Evidence hierarchy

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	43-54
video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_2bo7ng65E
findings	D13-M8 D13-m1

Source video: It Took Every SNES Hardware Trick To Make My Game (Inkbox, 51:14) · at 19:07. The video promises the open-source sound engine here. That engine is the first-party code of this part.

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

The reconstruction uses four evidence levels.

Primary creator sources are given the most weight: Inkbox’s YouTube metadata, the 〇 Star itch.io page, and Inkbox’s SimpleSNESSoundEngine repository. The GitHub README states that its binary is included in the SNES ROM and transferred to the APU, and explicitly identifies the code as a snapshot of 〇 Star’s sound engine. fileciteturn3file0L2-L10

Technical references are headed by the Western Design Center’s official documentation for the W65C816S and the SNESdev Wiki’s hardware documentation. WDC describes the W65C816S as a 16-bit processor with a 24-bit address bus and 16 MB address space; SNESdev provides detailed memory-map, graphics, DMA/HDMA and audio documentation. citeturn26search14turn28search4turn28search9turn37search6turn33search8

Secondary reporting comes primarily from Hackaday’s 11 September 2026 article, which independently identifies the video as a deep dive into Inkbox’s assembly-based SNES game and its architecture. citeturn35search2

Finally, the unusually detailed VETAU24H synopsis is used only to reconstruct the video’s likely topic sequence and game-specific details where primary material is unavailable. Because it is a derivative secondary/tertiary source rather than an authoritative technical reference, claims found only there are flagged as such rather than treated as established fact. citeturn35search6

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-M8	major	VERIFY DOC	verify	L53, L347	Claim: VETAU24H holds “the most detailed text synopsis found” and is a “derivative” source. Problem: The VETAU24H page is a copy of the techeblog article “Zero Star Climbs Out of Two Years of Pure SNES Assembly” by Bill Smith, 11 September 2026 (both fetched). The image links of the copy point to images.techeblog.com. The document cites the copy and not the origin. Document 14 cites the techeblog page. The copy shows a date of 5 October 2026, which may be a page-view date.
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.

Review worksheet

1. Goal of this part

What does this part try to show, or help the reader decide?

2. Key claims to test

#	Claim	Evidence given (citation / data)	Verifiable?
1

3. Adversarial review

Strongest counter-argument:
Unsupported, overstated, or outdated claims:
Source quality (primary vs. blog/forum/marketing):
Omissions / what a skeptic would ask:
Internal consistency with other segments:

4. Evaluation

Does the segment achieve its goal? (Yes / Partly / No)
Confidence: (High / Medium / Low)
Required fixes: