raocow's talkhaus

Big Brawler wrote: ↑1 year ago Level 114 - Moving Above Great Lenghts

SMCslevelengine wrote: ↑1 year ago I'm both making an extremely hard level (if the collab wants one)

Catabo wrote: ↑1 year ago Do we have any sort of end-of-project deadline yet? I have "end of year" as the soft deadline for a few other projects i'm working on and even something as foggy as that has helped me to work on them. Don't feel pressured to set a deadline because i said so; it just might help.

KobaBeach wrote: ↑1 year ago

Catabo wrote: ↑1 year ago Do we have any sort of end-of-project deadline yet? I have "end of year" as the soft deadline for a few other projects i'm working on and even something as foggy as that has helped me to work on them. Don't feel pressured to set a deadline because i said so; it just might help.

I wanted there to be more levels uploaded before deciding the end of the project. I don't think we even have a seven castle set done yet. I'm willing to make a deadline if people think it'll help, but I don't want to finish it just yet. I will say I feel like any course in any course-making skill level can work for this project. It does not have to be like top of the line, high quality stuff.

Once we have a decent amount of castles and all Switch Palaces, I'll try to get a few people organized to help wrangle the overworld, I know Nao and Valentine wanted to help.

raekuul wrote: ↑1 year ago Might I suggest avoiding the trap that AZCT (by necessity) fell into? There's no rule saying we need to actually use every available level slot. If we don't have eight worlds' worth of levels, then we don't have eight worlds' worth of levels.

SAJewers wrote: ↑1 year ago Yeah I feel like with how things are going right now we're never gonna hit 95 levels, though the current number of levels that have been inserted (36) is still probably a bit small. I think we really need to start pushing people to complete their levels (and figure what's going with the 10 levels claims with no current status).

KobaBeach wrote: ↑1 year ago I wanted there to be more levels uploaded before deciding the end of the project. I don't think we even have a seven castle set done yet. I'm willing to make a deadline if people think it'll help, but I don't want to finish it just yet. I will say I feel like any course in any course-making skill level can work for this project. It does not have to be like top of the line, high quality stuff.

PSI Ninja wrote: ↑1 year ago It's been six months since the collab started, so I think it's time to ping/DM those who haven't shown any progress on their levels yet. They may have forgotten that they claimed a level slot. If everyone follows through with their claims, then we'll have ~70 levels in the final product, which I think is a good amount. For reference, ASMT has 79 levels. I agree that we don't need to fill every level slot (like A2MT). Also, we should ask if raocow wants to submit something for this hack, like he usually does. Kind of a longshot though, since it's been more than a decade since he worked with Lunar Magic.

PSI Ninja wrote: ↑1 year ago

I keep thinking how nice it would be for raocow to receive the download link to AAT as a Christmas or birthday present. A Christmas deadline would also coincide with Winter C3 on the Central, and there could be a release thread there too. It would be pretty tight to make that deadline, though. These are just a couple of suggested deadlines that have some kind of special meaning, but it's not my place to make these kinds of decisions.

PSI Ninja wrote: ↑1 year ago As for me, I'm still working on my Blue Switch Palace level. I'll try to finish it up by next weekend, but it's hard to rush when you're trying to come up with meaningful puzzles. We really do need designers to scoop up the remaining three Switch Palaces. I believe I'm the only one who has ever claimed one.

PSI Ninja wrote: ↑1 year ago This took way too long, but I finally finished the Blue Switch Palace: https://psininja.talkhaus.com/smw/AAT_2 ... el_121.zip

If anyone's still interested in testing, please check if anything is broken. For the inserter, there's a hex edit that needs to be made - see the Readme for details about that. Hopefully it doesn't break anything in other levels.

I'm starting to feel concerned that my levels are taking up too many sprite slots, which are customized/tweaked sprites that can't be used in other levels. We're starting to run low on free slots on the spreadsheet. If this is a problem, I may try to reorganize all of my customized sprites to be per-level sprites in the future (and I think the PIXI script will need to be modified, too).

find the secret taur-snep OC and i'll award you with Nothing

Catabo wrote: ↑1 year ago I found a little graphical oddity while idly playing the available levels instead of testing my own. In Hot Glue Garbage, the tutorial sign says to press the A button (spin jump button), but in fact you have to press B (normal jump button) to jump off the wall and A doesn't do anything. Sorry if this is already known.

PSI Ninja wrote: ↑1 year ago Life Goes On: https://psininja.talkhaus.com/smw/AAT_2 ... el_122.zip

Here's a two-exit level I've been working on for a while. This is the reason why I asked for Mandew's death warp code months ago. Note that I needed to add some lines to Lord Ruby's simpleHP.asm patch to make my gimmick work. I originally wanted to hijack $00F60A, but it conflicted with the Simple HP system. I doubt this will cause any problems, because it's conditional based on the sublevel number. See the Readme for insertion instructions.

I think I'm done with level-making for now, excepting some minor tweaks and fixes. If we're still short on levels when the deadline is announced, I may be able to pitch in and make a couple more.

Lord Ruby wrote: ↑1 year ago Not having to introduce level-specific conditional code to patches like this was actually why I made the custom death code pointer thing, but ... it's fine. We're very few coders here right now, so doing things this way won't make stuff get out of hand anyway.

Nitrogen wrote: ↑1 year ago Please note that it was planned that getting hurt kills automatically the player by using JSL $00F606 but it increases the death counter indefitinely and doesn't make the player return to the overworld (not sure if the fact I'm using a old version of the baserom is for something) so I find a workaround (the player is constantly hurt if they lose their power-up and cannot progress through the level). However if someone with better ASM knowledge can fix this, feel free to modify the redswitch.asm file.

main:

LDA $71		;\ Check if Demo is in a "hurt" (flashing) state.
CMP #$01	;/
BNE .continue	;> If not, then go to the sprite-checking code.
JSL $00F606	;> Otherwise, instantly kill her.
RTL

.continue
    LDX.b #!sprite_slots-1
  - LDA !14C8,x
    BNE .ret
    DEX
    BPL -
    
    	LDA #$06				; \
	STA $71					; | Teleport the player via screen exit.
	STZ $88					; |
	STZ $89					; /
  .ret:
    RTL

right before the red switch palace. Possibly using the red switch palace icon as well as a fakeout because of this level's whole joke.