Originally posted by Dispari ScuroSo just a quick bump before the holidays.
Cool.
Originally posted by Dispari ScuroThe problem is, that last 5% is a serious pain. I mean, the new LM uses up almost all available RAM on the RAM map, and there's so little space for me to insert hacks and things with.
What's wrong with the RAM at, say, $7FA000? If you need 16-bit RAM, yes, I can see why that would be troublesome, but there should still be plenty of RAM left unless you need, like, thousands of bytes in a row. And even if that is the case, you can still use SRAM.
Originally posted by Dispari ScuroThere's conflicts with some really important stuff, and I can't get no-fade patches, SMTKO's custom Bonus Stars, or screen-scroll pipes to work. Those are like the only things holding up SMTKO from working with the latest LM, but they're seriously big things and we can't push on that way.
I'll help if you'd like. I've gotten screen-scrolling pipes to work even with LM 1.82.
Originally posted by Dispari ScuroSo SMTKO is sort of on hold again... for an indefinite amount of time, until we can figure out what to do. Either it's going to take a lot more work than I've already thrown away getting it to work, or we're just going to have to backpedal and use the old LM. Which itself is a pain after all the effort we put into making it work, especially considering we made some levels and stuff that take advantage of the new LM features.
Don't give up. Surely whatever the problems are, they could be fixed eventually...right?
Originally posted by Dispari ScuroThe worst part is, as far as backtracking goes, I didn't keep track of where all the hacks were inserted in the old ROM because I changed them for the new ROM. So going back to the old version and having to update some patches may not even be an option.
What a pain.
Ugh...I know how you feel. Maybe you could try combining a lot of patches into one (like I do for some hacks)? Making a global incsrc'd file for all the freespace addresses can also help.
Also, there's a certain sprite-related thing you might want to wait for...
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