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`to-dos/mister/TASKS.md` scheduled v2.6.5 as rung 6's opening -- `sys/` verbatim, the `emu` module, `hps_io`, `CE_PIXEL` video, the `CONF_STR` OSD, Quartus timing closure and the first `.rbf`. That defers to v2.6.6. The ladder rule is strict: a rung may not start until the one below is green. Rung 5 did not close in v2.6.4, and the reason is measured rather than suspected -- widening the AccuracyCoin window from 600 frames (88 of 146 entries) to 4500 (all 146) showed the DUT does not survive the run. Counting entries with a result, both sides over the same window: the oracle climbs 88 -> 95 -> 117 -> 120 -> 146 while the DUT goes 88 -> 5 -> 5 -> 5, and at 60 M its PC is a three-cycle self-loop at $80DF -- `INC $EC` / `JMP $80DF`, the ROM's menu idle loop. Recorded as a re-scope rather than done silently. THE GATE CARRIES BOTH CLAUSES, and the second is v2.6.4's lesson: 0 of 146 differing AND 0 entries NotRun on both sides, with the golden at 4500 frames. The acceptance it replaces was satisfiable by a window that ran 88 entries, and was. `accuracycoin_status` now refuses anything less, so this cannot regress to a partial comparison reporting success. Task 1 is a discriminating measurement rather than a fix: the symptom is consistent with the console RESETTING and re-running its boot path, and with the ROM RE-ENTERING the battery without any reset. Those are different defects with different searches, so guessing between them would cost the version.
Task 1 asked whether the DUT resets or re-enters. The answer is neither: a probe on every 6502 vector fetch counts ONE $FFFC over 60 M cycles, at cycle 6. The console does not reset, and v2.6.4's published claim that it does is retracted -- here, in docs/rung5-accuracycoin.md, and in the published release body, which was edited in place rather than silently corrected. That is the second wrong mechanism for this one symptom. The first was "a hang inside PPU Behavior", inferred from catalog order; the second was "a reset", inferred from the menu loop plus a collapsed result count. Both inferred a MECHANISM from a LOCATION. The vector probe is the first instrument that observed one directly, and the plan now says so where the next reader will look. Task 2 planned to bracket the symptom by bisecting RAM dumps between 17.9 M and 60 M. It is superseded, and by a better instrument rather than by abandonment: diffing the ORACLE's own AccuracyCoin run against the DUT's -- on pc/bus_addr/ bus_access, data excluded per ledger 3.1c -- names the CAUSE at a cycle in one pass, where bisecting a count would have found only where the symptom appears. Three defects came out of it, each behind the last, with the share of records still differing recorded beside each so the trend is visible: 11,434,938 absolute-Y RMW illegals read their own instruction stream 23.40% 15,814,594 a reload DMC DMA armed as a load, halting one cycle late 1.77% 20,427,313 the $4015 read-clear applied per CPU cycle, not per APU 0.87% 20,844,894 (current) 0.01% Both numbers are kept deliberately. Either alone misleads: the first fix moved the cycle 4.38 M and did not move the share at all, which means "correct fix, another defect immediately behind it" -- and the cycle alone reads as progress while the share alone reads as none. The deliverable and the gate are unchanged: `accuracycoin-gate` green, meaning 146 of 146 entries executed on both sides and the vector identical.
… on the read
AccuracyCoin identified this console as a **Famicom** on two tests. It is an NES.
`Controller Clocking` Test 4 asks, in the ROM's own words, "What happens on two
consecutive read cycles from $4016?" and names both answers:
; Famicom: The controller gets clocked twice.
; NES / AV Famicom: The controller is not clocked on consecutive reads from $4016.
It produces those two cycles with `SLO $4016,X` -- an absolute-indexed
read-modify-write, whose dummy and real reads land on adjacent CPU cycles -- and
counts how far the shift register advanced. This core advanced it twice, so the
ROM reported success code 2, Famicom. `DMA + $4016 Read` reported code 2 for the
same reason.
THE MECHANISM, FROM DOCUMENTATION
nesdev *Controller reading*: "CLK is low only when reading $4016/$4017", and
"when it transitions from high to low, the buffer inside the NES latches the
output of the controller data lines, and when it transitions from low to high,
the shift register in the controller shifts one bit."
So the shift happens when the read ENDS, not when it begins. A run of consecutive
read cycles holds CLK low throughout and therefore produces ONE rising edge: the
register advances once, and both reads return the same latched bit. Shifting on
each read instead makes every read its own clock, which is Famicom wiring.
`Controller::read` now takes `continues_run` and owes its shift to the edge that
ends the run, applying it lazily on the next read that does not continue one --
a read being the only thing that can observe it. `Bus::port_continues_run`
answers it from cycle adjacency, which IS address-bus continuity in this core
because every CPU cycle is a real bus access (ADR 0029).
ONE MECHANISM, BOTH BEHAVIOURS
The same rule produces the documented DMC-DMA dropped bit without a second model
for it: a DMA steals a cycle and lifts the address off $4016, so CLK rises early
and falls again, adding an edge -- two advances for what the program issued as
one read. That both behaviours fall out of one edge rule is the strongest
evidence the rule is the right one.
SAVE STATE
`pending_shift` outlives an instruction: a $4016 read is the LAST cycle of
`LDA $4016`, so a snapshot at that instruction boundary has a shift owed and a
run open, and restoring without them makes the next read return a bit the
timeline already delivered. Both it and the two `port_read_cycle` values are
therefore serialized -- appended at the TAIL of the bus section rather than
folded into `encode_controller`, which sits in the middle and cannot grow without
invalidating every earlier blob. Pre-v2.6.5 blobs lack the 20 bytes and decode as
"no shift owed, no run open", which is the post-strobe state, so a restored old
save behaves exactly as it did when it was written. No version bump, per the
additive-trailing-field precedent.
`pre_v1_7_0_save_state_decodes_with_four_score_off` truncates a literal 36 bytes
to simulate an old blob and failed immediately on the 20 new ones -- which is the
test working. Updated to 56, with the layout comment extended; the constant stays
literal on purpose, because that is what makes an append fail loudly here instead
of silently shifting every field behind it.
VERIFIED, NOT ASSERTED
This changes rustynes-core, so:
AccuracyCoin (RAM): pass rate = 100.00% over 141 assigned tests
nestest_pc_c000_matches_golden_log ... ok
rustynes-core unit tests: 189 passed, 0 failed
cargo fmt --check clean; cargo clippy -p rustynes-core --all-targets -D warnings clean
And the entries that prompted it, over a 4500-frame window where all 146 execute:
Controller Clocking Pass(code 2) -> Pass(code 1) Famicom -> NES / AV Famicom
DMA + $4016 Read Pass(code 2) -> Pass(code 1) Famicom -> NES / AV Famicom
with total=146 pass=130 fail=0 not_run=0 unchanged either side of the change.
