Live capture (esi=engine ctx via operand-fetch, poll object-record array
[esi+0x53d64] stride 120). KEY FINDING: through the full real opening, the record
array holds only 3 persistent UI objects — NO CG objects. The real game does NOT
draw opening CGs via the 0x212-0x21a positioned-object path our headless VM uses;
with state it takes a different (direct) branch. So the bg/sprite drift is a
STATE-DIVERGENCE artifact of the unseeded headless VM, not a missing native op —
the fix is the Phase B state/choices flow (makes label_12649 take the if-branch).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
operand-fetch (call 0x41b940) fires ~8500/sec => the VM interpreter executes
from the in-place unpacked module at 0x400000 (NOT the heap copy) => handlers are
hookable by dump address. gfx-family(0x212-0x215)=0 at the title (no CG commands
until a scene runs).
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Dump validated: AGE.EXE is unpacked in-place at 0x400000 in memory (AGF-decoder
landmark @0x474f1f reads real code with the 'BM' 0x4D42 check). Kelebek handler
VAs map directly (VA-0x400000 = file offset). Handler ABI: thiscall (esi=engine
context), operands fetched via call 0x41b940, per-object command-type table at
[esi+idx*120+0x53d88]. 0x215 is part of a native gfx command-buffer manager.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both on-disk engine images are the same packed binary, so native handler code
exists only unpacked in memory. dump_engine attaches, enumerates ranges, and
dumps the AGE.EXE module + large r-x heap regions (chunked) to build/engine-dump/
for offline disassembly (locate 0x215 @ VA 0x421160 via the dispatch table).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Investigation upgrade: 0x215 queries the native object manager by element
handle-id (0x62455[idx]) and returns the object's slot/status; sign-tested to
drive label_12649's slot-select. Stubbing it collapses all draws onto slot 0 →
the anchor-preserve geometry reads foreign textures → cumulative bg/sprite
drift. Keystone for the graphics object-manager; exact return via unicorn
(handler @0x421160).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
C# VM is byte-identical to vm0.py across all 297 SC/SP scenes (offsets+halt+steps);
RECOVER passes; SC0000 = 27994 steps / 186 lines matching the Python prototype.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverse-engineering + open reimplementation workspace for Eushully's AGE/SYS4
engine (first target: Himegari). The repo root is age-reimpl/; the original game
install and the extracted ALF data are siblings outside the repo and are never
tracked. build/ (derived corpora) is gitignored and regenerated by the tools.
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