A.I.L.A (PPSA28503)

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Title

A.I.L.A (PPSA28503)

Content version tested

01.003.000

AnyPS5 commit

Release v0.1.3 (3fd1cc393b85): relinker-v0.1.3.exe and prx-windows-v0.1.3.zip, no extra pull requests.

System tested

Windows 11 Pro (build 26300), Intel Core i5-12600KF, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (driver 617.42). Release binaries, nothing built locally.

Furthest point

In game

What is shown

Boot to gameplay works, with picture, audio and keyboard input.

• Logos: the studio logo movie plays (H.264 through libSceVideodec2) at about 8 to 12 fps.
• Before the menu: about 100 s at roughly 0.3 fps. Shader compilation is part of it; the first run had about 1,560 shader cache misses.
• Main menu: renders correctly (logo, NEW GAME / OPTIONS, description line, version v0.0.3.5104, controller prompts) at about 4 to 5 fps. Keyboard input works with the default bindings: the arrow keys move and Enter confirms.
• Audio: menu music and sounds play (FMOD through sceAjm*).
• Save data: the game mounts its save data and writes ue4savegame.dpx.sav and gameusersettings.ini without errors.
• In game: NEW GAME starts the opening sequence, including a hold-Cross prompt that works with Enter, and reaches gameplay. The first scene runs at about 3 fps, lower while the level loads. It renders a lit, textured metal door with specular highlights and the crosshair dot. The rest of the frame is black; it is unconfirmed whether the scene is meant to be that dark.
• Pause menu: Escape → Options renders RESUME, SAVE GAME, LOAD GAME, OPTIONS and MAIN MENU over the blurred scene.

The guest renders at 2560x1440 and is presented in a 1100x619 window. No crash, no NotImplemented and no unresolved import in five runs, the longest over 6 minutes into gameplay.

Screenshots (logo, main menu, first scene, pause menu):

Presents from APS5_VIDEOOUT_TELEMETRY_DIR, boot to menu, warm shader cache:

t (s)	frames	fps
10.6	30	9.4
22.8	150	10.7
38.1	330	12.4
41.5	360	7.5
140.5	390	4.5
147.2	420	4.3

Current blocker

Nothing stops the title. Performance is the blocker: about 10 fps on the logos, a stall of about 100 s before the menu, about 5 fps on the menu and about 3 fps in the first scene.

A 30 s trace of the first scene has frame p50 311 ms. Queue worker 0x0 is busy 99 %, mostly building compute dispatches: Driver.Packet.dispatch 318 ms and Vulkan.Dispatch.shader_resources 136 ms per frame. The GPU is busy 201 ms per present. The log also shows the storage image cache at its budget (about 1.8 GiB), and repeated [gpu] storage image ...: guest memory changed while GPU results were pending; keeping the CPU's blocks.

Performance report with the trace: #11205

tools/import_audit.py on the v0.1.3 registry, against the release libraries: 1934 unique imports, 620 implemented, 1298 resolved by the title's own modules, 0 absent. 16 are stubs that throw when called; none was reached:

• sceAjmBatchStart, sceAjmStrError, sceAjmInstanceCreate, sceAjmBatchJobInitialize, sceAjmBatchJobClearContext, sceAudiodecDecode, sceAudiodecCreateDecoder
• sceGameLiveStreamingGetProgramInfo, sceHttp2SendRequestAsync, sceHttp2WaitAsync, sceSystemServiceLoadExec
• sceVoiceQoSReadPacket, sceVoiceQoSWritePacket, sceVoiceQoSGetLocalEndpointAttribute
• sceWebBrowserDialogResetCookie, sceCoredumpSetUserDataType

The title is Unreal Engine (IoStore paks, project ProjectAIDA) with FMOD Studio. It ships libc, libSceFontGsm, libSceJobManager, libSceNpCppWebApi and libScePfs in sce_module/, and libfmod and libfmodstudio in prx/. All are unencrypted fSELF.

How it was run

# 1. Unwrap the fSELF containers, keeping sce_module/ and prx/ next to the ELF
python tools/unwrap_self.py <dump>/eboot.bin work/eboot.elf
python tools/unwrap_self.py <dump>/sce_module/<each>.prx work/sce_module/<each>.prx
python tools/unwrap_self.py <dump>/prx/<each>.prx work/prx/<each>.prx

# 2. Convert (7 modules converted, 14725 external references)
relinker-v0.1.3.exe --windows --registry work/eboot.elf aila.exe

# 3. Layout: aila.exe, libs/ = prx-windows-v0.1.3,
#    app0/ = the rest of the dump (with the original eboot.bin and sce_sys/) + the *.guest.prx from the relinker
aila.exe

No patches. Environment variables were used only for measurements: APS5_VIDEOOUT_TELEMETRY_DIR for the table, and APS5_TRACE_SECONDS for the trace.

AI assistance: the conversion, the import audit and the measurements were run with Claude Code.