 2) — Video.NativeWidescreen
Generalise GE's own N64 16:9 mode (aspect = vp_ratio*0.75*16/9, the TV
pre-squash) to the real window aspect: the port's canvas->window stretch is
that TV, so the world renders undistorted at any aspect (Hor+, vertical FOV
kept). All of GE's 16:9 special cases generalised under #ifdef PORT (camera
aspect NTSC+EU, crosshair sprite width, rocket viewmodel offset); Rule-2
approved. Phase-4 vertical FOV boost is skipped while native is on (would
double-count); room-pool aspect term kept. Default on; F10 row.

4:3 identity (golden 3/3); native 16:9 centre == 4:3 frame (diff 4.3 vs
12.4 stretched); 21:9 clean on Bunker/Facility/Dam; Win + Linux builds.
HUD still stretched (Phase 3 next).
2026-09-23 14:44:46 -04:00
James Dansereau 639a112b9b D333 (#104): Input.AimStyle — N64 / PD damp / centred FPS-style aim on RMB
One F10 selector ("RMB aim style") instead of stacking toggles. CENTRED
routes RMB-held mouse motion to hipDirectCompute (FOV-scaled) and emits no
aim stick, so the game's aim integrator keeps the crosshair centred: the
behaviour the reporter found on Q (game L button), now on RMB. PD DAMP is
D332 (PR #96); legacy Input.PdMouseAim=1 migrates to it. Default N64 =
unchanged. Port-only.

Windows + Linux builds clean; bunker1 golden 3/3. Feel check owed.
2026-09-23 14:34:24 -04:00
James Dansereau 3a7c5d06c5 plan: fix D235 commit ref after amend 2026-09-23 13:34:24 -04:00
James Dansereau c728c42e81 golden: move bunker1 window to 640-1120:240 (frame 400 sat on the nondeterministic intro camera; 3 captures agree) 2026-09-23 13:32:20 -04:00
James Dansereau 971c2d9f62 D281: AllUnlocked on a fresh install now yields the game's own fresh-slot layout
D259 seeded only the volumes on all-zero slots. Because the AllUnlocked read
patch re-CRCs every slot, a fresh eep survived validation as five folder-1
slots with options 0: sight-on-screen off (no crosshair while aiming = the
"RMB aim broken" report) plus auto-aim/look-ahead/ammo off, and the game
reset/rebuilt the duplicates mid-validate. All-zero slots now become what
fileValidateSaves + fileBuildWriteNewSave would build (folder saves from
BLANKSAVEDATA via the game's own setters, leftovers free).

Verified: fresh eep + AllUnlocked + SAVELOG -> 00/21/42/63/80, all CRC OK,
no repair writes. Golden 3/3 (x2 reruns); Windows + Linux builds clean.
2026-09-23 13:27:28 -04:00
James Dansereau 27a560cd0b plan: reconcile v0.4.0 bucket states with the findings index (D75/D195/D197/D235/D288/D290/D294, getenv sweep) 2026-09-23 13:19:19 -04:00
James Dansereau d9d7cd3586 perf: cache getenv in hot-path probes (post-D302 sweep)
Swept all 178 getenv sites; 97 were uncached. The load-time/one-shot ones
stay as-is. The 25 on per-frame/per-node/per-string/audio-thread paths
(langGet, modelGetNodeRwData, modelRenderNodeGundl, skyRender and its poly
path, chrpropRender, frozen-camera tick, amDmaCallback, alRaw16Pull,
_decodeChunk, __CSPHandleMIDIMsg, sndHandleEvent, audioSetNextBuffer,
configGetInputLog/configGetFrameDump) now go through GE_ENVFLAG/GE_ENVSTR
(port/include/envflag.h): one getenv per site per process, exact since the
env is fixed. All sites are inside PORT probe blocks; no game logic touched.

