Awesome! The last of the shared TH04/TH05 boss functions, completed
just as the money for that sort of thing ran out. Time to decompile
some actual bosses!
Part of P0188, funded by [Anonymous] and nrook.
With TH04's version hardcoding not only Gengetsu's dialog and
initialization, but also the Bad Ending after having clearing Stage 5
with continues or on Easy difficulty.
Part of P0188, funded by [Anonymous] and nrook.
With a different meaning (and sometimes, even type) every time they are
used, forcing me to look at details of boss fights way before I wanted…
wonderful. Not sure yet whether they're involved in Kurumi's and
Marisa's division-by-0 crashes, but that kind of wildly shared state is
exactly what causes bugs like these to happen. I did manage to
reproduce the Marisa crash during this research!
Temporarily breaking the rule of immediately reflecting ASM land
declarations in C land, because it makes more sense to render these as
macros, local to their respective pattern functions, and it's way too
early for declaring these. Or late, given that I've now got to add a
third push to this stretch…
Completes P0187, funded by [Anonymous] and Blue Bolt.
motion_t is also used for certain animations in MAINE.EXE, so not all
instances refer to entities in playfield space. Explicitly specifying
the latter now allows us to gain…
Part of P0149, funded by Blue Bolt, Ember2528, and -Tom-.
Palette hacks not included yet. Yup, that's how all phases can use
hardware color #0 as their background color.
Completes P0147, funded by -Tom- and Ember2528.
That could have easily been architected without forcing every boss to
manually set the "background to be drawn while bombing" function
pointer.
And without the laziness of just redrawing all tiles during the blocky
opening animation of certain bombs…
Part of P0147, funded by -Tom- and Ember2528.
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