Entry 154

"The Zeit statue: timeSym and the gameCnt clocks"

2026-09-26world

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A GAPS item that asked whether "Chronicling" (word 131) can be had in Infection. It can. The BBS's thread 29, "Zeit Statue", highlights it ("select Chronicling as your part A at the Chaos Gate"). Its dungeon ends at the Zeit statue, which times the run from the gate and ranks it (menu 39, TimeIdolMenu, already ported with CheckTimeIdolRankIn and SetTimeIdolRank). Two pieces were missing, so the statue was never placed and would have read 0.

timeSym

SimGenerateCode sets WORLD_MAN.timeSym (+0x134) when the first word is 131. piney_battle::gimmick::set_idol already makes every idol the statue (row 44) under it, outside the lakes, but the dungeon handed it 0. WorldMan::time_sym() now reads the first word, and FieldWorld passes it to DungeonArea::dungeon_gims.

gameCnt

ccAddPlayTime (main 0x00167740) adds the frame rate each frame to four clocks, ccGame +0x64, +0x68, +0x6c and +0x70, each held at 999:59:59, along with the play time; gameCntStop (+0x74) skips all of it. ccGame::ChangeRequest (0x001671e0) zeroes [0] at every change, [1] when CheckSceneReplace says the scene is new, and [2] when the area left was a town or none (areaPrev 0 or -1). So [2] is the time since the gate and survives the field and the dungeon's floors.

The port had the three-slot game_cnt in piney-fieldui's Game, but nothing counted it. Now:

• piney_world::area::Scene carries game_cnt: [i32; 4].
• Scene::add_play_time(rate) is ccAddPlayTime's part.
• change_scene ends with ChangeRequest's resets.
• The session counts on the scene a field or dungeon holds while it plays, else on its own. It is the one that goes on to the next area.
• The area's menus see game_cnt through Game.

Checks

• the_clocks_run_from_the_gate (piney-world): the town's clocks, then the field ([0], [1] and [2] zeroed), the dungeon ([2] kept), a floor change (not a new scene: [1] kept), and the limit.
• chronicling_leads_to_the_zeit_statue (session): from Mac Anu, the gate's warp with Chronicling, Passed Over, Aqua Field. The field has timeSym and a clock running since the gate. Its dungeon's clock is further on, and its one idol is row 44.