The FA1 contract asked to "add the 8 missing fellowship entries lane B
lists" (0x0417-0x041C, 0x04DB, 0x04DC). Re-ran this table's own binary-
sweep methodology specifically for these 8 ids rather than inventing
text for them: a full-text grep of the 1.4M-line
acclient_2013_pseudo_c.txt found ZERO comparisons/case-labels against any
of the 8 anywhere in the retail client, and a manual walk of
HandleFailureEvent's own case-label sequence confirmed the switch goes
straight from case 0x416/0x41d (skipping 0x417-0x41c) and from case
0x4da/0x4dd (skipping 0x4db/0x4dc).
Conclusion: retail's Sept-2013 client has no display text for any of
these 8 ids -- they are intentionally absent from this table, not
overlooked. This contradicts the FA1 contract's premise but not lane B's
own text, which only claimed the ids were "missing" from the table (true)
and that two of them (0x0417, 0x04DB) are on ACE's live send paths (also
true) -- it never claimed retail has text for them. Two of the ids are
therefore live-but-silent gaps against a real ACE server, and acdream's
current no-display behavior for them is ALREADY retail-faithful. Adding
invented English would be exactly the class of mistake SHOULD-FIX 4
(the no-default-case rule this table's Resolve() already implements)
exists to prevent.
Documents the finding at both table gaps and adds a conformance test
(Resolve_FellowshipIdsAbsentFromHandleFailureEvent_ReturnsNoText) proving
all 8 resolve to null text, matching the existing
Format_0x051D_ReturnsNull_NoRetailCaseExists precedent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reworks Campaign CH slice CH2 per the REJECT-review findings doc
(docs/research/2026-08-09-ch2-review-findings.md).
BLOCKER 1 — SpewBoxController never rendered a line and leaked its
pending queue. LinesProvider only ran through UiText.OnDraw, which
gates on Visible — and the box started invisible, so the provider (the
sole caller of SpewBoxState.Tick) never ran. Gave the controller an
explicit per-frame Tick(now) driven by UiRoot's global-message-3
broadcast (a zero-size GlobalTimeSink child, the same pattern
VendorUiController.DragOverGlobalTimeSink already uses), matching
retail's gmSpewBoxUI::Update. LinesProvider now only returns the
cache. Tests rewritten to drive root.Tick(...) instead of calling the
provider directly, plus new coverage for visibility-without-a-draw,
queue-drain-without-a-draw, and bounded-queue-across-many-ticks.
BLOCKER 2 — re-derived the HandleFailureEvent routing table from the
PDB-paired binary instead of the pseudo-C's ~33-char string previews.
tools/pdb-extract/sweep_weenie_strings.py sweeps every push imm32 in
VA 0x571990-0x575480, dereferences into .rdata/.data, and decodes the
full UTF-16LE literal. Added the 5 ids dispatched via else-if (missed
by case-label enumeration), resolved 0x4F8 (previously excluded),
fixed 18 wrong strings (16 the review flagged + 2 more — 0x4E9 and
0x518 — an automated diff between every swept literal and the landed
table found). Every changed row cross-checked against ACE's
WeenieError/WeenieErrorWithString enum doc comments; both oracles
agreed on every row, including a case where the review's own proposed
text for the new 0x4E8 row was itself wrong (it was 0x4E9's text) —
corrected via the else-if block's own instruction address plus the ACE
cross-check. Pinned table count: 344 (338 + 5 + 0x4F8).
SHOULD-FIX 1 — RuntimeCommunicationState.ResetSpewBox was dead code;
folded into the ChatIdentity generation-reset stage (same lifetime
boundary), with a reset assertion added to the existing populated-reset
test.
SHOULD-FIX 2 — AddText trimmed only the trailing end and invented an
empty-string early return; retail's AddTextToScroll trims both ends
(trim(&str, 1, 1, ws)) and has no empty guard. Both retired.
