Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC Series' Articles

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 5: Making generated evidence intentional

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 1: Day 0 to a measurable ROM

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 2: The first native intro slice

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 3: Provenance instead of screenshots

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 4: Validation, cleanup, and current blockers

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 6: Portable tooling, not personal tooling

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 7: Repo-owned validation output instead of shared emulator state

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 5: Making scanline validation repo-owned

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Mar 20

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 6: When the bridge regresses

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 5: A real producer trace at frame 986

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 6: Extending late-window ownership through frame 994

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 7: Making frame 998 a real ownership anchor

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 8: Closing the first 998..1005 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 9: Closing the 1006..1013 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 10: Closing the 1014..1021 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 11: Closing the 1022..1029 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 12: Closing the 1030..1037 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 13: Closing the 1038..1045 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 14: Closing the 1046..1053 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 15: Closing the 1054..1061 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 16: Closing the 1062..1069 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 17: Closing the 1070..1077 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 18: Closing the 1078..1085 ownership block

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 19: Splitting the post-1093 attract window with active Mesen traces

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 20: Closing the 1102..1117 late attract continuation

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 21: Narrowing the static Mode 7 plateau to BG sampling

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Mar 22

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 22: Demoting M7SEL edge handling on the static Mode 7 plateau

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Mar 26

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 23: Mapping DOS menu contracts onto the SNES front end

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Mar 26

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 24: Tightening the SNES selector domains and the B1F9 handoff window

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Mar 26

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 25: Recovering the SNES preview-helper extractor

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