_verification/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 only under `/tmp/game-verify-stage`; 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`.