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Beta Update
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SeymourBETAMINOR6/10/2026
SIN Chain Builder Gate 3: AiScriptLab validation bridge for the `SinApplyPlan` (read-only) — validates plans, does NOT apply; SIN stays BLOCKED for writing.
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SeymourBETAMINOR6/10/2026
SIN Chain Builder Gate 2: dry-run / preview planner (`SinApplyPlan`) — preview-only, SIN stays BLOCKED for writing.
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SeymourBETAMINOR6/10/2026
Blitzball Prize Table becomes a TREE: League/Tournament → 1st/2nd/3rd/Top Scorer → draw → prizes (+ RE-proven draw detection).
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SeymourBETAPATCH6/10/2026
Navigation consolidated: 4 new aggregator hubs (Battle Commands, Items, Sphere Grid, Text/Reference) + a reusable `SubTabHub` component + a leaner sidebar. Second IA pass by lane Jarvis-RIN (Halyson's pile of notes). New generic component `SubTabHub_Control` (`Modules/SubTabHub`): an FFX-styled sub-tab strip (reuses Blitzball's `tabPill`/mode-pill), built in code via `AddTab(label, factory, mode, pill, requiresProject)`, lazy-loaded (each sub-tab builds its control on first selection and caches it) with a `requiresProject` guard (a project-gated tab shows a placeholder instead of crashing). On top of it, 4 hubs (each HOSTS the existing controls, untouched): (1) Battle Commands → `Comandos/Magias de Personagem` (command.bin) · `Monster Commands 1` (monmagic1) · `Monster Commands 2` (monmagic2); (2) Items → `Items` (item.bin) · `Key Items` (important.bin, guarded) · `Shop` (guarded slot payload) — Shop and Key Items moved here from loose screens; (3) Sphere Grid → `Explorer (DB)` · `Builder` · `Canvas` (3→1; Explorer needs a project, Builder/Canvas open without one); (4) Text / Reference → `String Explorer` · `Macro Explorer` · `Weapon Names` · `Battle Text` · `Event Explorer` (5→1). Each sub-tab carries an honest mode pill (writer amber / read-only teal) with the real file/scope. Sidebar: Core Authoring dropped from 23 → 15 buttons; Auto-Abilities now sits right next to Customizations / Aeons; Monster AI Explorer removed from the menu (handler/code preserved — only the nav option is gone). Scope (RIN): navigation/hosting only — the 4 new `Main_Window` handlers build a `SubTabHub` via factories (`CreateKernelCommandsControl(...)` for the kernel tables; `new XxxControl()` for the rest) and the old handlers stay in code (`ShowKernelCommands`/`CreateKernelCommandsControl` intact = back/forward and nav-restore keep working). Does not touch writer/parser/runtime/save/SIN/provider or the INTERNALS of any other lane's module (MAGIC/Sphere); it only edits the `Main_Window` nav lines (shared file) + adds `Modules/SubTabHub`. The Battle Commands extras (universal search, per-tab search, multi-edit) are deferred to a follow-up (they touch the command-editor logic = MAGIC lane). MINOR (4 NEW navigation modules/tabs + a new reusable component). Build compiles 0 errors / 361 warnings; editor relaunched at v2.74.0.0.
