Entry 106

The hacked arrival: the Chaos Gate's movie, Kite hacking out, and the party hidden until he has

2026-09-25worldvideotest

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The gate hack's menu (menu 62) ends with two writes before the warp: ccGame.setupMode = 1 and ccSetGtHack(). Until now the port dropped both, and the party arrived in the protected area as from any warp. This entry follows the two flags to everything that reads them.

Who reads the flags

setupMode (ccGame +0x50) is read by one place.

• ccSetupGameCtrl starts stream 107 after the sound bank loads, and waits for the reader to pause.
• Then it loads the field's files, calls ResetPause, and waits for the stream to end.
• Only then does it start the field's tasks.
• A scan of every store to game+0x50 finds two: GtHackMenu's 1 and this function's 0 at its end.

gtHackFlag (main 0x00378a98) is read through ccCheckGtHack by six call sites:

• ccAddRequestFileListSpc: maps the field to gateHackingOutID (19 -> 0 ... 91 -> 18, else -1) and adds x<name>.ccs to the file list.
• ccPlayer::ccPlayer: ghoFlag, act 24, and the body on the collision list, instead of act 13.
• ccFellow::Initialize (twice, once with its result unused): the member hidden and off the command list, dispWait 65, standing.
• ccAI::ccAI: arrivalChatCnt -1 instead of 150.
• ChatMessageSender: calls ChatMessageEnteredField on both branches, so the check changes nothing.

ccClearGtHack, from ccStartThEvent, keeps the flag only in a field (or a dungeon of type 8 or 9) entered from a town.

gate_hack_anim waits on ccCheckGtHackAnm, which is ghoFlag. It is set by the constructor and cleared by GateHackingOut's last step.

The movie

Its own file lists. ccRequestLoadStreamGateHack(107, town, field) plays stream 107 through RequestStrPlayGH, which builds its lists from the str7000 tables instead of searchPreLoad:

• Mac Anu's departure (str7100);
• the stream's own str7200 and str7300;
• the arrival scene str7000Out picks for the field (str7404 for area 19).

Three setup files are read whole first.

The loop. str7300 has flag 0xc1: the reader pauses before it, the player cannot skip it, and it loops. ResetPause ends it through WaitEnd's skip path.

The port. piney-stream's table::gate_hack_files and Stream::gate_hack build the same lists. The port loads nothing while the loop plays, so it calls ResetPause after one pass. A first try waited for frameNow == frameEnd, but that frame never comes: a scene played from memory rewinds from frameEnd - 1.

GateHackingOut

The camera file. x7404cam.ccs holds one animation, ANM_str7404cam0, and three markers:

• OBJ_marker_cam1: the eye;
• OBJ_marker_target0: the point looked at;
• OBJ_marker_man0: where Kite stands.

The steps.

• Step 0 creates the anm, switches to ecam and hides the blades (their hand nodes' dispSW 0).
• Step 1 plays the anm and places the camera and Kite from the markers every frame. When the anm ends it goes to step 7 and shows the blades.
• Step 7 fades the blades in by 0.1 a frame (ghoCamArmsT). Once Kite's act 24 clip has ended into act 23, it goes to step 8.
• Step 8 hands the last eye and target to tcam through cameraParamChange, stands Kite (act 2) and clears ghoFlag.
• Steps 2-6 are never reached from 1, but they are ported and checked.

How it is split. combat::gate_out takes the anm through a small trait (GhoCam). The field plays the real file through the desktop's ccAnm; the probe gives scripted markers.

Two members found by the port. Kite's ccPlayer needed +0x250 (the kept eye), now Player::pos_cam. The blades' transparency needed a way through Body (draw_char_arms).

Checked

• tools/test_gate_out_rs.py. None differ in any of the three:
  • ccClearGtHack: 240 cases.
  • ccAddRequestFileListSpc: 2,376 cases, the ID and the file listed.
  • GateHackingOut: 400 runs of up to 60 frames. The camera functions and cameraParamChange are the game's; ghoCam is scripted. All nine steps are reached, and every field of the player and both cameras is compared bit for bit each frame.
  • The first run had the marker parent's scratch memory overlapping the third marker, which made all three positions equal. Runs that start past step 0 also needed ghoCam seeded as step 0 leaves it.
• tools/test_stream_rs.py gatehack: RequestStrPlayGH natively over towns, fields, the crisis and both languages, 768 runs. The new fixture and gate_hack_stream_matches_request_str_play_gh compare the lists: none differ.
• gate_hack_arrives_hacking_out (story:19, with Mia and Elk put in the party as the area starts):
  • the movie plays its four scenes;
  • the flag is kept;
  • Kite goes 24 -> 23 -> 2 under ecam, the blades hidden, then fading, then shown;
  • the members appear on their 65th frame.
• gate_hack_arrival_shots takes pictures of the movie, the landing, the fading blades and after.