ReaperOfVeriod
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TieClassHeader skips 0x1c..0x44 -- forty bytes per class, 1,864 classes, "none of
it matches RAC2 yet". Profiled each of the ten words instead of reading them.
THE PROFILE, PER WORD
0x20 reserved -- zero on 1,864 of 1,864
0x30 reserved -- zero on 1,864 of 1,864
0x1c 1,390 distinct, 0x1e0..0x3cd60 looks like an offset
0x24 1,571 distinct, high entropy
0x28 640 distinct, 0x00100000..0x1000013d two bytes packed
0x2c 1,610 distinct, high entropy
0x34 1,331 distinct, 0x190..0x31e20 looks like an offset
0x38 441 distinct
0x3c SIX distinct: 0 (1,384), 16 (435), 48 (21), 32 (18), 2 (3), 4 (3)
0x40 a float -- 0.00208 to 10.84, median 0.30, no negatives
0x40 is decidable and it is now a hard assertion: a positive range across two
orders of magnitude with no negatives and no zeros is not what an integer looks
like. Bounding sphere radius or class scale; not distinguished, and the doc says
so rather than picking one.
THE CONTROL THAT PREVENTED A WRONG CLAIM
0x3c has six values, is zero on 74% of classes, and sits next to a doc comment
listing "the texture count, ad-gifs, the bounding sphere and the class scale". The
obvious next move is to call it the ad-gif count -- especially having just spent a
commit establishing that the AD-GIF is not in the packet, so an ad-gif count
would be satisfying.
Tested it: mean bfc_distance per 0x3c bucket is 7.80, 6.56, 11.07, 8.03, 6.81,
6.11. Flat. It does not track the shader count, so it is not the ad-gif count.
The test now asserts that flatness as a control, so if 0x3c ever starts
correlating with bfc_distance the assertion fires rather than the coincidence
being noticed later and mistaken for a decoding.
That is the rule-4 pattern working: a statistic that cannot tell the hypothesis
apart from nothing must not be used to support it. Six distinct values and a
dominant zero *feel* like a count, and feel is exactly what is not evidence.
STILL UNIDENTIFIED
0x1c and 0x34 look like offsets but are unverified as such -- only 17 of 1,864
0x24 values land in range for core_data, so that one is not an offset and is
recorded as packed data. 0x24, 0x28, 0x2c, 0x38 are high-entropy and unexplained.
None of them is guessed at.
280 passing with the disc present (23 + 19 + 60 + 156 + 22; disc binary 35.38s),
clippy clean. The two unused-variable warnings in the sound_bank and overlay tests
are pre-existing and confirmed present before this change; left alone rather than
folded into an unrelated commit.
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.