Entry 331

"Modes 1 and 0x1000: the soft reset, and a stop nothing asks for"

2026-10-01enginedecomp

Filesdocs/engine/overview.md

15 left modes 1 and 0x1000 open. Both are handled inside ccThMother itself, which shifts ccGame.request[] down and dispatches the first entry (INF SLUS_202.67:0x00167c30).

Mode 1 (0x00167ca0) branches back to the start-up path at 0x00167b18, in this order:

1. ccAllSoundOff;
2. game.status = 0;
3. the layers flipped back (fontOnFlip, OnFlipExcept);
4. every task deleted (ccDeleteAllThread);
5. ccSystem and ccDrawEnv reset, two breaths, the default font;
6. scFadeDef->Init, SetFrameRate(1), the gcmn file list;
7. ccGame::Init, ccSaveData::Init(1), ccEvent::Init, ccStartEvent(1, 0);
8. ChangeRequest(2, 7), the title.

It is the soft reset. All twelve ChangeRequest calls in main and the four overlays were listed with their first argument, and three ask for 1, all as ChangeRequest(1, 7):

• ccDtMenu::ResetMenu (0x0016ed90; a1 set at 0x0016ed44), the desktop's Reset;
• ccMenuCtrl::ResetMenu (gcmn 0x00540688), The World's Reset;
• ccOpenGameOverMenu (gcmn 0x0056a7d4), the game over.

The port already treats 1 as RESET. The session boots the title again, and GameOverMode asks for it.

Mode 0x1000 (0x00167d00) flips the layers back and deletes every task. Nothing else happens: no set-up, no next request. None of the twelve calls asks for it. The scripts' mode takes its number from the script, and every script uses 3 or 5 (323's dumps). It is unreachable on Infection, and the port has no case for it.