Kajar notes of ChronoRET, rebuilding Chrono Trigger one matched routine at a time

Bank C1

14 August 2026: opening bank C1, from the math helpers to the battle windows

Bank $C1, the battle engine, is open. In one day it went from an empty file to 4,085 matched bytes: math and number formatting, the battle status bar and all its callees, the item and tech list renderers, and the per-frame window upkeep. 33 functions over sessions 34 to 40, plus a root-cause fix in the disassembler.

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14 August 2026: opening bank C1, from the math helpers to the battle windows

Bank $C1, the battle engine, is open. In one day it went from an empty file to 4,085 matched bytes: math and number formatting, the battle status bar and all its callees, the item and tech list renderers, and the per-frame window upkeep. 33 functions over sessions 34 to 40, plus a root-cause fix in the disassembler.

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