SHOULD-FIX 3 — ShowWeenieError bypassed the AddText chokepoint via
ChatLog.OnWeenieError (hardcoded LogTextType 0x00); routed through
Communication.AddText(Resolve(code, param)) instead, and
ChatLog.OnWeenieError is deleted — GameEventWiring's legacy no-router
fallback now resolves + calls OnSystemMessage directly.
SHOULD-FIX 4 — retail's HandleFailureEvent switch has no default case;
an unmapped id now resolves to a null Text (silence toward the
player) instead of the invented "WeenieError 0xNNNN" hex fallback,
with a diagnostics-only console log line for the id.
NITs — AP-TBD placeholders corrected to their real register rows
(AP-178, not the unrelated AP-177 lifetime row); filed AP-180 for the
windowId dual-destination gap and corrected three stale "lands with
CH2" comments; extended SpewBoxLayoutDumpDiagnostic from dats.Portal
to dats.Local and found the SpewBox element for real — LayoutDesc
0x21000011, element 0x10000048, size 450x72, MaxConcurrentItems
(ListBox property 0x10000028) = 4, not retail's code default of 1.
AP-178 narrowed accordingly; SpewBoxState.MaxConcurrentItems and
SpewBoxController's extent/anchor/OneLine are now authored rather than
placeholder (absolute screen position and colour remain open); fixed
the "19 ids... lists 18" miscount by retiring the stale paragraph in
the class doc rewrite; aligned the UseDone handler's silent-status
check with the other two WeenieError handlers.
Full Release suite: 11,914 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (build 0
errors).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Retail routes on-screen refusals ("You can't jump while in the air",
"You are too encumbered to carry that!") through a SEPARATE transient
screen surface (gmSpewBoxUI, ClientSystem::AddTextToScroll @0x00563C50)
that never touches the chat scroll — type 0x1A is exactly the bit every
ChatInterface window's default filter excludes
(ChatInterface::ChatInterface @0x004F4550). acdream had no such split:
every WeenieError rendered in chat at a single stand-in LogTextType
0x00 (CH1-era approximation, register AP-176), and locally-detected
jump refusals were silently discarded.
This slice ports the full mechanism per
docs/research/2026-08-09-chat-retail-interface-text.md:
CORE (AcDream.Core/Chat):
- WeenieErrorMessages.Resolve now returns (text, RetailLogTextType) from
a 338-row transcription of ClientCommunicationSystem::HandleFailureEvent
@0x00571990 (Appendix A's 339 cases minus one, 0x4F8, deliberately
excluded — its case body is a tangled decompiler artifact, not
resolvable with confidence). Spot-checked ~20 rows directly against
the raw decomp (case 0x2b/0x36/0x3a/0x4e/0x4ec/0x4f3/0x4f4 and the
jump family), beyond the ~10 the brief asked for, because the first
pass surfaced two transcription classes the research doc's markdown
silently ate: (1) 7 ids marked "shared string global" resolved by
reading the case bodies directly (0x24/0x48/0x49 reuse the jump-
refusal globals; 0x4DE/0x4DF/0x55A/0x55E are pure param passthrough);
(2) 19 "arg3 + literal" CONCATENATION ids whose leading space (and
therefore their %s marker) the markdown table's cell-trimming ate —
fixed by re-reading each case body, several requiring a SECOND
non-truncated data_XXXXXXXX dump elsewhere in the same oracle file to
recover text the ~33-char inline preview cut off. One retail typo is
preserved verbatim: 0x4F4's second placeholder is literal "$s", not
"%s" — only the first substitutes.
- ClientTextRefusals: the 11 process-lifetime string globals, all
byte-recovered from the PDB-paired C:\Users\erikn\Downloads\acclient.exe
(MATCH verified via check_exe_pdb.py) via raw UTF-16LE prefix search —
5 were truncated in the research doc's own transcription and all 5
turned out to end "...combat mode"/"...this position", not the
shorter "...combat" a truncated read would suggest.
