Entry 303

Gorre finished: the brothers' Wave, Tornade and SendMessage ported, the harness at 0 mismatches, event 218 done

2026-09-28battle

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Gorre (296, 297) went into this session with its harness failing every case (bulk 20 from 9900: 20 of 20, all near frame 91). Everything was re-read from Outbreak's own listing this time (tools/disasm.py fn work/outbreak/disc/SLUS_205.63 ... --overlay gcmn): the doc's "OUT" addresses had been Infection's, and Outbreak's code is not Infection's (SendMessage is 3108 bytes at OUT gcmn 0x004adbb0, not 2984).

What the game does

Gorre is a controller. It is never on the command lists (no ccEntryCmnd in ccBoss05::ccBoss05, OUT gcmn 0x004a9130), its Affect (0x004aa200) is empty, and its Main (0x004aa210) never calls PreDrawAnm or Draw (nor does its task, ccThBoss05, 0x004a9050): its body is animated and drawn only in the Kerse's step 2, at m_talkPos. The two brothers are the fight.

SendMessage (OUT gcmn 0x004adbb0, jump table @2268 0x006dfe10). Msg 0 is the brothers' Affect (0x004b07c0) report, by the brother's affect type: a hit takes the three's one HP (under cheatHP a tenth, never under half, and the broken protect shared: the struck brother's count is Gorre's, a fresh break of 300 breaks the other's, its gauge Gorre's and the other's); at 0 OffBossCamera (0x004700a0), the party held, the music out, Gorre's Dead. 7 and 9 heal the three, 13 is the Drain (ChangeAction(11, 2), cheatHP off), 21 gives both brothers row 4's stats and Gorre's own param at 6000 HP. Msg 2 (the Wave home), 4 (a death), 5, 6, 7 (the Tornade faded, over, 120 frames in) act once both brothers' m_sendMsgFlag are set; msg 3 (a held brother) holds the other; msg 1 has a case and no sender. The death ends the fight: Gorre's Dead only places the brothers and the camera; each brother's dead effect, once out of the manager (IsValidAdrs, one pass after it disables), sends msg 4, and Gorre's OnExit follows.

The brothers' acts (Think 0x004af020 has cases for 0, 4, 12, 13, 14, 21 only: in any other act, Gorre's own ordered along, a brother does nothing; the old port orbited, which was the frame-91 drift). The Wave (0x004afe10) and the Epitaph's (0x004af300): out past 500, 30 still, half a turn at 5 degrees a frame from m_prevPosB, the strike clip with the wave (anmw) drawn from its frame 40, skill 18 at 55, home within 300 and msg 2. The Tornade (0x004af8d0): fade out (msg 5), in, then 211 frames of a quickening turn (msg 7 at 120, msg 6 after); msg 6's flags are never cleared, so the next Tornade ends at the first brother's report. Below frame 40 of the strike, OnThinkWave tests a register it never set there ($s0, the caller's this): the clip's end alone ends the step.

Gorre's acts, all re-read: the Kerse is seven steps (@1644, 0x006dfdf0) with the brothers fading out, Gorre's clip and fade into the FinalPhotonFlash, the second brother's skill 19, and OffDraw of Gorre at its end; the Talk's skill 20 is the second brother's; the Skill takes @1777 (157, 158 the first brother's), the Magic @1672, the Tornade's spell @2074; pattern 10 skips its word (no rand); pattern 9's pick is a member standing, not one down; the base's ChangeAction is Gorre's through the vtable (the brothers ordered on every base pattern). Chase, Escape, Wander, Dash and Data Drain were each off in several places.

The tables hold pattern 10's operand as a -1, so reading "up to the first -1" cut all three; and Outbreak's Super table runs four words past its symbol's 188 bytes (Infection's). piney-gen's manifest now reads each through its closing -1 as patterns and operands (gorre_patterns); a Gorre run off the end of its cut table sat in its neutral for good (word 0 past the end, the base's neutral, the index on by one each frame).

MaxRenge: ccBossCam::ccBossCam (0x00472090) sets 1000.0; Fidchell's constructor alone sets its 600 after InitBossCamera (sw 0x4416_0000, 216($v1) at 0x004a3aa0); Gorre's does not. Gorre's port no longer sends CamMaxRange; the harness's stand-in camera now writes the constructor's 1000 and compares it.

The port and the checks

gorre/brother.rs rewritten (acts as Msg and Wave enums, the brother's members, Move with m_posB's own step), gorre/message.rs new (SendMessage), gorre.rs's acts re-ported; Effects::valid for IsValidAdrs; Out::BossCamOff (the world's boss_cam_off); the world draws Gorre's body only in the Kerse (gorre::body). Data version 19. The harness now scripts affects on both brothers (hits, drains, heals, the 21), compares the lists, MaxRenge and the gauges through each character's param pointer (the 21 moves the brothers onto Gorre's), hooks effResistantShield, and ignores an effect's manager slot in the calls (one array for three in the game). bulk 20 from 9900: 0 of 20; bulk 100 from 9900, 20000, 40000: 0; its own tests pass; cargo test -p piney-battle --lib 110.

Event 218

The field-5 menu loop was Gorre's: the cut tables left Gorre frozen in its neutral, and with Gorre unlisted the pilot never saw a drainable foe (its candidates were the listed foes). Now Data Drain's candidates take in Gorre's brothers, and the pilot fights the brother whose gauge a physical hit fills (row 41's physical PP defence 2000, row 40's 9990). PINEY_SURVEY_ONLY=218 PINEY_SURVEY_GOD=1 PINEY_SURVEY_FRAMES=150000 cargo test --release -p piney-game outbreak_story_survey -- --ignored --nocapture: story 218: done (the gauge broken near frame 98,000, a brother drained, the three down near 107,000).