Serving owned balls (subtype 30), league logos (31) and fcc_misccards
(231/232/233/236) was the last projection gap. The open guess was that their
caption would come from `localizedName` on the wire, "probably", and they were
withheld out of caution.
Measured against the running client instead (new
tools/cardtype_dispatch_probe.py, read-only, reproducible, every step with a
positive control). They cannot be named at all:
1. The merge jump table at rva 0x141eb4 is indexed cardtype-1 with 10 entries.
Cardtypes 1..5 and 10 each get a DB-merge arm; cardtypes 6,7,8,9 ALL land on
one shared tail at 0x180141e8a that runs no query and writes no name.
2. `cmp [reg+0x4c], 9` (cardtype): ZERO sites in .text. For contrast, cardtype
1 has 13 and cardtype 7 has 6.
3. `cmp [reg+0x50], 30` and `..., 31` (cardsubtypeid -- the field that actually
selects a club-item caption): ZERO sites each, while kit 9, stadium 10 and
badge 11 all appear, which is the control. The only cardtype-9 subtypes
present anywhere are the four misccards ids, and all four are one boolean
predicate near 0x1801a72da that returns FALSE for them: an exclusion, not a
resolver. That predicate is NOT identified and is not claimed to be.
4. The cardtype-7 resolver is gated `cmp [rax+0x4c], 7` at 0x1800f6f04, so a
cardtype-9 item never reaches it. Its jne path formats AWARD_LABEL_%i --
the trophy path, not a fallback that would name a ball.
Nothing reads a localizedName for these subtypes, so sending one cannot become a
caption. Withholding them is a measured limit of the client, not caution, and no
server change can lift it.
CORRECTION: FUN_180119bd0 was recorded as "zero refs in CardsDLL -> almost
certainly an export, its caller is in FIFA17.exe". It is not an export. Its
address occurs exactly once in the whole process, at 0x18021c738 in CardsDLL's
own .rdata, and nothing in FIFA17.exe references it. It is virtual: vtable base
0x18021c2a0, slot +0x498, index 147 -- independently reproducing the recorded
"manager vtable slot +0x498" by a different method. Finding the boundary needs
the constructor-LEA trick; walking back over .text-pointing qwords runs 826 slots
through several adjacent vtables.
Bonus: the shared tail cardtypes 6-9 fall into IS the discard level ladder
(movzx [rdi+0xb4]; cmp 0x4b; cmp 0x41; store [rdi+0x54]), confirming
discard::discard_level instruction for instruction against the live client.
Adapter 244 tests, fmt clean.
Rows 12, 13 and 16 carried guessed or placeholder URLs (`ut/%s/item?type=…`,
`ut/%s/…`). The real binding is a table, not an inference: the 125-row action
table at 0x1802caa20 indexes the 48-entry URL-base table at 0x18021df80 through
column 1, and base index 3 = ut/%s/club is carried by exactly four rows. So the
client can emit exactly four families on that base:
ClubSearch, ClubStats, StaffStats, ConsumablesSearch — which also corrects those
three rows to /club?<query>, /club/stats/staff and /club/consumables/<cat>, and
updates their status now that the Rust host serves them.
Added the complete club query grammar (ordered, with its suppression rules and
sub-vocabularies, including that the request spells it onSale where the response
says forSale), the seven /club/stats forms, the fact that /club/stats/team does
NOT exist, and the two base-table holes that are composed outside CardsDLL so
nobody re-derives them as findings.
Section 7 of the plan is now marked APPLIED and kept as the audit trail.
Chased the league-logo lead to a useful boundary and stopped there.
FUN_180119bd0 — the cardtype-7 caption resolver the whole club-item story rests
on — has ZERO references anywhere in CardsDLL: no call, no jmp, address never
taken in .text/.rdata/.data. It is nonetheless a real function. An unreferenced
real function in a DLL is almost certainly an export, which puts its caller in
FIFA17.exe. So the owned cardtype-9 caption path is not in CardsDLL and looking
for it there is wasted effort; the launch probe remains far cheaper than parsing
the export table and 79 MB of EXE.
Also verified definitionId a fourth way, by a different method than the existing
three: every real atom name appears exactly once in CardsDLL's .rdata
(resourceId, cardsubtypeid, itemState, assetId, cardassetid, rareflag, owners,
contract, discardValue, and localizedName), while definitionId is absent
entirely. Recorded but NOT applied — the path carrying it is live-proven and the
saving is payload only.
Method note added: CardsDLL is .text 0x180001000, .rdata 0x1801e5000, .data
0x18028a000. Confusing a live mapping offset with an image offset reads the wrong
section and returns false negatives — it made every atom lookup, controls
included, come back ABSENT until corrected. Validate scans against a known key.
