Layers of Fear (PPSA07265)

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Title

Layers of Fear (PPSA07265)

Content version tested

01.010.000 (masterVersion 02.00)

AnyPS5 commit

main 87b810a1db with nothing on top for the first run. The runs that reach the initial setup carry the unmerged converted-16-bit-image and ReadLane-dominance changes, and the navigation past the setup also carries the unmerged user-data-call change. Last updated 2026-10-28.

System tested

CachyOS, GCC 16.2.1, RTX 4080 SUPER (NVIDIA 615.78.08), 60 GiB RAM

Furthest point

Initial setup (accessibility options), reached from a fresh profile.

What is shown

• Plain main: aborts at compute shader 0x1b00feb800: reads or writes a converted float image with 16-bit data, which is not implemented (fix(shader): load and store 16-bit data of converted packed images #11580).
• With the converted-image change and the ReadLane-dominance fix applied locally: the title goes through the Anshar Studios logo and the photosensitive-epilepsy warning and reaches INITIAL SETUP / ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS. Cross is answered and the options screen updates. It presents at ~13-14 FPS (131-143 presents per 10 s, GPU busy ~47.7 ms per frame).
• Navigating past the setup (six down presses, then Cross) reaches a compute shader that fails with computed/data-dependent s_swappc_b64 call target at program counter 0x000012fc is not statically resolvable (0x1b41018000). The open user-data-call linking change does not fix it, so the call target is not linked by any of the current patterns.
• The title also registers ten shader headers of type 8; they are skipped at registration and are the known "unsupported registered shader type 8" debt (Hello Neighbor 2, Ad Infinitum and Ghostrunner are the other titles). They are not fatal in this scene.
• No other not implemented path appears up to this point.

Current blocker

The data-dependent s_swappc_b64 call at program counter 0x12fc. It is a recompiler call-linking case, not a missing guest export. Frame rate is a secondary issue once the call is resolved.

How it was run

• Retail dump (32 GiB) converted with the current relinker: eboot.bin, sce_module/*.prx and prx/*.prx unwrapped and converted; app0 entries symlinked.
• ANYPS5_GPU="RTX 4080" APS5_PROFILE_DRAW=1 APS5_LOG_TIMESTAMPS=1, hidden window, 1080p output.
• Buttons through APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE with tools/pad_input.py: Cross at 35/50/65 s to pass the logo and warning; six down presses and Cross at 45-50 s to attempt the setup.
• Local logs: .anyps5-work/lof-run/run{1..6}.log; frames lof-run/frame_*.png.

[edubox]

Follow-up from another run on the same tree: after the accessibility setup, the title reaches its intro and opens /app0/cron/content/movies/intro/intro_4k.bk2 (670 MB); the guest Bink runtime then prints Bink: Mismatched number of tracks opened. The error is not fatal: the title keeps presenting at ~14 FPS. In a different run/state the data-dependent s_swappc_b64 failure at 0x12fc appears instead (that one aborts). Adding -nostartupmovies to uecommandline.txt does not suppress the intro.