The frame walk treated fewer than 15 remaining bits as end-of-chain, but a frame starting there is real: its header continues in the next packet, as the encoder's own seek ledger confirms. Each one was silently dropped, so a premix's parallel streams drifted apart in 512-sample steps and doubled on the fold. Cvar audio_xma_header_straddle_fix, on.
AC6's cutscene mixer submits its 5.1 premix to all six speaker slots as decorrelated near-copies of one mix; six real speakers separate them acoustically, but the port's 6→2 fold sums them, combing speech into the long-reported doubled dialogue. While the demo sequencer ticks, fold only the fronts (verified lossless). audio_cutscene_downmix (default on).
Streamed voices carrying degenerate loop metadata (loop_count 0xFF with loop_start == loop_end == 0) re-fired the loop machinery on every input buffer swap, truncating or skipping subframes of the stream. Require a real loop window (loop_start < loop_end, read_offset ≥ loop_end) before engaging, as in Xenia PR #1808. 47 confirmed fires in AC6; default on.
A frame the decoder backend rejects advances the read offset but emitted nothing, silently shortening that stream by 512 samples, permanent desync for multi-stream sources (5.1 premixes as parallel stereo XMA). Emit the frame as silence instead so the timeline holds. Robustness: no in-game trigger known in AC6. audio_xma_preserve_timeline (default on).
A render hitch during an in-engine cutscene permanently desynced video from the audio, which is master and keeps playing. Weak-symbol wrappers around the two demo-manager Exec functions issue bounded catch-up ticks computed from the audio clients' consumed-sample clock (48 kHz, deficit threshold 2). Behind ac6_cutscene_resync (on); dev tooling default-off.
The cutscene DoF chain is authored for the 640×360 guest grid; at render scale > 1 its guest-granular blur kernels alias against host-granular content, visible as streaks and ghost outlines. Fix: snap the two CoC pre-blur passes to guest texel centers and densify the two 13-tap gather passes per axis. Hash-allowlisted, behind ac6_fix_dof (on), inert at 1x.
ac6_widescreen = true (default false), renders missions at the window's aspect ratio (hor+) by patching the game's per-camera aspect data, so FOV, culling and every camera follow. Menus, hangar, briefing and FMV revert to 16:9 and letterbox. The HUD is pre-squeezed at draw time to stay crisp, and marker art is squared without moving the aim points. ac6_widescreen_cinematics enables it in in-game cutscenes(default true, gated).
Keyboard/mouse state is injected at the guest XamInput wrapper boundary, so
every layer of the input stack sees KB+M exactly as a connected pad, and a
real pad keeps working alongside. Menu and flight key sets (AC7-style
defaults) switch automatically via a flight-sim heartbeat; the mouse steers
pitch/roll with a velocity model, or pans the camera while the camera-control
key is held. With no controller connected, a synthetic pad is presented on
slot 0. Bindings and mouse feel live in ac6_input.toml (auto-created on first
run, hot-reloaded ~1x/s). Everything is off unless ac6_kbm_enabled is set.
XGetLanguage and the XConfig language/country reads now follow the
user_language / user_country cvars instead of hardcoding English.
XGetGameRegion follows a new game_region cvar, defaulting to auto:
it reports 0x1FF when Japanese is selected, else region-free 0xFFFF.
Set user_language = 2 for full Japanese text and voice; defaults are unchanged for English.
The D3D12 PipelineBlendFactor enum had no constant-alpha entry, so the Xenos
CONSTANT_ALPHA and ONE_MINUS_CONSTANT_ALPHA blend factors (14, 15) were mapped
onto the constant-COLOR kBlendFactor / kInvBlendFactor - i.e. D3D12 BLEND_FACTOR
/ INV_BLEND_FACTOR, which use the blend constant's RGB rather than its alpha.
Aircraft ground shadow blends with dst = ONE_MINUS_CONSTANT_ALPHA and aSTANT_ALPHA blend factors collapsing onto
blend constant of (0.03, 0.04, 0.04, 0.30): it wants 1 - 0.30 = 0.70 (scale the
background down -> darken), but got 1 - (0.03,0.04,0.04) ~= 0.97 (barely scaled)
with the white source added on top, so the shadow BRIGHTENED instead of
darkening - the "white shadow" bug. Vulkan has the distinct
ONE_MINUS_CONSTANT_ALPHA factor and renders it correctly.
