_reports/worklog.md

Game archive verification worklog

Bucket: https://huggingface.co/buckets/smodusermc/offline-games

Scope

• Keep small scripts, manifests, logs, and verification evidence locally.
• Stage game assets on disk under .cache/ (not the small tmpfs); remove after each game.
• Credentials are supplied through the process environment, never project files.
• Geometry Dash is excluded.

Verification meanings

• Storage audit: bucket objects exist and their recorded sizes match. Not proof of completeness.
• SHA-256 checked: staged bytes match a recorded hash. A difference is recorded, not silently declared fixed.
• Menu/intro observed: visually reviewed browser evidence shows actual game output, not only an engine loader.
• Input smoke passed: a narrowly defined input assertion passed. This is not a complete playthrough.
• Inconclusive/resource limit: the 2 GiB test host could not safely finish. Not proof that a game is broken.

Browser tests use a local HTTP mirror with outside browser requests blocked. The repair phase can fetch missing resources server-side; the subsequent verification phase cannot. Routing absolute source URLs and supported runtime-library URLs to the local mirror happens in the HTTP response only. This is NOT a test of opening an unmodified HTML file from file://, nor a promise that the whole archive consists of self-contained HTML files.

Initial findings

• Old regex-crawler error lists contain many false positives from bundled code and internal module names.
• Several games already reach menus with their captured assets.
• Shared Flash runtime dependencies were missing from some per-game inventories and are being added from observed browser requests.
• Eleven entry-page sizes differ from their old snapshot metadata. These existing bucket edits are being preserved, not overwritten to match older files.
• A console-emulator startup stalled the host. Further tests are isolated with RSS and elapsed-time watchdogs.

Progress and individual outcomes are recorded in reports/verification-*.json; final human-reviewed classifications will be in reports/verification-summary.md.

Lazy-loaded audio repair and next eight entries

Restored Thirty Dollar Website sound library: 191 selectable WAVs plus three intros all decode. Preview and sampled sequence produce nonzero Web Audio output offline. Recovered 54 icons; restored checked checkbox SVG from upstream and fixed both CSS paths. Added 46 Cookie Clicker effects; all 75 declared jukebox sounds decode. Basket Random: 16/16 WebM files decode; one stale size declaration validated against current source SHA256. Nine audio replacements use documented upstream URLs. Added IDs 155,156,174,175,180,181,281,591; outcomes recorded without calling startup-only or resource-limited cases playable. Final presence/size audit: 81 manifests, zero missing recorded objects, zero size mismatches; no full SHA audit or playthrough implied. See LAZY-ASSETS.md for current scope. Temporary assets and bulky caches removed; credential-free tools/reports retained.

Next eight entries and full declared-map/media audit

Added IDs 182,183,359,373,374,376,575,582. Also audited/repaired 180 and 181. All 149 declared temple-map paths are present. Recovered 94 OvO audio files and 113 maps from identified upstream releases/builds. 1,213 recorded SHA comparisons, 287 audio decodes, 587 image decodes, and 704 declared-path checks passed. No JSON parse failures or missing tileset JSON references. Cumulative presence/size audit: 89 manifests, zero missing recorded objects and zero mismatches. Not a full playthrough or proof of undiscoverable assets. See NEW-GAMES.md for runtime limitations and exact provenance.

batch-18a03fb44e: larger batch

Default changed to 30 games (20–40 by size). Captured and checked all 30 selected entries. 800 recorded-hash comparisons, 377 audio checks, 180 image checks, 21 SWF checks. 205 declared gaps remain; runtime evidence kept separate from asset checks. 190 candidates remain queued. Stable evidence: _verification/batches/batch-18a03fb44e/. See LARGE-BATCH.md for caveats.

20-entry large-port batch and storage-growth investigation

Stable batch batch-f29ef445fb. 983 source-hash comparisons, 454 loose audio decodes, 66 loose image decodes. Approximate bucket growth 8.033 GB, including 275 checksum-matched Deltarune audio-path recoveries and four case-only aliases. Crashout loader repaired; Dead Tapes missing source binaries explicitly incomplete; source declaration discrepancies and runtime limits retained. See HEAVY-BATCH.md.