Hours bled into mornings. At one point she found a corrupted audio bank; the quick converter would have discarded it. She reconstructed the pattern from offset echoes and mapped it back into the image. When the first ISO spun up in the emulator, the opening chiptune slid into place with a wobble that felt like a scratched vinyl record — imperfect, but honest. The title screen stuttered once, then resolved. The beta level names glowed with the same handwritten quirks as the cartridge label.