Add kBlendFactorAlpha / kInvBlendFactorAlpha to the enum, route factors 14/15 to
them in both the colour and alpha maps, and map them to D3D12 ALPHA_FACTOR /
INV_ALPHA_FACTOR. Verified fixed on both the RTV and ROV render-target paths.
AC6's colour/skin DLC packs ship a PARTIAL per-colour license bitmask in their STFS header (e.g. PACK09 = 0x5f, PACK02 = 0x0f). The game hides every colour whose bit is clear, which left most of the IDOLM@STER skins missing from the selection screen.
Extract the build watermark into its own BuildStampOverlay (rex/ui/overlay/build_stamp_overlay.*), a non-interactive drawer in the lower-left corner - independent of the F3 debug overlay. It stamps the short git commit hash (REXGLUE_GIT_HASH, captured by CMake via git rev-parse --short HEAD -> version.h; re-run cmake to refresh) via REXGLUE_BUILD_HASH_STAMP, instead of the build date. Drawing is gated by the show_build_stamp cvar (category UI, default true) so players can hide it; registered next to the other built-in overlays in rex_app.
Xenia's pipeline disk cache (record + pre-create at launch) was built but never triggered, so pipelines compiled on-demand mid-gameplay every run. Wire InitializeShaderStorage after module launch: pre-create recorded pipelines during load, record new ones. New cvar use_shader_disk_cache (default on); cache at ./cache/shaders/.
Guest swap thread blocks on real GPU delivery (NotifyGuestPresent feeds the delivery counter) + an absolute-deadline limiter at ac6_fps_target, not the vblank grid (no sub-harmonic staircase). dt-snap locks the sim delta to the exact target at steady rate (kills the shake). Guest vblank forced to free-run during gameplay so pacing needs zero config. ac6_unlock_fps is the single master switch, ON by default (folded in timing-hooks/vblank-auto/delta-precision/dt-snap-tolerance AND the flight-model framerate-independence fix).
FPS/frametime counters (avg 0.5s), two fixed-time-interval frametime graphs (fps-independent, spikes preserved), present-wait metric (rex/ui/present_stats.h). Guest stats provider wired in OnCreateDialogs. Removed the old inline F3-only build watermark (moves to a standalone always-on drawer in a later commit).
Downgrade per-frame debug traces logged at error/warn (leaked even at log_level=error) to debug: RefreshGuestOutput checkpoints + IssueSwap traces (command_processor.cpp) and the empty-resolve-region warning (draw.cpp).
log_new_file_per_launch deletes the previous log on start so a fixed log_file is replaced, not appended-to.
The game builds its per-frame sim delta as floor(elapsed * 3000) + 1, capped at
100. The floor plus the +1 guard bias the delta high by (1 - frac) every frame,
which is invisible at the native 30fps (the cap absorbs it) but becomes a
systematic speed-up once the unlock frees the frame rate: about +2% at 60fps
and +10% at 300fps.
Add a hook on the delta computation that carries the fractional remainder
across frames, so the summed integer deltas track real elapsed time exactly
instead of rounding up every frame. Gated by ac6_delta_precision (default on)
and only active while the unlock's divisor remap is.
With the unlock forcing single-vblank presents, frame-locked content (menus,
hangar, in-engine cutscenes) free-runs far too fast while only gameplay should.
Pace the guest vblank dynamically: free-run only while the 3D world is being
rendered, otherwise force the native 60Hz.
"World is rendering" is detected from the GPU side - the command processor
stamps a heartbeat (NotifyWorldCompositorDraw) whenever a draw uses the
world/effects compositor pixel shader (ucode 17e5e4ac3e713245), which runs
every frame of 3D but never in the 2D front-end. The present timing hook then
sets a guest-vblank Hz override via the new GraphicsSystem hook. Only engages
under the unlock; ac6_dynamic_vblank=false restores the plain always-on unlock.