NOT ADDRESSED HERE, and named rather than left to look like oversights: the
remaining coded passes are not defects of the same kind. Five power-on entries
are display-only routines the ROM itself skips under `RunningAllTests` ("This
isn't actually testing anything anyway"); `PPU Read Buffer` and `Address $2004
behavior` report code $41 = ASCII 'G', the revision-G PPU this core models; the
SHA/SHS and `DMA + $2002 Read` code 1 is that test's FIRST success code, not a
lesser pass. `Sprites On Scanline 0` reports "RGB PPU Detected" and `Implicit DMA
Abort` reports "pre-1990 CPU"; both are genuine hardware-identity questions and
neither is closed here.
`pass_with_code=16` reads as "sixteen tests did not pass cleanly". For most of them that is simply wrong, and the ledger now says which are which so the number is not re-investigated from scratch next time. AccuracyCoin uses the success code to report WHICH of several accepted outcomes occurred, and for several tests code 1 IS the canonical answer. Three groups need no work at all: - FIVE entries are not tests. `PPU Reset Flag`, `CPU RAM`, `CPU Registers`, `PPU RAM` and `Palette RAM` each open with `JSR RTS_If_Running_All_Tests` and the ROM's own comment says "This isn't actually testing anything anyway" -- they print recorded power-on bytes and return early under `RunningAllTests`, so the byte in the result slot is whatever `A` held. - TWO report code 16, which is `$41`, which is ASCII `G` -- the ROM's "Success code 'G', referring to revision G PPU (or later) behavior", the revision this core models. Its counterpart is `$39` = `E`. - FOUR report code 1, which for those tests is the FIRST success code. Two were genuine and are fixed in this release: `Controller Clocking` and `DMA + $4016 Read` both reported code 2 = **Famicom** on a console emulating an NES, and both are code 1 now. `Sprites On Scanline 0` is the one item left genuinely open, and it is recorded with what was learned rather than as a bare residual. The ROM reports "RGB PPU Detected" because this core produces no sprite-zero hit at x=0. Half the mechanism is ALREADY implemented -- the sprite-fetch phase computes `next_line = prerender_line() & 0xFF` and the shifter `load` gate filters on it, both tagged for this exact test. What suppresses it is `in_use = slot < spr_count`, since pre-render evaluation runs with `next_line = -1`, finds nothing, and leaves `spr_count = 0`. Relaxing `in_use` on the pre-render line was tried and MEASURED: AccuracyCoin held 141/141 and the entry stayed at code 2, because the stale secondary-OAM content is not present either. The remaining question is what secondary OAM holds across the pre-render line -- sprite-evaluation work, which this programme's own plan names as its hardest single item. The experiment was reverted rather than left behind a flag, and the negative result is recorded because it cost real time to establish and rules out the obvious fix.
… as fact AGENTS.md said the four sibling repos "keep the old destructive behaviour until their own PRs land". Those PRs landed -- Rusty2600 #34, RustyN64 #260, RustySNES #334, SLAC #22, all merged -- and `origin/main` in every one now carries `scripts/agy-review.sh` byte-identical to the shared template, with zero `-X DELETE` calls and `scripts/_agy_comment_body.sh` present. Verified across the fleet rather than assumed. The note mattered because I repeated it to the maintainer during this session, from this file, without re-checking -- which is the precise failure the bullet two entries below warns about: a stale note here launders into a stated fact by being quoted. Corrected in place rather than deleted, with the verification command beside it so the next reader can re-establish it in one line instead of trusting the paragraph. The reading discipline in that bullet stands on its own and is kept: read the comment before every push and quote its findings into your reply, because a reply persists and an edited comment's round archive is bounded. `RustyNES_MiSTer` had no PR review at all, which is why its PR #1 merged with three unadjudicated Copilot threads. The reviewer is installed there now, from the same template, so the fleet is consistent -- five repos, one version.
`Controller::write_strobe` cleared `pending_shift` unconditionally, so a write to $4016 with bit 0 CLEAR -- not a strobe at all -- silently swallowed a shift the read run had already earned. Wrong on the mechanism. nesdev *Controller reading*: `CLK` is low only while $4016/$4017 is being READ. A write therefore ENDS the run and produces exactly the rising edge that the owed shift represents. A write cannot cancel it; it is what causes it. Only a real strobe drops the shift, and only because the reload leaves nothing to advance. FOUND BY THE DUT, WHICH IS THE DIRECTION THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN `pending_shift` is a lazy model -- the owed shift is applied on the next read, because a read is the only thing that can observe it. RustyNES_MiSTer models the edge directly in RTL, so it cannot express this bug, and the two consoles' shift registers ended up one bit apart at AccuracyCoin 25,196,442, where a `$40` write lands between a consecutive read pair and the next read. The co-simulation exists to find defects in the DUT. It just found one in the ORACLE, which is precisely the case ADR 0037 warns cannot be ruled out -- "the oracle can be wrong", and 141/141 is not "matches silicon". Worth recording as the first time the arrow pointed the other way. The documentation adjudicated it, not the disagreement itself: the DUT's edge model and the wiki's sentence agree, and the oracle's lazy model was a convenience that had drifted from what it was modelling. VERIFIED, NOT ASSERTED AccuracyCoin (RAM): pass rate = 100.00% over 141 assigned tests nestest_pc_c000_matches_golden_log ... ok rustynes-core unit tests: 189 passed, 0 failed cargo fmt --check clean; clippy -D warnings clean
…cked Found the way the four before it were: by testing the suffix against `git check-ignore` rather than by reading the list. The sibling's `cpu-bus-gate` writes `<rom>.dut.bin` -- the DUT's own capture, compared per cycle against `<rom>.obs.bin` -- and its output path is a variable. A run pointed at this tree would offer a file no pattern here names. At the 134 M-cycle rung-5 window that file is 2.0 GB. Verified to match nothing tracked before being added, and the index re-checked afterwards: zero tracked files match any ignore rule.
Eight new operating notes in AGENTS.md, each from a measurement made in this version rather than from a reading: the AccuracyCoin SUB-TEST corpus is the rung-5 instrument -- 28 ROMs, one catalog entry each, 22x faster than the battery, and the only way to tell a wrong behaviour from an unreached one; a NOT CAUGHT can mean the MUTANT IS RIGHT -- a sixth meaning, and the most dangerous, because 'the gate cannot distinguish these' and 'the gate is comparing against the wrong one' are identical in a pass/fail column; run a mutation against the gate that can SEE it -- the ROM a fix was written for is often the one least able to falsify it; a difference can hide in the DATA for millions of cycles, so when the first divergence is a branch on a stored value, search backwards for who wrote the byte; when one window serves several flags, check each flag's WORDING; disassemble the PC to find where a run stops, never infer it from catalog order; /tmp is tmpfs, and a 134 M-cycle trace is 2.0 GB per side; Verilator exempts signals whose name begins with 'unused'. The plan gains a measured position: 5 of 146 entries executed at the version's start, 146 of 146 now; 22 differing then, 5 now. The acceptance's second clause -- no entry NotRun on both sides -- is met, and its stronger form with it. The first clause is not, and the five that remain are named with what each needs.
