Expand Dry Bones/Bony Beetle Collapse/Kill Triggers

This is an interesting patch, here. More interesting than its name implies, actually - I've adjusted the name to better reflect the breadth of its changes, as not everyone is aware of the technical definition of a "quake sprite". Both sections of code relating to consecutive kills awarding a 1-UP (star and shell) were also modified. The star-kill section used an incorrect address causing points not to tally; both sections were organized in a way that played an incorrect sound effect on the first kill that earned a 1-UP, and no sound effect for all subsequent kills. Minor technical tweaks were also made for Asar 1.90+ compatibility.

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This patch allows the Dry Bones and Bony Beetle sprites to collapse when hit with a cape spin, punched from a net-climb, bumped with a bounce block, hit with Yoshi stomp clouds, or having a carryable sprite carried into them. This patch allows the same sprites to be killed when having a non-Goomba carryable sprite kicked into them or when touching a player who has a star. In so doing, this patch introduces a few frame rules that are worth keeping in mind if designing highly technical setups:

• On odd frames (as dictated by $7E0014), the sprite will check for and respond to a cape spin/net punch first, then bounce blocks/Yoshi stomp clouds.
• On even frames, the sprite will check for and respond to contact with kicked/stunned/carried sprites.
• On all frames, after the frame-specific checks are complete, the sprite will check for contact with the player, factoring in star-power.

Note that Dry Bones/Bony Beetles will collapse upon touching a stunned Goomba no matter what, even if it is completely stationary. This is a deliberate design choice, and not a bug.

Notes on Cape Quake: Show/Hide

This patch also causes the cape dive quake to collapse all on-screen Dry Bones/Bony Beetles, and includes instructions for integrating this patch with this separate patch that alters the cape quake (see included file "for Sprite Whitelist for Cape Ground Pound.txt"). For those who don't have an .asm file viewing utility that includes line numbers but wish to make this edit, the spot in the linked patch where the new code is meant to be inserted is as follows:

Code

CheckSprites:
	PHB
	PHK
	PLB
	PHY
	LDA !14C8,x
	CMP #$08
	BCC Return


; Insert the additional code here


	LDY.b #!sizeTableSpr
checkSprLoop:
	LDA !9E,x
	CMP table_Spr,y
	BEQ Return
	DEY
	BPL checkSprLoop

	...

Note that, once this modification is made, the linked patch will cease to allow these sprites to be whitelisted from being affected by the cape quake.

Tested with Asar 1.91, Lunar Magic 3.50, SA-1 1.40, Snes9x 1.62.3, BSNES Accuracy 0.7.1, Sprite Whitelist for Cape Ground Pound patch (2020-05-23)

I feel like those should be custom sprites