Version 3.2.2: in-memory replacements fill their slots exactly (padded ones played as silence)

REPORT.md

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ editor Unheard City (mission 2).
 - **Safety**: every changed file (WAD, bank, package, localization file) is rebuilt from a verified original copy
   in the store + the edits applied now; reverting the last edit restores it byte-for-byte; files changed by
   another tool or Steam are detected (whole-file SHA-1) and not overwritten without confirmation.
-- **Tests**: 133 automated tests (unit, synthetic game with packages/banks/dialogues/localization, a
+- **Tests**: 135 automated tests (unit, synthetic game with packages/banks/dialogues/localization, a
   two-language game for the lines (incl. a recording also stored whole in a bank), the shipped catalog's cross-references, real-game read-only (every
   name of every language's catalog resolves to its own sound), offscreen GUI incl. list order, selection and
   loading overlays) pass. `ackit verify` PASS (incl.
@@ -52,21 +52,21 @@ editor Unheard City (mission 2).
   language's localized line, prefetch heads, a line also stored whole in banks, a multi-copy subtitle, a scripted subtitle, a menu text, sound +
   subtitle in one package, a mod moved to another voice language and matched to the same line at another
   position); `ackit verify --ingame` PASS (music heard, ncc 1.0);
-  `--banks` PASS (77 in-memory sounds of the front-end packages replaced in 54 files: the game loads them, 68
+  `--banks` PASS (77 in-memory sounds of the front-end packages replaced in 54 files: the game loads them, 71
   probes found in its memory, no crash); `--texts` PASS (12/12 menu texts and 23/23 subtitles of Startup.upk
   found in the game's memory, no crash); `tools/e2e_editor.py` PASS. Game files original at the end
   (`ackit status`). The catalog builder refuses to run on a modified game, so the catalog always describes the
   original files.
-- **Package**: `dist/UnheardCity-3.2.1-windows-amd64.zip` (86 MB, catalogs included). With `PATH` reduced to
+- **Package**: `dist/UnheardCity-3.2.2-windows-amd64.zip` (86 MB, catalogs included). With `PATH` reduced to
   the Windows folders the packaged exe passes its smoke test (in the game's language - Italian on the test PC:
   21,015 sounds loaded, encode + inject, 9,377 subtitles and 7,020 menu texts loaded, an in-memory sound decoded from a package) and the GUI starts and
   quits cleanly. The installer is unchanged since mission 2 (install/upgrade/uninstall verified then).
 
 ## Unresolved / limitations
-- **Heard in game, not proven automatically**: in-memory sounds and subtitles. The game loads the patched
-  packages (probe data and texts found in its memory, no crash), but nothing of this plays/shows on the title
-  screen without input, and keys posted to the game window do not reach the menu (findings 18). Speech lines
-  were already in this situation; the decoder path is the same one proven for music.
+- **Checked by a person in game** (2026-10-10), not automatically (nothing of this plays or shows on the title
+  screen without input, findings 18): replaced voice lines and edited subtitles are heard and shown; replaced
+  footsteps play on every step. That test found the one defect the automatic checks could not: in-memory
+  replacements followed by zero padding in their slot played as silence (fixed in 3.2.2, findings 24).
 - **Size limits**: in-memory sounds and speech must fit their original size; subtitles must fit the original
   text's length ("room"); cp1252 subtitles accept cp1252 characters only. Lifting these limits means moving
   objects inside the packages (new export offsets/sizes, added chunks): designed but not done, because it could
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ editor Unheard City (mission 2).
   cached); it gets the same line identities, but no original checksums.
 
 ## Next steps
-1. Gameplay check (a person): a replaced footstep/foley sound and an edited subtitle in a mission.
-2. Optional: lift the subtitle length limit by relocating dialogue objects (needs that gameplay check).
+1. Optional: lift the subtitle length limit by relocating dialogue objects (checked in game by a person).
+2. Build and smoke-test the Linux package once on a Linux machine.
 3. Listen to the 19 lines whose speaker label differs from the game's dialogue speaker field
    (`docs/categories.md`) and fix the curated lists if needed; extend them (`data/catalog/source/<lang>/*.txt`)
    and rebuild the catalog.