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ReaperOfVeriod 5610d173b0 Narrow the collision header to two fields plus a third used by five levels
Range measured: all 27 levels that carry collision, reading the 0x40-byte
header each.

Method: read +0x00, +0x04 and +0x08, then check +0x08..+0x40 for zero.

Result:

  u32@+0x00 is 0x40 on 27 of 27 -- the header is self-sizing
  u32@+0x04 is the payload size, 20 distinct values across the disc
  bytes +0x08..+0x40 zero on 22 of 27

Five levels carry a large non-zero word at +0x08:

  level  7  1248048        level 12  2541616
  level  9  1766832        level 13  3376592
                      level 14  4060640

So the header is not two fields and 56 bytes of padding: there is a third field
most levels leave at zero and five use. Whether it is a size, an offset or a
second block's length is not established, and nothing measured here separates
those readings. Exposed as CollisionHeader::field_08.

Correction: the collision header was previously described as self-describing
across its full 0x40, which is true for 22 levels and overstates the case for
the other five.

Still not decoded: the payload. It contains ascending u32 runs on levels 0 and
2 -- level 0 at +280 with deltas 12, 12, 12 then a jump, level 2 at +13868 with
deltas 204, 204, 200, 196 -- but irregular deltas fit neither a flat table nor a
simple stride, and level 1's apparent run is a byte-shift false positive.
Nothing about the payload is asserted.
2026-10-12 02:49:25 +02:00
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