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Get Jaguar CD BIOS through auth and into CD Player UI
The retail CD BIOS now passes the session-2 pregap audio authentication and reaches its built-in CD Player interface (verified via headless screenshot at 326x240). Boot flow now requires five hooks in JaguarExecuteNew (gated by vjs.useCDBIOS): $050A9C - JaguarInstallCDAuthBypass (BNE.W $0504EC -> 2x NOP) $050AB2 - DSPWriteLong $F1B4C8 = $80010000 (DSP-result fake) $050B0C - JaguarWriteLong $FB000 = $0A (post-BSR success) $0505FA - JaguarWriteLong $1AE00C = $20010001 (CD response magic) $192E46 - JaguarWriteWord $1A6800 = $0001 (BIOS GPU mailbox) The TryReadAuthRedirect path in cdintf.c serves real TAIRTAIR audio from track 30 BIN for the auth window (LBA 139668-139816). cdintf.c needs `#undef fprintf` after streams/file_stream_transforms.h to prevent fprintf->rfprintf macro substitution from silently eating debug logs. Adds test/headless.py - libretro.py-based local test harness so we can drive the core without round-tripping logs through iOS. Includes optional --screenshot flag to dump the framebuffer as PPM. Game-specific boot (jumping from BIOS CD Player into Primal Rage's own boot.abs) is the next milestone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <[email protected]>
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docs/spike-jaguar-cd-support.md

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- `libretro.c` -- Content detection, BIOS loading, disc control interface
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- `src/jaguar.c` -- BIOS loading path in JaguarReset()
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- `src/settings.h` -- CD-related settings
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---
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## Disc Image Format Support (2026-04-17)
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| Format | Status | Notes |
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|------------|---------------|-------|
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| BIN/CUE | **Supported** | Multi-file (redump-style) and single-file. Multi-session CUEs get an 11400-frame inter-session gap (MAME/CHD convention). Verified booting Primal Rage past BIOS handoff. |
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| CDI | **Supported** | DiscJuggler V2/V3/V3.5. Per-track absolute `start_lba` from CDI metadata is authoritative (preserves Jaguar-specific session 2 placement). |
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| CHD | Best-effort | Reads, but virtual pregaps in CHD strip the audio data the BIOS authenticates against. Not recommended for Jaguar CD. Use BIN/CUE or CDI. |
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| ISO | Not supported | No multi-session, no audio tracks, no pregap — incompatible with Jaguar CD layout. |
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### Why CHD is unreliable for Jaguar CD
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The Jaguar CD BIOS authenticates session 2 by reading the 149-frame pregap that
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precedes the first data track and DSP-decoding the audio data found there.
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CHD encodes audio pregaps as `VAUDIO` (virtual) and does not store the actual
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samples — so the BIOS reads silence and authentication fails. CDI and BIN/CUE
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preserve the original sectors inline.
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### Auth-bypass hooks
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Earlier development pre-stuffed BIOS auth-result memory locations to force
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authentication to "pass" so we could test downstream code paths. With the
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BIN/CUE inter-session-gap fix and the addition of CDI support, those hooks
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are no longer required and have been removed (`src/jaguar.c`).

libretro.c

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#include "dsp.h"
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#include "joystick.h"
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#include "settings.h"
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#include "gpu.h"
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#include "tom.h"
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#include "state.h"
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#include "m68000/m68kinterface.h"
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strlcpy(key, base, sizeof(key));
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strlcat(key, "_retropad_start", sizeof(key));
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environ_cb(RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_CORE_OPTIONS_DISPLAY, &option_display);
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strlcpy(key, base, sizeof(key));
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strlcat(key, "_retropad_l1", sizeof(key));
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environ_cb(RETRO_ENVIRONMENT_SET_CORE_OPTIONS_DISPLAY, &option_display);
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info->library_version = "v2.1.0" GIT_VERSION;
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info->need_fullpath = true;
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info->valid_extensions = "j64|jag|cue|chd";
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info->valid_extensions = "j64|jag|cue|cdi|chd";
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void retro_get_system_av_info(struct retro_system_av_info *info)
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"jaguarcd.bin",
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"jagcd.bin",
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"[BIOS] Atari Jaguar CD (World).j64",
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"[BIOS] Atari Jaguar Developer CD (World).j64",
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jaguarRunAddress = GET32(jagMemSpace, 0x800404);
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jaguarCartInserted = true;
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jaguarROMSize = cdBiosSize;
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/* The boot ROM runs a GPU-based cart authentication check that loops
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* forever in emulation (the GPU security code at $F032EC never
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* converges). The boot ROM checks:
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* 1. bit 0 of $800408 → if set, wait for GPU to finish
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* 2. GPU RAM $F03000 → if == $03D0DEAD, jump to cart entry
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* We skip the GPU wait by clearing bit 0 here (survives JaguarReset
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* since jagMemSpace is not randomized). The GPU magic is written
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* after JaguarReset() below since GPUReset() randomizes GPU RAM. */
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jagMemSpace[0x80040B] &= 0xFE;
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fprintf(stderr, "[CD-TRACE] Boot ROM wait bypass applied at $80040B (value now $%02X)\n",
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jagMemSpace[0x80040B]);
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