Posted by Metal64

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Posted by Zynk

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Taz not doing his signature spin is quite disappointing.

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He does, the slide and the def special are spin attacks

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Posted by Synthetekh

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Thanks Zynk!
Btw if there's anything you're still needing help with just let me know and I'll get back to it!~ I think it's safer to say that I'm finally back; I'll take breaks here and there of course, but it feels much more the time in my life to start getting things done.

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Posted by Synthetekh

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Question of preference: Should I make it so you can shoot 3 shots instead of 2 with Rush? - I could personally go for 3, but it is actually only 2 in the NES version as well, so would that feel a little over-reached to anyone (I noticed too that it actually counts spawning Rush against his available shots... I wonder if that's a bug by any chance)?
- I'm also thinking of making Rush Marine's single shot (while inside) more of a small torpedo than a dinky little plasma shot.

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Posted by Alien-Type-0

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1. Please switch back the controls to default, the way you have it now is just horrible.

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Posted by Alien-Type-0

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4. Let the rush marine have a straight plasma shot like in the original.
Changing it to a 3 shot is really pointless, it will slow up things like in mega man 5 for the gameboy.

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Posted by Synthetekh

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Neat~
Yeah what an unusually interesting situation to work with.

That'd be cool if I can submit a patch. I mean I feel like concerning over the patch technically containing official data could just be splitting hairs for nothing, so maybe I should just do it since its such a negligible amount of it broken up into tiny segments anyway.

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Posted by kuja killer

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I just do not understand at all exactly what you want to change.

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Posted by Synthetekh

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I figured out a simple solution!

Since Beat's palette doesn't have its own colors (shares with Plasma), nor its own Address (it may be possible to give it its own Address without too much trouble... need to investigate further), the simplest answer I've found is to change Beat's palette ID to the same value as Wind's ID, so that those two share the same color palette instead.

To do this change the value at 71648 from 0x09 to 0xB1 (71638 if Unheadered ROM as the iNES header is 0x10 Bytes at the beginning of ROM space).

There is a Weapon ID table for the Color Palettes from 7163F - 71648.
Plasma = 09
Yamato = B0
Wind = B1
Blizzard = B2
Flame = B3
Plant = B4
Knight = B5
Tomahawk = B6
Centaur = B7
Beat = 09

These values are not literally the ID themselves, but get added to a weird Address Table to determine the Table's Offset, and the values pulled from it determine what Address the Weapon's Palette is loaded from.


Further details on the Address Table:
The Weapon Palette Address is 2 Bytes (in NES CPU Address space). Because of Bank Swapping we'll have to calculate the final Address of the Weapon Palette that will refer to ROM space.

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Byte 2 (least significant Byte) of Weapon Palette is read from the weird Address Table at 9000 - 90FF (NES CPU memory / Address space); 6F010 - 6F10F in ROM:
Add: 9000 + B1 (Wind) = 90B1. Which has a value of 7A.

For Byte 1 (most significant Byte) of Weapon Palette, the weird Address Table is at 9100 - 91FF; 6F110 - 6F20F in ROM.
Add: 9100 + B1 (Wind) = 91B1. Which has a value of 96.


Put 96 & 7A together, and this (967A) is the Address for the Weapon Palette Data (in NES CPU memory).
- ROM Banks get loaded into CPU memory at 8000 - FFFF (but with MMC3 I think maybe just 8000 - 9FFF).
- Banks with the MMC3 mapper (which MM6 uses) are 0x2000 in size each.

So subtract 0x8000 from 967A, and we get 167A (the Address within the Bank).
Add 0x10 for the iNes Header that the ROM contains, 967A + 0x10 = 968A.

I don't know how to tell which Bank is currently loaded (in this case I already know it's 0x37), but we'd add 0x2000 * Bank # (0x37) to 168A, and that would get us our final result.
The Address of Wind's Palette Data is 6F68A.
You could also look at the data in NES CPU memory (so at 967A in this case), and search some of that data in the ROM to find it.


If there's room to include Beat's own Address values to this Address Table, and blank space for the Palette Data itself, then it could easily have its own Palette & Address, but I'll need to really investigate this further to be sure it doesn't overwrite something else.

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Posted by blackhole89

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...aaaaand we're back up. There were some issues with the server that I couldn't set aside a day to fix for a whole month. Let's hope that this fix will last.

I did a round of sweeping and added a little roadblock that will hopefully at least prevent some of the "Indian datacenter" style spammers from signing up while I was at it.

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