REFORGE
Atari 2600 / F26
BEING VERIFIED

wall_collision Oracle False Positive — pacY=$00 Is The In-Maze Top Row

STATUS
BEING VERIFIED
AREA
Evidence
RECORDED
2026-05-22
PUBLIC SOURCE
Research dossier / finding 26
RECORD ID
atari2600-f26
SNAPSHOT
a58ea4ac37c644e9

Game: Pac-Man (NA) Goal: G-A2600-001 (Pac-Man wall collision correctness) Concern: the wall_collision oracle in phase2/console_loop.py was failing on every 1800-frame Pac-Man run with pacY=$00 = off-maze top boundary. Iter 1 (Finding 25) added Y-write telemetry on the assumption that the writer at $FA23 was bypassing a missing maze-top guard.

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