484. The corpus has names

2026-09-09 - directed, continuing 483

Asked for a generated page per title with the missing metadata and placeholders for what has not been captured. Built.

What was already there

compat/<title>.toml, one per title, split into what orbistoun sets and what it got - the second half transcribed from a trace and never typed, because a hand-written grade drifts. compat markdown already rendered a ranked table, and already had screenshot plumbing nobody had filled.

What it could not say was what a title is. Every row was an identifier.

Derived rather than typed

A template.md per title would put the drift back one level up. So metadata comes from sce_sys/param.json - the title's own statement of itself - and the pages are regenerated from the records every time:

identifier	title
PPSA02664	Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
PPSA03416	Summer Sports Games
PPSA04263	Grand Theft Auto V
PPSA21564	ASTRO BOT
PPSA25872	Terminator 2D: NO FATE
PPSA28061	Earthion

The table links each name to its page; the name sits beside the id rather than replacing it, because the id is what traces, records and cross-project requests all key on (D660).

Absent things are shown, and the two kinds told apart

Menu and gameplay rows always render, with a shared no-capture.svg where nothing has been taken - a gap reads as broken, a dropped row reads as though nobody asked. And "ships no param.json" is said differently from "the field is missing": a homebrew payload has no metadata file at all, and four rows of not recorded would send somebody after a parser bug that is not there.

Surprises

• The first version threw away every name it read. The metadata refresh sat above an early return taken whenever a run is not better than the record - and every title in the corpus is at its best already, so it would have skipped all of them. Found by opening a generated page and seeing it empty, which is the argument for generating them where somebody will look.
• A test caught the table change correctly - md.contains("far 📷") broke when the title cell became a link. Updated to assert the whole cell, since a bare far also matches the link target and would have passed whatever the mark did.
• obSCEne ranks third, above Terminator, GTA V and ASTRO BOT. It has no display name because it ships no param.json, which briefly read as it being missing from the table entirely.

Next

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