{"event":{"id":"evt-20261106-openrac","dedupe_key":"rts_milestone:rts_finding_6442b550c8114556ac1ab06d419e9faa","event_type":"publication_or_official_action","title":"OpenRAC reports 100-percent original-code byte matching across four regional Ratchet & Clank PS2 builds","summary":"A 5 November 2026 OpenRAC merge reports completion of matching the remaining Japanese and PAL regional functions, after initial 100% coverage of measured Ratchet & Clank 2002 code in the October 26–November 1 week. Project-produced ByteMatch/objdiff reports show original-code byte fidelity across PAL 2.00, PAL 1.00, NTSC-J and NTSC-U builds. These are reproducible matching claims for mapped executable code, not full data decompilation, complete gameplay testing or evidence a native PC port was released by this project.","occurred_at":"2026-11-05T18:26:36.000Z","published_at":"2026-11-05T18:26:36.000Z","observed_at":"2026-11-06T17:49:47.442Z","reconstructed_at":null,"ingest_type":"live_evidence_only","locations":null,"status":"verified","confidence":0.93,"metadata":{"rts_finding_id":"rts_finding_6442b550c8114556ac1ab06d419e9faa","evidence_only":1,"source_bound":1,"epistemic_scope":"dated_observable_official_action_or_publication_only","no_relation_onset":1,"no_new_layer_state":1,"no_civilization_snapshot":1,"bounded_overlap_not_exhaustive":1},"created_at":"2026-11-06T17:57:19.231Z","updated_at":"2026-11-06T17:57:19.231Z"},"artifacts":[{"id":"art-20261106-openrac","dedupe_key":"1be728475f2b7a37016b9c77c92e499b537206d0350e051f857e33706a287bd2","canonical_url":null,"evidence_locator":"","artifact_type":"publication","title":"OpenRAC reports 100-percent original-code byte matching across four regional Ratchet & Clank PS2 builds","summary":"A 5 November 2026 OpenRAC merge reports completion of matching the remaining Japanese and PAL regional functions, after initial 100% coverage of measured Ratchet & Clank 2002 code in the October 26–November 1 week. Project-produced ByteMatch/objdiff reports show original-code byte fidelity across PAL 2.00, PAL 1.00, NTSC-J and NTSC-U builds. These are reproducible matching claims for mapped executable code, not full data decompilation, complete gameplay testing or evidence a native PC port was released by this project.","creator_entities":[],"released_at":"2026-11-05T18:26:36.000Z","content_hash":null,"metadata":{"rts_finding_id":"rts_finding_6442b550c8114556ac1ab06d419e9faa","evidence_only":1,"source_bound":1,"epistemic_scope":"dated_observable_official_action_or_publication_only","no_relation_onset":1,"no_new_layer_state":1,"no_civilization_snapshot":1,"bounded_overlap_not_exhaustive":1},"created_at":"2026-11-06T17:57:19.224Z","updated_at":"2026-11-06T17:57:19.224Z","relation":"documents"}],"signals":[]}