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PS1 Fishing 1 Water Animation Handoff

docs/ps1/research/WATER_ANIMATION_HANDOFF_2026-04-21.md

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Why this file matters

PS1 research worklog. This is one of the working notes that drove the port: plans, validation logs, classifier notes, and the pivots that eventually shaped the runtime.

Date: 2026-04-21 Repo: workspace:/jcreborn Branch: ps1

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Outline

  • PS1 Fishing 1 Water Animation Handoff
  • Goal
  • Known Good Baseline
  • What Has Been Proven
    1. The wave primitive itself works on PS1
    1. The Fishing 1 integrated failure is not a host-data absence issue
    1. Water failure is integration/runtime-side
  • Current Technical Findings
  • grLoadBmp() is RAM-path only on PS1
  • Integrated main loop shape
  • Foreground pack path uses direct compositing
  • Some direct helper paths clear currDirty
  • What Has Been Tried And Failed
  • High-memory backdrop frame streams

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