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Three maintainer requests after v2.9.0 merged.
1. The v2.9.x plan gains "SDRAM and DDR3: what the SuperStation One's
memory makes possible", from research in the project and on the
Internet (MiSTer framework docs, the SS1's published specs, datasheets,
nesdev), with no NES emulator or NES core source read. Every factual
claim is tagged: read at the source, a search summary only, measured
here, or inference.
Four facts decide the placements:
- the SDRAM is on FPGA pins and private to the fabric; the HPS reaches
a core only through hps_io and DDR3;
- the framework keeps save states in a DDR3 `SS` region, and existing
rewind implementations use DDR3 too;
- the cartridge needs about 1 MB: 8 of the per-game database's 2,682
images exceed 512 KiB PRG or 256 KiB CHR;
- but the on-die caps (256/128 KiB) already exclude real games: of
2,170 titles on this core's six mapper families, 141 (53 USA, among
them Kirby's Adventure, Mega Man 5 and 6) fit only the off-die build.
Measured against crates/rustynes-gamedb and emu.sv's caps.
Fourteen candidates are placed:
- S1, the NR-08 bank split, goes to v2.9.1;
- S2, a slot-scheduled arbiter, is decided at v2.9.1 by whether S1
restores CPU margin (today 24 of 24 on the console);
- S3, which build is the headline, is an input to v3.0.0;
- mapper breadth, save states, rewind, freed-M10K features, FDS,
cheats, RetroAchievements (fork only) and TAS come after v3.0.0;
- Lua and a debugger are not planned;
- run-ahead, rollback netplay, HD packs and HD audio are infeasible or
not recommended, each with its reason.
2. v2.9.1's row is adjusted with what v2.9.0 and its review deferred:
- NL-09 and the matching dual restore buffer;
- NR-08;
- the ladder skipping the instruction battery under `.oracle-pinned`;
- the timing check's hard-coded SDRAM period;
- a PLL ratio check.
The row also now cites ab_check.sh's evidence rule instead of the
retired ">3%".
3. VERSION-PLAN.md now says what "public API" means, which v2.9.0's
review found unwritten. The SemVer surface is rustynes-core's public
API (with the chip types it re-exports) and the .rns/.rnm formats.
Every other crate's items are internal, since nothing here is
published to crates.io, but user-noticeable changes still go in the
CHANGELOG. This states existing practice, and the entry cites it:
v2.3.3, a PATCH, changed a frontend pub fn and deleted a public field.
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…ny target The reference half of NL-09's A/B. v2.9.0 measured the Vs. DualSystem cabinet's save-state path in a scratchpad probe and could not adopt a fix: scripts/perf/ab_check.sh ran only the `full_frame` target, and a serialize change does not move a frame. So the adoption rule could not be applied as written, and the ledger said so. - ab_check.sh gains `--target <bench>` (default `full_frame`, unchanged behaviour). Every `cargo bench --bench full_frame` becomes the target variable, and the output filter matches any workload name, not only `nes_run_frame*`. - benches/snapshot_restore.rs gains `vs_dual_serialize` and `vs_dual_restore`, run against today's API (`VsDualSystem::snapshot` and `::restore`, exactly what the libretro core calls). They are named for the job, not the method, so the next commit can change the method and criterion still compares like with like. The cabinet is a minimal NES 2.0 mapper 99 / Vs. type 5 image whose two halves spin on a self-JMP, warmed 60 frames; the serialized work does not depend on what the programs do. One indicative run on a loaded host (a Quartus compile alongside): serialize ~100 us, restore ~344 us. These are not the A/B; the A/B runs against this commit as its reference, twice, with the order-bias control. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
…mpared A with A Two findings in one change, because the first could not be measured until the second was fixed. 1. NL-09, adopted. `VsDualSystem::snapshot_into(&mut self, out)` writes the same RVSD container as `snapshot`, but each console block is a `snapshot_core_into` blob with no THM thumbnail. It passes through one scratch buffer pooled on the cabinet (a console's encoder clears the buffer it is given, so blocks cannot be encoded in place) into the caller's reused buffer. The libretro core's retro_serialize and its serialize_size use it; `snapshot` keeps its thumbnails for the desktop slot picker. The A/B, two independent runs, against 1430961 (the old path, same bench names): - serialize: 45.2 us, -88.9% (p = 0.00) in run 1; 44.0 us, -88.5% (p = 0.00) in run 2, against about 370 us; - order-bias control drift on serialize: -7.1% and -4.2%. So the gain clears the drift by an order of magnitude, twice. A pooled restore backup was measured and REJECTED. Restore moved -12.2% and -10.6%, exactly its control's -11.1% and -10.9%. One ~250 KB allocation per restore is not where a cabinet restore's time goes (two full console restores are), so that half was reverted. Tests (vs_dualsystem_synth): - snapshot_into_round_trips_into_a_fresh_cabinet: restore into a fresh cabinet, byte-identical re-serialize, 30 frames cycle- and framebuffer-identical, and a reused buffer keeps no stale bytes; - a_valid_restore_after_a_rejected_one_still_lands. Writing the two consoles in the wrong order fails both; removing the rollback fails the existing atomicity test. 2. scripts/perf/ab_check.sh ran the REFERENCE's binary as the candidate. The first A/B of this change read ~380 us on both sides, which a 6-20x change cannot produce. The bench binary in target/ still carried the deleted reference worktree's CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR (its ROM lookup panicked under /tmp/.../base), and a working-tree `cargo bench` "finished in 0.11s" having compiled nothing. Mechanism: both sides built into one CARGO_TARGET_DIR. Cargo names a workspace member's artifacts by a hash of its path relative to the workspace root, so the two trees collide. Freshness is by mtime, so working-tree edits made before the run looked older than the reference build. After touching the sources, the real candidate read 48.8 us. Fixed: the reference builds into ${work}/target-ref, and CRITERION_HOME is pinned to target/criterion so the candidate still finds the ab_ref baseline. The banner no longer says ">3%"; the evidence rule printed at the end is the rule. Consequence, recorded in docs/performance.md and docs/agents/perf-and-panels.md: every earlier code-mode (--base) result is UNVERIFIED until re-measured. Feature-flag A/Bs were unaffected. Some earlier code-mode results (v2.7.5's IMP-07, -0.89% at p = 0.00 twice) are hard to produce from a self-comparison, so this does not claim they are wrong -- only that the tool did not establish them. Ledgers: libretro NL-09 gains a v2.9.1 row (FIXED serialize, restore pooling REJECTED); the core ledger's "dual restore allocates" note now records that measurement. docs/libretro/{architecture,advanced_features}.md and the lib.rs module doc name snapshot_into. Gates: fmt; clippy for core, libretro and the test harness; libretro 38 passed; vs_dualsystem_synth 6 passed; markdownlint and the release audits pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
