Won't Dryad's powers be best at the mana beast? I mean, to cast both sabres, in addition with the other magics, such as the lunar power,
and maybe the speed up thing with Gnome?
One question - some times you walk out of the dwarf cave, other times you use the rope. Why the change?
I found a new glitch to go through the walls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXe70vhWo9k http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/125086920/SOM_Wallthrough_glitch.smv If you attack a rope-pole when someone (player or enemy) is casting a spell, a player character temporarily gets able to run through the walls. Using this glitch, some frames can be saved. And I'll upload my new wip until rescuing Flammie. Used this glitch twice to save only 20 frames. http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1433631459/TAS_SOM_WIP.smv
Some enemies, like the fishes, do not drop treasures at all For all others applies a loot table: - There is always a common and a rare treasure, consisting of two of the following: Item, GP, equipment, weapon orb (the orb becomes a candy if no more orbs of that type can be obtained) - There are 0-3 traps within the table, notice that mimic box and shadow zero are considered as traps If a treasure is on screen: 1. Checks if the enemy has a trap within its loot table, otherwise proceed to 4. 2. Checks for the Lv of the char who opens it. If it is at least 3 levels higher than the enemy's, no treasure will appear - the higher your Lv, the less it will be a trap 3. If there are different traps on the table, one is chosen randomly 4. If there are no traps or you are lucky enough, the item is rolled (probabilities always: common 88%, rare 12%)
http://pastebin.com/3YdnNL2T Here's a chunk of code that I only partially understand (mostly because of familiar memory addresses). From what I can understand, the first block is the RNG going through its cycle and the last block is putting a Candy in my inventory from the chest. In between there's gotta be some clue as to how the game chose to give me a Candy instead of the "rarer" drop, 4GP. Of course, the answer might be buried in some subroutine that isn't written out there...
It's too bad you only have the parts that actually were executed, and not disassembly of the rest. The branch that did not happen (I.e. the 4GP part) won't be a part of this, though the logic leading to not taking that part will be there. Do you have a disassembly of the relevant regions of the rom too?
This looks like it might be looking for a free spot
in the inventory (which is pretty small, just B places).The $652E branch. Which is an alternative loop to the
earlier one. Different kind of item?Frame 1000: Hit B to start opening
Frame 1001: Save state
Frame 1013: Get a common item, reload state
Frame 1001: Hit B to start opening
[this time it only takes 12 frames]
Frame 1013: Get a common item.Ah cool! Yeah it looks like there's nothing much of interest going on there.
Yeah, the game only lets you carry 4 Candies, and if this trace is used for other items as well it makes sense for B to be a maximum because the number of items you can carry of each type varies, and I don't think it ever goes past 11.This looks like it might be looking for a free spot in the inventory (which is pretty small, just B places).
Hm, I'll look into this.The $652E branch. Which is an alternative loop to the earlier one. Different kind of item?
Rabite 08 10 f8 40 04
08: There's a 12.5% chance of the chest dropping.
10: Analyze spell must be at least lv. 0 to disarm a trap
Agility must be > 8*1 to avoid a trap (but you start at 15 agl)
F8: Or 11111000
111 = 7, so 7/64 = 10.9375% for a rare (!)
11 -> common is an item, rare item is money
40: 64 = the first of the sweets = Candy
04: Amount of gold dropped-- Do the enemies only have one weakness/strength, or can they have multiple?
-- Is there a chart of which enemy is weak/strong against which magic?
-- The relative "power" (formulas?) of various spells -- The "power" gain of the spells when they level up? -- The "magic defense" (if that exists) of bosses