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funman300 571c5f9261 docs(market): recover the FIFA17 sold wire contract from CardsDLL (Ghidra)
Task A, static phase. Ghidra 12.1.2 headless via the repo's own pyghidra harness
over CardsDLL_Win64_retail.dll (13,382 functions). Queries and raw decompiler
output committed under docs/evidence/market-sold-re-2026-08-17/.

RECOVERED FROM THE BINARY

1. No sold token, now EXHAUSTIVELY: both vocabularies dumped to their sentinels
   rather than sampled. tradeState is exactly 4 rows; itemState is exactly 12
   (invalid/free/WAITING_FOR_GAME/inGame/forSale/offered/activeBadge/
   activeHomeKit/activeAwayKit/activeBall/activeStadium/active=255). A sold row
   MUST therefore be a combination of existing atoms.

2. What closed does, complete, from the auctionInfo deserializer 0x18013e410:
     IS_GLOW = (tradeState==closed) ? bidState != none
                                    : bidState in {outbid, buyNow}
     INBOX   = bidState in {highest, buyNow}

3. The full record -> Flash map from the publisher 0x1801bf030, superseding the
   partial list. The prize: record +0xbf is published as COINS_AWARDED, fed by the
   coinsProcessed atom 0x2f4. The corpus had recorded that atom's type and noted
   its consumer was never found; it is now traced. DURATION also renders the
   localised FUT_AUCTION_EXPIRED when expires underflows.

4. highest vs buyNow on a closed row is UNDECIDABLE from CardsDLL, by proof: both
   yield IS_GLOW=1/INBOX=1, bit-identical. But bidState is ALSO published verbatim
   as YOURBID alongside STATE and COINS_AWARDED, so the movie does receive the raw
   values - the discrimination exists and lives entirely in unread ActionScript.
   This retires the question as a static target, and it contradicts the
   third-party lore that a seller's sold row is closed+buyNow (the corpus's own
   lifecycle table says closed+highest and assigns buyNow to the buyer).

5. The clear-sold verb EXISTS. Builder 0x1801647c0 emits "/sold" when the tradeId
   field is zero and "/%lld" otherwise, on route base ut/delete/%s/trade, response
   class RS4 FutISRemoveTradeServerResponse. Confirmed by the client's own
   request-name table entry RemoveAllSoldFromTradePile. A BULK clear-sold verb only
   makes sense if sold rows PERSIST in the seller's pile until cleared, which is
   incompatible with our Fix A invariant - so the sold path will require revisiting
   it under live validation.

6. The seller's SOLD counter is real, proven end to end with no inference: the hub
   tradePile sub-deserializer 0x18013ead0 writes atom sold 0x2c9 to +0x1d8, and the
   tile publisher 0x1800b1dc0 renders +0x1d8 as Flash TEXT3 under the localised
   caption FUT_TF_SOLD. Siblings: selling -> +0x1d2 -> FUT_TF_SELLING,
   count -> +0x1d4 -> FUT_UC_ITEMS, plus FUT_TF_WINNING/FUT_TF_OUTBID on the
   Transfer Targets tile. We and the Python oracle both hardcode sold:0, so that
   bucket can never fill.

7. Reusable method: an atom id is the INDEX into the alphabetical atom-name pointer
   table at base 0x1802d2760. Validated 12/12 against the known auctionInfo atoms
   and cross-checked against fifa17-recon/docs/fut_atoms.tsv. Documented gotcha:
   resolve a name by the pointer slot INSIDE the table, never by the first matching
   string in the binary, or you get confident nonsense.

8. An auction-outcome vocabulary exists (auctionSoldBid 0x39, auctionSoldBuyNow
   0x3a, auctionWon*/auctionLost*) but NO deserializer consumes it - every
   candidate function was checked for the value-SKIP/atom-loop signature and none
   qualifies. Server-side or telemetry only; it does not carry sold state here.

TASK B IS UNDECIDABLE FROM THE CLIENT, and this is a proof of absence: no 0.95 or
0.05 constant of either width, no tax/fee/net/proceeds caption, and no fee
arithmetic anywhere. The client never computes or displays a net, so no experiment
against our own server can measure the rounding - whatever we credit is what it
displays, and there is no oracle. Only an original EA-era seller-balance capture
could settle it. The rule stays an explicit CHOICE (floor the fee, so
fee + proceeds == gross exactly) and is now pinned at the requested boundaries
100/101/119/120/149/150/151/199/200 plus 15,000 and i64::MAX.

Settlement NOT promoted. No production process, port or database was touched.
2026-08-18 01:32:02 +00:00

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"""Q4 — is the atom ID the index into the alphabetical atom-name pointer table?
Validate against the twelve KNOWN auctionInfo atoms. If all twelve agree on one
base, the table is the atom dictionary and we can read the ID of any name.
"""
import struct
KNOWN = { # atom id -> name, from the confirmed auctionInfo deserializer
0x57: "bidState", 0x65: "buyNowPrice", 0xC1: "currentBid", 0x116: "expires",
0x16B: "itemData", 0x2B6: "sellerEstablished", 0x2B7: "sellerName",
0x2E6: "startingBid", 0x2F4: "coinsProcessed", 0x331: "tradeId",
0x335: "tradeState", 0x380: "watched",
}
def str_addr(name):
"""Address of the exact NUL-terminated string `name`."""
for h in find_all(name.encode() + b"\x00", blocks=(".rdata", ".data")):
return h
return None
def ptr_addr(sa):
hits = find_all(struct.pack("<Q", sa), blocks=(".rdata", ".data"))
return hits[0] if hits else None
print("=" * 78)
print("== solve for the table base using the twelve known atoms")
print("=" * 78)
bases = {}
for aid, name in sorted(KNOWN.items()):
sa = str_addr(name)
pa = ptr_addr(sa) if sa else None
if pa is None:
print(f" 0x{aid:03x} {name:20s} string=0x{sa or 0:x} pointer=NOT FOUND")
continue
base = pa - 8 * aid
bases[base] = bases.get(base, 0) + 1
print(f" 0x{aid:03x} {name:20s} str=0x{sa:x} ptr=0x{pa:x} -> base 0x{base:x}")
print()
print(" base histogram:", {hex(b): n for b, n in sorted(bases.items(), key=lambda kv: -kv[1])})
if not bases:
raise SystemExit("no bases resolved")
BASE = max(bases, key=bases.get)
print(f" CONSENSUS BASE = 0x{BASE:x} ({bases[BASE]}/{len(KNOWN)} atoms agree)")
print()
print("=" * 78)
print("== read the atom id of every sold/counts-related name")
print("=" * 78)
for name in ("sold", "selling", "offered", "count", "maxAuctionsAllowed",
"auctionSoldBid", "auctionSoldBuyNow", "auctionWonBid",
"auctionWonBuyNow", "auctionLostOutbid", "auctionLostOutbidSelf",
"auctionLostBidRejected", "credits", "coins", "tradeIdStr",
"itemState", "offers", "bids", "watched", "expires"):
sa = str_addr(name)
pa = ptr_addr(sa) if sa else None
if pa is None:
print(f" {name:24s} ABSENT from the table")
continue
off = pa - BASE
if off % 8:
print(f" {name:24s} ptr=0x{pa:x} misaligned (off {off})")
continue
print(f" {name:24s} ptr=0x{pa:x} ATOM ID = 0x{off // 8:x} ({off // 8})")