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SeymourBETAMINOR6/10/2026
Blitzball Hub: the 5 scattered screens become 1 "Blitzball" tab with sub-tabs + an honest mode pill + a visual polish of all 5 windows. Navigation + UX consolidation (lane Jarvis-RIN). The sidebar had 5 loose buttons (`Blitzball Prizes`/`Roster`/`Recruits`/`Prizes (Edit)`/`Prize Table`) with clashing names (3 said "prize"); it is now 1 button `Blitzball 🏐` opening the new module `BlitzballHub_Control` (`Modules/BlitzballHub`) with 5 sub-tabs in an FFX-styled strip (`tabPill` pills, active tab with a teal underline): Roster · Recruits · Prize Pool · Prize Table · Atlas. Each sub-tab shows an honest mode pill right below the strip — `WRITER LAB · <file> · RT0 proven · RT2 pending` (amber) for the 4 writers, `READ-ONLY · Spira Data Atlas` (teal) for Atlas — because the hub's outer "Mode" badge is now neutral (`Atlas + Writer Lab`) and can no longer assert a single mode. Tabs are lazy-loaded (each UserControl is built only on first selection and cached) → the hub never holds 4 `ByteSnapshotEditorSession`s at once. Visual polish of all 5 windows (presentation only — no writer/parser/binding/DataModel touched): smaller hero via the new `heroGradient` class (dedupes the 3 copy-pasted literal gradients), `Save` now uses `primaryAction` (teal) on the 4 writers (it was the LEAST-styled button of each screen before), Roster's 8 `cardSoft` boxes collapse into one table (aligned header, right-aligned a/b/c/type), Prize Table is grouped into a category accordion (5 collapsible groups — League/Tournament Standings, League/Tournament Top Scorer, Roll Threshold/odds — closed by default, each with a family-color dot + site count; the text filter auto-expands matching groups) to tame the ~849 options, plus a per-row per-family color stripe (teal=prize-index, amber=odds) + condensed text + normalized padding, Prize Pool groups Quantity/Raw Type into `cardSoft` with a tighter Quantity column, Recruits demotes the `@0x` offset to a subtitle and makes the player combo the primary element, Atlas gets a colored evidence pill in the grid (proved-candidate=teal / partial=amber / metadata-only=blue / blocked=danger) and literal colors (`#9AD7E2`/`#9EB0C2`) swapped for tokens. New additive classes in `StudioTheme.axaml` (`tabPill`/`tabPillActive`, `heroGradient`, `pillWriter`/`pillReadonly`, `numField`) — selectors that did not exist → zero regression on other screens (I did NOT touch the global `TabControl` theme, precisely to avoid affecting the 8 screens that use bare tabs). 2 new presentation-only converters (`PrizeFamilyBrushConverter`, `EvidenceStatusBrushConverter`). MINOR (NEW navigation module/IA + the first reusable sub-tab strip; the polish alone would be PATCH but it rides along with the new module). Does not touch writer/parser/runtime/save/SIN/Atlas provider/other lanes; the 5 `_Control.axaml.cs` and DataModels stayed intact. Build compiles 0 errors / 361 warnings (the final `.exe` failed to copy only because the editor was open — unrelated to the code).
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SeymourBETAMINOR6/10/2026
Blitzball Prize Table: now also edits the ODDS (390 roll thresholds) — "edit everything". Extends the `Blitzball Prize Table 🏐` tab (`v2.71.0`): on top of the 459 prize-index sites, it now edits the 390 threshold immediates that set the PROBABILITIES — the `case >= N` / `case <= M` bounds over `GetRandomInRange(100)` (bytecode `29 AE <thr> 0E/0F D7/D6` = `DUP·PUSHII·GE/LE·jump`). A bucket caught by `roll >= lo` and `roll <= hi` has ~`(hi-lo+1)%` odds; widen the bucket = better odds for that prize. New `BlitzballPrizeStructure_File.FindRollThresholds`/`SetThresholdAt` (scan scoped to ≤768B of a prize-index site so it never touches an unrelated switch) — using the SAME 2-byte writer (`Event_File.PatchScriptUInt16`). Unified UI: the filter gains "Roll Threshold (odds)", each row inline-editable (prize rows show the live resolved reward; threshold rows show the bucket bound). The `--blitzball-prizestruct-rt0` gate is extended and PASSES on the real `bltz0200.ebp`: 459 prize + 390 thresholds (195 `<=` / 195 `>=` = a perfect pairing), no-edit byte-identical, a prize-index AND a threshold edit both isolated to their 2 bytes (`<=10 → <=50` @0xC108), re-read confirms both. MINOR (NEW capability: odds editing). Does not touch save/runtime/SIN/other lanes. Build 0 errors / 361 warnings; `--blitzball-prizestruct-rt0` PASS. Doc: `docs/reverse/FFX_BLITZBALL_PRIZE_STRUCTURE_RE_2026-06-10.md`.