…stic Adds `--ppu-state-trace` to `nes_golden_export`, plus the two `Oracle` methods behind it, so a question about what the emulator's PPU held at a named dot can be answered directly instead of inferred from a pin-observable surface. It exists because the co-simulation had a question it could not ask. The `$2007 Stress Test` residual had been narrowed to one byte at one cycle, and every remaining hypothesis was about internal state: which value the read composed its address from, and when `v` moved. `obs.bin` cannot see either. This fixture can, and it answered both in one run -- the oracle holds `v` at $2802 through dots 0, 1 and 2 of the scanline and steps to $3803 at dot 3, which located the defect in the DUT's PPU DATA state machine. DIAGNOSTIC, NEVER A GATE. `RustyNES_MiSTer/docs/rung3-ppu.md` fixes that partition, and it is restated at every surface here: the flag's help text, the `Oracle` method's doc, the exporter's own progress line. These fields are this emulator's decomposition of the chip, not facts a device can produce, so a DUT may be investigated against them and must never be failed on them. OFF BY DEFAULT, AND THE CRATE'S OWN TEST SUITE DECIDED THAT RATHER THAN TASTE. The first draft made `ppu-state-trace` a default feature, reasoning that the crate exists to emit traces. That broke `tests/fast_path_does_not_bypass_the_fetch_trace.rs`, which proves the v2.2.3 fast dot path records the same fetches as the general path by running a ROM with the fast path on and off -- and this feature compiles the fast path away. Made default, it renders that property unobservable in the configuration `cargo test` uses. So the default build is the CONTROL and the diagnostic is opt-in, which also makes the neutrality claim below testable rather than asserted. Output neutrality is VERIFIED, not argued. Exporting `ppu-misc-2007-stress` at 60 frames with and without the feature gives byte-identical `obs.bin` (28,589,312 bytes), `index_fb.bin`, `ram.bin`, `ckpt.bin` and `ram_init.bin`; only the feature build additionally writes `ppu_state.csv`. Two refusals rather than two silent defaults, both instances of the failure this project keeps paying for -- an absent signal reading as a negative result: - `--ppu-state-trace` without `--pst-frames` is refused. A frameless window would record every frame of the run, which at ~46 kB a frame is gigabytes against the 4500-frame goldens, when the point of the trace is a handful of dots. - The control build REFUSES the four flags rather than ignoring them. A binary that accepted `--ppu-state-trace` and wrote no CSV would read as "the window held no dots" rather than "this build cannot do that". An armed trace that returns nothing warns on stderr for the same reason. Incidental, and both found by the lint gate rather than by reading: the new range parsers were first inserted between `parse_apu_cap` and its own doc comment, silently reattaching that documentation to a different function; and `main` was pushed past the pedantic line limit, which is repaired by grouping the five trace-arming blocks it already carried into `arm_traces` so that adding a sixth trace cannot push an unrelated function over the limit again. `crates/rustynes-cosim` is excluded from the workspace, so `cargo clippy --workspace` does not reach it: linted explicitly in BOTH configurations, tests green in the default one, and `cosim_manifest_audit` re-run because the manifest changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
…hema 3) Adds `data_buffer` to `PpuStateRecord`, bumping `PPU_TRACE_SCHEMA_VERSION` to 3 and `RECORD_SIZE` to 115. The fixture already exposed every register the `$2007` fill is composed from -- `v`, the scroll registers, the background latches -- and not the result. That is the one quantity the rung-3 `$2007 Stress Test` residual is about: both consoles issue their 776 reads at IDENTICAL cycles there, so the difference is which byte landed, and until now that was observable only after the CPU had read it back out, four PPU cycles and one instruction later. Per-dot capture is the point. The fill happens four PPU cycles after the CPU access ends, so a once-per-access sample shows the PREVIOUS read's byte and says nothing about the one being diagnosed. It earned its place on the first export. Over frame 59, scanline 1 of `ppu-misc-2007-stress` the buffer steps $05 -> $C0 on the SAME dot that `v` steps $2802 -> $3803 -- so this emulator performs the fill and the address increment on one dot boundary, where the co-simulation DUT currently has them one dot apart. That is a concrete, testable discrepancy that no existing surface could show, and it is the reason the field exists rather than a bonus. This is the same argument that added `oam_bus_copybuffer` at schema 2, and the same failure it prevents: a diagnostic that does not expose what the question is about sends you to the wrong place confidently. DIAGNOSTIC, NEVER A GATE, unchanged -- `RustyNES_MiSTer/docs/rung3-ppu.md` fixes that partition and this field does not move it. The CSV test now pins BOTH trailing columns instead of only the last. Asserting one is what made it fail here for the wrong reason: `oam_bus` had not regressed, it had been displaced by one, and a single-column check cannot tell those apart. Verified rather than asserted, because this is a chip crate: AccuracyCoin (RAM): pass rate = 100.00% over 141 assigned tests nestest: pc_c000 matches the golden log, 0 diff cargo test -p rustynes-ppu: 95 passed clippy --workspace --all-targets and -p rustynes-ppu --features ppu-state-trace: clean rustynes-cosim: default (control) tests green, clippy clean with the feature Nothing in the emulation path reads the record, so the battery could not have moved -- which is an argument, and the numbers above are the evidence. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
The 4500-frame battery, 134,012,761 cycles, 146 of 146 entries executed on both sides: 5 differing becomes 4. Closed by the PPU DATA state machine work in sibling ledger 3.30, 3.32 and 3.33 -- a mechanism no nesdev page describes and AccuracyCoin's own MIT-licensed source specifies with a gate-level diagram and a half-cycle timeline table. All 170 graded entries of that test now match; the one residual is ungraded, a read the ROM itself calls unstable. The remaining four are named with what each needs. Two of them, ALE + Read and Hybrid Addresses, are the same machinery and the ROM states the dependency outright: 'if you haven't passed the $2007 Stress Test, you probably won't pass this one.' That prerequisite is now met. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
Two more AccuracyCoin sub-tests, suite 18 tests 7 and 8, assembled through the upstream `nesasm.exe` under wine per the documented recipe. They exist for cost. Both entries are reachable only through the full battery, which is 134M cycles and needs a START press at a specific frame; these reach a verdict in 8.93M cycles from boot with no input, so a question that took ten minutes to ask now takes two. That mattered immediately: three candidate fixes were tried and refuted against them in the time one battery run would have taken, and the third was found to regress a passing entry -- which a slower loop would have made tempting to skip. Both report at their CATALOG addresses, $0491 and $0492, verified from a RAM diff rather than assumed. That is not automatic: `cpu-open-bus` reports one address below its catalog entry, which is why the README says to check. The README gains the recipe and two traps. `/usr/local/bin/wine` on this machine is a symlink to FIREJAIL, which shadows the real `/usr/bin/wine` on PATH and makes the builder assemble nothing without naming wine in the failure. And `AccuracyCoin.asm` should be re-fetched and compared rather than reused from a local copy -- the builder rewrites one routine in whatever source it is handed, so a drifted source yields a ROM that looks fine and tests something else. The copy used here was verified byte-identical to upstream first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
Adds `cpu_cycle` to `PpuStateRecord`, bumping `PPU_TRACE_SCHEMA_VERSION` to 4
and `RECORD_SIZE` to 123.