…e defect Follow-up to ddc1ccf, which moved the REFERENCE out of the shared target/ after finding that ab_check.sh --base ran the reference's binary as the candidate. A controlled test settles whether that defect was general or a one-off. The candidate's serialize bench was edited to do the work TWICE: - the script as of 1430961 (before the fix) reported "No change in performance detected", 46.0 us on both sides; - the fixed script, on the same candidate, reported +146% (p = 0.00), against order-bias drift of +10% on a loaded host. The bench was restored afterwards and the probe copy of the old script removed. The first attempt at that second measurement exposed a remaining leak. The candidate still built into target/, where the old script's run had left same-named artifacts, newer than the working tree and built from a since-deleted worktree. Cargo reported them fresh, and the bench panicked on the dead worktree's ROM path. Both sides now build into fresh per-run directories (target-cand, target-ref under the run's mktemp dir), so neither can inherit a binary. That costs one full build per side per run; the reference already paid it. Records corrected. The first write-up named v2.7.5's IMP-07 (-0.89%) as a result at risk. It is not: it was a manual A/B/A in one tree. The results at risk are the code-mode REJECTIONS -- v2.7.5's probe table and v2.7.6's deletion probes, all "zero" -- because a self-comparison reports exactly that. docs/performance.md, docs/agents/perf-and-panels.md and the v2.9.x plan (which schedules their re-measurement for v2.9.1, on a quiet host) say so. Also: docs/agents/mister-cosim.md's v2.9.0 note on the skipped instruction battery gains the correction. The pinned clone lacked nothing the oracle tracks; the ROMs were being read from an untracked fetched corpus. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
The v2.9.x plan left S2 (a slot-scheduled SDRAM arbiter) for v2.9.1 to decide: build it only if S1, CHR in its own bank (NR-08), did not restore the CPU's margin. S1 is measured now (sibling docs/sdram.md, "v2.9.1: CHR in its own bank"): on three console workloads the worst CHR fetch went 20 -> 18 of 22 cycles, and the worst PRG read stayed at 22 of 24. Decision: S2 waits until after v3.0.0. - The bound on PRG is refresh, not the CHR/PRG row conflict S1 removed. A refresh precharges every bank, so the access after it misses wherever the rows are. A scheduler would have to place refresh in known-idle slots to move it. - Nothing before v3.0.0 adds SDRAM traffic (S4-S12 all land after it), so nothing needs more margin before then. - Rewriting the arbiter one release before the first board session (v2.9.2) would put an untested design on the board. Correction: the plan said the CPU deadline was met at "zero margin (24 of 24 on the console)". That is v2.6.16's figure. The v2.9.0 tree measures 22 of 24 on all three workloads, before and after NR-08, so the margin is 2 cycles. The synthetic arbiter-gate worst case is still 26 of 24, and the plan keeps that number. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
…them The second release of the v2.9.x line (ADR 0041). Emulation output does not change; no hardware has run any bitstream. The tool that judges optimisations was fixed earlier on this branch (1a7af8a): scripts/perf/ab_check.sh built both sides into one cargo target directory, so a code-mode run compared the reference binary with itself and could only ever say "no change". This commit records what that meant. Re-measurement (docs/performance.md, "v2.9.1 -- the code-mode rejections, re-measured with the fixed tool"). Twelve rejections were rebuilt: v2.7.6's probe.py strings verbatim (A, B, C, S36), v2.7.5's salvaged diffs (IMP04, PAL, IMP05), and four rebuilt from this file's prose (G7, G8, G2, D6). Two independent ab_check runs each, AB_MEASUREMENT_TIME=25, CPUs 2-5 pinned, every run started only below a one-minute load of 1.5. A first queue measured nothing: the tmpfs /tmp was full and every run died at `git worktree add` in seconds, which is now a trap in docs/agents/perf-and-panels.md (set TMPDIR to disk). - Overturned: §3.1 C, the per-dot sample_nmi_edge call. -4.54/-4.73% on flowing_palette and -4.09/-4.61% on its _fast variant, controls within +/-0.8%. It feeds only the deprecated poll_nmi. Kept for v3.0.0 by maintainer decision: removing it now changes a deprecated method's result and two .rns fields in a MINOR release. ADR 0042 gains a dated amendment with the number and a v3.0.0 gate (the removal should show the speed-up). - Overturned: two ceilings v2.7.5 called zero. Deleting the palette mirror: -4.1% to -4.8% on both palette workloads. Skipping cpu_read_unmapped (§3.6): -2.2/-2.7% nestest, -1.5/-2.5% nestest_fast. - Correct candidates under both ceilings, built and measured the same way: CAP (a defaulted Mapper::prg_window_can_float capability, cached by the bus, maintainer request, with a sweep test over every mapper number plus FDS and NSF and three caught mutants), PALTAB (a 32-entry const fold table) and PALARITH (a branchless fold). All three REJECTED: nestest_fast, the shipped path, is slower in both runs (+0.5% to +1.4% net of control) while the palette workloads gain at most ~1.2%. The ceiling's §3.6 gain came from deleting the whole unmapped branch; the capability keeps it. CAP run 1 overlapped other applications closing and a service stop; its nestest control moved -1.63%, and run 2 agrees with it net of control. - Still rejected, now on evidence: A and IMP-04 (mixed sign), B, the kept bg_reload_render store, IMP-05, G7, G8 (+5.8/+6.1% on nestest_fast) and D6 (slower). G2 (#[repr(C)] on Ppu) is recorded as a lead: -2.3% twice on the exact path, but nestest_fast does not move. - Unverified, stated as such: v2.3.1 G3-G6, G9 and v2.3.6 D1, D3 survive only as prose too loose to rebuild the exact candidate. The evidence (logs, probe.py, drive.sh, summ.py, cap.diff) is in the gitignored salvaged/rustynes-perf-evidence-v2.9.1/. Release: bump_release.py to 2.9.1 (the top-level ROADMAP status line and the to-dos/ROADMAP release chain were written by hand, as the script asked), CHANGELOG [2.9.1], VERSION-PLAN row, .github/release-notes/v2.9.1.md, the current-state paragraphs in AGENTS.md and README (their v2.9.0 figures -- seed 5, the separately-run battery, 2,811 tests -- were still stated as current), the core ledger rows IMP-04/05/06, §3.1, §3.6. Verified on this tree: cargo test --release --workspace --features test-roms 2,812 passed / 0 failed / 20 ignored; AccuracyCoin 144/144 (RAM decoder) and the nestest golden log; fmt; clippy for the workspace, scripting, scripting+hd-pack, retroachievements, full and both wasm32 invocations; rustdoc -D warnings; the no_std thumbv7em build; markdownlint; all twelve harness audits re-run after the last prose edit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
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What changed in this PR
This PR releases RustyNES v2.9.1, corrects benchmark isolation, improves Vs. dual-system serialization, and updates release documentation.
Changes:
- Adds pooled dual-system serialization and tests.
- Fixes A/B benchmark target isolation.
- Updates performance findings, plans, manifests, and release metadata.
