aPS3e Shader Patch Edition v4 with Claude Cockpit skill support

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An optional feature. User can install the ETK and use the new Claude Cockpit Skill for live telemetry analysis and game-recording so Claude Cockpit can attempt to playback your activity in the game. It is very experimental at this stage but the crash telemetry with the aPS3e log enabled in the About page gives an AI direct access to tuning diagnostics over USB (or SSH on ROCKNIX).

ETK Cockpit pad-movie — frame-exact, TAS-style gamepad record/replay baked into the fork (a cellPadGetData hook), keyed to the game's own read cadence so it survives emulation-speed variance and cold boots.

• Race-start cursor-sync + a three-mark region — MARK-IN at the rolling start · MARK-OFFSET at the lap line · MARK-OUT at the end — defeats Gran Turismo 5 Prologue's non-reproducible rolling-start offset; a recorded lap replays frame-exact across a cold boot.
• Mark chord: R1 + D-pad Down (both unassigned in GT5P).
• Triggers via $APS3E_DATA_DIR/cache/pad_movie.{mode,bin,offset,mark}.
• Doubles as a deterministic repro/benchmark harness — replay an identical input stream to reproduce a crash or A/B a config/driver across builds.

Autonomous self-driving is experimental (open-loop; a clean lap needs a closed-loop correction layer). Drives the ETK Cockpit skill's Driver tier.

versionCode 20 · base aPS3e 1.19a. Unofficial community build.