Windows + Linux builds clean (only pre-existing, D324-audited warnings);
bunker1 golden 3/3; GE_INPUTLOG still gates on (12 lines with scripted input).
2026-09-23 13:18:32 -04:00
James Dansereau 94dff8116f D331: shell casings now render (D264 pattern, third site)
The casing draw read g_DefaultCasingModelRenderData (u32[15] {0,1,3,..})
as the wider PC ModelRenderData: flags landed on a 0, so subdraw() drew
nothing and the read overran the array. Use the explicit template.

Verified: PP7 casing ejects and tumbles on native Windows (none before);
bunker1 golden 3/3; Windows + Linux builds clean.
2026-09-23 13:13:14 -04:00
James Dansereau a5804d10b8 D290: fix missing controller model on the watch Control Options page (D264 pattern, second site)
watchRenderController built its ModelRenderData from a raw 64-byte read at
D_80035D04+0x3c, which on N64 is the {0,1,3,...} template spanning into
watchControllerButtonBases. On PC the struct is wider and the globals aren't
at those offsets, so flags read 0 and subdraw() drew nothing. Use the
explicit template, as D264 did for the item preview. Also fix the three
pointer-width/raw-Gfx sites on the same path that now execute: two u32
render_pos casts (fatal under Linux PIE), a (s32) pointer arg, and the
dual-controller branch's hand-encoded G_MTX word (now gSPMatrix).

Verified on native Windows (headless watch walk + capture); bunker1 golden
3/3; Windows and Linux builds clean. D291: headless check noted (needs play).
2026-09-23 13:07:31 -04:00
James Dansereau 30cf76b812 D288: re-check on current build — does not reproduce (dense Silo-intro capture + colour scan); D271 A/B ruled out as the fixer 2026-09-23 12:58:21 -04:00
James Dansereau 2a6bc2bb4a D235: headless reload verification; TEMP GE_D235_RELOAD / GE_D235_OFF harness
Scripted watch Abort on -level_09 -> title stage -> GE_D235_RELOAD re-enters
the level via bossSetLoadedStage() (the front end's mission-start call)
after a front-end dwell. With the fix: stale entries purged at every
transition; the reloaded level renders cleanly. A/B with GE_D235_OFF (reset
skipped): 588-788 stale entries survive yet all textures stay correct, for
both an identical and a divergent (intro skipped) first-load order. So the
reported trigger isn't captured headlessly on Bunker 1; the fix stays
correct by construction. D235 stays OPEN pending a real die -> mission
select -> restart playtest (A/B with GE_D235_OFF).

Both switches are TEMP, env-gated, inert when unset; bunker1 golden 3/3.
2026-09-23 11:29:34 -04:00
James Dansereau c1b5b6e519 D330 (#103): mouse no longer drives the stick inside the in-level watch
Auto-Aim / Look Ahead "wouldn't stay on": in the watch, current_menu is
still RUN_STAGE and hipDirectCompute declines on its !watch gate, so mouse
motion fell through to the legacy stick fallback (~3 counts/px/poll). A
~15 px flick crossed the watch's +/-0x2E threshold, which on a selected
option picks OFF/ON (game_option_toggle_input) and otherwise flips pages.
The mouse now contributes nothing while the watch is open or paused;
keyboard and pad drive the watch as before. Save/load round trip ruled out.

Build clean; bunker1 golden 3/3. Mouse feel-check owed (needs real motion).
2026-09-23 11:09:52 -04:00
James Dansereau f89311e9e3 golden: re-baseline bunker1 at 400-880:240 (post-D248 60 fps); defaults-only ini pin
The 2026-09-09 set was captured at 30 fps (2 sim ticks/frame). Since D248
the port renders at 60 fps (1 tick/frame), so frames 200/320/440 landed in
the intro cutscene (nondeterministic camera, D117) and the golden failed on
every build, with or without D329. Moved the window to 400-880:240 (the same
sim ticks the original set sampled, now in settled gameplay); two independent
native-Windows captures agree 3/3.

