The page listed 34 of the 38 vehicles in the resource file. The four
missing were community variants, and I had written down that they shared
another vehicle's mapping streams. They do not - they have their own, of 17
to 33 records. The decoder just could not find them.
Streams are stored as resources named plainly L4 and Thrustmaster, so
nothing in a stream says whose it is. The old decoder guessed by taking the
nearest preceding vehicle name in the file, which works while vehicles are
laid out one after another and fails quietly when they are not: it lost vole
outright and mis-attributed four blkr variants.
The file answers exactly if asked properly. A vehicle's ControlsMappings
List holds the resource ids of its two streams. Ids are not quite positional
- this file leaves 53 and 56 unassigned - so the directory walk is aligned
against RPL4TOOL -l, skipping the ids the listing marks Not Used. That gives
1077 ids with zero size mismatches, and every stream lands on its owner.
Subsystem names now come from each vehicle's own Stream of N Subsystems,
checked against the count in its header instead of being pattern-matched out
of the bytes.
Nothing already verified moved: lepton, dark, blkspk and neut decode exactly
as they did when checked against the 4.10 retail file, blkspk still putting
its third booster on the thumb-high in preset 4 and dark still spending
preset 5's HORN slot on its second demo pack.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CydandClaude Opus 5
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