ZUN *did* want a hitbox in the disc's horizontally centered upper half,
but then confused < and >, accidentally ending up with a hitbox from
the top of the playfield to the upper part of Kikuri's face instead… 🎺
Part of P0198, funded by Lmocinemod and Ember2528.
Common sense: Entity backgrounds always go into slot X, missile sprites
into slot Y, and wave sprites into slot Z
ZUN: "Nah, let's set aside two slots, and bosses can just freely use
them as they want 🎺"
Part of P0165, funded by Ember2528.
Functions with 12 parameters are hard to describe, y'know. Looking
forward to decompiling these giant expressions for the actual
boss↔orb collision parameter passed to this function…
Oh well, at least we're now totally ready for some boss code next
year. 😌
Completes P0131, funded by Yanga.
And we're right back to things not being nice. Because yeah, why
shouldn't these three distinct rendering functions be part of a single
function, selected by magic numbers?
Or why shouldn't the 16×16 wrapper around a 32×32 set of graphics
functions be used to handle backgrounds for 16×8 sprites, resulting in
needlessly complex parameter calculations that lead to sloppy code?
Part of P0131, funded by Yanga.
And with that, TH01 is pushed over the 50% completion mark! 🎉
This time, it's only YuugenMagan who gets no own copy. Giant RE% gains
from all these calls, but let's hope I don't regret already decompiling
this one for all bosses. It's not quite at the beginning of SinGyoku's,
Mima's, and Elis' code segment, after all…
Part of P0130, funded by Yanga.
The placement at the beginning of Kikuri's code segment makes you think
this is only used for the barely noticeable white-in effect during
Kikuri's entrance animation. It's also used to periodically reset boss
sprite colors during the flashing effect after getting hit by the Orb,
though.
Part of P0130, funded by Yanga.
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