- SpewBoxState: the gmSpewBoxUI pending/visible queue port (insert-at-0,
dedupe-against-index-0-only, MaxConcurrentItems overflow, per-entry
expiry, one-frame enqueue/drain decoupling). Placed in Core (not
Runtime as the brief's default) because AcDream.UI.Abstractions
references Core but not Runtime, and SpewBoxVM needs to wrap it
directly — the same constraint ChatVM already satisfies against
ChatLog.
- Folded the 4-entry WeenieErrorText.cs into the full table; deleted it.
RUNTIME (AcDream.Runtime):
- RuntimeCommunicationState.AddText(text, type, windowId): the
AddTextToScroll chokepoint. type == ClientLocal -> SpewBox only, never
chat; everything else -> the existing transcript, tagged with type.
- GameEventWiring gains an `onInterfaceText` delegate hole (Core.Net
cannot reference Runtime, so this follows the file's own established
pattern for every other Runtime-owned sink). Rewires 0x028A/0x028B/
UseDone through the full table + router; fixes 0x02EB
CommunicationTransientString's routing type from a CH1-era 0x00
guess to retail's hardcoded ClientLocal (Handle_Communication__
TransientString @0x0057D460).
- LiveSessionEventRouter's 0xF7E0 ServerMessage handler now routes
through AddText with the wire chatType verbatim instead of always
writing ChatLog directly.
- PlayerMovementController gains OnInterfaceText, applied by
RuntimeLocalPlayerMovementState to every controller it installs.
Reports ChargeJump/jump refusals exactly as ClientCombatSystem::
CommenceJump @0x0056AF90 / DoJump @0x0056B110 do — confirmed via
their compiled dispatch that ONLY 0x24/0x48/0x49 produce text;
0x47 (GeneralMovementFailure, fully-constrained/no-stamina) and any
other code are retail-SILENT (DoJump's jump table has exactly 4 real
targets), which contradicts this task's brief ("0x47 -> the
constrained/stamina row per §4.2") — the brief's reading of §4.2
described what jump_is_allowed COMPUTES, not what CommenceJump/DoJump
DISPLAY for it. Implemented the decomp-verified silent behavior.
APP (AcDream.App / AcDream.UI.Abstractions):
- The 5 composition sites that already used RetailLogTextType.ClientLocal
now call Communication.AddText instead of Chat.OnSystemMessage
directly, so they reach the SpewBox instead of the transcript.
- SpewBoxVM (UI.Abstractions) + SpewBoxController (App), modeled
directly on PortalWaitNoticeController. Position/font/colour/
MaxConcurrentItems are placeholders: SpewBoxLayoutDumpDiagnostic
exhaustively swept the installed client_portal.dat's entire LayoutDesc
id range (0x21000000-0x21000075, 101/118 ids populated, sanity-checked
against 3 known ids) and found ZERO elements of class 0x10000016 —
gmSpewBoxUI is mounted from C++ code, not any authored LayoutDesc, so
the dump cannot recover these values.
REGISTER: AP-176 retired (its WeenieError half is now the full table
port); its OnCombatLine half was never in this slice's scope and is
split out to AP-179 so that divergence keeps a row. AP-177 (invented
line lifetime) and AP-178 (invented position/font/colour/max-items)
filed for the presentation placeholders above. AP-175 (PopUpString ->
chat instead of modal) is untouched, not duplicated.
Suite: 11,890 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (was 11,835/4/0; +55 net
new tests, 0 regressions).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User saw "[System] WeenieError 0x0504" on login after a PK Lite reversion.
0x0504 is YouAreNonPKAgain; only ~56 of 378 codes had strings, so the raw hex
fallback fired.
Retail's source is ClientCommunicationSystem::HandleFailureEvent @0x00571990 —
a switch with per-case literal UTF-16 strings, not a DAT string-table lookup, so
hardcoding them is retail-faithful.