It exists because its ABSENCE produced three wrong conclusions in a row while
diagnosing one AccuracyCoin entry. Without it a record can only be located by
frame/scanline/dot, and none of those is comparable across two consoles on its
own: frames had to be matched by what they CONTAIN (a frame number is not a
cycle count divided by a frame length), dots by a relationship measured
separately on each side, and cycles not at all. Every other trace this project
compares -- `obs.bin`, the IRQ trace, the checkpoint chain -- is cycle-keyed, and
this one was the exception.
It closed the question on its first use. At the same CPU cycle 1,668,230 the
oracle's cycle spans dots 183-185 and the DUT's spans 181-183, which is the
two-dot CPU/PPU alignment term that three previous framings had each mistaken
for something else.
THE BUS STAMPS IT AT TWO SITES AND BOTH ARE NEEDED. `cpu_clock` is the path a
running console takes; `tick_one_cpu_cycle` is the one the harness drives
directly. Wiring only the latter left every record stamped `0` while the field,
the column, the codec and the CSV all looked correct -- and `cargo tree` was no
help, reporting the feature as absent when a `compile_error!` probe proved it
active. What caught it was
`tests/state_trace_records_carry_their_cpu_cycle.rs`, added here, which asserts
the VALUES advance rather than that the column exists: a present-but-constant
field reinstates the whole problem it was added to solve while appearing to fix
it. It also rejects a constant, since non-zero alone would pass a field wired to
a literal.
Set BEFORE that cycle's dots are ticked, so a record carries the number of the
cycle it belongs to rather than the next one's -- the exact off-by-one a
co-simulation probe made on this question, which produced a finding that had to
be retracted.
Excluded from the save state with its reason recorded in
`snapshot_schema_audit`, on a STRONGER ground than the other diagnostics there:
the bus overwrites it unconditionally at the start of every CPU cycle, so a
restore cannot observe a stale value, and carrying it would be actively wrong
since the counter belongs to the run that produced the save.
The CSV test now checks values BY COLUMN NAME rather than by trailing position.
Two schema additions in a row broke the old form for the wrong reason: it pinned
the last columns, so appending a field displaced them and the test reported a
regression in a column that had not changed. The name lookup also asserts the
stronger property, that header and row agree on where each field sits.
Verified rather than asserted, because this is a chip crate:
AccuracyCoin (RAM): pass rate = 100.00% over 141 assigned tests
nestest: pc_c000 matches the golden log, 0 diff
snapshot_schema_audit: 7 passed
cargo test -p rustynes-ppu, default and --features ppu-state-trace: green
clippy --workspace --all-targets; -p rustynes-core and -p rustynes-cosim
--features ppu-state-trace: clean
output neutrality: a 60-frame golden exported with and without the feature is
byte-identical in obs.bin (28,589,312 bytes), index_fb.bin, ram.bin,
ckpt.bin and ram_init.bin
One incidental, found by the compiler: inserting the new setter above
`enable_state_trace` consumed that function's own `#[cfg]` attribute and broke
the default build. Same shape as the doc-comment split earlier in this line of
work -- an item and the attribute above it are one unit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
…it cannot gate `Sprite 0 Hit behavior` is one of the entries still differing on the co-simulation DUT, and the standing lesson from the sub-test corpus is to wire the sub-test before debugging the entry -- a sub-test reproduces a failure in roughly nine million cycles where the full battery needs a hundred and thirty-four. Built from suite 17, test 1 (`Suite_SpriteZeroHits`, second entry), reporting at $0457. The route does not work, and the reason is worth recording rather than leaving as an untried option. THE ORACLE FAILS IT. The exported golden reads $457 = $06, which decodes as Fail(test 1) -- the very first assertion, "does a sprite zero hit occur in a situation in which it should". The test never reaches the behaviour it exists to check. `subtest_verdict.py` refuses a comparison whose oracle side is not a pass, correctly: a ROM the reference implementation fails cannot adjudicate anything about the DUT. The cause is the builder's own design rather than a defect. It replaces `AutomaticallyRunEveryTestInROM` with a runner that calls `LoadSuiteMenuNoRendering` and `RunTest` once, and this entry expects "a solid white square ... placed at VRAM address $2001" with sprite zero overlapping it -- state the full battery has established in VRAM and the pattern tables by the time it runs, and which the streamlined boot does not reproduce. That puts it alongside `sprite-eval-arbitrary-sprite-zero`, already deliberately unregistered for the same class of reason. The entry has to be debugged against the full 4500-frame battery instead. The ROM and its golden are kept rather than deleted. They are the evidence that the isolation was attempted and why it does not work, which is otherwise the kind of negative result that gets re-attempted every few sessions. The README gains a section naming both unusable sub-tests, their verdicts, and the mechanism, so the next reader does not have to rediscover it. The generated ROM is a derivative work of 100thCoin/AccuracyCoin and inherits its MIT licence, as recorded in tests/roms/AccuracyCoin/LICENSES.md.
Found while verifying v2.6.5's gates, and it is a hole this branch opened. `state_trace_records_carry_their_cpu_cycle` is gated on the `ppu-state-trace` feature, and no CI step enabled that feature, so the test ran NOWHERE. It exists to catch a field that is present but constant -- the exact defect that shipped earlier on this branch, when the bus stamped `set_trace_cpu_cycle` at only one of its two call sites and every record came out `0` while the field, the column and the plumbing all looked correct. A regression test the gate cannot reach is precisely the shape the surrounding block of steps exists to prevent; its own comment says that adding the crate's steps was necessary because "without them the crate would simply stop being checked, and nothing would say so". The step could not simply be added, because `cargo test --features ppu-state-trace` was red on that crate: `fast_path_does_not_bypass_the_fetch_ trace` refuses with the fast path ran only 0 times -- this test would then be comparing the general path against itself and proving nothing That refusal is the guard working. The feature compiles `Ppu::tick_visible_render_fast` out entirely so the per-dot hook sees every dot, so under it there is no fast path to compare against the general one and the property the test asserts does not exist in that build. It is now `#![cfg(not(feature = "ppu-state-trace"))]`, with the reason at the top of the file, rather than left failing -- a red gate for a property the build does not have is noise, and noise is what gets a real failure waved through later. Verified in both directions, because gating a test out entirely would be the obvious way to "fix" this while losing coverage: default build fast_path 1 passed, state_trace 0 (gated out) --features ppu-state-trace fast_path 0 (gated out), state_trace 1 passed actionlint clean on the workflow.
