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ee4b3a02e8
family_remap.extract_unit dropped the file-scope function-like #define macros a body references (the gte_* C inline-asm GTE-op macros live ABOVE the function; the backward preamble walk stopped at the first #define/continuation line). A staged sibling saw every GTE op as an implicit-declaration CALL. Two consequences in one bug: - staging failed: 0x8017BEBC's 112 members all CC1-FAIL'd -> a FAKE 0% probe that reads "mechanical harvest dead" when the tool was broken (a 4th phantom exhaustion proof, exactly the 26-A audit class). - the SIGABRT: with a caller-saved register PIN present, the phantom call pushes cc1's sched1 into create_reg_dead_note's abort (sched.c:2725) — the §42e "pin-crash wall". The wave-2 SIGABRT agent proved this IS the cause (.run/giants/pin_crash_sigabrt.md): pinned families stage 133/133 clean once their macros ride along. A propagation wall recorded as a compiler limit for phases = a staging-tool artefact. - _carry_macros: prepend the function-like #define macros the unit body references (file order), not already inside the unit. Safe by construction: feeds only the templating path (remap_hseq), never make_macro's engine_core.h lift (no #define embedded in a DEFINE_func_*() macro); gather_externs only scans func_/D_ so no bogus extern; regression-verified non-GTE exemplars carry 0 macros (a no-op where it should be). THE HONEST PROBE (R14): staging 0 -> 106/112 (6 skip = IMM tier-2). Bounded 8-member gate sample = 0 banked / 8, ALL genuine DIFF (T4 classifier: compiled, wrong bytes — NOT plumbing). 0x8017BEBC is BYTE-PROVEN NOT TEMPLATABLE: the roadmap's "largest cheap win left" (B2) is REFUTED. The h_seq match is necessary, not sufficient. This 0% MEANS something because the tool is fixed first. Carried to T8: harvest the now-unblocked pin families (verify the 133/133 claim + bank).
BFM-decomp
A matching decompilation of Brave Fencer Musashi (PlayStation, SLUS-00726, USA 1998) — the first public decompilation effort for this game.
What "matching" means
The goal is C source code that, compiled with the original-era toolchain (PsyQ 4.x / GCC 2.7.2-family + ASPSX via maspsx), produces a byte-for-byte identical SLUS_007.26 and, eventually, byte-identical overlay binaries. SHA1 checksums are the ground truth; "functionally equivalent" does not count.
No ROM content
This repository contains no game assets, no disassembly output, and no ROM-derived data — only source code, build configuration, symbol names/addresses, hashes, and documentation. To build or contribute you must provide your own dump of the game disc (4-track BIN/CUE, redump layout). See .gitignore for the firewall.
Project status
Latest (Phase 19, 2026-06-20): the project builds 136 binaries byte-identical from a clean tree (the EXE + the resident engine + all 134 location overlays);
make check-all→ 136/136. Fleet byte-identical-from-source is 58.0% (function-instance-weighted; see the PhaseEnds for the byte-weighted ~30% figure and what it includes). Shared engine functions are matched once inov_SC01_077and propagated ×134 viatools/dedup_propagate.py. (The narrative below is Phase-11/12-era; a full refresh is part of the public-flip prep.)
Gen1 (foundation) complete — the matching pipeline is proven end-to-end. make extract && make build && make check rebuilds SLUS_007.26 byte-for-byte identical (SHA1 143dbb89…) from C + assembly, reproducibly across many sessions.
- Compiler pinned by evidence:
gcc-2.7.2-psx -O2 -G0 -mips1 -mcpu=3000+maspsx --aspsx-version=2.56 --expand-div. - 52 functions hand-matched to byte-identical machine code — including the LZSS streaming decompressor — with a decomp-permuter + matching-cookbook "flywheel" to accelerate the next.
- 959 PsyQ SDK functions linked byte-identical (libcd, libgs, libgte, libspu/libsnd, libgpu, libc2, libmcrd, libapi/libcard, libetc) straight from the real PsyQ 4.0 libraries instead of re-decompiling them — bringing byte-identical-from-source coverage of the EXE to ~50%.
- File-loader / overlay system reverse-engineered, with the resident engine blob + location overlays' load addresses proven byte-identical against a live PCSX-Redux RAM dump.
About half the EXE is still INCLUDE_ASM stubs (correct bytes, not yet C), and the bulk of the game lives in compressed overlays inside the .CD archives — Gen2 (overlays & engine at scale) is underway:
- The build toolchain is binary-agnostic (one parameterized pipeline builds any binary), and the always-resident engine blob rebuilds byte-for-byte from source (SHA1
8e17e02f…) — the second binary reconstructed exactly, after the EXE — and is now 86% hand-matched C (123 / 146 functions, up from 0): its scripting turned out to be compiled-MIPS state/mode dispatch, not a bytecode VM, and the save-file + sound (SQV) formats are documented. The harvest used a reusable swarm-of-agents + bit-for-bit byte-gate method (a wrong match can't be accepted) —tools/harvest_verify.py+tools/match_one.py, which carry straight into the overlay phase. - A cross-binary deduplication pipeline is live: a Ghidra-free signer fingerprints all 134 location overlays, and the report finds ~9,000 byte-identical function groups shared across binaries (~28 MB of collapsible code) — a single engine function is byte-identical in all 134 overlays. This is "one match unlocks many": each engine match will be auto-credited across the overlay fleet.
Current phase and detailed progress live in phase-ends/ (newest PhaseEnd_*.md = current state); methodology, rules, and the full roadmap are in PROJECT_CONTEXT.md; environment setup in docs/SETUP.md.
This project is developed primarily by Claude Code driving Ghidra through an MCP server; see CLAUDE.md.
License
Private repository for now. AGPL-3.0 is planned at public release, modeled on sotn-decomp. tools/brave-CUE/ is CUE's BRAVE extractor (GPL, source included) and retains its own license.