Load your own Star Fox (SNES) ROM. The file stays on this device and is never uploaded.
\n \n \n \n \ncreateStarship; 256 MB initial heap, 16 MB stack.',\n 'No threads on the web build: thread pool, logger, resource manager and audio all run synchronously (a variadic LUS_SUBMIT runs jobs inline).',\n 'SDL2, zlib, ogg/vorbis, libzip and stb were built from source when the port downloads were blocked.',\n 'The canvas sits inside data2\\'s shadow DOM — reached through specialHTMLTargets.',\n ],\n specs: [['Compiler', 'emsdk + CMake/Ninja'], ['GL', 'GLES3 → WebGL2'], ['Assets', 'Torch → .o2r'], ['Build', '-O2, no pthreads']],\n features: [['C', 'DECOMP'], ['WASM', 'ENGINE'], ['GL2', 'WEBGL'], ['O2R', 'ASSETS']],\n },\n {\n id: 'crash', week: 'Week 1 · Oct 2–3', spine: 'CRASH HUNTING', title: 'Crash Hunt', sub: 'Making it survive a whole level',\n theme: ['#4a1a6a', '#170826'], accent: '#ff5d8f', cover: S.fortuna, coverTag: 'WEEK 1',\n tagline: 'Freezes, gray floors and white portraits — each one traced to a single line.',\n shots: [S.touch, S.uturn, S.corneria],\n bullets: [\n 'AddressSanitizer builds of the whole engine ran in headless Chromium to catch memory bugs at the source.',\n 'Fast3D\\'s display-list stack was read after being popped — corrupting state a few seconds later. Found by ASan.',\n 'Texture IDs past 1024 overflowed a fixed array: training freezes, gray floor, white portraits → now a growable vector.',\n 'Desktop crash at 144 Hz: the interpolation matrix stack underflowed, plus a bool/s32 mismatch on a shared global.',\n 'highp shader precision fixed noisy textures on mobile GPUs; dropping HiDPI canvases (3× on iPhone) stopped lost WebGL contexts.',\n 'A crash screen shows the reason, a 14-frame stack and the last log lines; audio closes so a dead engine can\\'t loop a sound.',\n ],\n specs: [['Tool', 'ASan (-fsanitize=address)'], ['Fixes', 'v2 → v9'], ['Soak', '5 min @ 60/120 Hz'], ['Heap', 'flat at 307 MB']],\n features: [['ASAN', 'BUILDS'], ['144', 'HZ SAFE'], ['GL', 'HIGHP'], ['LOG', 'CRASH UI']],\n },\n {\n id: 'perf', week: 'Week 1 · Oct 3–7', spine: '60 FPS ON A PHONE', title: 'Full Speed', sub: '60 FPS on a phone',\n theme: ['#0d5c4a', '#05221c'], accent: '#7dffb0', cover: S.somersault, coverTag: 'WEEK 1',\n tagline: 'Main-thread time per frame went from 14 ms to 1.3 ms.',\n shots: [S.somersault, S.uturn, S.fortuna],\n bullets: [\n 'Cracked audio came from stepping the game too fast: web_frame now paces logic at the N64\\'s rate.',\n 'Frame interpolation at the display\\'s real refresh rate (measured, snapped to 30…144 Hz), one interpolated frame per animation tick.',\n 'The big one (v16): skipping the ImGui layer on web — its GL state backup made ~15 blocking glGet calls every frame.',\n 'nanosleep busy-waits under Emscripten, so the native frame limiter was removed on web.',\n 'Warm-up behind the loading screen: 15 color-combiner shaders and 5,479 resources, plus a list each device learns as it plays.',\n 'The first-U-turn stutter was an iOS font fallback for one arrow glyph — fixed by drawing it once, off-screen, while loading.',\n ],\n specs: [['Logic', '0.38 ms'], ['Fast3D', '0.32 ms'], ['Interp.', '0.26 ms'], ['WebGL', '0.27 ms']],\n features: [['120', 'HZ'], ['1.3', 'MS/FRAME'], ['89%', 'IDLE'], ['WARM', 'LOADING']],\n },\n {\n id: 'controls', week: 'Week 