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.
openfut-adapter-fifa17
The FIFA 17 game adapter. Everything true of FIFA 17 specifically lives here, so that neither OpenFUT Core nor the generic protocol crates have to know about it.
openfut-protocol-blaze generic Blaze: Fire2 framing, Heat2/TDF codec
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openfut-adapter-fifa17 THIS: command tables, response bodies, dispatch order
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OpenFUT Core game-independent FUT domain (not yet wired)
Status
| Surface | Port | State |
|---|---|---|
| Blaze / Fire2 RPC | 42130 | Implemented, byte-for-byte parity-tested |
| Redirector (HTTPS + XML) | 42127 | Python only |
| Nucleus OAuth stub | 42131 | Python only |
| LSX / Origin | 4216 | Python only |
| Roster XML | 8081 | Python only |
| UTAS / RS4 | 8099 | Python only |
| POW / EASFC | 8094 / 8080 | Python only |
Nothing here is wired into the running backend. The crate answers frames; it opens no socket, terminates no TLS and owns no runtime. The Python backend remains the live service and the behavioural oracle.
What the adapter owns, and what it must not
Owns: component/command/notification IDs, response body shapes, dispatch
ordering, session identity, the fetchClientConfig tables.
Must not own: FUT domain state. Blaze is an auth/session/config protocol — no
coins, packs, clubs or squads appear on this wire — so Session holds a session
key, a locale, a service name, an auth code and a flag, and that is all. When
UTAS is migrated that boundary will need active defending; here it comes free.
Parity
./check-parity.sh # oracle freshness + byte-for-byte replay
./check-parity.sh --regen # after an intentional oracle change
fixtures/blaze_transactions.jsonl holds 49 request→response(s) transactions
produced by calling the real blaze_responder_v3b.dispatch(). They replay in
order against a shared session per connection, so ordering-dependent behaviour
is exercised rather than assumed: preAuth captures the locale that later ALOC
fields echo, and login sets the auth code getAuthToken returns afterwards.
Comparison is byte-for-byte including frame count and order — a missing post-login notification or a reply where the oracle stays silent fails here.
The suite was mutation-tested: swapping two post-login notifications,
flipping one enum deep inside AccountInfo, and hardcoding an address in
utas_base()/nucleus_base() were each verified to turn it red. The third
initially did not, because the config templating had made those helpers dead
code; the table now templates on URL-level tokens so they are the single place a
URL shape is defined.
Three behaviours that are easy to get wrong
- Login answers with four frames, in order: reply, then
UserAuthenticated,UserSessionExtendedDataUpdate,UserAdded. - An unimplemented RPC still gets an empty reply. Silence makes the client wait for a timeout; an empty reply lets every field fall back to a client-side default and the boot continues.
- Non-request message types get nothing at all.
No error replies are emitted. msgType 3 exists, but the error-code placement
is UNRESOLVED — three clean-room sources disagree between header[14:16], a
metadata ERRC, and a payload CNTX/ERRC — so emitting one would be a guess
on the wire.
The client config table
fixtures/client_config.json carries 227–243 rows per CFID, generated from the
Python oracle and templated on {utas_base}, {nucleus_base},
{pow_content_url}, {advertise}, {bind}, {pow_host}. It is
reverse-engineered data, not logic, and deriving it mechanically removes a
class of transcription typo no reviewer could catch. The generator does not take
its own templating on trust: it substitutes real addresses back in and diffs
against the oracle for every section before writing the file.
The table must be complete, not representative. The client resolves a per-call
key (FUT_RS4_URL_<CALL>) before a per-module one, and any unresolved call falls
back to a real, dead EA host — that is what produced "there has been an error
connecting to FIFA 17 Ultimate Team" mid-session when only the boot subset was
served.
Known defect reproduced deliberately
nucleusConnect and nucleusConnectTrusted are built from the bind address,
not the advertised one. On the live split deployment that means the backend
tells a client on another machine to reach Nucleus at http://0.0.0.0:42131,
which it cannot. Verified against the running container, not inferred.
This is reproduced exactly, because it is what the only proven-working configuration does and changing it would break parity. It also implies the Nucleus stub is not actually reached in the current remote flow. Fixing it is a separate change that needs live validation — see the vault.
Configuration
Nothing is hardcoded. AdapterConfig carries Identity (persona, ids, email,
namespace, entitlement group, …) and Endpoints (advertise, bind, POW hosts,
telemetry/ticker/QoS ports). Default gives the project's synthetic offline
identity on loopback; a remote deployment must override advertise.
Bind and advertise are deliberately distinct: an advertised URL must carry the address the client can reach, which on a two-machine deployment is not the address the server binds.