[BrentRosen]

Summary

Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park runs on the Mac from a raw dump: the Switch 2 program 040015100B514001 (update v327680, display 1.2.1, main build ec47e6f8846d2a7b6892e2682845c725) beside the original program, with the Bellabel DLC. This PR collects everything that needed to change for it to boot, start a New Game, continue an existing save and play, and render correctly.

The 120 fps work done on the same build is not included.

What was required

1. Reading the dump (program 1, shared files, DLC)

The unpacked update puts the companion in updates/327680/program1/, with the original program's files beside it, and the DLC under nested base/update snapshots.

• scripts/pack_dump.py: program_dir / default_program select program 1 when a complete Switch 2 companion is present (--program 0 picks the primary). dlc_romfs finds the DLC RomFS inside nested snapshots. dlc_index ignores the platform byte, because the Switch 2 companion (04…) and its Switch 1 DLC (01…) differ there. control/control.nacp is kept.
• pack_version / pack_dlc take raw=True for Mac apps and link the RomFS and DLC directories rather than packing images.
• scripts/build_ipa_from_nsp.py: dump program selection, the companion's shared RomFS surveyed beside its own, and DM_ROMFS_PROGRAM_0 passed through. Companions are Mac only, because iOS indexed RomFS bundling is not implemented.

2. Two RomFS at once

The companion mounts its own RomFS as content and the primary's as conorig through MountRom(name, index).

• hle_fs.c: the indexed overload reads DM_ROMFS_PROGRAM_<index>. Index 0 with no mapping keeps the old single-RomFS behaviour, and any other unmapped index now fails instead of silently mounting the wrong files.
• dm/mac/pack_app.py --romfs-program <n>\t<dir> copies it into Resources/romfs_programs/<n>; launcher.c sets the variables and accepts a marker found there.

3. SDK 21 services

• hle_audio.c: GetVirtualOutputDeviceProperties and the event-taking OpenOutputStream overload without flags. Without them the opening movie after New Game connects to auddmg:u and aborts with 0xa99. (This overlaps SDK 21 virtual output device properties and event-only stream open (Wonder Edition movie) #1561.)
• hle_sdk16.c: pl::IsRunningOnOunce follows the loaded SDK instead of always reporting a Switch 1. GetBuiltInFontData returns the plain TTF independently of the older Decode convention, and RequestLoadNxFont prepares the fonts.

4. Frame pacing: the title held 30 fps

nvnWindowAcquireTexture blocked for the vsync, so sead's interval controller counted that sleep as CPU work and held interval 2. Acquire now publishes a fence that its consumer resolves (nvnSyncWait, nvnQueueWaitSync, nvnCommandBufferWaitSync, through sync_acquire_wait and mtl_present_ready). The game's own controller then held 59.9 fps instead of 29.7. sync_t grows to 32 bytes and the capture layout follows. Snapshot-ring and deterministic modes keep the synchronous path.

5. Shaders

• dmsh_pch.py: -fbracket-depth=4096. Two agl pfx compute shaders nest past clang's default of 256. This raises only a parser limit, and the byte-identity tests still hold.
• The false BAHS descriptor this build hit (agl_common@0x35428, compute control + vertex SPH, "Ampere instruction 481 at 0x0") is already fixed on main (control-span check). This PR adds test_split_bahs_control.py as a second regression case and lists Wonder's companion under that doc section.
• Result: the full Mac shader build produces all 30,630 valid shaders, with none failing or lost.

