... and then I end up copying modified versions into the individual game
subdirectories after all, because the changes between games were simply too
drastic. (That's also why I'm counting pfopen() itself twice.)
Only one slice left now, and then we're done with reduction!
Yup, packfiles finally proved that we really have a different set of changes
to master.lib in every game. Also, there are bound to be more of these game-
specific small changes to otherwise identical code in ZUN's own code.
And hey, no need to define that value in the build scripts anymore.
(I've also considered just copying modified versions into the individual game
subdirectories, but it's not too nice to expect people to diff them in order
to actually understand why these copies exist and where the changes actually
are.)
(Damn, the other commit prepared for today is not getting done, why does IDA
have to be so terrible...!)
Anyway, here's a small consistency edit instead.
Once you've actually found the right syntax that makes the assembler just use
the default call type of the current memory model for both procedures (where
it's just "PROC" without anything else) and labels (where it's "LABEL PROC"),
these constants become completely unneccessary, even with TASM.
> randomly google "PC-98 ライブラリ"
> 3rd hit: http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dos/prog/se037608.html
> Oh look, it's the mystery code at the beginning of the TH01 executables!
This library also has dedicated support for transparency, which is used in the
Konngara fight (BOSS8_D*.GRP) and which we couldn't edit during the
development of the static English patches.
But of course, ZUN just had to change the format magic in order to make it
seem unique.
I guess this marks the final demystification of how segment declarations work
and how they are compiled. However, it only really makes sense for anything
outside the TEXT segment, like these floating-point functions. As long as the
slices aren't immediately next to each other, it would still be annoying to
have segment declarations inside of them, since we'd have to copy-paste these
declarations around every INCLUDE directive...
Finally - and there was indeed no way around switching to JWlink, as ALINK
v1.6 refuses to link the TH01 executables with a nondescript "Undefined base
seg" message once nec_fpinit.asm is included.
Mostly moving spurious null bytes, which are actually supposed to denote
alignment, into their associated slices, but also prettying up some of the
very first slices.
Well, we have to start reducing this mess somewhere. The actual reduced
initialization code I've been preparing still fails to compile, and the data
is shared with a number of other components anyway, so...
nmlgc