verify.sh's ini pin rewrote only Width/Height, which kept personal
FovScale/DrawDistance/MSAA settings and failed the gate. It now writes a
defaults-only 640x480 ini (and pins/removes one when none exists).
2026-09-23 11:03:21 -04:00
James Dansereau 7af146a1d0 D329: fix 60 fps guard anim pin (D318/D320 root cause) - tick-granularity divergence
The D318/D320 guard freeze is not a platform-invariant lock. modelTickAnim
folds numticks into one modelSetAnimFrame2WithChrStuff call, which only
advances framea/frameb when floor(frame) crosses an integer. At 1 tick/frame
(port at 60 fps) and attack speed 0.5-0.8, a pair left equal by the aim-hold
endframe clamp is re-emitted stale after the endframe is raised, so the
model pins forever. At >=2 ticks/frame (N64's normal regime) it cannot.

- model.c (#ifdef PORT, Rule-2 sign-off): when the loop did not run and the
  current endframe no longer blocks the next frame, re-derive frameb as
  modelSetAnimFrame does. GE_D329=0 disables, GE_D329LOG=1 logs triggers.
- Verified: lockstep clk=1 no longer pins (Facility ai_19, Control ai_9,
  WSL + native Windows, watchdog off); 0 triggers at clk=2; user playtest
  confirms N64-matching Ourumov timing. Bunker1 golden failure predates it
  (identical with the fix off).
- d318bprobe (TEMP, env-gated): attack-state probe + GE_D318B_CLK lockstep.
- d320repro: fix jump=<chr>,... parser (documented form never parsed).
- findings D329 + D318/D320/D321 corrections, porting-notes D13.
2026-09-23 09:53:10 -04:00
James Dansereau 97c7e38845 D320: resolve sweep via forced repro — ai_19/ai_9 pins confirmed, ai_12 clean; watchdog generalized (table-driven + uncapped repeat rescue); D318 N64-manifestation corrected (unverified; 1964 deliberate-timing A/B armed)
Also commits the prior session's carried-uncommitted set: D294 room-pool
fix (sqrt + 2x cap, user-verified state), D324 stdlib-shim prototypes,
D323 explicit-LOD census + tools_pc tooling, GRAPHICS-BACKLOG row.
texdump*/ probe artifacts gitignored.
2026-09-22 22:30:32 -04:00
James Dansereau 12490b95e6 plan: mark D195/D197 stale in front-end batch (both closed per findings) 2026-09-21 23:54:18 -04:00
James Dansereau eaa137d6a9 D306/D308: investigate z-fighting — depth precision == N64, real fighting confirmed; GE_ZF flicker probe in-tree 2026-09-21 23:53:39 -04:00
James Dansereau 2efbbef964 D303: investigate extra long muzzle flash — pipeline + data ruled out; GE_D303 capture probe in-tree 2026-09-21 23:41:05 -04:00
James Dansereau 61766e8aef D307: investigate CCTV facing-backwards — no port-side bug found; GE_D307 diagnostic in-tree
setupCctv orientation path traced end-to-end and every input verified
N64-faithful against the ROM for Bunker1: PcctvZ (not GcameraZ) switch
data bit-for-bit, boundpads match the pccg sidecar once the legitimate
load-time room-scale (pad->pos *= get_room_data_float2(), ~1.8542) is
applied, record config words incl. unkCC match; all matrix/atan2 helpers
are byte-identical src/game code. PC orientation values are what the N64
computes; if the symptom genuinely differs from N64 the remaining suspect
is fast3d's handling of the non-orthonormal lens matrix (unk84 row 0
scaled 0.1x). Blocked on user repro detail.

