The evaluator's "unexported caller" found by E8-scan: the Mech MASTER
PERFORMANCE (FUN_004a9b5c, in the 004a977x..004ab188 export hole) calls
EvaluateEjectPermission as its FIRST act every frame. Without that call the
port's ejectPermitted stayed at ctor-0 forever -- the panic-armed mode never
raised, so the PANIC lamp never lit and testers "never saw the option for
eject come alive". Restored at the top of Mech::PerformAndWatch (masters
only, like the binary).
Mislabel swept: mech+0x414 is ejectPermitted, NOT "missionReviewMode" -- the
mapper's @004d196c edge-watch arms PANIC mode 0x200000 from it (the real
review mode is the GLOBAL DAT_004fd550; btl4pb now reads that global, the
GetMissionReviewMode stub is retired, mapper member renamed
previousEjectPermitted).
Verified live: kill 4 generators -> "[eject] panic-arm mode ON" -> the
miniconsole Panic button lights dark->bright (pixel captures; the pad panel
shades it from the same PadRIO lamp state the pod's physical button uses) ->
BT_EJECT_AT press -> PUNCH-OUT -> respawn heals -> mode disarms -> healthy
presses REFUSED. BT_EJECT_LOG=1 logs the arm edges.
Note: no shipped gauge rides mode 0x200000 -- the 1995 eject indication is
the button lamp; the weapon-eng MFD "UNJAM/EJECT" is the ammo-jam indicator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clean, self-contained extraction of the BattleTech-specific work from the
reverse-engineering workspace -- engine + game + content + build, with nothing
from Red Planet or the raw archive dumps. Builds green (Win32) and runs the
single-player drive->animate->target->fire->damage->destroy loop out of the box.
Layout:
engine/ MUNGA + MUNGA_L4 shared 2007 engine, carrying our BT render/loader
work (bgfload/L4D3D/L4VIDEO: BSL bit-slice decode, LOD/ground/shadow
models) + image codec; the minimal rp/ headers the audio HAL needs
game/ reconstructed BT logic + surviving-original BT source + fwd shims
+ WinMain launcher
content/ full runtime tree (BTL4.RES, VIDEO/, GAUGE/, AUDIO/, eggs, BTDPL.INI)
docs/ format specs + reconstruction ledgers
reference/ raw Ghidra pseudocode (recon source-of-truth) + decomp exporter
tools/ MP console emulator + map/resource scanners
One top-level CMake builds munga_engine lib + bt410_l4 game lib + btl4.exe.
All paths relativized (186 fwd shims + ~437 CMake abs paths -> repo-relative);
DXSDK is the one external, overridable via -DDXSDK. Verified: builds to a
byte-identical 2.27MB exe and runs combat (TARGET DESTROYED, 0 crashes) against
the bundled content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