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VERSION-PLAN.md |
Updates release plan and API policy. |
to-dos/plans/v2.9.x-final-audit-and-hardware-plan.md |
Records optimization and hardware plans. |
SUPPORT.md |
Updates current release support. |
SECURITY.md |
Updates supported version. |
scripts/perf/ab_check.sh |
Isolates benchmark targets and adds target selection; documentation and Criterion configuration need correction. |
ROADMAP.md |
Updates project status; metadata date needs alignment. |
README.md |
Updates release and performance summary. |
OVERVIEW.md |
Updates applicable release; metadata date needs alignment. |
docs/performance.md |
Records measurements and decisions; placeholder and adoption-rule documentation need correction. |
docs/libretro/architecture.md |
Documents serialization behavior. |
docs/libretro/advanced_features.md |
Updates dual save-state behavior. |
docs/audits/libretro-disposition.md |
Updates NL-09 disposition and traceability. |
docs/audits/core-disposition.md |
Records optimization verdicts. |
docs/agents/perf-and-panels.md |
Documents benchmark guidance and caveats. |
docs/agents/mister-cosim.md |
Updates co-simulation guidance. |
docs/adr/0042-v3-removes-the-v2-7-5-deprecations-and-the-dead-nmi-edge-detector.md |
Adds measured decision amendment. |
crates/rustynes-test-harness/tests/vs_dualsystem_synth.rs |
Tests dual serialization and rejected restores. |
crates/rustynes-libretro/src/lib.rs |
Integrates dual serialization; direct ABI coverage is still needed. |
crates/rustynes-libretro/rustynes_libretro.info |
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crates/rustynes-cosim/Cargo.toml |
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crates/rustynes-cosim/Cargo.lock |
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crates/rustynes-core/src/vs_dualsystem.rs |
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crates/rustynes-core/benches/snapshot_restore.rs |
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CHANGELOG.md |
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Cargo.toml |
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VsDualSystem::snapshot_intoand its scratch buffer are implemented inrustynes-core. The claim that the core is untouched and serialization is purely an FFI-wrapper branch is now false. State instead that the change does not alter emulated state.As per path instructions: “Docs are the spec here, not a changelog. Flag documentation that drifts from the code it describes rather than just prose nits.”
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… the fix Copilot round 1 on #562, all three findings real. - docs/performance.md still carried the token PALETTE_CANDIDATE_RESULT in the v2.9.1 decision paragraph. The replacement that should have removed it had no count assertion and silently matched nothing (the paragraph wraps at a different point than the search string assumed), and the placeholder check run before commit grepped for "PLACEHOLDER", which this token does not contain. It now says the candidates were built and rejected, pointing at the table below it. - scripts/perf/ab_check.sh's header still described the tool as judging against "the >3% adoption bar" (twice) and said both sides share one target directory. The first contradicts the evidence rule the script prints; the second is exactly the defect v2.9.1 fixed. Both now describe what the script does. Comment-only; `bash -n` passes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
…e serialize lives CodeRabbit round 1 on #562, both real. - to-dos/plans/v2.9.x-final-audit-and-hardware-plan.md said this core's six mapper families cover 2,170 database titles and listed 2,022 + 141 + 6 = 2,169. Re-measured from crates/rustynes-gamedb/src/game_database.txt against emu.sv's PRG_MAX_KB / CHR_MAX_KB (on-die 256 / 128, off-die 512 / 256; PRG banks x 16 KiB, CHR banks x 8 KiB): on-die 2,022, off-die only 141, MMC1 SUROM 6, and ONE that fits neither -- "Street Heroes (Asia) (Unl)", listed as mapper 0 with 512 KiB each of PRG and CHR. The total was right and a group was missing. The SUROM six also include Final Fantasy I, II and Ninjara Hoi!, so the parenthetical now says "among them". - docs/libretro/advanced_features.md said the no_std core is untouched and serialize is purely an FFI-wrapper branch. Since v2.9.1 the wrapper calls VsDualSystem::snapshot_into, which is in rustynes-core with its pooled scratch buffer. It now says so (an outside-diff finding in the review body). markdownlint passes on the changed files. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
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Copilot's #562 overview noted the libretro serialize change (NL-09, retro_serialize now going through VsDualSystem::snapshot_into) lacked direct ABI coverage. The harness already sent a dual state through retro_serialize, but only to show a REJECTED state being refused. Nothing loaded the frontend's own dual state back through retro_unserialize. New: a_dual_cabinet_state_round_trips_through_the_abi. Save at frame 10, run 50 more, load the save through retro_unserialize (must return true), and a fresh save must equal it byte for byte. Mutation: writing each block's length prefix one too long in snapshot_into makes the load fail, so the test fails; restored, it passes (39 libretro tests, 1 selected). Its limit, stated in the doc comment: both consoles run the same program in this cabinet, so it proves the container's framing and lengths, not the order of the two blocks. The core's snapshot_into_round_trips_into_a_fresh_cabinet owns the order and catches a swap. fmt and clippy -p rustynes-libretro --all-targets -D warnings pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
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…ate pair (#563) * docs(plan): v2.9.2 "Candidate" -- the full audit, its ledger, and the RC pair The maintainer added a fifth audit to v2.9.2 (2026-09-27): one AI-written report covering both repositories, 32 findings AUD-01..AUD-32 (20 in the oracle, 12 in the MiSTer sibling). It was supplied at docs/full-audit-report.md and is moved, byte-identical (md5 0d61e815483f4d96737c9648781e61f2), to docs/audits/v2.9.2-full-audit-report.md, the place the maintainer's 2026-09-22 decision puts every audit. Like the v2.9.0 re-audit reports it is exempt from markdownlint so it is never edited; it passes the linter today anyway. - to-dos/plans/v2.9.2-candidate-plan.md: the line plan's v2.9.2 (the release-candidate .rbf pair and the board session) plus the audit. The RTL findings change the design, so they land before the pair is cut. The gate is stated per item: every AUD row gets a verdict with evidence; a FIXED row needs a red-first test and a caught mutation; the oracle's test-roms, AccuracyCoin 144/144 and nestest hold; the RTL ladder, seed sweep and double compiles run on the final design; performance-shaped rows need the ab_check evidence rule or are behaviour-free by construction. - Known before triage: AUD-04 (the dead NMI detector) is already decided for v3.0.0 by ADR 0042; AUD-21 (arbiter lost write) covers the path v2.8.4 reworked; AUD-17 was declined on #562 as unmeasured and is re-examined. - Blocked here and recorded as such: the board strands A-F need the maintainer at the SuperStation One; the Swift changes (AUD-10, AUD-14) cannot be compiled on