Entry 291

Open questions after the triage: the later volumes

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This entry answers the question left open by The other three volumes, and Infection's names carried over to them, "The story dungeons' event rooms: Aura's shrine, the ways out, and the ban block", "What volumes 2 to 4 add: the code no carried name covers", "No executable at run time: each volume's main data in piney-data", "Infection's addresses carried to the later volumes: Image::at; the first reads of Mutation's boot", "The carry made reliable and every reader through it: Mutation boots from its title into the desktop's setup", "The stream effects on every disc: Setup's switch by register, the effects' literal tables carried, the carry's sequence pass", "The executable's embedded data and the carry removed from the port", "The table generator: the title rebuilt on typed per-volume tables", The desktop on typed per-volume tables; each disc opens its own story, The talk pages on the generated talk records, Kite's, the streams' and the effects' tables generated, Infection whole again on generated tables, The World off the executable image, Carmina Gade and its airship, Mutation's story areas and its new characters' save, Mutation's movers, town AI and spawns, and two sidecar passes, Mutation's town maps, its desktop, and the survey past the desktop, Mutation's field voices, food and skill words, Mutation's gate: the bracelet's refusal, the keyword screen's marks and levels, Mutation's interNoiz and the lessons it lacks, The story autopilot through the gate and the mail, The story autopilot into Mutation's dungeons, Members called by address, and Mutation's hacks at a start, Fort Ouph and Lia Fail, Area 13's map, the pilot's talks in fields, and Mutation's bosses, Mutation's dungeons on Mutation's tables, and the pilot's way past side lines, Innis, Mutation's first boss, and the bosses by code.

FilesUNKNOWNS.md

This entry closes the open questions of 28 entries about the later volumes: what Mutation, Outbreak and Quarantine change, the carry of Infection's names, the typed per-volume tables, Mutation's towns, story and bosses under the autopilot, and Outbreak's and Quarantine's towns. The triage of 2026-09-28 (UNKNOWNS.md) split every entry's open paragraph into single questions and checked each one against the later log, the docs and the code. The answered ones are listed below with their evidence. What is still open is restated at the end, with the entry that asked it, the play questions first; the Outbreak and Quarantine items predate Outbreak's story run (plans/outbreak-story.md). Open questions of these entries that belong to another subsystem are restated in that subsystem's entry: 282, 283, 284, 285, 286 and 287.