The flight model's longitudinal force/speed-command accumulator and the
accel/brake trigger command are stepped by fixed per-frame constants with no
delta, so with ac6_unlock_fps active the plane accelerates and brakes
proportionally faster at higher frame rates.
Wrap the two flight-model functions (rex_sub_823046A0 force step,
rex_sub_82329B40 input shaping) and rescale each accumulator's net per-call
change by frame_time / 33.3ms, reproducing the native 30fps continuous-time
dynamics at any frame rate. Bit-exact pass-through at <=30fps; applies to
player and AI aircraft. Gated by ac6_fps_physics_fix (default on) and only
active while the unlock's timing hooks are (ac6::TimingHooksActive).
The sun lens-flare draw (VS ADF9AFC4C10921B9 emits two billboards:
V0-V3 = the visible glow quad, V4-V7 = a malformed quad that mis-renders
in the emulator as a faint bright rectangle in the sky (the "square").
Cull it in the vertex shader using the translator's existing kill-vertex
mechanism: in CompleteVertexOrDomainShader, for this ucode hash
(plain host VS only), vertices with SV_VertexID >= ac6_flare_drop_index_min
(default 4) get a NaN output position, so the rasterizer discards the primitive.
The real glow (V0-V3) is untouched.
cvars: ac6_flare_drop_quad2 (bool, default true), ac6_flare_drop_index_min
(int32, default 4). Baked at shader translation.
Missile/jet trail position history is a fixed guest-address ring, so its
vertex fetch constants never change and the command processor's
vertex_buffer_states_ address cache skipped RequestRange forever, the GPU
copy of the trail history froze at zero (trails invisible) while CPU memory was
correct.
Register a physical-memory invalidation callback that flags when the CPU writes
watched GPU-visible memory, and drop the cached vertex-buffer states at the next
draw so the ring's pages get re-uploaded. Also notify those callbacks from the
access-violation page-recovery path (xmemory), since a recovered page becomes
read-write and would otherwise never fault again to report the write. Gated by
ac6_fix_trails (default ON).
Upscale mosaic. At draw-resolution scale > 1, AC6's deferred
EDRAM restore passes do integer pixel-address math on the PsParamGen
position. Its leftover sub-guest-pixel fraction scrambles into an 8x8
mosaic. Floor the param-gen position (param_gen_integer_guest_position)
and re-add the host sub-pixel at the fetch (param_gen_host_subpixel_restore).
Inert at 1x.
De-swizzle scramble. Some AC6 restore/resample passes
manually de-swizzle the Xenos EDRAM sub-tile layout of their source, which
is only correct on tiled data. The emulator detiles everything to linear,
so the de-swizzle always scrambles, streaking the cloud/effects pipeline.
For allowlisted shader hashes (ac6_neutralize_deswizzle_hashes) the sample
coordinate is replaced with the identity host-texel UV (a 1:1 copy).
Suspend the FPS unlock while a demo-manager Exec (DD sub_82184460 / EM sub_821856F8) ticks, so the frame-locked IngameCinematics Sequencer plays at native ~30fps instead of double speed. Adds ac6_cutscene_clamp CVar (default on).
Recovers the Apr 23 hand-edit (lost in subsequent refactors) and re-wires
it as a TOML midasm hook so codegen regeneration can no longer drop it.
Hook fires immediately after the guest decompressor (bl 0x822CF510)
returns, reads the entry record via r11 (codec at +1, csize at +8,
usize at +12), source offset from *(r31+22888), entry tag from r10, and
calls Ac6DumpPacDecodedEntry with the decoded buffer at r4. With
AC6_DUMP_PAC_DECODED=1, all 800 compressed entries now drop as
FHM-magic'd entry_*_mode1_*.bin in out/ac6_pac_runtime_dump/.
Also adds streamer-worker dispatch probes (AC6_TRACE_PAC_WORK_ITEMS),
PPC stack walking on PAC reads (AC6_TRACE_PAC_STACKS), the AC6 PAC
index parser, the chunk-coalescing dump fallback, and a user-facing
walkthrough at docs/ac6_asset_extraction_walkthrough.txt.
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