The decomp could not be trusted for the text. Its dump of data_7d32c0 declares
[0x5f] and shows 95 characters ending mid-word at "...protection of the Lig".
The real string is 139 characters. The 0x5f is Binary Ninja's PREVIEW
TRUNCATION LENGTH, not the array size — worth remembering for the rest of the
switch, since a copy-paste from the dump would have shipped a truncated
sentence. Recovered by PE byte read (VA 0x007D32C0 -> RVA -> .rdata file
offset), cross-confirmed against the raw hex the pseudo-C carries immediately
after the preview.
Mapped 0x0504, 0x0505, 0x04EC, 0x04ED, each byte-verified and cited with its
case address. Retail's trailing newline is dropped deliberately (documented
in-comment): acdream renders one ChatEntry per system message where retail has a
single scrolling buffer. Adjacent codes are deliberately left unmapped with a
test pinning that 0x04EE still falls back to hex — a wrong message is worse than
a raw code.
Files #306 for the full port, with three findings that make it more than a
string table: the switch is SIX compiler-lowered blocks spanning 339 distinct
case values from 0x17 to 0x593, not one contiguous band; retail passes a colour
argument with three values in use (0 x162, 0x1a x113, 7 x59) and acdream's chat
has no colour concept; and HandleFailureEvent aborts an in-progress automatic
attack on 0x43/0x3f7/0x3e/0x23/0x36 — verified against the decomp, with the
nuance that 0x43 has no display case at all and is abort-only, so that one is a
pure gameplay gap.
Gates: complete Release solution 10,909 passed / 4 skipped / 0 failed (baseline
10,904; +5 = the five new tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Preserve PlayerDescription inventory/equipment ownership across authoritative manifest replacement, make weapon switching and combat/UI consumers read the same canonical object state, and carry the complete outbound player position frame across landblocks.
Route target-facing and mouse-look through the shared MovementManager and MotionInterpreter completion owner. Match retail input aggregation, toggle ordering, turn/sidestep remapping, per-axis hold keys, and synchronous movement publication without render-only heading state.
Initialize the live streaming origin from the first accepted canonical player Position, defer other projections until that origin exists, and retain logical entity identity through hydration.
Advance the project ledger from completed M2 to active M3, synchronize CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md and durable memory, and record the next cast-lifecycle, spellbook/enchantment, and two-client portal gates.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Translate suicide response 0x004A as retail's successful self-kill notice. Port /framerate onto the authored SmartBox FPS element with live two-decimal FPS and DEG values, keep diagnostic window chrome independent, and synchronize command-driven settings without discarding panel drafts.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Keep AttackDone control statuses out of chat, preserve dead motion across zero-velocity position updates, render the authored power meter from right to left, and retain the rotatable viewer offset during target tracking.
Co-Authored-By: Codex <codex@openai.com>
Route ACE server commands through the existing chat path, bind the retail paperdoll hit mask instead of its obscured viewport, and prefer authoritative private health vitals. Record the user-confirmed live gate and pin the production DAT widget type in tests.
Phase J follow-up after a 2026-04-25 trace where typing /help
produced two identical "Unknown command: help" lines (ACE fires the
text via both GameMessageSystemChat 0xF7E0 and a paired
CommunicationTransientString 0x02EB), and the server's WeenieError
0x0026 trailer rendered cryptically as "WeenieError 0x0026".
Three small changes:
1. WeenieErrorMessages: add 0x0026 ThatIsNotAValidCommand ->
"That is not a valid command." Plus 0x0414 / 0x050F that Phase J
already added are now covered by tests too.
2. ChatLog.OnSystemMessage dedup. Track last system text + arrival
time; if a second identical text shows up within 1 second,
suppress. ACE's two-path send (gag warnings, command errors,
etc.) collapses to a single chat line. Long bursts of repeated
text still skip the duplicates without resetting the timer.