Answered

  • 20: what Quarantine uses KFED.BIN and KFAED.BIN for — answered by 239 (loaded around the staff roll, never read)
  • 20: what Outbreak's STREAM/STRT.BIN and the VOICE2 banks hold — answered by 239, 240 (the demo discs' scenes; the skill words of characters 18-20)
  • 20: whether Outbreak's and Quarantine's missing CDVD modules moved into IOPRP243.IMG — answered by 239 (no; every disc uses the image's own)
  • 20: what the functions new in volumes 2-4 are — listed by 173, 239 / docs/disc/unnamed-code.md (423 stretches); their names are below
  • 20: whether anything but the index changed in the later volumes — answered by 21, 24, 25, 198 (the area generator, scripts, save, generators, battle, text; the voldiff audit)
  • 182: the readers still use Infection's addresses into generated bytes — answered by 208 to 217 (typed per-volume tables; the World off the executable image)
  • 199: Mutation's save (the extension, the accessors, Init, NewGame, InitSpcParam) — answered by 200, 226 (tools/test_save_init_rs.py on MUT)
  • 199: saveSysMsg and MAIL_REPLIES carried entry by entry, not made per volume — answered by crates/piney-gen/src/sinit.rs (each volume's static initialisers run in piney-eemu)
  • 199: a table a later volume grew, read with Infection's length — answered by 203, 221 (the grown tables)
  • 202: why Mutation's desktop set-up stalls — answered by 204 (the carry's pointers: name entry's strings, the mail)
  • 207: the rebuild restoring the systems one at a time — answered by 216 (Infection whole again on generated tables)
  • 208: the rest of the rebuild (the desktop tables, top page, field UI, world, battle, effects, streams) — answered by 209, 210, 215, 216, 217
  • 208: msg in a character's row kept as an address until its reader is rebuilt — answered by 214 (the talk pages on generated talk records)
  • 209: Mutation's ccThEvent second flag at main 0x0038bd44 — identified by 225 as the flag race's state; its host answer comes with the race, below
  • 209: the card uses Infection's directory and slot size on every disc — answered by 226 (the directory and size from each executable)
  • 209: streams fail on the later discs; Mutation's opening movies skipped — answered by 215, BUGS.md (later_volumes_play_their_voice_track)
  • 209: the record menu reads saveSysMsg through piney_data::sinit; the announcements read getItemMenuStr from the image — answered by 210, 216
  • 214: the session tests stop at the world's and the areas' loads — answered by 215, 216, 217
  • 215: the town and field readers read GCMN.PRG with Infection's addresses; mapmsg fails; the announcements are empty — answered by 217 (the World off the executable image)
  • 216: Mutation's boot past the desktop — answered by 217 to 228, 276
  • 216: the five older Python generators — answered by 256, 257, 258
  • 217: Carmina Gade (town 2) — answered by 218
  • 217: M201's fields and dungeons, Mutation's gate hacks and Data Bugs at a start — answered by 248, 250, 263 to 276
  • 218: Carmina Gade's map and Mutation's changed Mac Anu and Dun Loireag maps — answered by 225 (their own layers, the fourth mask; crates/piney-world/src/map/town.rs)
  • 218: Carmina Gade not compared with the game in eemu — answered by 219 (tools/test_town03_rs.py)
  • 218: the desktop and the board have no autopilot — answered by 225 (the survey's player drives them)
  • 225: the survey's player goes no further than the town — answered by 236, 248
  • 225: the Data screen's and the save menus' harnesses fail on Mutation — answered by 226
  • 227: Outbreak's and Quarantine's spcVoiceData, 21 files — answered by 239 (characters 18-20), 278
  • 228: the eight tutorial and item-window failures on Mutation — answered by 235 (Mutation has no lesson messages; a harness artefact)
  • 228: interNoiz on Mutation's scenario — answered by 235
  • 236: why the warps of 107-115 come back to menu 88; the waiting starts' add_target NPCs — answered by 248, 263, 264 (the autopilot's talks), 276
  • 248: why the party calls of 105, 109, 112 and 113 loop at menu 68 — answered by 250 (members called by address)
  • 248: why 107's and 111's gate hacks do not pass — answered by 250, 270 (the gate hack's cores)
  • 248: what holds 103 in its town — answered by 263 (event 103's add_target)
  • 250: why CHAT's member menu (71) loops in 107 and 112 — answered by 263 (menu 71's refusal)
  • 264: Innis, Kyvia 01 with EVENTAREAB8, and Magus — answered by 266, 272, 274
  • 266: whether the autopilot finishes event 107 once it reaches Innis — answered by 268
Still unknown
  • (play) [[24]], [[40]]: the later volumes' changed event cases (Outbreak's 6, 8, 9, 60, 71, 72, 150) and their event task's order run with Infection's semantics; what fills Outbreak's and Quarantine's BSS message groups (docs/engine/events.md, event-vm.md) — Outbreak's and Quarantine's stories. - (play) [[18]], [[65]], [[98]], [[116]]: npc_act -3 (row 139's drain, with effVirusCrystal) and -5 are not ported; only Mutation's event 114 uses them (docs/engine/events.md, effects.md, field-game.md) — Mutation's event 114. - (play) [[74]], [[275]]: marker_pos on a plain field (WORLD_MAN +0x438's stream) is not ported, and no event map but EVENTAREA01 answers StoryMap::file — Mutation's field events. - (play) [[209]], [[225]]: Mutation's flag race (menus 88-91, the PG_FLAG gimmick, the racers, ccThEvent's second flag) is not ported — Mutation's Grunty race. - (play) [[272]]: Kyvia's later fights (levels 2-5, the EX mode); fields 10-12 are not played through (docs/engine/evarea.md, boss-kyvia.md, GAPS.md) — Mutation onward. - (play) docs/engine/battle.md: ccBoss04's Affect and AI are not ported — a later volume's boss. - (play) [[118]]: the later volumes' bosses' effSmoke calls are not ported (docs/engine/effects.md Unknown) — the later bosses' smoke. - (play) [[72]], [[84]]: the other EVENTAREA classes (04-06; areas 66, 67, 91) get generated fields (docs/engine/evarea.md, field-walk.md) — the later volumes' story maps; no Infection script reaches them. - (play) [[112]]: EVENTAREAB0's NextStage (field 8, se4_8) is not ported (docs/engine/evarea.md) — a later volume's last arena. - (play) [[114]], [[157]]: type 32's tree and leaves (ANM_se4_2lea, LEAF) are not ported (docs/engine/dungeon.md) — a later volume's event room. - (play) [[220]]: on Outbreak and Quarantine GetEventAreaInfo(0) returns NULL where the port finds row 0 — Outbreak's and Quarantine's areas. - (play) [[77]], [[260]]: DrawMap of towns 2-4 draws four sprites in the later volumes; [[260]] and docs/engine/map.md say the port draws three, but crates/piney-world/src/map/town.rs now carries a fourth (MARKS) on the towns' own layers: to confirm against the game — the later towns' maps. - (play) [[260]]: which events place characters in Fort Ouph and Lia Fail — Outbreak's and Quarantine's stories. - (volumes) [[198]], [[218]], [[220]]: the functions voldiff marks changed (296 on Mutation, 561 on Outbreak, 565 on Quarantine; 11 missing among those the port covers on Mutation): Mutation's are read as met ([[219]] to [[228]]), Outbreak's and Quarantine's not (GAPS.md Phase 3). - (volumes) [[265]]: Outbreak's and Quarantine's dungeon, area and sound tables are not compared with Mutation's. - [[20]], [[239]]: the names of the functions in the unnamed stretches; they survive nowhere. - [[173]]: only unnamed stretches of 8 KB or more were looked at; how much of Outbreak's and Quarantine's unnamed code is Infection's recompiled would need shape matching. - [[20]]: which compiler options changed between Mutation and Outbreak. - [[25]]: whether the hardware sqrt.s rounds as eemu models it; needs a console. - [[205]]: Mutation's remaining carry misses (@1489 in ChangeScene, @5293-@5295 in Execute, InitSpcParam's default item lists), and Outbreak's and Quarantine's (23 and 28 after [[206]]). - [[221]], [[222]], [[224]]: the code that reads Mutation's new ccSkill vector and ccAI fields: +0x24 is read ([[223]]); +0xa0 and the hit fields beyond item_first are unread. - [[224]]: the port keeps 750 gimPos slots, where Mutation searches only the first 75 per floor with fewer than ten floors (a rare case). - [[227]]: what talkNum[1] stands for on Mutation and what sets it; the port only reads it. - [[227]]: where the English party tables are short, whether the game plays the next table's rows. - [[235]]: whether a Mutation save can ever make events 2-4 run; their conditions need events 1 and 2 done. - [[263]]: why event 108 logs in to Dun Loireag. - [[248]], [[250]]: the level and equipment a player carrying Infection's clear data brings to event 104 and to Mutation's dungeons, against the start's.