Rung 5 closes. The AccuracyCoin status vector is IDENTICAL entry for entry across all 146 entries, with 146 of 146 executed on both sides and none NotRun, over the 4500-frame golden at 134,012,761 cycles. The same gate read 5 of 146 executed and 22 differing when the version opened. A muster is a roll call where every name is called AND answered, which is this release's two-clause acceptance exactly. The second clause is v2.6.4's addition, and without it an identical vector over entries that never executed is a pass -- and was one. Version moved with scripts/release-automation/bump_release.py, which demotes the previous lead into the chain rather than mechanically overwriting it. The 15 anchors across 11 documents, both manifests, the libretro .info and the Cargo.locks all move together; the VERSION-PLAN row and .github/release-notes/v2.6.5.md are added by hand as the script instructs. THE ANCHOR AUDIT CAUGHT ONE, WHICH IS WHAT IT IS FOR. `to-dos/ROADMAP.md` carries a release chain whose tail is labelled "the current release", and that is a second claim the marker-based bump does not reach: to-dos/ROADMAP.md -- a chain ends "v2.6.4, the current release", workspace is 2.6.5 Extended and relabelled in one edit, as the failure message says it must be. DOCUMENTATION. docs/STATUS.md moves from "Rungs 3 and 4 CLOSED; rung 5 IN PROGRESS" to "Rungs 3, 4 and 5 CLOSED", and states what closed the rung: the background reload and shift clock needing SEPARATE gates, the sprite X counters not being gated on rendering, the PPUADDR second-write v-copy being delayed as the wiki states inside the write sequence itself, the octal latch holding across the read dot, and the pre-render line clearing secondary OAM. It also records that `sys/` and the .rbf are rung 6 at v2.6.6 -- deferred there under the ladder rule rather than skipped -- and that hardware bring-up stays blocked on a DE10-Nano with the SDRAM add-on. VERIFICATION. fmt, clippy (default + retroachievements + scripting + scripting,hd-pack) clean wasm32 clippy, both invocations clean rustdoc -D warnings clean no_std thumbv7em-none-eabihf clean cargo test --workspace 98 binaries, 0 FAILED release_anchor_audit 11 passed libretro_info_audit / cosim_manifest_audit / snapshot_schema_audit 14 passed markdownlint on every touched document passed AccuracyCoin (RAM): pass rate = 100.00% over 141 assigned tests nestest: ok (asserts compared >= 8000, so a vacuous run cannot satisfy it) The oracle changes on the DEFAULT path this cycle -- a `Controller::write_strobe` owed-shift fix -- so AccuracyCoin 141/141 and nestest 0-diff are VERIFIED here, not held by construction.
The v2.6.5 plan's status table said 4 differing; it is 0. Both clauses of the acceptance are met and the gate exits 0: coverage: 146 of 146 entries executed on both sides (0 on neither, 0 on one side only) status vectors are IDENTICAL entry for entry across all 146 entries. to-dos/mister/TASKS.md is re-scoped rather than quietly renumbered. That block was v2.6.5 - v2.6.6 and is now v2.6.6 - v2.6.7, with a note saying why: rung 5 did not close at v2.6.4, so under the ladder rule -- a rung may not start until the one below is green -- v2.6.5 was spent closing it and rung 6 moved down one slot. A schedule that slips without saying so is indistinguishable from one that was never planned. The rung-5 checklist gains the closing entry with its five ledger references, and the hardware item is marked blocked on a DE10-Nano with the SDRAM add-on rather than left looking merely unstarted.
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62-62: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winExtend the section heading through v2.6.5.
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-## v2.6.3 – v2.6.4 — rung 5, NROM + AccuracyCoin +## v2.6.3 – v2.6.5 — rung 5, NROM + AccuracyCoinAs per path instructions: “Docs are the spec here, not a changelog.”
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In `@crates/rustynes-core/src/bus_snapshot.rs`:
- Line 442: Update the tail-length handling in the snapshot restore logic around
the current size check: accept zero bytes as a legacy tail, accept at least 20
bytes as a complete v2.6.5 tail, and return SnapshotError::SectionInvalid for
lengths from 1 through 19. Add a regression test that truncates one byte from a
snapshot after a controller read and verifies restoration is rejected.
In `@crates/rustynes-cosim/src/bin/nes_golden_export.rs`:
- Around line 257-259: Validate the parsed capacity for the --ppu-state-trace
option as non-zero and no greater than a defined maximum before enabling
tracing, rejecting invalid values through usage(). Enforce the same bound in
Oracle::enable_ppu_state_trace so non-CLI callers cannot request unsafe
allocations, while preserving valid header-only behavior only if the chosen
contract permits it.
In `@crates/rustynes-cosim/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 417-422: Update take_ppu_state_trace_csv to return both the
generated CSV and the PpuStateTrace overflow/drop count, preserving the status
from maybe_push. Adjust nes_golden_export to inspect that count and refuse or
clearly mark incomplete traces before writing the diagnostic file, while
retaining the existing complete-capture behavior.
In `@crates/rustynes-ppu/src/state_trace.rs`:
- Around line 78-81: Update the PPU documentation to describe schema version 4,
including the 123-byte trace record layout and the semantics of the data_buffer
and cpu_cycle fields introduced alongside PPU_TRACE_SCHEMA_VERSION.
In `@OVERVIEW.md`:
- Line 25: Update the v2.6.5 current-release summaries to include the shipped
octal-latch holding-across-the-read-dot PPU fix, matching the fix-list wording
in README.md and docs/STATUS.md: OVERVIEW.md lines 25-25, ROADMAP.md lines
11-11, SUPPORT.md lines 97-97, VERSION-PLAN.md lines 3-3, and docs/STATUS.md
lines 3-3 each require the same clause.
In `@tests/roms/AccuracyCoin/README.md`:
- Around line 43-48: Update the AccuracyCoin README command sequence so the
`build_sub_test_rom.py` invocations run from the RustyNES repository root after
the earlier directory change, using an explicit repository-root `cd` or an
equivalent path adjustment while preserving the existing builder arguments and
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In `@to-dos/ROADMAP.md`:
- Line 63: Correct the current release identifier in the release-lineage entry
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Reject incomplete v2.6.5 controller-run tails.
Line 442 treats a tail with 1-19 bytes as a legacy snapshot. A truncated current snapshot can then restore with pending_shift = false. The next controller read can repeat the bit that was already delivered.
Accept only zero bytes for a legacy tail, or at least 20 bytes for the complete v2.6.5 tail. Return SnapshotError::SectionInvalid for partial tails. Add a regression test that truncates one byte from a snapshot after a controller read.
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In `@crates/rustynes-core/src/bus_snapshot.rs` at line 442, Update the tail-length
handling in the snapshot restore logic around the current size check: accept
zero bytes as a legacy tail, accept at least 20 bytes as a complete v2.6.5 tail,
and return SnapshotError::SectionInvalid for lengths from 1 through 19. Add a
regression test that truncates one byte from a snapshot after a controller read
and verifies restoration is rejected.
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Validate PPU state-trace capacity before allocation.
--ppu-state-trace accepts zero and any usize. Zero produces a header-only trace. A very large value reaches PpuStateTrace::with_capacity and then Vec::with_capacity, which can abort the exporter. Define a non-zero maximum, reject invalid CLI values, and enforce the same limit in Oracle::enable_ppu_state_trace for non-CLI callers.
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In `@crates/rustynes-cosim/src/bin/nes_golden_export.rs` around lines 257 - 259,
Validate the parsed capacity for the --ppu-state-trace option as non-zero and no
greater than a defined maximum before enabling tracing, rejecting invalid values
through usage(). Enforce the same bound in Oracle::enable_ppu_state_trace so
non-CLI callers cannot request unsafe allocations, while preserving valid
header-only behavior only if the chosen contract permits it.
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| pub fn take_ppu_state_trace_csv(&mut self) -> Option<String> { | ||
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve trace overflow status for the exporter.