Also: plan/README/findings refreshed for M-197 (D75 fixed, user-confirmed)
and M-198 (D236 closed); D252 retired; findings index regenerated.
2026-09-21 23:26:18 -04:00
James Dansereau 0503d33564 D236: strip the investigation probes now that the finding is closed
D236 was root-caused and fixed in the previous commit, so its diagnostic
scaffolding comes out:

  GE_D236RM / GE_D236ORDER / GE_D236ALPHA / GE_D236ZFIX  gfx_sp_tri1
  GE_D236RAW                                             bg.c room load
  GE_D236BT                                              chr.c + model.c
  port_d236bt_dump()                                     host stack backtrace
  g_d236_last_vtx_seg / _raw                             G_VTX trackers

Also drops the <windows.h> include that only the backtrace dumper needed, and
rewords the one D288 comment that cross-referenced GE_D236RM. src/game/bg.c,
chr.c and model.c are back to their pre-probe state -- no game-code diff from
D236 remains. The pass-26 fix in gfx_lod_tile_offset is untouched.

Doc rows removed from GE-ENV-PROBES.md; gen_env_probes.py --check and
gen_findings_index.py --check both pass. Build clean. The Surface 1 spawn
capture is unchanged across the strip (settled frame 560 within threshold;
the intro-pan frames never match run-to-run, D117).
2026-09-21 22:53:04 -04:00
James Dansereau 425237f93f D236 (M-198): fix Surface 1/2 tree cards; root cause was a DETAIL tile binding
GE's texLoadFromGdl picks a handler per G_NOOP texture reference from w0 & 7.
TEXTURETYPE_LOD/MIPMAP (texHandleType0/Type2) issue ONE load block at TMEM 0,
so tiles 0..n are LOD levels of that one image. TEXTURETYPE_DETAIL
(texHandleType1, src/game/tex.c) issues TWO: the detail texture at TMEM 0 and
the real base image at TMEM texGetSizeInBytes(detail,0) on tiles 1+.

gfx_lod_tile_offset folded every G_TL_LOD draw to tile 0 (D107 -- correct for
the first two, wrong for DETAIL), so the port drew the detail texture and never
imported the base image at all. All four Surface 1 treeline cards
(tex1198-tex1201, RGBA5551 64x17 cut-outs) are DETAIL bindings sharing one
detail texture, tex2465: an opaque 32x32 IA8 noise tile. That is the same
texture D267/D276 measured at 1023/1024 texels opaque and called the mystery
"noise painter" -- hence 20+ passes chasing decode, alpha, mip and geometry
theories for what was a binding bug.

Fix (port layer only): under G_TL_LOD, if tile fi+1 differs from tile fi in
BOTH TMEM address and fmt/siz, sample tile 1. Asymmetric on purpose -- LOD
levels of one image always share a format, so a mip chain can never trip it,
and a detail pair that happened to share a format just keeps the old
behaviour. Config Video.DetailBaseTile, default on.

Verified: Surface 1 idle spawn goes from an opaque tiled noise wall to discrete
snow-covered pines with ground/snow unchanged; Surface 2 shows a discrete night
treeline; Depot renders clean; bunker1 golden framediff is bit-identical with
the fix on and off. Offline scan of every level's bg: DETAIL bindings exist
only in sevx (84), depo (39), sevb (4), sev (4), so every other level is
provably untouched. User play-test confirmed.

Also refuted and removed pass 25's fix direction: cut-out mip suppression
changed nothing, and its alpha census showed the wall is painted by a fully
opaque texture -- retiring the mip / 1-bit-alpha / XLU-smear branch. The
GE_D236P25 probe is gone with it.

tools_pc/gen_env_probes.py: stop counting a "GE_FOO[" log-line TAG in the doc
as a documented env var. GE_TEXDUMP_ADDR prints "GE_TEXA[...]", which is not
the name of any getenv(), so the check reported a permanent phantom GONE.

Generalised as docs/porting-notes.md D12; full trail in findings.md D236 pass
26. Carries the pending D75/M-197 sidecar-converter fix and the env-gated
D236/D75 probes, which the doc gates require to land alongside their rows.
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