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Hoeloe wrote:I may have worked out a way to let the counter save on checkpoints, which might help.

EDIT: Yes, I've got it working for multipoints in a way that won't break existing levels. The only change needed (once I update) is that multipoints must be imported using loadSharedAPI.

Holy wrote:

Hoeloe wrote:I may have worked out a way to let the counter save on checkpoints, which might help.

EDIT: Yes, I've got it working for multipoints in a way that won't break existing levels. The only change needed (once I update) is that multipoints must be imported using loadSharedAPI.

If you do that though, can the player like walk backwards and collect a dragon coin they collected before the midpoint again to increase the count?

SAJewers wrote:IMO if we're gonna do something like this, it should save which raocoins have been collected. Otherwise, i think it should stay the way it currently is.

8flight wrote: Mikkofier - Sheath and the Mysterious House

b. Add lunalua switchsaving
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c. Add a second midpoint

Hoeloe wrote: EDIT: So uh... for all that talk, I might have just implemented this.

Experimental at the moment, and relies on SMBX being a TINY bit sane, which is always a risk.

Essentially it relies on SMBX always loading the raocoins in the same order, for the first frame. It just loops through them, stores PNPC references and stores each individually in a data file.

The testing I've done so far is looking good.

v:mem(0x3C,FIELD_STRING,"");

pholtos wrote:3 - Omoru's All Star Palace - Disapproved.
(Looks like I wasn't the only one to review this negatively)

Could not access What about Railways? by Wohlstand for some reason.

Imaynotbehere4long wrote:I saw Pyro's review doc.

Willhart wrote:

Imaynotbehere4long wrote:I saw Pyro's review doc.

Where is that one? I don't remember seeing it and I'm curious.

pholtos wrote:4 - Wohlstand's What About Railways - Approved with a couple grammatical fixes plus maybe changing the boss.

Hoeloe wrote:So I implemented a thing that saves which raocoins you've collected.

The way it works is that, on collecting a checkpoint, raocoins that have been collected in the level will be saved and won't be available to collect in the level next time you load it. Once you invalidate the checkpoint by either finishing the level or entering another level, the raocoins will respawn, so they are still an infinite resource. This should make collecting "all" the raocoins a little bit more possible. There is one situation that MIGHT cause issues: a raocoin on a hidden layer that triggers an event when collected. Currently it's not possible, as far as my tests have found, to actually destroy an NPC on a hidden layer (and forcing the layer to show allows the player to collect it twice if they're standing on it as it appears), so the code I have just moves it to a non-existent layer, ensuring that it can never get shown. Raocoins that are not on hidden layers will be properly removed, so it only applies to those on hidden layers.

If this is something we want, then I have drawn up a lunaworld file that will do this:

http://hastebin.com/ivotewiduc.lua

raekuul wrote:I need to know if they reset or not if they're not properly collected.

SAJewers wrote:Maybe we should ban stuff like that? I know that was an issue with leeks in asmbxt (buried/bubble leeks wouldn't show up in the hub)

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SAJewers wrote:Any of you guys want to review some levels? The following need either 1 approval or 1 reject to get them out of the queue.