Current PS1 Prerender Pilot Status — April 16, 2026

⚠️ Historical snapshot — not current truth. Dated 2026-04-16. Preserved as a prerender-pilot-era status surface between the restore-pilot era and the fgpilot/full-SFX baseline. For current status see the scene-status shelf page and current-status shelf page.

On this page

• Validated now
• Current blocker
• Failed recent experiments
• Current conclusion
• Working reference command
• Guardrails

Date: 2026-04-16

Validated now

• Title screen is restored.
• Default validation flow is title -> fgpilot fishing1.
• fishing1 full-scene foreground playback is visually correct on the black base.
• Timing is close to PC after host-deadline replay and deadline catch-up work.
• Generic foreground runtime support is proven on fishing2.

Current blocker

• restoring the real ocean layer under prerender playback without regressing the working foreground path

Failed recent experiments

• naive ocean background swaps inside the standalone prerender loop Result: repeated Johnny overpaint / ghosting.

• routing fgpilot fishing1 through full adsInitIsland() + adsPlay() Result: startup behavior changed too much, ocean half-loaded, Johnny never appeared.

Current conclusion

• the standalone prerender playback path is still the correct foreground pilot baseline
• ocean must be restored through a narrower background-only path, not by switching fgpilot to full ADS scene execution
• the next good milestone is: ocean-only base works then ocean + standalone foreground pack works

Working reference command

• ./scripts/rebuild-and-let-run.sh fgpilot fishing1

Guardrails

1. One change at a time.
2. Run after every step.
3. Human validation before commit.
4. Keep fixes generic.