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ReaperOfVeriod 3fa64b7003 Read a full sub-list payload: tagged blocks and a byte permutation table
With the extent known from the previous entry (count * 16), a whole sub-list
payload can be read. This is the packet at 0x009376f0, count 22, 352 bytes.

Range measured: savestate slot 1, 0x009376f0..0x0093784f.

The payload is a sequence of blocks, each opening 00 00 00 30, carrying a
repeating word and a short trailer:

  00 00 00 30 | cd 00 00 00 cd 00 00 00 cd 00 00 00 cd 00 00 00
              01 00 00 05 | 22 c1 01 6e | 00 00 00 00
  00 00 00 30 | 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 45 1d 00 00 00 1d 00 00 00 1f
              81 01 6d 00 | 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 a4 00
  00 00 00 30 | bc c0 03 00 23 17 03 00 e5 dd 00 00 00 00 00 00
              02 01 00 01 | c1 80 01 69 | 00 00 00 00

The repeating word differs per block (0xcd, 0x45, 0x03) and the trailer's
second word varies in its high bytes (22 c1 01 6e, 81 01 6d 00, c1 80 01 69).
Every block ends 6e, 69 or 6d at byte 23 -- the same 6e the 02 01 00 01 records
carried at bytes 8-9.

The payload contains a byte permutation table at 0x009377c4:

  00 01 02 03 3e 3f 53 54 40 41 42 43 4e 4f 50 51 04 05 06 07 08 ...

Ascending byte values with a handful (3e 3f, 53 54, 40 41 42 43, 4e 4f 50 51)
lifted out of order ahead of the sequential run. Read as a table it maps each
of 0x00..0x39 to a slot -- the shape of a code-length or symbol-ordering table,
and the first thing in this format that is self-evidently a table rather than
data to be interpreted.

Not said: whether it is a Huffman-style code, an index reorder for the vertex
data that follows, or a palette permutation. The sequence continues to 39 then
23 c1 01 6e, after which the next block opens.

Corroboration: the fixed-point payload 0x00937850 begins exactly where this one
ends. The 22-record identity made the boundary exact and the next packet starts
on a payload boundary with nothing in between, so the two payload kinds sit
adjacent in RAM -- consistent with them being two records of the same blob.
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