Minimalist Status Bars

- Lunar Magic 3.40
- BSNES v115
- Asar 1.91
- SA-1 Pack v.1.40
I do not recommend this patch, because after using the Message Box at the level, my palette flew off in Overworld and at the levels.

Using custom blocks (like those of SDWTLC and SMW yes) that give the player, shells, goombas, keys, clouds, green plants with vines, works with this minimalist bar?

This patch literally breaks my rom if I apply it after editing it. It needs an update.

I Really like this patch, but for some reason brokes my vertical levels. Is there a solution for this?

the patch is good, but an idea for you is to make a version that is compatible with SA-1 PACK 1.40

It's an excellent status bar, however, it has a problem that bothers me. Bosses Iggy and Larry don't work properly, and I wanted you to fix that. Here an example image:


Mario appears to be on top of an invisible solid block, same thing happens with Larry.

非常好的状态栏(虽然我还没有使用它...)

does anyone know how to make this work with the message box expansion patch?

EDIT: Nevermind, it was an issue with SA-1.
If you want to use this with the SA-1 patch, make sure in SA-1\remap\dma.asm, !window_hdma_channel is set to 7, not 1.
Or at least, that's what caused me a problem, and that's what fixed it.

After downloading and applying this patch to my rom, I couldn't delete the folder off my desktop. Don't know if it was a personal issue or something with the file. But I ran resmon.exe to delete the file. Patch works and looks great though.

This patch is in a serious need for an update, it doesn't work properly on the latest SA-1 patch release.

When I use this patch with the latest SA-1 patch, I get an error when opening the message box.

I'd say that this status bar is common due to the fact that it works well with layer 3 BGs, but it's unfortunate to hear that the visibility is bad on 4:3 TVs (CRTs I'm assuming). Somehow I had never heard of that until now. So would this status bar need to be put one 8x8 tile lower or higher to be more visible?

Creators: be wary that, on many console setups with 4:3 TVs, areas at the very top and bottom of the screen are partially cut off, and as a result, this status bar is pretty much unreadable. As someone who plays on one of these TVs, I always find this to be super annoying, especially when time/powerup/life management is an important part of gameplay. If you care about console users playing your hack, I'd recommend you avoid this patch.

requires changes to work with sa-1 pack 1.35+ (dma remap conflict)

I see. It looks good

Honestly it's not hard to see why. A small out of the way hud is very useful for those people who still want a hud but don't want it taking up space.

Very great! I love it!

However, are you noticing that these are starting to get overused (Like goombuds in SMM2) in every ROM hack?

The only differences between it and the previous version is some additional prints and documentations. No change in the code has been made so no moderation notes.

For me too!

Would you by any chance be able to make this compatible with VWF dialogues?

RAM address locations to edit tile numbers and properties:
status_double.asm:

Top and bottom version:

To get tile position, formula is TilePos = AddrStart + X, where X is the horizontal position, ranging from 0-31, in tiles, increasing from left to right.

How do I disable item in this status_top.asm

The current version is generating garbage tiles on my clean ROM.

Tested with LM3, SA1 1.31 and in levels with the big-horizontal setting on. Works without a hassle, so, accepted.

Finally this gets updated to work with LM 3.00!

Can you please make it compatible with Lunar Magic 3.0.0?

Hey,this patch is so good, but, u can fix the bugs?

This breakes some bosses (i use the double one) iggy's now unplayable, and also this glitches out boss course clears.
Also i have a bunch of zeros on the top

For the people who were wondering what "saner bosses" meant, it looks like you can use the non-Mode 7 bosses from the original SMW, as well as custom bosses. I haven't run into any problems with them...yet.

the only mistake I noticed in the status bar above was that in the levels with vertical enable you can see some ugly chips in the background, I hope they fix it.

What's a saner boss?

Looks a lot like Super Mario Land's status bar.

I'm using status_bottom.asm, and I happened to notice that in ZSNES, the status bar has a bunch of little red and green pixels on it. I guess ZSNES compatibility isn't super important at this point, but the glitch is there!

I just want to point it out that when using Palette ExAnimation, it won't work properly on Palette 0. By looking at the code, I'd guess it is somewhat related to a DMA transfer with the RAM addresses involving palette 0.

However, there's a simple workaround: Use Palette + Working instead, as it updates palette RAM addresses.

Working fine now with ExAnimation. Let's hope there aren't more bugs.

This version works perfectly for me. Good work.

Do note that if you are using most of my stuff that uses the status bar that is compatible with the super status bar patch, the tile data format is this: TTTTTTTT, TTTTTTTT grouped and also YXPCCCTT too. Therefore, you are going have to edit stuff that utilize the tile properties. Mainly, you should set the status bar setting to $01 to properly store the tile numbers.

I have a lot of patches applied to my rom, so perhaps that's the issue?

Some mixed reviews in here. What exactly are you guys doing when you apply the patch to get these issues to pop up? Is it to a rom that's had a lot of patches already applied to it?
I haven't used this version of the patch yet so I'm not sure what's up.

I'm having the same issue as vanilla 451

That's awesome, now you don't have to worry about duplicating HUD.

Everything is working fine. Didn't got anything weird with SA-1 version nor the stuff that the guys below me claims to happen.

Approved.

When I use layer 3 as BG, the status bar is completely bugged, the "M" turns a "D" and several things disappear. I would like a solution to this problem.

Can we have an alternative item box? The idea I had was that select would bring up the item box in full and also show a customized description based on what powerup state it is associated with. Also, it should spawn at player position to make the grabbing code run properly, while also being instant. Select to open the menu, pausing the game via the proper flag then showing the window, then start to use it, and select again to dismiss.

For some reason when used with layer 3 exgfx, the status bar 's characters (mario icon, item box icon, bonus star icon) get fucked up. It can't be the exgfx them selves, because it happens no matter which one I use and it's always the same glitched out characters. The Mario "M" becomes a "D", The right side of the item box becomes a ground tile and the left one disappears completely.

There are some confusion.
http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/31119/2333000.png

Ay yi yi, you've gotta be kidding me.

Unfortunately, the fix you said you applied in the Resources thread didn't fix the BG problem... or maybe you forgot to update the submission ?

The SA-1 Version fucks with the BG.

I use Custom powerup made by LX5 and SMB3 p meter.
Can someone make a update version of the minimalist status bar patch
with two patches in the minimalist status bar.

Realy cool

Just discovered that the lower status bar get messed up when you set a custom tilemap for a new Layer 3 image. In order to fix that, one needs to put on the upper right section of the layer 3 editor tiles of the same color and page the status bar uses.

Something like this:



Kudos to Coolmario for discovering the fix.

EDIT: Don't forget to add a line of black tiles under those, too. Some emulators can let you see below the bar and it can get somewhat distracting.

Unfortunately no, because the 'sa-1' tag is absent.
Click here to download a SA-1 version of the patch. Make a back-up before inserting it first because the creator of this version didn't tested this. And the creator (Ladida) is inactive now.

does this work with SA-1?

I like it!

Excellent!