The greptile/bug sprites are PNG32/RGBA (non-indexed), so
RGBSpriteBilinearFilter=1 caused the engine to bilinear-smooth them when
scaling to screen, making the crisp packed sprites look soft in-game.
Set to 0 for nearest-neighbor rendering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Build the city stage from a 2x-resolution source (Screen-2x.jpg, 2560x1440)
instead of the 1080p PNG. build_stage now keeps a high-res source at full
resolution and only upscales sources below the overfill minimum, so the
background has more detail than the screen shows and renders sharp.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Slice ko.png into the left/right halves the round-end K.O. callout assembles
(solid letters -> group 520, additive glow -> 522), with axes that reassemble
the image centered on screen, so no fight.def/animation changes are needed.
Blank the stale original drop shadow (group 521) since the new art carries its
own. Also re-pack the updated fight-text.png. HUD health bars and win banners
are unchanged (pixel-identical); no gameplay logic is touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Reskin the health bars and power bars with custom pastel artwork: pack the new
health PNGs (empty/frame/trail/green/yellow/red/flash) and wire the power bar
sprites (40/41/43) into build_hud so they pack from PNGs too. Also raise the
health-trail and base power-fill palfx.mul to 256 so the grays render at the
artwork's true brightness instead of being dimmed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Recolor the timer/power/round/combo numbers and the Round, Perfect and
win-banner text to white fill + purple stroke (Timer/Round/PowerbarNum fonts,
fight.sff groups 527/530, and neutralized counter palfx so the glyph colors
show). Remap all the lifebar event messages (FIRST ATTACK, DANGER, combos,
etc. - fight.sff groups 44, 401-425, 528) to the new accent palette with
white (#FEFEFE) secondary text. HUD layout, bars, and all gameplay unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Swap the VS-screen city background (downsampled from a 3x source) and the
Start button art; repack komodo_vs.sff. Screen-only change, no gameplay impact.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Add a looping bob to the WINNER! text (sin.y) and wire the victory screen to
the winner-idle animation (p1.anim = 9400) so the winning character gently
breathes instead of standing still. Repack the new winner grid, restart
button, and city-floor art. Victory-screen only; no gameplay/fight-loop
changes (validation updated to expect the animated winner).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Untrack .claude/ local Claude config (now gitignored), and drop the unused
1.2MB ui/winner/Screen-2x.jpg backdrop and the redundant ui/progress-bar/
source copies (the build uses the ui/hud/ versions).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>