this machine and join the v2.9.3 device checklist. - docs/audits/v2.9.2-full-audit-disposition.md: the ledger, one PENDING row per finding, generated from the report's own master table so the IDs and claims match it exactly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix(libretro): withdraw memory maps at deinit, size the serialize buffer at load Three of the v2.9.2 full audit's six libretro findings (AUD-15..20) were acted on; three were closed without a change. Ledger: docs/audits/v2.9.2-full-audit-disposition.md. AUD-16 -- memory maps at retro_deinit (defence in depth). The report's premise is wrong: libretro.h:3923 says retro_unload_game is "Called before retro_deinit", and RetroArch honours it. But on_deinit already caters for a frontend that skips unload -- it still writes the FDS disk and drops the console -- and on that path it freed WRAM/SRAM/CIRAM while the frontend still held SET_MEMORY_MAPS descriptors pointing into them. A new withdraw_memory_maps(cb), gated on memory_maps_registered, now runs from both on_unload_game (unchanged behaviour) and on_deinit, before the drop. After a normal unload the flag is already clear, so a conforming frontend sees no extra environment call. Red: abi_tests::deinit_without_unload_withdraws_the_memory_maps left 3 descriptors registered. It also asserts that unload followed by deinit makes zero further SET_MEMORY_MAPS calls (new MAP_SETS counter in the harness). Mutants: dropping the deinit call (3 left), ignoring the flag (1 extra call) -- both caught. AUD-17 -- serialize_buffer sized at load. The sizing snapshot used a throwaway Vec, so the first retro_serialize -- the first run-ahead or rollback frame -- grew serialize_buffer from nothing (~260 KB; ~645 KB for a Vs. cabinet). The new size_serialize_buffer() snapshots INTO serialize_buffer with the same encoder on_serialize calls (snapshot_core_into / VsDualSystem::snapshot_into), so serialize_size is unchanged, and reserves SAVE_STATE_DEVICE_HEADROOM for a single console so a Zapper attached later does not reallocate either. This is allocation placement, not a speed claim; no bench reaches it. Red: no_serialize_reallocates_the_buffer_sized_at_load (the first serialize grew it; counted by a #[cfg(test)] SERIALIZE_BUFFER_GROWTHS in on_serialize, following the INJECT_PANIC_IN_RUN precedent). Mutants: a throwaway Vec for a single console and for a cabinet, and shrink_to_fit, all caught. Dropping the reserve alone is NOT caught -- Vec's amortised growth already leaves more than the 26 bytes of slack the Zapper needs -- so the reserve is kept as the guarantee rather than relied on by accident. AUD-19 -- compose_dual no longer zero-fills 491,520 bytes per frame. The scanline loop writes all four bytes of 256 pixels in both halves of all 240 rows, so every byte is rewritten; the buffer is now resized only when its length is wrong (`!=` rather than the report's `<`, which also handles an oversized buffer). compose_dual_overwrites_every_byte_whatever_the_buffer_held compares against an independently built image from stale 0xAA bytes, a wrong-length single-console frame and an empty buffer. As an equivalence test it has no red; skipping the last row and not writing the X byte are both caught. Unmeasured: ab_check.sh cannot reach the Vs. path (as L-2.6), so this is recorded as removal of provably dead work, not a measured gain. Closed without a change: - AUD-15 REFUTED. disk_image_label has no unwinding panic: side_label is total (pinned at 0, 25, 26, 255, 256, u32::MAX by side_label_is_total_at_its_edges), format! of a char/u32 cannot fail, len-1 is guarded. The only reachable panic! is inside rust-libretro's own extern "C" trampoline, which aborts at its own boundary where no outer catch_unwind could reach it. - AUD-18 DECLINED. The bitwise form equals the current nes_buttons on all 65,536 inputs, but rustc 1.96 at -O3 already emits the same 8-instruction branch-free sequence for the current code (--emit asm, no jumps). Zero codegen gain for a tie to two external bit layouts. - AUD-20 NOT A DEFECT, duplicate of L-3.2: the buildbot builds with cargo --target from .gitlab-ci.yml and never reads the Makefile's platform table; `make -n platform=unix RUST_TARGET=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu` already prints the right cross build. Verified: cargo test -p rustynes-libretro 43 passed (39 + 4 new) on the merged tree; the two libretro harness audits 10 passed; clippy and cargo doc clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix(core): VRC save states keep cartridge RAM; FDS 32-bit wrap; unmapped reads latch Three of the v2.9.2 full audit's core findings, each pinned by a test that failed first and a mutation of the fix that the test catches. AUD-05 is declined. Ledger: docs/audits/v2.9.2-full-audit-disposition.md. AUD-02 -- Konami VRC2/4/6/7 save states dropped cartridge RAM. The .rns container carries cartridge RAM only inside the mapper's own MAP blob (bus.rs), and mappers 21-26 and 85 left their 8 KiB of $6000-$7FFF PRG-RAM out of it, plus their 8 KiB of CHR-RAM on a board without CHR-ROM. Every state load, rewind step, run-ahead frame and netplay rollback therefore kept the RUNNING game's RAM. Each blob now appends a RAM tail after every older field: VRC2/VRC4 section v2, VRC6 v3 (strict on length, after its 23-byte audio tail), VRC7 v3 without `mapper-audio` and v4 with it -- two numbers so the synthesizer tail's presence stays encoded in the version, as v1/v2 already did; on v4 the OPLL restore is bounded to its own bytes. Older versions load and leave the RAM untouched; a truncated tail is rejected. VRC7's version comment claimed v1 carried PRG-RAM; it carried only the enable bit, and the comment is corrected. VRC3 (73) already serialized its RAM; VRC1 (75) has no PRG-RAM. Red: nes.rs vrc_boards_snapshot_carries_prg_ram / _chr_ram (whole machine: fill, snapshot, zero, restore, compare) -- "mapper 21: PRG-RAM not restored from the snapshot". Mutants: dropping VRC4's prg_ram copy and VRC7's CHR copy, both caught. States grow by 8 KiB (16 KiB with CHR-RAM); still plain byte copies, so determinism holds. The sweep that found this also found the same gap on mapper 10 PRG-RAM and on CHR-RAM for 9, 10, 11, 19, 34, 69, 75 and 151. docs/mappers.md lists them as open; they are fixed in a following commit. AUD-01 -- FDS saved_sides wraps on 32-bit. The OOM half of the report is false (nothing allocates from the count), and 64-bit is unaffected: u32::MAX * 65500 is ~2.8e14 and the exact-length check rejects the blob. On wasm32, armv7 and i686 usize is 32 bits, and 65500 = 4 x 16375, so a count of 2^30 wraps the side region to 0 bytes: a blob with NO side data passes the length check and the restore slices past its end. The length is now checked_mul + checked_add and an overflow is MapperError::Invalid. The report's 16-side cap is not taken: the blob's own length bounds the count exactly, and a raw .fds has no side limit. Red on the NDK i686-linux-android target (static, run under unshare because bionic's 32-bit pthread refuses pids > 65535): debug "attempt to multiply with overflow" at fds.rs:2051, release "range end index 106615 out of range for slice of length 41129". The host fuzz target could never see this. Test load_state_rejects_a_side_count_whose_length_wraps_on_32_bit (2^30, 2^30+1, 3*2^30, u32::MAX); mutant caught on i686 