# PENGO-M03B — 200,000 publication checkpoint, v1

Stefano explicitly requested a200k milestone on Arcade.it and YouTube on7October2026, overriding the earlier rule to publish the next score video only at300k. This publication is M03B, an inserted checkpoint; existing M03/100k and frozen M04/300k/A09 identifiers, goals and sources stay unchanged.

Publish the already admitted A08 tape:216480alive/tapeend,36chronological rounds complete,ACT5thirdcycle unfinished with1objective,4lives/zero detected deaths. Require existing final twoNEW native reset proofs, score-pixel promotion gate bound to immutable A08result SHA, and independent round audit. A08 goal300k remains NUL by stagnation; the200k publication threshold does not retrospectively relabel that attempt PASS. A09 score observations and E061neutral ACT6 tail must never enter this video/result.

Before launch freeze a separately owned recording job with the exact A08 candidate tape/hash and source/result/proof/pixel/audit hashes. ONE NEW whole native reset, noLOAD/RAMwrites, no neutral extension, every second native pixel plus terminal snapshot. Budget4200s/120000physicalframes/1MAME. Compare actual complete input, entire declared observed trace, final sampled native pixel and exposed device checks with BOTH A08final proofs. Recording mismatch/timeout is NUL; infrastructure INCOMPLETE, retain costs/preflight, no automatic retry. Encoding/visual/full-decode validation is a separately counted zero-emulator operation. Publication waits for complete validated recording; a samples-only proof must not be called a whole video.

Overlay: TRAJECTORY SEARCH / PRIVILEGED;200k numerical checkpoint,216480alive and tapeend,36rounds complete/ACT5cycle3inprogress/4lives/0detecteddeaths; validated healthy-PLAY restore search separately from native verification0LOAD/0RAMwrites. Display a fixed closed A08 search cost4,129,283FE/38,021MAME from the start and separately recording cost, never a misleading cumulative progressive counter or current A09 running total. Trace scope explicitly RAM8000–8fff/frameindices/16spritecoordinates/5driverflags; input/pixels/devices checked separately; complete-machine identityUNKNOWN. Editorial phase annotations, if used, are bound to THIS exact tape and may not be advertised as runtime reader admission. No world/full-game record or autonomous-agent claim.

Show uncut full native duration114713x0.0165=1892.7645s, approximately31m33s, at30.30303fps by taking every second emulator frame; include the terminal odd-frame snapshot and disclose its final presentation interval. Visual checks include startup, early egg/stun/diamond animations, all chronological ACT-wraps, late ACT5 and final HUD. Public artifacts contain sanitized receipts, hashes, report and derived perACT tables; no raw RAM/code/save-state/ROM/modelweights/inputtape distributed. Historical PleiadsE007/E008/Pengo artifacts are preserved. Publication source changes and site deployment use current-source hashes, scoped catalog validation, atomic deployment and external cache/readback verification.

The provided human score1,492,220 is a comparison target pending direct primary-source category/settings/set-name mapping checks. Assisted search remains its own category. Current legal score-rollover/HUDmillion behavior is unobserved; above500k still requires separate legal probes. No scoring configuration, A09 budget, deadline or source changes are made by this checkpoint publication.