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SeymourBETAMINOR6/10/2026
Blitzball Prize Table: EDIT which prize each placement/random bucket awards (459 immediates in `bltz0200.ebp`) — disproves the "blocked" label. The read-only explorer (`v2.62.0`) marked `BlitzballLeague/TournamentPrizeIndex`/`TopScorer` as `blocked` (runtime/save) — too conservative: it only saw the read/display side in `bltz0201` (`PrizeIndex + 220 → Treasure Label`). The assignment lives in `bltz0200.ebp` as 459 constant immediates in the ATEL script: `Set BlitzballPrizeIndex[slot] = <prize-index>` inside a switch over `GetRandomInRange(100)` (the random reward distribution). Game-file editable, just like recruitment (only the immediate is 2 bytes, since it exceeds 255). New module/tab `Blitzball Prize Table 🏐` (`Modules/BlitzballPrizeStructEditor`): a filterable list (by variable/reward/index) of all 459 sites with inline prize-index editing + the live resolved reward (takara `prize+220`, or MacroDict#8 for >100). New primitives `Event_File.PatchScriptUInt16`/`ReadScriptUInt16` (length-preserving 2-byte immediate patch via `ScriptChunkOverride`) + `FfxLib/Blitzball/BlitzballPrizeStructure_File.cs` (scan/`SetPrizeIndexAt`) + gate `Tools/BlitzballPrizeStructRt0.cs` (`--blitzball-prizestruct-rt0`). PROVEN on the real `bltz0200.ebp` (222,464 B): 459 sites (141 League + 188 Tournament + 65 League-TS + 65 Tournament-TS = matches the corpus count), no-edit byte-identical, a single prize-index edit isolated to its 2 bytes (League 1st `0x0001→0x0099` @0xC0A2), re-read confirms. RE finding: ATEL var ids are per-file (`0x28` in bltz0201 vs `0x30` in bltz0200); the bltz0200 ids (`0x30`/`0x31`/`0x32`/`0x33`) are proved from the file's own switch/Set sites. Honesty: edits WHICH prize index each placement awards (game-file, RT0 isolation proven, RT2 pending); the reward each index GIVES = takara (the `Blitzball Prizes (Edit)` tab); the odds (roll thresholds) are a separate immediate set, not exposed yet. MINOR (NEW module + new 2-byte writer). Does not touch save/runtime/SIN/other lanes. Build 0 errors / 361 warnings; `--blitzball-prizestruct-rt0` PASS. Doc: `docs/reverse/FFX_BLITZBALL_PRIZE_STRUCTURE_RE_2026-06-10.md`.
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SeymourBETAMINOR6/10/2026
Blitzball Prizes Editor: UI to edit the 101 blitzball prizes in the GAME FILE (takara.bin 220..320). New module/tab `Blitzball Prizes (Edit) 🏐` (`Modules/BlitzballPrizesEditor`) that edits the blitzball prize POOL (prize 0..100 → takara row 220+k → reward; the proved-candidate rule closed in `v2.62.0`): a master-detail over the 101 prizes, each with an item dropdown (filter by name/id) + quantity + Raw Type/Kind/resolved reward. It REUSES the proven `TreasureEditor_DataModel` internally (item dictionary, name resolution, `ByteSnapshotEditorSession`, full-table writer) filtered to rows 220..320 → the save is the SAME writer as the Treasures tab, writing `takara.bin` and preserving all 498 entries byte-for-byte except the edited prize. Registered in `Main_Window` (nav + `SetModule`). Honesty: "Writable (Lab)" badge — edits the POOL (which reward each prize index gives), not WHICH prize you win per league/tournament/event (= runtime/save); for gear/key-item prizes or finer Kind control, use the Treasures tab. Complements the read-only `Blitzball Prizes 🏐` explorer (`v2.62.0`) with real editing. MINOR (NEW module/tab). Reuses `TreasureEditor_DataModel`/`Treasure_File`/`Item_Dictionary`; does not add a new writer or touch the player save/runtime/SIN/other lanes. Build 0 errors / 361 warnings.
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