ReaperOfVeriod
b4d605a2f4
Checked the docs for claims this session retracted. Found more than the first pass.
1,163 -> 1,162 9 in the format spec, 3 in the roadmap, 5 test doc-comments
5,878 -> 5,822 2 in the spec, 3 in test doc-comments
234 -> 233 1 in the spec, 1 test doc-comment -- level 0's contribution
The last one is the one a blanket search would have missed. "5,878 records, and
level 0 contributes 234" was stale in both numbers, and only one of them was in
the string I was looking for. Verified against the tests rather than against the
other stale prose:
lvl.vtbl: 1162 distinct class ids from 5822 records; max 0x13ba (5050);
moby_classes.count is 238, and 1135 of 1162 ids (97.7%) are at or above it
vtbl oClass: 1162 ids, largest 5050; ... 1133/1162 ... level 0 alone
contributes 233
The reason all of it survived is the same shape as the bug it belongs to. The
tests were fixed and the new numbers asserted, and the prose was not touched -- and
the prose is what a reader takes away. A commit that corrects a measurement without
correcting the document it was measured in has only half-landed. Two corrections in
this session, 15 places.
Also left alone deliberately: the explanatory sections in core-data-regions.md that
discuss 5,878 and 1,163 as the *wrong* figures, and the test comments that record
what the loop used to print. Those are correct as written -- removing them would
erase the reasoning. A final sweep confirms nothing stale remains outside those.
293 passing with the disc and savestate present, clippy clean. Documentation and
comments only; no behaviour changed.
Going Commando
A native PC reimplementation of Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (PlayStation 2, 2003), written in Rust.
The game is reimplemented, not emulated. There is no MIPS interpreter here and no CPU emulator: the systems are ported to Rust so they run as ordinary native code.
Status: initial scaffold. The disc is identified and verified, the
workspace builds, and nothing else is implemented yet. See
docs/roadmap.md for where things stand and what comes next.
The target
| Game | Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando |
| Platform | PlayStation 2 |
| Disc | SCUS_972.68 v1.01, USA Black Label |
| Video | NTSC, 60 Hz |
| Boot ELF SHA-1 | bacda860cbd6723142e86db56f197e47e728970f |
Verified against a real disc — see docs/disc-identification.md.
This is the build the reference projects pin; Greatest Hits v2.00 is a
different binary and is not the target.
No game content
This repository contains no game assets, no disc images, no BIOS dumps and no proprietary toolchains. You supply your own legally obtained copy of the disc as an input, the way the upstream reference projects do.
A pre-commit hook enforces this, blocking disc images, asset directories, container signatures and files over 50 MiB. If you clone elsewhere, enable it:
git config core.hooksPath .githooks
Layout
crates/
gc-formats/ asset format parsers (pure, no I/O beyond the caller's buffer)
gc-extract/ disc pipeline: identify, unpack, verify
gc-game/ game logic: hero, weapons, moby classes, progression, saves
gc-video/ IPU / MPEG-2 decode
gc-engine/ Bevy app: Graphics Synthesizer, VU0/VU1, renderer, frame loop
docs/
disc-identification.md which disc we build against, verified
roadmap.md phases, gates, current status
plan/ one file per subsystem, written as work proceeds
formats/ format specs, written as formats are reversed
tools/
identify-disc.py identify any Going Commando disc image
vendor/
rerac/ pinned upstream reference checkout (not tracked)
Building
Requires a Rust toolchain via rustup.
cargo check --workspace
cargo test --workspace
The host audio backend is disabled in Cargo.toml (see the comment there) so
that the workspace builds without system ALSA development headers. Audio decode
is the last phase of the port and lives in gc-video; re-enable it and install
alsa-lib-devel when that work starts.
Identifying a disc
python3 tools/identify-disc.py <your-disc.iso>
Reports the serial, version and video mode from SYSTEM.CNF, hashes the boot
executable, and warns when the disc is not the supported build. Reads only a
few megabytes, so it is near-instant.
How it will be verified
Visual and behavioural comparison against PCSX2, replaying recorded input and
comparing frames, level by level. The PS2 float model is reproduced rather than
approximated — see AGENTS.md.
PCSX2 is installed and working on this machine; the comparison loop that reads
the game's own memory over its debug protocol is up, and level 0's and level
1's tfrag lighting are verified byte-exact against it. See
docs/plan/pcsx2-verification.md for the
setup and how to run it.
Credits and licensing
This project learns from and is built on the work of others. Licences are
recorded in PROVENANCE.md and notices must travel with any
code derived from them.
- ReRAC — a native Rust/Bevy port of Ratchet & Clank (2002), the first game. ISC. The architecture this project follows.
- OpenRAC / rac2-gc-decomp — matching decompilation research for this game. MIT. Source of verified struct layouts and engine documentation.
- Wrench — community documentation of Insomniac's container formats. GPL, used as a specification reference only; no code is copied.
Ratchet & Clank is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment. This is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony Interactive Entertainment or Insomniac Games.