FUN_180098f20, previously described as the league-logo function with a hedged
"localizedName, probably", read in full: it queries fcc_leaguelogos WHERE
leagueid == %d, reads carddbid/value/cardassetid, and captions with
'LeagueName_Abbr_15_%d' in the 'FUT String' domain. A database-backed league
name therefore exists, in exactly the shape kits use for teamid — so "cardtype 9
has no DB name resolver" is too strong for league logos.
Deliberately NOT concluded: its only caller passes [rbx+0x20] as the league id,
and rbx there is a loop cursor over small list elements (int/double/int), not the
0x158-byte card record. Reading that as the record's assetId and shipping "send
leagueid as assetId" would be the exact inference this document exists to
prevent. Recorded as a lead with the next question named: does the OWNED render
path reach this resolver, and which field feeds it?
FUN_1801aa190 (the plan's "two minutes of work" item) is eleven instructions and
resolves TWO parallel arrays, not the one the earlier claim described:
f(self, idx, which) reads item+0x104+idx*4 when the flag is clear and
item+0x124+idx*4 when it is set — eight ints each, 0x20 apart. Live, BOTH read
all zeros on every resident record including a rating-94 player, so neither can
be the reason any action is greyed today.
The FUT roster database question is partly answered. Scanning FIFA17.exe in the
live process recovers the full API name set — StartFUTRosterDownload,
DL_FUT_LIVEDB, APPLY_FUT_LIVEDB, LoadFUTDatabase, UnLoadFUTDatabase,
SetFUTDatabaseUnloaded, UpdateFUTDBVersion, GetFUTDBCRC, RosterXMLDownloadedFail,
.dbFUTVer/.dbMajor/.dbMinor/CRCs — none of which exists in CardsDLL. That is a
downloaded, versioned, CRC-checked live database with its own lifecycle, which is
categorically not the shipped card tables. Whether it is loaded RIGHT NOW is
still open: the load flag was not located, and the absence of an open DB file
proves nothing since the process only holds Frostbite bundles.
The plan called this "the single blocker between 'we can mark a kit equipped'
and 'we can equip a kit'", and recorded that two attempts to find the writer
drowned at 1688 and 4144 instructions.
They drowned because +0x60 is a common struct offset. Two filters make it
readable: only an IMMEDIATE store can introduce a constant (a register store
just propagates one), and item-record code is recognisable by touching +0x4c
(cardtype) or +0x5c (itemState) within a few instructions.
Measured read-only against pid 6580:
- live +0x60 over all 27 resident records: {1: 23 players, 0: 4 staff}, never 4
- CardsDLL has 4 comparisons of +0x60 (0, 0, 1, 4); the 4 is the kit gate and
is the ONLY such comparison in the process
- CardsDLL has 29 immediate stores to +0x60, constants {-2,0,1,908,0x3f800000}
- FIFA17.exe, across 79 MB of code: ZERO stores of 4, zero comparisons with 4
- the gate function has one xref (a jmp) and its address is never taken
- every register store to +0x60 in CardsDLL is a struct copy or an init
So the gate is not a wire field we failed to send: the value it demands is never
produced by anything. Decoding it fully also shows every OTHER input is already
served — cardtype 7, itemState 101/102, teamid — leaving only the +0xba variant
selector beneath it, which makes a client-side patch the only remaining avenue.
Ball (30), league logo (31) and misc (231/232/233/236) were tracked as three
separate holes. They are one: cardtype 9 has no database name resolver, so the
displayed name can only come from `localizedName` on the wire, and that single
unproven step gates all three. The cardtype-7 families caption themselves from
the client's own tables, which is why kit, badge and stadium now project.
Ownership, content_kind, club/stats counting and restart durability are already
in place for all three, so the outstanding launch probe is the only remaining
work.
The plan recorded this as "almost certainly unresolvable statically", because
`FUN_180008190` is only a forwarding stub through a slot the host fills at
runtime: `mov rax,[DAT_1802ddfd8]; mov r9,[rax+0x248]; jmp r9`.
It IS resolvable — just not from disk. Read read-only out of the running client
(pid 6580): the slot forwards through two FIFA17.exe thunks into
msvcr120.dll+0x3c330, whose body is strncmp (`test r8,r8` count, `test al,al`
NUL stop, `cmp al,[rcx+rdx]`, then MSVC's 0x8080../0xfefe.. NUL-detect fast
path). No `or ..,0x20`, no folding table: the compare is raw bytes.
So the casing in the table at 0x180229cc0 is a CONTRACT. A mis-cased token does
not degrade gracefully — FUN_180166660 returns 0xffffffff, the record keeps 0 =
invalid, and the item fails the squad builder. This confirms what
fut::item_state already emits; it was previously true by convention and is now
true by measurement.