release; i686 FDS 70/70. AUD-03 -- an unmapped $4020-$FFFF read skipped the internal data bus. nesdev Open_bus_behavior ("whatever was left to float") and APU $4015 bit 5 ("from the last cycle that did not read $4015") put that value on the CPU's internal latch. The undecoded $4000-$401F arm already fell through to the common tail; only the cartridge arm returned early. They differ only after something drove the external bus alone -- a DMC DMA fetch, or an OAM-DMA put while the 6502 bus is parked in $4000-$401F -- which oam_dma_read_reg_active can then expose. The arm now yields open_bus and falls through; the Game Genie is still not applied to unmapped reads. Red: an_unmapped_cartridge_read_latches_the_floating_value_onto_the_internal_bus (left 0, right 32); restoring the early return is caught. NOTE for the sibling: this moves the oracle past its current pin (47f848c), so the next ORACLE_COMMIT move must re-run VERIFY and the internal-bus gates. AUD-05 DECLINED: the zero-allocation drain exists (drain_audio_into); the remaining drain_all callers are the UniFFI by-value return (MOB-06) and wasm; IMP-07 already adopted; no ab_check workload reaches it. Verified on the fixed code: AccuracyCoin 144/144, nestest 0-diff, harness --features test-roms --release 433 passed / 0 failed, rustynes-mappers lib 785/0 (760/0 without mapper-audio), rustynes-core 218/0, thumbv7em no_std build, cargo doc -D warnings; workspace clippy clean on the merged tree. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix(netplay,frontend,mobile): bound remote frames, release unplugged pads, SOCD Nine of the v2.9.2 full audit's findings (AUD-06..14). All are real. Seven are pinned by a test that failed first; AUD-12 has no host test (a JNI entry point feeding a wgpu surface), and the Swift halves of AUD-10 and AUD-14 are UNCOMPILED on this machine and join the device checklist (docs/mobile-v2.7.4-device-checklist.md, new rows A13-A15 and I16-I19, run at v2.9.3). Ledger: docs/audits/v2.9.2-full-audit-disposition.md. AUD-06 (Critical) -- a peer could size the session's tables. Both the Input and Checksum arms of session.rs `ingest` called ensure_frame(frame) on the remote frame unchecked, growing six per-frame vectors: frame = u32::MAX asks for ~4G entries each, an OOM abort on 64-bit and a usize overflow on wasm32. New MAX_SESSION_FRAME_LOOKAHEAD = 1024 and max_accepted_frame(): current + input_delay + max_rollback_frames + 1024, saturating; a larger frame is dropped before any table is touched. Why it is safe: a peer's newest input is at most current + our delay + its rollback + its delay + 2 (14 frames with defaults), checksums are only sent for confirmed frames, the config is not negotiated on the wire (hence the slack, matching the spectator's existing bound), and inputs are resent until acknowledged. A hostile peer can now force ~115 KiB. Red: len 200001 vs bound 1036; the edge test got 1036, expected 1035. Mutants: Input guard, Checksum guard, `>` -> `>=` -- all caught. The determinism suites over lossy links pass. AUD-13 -- signaling ghost slots. add_to_room re-pointed client_room and left the client in the old room's slots; re-joining took a second slot. join and quick-match now call a new leave_room first, the same path disconnect takes, so the old room's peers get PeerLeft and an emptied room is dropped (the report's patch never told them). 2 red tests, 2 mutants caught. AUD-07 -- gamepad disconnect. Disconnected fell through `_ => {}`, leaving the pad's buttons and stick held on the console and its port taken. The report is half right on exhaustion: gilrs reuses an id only for the same UUID, so it takes four DISTINCT pads coming and going. PadAssignment::release clears buttons and stick and frees the port; an unknown pad is a no-op. PadAssignment is keyed by usize::from(GamepadId) because gilrs cannot build an id in a test. 3 red tests, 4 mutants caught. AUD-08 / AUD-09 / AUD-10 -- opposing directions cancel (neutral SOCD). A real NES D-pad cannot press Up+Down or Left+Right; keyboards, hitboxes, two fingers on a touch pad can, and games glitch on it. Desktop: input::socd_neutral on InputState::player() and again in App::frame_inputs after the on-screen pad, touch and the browser Gamepad API are folded in; opt-out [input] allow_opposing_directions (Settings -> Input). Movie playback, TAStudio, Lua and netplay peers' input are NEVER cleaned, so recordings replay as written. Android: socdNeutral on the combined touch mask (SocdTest.kt red 2/3, then green under :app:testFossDebugUnitTest, which CI does not run). iOS: the report's patch cleaned inside hitTest, a no-op since one point cannot produce opposites; it is applied to the touch union in MultiTouchControlPad.recompute. Desktop: 3 red tests, all 256 masks covered, 6 mutants caught. THIS IS A DEFAULT-ON BEHAVIOUR CHANGE and so collides with the project's off-by-default rule; the default is flagged for the maintainer's decision in the ledger and the PR rather than decided here. AUD-11 -- composite_hd_frame ran outside the v2.7.4 panic containment, every frame, over user-supplied HD-pack data: a panic was a Swift `try!` abort. Its body moved to composite_hd_locked (the #[uniffi::export] impl rejects associated functions) and runs under contained_frame with an empty-Vec fallback, which both hosts already treat as "show the stock picture". Red via the existing injected_frame_fault hook; removing the containment is caught. AUD-12 -- nativeSetIndexFrame allocated 120 KiB per frame. Real, but on the Rust native heap, so the report's "JVM GC churn" framing is wrong. A reused index_buf filled through get_region, mirroring nativeRender; a wrong length or a JNI error still drops the frame. cargo ndk arm64 + x86_64 release-mobile build green; no host test exists for this path (checklist A14). AUD-14 -- iOS turbo on a 30 Hz wall-clock Timer pulsed while paused and drifted in display-link bursts. It now flips every two console frames through a new EmulatorCore.onFrameWillRun hook (the same main thread the gamepad manager runs on), wired in AppModel.openGame. Uncompiled (I17-I18). Verified: fmt; clippy workspace + scripting + retroachievements + full, both wasm32 invocations; cargo doc -D warnings for netplay/frontend/mobile/android; netplay lib 87 + determinism 16, frontend 615, mobile 39, all 0 failed; Android gradle unit tests BUILD SUCCESSFUL. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix(mappers): nine more boards keep cartridge RAM across a save state Follows AUD-02 (the previous core commit), which fixed Konami VRC2/4/6/7. The sweep that found that gap found the same one on other boards; this closes them and replaces the VRC-only tests with one that walks every board. Mechanism. The .rns container carries cartridge RAM only inside each mapper's own MAP blob. Mapper 10 (MMC4) left its 8 KiB of $6000-$7FFF PRG-RAM out of the blob -- the battery RAM of Fire Emblem and Fire Emblem Gaiden (both mapper 10, battery=true in the game DB). Mappers 9 (MMC2), 10, 11 (Color Dreams), 19 (Namco 163), 34 (BNROM / NINA-001; every BNROM board has CHR-RAM, e.g. Deadly Towers), 69 (FME-7), 75 (VRC1) and 151 (Konami VS) left out their 8 KiB of CHR-RAM when the cartridge has no CHR-ROM. On every state load, rewind step, run-ahead frame and netplay rollback, the running game's RAM survived instead of the saved one. The standing test. nes.rs every_board_snapshot_carries_cartridge_ram walks every mapper id 0-4095 that the cartridge parser builds -- NES 2.0 under all 16 submappers plus iNES 1.0 for 0-255, each with and without CHR-ROM, retrying other PRG/CHR sizes when a board refuses the first image. For each board it fills the RAM with a pattern, snapshots the whole Nes, overwrites the RAM with its complement, restores, and compares. PRG-RAM is checked through sram(), or through the $6000-$7FFF window where a board keeps RAM without exposing it (only mapper 56). CHR-RAM is checked through PPU $0000-$1FFF, with all writes before the snapshot so the MMC2/MMC4 CHR latches cannot fake a failure. Nothing is skipped silently. An id that never builds must be listed in SWEEP_UNBUILDABLE with a reason; the list is empty, since all 174 supported ids build. The test also asserts that the VRC and fixed boards are among those checked, so a broken probe cannot pass by checking nothing. Coverage: 37 boards through sram(), 1 through the window, 138 for CHR-RAM, 33 with no reachable RAM. About 7 s. Blind spots, documented in the test and docs/mappers.md: RAM behind a board-specific enable that sram() does not expose, and CHR-RAM beyond the 8 KiB mapped at power-on. FDS and NSF do not come through the parser; their save_state already carries their RAM. Red, measured before any fix -- exactly the expected set: mapper 10 PrgSram, and ChrRam for 9, 10, 11, 19, 34, 69, 75, 151: 8192 of 8192 bytes differ in each. Fix, the AUD-02 pattern. A versioned RAM tail is appended after every older field: MMC2, MMC4 (PRG-RAM then CHR-RAM), Color Dreams, 34 and VRC1/151 go to section v2, FME-7 to v3 (after the 5B audio tail), N163 to v4. Older versions load and leave the RAM untouched; a new-version blob of the wrong length is rejected before any field is written. Plain byte copies, with no allocation on load. Each fixed board has round-trip, old-version and truncation tests. Two existing tests that hard-coded a version byte (FME-7, N163) now use the constant. Mutations (remove the loader's copy line, run the sweep, restore from a snapshot): MMC4 PRG-RAM, 34, 69 and 19 CHR -- all caught, with "8192 of 8192 bytes differ". Verified: fmt; workspace clippy clean on the merged tree; the sweep passes; rustynes-mappers lib 807 passed (822 including integration suites), 782 without mapper-audio; rustynes-core 217; thumbv7em no_std build; cargo doc -D warnings; AccuracyCoin 144/144; nestest; harness save_state + snapshot_schema_audit 17 passed. The cargo-fuzz save_state target was not run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * docs(audits): every v2.9.2 full-audit finding has a verdict and its evidence The ledger (docs/audits/v2.9.2-full-audit-disposition.md) goes from 32 PENDING rows to 33 decided ones -- the 32 findings plus AUD-02b, the nine-board save-state RAM gap that AUD-02's sweep found and the report never named. Each row cites the red test or gate, the mutation that was caught, and the commit in the repository that carries the change (oracle or sibling). Tally: FIXED 19 (including AUD-02b; AUD-12 has no host test, and the Swift halves of AUD-10 and AUD-14 are uncompiled and join the v2.9.3 device checklist); REFUTED 4, plus AUD-27 (comment refuted, aspect not a defect); NOT A DEFECT 4; DECLINED 3 (AUD-05, 18, 29); DEFERRED 2 (AUD-04 to v3.0.0 by the maintainer; AUD-28 to the board session as bring-up row O4). Two rows carry a decision that is the maintainer's, not this change's: AUD-08 and AUD-09 made opposing-direction cancel (neutral SOCD) the DEFAULT on desktop and Android. That is a behaviour change, and it collides with the off-by-default rule, so it is marked "default pending maintainer". The README gains the calibration of this fifth report, measured the way the first four were. It read the Rust well: 16 of 20 real, though often with the wrong framing (a 32-bit-only overflow sold as an OOM, native-heap allocation sold as GC churn, a spec claim libretro.h contradicts). It read the RTL poorly: 3 of 12 real, one of them a design defect (AUD-24). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix: answer the first review round on #563 (turbo pacing, SOCD merge, docs, ledger) Copilot, CodeRabbit and CodeQL on #563. Four findings were real and are fixed; one was not a defect; the CodeQL alerts were false positives, answered by a rename. iOS turbo pacing (Copilot, real). EmulatorCore.tick called onFrameWillRun before tickNetplay, but npAdvanceFrame can return producedFrame == false while connecting or time-sync stalled, so a stalled session still flipped the turbo phase: pacing drifted from the rollback frame stream it was meant to follow. Whether a netplay tick produces a frame is only known after the call, so on that path the phase now advances AFTER a produced frame and is latched by the next one. The single-player path is unchanged (runFrame always produces one). Uncompiled here, like the rest of the Swift: device checklist I17-I18. Combined-mask SOCD (CodeRabbit, real). AUD-09/10 cleaned only the touch pad's own union, so a touch direction plus the opposite on a hardware pad or keyboard still reached the core -- the desktop cleans the combined mask per player. Android applyPort (every port) and p1Mask (netplay's local input) now pass through socdNeutral; iOS AppModel.pushInput cleans the combined NesButtonMask for every port. `:app:testFossDebugUnitTest` passes. Ledger (CodeRabbit, real). The plan defines FIXED as red, green and a caught mutation. AUD-10 and AUD-14 cannot meet that on this machine (Swift), so they are relabelled CHANGED, UNVERIFIED, a verdict now defined in the legend, and are verified only by the v2.9.3 device checklist. AUD-32 gained the evidence it lacked: from a scratch directory seeded with every artifact, the v2.9.1 `clean` left six of them, the new rule leaves only the two .qsf snapshots (kept on purpose), and dropping sweep-logs-offdie from the rule is caught. AUD-09's red and mutation are stated explicitly. CORRECTION: the ledger commit (a3a4f6b) tallied FIXED 19; it is 17 (16 of the report's 32 plus AUD-02b), and the release text is corrected to "16 of the 32 are fixed" to match. Docs drift (CodeRabbit, real). docs/apu-2a03.md said every CPU read sets the internal data bus; the $4015 read returns before the latch is assigned (bus.rs, the `addr == 0x4015` branch), which is exactly what keeps bit 5 on the older value. Both libretro docs stated the serialize headroom unconditionally; a Vs. DualSystem cabinet gets none, because it never attaches a device. Mobile test (CodeRabbit, trivial, taken): the HD-frame containment test now also asserts that compositing resumes after the power cycle that thaws it. CodeQL "hard-coded cryptographic value used as a salt" x5 (false positive): a test-only pattern generator named its XOR parameter `salt`. Renamed `seed`; no cryptography is involved anywhere near it. Not a defect (CodeRabbit, "Major"): that a sender with input_delay 1100 could leave a frame unconfirmed past MAX_SESSION_FRAME_LOOKAHEAD. No frontend or the mobile bridge sets input_delay -- every session uses SessionConfig's default of 2 -- and a delay beyond INPUT_RESEND_WINDOW (64) already defeats the resend window with or without this bound. Answered on the thread. