Handoff: green-light script, reconciled figures, a smaller first step for the decoder
Prepares session 4 for handoff. No new measurements; this reconciles the docs with what session 4 changed and makes the next session's entry point cheaper. - tools/bench/check.sh re-runs both display regression tests from the Blu-ray in ~40 s and prints ALL GREEN. Verified green cold, after wiping tmp/ and re-extracting. STATUS and README both open with it, because everything downstream assumes the display path is pixel-exact and nothing previously checked that in one command. - Reconciled the figures session 4 invalidated. Session 3's 38.88 dB ceiling is struck through in STATUS with a pointer to 40.81; the "three facts the player must honour" table no longer quotes R20 = 0x0116, which was the 768-wide IPL timing and would have been copied into the player as if it were the shipping value. crtc_mode.lua is now named as the single source of truth for CRTC registers, in both STATUS and README. The 38.88 dB in the session-3 reproduce section is left alone and annotated instead: it is correct for that test, which still packs I = 1. The two numbers disagree for a reason and a reader should be able to see which is which. - Next-step 2 now leads with something smaller than "write the decoder": a dumb full-frame RAM->GVRAM blit in 68000 code, timed. That number alone confirms or kills the 38% estimate, and needs no bitstream, codebooks, or DLX1 parsing. The reference image and its checker already exist. - Parked the user's Cliff Hanger / Lupin III follow-on in STATUS so it is not lost and not mistaken for scheduled work. Cheaper than this project on every axis except media prep, which is where it would actually stall. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01194oWYW8DQXK1SZ2DnChW6
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@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ This is fundamentally a **video codec problem**, not a game-logic problem: the
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game logic is a scene table with branching input windows; the difficulty is
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pushing ~22 minutes of Don Bluth animation through a 10MHz 68000.
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**Green-light check:** `./tools/bench/check.sh` (~40 s, needs the Blu-ray
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mounted) re-runs both display regression tests and prints `ALL GREEN`.
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## Read first
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- **`docs/FINDINGS.md`** — measured hardware facts, content statistics, codec
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decision, and a section on measurement traps that produced three separate
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@@ -23,7 +26,10 @@ docs/ findings, status, hardware reference
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tools/analysis/ measurement scripts, numbered in the order they were written
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(01/02 marked BROKEN deliberately, kept as regression refs).
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Run from the repo root — they import from tools/encoder/.
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tools/bench/ MAME Lua injection harness + 68000 benchmark sources
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tools/bench/ MAME Lua injection harness + 68000 benchmark sources.
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`check.sh` re-runs both display regression tests (~40 s).
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`crtc_mode.lua` is the single source of truth for CRTC R00-R08
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and R20 — do not write CRTC values anywhere else.
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tools/vasm/ vasm m68k assembler (built from source)
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tools/encoder/ hybrid VQ encoder + DLX1 container writer (working)
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src/player/ 68000 player (not yet written)
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