Entry 320

"New Game's name entry was silent: ccSetupDesktop's ccAllSoundOff comes after the phase-0 pass"

2026-10-01audioscript

Filescrates/piney-game/src/desktop.rscrates/piney-game/src/session.rscrates/piney-game/src/launcher.rs

Reported several times since 2026-09-28 (INF), and shown in a player's video: New Game's name entry had no keyboard sounds, and its confirm was silent too. Sound came back on the desktop.

Why the tests missed it

A test of 2026-10-01 measured the name entry's sounds through main's routing into a headless engine, and heard all of them. But it reached the setup through the session tests' new_game, which drops the events of the frames it presses through. Among those were the title's GameInterrupt and the setup's AllSoundOff, so the engine never heard the latter.

The player's pad_log was replayed as main runs it:

• the launcher on the build's discs;
• Event::Boot, then Session::after_logos with a fresh engine.

That showed every sound of the setup at peak 0, then loud again at the desktop. The diagnostic is replay_through_the_launcher (PINEY_PADLOG=FILE).

The cause

SNDBASE's allSoundOff (INF MODULES/SNDBASE.IRX:0x2e5c, command 0x140) does four things on each of the four ports:

• sceHSyn_AllNoteOff;
• sceHSyn_AllSoundOff;
• sceHSyn_SetVolume(port, 0), port 0 included;
• sqAllStop.

The sound-effect port stays at 0 until a bank load sets it back to seVol.

ccSetupDesktop (INF SLUS_202.67:0x00168320) runs, in order:

1. the event task's phase-0 pass (0x001683dc-0x001683e8);
2. DESKTOP.PRG's load;
3. ccAllSoundOff (0x0016847c);
4. the pass at phase 2 (ccEnableThEvent(2), 0x00168488);
5. ccSndChangeData with the desktop's bank (0x001684c4).

The name entry runs in event 1's phase-0 pass, on the title's ports.

The port pushed AllSoundOff as the setup was entered, before the phase-0 pass. Now it is pushed as that pass ends, before enable(2). A desktop entered without the scripts still gets it at once.

Tests

• the_name_entry_is_heard: power-on, the title, New Game (every event routed), the name entry's presses. Each sound asked for (18, 6, 4, 7) must be heard over the 12 frames after it. It fails with the old order ("sound [18] asked for, none heard") and passes with the new one.
• The player's log, replayed: every sound of the setup heard, peaks from 5,901 to 29,330.

The piney-game suite passes (202).