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^this. If a game is no fun then the story/graphics are no fun.

The biggest issue is that the timing is off for many games, causing some to run faster/slower than it should. Also I hear it has an installer now that tries to get you to install other programs.

Having watched this, I'm not as disappointed as I was before.

I had this info in my tables for Ocarinabot for some time now, only I order scenes by their scene table order since Ocarinabot calculates whether a wrong warp will crash or whatever. I also have a table of cutscenes with descriptions, entrance positions with descriptions, and exits (gonna work on building a table of human readable descriptions for exits).

Looking at it (the coordinate printout), those tot blocks + hookshot targets in map 11 are definitely Like-Like traps. Elsewhere I'm not sure. Map 13 is odd because it has a single Hookshot target and not much else. 012D:05C1 Hookshot Block, (-1044, -1265, -2332) (0000, 1D28, 0000)0013:8003 Roosting Keese, (-1055, -1113, -2154) (0000, 0000, 0000)0013:8003 Roosting Keese, (-1300, -974, -2390) (0000, 3DDE, 0000)0013:8003 Roosting Keese, (-1094, -973, -2637) (0000, 1BBC, 0000)00E6:3B02 Jabu-Jabu Switch, (-1128, -1234, -2518) (0000, 0000, 0000)018C:0000 Stinger (Enemy), (-987, -1203, -2604) (0000, E38E, 0000)018C:0000 Stinger (Enemy), (-871, -1163, -2316) (0000, A38E, 0000)0187:17FF Timer, (-992, -1233, -2378) (0000, 0000, 0000)000F:1FFE Web, (-1147, -1113, -2243) (0000, 5DDE, 0000)000F:1FFE Web, (-1149, -1113, -2242) (0000, DDDE, 0000)0095:8308 Gold Skulltula, (-1213, -1041, -2190) (C000, DDDE, 0000)

Now this is interesting because I found hookshot targets in V1.0's Dodongo's Cavern, in map 0. They are positioned out of bounds and never load because the map lacks the proper object. Using my custom program, not sure if Deathbasket is 100% correct. In the Debug rom there are hookshot spots in maps 4, 5, 11, 13. All the hookshot spots are in scene setup 0 (meaning the main dungeon, rather than the "alpha" dungeon).

I figured out a formula for how scene files are allocated into memory They are placed at 80384980 - file_size, without extra padding of course.

The thing is, a good game like Megaman 9 with smart enemy design/placement is in itself a puzzle of "How do I pass the level without getting ripped to shreds".

Do you realize that I if I had seen your comment I would have made a second post, not an edit? @Medo, it's this mentality that is bothering me... and That is honestly the only explanation that comes to mind, as ZREO's stuff is just Zelda music in a much higher quality skin. and Any time I say something that doesn't sit well with you, you have my comment deleted then yell at me for trying find out why, or you accuse me of being negative for the sake of negativity, or accuse me of not playing a game I put 40 hours into (a.k.a talking out of one's ass).Just saying. If it's so obvious, why don't you actually back it up with evidence? What moment in the game did you realize that the Fi wasn't the same Fi we knew from the beginning of the game? Because the only thing that sticks out to me is the last cutscene with Fi.

It's unsubstantiated personal attacks like these that just really make me see your side of things. Edit: I guess Op can break the "Keep it Civil" rule whenever he wants?

She doesn't evolve as a character because she has virtually no character to her for there to even be evolution. I'd go so far as to say that there is not a single line of dialog in the entirety of Ocarina of Time where Navi expresses any kind of relationship to Link, or even any kind of emotion. As for Navi's departure causing the events leading up to Link's departure from Hyrule, there is no logic to it (other than a half assed excuse to make a sequel). Why does Navi leave? If Navi had a purpose for leaving, why was it not expressed? Why would Link just let her go only to change his mind and go after her? etc. That said, I don't like Fi more because Fi actively stops the game to point out the obvious from the beginning to the end. And Fi doesn't really evolve either. She just magically grows a soul in the last cutscene, just so that we can kill her.

At B65C64 I found a table that determines what cutscene to play when entering from a particular entrance. It appears to be in the format EEEE XX FF BBBBBBBB E - is a two byte entrance index value X - is currently unknown but i theorize that it factors into whether a cutscene should play all the time, or only when a flag is not set. F - affects what event flag to flip when using a specific entrance B - is offset to find the cutscene. First two digits are the bank number (02 for scene), last three is offset from that bank.

Nowhere near all of them. For example, the Deku Tree has no alternate headers, yet I've found that the intro cutscene for the Deku Tree is located at an offset of 0xB650 (for the debug rom, -0x10 for 1.0) from the start of the Deku Tree Scene file. In any case I discovered where the intro cutscenes are defined. Gonna spend some time to investigate it.

I like the idea of adding a dummy box/cylinder with roughly the same dimensions/appropriate dimensions of the actor, possibly with a 2d image of what the actor looks like for easy reference. This would add the possibility of snapping an actor to a specific surfaces. The problem with that is the way an actors can have different appearances depending on what object is loaded.

Another thing. I've been trying to build a list of cutscene pointer values for the purpose of discovering new wrong warping ideas, and one thing I've noticed is that some cutscenes like introduction cutscenes (cutscenes which play when entering a scene via a specific entrance the first time) are stored within scene files, but nothing within the scene file itself is pointed towards the cutscene. Does anyone know of a way to find all the cutscenes within a scene file?

Didn't quite like it when the intro theme changed in Death Note lol. I mentioned the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers theme in the other thread, but I also like the theme to Lupin the Third

It's not that strange. Nintendo used 6 different scenes to represent Ganon's Tower, and that's not including the final Ganon fight or the Ganon's Castle scene

what flag would the spirit temple set that would affect gerudo valley?

I HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE. I can't find video on it, but this sort of thing happens if you bring Epona into Stone Tower Temple in Majora's Mask.

Absolute addressing makes sense since code.zasm is static in memory. What kind of stuff does Code.zasm store, other than code for creating saves.

How can you make it so that Child Link can use the Hookshot/Longshot without softlocking the game? Someone mentioned that it was possible to do in another thread of mine, but never explained how.

but it's not a table of exits. An entry does not store enough information to define a unique exit point.

This is some good stuff. Some things... 8011A5D0 ram is the start position of the save data (which is where all of the stuff in your variables section is located). I posted some notes on it on the wiki here. I also have a table somewhere on ZeldaSpeedRuns which documents the perm scene flags in relation to v1.0. Aside from the different internal character set between PAL and NTSC, the save data has the same structure between versions. In the Code file there should be some code that sets the Water Temple's default water level to 3 when creating a new file. Specifically, it writes a half word (at least it's a half word in the Debug version) of 4000h to 8011A734. Can you find that? Why do you call an entrance an exit?

Jiano posted this on ZeldaSpeedRuns...

1) Importing an actor and giving it waypoints to follow seems like it'd be doable, but I've never tried that sort of thing. 2) There are some technical issues with this. You can have an actor blindly follow Link (Dogs do this), but the more complex the area is to navigate, the more sophisticated the path following algorithm needs to be. If Link needs to climb, the actor needs to climb. If Link needs to crawl, the actor needs to crawl, etc. Then if you need an actor to stay "alive" between say, the rooms of a dungeon, then you'd need custom code to achieve this. Kakariko on fire is it's own scene setup (#4, if the first one is #0). Typically the way scene setups work by default is that there are 4 reserved for child day (the first header), child night, adult day, adult night (first three alternate headers in the 0x18 command list). Some scenes have their own custom code which overrides this default settings, but I'm not sure how they work.