1 · Oct 4–7', spine: 'BUILT FOR PHONES', title: 'Tilt & Swipe', sub: 'Controls built for phones',\n theme: ['#0b5f86', '#04202e'], accent: '#5ee0ff', cover: S.touch, coverTag: 'WEEK 1',\n tagline: 'Fly by tilting the phone. Swipe up to somersault, down to U-turn.',\n shots: [S.touch, S.somersault, S.uturn],\n bullets: [\n 'Virtual gamepad: navigator.getGamepads is patched so SDL sees a standard pad; on-screen buttons hold at least 80 ms.',\n 'Sensor fusion: a complementary filter (gyroscope + accelerometer, jolt rejection), auto-calibrated axis order for iOS, yaw that recentres and learns its own bias.',\n 'Pitch drives vertical; roll + yaw drive horizontal. The game\\'s own ±16 stick deadzone is bypassed per axis; a 0.75% tremor filter.',\n 'Swipes call the maneuvers in the engine (web_maneuver) instead of replaying button macros.',\n 'Tap-to-select menus: the engine hit-tests taps in its own 320×240 space (web_tap).',\n 'iOS sound is unlocked inside the first tap and plays through the silent switch.',\n ],\n specs: [['Sensors', 'devicemotion'], ['Filter', 'complementary'], ['Deadzone', '0.75%'], ['Input', 'virtual gamepad']],\n features: [['TILT', 'STEER'], ['SWIPE', 'MANEUVERS'], ['TAP', 'MENUS'], ['PAD', 'COMPATIBLE']],\n },\n {\n id: 'data2', week: 'Week 1 · Oct 2–7', spine: 'HOSTED ON DATA2', title: 'On data2', sub: 'Hosting, security & environments',\n theme: ['#5a3b0a', '#1f1404'], accent: '#ffcf5a', cover: S.login, coverTag: 'WEEK 1',\n tagline: 'The whole game is one code component, a private Drive and a login.',\n shots: [S.login, S.title, S.levels],\n bullets: [\n 'The game is a data2 code component (shadow DOM, the d2 API), served on the .next.data2.app player.',\n 'Private Drive: builder, OR a logged-in session, OR a key in the URL. iOS blocked redirects after a CORS preflight → plain GETs with ?t=key, the key read from a session-gated table.',\n 'An auth strategy, users and keys tables, and a login screen.',\n 'Docs artboards for both apps: inner workings, files, build, modding feasibility.',\n 'Oct 7: dataFox2 frozen as \"the ideal way to play\" and cloned into Project: TFSF — PRD and DEV components, artboards and apps; DEV first, then promote.',\n 'Engine source archived as tarballs next to each build.',\n ],\n specs: [['Apps', 'datafox2, tfsf, tfsf-dev'], ['Drive', 'tfsf-rom (private)'], ['Auth', 'tfsfAuth'], ['Env', 'PRD / DEV']],\n features: [['AUTH', 'LOGIN'], ['KEY', 'GATED'], ['PRD', 'STABLE'], ['DEV', 'BUILDS']],\n },\n {\n id: 'menus', week: 'Week 2 · Oct 7–9', spine: 'MENUS & DIRECTOR', title: 'Director', sub: 'New menus, and the engine takes orders',\n theme: ['#15306b', '#081227'], accent: '#7fb2ff', cover: S.title, coverTag: 'WEEK 2',\n tagline: 'The page decides what to play; the engine plays it and reports back.',\n shots: [S.title, S.settings, S.map],\n bullets: [\n 'Two components with one job each: TFSF_Menu (every screen, one route each) and TFSF_Player (only /play).',\n 'Director mode in the engine: web_new_game, web_play_level, web_training, web_route_choice, web_quit — results come back as JSON (level end, route, game over).',\n 'One engine per page: leaving /play pauses it and parks the canvas; the next game adopts it instantly.',\n 'Title screen: one tap grants sound, motion and the microphone, then a radio check.',\n 'Player profile with