PpuStateTrace::maybe_push drops later records after capacity and increments overflow(). This conversion returns only CSV, so nes_golden_export cannot distinguish a complete capture from a truncated one and reports a valid-looking diagnostic file. Return the dropped count with the CSV, then make the exporter refuse or clearly mark incomplete captures before writing them.
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In `@crates/rustynes-cosim/src/lib.rs` around lines 417 - 422, Update
take_ppu_state_trace_csv to return both the generated CSV and the PpuStateTrace
overflow/drop count, preserving the status from maybe_push. Adjust
nes_golden_export to inspect that count and refuse or clearly mark incomplete
traces before writing the diagnostic file, while retaining the existing
complete-capture behavior.
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| /// * `2`: added `oam_bus_copybuffer`. | ||
| /// * `3` (2026-08-28): added `data_buffer`, the `$2007` read buffer. | ||
| /// * `4` (2026-08-28): added `cpu_cycle`, so a record can be located. | ||
| pub const PPU_TRACE_SCHEMA_VERSION: u16 = 4; |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document schema 4 in docs/ppu.md.
This change adds two observable trace fields and changes the binary record layout. The supplied PR record has no docs/ppu.md update and no rationale that documentation is unnecessary. Document schema version 4, the 123-byte record size, and the data_buffer and cpu_cycle semantics.
As per coding guidelines: “When observable behavior changes in crates/rustynes-ppu … update the corresponding docs/<subsystem>.md file in the same PR.”
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In `@crates/rustynes-ppu/src/state_trace.rs` around lines 78 - 81, Update the PPU
documentation to describe schema version 4, including the 123-byte trace record
layout and the semantics of the data_buffer and cpu_cycle fields introduced
alongside PPU_TRACE_SCHEMA_VERSION.
Source: Coding guidelines
| RustyNES is the **definitive NES emulator for the modern era** — combining cycle-perfect accuracy with a complete contemporary feature set and the safety guarantees of Rust. It is more than an emulator: it is a platform for NES preservation, competitive online play, tool-assisted speedrunning, and homebrew development. | ||
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| As of **v1.0.0**, that vision was realized: RustyNES clears the Mesen2 / higan / ares accuracy bar, ships a polished desktop application and a browser build, and supports the full platform surface — netplay, achievements, TAS movies, a debugger, FDS, and arcade (Vs. / PlayChoice-10) hardware. Since then the additive v1.x line added three more platforms (native Android, iOS / iPadOS, and a Libretro / RetroArch core), **v2.0.0 "Timebase"** replaced the scheduler substrate with the one-clock / every-cycle-bus-access model (ADR 0029 — the one deliberate breaking release), and the v2.1.x → v2.3.x lines deepened accuracy, presentation, and analysis tooling. The current release is **v2.6.5 "Muster"**. The never-tagged v2.4.0 "Concordance" shipped inside **v2.4.1 "Fabric"** — this sentence had attached that fact to whichever release was current, carried forward by three mechanical version bumps, and said it of v2.4.2, v2.4.3 and v2.4.4 in turn. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the v2.6.5 PPU-fix list consistent.
These current-release summaries omit the octal latch holding across the read dot, although the detailed v2.6.5 record lists it as a shipped fix. Add that clause to each summary and keep the same fix list used by README.md Line 677 and docs/STATUS.md Lines 60-81.
- OVERVIEW.md#L25-L25: add the octal-latch fix to the v2.6.5 summary.
- ROADMAP.md#L11-L11: add the octal-latch fix to the current-release summary.
- SUPPORT.md#L97-L97: add the octal-latch fix to the FAQ release summary.
- VERSION-PLAN.md#L3-L3: add the octal-latch fix to the current-release description.
- docs/STATUS.md#L3-L3: add the octal-latch fix to the current-release block.
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In `@OVERVIEW.md` at line 25, Update the v2.6.5 current-release summaries to
include the shipped octal-latch holding-across-the-read-dot PPU fix, matching
the fix-list wording in README.md and docs/STATUS.md: OVERVIEW.md lines 25-25,
ROADMAP.md lines 11-11, SUPPORT.md lines 97-97, VERSION-PLAN.md lines 3-3, and
docs/STATUS.md lines 3-3 each require the same clause.
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| python3 scripts/accuracycoin-build/build_sub_test_rom.py /tmp/accoin-src \ | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Run the builder from the repository root.
Line 26 leaves the shell in /tmp/accoin-src. These commands therefore look for scripts/accuracycoin-build/build_sub_test_rom.py inside the downloaded source tree, where it does not exist. Add an explicit cd to the RustyNES repository before invoking the builder, or use a path that remains valid from /tmp/accoin-src.
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In `@tests/roms/AccuracyCoin/README.md` around lines 43 - 48, Update the
AccuracyCoin README command sequence so the `build_sub_test_rom.py` invocations
run from the RustyNES repository root after the earlier directory change, using
an explicit repository-root `cd` or an equivalent path adjustment while
preserving the existing builder arguments and outputs.
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| - **Programme after v2.5.0 — the v2.5.1 → v2.7.0 line: the rest of the console, and a contributable package.** The Fabric line is delivered and the 6502 rung is closed; this line builds the PPU, APU, mappers and MiSTer integration, and takes the core to a state worth submitting to MiSTer-devel. **Maintainer decisions, 2026-08-23:** hardware is **both boards eventually** — a DE10-Nano **plus the SDRAM add-on** (mandatory: the NES reads cartridge ROM directly and the onboard DDR3 is too slow) and a SuperStation One (128 MB integrated), with **one `.rbf` booting both** turning "SS1 runs MiSTer cores unmodified" from an inherited claim into a measured one; mappers are **the top six** — NROM, MMC1, UxROM, CNROM, MMC3, AxROM, ~90% of the licensed library by title count, explicitly **not** FDS, expansion audio, or the remaining ~168 families; and v2.7.0 is **scoped to what genuinely fits**, with the arithmetic stated up front (**rung 3 8–16 wk · rung 4 4–8 wk · rung 5 2–4 wk + a 4–12 wk tail · rung 6 2–4 wk · rung 7 4–8 wk = 20–40 weeks FTE** before the AccuracyCoin tail, across twenty release slots — **milestones, not dates**). **Rung 6 comes before rung 7 deliberately**: NROM at 327 Kb fits on-chip, so hardware bring-up needs no memory controller, and getting a board in the loop before writing the SDRAM controller de-risks the second largest technical item. Two v2.5.0 gates — **nestest 0-diff and the 5 M-cycle window** — are not carried as debt but reclassified as **rung-3 acceptance criteria**: both stop at a `$2002` read where *both sides address it* and only the data differs, because the DUT has no PPU. The contribution requirements were **fetched from the MiSTer-devel wiki rather than recalled**, and one line of it is the whole case for this programme: on AI-generated code the project asks for *"a minimum reasonable bar for readability and… evidence of quality and accuracy testing"* — the co-simulation apparatus **is** that evidence, and no incumbent core can show its equivalent. See [`plans/v2.7.0-mister-core-plan.md`](plans/v2.7.0-mister-core-plan.md), [`mister/`](mister/), and the four dated research files in `ref-docs/`. | ||
