Which store colors as GRB, as suggested by the structure's ID string.
Even master.lib's own functions add an additional XCHG AH, AL
instruction to get colors into and out of this format. MASTER.MAN
suggests that it's some sort of standard on PC-98. It does match the
order of ths hardware's palette register ports, after all.
(0AAh = green, 0ACh = red, 0AEh = blue)
Now we also know why __seg* wasn't used more commonly, as lamented in
c8e8e98. Turbo C++ simply doesn't support a lot of arithmetic on
segment pointers.
And then that undecompilable far call to a function within the same
segment, but inside a different translation unit…
Also, thanks again to Egor for the SCOPY@ hack that debuted in 0460072.
Would have probably struggled with this a lot more without that.
And *then* you realize that TH01 effectively doesn't even use the
resident palette. 😐
And yes, we're procrastinating the whole issue of potentially using
a single translation unit for all three binaries by using a common
segment name, because it *really* isn't that easy.
Completes P0066, funded by Keyblade Wiedling Neko and Splashman.
Right, PC-98 hardware only supports 4 bits per RGB component, for a
total of 4,096 possible colors. The 8-bit RGB color values we've been
seeing throughout the later games are a master.lib extension, to allow
for more toning precision. Which TH01, with all its NIH syndrome,
doesn't use.
And yup, that means templates in the most basic header files… Since
that would have meant renaming *everything* to compile as C++, I simply
made these types exclusive to C++ code, thcrap style.
Part of P0066, funded by Keyblade Wiedling Neko and Splashman.
The TH04/TH05 BGM/SE mode setup is a good example for code where
different structure field offsets will vanish completely upon reverse-
engineering. If we continued to use the per-game ID string as the
variable name, we'd only have another game-specific "difference" there.
Part of P0065, funded by Touhou Patch Center.
WTF. Fine, let's have separate, micro-optimized ASM implementations for
decoding and encoding inr MAIN.EXE, but still, all those minute
difference between OP.EXE and MAINE.EXE…
This is as far as anyone should reasonably go before decompilation;
things will get really ugly with the loading functions once the file
name is involved as well…
Completes P0063, funded by -Tom-.
Funny how the actual scores are stored as little-endian gaiji strings
in the bold font, yet never actually used as such.
Part of P0063, funded by -Tom-.
So many things named `score_*`, so many things named `hiscore_*`…
Let's go with `scoredat_*`, which clearly indicates that this stuff is
saved into a file, while still being only 8 characters.
Part of P0063, funded by -Tom-.
Waiting with the `fx` parameter in TH01's calls for the decompilation
of this game's version of this function…
Part of P0062, funded by Touhou Patch Center.
Since a few annoying alignment bytes suggested more translation units
than previously expected, using many small headers has proved to be
better than one big shared TH04/TH05 header file. Or should we *really*
pepper the code with lots of `#pragma codestring`? 😛
And in case we have multiple translation units which all #include the
same set of headers, we'll just go with situational shared headers,
using a common prefix.
Part of P0062, funded by Touhou Patch Center.
Should have remembered this from all the times I've looked at the list
of #pragma directives supported by Turbo C++… Still, I would have at
least expected a warning, but not even the `ill` warning covers this.
Part of P0062, funded by Touhou Patch Center.
As used for the title screen fade-in effect. Another function that
apparently was deliberately written to run not that fast, by blitting
each row individually to the 400th VRAM row just so that it can then
turn on the EGC, perform the *actual* masked blit to the VRAM
destination, and then turn the EGC off before moving to the next now.
The same effect could have entirely been accomplished by copying
graph_pack_put_8() and applying the mask there; it's not like ZUN
didn't know how to modify master.lib…
(See also 44ad3eb4) --Nmlgc
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