With the script parsing and picture/box rendering functions being as
interleaved as they are, it makes little sense to keep the cutscene
code in more than one translation unit. How would those translation
units even be called? This time, having everything in one file should
beat the few hundred preprocessor-removed lines of code that we end up
adding to each one of the three affected games – and ultimately, you'd
want to merge those systems into one translation unit anyway.
Part of P0224, funded by Splashman and -Tom-.
And another variation of an EGC-accelerated inter-page copy. At least
it's slightly more optimized compared to TH01's horribly slow one.
But wait, page *0* to page *1*? That seems kind of backwards…
Part of P0223, funded by Blue Bolt and rosenrose.
That only leaves the TH02 versions of this function that really should
have been defined at one central location.
Part of P0223, funded by Blue Bolt and rosenrose.
Here's an entire commit to point out why the difference between these
function names matters and shouldn't be #define'd away in some central
input header file.
Part of P0223, funded by Blue Bolt and rosenrose.
You can fast-forward through cutscenes by holding Escape in these
games?! And the script interpreter adds automatic line breaks?!
Part of P0223, funded by Blue Bolt and rosenrose.
Thanks to TH03 having text-below-picture cutscenes before stages 8 and
9, the `/end/` directory is the wrong place to keep this code. And as
we're soon going to see, this feature did evolve during these three
games.
Part of P0223, funded by Blue Bolt and rosenrose.
The later games need this constant for their buffers as well, and it's
not just needed for loading sound files. Might be overkill to force all
of `master.hpp` to be #included in some additional places, but the
alternative would have been to move it to a `fn_len.hpp` file.
Ultimately, this constant *is* related to master.lib.
Part of P0223, funded by Blue Bolt and rosenrose.
These are more generally useful for general text width calculations
that don't necessarily involve TRAM.
Part of P0223, funded by Blue Bolt and rosenrose.
Also, about time that the blog gets a more prominent place in the
README, now that it has arguably become the main attraction. Certain
new authors who wrote certain bad articles didn't seem to have realized
how the focus of this project has shifted over the last few years.
The original plan was to move TH02 into TH01's column to hopefully get
a better table layout for small screen's out of GitHub's Markdown
renderer. Unfortunately, that backfired hard, and ended up displaying
TH02 *under* TH01, even on larger resolutions.
So let's just give up then. I'll just fix the badges at the source some
day.
Since it also sets an activation flag, it does much more in context
than checking for a board. This name also highlights why OP.EXE and
FUUIN.EXE ignore the BGM mode specified in the option menu.
Part of P0216, funded by JonathKane.
And name the FM state in a way that already prepares modded PMD
support. That's the number 1 TH01 mod idea, after all.
Part of P0216, funded by JonathKane.
Turns out I've misread the execl() documentation. That function does in
fact *not* need a second `nullptr` parameter for envp, because it
doesn't pass envp.
Part of P0216, funded by JonathKane.
I've been thinking about a new directory for any core cross-platform
code that these game typically need. These range from stuff like the
hardware-independent pixel_t types (you shouldn't need to #include a
file named "pc98.h" for those), to stuff like this. "logic" might have
been a good directory name, but does it encompass rendering as well?
So, it'll just be "game" for now. 😶
Part of P0216, funded by JonathKane.
The only game to show an error message if you try directly launching a
game through its main executable without setting up sound drivers or
the resident structure, and a really good one at that. "Please start
from the batch file" is the most user-friendly sentence you could print
in that case.
Part of P0215, funded by Ember2528 and Yanga.
Hiding a lot of dynamic .PTN buffer size information behind misleading
labels. Nothing there to tell ZUN that he could have just easily saved
20% of all this memory by using a structure without an unneeded alpha
plane.
Completes P0214, funded by Ember2528.
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