nickname; a mixer (master, effects, music, radio, voice 0–200%); level select; route map.',\n 'Menu music: the Corneria theme — its loop found by spectral correlation (83.208 s), joined with a 120 ms crossfade.',\n ],\n specs: [['Routes', '/, /solo, /multiplayer, /play…'], ['Engine API', 'EMSCRIPTEN_KEEPALIVE'], ['Reports', 'Module.onDirector'], ['Audio', 'AAC 160 kbps loop']],\n features: [['ROUTER', 'SCREENS'], ['MIX', '0–200%'], ['BGM', 'LOOP'], ['1 TAP', 'PERMISSIONS']],\n },\n {\n id: 'lobbies', week: 'Week 2 · Oct 8', spine: 'LOBBIES', title: 'Lobbies', sub: 'Finding each other',\n theme: ['#245c1a', '#0b2108'], accent: '#b6ff6a', cover: S.lobby, coverTag: 'WEEK 2',\n tagline: 'Create a lobby, pick a pilot, ready up, depart.',\n shots: [S.browse, S.lobby, S.arenaLobby],\n bullets: [\n 'Three data2 tables: lobbies, lobbyPlayers, signals. Each pilot writes only its own row; only the host writes the lobby.',\n 'Heartbeat every 4 s, judged on the server\\'s clock — one tester\\'s phone ran 86 s behind and kept getting kicked.',\n 'Away after 12 s, removed after 60 s; if the host leaves, the earliest-joined pilot takes over.',\n 'A PowerCord socket announces every write so screens refresh at once; polling stays as the fallback.',\n 'Pilots: Fox, Falco, Slippy, Peppy — and Star Wolf (Wolf, Leon, Pigma, Andrew) flying Wolfens with green lasers.',\n 'Arena lobbies: two teams of four seats, seat moves and swap requests.',\n ],\n specs: [['Presence', 'server time'], ['Beat', '4 s'], ['Socket', 'PowerCord'], ['Pilots', '8']],\n features: [['8', 'PILOTS'], ['HOST', 'MIGRATION'], ['LIVE', 'SOCKET'], ['2×4', 'ARENA']],\n },\n {\n id: 'netcode', week: 'Week 2 · Oct 8', spine: 'NETCODE', title: 'Lockstep', sub: 'Netcode, built twice in one day',\n theme: ['#6a2a0a', '#240d03'], accent: '#ff9a3d', cover: S.coopB, coverTag: 'WEEK 2',\n tagline: 'Every phone runs the whole game. Only the inputs travel.',\n shots: [S.depart, S.coopA, S.coopB],\n bullets: [\n 'Inspired by sm64coopdx: peer-to-peer to the host, no TURN or relay — signaling through a data2 table, public STUN only, full SDP after ICE gathering.',\n 'WebRTC DataChannels in a star: an unreliable channel and a reliable one; the host relays between guests.',\n 'Version 1 (first): state sync — 30 Hz poses, interpolated puppets, enemy snapshots. It drifted. Rebuilt the same day.',\n 'Version 2: deterministic lockstep. Shared seed, a 256-tick input ring, binary input packets sent 8× redundant.',\n 'Host authority: the host commits every tick for every slot — a lagging pilot gets repeated input, then autopilot (700 ms), then is dropped (20 s). Nobody else freezes.',\n 'Desync check: a state hash every 30 ticks, split in 10 parts to pinpoint the culprit.',\n ],\n specs: [['1 input', 'slot · n · u16 b, i8 x, i8 y'], ['2 hash', 'tick · u32'], ['3 voice', 'μ-law 8 kHz · 20 ms'], ['4 commit', '4 slots × u32 per tick']],\n features: [['P2P', 'NO RELAY'], ['30', 'TICK HASH'], ['8×', 'REDUNDANT'], ['HOST', 'AUTHORITY']],\n },\n {\n id: 'coop', week: 'Week 2 · Oct 8', spine: 'CO-OP CAMPAIGN', title: 'Co-op', sub: 'Four pilots, one Lylat campaign',\n theme: ['#0d4f6e', '#041b26'], accent: '#ffe066', cover: S.coopA, coverTag: 'WEEK 2',\n tagline: 'A game written for one ship now simulates four.',\n shots: [S.coopA, S.spectate, S.cutscene],\n bullets: [\n 'Up to 4 real player ships in one simulation; each phone draws from its own pilot.',\n 'Per-pilot path progress on rails; enemies target the nearest pilot; gates hold until the team catches up.',\n 'Down? Spectate a teammate; the team retries when everyone is down.',\n 'Cutscenes: one pilot owns it, the others fly in formation; no wingman bots in multiplayer.',\n 'Radio chatter made deterministic (timers instead of \"is the voice still playing?