Follow-up to the restructure commit. Attempted to verify end-to-end
`-bios -nogui -fastboot` behaviour on the rebuilt binary; it does not start
BIOS emulation regardless of launch-flag permutations. Process runs stably at
~34 MB but `PSXRecompDebug::Initialize(4371)` is never reached because the
call sits inside `System::Initialize` which returns `false` silently.
Verified (by this session's investigation) as NOT the cause:
- patch present in binary (`tools/check_ds_patch.py` finds PSXRecompDebug,
pc_break, read_ram, psxrecomp_debug_server literals)
- BIOS file md5 matches DuckStation's known SCPH-1001 hash
- prebuilt deps extracted + `_IMPORT_PREFIX` paths rewritten across 27 files
- settings.ini has all the obvious gates flipped (BIOS path, setup-wizard
bypass, auto-update disabled, explicit region, resources + translations
restored next to exe)
- portable.txt in place, submodule pinned to upstream ffb33c281
Still unknown: whether it's a GPU/Vulkan/D3D init path failing under -nogui
on this machine's environment, or a baked path in the prebuilt deps we didn't
rewrite. Documented in tools/duckstation/README.md for pickup next session.
Also adds tools/check_ds_patch.py — verifies the patch is compiled into the
binary via string-search of marker symbols.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matthew Stanley