6. New Game / Continue crash (#1580): resource heap allowance

Without this, a fresh save crashes about 3 s into New Game:

[RED] BufferInitialize: pool has no storage (pool 0x0 flags 0 offset 0 size 0x270)
CRASH sig=11 addr=0x4 pc=h_nvnMemoryPoolGetFlags+0

• Cause: the resource loader (main+0x130460) sizes each ExpHeap as resource-size-table value + max(alignment, 0x20) + 8 and creates it at main+0x131e00 (constructor main+0x2464d0). Model/NpcCommonerA.bfres gets 0x8d03c8 bytes. Its 0x5424 MatBlock + DisplayList request rounds to a 0x6000 GPU chunk, which leaves 0x3a8 bytes for a 0x418 descriptor.
• Fix: dm/games/010015100B514000/patches.py registers one cut for this build: main+0x130514 adds w0,w8,#8 → adds w0,w8,#4,lsl #12 (+16 KB per resource heap). The Switch 1 builds carried the same allowance before their command records were compacted.
• Result: with the original DLC and no resource-size-table overlay, a fresh save plays the Flower Kingdom opening (NPCs, Yoshi, the castle scene), and a copied save continues into a course.
• Not fixed: this is a heap allowance, not the native NVN2 byte-accounting correction NVN2: oversized model scratch recordings exhaust BFRES resource heaps (Wonder Switch 2 Edition) #1580 asks for, so NVN2: oversized model scratch recordings exhaust BFRES resource heaps (Wonder Switch 2 Edition) #1580 should stay open. The BINDING entry records the cut as build → host, blocked on that.

7. Rendering: conditional clears

• Overworld blue tint (profile setting, not code): the companion's profile needs render_cond on. Without it, ignored conditional clears wipe the half-resolution depth and occlusion targets between their full-screen draws, and flowerbeds and pipes turn blue. With it on, pass dumps show the repeated clears skipped, and the map has its lavender flowerbeds, white pipes and bright lighting.
• Lighting pulsing in courses with DM_NVN_ENC_THREAD=1:
  • Cause: a timestamp report's 16-byte record was written by the submission's completion handler. With Metal encoding on its own thread, that write landed after the game had already set the counter word to 1 for a later frame's conditional clear. The next check read 0 / 0 and skipped that frame's lighting blocks: in 24 of 90 course frames, four blocks were skipped and the count alternated 22/18.
  • Fix: the counter word, always 0, is now stored at replay (OP_REPORT_COUNTER), and the completion handler adds only the time (post_run).
  • Result: 1 of 90 frames had one block skipped, and the count held at 21 a frame. With the encode thread off, the pattern didn't occur before or after the change.

Related upstream work

These open PRs cover parts of the same ground; this PR is the set that worked end to end on one build:

• Dump folders without a base game, with program/<n> folders, and a Switch 2 Edition's program 1 #1253: dump folders with program/<n> and an Edition's program 1.
• SDK 21 virtual output device properties and event-only stream open (Wonder Edition movie) #1561: the same SDK 21 audio hooks.
• Port Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Program 1 #1563: the Wonder Edition port, where the profile lives.
• Keep extracted Program 1 Mac save and pipeline-cache identities separate #1586: save and cache identity.

The companion's provisional profile is generated outside the repository, as for other unregistered builds; it needs render_cond on.

Testing

Apple M5 MacBook Pro, from the packed .app with isolated saves:

• Fresh-save New Game through the opening scene, and a copied save continued into a course.
• No null-pool crash with the original DLC.
• Overworld colours checked against a reference screenshot. Course lighting checked with 90/120-frame pass dumps and screenshot bursts.

Unit tests on this branch:

• t_nvn: 254 checks, 0 failed.
• t_present_rescue: 82 checks, 0 failed.
• t_fs: 150 checks, 0 failed.
• t_shared_font: 144 checks, 0 failed.
• t_output_stream: passes.
• Python: test_docs, test_nsp_dump, test_shader_pch, test_split_bahs_control and test_split_bahs_entries pass. test_nsp_mac_app has one error, SeenShaders.test_shader_watch_counts_the_list (ShaderWatch.__init__ signature), which fails the same way on unmodified main.
• make GAME=010015100B514000 dmhost builds.

Not tested: iOS (unsupported for companions), individual Bellabel Park modes, long play sessions, and the Switch 1 builds (their profile is unchanged).

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[BrentRosen]

Closing to reopen without the stale game: 040074A01BF12000 label: an unrelated Donkey Kong Bananza documentation change was removed from this branch, but the area labeler only adds labels. The same branch continues in a new PR.