Yup, the code for the first ZUN Soft logo is now completely position-
independent and ready to be decompiled.
(Also, TIL that the PC-98 GRCG has hardware support for double-buffering
through page flipping. Heh, at least one feature that makes it a viable system
for games...)
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.)
Which challenges a lot about what we thought to know about Amusement Makers'
modifications to master.lib, due to the fact that TH02 contains the modified
version of this function, but the original of draw_trapezoid...
And I haven't even begun to research how this removal of conditional branches
could have a positive effect on the game, especially since it's only called
before exiting anyway.
Yup. From TH03 on, ZUN uses a different version of master.lib, containing more
features than the last official version 0.23 from May 1995. Given the relative
insignificance of the features in question, I presume that Amusement Makers
must have kept their own, improved fork of master.lib, rather than ZUN having
hacked master.lib on his own.
Anyway, that doesn't matter. In the end, we still have to reverse-engineer each
and every one of these changes, and some of the more complicated functions
won't even be reduced before the actual reverse-engineering step of this
project.
[Binary change] Order of 3 relocations in TH05's OP.EXE.
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