\").',\n 'Drawing must not touch the simulation: a snapshot/restore around every view — including the random seeds.',\n 'Status of Team shows the lobby\\'s pilots, not Peppy, Slippy and Falco.',\n ],\n specs: [['Ships', 'gPlayer[0..3]'], ['Draw', 'per-pilot view'], ['Spectate', 'teammate cam'], ['Bots', 'none']],\n features: [['4P', 'CO-OP'], ['SPEC', 'TATE'], ['TEAM', 'RETRY'], ['SYNC', 'CUTSCENES']],\n },\n {\n id: 'radio', week: 'Week 2 · Oct 8–9', spine: 'RADIO COMMS', title: 'Radio', sub: 'Push-to-talk voice chat',\n theme: ['#5b0f4a', '#1f0519'], accent: '#ff7ad9', cover: S.comms, coverTag: 'WEEK 2',\n tagline: 'Hold TALK: your portrait pops up on everyone\\'s screen, mouth moving, like the original radio.',\n shots: [S.comms, S.coopB, S.title],\n bullets: [\n 'Voice over the same DataChannel: μ-law at 8 kHz, 20 ms frames, as binary packets beside the inputs.',\n 'The engine draws the speaker\\'s portrait and name with the game\\'s own mouth animation.',\n 'TALK plays the start of a real radio line (Peppy, voice 20237) cut at 10 frames — picked from samples.',\n 'The mic opens once, on the title tap, on the game\\'s own audio context — muted until TALK.',\n 'Lesson learned: opening and closing the mic per press made iOS reroute audio. Reverted.',\n 'Second-session silence: iOS wouldn\\'t resume a suspended context outside a tap → the engine\\'s output is unplugged instead.',\n ],\n specs: [['Codec', 'μ-law 8 kHz'], ['Frame', '20 ms'], ['Gain', '2.5× mic'], ['Session', 'play-and-record']],\n features: [['PTT', 'TALK'], ['FACE', 'PORTRAIT'], ['8K', 'VOICE'], ['iOS', 'SAFE']],\n },\n {\n id: 'arena', week: 'Week 2 · Oct 9', spine: 'ARENA', title: 'Arena', sub: 'Team versus, one screen per phone',\n theme: ['#7a0d0d', '#2a0404'], accent: '#5aa2ff', cover: S.arenaWrap, coverTag: 'WEEK 2',\n tagline: 'Blue vs Red. No respawns. First team to 3 wins.',\n shots: [S.arenaGo, S.arenaWrap, S.arenaLobby],\n bullets: [\n 'The original VS mode, rebuilt for teams and full screen per phone — up to 4 pilots.',\n 'An endless arena: everything is drawn at its nearest copy across the wrap (24,000 units) and the ground tiles around the camera.',\n 'Rounds: downed pilots spectate; wipe the other team for a point; a 2:00 clock — more pilots alive wins, ties score both. First to 3, 5 or 10.',\n 'Team portraits over the score, dimmed when down; team-colored lasers and boost glow; no friendly fire.',\n 'Ships have 40% less health (every hit ×5/3) — \"too tanky\".',\n 'A false \"out of sync\" alarm traced to random numbers used while drawing the extra views — seeds now restored after each view.',\n ],\n specs: [['Teams', 'Blue / Red'], ['Round', '120 s'], ['Win', 'first to 3/5/10'], ['Wrap', '24,000 units']],\n features: [['2v2', 'TEAMS'], ['∞', 'ARENA'], ['3', 'ROUNDS'], ['−40%', 'HEALTH']],\n },\n {\n id: 'polish', week: 'Week 2 · Oct 9', spine: 'POLISH', title: 