Phase four active. Printed every surviving press scan from the '97 window. Matching each render against the blurry originals pixel by pixel. Two of five hilts confirmed against magazine screenshots so far. Grey_metal_03 base is a dead match on the PC Gamer crop. Red_worn_01 matches an E3 demo reel frame I pulled from a VHS capture in 2014. Three to go. Pittstone says he has a press floppy with the asset catalog index on it and I need that disk yesterday.
I have a floppy imaging rig that can pull a raw sector dump in under 90 seconds. tell Pittstone not to put that disk in anything with a spinning drive head until I've cloned it bit-for-bit. those old press floppies have weak magnetic retention and one bad read can demagnetize the sectors you need most.