| - **Historical detail — v2.2.4** (2026-07-24) — a **libretro / RetroArch distribution** cut whose purpose is that the RustyNES core **builds and installs cleanly through the Libretro buildbot** (<https://git.libretro.com/libretro/RustyNES>) for in-RetroArch use. **Zero emulation-core changes** — the deterministic `#![no_std]` chip stack, save-state / TAS / netplay formats, and every golden vector are byte-identical to v2.2.3, so **AccuracyCoin holds 141/141 (100.00%)**, nestest 0-diff, by construction. The work is a libretro-completeness audit + metadata correction: the core is confirmed to inherit every v2.2.3 change automatically (the fast-dot-path default, the `PPU_SNAPSHOT_VERSION` 8 / APU v4 save-state schema handled transparently by the dynamic `snapshot_core_into` sizing, the `Mapper::mix_audio` i32 widening, the Zapper model, and the `mNNN_` mapper rename), and both buildbot cross-ABIs the GitHub gate models — `x86_64-pc-windows-gnu` and `aarch64-linux-android` — build clean. `rustynes_libretro.info` (the metadata RetroArch's core downloader reads) is corrected: **`disk_control` `false` → `true`** (the FDS multi-side Disk Control interface has been wired since the buildbot recipe landed, but was advertised as absent — the real fix), `display_version` `v1.0.0` → `v2.2.4`, and the mapper count `168` → `172`. Also: the reviewer-tooling standardization onto the shared Antigravity template rides along (`scripts/agy-review.sh` + workflow). Documented libretro follow-up: **core options** (region / overscan / palette / accuracy toggles) remain unexposed (`core_options = "false"` is accurate, not stale) — a deliberate future enhancement, not a v2.2.4 gap. See `docs/STATUS.md` (single source of truth) + `CHANGELOG.md` `[2.2.4]` + `docs/libretro/`. | ||
| - **Release line since v2.1.0:** the v2.1.x **"Fathom"** accuracy line (v2.1.0 → v2.1.10) → **v2.2.0 "Capstone"** (the milestone cut closing the "deepen the existing project" run) → **v2.2.1** (housekeeping) → **v2.2.2 "Conduit"** (build / distribution / CI-integrity) → **v2.2.3 "Datum"** (performance appraisal + the last two Holy Mapperel residuals closed) → **v2.2.4 "Cartridge"** (the libretro/RetroArch distribution cut) → **v2.2.5 "Colophon"** → **v2.2.6 "Almanac"** → **v2.2.7 "Timbre II"** → **v2.2.8 "Aperture II"** → **v2.2.9 "Studio II"** → **v2.3.0 "Datum II"** → **v2.3.1 "Plumb Line"** → **v2.3.2 "Lucid"** → **v2.3.3 "Cadence"** → **v2.3.4 "Ledger"** → **v2.3.5 "Manifest"** → **v2.3.6 "Sounding"** → **v2.3.7 "Overtone"** → **v2.3.8 "Parallax"** → **v2.3.9 "Crucible"** → the **v2.4.x "Fabric"** co-simulation line (**v2.4.1 "Fabric"** → **v2.4.2 "Cairn"** → **v2.4.3 "Touchstone"** → **v2.4.4 "Ignition"** → **v2.4.5 "Compass"** → **v2.4.6 "Abacus"** → **v2.4.7 "Keystone"** → **v2.4.8 "Palimpsest"** → **v2.4.9 "Plumbline II"** → **v2.5.0 "Rungwork"** → **v2.5.1 "Retrace"** → **v2.5.2 "Dormant"** → **v2.5.3 "Hysteresis"** → **v2.5.4 "Escapement"** → **v2.5.5 "Raster"** → **v2.5.6 "Vestige"** → **v2.5.7 "Collimation"** → **v2.5.8 "Blanking"** → **v2.5.9 "Overture"** → **v2.6.0 "Assay"** → **v2.6.1 "Interleave"** → **v2.6.2 "Witness"** → **v2.6.3 "Mainspring"** → **v2.6.4 "Rubric"**, the current release). AccuracyCoin holds **141/141** throughout — but not always *by construction*: v2.3.4, v2.3.7, v2.3.9 and the rung-3 releases v2.5.4-v2.5.6 change the core, so for those the number is **verified** rather than inherited, and saying which is which is the point. **Full per-release detail is in `CHANGELOG.md` and `docs/STATUS.md` (the single source of truth)** — the entries below (v2.1.0 "Fathom" was the prior anchor here; v2.0.8 → v2.0.1) are the older historical trail, retained rather than duplicated. | ||
| - **Release line since v2.1.0:** the v2.1.x **"Fathom"** accuracy line (v2.1.0 → v2.1.10) → **v2.2.0 "Capstone"** (the milestone cut closing the "deepen the existing project" run) → **v2.2.1** (housekeeping) → **v2.2.2 "Conduit"** (build / distribution / CI-integrity) → **v2.2.3 "Datum"** (performance appraisal + the last two Holy Mapperel residuals closed) → **v2.2.4 "Cartridge"** (the libretro/RetroArch distribution cut) → **v2.2.5 "Colophon"** → **v2.2.6 "Almanac"** → **v2.2.7 "Timbre II"** → **v2.2.8 "Aperture II"** → **v2.2.9 "Studio II"** → **v2.3.0 "Datum II"** → **v2.3.1 "Plumb Line"** → **v2.3.2 "Lucid"** → **v2.3.3 "Cadence"** → **v2.3.4 "Ledger"** → **v2.3.5 "Manifest"** → **v2.3.6 "Sounding"** → **v2.3.7 "Overtone"** → **v2.3.8 "Parallax"** → **v2.3.9 "Crucible"** → the **v2.4.x "Fabric"** co-simulation line (**v2.4.1 "Fabric"** → **v2.4.2 "Cairn"** → **v2.4.3 "Touchstone"** → **v2.4.4 "Ignition"** → **v2.4.5 "Compass"** → **v2.4.6 "Abacus"** → **v2.4.7 "Keystone"** → **v2.4.8 "Palimpsest"** → **v2.4.9 "Plumbline II"** → **v2.5.0 "Rungwork"** → **v2.5.1 "Retrace"** → **v2.5.2 "Dormant"** → **v2.5.3 "Hysteresis"** → **v2.5.4 "Escapement"** → **v2.5.5 "Raster"** → **v2.5.6 "Vestige"** → **v2.5.7 "Collimation"** → **v2.5.8 "Blanking"** → **v2.5.9 "Overture"** → **v2.6.0 "Assay"** → **v2.6.1 "Interleave"** → **v2.6.2 "Witness"** → **v2.6.3 "Mainspring"** → **v2.6.4 "Rubric"** → **v2.6.5 "Muster"**, the current release). AccuracyCoin holds **141/141** throughout — but not always *by construction*: v2.3.4, v2.3.7, v2.3.9 and the rung-3 releases v2.5.4-v2.5.6 change the core, so for those the number is **verified** rather than inherited, and saying which is which is the point. **Full per-release detail is in `CHANGELOG.md` and `docs/STATUS.md` (the single source of truth)** — the entries below (v2.1.0 "Fathom" was the prior anchor here; v2.0.8 → v2.0.1) are the older historical trail, retained rather than duplicated. |
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Correct the release version.
Line 63 says v2.66.5 "Muster", but the release is v2.6.5 "Muster" as stated on Line 58. Correct the lineage entry so it does not name a nonexistent tag.
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-... v2.66.5 "Muster" ...
+... v2.6.5 "Muster" ...Based on learnings: release-state documentation must use the correct current tag and distinguish shipped, current, and unshipped status.
As per path instructions: “Docs are the spec here, not a changelog.”
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In `@to-dos/ROADMAP.md` at line 63, Correct the current release identifier in the
release-lineage entry from v2.66.5 to v2.6.5, keeping the existing “Muster”
label and surrounding release history unchanged.
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CI found three things on PR #475. All three are real, and one of them was visible locally and I read past it. 1. THE READ_JOY3 GOLDENS MOVED, AND THEY SHOULD HAVE. `count_errors.nes` and `count_errors_fast.nes` are the two ROMs that stress controller reads racing DMC DMA, and this branch fixes `Controller::write_strobe`, which dropped an owed shift unconditionally -- the first defect this programme's co-simulation proved in the ORACLE rather than in the DUT. That is exactly the subsystem those ROMs exercise; the test's own module doc named it in advance as "suspect subsystem if these hashes ever drift". A changed hash is not evidence of direction, so the screens were decoded on both sides rather than the vectors being accepted because they moved. Measured on a `main` worktree against this branch: count_errors.nes Conflicts: 149/1000 -> 134/1000 count_errors_fast.nes Errors: 75/1000 -> 58/1000 Both fall, neither reaches zero, and the rendered screens carry fewer per-iteration error markers. That is the direction a dropped-shift fix should produce: fewer controller-read errors with the conflict model still ACTIVE. The failure mode the snapshot exists to catch -- the count dropping TOWARD ZERO, i.e. the conflict model disabled -- is not what happened, and neither ROM halts at its `test_failed`. The module doc is updated with the before/after table. It asserted "Conflicts: 149/1000" as the locked value, and leaving that while changing the vector underneath it is how prose becomes a confident lie about the code below it. 2. THE RELEASE NOTES WERE HARD-WRAPPED. `release_notes_render_audit` refuses that: GitHub renders release bodies with GFM hard line breaks, so a wrapped paragraph displays as a ragged column broken mid-sentence. Reflowed with the tool the failure message names, `scripts/release-automation/reflow.py`. THIS ONE FAILED LOCALLY TOO AND I MISSED IT. The verification run was `cargo test --workspace 2>&1 | grep -E "test result: FAILED|error|..." | head -5`, and `head -5` was filled by test NAMES containing "error" before the FAILED line was reached. I looked at those five lines, called them noise, and reported the suite green. A filter plus a head is not a result; the count is. This commit's own verification is `grep -c "test result: FAILED"` on the whole output, which reads 0, and the same on the release `--features test-roms` suite that CI runs -- the one the earlier check skipped entirely in favour of two named batteries. 3. A YANKED CRATE. `cargo deny` reported `chacha20` yanked. `cargo update -p chacha20` moves 0.10.1 -> 0.10.2; `cargo deny check` now exits 0 with advisories, bans, licenses and sources all ok. VERIFICATION. cargo test --workspace 0 FAILED cargo test --workspace --release --features test-roms 0 FAILED release_notes_render_audit 2 passed read_joy3 4 passed cargo deny check exit 0
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Cuts v2.6.5 "Muster", and carries the oracle-side work that let rung 5 close
in the sibling (RustyNES_MiSTer#2).
A muster is a roll call where every name is called and answered — this
release's two-clause acceptance exactly:
The second clause is v2.6.4's addition, and without it an identical vector over
entries that never executed is a pass — and was one, with 58
NotRunon bothsides.
What is in this PR
The instrument that closed the rung.
PpuStateRecordgainscpu_cycle(schema 4) and
data_buffer(schema 3), which is what made the two consolescomparable per dot at all. The bus stamps it at two call sites, and wiring
only
tick_one_cpu_cycle— the harness path — left every record0while thefield, the column and the plumbing all looked correct.
nes_golden_exportgainsan opt-in
--ppu-state-traceexport.One default-path emulation change:
Controller::write_strobedropped anowed shift unconditionally. This is the first time the co-simulation has proved
the oracle wrong rather than the DUT — ADR 0037 says it can be, and here it
was. So AccuracyCoin 141/141 and nestest 0-diff are verified in this PR, not
held by construction:
Five AccuracyCoin sub-test ROMs, built from the MIT-licensed upstream source.
Two are documented as deliberately unregistered: the oracle itself fails
sprite-zero-hit-behavior($457 = $06, the very first assertion) because thestreamlined boot omits VRAM state the full battery establishes, and
subtest_verdict.pycorrectly refuses a comparison whose oracle side is not apass. Kept with their reason rather than deleted, so the isolation is not
re-attempted every few sessions.
A CI hole this branch opened, and closed.
state_trace_records_carry_their_cpu_cycleis gated onppu-state-traceand noCI step enabled that feature, so it ran nowhere — a regression test the gate
could not reach, guarding precisely the present-but-constant-field defect that
shipped earlier on this branch. The step could not simply be added, because
cargo test --features ppu-state-tracewas red:fast_path_does_not_bypass_the_ fetch_tracerefuses with "the fast path ran only 0 times … proving nothing".That refusal is the guard working — the feature compiles the fast dot path away,
so the property does not exist in that build — and it is now
#![cfg(not(feature = "ppu-state-trace"))]with its reason, rather than leftfailing. Verified in both directions, since gating a test out entirely is the
obvious way to "fix" this while losing coverage.
The release cut
Moved with
scripts/release-automation/bump_release.py, which demotes theprevious lead into the chain rather than mechanically overwriting it — 15 anchors
across 11 documents, both manifests, the libretro
.info, bothCargo.locks.The anchor audit caught one the marker bump cannot reach.
to-dos/ROADMAP.mdcarries a release chain whose tail is labelled "the currentrelease" — a second claim:
Extended and relabelled in one edit, as its failure message instructs.
docs/STATUS.mdmoves to "Rungs 3, 4 and 5 CLOSED".to-dos/mister/TASKS.mdis re-scoped, not silently renumbered: rung 6 moves v2.6.5 → v2.6.6 with a
note saying why — rung 5 did not close at v2.6.4, so under the ladder rule
v2.6.5 was spent closing it. A schedule that slips without saying so is
indistinguishable from one that was never planned.
Verification
fmtRUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo docno_stdthumbv7em-none-eabihfcargo test --workspacerelease_anchor_auditcompared >= 8000, so a vacuous run cannot satisfy itCaveats worth stating
The
$2006v-copy delay's depth is under-determined by the gate: 1–4 dots allclose
Hybrid Addresses, 8 and 12 fail. The shipped 1 is the wiki's documentedminimum, chosen from documentation because the gate cannot distinguish inside the
passing window. An independent oracle for it would be hardware.
And the rung-5 gate is a 2 KiB RAM dump compared entry for entry — it says both
consoles reached the same verdicts, not how. A compensating error pair landing
on the right verdict is invisible to it. What raises confidence past the verdict
is that each fix is pinned by a CAUGHT mutation and backed by a rule stated in
the wiki or in the ROM's own source.
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