Text resources: extract, pack with relocatable pointers, round-trip

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Per decision D6: dialogue freely editable and growable. The pack tool rebuilds every text pointer table; unedited strings keep Square's original bytes (vanilla pack byte-identical to the ROM), edited strings are re-encoded by our own encoder (decision D5: own codecs, disassembly as specification). Round-trip test: ROM -> extract -> pack reproduces the ROM text blocks; editing a string and repacking relocates correctly.

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Starting: branch res-text, delegated to a fresh agent (background). Scope: own text codec (decision D5), extract to UTF-8 per-version trees (D7), pack with rebuilt pointer tables and Square bytes kept for unedited strings (D6), pack format v0 + core reader, round-trip and edit/grow tests.

Starting: branch `res-text`, delegated to a fresh agent (background). Scope: own text codec (decision D5), extract to UTF-8 per-version trees (D7), pack with rebuilt pointer tables and Square bytes kept for unedited strings (D6), pack format v0 + core reader, round-trip and edit/grow tests.

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tools: textcodec.py, our own FF6 text codec (US DTE, JP kana/kanji/MTE, control codes) and character tables (refs #9)

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res: asset catalogue re/assets.toml (31 text assets US/JP), generated resource ids and ROM locations, core pack backend reader (refs #9)

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tools: extract.py text and pack.py: pointer tables rebuilt, unedited strings keep their bytes; round-trip byte-exact US 45/45 and JP 44/44 resources, pack backend == ROM backend (refs #9)

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docs: pack.md (format v0), resources.md (extract, edit, pack), build.md tools (refs #9)

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Text resources: extract, pack with relocatable pointers, round-trip #27

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Merged (PR #27). Main-session review: release ctest -LE slow 20/20 incl. rom.text_roundtrip.* and rom.res_pack.* (US and JP); extracted dlg.txt checked by eye (3 084 entries per version, readable control codes such as {choice}, {n}). Agent: vanilla round trip byte-exact US 45/45, JP 44/44 resources; edit test with a +561-byte dialogue relocates 3 078 pointers and the bank split. Open questions recorded in the PR (D5 status of labels/char tables, v1.1 text locations, ff6cli --pack).

Merged (PR #27). Main-session review: release `ctest -LE slow` 20/20 incl. `rom.text_roundtrip.*` and `rom.res_pack.*` (US and JP); extracted `dlg.txt` checked by eye (3 084 entries per version, readable control codes such as `{choice}`, `{n}`). Agent: vanilla round trip byte-exact US 45/45, JP 44/44 resources; edit test with a +561-byte dialogue relocates 3 078 pointers and the bank split. Open questions recorded in the PR (D5 status of labels/char tables, v1.1 text locations, `ff6cli --pack`).

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Text resources: extract, pack with relocatable pointers, round-trip #9