'Polish', sub: 'The bugs you only find by playing',\n theme: ['#3c3f46', '#121317'], accent: '#ffd23f', cover: S.desktop, coverTag: 'WEEK 2',\n tagline: 'Rotate the phone, press F11, quit and play again — it all has to just work.',\n shots: [S.desktop, S.spectate, S.settings],\n bullets: [\n 'F11 froze the game: the engine still had the PC version\\'s own fullscreen toggle, fighting the browser\\'s. Disabled on web.',\n 'Rotation / resize: the engine now re-checks the real canvas size twice a second instead of trusting one resize event.',\n '\"Treadmill\" ground while spectating: the frame interpolation stepped from the team\\'s scroll, not the watched pilot\\'s.',\n 'Second game silent: every state change faded all music to zero after the restore — volumes now return once the level runs.',\n 'iOS magnifier on long-press suppressed; the app installs as a PWA.',\n 'Boost gauge sized to its frame; radar to the top right; camera pulled back for the arena.',\n ],\n specs: [['Builds', 'v44 → v53'], ['Resize', '2 checks / s'], ['Audio', 'restore after fade'], ['Fullscreen', 'browser-owned']],\n features: [['F11', 'SAFE'], ['ROT', 'ATION'], ['PWA', 'INSTALL'], ['AUDIO', 'FIXED']],\n },\n {\n id: 'tools', week: 'Oct 2 – Oct 9', spine: 'SOURCES & TOOLS', title: 'Credits', sub: 'Sources, tools & how it was tested',\n theme: ['#22333b', '#0b1216'], accent: '#9be7ff', cover: S.levels, coverTag: 'CREDITS',\n tagline: 'Standing on the shoulders of the decomp and porting communities.',\n shots: [S.levels, S.map, S.browse],\n bullets: [\n 'sf64 decompilation (github.com/sonicdcer/sf64) · Starship (github.com/HarbourMasters/Starship) · libultraship (github.com/Kenix3/libultraship) · Torch (github.com/HarbourMasters/Torch).',\n 'sm64coopdx (github.com/coop-deluxe/sm64coopdx) — the model for peer-to-host co-op. Emscripten, SDL2, WebRTC, Web Audio, DeviceMotion.',\n 'Testing: headless Chromium + Playwright on SwiftShader WebGL; a local stand-in for the data2 app (auth, tables, files); two-browser lockstep matches; 5-minute soaks; ASan builds; audio peak analysers.',\n 'Deploy: build → upload a numbered starship-vN to the Drive → point the DEV block → publish → promote to PRD.',\n 'Made with Claude Code and the data2 MCP, play-tested on real iPhones and Androids by the team.',\n 'Built from a legally owned US 1.0 cartridge dump; Star Fox 64 belongs to Nintendo.',\n ],\n specs: [['Tests', 'Playwright'], ['GPU', 'SwiftShader'], ['Builds', '53'], ['Days', '8']],\n features: [['OSS', 'SOURCES'], ['E2E', 'TESTED'], ['53', 'BUILDS'], ['D2', 'MCP']],\n },\n {\n id: 'week3', week: 'Week 3', spine: '??? · CLASSIFIED', title: '???', sub: 'Week 3', sealed: true,\n theme: ['#141414', '#050505'], accent: '#ff3b3b', cover: null, coverTag: 'WEEK 3',\n tagline: 'Under wraps.',\n shots: [], bullets: [], specs: [], features: [],\n },\n]\n\nconst esc = (s) => String(s).replace(/[&<>\"]/g, (c) => ({ '&': '&', '<': '<', '>': '>', '\"': '"' })[c])\n\n// A screenshot tile from the atlas, as a div background.\nconst shot = (i, cls) => {\n const x = (i % SHOT_COLS) / (SHOT_COLS - 1) * 100\n const y = Math.floor(i / SHOT_COLS) / (SHOT_ROWS - 1) * 100\n return ``\n}\n// The console emblem: four colored blocks, and the \"64\".\nconst emblem = (small) => `Week 3 is under wraps. 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