3. Client-side /help and /clear in ChatPanel. Intercepted BEFORE
the parser passes to the server bus:
- /help, /?, /h (case-insensitive) -> render local cheat-sheet
listing acdream's slash prefixes via ChatLog.OnSystemMessage.
Avoids the round-trip to ACE that produced the duplicate
"Unknown command: help" lines AND gives users discoverability.
- /clear, /cls -> drains the chat log so the panel starts empty.
New ChatVM.ShowSystemMessage() + ChatVM.Clear() expose the
minimum surface the panel needs to dispatch client-only feedback
without coupling the panel to ChatLog directly.
12 new tests:
- 3 WeenieErrorMessages template adds (0x0026 / 0x0414 / 0x050F).
- 4 ChatLog dedup cases (immediate dup, different text, triplet,
bookended-by-different-text).
- 5 ChatPanel client-command cases (/help, 3 alias variants,
/clear).
Solution total: 1033 green (243 Core.Net + 130 UI + 660 Core),
0 warnings.
Acceptance: type /help in chat -> local help banner appears, no
server round-trip, no "Unknown command: help" duplicates. Type
/clear -> chat tail empty. Welcome banner + WeenieError-templated
"You are not in an allegiance!" / "You do not belong to a
Fellowship." continue rendering once each.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three post-launch fixes from the 2026-04-25 live verify session.
1. WeenieError display bug. Many ACE WeenieError / WeenieErrorWithString
codes are *informational*, not error-level — the user saw cryptic
"WeenieError 0x051B: General" / "WeenieError 0x051D" at login, but
those decode as "You have entered the General channel." and
"Turbine Chat is enabled." per ACE WeenieError(WithString).cs
templates. New static helper Core/Chat/WeenieErrorMessages.cs maps
~30 high-frequency codes to retail-faithful templates with `_`
placeholder substitution. ChatLog.OnWeenieError now routes through
Format(); unknown codes still fall back to "WeenieError 0xNNNN[: param]"
so nothing is silently lost. New codes can be added in 30 seconds
when the user reports one.
2. Tell target eats trailing punctuation. Retail muscle memory is
"/t Name, message" — comma is the separator. Our split-on-whitespace
pulled "Name," (with comma) as the target, server returned 0x052B
"That person is not available now." because no such character.
ChatInputParser.TryParseTargeted now strips a trailing ,;:.!? from
the target token so "/t Caith, hi" and "/t Caith hi" both work.
Added 7 Theory cases covering each separator + the long-form alias.
3. TurbineChat routing diagnostics. The user's ACE login showed the
"TurbineChatIsEnabled" + "YouHaveEnteredThe_Channel" notifications
for General/Trade/LFG, confirming TurbineChat IS active server-side.
But outbound /g /trade /lfg might still fall back to legacy
ChatChannel (which the server then rejects). Added diagnostic
Console.WriteLines so the next launch shows:
- "chat: SetTurbineChatChannels parsed enabled=true general=0x... ..."
(when ACE sends the 0x0295 channel-id table)
- "chat: outbound TurbineChat General room=0x... cookie=0x... len=N"
(when SendChatCmd routes a Turbine kind through 0xF7DE)
- "chat: outbound legacy ChatChannel Fellowship id=0x... len=N"
(when SendChatCmd uses the legacy 0x0147 path)
- "chat: SendChatCmd kind=General dropped (turbine.Enabled=false no legacy id)"
(when neither path can dispatch — usually means ACE didn't send
0x0295 yet and the kind is Turbine-only)
Sets up Bug 3 (proper outbound TurbineChat for /g /trade /lfg) for
a follow-up commit once the next live trace shows the actual flow.
18 new tests:
- WeenieErrorMessagesTests: 11 covering known templates + fallback.
- ChatInputParserTests: +7 Theory cases for trailing-punctuation strip.
Solution total: 1007 green (114 UI + 650 Core + 243 Core.Net), 0 warnings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