The probe follows the chain and attributes each hop to its module, which needs
care under Wine: PE sections are mapped anonymously, so a module is identified
by the nearest preceding named mapping rather than the containing one.
Card-subsystem pass, 11 agents plus three adversarial verifiers. Full writeup in
docs/plan-2026-08-06-card-subsystem.md. Two of the results below correct things I
committed earlier today.
THE GREYED-OUT TRANSFER OPTIONS ARE EXPLAINED. "Place on Transfer List" and "List on
Transfer Market" have been disabled in the reveal screen and nobody knew why.
TO_TRADE_PILE (FUN_1801a7260) requires BOTH item+0x49 tradeable AND a service gate at
vtable slot +0x270. That slot is `movzx eax, byte [rcx+0x1fd2e]; ret`, and 0x1fd2e is
the tradingEnabled gate byte. Read live and reproduced independently:
slot +0x2b0 friendlySeasons disp 0x1fd3a VALUE=1
slot +0x2c8 draftMode disp 0x1fd3d VALUE=1
slot +0x2e0 packOpeningAnim disp 0x1fd45 VALUE=1
slot +0x270 tradingEnabled disp 0x1fd2e VALUE=0
tradingEnabled is the FIRST gate byte found that is not 1. This partly rehabilitates
the settings work from this morning: that plan died because every gate it targeted
already read 1, and the conclusion drawn was that the settings array does not matter.
It does. It matters for a flag nobody was looking at, and tradingEnabled is ALREADY in
_SETTINGS_KEEP, plumbed and never sent because _SETTINGS_MODE defaults to off.
So the fix is two things, not one: FUT_SETTINGS=keep AND untradeable false. Shipping
only the boolean would look like the finding failed.
THE DISCARD "MISS" NEVER EXISTED, which corrects e3092ca. fcc_discardcoins is resident
and complete, the client lookup runs and is correct, and it lands at item+0x3c. The
tile simply binds +0x38, which is OUR value, and nothing falls back to +0x3c. So the
client was not failing a lookup; it was faithfully displaying the 0 we sent. Same
observable, completely different mechanism, and the version in e3092ca is wrong.
FUT_DISCARD_SEND remains exactly the right fix, now for the right reason.
WHAT FUT PAYS FOR STAFF IS NO LONGER UNKNOWN. Same formula, but the rating input is the
table `value` column: gkcoachcards 9000081 value 66 gives 36, and the client's own
+0x3c reads 36. That closes the gap I flagged in e3092ca as not-guessed.
CLUB ITEM SUBTYPES, the standing unknown in CARD_SYSTEM.md, are settled: kit 9,
stadium 10, badge 11 are cardtype 7 (not 9), ball 30, league logo 31 by elimination.
All five constants in fut_clubitems.FAMILIES are wrong and all five currently sit in
the TROPHY block 0x91..0x96. Note the probe route the doc preferred could never have
answered this: probe_shelf()'s candidate set lacks 9, 10 and 11, so it would have spent
a launch and returned nothing for three of five families.
THE CARD MODEL FIELD MAP now exists, 28 rows, every field we send with the byte it
lands on and whether the client keeps it. Built by diffing what we serve against the
parsed records in the live heap (stride 0x180, anchored by a satellite back-pointer
rather than by assuming the +0x38 offset). Corrections that change what we serve:
+0x54 is the discard LEVEL not itemType, +0x49 is untradeable INVERTED, +0x5c is
itemState, definitionId is not an atom at all.
A HIGH-CONFIDENCE ABSENCE CLAIM WAS REFUTED IN VERIFICATION: playStyle IS stored, at
+0x88. Its controls were raw scalars while playStyle is a DECODED scalar, so the
control was the wrong FORM. That is a new variant of the absence trap, which has now
cost six wrong verdicts, and it is recorded in the doc.
FIX TO MY OWN PATCH from e3092ca: purchased() and last_pack() lacked the _with_discard
wrapper that items() had, so the pending pile, which is the one place a quick-sell
value is actually read, served unstamped cards. Found by verification, not testing.
All three read paths now stamp.
Correcting an overstatement in e3092ca: "turning the flag off is a true revert" holds
for the read paths, which copy, but NOT for cards minted while armed, because _item()
stamps at creation and those persist (9 items currently). Kept deliberately: the pack
reveal serves itemList straight from open_pack(), not through purchased(), so removing
creation-stamping would leave the screen that matters unstamped. Persisted values are
correct and self-heal, since every read recomputes and overwrites.
Nothing here has been on screen. Six patches are proposed in the doc as pasteable text,
env-flagged, defaulting off, none applied.
Live: 439 contract checks, 414 card-family checks, market suite, all pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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