And xkas could be update more often, its open source.

Huh? Asar is open-source, and xkas will most likely never be updated again.

I know, I said it COULD be updated more often (not by byuu, but by others).

But what ever happened to all those other versions, such as xkas v1x, bass, SWR's versions (and I think p4 might have had one)? Were they all necessarily less desirable, or did Alcaro's push and consistent updating cause Asar to win over other users? It's not a matter of syntax if xkas, asar, and bass are all incompatible with each other, which tends to be the biggest complaint.

Were they all necessarily less desirable, or did Alcaro's push and consistent updating cause Asar to win over other users? It's not a matter of syntax if xkas, asar, and bass are all incompatible with each other, which tends to be the biggest complaint.

Xkas [...] isn't outdated

List of xkas v0.06 bugs I know of (please PM me if you know of any other bugs):

• incsrc thisfiledoesntexist.asm crashes instead of just printing an error.
• !x = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx : !x = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx overflows a buffer and crashes.
• The % operator acts very strangely. xkas seems to think it's a number. I haven't found a way to work around this, but luckily that operator is rarely needed.
• PEA Labelnamehere doesn't work. This made PER $0006 more common than it needs to be, but I appear to have made people use PEA.w Labelnamehere instead.
• !x = $19 : LDA !x refuses to assemble. Splitting it to two lines solves it.
• LDA $0AB5+1 assembles to AF B6 0A 00, not the expected AD 0A B6.
• LDA Label is treated as LDA.l, even if the label is in the same bank.
• REP 0 assembles the instruction after it once, not never. A workaround is REP -1, or any other negative number.
• Garbage in table files doesn't print any errors; instead, it gives various very strange results. "AAAAAAAAAAAAA" is ignored, and "Awesome garbage 'n' shit=42 FLYING HIPPOTAMUSES" acts like "A=42". To make it even stranger, every eighth digit is OR'd together, so "A=81FFFFFF18" acts line "A=99".
• level10:!Freeram = $13E6 defines a label containing invalid characters. No error is printed (until the label is referenced).
• .derp: defines another inaccessible label. No error is printed.
• LDA.B #$42 refuses to assemble since the .b is case sensitive.
• The documentation mentions that only 512 incsrc's may be inside each other. This is fully acceptable, but the truth is less acceptable: Only 512 incsrc's may exist at all. Anything above that makes xkas crash.
• LDA $#01 is treated as LDA $01 for some crappy reason.

I prefer xkas, since it's more easier to insert patches than Asar.

When you insert a patch that's places in a certain location, once you insert it again, the patch will be put in a different location.

To fix that you'll simply need to type autoclean before the JML or JSL.

Asar is more for SMW

and xkas is the standard for most other rom hacking boards

I'm also not familiar with asar's syntax, but i'm told its about the same as xkas's.

But what ever happened to all those other versions, such as xkas v1x, bass

SWR's versions

(and I think p4 might have had one)?

It's not a matter of syntax if xkas, asar, and bass are all incompatible with each other

It's still a dismal number of converts though.

I'm pretty sure Alcaro would update Asar or fix a glitch...