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Metadata

Field	Value
source	../deep-research-report.md
document	Deep Research Report: It Took Every SNES Hardware Trick To Make My Game — Inkbox
kind	subsection
parent	Video metadata, evidence base, and transcript status
lines	13-30
video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2bo7ng65E
findings	D13-m1 D13-m2 D13-m3 D13-m12

Source video: It Took Every SNES Hardware Trick To Make My Game (Inkbox, 51:14) · at 00:46. The video names the game Zero Star here. The itch.io page writes it as 〇 Star.

Parent section: Video metadata, evidence base, and transcript status

Field	Finding
Title	It Took Every SNES Hardware Trick To Make My Game citeturn35search0
Creator / channel	Inkbox citeturn35search0turn32search3
Video ID	`j_2bo7ng65E`
URL	YouTube video
Subject	Development of the SNES game 〇 Star, with emphasis on low-level hardware programming and optimisation. citeturn31view2turn35search2
Publication period	September 2026. YouTube search indexed it as “last month” during this October 2026 research pass; Hackaday discussed the video on 11 September 2026, and the linked game itself was published on 5 September 2026. citeturn35search0turn35search2turn31view2
Working duration	~51:15, with a metadata discrepancy noted below. citeturn35search3turn35search5
Linked game	〇 Star, a SNES dungeon-crawler RPG distributed on itch.io. citeturn31view2
Linked code	Inkbox’s SimpleSNESSoundEngine, an SPC700 assembly sound engine whose README explicitly says it is a snapshot of the engine used in 〇 Star. fileciteturn3file0L2-L10

The indexed YouTube description begins by framing the subject as programming the SNES through its hardware-specific tricks and points viewers towards the playable game and Inkbox’s GitHub material. citeturn35search0 The first-party itch.io snapshot identifies 〇 Star as “a dungeon crawler RPG built for the SNES”, recommends Mesen or bsnes, lists release version 1.01, and shows a 129 kB ROM download. citeturn31view2

Duration caveat. Multiple YouTube search/carousel snapshots display 51:15, but one separate YouTube carousel displays 51:55 beside the Inkbox video. citeturn35search3turn35search4turn35search5 Because the actual watch page could not be opened to settle the discrepancy, I use 51:15 as the working runtime, but the final endpoint and every reconstructed boundary should be reviewed against the player.

Review findings for this part

The findings come from ../../findings/ (pass 1). The script matches them to this part by source line.

ID	Severity	Evidence	Status	Location	Problem
D13-m1	minor	DOC	open	L5-349	Claim: 107 `citeturn` and 16 `fileciteturn` markers. Problem: These are generation artifacts with hidden control characters. 94 lines of the document carry them. They are not citations. A reader cannot follow them.
D13-m12	minor	VIDEO	open	L5, L21, L24	Claim: The game is “〇 Star”. Problem: The itch.io page uses the symbol. The captions say “Zero Star” (00:46). Both names are in use. The document could say so once.
D13-m2	minor	VERIFY	verify	L23, L29, L57, L270	Claim: Working duration 51:15, with one snapshot at 51:55. Problem: yt-dlp reports 51:14. The last caption block starts at 50:53. The 51:55 value is wrong. The difference of one second has no effect on the review.
D13-m3	minor	VERIFY	verify	L22, L331	Claim: The game “was published on 5 September 2026”. Problem: The fetched itch.io page shows version 1.01 and “updated 12 days ago”. It does not show the date 5 September. Pass 2 must check the page metadata.

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