documents.json

{
  "note": "Every document this package is held to, by identity rather than by name. conformance/documents.py brings each one down again and refuses anything whose digest does not match.",
  "authority": {
    "1": "A manufacturer document. What the maker of the hardware printed about it.",
    "2": "A recording taken off real hardware. Nothing here occupies that rung.",
    "3": "Independent research, for what no manufacturer printed."
  },
  "whyNotCarriedHere": "This is Nintendo's document, not this project's, and this repository is public. What is carried is the identity, which is what makes a copy checkable.",
  "readOn": "2026-08-27",
  "partsWithNoDocument": {},
  "documents": [
    {
      "file": "manufacturer/book1_text.pdf",
      "rung": 1,
      "publisher": "Nintendo of America Inc.",
      "title": "SNES Development Manual, Book I",
      "date": "undated",
      "retrievedFrom": "https://archive.org/download/SNESDevManual/book1_text.pdf",
      "covers": ["spc700"],
      "settles": "Appendix C, which is the only manufacturer document that describes this processor.",
      "sha256": "f1405241000046abba7849376d2ec53cf85f1ad2e9950d69a7c2cf1f3ff6b791",
      "bytes": 21022582,
      "pages": 240,
      "figuresAreImages": "The text layer covers the running text and stops at the figures, so a page whose body is a diagram carries only its heading. A citation into one of those is followed by rendering the page and reading it."
    }
  ]
}