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * docs(provenance): give bus.rs the header its TriCNES port already declared crates/rustynes-core/src/bus.rs said, in a doc comment at the site, that `oam_dma_read_reg_active` is a "Direct port of the TriCNES Fetch addressBus-window block", and its unified-DMA state fields (`dmc_halt`, `uni_oam_active` / `_halt` / `_aligned` / `_addr`) name the TriCNES DMA flags they model. The derivation was never hidden -- NOTICE already records TriCNES's "per-cycle DMA-dispatch models" as ported into rustynes-core, and section 5 of docs/originality-and-provenance.md attributes the crate -- but the file carried no `// Provenance:` header, so it had no section 1 row, and the check this project relies on before any HDL work (`grep -rln "^// Provenance:" crates`) did not list it. For the MiSTer sibling that matters: its DMA is exactly the logic this region models, and a region that is derived is a black box for RTL purposes whether or not the file is ours. Found during the v2.9.2 audit triage and raised with the maintainer, who directed the header (2026-09-28). Nothing is reworded or removed: the site comments stay exactly as written, and the header states only what they already claim -- one block a direct port, the DMA state modelled on TriCNES's flags -- neither more (the rest of the bus is RustyNES's own) nor less. - bus.rs: SPDX line and a `// Provenance:` header in the form the other 26 derived files use. - originality-and-provenance.md section 1: a TriCNES / MIT row for bus.rs. - NOTICE: unchanged; its TriCNES entry already names the DMA models and rustynes-core. For the record on the sibling: the v2.9.2 AUD-24 fix (the /NMI edge detector during a DMA) was written from nesdev's CPU_interrupts page and pinned by a per-cycle golden diff (dmanmi074); this region of bus.rs was not read for it. Verified: provenance_record_audit 2 passed (header <-> section 1 row, both directions); cargo fmt --check clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * v2.9.2 "Candidate" -- the full audit acted on, and the release-candidate pair The third release of the v2.9.x line (ADR 0041). The workspace moves 2.9.1 -> 2.9.2 (root and the excluded rustynes-cosim, both Cargo.locks, the libretro .info display_version). scripts/release-automation/bump_release.py moved every anchor; ROADMAP.md's status line and to-dos/ROADMAP.md's release-line chain were extended by hand, because the tool refuses (correctly) to mechanically bump prose that describes a release. What the release is, for the record the tag carries: - A 32-finding, AI-written audit of both repositories, triaged row by row in docs/audits/v2.9.2-full-audit-disposition.md: 16 FIXED red-first with a caught mutation, AUD-02b (nine more boards) FIXED the same way, 2 CHANGED, UNVERIFIED (Swift, device checklist at v2.9.3), and the rest refuted, declined or deferred with evidence. The commits carrying each fix are named in the ledger. - Emulation output changes in exactly one place, AUD-03 (an unmapped $4020-$FFFF read updates the internal data bus). Save-state sections grow on the fifteen fixed mapper ids (twelve board families) and stay loadable across versions. - Opposing-direction cancel (AUD-08/09/10) is ON BY DEFAULT by the maintainer's decision (2026-09-28), an explicit exception to the off-by-default rule; the ledger rows, CHANGELOG, release notes and AGENTS.md now say "decided" where they said "pending". - AGENTS.md's firewall sentence lists rustynes-core/src/bus.rs among the files whose derived regions bite HDL work (header added in 191f928). Gates, measured on this tree (release notes and VERSION-PLAN carry the same numbers): cargo test --workspace --features test-roms --release: 2,867 passed, 0 failed, 20 ignored (v2.9.1: 2,812) AccuracyCoin (RAM) total=144 pass=133 pass_with_code=11 fail=0; nestest nestest_pc_c000_matches_golden_log ok fmt; clippy workspace + scripting + scripting,hd-pack + retroachievements + full + both wasm32; RUSTDOCFLAGS=-D warnings cargo doc; thumbv7em no_std; markdownlint --all-files; release_anchor / release_state_prose / release_notes_render / contribution_checklist / provenance_record audits Android :app:testFossDebugUnitTest BUILD SUCCESSFUL MiSTer (sibling feat/v2.9.2-audit-and-rc): ladder 173/0/1 on-die and 174/0/1 off-die, one frozen-worktree run each, nothing skipped; eight-seed sweeps of both builds at build date 260928, all sixteen closing, pin stays 2 (on-die +0.510/+0.108 ns, off-die +0.390/+0.081, SDRAM read +0.447/+1.184); two clean compiles of each byte-identical (on-die c17b0f37d5c49b150c023734b583f468, off-die 75ae3a99e840e29675ded9898dae127d). Not verified here: every Swift change (AUD-10, AUD-14 and the review-round fixes to both) is uncompiled; the Android NTSC index-buffer reuse (AUD-12) has no host test. No hardware has run any bitstream; v2.9.2's pair is what the SuperStation One session runs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * docs: answer review round 2 on #563 (verdict table, AUD-09 row, section 1 intro) CodeRabbit's three findings on the release commit, all real, all docs. - docs/audits/README.md's verdict table did not define CHANGED, UNVERIFIED, the verdict the v2.9.2 ledger introduced for code that no gate on this machine can run (the Swift halves of AUD-10 and AUD-14). It does now, with the rule that such a row is not FIXED until its named device-checklist check has run. DEFERRED and DECLINED, which the v2.9.2 ledger also uses, were missing from the table too; they are added with the meaning the ledger legend already gave them. - The AUD-09 ledger row still said a touch direction plus the opposite on a hardware pad "is not cleaned" after a later sentence in the same row said applyPort and p1Mask now clean the combined mask. The first sentence now describes the code as first written and points at the review fix. - docs/originality-and-provenance.md section 1 said every upstream in the derivation table is GPL. That was already false before this release -- the table carries emu2413 (MIT), blip_buf (LGPL-2.1-or-later) and ares (BSD-2-Clause / Apache-2.0) -- and the bus.rs TriCNES (MIT) row made it more visible. The heading and introduction now say what the table holds and why every licence in it is compatible with GPL-3.0-or-later. No row changes. Nothing links the old heading's anchor (git grep), and provenance_record_audit, which finds the section by its "## 1. " prefix, still passes 2/2. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix(netplay): the remote-frame window stops one short of u32::MAX Copilot on #563, round 2. AUD-06's max_accepted_frame() adds input delay, rollback window and MAX_SESSION_FRAME_LOOKAHEAD to current_frame with saturating arithmetic, so a session close enough to the end of the frame space accepts frame == u32::MAX -- and ensure_frame sizes its six tables as `frame as usize + 1`, which overflows a 32-bit usize (wasm32, armv7, i686) at exactly that value, and asks for a 4G-entry resize on 64-bit. The guard was sound everywhere except its own endpoint. Unreachable in play: current_frame would have to pass u32::MAX - 1036, which is over two years of continuous play at 60 fps. The clamp costs one comparison, and the guard is the one thing that must hold at its edge, so it is taken rather than argued. max_accepted_frame() now returns u32::MAX - 1 when the saturated window reaches u32::MAX. Red: lookahead_window_never_reaches_u32_max (current_frame = u32::MAX - 3) returned 4294967295, expected 4294967294. Green after. Reverting the clamp is the red run itself. rustynes-netplay: lib 88 passed, determinism 16, loopback suites pass; clippy clean. Also Copilot, docs: docs/mappers.md said the AUD-02b boards were "outside the VRC family" while listing mapper 75 (VRC1) and 151 (a VRC1 wrapper). It now says they are beyond the VRC2/4/6/7 set AUD-02 fixed, VRC1 among them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix(netplay): unlink the private ensure_frame from a public doc comment CI rustdoc (-D warnings) failed on 60b6c7c: the new doc comment on the public max_accepted_frame() linked [`ensure_frame`](Self::ensure_frame), a private method, which rustdoc rejects as a private intra-doc link. It is now a plain code span. My miss: that change ran clippy and the netplay tests but not the doc gate; RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc --workspace --no-deps is clean now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * fix(netplay): a relay leave announces only a slot the client held Antigravity on #563, round 2. Relay::leave_room (added for AUD-13) found the departing client's slot with `position(..).unwrap_or(0)`. The room map and the slot list are kept in step by join and leave, so a miss is a broken invariant -- but on that path every remaining peer was told `PeerLeft { slot: 0 }`, i.e. that the HOST had left, and would drop it. It now announces nothing when the client holds no slot, and still removes the client from the map. Red: leaving_a_room_that_does_not_list_the_client_announces_nothing maps client 3 to a room whose slots are [1, 2], disconnects it, and requires no actions and the room unchanged. On the old code it failed on the first assertion (a PeerLeft to each real player). Reverting the fix is that red run. Unreachable through the public API today; the guard is for the invariant. Declined from the same round, with reasons on the PR: - fds.rs `data[off..off + 4].try_into().unwrap()`: the exact-length check just above counts the trailing fields, so the slice is in bounds, and try_into on a 4-byte slice to [u8; 4] cannot fail. - compose_dual's clear() before resize(): that branch runs only when the buffer's length changes (first cabinet frame, or after an unload), not per frame; the per-frame zero-fill AUD-19 removed does not come back. rustynes-netplay lib 89 passed; clippy clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj * ci(review): reinstall the Antigravity reviewer from the current template The installed copy was an old one: scripts/agy-review.sh at 639 lines, against the template's 1,130. It lacked the template's diff-size timeout scaling, the permission-API write check for `/agy-review`, and today's two fixes (antigravity-pr-review 1f688b8): - `exec 9>&- 2>/dev/null` after the retry loop silenced every later log line for the rest of the script, so a posted review, an updated one and every failure looked identical in CI: the job logged "running agy ... [attempt 1/3]", then nothing, and went green. That is why agy looked broken on this PR while it was in fact editing its one comment in place each round. - agy exits 0 on its own --print-timeout, with partial output. That capture was posted as the review. It is now discarded and retried, and if every attempt times out the check fails and names AGY_PRINT_TIMEOUT. Installed with install-into-repo.sh, which kept .github/agy-review.md (the style guide), .github/actionlint.yaml and the .gitignore entry unchanged. One deliberate departure from the template: its first-install BOOTSTRAP steps (a write-access check, a PR-head checkout, and a copy into scripts/) are removed from the workflow, with a comment saying why. They fire only when the default branch has no reviewer, which is never true here, and their PR-head checkout in a privileged context trips CodeQL's actions/untrusted-checkout (high) on every scan -- the reason an earlier install in this workspace had to be reverted before merge. Verified: bash scripts/agy-review-selftest.sh -> "all checks passed" (including the new timeout and exec-redirect checks); the workflow parses as YAML and passes actionlint. The remaining shellcheck notes (SC1007 on the deliberate `var= var=` temp-file pre-declarations, SC2016) are the template's own and no gate in this repository runs shellcheck on these scripts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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v2.9.1 "Hone" -- what the optimisation bars measure, and what clears them
The second release of the v2.9.x line (ADR 0041). Sibling PR: doublegate/RustyNES_MiSTer#40. Emulation output does not change. No hardware has run any bitstream.
What changed
ab_check.shcompared the old code with itself (1a7af8a8,ddc1ccfe). Both sides built into oneCARGO_TARGET_DIR; cargo names a workspace member's artifacts by its path relative to the workspace root, so the reference worktree and the working tree collided, and freshness is by mtime, so the candidate ran the reference's binary. Proven with a candidate whose bench deliberately did its work twice: the old script said "no change" (46.0 us both sides), the fixed one +146%. Each side now builds into a fresh directory per run;CRITERION_HOMEis pinned.ddc1ccfe):VsDualSystem::snapshot_intowrites a two-screen Vs. cabinet's state into a reused buffer; the libretro core'sretro_serialize/serialize_sizeuse it. Serialize -88.9% / -88.5% on two runs (controls -7.1% / -4.2%). The pooled restore buffer moved exactly with its control and was reverted. Pinned by a fresh-cabinet round-trip and a valid-after-rejected restore test.ab_check.sh --targetand avs_dual_serializebench came first (1430961b).docs/performance.md§v2.9.1): 12 items, two runs each, each started below load 1.5. Three verdicts were wrong: the dead NMI detector's per-dot call (-4.1% to -4.7% on the palette workloads; kept for v3.0.0 by maintainer decision, ADR 0042 amended with the number), and two ceilings v2.7.5 called zero (palette mirror -4.1% to -4.8%, unmapped-read check -1.5% to -2.7%). Correct candidates under both were built and measured, including the per-mapper capability the maintainer asked for (with a sweep test over every board and three caught mutants); all three rejected, becausenestest_fastis slower in both runs. Seven older rejections survive only as prose and are marked unverified.f897b40d,15992612): the SuperStation One SDRAM/DDR3 candidates S1-S14 in the v2.9.x plan; S2 (a scheduled arbiter) decided for after v3.0.0; the plan's "zero margin" corrected to 22 of 24;VERSION-PLAN.mdsays what "public API" means here..github/release-notes/v2.9.1.md, current-state prose, the core ledger,docs/agents/perf-and-panels.md(the re-measure outcome and aTMPDIRtrap: a full tmpfs/tmpmakes everyab_checkrun fail in seconds).Verification
cargo test --release --workspace --features test-romsscripting,scripting,hd-pack,retroachievements,full, both wasm32); rustdoc-D warnings; no_std thumbv7emLook hardest at:
VsDualSystem::snapshot_into's block order and length prefixes (a swapped console restores silently wrong; the round-trip test catches the order), and whetherdocs/performance.md's reading of each re-measured row matches the adoption rule printed byab_check.sh.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_014qfTKi2M3swo7qnwvYCkDj
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