Oh wow, caff4fe introduced wrong bytes into RES_KSO.COM by confusing
[cfg_bombs] with [credit_lives] -.- Which I didn't find out back then
because all the RES_*.COM binaries still had some different instruction
encodings anyway and I just didn't care enough to base my diff of those
files on the wrong encoding versions to notice the bug…
Whoops.
Part of P0077, funded by Splashman and -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-.
Including the confirmation that both games have an 8-frame deathbomb
window.
The placement of the variables is all over the place though, what the
hell?
Part of P0034, funded by zorg.
So it's *_put(), inherited from master.lib, for everything just writing
to text RAM, and *_render() for everything more involved? But what
about master.lib's own graphics RAM functions like super_put()? Need to
fix that inconsistency some day.
Once again no decompilation, because…
Part of P0033, funded by zorg.
The TH02 version is a piece of cake…
… but TH04 starts turning it into this un-decompilable piece of
unnecessarily micro-optimized ZUN code. Couldn't have chosen anything
better for the first separate ASM translation unit.
Aside from now having to convert names of exported *variables* to
uppercase for visibility in ASM translation units, the most notable
lesson in this was the one about avoiding fixup overflows. From the
Borland C++ Version 4.0 User's Guide:
"In an assembly language program, a fixup overflow frequently
occurs if you have declared an external variable within a
segment definition, but this variable actually exists in a
different segment."
Can't be restated often enough.
Completes P0032, funded by zorg.
nmlgc