JOHNNY 2 — Bottle washes up; Johnny puts an SOS note inside

JOHNNY 2 on PS1 at night: Johnny stands on the left shoreline holding a bottle, a thought bubble above him showing a sheet of paper labelled SOS. — JOHNNY 2 on PS1, captured during the v0.8.4-ps1 chapter-select grind. The SOS-note thought-bubble frame: Johnny is at the left shoreline holding the bottle that washed up, picturing the note he'll roll inside before tossing it back into the ocean. The bubble hold timing was specifically tuned so the island and SOS thought frames stay readable instead of rolling past as a trailing empty-bubble chain — the per-page perf retrospective at /lab/from-87-to-99-5/ walks through the JOHNNY 2 padded-FGP3 + clean-pressure-relief follow-up that completed this row.

Validated on 2026-05-02 under the FISHING 1 bar.

This scene is pinned to the host-captured island position x=-64,y=54. The high/low FG2 packs use lower-band keyed overlay cleanup for the moving bottle/feet region and explicit hold timing for the island/SOS thought bubbles.

Pack identifiers

ADS dispatch: JOHNNY.ADS scene 2
Slug: johnny2

What this scene is

A bottle washes up on the shore. Johnny picks it up, puts an SOS note inside, and tosses it back into the ocean. Confirmed by direct on-PS1 playback observation while capturing the chapter-select thumbnail; matches and sharpens the prior “first SOS bottle” caption-mapping guess.

How this scene was validated

The same way every scene does: under the FISHING 1 bar.

A host-side Johnny Reborn capture/export pass produces a base-diff .FG2 foreground pack and a JSONL of sound events. The PS1 build replays that pack at native resolution through every variant the original game randomized between (night, low-tide, holiday overlays, raft-stage progress where applicable). The regtest harness checks that the visuals come out frame-identical and the SFX cues land on the same ticks.

This one passed visual + audible review after the capture was rebuilt at the pinned island position and the bubble hold timing was tuned so the island/SOS frames hold instead of the trailing empty bubble chain. See the method for the longer version.