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Live failure

The V6 run now clears NAME YOUR BAND, the controller tutorial, the title screen, Quick Play, and the setlist. It then reaches the real GH1 difficulty screen shown in the retained capture, but the runtime falls back to bounded boot Start probe instead of selecting a difficulty.

The cause is that the actual Quick Play difficulty screen is not the conventional four-row white/yellow menu assumed by V2's generic detector. It is an orange/brown band poster with large black silhouettes, white DIFFICULTY / EASY / MEDIUM / HARD / EXPERT lettering, and green CONTINUE + red BACK footer badges. The setlist transition temporarily moves the phase to PRESENTATION; once the static poster arrives, generic difficulty evidence remains too weak, so the unknown-static fallback is allowed to probe Start.

V7 fix

• add a dedicated non-OCR difficulty-poster detector before the inherited generic classifier
• require five simultaneous live cues: orange/brown central poster, large dark silhouette mass, bright lower-poster lettering, green CONTINUE footer, and adjacent red BACK footer
• let that detector reacquire DIFFICULTY even if phase/route state has temporarily drifted during the setlist transition
• reuse the existing V2 difficulty transaction once ownership is established, so configured easy/medium/hard/expert behavior stays unchanged
• suppress generic recovery while the difficulty poster owns the screen
• expose difficulty-poster score/active/episode telemetry
• activate GuitarHeroV7Profile in the registry and public alias

Regression coverage

Adds synthetic retained-topology tests showing that V7:

• reacquires the difficulty screen from PRESENTATION and confirms Easy
• can recover the difficulty screen even if route state was already lost back to boot
• does not collide with the V6 NAME YOUR BAND detector
• reports V7 difficulty telemetry
• is selected by the profile registry and aliases

Evidence boundary

This fixes the exact retained blocker in the latest live run. Guitar Hero remains diagnostic until difficulty -> note highway -> post-song/results is proven end to end.

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Ignore legacy row selection when the poster detector owns the screen

When the dedicated poster detector claims a non-Easy difficulty screen, this returns DIFFICULTY while retaining obs.selected_difficulty_index from the legacy white/yellow row detector. Valid poster colors in the new orange range (HSV hue 18–30) also satisfy that detector's yellow mask, so the large poster background can produce a bogus fallback row—typically index 2—and _tick_non_gameplay then navigates relative to that value instead of the documented fresh Easy selection. Medium, Hard, or Expert configurations can consequently confirm Easy or Medium; poster ownership should suppress the legacy selected-row evidence and use the known initial selection (or add poster-specific selection detection).

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